On UFO Magazine Blog: "Knowing, stories and time. . . "

This is up at the UFO Magazine blog: "Knowing, stories and time. . ." An excerpt:

We just go round and round, don't we?

No one knows what the Big Answer is to the Big Question about UFOs. That doesn't stop a lot of people from deciding on a personal favorite "explanation" (as if) and ignoring everything else, UFO wise. The process for its own sake was kicked out long ago; we want answers, damn it! not wasting time grooving on the mossy path.

Then people get irritated; downright nasty. Turning on each other and showing off, stealing, lying. . . meanwhile, you know, those things in the sky are still doing whatever. . .

"Crystalline Crop Circles"

On YouTube, just put up yesterday, August 15th -- here's the info with the clip:
Crystal Blue Mind
This is a distillation of my powerpoint presentation about how crop circles act like liquid crystals with properties similar to photonic metamaterials. Thanks to Ron Russell, Colin Andrews, Matt Williams, and Peter Sorensen for photos. Original music by Simeon Hein - created at created here

Esoteric Connections in Mexican Wrestling

My new Trickster's Realm will be up sometime tomorrow for Binnall of America: Fun With Lucha Libre’s Esoteric Side. The column was inspired by the by now almost iconic photograph of two Lucha Libre wrestlers viewing an image of the Virgin Mary in a California restaurant.

While there at Binnall of America, be sure to read all the other great columns, and listen to the podcasts. As always, Tim Binnall offers the most interesting interviews -- and for free.

Project Camelot, Dr. Greer, and the Mob

Followed this link from today's Anomalist: Willful Misconduct, from the Uphill Snowballs blog. It's a very well written and different kind of commentary on the egos and bad behavior of so many in this field. It's different because of, among other things, the writer bringing in his own background growing up in a "connected" family and the expectations and cultural behaviors in that culture, and the comparison to that history and what has always been ego driven behavior in this field.

Here's the YouTube clip Uphill included in his article, with Dr. Stephen Greer and interviewers with Project Camelot. This operates on two levels; one, for its content about UFOs, and two, what it shows us about ourselves and our behavior, expectations and intent in partaking in this field.

Vol. 2: UFOs and the National Security State

Richard Dolan's second volume of UFOs and the National Security State will be available about the second week of August. I just ordered mine! You can pre-order at Dolan's site here.

Spirit World Contacts?: Dad Synchronicities

The night before last, I had a dream about my father. Rather, my father visited me in the dream . . . it had to do with illness. I won't go into details but I had the definite impression he was trying to tell something about that. (he passed away about ten years ago.) I check my e-mail this morning to find, in the subject line "From one Lee to another" from Jack. Jack was my dad's name. (Lee was his last name, I've never taken my husband's last name as my own.) Then I check Lesley's Debris Field blog, to find her opening post "This and That" about the movie Harvey. Harvey was one of my dad's favorite movies; as mine. We were both film buffs and played movie trivia all the time. . . and my dad was Harvey in a local production in Northern California. (He was an actor.) So, I wonder, are these little episodes communications? Nice to think so . . .

Johnny Depp in Burton's Alice

Depp is the Mad Hatter in Tim Burton's Alice; won't be out until March but here's a promo.

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.