William G. Pullin

Greetings. The history of the UFO phenomenon features a number of alleged events and scenarios, a short and incomplete list follows: 1. Landings.  2. Alien abductions.  3. Radar/visual events.  4. Crash/retrievals.  5. Military encounters. The scenario of the crash/retrieval is the focus of this particular writing.  If one takes a long, thorough look at UFO history, it quickly becomes apparent that the crash/retrieval scenario is almost commonplace, nothing out of the ordinary, at least from a numerical standpoint. When one digs deeper into the claims of crash/retrievals, it also becomes apparent that the vast majority of the cases are simply anecdotal stories with no physical proof or evidence to support their reality. The names are famous (infamous) in UFO lore; Aztec, Aurora, Del Rio, Edinburg, Kingman, Maury Island, San Agustin, Cape Girardeau, and the list goes on and on and on into UFO obscurity.  If we look at the very same stories and ask ourselves ...

Imperobator is an extinct genus of paravian theropod, a group of large, three-toed carnivorous dinosaurs, that lived during the very latest stages of the Cretaceous Period in what is now the continent of Antarctica.  The genus' only representative species, Imperobator antarcticus, is one of only two non-avian theropods known from Antarctica. The first fossilized remains of the species were discovered in 2003 by an expedition launched by the University of California Museum of Paleontology and initially described as a dromaeosaur in 2007. Subsequent expeditions uncovered additional fossils including teeth and skull bones, with the fossils being formally described as a new genus of giant paravian in 2019. Imperobator antarcticus is one of the largest known paravians, with an estimated height of approximately two meters, making it comparable to the largest of the dromaeosaurs such as the North American Utahraptor. As a result of the lack of the characteristic "sickle claw" of...

Greetings. The thylacine, better known as the Tasmanian Wolf or Tasmanian Tiger, is an iconic species of carnivorous marsupial that is known from New Guinea, Australia, and of course, the Island of Tasmania.  The species, Thylacinus cynocephalus, disappeared from New Guinea and the Australian mainland approximately 3,000 years ago, but maintained a healthy population in Tasmania until historical times. Having first appeared in the fossil record approximately 2.8 million years ago, during the Pliocene Epoch, the thylacine's population numbers in New Guinea and Australia began to dwindle when humans arrived, pressuring the species into local extinction due to direct hunting, habitat destruction, and the introduction of the invasive dingo. Prior to the arrival of European settlers in Tasmania, thylacines numbered about 6,000 individuals, but their population gradually decreased due to many of the same factors, although the dingo was never introduced to the island. The last known thyla...

Greetings. Who are the noisy ones now? The late Stanton T. Friedman often used the phrase "noisy negativists" to describe those individuals who think nothing of the UFO problem, people who cast aside the topic into the wastebasket of nonsensical, pseudoscientific beliefs. In decades past, the phrase may have had some merit, with people like the late Philip J. Klass attempting to debunk every single UFO report like it was going out of style. However, in today's environment, things have changed, completely.   Nowadays, skeptical positions are seen as negative, as opposed to cautious, vilified instead of appreciated, looked down upon as opposed to respected and encouraged. People who adhere to mental processes that employ critical, rational, reasonable thought exercises are few and far between, about as common as a Kodiak Bear wandering the wilderness of Australia. The UFO believers, the ardently faithful, control the narrative, a position of power they will enthusiastically...

Greetings. Ever since Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace conceived of the theory of natural selection, the theory of evolution, the term has been applied to a multitude of topics, most of which referring to the gradual advancement of the technology our species has at its disposal.  Whether it be the internal combustion engines contained within the vast majority of automobiles currently in use on the planet, the computer systems that seem to have taken over the day-to-day mundane tasks and responsibilities of the human species, or the copious amounts of weaponry stored and kept at the ready by many of the nations of the world, our technology has slowly been advancing in complexity, increasing in overall capability. Have humans changed to keep pace? Not really. We are still the rascist, warlike, belligerent, heavily armed species of hominid we have always been since we initially descended from the trees of sub-Saharan Africa several hundred thousand years ago.  But I digre...

Greetings. Burning bridges, a course of action that rarely, if ever, occurs in the chaotic and muddled excrement exchange program known as the UFO subculture.  The UFO world is a pseudoscientific playground, devoid of scientific methodologies and critical thought processes. Tangible evidence is of no importance, with unconfirmed storytelling holding court with the tinfoil hat wearing UFO masses. It may have always been this way, even during the heady days of Coral and Jim Lorenzen, but the current situation seems to be an undefeatable opponent, at least for those individuals who hold that scientific research efforts are the sole productive road to travel down.  By direct contrast, the scientific research community conducts itself in a completely different manner, with public scrutiny, open transparency, and peer-reviewed exercises held in high regard. The UFO research community doesn't have any professional methodological standards, nor does it conduct any sort of open back-an...