George Hansen on Paratopia -- and Nancy Birnes!

Good for Jeremy and Jeff at Paratopia for inviting George Hansen back on. I haven't listened to the interview yet; in fact, have it on now, so can't comment yet on the content. But, while the 'trickster' aspect seems obvious to me, and I've been pushing Hansen on UFO and esoteric studies all along, it seems there are those that either don't agree with these ideas (as well as anti-structure, liminality, marginalization, etc.) or feel it's too academic. Other writers that are good to read along these lines include Daniel Pinchbeck and Patrick Harpur.

Also, tonight at 9pm Eastern time, Paratopia interviews UFO Magazine editor Nancy Birnes. I'm looking forward to this one!

"Those Smirks and Sneers"

Another great piece by Alfred on the UFO Magazine blog: "Those Smirks and Sneers"

This is for anyone who wrongly detests the working stiff holding them in his or her providing arms, and manufacturing their complete convenience out of thin air — you lofty, sneering, clueless, and non-appreciative Elite!

And an equally entertaining perceptive response by Mike Good.

This elite classist sneering and such goes on within UFOlogy and Bigfoot research . . . obvious point but felt like making it anyway.

Jim Marrs on Coast to Coast

According to the Coast to Coast website, Jim Marrs will be the guest July 1. Among other topics discussed will be Nazi UFOs -- a favorite topic of mine. (And Lesley's, as she recently mentioned at Debris Field. Great minds, eh?)

Madness of Clouds in Space: "Molecular Cloud"

Molecular Cloud Barnard 68 is a reverse cloud, or negative cloud, or more technically, a "molecular cloud" previously thought to be a hole in the sky. Now astronomers have concluded these are clouds, of a type.

Image: NASA

Mom has new rants up at "why? . . . thoughts of an angry old woman" -- I love her "far off the map of reality" comment.

Weird Oregon Weather

The sky madness continues:

Freakish Storms Pack a Wallop" in Eugene, Oregon and surrounding areas. Our school had a "severe storm warning" last night; while the storm was bad it was worse in areas close by, like Crow, a rural area outside Eugene. . .

Good-bye, My Warrior Cat

Puck died during the night.

We had Puck for 18 years, and he was at least 2 years when he came to us. We found him living feral in the alley behind our old house; he was diving into dumpsters, etc. He just started hanging around us, and even though we had another cat, he stayed. I took this photo of Puck on Sunday.

We suspected at the time that he was a survivor of the house down the street that had burned down; the fire was suspiscious, as were the people living there. We all figured it was a drug house from the activity going on there. After the decision to keep him, I took him into the vet to have him nuetered, but the vet said he had been neuretered and in fact, the stitches were still in him. They were old, but there. So someone had decided to have him neutered in the past six months or so. Yet no one claimed him.

Puck didn't like to be kept in the house; he always stayed right around the house, on the porch, etc. and liked to come in for visits and of course, food, but he wasn't a typical house cat. Yet he was so damn loving and affectionate! He would sit in my lap for hours, just purring and letting me pet him.

He was a real warrior; he liked to perch and sit up high; in his younger days he ran off other cats, as well as dogs.

He came with us when we moved to our present house. The past few years, he developed a bad allergy to fleas, and I became allergic to his fur, or dander. Still, I didn't care. Then he started to have bad problems with his teeth, ....basically, he just got old.

We knew he was letting go of life these past couple of years. Just his overall behavior, just getting old. Since Sunday he stopped eating, would stay outside, --- sit was clear it was his time. I had the most emotional, conflicted up and down few days; do I take him in to be "put down?" But he wasn't suffering, and it seemed a real dishonor to his spirit to take him out of the yard he loved, the outdoors and nature he was so much a part of, and have his last hours spent in an unfamilar place. . .

So we let him go. It was hard, so damn hard! Both of us knew he was going to pass away last night, so we dug a hole under the rose bush he loved to lie under, and this morning, at 5:45 a.m. when I checked, there was Puck, dead, on our porch by his water dish and little bed.

We buried him this morning.

Good bye, Puck. You were such a loving, loyal, good cat. Thank you for being in our lives.

Clouds of Madness: Not So Paranoid Intuition

Credit: Photo copyright Christopher J Picking

(a hat tip to The Daily Grail for the link to the noctilucent clouds item.)

It's "noctilucent" cloud season. I'd never heard of noctilucent clouds until I saw this item, but realized that, from the descriptions and images, I've seen these cloud formations, including during the day, which doesn't fit the cloud profile, according to this article. What, exactly, are these clouds? According to the following article they were "discovered" in the late 1800s after the eruption of Krakatoa.

The clouds remain a mystery as to why they're where they are. Given the correlation between volcanic debris, pollution, and the gunk that's up there due to our chemtrail/contrail spraying, my intuition wasn't so paranoid after all; these formations do seem share some sort of relationship with chemtrails as well as pollution:

Noctilucent clouds are an unsolved puzzle. They float 83 km above Earth's surface at the edge of space itself. People first noticed NLCs in the late 19th century. In those days you had to travel to high northern latitudes to see them.

In recent years, however, the clouds have been sighted in the United States as far south as Oregon, Washington and even Colorado. Climate change, space dust, and rocket launches have all been cited as possible explanations for the phenomenon. (italics mine.)

My first thought, after seeing the photos and reading about the clouds, was that they were chemtrail related. But no mention of chemtrails. The images come in from all over the world; and many look like the noctilucent clouds, some look more chemtrail "that's no cloud!" kind of thing, as opposed to a natural, "normal" cloud, in this case, the noctilucent cloud.

It's always a risk talking about chemtrails, because, like UFOs, Marian apparitions or other religious phenomena, and so on, there is an either/or perspective. You're either a "believer" and interpret these things literally, or an uber skeptoid and dismiss it all without a thought.

My taking the chemtrail subject seriously doesn't mean I think "they" are spraying us with Dr. Evil mutating mind altering body decaying government spook cooties, (but I wouldn't put it past them) nor do I think they're aliens from space cloaking themselves from us. They're not "contrails" either; please. Give it a rest. "Increased air traffic" indeed.

The problem with this subject is that it's still considered kook fodder, even among UFO and many esoteric researchers. This is surprising, since many unidentified weird things are going on in terms of chemtrail activity; spheres, orbs, little drone like monitoring objects, . . . these have been caught on film. So why the denial? Like UFOs, we know they are, we don't know yet what they are.

Here are some images I took today of clouds that look similar to the noctilucent clouds, but these were taken around 2:00 p.m. There has been a lot of chemtrail acitiviy in the area past few days, along with the above mentioned drone/spheres and other sky strangeness.

Then there are the following "new" clouds as discussed in Meteorologists campaign to classify unique 'Asperatus' clouds seen across the world:

Whipped into fantastical shapes, these clouds hang over the darkening landscape like the harbingers of a mighty storm.

But despite their stunning and frequent appearances, the formations have yet to be officially recognised with a name.

They have been seen all over Britain in different forms - from Snowdonia to the Scottish Highlands - and in other parts of the world such as New Zealand, but usually break up without producing a storm.

Some scientists at the Royal Meteorological Soceity want this cloud variety to be given a new official name: "Asperatus," which is Latin for "rough."

Other sky news concerns hurricanes. Hurricane season is here, and so far, things are normal. Predictions made by those who know say hurricane season should be average, with about 11 hurricanes. But look out for "Strange day-before lightning" which is a signal that hurricanes are to come:

Forecasters have radar and other instruments to help them track the path and strength of storms, but hurricane intensity can ramp up suddenly and unpredictably, as Hurricane Charlie did before striking the southwest coast of Florida in 2004.

But an April study in Nature Geoscience found that the peak winds of a hurricane are preceded by an increase in lightning activity by about one day. Because lightning activity is easily monitored around the world, it could prove a useful tool in hurricane predictions.

As I was writing this, the wind started up and thunder started; trees are waving in the humid air and the thudner is going strong. So it looks like it's time to shut down the computers for now. . .

Mr. UFO's "Bizarre Bazaar"

Timothy Green Beckley publishes a catalog: "Bizarre Bazaar: The World's Most Unusual Marketplace!" I love this catalog. It's simply great; digest sized, printed on newsprint, tabloid, bodacious headlines, back of the comic book graphics, unapologetic, and promises of the most paranoid, glorious theories in esoterica brought to your door if you order now.

Issue 13 arrived in my mailbox today, and it didn't disappoint. There's the ad for Mind Matrix, with great hypno-world illustrations and the headlines asking the reader: Are You The Victim Of Electronic WarFare? I love the following:

Do you feel as if Big Brother is watching you? Is that voice in your head getting louder and louder? Is your TV talking back to you? Are you seeing things, that are not supposed to be there, but are? And what about that black helicopter that passe by your window twice a day?

If you answer yes to any of this, then you just may be a pawn in the "New World Order's Mind Matrix Maintenance Program." If you order the book you get a mind control DVD as a free bonus. By the way, while I mock, just because you're paranoid. . .

MIB Saturday

Quirky synchronicities today involving black SUVs. We saw two identical black SUVs, one behind the other, in the North part of town as we were doing errands. We made jokes about MIBS of course; I know, we're real UFO geeks. Much later, as we turned onto our street, we saw another black SUV just like the two previous ones; no markings on it but a sheriff -- who looked very serious, and he had a big moustache not seen since Tom Selleck was popular -- was behind the wheel. More MIB jokes, with a brief discussion on if that qualified as MIB or not. (It did. . .) As we were getting out of our car, another black SUV drove by, the man driving was looking intently at the houses as he drove by. He was probably just enjoying the front yards with all their roses. . . any other theory would be paranoid.

Cris Bales's Idaho Triangle UFO

Linda Moulton Howe, one of the presenters at the McMinnville UFO Festival this month, has an image and report of the triangle UFO Cris Bales saw in Idaho. The Bales brothers were the highlight of the UFO Festival in many ways; their presentation was so geninune, it was very moving and very interesting. Of the triangle, they said to the military -- who seemed to be following them and their families around for awhile -- that if the triangle UFO wasn't theirs, they need to get one.

An amazing story.

From the HIdden Experiences Blog: An Owl Story

I like this blog because it's purely personal; someone sharing their experiences. Here's a beautiful and somehow magical and important experience involving owls.

Book: "UFOs, Time Slips, Other Realms and the Science of Fairies"

A nice review of the bookBlows Against The Empire-The ET Hypothesis Comes Under Attack In...
UFOs, Time Slips, Other Realms and the Science of Fairies, by Edwin Sidney Hartland; additional material by Tim Beckley, Sean Casteel, Brent Raynes and Tim R. Swartz, on UFO Digest by Sean Casteel. The book sounds intriguing and I'm ordering it right away. The book deals with the issue of ET vs. "fairy" or rather, terrestrial entities we assume or interpret as ET. As Casteel writes:

... there is another interpretation, one which, while it is taken quite seriously by premiere UFO researchers like Jacques Vallee, remains a definite minority point of view: What if what we are witnessing and experiencing actually originates on Earth and has been here throughout mankind's struggle to understand the strange environment he finds himself thrust into? Are the diminutive gray aliens so frequently claimed to have visited hapless mortals as they lay abed really just a variation on millennia of old folklore about fairies, changelings, elves and other forms of wee people?

That is the primary thrust of this 2008 release from Global Communications, called "UFOs, Time Slips, Other Realms and the Science of Fairies." The bulk of the book is a reprint of a much older book by Edwin Sidney Hartland, in which he offers a wonderful overview of the folklore of fairies and other mysterious creatures that frequently cross over from their shadowy dimension to enter ours.

This is Vallee territory (among others) as well of course, and I don't disagree. But I acknowledge I have a bias for the reality of ET as well, and I don't see why the explanation needs to be an either/or one. Isn't it possible there are at least two concurrent reasons for phenomena like this, one being literal extraterrestrials from outer space (whether from our own solar system or beyond)? It's also possible one manipulates the other for our benefit -- in order to deceive, which is one characteristic of the phenomena. There's also a symbiotic relationship between us and "them," -- all of "them" -- whoever "they" are, of course.

Looking forward to reading this book.

Keep UFO Hunters on Air!

Lesley posted this on Women Of Esoterica, and I'm passing it along. Please sign the petition and keep UFO Hunters on the air!

Bill has just finished filming for Season 3 and I don't know if there will be a Season 4. Maybe you -- plus some pals -- can write to the network and let them know you would like to see more episodes:

http://www.history.com/global/feedback/contact.jsp?site=HistoryChannel.com&NetwCode=THC

or you can sign a petition:

http://www.petitiononline.com/uf0hunt/petition.html

Either way, it can't hurt, and it just might help!

Keeping hope alive!

Thanks!

nb

Crop Circle Researcher Pat Delgado Passes: Colin Andrews Comments

Pat Delgado, crop circle researcher who, along with Colin Andrews, helped bring news about crop circles to the world, has passed away from cancer. Colin Andrews comments on Pat Delgado's contributions: Dedication to a Dear Friend.

(Karyn Dolan)
I'll be talking with Karyn Dolan on her "Through the Keyhole" podcast this Friday night, 5:00pm PST. I'm looking forward to it! I had a great time visiting with Karyn and Richard at the McMinnville UFO Festival last year (Richard was the main presenter) and it'll be fun to visit with Karyn again. Karyn is also a contributor to Women Of Esoterica.

Ripping Off Stan and Kathleen

Well, some bozo at the McMinnville conference uploaded Friedman and Marden's presentation that same night! He put it up on YouTube. I hope the festival coordinator's had it pulled, we'll see. I checked it out to see what the guy did, but I'm not linking to it. I had to laugh at the irony; for here he steals a presentation and puts it up without permission or giving compensation, etc. but he has a clip of him giving driving advice! Some people . . .

From McMinnville

Heard Stanton Friedman and Kathleen Marden's presentation on Barney and Betty Hill last night; very good. More on that later; I recommend reading Captured! and visiting both of their websites.

One thing Friedman said at various times during the talk, ending with a final instruction, was to combat the debunkers; don't put up with their nonsense. Friedman seems to be one of the few who actively call the skeptibunkies on their stuff.

Lots more to comment on, and today's presentations include the Idaho triangle sighting from the Bale brothers, and Linda Moulton Howe.

McMinnville

Off to McMinnville, Oregon for the 10th annual UFO Festival! Fortunately Hotel Oregon has wi-fi so I hope to post from there if time allows.

For more info on the UFO festival go here.

Peter Levenda on Coast to Coast Tonight

Ian Punnet is the host tonight, and the guest is Peter Levenda.