Sheesh!
You’ld think I said a bad word by mentioning the phenom of the Shadow People or something. Actually just a handful of old school UFOlogists who like whizzing on trees to establish their territories decided to add their cranky two cents in on the subject by insulting people. Now you see why people shy away from UFOlogy because most of the nuts are in it not outside of it. It’s that alpha male nonsense and some old timers copped an attitude because I asked about something they’re ignorant about or bigotted about. To tell you the truth it’s a clear sign that UFOlogy has gone mainstream because now we have a hierarchy of old farts who think they know it all and can cast their countenances from ‘on high’ to us younger whippersnapper upstarts.
If I hear one of those clowns exclaim, “By Cracky!”, I’ll go get my “Uncle Joe” from “Petticoat Junction” t-shirt out and sit on the front porch a-whittlin’.
Anyhow, back to case studies, this Shadow People phenom where people state they’ve seen shadowy figures out and about does indeed appear in UFO lore and data. However, we also may be looking at several phenom that are bunched up under it. For example, some abductees state they’ve seen aliens that are garbed in long dark shrouds. Hooded shrouds at that. Some also state they’ve been visited by short hooded figures during an abduction or while aboard a craft. I’ll have to dig into that for more data. Many cultures have stories about dark hooded entities or persons and we’ve got enough people from various cultures wearing such outfits from some women in Moslem countries to guys dressing up like Palpatine from the fictional Star Wars movies. Also we need to look at the way the brain and mind process visual information so that if remnants or anomalies of mis-stored or off processed data might also be an answer to the phenom. Basically there’s not one single source and all should be researched. Luckily for us one of the chaps, Mr. Phil Imbrogno, author of the popular book “Night Siege” has already dug into this phenom and since we both have looked at the Hudson Valley UFO sightings, we both know such reports of these types of figures does exist. It’s a small percentage of UFO reports but still part of the whole.
So bypassing the naysayers and “wolves in the fold” of UFOlogy, I’ll keep looking into the matter with a fair eye on it. There’s data to be collected and numbers to be crunched and when I’ve got something worthwhile I’ll post it here.
