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Posted: 26-07-2013 21:27 Post subject:

Sentry - good blog, nice job getting to original sources and trying to sort out the later embellishments.

Posted: 27-07-2013 03:46 Post subject:

Thanks, it has been tricky trying to point out some of the errors in the case without sounding overly negative towards the original investigator(s). Considering their standing in the UFO community there hasn't been any backlash to date, although I'm beginning to detect some resistance from some quarters in responding to reasonable requests for case materials.

By the way, I've heard your signature line a bit differently,
"I'd rather have a FREE bottle in front of me than a PREfrontal lobotomy."

Edited for diplomacy

Posted: 28-07-2013 14:04 Post subject:

I've always thought that given the reported airforce helicopters and the radiation effects that a nuclear jet or nuclear thermal rocket was involved. These had been developed in the preceding couple of decades and the projects shelved - or had they?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_thermal_rocket
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pluto

Posted: 29-07-2013 02:26 Post subject:

AMPHIARAUS, the nuclear craft may be a red herring. there is no conclusive evidence the injuries in this case were the result of ionizing radiation. Check Brad Sparks' comments). Even if nuclear radiation did contribute, John Schuessler admits it doesn't explain the other apparent symptoms, and we'd have to bring in other types of radiation, microwave, and perhaps x-rays for starters.

Remember, at the time, there was a lore of radiation injuries caused by UFO encounters, and perhaps the investigators rushed to fit this case into the scenario, whether of ET or terrestrial origin. None of the original doctors who treated Betty Cash diagnosed her as having radiation exposure;they only discussed that some of her symptom resembled it. Only Dr. Peter Rank, who did not examine the witnesses, advocated the radiation exposure scenario, and even then, with a stack of qualifiers. Dr. Bryan McClelleand, Betty Cash's physician in Alabama. (a family practitioner, not a radiologist), is the only doctor to directly state that she had radiation exposure.

This still leaves us with a pile of problems, no matter the source of the injuries. The encounter seems authentic, but apparently not nuclear. Could it have been a chemical exposure from the craft's exhaust?

Posted: 29-07-2013 08:21 Post subject: