Your speculations about the intentions of Lundberg's Circlemakers seem to me to be based on little familiarity with and understanding of their activities over several decades in the marginalization of crop circles as a subject meriting serious scientific investigation. George certainly knows a great deal about that and, while he currently seems to be somewhat overwhelmed by what he perceives as their hoaxing skills, he could enlighten us about what the Circlemakers actually sought to do and did, and how and why they did it. I saw and heard enough in three years in the CCCforum to recognize their intentions and methods, but George had a front-row seat. I hope he will enlighten us concerning the Lundberg et al history.
Constance,
Unfortunately this forum is turning into a daily column for me and even then I can’t keep up with every question that’s fired at me. For just two months we have watched the Roswell Slides saga unfold and as I said earlier there has now been a change of gear that is forcing observers to declare whether they are Mummyists or Roswell Alien believers. It is a false division since I strongly believe there is a third solution to this hoax.
Make no mistake: we unexpectedly find ourselves in the Theater of the Absurd. There are several puppeteers who are pulling the strings and they only show us what they want us to see. You will be shown a series of illusions. There is the visible puppet master, Mr Maussan, and there is also the invisible puppet master, Mr Lundberg. Other lesser puppeteers include Mr Dew who was narrator in charge of the transparently false background story. In this theatrical production there are of course villains and there are dupes. Sometimes it’s not too obvious who is a villain and who is a dupe.
I’ve never been quite sure which camp Mr Anthony Bragalia belonged to. Initially he was an ardent advocate of the fact that we were being presented with a genuine Roswell Alien. He was billed in one of the British tabloids as the World’s Leading Ufologist but one must wonder if that was his own assessment. After the May 5th fiasco in Mexico City he suddenly jumps ship and announces that the Roswell Slides don’t show an alien after all and that the small creature is really a mummified Native American two year old and, oops I made a mistake (but I’m still the World’s Leading Ufologist anyway).
He then made a long groveling apology to the Native American people whose child this once had been that sounded about as insincere as one can imagine. Was all of this a Plan B to preserve the tattered reputation of an unfortunately mistaken ufologist? Or was it Plan B to cover up something he knew was a hoax in the first place? He insisted there never had been any hoax and it had all been a simple case of misidentification.
There followed various reports and claims from a number of people that the little mummy had once been in the Mesa Verde museum and it was quite plain that the background setting and display stands in the Roswell Slides were definitely the same as what you’d find in that museum. Well maybe and maybe not. Remember that photographic images can be cleverly altered these days and that the apparent museum setting in the slides could well have been used and then had the “alien”/”mummy” inserted in the image. That’s not possible some people will say since these photographs are from 1947. That
is very possible I say, since there is every reason to believe photographs of the “creature” were actually taken during the last twelve months and the whole thing is a hoax.
Now apart from the folk in Mexico I think there is a general consensus the Roswell Slides were a hoax and a very carefully planned one at that. To pass them off as simply an unfortunate misidentification is absurd. This Mummyist Plan B, apart from anything else, has presented observers with two options: Do you think it was a real alien or was it a mummified child?
Some people who ought to know better have immediately leapt into the Mummyist camp and announced “Of course it’s a mummy. Case closed. Now let’s move on!” Maybe the hoaxmaster is smiling to himself as he slips away into the shadows. I note of course that Philip Mantle has now declared himself a Mummyist.
What people are forgetting here is that back in Mexico scientists, Dr Richard O’Connor, and a mummy expert have gone on record saying the creature was not a mummy and several have said it was definitely not human due to a whole list of strange anomalies. If you don’t believe me go watch Jaime Maussan’s video(s) again. The mummyists must be assuming that all these people are charlatans, unqualified idiots or else they have been paid off by Maussan to say on camera just what he wanted them to say.
I don’t think so. I haven’t been able to check on their credentials but I think their opinions are sincere and the reason is that the higher resolution photos of the creature which they were shown do indeed show these anomalies. The reason for this is not because it’s an extraterrestrial alien but because it’s a special effects dummy that has been specially prepared by the author of this hoax. He has carefully followed the Roswell “narrative” and given us (or rather given Jaime Maussan) a little alien that is about 47 inches tall with a humanoid appearance, a skull disproportionately large compared to its thorax, no nipples, a non-human rib configuration and several other anomalies.
What these scientists and doctors are quite unable to comprehend is that they are looking at photographs of specially constructed special effects dummy and not a “creature” at all. This is Alien MATILDA and it was constructed by the same guys who created HILDA. (They particularly admire H R Giger’s brilliant alien creature in the movie “Alien” but they can’t serve up one like that as they had to follow the narrative and produce a proper Roswell Alien!)
I know it’s hard for some people to get their heads round this but it is the truth of the matter and the Mummyist debate is only a distraction. I don’t know whether Gene is able to measure increased traffic to the Paracast Forums precisely because of this topic but I suspect there are a lot more visitors to the site reading this who probably won’t reveal their presence……..
Are you there, Jaime?? Are you reading this, Adam? Are you there Robert Sheaffer? Are you out there, Kevin? Are you reading this, Stanton? If you really want the truth the very best place to find it is in Paracast City!
George
