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Sean David Morton at LAX in Los Angeles after being released from federal prison. |
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Melissa Morton (left) and Sean David Morton prior to their legal troubles. |
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Sean David Morton at LAX in Los Angeles after being released from federal prison. |
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Melissa Morton (left) and Sean David Morton prior to their legal troubles. |
As readers of my blog and old website know, I extensively covered and exposed one of the biggest hucksters in UFOs...
Sean David Morton (pictured left) was one of the most popular guests on the late night radio program Coast To Coast AM appearing numerous times with hosts promoting Morton as the real deal.
This promotion continued after my investigative report exposing many of his background, UFO, psychic and educational claims as false. Coast To Coast AM hosts (Bell, Noory, and Punnett) were well aware of this information and did nothing. The hosts were also well aware of Morton's miserable failure to sue me into silence.
Well, that promotion came to a screeching halt when Morton was accused of and later sued successfully by the Securities & Exchange Commission in civil court for defrauding investors out of roughly $6,000,000.00 in what was called a "psychic investment scheme". Apparently Coast To Coast AM was contacted by federal investigators after Morton made an investor offering on the air and had falsely made claims about an investment group he and his wife were running. Several investors lost their life savings including an elderly woman. This made Morton persona non grata on the program - better late than never, I suppose.
With all of these so-called psychic abilities, you'd think Morton would have been able to navigate his way around all this trouble, but no. Morton was later convicted of dozens of federal crimes involving a tax scheme through which Morton defrauded people and the IRS out of nearly $500,000.00.Since his conviction and being remanded to the federal department of corrections to serve a 72 month prison sentence (Morton is in federal prison until 2022), Morton filed what might best be described as a mountain of half-baked, disorienting, nonsensical court filings attempting to overturn his conviction.
If the dizzying array of legal gibberish Morton unleashed wasn't enough, you can read a post that I believe was written by Morton telling of his amazing powers in prison including Neo-like Matrix moves on body building thugs, letters sent to him in prison for the White House, and more. Morton has also claimed for months now that he would soon be released from prison.
On September 28, 2020, a California Federal Court denied Morton's latest petition for early release citing Morton's baseless claims, though Morton previously claimed to be a Constitutional expert.
So for those of you who have contacted me with info or asking for updates, there you have it. I won't be writing much, if at all, about Morton as there are far more serious, exciting and important things happening in the UFO field that have my attention and hopefully yours.
I often have people contacting me in reference to what UFO books or films they should be checking out. While I do not know every piece of literature on the subject out there, here's a short list of what I feel are some of the best and most credible books or videos on the subject.
BLACK TRIANGLE UFOs
Without hesitation, I call David Marler the premier black triangle researcher and investigator in the world. I highly recommend visiting David Marler's website and purchasing his book. David is a level headed researcher who does not buy into the hype and nonsense too often found in UFOs. David has been most recently featured in an episode of Unidentified and in James Fox's documentary The Phenomenon. The image below will take you to his excellent book and it is a must read.
NOTE: If you want to purchase The Phenomenon with all the bonus features, you must get it directly from Vimeo. I have absolutely no financial stake/interest in this film. release date is Oct. 6th, 2020.
Special thanks to filmmaker and director James Fox and 1091 Media for allowing me access to a review copy.
UFO documentaries can be a hard sell or a let down for many reasons. Most are simple rehashes and that often cannot be helped due to the nature of the subject's history. Some are money grabs, reselling old tales that have been dusted off.
Others are simply awful or used as a publicity vehicle in which certain UFO personalities shamelessly promote themselves at the expense of the topic. Some are based on obvious hoaxes or so cliché they're just embarrassing, or make the mistake of featuring the usual talking heads from the UFO convention circuit. All in all, very few UFO documentaries live up to any of the hype and/or deliver the promised goods...if anything good at all.
The last few years have brought us two of the more well known films about UFOs, both made by Jeremy Kenyon Lockyer Corbell. The first was Hunt for the Skinwalker, based on the book by George Knapp and Dr. Colm Kelleher. A lot promises were made about this film, which ultimately didn't deliver and was an enormous let down. My personal opinion is that you can read the book and simply skip the film. You can also spare yourself the film's horrible audio and music.
The other film was Bob Lazar: Area 51 & Flying Saucers. Narrated by actor Mickey Rourke, his gravel voice and muttering made it pretty much unwatchable, this film was a rehash of the Lazar story culminating with the low-grade theatrical implication that Lazar smuggled a chunk of Element 115 out of Area 51.
These sort of sensationalistic films (and there are many), full of promise and hype while short on actual delivery, do a great disservice to the UFO subject.
Good UFO documentaries are simply a rare breed. Enter The Phenomenon, the latest film by James Fox (pictured left) with a trailer that has received millions of views online.As much as the film is a documentary, it's an invitation to take a serious look at the subject of UFOs without the ridicule that seems to greet those who step into the subject to see what's going on.
The Phenomenon has a cinematic quality and feel to it that leaves me remiss not being able to view it in a theater because of the current Coronavirus pandemic.
Peter Coyote's pacing and measured oration as narrator is spot on. The film's score helps carry the serious tone of the film without being over sensational or too dramatic, something that many other UFO documentaries suffer.
The writing of Fox and Marc Barasch is intricate, slick and at no point boring or dull. The script is clearly a carefully crafted work.
The Phenomenon does not make you believe in UFOs, it leaves you convinced the subject deserves serious consideration. Simply, this is the best UFO documentary I've seen considering all of the ground it covered in 140 minutes.
This film will set the standard higher for any UFO related television show or documentary film. If you want a UFO film made, your first call should be to James Fox.
Correction to the above reply I posted via Twitter. It should read "reporters" and not "reports". The word "their" should be "there. Thanks for nothing, voice to text. |