New blog: Ecto-Ville

Didn't want to do it, didn't mean to do it, but I did... new blog: Ecto-ville.

Jeremy Vaeni's New Site: JayVay

Doesn't mean Vaeni has ditched Paratopia or anything else, just bringing it all together: JayVay

For those of you who know me, you’re probably all–Really? Do we need more of your mug on the internet? Don’t you have that Paratopia thing? That Culture of Contact thing? That Good Parade thing? E-V-E-R-Y-T-H-I-N-G?

Well sure. But do I have it all in one place? Eh…? EH…?

UFO Chronicles:The Children Who Bore Witness to Roswell: Their Tragic Stories Finally Revealed

Wow! The Children Who Bore Witness to Roswell: Their Tragic Stories Finally Revealed

From hidden experience: 'researchers who claim the direct contact experience'

Mike Clelland has an interesting post on UFO researchers who've had their own UFO contact experiences:hidden experience: researchers who claim the direct contact experience

I've started a list of UFO abduction researchers who also claim life events that can be called contact experiences. Not just seeing a funny light in the sky, I'm talkin' alien abduction! These are sorted in no particular order and suspect there are many more beyond the 18 listed below. Some of these folks are controversial and I’m not trying to support the veracity of their claims. I am just trying to look at the overall pattern.

Ancient Aliens part 2

More ancient disasters: volcanoes. [Jim interjects: "You can't "cubic tons" only "metric tons." Ton is a weight, not an area."]

Domes, the Buddha, temples, built in wondrous geometric designs and near volcanoes. "Stupas" aimed at the skies. "Flat topped pyramid" says Coppens. All points to, Childress, Coppens, etc. say, aliens. Did these aliens have the means to cause volcanoes and earthquakes, as we have the (presumed) ability to do so today?

On to Hawaii. Pele; Goddess of fire and lightening. [Jim is now taking the drinking game to heart.] The gods of fire, rain, thunder, etc. all over the world, point to "space travelers" says host Giorgio Tsoukalos. On to the Sahara desert and cave paintings of giraffes, and... "the Martians" as Childress says archaeologists call them. Paintings of alien looking beings, who "assisted" humans, Tsoukalos says. Childress: "Alien gods" led the Dogon tribe. Not gods, but extraterrestrials. "Children of the Nommo," the ancient sky gods. 


Ancient China. Carvings of aliens. Big wrap around eyed beings. Peru: "massive planet wide glaciation of the earth." Giorgio's take: information given to humans by extraterrestrials. Big question: did ancient aliens want to save humans, or was there something more, or other? 

2011, Nov. 8th. Asteroid "narrowly misses" the earth. 65 million years ago, one giant asteroid did hit the earth. 180 kilometers (120 miles) in diameter. This event took out many life forms...and cause of the dinosaur extinction. Was this chance, or, ... aliens?  "Why would extraterrestrials do this?" asks Giorgio. Good question. Because we're their property. They either want to protect us, or, destroy us. Seems some days they want to kill us off, some days they want to save us. As silly as that sounds, obvious comparisons to the OT are made.

Live Blogging: Ancient Aliens part 1

You know I love this show...
Tonight's show: "Aliens and Mega-Disasters"

Get ready to count/drink/imbue substance of your choice: how many times "If as ancient astronaut theorists contend/think/believe is uttered. For each utterance, indulge. (You'll be potted out of your mind by the end of the program, but what the hell...)

Yea! Nick Redfern is on I see...

Begins with Japans' 2011 earthquake and tsunami, and talk of "pulses of energy."
And of course, that "thousands" of UFOs were seen right before the earthquake. [Jim interjects with the fact that given the high magnitude of the earthquake, the "UFO" sightings were likely geo-generated lights/energies/gases.]

Now to ancient Crete, and the earthquake in the year 365. Raised the isle of Crete 9 meters, or about 30 feet.  This and other events "...ascribed to the gods." Philip Coppens, one of my favorite thinkers and writers, is now on. And the ever effervescent David Childress. Ancient Aliens asks if Poseidon and other gods were not mere fantasies, but something ... else. Was his trident, Childress wonders, some sort of technological device? 

Could these disasters, ancient and current, be the work of the "gods" (aliens) as "ancient astronaut theorists believe?"

Now: Haiti, and the earthquake in 200, with a "strange ball of light" right before the earthquake. And now we have the elusive and excellent William Bramley, author of Gods of Eden.  Ah, but the earthquake lights aren't just geo-physical effects, they're more specific than that, Bramley suggests. Now we're getting to Nick Redfern and "tools of warfare" and "modifying and exploiting the weather" oh yes. HAARP, etc. Attempts have been made by governments during war, including Vietnam.And so the question is asked: could ancient peoples/aliens have done the same? Was "the great flood" and Noah's Ark, the result of alien actions? 

The aliens were unhappy with us, and created the flood, but more benevolent aliens intervened.

The Ancient Aliens Drinking Game

Probably been suggested elsewhere, but I think every time we hear the narrator on Ancient Aliens say "...as ancient alien theorists believe..." we should take a sip of our favorite beverage.

"...as ancient alien researchers" counts too. So does "...as ancient alien researchers/theorists contend...", "...as ancient alien researchers/theorists theorize..." etc.

By the way, I love Ancient Aliens. I commented after last night's episode that even if you took away all the stretchable moments -- meaning, those "theories" that really, seem to be a huge stretch for support of the ancient alien theory, even for me -- and discarded those theories you disagree with (I don't agree with everything they propose) you're still left with an excellent case for the Ancient Alien theory to be valid.

Metal Boxes=Dock Floats

Thanks to "terry the censor" who sent me the following links:

Beach-goers bewildered by mysterious debris
http://www.thesiuslawnews.com/v2_news_articles.php?heading=0&story_id=5233&page=72

Strange boxes spark UFO rumors
http://www.southlincolncountynews.com/v2_news_articles.php?heading=0&story_id=2942&page=72#

This entire "strange box on beach" mystery has shown us, once again, how silly things can get. Because there was recent UFO activity in the area (and that part of the coast is active, UFO wise) the illogical and melodramatic conclusion was that the boxes had some connection with UFOs. Various players: artists, UFO "reporters" who are, seemingly, of the hoaxing kind, debunkers who hurl insults and paint anything to do with UFOs as a pathology, and so on.

"le sigh," as skeptic Renae Holland recently commented on an episode of Finding Bigfoot. (I like Renae, yes, she's a skeptic, but -- and you're right, I can't believe I'm saying this either -- that show needs someone like her.)

Entering the Orb: Dream of... the Orb!

Just a fragment, a bare memory, but with such intensity! Last night a dream, and something about "the orb."

I was telling someone in the dream about the orb that I saw, and as I was telling her (I seem to remember it was a "her") that the image of the orb in the night sky was present. I told her that the orb was a three dimensional sphere, and an actual craft/machine, intelligently controlled. Whether or not that intelligent control came from the orb itself, or was being remotely controlled, I couldn't tell. The orb, I went on to describe, was it from within. And in the dream, a new detail: I was describing the color. Orange, amber-orange (not brown amber, but...) and in the middle, a more yellow orange. All still orange. The middle lighter possibly because of the location; that's where the energy or source of it all, the engine or who knows, was emanating from.

Then the person I was speaking with told me all about her orb sighting. Pretty much sharing the same details in every way. As if we were in a hyper telepathic communication with each other; knowing what the other would say about the orb's color.

That's it. That's all I remember of the dream; don't know if there was more prior or after that "dream scene" but what I do remember was so damn vivid and held an importance of emotion to it, as dreams do.

Clipping From Mom: 'Beached boxes mystery'

Mom sent me this clipping about the metal beach boxes from the Newport News paper.  (speaking of mom, here's her blog: Skazski...musings of a malcontent.) [Beached boxes mystery: UFO-related remains along coast unexplained; Terry Dillman.]As she commented in her note sent along with the clipping:

This clipping is the only mention of those "mystery boxes" that have turned up (Friday's Newport Times) --- maybe its because the story took place in another county (Lane) and therefore not of interest to people in Lincoln County and so it goes--- who said we were narrow-minded, ha!

About Bill Hanshumaker of the Hatfield Marine Science Center (HMSC), Dillman wites:

Hunshumaker told the News-Times that he couldn't even venture a guess as to what the boxes might be, espeically without direct examination. Two sets of HMSC volunteeres dispated to Bray's Point found nothing.

In other articles Hunshumaker has been quoted as suggesting the boxes were debris from docks or piers where construction has taken place, or some such...

The article goes on to say that volunteer groups, like CoastWatch, as well as the Oregon Parks and Rec department, have sent out people to look for the boxes; none were found.

And yet, as my mother herself commented, as well as others I've spoken with -- to paraphrase -- "The government can come in and whisk away anything they want and silence whoever they want, when they want." Well, we all know that's true. No argument there. Whether or not that's true in this case, well, I just can't help but think there's no there there.

Masko defends his on-line postings in the Dillman article:

...reproters today "spend all their waking hours" in front of various screens, gathering the news vicariously via computer ...rather than following the tried-and-true "old school" way of "wearing out shoe leather and actually talking to people."

Masko seems to do a bit of a back pedal by basically shrugging and saying the story has taken on its own life about "some junk on our beach."

All this is interesting from a variety of angles: folklore, UFO data, artistic license and expression, Fortean stuff for its own sake. To be fair, I haven't personally spoken with anyone involved in this story, or even been able to make it out to the coast yet to see for myself. (and by this time, that window of finding anything on the beaches seems long closed.)

Meet Dave Masko, the latest purveyor of hoax UFO articles., page 1

More on the Metal Boxes That Wouldn't Die; from Above Top Secret, and Dave Masko's hoaxing (alleged):Meet Dave Masko, the latest purveyor of hoax UFO articles., page 1

Lee Speigel on C2C tonight: Oregon's Metal Boxes

It won't stop, will it? Lee Speigel will be on C2C tonight with host George Knapp (the best.) Speigel will talk about the "odd metal boxes in relation to online hoaxes."

HULIQ:'UFO sighting beliefs counter today's science while new metal box theory floated'

(I had planned to go out there this weekend, but family illness keeps me in town for now...hopefully I can go out there next weekend.)

An update from Dave Masko on the metal boxes.UFO sighting beliefs counter today's science while new metal box theory floated. Theories are afoot. For example, "...the boxes on the beach are merely floats that were originally built to support docks," (William Hanshumaker, Hatfield Marine Science Center.)

The fear of metal boxes has to do with post Cold War angst. Or something. Time writer Jeff Wise is quoted in the article:

Mention “strange metal boxes” on the beach, and “people sort of shut down and call you a UFO nut. They need answers right now, and they won’t give an inch until they either try and understand or simply dismiss what you’re saying because ‘UFO’ is part of it,” added Errol when expressing her personal angst over being shot as the messenger for what other many in society view as real or not real.

In turn, people are funny adds Wise when noting how “the Cold War is over, but there’s still enough nuclear mega tonnage to end civilization,” but, alas, people will fear something unknown – such as UFOs and people who spot strange metal boxes on the beach – over loose nukes in our world.

The UFO connection will not go away. The boxes are disappearing, incorporated into art pieces and taken as souvenirs of alien activity.

Much of the article is the same material used in previous articles.

Entering the Orb: Location Connection in Dream

I had the following dream last night; I'm leaving out one detail because it was about a public figure's death. (Said person is, as far as I know, very much alive.)

 I drive out to the coast, but it wasn't a place I'd been to before. Like most dreams, this location is all mixed up. Part coast, (50 miles west) but part south of me towards the small town of Cottage Grove, a straight shot down 1-5 from Eugene. About 25 min. away. (Cottage Grove is said to be haunted in a lot of ways: UFOs, strange things, and in fact, I've always felt uneasy and, well, "haunted" whenever out there. That includes the outlying areas like Dorena Lake.)

I arrive at my destination. Jim is with me. We're all about UFOs, Mothman, ghosts... lots of talk about that with others who are researchers and witnesses.  The woods are all around us. It turns into night.  I become very  nervous because I have to drive back to Eugene  but don't like to drive at night, especially on a road I'm not used to. Jim seems to have disappeared around this time; for some reason, I have to drive back alone.  Several of the people here accuse me of being a big chicken and not serious about UFOs because I want to wait until morning to drive back.  I try to make them aware that driving at night, in the dark without lights and on an unfamiliar road in an unfamiliar town is irresponsible.

It wasn't until I started writing this, sharing it with others (because of the person dying, mainly) that I realized with a jolt the Cottage Grove-orb-missing time connection. Jim and I were coming back from Cottage Grove, at night, when we had our orange orb sighting and missing time.

One Metal Box Theory: Radiation and Disinformation

At the back of my mind limped the dark thought that all the authoritative sources cited concerning the glowing, sceeching, impervious metal boxes on Oregon coasts were covering up, or at best, dupes in a larger cover-up. I also thought that researchers, like Linda Moultan Howe, who interviewed these authorities, gave up too easily.

So the story goes, residents insist they have not seen a thing, someone made a YouTube video on how it was all a hoax, authorities deny anything strange at all. And that's very likely.

Still, that nagging thought of a "what if" in the back of my mind. Not a "what if" as in alien from outer space, but something to do with Fukushima, and/or covert government activity. When I told Jim this story of the strange metal boxes and the seeming "no there there" aspect his immediate response was that these boxes have something to do with monitoring radiation. (Or, on further research, metal boxes containing radioactive waste.)

Now if that's so, it seems, as I've mentioned in previous posts, pretty rash to go up to these boxes-- for example, using them as material for ones art.

More importantly, if it's true, the truth about the radiation levels continues to be hidden from us. Throw in distractions and disinformation about aliens, UFOs, and hoaxes, and there you have it.