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Lesley at The Debris Field linked to, and commented on, Melisa Hovey's post about my post: The Search For Bigfoot: Denying the necessity of Science.....
Melisa wrote on her blog The Search For Bigfoot:
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"What do witnesses want?"
I have to say, I disagree with Regan Lee. When witnesses contact a person they know is a "Bigfoot Researcher" they may believe with all their heart and soul they have seen a Bigfoot, but they, as much as any researcher, want proof.
"Why do I think that?"
Because witnesses contact people within the "Bigfoot Research Community." They send emails to Bigfoot Organizations. They call the 1-800 numbers, asking us to come and take a look at their property, or an area where they had a sighting. They write in their emails, "I know I'm not crazy". Witnesses think, if anyone can prove they seen a Bigfoot - it is someone within this community. Witnesses know we collect any possible evidence of what they are reporting. Witnesses allow us to stay on their properties and hold "night ops". If they didn't want proof as much as your average researcher, they wouldn't contact us, or allow us on their property.
I actually agree with Melisa in many ways. Read her post for my comments.
I also commented at Lesley's blog. One thing I wrote at Lesley's blog that just came out and inspired me for more on this is what I said about the need for having a Fortean, or "anomalist junkie" etc. along on BF teams. That'll tick off some, I'm sure, but if we can have scientists, and nuts and bolts (to borrow a term from UFO research) kind of researchers, why not those kinds of investigators, researchers, and writers who come from a different perspective altogether? An "anomalist historian" along for the journey?
Credit: alienspress.blogspot.com
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MONDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2014
JAPANESE UFO ">
A NINETEENTH CENTURY JAPANESE FOLK TALE STILL INSPIRESUFO-BELIEVERS
In the early 1800s, two folk tales circulated around Japan. Both involved a very strange woman emerging from a very strange ship. Her dress and appearance seemed out of this world. What happened?
There are two versions of this story. One was written in 1825 and one in 1844. In both versions, some Japanese sailors happened to notice, floating in the ocean, a very strange vessel. It was circular, which was not so unusual. What caught there attention was that it seemed to have a lid that covered the top of the ship, and glass windows. When they got it to shore, out came a very beautiful woman holding a very mysterious box. She wouldn't let anyone touch it. They couldn't ask her about it, because she didn't speak their language. All the materials making her ship, her clothes, and her box, were completely unknown to them. Eventually, the woman went back to her boat, and drifted out to sea again.WELL, THAT'S THE BORING 1844 VERSION. THE 1825 VERSION PLAYS OUT MORE LIKE AN OLD BBC MURDER MYSTERY. YOU CAN TELL, BECAUSE THE WOMAN IS MORE OF A VAMP. SHE HAS BRIGHT RED HAIR AND EYEBROWS, AND RED HAIR WITH WHITE EXTENSIONS. PLUS, THE BOX WAS BIGGER. THE SIZE OF THE BOX PROVIDED A CRAFTY LOCAL WITH AN IMPORTANT CLUE, AND, AFTER CONSIDERATION, HE ANNOUNCED HIS CONCLUSIONS. THE WOMAN WAS A FOREIGN PRINCESS WHO HAD HAD AN ILLICIT LOVE AFFAIR. THE LOVER HAD BEEN BEHEADED, AND THE PRINCESS WAS PUT TO SEA IN A CRAFT, WITH HIS HEAD IN A BOX. THE VILLAGERS, AGHAST AT THE HUSSY IN THEIR MIDST, PUSHED HER AND HER VESSEL INTO THE SEA AGAIN.
AS SHORT AS IT IS, THE MYTH ABOUT THE STRANGE-LOOKING VESSEL MADE WITH FOREIGN MATERIALS HAS BECOME AN ENDURING FAVORITE OF UFOLOGISTS. THEY BELIEVE THAT, POSSIBLY, A FLYING SAUCER CRASHED IN THE SEA, AND WASHED UP ON LAND. POSSIBLY ALIENS WERE TRYING TO BLEND IN BY MATCHING OUR TECHNOLOGY, SENDING FLYING SAUCERS WHEN WE COULD FLY AND SAILING SAUCERS WHEN ALL WE COULD DO WAS SAIL. WHEN PEOPLE ARGUE, THE UFO BELIEVES POINT TO THE UNNATURAL SUBSTANCES OF THE WOMAN'S CLOTHES AND SHIP. THEY ARGUE THAT, ALTHOUGH PEOPLE WEREN'T AS SAVVY IN THOSE DAYS AS WE ARE TODAY, THEY PEOPLE IN THE LEGEND WERE HARDLY YOKELS. THEY WOULD HAVE RECOGNIZED MOST KINDS OF MATERIALS AND MOST KINDS OF VESSELS. THIS UTTERLY FOREIGN BEING MIGHT HAVE BEEN CRASH-LANDED, OR MIGHT HAVE BEEN ON A SCOUTING SHIP.
Credit: dark-shadowy-line.blogspot.com
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