Greg Bishop: Whose Weirdness Is It Anyway?

Excellent article by Greg Bishop on Anomaly: Whose Weirdness Is It Anyway?

Mothman Flutterings

I have a new blog, this one's a Mothman blog. It was a good excuse to finally get around to playing a Wordpress blog. I like it okay; there are features about both that make it easy. Anyway, Mothman blog, called Mothman Flutterings.Here's the url:

http://orangeorb.net/blog/

Visitors

Visitors acrylic on masonite 30"x30"

I did this painting about fifteen years ago. I was painting a lot more back then than I am now (sadly.) I wasn't thinking of anything in particular,just did it, but I remember how I was feeling then; very spacey, . . . a lot going on UFO wise in my life and in the lives of those around me. It seemed that at the time, a lot of our friends, and family, were seeing UFOs, having UFO related experiences. It was a very strong UFO-y time.

I looked at the finished painting, saw that the images had a strong Native American feeling, and immediately thought "Visitors," as literally, visitors from the sky.

For a long time I had it up in our kitchen, which was painted a terrific color: royal blue. With a deep terra cotta trim. Sounds weird, but it was great. The painting looked good on that wall. . .

Mothy, Stop!

As they say, synchronicities begin to happen and they just keep happening, even though much of the time they don't mean much. Of course, the fact that they happen at all is enough; a reminder that we don't live in the tidy little universe where all is well and rational at all times after all. That, and a big dose of humor.

I've been having Mothman synchronicities, here's two more that happened last night: page 333, Colvin mentions Chica Bruce, who has been in my blogging news lately; Lesley wrote a piece on her at WOE, Adam Gorightly has interviewed her recently, and before all that, just a few days ago, I had stumbled upon her somewhere. Then I watched Unexplained last night, a segment on the Philadelphia Experiment and Carlos Allende. A couple hours later, reading Mothman's Photographer II and right away, there it is on page 362, Carlos Allende.

Around the Orb

Thin Skinned Skepticism
A new post at Snarly Skepticism. It's a repost from Jan. 2007 of my blog entry on my Daily Grail blog, which I rarely post to, but now and then I do. Truthfully, I forget I have that over there! Speaking of The Daily Grail, if you haven't already, be sure to check them out for great links as well as commentary.

Remote Viewing
My new Trickster's Realm piece for Binnall of America will be up sometime tomorrow. This week I write about the government's "non-involvement" with remote viewing. As always, be sure to visit the forum and read all the other great articles there. And don't forget that Tim Binnall does an amazing job interviewing some great people in the field; you can listen to the podcasts for free.

Beeping Weirdness
I'm working on something about the electronic beeping sounds many UFO and Bigfoot witnesses experience. I've had this experience myself. I'm not sure where I'll post it, UFO Digest or maybe my Bigfoot blog Frame 352. I'm almost finished with it; should be up later today.

Speaking of beeping Bigfoot and high strangeness, Joseph Capp has an interesting piece on a Colarado ranch:

High Strangeness on a Colorado Ranch
Capp writes about Skinwalker Ranch type high strangeness in The Other Skinwalker Ranch: Contact. Capp points out that the ranch was near a military base, and, there were personal connections with some family members and military. Something I've thought of as well; and as Andrew Colvin mentions, among others, there seems to be a faction of covert military ops manipulating paranormal forces around humans -- and at humans. Paranoid? Maybe. But you know what they say . . . No doubt there are all kinds of variations on this idea; ultra classified psy ops projects, what better place than to experiment, and test them out, than in remote places, like the deserts and isolated ranches?The fact that often these places have a history of paranormal acitivity going back hundreds of years supports the theory that military factions have tapped into this in some way. Who's going to believe the residents of a ranch, or some rural area, when they come out with these kinds of stories? No one has yet; no one that counts that is.

On WOE: Alexandra "Chica" Bruce
(I love that name!) Lesley has a new post up about Chica Bruce, esoteric authoress. Bruce is also interviewed by Adam Gorightly; take a look over there on WOE (Women Of Esoterica) for links.

More Mothman Synchronicity

I commented a few days ago about a bit of Mothman synchronicity here. I had a couple of other "Mothman moments" last night. Still reading Colvin's book (almost finished) I was reminded of Gray Barker's book Silver Bridge, which I've been wanting for years to get a hold of. So I took a break from reading and looked on eBay for the book; there were two on eBay, and four or five on Amazon. The least expensive was $69.00, and all the way up to almost $500.00. Sigh!

I go back to reading, and get to the part about positrons. Interesting on an intuitive level, but my head started to hurt. Not long after, I put the book down, turn on Coast to Coast with Ian Punnett the host, and the guest (animator Neal Adams) was talking about positrons!

The Daily Grail: Blogs

The Daily Grail is a great paranormal newsource, but how many realize there are a lot of bloggers over there? There are a lot of people blogging over there. I have one over there too, but haven't written anything in a very long time. So this isn't about me. I encourage everyone to take a look at the blogs when visiting The Daily Grail. There are some interesting things out there.

It's Okay to be a Woman!

This has nothing to do with UFOs and is only somewhat connected to the realm of the strange. Henry Makow, 1950s misogynist extraordinaire (among other things) believe in the vast conspiracy of Illuminati Jews Who Run the World. What does that have to do with being a woman, and feeling okay about it? Read my comments here.

Oy.

Those Spiky Drones

I'm not giving the whole drone thing another minute of my time. Oh, I'll still lurk around the topic, as I do with many of the topics that are a part of the giant multi-facted spinning thing called UFOlogy, but I'm not going to research it, read about it, or write about it. My time on paranormal, esoteric and UFO stuff can be better spent. (Something might catch my eye and I'll find I can't resist writing about it, but it'll have to be big.)

Whatever the drones are, they're not UFOs from outer space.

They're hoaxes. No one's come out yet with it, and maybe that's the evil plan; if it's a psy-op monkey wrench, they're not going to come out, their job is done.

If it's some sort of spy robot thing, then that's what it is. Lots of them around you know. We've been in big trouble for a long time around that issue. Which is a lot scarier and more tangible than UFOs from space. Forget the aliens, it's Dr. Evil Global Corporate Big Brother we have to worry about.

An Orange Orb Sighting From Canada

I came across a report of a sighting of an orange orb that is very close to the sighting I had years ago. I find it interesting that they had their sighting in 2003; I had mine over twenty years ago. But it sounds very close to what I saw and how it behaved.

Joke writer

It’s a bit of delightful irony and synchronicity that I read this in Andrew Colvin’s The Mothman’s Photographer II:

You know, I spent years of my life writing jokes for television. I wrote Merv Griffin’s ad-libs at one points.

Who said that? UFO and high strangeness researcher and writer John A. Keel. Take that, all you grumpy classist UFO pundits!

Classic Klass

I posted a clip of Klass and Friedman on Nightline from 1987 over at Snarly Skepticism. Take a look. And find out who the Featured Snarly Skeptic is this month!

Mothman Synchronicity

I've mentioned in the last few posts I'm reading Andrew Colvin's Mothman's Photographer II, and how, among other things, he talks a lot about synchronicities. Synchronicity in this area of UFO and weird research/studies/explorations isn't a new concept to anyone who has been involved in this of course. So here's my little bit of Mothman synchronicity; I had just put a link up over at Women Of Esoterica, about Joan D'Arc's new book, and then went over to the Paranoia Magazine site, where I haven't visited in months. And sure enough, the Spring issue has an article on Mothman by Andrew Colvin.

Around The Orb

New template, and new name, on my skeptic’s blog. It’s now Snarly Skepticism, and has some neat things, like the Bigfoot Threads on JREF and Still Counting on the menu on your right. (At last count I think it was thirteen.)

I’ve been having too much fun at Vintage U.F.O. -- lots of clips and things up right now. Nothing terribly insightful but fun. You might have noticed I made a slight change to that blog too; from Vintage UFO to Vintage U.F.O.

As always, I’ll plug Women Of Esoterica and Frame 352: The Stranger Side of Sasquatch.

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Still reading Andrew Colvin’s Mothman Photographer’s II, which I’m enjoying very much. This isn’t to say I always agree with Colvin on some things; he has some very firm opinions. I won’t mention names but he doesn’t like a couple of people in the field I do find interesting, and likes someone I had a very nasty private exchange with, who frequents a well known UFO list. But his experiences and take on things is worth looking at; and the book has a lot of stuff by John Keel, which is great. I still think, after all this time, much of what Keel has to say about things makes sense. (So there’s an example of an “old” researcher whose contributions may be “old” but they’re hardly without value.) If nothing else, the book is fascinating for its mind boggling world of synchronicities and complicated connections from one seemingly mundane thing to a paranormal, UFO, global Illuminati thing. You can see how this stuff could drive someone mad . . .

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The Contactees continue to fascinate me, and I’m just beginning to explore the idea of the time of their contacts. We think of the Contactee era has happening mainly in the 1950s and 1960s. But eras don’t exist in vacuums; any period in history overlaps with what went before, and what follows. Some of the Contactees experienced visitations earlier than what we typically think of as the ‘Contactee era.” What that could mean, I don’t know.

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I’m so busy with my own blogging and writing, and “real” life, that I don’t acknowledge all the others who do great work -- and for free, which shows I’m not the only one obsessed. All the individual bloggers, listed on my links list, but also forums and places like Book of Thoth, or Binnall of America, or UFO Digest, or Stuart Miller's Alien Worlds. And Greenwald’s Blackvault. The Anomalist as well, even though they’re a publisher, and do make some money; but it’s not as if they’re all buying villas in Italy. All those places give the rest of us daily news and links to the realm of the weird, which is pretty neat.

And of course all those individual bloggers; that’s why it annoys me so much when people start writing about how others are wasting time, or should shut up because they’re not saying the “right things” about UFOs. Or worse, when they get downright insulting. No, you shut up. Neener neener. So there. Feh!

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Have a good week!

Marvin the Martian and The Carpenters

Visit Vintage U.F.O.; you'll find outer space songs by Dickie Goodman and Karen Carpenter, a Marvin the Martian clip, a great "remix" of composer for the cartoons Carl Stalling to footage from classic flying saucer movies, and a lot more. I'm really having too much fun over there.