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Readers submit evidence of the paranormal for public scrutiny

by on Jul. 22, 2010, under General Paranormal, Ghosts and Hauntings, Life, Lost Treasure, Monsters, Psychic Phenomena, UFOs

Since posting the article about the Malaysia UFO, and the submitted blurry photograph as a separate post, I have received emails from readers in Malaysia who feel that I dismissed the Malaysia UFO photo too quickly.

I posted the one reader submitted photo on my blog and dismissed it as a cloud.

Rarely will I post photographs into my articles. Photographs can be easily manipulated. I do sometimes post photos to showcase locations that I write about. Sometimes, I post them as examples rather than evidence.  On occasion, I will provide a link to readers to view a photo on another website.

To be fair, I am not a meteorologist, so my assessment of the object as a cloud or sun dog is only the evaluation of an amateur. Also, I am not a photographic expert, though I see what I see and form my own opinion as a result.

While mulling over the decision over whether to post reader submitted items, I had to ask myself if I actually know what a UFO from somewhere in outer space looks like. No, I don’t. I do know what Hollywood’s various representations of a UFO looks like. During a recent debate on the subject, I asserted that if extraterrestrials exist and if they are so technologically advanced to travel here, they could make their airship resemble an airplane to stay under the radar, so to speak. On the other hand, maybe they are really tiny and their craft is no bigger than a shoebox.

To be fair, most, if not all of us, really have no clue what a UFO from outer space might look like.

Last night, a reader in Malaysia contacted me and provided four items: a blog post, a Borneo Post article, a clearer photo of the Malaysia UFO and a zoomed in version of the object in question. Rather than incorporate those items into an article, I decided to publish reader submitted evidence in another location on my blog.

On the upper left side of your screen is a new section within Paranormal Old Pueblo: Reader Submissions. A link under this heading reads: “July 2010“.

I will do my best to keep this section updated for those who wish to submit photos or other evidence. I don’t guarantee that I will devote an article to the evidence submitted, however.

You can submit whatever you would like related to the paranormal: UFOs, Ghosts, Cryptozoology, Psychic Phenomena, Lost Treasure, etc.

To submit any evidence you would like to share with your fellow readers, feel free to email me.


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  • Cherlyn Gardner Strong

    I received a comment from “Mr. History” via email, who was not able to get his comment to post. All comments and feedback are welcome. While we investigate why Mr. History had trouble posting, I am pasting his comment below:
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    “most, if not all of us, really have no clue what a UFO from outer space”

    May I respectfully suggest this statement assumes too much?  I think the only safe thing to assume (it is actually well known) is that there are certain UFO reports which investigators were unable to resolve (Exeter 1965 etc.)  Beyond this, very little is known, and, assuming that (ship-like) UFOs are a sort of physical object, there is no information regarding their origin, be it outer space or other domains.

    Unfortunately, the public has been led to often assume that if a UFO is really an unidentified flying craft of some kind, it must be from space.  In the 1950s, the suggestion was that they were interplanetary, but later research implied this was implausible and so their point of origin was moved further out — interstellar or even inter-galactic.  But all of that is pure speculation, and as we observe these phenomena, it is useful to recall how very little we are really sure of, for otherwise our assumptions may blind us to useful clues.

    Cheers