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the owls

owls are plentiful
these days, appearing where you'd
least expect them to

Orange Lights Seen in Eugene, Oregon

Roger Marsh reports on a recent sighting of three orange lights in Eugene, in the Fern Ridge area, on October 21st. Read about the sighting, on UFO Digest, here.

Raymond Fowler Comments on UFO Magazine's Woods/Jacobs Stories

I commented in the previous post about Jeremy Vaeni's excellent article concerning Emma Woods and David Jacobs in the current issue of UFO Magazine. In that post I wrote how discouraging it is to find that few in UFO Land and research have responded to this episode, and how, it seems, when such response is given, it's usually a knee-jerk, protective response to Jacobs, and often a dismal and slightly bewildering/scary misogynistic reaction to Woods.

But there are some in the UFO culture who aren't afraid to be vocal. One of them is from researcher (and experiencer himself) Raymond Fowler, who shared his comments about the Vaeni article for UFO Magazine's blog. (Comment from Raymond Fowler on the Emma Woods article) In that piece, Fowler wrote:

I found it incredible that he actually believed that his [David Jacobs] life was in danger from the very entities that he may have created himself. ...  Rather than conforming to the so-called party line critics  should at least be open to the possibility that Emma is telling the truth and be willing to examine both sides of the question objectively. ...Thus far (based on the contents of the article) I am disappointed in the way Jacobs and reportedly how Hopkins have reacted.

Good for Fowler for those comments which you can read on the UFO Magazine blog.

In UFO Magazine: Jeremy Vaeni's 'Aliens vs. Predator: The Incredible Visitations at Emma Woods

There is so much to say about the fantastic article by Jeremy Vaeni in this issue of UFO Magazine. (Aliens vs. Predators: The Incredible Visitations at Emma Woods.)

But for now, please, please, go and get yourself this issue, and read the article. Vaeni has done an excellent job with unraveling the seeming madness that is David Jacobs, the always precarious method of hypnosis used by some researchers to get at the submerged bits of missing time and nebulous memories of aliens, examinations, trips aboard saucers, and all the rest of "Abductions 101", and subject/witness Emma Woods.

From the beginning of this episode in UFO culture, I wondered why there wasn't more outcry from the UFO community. And yet, there still isn't; what there mainly seems to be, still, are a few stubbornly standing up for Jacobs, and misogynist pronouncements about Emma Woods' sanity, and worse. Other than that, little has been really said about this.

"Open the Curtians" : A Weird Little Moment

No UFOs or owls, but an odd little moment. I was in the kitchen this morning and thought I heard Jim ask me to open the curtains in the living room. I walked out from the kitchen to the living room, where he was sitting, and said, "What?" to be clear:

Me: "What did you say?"
Jim: "I didn't say anything."
Me: "I thought you just said something. . ."
Jim: "No, didn't say a word."
Me: "Oh, I thought you asked me to open the curtains."
Jim: (pause) "Oh,  ... I was thinking it; wanting you to come open the curtains, and hoping you would, but I didn't say anything."

Owl Case

Today someone asked me to hold their case for them for a few minutes while they left the area for something. Without looking at them -- I was distracted and helping someone with something -- I said "sure," and held out my hand. I grasped around the handles, and continued doing what I was doing. A few moments later, I looked down at the case in my hand and yes, the outside of the case had owls on it, along with the word "owl" in several places.

I feel like commenting on the following here in context of this owl synchronicity, though I'm not suggesting it has anything to do with it, then again, who knows... but recently, I've been noticing a lot of specific premonitions, I suppose you could call them. Several times lately I've thought of something specific, short, and, usually mundane, even trivial, and find a correlation later that day, or a day or two later.

The UFO Proletariat: UFO Magazine Blog: James T. Carlson: Deeply Disturbed

The UFO Proletariat: UFO Magazine Blog: James T. Carlson: Deeply Disturbed

UK Still Staging UFO Crash Drills in Schools

Staged UFO landing and crash scenarios have been conducted at several schools in the UK, which I've written about for UFO Digest. The reasons given for these events include things like facilitating creativity and critical thinking skills. But beyond this benign and well meaning educational intent, are some insidious elements. Often some staff, parents, and students are not told there events will take place;they just happen. In the past, these staged UFO crashes happened to a diverse student body, including students with behavioral or physical disability challenges, which caused trauma for the students. Parents were not informed. And,the police have a very active role in these scenarios. The favorite motif seems to be the UFO but other scenes have been used, like the "murder"(yes, murder) of a teacher on a playground -- once again, students, staff and parents not notified or prepared -- and in Scotland, a teacher telling several students to quickly get ready to leave the building, because the authorities were arriving soon to take them away to a government facility. The reason why the students were being taken away was, they were told, because they'd been found to be deficit in some ways.

The UK is still at it, with a recent UFO crash production at another school; you can read more of my comments on these surreal events at UFO Digest.

"Jellyfish" UFOs

Steve Hammons reports on jellyfish or octopus type UFOs, or "AAOs" (anomalous arial phenomena) here.

White Beam of LIght from UFO

Here's another sighting of a UFO ("boomerang" shaped) that emitted a white beam of light. In March, I commented on some reports of beams of light from UFOs on UFO Mystic.

AND, we have . . . more owls

My new Trickster's Realm column is now up at Tim Binnall's BoA, and it's about owls. As I commented in the previous post, I wrote this a week or so ago; in the meantime, today I had two owl moments:

On co-worker's desk: book, with title: "An Owl in the Family."

Later, with another co-worker looking through a box full of curriculum, the set had on the covers: owls.

Web Site: Women in UFOlogy

Thanks to the amazing Skylaire Alfvegren, I was made aware of a website that seems fairly new: Women in UFOlogy. I don't know who's behind it; it's still under construction, but there's an impressive list so far over there. I'm sure there'll be more to come. Check it out here.

Vintage U.F.O.: "The Washington Post Makes Fun of Military Officers" on A.D.

The A.D. site has an excellent article on the September 27 National Press Conference coverage by The Washington Post. Bryce Zabel writes about the Post's obvious contempt and ignorance of this issue.



Vintage U.F.O.: "The Washington Post Makes Fun of Military Officers" on A.D.

Owl Says: Not So Fast...

Just today, I was thinking that I haven't had any owl synchronicities since the last owl post. "Well, that owl episode is over," I said to myself this afternoon.

Then I receive an email from Tim Binnall, who sent me these images of an owls on his fence. He told me he took them today, and that it was the first time they've seen owls on the property.

Not so fast, Owl says! Oh, and my article for Tim, that should be available on his site Monday? About owls of course; I wrote it last week in September, and normally it would  have been up earlier, but Tim's been busy with many projects, so it was postponed. So today he emails me to tell me it'll be up Monday and he finds the owls on his property.

Seems they're listening, those owls...

The 'C' Influence: SP9 Disclosure: The Janus Face of The Personal Ve...

A lot to think about here, from Bruce Duensing on The C Influence blog.

The 'C' Influence: SP9 Disclosure: The Janus Face of The Personal Ve...: " Are you a gnostic or a universalist within Ufology? Or both? Is the aim of this UFO phenomenon to bridge the gap between these two schools ..."