Showing posts with label Project Blue Book. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Project Blue Book. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 24, 2020

Project Blue Book: Tonight...



Although I'm not a fan of the History Channel's show Project Blue Book, I'll have to watch tonight's episode, as it's titled "Operation Mainbrace."

My dad, as a UK Royal Air Force radar mechanic for 3 years, was involved in the radar aspects of several UFO events that occurred during Operation Mainbrace, which, in September 1952, was a real NATO operation designed to show the Russians what we could do in the event things turned bad.
My dad was involved in 3 cases during Mainbrace, and it was his decision to tell me about it that got me interested in the UFO mystery.

No doubt (and just like all the previous episodes of the show) the whole thing will be distorted to crazy amounts. I'll have to give him a call tomorrow and let him know how his colleagues and the events were portrayed LOL.

Thursday, February 20, 2020

From Project Blue Book to the Skinwalker Ranch! WTF???

Project Blue Book was garbage when it started, but take a look at how crazy it's going now:

Hynek goes to the set of Close Encounters of the Third Kind in the next episode (the movie wasn't even made until 1977).

And in the episode after that, Hynek and the other guy go to...wait for it... the Skinwalker Ranch!!!

WTF???

Tuesday, January 21, 2020

"Project Blue Book" Returns Tonight

Project Blue Book is back tonight. Worth watching for the girl on girl shit and...absolutely nothing else...

Tuesday, January 15, 2019

Project Blue Book Episode 2: "The Flatwoods Monster"

Well, I just got finished watching the second episode of the new History Channel show, Project Blue Book. The episode's title: "The Flatwoods Monster." If you know your UFO history, you'll know the story.

In the show, the Flatwoods Monster of West Virginia is portrayed nothing like the Flatwoods Monster (which is just a minor issue). The people of Flatwoods, however, are presented as distrusting, gun-toting nuts ready to blast the U.S. military with lead. None of which happened.

Also, we see one of the characters jump, or pushed, out of a window to her death. I've heard of TV companies being inspired by real events, but this is getting ridiculous. 

I wonder what the good people of Flatwoods are - tonight - thinking about the townsfolk who came before them and who have been portrayed in such a trigger-happy fashion.

That's my main gripe: the show-makers seem intent on making real people look bad. See my article at Mysterious Universe, in which I explain how, in episode 1, they portrayed a WWII hero as someone who had descended into mental illness and who needed to be shot up with meds. Pure bullshit.

On the plus side, the chick on chick action is getting closer (despite a slight hiccup that set things back), so I'll have to keep watching...

About the new "Project Blue Book" show...

Well, I finally got around to watching the new Project Blue Book show.

I was hugely unimpressed and the show did a disservice to the real George Gorman, a pilot who had a UFO encounter, and who did not have PTSD and who was not shot with chemicals or had his mind wiped.

The one saving grace: the prospect of what looks to be a bit of hot girl on girl action on the horizon...

Monday, June 8, 2015

The Socorro Flying Saucer - Photo/Model



Now this is interesting: one of the people I met at the Ohio MUFON gig this past weekend was one of MUFON Ohio's investigators, Rob Mercer.

Rob has acquired a massive collection (and I do mean massive) of ORIGINAL Air Force Project Blue Book files and had them on display at the conference.

Rob very generously gave me a photo from the collection.

It clearly shows a model display of the famous Socorro, New Mexico UFO landing case of 1964 - complete with models of the UFO, 2 small aliens, and police officer Lonnie Zamora hauling ass away from the UFO and his car.

Does anyone have any idea if the model was made by the Air Force, or was it for a UFO convention display (or similar)?

Maybe the Air Force thought it was a cool display and decided to photograph it for their files?

Anyone got answers?

My guess is a display created for a UFO gig or a UFO museum, but even so, the background suggests it must have been a significantly big display.