Sep 12 2007
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Here Come The Visitors
There’s a new book out right now titled Visitors: A New Look At UFOs, by Kelly D. Bell. I haven’t seen the book yet; however, given the publisher’s blurb, I suggest it’s one that is likely to create a lot of interest and debate.
Here’s what the publisher has to say:
For more than six decades we have been trying to unlock the secrets of the flying saucers. A third generation of investigators is now doing its best in this venture, but is using the same outmoded, ineffective methods as those that failed in the past. Since 1947 most have sought to establish that UFOs come from an extraterrestrial world in our universe, a few researchers have suggested the unknowns hail from other dimensions, a hollow Earth, undersea civilizations or that they are occult manifestations. Could it be that every investigator has been proceeding from a false assumption? Why does there have to be a single, all-encompassing explanation? Do medical researchers seek after a single strain of bacterium to explain all infectious disease? Do cryptozoologists search for just one unidentified genus to account for all sightings of mysterious creatures? Both of these disciplines seek various answers to account for the life forms they study. It is time for ufologists to follow this example and assign each case history to the category relevant to it.
The appearances and activities of the disks and their occupants appear too varied for them all to hail from a single point of origin. Although the demonic scenario appears to be the major cause of flying saucer phenomena, it is unlikely the only one. It is time for ufology to broaden its search and look for multiple answers.
About the Author
Author Kelly Bell has been researching the arcane (especially the UFO phenomenon) since the early 1970s. A professional writer since 1981, his personal library, collected over a period of three decades, was a boon in researching Visitors, which is intended to point out a new direction to take in researching the enduring mysteries of the flying saucers. A widower, he lives with his four children in Tyler, Texas, has worked as a writer and salesman for several newspapers, and freelances for numerous magazines. He is a regular contributor to the paranormal investigation periodicals Mysteries Magazine and Fate.
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September 12th, 2007 at 9:56 am
The author suggests we should look beyond the extraterrestrial explanation in the UFO phenomenon…
And yet her publisher decides to use an outdated STAR TREK NEXT GEN font type for the cover art?? Kind of a mixed message there…
September 12th, 2007 at 4:53 pm
RPJ, I haven’t yet read the book but from what I can tell from conversations with the rest of the disinterested public, anything that doesn’t adhere to the ETH explanation for UFO’s is considered even more out there than the ETH. Especially among the more well educated folks. Star Trek’s thinking is too far forward for them. The vast majority of our Western culture is too busy trying to get ahead to devote serious time and study to the subject of the paranormal. It’s likely this book is aimed more at them then us.
September 12th, 2007 at 5:53 pm
It is a valid point crgintx; but it might backfire since those same down-to-earth folks might take a quick glance at the cover and think it’s a sci-fi novel, or something not serious enough to bother.
Personally, the very BEST cover for a UFO book has definitely got to be Strieber’s “Communion”. You couldn’t escape the look of that thing staring at you from the book stands. You HAD to grab the book, at least to have a closer look to the cover. From an strict marketing point it was a brilliant idea; and it may be one of the reasons the stereotype of the gray alien became he dominant one in Ufology and even the mainstream.
And for me, the moment I saw the book I was almost FORCED to buy it, it wasn’t even an option to leave the store without it; kind of like that Mel Gibson’s character in the movie “Conspiracy Theory” with the book “Catcher in the Rye”. The same thing happened with “Transformation” too.
September 13th, 2007 at 3:03 am
Seems to be ‘common sense’ that there’s more than
“a single, all-encompassing explanation” for ‘all things UFO’.
Didn’t u guys note this >”The appearances and activities of the disks
and their occupants appear too varied for them all to hail from a single
point of origin. Although the demonic scenario appears to be the major
cause of flying saucer phenomena, it is unlikely the only one.”
Personally, i’m always reminded of the quip from Arthur C. Clark >
‘any advanced technology will seem to be magic’.
I’m reminded of the “Cargo Cults” in the Pacific.
I’m reminded of the first time I heard Art Bell and he was interviewing Merle Haggard > who talked about watching some UFOs and his thinking
that this planet is very interesting to all kinds of ‘beings and entities’….
But it’s easy to see why ET has ‘ruled’ the skies since ‘47. Maj. Keyhoe by 1950 pretty much said it’s ET and the the gov is coverin’ up. With the influence of NICAP and Hollywood,
so it goes….
James McDonald considered 8 “principal UFO hypotheses”:
1Hoaxes, fabrications, and frauds.
2Hallucination, mass hysteria, rumor phenomena.
3Lay misinterpretations of well-known physical phenomena
4Semi-secret advanced technology
5Poorly understood physical phenomena
6Poorly understood psychological phenomena.
7Extraterrestrial devices of some surveillance nature.
8Spaceships bringing messengers of terrestrial salvation and occult truth.
Not sure if ‘poorly understood’ biological phenomena or ‘other entity’ types
are included here.
But actually there’s always been an ‘undercurrent’ suggesting an End Times ‘demonic’ explanation > see esp Greg’s music selection
(When You See Those) Flying Saucers by the Buchanan Brothers.
(they weren’t ‘jokin’)
Those groups of ‘discs’ sighted multiple times from 47 to 52 is one ‘category’ that should be focused on…..looks like ’scouts to me’ (maybe ‘joyriders’ ?)
But if U have ’super-technology’ why wouldn’t u mess around with ’spaceship designs’ just to keep US off-balance, or ‘jus for the fun of it’ .
McDonald’s ‘final thoughts’ are worth considering in this thread >
“The defense of the extraterrestrial hypothesis by Keyhoe, and later many others (still not within what are conventionally regarded as scientific circles), has had little impact on the
scientific community, which based its write-off of the UFO problem
on press accounts and official assurances that careful investigations
were turning up nothing that suggested phenomena beyond present scientific explanation. Hypothesis No. 7 has thus received short
shrift from science to date.
As one scientist who has gone to some effort to try to examine the facts,
I say that this has been an egregious, if basically unwitting, scientific error -
an error that must be rectified with minimum further delay. On the basis of
the evidence I have examined, and on the basis of my own weighing of
alternative hypotheses (including some not listed above), I now regard
Hypothesis 7 as the one most likely to prove correct. My scientific instincts
lead me to hedge that prediction just to the extent of suggesting that if the UFOs
are not of extramundane origin, then I suspect that they will prove to be something
very much more bizarre, something of perhaps even greater scientific interest
than extraterrestrial devices.”
November 25th, 2007 at 9:53 pm
This book is published by a vanity press, hence the low quality cover, strange abstract and author bio.
November 25th, 2007 at 9:54 pm
Not that there’s anything wrong with vanity presses. It’s just that many choosing such a forum could use some real editing.