Comments on: Flying Saucer Music #8

By: Greg Bishop

Greg Bishop — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 08:48:58 +0000

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 weÂ may never know the ultimate answer–unless you subscribe to the weather balloon explanation in the Mantell case.)

By: nullspin

nullspin — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 03:52:00 +0000

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

By: Greg Bishop

Greg Bishop — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 19:26:51 +0000

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.

By: crgintx

crgintx — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 11:46:42 +0000

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

By: Greg Bishop

Greg Bishop — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 21:38:39 +0000

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!

By: alanborky

alanborky — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 19:17:05 +0000

‘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.”