P.S. This message isn't aimed at any currently existing, nor former members of this forum.
Plus here is a
link to a blog post referring to a sighting I had posted back in November of 2008.
"Is it just a coincidence that UFOs are only seen by people with UFO blogs?"
(My reply: If you compare the number of UFO sightings to the number of UFO blogs. You will quickly notice that the number of blogs don't even come close to equaling one percent of one percent of the total number of UFO sightings. Also, if you spent even half the time that it took you, to write your disrespectful comment, about my blog. And used that time, to read nearly any UFO blog. You would also quickly realize, the blog owner was not the one who saw the majority of the UFOs s/he posted. If you saw a UFO, and wanted to talk about it, where would go to, on the internet to talk about it? I'm guessing you'd type "UFO", or something very close into a search engine, and most likely go to a site that came up in that search. )
"Can't remember who it was but we remember hearing someone recently asking why UFO sightings are only ever reported in America."
(My reply: UFOs are reported all over the world. Google or Youtube some of these if you don't believe me. "UFO Turkey", "UFO Mexico", "UFO Iran", "UFO China", "UFO Russia", "UFO India"
Plus there are even a couple of news sites that come to mind right away, which have lots of UFO and Alien content. Russian Site: english.pravda.ru search them for "UFO", I got 211 results. IndiaDaily.com 592 results.)
Perhaps the way I go about posting other people's sightings is less straightforward than I thought. Then again
here is the forum version of the same exact content they were referring to. I think they probably use google to email them when a blog makes a post about Bakersfield. They skim it as little, and as quickly as possible, then make their own "fluff" posts quoting a small chunk, and linking to it.
This time they did the scum bag thing, that the media does, they made fun of the subject, and anyone involved. While still getting benefit from utilizing the topic.
Of course there was the time, when a now defunct blog (awfulblog(s).com), downloaded a picture of me, from My UFO Blog. One taken of me, at a birthday party for a 90 year old relative, of mine. There were orbs in the picture. So, they put the picture on t-shirts, that they were selling for around $25 a piece, with the caption "Behold the orbs".
Another example of ridiculing the subject, and the people involved, while still expecting to profit from it.
Another time a Journalist for a New Mexico university news paper contacted me, asking me some questions about a specific piece of video on youtube, which is sometimes reported to be military video footage of a missile test at the white sands range, which also has comments linking to other missile videos where it's fired out of a US military ship, and it breaks up in a very similar manner.
The youtube video he sent me, said that it was a UFO crashing in the New Mexico desert. I recognized the video, I had watched it before. At different links labeled both ways. He asked me what I knew about it, and what I thought about it.
So I told him I wasn't totally sure what I thought of it, and that I wasn't willing to say it was real, fake, or other. All of the videos were of poor visual quality for one, and I don't like to jump to conclusions, with poor evidence. So I spent about an hour looking up reference material for him, while my dinner go cold. Because he didn't bother to contact me until the last minute when his publishing deadline was almost up.
I had also posted one of those videos on my site before he contacted me, so I also sent him a quote from a reader who said it was a missile test, and his link showing other "proven" missile tests to compare it to.
So when he ends up printing the story, print and online. First he mentions the blog, but no link, not even on the web version. Then he twists what I told him, to where I'm personally saying it can't be a UFO, and then another quote from some other person, saying that it has to be a UFO. So the next time he was in a crunch I ignored his emails.
Around that time I did do a radio interview on BBS radio, that went fine, with everything considered. After that I've refused all requests from any media. It's not worth it, when I don't even care about trying to be famous, or known as such and such expert.
I'm not an expert, I'm an enthusiast. It's not about me, it's about the experiences. I believe that people are seeing UFOs, and the whole subject is of huge interest to me. I want to avoid the mass ignorance that goes on, out there on a daily basis. While doing my best, not to be one that perpetuates it, and if I do catch myself, to stop it right away.
