Mar 03 2007
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Flying Saucer Music #8
This week, we jump forward to the 1980s, but this is no new-wave time-machine, just cheap, imitation country music. Joe Dolce (apparently also pronounced “dolts”) had his biggest hit with “Shaddup You Face.” Luckily for us, this song also appeared on his one and only album, released in 1981 with his band, the Joe Dolce Music Theatre. Perhaps not coincidentally, it was released the same year as Budd Hopkins’ bombshell book, Missing Time. I know it’s a joke, but it’s just so perfect.
Coincidences and synchronicities: “Dolce” is Italian for “sweet,” as “Dulce” is in Spanish. In 1981, the Air Force was flying Paul Bennewitz over the Archuleta mesa near Dulce, New Mexico, in an attempt to get him to believe that there was an underground alien base located there.
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March 3rd, 2007 at 11:17 am
‘Dulce’ is also anagramically ‘clued’, which is what I now am after being inspired by this piece to find out who this Bennewitz guy was. I can’t honestly remember taking him in until now.
Keep this up, Greg, and you might even start competing with my affections for Nick.
P.s.
‘Flying saucer’ is anagramically, ‘Y fling r sauce?’
“Why fling our sauce, Greg? Simply because I must, Greg, simply because I must.”
March 3rd, 2007 at 1:38 pm
Alan,
“Project Beta,” my book about the Bennewitz period was written basically as a spy story and a warning to the UFO-curious not to believe everything you hear, especially if it comes from “insiders.”
One way you can show your affection is by purchasing a copy of “Project Beta” and telling me what you think.
Sauce flinging is of course a well-established ritual in the UFO community!
March 4th, 2007 at 3:46 am
Ah truckin’ across the Texas plains in the early ’80’s. High on speed or coke, driving from the east coast to Shaky Town(LA,CA) without stopping except for fuel, those were the good ol’ days of truckin’. You could make some serious cash on those days as an independent owner operator. The fascist NTSB put a stop to that. Ever wonder why truckers see so many UFO’s? You spend 48 hours straight looking at the road and you’d have a few mind altering experiences,too. I think many of the trucker did see actual ufo’s because like many folks who work the 3rd shift, they’re awake to see things in the middle of the night. Carlos
March 4th, 2007 at 11:26 am
Hey Carlos,
And I thought that the song was just a joke! As you point out, there’s got to be a huge witness database of truckers who have seen strange things on the road at night, straight or hyped up on crank.
March 5th, 2007 at 7:52 pm
While the song is certainly a joke it is also interesting from a mechanical perspective.
Often in UFO/vehicle cases you get the standard EM (Electro Magnetic)effects radios go silent, electrical systems fail etc. This seems to often translate into a momentarily dead vehicle.
If you look at the literature you will see that often while all the EM effects pertain to diesels they do not actually stall out.
Now if I were prone to guessing I would suggest that because diesel engines do not have spark plugs but work on the heat from highly compressed air to ignite fuel vapor that they are not susceptible to the same EM effects as their gasoline driven brethern.
Which in turn makes the em effects minus the stalled diesel vehicle a little more interesting in retrospect.
ns
March 6th, 2007 at 12:48 am
nullspin,
HIGHLY interesting. Something I’ve always wondered is why piston-driven aircraft engines never stall in UFO cases (unless you count unknowns like Mantell and Valentich - both cases in which we may never know the ultimate answer–unless you subscribe to the weather balloon explanation in the Mantell case.)