James Easton's UFO Blog

I wanted to take one last look at the overall evidence for our first night’s circumstances. There remain ‘loose ends’ which are troubling and just in case something had been overlooked, or suddenly now, with hindsight made sense, or new information I was unaware of One fresh dilemma is that whilst official statements from Airman 1st Class John Burroughs, Master-Sergeant J. D. Chandler and Lieutenant Fred Buran, all document commencement of events on the morning of 26 December, as 0300, Staff-Sergeant Jim Penniston’s proclaimed original notebook, has an entry confirming events on our first night, began at 0002. Neither Penniston’s official statement, nor that of Airman Ed Cabansag, record the time at which an alert was raised. Burroughs is on record as accepting, that the incident could have been initiated earlier than he recalled. Buran writes, “The following statement is general in nature and may be inaccurate in some instances due to the time lapse involved and the fact that I was no...

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 regularl...