Vintage U.F.O. Moved

I've moved Vintage U.F.O. to WordPress. The new url is:

Vintage U.F.O. (new one):
http://vintageufo.net

The old version of Vintage U.F.O. is still up at blogger; I'll keep it up there for awhile. I'll probably move Orange Orb over there as well in the coming weeks.

Blogger Hell

Why the hell can't Blogger/Google do things in a simple way? All I want to do is change my email. That's all. You can do this anywhere else, except here.

Insane, I'm ready to throw my laptop out the door.

I understand; you can add, via permissions, other emails etc. but it still doesn't work as far as blogger/google are concerned as to WHO OWNS THE DAMN BLOGS! WHICH WOULD BE ME.

The Candy and Jellyfish Sky

A very active, involved, epic dream adventure last night; here's one "episode" about UFOs:

I'm outside, daylight, with a group of about a dozen people. I'm in the neighborhood where I grew up in Los Angeles, a few residential streets away from my house. However, I'm "me" now, an adult, with my husband here, not a child. I look up in the sky, which is full of huge white puffy clouds, just lovely, though the clouds seem kind of low. We can almost reach out and touch them.

Then I see several huge jellyfish in the sky swarming right above us. This is so amazing, so beautiful! They're about the size of orcas, they're dancing and swirling and "swimming" in the sky/clouds. I get everyone's attention and we watch the jellyfish, then it dawns on us that "Hey, wait just a minute . . . jellyfish don't belong in the sky!" I, we, quickly understand that the jellyfish aren't "real" jellyfish but UFOs. I suddenly seem to be full of knowledge that the jellyfish appearance is "how they cloak themselves" I tell everyone. "They've been doing this for years," I say.

Someone asks, "Shouldn't we tell someone, like the police?" and I say that it wouldn't do any good, they already know all about it, and won't do anything.

After a little bit, the jellyfish begin to change. First one, then the other, they either disappear by just "blinking out," or they change form. From a breathtaking creature of nature, to a garish cartoony image of candy, the sky has now become a billboard of sorts, advertising candy with silly goofy images, like the blue M&M's doll, things like that.

"Oh," everyone laughs, relieved. "It's just an ad for candy!"

I can still see, faintly, a few jellyfish/UFOs in the sky, but they've gone dim and are in the background a bit. I tell everyone "No, you're wrong! That's what they want you to think! It's not real."

Someone says "Of course they're not real; it's a commercial for candy!"

Exasperated, I say "Not that! I mean, the jellyfish are real, it's the candy that isn't!"

"Why would the jellyfish pretend to be candy?" Someone asks me, suspiciously, as if I've somehow caused the whole thing. Worse, that I'm up to no good.

Somehow I know things I didn't realized I knew, as if the jellyfish are sending information to my head. "I mean, the government knows about the jellyfish, and they're using the candy to distract us from the jellyfish UFOs."

At that moment, dozens of brightly colored, over sized candy images drop from the sky onto the sidewalk. Dolls, figures, walking talking boxes, etc. of various candy types line up on the sidewalk right in front of us, hold hands, and start dancing and singing.

Everyone is delighted with this garish and silly display. "See!" someone turns to me, sneering. "It's just a cute candy ad; nothing weird about it."

Meanwhile, the jellyfish are still up there; faint, but there. I try once again to convince them they're not really seeing what they think they are, or, that they're not seeing at all, but I've been dismissed. (The only person who sees the truth is my husband, but he's shouted down as well whenever he tries to support what I'm saying.)

Later, I briefly wonder why, if the jellyfish don't want to be seen, are they appearing as jellyfish in the sky? Isn't that contrary to where jellyfish reside? Then again, this reversal of jellyfish habitat might be so that we do pay attention. After all, they're aware that they will be denied, so appearing as jellyfish or some other out of place object would be sure to get noticed.

Well, that's that!

Shameless Self Promotion Time: Artist James Rich

Just promoting the blog; this time, it isn't my blog, it's my husband's, James Rich, artist. Nothing to do with UFOs, but then again, some of his work is very out there, like his "Galactic Series."

Alfred Lehmberg: Risking Mammons Wrath

Alfred has another great entry at the UFO Magazine site: Risking Mammons Wrath.

My message is hard edged enough — don't dare to call it "quaint." It doesn't take the word of what the privileged calls a "saint." It won't tremble for the *mighty*, then go all weak and faint. It's alone its own creation, but sans hubristic paint.

But also:

...And where do _I_ get off, eh? The answer to that is: "...where I will"!

And while out of context, that should give you an idea!

Crop Circle in a Box

I was in Borders today, to buy the latest PARANOIA magazine, and saw this: My Very Own Crop Circle "game." Teeny, comes in a box. What every excutive needs I guess. . .

On Women's Paranormal League Tonight

So try and listen if you can; it will be fun. I had a good time about a year ago when I was a guest on Amy's show, and I'm sure it will be just as fun this time. 5:00 p.m. Pacific time on Blog Talk radio.

More Cloud Madness

Recent article from Wired Science on noctilucent clouds: Mysterious, Glowing Clouds Appear Across America’s Night Skies. And while these clouds may be breathtaking, they might be literally breath taking, meaning, the cause for these eerie clouds has to do with pollution and global warming:

The clouds might be beautiful, but they could portend global changes caused by global warming. Noctilucent clouds are a fundamentally new phenomenon in the temperate mid-latitude sky, and it’s not clear why they’ve migrated down from the poles. Or why, over the last 25 years, more of them are appearing in the polar regions, too, and shining more brightly.

“That’s a real concern and question,” said James Russell, an atmospheric scientist at Hampton University and the principal investigator of an ongoing NASA satellite mission to study the clouds. “Why are they getting more numerous? Why are they getting brighter? Why are they appearing at lower latitudes?”

Nobody knows for sure, but most of the answers seem to point to human-caused global atmospheric change.

Local News On Chemtrails

Seattle's KIRO News aired this brief clip on an "X" chemtrail being sprayed in the area. They don't use the word "chemtrail" but imply that they weren't contrails. Reporters made some calls to FAA, etc. who all denied knowing anything about anything. Hat tip to the Oregon Chemtrails forum on Yahoo.

Missing Time in "The Human Mediumship of the UFO Phenomenon"

Bruce of Intangible Materiality writes about our orientation to time and place and wonders if the term "missing time" might be inaccurate. As usual Bruce writes so damn eloquently, and, as usual after reading him I say to myself "I'll just stop now..." The Human Mediumship of the UFO Phenomenon.

I've had two episodes of missing time, which means that I don't remember what happened during a certain period of time. One was in direct relation to a UFO event; the other very likely so; vague memories and the clearer memory of another witness. Both episodes had two witnesses; myself and my husband. Since we call it "missing time" that naturally implies, accurately, that we don't remember what happened. But really, it isn't missing --- something continued to occur, we just don't remember what. A seemingly obvious nit picky detail, but when you shift perspective a bit and look at it that way, it helps. Hey, anything that works in this arena, I'll try it. So now the question is of course, what happened -- what don't I remember? Also; why have missing time/amnesia in the first place? Why dont' we call it "amnesia" instead of "missing time?" We're focused on the missing time part; not the missing memory part. The next question is; what mechanism, or who, created the missing time/amnesia, and why?

"Mystical Landscapes"

I haven't really painted since last year, and it feels good to be doing so again. This has nothing to do with UFOs or the paranormal, although some of my painting subjects are UFO-paranormal related. These are just semi-abstracty, impressionist type landscapes; Jim calls them my "mystical paintings." There's some glare on one, and I haven't figured out yet how to get the date stamp off (I'm a dork) which is wrong anyway. So far they're untitled but both are inspired by the Oregon coast.

An Orange Orb UFO

The one I saw in the 1980s was very similar, but this one in the clip seems "flat" while the one I saw had substance; counter... and it didn't dance around like this one, although that could be the camera and not the object;

Torchwood, Finally!

The good news is that the British sci-fi drama Torchwood is coming back; it'll air on BBC America, July 20th. The very bad news is, it's only a 5 episode mini-series that will air on consecutive nights, and no word on Torchwood returning after this. For more information go to the BBC America Torchwood page.

Combustible Edison: Vertigo and Cafe Esoterica

I have this on the soundtrack for the movie Four Rooms with Tim Roth, a great movie, great soundtrack. I love this piece, and out of curiosity, not really expecting to find it, I searched YouTube, and here it is. What does this have to do with anything esoteric? Not much, except it's one of the music bits I'm considering using for Cafe Esoterica. After I figure out how the hell I'm going to get that all working, lol. Sometime this summer, that's all I know for now.


And just for fun, here's another clip from Combustible Edison. I'm thinking of this one too. I love this group!

Podcast: Richard Dolan on John Keel

Karyn Dolan interviews Richard Dolan on John A. Keel. Haven't listened to it yet, but it promises to be a good one! Thanks to Alien UFO and Paranormal Casebook for the link.