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3.27.6

UFOs: I Get To, That's Who

It’s nobody’s business how old I am dahlings, but I suppose I must reveal I’m, um, er... like your endearing eccentric Aunt. Lots of color and sparkly things and clangy bracelets and ridiculously large earrings, and, at my age! Humph. (Just today I actually bought a pair of high heels with loads of glittery beads and metallic things and a gold strap and . . . I haven’t worn heels in -- well, never, hardly. I don’t know what got into me but I couldn’t resist. That’s me, practical all the way, why, they’ll be perfect out on the playground during recess duty, I’m sure. But I’m veering off the point here aren’t I?)

Still, to be referred to as “aging” offends me, especially when it’s insinuated that the lack of active UFO researchers is dying off, and no one under 40 is around to take the place of us doddering drooling UFO fools. I’m referring to various individuals who have the mystifying urge to comment on All Things UFO when they themselves don’t care about the subject, yet must go on and tell the rest of us what to do, think, research, say, write, etc. Feh.

John Greenwald, of Black Vault; he’s under 40. Hell, I think he’s under 30. And Nick Redfern, under 40. (I’m pretty sure.) There are many good UFO researchers out there, under and over 20, or 30, or 40, or 50, wherever one decides is the cut-off age for UFO researchers.

As if age has much to do with anything. Only arrogant whippersnappers who’ve never had to walk uphill in the snow both ways would say such rude things.

This brings me nicely to my next I’m Highly Offended rant: the old “who decides who gets to be a UFO researcher/scholar/writer/person” whine. If it’s not age, it’s the “who gets to be called a UFOist” game. Who gets to be taken “seriously.”

Who “gets to?” Me, for one. Why? Because:

I’ve been seeing UFOs since I was 4 years old.

I’ve seen entities since I was a child.

I continue to see UFOs.

I continue to encounter entities.

I’ve spent the past 30 years studying the UFO phenomena

Many family members have had UFO encounters

And many friends

I’ve interviewed many people who’ve shared their experiences with me; often I am one of the few they’re told. Often they haven’t told their spouses, or family members.

I’ve had a life time of high strangeness events surrounding UFOs.

I’ve had episodes of Missing Time.

I have 400 or so books on UFOs in my home library.

I done went to collige and studyied reel good and got myself deegrees.

I wrote a book. (no, it’s not published. Er, no, I don’t have a publisher. But you know, I wrote the damn thing at least. Have you?)

It’s a free country (so far, barely) and I can write, blog, and pontificate, all I want.

I’m the President of our local UFO chapter. Ha.

Unlike many who sniff and snarl and tell the rest of us UFO people what to do, I at least have seen UFOs, studied UFOs, interviewed UFO witnesses, experienced highly strange weird things connected to UFOs, am pretty well convinced aliens from other worlds have visited earth, are still here, are responsible for a lot of human history. (Have you read the Book of Mormon? It’s a virtual “Here’s What Happened When the Aliens Fought Over Their Batch of Stolen Human Being Genes On Earth” guide.)

So don’t tell me I can’t study, share, write about, discuss, present, etc. about UFOs because I’m not “creditaled” or don’t have the Grand PooBah approval of some self-styled UFO pundit.

I may not be contributing in some nationally major way to UFO research. My little book will probably be sold by me, e-book wise or something; it’s the only way it’ll no doubt get out there. I doubt I’ll appear anywhere with somber UFO tidbits to share with the rest of humanity. Then again, one never knows. I'm not that old; I don’t plan on dying off yet. There are many other UFO bloggers out there who are very good and together, we’re saying things that are valid, and valuable, to the overall Big Picture of UFO stuff.

I find it ironic that there are so damn many within the UFO field, as well as on the outside looking -- or barging -- in, that dictate what kind of UFOist should be taken seriously, when the UFO phenomenon itself is so complex, multifaceted, and even seemingly contradictory. Like the intricate and layered UFO realm, its researchers are equally varied. From scientists to the lone blogger UFO experiencer, all are searching and all are contributing to the data. To reject some because they’re too old, or don’t have the arbitrary credentials does UFOlogy a true disservice.

To sneer and dismiss people like us because we’re supposedly “nobodies” is of course arrogant, but also ignorant. And notice how many of these people aren’t true Ufologists anyway. They’re just thugs; the New Thugs, as I call them.

Dahlings, I am most certainly a goddamn somebody, and so, with that in mind, remember: I am woman, hear me rant. Oops, that dates me, I’m sure. Oh well, too old after all to write about UFOs, I guess.

Speaking of women, here’s a plug for my Women in the UFO and Paranormal Realm webpage. I’ve updated it a bit since last time, and as always, invite you to contact me if you have names of women writing about UFOs and/or the paranormal.


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