Dean

Adept Dabbler
Ray Stanford has a 65-year history of claims to having obtained astonishing UFO-alien evidences (movies, photos, even pieces of alien craft), not to mention a quarter-century of claiming direct contacts with and channeling of extraterrestrials (he gave up the channeling part at age 40). His UFO-alien claims have repeatedly failed to withstand scrutiny, often proving to be delusional or even simply fabricated or fictionalized accounts, as in a case from 1975 that I document for the first time in my new article linked below.

Nevertheless, at the August 6, 2021 American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) forum on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, Kevin Knuth, Ph.D., displayed as possible evidence for alien technology ("plasma beam ahead," "plasma sheath," perhaps even "warp drive") isolated frames from an unsubstantiated and unseen Super 8 movie by Ray Stanford, taken during an October 5, 1985 event in Corpus Christi, Texas. The event purportedly involved 8 alien craft flying over a city in broad daylight, several of them engaging in amazing displays of alien technological prowess as Stanford filmed. The elaborate story is uncorroborated.

After his AIAA presentation, Knuth told a reporter that the Stanford film would soon receive rigorous scientific study through the process of writing a scientific paper. Knuth's associate Matthew Szydagis, Ph.D., later told me to leave that to the PhDs. Well, I don't think so -- because I have questions about the 1985 Stanford film, and the elaborate and uncorroborated stories that go with it. Questions -- and some troubling facts-- that I think deserve the attention of any scientific journal editor, peer reviewer, or journalist who is considering whether anything of value to science is likely to emerge from study of the Ray Stanford "beam ship" story and movie.

"Plasma Beam"-- or Fever Dream? Key Questions for PhDs, Journalists, and Regular Folks About Ray Stanford's "Beam Ship UFO" Movie of October 5, 1985, and Other Stanford Tales
 
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Well this is interesting. I saw some of this over on Twitter. The pompous comments from that PhD were as cringeworthy as some of Ray's sillier proclamations. I've been very fortunate to know and work with a number of Doctors of Philosophy over the years, and I can think of five I've known well enough to get a good idea of their character and capabilities. Not surprisingly, most are very impressive in their chosen fields. Some are arrogant and foolish. Pretty much like any other group of people.

The ones I respect the most are the ones who never mention their educational status except when it is appropriate and relevant, such as situations where it would be inappropriate to not mention it. In fact, the one person with a doctorate whom I know best these days, a retired college instructor I met in 2013, has never mentioned it to me. We have not had a conversation about it. I only learned of his achievement a few years ago when his girlfriend brought it up when he wasn't around. He's a good friend. I spent a couple of hours with him today. I suppose I'll ask him about it one day, but it hasn't come up so far.

Jacques Vallee is a PhD. So was Allen Hynek.
Michael Salla is a PhD. And a crackpot.
 
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