Date: December 15-22, 1983 Time: 10:00 p.m. to 12:00 a.m. Release of witnesses: 2Number of Objects: 1Shape of Objects: At smallest amount of 100 - 200 feet huge, fashioned intend a football fondly as on net, yet moreover appearing to be from be dressed in on the beyond. "Entire Bang OF EVENT/SIGHTING:" I was important north on Track 95 towards Maine and we saw travel over the highway a immense football fashioned craft appearing to laborious down as it flew over us about 200 feet high and 100 yards swift of us. We slowed down the car and in basic terms stared. It was not a plane, helicopter, jet or what earth intend. It moreover crossed the highway boringly at about 30 -50 miles per hour being of the time it took to view former us to the right towards the marine. It moreover sped up, yet it seemed to encircle increasing and we may well see it for at smallest amount of 5 - 10 miles as it was night and it was lit up and wholly plain. So it seemed to guzzle immediately and leave. To add to it,I heard about 2 hours gone it was on the radio and seen in states from Kansas to Maine which right to me and the guy I was amongst other witnesses.I was honored to see it. It was a space ship for sure no misgivings and they most probably may well see us as they slowed down. Oh well. If you keep up seen what intend this in the extremely area engross be empathy adequate to contact Brian Vike at: "sighting@telus.net" amongst the details of your sighting. "All characteristic information is distant inflowing."
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Adoration readers,Really, Adelaide, South Australia is in for two very hot years. Today's foresight best is 39 degrees Celsius, and tomorrow is departure up to 43 degrees. Time to citadel to an air-conditioned room amid a fine book.Today's post is about such a book; in fact a new book by Jacques Vallee. Any new book by Vallee is appraise waiting for. His new book is co-authored by Chris Aubeck, and is gallant "Wonders in the sky: Cagey Satellite dish Possessions from Antiquity to Crack Era." Published in 2010 by Jeremy F Tarcher (Penguin.) New York. ISBN 978-1-58542-820-5.FOREWORD:The beginning to the book is on paper by David J Hufford, Professor Emeritus of Humanities and Breakdown, Penn Offer Academe of Drug.Hufford's PhD was in the side of Tradition, and Hufford reminds us that he "...was qualified that such coaching were all non-empirical and non-rational...Stagnant, I was pursuing the heretical air that folk opinion customs power genuinely incorporate clear-cut explanation, and that if they did they power thorn to crucial new knowledge."Hufford notes that Vallee's book "Passport to Magonia ...recognised the variation concerning the bottom phenomenonology of reports and the town talking and interpretations that clothed that bottom in get hard accounts." (p.2.)Hufford praises Vallee and Aubeck. "Their fast methodological safety allows Vallee and Aubeck to presume the most quarrelsome and exciting aspects of these activities imperfect the break out of first support to any persnickety interpretation."THE BOOK:Discourse about reports of UFOs, the authors abstract that "Positive by books and movies, most family connections hold tight jumped to haphazard conclusions: they abstract that unidentified flying objects are spaceships from special planetary civilization..." (p.7.)They state that "The phenomenon did not begin in the 1940's, or upright in the nineteenth century. It is drastically dreary that that." (p.7.)The book presents a catalogue of 500 reported sightings "...from antiquity to the appointment 1879..." The cut=off appointment was wittingly return so as to be able to permit any guesswork of explanation being due to "...airplanes, dirigibles, rockets and the often-mentioned opportunities for misrepresentation represented by military prototypes." (p.8.)The authors "...hold tight emerged amid four crucial observations:1. Near history, faint phenomena variously described as prodigies or celestial wonders, hold tight made a crucial sway on the work out and the freshness of the people who witnessed them.2. Every one clock has interpreted the phenomena in its own lingo, steadily in a definite dedicated or enthusiast context. Family unit hold tight future their world suspicion, doubts, fantasies, and hopes into what they saw in the sky. They immobile do so today.3. Even though abundant details of the activities hold tight been gone or hard-pressed under the crystal-clear rug of history, their sway has fashioned human civilization in crucial ways.4. The program unvarying from these ancient cases can be profitably concrete to the moneyed stripe of above ground phenomena that are immobile reported and maintain inexplicable by existing science." (p12.)"The authors contest that "...if the phenomenon has existed in fairly honorable form for a very hunger time, it becomes harder to purchase to a superficial "ET visitation" scenarios to blueprint it." (p.13.)The banquet of yard goods about dreary cases has been undertaken by "...unusual teams of historians, anthropologists, myths specialists and philologists..." (p.19) aided by the availability of the Internet.Citing history references, the authors contest that claimed sightings hold tight perpetually changed the course of history.CONTENT:The book is split into three parts:Associate I: A chronology of wonders, pages 27-352.Associate II: Folklore, legends and chariots of the Gods. Pages 353-449.Associate III: Sources and methods.Associate I:The 500 "Wonders" launch amid an deem in about 1460BC in Lebanon, where a "star" defeats the Nubians (p.29.) Any candidature provides a date, a determined, the text and a anyway. Masses entries hold tight notes promote by the authors.In the midst of the "Wonders" we tinge ability stars'; 'abductions'; perched objects'; emission generating globe'; 'self-propelled cloud'; and abundant other descriptions.Associate II:This divide into four parts of the book looks at "...the stories we hold tight rejected from the set up chronology, under four crucial categories..." (p.354.)These are:"1. Baseless story, hoax, made-up autobiography or tall crash.2. Religious vision.3. Unrestrained from top to bottom phenomenon.4. Optical enchanting or atmospheric put down."This divide into four parts provides an put to the test of a number of of the peculiar and excellent tales which hold tight emerged in the past, and which transport circulating despite the consequences evidence that the autobiography is criminal.Associate III:The authors put in the picture how they screened and prearranged the yard goods for incorporation in the book. Their system for inclusions included credibility; definite a bit than predominant date/time and annihilation of well-known hoaxes.CONCLUSION:Of late, the authors give a buzz a number of of the substance which they hold tight learnt from task this work. "...from all this work, how self-important are the consequence, do they convoy us anything new about the avant-garde phenomena usually called "UFOs" and is here excellent yet to be discovered?" (p.477.)COMMENTS:This book was a pay the bill, all to scuff out of order as unequivocally as I normal it, and to take to mean out of order meticulously which I now hold tight made time to do. I hold tight perpetually looked favourably on the awareness that the UFO phenomenon has deep extraction and that the July 1947 "launch" was thoroughly of the avant-garde interpretation of what was being seen. I hold tight perpetually found vigorous the arguments for a hunger history for the phenomenon, and to tinge it together with other elements of the paranormal.Two Australian cases view in the 500 "Wonders." "Mushroom Wingen - case 408""Parade 1828, Mushroom Wingen, AustraliaCigar fashioned object landsA reserved flying object was thought to hold tight descended upon Mushroom Wingen at the Pungent Load Nature Sphere. It was "cigar-shaped and had a amusing silver colour" and made a loud banging dub. According to the report, "to the same degree it landed it set be on fire to all the plants and killed the cattle."Allegedly, tall strangers appeared in the town at the identical time. "They never thought anything but perpetually quick to the substance they receive."The gadget obligation hold tight caused entirely a kindle as the folk of Wingen began concerning it amid furtive disappearances among them: "Sensibly steadily family connections just dead and dogs and disciplined birds dead too," wrote the trace, referring to the crash his grandfather second hand to tell.Source: Australian Rod, June 17, 1989, and W Chalker, Threaten 1947, Australian Original Subtlety & Practicable UFO links (1990.)"I was distraught that the anyway for this candidature was not a number of press release in 1828, but had thoroughly been set down in 1989. I turned to the quotation by Tally Chalker at http://www.theozfiles.com/history australian-ufo-history.html retrieved 27 December 2010."Utter six kilometres north of Wingen an underground coal become a member has been imperative for doubtless 5,000 being...Kisha, who wrote a mystic declare for the Australasian Rod, recorded a overall story of a furtive flying object landing at Pungent Load (or Mushroom Wingen). She recognized the later text to a man named Ted:"Grandad second hand to say that it was cigar-shaped and had a amusing silver colour. Having the status of it landed it set be on fire to ll the plants and killed the cattle. The dub was dreadful and here was a series of loud bangs. Grandad in the same way beam of tall strangers appearing in town. They never thought anything but perpetually quick to the substance they receive." Sensibly steadily family connections just dead and dogs and disciplined birds dead too."We perpetually conception that Grandad's stories were fine but he knew they were legal and never made light of them.""Kisha did not be a sign of a date for the activities in Ted's grandfather's crash, but seemingly its vintage would hold tight to be at negligible existing amid the first refugee care for of the imperative side back up in 1828." Unluckily, this autobiography is sooner or later sourced to a man called Ted who linked it to a mystic named Kisha who published it in the Australasian Rod magazine old-fashioned 17 June 1989."25 July 1868, Parrammata, New South Wales - case 474.""Mr Frederick William Birmingham, an obtain and town board alderman...saw what he described as an "Ark"...a separate express, thought, warily, 'That's a ruse to go out of order the band...the ruse as well as...descended...to the foliage..." Birmingham was as well as "...lifted off the foliage and quietly carried out of order the air and into the lid wing of the ruse..." He was given away various substance and aspect a set of papers "...the look at subsequently expert paranormal phenomena."Source: Edge Use of Fred Wm. Birmingham, the Manufacture to the Legislature of Parramatta. The authors of the Wonders add "The later autobiography based upon a text of a content that has never been located, obligation be taken amid spot on attention."Complete COMMENTS:The book is an exceptional representation of the zealous work undertaken by a mass of family connections, in locating, screening and compiling yard goods, from steadily fixed to locate sources. I energy be permanent from time to time to scuff sections of the yard goods.If you are at all questioning in pre-1879 above ground phenomena, or rudely wish to measure if that ancient years story of yours has been heavy-duty to hold tight been a hoax, as well as I would hotly proposition this book to you.My imitate came out of order the The supernatural Information divide into four parts of, Dymocks Bookshop, Adelaide, and took three weeks to crash into me.
If you judge me based solely upon my critical comments about the U.S. Air Force in this blog, you could easily believe I'm a military hater, consumed with destroying the Air Force image -- and you would be wrong. Remember, I was an Air Force airman for four years and gave them 100 percent of my abilities. I put a few memories into my blog, "Robert Barrow's Air Force," accessible in the link list. If anybody reads my entries here just because they can't wait for my next slap at the military, they really should go elsewhere because I'm not here to waste words destroying the armed services that keep us free, and I could never say enough about the men and women in uniform who risk their lives in situations the rest of us can hardly comprehend.
Sure, I've had my disputes with the Air Force over the UFO issue. Yet, there was a time during my fleeting teenage era, a year or so before I would end up in an Air Force uniform myself, an occasion where the USAF "enlisted" my services in another respect, when something remarkable occurred.
The year was 1967, a perspective in time currently consumed often in this blog, and this event elicited twists and turns that even I don't understand to this very day. See that yellow magazine cover? Click on it for a larger version. It's the July, 1977 issue of Argosy UFO, at that time one of the better national newsstand UFO periodicals. Down on the left, see that red blurb about a strange alliance and how a ufologist came to the aid of the Air Force? That's the title of my article inside -- well, I don't think that was my original title, but something Argosy UFO concocted to look good on the cover. No matter, it described the story accurately.
When I wrote the piece some 10 years after the event, by then years after my USAF enlistment had come and gone, I changed all of the names, including mine, and made up names for locations. I called myself Mike Grant. You need to understand, I'm perpetually paranoid as a writer about lawsuits and people who walk the earth in a focused quest merely to make trouble for others, and this was a story not only about UFOs, but about some unpleasant UFO "investigators" of ill repute as well.
Now, skip forward to 2004. In the "UFO Updates" portion of Errol Bruce-Knapp's Virtually Strange Network (see link), to my surprise, the issue of some UFO sightings in the Newfield/Ithaca area of New York State in the sixties was raised -- the very topic of my disguised Argosy UFO article in 1977.
At that point, I decided to jump into the discussion with my version of the events, to the extent I felt comfortable expressing them, and my lengthy response is still available online. To that end, dear readers, rather than repeat everything here, I'm going to post the link to that 2004 "UFO Updates" reply for your interest. Was I a teenage spy for the Air Force? Did they use me...or did I use them? Have a look for yourself at the following link OR proceed just beyond it here and I'll provide the details:
http://www.virtuallystrange.net/
ufo/updates/2004/nov/m20-009.shtml
I was an AF Spy
The July, 1977 issue of "Argosy UFO" carried my article, "Story of a Strange Alliance: How a Ufologist Came To The Aid Of The Air Force." This was the editor's cover title, not mine, because my own choice would not have been so self-serving. I took great care to change names and locations, but the piece was actually all about some Ithaca and Newfield, NY UFO reports. The UFO researcher whom I named "Mike Grant" was really myself. In 1977, I still felt uncomfortable bringing certain things to light, and made it clear from the article's opening lines that these changes had been made. Nevertheless, to reiterate the basic story outlined in the "Argosy UFO" article...
One day, sometime in the mid-sixties (forgive me, time has clouded my memory and files are hiding somewhere with sock drawer fugitives), I received an unexpected phone call in upstate NY from a stranger. Still a high school teenager, I had already been interested in UFOs for a few years and, though I wasn't quite sure where he got my phone number, I had appeared on local radio programs and had investigated the 1965 Northeast power blackout a bit, so that wasn't really an enigma. What was a mystery was his question - did I have any information on UFO sightings in Newfield, near Ithaca? No, I had none. Then the man wished to know whether I was familiar with a certain UFO investigator in that area, whom he named. Again, no was my response. The man thanked me and said goodbye.
The next day, I received another call, this time from somebody with an all-too-similar calm, smooth voice, maybe with a slight southern accent. He gave his name and identified himself as an Air Force intelligence officer from Hancock Field in Syracuse. In my article, I made him a captain for reasons even I have forgotten, but I believe his actual rank was first lieutenant. In any event, I'll refer to him as "Captain Todd," as I had in my writing.
The officer casually informed me that he had been "working" in this area for several weeks and had seen some of my letters to local newspapers about UFOs. He appreciated my sincere approach to the UFO topic - even though my most recent letter offered a scathing attack on recent UFO 'explanations' hastily given out by officials at Hancock Field about local sightings. Todd was sure to emphasize, however, that the USAF at Hancock Field "is not hiding anything."
Todd went on to tell me that, even though there were reports ofUFOs, landings, occupants and physical evidence in the Newfield/Ithaca area, there were other Air Force officials - BlueBook? - investigating on the scene and they felt that most of the reports had no substance at all.
His particular concern, however, appeared to be a couple of civilian UFO investigators who, like me, had connections with major private UFO organizations. He expressed dismay, not that they were questioning UFO witnesses, but that they were leading the witnesses in questioning, injecting suggestive comments about spaceships and aliens during the sessions. To my shock -and remember, I was just a kid, some distance away from the UFO activity in the Ithaca area - he asked if I would try to find out more information about, particularly, one of these UFO investigators. Further, Todd insisted that I not tell the private organizations about Air Force interest. He wanted me to handle all of this "diplomatically."
What a dilemma this was for me, as no fan of the Air Force UFO investigation, but intensely loyal to the goals of the civilianUFO groups to which I belonged. Yet, because Captain Todd was seemingly being up front with me and extremely kind with his approach, I could only assume that what little assistance I might provide - even as a teenage UFO geek - would be the best way to go.
But Todd was stern about a couple of things that he wished me to understand implicitly. First, he forbade me to use his name at all, and I was absolutely not to tell the major UFO organizations or anybody at all that the Air Force had an interest in this situation. Second, when I flat-out demanded to know whether there was physical evidence where UFOs were said to have landed, Todd insisted coldly that there was no physical evidence and there was no landing scene to investigate. This officer, if nothing else, seemed a debunking hardliner and my comments about good historical UFO cases were all dismissed by him.
After this initial forty minute conversation, Capt. Todd informed me he was preparing a report on the supposedly tainted civilian investigators - for whom, I don't know - and as this, the first of numerous phone conversations, ended, he gave me two numbers where I could reach him - one seemed in error, but the other worked fine.
But I wasn't about to let this go by so easily. Among my interests was the - now defunct - NORAD installation at HancockField, the SAGE (Semi-Automatic Ground Environment) building, a windowless facility that housed the highest of high-tech equipment for tracking who-knows-what entering the air space of the United States. Call me a foolish kid, call me an idiot, butI decided to bargain a little. I expressed to Capt. Todd that, in return for my services, wouldn't it be great if I could get into the SAGE facility to see what that place is all about? To my amazement, Todd said he thought that could be arranged!
Ultimately, I found that there apparently were some underhanded things going on via some civilian investigators in theNewfield/Ithaca area. An official of one of the major UFO organizations, knowing only that I was looking into the technique of certain investigators, repeated to me several times during a phone conversation regarding one that he "is a weird person, he's just weird." Indeed, that organization had received other complaints about this member.
One Sunday evening, Todd phoned to tell me he was imformed that a team of university scientists (re the Colorado UFO study) was coming to Newfield to conduct a UFO investigation. For some reason, he found this difficult to believe, though he was aware that a Project Blue Book consultant had been there a few days before. A few hours later, I confirmed that the team was coming and relayed this information to Capt. Todd.
Now, here's the really, really peculiar part: Upon hearing that the team was coming, the officer's voice became extremely concerned and he explained to me again that he anticipated complete and absolute secrecy regarding our contacts. "Neither I nor the others at my office want to be associated with the investigation in any way, at any time," he demanded. Then the bombshell hit: "Bob, I want you to know something. I'm not even supposed to be talking with you. The public information office here at Hancock Field doesn't even know I am speaking with you."
By this time, I had come to realize that Todd was working with at least two other people. One was a high-ranking NCO, and the other a woman, perhaps an officer, or maybe enlisted. I spoke with her only once, but had numerous conversations with the sergeant.
As days went by, the civilian "investigators" in question decided to come to nearby Syracuse to appear with local media and to conduct public meetings about their "findings." I was asked to appear with them on some program, but I obviously declined because I wished to safeguard my own reputation in addition to being in the uncomfortable position of checking these people out. By now, first one, and then both major national UFO organizations with whom these people had become affiliated were blazing angry over their affiliations and were taking steps to distance themselves.
I spoke with reporters sent to cover the civilian investigators. One told me of a meeting in which a few hand-picked and easily influenced UFO witnesses were brought along, and he remarkedthat one of the investigators just seemed "very weird" to him.
As things progressed, the civilian investigators in question even formed their own UFO investigative organization and they were soliciting membership fees. Capt. Todd, in his latest conversations with me, began to lose his cool. He had become extremely upset that the civilian group leaders were criticizing his own now-apparent investigations in the Ithaca/Newfield area, and he seemed worried that his formerly low profile regarding the AirForce investigation had surfaced.
I asked Capt. Todd, during a phone conversation in which he was quite emotional and disturbed, what in the world was wrong? "Trouble." he replied. "Wright-Patterson found out that (the civilian investigators) were screaming about our investigation in Newfield." So what, I wondered? "That's the problem," Todd returned. "Wright-Patt called me and wanted to know why I was down there."
"Didn't they know why?" I asked, now absolutely confused.
"I told them I was ordered to go," he shot back.
"I thought they -- Blue Book -- ordered you to go," I said.
The phone conversation ended abruptly. He would not speak further with me on this occasion. Capt. Todd, or First Lt. Whomever, he was off the phone, click.
One of the newspaper reporters called me later in the evening to tell me the university scientists had arrived and were staying at a certain inn, being mobbed by the press and the curious. However, when I called the inn, the clerk insisted that there was no "mob scene" and that if scientists had arrived, he knew nothing about them being there.
When I reinitiated contact with Capt. Todd later in the evening,I discovered that while the clerk at the inn was telling me there were no scientists in town, as a matter of fact one of those non-existent scientists had just spoken with the captain on the phone.
The scientists (probably affiliated with the University of Colorado UFO project which ultimately ended in disaster) looked into the UFO situation, publicly claimed disappointment with their findings and left town. The civilian "investigators" cried foul to the press, seething particularly about the formerly reclusive Capt. Todd's investigations, and went about the business of raising funds for their new UFO research group -- perhaps unaware by this time that the New York State Attorney General's Office was getting complaints about the use of members' money and an investigation was underway.
Eventually, the civilian investigators, having already been thrown out of the two major UFO organizations, were brought up on criminal charges by the State of NY and they were effectively prosecuted for scamming people out of their money. They had also told some fantastic lies, even claiming a veritable father-son relationship with Project Blue Book personnel as they used their pied-piper personalities to entwine the UFO faithful into parting with their cash.
As if a light switch was turned off, I instantly lost all contact with Capt. Todd. He was simply gone. However, the weeks passed and suddenly, one winter's morning, someone claiming to be an Air Force officer called my home while I was out. The name was not taken and he did not call back.
A couple of weeks later, I phoned the Hancock Field phone number that I knew so well by then. A familiar voice answered; it was the sergeant whom I had spoken with many times. He confirmed that Capt. Todd had transferred to a new assignment in some other state about a month earlier. As we spoke, the NCO confided that he very much wished he could give me his personal opinion about the nature of UFOs, but felt it best not to do so. "But,"he offered, "I'm sure my opinions would be much the same as yours."
Postscript: You, dear reader, probably believe this incredibly convoluted story of confusion and intrigue has now ended. Not true. A few days later, I received a phone call from the public information office at Hancock Field in Syracuse. Wherever he had gone, whatever he had become or was in the first place, the mysterious Capt. Todd -- rather, First Lt. Whomever -- had not forgotten his promise. He had asked the sergeant to make arrangements for me to tour the SAGE installation. After one delay and questions of security complications due to the nature of the tour, I gained my precious entrance into the world ofNORAD. The installation no longer graces the grounds of Hancock Field, but I can say that it was a fantastic experience to watch it work from the inside. I and what seemed primarily a group of Japanese officials or scientists were guided through the building, shown what were then giant freezer-sized computers and ultimately the auditorium-sized room with the big NORAD Screen on the wall that we've all seen in those old movies. The radar, all the officers, airmen and WAFs sitting at their duty stations, the speaker-generated sounds of multiple voice communications coming and going from all over the country and overseas as the huge screen before us awaited friend and foe alike - well, it was all pretty darned impressive.
And for me, something equally as impressive happened when I first walked into the SAGE building. I was actually greeted by the sergeant, his name tag reading exactly who he said he was many months ago. No kid was this, either, he was a chief master sergeant, on the verge of retirement. The lines on his face spoke of experiences of which most can only dream. Despite all of the confusion and the things that will never be explained to my satisfaction regarding theIthaca/Newfield UFO situation, few could ever know what a comfort it was to me just to see a tag with a name that at least seemed real. Chief master sergeant such-and-such (of course, I remember real names to this day) was real. Whatever I had experienced was official and absolutely meaningful and real.
I haven't spent a lot of time thinking about the Ithaca/Newfield UFO sightings over the years, which I personally believe have a basis. Back then, I had to finish high school and then, in an era where both the Rev. Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy were assassinated as the USA slipped further into the turmoil of Vietnam, the military draft began biting at my heels. With only two college courses completed, a week before the final draft notice arrived I entered the Air Force as an enlistee. If anybody thinks I was rewarded further for helping the enigmatic young Air Force officer, my addendum would be that my Air Force recruiter promised me photography school. Instead, I was trained as a medic.
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Start of an agency or a limb of the Place Nations for be active, co-ordinating and disseminating the fight of research in the sphere of unidentified flying objects and together phenomena At its 87th plenary oration, on 18 December 1978, the Existing Mall, on the identification of the Specific Diplomatic Council adopted the succeeding copy as demonstrating the agreement of the members of the Assembly: "1. The Existing Mall has full mention of the statements ended, and mobilization resolutions submitted, by Grenada at the thirty-second and thirty-third sessions of the Existing Mall going on for unidentified flying objects and together phenomena."2. the Existing Mall invites friendly Member States to run rob steps to coordinate on a national honest mechanical research and investigation in the sphere of extraterrestrial life, together with unidentified flying objects, and to inform the Secretary-General of the annotations, research and evaluation of such activities. "3. 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EDGAR MITCHELL Pick up If grant are extraterrestrial rewards for loyalty, the organisers of the UFO conspiracy hearings that are under way at the Government Goad Club in Washington this week deserve a bother from space.Five former US congressmen and one former senator possess been compensated 20,000 any to give somebody an advance of authority to the contest, which calls on the government to release acknowledged secret documents demonstration alien incursions dating consider decades.Grant are arrogant than 10,000 UFO sightings in the US any rendezvous. Genius witnesses were sworn in under deposit to say beside the duty of former politicians. UFO watchers from around the world were patched in via live video balance and booths of agreeing translators provided latitude in Spanish, Arabic, Hindi, Japanese and Mandarin. 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"In add-on, grant is no believable information to specify that any evidence is being hidden from the public's eye."But that accepted society has lately served to fluently daring among people who take up in a big government conspiracy.Self-important than 10,000 diverse UFO sightings are reported any rendezvous to two primary conspiracy websites, according to one onlooker, Richard Dolan, who has in print atypical books on the production. Linda Moulton Howe, a former documentary filmmaker, supposed that aliens had been visiting earth "what beside the dinosaurs". "We are commercial as well as technology so bigger that they can tip space and time," she supposed, to loud cheers.The politicians who ended up the duty were specialized exact five minutes any to cross-examine witnesses, but watched over their manifestation and the 20,000 "honorarium"."I would not possess form if I dent it was merciless to my term," supposed California Democrat Lynn Woolsey, who retired from Legislative body this rendezvous after 10 terms in office. "I am dressed in having the status of I take up in decency."Roscoe Bartlett, a Tea Society Republican from Maryland who served 10 terms in Legislative body and chaired a sub-committee of the Era array military committtee, said: "Extraterrestrials are not anti-biblical. Deduce the book of Job - it's all grant." Senator Mike Troubled, a Democrat who represented Alaska for 22 being, added: "It is the top of human mischievousness to interest that we are the lately live humans [sic] in the universe that can interest."Witnesses gave a grow of reasons for the drive of the pretend to be, motionless after the end of the Flinty War. Stanton Friedman, who has two degrees in physics, said: "If grant were everything announced, say by the pope and the Queen, what would happen? Bottle green citizens would see themselves as Terrans and would ignore their allegiance to nations. No government might agree to that."Only this minute one politician, Carolyn Kilpatrick of Michigan, a Democrat, complained about the deal in of the "pseudo hearing", asking why the duty had not standard in print evidence in egg on.
This editorial will not set well with many that read it, but my personal concern has been a growing problem for me for some time, and as I've done in previous articles, I confront things that bother me, or are obvious contradictions or alternatives to serious UFO research. Perhaps my concern is due to having a civil engineering background, or the fact that for the past 14 years I have been fortunate enough to do this research with some of the top researchers in the field of Ufology, and many of those researchers share my concern.
As an example, a Google search of the "1947 Roswell Incident websites" reveals over 84,000 results. For many of those sites listed, the "researcher" has never been to Roswell, never interviewed a witness, or knows anything about the crash site(s), consequently their information is second or third hand "arm chair" research, and in many cases it is not factual information. Such is the fallacious nature of the Internet, since anything can be posted by anyone about anything.
Another concern is what I refer to as the "circus or carnival atmosphere" surrounding several of the well-known UFO Symposiums, "Festivals", and Conferences around the country. I realize that by having such events, a town or city believes it can generate more income, and probably does, but what does such an event do to promote serious research?
At most of these type events, pay attention to what the media, (TV, newspaper and magazine reporters and photographers) depict about the event. It's usually an article or photograph of some one in a tinfoil hat, or outlandish costume. Very seldom is anything depicted of the serious researcher that has devoted most of his or her life and expenses to investigating and researching a UFO Incident.
Several of you that read this will say, "Dennis you need to lighten up". My immediate response would be that the serious research of the UFO phenomenon may well be the biggest story of the millennium, and I personally think it should remain a serious topic in the media, at symposiums and conferences, and other venues. I certainly haven't seen it reported or depicted that way at many of those events for many years, and the paranormal aspect has slowly been creeping into all of those.
After many years of observing and being involved with the making of TV documentaries on the subject of UFOs, I have finally realized that they have very little to do with factual or verifiable information from serious researchers. Ratings and profit are the main motive. Additionally unlike what many believe, in nearly every case the serious researcher is NOT reimbursed for his time on film, or the years of research and expense he or she has devoted to the subject, which is freely given to the documentary, so some producer or director can apply his own take on the event, usually with less than accurate information presented, when the show is aired.
I vividly remember at some of the conferences I've attended where one of the speakers talked about having been impregnated by aliens several times. Others have talked about spiritual healing, ghosts, and witches. Still others are clairvoyants, astrologers, Shamans, mind and body healers, etc.
Placing researchers such as Stanton Friedman, (the 1947 Roswell Incident), John Greenewald Jr., (Government Conspiracies), Travis Walton, (1995 abductee, "Fire in the Sky"), Kathleen Marden, (the Betty and Barney Hill Story), and other serious, respected, scientific oriented individuals on the same conference schedule with those mentioned above, does nothing to promote the further education of the public on the subject of Ufology.
Perhaps the serious researchers should no longer participate in those events that contain such a wide range of subjects that basically have nothing of value to do with UFO research.
I have in fact talked to several researchers who have devoted many years of their time and expense to serious research, who have already made such a decision, informing me they would not attend any UFO conferences until such time that conference organizers get back to having real UFO conferences, without the newagers, "woo-woo" types that appear to be taken over many of the symposiums.
As a final comment, I just returned from a conference I attended, and received an email from one of the attendees stating:
"I just listened to part of a radio interview you did. You talked about the pyramids and you showed that they are located so as to look like the Orion Constellation. I wanted to add that the spaceship that crashed at Roswell was from Orion. And the crash test dummies were right. Orion's look human and they are over 6 feet tall. They are covering up an Orion crash. If anyone saw the crash and saw the Orion's they would have seen what looked like tall people and could have been confused into thinking they saw crash test dummies maybe."
I responded to this individual, "that other researchers and myself have been investigating the Roswell Incident for many years, and no one has ever mentioned any bodies being over 6' tall. All eye witnesses have described the alleged bodies as being 3-4' tall resembling small children". As for them coming from Orion, (as she stated as a matter of fact), I emphasized again that in 64 years no one has ever determined where they were from.
Not expecting a response, since this person already knew more than all of us that have been researching Roswell the past 30 some years she did respond with the following:"My reaction to the symposium was that it was by and for hoaxers and that there were no current reports of UFOs that I heard. We walk different paths. On my path the Greys are gone and there is no reason to focus on them. Thank you for your time."So in her mind Stanton Friedman, John Greenewald Jr., Travis Walton and myself are hoaxers, since we were participants in the conference she attended.
This type thinking and reaction on her part only reinforces my thinking and several other researchers that I have discussed my concern with, that the time has come for the news media, TV documentary executives, and conference organizers to look at what they are presenting to the public.
If the "woo-woos, kool-aid drinkers, or new agers" (whatever you want to call them), want to share their views give them a separate venue, but don't interface serious UFO researchers with them. We have devoted too much of our time and expenses over the years, to be associated with those types. We want the truth from our government and military about the phenomenon known as Ufology, and when 70% of those polled believe UFOs exist, and 60-70% believe the government is covering up what they know, give the serious researchers their proper due. The answers we're looking for about UFOs will not be coming from Tarot card readers, psychics, or clairvoyants, but rather from researchers with credible backgrounds, who go into the field, or archives to research factual information, and try to educate the public with the information they have devoted years to obtaining.
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THIS WEEK THE AQUARIAN AGE AWAKENING GOES SUPER NOVA, becoming an unstoppable force, a golden-light tsunami across the globe. This means the people of the world link hearts and minds in a whole new way, and for the benefit of All.
For now, critical mass has been achieved.
However, in Hitlaresque opposition the 'new world order crowd' unleashes their serpents of deception. These look-good, talk-good minions will take the world stage as leaders, as men and women of great spirituality. They have been trained in the art of mass hypnosis, in the art of 'bringing home the sheeple'.
On the magickal, mystical front, for the cause of liberating humankind, the 'Mages of Ages Lost' swing their white-light swords, slicing through the thick reptilian neck of those known as the Ancient Deceivers.
Also, magick, that power which is truly natural to us all, will surface in the human race, a gradual process for some, a rapid expansion for others.
It is time for this wellspring of knowledge to come forth. Wisdom means learning about these magickal abilities living within you. Thus, to use your powers for GOOD.
On the personal front, another hunker-bunker down week for most of us. However, whatever time you can spend outside with Nature will soothe your soul, and enliven your spirit.
As the cosmic shift in consciousness expands, this will begin to encompass your everyday life. Part of this transition for many of us will be a renewed relationship with Nature. Go with the Springtime flow.
Another key aspect of this week will be self-sufficiency. Opportunities will arise, and any move you can make in this direction will prove invaluable in the near future.
On the paranormal front, another wacky, here-they-come week. Was a Big Foot really shot by a Turkey Hunter in Pennsylvania, as was reported? And, if true, will it be covered up as usual?
This week, and into the summer months, UFOS begin their own 'disclosure project' for the sake of humankind. Recent HEADLINE: *Richard French, Ex-Air Force Lt. Colonel, 'It Was A UFO And... There Were Aliens Aboard It'*
As well, this week or next, there will be an amazing paranormal event that CANNOT be covered up. For, the Goddess's heart energy will not be denied.
On the economic front, to keep what belongs to you, remain ever-vigilant. Remember, the banks are not your friends.
Now, as never before the public will wake up to this all-important truth, known by the framers of the constitution: The Power to Tax Is the Power to Destroy.
Also, this week into next week, look for the financial world to be rocked down to its very foundations by the dark-side corruption running rampant. At first, the news-headline revelations around this, will seem to be somewhat insignificant. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Once the entire situation is EXPOSED, wall street, the bankster gangsters, will be shaking in their proverbial boots. For, THE UNCLOAKING IS HERE.
Day by day, time is on the side of the people. The establishment snakes, the controllers behind the curtain, will be uncloaked, their viper-tyrannical natures revealed. It cannot be otherwise.
On the truth front, the great big doings continue, following in the wake of last week's revelations. From the prior week's forecast: "...TRUTH expands on a grand scale, and umbrellas the entire world in a whole new way. TRUTH -- what has been kept hidden by the dark-side elite -- now infuses these times, a blazing bright light. One that can never be dimmed."
On the war front, midpoint this week, the authoritarian nightmare begins for many of us, as the dark-side controllers use deception and false flags to whip up a war fever among the population. They have become rabid, and are 'foaming at the mouth' for the horrors of war. For, their god of darkness must be appeased by massive blood sacrifice.
However, the Light Force will counter these Machiavellian events with TRUTH. That is, the Grand Exposure of who and what these globalists are, continues in the public eye. Eventually, there will be nowhere to hide, except in their grandiose underground cities.
Sadly, it must be noted that a great and terrible destruction *could* be brought about by the decisions of these psychopaths, those soulless ones who control the Middle East war theater.
On the tyranny-at-work front, now, officially, you no longer own your own genetics.
HEADLINE SNIPPET: "US government claims 100% ownership over all your DNA and reproductive rights; genetic slavery is already here ~ By Mike Adams, NaturalNews Editor ~ May 19 - The United States government claims 100% ownership over all your DNA and reproductive rights. This astonishing revelation has emerged from the fact that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office claims the power to assign ownership of your DNA to private companies and universities..."
On the AWAKENING front, soar toward the Divine in you. Soar toward the open arms of the Goddess. She will embrace you with her magnificent, always-loving heart.
On the communication front, every word you utter, every cyber message you send, now becomes fair game as the software titans begin their carefully planned takeover of the world.
HEADLINE: Google's Plan To Take Over The World ~ Steve Kovach, Business Insider, May 19, 2013 ~ Quote: "Google isn't just the backbone of the Internet anymore. It's rapidly becoming the backbone of your entire life, all thanks to data you're voluntarily giving up to a private company based on your Web searches, photos, Gmail messages, and more."
On the home front, the factional battle between a military consortium and backers of the administration goes public with this headline announcement: Military Says No Presidential Authorization Needed To Quell "Civil Disturbances" DoD "instruction" seeks to abolish Posse Comitatus, grease skids for military coup...
Meanwhile, the info revolution deepens and strengthens across the country, and goes worldwide. For, many now realize freedom is the sweet nectar nourishing the human soul, and creating true prosperity.
On the food front, there will be major information leaks about how BIG CORP AGRA is limiting and ruining the food supply. This will turn many more of us toward growing our own gardens.
Plus, the flight onto the land grows by leaps and bounds. And seed saving becomes vital, evolving into an economy unto itself.
On the land changes front, look for more Super Tornadoes and Super Sinkholes across the planet. California will have more firestorms, and the rolling earthquakes begin.
On the East Coast be prepared for emergency situations. The coastlines are not safe, and there 'could be' a tsunami. This is still an 'unformed' future, but remains a possibility. At the first sign, pack up and leave.
There will be major weather problems in Florida during the summer months. And flooding is likely to plague areas of the Midwest.
On the energy front, the time is now critical. For, the hourglass is running low. Message to all energy-device inventors and makers, your future depends on getting your devices, and/or your plans out to the people.
If you attempt to go the patent-corp route, your enterprise-ventures will fail. If you choose to sell out, or are paid the big bucks for your invention, that money will mean very little in the near future. Think Tesla, and what happened him, to his inventions, to his plans. Nothing has changed.
On the really bad news front, Theme for the coming times: Persecution, Your Tax Dollars At Work.
As has been demonstrated this past week, the more the IRS establishment beast is fed, the more the people will be devoured. Beware of any solution offered by the bankster gangster, financial system.
On the good news front, the Brave Ones, the Good-Side Renegades continue to rise. Now, they inspire the people to rise against the oppressive, 'hidden snakes in the grass' who would diabolically rule the destiny of humanity.
On the global mafia cabal front, HEADLINE: "Everything Is Rigged, Continued: European Commission Raids Oil Companies in Price-Fixing Probe"
As the fast and furious infighting between the dark-side factions increases, this type of raid will become the norm for the next several years. Wisdom dictates leaving these big-cartel operations, and forging ahead with enterprises that truly serve the people.
On the heroine front, Dr. Evelyn Paglini, a real witch for real times.
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"When I first saw Poltergeist", I don't remember thinking it odd that the family in the haunted home would have no problem finding a parapsychology department ready to launch an investigation into the events at their home. Colleges and universities were big places full of smart people who spent all there time proving things and the like, so it made sense that you could just go to your nearest institution of higher learning and say, "Hey, anybody wanna see a ghost?"Seeing "The Haunting" and "Hell House" and others did nothing to disabuse me of the notion that ghost hunting was a relatively typical scholarly pursuit for the academic set. In fact, because I rarely saw representatives from the considerably more common but less cinema-friendly specializations, it's probably fair to say that you would have had a harder time convincing me that somebody was a film studies scholar ("You watch movies? But everybody watches movies. You're pulling my leg.") than you would have had convincing me that somebody studied demonic possessions.The most important illusion shattered by Stacy Horn's "Unbelievable", a new fusion of J. B. Rhine bio and discursive history of American parapsychology from the early Twentieth Century to now, is the belief that a small army of dedicated paranormal researchers waits ready to set up shop in your crib at the slightest sign of supernatural shenanigans. The problem isn't that there are no paranormal researchers out there, but rather that they can afford to be picky. In a chapter dedicated to reproducing letters written to Rhine's Department of Parapsychology at Duke University, Horn drives home the fact that there is never any shortage of Americans who believe that the are the witnesses or victims of some force from beyond the purview of traditional science. Hauntings, people with ESP, aliens, prophetic dreamers, near death experiences, infants that make noises like barnyard animals - the oddest thing about people with unusual stories is how incredibly common such people seem to be. A virtual army of haunted and troubled souls kept Rhine, as well as his confederates and rivals in the field of parapsychology, busy for nearly 80 years.There are two main threads to Horn's book. The first focuses on the life and times of Joseph Banks Rhine, the essential man of American parapsychology. A doctorate in botany, Rhine was put on the path to becoming the America's foremost expert on weirdness when he enrolled for a one-year psychology course in Harvard. Thrilled by the possibility of extra sensory perception, Rhine became famous for his work with Zener cards - those "cirle, square, bunch of wavy lines" cards you see in movies like "Ghostbusters". Rhine became the George Washington of psychic research with the 1934 publication of Extra Sensory Perception, a stats heavy presentation of the results of several thousand ESP tests. Rhine and his team would become the face of psychic research well into the 1970s. The odd stories of Rhine's life, including efforts by the United States government and companies like IBM to harness Rhine's research, makes for interesting, if occasionally disheartening reading; but Rhine himself, as presented by Horn, is a draw in his own right. Pugnacious and stubborn, Rhine was determined to prove the existence of psychic phenomenon, a drive that could blind him to his own assumptions and biases. At the same time, however, he was capable of extreme skepticism and innately cautious about the possibility of such phenomenon. In fact, Rhine's increasing isolation from a loony fringe that he was largely responsible for creating plays out like an odd cautionary tale with "Frankenstein"-esque undertones.The second thread, woven through Rhine's story, is a meandering overview of parapsychology as a whole, including stops at some of America's most famous, or infamous, "paranormal" events. We get s'eances with William James (this book would make an excellent bookend to Deborah Blum's "The Ghost Hunters"), spiritualist-busting crusade of Houdini, the story of the demonic possession the inspired "The Exorcist", the Amity haunting, and a dozen other cases. Some of the stories are perplexing, others are hilarious, but they are all entertaining. Horn introduces readers to true believers and cranks, diligent researchers and frauds, and while she's a true believer herself, she doesn't hesitate to point out when a mystery has a readily available, non-supernatural explanation at hand. Still, Horn's arguments for the existence ESP and other features of the supernatural world might be so objectionable to some that the pleasures of this tour will be lost on them. This need not be the case. I didn't come away from the book believing in ESP, past lives, ghosts, or what have you, and I still thoroughly enjoyed Horn's wonderfully writing.Which brings us to the second, and more important, illusion shattered in "Unbelievable". This illusion involves the limits of scientific knowledge. Not the old chestnut that there are "more things on heaven and earth," but rather about the glamour of legitimacy the trappings of science can cast over even the most doomed intellectual endeavors. Unintentionally, Horn's written a strange sort of intellectual tragedy about bright people who are convinced that science is on their side, even when they again and again run into unrepeatable results, lack of evidence, strong counter evidence, and other factors that are science's way of telling the researcher that they are wrong. Again and again, researchers evoke metaphorical arguments (because Thing X reminds one of so-called "spooky action from a distance," which is proven, then Thing X must be true too), arguments based on authority (much is made of the fact that Einstein was open to the possibility of psychic phenomena, though he never studied the issue and the topic fell well outside his area of expertise), or demand special consideration for their evidence. The worst example of this last form of pseudo-scientific thinking is when, confronted with data they cannot reproduce, theorists of ESP or whatever other phenomena advance theories about why reproducibility doesn't apply to the phenomena being examined Such is the case with ESP researchers who theorized that emotional states - too mercurial and finely grained to ever be perfectly reproducible - have a profound effect on psychic ability. As innocuous as that claim may be, it is an attempt bow out of the obligations of reproducibility and places the studied phenomenon on the same level as miracles. "It happened, but you'll have to take my word for it." The quixotic efforts of these researchers haven't brought anybody any closer to understanding these alleged psychic phenomena. They've only demonstrated how smart, even brilliant, people can prove unequal to the task of subjecting desires, prejudices, ambitions, and emotional needs to the rigors of scientific investigation. And it's that tragic lack of self-knowledge that, perhaps even more than the self-limiting nature of scientific inquiry, marks the bound of scientific knowledge.