by Travis Mateer
On January 5th I purchased a single red rose and took it to St. Patrick’s Hospital where Sean Stevenson was removed from life support on January 5th, 2020, BEFORE his family was notified. I wanted to see if I could find out which room number Sean was in when the Sheriff’s Office euthanized him, but the records department has been moved offsite, so instead I checked in with the risk management department and told them what I was looking for, and why. I might get a call next week about this, we’ll see.
Later in the day I got a text about the passing of the most dangerous woman in Montana, Jane Rectenwald. After experiencing a stroke late last year, Jane left this world around 8am on January 5th. I’ll leave any speculation about the rumors I’ve heard for another post.
Ok, how about a smooth transition now from Jane to aliens. How could a transition like this be smooth? Well, a weird and interesting fact about Jane is that she worked as a student librarian many years ago for a guy by the name of J. Allen Hynek. Here’s the old business card Jane sent me a pic of when I wrote about this in March of last year:
And here’s some context on Hynek:
During World War II, Hynek was a civilian scientist at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, where he helped to develop the United States Navy’s radio proximity fuze.
After the war, Hynek returned to the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Ohio State, rising to full professor in 1950. In 1953, Hynek submitted a report on the fluctuations in the brightness and color of starlight and daylight, with an emphasis on daytime observations.[4]
In 1956, he left to join Professor Fred Whipple, the Harvard astronomer, at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, which had combined with the Harvard Observatory at Harvard. Hynek had the assignment of directing the tracking of an American space satellite, a project for the International Geophysical Year in 1956 and thereafter. In addition to over 200 teams of amateur scientists around the world that were part of Operation Moonwatch, there were also 12 photographic Baker-Nunn stations. A special camera was devised for the task and a prototype was built and tested and then stripped apart again when, on Oct. 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched its first satellite, Sputnik 1.
After completing his work on the satellite program, Hynek went back to teaching, taking the position of professor and chairman of the astronomy department at Northwestern University in 1960.
As an accomplished scientist, Hynek was no slouch when he started taking seriously UFO anomalies. Here’s more from his Wikipedia page:
In 1953, Hynek was an associate member of the Robertson Panel, which concluded that there was nothing anomalous about UFOs, and that a public relations campaign should be undertaken to debunk the subject and reduce public interest. Hynek would later lament that the Robertson Panel had helped make UFOs a disreputable field of study.
As UFO reports continued to be made, some of the testimonies, especially by military pilots and police officers, were deeply puzzling to Hynek. He once said, “As a scientist I must be mindful of the lessons of the past; all too often it has happened that matters of great value to science were overlooked because the new phenomenon did not fit the accepted scientific outlook of the time.”[7]
In a 1985 interview, when asked what caused his change of opinion, Hynek responded, “Two things, really. One was the completely negative and unyielding attitude of the Air Force. They wouldn’t give UFOs the chance of existing, even if they were flying up and down the street in broad daylight. Everything had to have an explanation. I began to resent that, even though I basically felt the same way, because I still thought they weren’t going about it in the right way. You can’t assume that everything is black no matter what. Secondly, the caliber of the witnesses began to trouble me. Quite a few instances were reported by military pilots, for example, and I knew them to be fairly well-trained, so this is when I first began to think that, well, maybe there was something to all this.”
I’m thinking about this topic because of the weirdness emanating from Miami. While it’s easy to dismiss the idea of 10 foot tall shadow creatures being the reason for a MASSIVE police response at a mall in Miami, there’s still something very odd about the official story that this police response was due to youth getting violent with “sticks”.
Kids with sticks? Ok, Miami police, if this is the kind of police response you need to deal with kids with sticks, it might be BETTER for cop morale to go with the shadow creatures narrative because THEN your boys in blue don’t look like a scared, overreacting police state.
To better document this strange incident, here’s a little ditty I made. Please enjoy!
Ok, now for the links to the week’s content. Remember, I don’t plan on maintaining a Monday-Friday posting schedule in 2024, but since I haven’t left town yet, I decided to keep kicking ass at the pace Zoom Chron readers have come to expect from me. Here are the link:
Synchronicity Story Time Program: A Method Of Developing Narrative Control Sledgehammers For Youth (January 1st, 2024)
The False Freedom Of Elon’s X (January 2nd, 2024)
The Covert Climate Propaganda Campaign Behind Missoula’s “Common Good” (January 3rd, 2024)
Why Doesn’t The LifeGuard Group Search For White Women? (January 4th, 2024)
Missoula Needs More Housing, But The White Lion Sleeps Tonight (January 5th, 2024)
That’s it for the first week of 2024. If you would like to help my local reporting efforts, Travis’ Impact Fun (TIF) is still accepting donations, though it’s been quite awhile since I’ve seen any monetary support.
Thanks for reading!