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19 Mar 2010 12:02
March 19Shirley MacLaine Interviews Nick Redfern Independent Expression RadioNick Redfern, author of several books on several different aspects of high strangeness, talks with Academy Award winning actress and author Shirley MacLaine about his newest book, Contactees: A History of Alien-Human Interaction. Redfern and MacLaine cover a lot of territory in this interview, including the continuing controversy over the UFO phenomenon and many of the cases included in Redfern's book, such as contact claimants George Van Tassel, George Adamski and Truman Bethurum. Meanwhile, Paul Kimball calls it "a prime example of quality over quantity" in his commentary The Cryptoterrestrials - A Review, the final work of the late Mac Tonnies, published by Anomalist Books.Rick Phillips notes the annual Zorgy Awards and a sidebar to the awards website that lists the UFO Hall of Shame. One of the latest additions to the Hall of Shame list comes under Phillips' scrutiny in this first part of a two-part examination. Phillips goes one-by-one through the reasons he thinks Alfred Lambremont Webre has been added to this list. Will the second part of the examination give a definitive answer to what puts Webre on the wrong side of the UFO phenomenon equation? Elsewhere, the just-passed anniversary of a famous UFO event continues to generate commentary, as seen in Arizona MUFON Field Investigator Richard Motzer's The Phoenix Lights, the Real Investigation, and a big event scheduled for the first part of next week has scheduled a famed speaker, as announced in World's Leading UFO Expert Will Speak in Alamo.Robert Anton Wilson and Asymetrical Realities Intangible MaterialityBruce Duensing channels "the spirit of Robert Anton Wilson" in this essay on what Duensing considers one of the major obstacles facing those who study the paranormal. Is Wilson's warning against formulating theoretical certainties being ignored? Or has that warning been forgotten? With images and videos.Fiction is Strange, but is Truth Always Stranger? Mysterious UniverseMicah Hanks notes the adage about truth being stranger than fiction by pointing out several instances where strange fiction seems to have predicted truth that was just as strange, if not moreso. Hanks cites the works of Edgar Allan Poe, Alexander Kazantsev, Norman Mailer and Jules Verne, pointing out the similarities between what these authors wrote as fictional accounts and what true events parallelled these fictional accounts. And in another Hanks-penned paean to high strangeness, the subject recently broached by the now 85-year-old chief exorcist at the Vatican, Father Gabriele Amorth, comes up, as do several other things, if you'll excuse the pun, in The Devil in Disguise: Demonic Dealings at the Vatican? Does Satan push his cloven Florsheims through the Vatican's halls? And have some of Father Amorth's exorcism subjects regurgitated inexplicable items during the ceremony to rid them of demonic possession?From today's maverick science corner of the news: The finding of the diminutive Homo floresiensis bones on the Indonesian island of Flores didn't end the mysteries of humanity's occupation of the island. A discovery of a primitive human settlement on the island was made in conjunction with the discovery of the Hobbit remains. Excavations at the site where primitive tools were found have established a date for the site 120,000 years older than any previous human occupation of the island and has cast doubt on the previous belief that the arrival of humans led to the extinction of several native animal species. The find has also led scientists to speculate that there may be even more ancient indications of human habitation to be found on Flores. There's also news today concerning what some believe is evidence of ancient Hebrews visiting New Mexico, as explained in Explained? New Mexico's Hebrew Ten Commandments. With photo.Among the latest eyewitness sighting accounts released from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) database are the two included in this report that could represent two witnesses spotting the same object. Meanwhile, other MUFON eyewitness reports, released in unedited form, include Bucks County, PA, Witness Experiencing Green-Blue Flashes of Light; Parent-Son Report Series of UFO Sightings Over Boyne City, Michigan; and Witness Claims Light Beam from Sky Caught on Security Camera. Elsewhere, Joseph Capp is a dedicated believer in UFOs as otherworldly objects piloted by intelligent beings that don't hail from these parts. As such, he's had his differences of opinion with those who would indiscriminately rebuff any UFO claims. But to his credit, he recognizes the need for some skeptical inquiry into the UFO phenomenon, even allowing judicious explanation of a famous event to overturn his cherished belief the incident indicated the presence of UFOs near a NASA space experiment, as he demonstrates with text and videos in UFOs: Deconstructing Sereda. Is Capp correct to state conscientious skeptics serve a valuable purpose within the UFO research community? Staying with the skeptics theme, although straying far afield from the UFO question, Matt Crowley, a skeptic himself, takes on everybody's favorite skeptics at his Orgone Research weblog in When Myth Busters Gets it Completely Wrong. Did a man named O'Malley really die from urinating on the "hot" third rail in a New York City subway tunnel? -
19 Mar 2010 02:37
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18 Mar 2010 14:46
In this report gathered by Scott Corrales of the Hispanic Institute of UFOlogy from investigators' reports presented, apparently, on the Internet, it seems there could be more than the continuing tremors following the recent earthquake devastation in Chile to shake up residents. According to this report, quite a number of people witnessed a mystifying event that involved what may have been a UFO, a USO and a 3-meter-tall alien. And the alleged Chilean encounter isn't the first reference to UFO occupants of extraordinary stature in South America, as Corrales notes in Thoughts on Giant UFO Occupants. In another report from South America, evidence is presented for UFO interest in auto racing, as detailed in Ecuador: UFOs at the 1978 Rally.Alex Tsakiris talks with Dr. Woerlee whose skepticism takes aim at Dr. Jeffrey Long's supposed evidence of the afterlife. Downloadable podcast and readable transcript. Elsewhere, in guest commentary at Michael Prescott's Blog, Stacy Horn, who "spent a few years researching the work of Duke Parapsychology Laboratory" in preparing her book Unbelievable: Investigations into Ghosts, Poltergeists, Telepathy and Other Unseen Phenomena from the Duke Parapsychology Laboratory, reviews a recent Tsakiris interview with Dr. Michael Persinger, asking if Persinger has come up with A New Experiment for Telepathy?This unedited Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) eyewitness account begins a series of MUFON database releases that includes Euclid Investigation Tracks Conventional, Natural Explanations and Field Investigator Sees Light Pattern at Euclid, as well as Video: Florida UFO Splits to Form Triangle; Helicopter Chases Silent Lights Forming Triangle in Night Sky; Rectangular UFO 500 Feet Over Mesquite, TX; and Two North Carolina UFO Reports Seem to Describe Same Object. Thes reports are just a sampling of the large number of MUFON-received sighting reports over the past several days. Meanwhile, Billy Cox laments the failure of the United States to reveal its UFO files by pointing out the Italian UFOs on the Radar. With Italian news video, minus translation.. Was the Earth and the features we see around us formed over untold eons, as geologists tell us, or are the features we see, such as mountain ranges and ocean basins, of more recent age, formed within the memory of mankind? Meanwhile, an unlikely place for life to be found is revealed in NASA Discovers Life Hidden 600 Feet Below Antarctic Ice. -
18 Mar 2010 06:59
March 18More Madagascan Mystery Mammals ShukerNatureDr. Karl Shuker exposes more of the creatures natives of Madagascar have reported. From giant lemurs to a giant catlike creature, Madagascar, the large island off Africa's southeastern coast, could still be harboring animals found in the fossil record but believed to have become extinct. Elsewhere, The Blogsquatcher shows a map of his own experiences with Bigfoot evidence related to what is being reported in the area now, in Weird Pennsylvania. The mapping follows this news item by Dave Zuchowski: New Rash of Bigfoot Sightings Reported Across Fayette County. Meanwhile, Lindsay Selby reports on a possible Vermont cryptid in Lake Willoughby Monster, and Loren Coleman offers plenty of video in Boggy Creek Trailer and Cryptozoology Milestone, saluting his many years of service investigating the existence of mystery animals.Harlequin Encounter in Kansas From the ShadowsJason Offutt begins a two-part series about a strange entity he first reported in stories related by Wisconsin resident Dan Mitchell. Mitchell began receiving visits from a being he calls the Harlequin when he was five years old. Now it appears Dan Mitchell isn't the only person to have encountered a Harlequin-type being. Consider the experience of Laurie Smithmeyer and a companion on the streets of Lawrence, KS, ten years ago. Are there many Harlequin-type entities occupying our reality? In another instance of strange encounters with unknown entities, but of a quite different nature, Randall Fitzgerald begins a series of articles about his own experiences with what could be lucid dreaming, encounters with succubi or incubi, and the possibility he has been the victim of a sudden onslaught of sleep paralysis, as he explains in Are These the 'Seducers From Inner Space'?A Host of Mummies, a Forest of Secrets The New York TimesFrom today's maverick science news: Mysterious mummies that appear to be of northern European origin, buried with boats in the parched desert of China's Xinjiang Autonomous Region, have puzzled archaeologists since the 1930s. Who were these people, obviously not Chinese, and what should be made of their boat burials and the 13-foot phallic symbols erected above their graves? While the Xinjiang burials took place around 4,000 years ago, some scientists, espousing what's known as the Electric Universe Theory, say the Earth underwent catastrophic reformations as little as 5,000 years ago, as described by Stephen Smith in Earth Cycles. Was the Earth and the features we see around us formed over untold eons, as geologists tell us, or are the features we see, such as mountain ranges and ocean basins, of more recent age, formed within the memory of mankind? -
17 Mar 2010 08:36
March 17The Dobharchu CryptomundoWith the St. Patrick's Day celebration upon us, guest contributor Paul Burns brings us the tale of a fiendish Irish cryptid that graces the tombstone of Grace Connolly, said to have been devoured by the beast while bathing in County Sligo's Glencade Lake on September 22, 1722. Is a Dobharchu buried near Ireland's famous Benbulben? With images. Meanwhile, Nick Redfern updates the "Texas Chupacabras" expedition underway with two stalwarts from the Centre for Fortean Zoology, as related, with photos, in Jon D in Texas.Paranormal Happenings: Aliens ExaminerRoger Marsh brings together six videos from the British television program that may have escaped most viewers around the world. The documentary examines the nature of extraterrestrial beings with interviews of several United Kingdom investigators who relate their views on the subject, including David Boyle, Malcolm Robinson, David Hodrien and Dave Sadler. Enjoy! Meanwhile, there's a video clip of an Obama administration "suit" responding to a question from an ordinary citizen concerning UFOs in Billy Cox's write-up entitled OK, Who's Next?The Battle of Los Angeles: An Eyewitness Account The UFO ChroniclesScott Littleton is the Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at California's Occidental College. Scott Littleton is also an eyewitness to the strange event that occurred in the early morning hours of February 25, 1942, when an unidentified object cruised across the skies above the Los Angeles Basin, drawing anti-aircraft fire amid a profusion of searchlights. Last night Littleton presented his account of the incident at the Unitarian Universalist Church in Studio City, CA. Tonight he presents his description of the events again at the Neighborhood Community Center in Costa Mesa, CA. What was the object that drew a massive anti-aircraft response that night? Is there evidence the object was shot down and recovered? Meanwhile, another famous event in UFO lore is addressed in The Phoenix Lights: After 12 Years, Original Photographic Expert Jim Delittoso Reverses Position - Says Famed Video 'Could Be Flares!'Ouija Board Took C2C Host to "Brink of Unfathomable Chaos" Mysterious UniverseAmelia Crater describes how Aaron and Ben are contemplating studying the effects of the Ouija board despite all the warnings about the use of the device. And one of those warnings seems to come from an unlikely place - the famous host of Coast to Coast AM George Noory. Noory's book Worker in the Light, published in 2002, may give Aaron and Ben good reasons to reconsider investigating the often reviled device many claim is more than just a child's party game. What happened to George Noory at the Coast to Coast AM studios the night he tried to use the Ouija board on the air? There are other methods of contacting the spirit world, besides the Ouija board, and one of those methods is investigated by Micah Hanks in his new book Magic, Mysticism & the Molecule. Hanks describes the use of a powerful substance from a native African shrub in Ibogaine and the Art of Communicating with Our Elders. Hanks notes other "altered states of consciousness" the use of ibogaine seems related to, including the state Louis Proud examines so closely in his book Dark Intrusions: An Investigation into the Paranormal Nature of Sleep Paralysis, and offers a link to a sample chapter from his own Magic, Mysticism & the Molecule.A Lifetime of Mysterious Events Phantoms & MonstersLon Strickler posts a rambling account of a life filled with high strangeness described by a correspondent who identifies herself as "Shelley." Shelley's strange experiences run the gamut from apparent lucid dreaming to visitations by unidentified entities, possible space alien contacts and astral projections. Be sure to read the comments that follow this article. -
17 Mar 2010 00:07
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16 Mar 2010 11:19
March 16Sierra Sasquatch: The Last Call Blast for MQ? CryptomundoLoren Coleman explains what's ahead for fans of "MonsterQuest" in this week's episode, with images and video. The popular program will address whether there are some "family units of Sasquatch" and whether difference in sizes of footprint casts indicate the presence of "juvenile Sasquatch." The episode will air Wednesday night. And, in another programming note, Coleman adds "Destination Truth" to the lineup of television shows to watch on the eve of your favorite Irish celebration in Happy St. Patrick's Day ~ DT vs MQ.The Blackout of 1965 and the Fire Ball Chris Holly's Paranormal WorldAccording to Chris Holly, weird things happen around her. Was what she and a friend observed from her family's front porch during a massive power outage in 1965 one of those weird things Holly has encountered? Or was it a phenomenon reported by others of a similar age to Holly and her friend at the time of the event? Did the ages of those willing to confess having seen a gigantic ball of fire dash across the heavens that night signal something about a generation of young people who went through the blackout and looked to the sky? And are you one of those who saw this strange vision?A new report from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) database matches a report given in a Florida television station's news video, included here with the unedited eyewitness account, and there's also news video accompanying another sighting of anomalous aerial objects, as noted in Fox TV 13 Reports 'Memphis UFO Sightings on the Rise'. Meanwhile, memories of a famous incident from 1997 highlight this Friday's edition of The Joiner Report, with guest host Frank Warren, as reported in The Phoenix Lights: Flares of Huge Craft? Mike Fortson, Frances Emma Barwood, & Dr Bruce Maccabee Set the Record Straight. Elsewhere, Paul Dale Roberts takes a group of "Fortean Investigators" into the field for UFO Investigation at Seaside, CA: Lights in the Sky.Excerpts From The Electric Universe Part 5 Thunderbolts.infoFrom the maverick science corner of the news: Wallace Thornhill and David Talbott present the Electric Universe model of one of our solar system's most highly visible phenomena, hoping that in the process mainstream astronomers and others will come to a new realization of solar system dynamics that could reshape science's depiction of the role of electricity in space. And, in other cometary comments, Gary Gilligan addresses Velikovsky's Comet Venus, and there's speculation comets contributed to life's formation on Earth in Frankenstein's Comet: Sparks of Life? -
16 Mar 2010 03:15
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15 Mar 2010 15:08
, says it's time to re-think and expand the search for ET: "Everyone is still enthralled with Carl Sagan’s vision, his idea being that there is a civilization out there that guesses we’re here, beams a message at us using what in technical jargon is called a narrow-band signal, and all we have to do is tune in and get the message and all sorts of wonderful consequences will ensue. I don’t think that is credible. We need to look for signatures of intelligence wherever we might see them." -
15 Mar 2010 07:53
March 15Roswell Alcoholics: The Alien Anguish UFO Iconoclast(s)Anthony Bragalia argues that many of the witnesses at Roswell were in fact driven to drink by the sight of the crash of an extraterrestrial craft and pilot bodies in New Mexico in July of 1947. Among them was Lt. Governor Joseph Montoya, who suffered an emotional breakdown in July of 1947; Thomas Gonzalez, a Sergeant in the 509th in July of 1947, who admitted "to drinking heavily after the event"; Dee Proctor, who was an original witness to the Roswell crash site, died young, divorced, morbidly obese and alcoholic; and Jesse Marcel, perhaps the most famous Roswell witness, who became an alcoholic after the event, according to his son. Elsewhere, a look at a far less famous case: The 1972 Tranqueras CE-3SETI at 50 Failure MagazineThe Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) is 50 years old next month. There has been no sign of intelligent alien life. Paul Davies, Chairman of the SETI Post-Detection Taskgroup and author of the forthcoming book The Eerie Silence says it's time to re-think and expand the search for ET. He says: "Everyone is still enthralled with Carl Sagan’s vision, his idea being that there is a civilization out there that guesses we’re here, beams a message at us using what in technical jargon is called a narrow-band signal, and all we have to do is tune in and get the message and all sorts of wonderful consequences will ensue. I don’t think that is credible. We need to look for signatures of intelligence wherever we might see them."Interview with Renée Scheltema Mind EnergyRenée Scheltema is the filmmaker and producer of Something Unknown, a documentary on the evidence behind the “Big Five” psi phenomena. She did not include the other "Two"--mediums who talk to dead people and near death experiences--because Charles Tart placed them in the "maybe" category. See also Something Unknown film reviewThe Scapegoat General’s Spirit Brown's GuideLieutenant General James Longstreet was one of the greatest generals of the Civil War. Unjustly accused of losing the Civil War at Getttysburg, Longstreet spend his final years writing his memoirs at his Piedmont Hotel. Today it houses the Longstreet Museum and perhaps not surprisingly has been the scene of reports of "a supernatural presence." Elsewhere, Ghostly Gazetteers and Parapsychology and the Paranormal: The Conspiracy To Deny The Real
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