ALAN writes:

Many years ago when I studied the lore and literature of the Flying Saucer Myth, one thing I observed was the enthusiasm with which Saucer Fans piled up “cases.”  Whenever Joe Doakes in this town or that city said he saw a weird object in the sky and it got written up in the local newspaper, Saucer Fans claimed it as a “case.”  As early as the 1960s, they talked about “computer catalogs” of thousands of such “cases.” It sounded impressive.

In 1964 a group of Saucer Researchers called NICAP published a book entitled The UFO Evidence.  It was attractively printed with justified columns, charts, and graphs. It contained what were said to be hundreds of “cases” of Extraordinary Flying Objects reportedly seen by pilots, police officers, businessmen, and other sober citizens.

What it didn’t say is that many of those “cases” consisted of nothing more substantial than newspaper clippings that were never investigated or verified.  In recent years, amateur astronomer Timothy Printy has done excellent work in determining that many of those “cases” could be solved quite convincingly without invoking any extraordinary causes like aliens from outer space.

All of which we should think about whenever we hear “doctors”, “experts”, political climbers, and the mass communications propaganda factory tell us that there are thousands and thousands of new “cases” of coronavirus.

The proper response to such assertions is “Is that so?”  And:  How do we know it is so?  What is a “case”?  Who decides when a person becomes a “case”?  Why should we believe that those who make such claims are telling the truth?

Proper evaluation of all those thousands of “cases” of Saucer Sightings would have revealed years ago that some were exaggerations, others were hoaxes, and others involved misidentification or misinterpretation.  Why should we believe that thousands of “cases” of coronavirus do not represent similar things?
Why should we believe that they involve anything more than aches and pains resulting from the common cold or flu but falsely attributed to coronavirus for political purposes?  Why should we believe such claims when they have not been independently verified by people who are not in the medical racket, the pharmaceutical racket, the government bureaucrat racket, or the mass communications racket?
Why should we believe that many of those “cases” are anything more substantive than exaggerations by people who may be sincere but who have been deceived by official propaganda or who “want to get into the act” and become part of a mass movement?

Why should we believe thousands of such “cases” have any more substance than thousands of “cases” of uninvestigated and unverified UFO anecdotes?

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