Wednesday, September 19, 2007

Strange Days Indeed #448 Twenty Questions

20 Questions addressed with alacrity and intelligence by Dave
Furlotte, S. Miles Lewis and Jerry Clark as Errol Bruce-Knapp wields
the spice weasel to kick it up a notch:


1. Is an empty balloon an interesting substitute for a true UFO,
the contents of which can eclipse the imagination and likely expand
same?

2. If thousands of bona fide weather balloons are released in the
United States every day, why aren't more of these seen or reported as
UFOs, themselves? Are balloons identified as balloons more often
than not?

3. That balloons are touted as UFOs, at all, is that merely an
insult to the intelligence of persons curious about such?

4. Is there any way that a rational, intelligent, and experienced
professional person, a person at the head of an Air-Group of military
intelligence officiating over the storage and use of the World's
only atomic bomb, mind you... is it possible for this person to
juggle some balloon fragments, tinfoil, and balsawood, consider the
stuff over a period of 24 or 36 hours, and then blithely report to
his boss that this prosaic dross was a UFO?

5. Is Jack Trawbridge (sp) a lying bastard?

6. Where do crashed saucers, pickled aliens, and government
cover-ups conclude in a system of belief or in the strident
provocation of same?

7. Is Miles Lewis more objective than Carl Sagan? Has he precluded
the potentiality of stumbling on his obviously open mind?

8. What is the darker half of ufology and how does it manifest
itself?

9. Is there a rationality and a science to hypnosis? Remote
viewing? Psychic Activity? God glands, substances, and molecules?

10. Is it true that you are more likely than not to be an artist or
have an artistic bent if you have a serious interest in UFOs?

11. When will Ed Dames strangle Sean David Morton with his own
entrails?

12. What is real, how real is real, and how does one investigate
that new reality?

13. Is Miles Lewis the future of intelligent but affable and
approachable ufology?

14. Are we all merely a product of universal mind manifesting itself
as ghosts, goblins, aliens, and water nixies, and can we tune into
that, somehow, manipulate it, and make time and distance irrelevant
so as to travel in same?

15. Is Savage Dodson (sp) a lying bastard?

16. Is it true that Jerry Clark is the last stop for gas before one
heads out into the strange environs of a ufological fringe? Does
Richard Hall own the Rest Stop and General Store across the road?

17. Is Edward J. ("...lurid duels of death") Ruppelt seminal for
another foundational ufologist in the person of Jerry Clark?

18. Was Allen Hynek a hoot with enormous charisma?

19. Is a witness valuable in the evidentiary chain making a case
for UFOs?

20. Did Hynek have feet of clay, forgetting that his memory will
loom large? Is James E. McDonald needlessly and inappropriately
marginalized for not having that particular brand of "lehmfusse" or
clay-foot? Why is Jerry Clark conflicted with regard to Jacques
Vallee?


...and 34 minutes remain of edge of the seat ufological lucidity...
only pointing steadily to the... heavy-weight weightlessness of a
knee buckling "lack of vocabulary" we strain against -- brand new
experience... entry into the cosmic kindergarden...

Clark opens the door and does not invite you through, you do
that on your own recognizance, eh? But he knows where the door is.

For my part I skip through blithely hoping he lets me come back when
I want to... and he has, reader. He has.

It's all good and getting better... just, strap in (!) or the first bit
of turbulence we hit you're out of your seat and on the floor...
buckle up for your own safety... ...Ufological sensibilities
empowered are the listener's own! Subscribe!

http://www.virtuallystrange.net/ufo/sdi/program/

20 questions by Alfred Lehmberg

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