V: Murder She Wrote, Only With Reptilians

I commented to Jeremy Vaeni the other night that V is very trite, very mainstream, sooooooooo TV series prime time stuff that it's like "Murder She Wrote, only with Reptilians." I liked the first series, becuase is was over twenty years ago, and for a prime time network show, V back then was different. V now is not different, it's a few steps backwards, as far as quality of writing or production values go. Torchwood it isn't.

I'll continue to watch V, at least for now, because I'm a Fortean TV junkie, and can't resist. I'm at the point now where I mock rather than enjoy, but it's still fun. I didn't say good, but fun.

Last night's night episode was the worst yet. I don't know if this happened nationally or if it was just a local thing, but the episode was horribly out of synch. It was bizarre; and lasted for the entire program. So that made it fun. Then at the end -- I'd say SPOILER! but that would imply we care --- where Queen Bee Lizard mates (naturally, she's on top, and for some reason, they seem to do it on a bed of dishsoap bubbles) with her soldier/drone/sacrificial reptilian guy. During the brief mating act Jim turns to me and says "She's going to eat him," and sure enough, she does. In the coolest scene of either season yet, she opens her mouth mega wide to expose doulbe rows of sharp pointy big white fangs, and... cut to commerical. Jim was very offended by that; "Reptiles aren't insects!" he raved, and while that's true, I said "They're Reptilians, not bugs," but no matter, it was a cheap stunt and it pissed him off. Citing the classic unhinged jaw rat eating scene from the original V, Jim made his point; one was truly creepy scary surprising -- while staying true to general reptilian-ness -- the latter was hack writing.

That shot lasted for a dissappoitng second, it seemed. The coolest thing in the whole series and they rush right by it.


Well, I'm not the only one disappointed by the new V. One of my favorite blogs, The Secret Sun, reviews V, which includes both funny and accurate insights:

We're told these aliens have no emotions and then spend an hour watching them express emotions. If Morena Baccarin's character had a mustache, she'd have spent the entire episode twirling it.

I'll keep watching V for now, but I share The Secret Sun's sentiments:

I'm not giving up on this series yet, but I am damn close to it. These people need to show me something new, for frak's sake, and soon.

The Secret Sun gives us an update to its previous blog posting, which explains a lot. Go here to find out what that is.

Somewhat related post: I comment on Destination Truth on my blog Frame 352.

UFOMystic is Back

UFOMystic was having server problems and was down for awhile, but now it's back!

"Who. . ." Another Powerful Piece by Alfred Lehmberg

On the UFO Magazine blog, another beautiful and "right on" poetic (as always) piece by Alfred Lehmberg on the UFO Magazine blog site. Entitled " . . . Who . . ." Alfred asks, as always, as well as encourages, pleads, us to look up. And then claim that we do so, and say that we do so. At least, that's part of what it said to me. But while we look up, and look up without being embarrassed for doing so, there are those that deny and ridicule, or acknowledge yet denigrate any possible positive force. Those do not escape Alfred's notice. Thankfully. I can't do his work justice, so just go over and read it.

UFO Magazine's Podcast: Future Theater

Cool beans, Bill and Nancy Birnes now have a podcast; Future Theater. I'm listening to it now, and already, right off, I am really liking the two together; having both of them banter, so comfortable, and casual. Bill's funny! Anyway... I'm going back to listening now, and I hope you do too! Find it here.

Luminosity; a new blog discovery

I've discovered a new blog, well, mike clelland of hidden experience discovered it, and told me about it. It's a beautiful blog, well written and deeply personal. Perspectives of one more individual who's trying to unravel all ... of... this... whatever "all of this"  is, or means, or . . .

Luminosity.  Take a look, I think you'll be pleased.

"They Took the Pieces and Jumbled Them Around"

Today we were driving on the road and going by the house we lived in so many years ago where we saw the orange orb, and I mentioned to Jim that I'd still like to retrace the route and take photos along the way; and maybe track the drive on a map. Then it occurred to me -- with a shock -- that the street where I saw the orb for the first time, Blanton Hts., can't be seen from that road! Such an obvious, glaring detail.

You can access Blanton going up a road across from the street we used to live on, or, from way down the highway, but not where I had remembered seeing it. When I realized this I felt all the blood drain from my face; I had a sinking feeling. So then, I asked Jim, where did we see that orb??!! (I had estimated the orb to be near Blanton Hts. which is not unrealistic, but not as specific as remembering the road itself where it clearly isn't.)


It was on Lorane Highway, and Jim said "I don't think it was when we were coming back from Joe's." (his name wasn't Joe but I won't use his real name here.) I said "We were coming from the west" (agreed), "It was dark, about 8:00pm" (agreed) -- where we were coming from? Why would we be coming from that direction at night?

No answer.

Jim said, "The memories are all in pieces..." and I agreed, saying "It's like they took the experience, all the pieces, and jumbled them all up."

We both agree it was dark, it was about 8:00 pm, we were coming from the west, we saw the orb somewhere along the way on Lorane Highway, and that it followed us home.

We don't remember what we doing before that, or why we were where we were, or, where we thought we were.

Lately, at times, we've been discussing the possiblity of hypnotic regression. But, I've always had trepidations about that, and now, with the David Jacobs/Emma Woods situation, I don't know at all about that.

Nukes, UFOs and James Carlson

I inducted uber-pathological debunker "Noisy Negativist" James Mcgaha into my 'Snarly Skepticism Owl Award.' Previous proud winners: Joe Nickell and Bill Nye.

James Carlson leaves me a comment:

Gentlemen; It occurs to me that you may not be entirely aware of the dishonest testimony published by Robert Salas and Robert Hastings, who have lied about these UFO incidents for years. Please take note of the discussions regarding the incidents they have proposed on the two URLs http://www.scribd.com/doc/26641522/Americans-Credulous-by-James-Carlson and http://www.realityuncovered.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=1688&p=25070#p25070 . Problems inherent to their claims indicate that both men have invented a number of incidents. Very best regards, James Carlson jtcarl@yahoo.com Albuquerque, NM

So interesting when big time names drop by my no account anti-skeptoid blog; James Randi even left me a comment over there once! Wow.  After letting Carlson know "I'm a dame," and not a male member of some anti-skeptoid gentlemen's club, I added that I knew of allegations, duh. I assumed he meant the usual, and after reading, okay, more like skimming for now, his I dunno, 5,000 plus? work on events surrounding Robert Salas and Hastings, ... you just have to look at it yourself. Here's what Billy Cox at Devoid had to say about Carlson's work on his blog: 'Nukes debate gets personal.' (By the way, Cox says the work is 357 pages, it just seemed like 5,000 plus.)

The latest round of a blistering, two-year cyber-debate between UFO researcher Robert Hastings and the son of nuclear missile silo commander clanged into De Void’s e-mailbox last week. That’s when James Carlson, whose father Eric was ranking officer at a launch control facility in 1967 when 10 ICBMs mysteriously went offline, dropped a 357-page bomb.

And. . .

Anyhow, at the end of the day, amid the endless and enervating well of anger dominating the news cycles from Capitol Hill to Main Street, Carlson just gets lost in the crowd. That’s because he calls his online tome: “Americans, Credulous, or The Arrogance of Congenital Liars & Other Character Defects.” He dismisses those who disagree with him as “fools, idiots and liars,” among other things. Yawn. Click.

That's pretty much how I felt as I looked over the piece. Frank Warren, who is nobody's fool, and obviously among the serious UFO researchers, has a lot about this on his UFO Chronicles; be sure to scroll down to the responses to Carlson. I'm not an expert by any means in this area; not at all! But a couple of things scream at me "something's not right here girlie girl" and that's: Carlson's obsessive, kind of on the pathological side tone, and, the fact his father was an officer at a launch facility, as Cox points out. 

New Blogger Templates!

Yea, Blogger has new templates! Thanks to Lesley at The Debris Field  for the info, I had ignored the blogger item at the bottom of my dashboard that tells about it. I'm not sure if I'll play around with the templates here and on Octopus Confessional, I finally got them to where I like it. Oh, who knows, I probably will. But I did change the look at Pulp Jello. And I'm still not satisfied with Women of Estoerica's look, so who knows. Have fun!

A Paranoid Moment: Project Blue Beam and Vatican Investigations

I had just posted an item at UFO Mary about the Vatican's decision to openly investigate the BVM sightings at Medjurgoje. As I was posting that, I asked myself why now, after more than twenty years, would the Vatican make this announcement? The sightings have been occuring since 1981, with official mandates from the Catholic Church to not give any positive credence to the apparitions.

Then I check my email and find this link on the Authentic UFOs blog to a story, with YouTube clips, on Project Blue Beam and fake religious holographic projections to control  the masses.

Oregon UFO: Variation of the Swamp Gas Disinfo -- The Northern Lights

A new variation of the infamous 'swamp gas' explanation to dismiss, distract and cover-up a UFO sighting: the Northern Lights.

A witness reported to Oregon MUFON she saw a craft in West Linn. (oddly enough, West Linn was also the location of a strange beam-of-light sighting not long before.) When the witness managed to get ahold of a live person at a local news station, she was told:

that's kind of funny that you'd report that today because it's the Spring Equinox and you could have seen a reflection from the Northern Lights.

The West Linn Tidings offers the following in the March 24th edition: Was it alien visitors, or just a reflection of the northern lights? (Kara Hansen.)

Implanting the idea of "the northern lights" as a quasi-scientific and rational explanation, the article begins:

Was it a UFO, or maybe a rare Oregon display of the northern lights? You be the judge.

The UFO is described in the news article as a "triangular, jet-sized vehicle" and the witness, in responding to being told she "could have seen a reflection from the Nothern Lights" said "This was no reflection but rather a solid, industrial strength vehicle."

The Color Green
The article offers another possibility for what the witness saw. Mistaking a solid, triangle shaped craft that "dipped low over the trees near her condominium"for either reflection of the Northern Lights, or, the color green:

Also possibly of note: Green is the most common color seen in the northern lights, a natural nighttime light display also known as the aurora borealis.

 It's not clear why this is included; does the writer mean that the witness possibly saw a vague shapeless green color in the sky and tunred it into a solid, triangle shape, complete with lights on the bottom? Which were orange, as the article does point out (“bright orange lights on the bottom.”)

Beams of Light
Mention of the beams of light coming from the sky in the same article. (These beams have been reported in other parts of the U.S. recently.) Citing the Oregon MUFON report, the news item gives us the following sighting from one of the two witnesses:

they witnessed] three or four “quick pulsating flashes straight over us coming from above the clouds."

“They were so bright that the entire park and surrounding neighborhood was lit up,” the account states. “There were no audible sounds … and it didn’t seem to affect the dogs at all.

Other Reports, and An Element of High Strangeness
Other reports are briefly mentioned, one in particular that I find very interesting for its Contactee and "high strangeness" elements is this one from 2008:

There was also a “close encounter” Sept. 3, 2008, at Lake Oswego’s George Rogers Park, where a man reportedly had telepathic “conversations” with an object hovering near the old iron smelter, mentally refusing to “take a ride on the saucer.”

A Comment Left About Northern Lights
In myprevious post about the West Linn triangle sighting, Ray left the following comment about the Northern Light explanation:

• What do the northern lights (aurora) have to do with the spring equinox? The aurora is generated by sunspots. It's not dependent on the equinox. You might as well say: “It's Easter and you saw a meteor."
• Sunspot activity generally has been low lately. Where the northern lights active on the night of the sighting?
• I've seen the northern lights a few times. What do they mean by a reflection from the northern lights? The aurora can be impressive but usually it isn't so intense that it reflects off objects (maybe at the north pole).

(Thanks Ray :)

The Northern Lights as a valid explanation was also put in its proper place by Tom Bowden at MUFON. In an email exchange he stated that even though there was recent activity of the lights, they were weak and "nothing to get excited about." More specifically:

 The Northern Lights happen when a burst of radiation from the sun, due to a solar flare or coronal mass ejection, hits the earth's ionosphere and the excited ions start emitting light.  People in the far north see them quite often, but they are much rarer at our latitudes.  There were some potential northern lights events in recent weeks, but certainly nothing to get excited about, and no chance they would have illuminated nearby objects.  They are not usually that bright.

MUFON is continuing its investigation of the triangle sighting. As always, witnesses are encouraged to come forward and report their sightings to MUFON.

Oregon MUFON:
http://www.mufon.com/oregon.html

UFO Sighting: What is it About West Linn, Oregon?

Not long ago I posted about a strange beam of light that appeared from the sky in West Linn, Oregon on UFOMystic. And now comes a report of a witness who saw a triangle object in the sky, also in West Linn, Oregon.

Thanks to Roger Marsh at the Examiner for both stories.

The witness reported the sighting to MUFON, and contacted local media. Only one news station was available; this is the frustrating response:

Right away I called the local TV Channels. The only one that had a live person to talk to said, "that's kind of funny that you'd report that today because it's the Spring Equinox and you could have seen a reflection from the Northern Lights. This was no reflection but rather a solid, industrial strength vehicle.

I've often commented that it seems since 9/11, media around here (Oregon)  are not interested in UFO stories. Before that, there were stories of sightings all over the place. But very few since then. The above rationalization from the news woman is almost bizarre; no attempt at getting more information from the witness, just a ridiculous brush off with an insulting response that the solid object was a "reflection of the Northern Lights."

The Snarly Skepticism OWL Award Goes To: James Mcgaha

I'm proud to announce that supreme skeptoid James Mcgaha has just been awarded the Snarly Skepticism OWL Award. Congratulations!

More Buzzing and Rushing

Electrical feelings, feeling "buzzy" as I've often described the physical sensation I get when experiencing anomalous events, (see post below on my exploding plate experience) and hearing/feeling rushing, roaring sounds particulary in connection with OOBEs seem to be in the air (heh) -- here's a post about one person's 'Rushing Wind' by way of Greg Taylor at The Daily Grail. Taylor has written about the rushing, roaring, buzzing, bell clanging sounds and feelings; see his excellent article Her Sweet Murmur, in Darklore volume I.  

Related post: Beeping Creatures

Exploding Glass

A strange and kind of cool thing happened earlier this evening. Jim and I were watching 'Psychic Investigators' while eating our dinner. We were also talking -- a lot. We talk a lot anyway, but we were kind of on a high, for some reason. We started off commenting on the program; then debunkers, then the Flatwoods case and my article I had just finished about that for Trickster's Realm, MK Ultra, the recent book and news about the LSD experiments in France, and so on. Just your typical kind of UFO/Fortean/esoteric nerd kind of conversation.

The energy was kind of "buzzy" and I had a distinct thought that "Hmm, Jim's really excited about this stuff," more so than usual that is, as I was. We were talking about Project Stargate and remote viewing and the idea that the government hadn't shut down a damn thing, just gone deeper down into the depths with their covert RV/mind control selves, when my plate exploded in my lap.

It's a heavy glass plate. I had it resting in my lap; we both heard a lot "bang" and the plate had broken into six pieces. We looked at each other and Jim said "That was pretty cool." Which was an insipid thing to say but I had to agree; it was "pretty cool." It made us laugh. The timing of the thing was weird, the thing itself was weird. A perfectly good plate, a heavy one at that, and it just broke into six clean pieces.

This happened to me one time before, when I was sixteen or so. I was sitting in my girlfriend's living room. I remember we were talking about sex, and, about ghosts.  A heavy green glass ashtray that was sitting on the bottom shelf of the TV stand kind of rose up in the air then, a loud bang, and the ashtray broke right in half. We both just looked at each other and, well, freaked. Obviously the combination of energies contributed to that incident; our age, the sexual charges in the air, and the communication-connection to the other side. A guarantee for that kind of thing.

Future Theater! Be There!

 Thank you to Lesley Gunter for posting this at Women of Esoterica; I'm passing it along . . .


UFO Magazine publishers, Bill and Nancy Birnes, are starting their own  weekly radio show - Future Theater.  Here is some information from Bill about  the show:

This  Saturday evening at 6PM Eastern on Future   Theater, Dr. Ted joins us  for a UFO Hunters reunion along with Dan   Zarenkiewicz, our producer.  You can catch the live broadcast at  futuretheater.com or ufomag.com or lanlamphere.com. We'll have a  chat   room and open lines, too.

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