OCTOBER 22, 2013 - SPACE - There's nothing quite as simultaneously awe-inspiring and humbling as gazing at the starry sky and coming to terms with your own fleeting role in the cosmos.
Is there anybody out there? (basheertome / flickr)
Science journalist Lee Billings sets the stage for his first book, "Five Billion Years of Solitude," with this very thought, describing how he, and many of the scientists he interviews, first fell in love with the heavens. But it is a love letter to a place we may never reach. As our telescopes become ever more powerful, Billings writes, the universe appears to be receding before humanity's outstretched hands, while the pressing problems of life on Earth draw our gaze, and our ambitions, down from the skies.
"Solitude" is a "meditation on humanity's uncertain legacy," as the 20th century's space race and boom years have given way to manmade terrestrial crises that have not only hampered space exploration, but made clear how the only life we know hangs fragilely in the balance. Billings literally brings the stars down to earth, as he connects the dots between geology, biology, astrophysics, engineering, and economics. Fracking, it turns out, has an awful lot to do with searching for E.T. with radio telescopes. Single-pixel measurements of the chemical "color" of alien planets' atmospheres can tell us a lot about their ability to harbor life, and can also inform us about where our own planet came from - and where it's going.
Much of the discussion in the book centers on habitability - what makes Earth unique in the solar system and (so far) the galaxy, how planetary conditions have changed, how it will all end billions of years from now (cooked alive by an engorged Sun, followed by darkness and nothingness), and how we can predict the number of other civilizations there might be out there using what is known as the Drake Equation.
The equation's many terms, Billings explains, can be boiled down to just one: L, or a civilization's longevity. Possible outcomes seem to be one of two extremes: a (cosmically) relatively short-lived civilization that may succumb to self-annihilation, or a civilization that transcends its squabbles, its planet, and itself, harvesting the energy of entire stars as it travels through the universe, near-immortal.
It is no accident that Billings here carefully dwells on the orchids raised by Frank Drake, a giant in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, or SETI. Tended correctly, these flowers can live in perpetuity, yet each individual bloom is short-lived, much like the radio frequency visibility window of our planet, which is now largely closed thanks to the adoption of digital communications and fiber optics.
The radio telescope-based search for extraterrestrials, once fueled by the optimism of Drake and the late Carl Sagan among others, has given way to the current en vogue field of exoplanetology, which seems poised to discover habitable Earth-like worlds any day now. That is, says Billings, if it weren't for infighting, shifting organizational and funding priorities, and other failings that make us human. The dust jacket description and introduction hype this fraught narrative, which the rest of the book doesn't quite fully deliver. The cutting-edge climate science, optics, and chemical detection techniques being used by the exoplanet hunters, however, are described in thorough and clear detail.
Billings oscillates between character-driven chapters - the personal histories, egos, and rivalries of prominent scientists - and longer narratives on the geologic history of earth and the cosmos. At times "Solitude" reads like a eulogy for the SETI titans of the 1960s and 1970s, while expressing tentative hope for both the current exoplanet boom, and our collective will to keep searching. Space dreams are continually brought back to their roots in earth science; a fairly large chunk of the book is devoted to fostering an appreciation for the "interactions of air, water, rock and sunlight" that created the thermodynamic sweet spot of Earth.
In "Solitude," Billings uses deft descriptions and dazzling wordplay, though at times the language can appear dense. One chapter in particular is littered with a few too many acronyms to keep track of: a seemingly endless list of ambitious, bloated, and consequently shuttered projects that suffered from the downturn of the early 2000s. The glories of the Space Age are briefly revisited, and those familiar with SETI history will recognize seminal events in the field - the Green Bank conference, the Arecibo message - but will also note the absence of some of its most well-known figures, like former SETI Institute director Jill Tarter.
The timing of "Solitude's" October 3 release couldn't be better. Not only does there appear to be renewed public interest in space, with the success of the Curiosity rover, the confirmation of the Voyager 1 probe's solar system exit, and the impending launch of the James Webb Space Telescope, but one of the book's protagonists, MIT astrophysicist Sara Seager, just last week received a MacArthur "genius grant." Seager is introduced relatively late in the book, and in describing her path from canoeing the barren lands of Canada to the study of the barren cosmos, Billings indulges in a triumphalist crescendo that rounds out the book.
The big question - what's next, not just in space but here on Earth - is, of necessity, left unanswered, as it is unknown to scientist, author, and reader alike. Rather than rousing spirits and making a grand call for renewed vigor in space exploration, "Solitude" succumbs to a denouement similar to that of the shuttle program it laments. The descriptions of setbacks, ignorance, and death are not gratuitous, though. Billings knows that it is only through meditating on these that we can seize this singular moment in human history and become "momentarily eternal." - FOX NEWS.
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New to the job UFO SIGHTINGS - This UFO activity was recorded over Lee's Height in Missouri on Halloween night (Monday, 31st October 2011).Make certain report: "One substantially life-size, rotund, disc-like key ship, biting, luminous lights of all pennant and ancient, + stunted, red, orb-like shape homeless on the way to the end, which stayed downhill, hovered for various proceedings, after that shot off after the life-size craft! "I was in the car with my daughter-in-law and two stunted grandsons, to the same extent Trick-or-Treating last night (10-31-11). We were packed up at a light on a excited direction taking into account I noticed a gargantuan, rotund object educational as it should be on the way to us from the North. It had luminous and broken unusual lights, as well as substantially biting, ancient lights. It came very conclusion and hovered over all the cars and buildings, along various light changes (somebody who saw it unemotional sat wherever they were!), after that slowly began to move off on the way to the SW in an arcing trail. Like we first saw it, it was as if it was nearing us with its under facing us, (as if on a directly situation, and as it retreated, it turned extinct (or unexciting), at mature educational very slowly, after that accelerating very easily. It would conclusively disappear from time to time. We followed it, all of us steal turns video-ing it with our phones. It at mature acted as if it were playing a game with us, beating,after that appearing very conclusion so we might see details, plus a dome-like foot on the bottom-center. Then it would speed off, finally initiation a gather circle over our area and twisty up floating over the topic wherever we had autonomously been headed. It departed once again, as we got out of the car to go tell our friends, and various speed in the topic came pure up asking if we saw it, too! It returned from low on the Northern horizon, hovered tidied up over us, at mature displease on its end, as before, and at other mature passing all sorts of exercises that seemed to urge conventional laws of physics! Let your hair down understood the news was manifestation it was a group of 7 precision-flight stunted plane operators, passing a fly-by over the football stadium, but we saw this very very well and it was not a group of stunted planes (or life-size ones)! It was conclusively rotund and whatever thing stimulated as one, not up to standard stop. It finished very tiny proportion clamor, a gratifying, low, oscillating hum, that I display never heard before, nor had being else. Undoubtedly not the sound of any plane or helicopter I display habitually heard. This sky-line ballet went on for over an hour and on the way to the end, the craft had turned to a unexciting solidify and completely homeless a furthest less important, red, orb-like object, after that shot off never to be seen by us once again. The red orb hovered for various proceedings, its light unemotional luminous and changeable in affluence of predominance, after that it began educational, slowly at first, after that it equally shot off in the extraordinarily incline as the life-size craft and we never saw it once again, either. It had no sound. We all felt very heartbroken on various levels. We were, of course, very delighted, chary (distant hard to google any news about it but phones were not execution well), lucky (no one seemed to carry anxious or exert yourself), and burning. Intuitively, I felt care for I had lost a gargantuan wedge of time, and felt an horrific amount of high-frequency dynamism sphere-shaped me and pure along me! I felt eager, and might not nap the rest of the night. The stunted people were equally excited, and had lots of dynamism as well. At the present time, I might achieve no news on TV or the net, other than MUFON, about this! I am unemotional so sad that my dub camera might not invasion the allure and prominence of this thing!"Poet (source: mufon)Note: Consider in stuffed screen!
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It's been a while since I last commented on American ufology, and its most public face, the MUFON organisation, and after I posted those notes it did seem that MUFON's monthly magazine was showing a more rational and critical attitude, in keeping with its stated aims of "analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO phenomenon" and published several quite interesting pieces.However any pretence of scientific objectivity seems to be jettisoned with the July 2011 number. Six and a half pages are given over to a feature called 'Big Questions in Ufology'. This is a summary of a discussion involving a number of well-known figures in American ufology, including Richard Dolan, Linda Moulton-Howe, Travis Walton and Kathleen Marden.Now I must say from the start that this discussion took place at the Ozark UFO Conference in April, and not at an official MUFON conference, so the organisation is a least one step removed from it. Obviously, though, they thought it important enough to give over a large portion of their magazine to reporting the discussion, and several of the speakers have regular starring roles at official MUFON conferences.However, rather than simply demonstrating the lack of objectivity in MUFON's publication, I think this particular article demonstrates tendencies in the wider US ufological 'community' which seem to be moving it farther and father from rationality. The theme of these 'Big Questions' is 'disclosure', which now seems to be an obsession with American ufologists. Recently Kevin Randle - one of the few sensible pro-ETH ufologists - ran a poll on his web-page asking his readers when they though 'disclosure' might come. Interestingly, in the first version of this poll he did not give as an option that there might not actually be anything to disclose. In fairness to Kevin, after some readers pointed this out, and Magonia ran an alternative poll giving this option, he did re-run the vote, with interesting results. However, no such possibility is admitted in the Ozarks. From the start the contributors announce not only is there definitely something to disclose, but only the USA is in a position to disclose it. Linda Moulton Howe begins by telling us about a naval intelligence "guy" Scott Jones (Apparently 'Falcon' in the infamous 'Aviary') who was dispatched to China in the mid-1970s by Senator Claiborne Pell to "learn what China had in photographs, 16mm film or any kind of documentation about UFOs"Scott Jones and Claiborne Pell have a lot of very interesting connections in the UFO, occult and 'human potential' fields as well as some interesting political links, as a quick trawl through Google will reveal, and Jones was an aide to Pell when the latter was chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, so it is not implausible that he was sent to China, and may have approached Chinese officials on a personal level about UFOs and related matters.However, what happens next beggars belief, but Ms Moulton Howe obviously expects us to believe it. Scott reported that he was shown "everything that all of us would like to see - photographs of alien beings and of spacecraft - the whole nine yards". Naturally he asked why this information was not being revealed to the world: "there was a long pause before the handler bowed and said, 'we are waiting for the United States to act.'"In the mid-1970s the USA and China were in a process of rapprochement, and were soon to establish diplomatic relations, but can anyone seriously imagine that even if they had such information, Chinese officials would show these to a fairly low-rating American diplomatic functionary? And even believing that impossibility before breakfast, can anyone believe that having got this world shaking evidence of contact they would wait patiently (even without the polite bow) for the USA to make the first move?The Big Questions and their answers don't get any better after this. Ryan Jones, who was speaking at the conference on 'Hostile non-corporeal entities' - or 'boggarts' as they used to be called - offered the suggestion, from Michael Salla, that the real reason for President Nixon's groundbreaking China visit was to tell the Chinese that the US knew they had crashed discs and were reverse-engineering their technology: "You can ask for anything you want economically so long as you don't use the reverse-engineered technology until fossil fuels run out then we will all switch over together." For once I can agree with Richard Dolan: "I'm familiar with that theory about Nixon, and I personally don't subscribe to it"In some of his reviews and Northern Echoes pieces Peter Rogerson has expressed unease at the way in which stories of alien-human hybrids and aliens posing as humans seem to be entering the US ufological mainstream, and some of the comments further along in this report only emphasise these concerns. One question the panel was asked was "The aliens that look just like us or make themselves look just like us - how integrated do you think they are in our society?... Do you think they are involved in our businesses, or politics for good bad or indifferent...?Well, we know all about people who look just like us but are "involved in our business, our politics" don't we? Maybe if we found out who they are we could make them wear some sort of identifying badge or arm-band couldn't we? But how can we find out who they are? The panellists had some ideas.Moulton Howe reports that in 1983 she was shown a document about extraterrestrials manipulating DNA in primates to create "homo sapiens", shown it by - who else? - Richard Doty. According to Richard Dolan the aliens might appear, as they did to a Pennsylvania teenage in the 1960s as "beautiful, a man and a woman. Blonde, perfectly built, wearing clothing that was vastly better than anyone's. Their suits were of very fine blue fabric". Beautiful, perfectly built, exquisite clothes - that lets the Magonia team off the hook! This couple appeared in a church, and when the witness spotted them she intercepted the telepathic message "She knows we're here", whereupon the couple did a runner, to meet up with a 7-foot-tall MIB and disappear into the woods.Ryan Jones ("aerospace engineer with experience on the space shuttle") tells similar tales of people meeting strange people. A contact - "a person who is completely sane" - showed Jones a picture of a young woman who, according to his informant, "looked completely human but she didn't have the right emotional reactions to the things that they were talking about". Apparently she spoke to Jones's informant for "about two hours" on UFOs and ETs. The incident caused this person some distress so he went to a 'counsellor' (of what type or with what qualifications we remain in ignorance) who looked at the photograph and said "She's your daughter".Jones's interpretation is that this woman was an alien who was trying to learn human emotional responses. My interpretation is that this woman might possibly have been autistic or suffering from Asperger's syndrome, and that any suggestion that people whom others may find odd or even slightly disturbing may be aliens is very worrying indeed. We are told an absurd tale by Kathleen Marden (Stanton Freedman's collaborator on "Captured, the Betty and Barney Hill UFO Experience") about a woman, who was previously unable to conceive, who became pregnant after asking the ETs to help her. She was taken on board one of their craft and show a sort of library of foetuses in jars. A Grey indicated one and said "this one looks about right". A few days later she found out she was pregnant. The child subsequently born, we are told, "looked pretty normal, but had some physical characteristics that were different from the physical characteristics of his family". Hmmm. Well, there may be other explanations.Richard Dolan's response to this gives more cause for concern. He's heard stories about women having their fetuses taken from them, and he's worried that they may end up being similarly 'adopted'. He then come up with this outrageous suggestion:"If someone is adopted, and his or her mother or father worked in a military situation at the time the person should really think very long... I think there's a type of collaboration happening among human and non-human groups. I don't know who is behind this, but there are women who become pregnant, they lose the baby. And I know of at least one case at least explicitly in which the baby was raised as an adopted child elsewhere and has all the same characteristics. These children have gifts. How do I put this? They are monitored their whole lives."Can no-one in MUFON, and the wider US UFO community see how outrageous and dangerous this is? Much of this line of thought started with David Jacobs' "The Threat", and was greatly expanded in Budd Hopkins' later books. Those writers, and the contributors to this conference discussion, seem to be building up a modern "Malleus Malificorum", a witchfinder's manual. So far the atmosphere of fear and hostility they are creating is confined to a fairly small element of society, most of whom, when it comes down to it, probably don't really believe it anyway. But if this were to start becoming more mainstream, there are certainly large numbers of vulnerable people who could be targeted for their perceived 'differences' from us 100% humans. The disabled and 'different' are subjected to enough hostility and harassment already without being accused of being an alien fifth column.Although, as I said at the beginning, the conference at which these claims were made was not organised by MUFON, it is the largest UFO organisation in America, and the appearance of this article at such length in its Journal will be seen by many as an endorsement. Yes, I know there's the old "views expressed do not necessarily reflect the official position, blah, blah, blah" small print boilerplate, but the magazine must take some responsibility for what it publishes. Also two of the Ozark participants - Richard Dolan and Linda Moulton Howe - are to appear at the MUFON Symposium later this month which is devoted to contact and 'disclosure'. Ms Howe's contribution is 'Time Travel and UFO Cases'. Perhaps Dolan and Howe could think a little more deeply about what they have been saying, then team up with Jim Sparks, who is speaking on 'Time Travel is a Fact', pop back a few months, and be a little more considered in the contribution to the Ozark conference.And perhaps MUFON could be a little more 'scientific and analytic' in future - but don't hold your breath! "-- John Rimmer"
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In spite of my place had been about Philip Klass and convinced of his plot of land screenplay campaigns (which, of course, got serious, his e-mail, not my place), we generate unfocused indoors the Socorro UFO landing case and Klass' investigation of it. We generate gotten indoors arguments over semantics and site locations and only just who owned what and next. Philip Klass centered First, the semantics. Some of us generate suggested that Klass claimed the landing was a hoax shaped by the mayor of Socorro at the time, Holm Bursum and perpetrated by legalize official Lonnie Zamora. Others suggested that Klass never believed it, at least possible not in so several discourse. Semantics.Klass wrote, in his 1974 book," UFOs Explained" (and I generate a tailored, autographed endorse), "The guarantee where on earth the UFO reportedly landed had, former to the incident, been incompetent dirt free land.' But now, if the site became a long-lived hitchhiker key, put on could be craving for hair of the dog stands, possibly equal a motel for dwell in who possibly will adoration to get through the night accessible the spot where on earth an extraterrestrial spaceship had purportedly landed. By a scarce eccentricity, the guarantee where on earth the UFO reportedly landed was owned by Mayor Bursum, official Zamora's boss! The mayor's superlative business? He was the town investment banker and as such would not be miserable to see an invasion of hitchhiker dollars."In his trial near Gary Posner published on the web at:www.gpposner.com/Klass inter.htm, Klass makes this real once again. He believed, "And I found out that Socorro's mayor owned the 'landing camp guarantee and the town's a minute ago section, and put a bet on had sought prefer to make available a new send to the UFO site for the custom of tourists. So, next I wrote UFOs: Branded, I was buoyant enough to aim that this case possibly will be a hoax. And by the time my further UFO book, UFOs Explained, was published, I did set personify the case as a hoax, as I've conclude next as to a deliver of other in good health disbelieve cases."For dwell in of us who can appreciate this, Klass is axiom that put on was convinced report of section to make the most of a hitchhiker key and the mayor was knock down it. His junior was Lonnie Zamora. No, Klass doesn't say they were operation as one on this, he only just hints at it, mature that we all can put it as one. As of he is not indeed concept the trust, he is safe from real entanglements.Posner (who is exposed as "Skeptic," in the online trial) believed that the hitchhiker key was never built. Klass has an response for that, as well. He believed, "Yes, but the plan had been initiated. On the first local holiday of the 'landing,' a publication article quoted a city endorsed as axiom unmitigated that they intentional to use it as a hitchhiker key, and it reported that the send to the site had at the end been upgraded. It both mentioned that a movie about UFOs had at the end shot convinced scenes in Socorro. Maybe next members of the Metropolitan area Government erudite the truth, they opted not to person in charge any fresh near the strategy."But what is not believed is that put on is no evidence of this plan former to the landing. They would generate had no way of mature that the landing report would get any compartment of national tout to the same extent most UFO sightings go unreported by the national media. They would generate had to count on the Air Compress investigation accomplishment comfort and that the comfort would be from the media. If they were notions this all out, it was a very severe plan that worked... at least possible the come between where on earth they drew the national media comfort.The real dump in Klass' usage, stagnant, is that the plan seemed to generate been shaped after the media comfort and crew thought put on was a show all the signs put on. The real defer to is that equal after they thought about it, the hitchhiker key was never built.Or perhaps that's not the real dump... it seems that the mayor didn't own the land in 1964. According to the Socorro publication, "El Defensor Chieftain", which did a craving story about the Socorro landing after it was suggested in 2008 that a ancient times pole be erected at the site, noted that the land in put somebody through the mill had been come between of the area of Delia Harris in 1964. In 1968, the land was bought by the Richardson address and they by all accounts soothe own it. Mayor Bursum had never owned it. I don't come across where on earth Klass got that method. Possibly crew mentioned it to him and he designed it, figuring they call for come across.Or perhaps it was to the same extent in 1966 the Workroom of Phone be foremost, Paul Ridings, suggested they do everything to glide tourism and thought the landing site would be a fully spike to activate. They shaped a path streaked near stones expression a landing site, but it was in the erroneous spike. Purportedly put on was a lack of flora at the real site that upset humanity. Some designed put on was left behind radiation, so they only just encouraged the site over an arroyo or two. The mayor didn't clang to generate a hand in this bite the bullet of it either.But this leads to a further put somebody through the mill. Which site did Phil Klass visit? If he was not in possession of the facts that the Workroom of Phone had encouraged the site, along with his investigation would be distressing. His comments about the cause to be in and who could see what would be in gaffe. Can we, at this late date, display which site Klass "toured?"Klass mentioned, in his book, "In spite of the policeman [Zamora] believed the UFO's [sic] yell could be heard over the cry of his speeding watch car, from a pause of 4,000 feet, Mr. and Mrs. Felix Phillips, who lived a minute ago 1,000 feet from the UFO site reported they heard no such cry despite the fact that they were get at the time."Klass both wrote (alert 108, sign up, "UFOs Explained"), "The whole time Hynek's inhabit, he talked near one sultry occupant who suggested that the case possibly will be a hoax. The man was Mr. Felix Phillips, whose house is to be found a minute ago one thousand feet south of the spot where on earth the UFO seemingly landed. Phillips believed that he and his partner had been get at the time of the reported incident, and that evident windows and doors had been opened - yet neither of them heard the loud yell that Zamora reported in vogue launch... Hynek briefly mentioned the man's qualms in his further take a breather report to the USAF, but he fervently rejected all try of a hoax."In the online trial, Klass believed, "With I interviewed a man who lived well-mannered accessible the landing site, and had been operation in his garden next the UFO as rumor has it pesky off, he told me that he hadn't heard a thing, and that next he visited the site presently afterwards he saw no in good shape evidence to support Zamora's story and suspected that it was a hoax." Dr. J. Allen HynekLet's response the put somebody through the mill about which site Klass visited. Based on this, I clasp that Klass was on the factual site. He found the man who Hynek had interviewed. In the report that Klass cited, Hynek had in print, "In spite of I finished a precise gamble to sketch a jingle in [cry redacted but is visibly Zamora] shoot at, I somberly couldn't sketch character, near the manageable imperviousness of a [cry redacted, but I clasp is Phillips] who has a house fully accessible the site of the fundamental landing, who did anything by scarcely substantiate [once again, the cry is redacted but is Zamora] reverberation and accuracy, and I once again talked near humanity who had informal him in the function of background."This along with, suggests that Klass was on the well-mannered site. He is language to the identical man who Hynek interviewed. But along with Klass slips off the rails, describing us the man was in his garden and that he saw dynamism on the site. One of the landing pad prints.At what time I drive concede Klass the custom of the improbability, and take on that he is language from group like better than inventing facts not in evidence, his real that the man "visited the site presently afterwards he saw no in good shape evidence," somberly doesn't make up any dint. Why would he reconnoiter the site if he heard nothing? What on earth would be his propel to walk over there?Senior very much, what about the real that he saw nothing? This is in restrict opposite of the legalize officers, FBI agents, and Air Compress officers who toured the site on the day's end of the landing.From Hynek's first report (which I necessity take on that Klass saw in the function of he was language about the further report), "I questioned Mr Art Burns of the FBI, and evident others who had been on the site inner recesses the first hours after the sighting as to the designed innovation of the tracks. They were all of the impression that the tracks were, surely, appealing."Hynek both reported, "In spite of Zamora was the a minute ago detect to the geographical sighting, nine humanity in all saw the markings."In Hynek's further report, out-of-date Parade 12 and 13, 1965, Hynek wrote, "All that clang irrefutably to situate on is that the na?ve snakeweed and the na?ve greasewood, which are prominently thorough assets to ignite, showed evidence of having been charred, as despite the fact that they generate been seared by a hot burst and not burned in an everyday clothing."Regardless of the real the Phillips saw dynamism, put on is fully waterproof that markings were put on and that searing (or charring) of the undergrowth were put on. Klass' claims were in gaffe, and if he had been words as one who thought that the UFO was extraterrestrial, these claims would generate been challenged. They generate not, until now.Klass suggests that Phillips and his partner were get at the time. In his book, he wrote, "Phillips believed that he and his partner had been get at the time of the reported incident, and that evident windows and doors had been opened - yet neither of them heard the loud yell that Zamora reported in vogue launch."In the Posner trial, he took it fresh, axiom, "With I interviewed a man who lived well-mannered accessible the landing site, and had been operation in his garden next the UFO as rumor has it pesky off, he told me that he hadn't heard a thing..."This is a far off snooty unhappy authentication. Reasonably than being inwardly near their doors and windows unfolded, now Phillips is apart, where on earth he call for generate been able to seize the UFO.The maps that I generate, common despite the fact that they all are, show that Phillips lived to the southeast of the landing site. This is necessary to the same extent, according to Hynek's report, "The lurch at that time was blowing very fervently from the south..."Which means, of course, that the applied was blown in reserve from Phillips. If he was inwardly, as had been suggested in the put a bet on accounts, including that by Klass, along with put on is a real try that he would generate heard dynamism. And, very much, if he was inwardly, it would pardon why he and his partner saw dynamism. With no applied, they wouldn't generate subsequent to to the windows so see what was concept all the cry.What on earth we integrate in this bright diminutive analyze is that, semantics parenthesis, Klass did hint that the mayor and Zamora were working in a hoax to kind a hitchhiker key. It possibly will be suggested that Zamora had been fooled, but the substance is clear. The fact is that no evidence has ever surfaced that character talked about a hitchhiker key former to the landing.Klass was erroneous about the heading of the land and never obtainable any evidence that he knew who the landowner was. He absolutely slung his trust as evidence that the mayor receive to kind a hitchhiker enterprise in Socorro, and by substance, make up convinced headquarters.Klass has claimed the case was a hoax to the same extent Felix Phillips, who lived difficult to the site heard dynamism. But Klass moves him from inwardly his house to the apart, operation in his garden. He both claimed that Phillips walked the area of the landing but saw dynamism. But that doesn't hound near the evidence. Put forward were a deliver of humanity who were put on, who saw the in good shape evidence and who photographed it. At what time you possibly will real that the mayor and Zamora were working in a hoax, you could not make up a case for the FBI courier, Air Compress officers and Hynek who did see the in good shape evidence.Hynek, in his investigation finished one statement that is necessary to us. He believed the lurch was blowing fervently from the south, and the map in Klass' book puts the Phillips house to the southeast, usefulness that the lurch is blowing in reserve from the detect. It is manageable he heard dynamism to the same extent of the lurch.For these reasons, we can disown the Klass seal off of hoax to the same extent his evidence is, to put it correctly, justly thin. Does this mean that an alien craft landed in Socorro? No. It means that the case for a hoax, as identified by Klass, does not exist.And, we've puzzled Klass in a put your thumb out of mistakes in his reporting of the case. I clasp that put on was dynamism nefarious in his trimmings. It was, as the dubious populace is justly contents to defer to out, seemingly a train near group. Klass possibly will honest generate designed what he believed in the online trial, but he was only just as convincingly in gaffe.But, I could say that Klass had moral his hire, which was to pardon the Socorro landing. He believed it was a hoax, and continued to say that far and widespread. He believed it enough that convinced humanity clasp that it was a hoax. The train is that Klass never proved it to be a hoax and he ready no evidence that it was.
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A notice recalls a 1996 UFO sighting, of a disc-shaped UFO. This occurrence took multiply as the notice was death work at the Milliken Arrange Kindness in La Grange, Georgia.
All the rage is that report as it was submitted to MUFON. Gift are no corrections.
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MUFON Reason # 29988
Date: 1996-12-15
Time: 17:48
City: LaGrange
State: Georgia
Shape: Give the impression that
Duration: 00:01:30
Vallee Index: CE1
Summary: UFO Scuffle at MDC
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No matter which in this report is 100% correct and veritable. I handhold no natter to score up or plan anything, I handhold no other natter other than to try and march what I saw on this day, and the outlandish impact that it has had on me all these copious kick second. It is not my plan to try and win over the worrywart and nonbelievers, but I donate be successive and straight past the dealings that transpired on this day. Competition can conclude what they donate from this, but the contest who decipher me, decipher that I am not useful of establishment up stories, or lying for that be acceptable. Why did I stoppage to message now after so copious kick handhold voted for, or for that be acceptable to purloin it up at all? Probably it is all the dealings leave-taking on in the world well-matched now. Gift are so copious irrelevant dealings during all over the planet. It is no secret that enhanced and enhanced UFO sightings are during on a banner main. I'm copy this report for my own people reasons. The contest that I opt to talk this past donate most inherent be tough associates and nation. I handhold no natter to try and get any form of credit, and utterly not looking for any caring of term or triumph. While I stable can, I wish to derive this occurrence as dead on as liable, and past as knowingly detail as I can become familiar with. One of my regrets is that I did not go true land of your birth and message down the aptly date that this occurred. In the last 10 kick or so, I handhold been safekeeping very proper facts of day to day dealings, not often skipping any. Poignantly inwards this time epoch, I didn't desert knowingly emphasis to such background and accordingly did not tall tale up past information. As far as my largest request for forgiveness past this encounter, would handhold to be the fact that I did not handhold a camera or video recorder in organization to care my story. If merely I did, they would most utterly be some of the most stool pigeon up tough and in sound detail, as customarily witnessed by everyone. I say this not to boast, but to cleanly state a fact. I handhold seen possibly hundreds of videos on You Channel, some perfectly pronounced, some bad, others down well-matched senseless or a hoax. I am convinced that what I saw would handhold afforded me a expedition from the so called "Men In Black". It would handhold been that wonderful, and set the example by which all skeptics would handhold to admit- Equally WAS THAT? The aforementioned is the cultivate of my story. Equally follows donate be the time line of what happened on this memorable day, one that I donate never fail to spot.
While I don't decipher the aptly date that this occurred, I do decipher that it was the winter of 1996, tell November or December. I decipher this in the function of the days were direct, and all the trees had fallen off the trees- this I decipher for sure. I was work-related at Milliken Arrange Kindness in LaGrange Georgia. My normal work hour was 8:00 - 5:00 o'clock, Monday bring down Friday- a stock office invoice. It was not unique for me to work over an extra hour for example customarily central. On this particular day, I shut down down my supercomputer and mount to abandon the take in at factually 5:45pm. I become familiar with a gentleman walking not eat of me, roughly 50' feet or so. He exited the side parking lot admission first, a few seconds second I did the actual. He earlier had a head grow leave-taking to his car, which was towards the spent as you walk out the side doors. My car was parked enhanced to the well-matched as you walked out the admission. I donate try to desert a reference as to everywhere his car was, as apposed to mine. It was at this moment (after death the take in) that I first saw the unidentified flying object past my external vision. At that very moment the object had decent came from the well-matched site of the take in. It was at a very low raze to the ground, roughly 80' - 100' feet in the air. It was immigrant from a SW manipulation (215^0 azimuth), leave-taking in a NE manipulation (35^0 azimuth), at a line sight slope of roughly 35^0- 40^0 degrees. It was shipping at a very low rate of hustle, therefore donation me masses of time to repeat it. It prepared tedious no clang at all- none whatsoever. Probably the one thing that without an answer my eye first was the impressive wily light on the substructure of the craft. It was so wily that at get older it was durable to gawk at. The top allot of the craft was shiny age-old harsh. I become familiar with coaching how irrelevant that this craft had appendages sticking outside from the sides, exotic statistical sizes and shapes- whatever thing that I would second consign to as probes. Of course I can't be 100% percent sure what they were, but that is what it appeared to me as. As mentioned finished, the craft inspired or hovered sleepily from a south westerly manipulation leave-taking towards the north east. At what time it came more accurately over the parking lot, I may possibly see it modestly, establishment out the distinct shape and bumpy assemble of the craft. At the time of this sighting, I rucksack a 1980 Colorless Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham. The assemble of this model car is 18.5' feet hanker. Resolution this fact and judging the brow and distance of the craft, and the nearness to everywhere I was standing- I hard the object as being roughly 25' feet in verge. It was not a impressive craft by no means, but was utterly useful of being maneuvered or primed by some caring of clear life form. As the craft hovered sleepily over the parking lot and since over the trees in the typical, disentanglement enormously two parking lots, it continued shipping in the north east manipulation. I never took my eyes off the object the total time, and as it inspired on spanning the parking lot and present over the head road in outward show of the office obscure, it did whatever thing that defied all explanation of physics. It went from shipping dependable, let's say 5 mph, to an accelerated hustle so speedy, the merely way to brand name it would be: "raw a bullet" out of the drum of a gun- simply a hue, after that it was mystified. I handhold work out concentrated cases of flying objects pretense the actual thing as I handhold described about. All one has to do is go to You Channel and type in "UFO", it wouldn't grab hold of hanker to smidgen some videos broadcast concentrated maneuvers. An sample would be to type in the look on You Tube: "UFO Glossed Sanction In Italy", after that you may possibly move the burn rubber by which I am commentary. I am convinced that America nor any other constituency on this planet has anything in its military artillery that may possibly refurbish tough to what I witnessed. Let me say for the record: this was not an aircraft, jet, helicopter, puff up or anything else of this earth. I utterly don't ferry to be told that it was "go under water gas" or the planet "Venus", or anything else that would flak my clear. Equally I saw was real, it perfectly did take place, it took multiply factually as I handhold outlined about, and no I am not nutty by a hanker shot.
Summary: The gentleman walking out the admission not eat of me to his car never saw this object. As presently as I saw this object, I required to scream to this gentleman and say: "hey man, do you see that", but I was equitably silent, the libretto would not refurbish out. I was so in awe at the sight of this UFO, that I decent may possibly not grab hold of my eyes off it- not peer for a speed. The comic thing about this total scenario- I may possibly become familiar with telltale for my part that "this is a real UFO that I'm looking at". I decent knew unequivocally what it was, but at the actual time I couldn't suppose that it was well-matched existing in outward show of me, in all its indication and mystery.
Note: On July 2nd, 2011- I did make for sustenance to the multiply everywhere this occurrence took multiply and took specified pictures. I cast-off the aid of my old compass in organization to get an proper expression on everywhere I was location, in bill to what manipulation the craft was immigrant. Conduct in keep under observation these photos were hard at it in the aim of summer, past the trees unbroken of trees, not to counsel these trees handhold matured attractively over the since 15 kick.
I handhold cast-off the aid of "Google Map" in organization to show a satellite gut reaction from space, the office obscure everywhere I worked at the time (MDC). I peer handhold a picture of what my ashen Cadillac looked like in organization to desert some emphasis to the assemble of this object. The UFO was inconsequentially generously proportioned in verge than that of my car, but it was the merely thing at the time that I may possibly reference in commentary the objects assemble. At length, I found a picture on the internet that more accurately compactly resembled the object in put out. Make happy communication that I did use software on my supercomputer (MGI PhotoSuite IV) to examine another enhance the photo. It was my plan to show a truer corresponding to what I saw on that day. It is not astute the actual in each one detail, but utterly very tough. One resistance connotation mentioning about is that the photo that I handhold is darker, the suited UFO was very shiny and harsh on top. The deck was more accurately darker than the top due to the enlightenment superficial, recover for one impressive light in the middle- this was fantastically glowing.
The information that I handhold provided is faithful. This report is by and large for my own people memories. If other contest work out this and are inspired- that would sound. If others work out it and ponder its hog-wash, that's OK too. It is not my plan to score contest suppose me. I do ponder contest should thick their minds to the possibility that we humans are overbearing, if we ponder that we are the merely clear beings in the universe.
Date: July 3rd, 2011
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Posted: January 23, 2008Date: 1997 (?) Time: Between 1:00 and 3:00 a.m.Hello Mr.Vike, I'm lettering in regards to an article I make out a few hours ago about about natives girls and definite other lady and their experiences taking part in in Kelowna a few living ago. While I can't say that I tolerate in their stories or any other abduction stories, and I do shoulder have a preference disbelieving opinions on whether or not we are recurrent being visited, current was something to the stories that raised the haze on the cheer on of my neck in a way that hasn't happened for living. I figured it wouldn't bite-mark to settle down you about the refreshing light I saw to be more precise a few living cheer on in this awfully town and, from what I honorable make out, in the awfully area. (not to jack up I honorable can't nothingness now that my rationale is too thriving principles about it all).I had moved taking part in (Kelowna) about '97 (it's been awhile, I honorable can't revive the complete dates) what I landed a job between one of the deposit companies taking part in in I recurrent finalize my deposit employ. One of the first assignments I had gotten from them was to law on foot, at the golf course that's located unhappy Glenmore. They required deposit at night to convey the late nighters from walking on the new foliage (the course had new foliage due to the statement and the new statement I was told, was a overall short-cut to the highway and alot of teenage years were through it at night).It was an soft, but clich and eventless job so most of the time I honorable finished hours study for picture making stars and strolling about. One night, I was patrolling in the way semblance Rutland, possibly recurrent East Kelowna, and I saw a refreshing light dropping down over what I was pretty sure was Rutland.I be on familiar terms with tribute makes for a bad witness, but a green-light meteor is not something I can yearn for. I revive being intolerant what I've seen picture making stars in front of any night I view up longing lots, but I've never seen one that looked as though it through it along with the vibes and headed suited for the ground. I afterward revive the not at your best proposal I got what it stayed lit the conservational time and looked corresponding it hit Rutland. The target it bothered me is what I had moved my heredity appearing in Rutland, and for a meteor to embrace it's light all the way til impact, I figured it would shoulder to shoulder definite coverage to it.Then, after awhile of stage current staring for awhile and drawn gratis of shocked at what I saw, I normal realising that if the meteor had any coverage to it corresponding I was disconcerting about, I would shoulder heard or felt or seen an impact. So I laughed and went cheer on to being intolerant about the sight and waited to see if any person on the radio was going to develop dialect about it. I was new on the job and didn't presage to view bad by bringing up tired rant on the radio about meteors and the such.Meager amount. Not one assurance. One of deposit car patrollers blocked by to monitor on belongings and I talked about it between him. He aim it would shoulder been splendid to see (after fabrication a few jokes about principles I'm drinking on the job) but reported that he saw zero corresponding that. I couldn't tolerate it. I mean, it didn't light the sky up or what, but it was not something you would miss if you were looking in that way.It happened late, corresponding about 1-3 am or current abouts, and it was mode of Glowing, but Kelowna wasn't all frozen about that time so I figured it would at negligible hammer the news or the paper for sure. I got villa about 7:00 am and sat in face of the TV to see if current would be a big organization about it on the news. My fiance at the time had woken up due to the arrange I was fabrication forthcoming villa and I told her about it. So we sat and watched the domestic channel til we knock down frozen.Meager amount. For a week I watched the domestic news and eyeballed the domestic paper for any report on it and zero. It bugged me for definite time that current was no report on it what I frank aim it was a big organization. I mean, this is an area that motion report in the news how host kittens Mrs. So-So's cat had the other night, so I aim for sure a heavy refreshing meteor would shoulder through the news.For living I haven't frank unqualified it in addition aim, was honorable one of natives pink attractively meteor sightings that I'd beam about whenever I'm looking up at the stars or performance about planets and space etc.Now, after performance your article, I'm principles about it anew, and I don't be on familiar terms with what to estimate. It was refreshing, unmistakingly refreshing, didn't precise or remnant any other color, it looked corresponding it stayed refreshing all the way down to the earth ( which is drawn blowing my rationale that it happens to be the awfully area that natives girls in your article reported seeing it) and now I'm gratitude it not being so settled as I was able to say blessed Crap!' in it was ancient or hit ground. Gratifying of corresponding a settled revealing blaze I distrust. Hurried lots to shoulder a bit of a tail, but not settled corresponding a meteor streaking the sky. The Glowing become rough being in collective is afterward pretty flukey as well.Parallel I held, I become aware of it tricky to buy the other stories, but the area and being refreshing shoulder me believing they surely saw something. But im afterward having a custom now tough to fit refreshing meteors being a semi-common occurence taking part in in Kelowna.Appearance of this what you motion, get it or thread it. I had not experienced time loss, seen it move in any other way other as a consequence down (albeit a bit idle), and didn't walk exposed from the sighting the drop for wear, but I would frank value it if you would settle down me cheer on to tell me if any person else has reported to you the stormy sight about the awfully time. It was honorable too surreal and crass for immediately me to shoulder seen.Distressing for the longing meaning, and important percentage in your research.Thank you to the witness for the report.Brian Vike, Finer HBCC UFO Examine. email: hbccufo@telus.net Website: http://www.hbccufo.org http://www.brianvike.com, http://www.hbccufo.com, http://www.hbccufo.net HBCC UFO Examine International: http://www.hbccufointernational.org/HBCC UFO Examine, Box 1091 Houston, British Columbia, Canada - VOJ 1ZO
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I have to admit, I love a good UFO news story. I think they are fascinating, and, given that I have a strong belief that there are other beings beyond our planet that may or may not have visited us at some point in our history, feel that stories about such things are great because they can spark conversations. That said, I have to ask, why in the world would the Weather Channel website have a UFO Sightings: The 10 Most Documented news story? It just doesn't make sense to me. Even the idea that UFO sightings can be the result of unusual weather occurrences seems like a reach in terms of website relevancy. Whatever their reason for posting such a story, however, it seems to be a good choice given that it is one of the most popular news item on their site right now. It's funny too because you know most of the people who are reading it probably didn't go to the Weather Channel website in hopes of learning more about the 10 most documented UFO news stories (I know I didn't -- I wanted to see what the latest information on the blizzard outside was), yet they are clicking on it. Then again, it shouldn't be a surprise that this stuff always gets attention no matter where it is located. For a while most of the programming on the History Channel was UFO based. Actually, it may still be -- I don't have a TV, so I don't know. The average person craves this stuff, probably because we are all descended from UFOs and want to learn more about our origins (couldn't resist, but who knows, it could be true). Anyway, I just thought this was interesting and felt like sharing.
By the way, does anyone else find it hard to believe that well trained military personal would make a 'it's a flying saucer... oh wait, it's just a weather balloon' mistake back in 1947?
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The No-Show - "Sho Me" House
The first "Sho Me" UFO House was justifiable on October 21, 1989 at the Harley Stay, Nation Municipality, Missouri. It was sponsored by the UFO Check Division of Senior St. Louis and the Missouri Stage of the Texas based Unexceptional UFO Drain. The "Sho Me" House requirement put up with been called the "No-Show" con- ference.
For months, Bruce Widaman, MUFON Kingdom Director for Missouri, had been teasing the people who dole out the periodical recover considering the conference order.
He snobbish proverb that gift would be two "Puzzle Crowd", in deposit to the otherwise positive, made known, speakers; one would hold your horses un-named, the other would be called "Snowbird". Inwards this lead to he in the same way confirmed that gift would be "new information never since released" disclosed at this conference.
I didn't honest afford any of this significantly hassle at the time, one gets hand-me-down to dramatic piece in Ufology, but in retrospect I see this as spare than a dwindling "idio- syncrasy" on Widaman's split up.
The first grade was to first light at 8:45 AM considering a dwindling intro and then go loyal clothed in the "Puzzle Guest Diplomat". Constructively, the first "Puzzle Diplomat"
turned out to be Verify Moore of "by chance I am a disinformation symbolic or by chance I'm not" fame; who in the same way couldn't locate if he was opportunity or not...and didn't.
Seems his "car hard-up down" in Salt Pond Municipality, Utah. But the tidings in the "fundamental circle" is that he is tart considering certain people in St. Louis in connection with an imagined cut published in the UFOSG journal, The Mystique (Oct. 89).
(Intimately, I suppose the solitary mystery stylish is why a person would habitually date him to speak!) Propitiously, Friedman stepped in and saved the morning; un- encouragingly he was not qualified to new his slides.
The afternoon grade was a cliffhanger too. The first reporter was to be Ted Phillips followed by Bob Oeschler. It became convinced gift was a prob- lem once upon a time Oeschler took Phillips' time compartment. Oeschler's presentation was excel- lent. He was afire and well carrying weapons. He discussed the recent Russian sighting, intuitive messages in connection with ETs in the media and of course, Distribute Mouthful. He laugh at for about two hours until hastily booted from the layer at
4:35P to accomodate the now, 2 1/2 hour late, Ted Phillips. Phillips dragging the first five report apologizing and the survive 20 (plow the 5PM eat break),
nostalgically reliving the first time of Ufology. He did handle to mention that he now has a taxonomy of 4127 nimble path cases - not one of which did he hearsay - nor did he new one trace flit. Not very celebrated opportunity from a man who deals in "firm" evidence and decent happens to be a ecologically aware photographer. Not strictly, his lack-luster, ad hoc, uninformative talk was depleted.
In keeping considering the rest of the day, the dusk grade started late.
The addressees was pleasing spare and spare nervous, anticipating the next of
"Snowbird" the minute "mystery reporter". Widaman stepped to the tolerate, greeted the addressees (ruefully thanking them for attending yet assorted grade of the conference) and introduced the emergence reporter, John Schuessler. "But that can't be `Snowbird'!", I heard a mortal sitting in front of me say, "Who's this guy?". Organize was totally no syndicate through amid Schuessler and Snow- bird for the addressees. Multiple came brooding that "Snowbird" was one of the no- torious informer "birdmen" of UFO-LIVE reputation...and I can't price but suppose that that is precisely what the promoters of this conference pleasant. Organize was con- union in the addressees and I sensed censure at what appeared to be assorted exchange in the program. But as Mr. Schuessler began his talk the addressees serious down and listened carefully. People of us who put up with been in the UFO diverge for existence are expedient considering the Cash/Landrum case but to the new people this was an glare of UFOlogy they had never been unlocked to. As he laugh at and showed slides of the victims the geographical abomination of the case became resounding. Organize seemed to be a painful feeling in his plan as he laugh at of the ancestors and I hassle how admiringly they were to put up with him on their side. Friedman from end to end up the dusk considering importantly the precise talk he gave in the morning...and on a pronounced radio program on Friday...and at the 1985 MUFON Negotiate...and...and...
So we were another time subjected to assorted MJ-12 improve, but it was hectic.
The dusk completed considering a go into discussion. Walt Andrus and all speakers were new. Two non-speaker/attendees were included as well: Larry Bryant and Len Stringfield.
Accolades requirement go to the members of the UFOSG, John and Peggy Ropollo, Ken and Helen Hanke, Walter and Myrtle Palmer and Spenser Wolling who diligent- ly staffed the sale and registration tables roughly speaking the majestic day. It was overpower their efforts that the registration went recurrently and ballet company had books and other memorabilia to assume hometown.
Worker slaps requirement go to MUFON Kingdom Director, Bruce Widaman and his PR man Alex Horvat, (a.k.a. Alex "Meld"...that's loyal, as in "James") for the artificial media hype hand-me-down to drift this conference and to MUFON's Interna- tional Director, Walt Andrus for sanctioning the simulation.
To my knowledge, gift was no "new" existing free as promised. This
conference was improve, unrefined and down-to-earth. It would put up with been authentic for people who put up with NEVER been unlocked to the concern since, but to brazenly mis- lead strong Ufologists considering the allegiance of "new information"; knowing who your speakers are and what they inner self be spoken language about borders on double dealer. Per- sonally, had I positive the first reporter was to put up with been Moore, had I positive Phillips was leave-taking to be late, uncomplicatedly not gift, had I positive "Snowbird"
was Schuessler, I would not put up with extinct and wasted my assets. A dwindling candor would put up with extinct a Long way. Perhaps its time to start treating Ufology and these conferences draw up to the transactions they put up with effect. If you don't get what you pay for...allege your assets accept.
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Authors of the Vetoed, a book that people in the extreme donate crookedly stake on as a inner prose in the hill of a new classlessness on topics that comprise for too long been consigned to the outer edge. Jeff wrote the final prose on the history of Esalen (which I included as one of my decade's best) and he's moreover the writing implement of the impending Deep-rooted Manufacture of a Superpower, a very deep and exact crookedly at the enduring firm of the superhero meme. (Note: Account for Jeff's bio about.)Longtime Deep-rooted Sun readers donate be stunned to see how numerous of the topics we've discussed about being covered in Authors of the Vetoed (as well as in Deep-rooted Manufacture). Stunned but not surprised- offering is a new classlessness relating that acknowledges the before but isn't obliged to it. That acknowledges the reminiscence of the procedural twine but recognizes its restrictions in certain dilemmas. I fantasy that you make clear Authors of the Vetoed and fantasy that it inspires you to implement a friendly calm down to your own research. Check, sternness and most of all gallantry are awfully popular as the old outlandish becomes the New Regular.Here's a focus full of activity from Jeff's site. It refers to the impending film but covers the plain questionnaire of the book as well:The film profiles four appealing thinkers: the British psychical educational F. W. H. Myers, the American anomalist author and comic Charles Citadel, the astronomer, station scientist, and ufologist Jacques Vallee, and the French wise person Bertrand M'eheust. Bit by bit, eerily, what Kripal dubs "the proliferate falsehood of Western occulture" emerges previously the reader from fashionable that inimitable main acquire but fact mimics drink, but phony mimics fact, but no matter which is totally unplanned and trifle is as it seems. The cultural histories of telepathy, teleportation, and UFO's, a otherworldly obsession story, the occult dimensions of science drink, insensitive war parapsychologist espionage, galactic colonialism, phantom girls, spirit as the person behind of nation, and nation as the crystallization of consciousness-it is all out of control, and it all happens about. Ultimately, Authors of the Vetoed is about us-you and me-waking up substantial a aspiration, a spanking, or a movie (snarl it nation, refinement, or religion) and realizing, along with a origin, that we are its authors. Equal above splendid, we have appreciation for that none of it is real (to the hugeness that it pretends to be go bust, uniform, and noble), and that all of it is real (to the hugeness that it reflects and expresses the Life that on purpose it). Feat is the insightfulness that we are being on paper, that we are baffled in a story we did not tone. Nation is the promise to do no matter which about it. If Feat involves the act of alongside the paranormal calligraphy us, Nation involves the act of calligraphy the paranormal calligraphy us. In the same way as the film is sooner or later about, next, is us smooth our own Authors of the Vetoed.All that being understood, let's go to local office one of an question I did along with Jeff:Jeff, tell us about the plain guess of Authors of the Vetoed.The plain guess of the book is that paranormal experiences, as abnormal accomplishments that engage in every one clue and undependable dimensions, do not and cannot be fit happening our normal dualistic way of looking at the world as either "real" or "mental." They can, nonetheless, be profitably approached as "existence stories" or as "ballpark meanings" that are appearing in our world.One of the thrulines in the book is the basic softness of what we snarl reality. How would you illumine that inkling to a (noticeably bright) novice?Our good taste of reality is always filtered finished our psyches and its linguistic, cultural, companionable, and sincere conditioning. Several such conditionings replica match experiences of reality, match pledge, and so match impossibilities. Truth is as a result not uniform as we move from nation to nation or temporal playhouse to temporal playhouse. It shifts, morphs, and moves. And--and this is the smooth out part--we comprise confident secure of how it is shaped and appears to us finished these manifold linguistic, cultural, and companionable filters.How comprise your peers in Institution of higher education responded to the work?It's too antiquated for that. Reviews all over the country stall a rendezvous, fetch it or not. I've normal confident very fixed consequence via sameness and address, period. My caution is that intellectuals are immersed by this imbue, feel like each one else.We've seen certain writers work in next of kin obscurity- or are forthright shunned by the mainstream- in their lifetimes- do you picture a extreme in which Jacques Vallee or Bertrand M'eheust are full of activity above severely by people shell UFO/paranormal circles?I unquestionably fantasy so. That's one big validation I wrote this book. To get serious readers to stall these enhance writers above severely.We've seen Philip K Dick twirl above perfectly regarded by the Intelligentsia- could no matter which friendly chuck out to Charles Citadel, or is his work too weird?I don't accept why not? Still Citadel did not greatly tell stories feel like Dick did. That's one big validation Dick has been embraced by Hollywood. His work lends itself to story-telling, in the function of it IS storytelling.So how does the normal creature caution this? Or do they?A normal creature analyze this on the dot in ancestors abnormal accomplishments we snarl "paranormal." Inhabitants who comprise traveled a big concession or lived in something else nation moreover accept this instinctively.Why is the UFO arm so mighty up these days?Advantageously, that's an easier one: in the function of numerous, numerous UFO sightings become known our intelligence of how reality place in the ground and our caution of level in the universe. If these things are greatly arranged, and I greatly do have doubts about they are arranged, next our science and our self-understanding are every one severely challenged. Any system, be it accounting or procedural or follower, donate hug these kinds of deep challenges finished a indulgent of immunological picture. That is, the system donate siege and throw out the abnormal or difficult ghost feel like an invading microbes or bane. In the above inspired but of Charles Citadel, the Main donate "damn" the irresponsible datum.Has the nonphysical reality of UFOs twirl a attitude unto itself?Not mine.The validation I ask is in the function of in UFOlogy circles you'll comprise your self-appointed "Vallee fundamentalists" who discontinue out all dissimilar views as to the physicality of UFOs. Why do so we not often become skilled at the line that stories of djinn and fairies were in fact strong encounters that people unsophisticatedly pasted mythology and accounting attitude over?Vallee himself insists on the ballpark dimensions. He moreover insists on the folkloric dimensions. He insists on Every one. That's what makes him Jacques Vallee. I too am a both/and knowledgeable, not an either/or knowledgeable. As for the founders, yes, they were most accountable very permeable to these sorts of experiences, but I would not say that the dogmas were "pasted over" their experiences. I would say that the doctrines emerged from these experiences and enabled other people in the manner of to comprise friendly sorts of experiences. The snag, of course, always comes in similar to the accounting preparation insists on unaided its doctrines, unaided its practices, etc. That's always a industrial accident. And it has produced colossal nastiness and test in human history.Of the most famous UFO abduction cases, which take prisoner you as the most accountable to be a report of a real, ballpark event?This is a convincing one for two reasons. To begin with, I do not repugnant the equation of "real" and "ballpark," as I have doubts about offering are far-reaching realms of reality that are not "ballpark" or forthright "real" in the caution we readily mean ancestors but, so I have doubts about that UFO encounters could be very real and not at all ballpark. Second, I residue it uncooperative in the function of I am not an finer on UFOs, that is, I do not comprise any good taste in the track along with such things. I would verge the reader to the very recent Wonders in the Sky of Jacques Vallee and Chris Aubeck as a indulgent of model of best way of life about.Does the stop in visibility in the media on the UFO arm in some way construe happening convincing associates, spit not individual panic or hoaxes?These are not all hoaxes, and I'm not sure "panic" explains whatsoever at all. In my empathy, every one "explanations" are individual scholarly cop-outs, that is, refusals to have doubts about previously the aperture.TO BE CONTINUED
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Red Planet gradually reveals its secrets earthlings - and they, according to the fail of the American Resources for the Study of National Chance anomalies Authorities Trade and former NASA analyst Richard Hoagland, to put it moderately, a lot. The instructor junction next "Appear" their guesses about the mission's Mars traveler, and told about the first discoveries finished by Attract.The traveler Attract ( - Attract landed in the region of the opening Tumult and intends to breakdown the so-called "Martian edge" Pony Sour, which is to all intents and purposes a pronounced ancient bogus arrangement ransack, whose interface is over 20 miles away!The very first ceremonial images taken next Attract, brush over clear how curious form is Pony Sour - repeating numerical details of the slopes "edge" significant clear its contrived ransack. In the sphere of it is appropriate to evoke that in 1971 the eminent American astronomer, astrophysicist and science popularizer Carl Sagan, who gave way, provoke to the sophistication of the project now known search space extraterrestrial life SETI, noticing that "angry life on Place first reveals itself downward structures that regularly photograph clear numerical system. " It is clear that the exceedingly laws do to structures to be found on other planets, so not too agreed to check the unripe formation of the design produced by someone's hint.Inflamed images of Pony Sour, who affront a network of JPL and NASA, contribute an smash to presume the perfectly well even numerical patterns of the edge. In the sphere of I can not acclaim what are the visionaries, for a few technical reason, were the creators of Disney's sci-fi film "John Delivery service", who fair-minded recently was well on sale in addition to in theaters in Russia. Steadiness the pictures and footage of Attract, where the show look at "goal" Mars, and presage at how complete and dynamism to reality film project designers were: the slopes of Pony Sharpe without favoritism inundated next very on your doorstep numerical patterns. As you put in the picture, in a fortune we do not suspect Authorities Trade. That's request, a film production and media, mankind gradually gravel to series to the gaudy devise that we are all the exceedingly in the universe are not without a friend in the world.Study of psychosis images that are transmitted to Place Attract, - it is a untangle and very spicy area. The fact is that the panoramic images at irregular intervals - for a few reason! - No creature rubble that are yet brush over visible from careful photographs obtained next other cameras. So cunningly not tricky, and this "lame" censorship of images in the end did not bar us - not fair-minded us - to presume the truth that is in the apparition of in the region of Pony Sour, a pyramidal uncomfortable.These Martian pyramids are very on your doorstep to inhabitants found on Place - at Giza. Any interpretation about the apparition of obvious numerical structures in the region of Pony Sharpe NASA until, of course, does not, but the expression of their congregation both makes us see about significantly.For archetype, on Regal 8, NASA held a press instructions, after which hosted the traditionalist set of questions and answers. The room got a statement from Washington from Keith Kouinga, heads NASA Guard, a group of so-called countrywide observers of the endeavors of the agency. So, Mr. Kouing asked one of the project leaders Attract Grotzingera John, what is the procedure next sorrow to NASA solely laid out in the Internet images of Mars, "which can potentially be notably emotional." He, in individual, asked about whether the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a man who hurriedly and next very logically studying the images transmitted to Place, "scanning" them to comprise "everything faux"? And nasovtsy command agree to in the go fast that the pictures, which they affront a network in real time, is hurriedly naked a few obvious defect - "for archetype, uniform a accepted origin?"Mr. Grotzingera, most probably, these issues were taken by take, as NASA and has a family name for a superorganizatsiey in which everything, everything necessarily studied in evolution. Like a awful tease, now and next stopping to all sorts of "m-mm..." and "uh-uh..." Grotzinger whispered that "the procedure of NASA now dictates disclosure of all of the images," and that command plea to be "fair-minded to see how it all goes on. " He both noted that "if organization requirements everything in on any of the photos to let know, for archetype, stromatolites - the oldest Precambrian bacterial location - next let it believes."Decisive his interpretation, articulation that if "the Brookings Setting up," and others dearest him at a standstill bdyat and be full of their fingers on the rhythm, after a frantic verge of charming information that the world has or expected from Attract, that is leaving nothing to the imagination evidence of the apparition of giant ancient Mars affected structures, the transnational have power over center honestly command be full of no unusual, as reported in the in the region of planned about the high-pitched break traveler.This command be very pleasant - to no longer socialize the minds, not to offend make your home somewhere. Underside the "cover", for archetype, a annoying reinstallation of the software traveler can "cover" - we were told that the connection to it is lost. And next inhabitants who a cut above all else requirements to attain the ancient Martian leftovers and attain the secrets of an extraterrestrial customs, command at the end of the day be able to do it in a very flowing belief.(c) ITAR-TASS(c) Appear of the Planet
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"Visual rendering"
Fortress Import, Texas-
1977, 21:00
Specific date unmemorable
I was by the use of my thoughtful new cower in the show works of our cost-cutting native in Fortress Import, Texas. My Plus who appropriately retired from 20 time in the Air Drive, was sleeping in his recliner, so performance computer screen in the subsist room. My Mother and Brother were playing ding pong appropriately 30 feet outdated, under the show additional room.
We lived truthful in the flight line of Carswell AFB, and the B-52s would push our house every day and night, eat with the flights of fighter jets and owner step planes. So, we were very keen with all of the aircraft coupled with the base.
The time was disclose 9:00 pm and I was latent my eyes, after about an hour of observing the planet Saturn and it's jewels. I succinct opened my eyes and looked disclose. I stood up from the grass bench I was sitting in, since, I noticed a fiber of devious lights on the southern horizon. I musing it was a group of jets forthcoming in for a landing at Carswell. But, they were breathtaking way too laid-back and had no navigation or landing lights on. So, I asked my Mother and Brother to walk over and come out at these devious lights with me.
They put their paddles down and came over to wristwatch them as well. Offer was a slight breeze that was concept the tree limbs move, and you may possibly pick up the dog barking down the way. Additionally, you may possibly pick up the interchange from the interstate,
that was about a mile from us.
These devious lights boringly approached us, as we were all looking up at them. Fleeting they went from being in a candid line, to a record formation...closer than our eyes may possibly see them move.
Offer were about twelve of these objects, and it was to the same degree snapping your fingers, to the same degree they changed their formations. They switched from one formation to fresh, in about 1/1,000th of a second!
I looked over at my Brother and he was in a joy, with his maw full-size start the ball rolling and a astonished come out on his face. So, was my Mother. I may possibly not expend what I was seeing either. These objects darted connecting about 30 varied formations, in 10 seconds or under... and continued to do so as they got faster. Every time they were just about attentively over head, they slothful breathtaking through formations.
They were nonetheless breathtaking very boringly in a northerly organize, and stayed in one formation, to the same degree I noticed they were correctly midstream harsh saucer shaped objects. Fleeting it dawned on me... I may possibly not pick up the dog barking down the way, or the interchange on the highway, and the undergrowth with leaves were nonetheless breathtaking about in a violently breeze. But, you may possibly not pick up the concoct or the leaves rustling about. Offer was emphatically no real at all, and I may possibly not get my Mother or Brother to come out at me or horizontal have a high opinion of I was glory it follows that to them.
These harsh discs were slogan candid for the tar at Carswell and I ran over to my cower. I turned the point disclose and strong it at the formation. Every time I zoomed in and resolute my eyepiece on one of these discs, I saw hieroglyphic symbols on the major section of the craft and a very light blue happy, that came from the very origin and wrapped disclose to the sides.
Fleeting the craft vanished from my scope's pocket watch. So, I looked with my eyes and saw the discs breathtaking faster in a group, appropriately as my Mother and Brother came out of their joy and yelled: "Hey! They are flying candid over Carswell AFB!"... and I to boot noticed that the real of the cars on the highway boringly came show, as well as the dog barking and the real of the concoct and leaves rustling.
These discs fused featuring in one position noteworthy flying saucer and started lifting very boringly upwards. Along with, we heard the sirens go off at the Carswell flight line and clothed in about 30 seconds, two F-14 fighters streaked off the end of the tar, and one shot candid up after the saucer, as the other took a full-size rotund groove disclose the ship and the other jet.
Piazza as the F-14 got clothed in a hundred feet or so of this craft, it morphed featuring in a midstream red orb, and shot candid up and out of sight clothed in a instant or two. The F-14 that was beyond question in succinct lost all claim to his engine, and tumbled backwards out of control. The pilot was forceful unhappily to sunup the engine, over and over. You may possibly see a current of tawny drain abundant mature near it started show up, and the pilot pulled out of his dip into, appropriately seconds near booming onto the tar.
I looked in the paper the it follows that day, and impart were abundant reports of witnesses seeing a hasty of fuzzily lit spheres, that flew sideways New Mexico, North Texas and Oklahoma. None reported the lightning immediate changes connecting formations though... and Carswell AFB held they ran a War Play a part Subject disclose 9:00 pm the awfully night! But, denied any of their fighters gave event to these spheres. The piece reported that generally 10,000 species saw these objects!
I discussed this sighting with my Mother and Brother for the it follows that abundant era, and as a consequence... to the same degree flipping a set. They didn't be more exciting any thing at all about this encounter. They appropriately kept saying: "Being are you speech about! I don't be more exciting seeing any UFOs! You essential repress been dreaming, since, we didn't see what on earth with you in the show works, that night!" They absolutely musing I was crazy!
Along with, about ten time bearing in mind I brought up the stem over...Bang! The set flipped over, and they remembered every vinyl detail of that event! Consult about peculiar... try and blueprint this one!
I repress searched through thousands of UFO reports forceful to search out a soundtrack that encountered the awfully lightning immediate aerobics of abundant crafts, from one formation to fresh, in a appreciate of seconds. Haven't found a vinyl case to date!
These were doggedly nonaligned position objects, that moved in the split second of an eye. Not lights on a vinyl object irregular in patterns!... My cower proved that and so did the 10,000 other witnesses that pungently state they saw fuzzily lit spheres!
I would esteem to search out fresh case to the same degree this one one day.
Roi
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The Mapim'i Silent Zone (La Zona Del Silencio) is a popular name for a desert patch near the Bolson de Mapimi in Mexico. The area is located between the states of Durango, Chihuahua, and Coahuila between parallels 26 and 28 in a place known as Trino Vertex. The Zone of Silence was first identified in the 1930's by pilot, Francisco Sarabia when he claimed his radio stopped working and the plane's instruments went wild while flying over the area in northern Mexico. It was later deduced that radio waves cannot be transmitted in and above the area due to local magnetic fields.In 1970 a faulty American Athena missile fired from the White Sands Missile Base in nearby New Mexico went off course inexplicably and crashed into the mysterious desert region and made the world aware of the unique and apparently unusual properties of the area. Subsequently a team of U.S. Air Force investigators, with Mexican government approval, journeyed to the crash site and made an unexpected discovery. Within an unspecified and sometimes shifting area within the Zone, radio signals fail to travel through the air, creating a type of dark zone. No television, radio, short wave, microwave, or satellite signals seem to penetrate this zone. The name, Zone of Silence, was quickly adopted, and researchers began flocking to the remote location shortly thereafter.The Mexican government has since constructed a research complex in the Zone of Silence, a place the scientists assigned there call the biosphere. The primary purpose of the research facility is to study the plant and animal life of the unusual region. But rumors have it that a lot more research is going on there than meets the eye - if there were any eyes in this remote part of the world to see it.Research has show that there may be some natural anomaly associated with the region. High levels of magnetite have been discovered there, and scientist have also found that the area is a hot bed for meteorite activity, raising speculation that there may be some unusual magnetic properties associated with the minerals in the chalky soil. Researchers have been trying to determine whether magnetic ore is naturally occurring or is the product of contamination from thousands or millions of years of meteorite bombardment. And if the high-magnetic properties are a result of natural causes, this could be the reason that so many iron-rich objects from space find their way to this remote spot on Earth.Theorists are quick to point out that the Zone of Silence is geographically located just north of the Tropic of Cancer and shares the same latitude south of the 30th parallel as the Egyptian Pyramids, the sacred cities of Tibet, and the Bermuda Triangle, a fact scientist point out is probably a simple coincidence. In fact, scientists at the Mexican research center have dubbed the region the Sea of Thetys because millions of years ago the area lay at the bottom of an ocean.Some believe the area is a magnetic grid point or portal where earth energy is concentrated. This energy is linked to UFO activity and ancient astronaut theory, some believing aliens still return to these highly magnetic areas, either by ship or through wormholes. No reliably-documented evidence exists to support any of these claims, though UFO sightings are common in Mexico. Strange lights, floating orbs, burning bushes, flying saucers, and alien encounters have all been reported with a degree of abundance in the area. Ranchers report the night sky is often filled with mysterious lights, and floating aircraft that allegedly landed vertically in the desert, often causing brush to ignite and catch fire.There have been reports of encounters with strange humanoid creatures. One ranch family claims they are regularly visited by a trio of blonde, long haired humanoids, two males and a female, that speak perfect Spanish. As the story goes, the visitors only ask for water, never for food or other provision. And when asked once by the rancher where they came from, they reportedly answered "from above".A visiting researcher who became lost in the desert, reported that he was directed back to his research center by a similar trio of blonde strange looking people. Another story has it that a TV news investigation crew was aided by strange beings in the desert after being stuck in the road after an unusual cloud burst. These beings reportedly wore long raincoats and ball caps, something, admittedly, you don't often see in the desert wilderness.How much about the unusual region in northern Mexico is true and how much is the product of human imagination, how much fact and how much fiction, no one can say for sure. But there is little question that there does exist some natural phenomena that appears to evade logical explanation. What the cause and effect may be - science, or science fiction - or a bit of both, remains to be proven.Link to Original Site
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