James Easton's UFO Blog

My formative days in ufology, like many others who grew up in the U.K., (in my case, Glasgow, Scotland) during the late 1970s and 1980s, largely consisted of reading everything ever written by the wondrous Jenny Randles, then graduating to computer bulletin boards, including the U.S. based FidoNet and ParaNet, where you could read the latest UFO conspiratorial rants from William (Bill) Cooper and John Lear, plus receive regular updates on Dulce, New Mexico, an allegedly covert underground base, jointly operated with aliens. This led to regular attendances at the yearly UFO Magazine conference in Leeds, England, where I first met and subsequently became good friends with the late Graham Birdsall, the magazine's editor. At Graham's invitation, I wrote several articles for the magazine and later on established a Yahoo based forum, The UFO Research List (UFORL), which existed from 1999 until 2004, when Yahoo ceased to offer a hosting service. During that time, I was regularly in t

Kenneth Arnold explained how , some 23 miles distant (Arnold measured it afterwards), an intervening "jagged peak" momentarily blocked his view of the nine, enigmatic aerial objects and that contributed to his calculations of distance, size and latterly, on landing at Pendleton Oregon, their apparently astonishing speed. However, it later transpired that when asked to identify the peak on a map, he was unable to, as nothing seemed to match his account. This is Kenneth Arnold's early sketch on a 'manilla' envelope - note that the horizon is marked "10,000" (feet) and 'goat ridge' also depicted ( the descriptive text is not part of his original document). This is a 3D representation of same, on Google Earth, with Mt. Ranier, Little Tahoma  goat ridge kand Mt. Adams all tagged. Please ' z oom' into the image, for greater detail (might be preferable to download a copy first). This is a cropped and enlarged section from the original drawing, s