Binnall of America Season III Finale with VALLEE!

Tim Binnall finished out Season III in a huge way; interview with the incomparable Jacques Vallee. Amazing, astounding, fantastic! Good for Tim, and that's good for us.

Tim started off the interview with a very brief bit of practicality: Binnall Audio is in the red, donate something. Listen, Tim brings all of us very fine interviews with the big names in esoterica, and it’s all for free. He’s one of the best interviewers in pod cast land. As Tim said, “No donation is too small” so whatever you can contribute, just go here and give what you can.

On to the interview. What I love is what they got to right off; Vallee said he “still doesn’t know” what UFOs are; Tim concurred, in his usual dry style, that “none of us do, though some think they know.” So true!

I’m not going to recap the entire interview here; you’ll need to listen to it yourself. But some points were made that resonated with me and I’ll just share them.

Of course they discussed the ETH, which Vallee is “against” but it’s not so simple. Vallee says that it may be that the ETH is part of the phenomena, but that the UFO phenomena, as a whole, is more than that. That’s an important distinction. I hope I did that justice.

In other words, any theory, Vallee says, has to explain everything about UFOs, which the ETH doesn’t do.

Vallee described one case he investigated, where the witnesses were disoriented as to the direction of the UFO. This is because witnesses who’ve had close encounters are in “a field of some kind” that causes this to happen. This is what happened to me and my husband in one case. Screen memory, cover memory, missing time and, to this day, arguments between us about the memory of the direction of not only the UFO, but us. I insist we were traveling East, seeing the UFO a mile west of our house, JIm insists we were traveling West, seeing the UFO. . . well, he’s not sure. Hmmm...Were we in “a field” of some kind that altered our perceptions? Certainly possible. Damn likely, given all the other high strangeness surrounding that sighting.

I had to laugh when Vallee said that there are many good researchers who want nothing to do with the internet UFO community, mainly due to the “insults” that are flung about. Hello, are you listening? You all know who you are. Knock it off.

Ah, I love this; the UFO phenomena purposely “hides itself” in order to push away science. As we well know.

And this: Occam’s Razor ust doesn't work when dealing with the UFO phenomena. I love it! VAllee pointed out that he “likes Occams’ Razor,” but when it comes to UFOs, it doesn’t work. Such a simple tool for such a complex phenomena.

Oh, there’s so much more and I only glossed over, in simplistic terms, some of what Vallee said. Just listen to the interview, and donate something to BOA!

Orb News

Farah Yurdozu's back from Roswell Festival . . . I've been getting some odd emails: one about MIBs, UADS, and a plea for secrecy, a few from an unknown on Doty's lying ways, a possible -- or not -- Chip Coffey impersonator, or, not . . .Jim's putting up images at a furious pace . . . I'm really liking my new blog UFO-Mary . . .I saw an unpleasant and pretentious movie last night: BUG yeah, I know, it was a play . . .Dr. Bob Jacobs kicks Nye's smarmy ass . . .I was gifted Daniel Pinchbeck's 2012:The Return of Quetzalcoatl upon scanning it I find a very interesting chapter on the greys as gnomes; now that's different . . . trying to keep up as usual on all the UFO Fortean news of the day -- and books by Redfern, Beckley, O'Brien . . .next issue of UFO Magazine, my article is on Silver Suited Aliens, including my own experiences of the shiny little devils . . . I scream YES! in The Green Room . . . There are now twenty-five! separate threads about Bigfoot on the skeptoid James Randi forum! . . .I have an e-book and more to come! on Lulu.com . . . speaking of writing visit me on Author's Den . . .have a good week! Don't forget to look up!

James Rich, Artist

Utter, complete, shameless promotion. Not self-promotion, but close. My dear significant other is at long last getting his images up on-line, so I'm promoting the heck out of it.

He even has a blog! Okay, I do all the work, he barely knows it's there, but still.
You can visit his blog here. There's a link to the site where you can view his artwork.

You can also go straight to the site itself here.

In The Green Room: Yes, Yes, Yes! But . . .

I have a new blog entry on the UFO Magazine blog, The Green Room: Yes, Yes, Yes! But . . .

Author's Den Newsletter Experiment

Click here for my newsletter. I'm not sure what I'm doing yet, so just play along.

Click here, to download julynewsletter.cwk (WP).pdf

Trickster's Realm: MIBS, Clowns and Helicopters

My Trickster's Realm column is now up at Binnall of America: MIBS, Clowns and Helicopters.

New Blog: "UFO-Mary"

I know, I probably need help, but I have a new blog: UFO Mary. Not the best title, but I wanted something that would say it's about Marian Apparitions in non-religious context and a Fortean, Paranormal UFO context.

Trickster Northwest, Regan Lee Oregon, Updated

I've updated Trickster Northwest and Regan Lee Oregon. Basically changed links around, etc and the colors a bit, but not too much of a change.

I'm also working on my website, which I've neglected for a long time. Part of the problem in Yahoo's offerings for Mac users, which isn't much. The other problem is simply a lack of time. This time I really hope to have something fairly decent up very soon.

Kevin Randle: "How Secret Was Mogul?"

Over on Snarly Skepticism, an item on Kevin Randle's "How Secret Was Mogul?", with link to his article.

MUFON Radar Report: Stephenville

MUFON's report on radar readings in connection with the Stephenville, Texas UFO sightings here, on Alien Case Book.

Things

Snarly Skepticism
Lots going on at Snarly Skepticism. I had to change the comment settings after getting a few nasty comments (ah yes, the ad homs and the skeptic!) so sorry about that, but there's three, four at least new items up there.

Vintage U.F.O.
I have something about creepy clowns on Vintage U.F.O., which fits in a bit with my Trickster's Realm column on Binnall, which will be up sometime on Monday. That column is about "MIBs, Clowns and Helicopters," inspired mostly by Tim Beckley's The UFO Silencers, but also Chris O'Brien's Mysterious Valley books.

James Rich, Artist
I've been shamelessly promoting my husband's work everywhere. He's finally finished taking images of his paintings and finding a good art hosting site at Yessy.com. He has literally hundreds of paintings, so be sure to check it out regularly; he's putting up images daily.

Lulu.com: E-Books
So are, I only have one little thing up there; a collection of articles on the Trent UFO case and the McMinnville, UFO Festival. I'll more things up there in the weeks to come. You can see what's available on my Lulu Storefront.

A Fortean Gift Bounty From Timothy Green Beckley

Yes, "Mr. UFO", (Tim Beckley) e-mailed me a few weeks ago, asking if I would like to receive some of his books. Well, der! He very generously sent me a whole stack of books, AND an audio CD:Godlen Age of UFOs: Orfeo and the Contactees Speak.

I am eternally grateful to Tim for this Fortean package of goodies, and I'll be writing about them as I plow through them. Can't wait!!!!! Now, which one first? Hmmm...I'll start with the CD, maybe, and then on to The UFO Silencers. Jim will probably read Commander X's Nikola Tesla: Free Energy and the White Dove.

More to come!

Oh, and here's a link to Conspiracy Journal. Join, buy something, drop him a line!
http://uforeview.tripod.com/

Green Orbs in BC

I find this report of green orbs in Vancouver from the HBCC site very interesting, because it has some of that eerie high strangeness stuff attached to the sighting.

The witness and a friend saw "a flashing green orb in the sky." This was around 12:30 a.m. Both were in a car, witness drops friend off, then witness experiences something strange with his cell phone. Which, it turns out, his friend also experienced with his phone.

What does it mean? Who can say; alien, military,paranormal, who knows. Very odd though.

Snarly Skepticism: Bill Nye, the Bow Tie Guy

Bill Nye, The Bow Tie Guy, over on Snarly Skepticism. I know, me and everyone else has been yakking about the Larry King Roswell program but I just couldn't help myself.

Lehmberg in UFO Magazine, April Issue

There's just not enough time to write about all the great writing that's around, in blogs, on UFO and Fortean news sites, in print. I'm just now getting to the issue before last of UFO Magazine; April's issue.

In that issue, Alfred Lehmberg wrote, for his An Alien View column: Ufological Obstacles, Culture: Risking Validity, Relevancy, and Credibility in the Postmodern Age. (I think it fits in well with the current issue's piece by Professor Jaynes, but more on that later.) I hope I can do Alfred's article justice but here goes.

Lehmberg asks what most all of us from the most mired in psychotic skepticism to the so-called "believer" asks, and that is: why hasn't UFO research progressed in 60 years? Despite all the efforts. Lehmberg asks:

"What keeps ufologogy in its giggle-factor limbo? What banishes UFOs to the realm of tabloid magazines and the reflex derision of, say, current uberklasskurtxian apologists James McGaha or Micheal Shermer when the actuality of UFOs seems otherwise so assured?"

Great question, one we're all asking. Lehmberg gives the what should be an obvious answer; it's the:

"...paid cadre of busy imps at the Committee for Sceptical inquiry (CSI)."

It is also, Lehmberg goes on to say, in so many words, the powers that be, the ones in control, the infrastructure, the system. This is so damn obvious and simple, and yet so many within the field chase their own tails looking for other causes. We haven't made friends with science yet, there are too many kooks or "New Age mush brains" as Richard Hall recently put it in his article on getting up a UFO Commission; it's all kinds of things except for the one simple fact: they don't want us to. (Lehmberg also addresses the "why they don't want us to" part.)

Lehmberg gives several excellent reasons why there is such a strong and successful legacy of cover ups and disinformation. Lehmberg doesn't stick to UFOs; he makes his case for the methodical control by the infrastructure by comparing other societal disconnects. Politics, culture, business, academia, and sex. The same mechanism in place that ensures control of our responses (and knowledge) to UFOs is the same used in the previously mentioned. Take sex, for example:

"Revealed is the shame of dishonesty concerning sex because it is teasingly pushed in our faces on the one hand, and then we're penalised, persecuted, diseased, and made lunatic for induldging in it on the other."

(We can have a crude show like Two and a Half Men in prime time, with an eleven year old as fodder for the adolescent and shallow sex jokes that occur every three seconds, but Janet Jackson shows a glimpse of boob, and the entire nation goes insane in fake moral outrage, demanding the involvement of government, fines, and punishments for all concerned.)

The UFO researcher has to constantly look at the cultures around her to understand UFOs. Lehmberg writes:

"The point? If culture lies and denies about the everyday, they'll work overtime to clutter up the inordinately strange. Especially if this highly strange complicates their program. Especially if the highly strange invalidates them in the commissions of their crime. Especially, good reader, if the highly strange interferes with their very convenient and coveted status quo. And please, please, please challenge me on who they are. Dwight Eisenhower knew who they are and could point them out to us today.

Again, this is so damn obvious, and yet so many who should know better dismiss this as conspiracy minded kook stuff, or insist it's something else. Anything but this. Well, it's exactly this. (I've been saying this forever as well, although in a different way; that a happy shiny moment with science, mainstream media, academia, and politics will never take place -- not fully, not completely, not ever -- because of the Trickster element, which ensures that such things will never reach the light of day. Moaning about how nothing's changed in sixty years is non productive, and the wrong complaint. And, I realize I'm starting to digress here; is it really true that we've not progressed in sixty years? We don't have the answers -- but is that the goal? We need to shift our focus. But as I say, I'm dissgressing. . .)

There's much more to the article, well worth reading.

Coincidentally, I was just over at UFO Magazine's site, and discovered a comment by a reader who had some positive things to say about this same article in Alfred Spikes Another One Over the Net!


Notes:
Alfred Lehmberg, An Alien View in UFO Magazine: Ufological Obstacles, Culture: Risking Validity, Relevancy, and Credibility in the Postmodern Age, p14.

Vaeni On Dolan

In the April (2008) issue of UFO Magazine, contributor Jeremy Vaeni has an article about Richard Dolan: Praise for Dickie Dolan. In giving kudos to Dolan for his research, Vaeni also says:

He isn't all about compiling government documents -not that that's an easy task or one I'm taking lightly. I'm saying he's got more to his repertoire, and it's about damn time someone with genuine intellect,genuine curiosity, and the ability to sift through new data just sat down and considered everything anew.

Vaeni says what should be obvious, but to my constant surprise, isn't to many: that we don't know what the aliens are, are from or are up to, so any pronouncements about that are only speculation. Nothing wrong with speculation -- we need specuatlion -- as long as we remember that's all it is. Instead of asking, (or telling) others what we know about UFOs and aliens, we should ask, Vaeni suggests:"What do we know about us?"

Vaeni has been "crying this" for years, giving Dolan credit for also understanding this:

If anyone is qualified to ponder it, it's him. Why? Because he doesn't have his answer and he's not looking for it. He's looking, period. (italics mine.)

I like it!

Source:
Jeremy Vaeni in UFO Magazine, April 2008: Praise for Dickie Dolan, pp 28 - 29

Well, that sounds about right! Hat tip to Lesley, who I always steal from!

What Your These Fireworks Say About You

You are chaotic, inspired, and very creative. You're so creative, people don't really recognize your creativity. What's expressive for you sometimes looks like a mess. But you don't really care... you enjoy making your messes!

The Fireworks Test

The Debris Field:
thedebrisfield.blogspot.com/

Random Bits . . .

Torchwood Quotes
I love the BBC program Torchwood. I hear they're coming back for a third season, but in a limited way, a mini-series of five episodes. I hope not. But I'll take it. Here are some quotes from the show:

Gwen: The thing is I just don't understand—
Jack: I'll tell you what I don't understand. You're going to rattle on with that "How can this be true?" kind of shtick. What's it going to take for you people. If you want evidence of aliens, how about that great big spaceship hovering over London on Christmas day? What about the battle of Canary Wharf. A Cyberman in every home.
Gwen: My boyfriend says it's like a sort of terrorism. They put drugs in the water supplies. Psychotropic drugs. Causing mass hallucinations.
Jack: Yeah well, your boyfriend is stupid.

Jack: Alright, usual formation.
Gwen: What's the usual formation?
Owen: Varies.
Gwen: How can the usual formation vary?

Jack: No other race in the universe goes camping, Owen. Celebrate your uniqueness.

Captain Jack Harkness: Contraceptives in the rain. I love this planet. Still at least I won't get pregnant. I'm not doing that again.

I Believe in Aliens
I have a little item on my Snarly Skepticism blog about my "belief" in aliens and UFOs.

Jeremy Vaeni and Culture of Contact
It's that time again, Vaeni's been working hard at getting it together. Buy his book and DVD by the way. Why am I plugging his stuff? Why not? We're all in this together. So, buy something, visit his site, buy a ticket. After all, as he says, he doesn't want to put a Donate button on his site. It's so tacky and needy after all.


New Blog Link Feature

I love bloggers new link feature that updates links to other blogs. I don't have it set up on all my blogs but I do on Vintage UFO and The UFO Proletariat. It gets kind of clunky if you have too many but overall, I like it.


Off For The Summer!
So I'll be writing a lot. Finally off since yesterday until September. Our school goes two weeks beyond the usual, so we didn't finish until yesterday. Now back to writing, writing writing. I hope to put something up at Lulu.com in a week or two; probably about the Trent and McMinnville event.

Mystical UFO Experiences

A bit on the mystical side of UFO experiences, as well as insectoids and drug induced journeys on UFO Proletariat.

Appartions and UFOs and Control

The news that the Vatican will be, for the first time, officially investigating the apparitions at Medjugorje inspired this week's Trickster's Realm column for Binnall of America. It should be up sometime tomorrow, so look for it there.

Also be sure, as always, to read all the great columns, and listen -- for free! -- the podcasts Tim does with some amazing guests.

As to my article, on apparitions and UFOs, a book can be written on all the aspects. In fact, there have been several written! I just touch the surface of one . . .