CUT is not a UFO organization nor is it affiliated in any way with Ufology. Instead CUT is a historical research organization focused on examining the question long ignored by historians - was the UFO subject purposely created by the United States and its allies as part of a cold war operation and perpetuated to this day for national security reasons?
So what that says to me is that CUT is just another UFOlogy person or possibly group (he/they can say it isn't, UFO only means unidentified flying object, not alien craft) with an agenda to prove it's own theories, much like Exopolitics. Likely, like other such agenda driven groups he/they will ignore any evidence that conflicts with his/their theory. Oh yes, he/they will say that he/they don't, but everyone says that and they still do.
OK, I will quit using he/they, but since I know nobody else that is a member of this "group" it seems like a person, rather than an actual group.
CUT will focus its efforts on research in official government archives, not only in the United States but all over the world, searching for authenticated official documents that can prove or disprove this theory. CUT will work closely with Cold War and Intelligence Historians and collaborate with foreign governments willing to contribute to CUT's efforts.
CUT will work outside of the three ring circus that is Ufology and will not accept the contributions of anonymous individuals or alleged whistleblowers nor will it examine alleged leaked documents.
Is he really trying to make it sound as though researching official government archives is something new? What has John Greenewald, Richard Dolan, Nick Redfern, Larry Bryant, along with many others been doing all these years? I have no problem with researching such things, but I am not sure why he thinks that he is going to get something that others have been unable to get. I also don't understand why he thinks the government would be willing to admit, by making documents available, to what would be a massive hoax (according to his theory) that they have continued for many years.
Oh yes, and then there is the "three ring circus" of UFOlogy, to which he seems determined to add a fourth ring to because he considers his efforts better than what is going on in the other 3, even though to everyone looking on it is basically the same.
Won't even examine alleged leaked documents? That seems a bit harsh, especially if you consider there may be ways to authenticate them. It seems to me that they should at least be examined enough to figure out whether they could be authenticated. Same with whistleblowers, as long as they aren't anonymous there may be some way to find others that would back up or disprove their story. Of course, neither of those things would be proof to anyone that didn't want to believe. Really even an authenticated government document stating that Roswell (or name the ufo case) was a government conspiracy to scare the Russians wouldn't prove that all UFO sighting and all UFO cases were hoaxes by the government. I seriously doubt they would ever find a document declaring every UFO ever seen or reported was a government hoax, which leaves us in the same square we started from.
At this point, I am left feeling rather stupid. I actually liked James Carrion a lot when he took over MUFON -- I even joined it for one year and you all know how much I loathe organized groups. Lately, his constant cuts (I guess CUT is the perfect name for his group) at UFOlogy and not just certain parts, but generalization which includes all of us, makes me feel betrayed. Betrayed not only as someone involved in UFOlogy, but as someone that has seen things that she can't explain. You see, I have never believed that all or any of the crafts I have seen are necessarily flown by aliens from another planet (not that it is out of the question). In fact, I have always thought that even if aliens do exist, the craft I have seen are more likely to be secret military craft -- because I live very near a military base and NM is full of military bases, it just makes sense. That said, I don't believe they were purely a hoax to try to make me and/or others believe that aliens do exist. Whatever they were they were real and on occasions witnessed by others and not just me and they defy our current understanding of gravity and flight. Sorry, but I am not a believer in Project Blue Beam. I know enough about lasers and optics to know under what conditions such a concept might work, but it would not be possible anywhere at any time.
Aside from all of that -- whenever someone declares all of UFOlogy to be crap and themselves to somehow have some overlooked answer or theory (the church lady - I am better than you are syndrome) it plain pisses me off. I have been involved in UFOlogy long enough to know (and probably longer than James Carrion) that there are some crazies and some liars, but there is no reason to paint everyone with that broad brush, unless, you are using that to make yourself look better, instead of using a real reason of why you are better.
OK, more than enough said about this.
You can read the entire pompous post here --
Follow The Magic Thread: Announcing the Center for UFO Truth
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I'm honored to be the fist comment. You deserve a commendation for having the courage to speak about such things when we live in such a climate of ignorance. No one wants to beieve anything they haven't seen (REALLY THEY JUST DON'T REMEMBER) themselves. I will certainly return. Thanks for the reading enjoyment.
When groups splinter and an individual or sub-set of individuals spins off to form a rival group, it's almost always about personalities, politics, and power; rarely about objective issues (although that's usually what's claimed).
I suspect Carrion felt stymied by the ETH gang bangers who have a strangehold on MUFON and weren't about to give an inch to his efforts to modify the organization's built-in bias. So he left in a hail of bullets. His manifesto certainly reads like a man in a snit.
As you know, I've always been extremely dubious of MUFON's "research", so its failure to find evidence isn't surprising. Enthusiastic but superficially or poorly-trained amateurs are very likely to miss important evidence because it doesn't fit their limited training or pre-conceived notions. I'll bet most MUFON researchers are already convinced it's ET before they even go on their first case so they can hardly be objective in their efforts.
I love it Lesley, "adding a fourth ring..." as you know, I also wrote about this latest UFO Police attempt at corralling UFO studies...
http://orangeorb.blogspot.com
/2010/06/james-carion-and-cut.html
on Orange Orb. It's no new thing that the government has used UFOs as a cover...
This whole new thing of Carion's assumes that, if more proof comes out documenting the government's intentional use of the UFO as a cover/misdirection project, that doesn't prove that's all there is to UFOs. It doesn't solve a thing.
Right on target, Regan. Guys like him have to be right every time to have relevancy. You and I only have to be right once for same. Where's the smart money go there, eh?
Like Regan, I agree with the "fourth ring" comment. As long as we are talking UFOs, he is under the circus big top whether he wants to play with others or not.
So what kind of an organization goes into "research" with a predetermined conclusion? Let's see: government agencies concealing the truth under a pile of hooey, debunkers like CSICOP and "CSI" (even writing it makesd me gag!) and UFO cults like Exopolitics.
Nice. I bet that will bring "legitmacy" to the circus....
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