Ben Emlyn-Jones on Fockham Hall Radio 18

 

See here for the programme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyibgjy6S4k.
And: https://rumble.com/v72r2jm-something-going-on-up-there.html.
I have been featured again on Fockham Hall Radio. Topics discussed include, destructive architecture, did anybody win World War II?, 3I/Atlas is avoiding us and much much more. The livestream was simulcasted on YouTube and Rumble.
See here for my previous interview on FHR: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2025/09/ben-emlyn-jones-on-fockham-hall-radio-17.html.

MH370 New Search Confirmed

 

See here for essential background: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2025/11/mh370-possible-new-search.html.
It's official! The search for MH370 will resume the day before New Year's Eve. The government of Malaysia has announced that the Ocean Infinity contract is still active and that this new search will last for fifty-five days; I'm guessing that duration could be extended depending on its level of success. Source: https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/search-missing-flight-mh370-resume-december-30-malaysia-says-2025-12-03/. Probably OI will use one or more of its Armada-class ships again. According to Jeff Wise's contact Kevin Rupp, Armada 86 05 has just completed a shipwreck survery in the Phillipines and is currently victualling in Lagazpi City. The timing is good for a cruise to the search zone to arrive on schedule. It could be that its next assignment will be to head for the 7th Arc and once more try to find the remains of MH370. What will happen? We'll have to wait and see.
See here for background: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2024/05/mh370-portal.html.

Bart Sibrel vs Charlie Duke

 

The Danny Jones Podcast has just hosted a debate on the moon landings that's almost four hours long. It is truly unique because it features Bart Sibrel, one of the world's leading moon landing conspiracy researchers, but also one of the astronauts themselves, Charlie Duke. The last time Bart confronted an actual Apollo astronaut it was Buzz Aldrin and he punched Bart in the face, see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qr6Vcvl0OeU. This time the two men sit down at a table with Danny and have a strictly non-violent confrontation. Charlie Duke is one of only four surviving Apollo astronauts and was one of the Apollo 16 lunar module crew who landed on the moon on April the 20th 1972, supposedly. He was the tenth man who is claimed walked on the moon and was the youngest ever, aged thirty-six. He opens his contribution by giving his curriculum vitae, from his days as a test pilot to joining NASA's astronaut corps to his alleged mission to the moon. Bart presents his evidence against the reality of Project Apollo vigorously and without apology. He does not tone down his indictment one iota because he is in the presence of one of the men he is accusing. As somebody who has followed his work and that of the other Apollo Detectives I'm already familiar with his case and discussed them personally in my own interview with him, see: https://hpanwo-radio.blogspot.com/2023/01/programme-491-podcast-bart-sibrel.html. Charlie remains completely calm and respectful for the entire show, but does not seriously refute Bart's assertions. He merely replies over and over again: "But I did go to the moon." "What is the point of this discussion? Are you saying we didn't go to the moon?" The answer to that is obvious and indeed Charlie knows Bart well. Bart has confronted him publicly and privately many times since he began his investigation in the late 1990's. Duke also keeps asking: "Where did all the moon rocks come from if we didn't bring them back?" Again, this point has been addressed several times by Marcus Allen, Jarrah White and the other Apollo investigators. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMn6sI4X66s. Danny did a good job as a moderator and made a transparent effort to avoid saying anything biased. I was glad the debate remained on a civilized level, but I was actually disappointed Charlie didn't put up more of a fight; after all, he is being personally impugned here. I would welcome a spirited dissent on this matter and I expect Bart would too. This subject has caused more contention in the online conspirasphere and skeptisphere than almost any other. Debates like the one we had with "Blue Earth Thing", see background link below, are commonplace. Threads hundreds of posts long sprout overnight like bamboo under every social media post on this subject. The commentariat has responded in a form that has not changed much in the last thirty years. There has been very little rational rebuttal and more a sense that the whole affair was simply immoral. The word "disrespectful" has been used a lot. The general consensus is that Danny Jones did something bad by hosting this debate and that it was somehow unfair on Charlie. Despite the fact that Bart is by nature one of the most belligerent people on the scene, for more so than I would have been, I don't think he did anything wrong. He delivered facts in his own way and invited Charlie to do the same. Patrick from Vetted is clearly angry about this. Although he attempts to discredit Bart by pointing out a couple of his errors, he does not address Bart's main points, see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRP7_Ns6bbk. I'm a fan of Patrick; as regulars know, I met him a few months ago and recorded a brief interview, see: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2025/06/ben-in-desert-2.html. Patrick's commentary on UFOlogy is excellent and he is sincere in his beliefs, but I suspect this is the first time he has come across the moon landing controversy. I expect this overlap will widen because UFO's and space exploration are intimately connected. I enjoyed Bart's new wrangle and I'm glad Danny arranged it. Possibly Charlie Duke was the wrong interlocutor though. Perhaps because of his advanced age, he is ninety; one of the space skeptics would have been better, like James Oberg or Jay Windley. Those men would also disarm the accusations of disrespect. Well done to Bart for a good performance. Hopefully the audience will want to learn more and question more.
See here for more information: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2020/12/moon-landing-portal.html.

Whales Attack

 

I've mentioned before a few times that, for reasons I'm not aware of, I have very extreme emotional responses to several subjects; and one of them is the welfare of cetaceans, marine mammals of the whale and dolphin variety, for example see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2018/12/japan-resumes-whaling.html. Therefore I was curious when I discovered that a number of boats off the coast of the Iberian Peninsula have been attacked by whales. There have been over five hundred recorded incidents in the Mediterranean Sea, Strait of Gibraltar and Atlantic coast of Spain and Portugal. They began in 2020 and continue to this day. They have been blamed on a single community of orcas or killer whales nicknamed "Gladys". This is short for Orcinus Gladiator, Latin for "whale-fighter". The vessels targeted are usually small to medium sized sailing boats although a few motorboats have suffered attacks. The incidents are usually in daylight and consist of the whale grabbing the rudder in its teeth or biting the keel. There have been several sinkings as a result, including the loss of Tifare, a fifty foot French yacht which was attacked off Peniche, Portugal in October. The crew escaped in a lifeboat and transferred to a trawler. The lifeboat and rescue craft were not attacked, indicating this was not an aggressive action. Scientists believe this behaviour is a form of play. Source: https://uk.whales.org/2023/08/25/orcas-are-not-attacking-boats-say-leading-scientists/. Orcas are highly intelligent and the Gibraltarian marine biologist Eric Shaw claims that they were being protective and were intentionally targeting the rudder with the understanding that it would immobilize the vessel, just as attacking the tail of a prey animal would immobilize it. There's some evidence to suggest these incidents are spreading. Some whales have attacked boats in the North Sea. A few people have wondered if this is some kind of revenge. If so then few could argue it was not justified. From what we know of cetacean mentality that seems unlikely. They would have to make decisions as a group and coordinate. Despite that, I can't help wondering. According to Denise Herzing whales have a complex auditory language, see the background link below. There's a film called Orca- the Killer Whale which I watched once and will never do so again. It is by far the most disturbing and horrifying film I've ever seen. It is a story about human evil expressed through extreme animal cruelty. In the film an orca deliberately and systematically targets a group of people on a boat for the purposes of revenge. One of the lines in the film states: "the orca is one of the few species apart from man to have shown behaviour motivated by revenge" (That's not an exact quote. Please don't ask me for a correction; as I said, I never want to see that film again.) I can't help imagining that this film is coming true, to a lesser extent. If so then it is indiscriminate; not personal against a particular individual, but a dislike of human beings generally. I suppose there is a part of me which would like that to be the explanation. It's very unlikely though. Probably the scientists are right.

See here for more information: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2018/04/dolphins-reply-to-stefan-molyneux.html.

Inside Man

 

I almost gave up on Inside Man in the first five minutes. As I've said before, the modern media, especially the BBC, tends to load all its most toxic propaganda at the beginning of a film or TV show. This is because they know the majority of people who view an online video will only watch the first five minutes, see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2023/07/messiah.html. The opening scene is on a London Underground train in which a vulnerable young "Black!" "Woman!" is being harassed by an evil "White!" "Man!" Of course all the other disgusting "Straight White People!" Sit there and do nothing to defend her. He is only chased away when a "Strong!" and "Empowered!" "Woman!" stands up and challenges him. This woman, called Janice, is actually a home tutor for a teenage boy who is the son of the local vicar, played by David Tennant, of Doctor Who fame. The victim on the train also comes back into the story as Beth, a criminologist studying serial killers. Interestingly the vicar's wife, called Mary, is an atheist; and it's interesting how the couple have reconciled this difference in terms of their relationship and parenting. That family are the last people imaginable you would think would do any kind of serious crime, but they end up committing one almost accidentally because they are forced into it by astonishing bad luck. They end up imprisoning Janice in the vicarage basement and eventually plotting her murder. Janice is no fool though and is clearly trained in counter-interrogation techniques; making me think she has a background in the military intelligence services, although this is never stated. She cleverly turns the tables on her captors. At the same time in the United States another man, Jefferson Grieff, is about to be executed for murdering his wife. He happens to be a criminologist too, ironically, and has several meetings with Beth. He is played very well by Stanley Tucci, an actor who is one of the best at delivering very deadpan and witty ironic performances. In one scene he has a meeting with his father-in-law who hates him, obviously; and the father taunts Grieff about his upcoming execution. Their dialogue is memorably hilarious. "Do they stick something up your arse, like a butt-plug, in case you shit yourself?" Grieff replies: "I think that's only for electrocution." The father asks: "Don't you shit yourself when it's a lethal injection?" Grieff replies: "I don't know. I haven't looked into it. I would promise to let you know, but it wouldn't make for great last words." Despite its pernicious wokery in the opening scene, the series rapidly improves. It is well-written and acted with a brilliant storyline in which the various streams come together at the end. There is some gripping suspense that is skilfully managed. Inside Man is created by Stephen Moffat, who I know is one of the Doctor Who axemen, but I've always considered him the junior partner compared to the revolting Russell T Davies. I very much recommend it; see here for the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cj_qFctViCc.

Black Cube in the Sahara

 

I've come across a strange video. The video itself is about 3I/Atlas and, like many of these publications, is factually ambiguous, shall we say, see: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2025/07/interstellar-object-portal.html. The last third of the upload is an aside about an entirely different subject. Somebody has supposedly found something interesting on Google Earth, an object on the ground that looks like a black cube. It is in a remote part of the Sahara Desert, although its exact location is unknown. Therefore it is impossible to confirm its presence on the resource or know how big it is, or many other details about it. It appears to be mobile and has connected to it what looks like a track in the sand. This curves to the right; and that makes it unlikely to be a lee feature caused by wind. Source: https://youtu.be/Cl_dsAo-LUY?si=W4Ctw-aaQkVqN4y5&t=1003. The narrator speculates about what it could be; an ET spaceship, an ancient building, a secret aircraft or something else to do with covert government operations. There are UFO sightings of objects shaped and coloured like that. The black cube has other symbolic and archetypal meanings in the region, or more precisely, the Middle East. The best example is the Kaaba, the black cube shaped structure which is the central focus of global Islam. It sits at the centre of the Masjid al-Haram, the biggest and most important mosque in the world. It is in Mecca, the most sacred city in the world for Muslims. The origins of the Kaaba are shrouded in mystery, but most Muslims believe it was built by Abraham. During the ceremonial Hajj, a huge number of people, sometimes several million at a time, will walk in circles around it. Those closest will touch the Kaaba and the "black stone" inside the inner sanctum that is said to be a meteorite. It supposedly has a footprint on it that is the last mark made on earth by the prophet Mohammed. It is considered too sacred to be subjected to laboratory analysis. Judaism also has black cube symbolism. It is a much smaller object called a tefillin and is a container for miniaturized passages of the Torah. They are worn by men around the arm or attached to the forehead by a headband. This is a very tenuous lead and it's likely we're looking at something fake, but I'm curious nonetheless. Similar anomalies have been found, and confirmed, in other remote areas of the world, such as Antarctica, see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2015/04/crashed-ufo-in-antarctica.html.

Shermer's Vision

Michael Shermer has not always been a skeptic; or at least he has not been a skeptic in the way most of us mean it, a dedicated skeptic for whom being one is central to his identity. In 1979 he became a cycle racer and competed several times in the Race Across America, one of the world's longest and toughest cycle races. As its name suggests, it is a three thousand mile route from the west to east coasts of the United States. Unlike the Tour De France, it is a non-stop race, not split into stages, in which the riders sleep for about one hour in the middle of each night on a bed in their team truck. The entire route takes about eight days. Shermer came third in the 1982 event, his best performance. As I've said previously, Shermer's path to skepperhood is an interesting one. He was in the 1983 race cycling through the Loveland Pass in Colorado. He was extremely tired, as you can imagine, and also at a high altitude, about 11,000 feet. As a result he experienced an altered state of consciousness. Many people who suddenly have these experiences out of the blue turn to mystical beliefs as a way to explain it, but Shermer didn't. He thinks he immediately understood the episode for what it was and decided to learn about psychology. This is a very different reaction to Susan Blackmore, even though they both eventually ended up at the same place, see: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2010/10/tam-london-2010.html. I've discovered a remarkable historical document in the story of Michael Shermer. It's a news clip in which a young Shermer with a brown beard is interviewed in the saddle. It is later in the race because he's on a bridge across the river Mississippi and he describes his experience. He says: "A very strange thing happened; I mean, like a psychotic type experience. Thinking my crew were aliens from another planet trying to capture me. Sounds ridiculous, but that's what I thought." Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2_1DofIVqg. He also mentions the incident in this more recent video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zugGYmC6b00. Also he brings up another incident connected to one of his fellow cyclists. It's strange to think Michael Shermer might be taking the opposite path to Susan Blackmore, see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2025/04/the-shermerlution-continues.html.
See here for background: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2021/08/skeptics-portal.html.