tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84035781232753635072024-03-05T02:14:22.870-05:00ExtraterrestrialsThe Reynolds Grouphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05480027495715908096noreply@blogger.comBlogger23125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8403578123275363507.post-56121833715427743742011-12-10T00:01:00.001-05:002011-12-10T00:01:32.066-05:00Is Technology the Indicator of an Advanced Civilization?<img src="http://query.homestead.com/tech.jpg" alt="tech.jpg" /><br /><br /><b>Copyright 2011, InterAmerica, Inc.</b><br /><br />Revisiting Robert Temple’s <em>The Sirius Mystery</em> (about the African Dogon tribe’s alleged contact with extraterrestrials 5000 years ago), some questions came to mind.<br /><br /><img src="http://query.homestead.com/sm.jpg" alt="sm.jpg" /><br /><br />Why would extraterrestrial visitors visit a small, primitive tribe in the isolated, at the time (and even now), heart of Africa.<br /><br /><img src="http://query.homestead.com/af.jpg" alt="af.jpg" /><br /><br />Yes, the Sumerians and other cultures on the rim of the Mediterranean Sea are said by some, including Carl Sagan and I.S. Shklovskii in 1966’s <em>Intelligent Life in the Universe</em>, to have been contacted by extraterrestrials, that left intimations of writing, agriculture, math, and other accoutrements of civilized living.<br /><br /><img src="http://query.homestead.com/il.jpg" alt=ila.jpg" /><br /><br />Oannes, the being from the sea who supposedly proffered these gifts is not unlike the Dogon visitors who told those peoples about their place of origin, a planet in the Sirius star system.<br /><br />Click <a href="http://www.unmuseum.org/siriusb.htm">HERE</a> for an online precis of the Dogon story.<br /><br />But extraterrestrials would have to be significantly advanced to get here from the Sirius planetary environment, and one would think that such emissaries would seek out cultures and peoples who were much more advanced than the Dogon tribe, to whom they would communicate the locale of their home planet(s).<br /><br /><img src="http://query.homestead.com/dog1.jpg" alt="dog1.jpg" /><br /><br />The chatter between the Dogons and the Sirians would have had to be something beyond difficult.<br /><br />Even today, the Dogons do not represent an advanced element of Earth’s global society.<br /><br /><img src="http://query.homestead.com/dog2.jpg" alt="dog2.jpg" /><br /><br />Either the Sirius visitors were inept at furthering the cultural evolution of the Dogons or the Sirius visitors represent a civilization that doesn’t regard technolocial advance as a <em>sine qua non</em> of their existence; technology is a prosaic tool, and other considerations make up the essence of their existence.<br /><br />Or the visit never occurred at all.<br /><br />For the sake of rumination, I’d like to address the second option above; that is, civilizations do not need technology to be advanced.<br /><br />Perhaps it’s the music, the art, or social intercourse that is the high point of “advanced” civilizations, not the attributes of the ships that transport them hither and yon.<br /><br />This would explain, perhaps, why UFOs have appeared in various guises, some not so futuristic as we imagine: the airships of the 1890s for example.<br /><br /><img src="http://query.homestead.com/as.jpg" alt="as.jpg" /><br /><br />This would also explain, perhaps, why flying saucers have had a propensity to crash; they are not technologically refined, nor meant to be.<br /><br />They are constructed to get here from there, much as Columbus or Amerigo Vespucci did with their rudimentary, by modern standards, ships.<br /><br /><img src="http://query.homestead.com/cc.jpg" alt="cc.jpg" /><br /><br />If visitors sought out this planet, for whatever reason, they would impart elements of culture – music, art, writing, mathematics, and the like – rather than methods with a technological bent.<br /><br />Technology wasn’t and isn’t their primary incentive or objective.<br /><br />The artifacts touted by Ancient Alien theorists are esthetic not technological: the pyramids of Egypt and Middle/South America, Stonehenge, the Easter Island moai, et cetera.<br /><br /><img src="http://query.homestead.com/py.jpg" alt="py.jpg" /><br /><br /><img src="http://query.homestead.com/st.jpg" alt="st.jpg" /><br /><br /><img src="http://query.homestead.com/ei.jpg" alt="ei.jpg" /><br /><br />What the Dogon were and are mimics the alien races and beings - the alien cultures –that seem to have visited the Earth in the past and today.<br /><br />UFO researchers, governments, military constructs have missed the point.<br /><br />UFOs visit to impart refinement, high culture.<br /><br />And that refinement or culture is so foreign to our understanding, we humans can’t grasp it, although one might find hints of it in such workings as that of the Dogons, or the Egyptians, or the Inca, the Olmecs, the Mayans.<br /><br /><img src="http://query.homestead.com/mp.jpg" alt="mp.jpg" /><br /><br />The message of UFOs isn’t about nuts and bolts or plasmatic ships.<br /><br />It’s about existence as a thing rarefied, transcendental, or, shall we say, spiritual?<br /><br /><strong>RR</strong>The Reynolds Grouphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05480027495715908096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8403578123275363507.post-39057030117929544602011-12-07T09:33:00.001-05:002011-12-07T09:33:59.179-05:00UFOs: Hallucinations and Delusion<b>Copyright 2011, InterAmerica, Inc.</b><br /><br /><img src="http://query.homestead.com/dali.jpg" alt="dali.jpg" /><br /><br />That strange “objects” appear and have appeared, to humans, in the sky and on the ground for millennia is a given, an observable truth, as it were.<br /><br />(Ufologists should abandon their defensive posture; that is, ufologists needn’t continue to try and prove UFOs exist. UFOs are a premised reality. The evidence is palpable and has been verified beyond doubt in any number of ways, and by credible witnesses.)<br /><br />But what of those “insane” perceptions that Spanish UFO researcher Jose Caravaca provides at his blog, The Caravaca Files or Jacques Vallee has documented in several books and lectures?<br /><br />Sẽnor Caravaca attributes the bizarre UFO events he lists as a product of witness minds, controlled and used by an alien intrusion, yet to be explicitly defined, for purposes also not explicitly defined, but suggested by sẽnor Caravaca to be an expression of a reality that the intruders wish to display, by their staged images and activities.<br /><br />Sẽnor Caravaca’s hypothesis is interesting, and defended by his observation that the “mental machinations” he documents aren’t ubiquitous, as they would be if they followed the suggestions offered by some; i.e., electromagnetic effects on the mind (Persinger) and psychic projections by elements of a concomitant spiritual reality that exists with humans (Vallee).<br /><br />However, one has to consider the idea that some UFO accounts that include strange beings doing equally strange activities are hallucinatory or delusional constructs brought about by an initial event that triggers the images and perceptions recounted.<br /><br />Still, the initial, triggering event – a UFO sighting or landing – is yet to be explained or understood.<br /><br />But the descriptive accounts, after the initial event, may be attributable to hallucinations, hallucinations caused by a number of psychological triggers as delineated in papers about how the body and mind reacts to traumatic [sic] encounters and affects:<br /><br />The Interpretation of Intrusions in Psychosis: An Integrative Cognitive Approach to Hallucinations and Delusions by Anthony P. Morrison (2001)<br /><br />And, importantly, Visual Hallucinations in Psychologically Normal People: Charles Bonnet’s Syndrome by Robert J. Teunisse, Johan R. Cruysberg, Willibrord H. Hoefnagels, André L. Verbeek, and Frans G. Zitman.<br /><br /><img src="http://query.homestead.com/hallu2.jpg" alt="hallu2.jpg" /><br /><br />And:<br /><br /><img src="http://query.homestead.com/hallu1.jpg" alt="hallu1.jpg" /><br /><br />The Charles Bonnet Syndrome (CBS) can account for the descriptive renditions that witnesses have provided over the years for what they experienced.<br /><br />Such descriptions as those of Betty and Barney Hill, Father Gill in Papua (New Guinea), which represents a “mass hullucination” example, the Hickson/Parker Pascagoula incident, and others that you’re familiar with can all be attributable to the “CBS.”<br /><br />Click <a href="http://query.homestead.com/hall-table-jpg">HERE</a> for a table of when and during what activity the Bonnet Syndrome takes place.<br /><br />Applying what we know about psychopathological pathogens helps winnow many UFO events, but not all, unfortunately.<br /><br />Some UFO experiences can be traced to psychological operations by various rogue constructs in governments and the military as recounted by me in Nick Redfern’s book, Contactees [Chapter 20] and actual “alien” encounters of a still unexplained kind.<br /><br />(The word “alien” is used here in its psychological context.)<br /><br />But looking for more exotic explanations for obvious human mental configurations is stretching human fact into contrived fiction which has, as its downside, a loss of premise stability and subsequent logic – resulting in a wayward search for what UFOs are.<br /><br />Again, UFOs are real, some strange UFO encounters are actual encounters; it’s the descriptive aftermath that has thrown the topic into a disarray that dissuades science from pursuing UFOs as a topic for scrutiny.<br /><br />Once the psychological parameters are outlined and clarified, science might be able to tackle the phenomenon itself.<br /><br />One can only hope…<br /><br /><strong>RR</strong>The Reynolds Grouphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05480027495715908096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8403578123275363507.post-65344549507969162532011-11-02T09:32:00.001-04:002011-11-02T09:32:29.611-04:00UFOs with little beings: France in the 1950sIn the 1950s, circa 1954 probably, a spate of flying saucers were spotted, with creatures that were thought to be Martians.<br /><br />Here are some clips from a major magazine – <em>Life</em>, I think – that described the saucers and the beings seen near them…<br /><br />Pierre Lucas of Loctudy saw an orange ball fall from the sky, from which a small, bearded figure with one eye in the middle of its forehead emerged and tapped him on the shoulder:<br /><br /><img src="http://query.homestead.com/martian2.jpg" alt="martian2.jpg" /><br /><br />Serge Pochet of Marcoing was approached by two small shadows:<br /><br /><img src="http://query.homestead.com/martian1.jpg" alt="martian1.jpg" /><br /><br />Gregoire Odut saw a golden disk zoom away from Wassy after a two-legged creature leaped out for a look around:<br /><br /><img src="http://query.homestead.com/odut.jpg" alt="odut.jpg" /><br /><br />Jean Narcy saw a craft, also near Wassy, from which a little whiskered man in a fur coat and orange corset emerged:<br /><br /><img src="http://query.homestead.com/narcy.jpg" alt="narcy.jpg" /><br /><br />Marius Dewilde of Quarouble is carrying a railroad tie upon which he saw a rust-colored “flying contraption” land:<br /><br /><img src="http://query.homestead.com/dewilde.jpg" alt="dewilde.jpg" /><br /><br />Yves de Gillaboz (left) and Emile Renard saw a “Matian machine” belching puffs of smoke in the sky over Amiens:<br /><br /><img src="http://query.homestead.com/m-ship.jpg" alt="m-ship.jpg" /><br /><br />Francois Panero and Jean Olivier draw an image of a “dumpy little space man” they saw land in a luminous sphere on a basketball court near Toulouse:<br /><br /><img src="http://query.homestead.com/martian3.jpg" alt="martian3.jpg" /><br /><br />We don’t get those kinds of sightings nowadays, do we? And why not?<br /><br /><strong>RR</strong>The Reynolds Grouphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05480027495715908096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8403578123275363507.post-9185020158938733922011-10-22T08:54:00.003-04:002011-10-22T09:13:51.280-04:00UFO MIMETIC AND THE THEATRE OF DECEPTION: THE 1966 WILLIAM LAXTON INCIDENT by Jose Antonio Caravaca<b>Copyright 2011, InterAmerica, Inc.</b><br /><br />There are episodes in the overwhelmingly puzzling UFO case series that prevent logical reasoning.<br /><br />We are talking about close encounters where the witness is able to recognize different elements ("family") in the alleged alien craft and its occupants (ladders, uniforms, hats, letters, numbers, antennas, etc.) that would point to a supposed "alien technology" to mimetic that of humans, as if the unidentified crew members conducted a "pantomime" in the face of unsuspecting observers present, before their eyes, which is clearly recognizable and similar to the psyche of the witnesses and as what you might find on any other machine on earth.<br /><br />Although initially hypothesized secret aircraft of military origin could explain many of these sightings, and hence the presence of these mundane factors and ordinary assumptions embedded in a vehicle from the confines of space would be logical, but in other events, overall strangeness of the encounter rises to its maximum power. Our admired John Keel said with great success in his book UFOs: <em>Operation Trojan Horse</em>, "the hilarious mystery of flying saucers slowly transformed into a complicated series of coincidences and paradoxes as we enter the data, without taking anything, and considering all as objectively as possible. " <br /><br />A clear example of what we try to expose is what we find in a dramatic and disturbing case in the sixties in the United States that brought about an official government investigation.<br /><br />The detailed description made by the principal involved leaves no doubt as to the complexity of the UFO phenomenon, showing that "everyday" and "extraordinary" go together to override our ability to analyze and understand. No other single incident could present such an amount of absurd and paradoxical details that would only serve to undermine the credibility of the witness's story. On the one hand his testimony appears to reflect the fleeting encounter with a military prototype, but nevertheless, if we analyze his account, it is noticeable that the rate of strangeness of it leaves the door open to all kinds of speculation. <br /><br />This is the story:<br /> <br /><strong>THE STRANGE "FISH" METAL</strong><br /><br />Mr. William "Eddie" Laxton, an electronic engineer for 56 years at Temple, Oklahoma, experienced a unique encounter with the unknown.<br /><br />It all started about 5:30 am on the morning of March 23, 1966, on a stretch of Highway 70, between Oklahoma and Texas, where Mr. Laxton routinely drove to his teaching job at Sheppard Base Air Force (Wichita Falls, Texas). <br /><br />At that time the witness was surprised to see a great light on the road. Then he saw an odd machine elongated across the road at an angle of 45 degrees that prevented his passage. The machine seemed to be composed of aluminum and was about 22 meters long and 2.5 meters high and 3.5 meters wide. It had a window in the side like a porthole and was supported by 4 legs. At the top was a six-foot antenna bent backward. The machine was shaped like a fish, divided into 4 equal sections. <br /><br /><img src="http://query.homestead.com/laxton1.jpg" alt="laxton1.jpg" /><br /><br />Mr. Laxton stopped his van about 90 yards from the machine and approached on foot to about 50 meters from it; the extreme luminosity of the phenomenon allowed him to see with perfect clarity.<br /><br />"There were four very bright lights on both sides (...) bright enough for a man to read a newspaper from a mile away." <br /><br />Mr. Laxton subsequently confirmed to journalist Paul Harvey and ufologist Hayden Hewes that the thing seemed to be lit from within and "had a plastic bubble in front, a meter in diameter, and he could see light through it." <br /><br />The witness said it was similar to the cockpit of a B -26. At the back was a horizontal structure of about 76 cm long and a "kind of stabilizer tail." The side of the aircraft had some numbers and letters painted on a vertical black and "dark circular window. "Laxton thought it was the initials TL and the number 47 (or 41) and 68. <br /><br /><img src="http://query.homestead.com/laxton6.jpg" alt="laxton6.jpg" /><br /><br />At the bottom of the object, he perceived a gate about 120 cm tall and 60 cm wide. The hatch was open and he saw a white light inside. Under the machine appeared a silhouette of a “person” who seemed to be busy in repair functions of the machine, using 'something' like a flashlight. <br /><br /><img src="http://query.homestead.com/laxton2.jpg" alt="laxton2.jpg" /><br /><br />The “person” noticed the presence of Laxton and climbed into the object via a short ladder.<br /><br />Asked about the appearance of the “person,” the engineer said he had a height of 1.5 meters and about 80 kilos and Laxton estimated the “person’s” age between 30 to 35 years. <br /><br />"He wore a two-piece suit like a green military uniform with a "baseball cap.” He thought it had three bands above and three below on the sleeve (like the stripes of a sergeant major). The bands were in a bow and below the lines are in a more broadly V."<br /><br /><img src="http://query.homestead.com/laxton4a.jpg" alt="laxton4a.jpg" /><br /><br />When the door closed, the sound produced was like "metal hitting metal," <br /><br />Moments later Laxton heard a noise like a drill running at high speed, then the huge metallic “fish” rose from the ground to about 15 '5 feet and disappeared at high speed, about seven hundred kilometers per hour, toward the Red River. <br /><br />After the machine left, Laxton said he felt static electricity in the air, "the hair on the back of my neck stood on end and [on] my hands." <br /><br />Following the departure of the strange "fish" metal, Laxton drove for a little over a mile until he found a truck parked beside the road. The truck’s driver, Anderson C. W. Snyder of Oklahoma, said he had seen, in his mirror, a light towards the river. No other vehicles traveling the road saw or reported the aircraft.<br /> <br /><strong>THE USAF IS INTERESTED</strong> <br /><br />Days later, after learning of the experience through the local newspaper, Laxton was interviewed by researchers at Northwestern University, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, and the U.S. Air Force.<br /><br />"I was interviewed by 25 or 30 people -- generals, majors, captains, sergeants, clerks, and stenographers.<br /><br />They had me draw pictures of the object and tell everything I knew about it. They asked the questions and I answered ". <br /><br />The electrician told investigators that the USAF commanders were very upset that the press had gotten the story before them. <br /><br />After presenting a full report at the home base where he taught, a colonel, accompanied by several officers, asked him to lead them to the exact location of the sighting.<br /><br />"We were there about 30 or 35 minutes. I answered more questions while several men searched the area. I got the impression that they knew what they were doing." <br /><br />“You saw a helicopter," one officer said sharply. <br /><br />Although later the USAF announced that "we contacted various organizations around the Temple area to identify a possible experiment or possible conventional aircraft. All attempts in this direction were unsuccessful because there was no plane in the area at the time of the sighting, although there are numerous experimental helicopters and other aircraft in the area, not [for] the date of March 23, 1966."<br /><br />In the official list prepared by the Blue Book (Governmental Commission for the study of UFOs), the case is officially registered as UNKNOWN.<br /><br />A summary of the account, written by USAF officers only differed in some measures from what was narrated to reporters and civilian researchers:<br /><br />"March 23, 1966. Temple, Oklahoma. 5:05 tomorrow. The instructor, Eddie Laxton of Sheppard AFB, while driving in the U.S. W Highway 70, found his way blocked by a fish-shaped plane landed on the road, about 23 meters long, almost 2.5 meters high, 3.5 meters wide, with a Plexiglas bubble at its top with bright lights ahead and astern. Laxton stopped his car about 91 meters of the device. He walked toward the object to about 15.5 meters away, watching some letters TLA138 or TLA738 [or TL 4768]. <br /><br /><img src="http://query.homestead.com/laxton3.jpg" alt="laxton3.jpg" /><br /><br />He saw a Do men [sic] with a baseball hat, which [went] up a ladder to the object, then immediately the object made a sound like a whistle or a drill and went to the SE at about 700 mph. (1,100 km per hour). No trace of the landing. Laxton found another witness, C. W. Anderson, [about] a mile [away]."<br /><br />William Laxton likely approached the machine at a distance of close to 15 meters, identified by the official survey, otherwise it is difficult to conceive of the 50 meters that the various ufologists reported about the incident, which wouldn’t allow Laxton to distinguish so many clear details of the aircraft and its crew or the bands that were on the "suit." <br /><br />It is also noteworthy that the object started to rise with a speed estimated at more than 1,000 kilometers per hour. This detail is significant because such haste in its departure would indicate that it was a prototype of a large transport helicopter being tested or that it was some kind of prototype airship.<br /><br /><img src="http://query.homestead.com/laxton5.jpg" alt="laxton5.jpg" /><br /><br /><strong>SIMILAR CASES</strong><br /><br />A year earlier there was a similar case.... <br /><br />It happened in the city of Poast, Ohio on October 4, 1965, when at about 18:45 pm, Mrs. Helen Tucker and three girls were in her vehicle, traveling around town, when they saw a bright object in the sky, with flashing red and white lights that gave off sparks of color.<br /><br />From the car, Mrs. Tucker watched as the UFO landed on Carmody Blvd beyond the depression of the river. Then the strange UFO took off vertically towards the airport; its luminous appearance reminded the witness "to that of a Christmas tree."<br /><br />The detailed description of the aircraft indicated a red object "as cast iron," with bright wings that protruded from the fuselage, and a cockpit that appeared as a transparent vault at the top.<br /><br />"[It] worked like a helicopter but possessed great speed," said the witnesses. <br /><br />Sergeant David Moody, based at Wright Patterson Air Base, failed to identify the aircraft observed by the women, but found another witness, a pilot. The police department confirmed the existence of others who had seen the presence of a strange light in the sky. <br /><br />(Asked by the local press about the official investigation of UFOs in the country, the military said that in 1965 the USAF had collected 700 reports, of which 15 remained unidentified.) <br /><br /><strong>"UNITED NATIONS" FROM SPACE</strong><br /><br />Eight years before William Laxton sightings in November 1957, there was an interesting case that bears some similarities with that reported by the electrical engineer.<br /><br />Again, we find the description of a UFO light in the middle of the road, and the observation of letters and numbers on the fuselage. <br /><br />Our protagonist, Haskell Raper, was driving home during a rainy night when he spotted a light on the road which he thought might be a truck. <br /><br />Suddenly, from that "thing" came a powerful beam of light that stopped his car about 5 meters from the scene. <br /><br />Haskell then found that this was not a truck. It was an oval object about 5 feet long and 3 meters wide, green, like a military vehicle. <br /><br />To his surprise, on the fuselage of the object were the letters “UN” followed by some numbers that he could not remember. <br /><br />Excited, Raper, while watching the scene, experienced an intense heat wave that came from the object, and his car began to burn rapidly.<br /><br />In terror, he jumped out of his 1956 Ford which was destroyed by fire.<br /><br />The UFO then rose, emitting a sound like a diesel engine. Haskell Raper ran over 2 miles until he came to town to tell his traumatic experience. The only vestige of his sighting was his burnt car in the middle of the road.<br /> <br /><strong>MIRRORS OF OTHER REALITIES: THE GAME OF HIDE (AND SEEK?)</strong><br /><br />Few events, such as that as experienced by Mr. Laxton, demonstrate the remarkable ability to recreate the UFO phenomenon by "staging" a hodgepodge of symbols easily identifiable and especially assimilated by the witness in an abnormal context.<br />The military clothing of the occupant of the device, including "baseball cap" and the letters and numbers spotted on the side of the aircraft, were all elements familiar to the witness from his work in a military environment. Even the work of “inspection” of the aircraft by the pilot perpetrated a very human resort: "the repair of damage with a flashlight in hand."<br /><br />No doubt this close encounter was part of a studied theatricality but sufficient strange elements" to make the witness believe that what appeared to him was an “alien landing." Keel, in his aforementioned work, confirmed this fact, "these objects [are] chosen most often [to] appear in forms that can be easily accepted and explained to our own satisfaction."<br /><br />It is curious that the extensive knowledge of the witness on military aircraft fittings was represented in his experience in a way so clear, to "suspect" his imagination to contribute to a "construction involuntary" of an "close encounter" adding with these individual military items, to facilitate comprehension.<br /><br />Neither should we forget that the experience seems to pass in a "portion" of reality away from everyday life, because during Laxton’s inspection, there were no vehicles on the road, as if an "invisible bubble" had taken place away from the scene of our space and time, giving Laxton an air of dreamlike own or mystical experience.<br /><br />The outstanding researcher Jacques Vallee said in the book “<em>Dimensions</em>” in this regard: "The flying saucer enthusiasts believe that UFOs are simply machines used by visitors from other planets. This belief is totally naive. The explanation is too simplistic to account for the diversity of behavior of the occupants and their relationship with humans. The visitors would have fun, masking the real nature, and infinitely more complex technology that generates the sightings."<br /> <br />To conclude: "His statements can not be reduced to spacecraft screws and bolts. The UFOs are physical manifestations impossible to understand outside their psychic and symbolic reality. We are not witnessing an invasion of beings from elsewhere. It is a spiritual system that acts on humans and uses humans." <br /><br />The researcher Salvador Freixedo’s classic and indispensable work, “<em>Visionaries, mystics and extraterrestrial contact”</em> is vital to the understanding [that] some UFO experiences "can actually say that the whole UFO phenomenon is greatly distorted. And this is further aggravated when we realize…that the UFO phenomenon… is intentionally distorted so that our mind will [find it] impossible to reach the real causes that produce it. The adventures and crazy things that very often [happen to] those who claim to have been in contact with UFOs has caused them not to believe anything about the whole phenomenon because of this distortion to the mind…" <br /><br />Dr. Scott Rogo, in his book "<em>The Enchanted Universe</em>," reminds Freixedo, Keel and Vallee, that "something is true; the UFOs are the product or the source of psychic disturbances, neither purely physical nor purely mental. They move in a buffer zone.”<br /><br />Michel Carrouges, in his legendary book "<em>The Martians Appear</em>," includes a case that illustrates perfectly this line of inquiry:<br /><br />"The incident occurred October 12 1954 at about 21 hours in the field. Therefore, it whould be dark. An agricultural worker of 48 years, the witness, was alone. Suddenly [he] saw a "saucer" in the soil, 2 feet from him. It was shaped like a car, a "RENAULT 4 CV," and had wheels. [There was] a pilot with an Hallab edge of 1.50 m., [who] was garbed in a cap and a leather jacket. <br /><br />Challenged by the witness, the pilot did not respond and jumped on board the machine, about 30 feet over the road, and took flight as an airplane." <br /><br />Carrouges can not hide his dismay at such an inscrutable episode: a close encounter with a flying saucer that had wheels, "The description is so baroque that we should put aside this incident, but since it is contained in a line of Aimé Michel’s Orthotony, the incident must then be objective [sic], but its content dark and unusable." <br /><br />These types of events lead us to propose the thesis that by some unknown mechanism or capacity, the " intelligences " that control the phenomenon of UFO are able to "tune in" to our mind when we are close to establishing contact, and “they” extract from it information to form the staging that will occur, including the appearance of the UFO (wings, wheels, windows, symbols, etc.), crew (height, clothing, etc.) and even the same behavior of the humanoids (observer, collector, aggressive, et cetera). <br /><br />These episodes are disconcerting, so different from each other, and they differ between witnesses.<br /><br />Being in close collaboration with our psyches, these " intelligences " make and unmake our observed experience, enriching the observation, our culture, folklore, beliefs and even our personalities, thus distorting the true reality and moving us away from any certainty of finding an answer to their real existence and purpose.<br /><br />The "channeling" and interpretations of some of the close encounters through our particular mental filters, magically allows the witnesses to become co-creators and interpreters of the anomalous experiences we are perceiving.<br /><br />A true "cosmic theater" that we wrote part of without being aware of it, a device whose purpose is to perpetrate deception, deceit, and mockery of goals and objectives that we cannot venture.<br /><br />John Keel: "The real problems that lie behind the UFO phenomenon are so complex and so startling that at first they seem incomprehensible. Much speculation beliefs and popular reports are based on prejudice, and misunderstanding and the inability to see beyond the limits of any frame of reference that you are using."<br /><br />JAC with editing by RR (to whom errors may be addressed)The Reynolds Grouphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05480027495715908096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8403578123275363507.post-18740732033406491982011-10-19T19:17:00.003-04:002011-10-19T19:34:33.326-04:00A UFO with "ASTRONAUTS" using “STUN RAYS” by Jose Antonio Caravaca<b>Copyright 2011, InterAmerica, Inc.</b><br /> <br />March 12, 1981 Life was to change abruptly for Juan Gonzalez Santos (42 years of age). On that morning he met face to face with "curious and not-so-sociable American astronauts." <br /><br />About 10:40 a.m., Juan was at the wheel of his van by N-340 national road, towards Pelayo, a neighborhood on the outskirts of Algeciras, when he saw at the side of the road a "flashy" blaze that caught his attention. <br /><br />At first he thought they were the lights of an ambulance and that there had been a car accident off the road. He stopped his car to walk to the site where he thought an accident had occurred.<br /><br />In front of him, less than 25 m distance away from the road, separated by a row of eucalyptus trees, he saw a glowing object, dome-shaped (about 4 meters in diameter and 2 meters high, although with the legs could be measured nearly 4 meters in height) with 5 circular windows at the front, and a large one in the center (50 cm approx.), which seemed to revolve in the opposite direction to clockwise. What was it, Juan thought? He walked in the direction of the object, searching for answers.<br /><br /><img src="http://query.homestead.com/object1.jpg" alt="object1.jpg" /><br /> <br />As he walked toward the strange artefact, he wondered if it was an American space module with problems, and without thinking twice decided that he would salute the astronauts (sic). <br /><br />He was still pondering whether to salute the Apollo XI crew when at a few meters from the object, he decided, rather, to contemplate the scene. <br /><br />The artefact, Juan González told Gómez Serrano, a veteran researcher who was one of the first to interview Juan, was fastened to telescopic legs, and had a bowl-shaped base. <br /><br />This was clearly visible from where he stood, about fifteen or twenty yards from the object. The color of the artefact was a metallic gray, but brilliant like aluminum.<br /><br />The object had no seams or screws or anything else that was familiar to him. It was compact and solid. <br /><br /><img src="http://query.homestead.com/object2.jpg" alt="object2.jpg" /><br /><br />Serrano calculated that the witness was about 20 meters from the UFO.<br /><br />On the side was a shield or emblem of black. He had never seen anything like it elsewhere; the symbol was similar to a swastika. (There were more symbols or letters inside the "swastika" that he could not clearly make out.)<br /><br /><img src="http://query.homestead.com/emblem.jpg" alt="emblem.jpg" /><br /><br />Through the windows, Santos was aware of the existence of various beings, inside the craft, but he could only see them from the chest up and he could not see their legs.<br /><br />On their heads they were wearing fitted helmets, similar to that used by scuba divers and, most curious of all, was that the part over the face was transparent like glass but molded to the face and highlighting it.<br /><br /><img src="http://query.homestead.com/humanoid19.jpg" alt="humanoid19.jpg" /><br /><br />Their clothes were brown.<br /><br />He attempted to jump over a near-by wall that separated the boundaries and subdivisions of the field, when suddenly antennas emerged from the left side of the machine and shot a "Yampa" light (refers to a beam of light that has a solid appearance) that stopped him in his tracks.<br /><br />He tried, again, to jump over the wall but was hit by another "Yampa" of light that made him moan, watering his eyes, and causing him to see colored lights everywhere, besides producing a sharp pain in the middle of his forehead. <br /><br /><img src="http://query.homestead.com/stun-ray.jpg" alt="stun-ray.jpg" /><br /><br />And Juan found that he could not move; he was somewhat paralyzed, but able to move his arms. He stood still because he thought the subjects within that machine did not want him to approach.<br /><br />The alleged "astronauts," 4 or 5 of them, as seen in the window, seemed to talk among themselves while they kept looking at him. The humanoid in the middle, larger window was, watching Juan all the time, and had what looked like headphones on.<br /><br />Yet Juan did not think that the humanoids were something extra-human.<br /><br />(On December 3, 1967, in Ashland, Nebraska, a police officer, Herbert Schirmer, had an alleged close encounter with a alien whose description was strongly reminiscent of Juan’s humanoids, both in dress and in the strange "device" which covered the ears.)<br /><br />After about 15 or 20 minutes, the legs and the central staircase of the object retreated, and the object, with static in the air (floating in total silence), began to rise,<br /><br />The artefact was completely silent while in front of him during his ordeal of twelve minutes. He heard no noise.<br /><br />However, when the object started to tremble (at launch) with undulating movements, it seemed to issue a hiss, like air, accompanied by strong air hose that left a strong smell like burnt electricity that he was not able to explain very well.<br /><br />Juan Gonzalez added, at the end of his interview with Gómez Serano, a very important detail that I (Jose Caravaca) asked him about in a personal interview I had with him in the mid-nineties: <br /><br /><img src="http://query.homestead.com/cs-2008.jpg" alt="cs-2008.jpg" /><br /><br />During the time he was near the wall, he did not hear any noise, neither from the device or from the cars driving along the main road, N-340, in spite of the road being only a hundred feet from him. Nor did he see one car go by, to Algeciras, or to Tarifa. That is strange. The fact must be taken into account that the main road, Algeciras Cadiz, is one of the busiest of the city. After the disappearance of the object, cars began to go through the road.<br /><br />The tracks left by the object were photographed by J.J. Benitez researcher, showing the shape of the rounded base of the legs.<br /><br /><img src="http://query.homestead.com/santos8.jpg" alt="santos8.jpg" /><br /><br />Each hole in the ground, had a depth of 9 cm (2 in front) and 8.75 centimeters (1 in the back) and 10 centimeters in diameter. Interestingly the more sunken traces corresponded to the extremities, by inclination of the land, which seemed to endure more weight. The weight was estimated at several tons.<br /><br /><img src="http://query.homestead.com/scv-2008.jpg" alt="scv-2008.jpg" /><br /><em>Santos-Caravaca-Villarrubia-2008</em><br /><br /><em>Nota Bene: Edited by Rich Reynolds, to whom any errors should be ascribed.</em><br /><br /><strong>JAC/RR</strong>The Reynolds Grouphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05480027495715908096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8403578123275363507.post-41767099666716841832011-09-03T19:01:00.001-04:002011-09-03T19:01:21.200-04:00UFOcus<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGdZYnOpRZddx0N1M-ZeSvMZq4XkJjrdGUvyA5Kf2Z-M5hLDDTP32DZvta78Y4Y70_R4ApjQf0UzSNOtoazixN9QF7xxm6QhrU1CHQkSN97EyUQoYFLYUXjc4NPnpvm8JSpnFes0-wywA/s1600/Maine3.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGdZYnOpRZddx0N1M-ZeSvMZq4XkJjrdGUvyA5Kf2Z-M5hLDDTP32DZvta78Y4Y70_R4ApjQf0UzSNOtoazixN9QF7xxm6QhrU1CHQkSN97EyUQoYFLYUXjc4NPnpvm8JSpnFes0-wywA/s320/Maine3.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5648268438361380626" /></a>
<br />An article in <em>UFO Report</em></a>, September 1978, by Alex Evans, about two young fellows in Maine [1975] who saw a UFO, were allegedly abducted, then visited by some so-called “men-in-black” got me to thinking about how shattered the topic and study of UFOs is.
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<br />I found Mr. Evans’ piece to be very interesting, for several reasons, so I Googled the names and found a MUFON link to Bob Pratt’s web-site – Mr, Pratt died in 2005 – that has a rather thorough, bizarre, account of the Maine episode.
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<br /><a href="http://www.mufon.com/bob_pratt/maine.html">Click here to access the Pratt rendering</a>
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<br />The young men, David Stephens and Glen Gray, should be contacted now to see what they can add to their totally intriguing experience.
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<br />They were inside a ship, saw alien beings, and had a total abduction experience, plus their initial UFO sighting, supplemented by a visit from strange people, that have received the sobriquet “men in black” by UFO investigators.
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<br />The problem is that there are several conjoined UFO events here, or several disparate UFO events, depending upon one’s perspective.
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<br />First there is the UFO, then there is an “abduction,” followed by a description of the inside of a UFO and the entities responsible for the UFO. Afterward, the young men and their families were ‘assaulted” by strange phenomena, as was a doctor who regressed the two fellows at the behest of UFO investigators, Shirley Fickett and Brent Raynes.
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<br />This UFO event encompasses almost everything that a UFO researcher might like to get his or her hands on: a seemingly credible account of a UFO sighting, an “abduction” (with a medical examination by alien beings using telepathic communications), and visits by men/people in black.
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<br />But what was done? Where’s the denouement?
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<br />The episode requires specialization. Someone versed in UFOs, someone versed in the abduction phenomenon, and someone versed in men-in-black accounts.
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<br />But there is more. Someone versed in psychiatric hallucinations and/or hysteria is a must, just in case the event is an hallucinosis.
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<br />Alex Evans records that Stephens, while inside the alien ship, describing a “mushroom man” (or alien), punched the “entity” (who had, large, slanted, unblinking eyes, no visible mouth, small, round nose, webbed fingers and was dressed in a flowing black robe), with no repercussion(s), accepted the futility of his situation, and laid down, letting the creatures remove his clothing (for a medical examination).
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<br /><img src="http://squib.homestead.com/mushman.jpg" alt="mushman.jpg" />
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<br />(This variegated incident is the possible psychiatric component.)
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<br />I know of no UFO researcher or investigator who has the credentials or cachet to delve into the various facets of such a UFO account as this one, which is not atypical of many UFO events.
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<br />MUFON is collecting data, the Examiner is reporting sightings (with no evaluations) and UFO buffs are arguing about minutiae that has nothing to do with UFOs, <em>per se</em>.
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<br />(See the current discussion about Phil Klass at Kevin Randle’s blog or the UFO UpDate brouhaha about Jeff Rense’s anti-semitism for examples of “ufology” gone astray.)
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<br />A sincere study of UFOs, as they appear today, needs focus, not abstracted, discursive dialogue about peripheral elements that besmudge or side-track the search for what UFOs are (or were) and what their relevance is for humanity, if there is any relevance.
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<br />Everything else is entertainment, and not good entertainment either….
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<br /><strong>RR</strong>
<br />The Reynolds Grouphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05480027495715908096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8403578123275363507.post-79449481751230163402011-08-24T12:58:00.001-04:002011-08-24T12:58:56.238-04:00Is Earth an alien zoo?<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj13XEgWVnW5TP5kdqfiaW7hm5gsUgWJH-E9b9j2AN6RD9i1wn5yjcVo-rk26Z0_HfDm8E0ByqQXAq5SfQ4AfafrqrM0lootUoJdYGBtaDiRSQDPd3Af0WSC-2WG3-zsKkFNHDmTTko36o/s1600/Earth24.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 233px; height: 233px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj13XEgWVnW5TP5kdqfiaW7hm5gsUgWJH-E9b9j2AN6RD9i1wn5yjcVo-rk26Z0_HfDm8E0ByqQXAq5SfQ4AfafrqrM0lootUoJdYGBtaDiRSQDPd3Af0WSC-2WG3-zsKkFNHDmTTko36o/s320/Earth24.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5644466234388608706" /></a>
<br />A new study says that Earth is home to (approximately) 8.7 million species.
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<br /><a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2011/08/24/139911945/earth-may-be-home-to-8-7m-species-give-or-take-a-million-or-so">Click her for news-story</a>
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<br />There has, almost from the beginning of the modern UFO era (1947), been a few hypothetical thrusts saying that Earth might be a zoo where species have been brought or created and dispersed for extraterrestrial purposes which remain totally hidden.
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<br />The idea may seem fanciful at first glance, but isn’t outside the realm of possibility,
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<br />The idea, along with the penal colony thesis, can be elaborated upon and made sensible when one examines the idea that an alien species from other worlds, should there be any, could very well use the Earth as a laboratory or park containing animals, plants, humans, insects, reptiles, and other elements of life.
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<br />This would explain the vast array of UFO visitations over the years, and supports the hypothesis that alien beings have taken a particular interest in the Earth as regards atomic or ecological devastation, both of which having the potential to destroy eons of lab work or eliminating an extraterrestrial “vacation venue.”
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<br />Earth could be the lab-source for species meant to be seeded throughout the galaxies or, at least, one of the lab-sources.
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<br />Wikipedia has a succinct review of the Alien zoo hypothesis ,which may be read by clicking <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoo_hypothesis">HERE</a>.
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<br />For me, the zoo idea is not as zany as many other hypotheses which have pummeled UFO devotees of the years.
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<br />What do you think?
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<br /><strong>RR</strong>The Reynolds Grouphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05480027495715908096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8403578123275363507.post-54998146144940141792011-08-20T11:55:00.002-04:002011-08-21T09:49:06.617-04:00The statistical odds (and common sense) against UFO/ET visits<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaFBF_XWrN1_erGdhTYa9xGril64pMQqtQNY452lUIoGKlwVb_bNeG_TQjdveCTfGHSEwOwiAlKK_CbdlHEgVNHxF891S_rbYplgF8ewURW-2j-K0l3L87eVuonDbJl21ScxChOhUXuvw/s1600/Galaxies20.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 281px; height: 289px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaFBF_XWrN1_erGdhTYa9xGril64pMQqtQNY452lUIoGKlwVb_bNeG_TQjdveCTfGHSEwOwiAlKK_CbdlHEgVNHxF891S_rbYplgF8ewURW-2j-K0l3L87eVuonDbJl21ScxChOhUXuvw/s320/Galaxies20.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5642964304726334898" /></a>
<br /><em>Universe Today</em>:
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<br />[There are] 200 to 400 billion stars in the Milky Way [alone]
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<br />{There are] 100 to 200 Billions galaxies in the visible or known universe with hundreds of billions of stars
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<br />An average galaxy contains between 1011 and 1012 stars. In other words, galaxies, on average have between 100 billion and 1 trillion numbers of stars
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<br />[Galaxies can be] small dwarf galaxies, with just 10 million or so stars, or they can be monstrous irregular galaxies with 10 trillion stars or more.
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<br /><em>NASA</em>:
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<br />In 1999 the Hubble Space Telescope estimated that there were 125 billion galaxies in the universe, and recently with the new camera HST has observed 3,000 visible galaxies, which is twice as much as they observed before with the old camera. We're emphasizing "visible" because observations with radio telescopes, infrared cameras, x-ray cameras, etc. would detect other galaxies that are not detected by Hubble
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<br /><em>Wiki Answers</em>:
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<br />Based on current estimates, there are between 200 - 400 billion stars in our galaxy (The Milky Way).
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<br />There are possibly 100 billion galaxies in the Universe. So taking the average of our galaxy, gives approximately 3 x 1024 stars. So about 3 septillion. This has been equated to the same number of grains of sand that are on Earth.
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<br />One source (BBC) stated that there are about 1,000 stars to every grain of sand on Earth!! There are an estimated 100 to 200 billion galaxies.
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<br />So taking a conservative number of 100 billion stars per galaxy gives an approximate total of 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 stars. (Which is 10 sextillion)
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<br /><em>Wikipedia</em>:
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<br />Alpha Centauri is the closest star system to our Solar System. It lies about 4.37 light-years in distance, or about 41.5 trillion kilometres, 25.8 trillion miles or 277,600 AU.
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<br />With the information above, how can anyone, with an ounce of rationality, think that UFOs represent visitors from galaxies, far, far away, or even from the nearest star system to Earth?
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<br />The Universe, with its vast diversity and intriguing panoply of astronomical or cosmological entities (by which we mean stars, planet, moons et al., not living beings), offers any curious alien intelligence much better sources for exploration than Earth which, in the great scheme of things, is a backwater and insignificant cosmological element, no matter how hard humans try to think otherwise.
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<br />Even if an alien exploratory team stumbled upon Earth millennia ago, what would stir them to keep visiting for centuries or eons afterward?
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<br />Of course, some ET believers say Earth was seeded by alien visitors and they keep coming back to see how their humanoid garden is doing.
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<br />Or Earth is a penal colony or some sort or a zoo, and extraterrestrial aliens keep checking in or visiting as if this lonely, remote planet is an integral part of a special alien agenda.
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<br />The idea that UFOs, with their abundant sightings, represent extraterrestrial visitations in light of the statistical probabilities above which open the whole Universe to such visitations, is ludicrous on the face of it.
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<br />No wonder that UFO devotees are seen as cranks and weirdos. Their thought processes invite the opprobrium.
<br />The Reynolds Grouphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05480027495715908096noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8403578123275363507.post-76473085844443186082011-07-23T15:00:00.001-04:002011-07-23T15:00:33.871-04:00An example of UFO testimony that varies because of witness differencesIn an article – <em>Alien Contact in Ancient Japan</em> -- by Bruce Schaffenberger in the May 1997 of Official UFO’s <em>Ancient Astronauts</em> magazine, the author presents accounts in Volumes 1 and 2 of the <em>Zuihitsu Taisei</em> of strange women, in or near bowl-shaped objects that appeared, in one instance, on the beach of Harayadori in northern Japan and, in another instance, several hundred miles away, both during the Edo Era (1603 to 1868). <br /><br />In the first account, fishermen pulled the object ashore, peered inside and saw a peculiar woman with a crystal-ringing box. The woman spoke to the fishermen but they could not understand her.<br /><br /><img src="http://query.homestead.com/japana.jpg" alt="japana.jpg" /><br /><br />In the second account, a strange woman was seen near the object on the beach. She held a humming box.<br /><br /><img src="http://query.homestead.com/japanb.jpg" alt="japanb.jpg" /><br /><br />(The account is available on the internet, at many venues, and may be found by a Google search.)<br /><br />Our point here that it seems both occurrences involved the same object and “woman” but as you can see from the depictions rendered by witnesses, the incidents differ, not in substance but in details – details that may be meaningful but flummoxed by how the witnesses saw or interpreted the episodes.<br /><br />This is, in our estimation, a recurring problem with witness testimony, in all UFO accounts and reports: witnesses will see, remember, and record events in ways that are shaped by their mental make-up.<br /><br />This has been the bane of the Roswell story and others, where multiple witnesses are involved. And where one witness is reporting an event, the interpretation or account is surely muddled by the personal vicissitudes of the lone observer. <br /><br />At least with multiple witnesses, one has a chance to compare details and data to see what, if any, corroborate the testimonies being proffered.<br /><br />While the Japanese report(s), above, are minutely different, it is obvious that both accounts are of the same phenomenon. The differences can be reconciled, and they should be able to be reconciled in modern UFO/flying saucer reports too. Witness testimony is inherently flawed, but not to the point that the truthful or real elements can’t be discerned, forensically, by serious researchers.<br /><br />One last note – in the drawing for the first observation, depicted above, there was a symbol or symbolic writing, reproduced here:<br /><br /><img src="http://query.homestead.com/japanc.jpg" alt="japanc.jpg" /><br /><br />If the 1964 Socorro insignia was not bollixed by an Air Force scheme and the complicity of Ray Stanford, one might see similarities in the Japan symbol to that originally indicated as what Officer Zamora said he saw on his craft and reproduced.<br /><br /><img src="http://ufos.homestead.com/insignia1.jpg" alt="insignia1.jpg" /><br /><br />That shenanigan aside, there is grist for study in the Japanese drawing of the symbol seen/reported by witnesses.<br /><br />So while there are major caveats about witness testimony, there are also nuggets of importance in such accounts…..perhaps.The Reynolds Grouphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05480027495715908096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8403578123275363507.post-41611369212414776812011-07-14T12:46:00.001-04:002011-07-14T12:46:41.010-04:00Must reading material? Maybe....maybe not....<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHsj2-h1rCDNEMJZDapDlldutpnE1bImJ7IPqiPazDJPfVNQpGkMPzNky_WOQ4hGpY-xp1UUILBTB74pDZ591AcU4acmudc4rfgNdO69iCFUkY5zqyJhWAA3dWsijk4zdA1FSYTik3fJ1Q/s1600/strange.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 212px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHsj2-h1rCDNEMJZDapDlldutpnE1bImJ7IPqiPazDJPfVNQpGkMPzNky_WOQ4hGpY-xp1UUILBTB74pDZ591AcU4acmudc4rfgNdO69iCFUkY5zqyJhWAA3dWsijk4zdA1FSYTik3fJ1Q/s320/strange.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5629248098153405202" /></a><br />Visitors here are well-read (sometimes), but not completely so, as comments indicate.<br /><br />So we continue to provide what we think are some pertinent papers that impact the interests of those visitors.<br /><br />Here are two (PDFs) -- click to access:<br /><br /><a href="http://query.homestead.com/ufoabduct.pdf">UFO Abduction Reports: The Supernatural Kidnap Narrative Returns in Technological Guise Author Thomas E. Bullard</a><br /><br /><a href="http://query.homestead.com/origins14.pdf">The Origins of the Space Gods Ancient Astronauts and the Cthulhu Mythos in Fiction and Fact By Jason Colavito</a>The Reynolds Grouphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05480027495715908096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8403578123275363507.post-31916830309031514952011-07-12T14:02:00.001-04:002011-07-12T14:02:17.120-04:00Aliens from Dark Earth?<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtNiOjkVm3QodRHwQFiFIC9evc6afWmG8p8NOu2lAjBDzmaS3vkrhMLEfvyvEzr-7AKAGAJyKD8_rWulqQihIxwOuwBkK8rdQVz4Sb27NNDjB6g3NsRMugY3YFmiuD0KQkFNmGNdRmqKA/s1600/dearth.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtNiOjkVm3QodRHwQFiFIC9evc6afWmG8p8NOu2lAjBDzmaS3vkrhMLEfvyvEzr-7AKAGAJyKD8_rWulqQihIxwOuwBkK8rdQVz4Sb27NNDjB6g3NsRMugY3YFmiuD0KQkFNmGNdRmqKA/s320/dearth.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5628522818093910098" /></a><br />Jay Alfred, in a paper entitled <em>Aliens from Dark Earth: Evolution of Dark Plasma Life Forms on Earth</em> posits that a concomitant Earth formed alongside the Earth we know, and the beings who evolved in this Dark Earth can account for UFOs, and other paranormal experiences.<br /><br />Jay Alfred's hypothesis is a quirkier verison of Mac Tonnies' Crypto-terrestrial hypothesis.<br /><br />It's an imaginative hypothesis, just as Tonnies' was, but it's a bit far out for our taste(s).<br /><br />However, we have some visitors here who will find the ideas in the PDF entrancing we think...<br /><br /><a href="http://query.homestead.com/darkearth.pdf">So click here for the PDF</a>The Reynolds Grouphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05480027495715908096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8403578123275363507.post-62051074260384940102011-06-20T16:11:00.000-04:002011-06-20T16:12:03.494-04:00The Paranormal Priority: UFOs?<img src="http://query.homestead.com/320.jpg" alt="320.jpg" /><br /><br />For those bewildered by or obsessed with things at the fringe of reality, do such things as Sasquatch/Bigfoot/Yeti matter, or Nessie and Champ, or chupacabras, or ghosts?<br /><br /><img src="http://query.homestead.com/n20.jpg" alt="n20.jpg" /><br /><br />Why do UFOs have more import, in our estimation, than those other “entities” listed above?<br /><br />UFOs have a longevity that the listed items do not have.<br /><br />What UFOs are or may be seem to have more importance in the great scheme of things.<br /><br />UFOs have paranormal cachet that Bigfoot doesn’t, and certainly more than chupacabras have.<br /><br /><img src="http://query.homestead.com/sas20.jpg" alt="sas20.jpg" /><br /><br />Even “ghosts” don’t impact observers in the same way that UFOs do.<br /><br /><img src="http://query.homestead.com/g20.jpg" alt="g20.jpg" /><br /><br />And the Loch Ness monster or Lake Champlain’s Champ don’t provide any great ripples in the paranormal panoply.<br /><br />UFOs have a cosmological underpinning or a metaphysical ambiance of some kind, deservedly or not.<br /><br />If UFOs are extraterrestrial in origination, that is very important, for all the obvious reasons: what’s the ET culture? The intelligence? The theology? Et cetera.<br /><br /><img src="http://query.homestead.com/island20.jpg" alt="island20.jpg" /><br /><br />If UFOs are an example of someone or something playing with the evolution or mind of mankind, that too is very important. (Need we tell you why?)<br /><br /><img src="http://query.homestead.com/t20.jpg" alt="t20.jpg" /><br /><br />If UFOs are merely the fallout of secret military aircraft testings, that isn’t too important but it would quell the ongoing mystery assuredly.<br /><br /><img src="http://query.homestead.com/p20.jpg" alt="p20.jpg" /><br /><br />UFOs may be observational trickery or real substantive craft, which is what we believe them to be.<br /><br />Either way, they present a phenomenon that ranks up there with some of the best mysteries of history and time, like who really parted the Red Sea, or did Jesus really rise up after his crucifixion (and if so, why), or what caused Hitler’s megalomania, or does the Universe have a edge, or can we travel back or forward in time.<br /><br /><img src="http://query.homestead.com/hit20.jpg" alt="hit20.jpg" /><br /><br />As a matter of fancy, UFOs may have something to do with time-travel, whereas Bigfoot doesn’t, nor Nessie, nor those other elements of the imagination.<br /><br />UFOs get a priority because at the heart of the phenomenon lies a meaningful essence, it seems to us.<br /><br />Time spent on the other paranormal or Fortean elements is just a waste of time, thought, and effort.<br /><br />UFOs go to the top of our list of mysteries but do not replace more important issues, such as man’s inhumanity to man, or is God truly dead?<br /><br /><img src="http://query.homestead.com/man20.jpg" alt="man20.jpg" /><br /><br />The pursuit of UFOs is, after all, only a hobby of sorts……The Reynolds Grouphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05480027495715908096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8403578123275363507.post-2530673277143712432011-05-09T11:24:00.001-04:002011-05-09T11:24:26.796-04:00The Men In Black!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGv8G30cDpsBUVjVgL21DUt3PwMVcz-d8yRlqshx7ritzBlQg5fQPphyyimkNAncoPokANFoW0Y88zXBkjkfNS8xOUj_nxhFywPOLUb3a7FbPL7s5kF-HO0Jtk3wx5n1yZ45rV42blEJU-/s1600/MIBS.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 180px; height: 282px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGv8G30cDpsBUVjVgL21DUt3PwMVcz-d8yRlqshx7ritzBlQg5fQPphyyimkNAncoPokANFoW0Y88zXBkjkfNS8xOUj_nxhFywPOLUb3a7FbPL7s5kF-HO0Jtk3wx5n1yZ45rV42blEJU-/s320/MIBS.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5604736499683732418" /></a> Nick Redfern's book about those mysterious men in black is about to appear (in June).<br /><br /><a href="http://therealmeninblack.blogspot.com/2011/05/real-men-in-black-coming-june-16.html">Click here for some pre-arrival information</a>The Reynolds Grouphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05480027495715908096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8403578123275363507.post-23518261212053849052011-05-04T10:46:00.001-04:002011-05-04T10:46:49.286-04:00UFOs without culture? Why?<img src="http://squib.homestead.com/herzog4.jpg" alt=herzog4.jpg" /><br /><br />Anthony Lane‘s review of Werner Herzog’s “Cave of Forgotten Dreams” [<em>New Yorker</em>, May 2nd, 2011, Page 88 ff.] abutted, for this writer, a paper, discovered among others, entitled <em>Speculations on the First Contact: Encyclopedia Galactica or the Music of the Spheres?</em> by Guillermo A. Lemarchand of the Instituto Angentino de Radioastronomia [CONICET], Buenos Aires.<br /><br /><img src="http://squib.homestead.com/lemarchand.jpg" alt="lemarchand.jpg" /><br /><br />The movie review (by Lane) deals with how director Herzog presents his vision of the cave drawings on a wall in the Chauvet-Pont d’Arc, in the Ardèche reagion of France. <br /><br /><img src="http://squib.homestead.com/c1.jpg" alt="c1.jpg" /><br /><br /><img src="http://squib.homestead.com/c2.jpg" alt="c2.jpg" /><br /><br /><img src="http://squib.homestead.com/c4.jpg" alt="c4.jpg" /><br /><br />The Chauvet-Pont wall of drawings, from about thirty-five to thirty-eight thousand years ago, is more “cinematic” (says Herzog) than those at Lascaux, and should be compared with the shapes found at Swabia, four hundred miles away.<br /><br /><img src="http://squib.homestead.com/l1.jpg" alt="l1.jpg" /><br /><br /><img src="http://squib.homestead.com/l5.jpg" alt="l5.jpg" /><br /><br /><img src="http://squib.homestead.com/swabia1.jpg" alt="swabia1.jpg" /><br /><br /><img src="http://squib.homestead.com/swabia2.jpg" alt="swabia2.jpg" /><br /><br />Lemarchand’s account of a Seminar on the Cultural Impact of Extraterrestrial Contact (sponsored by the Foundation for the Future) addressed the hypothesis that an extraterrestrial civilization worthy of contact would be much in advance of Earth, technologically, but that wouldn’t be the best premise for contact.<br /><br />Lemarchand writes that mankind here has provided an advanced form of culture as represented by the art found in caves, such as Lascaux or Chauvet-Pont, and an alien civilization would have a similar esthetic culture, which any civilization of long-standing would have since they didn’t wipe themselves out with wars or cataclysmic accidents.<br /><br />Lemarchand also thinks an alien culture/civilization would have a moral or ethical stance, not unlike that of the philosopher Immanuel Kant (but that’s not my point here).<br /><br /><img src="http://squib.homestead.com/kant4.jpg" alt="kant4.jpg" /><br /><br />Lemarchand’s paper dismisses the idea that the best way to contact alien civilizations is not by mathematics or technical formulae. Such abstract devices would not be as developed as would art (or music), which would, if the alien culture is extant, have evolved much in the way that Earth’s art (and music) has evolved, from the art of the cave(s) to what it is today. (Although I think that art has devolved from that of the caves, but that’s a matter for another time and discussion.)<br /><br />Earthlings, writes Lemarchand (from ideas of Carl Sagan), are members of a Technologically Adolescent Society. Thus, communicating with a more advanced alien society would then be problematical, as we’d have a difficult time understanding advanced technological information, whereas understanding an artistic image of an alien culture would not be difficult.<br /><br />Lemarchand points out that there are several patterns in art and nature that can be considered as universal as mathematics in interstellar communication attempts” (von Hoerner, 1974; Lemarchand and Lomberg, 1996).<br /><br />And using artistic symbols would be a better mechanism for an interstellar communication than SETI’s mathematical approach, which is what Sagan was striving for with his golden disk attached to the Voyager spacecraft(s).<br /><br /><img src="http://squib.homestead.com/goldendisk.jpg" alt="goldendisk.jpg" /><br /><br />Lemarchand’s paper is rife with intellectual insights about alien communication, humanity, the arts, and science. (I can’t provide a link as the paper was found among others here, and has no provenance, although I imagine it was printed out from our Sage Publications account a few years ago. Interested parties might seek it out via Google.)<br /><br />Now let me get to the point from which I have egregiously digressed….<br /><br />And this point has been made before, earlier at this blog and elsewhere in our internet outings.<br /><br />Nowhere has art or music been noted on (or from) UFOs.<br /><br />Yes, there have been symbols or insigniae, as mentioned in the post preceding this one, but those have not been artistic or esthetic, as the drawings on the wall caves, or other human pictorials are.<br /><br /><img src="http://squib.homestead.com/ufo-symb4.jpg" alt="ufo-symb4.jpg" /><br /><br />No UFO or flying saucer reports have identified music as endemic to the sightings. And no art, aside from those militaristic or corporate-like insignia/symbols, has been registered – none like that which Lemarchand thinks would be intrinsic to an advanced extraterrestrial race.<br /><br />What does this tell us about UFOs? That whatever they are, or whomever “mans” them, are either not advanced in a way that would include moral imperatives (as Lemarchand articulates) nor are they as advanced in even a small way as that of the Neanderthals or early man was, as indicated by the art in the caves of Lascaux and Chauvet-Pont d’Arc.<br /><br />This means, for us, that UFOs are either created by Earthlings or are artifacts without a cultural or living species origination – a physical manifestation of some kind -- or UFOs belong to a race or races that are without moral imperatives (ethics) and refinements which would ameliorate contact between us and them as (we hate to note) some abduction accounts seem to warn.<br /><br />I’ve gone far afield here, and have departed from any cogent hypothesis. But I’m hopeful that some readers might comprehend that UFOs present alternatives to thought besides the usual cavil that permeates discussions here and all over the UFO community.<br /><br />And that a civilized discourse might take us into new directions, away from the classic, banal UFO cases that usurp innovative energies and keep us mired in obsequious back-and-forths which lead nowhere and have for a long time now.<br /><br />We can hope….The Reynolds Grouphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05480027495715908096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8403578123275363507.post-18420949372104997962011-04-19T11:41:00.002-04:002011-04-19T12:01:40.384-04:00Real Contactees?A man, Wilbur J Wilkinson, provided this script, claiming it was from a race using the moon as a way-station for its people from the planet Maser.:<br /><br /><img src="http://squib.homestead.com/maser19.jpg" alt="maser19.jpg" /><br /><br />Here’s the almost unknown story as recounted by Jerome Clark in one of his books:<br /><br /><a href="http://squib.homestead.com/hunrath.doc">Hunrath and Wilkinson account</a><br /><br />In the script above, nothing registers, except the word Enlil, which represents, in Sumerian “theology” the Lord of the Air and Lord of the Command (whose mother was Ki).<br /><br />Yes, the story is goofy on the face of it, but the disappearance of the two men, like the mysterious disappearance of pilot Fredrick Valentich, is intriguing.<br /><br /><a href="http://youtu.be/Vy1s7D71NVI">Valentich YouTube video</a><br /><br />The contactee stories, while mostly fictional, should not be dismissed out of hand.<br /><br />There may be a truth or a reality inside them, somewhere….The Reynolds Grouphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05480027495715908096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8403578123275363507.post-82047391270153377032011-03-10T11:47:00.002-05:002011-03-11T13:45:44.071-05:00The Mystery of Aliens<img src="http://ufos.homestead.com/aa10.jpg" alt="aa10.jpg" /><br /><br />Ancient Astronaut theorists posit the idea that the messengers and gods of old were extraterrestrial visitors, which is not necessarily a faulty supposition, considering the circumstantial “evidence” presented to bolster the hypothesis.<br /><br /><img src="http://ufos.homestead.com/ancient10.jpg" alt="ancient10.jpg" /><br /><br />The visitors were not gray with large, almond-shaped eyes as they are rendered today by descriptives.<br /><br /><img src="http://ufos.homestead.com/grey10.jpg" alt="grey10.jpg" /><br /><br />In mythology and religious-oriented works, the visitors of old were manifested by an aura that bespoke something otherworldly but not grotesque.<br /><br /><img src="http://ufos.homestead.com/messenger10.jpg" alt="messenger10.jpg" /><br /><br />Those visitors often mated with human beings, as recounted in the Genesis account of the Hebrew Bible [6:1]:<br /><br />...The sons of God saw that the daughters of man were good, and they took themselves wives from whomever they chose. God said, ’My spirit will not continue to judge man forever, since he is nothing but flesh. His days shall be 120 years’. The Nephilim were on the earth in those days and also later. The sons of God had come to the daughters of man and had fathered them. They were the mightiest ones who ever existed, men of renown. <br /><br /><img src="http://ufos.homestead.com/nephilim.jpg" alt="nephilim.jpg" /><br /><br />And they also appear in the Greek myths, as Gods, whose dalliances produced such Greek Heroes as Achilles and Heracles.<br /><br /><img src="http://ufos.homestead.com/achilles10.jpg" alt="achilles10.jpg" /><br /><br />And Merlin, the great wizard of the Arthurian legends, was said to have been fathered by an Incubus. [Bulfinch]<br /><br /><img src="http://ufos.homestead.com/merlin10.jpg" alt="merlin10.jpg" /><br /><br />In the 1950s, flying saucer “occupants’ – as reported by observers – were usually grotesque or small, bizarre creatures, akin to the little people folklore of the British Isles.<br /><br /><img src="http://ufos.homestead.com/italy33-10.jpg" alt="italy33-10.jpg" /><br /><br />In the 1960s, those visitors morphed into the so-called “grays” which evolved out of the Betty and Barney Hill abduction saga.<br /><br /><img src="http://ufos.homestead.com/bandb10.jpg" alt="bandb10.jpg" /><br /><br />There is a dispute, extant, about what Betty Hill really described, at first, about her “abductors” – mostly having to do with their noses. But the “creatures” she allegedly encountered eventually came into being as the ubiquitous UFO people pictured when UFO occupants are discussed:<br /><br /><img src="http://ufos.homestead.com/grays10-2.jpg" alt="grays10-2.jpg" /><br /><br />The question posed is this…<br /><br />What happened between 5,000 years ago when the Sumerians pictured their “gods” and the modern era when UFO beings are described? [Intelligent Life in the Universe, Shklovskii/Sagan, Delta, 1966]<br /><br /><img src="http://ufos.homestead.com/enki10.jpg" alt="enki10.jpg" /><br /><br />That is, why has the intruders’ physiognomy changed?<br /><br />Yes, we accept the reality behind the myths and Biblical renditions of gods (or messengers from above).<br /><br />We also think that some relatively recent observations of creatures nearby, what some call, UFOs or, better, flying saucers, are true also, whether created as an illusion or actually as perceived.<br /><br /><img src="http://ufos.homestead.com/flatwoods.jpg" alt="flatwoods.jpg" /><br /><br />(The alien abduction phenomenon, which remains controversial and not proven, has been, in one form or another, around since the beginning of oral and written history, as anyone familiar with mythology and religious texts knows.)<br /><br />There is a mystery in all this, one that is connected in all its aspects by the similarities in the visitations.<br /><br />The difference lies in how the “visitors” appeared, not in how they acted, but what they looked like.<br /><br /><img src="http://ufos.homestead.com/ancient10-2.jpg" alt="ancient10-2.jpg" /><br /><br />Are there, or were there, two different classes of beings – some actually gods (or imagined as such) and some actually extraterrestrials (or imagined as such)?<br /><br />It’s a mystery, either way…..<br /><br /><a href="http://ufocon.blogspot.com/2007/04/death-of-ufo-species.html">(And yes, we’ve covered this before, in 2007)</a>The Reynolds Grouphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05480027495715908096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8403578123275363507.post-35133035806372851962011-02-24T12:42:00.001-05:002011-02-24T12:42:29.317-05:00ETI: The Search<img src="http://squib.homestead.com/alien-life.jpg" alt="alien-life.jpg" /><br /><br />A paper, for our British friends, is How Should We Really Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence? By Dr. Colin Ridyard<br /><br />The paper is a brief overview of techniques for ET searching, as its title suggests.<br /><br />A few interesting ET events from 1957 are presented and a look at Rendlesham too.<br /><br /><img src="http://squib.homestead.com/dish24.jpg" alt="dish24.jpg" /><br /><br />SETI is covered, of course, also.<br /><br /><a href="http://squib.homestead.com/eti-24.pdf">Click here to read the PDF</a>The Reynolds Grouphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05480027495715908096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8403578123275363507.post-49396739582194451952011-02-07T11:16:00.001-05:002011-02-07T11:16:58.711-05:00Close Encounters Conference<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwlSKv0I8hgnbUyMKa68GKfnzQfyF2Xu9Yo9VM2BQoUUTqefliB5V9IdLrUT8-N6QVTsrlxk5LcLZWd0bVahN8PPNrx1h2yEf98nRk6Md7nFL83qZU5YDlL9BHMiM9CiTN56yk2JFmsu4/s1600/Matrix.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 48px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwlSKv0I8hgnbUyMKa68GKfnzQfyF2Xu9Yo9VM2BQoUUTqefliB5V9IdLrUT8-N6QVTsrlxk5LcLZWd0bVahN8PPNrx1h2yEf98nRk6Md7nFL83qZU5YDlL9BHMiM9CiTN56yk2JFmsu4/s320/Matrix.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5570980442337665682" /></a><br />Philip Mantle's UFO Matrix magazine is presenting a Close Encounters conference in October 2011.<br /><br /><a href="http://ufos.homestead.com/matrix.doc">Click here for the full announcement</a>The Reynolds Grouphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05480027495715908096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8403578123275363507.post-25437289176661812792011-01-28T13:03:00.000-05:002011-01-28T13:04:12.931-05:00A UFO creature report (and the Templeton "spaceman")As an habitue of Huntsville, Canada, this account of a UFO and its attendant “creature” resonates with me.<br /><br /><img src="http://ufos.homestead.com/utterson2.jpg" alt="utterson2.jpg" /><br /><br />Robert Suffern (28 years old at the time), with his family, saw a UFO that disembarked a creature.<br /><br />Mr. Suffern had received a call form his sister who thought she saw a barn on fire. Robert went to check it out and ended up seeing a UFO and a creature.<br /><br />The UFO was described thusly:<br /><br />Then I saw the ship in the centre of the road. It was the colour of the dull side of aluminum foil wrap and the surface was irregular and crinkled. I could not hear any sound other than the motor of my car. I only saw it momentarily and then it went straight up at a fast speed and disappeared. There were no lights.<br /><br /><img src="http://ufos.homestead.com/uttersonufo.jpg" alt="uttersonufo.jpg" /><br /><br />And then he saw a creature, and described it this way:<br /><br />...I started for home, turned onto the Three Mile Lake Road and then I saw the thing on the side of the road. He was on the grass shoulder of the road and was about to cross from myright to my left. It suddenly pivoted and turned towards the pasture and vaulted over the fence and out of sight. It appeared to be short and had very broad shoulders which seemed to be out of proportion. The movements were similar to an ape or a midget, but it was very agile. It reached up with its hands, grabbed the fence, post and vaulted over with no effort. The head portion was covered in a globe and I could not detect any mask or face portion. The suit was a silver colour and one piece—the globe was a contrasting white or light colour.<br /><br /><img src="http://ufos.homestead.com/utterson.jpg" alt="utterson.jpg" /><br /><br />What’s fascinating to me is how similar the drawing of the Utterson creature is to the Solway Firth “spaceman.”<br /><br />Setting aside the estimated, disparate height of Suffern’s creature, note the stance in the drawing, which didn’t derive from Mr. Suffern as far as I can tell, but whomever provided the drawing or suggestions for the drawing either had access to the Templeton photo of 1965 or received a description that surely mimics the Solway Firth being.<br /><br />Even without a Solway Firth connection, this sighting is interesting, and Richard Hall also found it so:<br /><br />“October 7, 1975 Utterson, Ontario, Canada 8:30 P.M. One small, stocky humanoid, round helmet, from metallic ellipse on road; UFO took off as car approached, being beside road vaulted fence and fled.” [From Mr. Hall’s category of humanoid creature reports.]<br /><br />Such creature sightings do not happen nowadays, and that’s something which should be addressed by “ufologists.”The Reynolds Grouphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05480027495715908096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8403578123275363507.post-29370334807703013682011-01-22T13:07:00.001-05:002011-01-22T13:07:17.971-05:00Adventures of an Earthling<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUfeyu2qRN6nGvAJF_upGCwuNCFGg35Lk01-Yxr_LY6aNU4iAAW6MEFFeI85LDeQKYykVSwa53JxPoH2TgZNpy4NcxIOl1ejgmXH5-_TtmuBh4xpLYWNppIH8B5S0f9qffRL3hWbwSZDyy/s1600/Earthling.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 227px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUfeyu2qRN6nGvAJF_upGCwuNCFGg35Lk01-Yxr_LY6aNU4iAAW6MEFFeI85LDeQKYykVSwa53JxPoH2TgZNpy4NcxIOl1ejgmXH5-_TtmuBh4xpLYWNppIH8B5S0f9qffRL3hWbwSZDyy/s320/Earthling.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5565072350355419746" /></a><br />Noted documentary filmmaker Mishara Canino-Hussung and her equally noted filmmaker husband Bill Hussung have produced “Adventures of an Earthling” – an investigation and film about some strange sightings that occurred in the Hudson Valley area by residents there in the early 1990s, one of whom is Bill Hussing’s mother.<br /><br />Skeptical Bill Hussung, while wary of the encounters delineated by his mother and others, including a sighting of a giant space ship, does what any respectful son would do: treat the stories as authentic. After all, why would his mother, a smart, successful woman in her own right, make up such a story. And, he asks, why would she seem so terrified when she recounted the sighting(s)?<br /><br />To read more about this intriguing tale and other UFO encounters and to get a DVD of Ms. Canino-Hussung’s quite wonderful “documentary,” visit the Boom Potato Films web-site:<br /><br /><a href="http://boompotatofilms.com">http://boompotatofilms.com</a><br /><br />From what we’ve seen, the encounters that Bill Hussung’s mother recounts can’t be dismissed out of hand. We’ll be checking further into the sightings.The Reynolds Grouphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05480027495715908096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8403578123275363507.post-77818603098071566452010-12-19T10:46:00.002-05:002010-12-19T10:58:38.967-05:00The Word of God: Extraterrestrials Are Real by Anthony Bragalia<img src="http://ufos.homestead.com/biblea.jpg" alt="biblea.jpg" /><br /> <br />We do not read the Scriptures the way that they are- we read them the way that we are. Our interpretations and bias can turn biblical verse into support for just about any position. But is there clear and explicit mention in the Bible of physical, intelligent life beyond Earth? Does the Book of Books confirm the existence of the Extraterrestrial?<br /> <br /><strong>THE BIBLE AS A SOURCE OF ET INFORMATION</strong> <br /><br />The Bible means different things to different people. To some it is literally the Word of God. For others it is an historical recording of philosophical and spiritual beliefs. It helps to provide insight into a younger mankind's values, tenets, viewpoints and principles. It is on this point that perhaps we can all find agreement. In reading it we gain an understanding about those who have come before us and how they reflected on life's larger questions: Where do we come from? Why are we here? What is to become of us? <br /> <br />But are there hints in the Holy Book that address whether or not we are alone in the Universe? Does the "Good News" proclaim that there are people on other planets? For many, God represents the unfolding of possibility. Did he realize the possibility of intelligent life on other celestial bodies? I went to the source and read the Bible to find out. I was surprised at what was discovered, as you may soon be:<br /> <br /><strong>THE VERSES PROCLAIM: LIFE IS UNIVERSAL</strong><br /><br /><img src="http://ufos.homestead.com/wheel19.jpg" alt="wheel19.jpg" /><br /> <br />Tales that are told in the Bible of "Ezekiel's Wheel" or of the "Nephilim" (or even of the Star of Bethlehem) have been taken by some researchers to be "evidence" of "flying saucers" or extraterrestrials in ancient times. But these interpretations are just that- opinions. And they are complex and sometimes convoluted scenarios. The ancient Bible-writers could be referring to such things, or they could be referring to images and meanings that have nothing at all to do with UFOs and aliens.<br /> <br />But there are in fact far more precise and direct allusions to ET to be found within the Bible. These are not so subject to interpretation. They elucidate rather clearly the belief that we share the Universe with other physical creatures. These verses are not taken out of context nor are they examples of "selective cherry-picking." And whether or not they are genuinely inspired by God, these Scriptures make clear that early Judeo-Christian man considered it divine truth that there are others that dwell on other celestial bodies. <br /> <br />This unambiguous belief is especially borne out in four rather striking verses found within the Scriptures:<br /> <br /><strong><em>"There are also celestial bodies and bodies terrestrial; and the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial another." [Corinthians 15:40]</em></strong><br /> <br />If we replace "celestial bodies" with "extraterrestrial" (which is what they are) the verse becomes even more stunning: <br /> <br /><strong>"...the glory of the extraterrestrial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial another."</strong> In the Corinthians verse the distinction is clearly made between "the glory" that exists here on our Earth and "the glory" that exists on other celestial bodies. One type of glorious life is found here on Terra and yet other types of glorious life are to be found on other planets. "Glory" means great beauty and bounty. There would surely be no "glory" shown in God's handiwork if all of the other celestial bodies in the Universe are dead. This verse suggests that God's creation is not lifeless beyond Earth. Creation is a vital creation and reflects the vitality of its Creator. This point is made more explicitly here:<br /> <br /><strong><em>"Lord alone thou hast made the heavens -the heaven of heavens- with all of their starry hosts, and the Earth and all things that are therein." [Nehemiah 9:6]</em></strong><br /> <br />This line from the Bible is extraordinary. It distinctly mentions all of the "starry hosts" that are to be found in the cosmos. The heaven's Starry Hosts is a profound phrase. One can only "host" things that are animate or alive. "Hosts" have guests. Just as we are "guests" of our host Earth, the Bible is instructing here that the stars throughout the Universe <em>accommodate</em>. The planets have those who rely on them for sustenance. This verse tells us that there are Planetary Hosts. In Genesis 2:1 we hear this same sentiment: "Thus the heavens and Earth were finished, and all the heavenly hosts thereof." Again we see the distinction made between our host (the Earth) and the host planets that exist beyond the Earth.<br /> <br />These ancient recorders of Scripture are referring to physical star systems and celestial bodies that play host to the glory of life. They are not being poetic and they are not referring to "spiritual" or "ethereal" hosts. Nor are they referring to "angelic kingdoms." Rather they are plainly speaking about other planets within the Universe that harbor and sustain life. <br /> <br />Jesus himself is said to have made this point even more succinctly:<br /> <br /><strong><em>"In my Father's house there are many mansions." [John 14:2]</em></strong><br /> <br />Jesus then explains that this is a profound truth: "If it were not so, I would have told you." Here Jesus affirms that in his Father's house (or the Universe, where God has made all things) there are many dwelling places. And these dwelling places are magnificent (like mansions) - just as Earth is our glorious home. Interestingly, it is this very Bible verse which was repeated over and over again by a dying Reverend Elijiah H. Hankerson, the Base Chaplain at Roswell Army Air Field in 1947, believed to have been involved in the aftermath of the UFO crash (see archived article on this site.) <br /> <br /><strong><em>"(God) stretches out the heavens like a curtain and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in." [Isaiah 40:22]</em></strong><br /> <br />This biblical revelation is remarkable for two reasons:<br /> <br />We learn that these holy scribes believed that the Creator made dwelling places throughout the Universe. And like the proverbial "big tent"- this creation is all-encompassing, accommodating all walks of life everywhere. But even more telling: Here the Bible clearly mentions the heavens as being "stretched out" like an unfolding curtain. This is a very direct reference to what we now know is fast-becoming scientific truth: The Universe in continually expanding. As the verse reveals, God is "stretching" the Universe and he is "spreading it out." And he has made many places for the many creatures of his creation.<br /> <br /><strong>THE AMAZING MESSAGE TO MANKIND: YOU ARE KIN TO THE STARS</strong><br /><br /><img src="http://ufos.homestead.com/star19.jpg" alt="star19.jpg" /><br /> <br />The ancient writers of the Good Book instruct us that God has created countless "Starry Hosts" to sustain life. He has prepared many "Tents to Dwell In" across the cosmos. He has shown his "glory" on other planets as he has on Earth. He continues to unfold possibility by "stretching out the heavens" and expanding the Universe. As some of us soon celebrate the birth of The Son of God, we should reflect on his sagacity when he tells us that His Father has indeed built "Many Mansions."The Reynolds Grouphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05480027495715908096noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8403578123275363507.post-5170279211931850032010-11-19T13:29:00.001-05:002010-11-19T13:29:41.469-05:00Jenny Randle's segment about the Cumberland Spaceman and Woomera sighting of 1964 on BBC-TV's "Secrets of the Paranormal"Jenny Randles is one the few bona fide UFO researchers in the world. Here is her investigation of the Templeton Solway Firth (Cumberland) "spaceman" photo and concomitant Woomera (Australia) sighting of a similar being.<br /><br />(Nick Pope is interviewed also.)<br /><br /><object id="dtvplayer" width="480" height="360"> <param name="movie" value="http://www.disclose.tv/swf/player.swf" /> <param name="wmode" value="transparent" /> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /> <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /> <param name="flashvars" value="config=http://www.disclose.tv/videos/config/mp4/50163.js" /> <embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="480" height="360" allowFullScreen="true" src="http://www.disclose.tv/swf/player.swf" flashvars="config=http://www.disclose.tv/videos/config/mp4/50163.js"/></embed></object> <br><a href="http://www.disclose.tv" title="UFO Videos Conspiracy Forum">Disclose.tv</a> - <a href="http://www.disclose.tv/action/viewvideo/50163/the_cumberland_spaceman_1964/">the cumberland spaceman 1964 Video</a><br>The Reynolds Grouphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05480027495715908096noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8403578123275363507.post-82893230357976068682010-11-13T19:19:00.007-05:002010-11-13T19:36:55.916-05:00Why You Can't Handle It: The Human Response to Meeting ET by Anthony Bragalia<b>Copyright 2010, InterAmerica, Inc.</b><br /><br /><img src="http://squib.homestead.com/immi.jpg" alt="immi.jpg" /><br /> <br />Both here and abroad there is a rising swell of hostility toward immigrants. This mounting negativity towards "those from somewhere else" threatens to shake the very foundations of a multicultural society. We even call immigrants "aliens." But what if the immigrants were "real" aliens? How would you act towards someone who is not from another country- but from another planet? Someone not just of a different skin color- but whose outward appearance is wholly unfamiliar to you? Can we possibly forecast the human response to meeting ET? In so doing, do we also provide ourselves with the answer to the ever-pressing question of why the extraterrestrial has not made open contact with us?<br /> <br /><strong>HOW WOULD YOU DEAL WITH IT?</strong> <br /><br />Others have examined the potential impact that open contact with aliens would have on science, economics, religion, politics and similar institutions. What is of greater interest here is how the individual would behave and respond. How would you personally "handle" your interaction with the alien? It would likely impact your innermost self, your essential nature. Might it have other unforeseen consequences? <br /><br />Would it bring out a deep-seated fear of foreigners, strangers and of the unknown that you did not know that you even had? Would it evoke feelings of inadequacy or diminish your sense of worth and importance as a human being?<br /> <br /><strong>APPEARANCE IS EVERYTHING</strong> <br /><br /><img src="http://squib.homestead.com/invasion.jpg" alt="invasion.jpg" /><br /> <br />If you were to encounter a living, breathing entity like those pictured above, your immediate reaction would likely be one of mild revulsion. Imagine if its appearance were even stranger to you? Though the alien can likely appear as it wishes, its "true" inherent appearance is not human. They may be humanoid or be able to disguise themselves as human. They may even be "future humans." But they most assuredly will not be identical to us. For a society increasingly concerned with "looks" and with "first impressions" - the visiting alien would be at a distinct disadvantage from the outset.<br /> <br />When we view the grossly overweight or anorexic, we are repelled. When we see the deformed, we stare. You would scarcely know what to say or how to act to a pygmy suddenly seated in your suburban living room. An encounter with a sentient being who may appear utterly unlike you in very fundamental ways may bring out very fundamental fears and anxieties. Many people may simply not have the ability within their psyche to interact and communicate with a creature wholly out of range of their experience. How would one feel in front of a sentient and conversant creature whose size, bodily proportions, features and coloring are not even <em>Homo sapien</em>? Some would recoil. Others would be unable to focus to talk. All would be initially shocked or "jarred" - and few would be able to get over it.<br /> <br />Conversely, we may find the visiting alien to be stunningly attractive. Perhaps more attractive than other humans. And this too would bring troubles. It may bring about feelings of inadequacy ("I am nothing compared to them") or of unhealthy obsession, envy or jealousy. We have all said stupid or incoherent things because we are overwhelmed by another's appearance. Mankind would be "overwhelmed" by the alien's appearance - whether we found it aesthetically pleasing or hideously revolting.<br /> <br />And it is vital to understand: <em>Humans have only ever had conversation with other</em> <em>humans</em>. It is all we have ever known. Our very frame of reference on this would have to shift. It would be disorienting in the extreme to intelligently converse with a physical being who is non-human. I do not think that most people could ever become accustomed to even holding an intelligent dialog with familiar creatures. Few for instance could handle talking with an upright Grizzly or with a Camel. Few still could handle speaking with creatures who are not even from Earth.<br /> <br />If the visiting alien's image (especially its facial features) and its countenance, carriage, mannerisms and dress were unpleasing to us or markedly different from our own- many of our own would reject it. Though some would be awed by their appearance, many would abhor it. They would experience angst, distress -and even uncontrollable aversion- based simply on looks alone. And this physical dissonance would be compounded if we were to view and interact with people who do not look like us and who are non-emotional (or who express emotion in ways in which we are unfamiliar.) Humans of course express their emotions on their faces.<br /> <br /><strong>NATIONALISM, ETHNIC IDENTITY, AND THE ALIEN</strong> <br /><br /><img src="http://squib.homestead.com/foreigner.jpg" alt="foreigner.jpg" /><br /> <br />A "real" alien would be the Ultimate Immigrant. He would be viewed as not only "not from our country" - but not even from our own world. "Nationalism" is endemic to all countries today. It is an engrained ideological apparatus where citizens and the nation-state find common loyalties and identification. We have all cultivated a devotion to the interests and culture of the respective nations in which we live. "Ethnic Identity" is our shared heritage. It can be based on such things as ancestry, traditions, language or territory. <br /> <br />Both of these powerful concepts - nationalism and ethnic identity - contribute to our sense of <em>belonging</em>. But the alien does not "<em>belong</em>." The alien does not fit any of our people's sense of nationalism or of ethnic identity. The alien would not "fit in" to any existing professional, social, racial, legal, class or caste system. In fact it may well be that they do not share anything with us with which we are familiar. They would be distrusted. Many would find it difficult to cultivate a sense of kinship with them. How would you act towards a "stateless" person who does not have a past, an identity or any "ways of being" with which you can relate? <br /> <br />Nationalism and ethnic identity can lead to a "healthy pride." But unchecked it can also lead to a negative view of other cultures. It can promote an "Us versus Them" attitude which would not welcome the visiting alien. One could envision the uprising of a "One Earth, One People" movement in the wake of the visiting alien.<br /> <br /><strong>WE'RE NOT THE CENTER OF EVERYTHING ANYMORE</strong> <br /><br /><img src="http://squib.homestead.com/solar2.jpg" alt="solar2.jpg" /><br /> <br />Medieval society actively resisted the notion that the Earth was round and that it revolved around the Sun. <em>They even killed over it</em>. Though today we universally accept this reality, we still somehow believe that Man is the Center of Everything. We believe that Man exists unchallenged- that he has dominion over his world and its creatures. <br /> <br />What if we were suddenly forced into a new "Copernican Revolution?" Many would indeed "revolt" if they were to become aware of Others in the Universe who are far beyond in time and technology. We would be forced to realize and accept that we share the world. Some of us could not "adjust" to this massive paradigm shift. We would have to come to terms with the fact that we are not uniquely intelligent. It is a "model" which could not be handled by many.<br /><br />T.S. Eliot once noted that "humankind cannot bear very much reality." And so too it would be if we were made aware of the alien reality by actually meeting them. We would then realize that we are not the Center of Everything anymore. Many simply could not bear it.<br /> <br />And it could have even deeper adverse repercussions. Many would no doubt suffer from "future shock." Future shock is a condition of physical distress and psychological disorientation which is brought on by the inability to cope with rapid or sudden change. Acknowledgement of the alien would necessarily mean that we must also acknowledge that there are those who are older than humankind, who are smarter and wiser than us, and who are more highly advanced on every technical level. They have already "been there and done that." They are "better" than us. Our history is small and insignificant compared to theirs.<br /> <br />Would that hamper our drive to discover and innovate on our own? Would we then individually and collectively question or minimize our very value and worth in the Universe? What would it be like to be ever the student and never the teacher?<br /> <br />And even if they were shown to be non-malevolent, we would continually question the alien's "intentions." It would create an underlying sense of anxiety and concern. Knowing that they know more than us would be a sense of eternal frustration. If their technology is not shared, that sense of anxiety and suspicion would be intensified.<br /> <br /><strong>WHY THEY DON'T MAKE OPEN CONTACT: XENOPHOB</strong>IA<br /> <br /><img src="http://squib.homestead.com/xeno.jpg" alt="xeno.jpg" /><br /> <br />In ancient times as well as in primitive tribal states, the "foreigner" was viewed as an outlaw, enemy or criminal. Even today there is that same subtle sense that is instilled in many of us. We humans seem forever compelled to draw division. We need to box and label "them" in order to deal with "them." We often blame them. Over the centuries the Irish, Jews, Italians, Black and Latinos have all taken their turns on the bigotry hot-seat. The visiting alien would surely be next in line.<br /> <br />As humans, we seek comfort. And the visiting alien takes us out far out of our comfort zone. The fear of moving toward something that is not known is inherent in most all of us. If someone does not know the other person's culture, religion or race- prejudice emerges. And this prejudice stems from the fear of how such exposure might change ourselves. We would be frightened of the huge change that the visiting alien would represent.<br /> <br />The Alien recognizes that the Human is historically unable to get along with other humans of other races, creeds, colors and countries. They see that we even find it difficult to deal with those of a different age group, gender or sexual identity. They see how we avoid those with physical or mental challenge. We build up inaccurate or even hateful mental images of those things to which we are not exposed, about those who are not like us. Sometimes we even demonize them.<br /> <br />Until we are proven able to "get along" as a human race, non-human races will not make open contact with us. They see that humans still cannot even understand each other- and that for that reason we would be entirely unable to understand the visiting alien. We are still dealing with the tremendous challenge of being human. We are not ready for non-humans. Until we change our inner selves, our outer world will forever be in conflict. <br /><br />Until this personal transformation, Man will remain apart from the diversity and full splendor that is the Universe. The alien knows that man cannot handle his own society. And because of this, Man's invitation to celestial society is still a long way away.The Reynolds Grouphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05480027495715908096noreply@blogger.com8