Stanger Things: Roswell Turns 75,The DC UAP Flyovers of July ’52, Dr. Travis Taylor at 54
7 July 2022
July’s a big month for UFO/UAP anniversaries. Today – 7-7-22,-- the notorious alleged crash in Roswell occurred. Lots of tacky inflatable UFO merch and many a cold brews will be sold in that hot thirsty town in a quest and a quench for the truth, the better to watch the downhome parade and to ponder the unearthly and the impossible. But did you know prior to this event and its alleged cover up that there were “flying saucer” sightings that made front pages news across the country and into Canada days before the now legendary New Mexico event.
Reports of the incidents in an Associated Press story and other credible news sources like UPI featured good detail, like the account that ran in The San Francisco Chronicle. “Mysterious ‘flying saucers’ were reported seen again yesterday in larger numbers across the Unit[1]ed States,” opens the story from the leading Bay area paper. “Descriptions of the still unexplained phenomena, which have now been reported by hundreds of persons in at least 36 states and in the District of Columbia and Canada since June 25, vary greatly, but generally the informants say the objects appear to be saucer-like and skimming through the skies.”
Later in the same story, a pilot in a P-38 pursuit plane, working for the United States Geodetic Survey, encountered ‘eight or nine’ at 32,000 feet and ‘had to dodge out of their path while trying to photograph them.’
Then – as reported in a previous blog -- there were 3 flyovers of multiple objects in July 70 years ago of multiple objects of the United States Capitol building on July 19, 20 and 26! According to David Michael Jacobs’ straightforward historical accounts in his 1975 must read book, The UFO Controversy in America, each incident created multiple migraines for the Pentagon and President Truman – and resulted in the longest and largest Air Force press conference since WW II.
As I write in chapter 8 of my book, “Clearly, the summer of 1947 was the Summer of High Strangeness, while the nation chilled to crooner Perry Como’s hit ‘Chi-Baba, Chi-Baba (My Bambino Go to Sleep)’.”
The Rotting Mid-Summer of 2022
Meanwhile, here we are in the rotting mid-summer of 2022. There have been 300-plus mass shootings this year already – a number so hard to process that it piledrives you into a survival-like state of denial. Russia is slowly chewing up Ukraine, while global famine looms large because of the war. Then the ongoing House hearings into the seditious plots of January 6, 2021. These televised travesties and incriminating testimonies are turning out be the summer blockbuster series that hands down trumps even the excessive weird shit and seemingly divergent plot twists on Season 4 of Stranger Things.
Things are getting pretty strange on season 3 of The Secrets of Skinwalker Ranch, too, on the History Channel. I confess to not having much interest in this reality show when it started ‘cuz I read the book by Dr. Colm Kelliher and journalist George Knapp (Hunt for the Skinwalker: Science Confronts the Unexplained at a Remote Ranch in Utah). — and the creepy sequel Skinwalkers at the Pentagon: An Insiders' Account of the Secret Government UFO Program . Both books will grab you by the scruff just as much as Cassidy Hutchinson turning on the Donald, or Millie Bobby Brown turning up her new-found telekinetic powers on Things to drive that guy all dressed in Dairy Queen whites in the lab into the Upside Down where he becomes the monster that’s wreaking havoc in Hawkins, Indiana.
But Skinwalker, the show, has now sucked me in as well, especially with the arrival of one Dr. Travis Taylor at the Utah ranch where nothing is as it seems and everything is laced with high strangeness seams that are readily coming apart, day and night. Taylor’s academic credentials are longer than the face on Liz Cheney, recently extolling a bunch of Republicans gathered at the Ronnie Regan Library, and warning of the imminent dangers to the republic -- and the party – if Lord Voldemort is not dealt with sooner, rather than later.
That’s Dr. Taylor to You!
Dr. Taylor, turns out, says he has seen a lotta UFOs in his time. Because his time includes a role as the Chief Scientist on the government’s UFO Task Force that dropped the measly 9-page report last June 25, 2021. Besides his arrival on the growing Skinwalker franchise, Taylor’s CV also includes stints on wackier UFO shows like Ancient Aliens, which has a lot of mainstream, materialistic-oriented academics and SETI mouthpieces like Seth Shostak getting their old guard guards up! Not to mention his five advanced science degrees, including a Ph.D. in optical physics and a Ph.D. in aerospace and engineering, and, according to Scienceinsider, is “currently working on advanced propulsion concepts, very large space telescopes, space-based beamed energy systems, and next generation space launch concepts.” He has published two academic textbooks and numerous peer-reviewed papers – and 21 science fiction novels. He’s all that.
Clearly, or not, the man seems to be top gunning for a Star on Hollywood Blvd and at what Yippee-co-founder Paul Krassner always used to call the Pentagram. It begs the question, will Dr. Taylor take more leading government roles with say, the Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group (AOIMSG) – being set up at the Pentagon? Providing his contract with the Skinwalker show is renewed for an expected next season and the shooting schedule doesn’t interfere with official duties.
BTW, Dr. T turns 54 later this festering month of July. Wish him a HBD. And be careful, man: Don’t let the paranormal hoodoo at the ranch or the foibles of science, academia and television drag you down to their levels.
PS For all those needing some rest from the latest griefs, this upbeat Perry Como serenade from the summer of ‘47:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vY2ZYoSBah8
