Great show. I loved Kevin's answer to my question about the "mentally ill" people involved in the UFO field. To a certain degree I was being facetious with my question, but the basic reality is there. Chris got what I was saying. By the way, Chris, a mountebank is a blowhard lol! Kind of like a loudmouth snake oil salesman.
I asked that question partly due to Karl Korff going after Kevin, but also because of Korff's attacking of David Biedny and Gene over the years. I had already discovered the "Kal Korff is an IDIOT web site", but it was good to hear Kevin bring it up in the interview, and also clearly state his opinion of Korff, further exposing the kind of goofball "mountebank" that Korff is. Korff is a good example of the kind of person involved in the UFO field that I was referring to. The subject of the strange people who get attracted to the field seems to be taboo to many ufologists. Having said that, Kevin is correct: at least those kinds of folks are not representative of the
majority of the folks involved in the field.
In re to Scott Ramsey and his book "The Aztec Incident", I just happened to be poking around with TuneIn on my Blackberry yesterday, and I found a show called The Kate Valentine UFO show. She had interviewed Scott Ramsey on her April 27th show.
The Paracast broadcast their show with the Ramseys on May 20th, so in light of Kevin's critique of the Ramsey's book I listened to the Kate Valentine UFO show this morning to remind myself of some of the points Ramsey brings up. A few things popped up. Ramsey said that he has been going out to the Aztec crash site for 25 years, 200 times. That's a lot of years and a lot of visits. He himself admits in the interview that it's just a 6.5 hour drive time between the Aztec crash site and Roswell (Google maps confirms this) , yet Ramsey states that he has
never been out to Roswell. Now, why would he not visit Roswell as part of his Aztec research? Roswell is the most famous UFO crash story in history. Does he not think he can learn something from visiting Roswell that might help him analyze the situation in Aztec? He spends 25 years visiting the Aztec site - over 200 times he makes the trek out there - yet doesn't think to visit Roswell even once? Weird.
Anyway, back to Kevin. Good to hear him slam Chasing UFOs. Why don't they just change the name to "Chasing Ratings" and be honest about it?
I enjoyed Kevin's comments about the "Disgracing UFOs" Roswell show (there's another name change suggestion for them - no charge for the idea). Kevin knows a lot about the situation on the ground there. The air force button discussion was particularly interesting to me. As a metal detectorist myself, I can tell you it wouldn't take much to go out there and toss a bunch of metals around to fool people who are poking around with their Minelabs. We MDers find a lot of strange stuff underground. Sometimes it's easy to figure out what happened in a given situation, and sometimes it's downright perplexing.
Here's a good example: There is an MDer on YouTube who is famous for finding coins then leaving behind a copper plate with an inscription of his YouTube handle for the next MDer to find. lol. All in good fun, but you get the point. When they found that rusty chunk of tin and started to get excited about it, I was literally shaking my head in disgust.
The other point I wanted to bring up about that particular Chasing Ratings show (and I would have been very interested to hear what Kevin thought about this) was the part where the guy shows the metals he has discovered with his detector over the years. He pulls out a binder and starts flipping through it showing off shiny little bits of metal. Huh? Wow!! Look at that collection of shiny metals - possibly interstellar spaceship metals??? Man, this is silly. So he's found a bunch of little bits of metal, and he just saves them in his binder? but... what exactly are they?! Seriously. What kind of metal is it? What is its composition? The guy doesn't even divulge whether or not he's had them tested and James Fox and his gang don't bother to ask him if he's had them tested. Sheesh. So silly.
Anyway, Kevin if you're reading this, please comment on that part of the show.
The top comment on this YouTube video says it all about Chasing Ratings - there's money in them thar aliens!