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Monday, May 21, 2007

Shit, It’s The End Of The World

In one of those very rare seismic events that affect the course of history just once in every person’s life time, something happened on UFO Updates this past week that could impact upon the mental well being and spirituality of many thousands of people. As is often the case, the event happened by oversight; Errol Bruce Knapp let slip through a posting that actually told the truth. Here it is:


From: Michael Christol <spachopr@bellsouth.net>
To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
Date: Sun, 20 May 2007 09:00:43 -0600
Subject: Re: U.S. Department Of Defense On UFOs


It is amazing how close the Kenneth Arnold description of the objects he saw, comes to matching the Horton Brothers flying wings designed for Germany during WWII, yet no one, even today wants to consider the possibility that this was what Arnold could have seen.

And the speed? With jet engines, that speed could have been achieved. I know this will be rebuffed, because it will be said jet engines were not capable of those speeds at that time in our technology. But, hey, I don't care! It is just another of my opinions.

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Well bust my buttons and fuck my granny’s she-goat hamster! Yee haw! Cue the bunch of fuckwit no-life anoraks who are now going to line up to tell him just what he has predicted that they would (because of course, nothing’s new and we’ve been here before) and that historically what he claims is impossible. And those that do step forward are US govmint paid stooges who’s job it is to keep the UFO myth going. See who they are and shame them. Pull down their pants and paint their willies purple.

And so by a sequence of coincidences and errors in the space of two weeks did begin in America the biggest con job ever foisted on the public of the world.

posted by Arthur @ 2:02 AM  

25 Comments:

  • At 6:26 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    I would suggest that you "make much ado about nothing," but what else is new? Ya gotta do better than that.

     

  • At 6:53 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Arthur--

    See what inspired adulation you draw out from your most dedicated admirers? Yee-haw, indeed. How droll, for a troll.

    So, after all the bile you spewed for so long, you disappear for 5 months, and then suddenly reappear for a few lame posts in May, just to slink back into the putrid darkness of your decayed soul for another indefinite sabbatical?

    I guess, as another poster predicted so long ago, you really _can't_ "keep it up" consistently. Perhaps there's hope for you yet, as your absence does make my heart grow fonder for your continued absence.

    OTOH, a part of me misses your dreck, if for no other reason than how it deprives me of the opportunity to directly put you down like the rabid dog you are.

    Thus, I'm torn--I don't know if like it better that you have retreated once again, other than your puerile second-banana stage- right peeks around the curtain as one or another of your sock puppets, or if it would be better for you to post yet another egregious screed just so I can shred you and your filth once again.

    I just don't know. Since this blog now (and perhaps always) has become a form of terroristic written performance "art", art, do you have any last words before I ceremoniously place the blindfold over your venal eyes just prior to orchestrating the verbal firing squad for your intellectual execution?

     

  • At 6:41 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Hey Mikie, You never use to write this well!

    I think it may be Alfred, who's taken on the anonymichael moniker.


    I heard from Biddy and there's some...err...trouble in the marriage. That could be what's occupying Arthur's time. Keep the faith though. He'll show up.

    Did you see that shit fest on Larry King with that debunker Shermer and his little alien dolls?

    And what kind of face work did Buzz Aldrin have?

    I think he and King are senile at this point, anyhow.

    Stan Friedman and George Noory were their usual homely selves.

     

  • At 3:28 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Guess again, boyo...what's it like, being consistently wrong?

     

  • At 9:24 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    "Arthur" is one of the following:

    1. Stuart Miller
    2. Andy Roberts
    3. Still unknown British UFO enthusiast who, when known, will have quite a bit of shit come down on him.

     

  • At 9:26 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Jenny Randles?

     

  • At 11:53 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    John Rimmer?

     

  • At 1:28 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Dear anonymous,

    What, really, is the point of the last three posts here, speculating about "Arthur's" identity?

    If you don't know, why speculate? A couple of these names have come up before, including one from me some time back, but posting name after name serves no purpose other than to potentially smear certain named individuals by association with this blog. It only serves the creator of this blog and his moronic intent and purposes.

    I believe this will be my last post on this subject, and this blog, since, as I predicted, old Art couldn't keep it up, and now this blog stinks worse than a dead fish in the noon-day sun.

    It's simply a rotting corpse. Best not to keep poking it with a stick. It's a total bore.

    Sept. 3rd

    --anonymichael

     

  • At 3:13 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    My bet is Stuart Miller. But he will never have the guts to fess up. A real coward, IMHO.

     

  • At 5:44 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Has anyone heard the latest about that narcistic Canadian chap - Sir Paul Kimbling?!

    The blowhard has finally come out of two closets: (1) He's gay as jaybird! {as if we didn't know, with that decade long "engagement" to his 'beard'} and (2) He's an abductee who's been taken more than a thousand times, thus causing his rapid hair loss, mantits and womany belly!


    The Abduction Gossip Columnist

     

  • At 10:48 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Well, well, oh well.

    I had been wondering whatever happened to that nasty, nasty man, Arthur.

    It appears, as noted below, he has resurfaced from underneath the slime of his own creation, and begun a new blog, fittingly entitled "Arthur The Nasty Man," which you can peruse at:
    http://tinyurl.com/2t5nj7

    His latest scrawling screed? About one Greg Boone, who I'm also not particularly fond of, especially given his latest round of "alien scare-mongering," naturally without any substantiation other than "oh, it's so scary!"

    See the awful details, below:

    "Wednesday, 28 November 2007
    Arthur, UFOs, and Greg Boone

    I am the Arthur from here: http://tinyurl.com/327r7n. As you will see if you glance through that blog, I was indeed a very nasty man. I still am. I have decided to start afresh because I have been away and a new beginning is necessary as part of my rehabilitation. You see, when I say I have “been away”, what I really mean is, I was put away. But I have reached a crisis point in my recovery and before I decide what to do, I would like to share my story with you.

    Four months ago, I began to get an inkling that all was not right. There was a kind of vagueness inside my brain and concentrating on anything for a period of time was becoming difficult. Sleep was a problem and I found my mood swings were becoming quite extreme. Both physically and mentally, I felt quite uncomfortable.

    My last vivid memory of that time occurred during August. I was standing in front of a woman in a store somewhere waiting to pay for some socks I was purchasing. It was a pack of four that came packaged on one of those miniature hangars. The woman behind me accidentally brushed against by back and as I turned around towards her, I noticed she was quite buxom and suddenly thought it would be a good idea to see if I could get the sock hangar I was holding to hang from one of her nipples and to observe how long it would be before it fell off. I remember thinking that this was a serious scientific study and that she surely wouldn’t object.

    I came round the next day in a hospital ward. I was put on a chemical therapy but also engaged with a psychiatrist on a daily basis as well. I found that particularly useful because it helped me to understand what had happened to me. You see, it was Greg Boone’s fault.

    Who is Greg Boone you might ask? I don’t know really. I’ve never met him or talked to him. But he is a regular contributor on the UFO UpDates List and it seems his postings there were responsible for driving me utterly insane. It seems the man is such a deranged, retarded fuckwit that I got to the point where I couldn’t take it anymore.

    Here is a selection of Greg’s recent gruntings on the Updates List. See how far you can get before you've had enough:

    If we let it get out that the alien abductors are harming animals there'll be uproar in the streets, people burning aliens in effigy, entire naval strike forces engaged. It's okay if them aliens kidnap us and spay and neuter us but by cracky, if they're out there harming Fido and Mittens that's not gonna sit well with some folks!

    So bottom line is we need to let the public know that no agency, except those that appear after we request them, are engaged in UFO related investigations and if someone comes a-knockin' at the door demanding and pushing and shoving, then break out ol' Betsy and give em' a load of 12 gauge in the backside.

    If people are going to sit up here and profess the shocking stories regarding abduction and they get ridiculed, threatened and maybe worse, then sitting on their butts is about as effective as lighting one's own butt on fire to alert the Coast Guard. (that's an old N'England saying meaning a vain attempt at something. I dunno my Grandma used to say it. )

    This lolligagging is resulting in more people suffering

    I have armies of friends in the press. I grew up in the press

    We're talking about a total invalidation of every facet of our national security being breached by these beings. We're talking Ma, Pa, Grandma and Mrs. Cleaver and the Beaver down the street suffering unimaginable terrors that can lead to debilitating psychological results, but we're going to handle that problem by 'discussing' the issue.

    I think it's an old Celtic saying that "The stew is either on the boil or tis not!"

    Either way, for us who know the real deal we're up against the same type of oppression people in Europe went through when the Nazis rose to power.

    One really sympathizes with abductees who not only have to battle alien beings with advanced technology but also their own government agencies and information industries their tax and advertising dollars support.

    Just think of it. Any one of us could come up with a good idea and make millions if not billions of dollars. Then we turn around and pay off some guys a few million or a few hundred G's to spill the beans. The beans spilled basically say if you tellthe public you'll lose your fortune, lose protection of your family and friends.What would you do?

    Hate to sound so harsh but this is Earth. Cute bunnies get eaten by big bad wolves here. That's the default procedure.

    Every day that goes by I think of what would have happened had WWII gone awry and the Axis powers had won.
    Now I look at today's newest UFO press conference and I think of all the stuff my grandparents went through fighting in that war and it makes me look at them with greater awe!

    Aliens don't need cloaking devices they have a special shield around their ships called the 'Mouth Agape Human Staring Into The Headlights' device. Works every time.

    The aliens who've been hiding in disguise with us will rip off their chemical skin and reveal their reptilian skin and then try to sell Noxema.

    A friend of mine said one of the reasons people laugh when you say UFO is the phonetics. 'You-A-Foe' sounds like an enemy acknowledgement.

    I wonder if all the skeptics are getting beaten up in school now for their lunch money because of McGaha. Even the nerds and geeks rank higher in the pecking order in schools now than the skeptics

    The way he put it on George's show one would have thought none other than Neil Armstrong was going to step out on the stage and get into a donnybrook with Dr. Ed Mitchell, the melee would spill over into the Press Club audience and CNN would duke it out with ABC. Suddenly the late but reknowned wrasslin' announcer Mean Gene Okerland would suddenly appear and declare a steel cage match. Classy Freddy Blassie would appear from the netherworld, the very boundaries of multi-dimensional cohesion unfurl and Benjamin Franklin would appear with a metal folding chair a-whompin' on fellers. He'd be expelled from the ring for using a foreign object and we'd fade to black with the ghost of Frank Kaufman putting Hoagland in a suplex wrasslin' hold. Did someone say Jubilation T. Cornpone? No more rumors, no more lies, bring me Martians from the skies.I'm really a Richard C. Hoagland fan. He makes the whole thing fun.

    Why is it not going to surprise me that either we humans aren't top of the evolutionary smarts chain or that at some point in the past we got real smart, probably too smart for our britches.

    Leave it up to a Clark to get a party started right. Yes I'm a member of the Clark family Clan too. Came over not too long after the Mayflower I'm told. Long family line of Sheriffin' too.

    Believe it or not there are some pretty wild theories held by the majority of Americans as well as the majority of peoples on this planet that there is something or someone called God. You can't see him, he has no driver's license and no tv talk show but by cracky, there are 100s of millions of people present as well as past who'll swear on a stack of Bibles that he's spoken to them, protected them from harm, healed their illnesses and helped them find those rare Bill Monroe bluegrass albums at the Sunday flea market.

    No, we can't walk into a disco and impress the hotties by saying "I'm a ufologist!"

    I'm sticking my neck out farther than I should but I'll say this for the record. We're all part of a bigger picture, an 'already solved the distance twixt the stars' problem.

    One thing we can be sure of is the dollar goes a lot farther and the euro even farther. Money ain't as important as control.


    So, there it is.

    I am sitting in a low lit room, at a desk. It is 3:40 am and very quiet. I am staring into the near darkness, without much going on in my brain and my fingers continually run along the edge of the barrel of the pistol laying on the desk in front of me………………

    Posted by Arthur at 04:10"
    ----------------------------------

    Well, there you have it. Arthur, like some reanimated, rotting corpse, has temporarily resurrected himself into the blogosphere. Heaven help us. I will, of course, be commenting over at the new blog as anonymichael, as here, because decency and humanity requires it. Hi ho.

    He didn't even have the decency to redirect us to the new blog, where he continues his spew of unreason and microcephalic venom.

    Nov. 23, 2007

     

  • At 11:19 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Hmmm, you ask, how could I date the entry above as Nov. 23rd, when the King Arthurian post referenced dates to 28 Nov.?

    I looked at the calendar wrong. Mea culpa.

    Dec. 1, 2007

    And why am I dating my entries here? Because blogger/blogspot sucks, and doesn't do it for you, making comment entries look like they're a contemporary series of postings related in time to the original post by the blog author, which is not really correct. One of 5 different flaws or limits of just the commenting option on blogspot, alone. You'd think Google, with its tens of billions of dollars, might take the time and spend a little effort improving thier blog infrastructure, but why should they bother? Everyone knows they are truly evil...privacy destroying schmucks that they are.
    Cookies lasting until 2028 AD? Who are they trying to kid? You.

    Dec. 1, 2007

     

  • At 2:02 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    I have become increasingly persuaded that I know who "Arthur" actually is. Let's just say his "art" is also eponymous.

    I call on him to expose his real identity before I do.

    If he does, here, or on his "Arthur the nasty man" blog (which he hasn't updated since Dec. 2nd, due to his preoccupation with a new venture), I will do so, also.

    Time to come in from the darkling cold, Arthur. You have inadvertently exposed yourself now. Text has been run through pattern analysis and is quite revealing.

    Dec. 28, 2007

     

  • At 8:00 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Tick, tick, tick, Arthur...

    It's now New Year's Eve. What say I give you until, oh, say, February 8th, to make some honest comment here about your true self. I think that's generous, don't you?

    Dec. 31, 2007

     

  • At 1:59 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Feb. 8th, 2008

    After due consideration, I have decided not to state the name of the person I believe is responsible for this blog.

    I'm about 90%+ convinced I know who the person is, but without definitive proof or an admission on the part of the person involved, to name the person I suspect would not be appropriate.

    There are at least three other fairly prominent ufo researchers who agree with my assessment, but until absolute proof is available, I think, in this case, discretion is the better part of valor. After all, I could be wrong, and to name the wrong person might be considered libel. Until I know for sure, I will hold off.

    Research to establish confirmation will continue.

     

  • At 8:59 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Now 95% confirmed.

    Feb. 17, 2008

     

  • At 5:25 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Now 99% confirmed.

    March 21, 2008

     

  • At 3:10 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Now 99.9% confirmed.

    April 1, 2008

     

  • At 3:20 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    The other shoe finally drops:

    I believe Stuart Miller, current editor and publisher of (the rather good, alternative perspective on ufology and ufological matters) Alien Worlds magazine is the person behind this blog, and is "Arthur."

    Not that he's ever likely to admit it. Shame on you, Stewie. Now we know of the Mr. Hyde side to your public, joking Dr. Jekyll.

    I wonder how many of the people who write for your magazine know how very critical you have been of them. Time will tell, won't it?

    Hypocrite!

    --anonymichael

    April 21, 2008

     

  • At 1:37 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    I heard it was that Paul Kimball, the harried, homosexual hanger-on in Ufology.

    Anyone hear from Biddy?

     

  • At 10:50 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    ...*yawn*... (ref. the stupid comment about Kimball, above)

    Another prediction: Stuart Miller's magazine, Alien Worlds, won't be around in about a year to a year and a half maximum. It's just not very good.

    July 5, 2008

     

  • At 3:08 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Alien Worlds magazine ceases publication, and less than 4 months after I made the above prediction:
    -----------------------------------

    Alien Worlds Magazine - Altrincham, Cheshire, England, UK

    http://alienworldsmag.com/

    1st December 2008

    Announcement

    It is with regret that I confirm what will have become obvious
    to many by now, namely that Alien Worlds magazine will not be
    published again.

    I ran out of money to support the magazine which had been
    operating at a loss. There followed extended talks with another
    publishing company with a view to them taking the magazine over
    but those talks failed. After that, I wrestled with the idea of
    keeping it going as a download via the internet, but in the end
    decided against that too. I am sorry for the disappointment the
    magazine's closure will cause.

    The pity of it was that it didn't actually need to make a profit
    and even a small loss would have been acceptable. I could have
    kept it going on that basis but the losses endured could not be
    maintained. Unquestionably, I view my inability to attract any
    advertising as being the reason for the magazine's closure.

    I will also be closing the news service which can be found
    elsewhere on this site and which has been ongoing in one shape
    or form for over four years. It is time to move on.

    Many, many people were gracious enough to help me with articles,
    advice, and encouragement. I refrain from naming names in case I
    inadvertently forget to mention somebody and cause unintended
    offence but you people have my deepest appreciation and
    sincerest thanks. Without you, the mag would not have even have
    got to four excellent issues. Thank you.

    Please contact me at editor@alienworldsmag.com

    This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need
    JavaScript enabled to view it to claim a refund of outstanding
    subscriptions. Back issues are still available and any
    outstanding orders for single issues will be honoured.


    Stuart Miller
    ---------------------------------

    Really too bad, in a way, as the publication had potential, as much as I disliked Miller's two-faced attitude (the public face vs. his vituperative efforts here, for example). But, the time of dead-tree UFO publications, unless backed by deep pockets, etc., and the highest quality of (decently paid for) articles, may have passed, at least for now. The current financial climate, and the decline in print advertising of nearly all kinds, as in newspapers, sort of made this inevitable, although even sooner than I thought would be the case.

    What's left? Well, the uber-crappy "UFO Magazine" based in California under the Birnes regime (he of Corso co-author infamy), UFO DATA magazine (which I suspect may soon face a similar fate), Fortean Times (which seems to be broad enough in the weird department to survive the vagaries of the advertising problem, as it's not focused on ufo matters), and... well, other than some peripheral 'zines, I suspect the future may belong to online publications by subscription or free download. Not a very optimistic scenario. Hi ho.

    --Anonymichael (Dec. 2, 2008)

     

  • At 3:34 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    As of 4 March 2009, UFO DATA magazine has ceased publication.

    --Anonymichael (March 5, 2009)

     

  • At 1:37 AM, Anonymous Anonymichael said…

    Friday 13th May 2011


    58-year-old Stuart Miller Named As Motorcyclist Killed On A56
    Thursday

    By Robert Downes

    Police have named the motorcyclist killed in an accident on the
    A56 yesterday morning.

    Bowdon man Stuart Miller died following an accident at around
    8.25am yesterday on a stretch of the busy road in Broadheath
    near the Evans Halshaw Ford dealers. The dad-of-four and
    grandfather was pronounced dead at the scene following the
    collision with a French plated Opel Corsa, driven by a 19-year-
    old French national. The car was registered to an address in
    Didsbury.

    In a statement the family of Mr Miller said: "A devoted husband,
    father and grandfather, he leaves behind a devoted wife Denise
    and four much loved daughters Denise, Nicola, Vikki and Sophie.
    "Stuart's passion was motorcycling and was well known in the
    Altrincham and Bowdon area where he had been a motorcycle riding
    instructor."

    --via Anonymichael Aug. 19, 2011

     

  • At 9:19 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    "Shit, It’s The End Of The World"

    Indeed. At least for Stuart Miller.

    R.I.P.

     

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