It doesn't have a name yet. Before long it will get one, a
witticism related to the topic with the suffix "-gate". What I'm
referring to is a new drama scandal that has just broken out in the UFO
community. Everybody is currently talking about it; and no doubt people will
ask me for my opinion, seeing as I've confronted similar situations several
times in my own work. However, despite all the social media noise, we know very
little about it on a factual level. Yesterday Kelly Chase uploaded a video
entitled Starlight Sickness, Gaslighting,
Consent Engineering and How I Got Lost In UFOlogy's Hall of Mirrors. Forty-eight
minutes in, she raises a personal issue that she previously referred to in a
Tweet and audio short back in April. What happened was that Kelly broke all
contact with her colleague Jay Christopher King when one of the female
followers of their Cosmosis podcast contacted Kelly to complain that during a
private conversation with her co-host in which this person revealed a lot of
personal information, Jay "crossed sexual boundaries". Kelly had
originally endorsed Jay and his organization, The Experiencer Group, and felt
guilty. She stresses the need for ethical professional conduct at all times when
counselling experiencers. She also claims to have suffered a sexual assault herself
and was denied justice, and as a result found this even more traumatic. She has
since talked to other women in the group about Jay's "deeply distressing"
and "concerning" behaviour. Source: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2OvK9qsGTuehjeitfn2hi8
and: https://youtu.be/7cvIzMW3xdA?si=cm3vRevZ-rOWQZ6H&t=2882.
Despite this assertion, there is no record at all of Jay Christopher King being
arrested by the police or being held under suspicion of any criminal offence.
The response to this matter has been exactly what always
happens when the culture war reaches any institution. Kelly Chase will,
regrettably, receive a torrent of online abuse from the UFO community's troll
element; indeed, it has already begun on the Twitter link she posted to
yesterday's video. I condemn this behaviour unconditionally and will do
anything I can to prevent it. At the same time, as somebody who has been on the
receiving end of slanderous false allegations, I cannot and will not conform to
the politically correct foundational maxim of "believe the Woman!" A
number of pundits have already closed ranks behind Kelly, especially the
backslappers for some reason; maybe because this issue reinforces their own
dark, cynical and misanthropic vision of UFOlogy. I will comment to the extent
of saying that Kelly does not strike me as a typical spiteful mutant feminist,
the kind of woman who would habitually tell lies like this about a man. I've
actually held her in very high esteem. I thought her UFO Rabbit Hole podcast
was one of the best out there and took positive interest in her new perspective,
see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2025/02/kellys-new-start.html.
I met her at Contact in the Desert last year and had a good conversation with
her, see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2025/08/kelly-chase-at-citd-2025.html.
Either these allegations are true or they are false; and both possibilities are
very disturbing. However, despite the certainty of many current commentators,
nobody knows for sure. For this reason I'm going to leave the matter there
until more information comes to light. I will return to the subject after that.
See here for more information: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2022/02/simon-parkes-is-innocent.html.
And: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2021/08/women-in-ufology.html.
See here for background: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2021/08/political-correctness-portal.html.
See here for more information: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2022/02/simon-parkes-is-innocent.html.
And: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2021/08/women-in-ufology.html.
See here for background: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2021/08/political-correctness-portal.html.
2 comments:
Well said.
Kelly Chase strikes me as having an intellect the size of a minor planet. I am only challenged by the lashings of vocal fry in her voice/accent. I associate this with insincerity but cannot articulate a good reason for doing so. In my experience people who employ this intonation usually prove to be insincere but this isn't a reason to characterise Kelly Chase as such.
It really comes down to exactly what "crossed sexual boundaries" means, and it could mean a great many things. Women vary so much in where they set boundaries. In the same workplace you can find women who avoid being alone in a room with any man, women who openly and assertively flirt with men and women who openly talk about their fantasies about sex with male colleagues. At the same time, any of these behaviours with the genders reversed would lead to complaints, and rightly so.
So yes, without knowing the details, it is best to keep an open mind and stay out of the disagreements.
That's the problem, MT. I agree with how you see Kelly. She does come across as intelligent and honest. She's certainly never given any of the usual warning signs that she has taken a bite from that poisoned apple called feminism. It's offered so temptingly to women all the time. I think Erica Lukes is on her third cooker right now! The damage to male-female communication is probably feminism's most terrible curse. You're right, the codes of supposed conduct it lays out are so confusing and Kafkaesque! I know in some organizations men (at least white men!) can be reprimanded for asking a colleague out on a date. I sometimes sense a woman is flirting with me and hesitate to respond in case I get the wrong end of the stick! I will definitely not intervene in this unless it escalates to the point where there is an active attempt to use it to demonize an entire demographic in UFOlogy. Right now it is too nebulous and uncertain.
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