Comments by "Colonel K" (@Paladin1873) on "The Why Files" channel.

  1. I may not believe in John Titor, but I do believe in his advice.
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  2. If you want a suggestion, I recommend you cover the unidentified aircraft from the 1980s and 1990s known euphemistically as Project Aurora. I worked in air defense development during the late 1980s and heard stories from radar operators who saw hypersonic tracks on their systems that nobody could (or would) explain. It remains something of a mystery today. Was it real, fake, or a cover story for other black projects? I'd enjoy hearing Hecklefish's opinion.
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  3.  @puppylove3781  Hecklefish rules! (He's only saying what we're already thinking)
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  4. Well, you just solved one mystery for me. I spent over six years assigned to the Pentagon. Not long after I retired and moved to Montana I was approached by a woman in a bookstore who noticed the leather jacket with Air Force logo I was wearing. She asked me where I had been stationed and after I told her, she very seriously requested that I be candid and tell her about the aliens at the Pentagon. I suppressed my laughter because it was obvious she was sincere, but no amount of denial on my part would convince her the story was not true. Now I know where her idea likely came from.
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  5. I don't know; every time they reincarnate a TV show, it's worse than the original.
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  6.  @cowpowplay  Could you be more specific?
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  7.  @NrthrnKnght  That's easy enough to answer - because they would be searching for intelligent life.
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  8.  @ittapupu7406  I was speaking metaphorically, but I suspected somebody would falsely assume it was meant to be taken literally. If you've read my other comments, you will know I never said anything regarding doomer fantasies. I said I believe in being prepared for emergencies and having the means to survive and rebuild your life if the worst happens. It needn't be a national or worldwide cataclysm. The loss of loved ones, a career, or a home can be devastating to those who are not prepared spiritually, skillfully, or financially to deal with the crisis. But all crises pass in time and the world moves on.
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  9. From what very little I know about TEMU, it sounds a bit sketchy. I think I'll opt for that royal title in Scotland.
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  10.  @Lancor84  When I'm bleeding, I apply a bandaid as the first step to recovery. It's the same with survival in a desolate world. I don't squander my resources by waiting for rescue that will never come. I use them to begin rebuilding my world.
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  11.  @nayyarrashid4661  Yes, it is.
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  12.  @jenhaganey  I don't know what that is. Whoops, never mind; I found it.
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  13.  @oshaughs83  Something like that.
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  14. Hmm, sounds like something my brother-in-law possesses the skill and knowledge to accomplish, but he's much more of a Ned Flanders type than a Max Headroom, so nix that idea.
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  15. I guess being covered in tattoos and posting on TikTok is what passes for normal today.
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  16. I don't believe a word of what they said. I'm going to play the video backwards to learn the truth.
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  17. A delightfully humorous retelling of actual and fabricated events. Well done, sir.
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  18. Kirtland is an Air Force Base, not an Air Base. Air Force Bases are located on American soil. Air Bases are overseas installations that are not on US soil. I was assigned to the OSI in the early 1980s. It's a small community composed of both active duty and civilian personnel assigned to conduct criminal investigation and counterintelligence work (later expanded to include protective services and counter-terrorism). I have never heard of this particular event or the agent involved, but I was only there for a year, so there is much I was not privy to. I'm at a loss to understand why the OSI and the NSA would purposely gaslight a contractor. It makes no sense to allocate any time and resources to an issue as trivial as this one. If I was to hazard a guess, I'd say the agent involved was and remains some sort of self-promoter. Ditto for the UFO expert who colluded with him. They both sound like real pieces of work.
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  19. Next week, more dead Elvis sightings.
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  20.  @amarshmuseconcepta6197  Add JFK and Marilyn Monroe so we have a foursome. Tennis, anyone?
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  21. Mankind already has the ability to feed, cloth, and entertain everyone in the world. We don't need mystical tools from the past. They won't save us from ourselves if we are debased.
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  22. Tell Hecklefish he better cool it or he'll be swimming with the fishes. Capiche?
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  23. These stories are fun to listen to and entertaining. The narrator's style is lightly skeptical, easygoing, and undemanding. The fish adds a sense of humor and sarcasm that likely reflects the attitude of the audience. It's all a refreshing change from the overbearing and obnoxious potty-mouth drivel that infests the internet.
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  24. Oh well , you can fold a $20 bill to simulate the Twins Tower burning.
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  25. It is true both the USA and the USSR did psychic research, but the results were far from what was described here. In fact, both programs were a bust. A more plausible explanation of how we found missing persons, monitoring devices, downed aircraft, and missing submarines (if true at all) is that these are all fabricated cover stories being used to mask the real methods employed.
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  26. This episode has heart and a lot of useful information. When we joined earlier this year, you were well under a half million and many of the comments were asking why you weren't well over a million. I know I emailed some of your shows to nearly everyone in my address book. I suspect many others members did as well. I'm glad for your success and hope it continues. Stay awake and you'll do great. Get woke and you'll . . . well you know the rest of it.
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  27. Love the mix of BS and fact.
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  28. Ask "What if?" but don't lose sight of reality in the process.
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  29. This would explain Biden and Pelosi. 🙂
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  30. What? They're running late! Crabcats are behind this, I'm sure.
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  31. I want the last 39 minutes and two seconds of my life back. Okay, you can keep the two seconds.
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  32. Bob Ross is a Why File mystery unto himself. Very little is known about the man. He remains mostly an enigma. I suspect aliens are involved, or maybe the hollow earth lizard people or molemen.
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  33. The Why Files, where the mundane becomes the surreal and the supernatural.
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  34. Da Bears.
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  35. To use the current vernacular, you crushed it.
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  36. I'm familiar with this old legend, but did you know there was a book written in the 1960s or early 1970s about a real event that puts the Phantom Fortress to shame? I believe the name of it was "The Incredible Mission" and it's a real mind-bender. I tried to find a copy, but had no luck with my internet search. In this well-documented incident a B-25 bomber crew is seen shot down during a raid on a Japanese harbor. Over the next week each one of the crew members mysteriously turns up alive in a different part of the Pacific, adamantly claiming that he is the only survivor. Piecing together this story to make some sense of it all was a great bit of detective work.
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  37. This episode was a snoozer, but I did manage to touch my inner gateway without Hecklefish noticing or commenting.
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  38. A somber, sad story. "Come weep with me--past hope, past cure, past help."
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  39. Why lie? I'm just hear to listen to Hecklefish's comments.
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  40. About 30 years ago I drew a series of imaginary cartoon stories for my young niece and nephews to interest them in geography and history. In one of these comic adventures I flew with some friends down to Antarctica. We had encounters with penguins, sea lions, and leopard seals. We even found a mysterious metal eagle and swastika half buried in the frozen waste. I based this last incident on my research for the story which included a little know fact that the Nazis had actually overflown a portion of Antarctica and dropped such devices on the ice in a vain effort to lay claim to the land as part of their Third Reich. From such tiny acorns do billowing tales of large oaks grow.
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  41. Need more episodes on interesting topics such as this one.
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  42. The Pentagon is completely unaccountable for its spending? That's news to me, and I worked there for over six years.
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  43. Isn't it strange how today the greatest problem facing our overpopulated first world countries is obesity?
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  44. The most basic question was not addressed in this episode. Why would NASA hide any evidence of life on Mars? In every way it works against their mission and interests. And please don't tell me it's because of orders from their lizard overlords.
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  45. I need a suspect board to follow this case.
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  46. I always keep a Bible close to my heart . . . in case someone tries to shoot me. (Hecklefish made me say this - yeah, that's the ticket)
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  47. That schnorrer Hecklefish better hope he doesn't wind up gefilte fish for his blasphemy.
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  48. You had me at bacon.
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  49. You say that like it's a bad thing, mein herr.
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  50. If paranoia was energy, this episode could power the world.
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