- One can hardly run out of superlatives regarding Wendy
Connors and her stunning compilations of aural ufological history. I won't
run out of them here. She is solely responsible with regard to providing
what is... just ~not~ going to be found... in any one place... anywhere-else-in-the-known-universe!
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- I refer, of course, to the (...very nearly lost!) recorded
expressions of those most ~pivotal~ in the study of that which may very
likely foretell an exciting, intellectually profitable, and expansively
efficacious future... for ~all~ of us in the rank and file. That's my
feeling, at any rate... Take it with a salt mine if required.
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- On her ~fourth~ disc of vintage recordings (...including
three times the material of any of her previous compilations!) one finds
the same kinds of discovery and is provoked towards the same kinds of ufological
inspiration as the previous three. This iteration is called CE-IV, or
"Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind" -- An Audio History of
Alien Abduction and Animal Mutilation 1957 - 1976.
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- ...The abduction phenomenon...
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- ...It may ~be~ that people (...you know!) are being abducted
by alien beings for purposes that are... well... ~not~ being vigorously
investigated, reader! Digress a bit. Who would profit as a result of
this 'process' of... non-investigation? Answer that to zip confidently
down the ufological rabbit hole, reader, to intellectual emancipation.
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- It's a question folks can ask themselves as they survey
the twenty-six (plus!) hours that Connors' disc contains. A rich and stunning
history of the abduction phenomenon is contained therein, folks, spanning
decades! Additionally, there is no contesting that any true understanding
of the flesh and bones of this abduction *thing* will have to include some
familiarity with the history of it.
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- Good thing, then, Ms. Connors is on the scene! But for
her we would all be relegated to current distortions, convenient interpretations,
and conventional wisdoms... facilitated, of course, by closed-minded individuals,
corrupt institutions, shadow-born agencies, and conveniently authoritarian
governments... no... rather kingdoms!
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- Does the reader think he has the low-down on Betty and
Barney Hill? Think again. All the reader likely knows about Betty and
Barney Hill are a distorted legend and a few grainy photographs proffered
by ~conflicted~ persons powering the preceding paragraph.
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- A portrait of the Hills as composed by reactionary skeptibunkies,
noisy negativists , and knee-jerk ufological denialists paints a picture
of a dodgy working class "interracial" couple (always pointed
out)... two people who very likely made the entire story ~up~ out of whole
cloth, solely for purposes of some late-night time in the loony limelight,
presumably.
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- But that all too convenient assessment is blown away,
decisively, when one listens to Connors' compilation. Truth is decidedly
~stranger~ than the official fiction.
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- Interviews and accounts recorded from key persons, at
the time, indicate that there was much, much more that was going on with
regard to abductions... than can be accounted for in the so called 'record'
maintained by our duplicitous mainstream. Barney Hill, a mail-handler,
homeowner, and tax-payer was a very uncomplicated man with a degree of
New England seriousness and an abundance of personal bravery... or tell
me that interracial marriages were ~celebrated~ in the United States circa
1950... even if he and his equally brave wife DID reside in the Northeast
United States.
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- These recordings on the disc actually let the listener
get to ~know~ Betty and Barney more than their detractors are comfortable
with. One discovers, upon listening, that Betty and Barney are simple
persons, uncomplicated persons, decidedly non-silly persons... innocently
guileless persons... but persons who had a complicated, otherwise convoluted,
and decidedly bizarre experience the 'high-domes' and 'propeller-heads'
are unable to adequately explain. Betty and Barney were ~reluctant~ reporters,
reader, and they endured a ~lot~ of abuse, then and now, for having the
bravery to make their astonishing report, or tell their inexplicable tale.
I suspect the stress ~killed~ Barney.
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- In support of the Hill's story, moreover, are the recorded
analysis of quality clinicians, researchers, and scientists like Richard
Hall, Dr. Benjamin Simon - MD, John H. Luttrell, Dr. James E. McDonald,
Dr. R. Leo Sprinkle, Dr. Carl Sagan (...before toeing the obligatory party
line?), Dr. Leon Jerrif, and Mr. Edward Eddleson... et al.
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- Marjorie Fish is included with the above for a very interesting
reason... Her meticulous astronomical work vis a vis the Hill case is actually
a real show-stopper and despite its startling merit being clearly pointed
out, most notably by Stanton Friedman (heard on the disc), it remains a
reason ~furtively~ marginalized, fringe-ified, and too airily ridiculed
by the palsied lions, bluffing tigers, and tedious bears of non-reflecting
and reactionary 'debunker-dom'...
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- ...Betty Hill's intriguing and astonishing ~Starmap~
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- During one of Betty's adventurous ordeals the aliens
allegedly showed her a screen that displayed a map of the local transit
lanes between our sun and other star systems. Hypnotically regressed,
Betty reproduced a pen and ink version of it. That intrepid sketch ~still~
causes trouble.
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- The disparaging hue and cry of the skeptibunkies was
predictable and lamentable, but the aforementioned astronomer Marjorie
Fish (...heard on disc...) wanted to be a little more scientific than that.
She constructed a wire and bead model of the universe local to our own
sun (still in use in college classrooms) and against all odds (...contrary
to what the noisy negativist is going to thoughtlessly try to feed you!),
found a convincing correlation between Betty's sketch and the physical
reality!
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- Moreover, not only are the stars in the correct locations
as related by Betty Hill, the stars are all of a type similar to our own,
medium yellow second generation stars, the type postulated by science to
be the most forgiving of carbon based life evolving around them! This
was something not widely known, if at all, at the time... Now -- how the
~hell~ did child welfare worker Betty Hill confabulate all that?
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- Put together 20 plus stars actually in the positions
that Betty sketched with the subsequently discovered fact that the stars
were of the type to be friendly to evolving life... and you have the makings
for a wonder that raises the hair on the back of ones neck! How did Betty
know? Give the White Rabbit your ticket stub, reader, and go on in.
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- There is more on the disc, of course. I can't discuss
the whole 26 hours here. Everything from the first recorded abduction
case (the Hills were ~not~ the first), through learned explications by
Stanton Friedman, to lectures by David M. Jacobs are covered. I've just
hit a ~few~ of the high points.
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- Cattle mutilation is explored. Travis Walton is interviewed.
Professional law officers give testimony. Cleve Baxter cleanly bitch-slaps
our esteemed Philip Klass for an added treat! Dr. James Harder lectures
on conjectured Alien Communication and Dr. Leo Sprinkle investigates the
prophesy of abductees... be assured that somethin's shakin' in the tall
grass, friends and neighbors, and it ain't Andy Roberts. This is real.
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- For more detail, a synopsis of the disc contents, and
order info -- visit:
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- http://fadeddiscs.com/ceiv.html
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- ... and get ready for more of Wendy Connors ufological
Rock & Roll. She's not done by a long shot.
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- Read on.
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- alienview@adelphia.net www.AlienView.net
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