The Driverless Car

Everything about this memory is off -- weird, like a scene from a David Lynch movie. A FARGO vibe, (without the snow), Wenders, Jarmusch...anyway. 

I’m little, around eight. Certainly under ten. I don’t know why I’m here; don’t remember being here before, or going back later. I don’t remember leaving to get there, or what happened  afterwards. With my grandmother, I think she’s the one who brought me here. Visiting someone, for some reason. 

There’s a garage here, a full on mechanics shop. I remember the garage painted a pale blue color.  We’re out in a rural area, surround by desert. A crumbly  grayish -white house a few yards from the garage. I’m playing outside, by myself, and not much to do, except scratch around in the ocher dust, which I do. I remember being annoyed by the barely heard music from a transistor radio in the garage. I remember the radio as being red, sitting on a shelf. No people around.  And thinking: why do people just barely turn on their radios, then leave? Here I am, outside, alone, in this strangle place, the music a constant thin hum of metallic irritation in the air. 

I’m watching red ants. I’ve never seen red ants before. Thousands of red ants, and I’m careful not to get them on me. I suppose my grandmother is inside the house. I don’t remember if I was forbidden to go inside, or what, but I don’t remember being inside or who the people were we were visiting. So I’m outside, watching red ants. It’s quiet -- except for that stream of ghost music -- and it’s silent out here. No other people, or houses or buildings that I remember. Across the dirt road  there is just open space; dry fields, brown grass.

A black car drives up the road. I get up to see who it is. And I’m confused, because I don’t see a driver in the car. I move around, to get a better look, thinking I’m not seeing things correctly. The car is moving very slowly. No matter how I move around, I can’t see a driver in the car. The windows are not blacked out in any  way-- it’s simply the fact of no driver. I remember seeing the black car, no driver, up on a little hill, as if the road rose up a little in front of the house. The car slowly continued on, after slowing down and pausing at the house, the garage, the red ant filled yard, before continuing on. And still, no driver.

Not a dream, remembered for some strange reason decades later. A memory, and why this seemingly mundane one that still sticks? Within the memory however are odd details: the why of us being there, the where, just me and my grandmother, and, of course, the driver less car. 

An anomalous event, definitely. Whether it's paranormal, supernatural, UFO related (cover memory?)  or a MIB  type encounter, who can say. 

Orange orb Archives -

Found this while surfing: Orange orb Archives -

Interviewed by MUFON's Erica Lukes

Last week I was interviewed by MUFON's Utah state director, Erica Lukes, on her UFO Audit podcast.  I had a lot of fun! Erica is very interested in orange orb sightings. The interview took some giddy turns for sure. You can listen here: UFO Audit. 

Mysterious Universe on Orbs, and more

Video and article on sightings, including an orb dropping another orb. Orb very small and far away:

At Saucer, Orbs and Volcano Visitor in Latest UFO Sightings | Mysterious Universe: 

The “exact same thing” refers to the orb pulsating before dropping another orb, which falls for a time before disappearing. The sighting was near Fairchild Air Force Base but the report could not positively link it to any military, commercial or drone activity. And nobody could explain what the orb dropped. (Mysterious Universe; Paul Seaburn)

Embarking on a FOIA Request

I've decided to do a FOIA, and went to the official site for info. Those who have filed FOIAs, like John Greenwald of The Black Vault, know very well what's involved. I've known that it takes patience and persistence, but had no idea how deep this little rabbit hole goes. All I've done so far is look on-line at the various agencies -- and the departments within those agencies -- and my head is already spinning. But I will go ahead, and post what I've found (if anything) when my requests are filled. Optimistically, I say…

Orange Orb Threads on Reddit

Exploring discussions of orbs, orange and otherwise, on Reddit.com, I found this post referencing a book Voices From The Cosmos. Follow the link to read an excerpt from the book, where, via telepathic communication, a "large gray" reveals that orbs are "energy."

The Orange orbs Phenomenon. : UFOs: "Here's an interesting excerpt from the book "Voices from the Cosmos" about the orbs. http://imgur.com/cF9GbYR" (Reddit.com)

From alienviews: "Odd Observation #7"

Writing about how we tell ourselves we shouldn't be seeing what we clearly are seeing, even if we don't know what it is we are seeing, Alfred Lehmberg shares a memory, and much more:

alienviews: Odd Observation #7: Back at the barbecue, I would suggest, now, that my two fellow aviators and I followed the programming hypnosis of "polite" society and ignored a sighting that should have been VERY interesting to two professional military instructor pilots and one candidate astronaut, one would have thought!We reflexively and very neatly self-hypnotized ourselves with the calming mantra: "It's got to be something... It's got to be something..." Meaning, of course, It's got to be something prosaic. I remember doing it.  At the time it made perfect sense... there were "bigger" (hah!) fish to fry. (Alfred Lehmberg)

So many times this has happened to me as well. One memory -- and, like Alfred's experience at the barbecue party where the sighting took place -- I too was at a barbecue party. Summer, outdoors, near the evening but still light out. Standing around in a little circle, talking, and I'm looking up into the sky. Waaay up there, a cigar shaped object, brilliant turquoise blue, slowly traveling through the air. The blue color appeared to be more light than the color of the material of the object. Meaning, it appeared to be lit from within. It was moving slowly and seemingly randomly. Turning a little. Could have been a blimp, but I have never seen a blimp blue like that, and so high up!



We all looked up, agreed it was "weird," and went back to more mundane matters. No one offered an explanation, no one said "It's a blimp," or "That's a jet" or some such. No one said anything after that. I was the one considered an annoyance, by the fact I would still look up and comment on the object. My continuing to acknowledge its existence seemed to anger others. I've had this experience many times, as have others. Once you look up, and point out what you observe, well, how dare you upset the paradigm.



So accusations of you being a "UFO nut" or "believing in little green men" are made, jokes about anal probes and tunes from X-Files and Twilight Zone whistled all to denigrate and trivialize. When in fact, the weird-thing-in-the-sky could very well be man made, a drone, weather monitoring, spy technology, who knows. Or as yet unknown natural event. Or, indeed, a UFO from outer space. Anything, but something decidedly strange, different, unique and so far unexplained. Something that demands our attention and curiosity, regardless if it's alien or other. And yet, many reject the further investigation and dismiss the weird thing seen as unimportant.

Unanswered

Many ways to get at What Happened. One method: place all the events in a linear pattern, step back, and see if there is a pattern. Once placed, do the individual events appear less singular, and more of a cohesive picture? Using art as an analogy - - is the painting abstract, representative, surreal? Any of those genres, as different and specific as they are, would work. It's subjective. 

But of all the UFO encounters I've had, I'm focusing on the orange orb sighting for now. Even so, this supposed one time sighting spills over and drags with it from the past other events. Impossible to be strictly linear. 

Questions:

Location

1. Why is it that, to this day and decades later, my husband and I still argue over where we were living when the sighting took place. Barely beginning to discuss the sighting, we get extremely annoyed with each other about the fact of where we were living. We don't disagree about the sighting -- that most certainly occurred. Color, shape, agreed. Where we were living, argument is sure to happen. 

Context is important. This sighting was something unique; yet periphery facts are confused. Not the sighting itself, but the stuff around it. Why? Why this difference in memory that remains to this day?

2. Apathy and Confusion

Apathy is something many witnesses report during sightings. An acknowledgement something weird occurred, then a shrug and off to bed. With the orange orb sighting, I recall being very excited, almost manic, running to the phone and picking up the receiver before putting it back down without calling anyone. I didn't know who to call. Didn't know about MUFON then; the only places I could think of were the police, the airport, or the media. After that, I went over to our front door, thinking I would go outside to look for the orb, which had dropped down into a neighbor's backyard. Hand on the doorknob, then realizing how ridiculous that was. What was I going to do, go outside, in the dark, and walk around someone's property? I could at least go outside, walk up the little hill and across the road, and peer into their backyard from the street. But something stopped me. Fear, apathy, I don't know.

Jim remembers none of this. He also insists (the argument phase) that we weren't even living there at that time. The sighting, according to him, took place in our previous residence, an apartment approximately two miles away.

Another sighting

We both remember another sighting around the same time. It was late afternoon, still light but close to dusk.We were driving on Lorane highway (the same road we saw the orange orb)  and saw a round, spinning silver sphere  above a small pasture. The sphere was rotating slowly in the air, a beam of light emanating from underneath the craft onto the ground. We were both disturbed by this. Agreed it was very strange and creepy and had a strong sense of "let's get out of here." We didn't talk about it -- not like we did, and continue to do, with the orb.

Connections

Are these two sightings connected in some way? What are the chances of us seeing see UFO events on the same road -- seeing two events at all? Some  UFO researchers suggest that there is no coincidence in these things. A history of sightings, complete with odd memories and time distortions, as well as dream related phenomena, does indicate something more than random weirdness. 

Orange Orb Paranormal

I have a Facebook page: Orange Orb Paranormal. For awhile it was called "Ufos are Paranormal and this is Why" which, clearly, was a bad title. This is what I posted when I changed the name to Orange Orb Paranormal:

Original title of the group was UFOs are Paranormal and this is Why. Pretty clunky. But it's an interesting angle and no one can deny there are often "paranormal" aspects to UFO encounters. (The "Oz Factor" as researcher Jenny Randles calls it.) The title has changed to Orange Orb Paranormal to include both UFOs - especially orange orbs, based on my own sighting years ago -- and any paranormal, supernatural,Fortean and anomalous topics.

I also wanted the tie-in and recognition of the Orange Orb blog with the title. So, if you "do" Facebook and are interested, drop by.

Orange Fireballs and Little People in England—the Incredible 1994 UFO-Humanoid Case at Silbury Hill - Paranormal News

From 1994, which is early for orange orb type sightings, this one from England. This sighting involves crop circles -- the witnesses were camping out hoping to see something in terms of crop circles appearing. Lots of high strangeness, including orange orbs and other light forms:

Orange Fireballs and Little People in England—the Incredible 1994 UFO-Humanoid Case at Silbury Hill - Paranormal News: Looking over the side of the steep mound they thought they could see small dark forms moving around, forms resembling children, but their attention was immediately grabbed by the sight of an orange fireball appearing about a mile away—slowly floating above the ground. When all three people looked at the orange, fiery orb another fireball immediately appeared beside the first. At that distance the witnesses described them as looking like flaming, orange torches. (Paranormal News.com)

alienviews: The Denial Guy

At Alfred Lehmberg's blog: alienviews: The Denial Guy:

Stand silent on Frank Feschino, "Emma Woods," and John Ford? When I know better? Not easily or at all, and not at this station. (Alfred Lehmberg)

I like Alfred's inventive phrase describing us UFO explorers -- who are NOT debunkers and "skeptics" -- what he calls the "curious rational."



And going after Bill Nye, the, uh, "science" guy, as we know.

Nothing new under–or around–the Sun? | Mottimorphic Musings

From Wm. Michael Mott's blog, Mottimorphic Musings, about Big Star Science announcing the presence of a "new" planet:

Nothing new under–or around–the Sun? | Mottimorphic Musings: I’m on the record as saying that I believe they know have known where and what Planet X is … and that it’s going to return, sooner or later, on a periodic swath of destruction or turbulence through the solar system. The official silence has probably been due to a policy of containment. Such information could cause social and religious chaos and disintegration, or so the governmental and authoritarian types would think. Lesser secrets have been kept before, for similar reasons. (Wm. Michael Mott)

Exactly.

UFO Believers in SE Asia

 "But we can’t contact them, only they can contact us.” (Ek Tha)

That's a perspective I find interesting. The above from an article in the Southeast Asia Globe, (thanks to The Anomalist for link) that discusses UFO witnesses and believers in Cambodia.



I'm also intrigued by Tha's confidence in the following:

“There are 82 species. Some have four fingers, some three; some are big, some small. And some are good guys; some are bad guys. The good aliens will help us live sustainably, and the bad aliens will come to kill us. You have to watch out for that.”

On the last point: indeed.



I'm not making fun; I always am glad to find out about UFO studies in other countries. The USA is not --  despite many who still believe this -- the only country where UFO interest lives. Of course I wonder how Tha, or anyone, knows for any kind of fact, that there is a specific number of aliens. We don't know if there are two species, fifty-two, or eleventy million.



Another interesting UFO fact from the article: UFO sightings in Cambodia go back to 1810. According to UFO researcher Ahmad Jamaludin, who self-published a book on UFOs in 1997: UFO Reports in Southeast Asia (1800-1996). I'd like to get a copy of that book.



Other witnesses talk about aliens visiting them in childhood and curing cancer, an alien named Nemo (the name of my new cat, hmmm…) alien contact during meditation, and much more. (On that latter; many have reported this type of contact, including me.)



Again, I am not mocking the witnesses in this article. In fact, it is too bad the writer felt obligated to insert the opinions of debunkers. In this case, Michael Shermer is the go to anti-UFO guy. He is so sure aliens are not among us. 

“Are extraterrestrials out there? And have extraterrestrials come here? My answers are: Probably yes, and definitely no.” (Michael Shermer)

You can't prove a negative. Anyway… Shermer goes on to give the very stale and old hat explanations of mis-identifying natural phenomena for UFOs, as well as the mildly insulting opinion that "the brain" of UFO believers (I do so hate that term) "abhor a vacuum of explanation" so, of course, aliens and UFOs fill that void within. Oy.

Alien Hybrids, Regressions and Encounters with ET on C2C

Tonight's Coast to Coast:

Alien Hybrids - Shows - Coast to Coast AM: Filling in for George, Dave Schrader (email) will be joined by Barbara Lamb, a psychotherapist specializing in regression therapy with people who claim encounters with extraterrestrial beings. She'll discuss cases of individuals who believe they are part-human and part-alien.

Little Coincidences of the Day

There is the imp of the perverse within me that twirls around and says things I know I probably shouldn't let it say, but what the hell. Like today, at work, a co-worker mentioned a friend of hers who is very much into conspiracies. He's always sending links to her about all kinds of "dark" things, including chemtrails, which, she told me, she never heard of before he shared his paranoid thoughts on the subject. Then I come across this link at Bigfoot Evidence: Bigfoot Evidence: Are Chemtrails Connected To Bigfoot? By the way, no editorial comment here from me on that.



So, that imp within jumped up and I told her I'm all about conspiracies, just Google me. I joked (sort of) she might decide, after looking through a few of my blogs and postings, that she doesn't want to have anything to do with me -- keep a healthy distance between us at work.



Checking out who's on Coast to Coast tonight. Sean Stone, son of Oliver Stone, discussing conspiracies with host Jimmy Church.



And of course, following the owls. Mike Clleland's book The Messengers: Owls, Synchronicity and the UFO Experience.  Owls are still showing up; just this morning a beautiful white owl appeared, first thing, on my Facebook page.



Gray alien faces on a young student's (3rd grade, I think it was) tee shirt today at work. Not so odd, maybe, but the ubiquitous inverted chalky alien face didn't seem like something she'd wear.



There's more; tiny moments of random connections that I mean to remember. I think "It's such a neat little synchronicity I'll remember it" but of course, I don't remember. But there they are.