When the Isaac/drone thing first broke (has it really been a year already?) I immediately was drawn in by its Fortean "glamour". Oh boy, lots of deeply fascinating intellectual mind candy! It was way beyond laughable Billy Meier hoaxing. It was much more cerebral than Philip Corso cloak and dagger governmental mischief. To the intellectually inclined, it was a bright shiny thing which could not help but catch your eye. It led us to distraction. Yep, I was hooked - initially.
I remember when the first MJ-12 papers came out in the late '80s. I worked with UFO researcher John Andrews at the time. I saw those documents when Bill Moore first started distributing them to a select few researchers. The MJ-12 documents were the equivalent of a smoking gun. If true, they amounted to documented confirmation for Roswell. Dude!
But some time after, I began to have doubts. The papers seemed too good to be true. Andrews had filing cabinets full of similar documents that he acquired through FOIA requests, or from other researchers. These papers were distributed back and forth freely among his compatriots. I was a graphic artist at the time and knew full well how easy it would have been to paste the MJ-12 documents together using bits and pieces of authentic documents: Not difficult at all if you had a couple of old typewriters and piles of those documents lying around, as we did in our office.

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Although science is very important to our understanding, it must be recognized that science can only offer probabilities and blanket agreements. This is because it suffers from two profound weaknesses:
1). It’s dependence on empirical evidence (i.e. hard material proofs) creates a huge blind spot. It does not allow for things that are immaterial in nature. Further the empirical demand for repeatability does not allow for transitory or experiential phenomenon (ghosts or UFOs for example). These phenomena are generally subjective and unacceptable to scientific inquiry, whatever might be the status of their ultimate reality.
2). It fails to account for the subjectivity of all experience. The latter must also include scientific experiments and observed data. "Objectivity" as filtered through the experience of the "experimenter" is an illusion. This is borne out by the findings of quantum physics, which indicate that the consciousness of the observer is, invariably, a causative factor in experimental results.
Because objectivity is always imperfect and, perhaps only an illusory ideal, scientific knowledge is primarily a temporary signpost. This means that we must always remain skeptical of all knowledge. This includes scientific knowledge itself.
Ultimately, this means maintaining an open mind at all times.

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The mythology of UFOs is similar to ghost stories. They are tales of strange things that certain individuals experience. They are usually prefaced with qualifiers like: “you won’t believe this” or, “I don’t believe it myself” or, “I am not making this up”.

The fact is, stuff happens. Weird stuff. People have unusual experiences that cannot be explained by ordinary ideas about reality. Because we are so steeped in the seeming solidity of material reality, many prefer not to acknowledge extraordinary stories lacking in material underpinnings. For them, it has become fashionable to characterize such stories as apocryphal or bogus. Like ghost stories, the witnesses must weather ridicule and incredulity. Despite this, witnesses continue to insist that their experiences are real.

People still see things in the sky that they cannot explain. And this weird stuff has been going on for thousands of years. There are accounts in the bible and ancient Hindu and Sumerian texts - the oldest extant - that tell tales that do not differ much from those told by the people of Stephenville, Texas in the past few months. I recently ran into an old story which I had read before in the distant past. It struck me as a powerful metaphor for nearly all UFO stories, where all that is left to us are the visceral experiences of the witnesses.

This is an article from the Nebraska State Journal, June 7-9 1884.

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