Your Guide's Interview with Stanton T. Friedman
As most of you already know, those of us who study UFOs don't have a lot of role models to call our own. The one name that always comes to mind when the subject of UFOs is mentioned is Stanton T. Friedman. To try to list his many accomplishments would be an exercise in futility. Just take a look at his background and merits at his web site, and you will see what I mean.
Recently, I received his new book, "Flying Saucers and Science," and immediately dug into it. I was amazed at how much I didn't know about the dark secrets of our government as relating to UFOs, even after all of these years. The book is very well written, and full of great information on UFOs. I was given an opportunity to do an online interview with him, and needless to say, I jumped right on it. Speaking of books, not too long ago, he, along with coauthor Kathleen Marden, released "Captured," the definitive account of the Betty and Barney Hill abduction, which occurred in New Hampshire, in 1961. Marden is the niece of Betty, and the amazing facts brought out in the book educated me immensely on the classic case of alien abduction.
Be sure to check out my interview with Mr. Friedman. I hope you will find it interesting. Be sure to comment on any part of the interview that you wish.
Comments
Tell me - why do we still listen to Friedman? It seems that all he actually does anymore is interviews - no actual research… Maybe it’s time to start talking to researchers rather than whoever has a book coming out…
Nice interview. glad you had the opportunity and ask some great questions. I didn’t know about his new book, but intend to buy it now.
I don’t think visitors would respond to SETI unless they were at a similar point as us on evolution scale. Why would they try to communicate to much less primitive creatures. They could be hundreds of thousands or millions of years ahead of us.
” they have absolutely no idea how advanced civilizations would communicate or why they would send signals to a primitive society whose major activity is tribal warfare. That’s us…I have seen no evidence whatsoever that SETI groups have actually received a meaningful signal from another civilization. Frankly, I would be surprised if they do. I expect advanced civilizations have communication techniques way beyond what we know. I don’t use a slide rule any more. We are assuming that aliens are stuck at our level of technology. Silly assumption.”
“The Betty and Barney Hill UFO Experience”
I didn’t read his book but could we call this one of the best cases? I am sceptical of most of these abduction stories. Noone has seen or photographed a UFO close to the ground or a body being removed anywhere. I think there’s a tendency that people who are involved in the field for a living might not be as objective as someone who occasionally visits the subject and doesn’t need to make money from it. However Stanton Friedman has been one of the best voices from a science prospective in the past few decades.
“Technological progress comes from doing things differently in an unpredictable way. It is humbling to realize how short our tech history has been compared to the age of the neighborhood.”
Our technology developed very slow until the laste 1800s. I can imagine some aliens could have technology that would seem like magic to us.
Nice interview. I’m glad you had the opportunity and ask some great questions. I didn’t know about his new book, but intend to buy it now.
I don’t think visitors would respond to SETI unless they were at a similar point as us on the evolution scale. Why would they try to communicate to much more primitive creatures. They could be hundreds of thousands or millions of years ahead of us. If we were in the same place we’d go and observe and wouldn’t need to communicate. They don’t have much to gain from communicating with us.
” they have absolutely no idea how advanced civilizations would communicate or why they would send signals to a primitive society whose major activity is tribal warfare. That’s us…I have seen no evidence whatsoever that SETI groups have actually received a meaningful signal from another civilization. Frankly, I would be surprised if they do. I expect advanced civilizations have communication techniques way beyond what we know. I don’t use a slide rule any more. We are assuming that aliens are stuck at our level of technology. Silly assumption.”
“The Betty and Barney Hill UFO Experience”
I didn’t read his book but could we call this one of the best cases? I am skeptical of most of these abduction stories. No one has seen or photographed a UFO close to the ground near a car or a house or a body being removed anywhere. I think there’s a tendency that people who are involved in the field for a living might not be as objective as someone who occasionally visits the subject and doesn’t need to make money from it. However Stanton Friedman has been one of the best voices from a science prospective in the past few decades. Maybe I should read the book before I say this but most of the abduction books have been poor.
“Technological progress comes from doing things differently in an unpredictable way. It is humbling to realize how short our tech history has been compared to the age of the neighborhood.”
Our technology developed very slowly until the late 1800s. I can imagine some aliens could have technology that would seem like magic to us.
“We don’t need to know how they get here to establish that there are visitors. The sun was a fusion factory for 4.5 billion years before we determined that is the energy producing process.”
Even though I’ve heard the phrase we can close the book on Physics (implying we know all there is to know) I think mankind really has just begun its technological development based on the sciences. It wouldn’t surprise me that people thousands of years from now say that the age of technology began in the late 1800s with the industrial revolution.
(p.s. I’d wish we could edit our posts)
I like Stanton and appreciate his passion for getting the word on UFOs out there. I think he’s correct about lots of UFO information being marked classified and select people have access to it.
But while he thinks SETI is assuming too much about ETs, he does the same when talking about what ETs think. If anyone really knew what UFOs were all about and what the ETs thought it would put people out of business. All of the new age, spiritually enlightened, higher frequency dimensional beings, and all that other mumbo jumbo stuff that pollutes and damages real UFO research would implode and disappear. I wish that would happen sooner than later.
Science does the best it can with what it has. They must attempt to receive communications of some type, rather than sit on their hands and expect something to happen. They want proof and a thousand reports from a thousand reliable witnesses won’t satisfy them. If it did, it wouldn’t be called science.
If you look at how UFOs operate and read the reports of abductees/contactees, the dimensional theory is about as good as Friedman’s preferred nuts & bolts mode of travel. Not much of about the UFO phenomenon makes sense to us, and maybe that’s the way the ETs have planned it and like it.