Synchronicities: Local Mini-disasters

   Talking our walk this morning and walking by the industrial laundry building. We heard a very loud alarm type sound, like a car alarm. Except it was unduly loud, much too loud for a car alarm. People came walking briskly out of the building -- an industry laundry service -- and we realized it was a fire drill. Except, probably not a drill, since in the twenty years we've lived here, we've never once heard any such alarm. If the place had regular drills, we would have heard their alarms. (We live only a block away.) As far as we know, no fire trucks arrived -- we didn't see or hear any. So maybe it was a drill.
     This evening, we heard sirens close by and smelled smoke. The building across from the laundry service had a fire. That one made the local news.
      Another odd synchronicity: this morning on Facebook, someone posted a link to a store in the University area. I wasn't familiar with the store. I mentioned it to Jim, we were figuring out where it was exactly (parking is a bitch down there) and he said he wasn't familiar with the place. This evening, again making the local news, a report that a car drove into the place. 
     None of this has to do with UFOs or the paranormal, but this does have to do with synchronicity; those moments that seem, often, trivial yet the very fact of them reminds us it's a Down the Rabbit Hole World indeed.

UK UFO Contactee Ernie Sears

Contactee Ernie Sears, now deceased, eighty-one, talking about his meetings with aliens:

UFO Sighting in Oregon, United States on June 10th 2013

UFO sightings in Oregon, via UFO Stalker. More sightings on site, including one at Yachats on the coast.UFO Sighting in Oregon, United States on June 10th 2013

Momo -- the cat, not the Bigfoot

Another item in today's paper, right next to the UFO item (see post below)about Momo. Not that Momo, the cryptid Bigfoot type creature encountered in Missouri in the 1970s, but a photo of a man swimming after his cat, named Momo. Both had been swept up by the flood waters in Alberta. The local paper (R-G) did not say if the cat was saved or not. Fortunately, Momo and his owner are safe, according to the HP: Alberta Floods: Kevan Yaets Saves His Cat From Being Swept Downstream

UFO item in paper: MOD

   Today's paper, in the "Briefly" section (Eugene Register-Guard) small item:
Documents explain UFO desk closure. I've been noticing that in recent months, now and then an item about UFOs will appear in the paper. For a long time, there was nothing on the subject.
   The item describes "newly classified files" from the UK's MOD, which "closed down nearly three years ago." Reason for the closure, according to the item, was the expense of keeping an active UFO department open, "despite a surge in reported sightings."
 

From Nick Redfern:An Island of Synchronicities, on Mysterious Universe

Intriguing! Synchronicities were in abundance when Nick Redfern traveled to Puerto Rico years ago to research the Chupacabras. In writing about being seated next to a man from the military on the Chicago flight out, I wondered about the convenience of such a pairing. Well, so did Nick:

An Island of Synchronicities | Mysterious Universe: The always slightly paranoid part of me wondered if he was, perhaps, listening too intently. And, perhaps, the reason why he, a military man, was conveniently sat next to me was to pump me for information.

That aside, be it synchronicity or planned spook encounter, an interesting report on synchronicity and how the phenomena does seem to follow students of the strange.
(thanks to The Anomalist  for link.)

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Although, the day's not over . . .

Red Pills of the Week — June 15th | Mysterious Universe

Always enjoy Red Pill Junkie's Red Pills of the Week, and the current list is another good one. My favorite items: Uri Geller(I agree, he's neither fake nor, well, ... trickster-spy indeed, maybe), Mirage Men, Mark Pilkington (who, and I admit I haven't read his book, irks me. Well, not him personally, I don't know the man. But the idea that because powers that be manipulated UFO researchers and witnesses, UFOs are trivial making us dupes, doesn't explain very much, just points out the givens.) And of course you have to laugh even while being exasperated at "Chantelle" an alien abductee. Funny, but not so, given that the phenomena is still not being taken seriously. Including by some researchers.

A Fractured Hall of Mirrors | TDG - Science, Magick, Myth and History

Excellent, from Greg Taylor at the equally excellent Daily Grail: A Fractured Hall of Mirrors | TDG - Science, Magick, Myth and History

Exopolitics & Contact tonight on C2C

I'll listen in because I listen to anything to do with UFOs, but I don't think there's anything worthwhile about exopolitics -- waste of time, laden with loads of assumptions. But, that's my opinion. Exopolitics and Contact - Shows - Coast to Coast AM

Experiencers Speak Conference

The focus is on the witness/experiencer. I like it. Was just discussing the other night (I gave a presentation on UFOs to a local group, very nice!) and I said that in my view, researchers and those of us who study UFOs need to keep in mind, always, the witness: respect them, listen to them, trust them, honor their wishes. Don't push them to submit reports to MUFON or NUFORC if they feel uncomfortable, don't reject the parts of their story if those parts make you squirm in embarrassment (i.e. "What do you mean, you saw Bigfoot dematerialize in front of a UFO?!") etc. Experiencers Speak

Airborne laser reveals city under Cambodian earth - Yahoo! News

 Amazing!:

Airborne laser reveals city under Cambodian earth - Yahoo! News: SYDNEY (AP) — Airborne laser technology has uncovered a network of roadways and canals, illustrating a bustling ancient city linking Cambodia's famed Angkor Wat temples complex.

The discovery was announced late Monday in a peer-reviewed paper released early by the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The laser scanning revealed a previously undocumented formal urban planned landscape integrating the 1,200-year-old temples.

Tonight's C2C: Bigfoot & Cryptozoology

Bigfoot & Cryptozoology - Shows - Coast to Coast AM

Alfred Lehmberg: alienviews: Misleading, Misled, Or Mentally Ill? ...Batsqueeze!

 Afred's latest. As usual, excellent. And I like these words from someone who appreciates Lehmberg's words and thoughts -- I lifted them from his blog:

"I love the way you scatter words together like a witch doctor with bones into magical sentences that make my brain feel funny." -- Sacha Claire Christie

 

Alfred writes, in part:

 Conspiracy LIVES! It is not in my mind. The *news* is a joke! If we looked, WE WOULD FIND! But, the man holds his purse in his covetous fingers, and the *news* is his stooge, so our ignorance lingers.

So, those of you laughing, you're wasting your time; you've nothing to add and committing a crime. Moreover, incurious, it's you being crass! You're lacking real courage, your head's in your ass! It's you lacking bravery to open your eyes, pay a freight—take a stand. You are truly despised.

rest at alienviews: alienviews: Misleading, Misled, Or Mentally Ill? ...Batsqueeze!

Naked Women Walking

A nineteen year old female decided to go alone on a spiritual hike in Washington state. Naked, and taking only a fanny pack and knife with her. She is missing and the search continues:

Search continues for naked woman on 'spiritual quest' in SW Washington forest - Local - MyNorthwest.com: The search continues for a 19-year-old woman who set out naked on a "spiritual quest" in the woods of southwest Washington.

Crews resumed their search Tuesday in the hunt for Maureen Kelly. The Vancouver woman walked away from a campsite Sunday around 5 p.m. wearing only a fanny pack. A friend reported her missing in the early morning hours of Monday, Skamania County Undersheriff Dave Cox said.

Another naked woman was found on the highway in Oregon. She is described as "possibly autistic."

ASHLAND, Ore. -

Oregon State Police said Sunday they have identified a young woman found walking naked early Sunday morning along Interstate 5 north of Ashland in southern Oregon.

The female had no identification and appeared to possibly be autistic and unable to communicate, troopers said.

With the assistance of the local 9-1-1, center she was positively identified about three hours after she was found.