2014 UFO Fest

Well, UFO Fest in McMinnville, I am very sorry to say, has gotten very greedy this year. Prices are higher. in the past, it'd cost us $25 each to hear all the speakers, now it would cost us $45 each. Plus hotel, etc. More things added, but it's fluff. Sounds like fun fluff, but just fluff. Begins Thursday night at 7:00 pm, instead of the usual Friday night. Which means that if you work, and money is tight (which means most of us) you have to shell out more, or, forget it. I choose to forget it. Maybe McMenamins will realize how greedy they're being and how inaccessible they're making their UFO Fest this year and will reign in some of their "extras" next year. Too bad that these venues often end being about money and glitz, and little meaningful content.

U.S. Map of Crazy Drone People

Still from John Carpenter's They Live, 1988

Interesting little item:

From UFO Sightings Map: What Weird UFO Shape Does Your State See?: We know that a lot of them will turn out to be drones. But it doesn't change the fact that people in every state are seeing weird shapes in the sky -- more than 6,500 of them just last year, according to the Mutual UFO Network's data.

I posted this on my Facebook page yesterday, and the verbiage was thus: "What  UFO Shapes Do The Crazy People In Your State See?" When you click on that link to the Huffington Post page, the "crazy" is gone.

Also wonder at this:

"We know that a lot of them [UFOs] will turn out to be drones."

I agree with that (for example, I think what we saw this NYE was a drone, or man made object of some kind.) But then, does that mean, if you're "crazy" and it's a drone that you see, you're crazy for seeing -- and reporting -- noticing -- said drones?

Notice that on this map there is no mention of triangles.


The message seems to be one of non-questiong.  Accept the drone, and other man made objects filling up our skies. Do not question their presence, or wonder what they're doing up there. If you want to think they're UFOs, that's good, go ahead. That's a distraction. That's tin foil hat land, and as long as you're chasing after aliens whose existence will never be proven by the infrastructure, have fun. Just don't get to close to what we're really doing up there. Shrug it off, move on, all those things in the skies are of no concern.

Jeremy Vaeni: Do Aliens Call Themselves Experiencers, Too?

Jeremy gets it, in my opinion. Pondering the motivations of the "aliens" and what's in it for us, Jeremy Vaeni asks:

Do Aliens Call Themselves Experiencers, Too? | JayVay: Let’s put this mural together in the form of a question: Is it possible I’ve been wrong all these years about the unimportance of the surface presentation we consciously remember? Family or not, what if this intelligence hides the deep stuff in the shallows of the presentation? Hey, even family’s got secrets to keep, right? So, if humans tend to remember the gist and forget the details, could they be hiding the important stuff in plain sight because that’s the stuff we’ll forget anyway? And what we don’t forget we commit to our outstanding long term memories. I don’t want to alarm anyone here, but this is too perfect. ~ Jeremy Vaeni

I know I'm going off on tangents here and I'm not speaking for Vaeni, just inspired by his recent blog writings and going off in my own direction. I left a comment on another entry of his at his blog the other day (A Question for Experiencers of "Alien," "Ghostly," and "Numinous" Encounters)  regarding these UFO/alien/paranormal/other/Fortean/anomalous/etc. experiences. Some of us have had a life time of these encounters, or, some of us may have had only one. Regardless of the number, sometimes these experiences give us a huge life changing jolt of insight, messages from "them" that we are compelled to share with the world. "They" told us about higher vibrations and a whole bunch spiritual political stuff we know is the truth. We know because a non-human entity told us so. So it has to be true, and it has to be good.

Some of us -- like myself -- have had lifetime experiences that sometimes are personally profound on a nebulous and spiritual level and sometimes they are very weird but don't seem to offer anything of use, other than the sheer weirdness of the experience. After decades of UFO sightings, missing time, encountering entities, hauntings,  -- a very long list of weird -- I don't have any deep spiritual insights to share, or messages of hope, cures, or warnings. I don't have a message from a Venusian to deliver to the masses.

The skeptoids of course (and not a few UFO researchers) use this fact as evidence there really is no there there. The whole UFO and anomalous realm is a big so what. Boring. Big deal. Move on.

That's all missing the point. It is a big deal and there is a lot to see here. We assume it's about messages and fixing humanity and discovering the literal, technical world of better, bigger things to enhance our lives. But "they" keep appearing, interacting with us, and we keep trying to figure it out. Frustrated with our lack of success in decoding their motivations, we conclude that it's all fantasy, bunk, misinterpretations or that, (and maybe this is the bleakest of all) sure, yes, "they" exist, but so what? Many a researcher has given up in frustration; acknowledging the reality of the "other" they simply decide there's no point.

Some assume that it's one thing. Maybe it is one thing; as some scholars point out, it may all come from one anomalous core. But the diversity of manifestations from that core has many facets. One alien may be a literal ET from Mars, with its own agenda. That may be proven to the world, but that would not be the end of the story. The ET phenomena will not have been solved with that one disclosure, merely one small aspect of a massively complex phenomena.

Alien Art Genre: time is Time is

a new poem at Alien Art Genre :  time is Time is

NASA is being forced by the US government to fly a mission to Europa – the most likely place we’ll find alien life in the Solar System | ExtremeTech

Europa, Jupiter's moon, public domain

Well this is interesting. Indeed, if any orb in our solar system has life, Europa would be one of them.

NASA is being forced by the US government to fly a mission to Europa – the most likely place we’ll find alien life in the Solar System | ExtremeTech: n a rather intriguing twist, it appears that NASA is now mandated by law to fly a robotic mission to Jupiter’s watery moon Europa. Europa is an incredibly exciting science target, as it’s believed to have a 100-kilometer-thick (62 miles) outer layer of water, with water ice on top (it’s very cold out there) and a liquid water ocean beneath that. It’s believed that there’s more water on Europa than the entirety of Earth, despite being just a quarter the width of Earth. As we continue to learn more about the tenacious lifeforms found in deep, cold waters here on Earth, excitement grows over the possibility of Europa’s oceans harboring extraterrestrial life.

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McMenamins UFO Festival | May 15-17, 2014

McMenamins UFO Festival | May 15-17, 2014

They've announced the speakers, but at this moment, no specific schedule regarding who speaks when.

Clarkson and Friedman are fine, of course, (both very nice as well!) but in my case, since I've been to both of their (very fine) presentations, I don' think I'll attend. Noory, well, no comment. David Marler will speak on the black triangle UFOs, and I am very interested in that, so, who knows.


Keep checking their site for updates as to times, etc.


It's a fun conference and if you haven't been try to attend some of it and be sure to check out the Hotel Oregon rooftop bar, among other things.

alienviews: ...The "You" You'd Recuse...

Another excellent one by Alfred Lehmberg.

alienviews: ...The "You" You'd Recuse...: We're an atom in an ocean! Who's to say what drifts our way... on the currents so indifferent to the games that YOU might play! We're a grain upon a tiny beach unaware we're unaware... of why it is that we're betrayed by cultures I forswear.
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You can read the entire piece at his site.

UFO Casebook - An Error Has Occurred!

I follow a link and end up at UFO Casebook. And see this about the forum: "Sorry, you have been banned from this forum."UFO Casebook - An Error Has Occurred!





Now, it's possible I joined this site a long time ago. I'm always joining various sites and forums and then forget I've done so. So it's possible I was a member once, I really don't know. Either this is just some glitch, or indeed, I've been banned. If the latter, well dahlings, so veddy interesting! When I clicked on the "Register" link nothing happened, I remained stuck on the "banned" page.



Well, as I say. Either a glitch, or personal.

And the link I was following up on? Sean Meers. Oy.

Emma Woods Files | Information about the Research of Dr. David M. Jacobs of Temple University

Sean Meers may have been successful in his vendetta against Emma Woods and the reason for her previous site to be removed, but she has a new one at WordPress. WordPress isn't so concerned with silly smug miffed individuals who want to rid the world of things they find messes with their belief systems. Good for WordPress, and good for Emma Woods who has not allowed little thugs like Meers get their way:

Emma Woods Files | Information about the Research of Dr. David M. Jacobs of Temple University: For several years, I was a research subject of “alien abduction” researcher, Dr. David M. Jacobs, of Temple University.

Dr. Jacobs conducted ninety-one hypnotic regressions with me during thirty-seven hypnosis sessions, from December 2004 through February 2007. He conducted all the hypnosis sessions over the telephone, thousands of miles from my location. I was alone in my apartment, with no supervision.

While I was Dr. Jacobs’ research subject, his behavior became, in my considered personal opinion, increasingly bizarre and psychologically abusive.

I have provided information about Dr. Jacobs’ research practices here, as I believe that it is matter of public interest. I hope that this can help to prevent similar distressing situations occurring to other research subjects in the future.

Internet UFO Police Officer Sean Meers

     

     This is from Jeremy Vaeni (who, as I've said before, is one of the few writing really good stuff on what goes in UFO World, as well as what's going on within us in relation to UFOs) on a highly offended individual named Sean Meers. [see Vaeni: Sean Meers, Internet Censorship, and YOU] We do not know if Sean Meers is his real name or not, but regardless, Meers has gone after Emma Woods -- remember, she is the victim -- for writing about her experiences with David Jacobs. He has also gone after Carol Rainey, who has written about what she observed concerning Budd Hopkins.
Now this is from Feb. 20, and in the world of news, be it everyday items or the anomalous realm, often isn't considered relevant unless it happened ten minutes ago. And while I've been following Emma's story (and Rainey's) since the beginning, this one escaped my attention at the time.
     This issue is very much alive; internet trolls, deluded individuals, sexist morons, and the gullible who will defend the indefensible when their beliefs are seemingly attacked.
     UFOs are real. Non-human entities are real. Government black ops fucking with our heads is real. So much high strangeness, unexplained, bizarre, spiritually uplifting, soul sucking degrading, wondrous, creepy, stuff, is real. I do not apologize or defend such opinions. If you don't believe in ghosts or UFOs or angels or Bigfoot or entities from afar, that's your issue, not mine. 
     People who somewhere along their path of exploration of these mysteries suddenly psychotically lose it do not negate my experiences or opinions, and it shouldn't yours, either. The fact that some have abused their positions and knowledge (Jacobs, to some extent Hopkins, etc.) doesn't mean a damn thing in terms of experience of the "other." But it sure as hell does mean a lot concerning ethics and morals and behavior and the nature of research. 
     And yet, it seems, some such as Meers cannot tolerate hearing that their gods have been exposed for what they really are. They go after the victims and the witnesses (Woods, Rainey) and demand that their stories be scrubbed from the internet.
     Then again, we have people like Jeremy Vaeni, Jack Brewer, and Alfred Lehmberg among others, who have been continuing this good fight against the self-elected UFO Police who want to not only silence others, but make sure their experiences disappear, as if none of this ever happened, and only the perpetrators words remain.

2014 UFO Fest, McMinnville Oregon

Well, it's a start. No line up announced yet, as far as I can see, not on their Facebook page or the UFO Fest site. But here's their poster…

Lehmberg on UFO Magazine Blog: Innocence Is Innocence...

No one else is as vocal about David Jacobs as Alfred Lehmberg. And that's a good thing -- why aren't more? Since the beginnings of the revelations on Jacobs, the majority have remained quite, while many more actually defended Jacobs, and continue to do so. Astounding, yet true. Jacobs continues to do UFO research and be invited to speak at UFO venues, and that is just dandy with some. Not so with Mr. Lehmberg. Again, that's a good thing.

UFO Magazine - UFO Magazine Blog - Innocence Is Innocence...: As if they were the victims of a coercive telepath, people I respect want to give Dr. David Jacobs a by and treat Ms "Emma Woods" as an obsessive nut-ball or shrill harridan grasping for attention and smearing the good Doctor's name... and by extension the memory of the even more revered Budd Hopkins.

McMinnville, OR 2014 UFO Festival

Oh when, when, will the line-up be announced McMenamins? The UFO fest is in May, it's almost March already!!!! We wait...Schedule | UFO Festival

UFOs: Is There A There There? - Binnall of America

My latest column for Tim Binnall:

UFOs: Is There A There There? - Binnall of America: Not news, that there’s no news, no there there, when it comes to UFOs. Every few months or so, UFO Land pronounces in various ways and expressions of despair, that it is the end of UFOs. We don’t care, the public doesn’t care, the main stream media doesn’t care, and if even with all of that did care, it wouldn’t matter, because — in this loop of indulgent hand wringing chicken little smug self-righteous prophetic know it all statements — there is nothing new, nothing revealed, nothing disclosed. So there. Nothing to UFOs, it’s a waste of time, move on, do something useful with your lives, and stop researching the obviously fruitless realm of aliens and UFOs.
I call a loud, vibrant, vivid, raucous and disruptive bullshit on that. For those of us who’ve had multiple sightings, missing time, encounters with some kind of other, and all the hassles, weirdness, exclusions, and misunderstandings of such events, dismissing the exploration of UFOs as some kind of sad wasteland of the loser crowd is only arrogance, combined with ignorance. The worst kind of stuffed shirt Gringch from Smugville.

Jeremy Vaeni: What If Missing Time Is Supposed To Stay Missing?

      Jeremy Vaeni's latest at his blog:What If Missing Time Is Supposed To Stay Missing? | JayVay
Having had at least two episodes of missing time involving UFOs, I was curious what Jeremy's thoughts were on missing time. Vaeni explores Jacques Vallee's Dimensions, which was published in 1988. Amazing to think that was over twenty years ago! The reader might be wondering why Vaeni is referencing a book that is over twenty years old to discuss missing time. As usual, Vaeni takes a unique perspective and leap and what he offers us is very worthwhile. (I get so exasperated with those that consider Vallee "old hat" as one supposed UFO "researcher" said to me some time ago.) 

     As Jeremy says, of Vallee and the UFO phenomena in general: "If you need a reminder of what great theater this “alien” enigma truly is, read Dimensions." Definitely.

     I urge you to read Vaeni's article, which asks very good questions. I don't want to do the work for you or rip off Jeremy -- always a disservice when quoting things out of context -- but I like what he says about the UFO theater humanity has been witness to for thousands of years:

     "Problem is, we don’t know those are aliens, we don’t know those are craft, we don’t know if the alleged craft is even piloted, and if you were to ask a supposed alien pilot, you’d just as likely be offered a pancake as you would be asked, “What’s existence?”  ~ Jeremy Vaeni

      

     Just what is missing time? Jeremy Vaeni offers us good suggestions on how to think upon this mysterious (for us, anyway) experience. 

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