I can't decide if George's professor guest last night is a scammer, delusional, or just plain gullible/stupid. I could have filled a couple legal pad sheets of paper with stuff he said that was nonsense, contradictory, historically and/or technically inaccurate, and exhibited a total lack of critical thinking skills.
Most of what he said about UFOs was based on recorded conversations he had with his father, an alleged former government contractor engineer who claimed to have been a focal point in UFO research in the 60s-70s. Right off the bat numbers didn't add up. He said his Dad knew and worked with Hynek on Blue Book, yet his Dad who, who died last year at 74, would have only been 22 years old when Blue Book folded. This timeline is further convoluted by his claim his Dad served in the Army out of high school, meaning he'd have not started his engineering degree until just before Blue Book shutdown. Yet it was his engineering expertise that got him the UFO job, and he was hired away from another engineering job to do it.
He told us his Dad had a "black clearance." There is no such thing. He claimed his Dad had a room in their home where no one was allowed to enter, and that he'd once walked in on his Dad designing the Stealth bomber (from reverse engineered alien technology.) So we are to believe his father was bringing home highly classified material to work on at home? Oh, and his Dad was terrified of MIB types who told him he'd "be buried" if he let anyone know what he was working on. Wouldn't illegal possession of classified data in an unsecured home subject to a break in be kinda stupid if you are concerned about being offed due to a security violation?
His telling of the Socorro UFO incident was novel, and included a previously unknown crash narrative that was supposedly told to him by a former nurse who claimed to have seen live alien bodies. His proof of the crash was a friend who told him he saw a huge scorched/burned area a couple hundred yards from where Zamora claimed to have seen the landed UFO. That site was wide open desert, and hundreds of people walked all over that area in the days and weeks of and following the sighting. Wouldn't someone have noticed a huge crash site? (Disregard it's doubtful Zamora saw anything more than a hoax perpetrated by a few engineers students from NM Tech.)
His Dad's explanation of the Roswell "crash" was equally bizarre, and by coincidence was not unlike claims made by Nick Redfern and Leslie Keen in well publicized books several years ago. Those stories, which are at best notional and unsupported by any historical data, are tougher for me to believe than the alien crash scenario.
Finally, the guy's credibility was further damaged in my mind when he nearly creamed his jeans when George offered to come speak to his class. (He already has Whitley Strieber as another guest speaker.) His lavish praise of George's knowledge of all things paranormal was over the top. He's either never listened to George, or not smart enough to figure out George is a nitwit.
