UFOs in China

Story here.

Sounds a lot like Fred Hoyle here:

Alien life, he will suggest, is almost certain to exist in many other parts of the universe: not just in planets, but perhaps in the centre of stars or even floating in interplanetary space.

Nice work if you can get it. Hoyle could never get any recognition for similar ideas, but coming from Hawking of course they are oh so respectable.

“We must not ask what hypothesis can explain the most facts, but we must ask, which hypothesis can explain the most puzzling facts.”

Dr. J. Allen Hynek

A true gonzo at heart, he just didn’t know it.

An exploration of the late Robert Anton Wilson’s work.

The flavor-

A Non Euclidean Rumination On Subliminal Rationalists and Recalling Robert Anton Wilson

“Belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence.”
-Robert Anton Wilson

“Positivists decline to acknowledge any a priori knowledge. They wish to reduce everything to sense perceptions. Generally they contradict themselves in that they deny introspection as experience. … They use too narrow a notion of experience and introduce an arbitrary bound on what experience is”
-Kurt Godel

Kudos to The Anomalist.

The earthquake was followed by a boom in UFO sightings, but sixteen cases occurred on the night of the tragedy alone (some of them accompanied by significant visual material) which have been subjected to study by UFO researchers.

This would seem to lend more credence to the tectonic strain theory of UFOs and the paranormal.

Terence McKenna on Novelty Theory part 1

As I am sure you have heard by now, there was a strange swirling blue light over a town in northern Norway. A bluish light moves up from behind a mountain, stops, being spinning and emitting a perfect moving swirl pattern, emits a blue spiral beam towards the ground, and then dissipates.

Explanation: A failed Russian Navy rocket test. Yeah, okay. Prove it. I am skeptical of how a rocket spiraling out of control could produce such a perfect spiral pattern against the force of gravity like that, unless it was outside of earth’s atmosphere when it happened, that is if there was even a rocket.

A Moscow news outlet quoted the Russian Navy as denying any rocket launches from the White Sea area.

Decent video here.

Whatever it is, pretty remarkable to say the least.

Unfortunately, I did not hear about this fellow until his untimely death. From what I have watched, listened and read about him, he seems like a very rational, yet exploratory person into possible realities of the UFO phenomenon.

Mac Tonnies is the man here. He presents an idea I have pondered, backing it up with very interesting circumstantial reasoning and evidence.

Plus, you guys will dig it because it proposes the UFO as an entirely Earth based phenomenon. I marked this one heresies because the terrestrial explanation is seen as an enemy to the more “fundamental” UFOlogists.

Two more short clips here and here.

I must add that I always found the notion that the “ET’s” cared about us a little absurd. From a purely evolutionary standpoint, why would any advanced race want to ensure our survival, especially given our present planetary state of values, emotion, irrationality and destructive tendencies? Granted, they may be the most empathetic beings in the universe, and perhaps they were like us once. I am drifting too far off topic.

A large majority of abduction cases, most abduction studies, even Rick Strassmans DMT induced encounters, seem to present the case that abductee’s are being shown/given reasons not to destroy ourselves, be it through environmental or nuclear destruction. Just sayin…

One more teeny clip here. Thank you edit button.

” I know What I Saw” - A new documentary surrounding the UFO phenomenon. Not much new here. Put together in a very concise way. Good testimony from civilian and military officials from around the world, good montage of eyewitness reports, good ol’ pointing out of military contradictions, a few new points of interest to myself, and an overall job well done.

Left me with the feeling, as always, that whatever the explanation, it is sure to be a major game changer. Hey, two years ago I never thought I would see any portion of Fox News supporting cannabis legalization, so who knows where this will be in 5 years, or less.

I went to the trouble of linking the remaining YouTube portions because, well, they suck at organizing lengthy video segments.

Part 2   Part 3    Part 4    Part 5    Part 6    Part 7    Part 8    Part 9

BBC:

“…it is possible that the strength of faults and earthquake risk is affected by seismic events on the other side of the world.”

Possibly supports Persinger’s Tectonic Strain Theory of the paranormal, which has been dinged by some, including anomalist William Corliss, for connecting luminous phenomena with distant tectonic events. Now that objection seems somewhat blunted.

Interview with Richard Hoagland about the secret history of NASA. Hoagland is a controversial figure to put it mildly. To the skeptics he’s a nutbar. We enjoy evaluating wild claims.

New finding: earthquakes can trigger other earthquakes far away and distant in time.

This is something anticipated by Dr. Michael Persinger’s theory that tectonic strain fields, sometimes aggravated by far away earthquakes, can cause outbreaks of piezoelectric phenomena that are then misidentified as UFOs, ghosts, or the Virgin Mary. (Among other things, Persinger correlated the apparitions of the Virgin Mary in Zeitoun Egypt with seismic activity 400 kilometers away.)

Persinger’s theory (and the whole Earth Lights theory connected with it) has been strengthened by this finding. Which is to say, this finding is not surprising to Michael Persinger at all, and his theory just got bolstered pretty good. No more whining about the long distances involved - seismic effects are now understood to have a global reach. 

Terence on a good riff.

A short piece on why aliens (at least the ones that build ships and travel the stars) would have to be humanoid. Writer gives the usual about why they would need hands to be able to create and operate complex technologies.

It is this piece that interests me:

When another child was asked, “What does ET look like?” he replied: “They can be anything.” He too is right. If the universe teems with sentient life, then there are beings that are at once ancient and advanced. And those that survive, adapt. Over the eons, technology has no doubt enabled them to appear as they wish. And if something is sufficiently Alien, it may appear as anything. Or it might not even wish to be noticed as “living” or recognized as sentient at all. Their form is likely whatever they desire it to be. It is “self-engineered.” Aliens who visit us would have to be unfathomably adaptable- with the technology to change form to exploit all habitat. Just as their craft (and the material from which they are comprised) can change state, so too can ET’s appearance.

Good to hear people talking about intelligence that has potentially engineered itself into something they desired to be. Extraterrestrial mushrooms anyone?

Prototype laser powered spacecraft. Seriously the coolest thing I have seen in a while.

Fav. quote from video:

“The laser had to be vertically blocked because it could severely damage a passing satellite or plane”

Awesome.

PS: You will see why I checked “UFO” box :)

Maybe thats because the idea of other beings out there makes a whole hell of a lot more sense than an bitter, spiteful, angry father figure looming around ready to smack us down for thinking too much.

Full text.

More people believe in aliens and ghosts than in God, a new survey finds, according to a British newspaper.

That said, the poll of 3,000 people found that 58 percent believe in the supernatural, including paranormal encounters, while 54 percent believe God exists. Women were more likely than men to believe in the supernatural and were also more likely to visit a medium.

Blossom Goodchild, you suck.

The story basically goes: Blossom Goodchild, a self proclaimed psychic and channeler, claimed to have received word from a group of intergalactic light beings that were going to make there presence known to humanity on Oct. 14 in the form of a massive UFO over Alabama in the name of Love and Hope for our species. As you have heard, or haven’t heard, is that it never materialized.

Shocked.

Coincidentally, Ms. Goodchild sold approximately 100,000 books and CD’s for $25 and $30 a pop, respectively, bringing in just about 2.5 million dollars over the course of 2 months from her prediction to “the date”. I didn’t know that ultra evolved light beings would give their message to such a con artist. Or maybe she would have done the Love thing and donated all her profits to charity. One could only hope.

Not to mention that no psychic, aura-seer, or channeler has ever been able to consistently prove themselves accurate.

There really is one born every minute.

Now I must say that I have a profound interest in the UFO phenomenon and extraterrestrials and the nature of their being. With around 400 billion stars in our own galaxy, and most likely infinite galaxies beyond, couple with infinite space and time itself, other conscious beings in the universe should be a given. Why we don’t see direct evidence of them is a deep and mysterious question. Some out there think that there may, in fact be, some leftover evidence of alien visitation from our own history.

As evolution continues to accelerate, driving us to stranger and more complex ideas, art, technologies, consciousness, and connections with each other, the prospect of bizarre and almost incomprehensible forms of life and consciousness are becoming more and more plausible. Let us not let our primitive selves rule anything out completely.

So, I say to you Ms. Goodchild, that you have succeeded in making a mockery of those of us interested in truly expanding humanities place in, and our understanding of, the universe, in exchange for some filthy paper labeled as money.

Although the hype around this event sure was an interesting societal and psychological look at where we stand as a society when it comes to accepting extraterrestrials, even from unseen light realms…

Sorry fans - it’s not in the cards. Allen and I are super busy with other projects and separated by a large geographical distance to boot. Maybe next year - we’ll see. Anyway, thanks for your interest and support over a good four-year run. We appreciate it.

Some greatest hits from last year.

It’s been great knowing you all.  I love each and everyone of you beyond any words I could possibly express verbally or mentally.  I believe each and everyone of us is here for absolutely no purpose, whatsoever; and for that very reason, I consider everyone who has played a part in making who “I” am to be that much more significant.  I would especially like to give a shout out to my parents, all the friends I had growing up, my friends in the Twin Cities, and my good friends here in the Twin Ports.  When you look out at the stars at night, it’s really hard not to think about how goddamn unimportant everything we do is.  I love you.  Oh, and by the way, you can keep up on the end of it all here.

So I went to bed pretty early last night, say 8pm. My phone rang, I didn’t answer it, but it was someone I wanted to talk to so I called them back. A few minutes later, as I was trying to fall back asleep, I heard a strange noise, like a jet taking off. It became higher pitched and louder, and started to become very loud. I opened my eyes in time to see my room lighting up (kind of like when a car turns around and the headlights pan through your room), so I strained my neck to look up and out the window, only to see a wing shaped array of lights going by at a relatively slow speed. No red lights, but white, yellow, and green, and it was only a split second before it was out of my line of sight.

OK. So it was a plane, right? That’s the obivous statement. Why the hell was a large jet flying about 300 feet above rural Esko, MN? And the light in my room wasn’t anything else, I live on 10 acres in total darkness, no other  roads or driveways within view of the west side of my house.

Whoa.

Also….personal status..

mostly awake, no alcohol, 8 hours since any illegal substance intake.

Dr Mitchell, along with with Apollo 14 commander Alan Shepard, holds the record for the longest ever moon walk, at nine hours and 17 minutes following their 1971 mission.

‘I happen to have been privileged enough to be in on the fact that we’ve been visited on this planet and the UFO phenomena is real,’ Dr Mitchell said.

‘It’s been well covered up by all our governments for the last 60 years or so, but slowly it’s leaked out and some of us have been privileged to have been briefed on some of it.

The story.

Previous posts on Mitchell.

I consider Mitchell to have a high level of credibility to make such a claim but until aliens land on the White House lawn I resolve not to care very much. Although when they do land, the first thing I’m going to ask them is who killed JFK.

The elusive Dr. Vallee speaks here.

“Is Bigfoot An Alien?”

No.

This has been Simple Answers to Stupid Questions.

Some say that the UFO sightings are encouraged (by the CIA for example), as they help to hide the secret technology that is being used. This is very possible, there are a lot of very advanced crafts flying around, and the military would certainly prefer that the public think these are Alien, rather than secretly funded man-made machines.

Logic dictates that the possibility of Alien life in our, or other galaxies, is almost a certainty, but we have been conditioned into believing that such Aliens would probably be hostile. If such “hostile” Aliens exist, what are they waiting for? Maybe they paid us a visit and saw how successful Bush was in Iraq and said to themselves “Let´s not mess with these guys”?

If and when this happens, I will be outside on a lawn chair sipping a beer and smoking some grass watching the fireworks. If these “aliens” were so hostile, why would they wait to mount a global attack until just the right moment of when we have the technology to fight back? If they could get here, they most likely would have been able to get here before the ironic date of our technological leaps and bounds, and just wipe us out when all we had was horse and buggy’s.

I really hope this doesn’t happen, but won’t be surprised if it does.

Mysterious red lights over Phoenix

Some guy claims responsibility

Apollo 14 Astronaut Dr. Edgar Mitchell

Paranormal Researcher, Ufologist and while he sounds like a saucerhead, he’s open to some of the more Jacque Vallee-style explanations for UFOs.  Probably wishes new agers would stop looking at him like that.

Update: His Wikipedia page

Edgar Mitchell on UFOs and Secrecy

Brother Terence on UFOs