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
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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