1. 23 - The Fringe

2. On May 5, 1999, I received a pair of emails indicating
that alien UFOs would attack the Earth on October 3 of
that year. Obviously that didn’t happen, and the emails
themselves contain many elements of a hoax. You
may read them yourself here and here.
Is there really
something to all this
UFO/alien business?
How can one tell?

3. Eyewitness Accounts & Memory
What we “see” is often not really there (Lowell’s “canals”)
People can be convinced during questioning to
“remember” things that did not happen (many recent
sexual abuse allegations)
People lie
People like to play tricks
People tend to “want to believe”
People don’t like to change their minds
People don’t like to admit when they are wrong
People make up things when they do not understand*
PEOPLE ARE HUMAN

4. Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs)
Most people equate UFO with alien craft
The term “unidentified” actually means unidentified
Reports of UFOs go back centuries
Prior to invention of airplanes, UFOs tended to look
like zeppelins
“Flying Disks” reported by Kenneth Arnold in 1945
while flying airplane near Mt. Rainier - this is where
the “modern era” began - aliens now operate flying
saucers, not flying cigars!
What aliens “looked like” also varies from culture to
culture and one era to another.
Global mass communication has changed this…. The “Greys” (Close
Encounters of the 3rd Kind)

5. Project Blue Book - 1965
Because some UFOs might actually be aircraft belonging to hostile countries
(read: USSR), the US Air Force launched a study to try to identify all such
sightings as best as they could. The breakdown:
Identification Number of Sightings Percentage of Total
Astronomical events 245 26.7%
Aircraft 210 23.7%
Satellites 152 17.1%
Hoaxes, Imagination, etc. 126 14.2%
Insufficient Data 85 9.6%
Weather Balloons 36 4.1%
(still being processed) 17 1.9%
UNIDENTIFIED 16 1.8%
The 16 unidentified cases are just that - unidentified

6. Gulf Breeze
Ed Walter, a native of Gulf Breeze, Florida, presents Polaroid photographs of
UFOs/saucers to the people and press the town. He also reports:
1. being frozen by a beam of blue light from the craft while taking
the pictures
2. he was mysteriously lifted off the ground by a strange force
during the event
3. received telepathic messages from the aliens
4. faced an alien eye-to-eye
(this one was widely publicizes on TV at the time)
The Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), a pro-UFO group, investigates & suspects fraud
June 1990 - Pensacola News Journal:
Person who bought Ed Walter's home discovered a model "saucer" in the garage attic,
Youth in the town admitted that he and a friend helped Ed Walter fake the pictures.

7. Alien Abductions
The book that started the modern “craze”
Some individuals estimate that 10% of the
population has been abducted
Given a population of ~ 2 million (greater Cinti)
and average lifetime of 80 yrs ⇒ 5-10/night!
Q: Why do we not witness 5-10 people being taken away
every night?
A: “They have mastered the art of becoming invisible”
Q: Why then do we “see” their “spacecraft” if they can
become invisible?
A:

8. Roswell
Object crashes in June 1947 on
Brazel’s ranch
Debris collected & brought to nearby
Army Air Corps Base
Base press officer releases report of
“crashed discs”
Legend grows of alien bodies set to
Wright Field in Dayton
Recently, at the request of Congressman H. Shiff (R-NM), the US
General Accounting Office released all records relating to Roswell.
They indicate:
1. no evidence for a cover-up
2. no evidence for a UFO
3. no evidence for alien bodies
Crash debris identified by Columbia & NYU as theirs
- part of Project Mogul (now declassified) - balloon-
borne microphones to listen for Soviet nuclear tests.

9. The Alien Autopsy Film
First aired by Fox as a true documentary in 1995. But:
2. Autopsy not carried out using methods of the profession
3. Examiner does not handle instruments properly
4. Anticontamination suits are bogus
5. Injuries inconsistent with crash
6. Warning signs used did not exist until 20 years later (OSHA)
7. Organs have no connective tissue!! Etc.
Kent Jeffrey, co-founder of the International Roswell Initiative, along
with many other UFO supporters, claim that the film is a hoax.
1998 - Fox “reveals” the film as a hoax in subsequent airing!

10. Taken from a “Pro-UFO” Site
“Click On Me!”
“August 6, 1997, Mexico. Much controversy has
followed this almost unbelievable film of a UFO taken
downtown Mexico City in broad daylight. Shown on
countless television stations, and still-framed in many
magazines and books, it is alleged that over 100
people watched this event as it was filmed. The film
did stand up to analysis for quite some time. It is now
considered by most to be an ingenious hoax.”

11. Ancient Astronauts
1960s-1970’s, Erik von Dainiken publishes “Chariots of the Gods” books
(the first one while serving time in a Swiss prison for fraud, supposedly)
Claim:
Many ancient cultures similarly helped by ETs (Example: Egyptians
could not have built pyramids without help from them)
TODAY:
Many examples of people showing how it
could be done
King Pacal of Palenque: Ancient Astronaut?
Most experts on Mayan culture suggest this
Depicts Pacal’s journy to the underworld
(Xibalba) at the time of his death

12. Some claim to see UFOs in artwork
Flying Saucer or a
common motif ??

13. Aliens in Spacecraft?
Actually depict the
Sun & Moon
Want to learn more?

14. Lenticular
clouds

15. Crop Circles
These patterns of crushed grass began to appear in England in the 1980's. Since then,
they have been seen on other places, and the patterns have become more complex.
Explanations given:
•Alien landing sites - it was 'impossible" for any human to do this
•Wind vortices (totally absurd for the complex patterns seen)
•Hoaxes
In 1991 David Bower and Dave Chorley claimed responsibility for starting the crop
circle craze. They demonstrated live on BBC TV exactly how they did it. Since then,
others have been caught in the act.
Apparently aliens have force fields &
invisibility (i.e. the motion picture Signs),
travel interstellar distances and/or cross
“dimensions” but have to navigate by
making drawings in corn fields??

16. Crop circles have become a form of art…
See http://www.circlemakers.org/

17. The “Face” on Mars
Richard C. Hoagland The monuments of Mars: A City on
the Edge of Forever (1987) claims the feature is artificial
Viking vs. MGS
“Happy Face” on Mars!

18. So what? Does
believing in this
stuff harm anyone?

19. 1997 - 39 Members of Heaven’s
Gate Cult Commit Mass Suicide
over a Simple Camera Artifact!
“Saturn-Like
Object” - a UFO
that would take HG
members to heaven
after death?
Actually just the star SAO 141894

20. Art Bell (radio host who has a lot of such stuff on this
show) & Whitley Streiber (“Communion”) post FAKED
image of UFO following Hale-Bopp. For a more
complete description go here and here .
Original photo by Dave Doctored photo spread
Tholen, U Hawaii by Bell & Streiber

21. In April 2006, a number of web sites world-wide carried the
prediction by Eric Julien that fragments of Comet
Schwassmann-Wachmann 3 would strike the Earth on
May 25 of that year.
Apparently from a psychic dream, he interpreted the
“Missing Earth” crop circle as a sign from aliens that parts
of SW3 would hit the earth. He “proved it” using NASA
software.
It didn’t happen. Because web pages are ephemeral, I list
them in PDF to be preserved for posterity. Enjoy.
US Newswire Web Page: pdf
Julien’s Web Page: (as of today): pdf
Disclaimer: pdf

22. Summary - My Own Earth vs. the Flying
Saucers - (1956)
Assessment
Bring me a living alien, or a piece of his
spacecraft. Is that too much to ask?
Mars Attacks! (1996)