Shameless Self Promotion Time: Artist James Rich

Just promoting the blog; this time, it isn't my blog, it's my husband's, James Rich, artist. Nothing to do with UFOs, but then again, some of his work is very out there, like his "Galactic Series."

Alfred Lehmberg: Risking Mammons Wrath

Alfred has another great entry at the UFO Magazine site: Risking Mammons Wrath.

My message is hard edged enough — don't dare to call it "quaint." It doesn't take the word of what the privileged calls a "saint." It won't tremble for the *mighty*, then go all weak and faint. It's alone its own creation, but sans hubristic paint.

But also:

...And where do _I_ get off, eh? The answer to that is: "...where I will"!

And while out of context, that should give you an idea!

Crop Circle in a Box

I was in Borders today, to buy the latest PARANOIA magazine, and saw this: My Very Own Crop Circle "game." Teeny, comes in a box. What every excutive needs I guess. . .

On Women's Paranormal League Tonight

So try and listen if you can; it will be fun. I had a good time about a year ago when I was a guest on Amy's show, and I'm sure it will be just as fun this time. 5:00 p.m. Pacific time on Blog Talk radio.

More Cloud Madness

Recent article from Wired Science on noctilucent clouds: Mysterious, Glowing Clouds Appear Across America’s Night Skies. And while these clouds may be breathtaking, they might be literally breath taking, meaning, the cause for these eerie clouds has to do with pollution and global warming:

The clouds might be beautiful, but they could portend global changes caused by global warming. Noctilucent clouds are a fundamentally new phenomenon in the temperate mid-latitude sky, and it’s not clear why they’ve migrated down from the poles. Or why, over the last 25 years, more of them are appearing in the polar regions, too, and shining more brightly.

“That’s a real concern and question,” said James Russell, an atmospheric scientist at Hampton University and the principal investigator of an ongoing NASA satellite mission to study the clouds. “Why are they getting more numerous? Why are they getting brighter? Why are they appearing at lower latitudes?”

Nobody knows for sure, but most of the answers seem to point to human-caused global atmospheric change.

Local News On Chemtrails

Seattle's KIRO News aired this brief clip on an "X" chemtrail being sprayed in the area. They don't use the word "chemtrail" but imply that they weren't contrails. Reporters made some calls to FAA, etc. who all denied knowing anything about anything. Hat tip to the Oregon Chemtrails forum on Yahoo.

Missing Time in "The Human Mediumship of the UFO Phenomenon"

Bruce of Intangible Materiality writes about our orientation to time and place and wonders if the term "missing time" might be inaccurate. As usual Bruce writes so damn eloquently, and, as usual after reading him I say to myself "I'll just stop now..." The Human Mediumship of the UFO Phenomenon.

I've had two episodes of missing time, which means that I don't remember what happened during a certain period of time. One was in direct relation to a UFO event; the other very likely so; vague memories and the clearer memory of another witness. Both episodes had two witnesses; myself and my husband. Since we call it "missing time" that naturally implies, accurately, that we don't remember what happened. But really, it isn't missing --- something continued to occur, we just don't remember what. A seemingly obvious nit picky detail, but when you shift perspective a bit and look at it that way, it helps. Hey, anything that works in this arena, I'll try it. So now the question is of course, what happened -- what don't I remember? Also; why have missing time/amnesia in the first place? Why dont' we call it "amnesia" instead of "missing time?" We're focused on the missing time part; not the missing memory part. The next question is; what mechanism, or who, created the missing time/amnesia, and why?

"Mystical Landscapes"

I haven't really painted since last year, and it feels good to be doing so again. This has nothing to do with UFOs or the paranormal, although some of my painting subjects are UFO-paranormal related. These are just semi-abstracty, impressionist type landscapes; Jim calls them my "mystical paintings." There's some glare on one, and I haven't figured out yet how to get the date stamp off (I'm a dork) which is wrong anyway. So far they're untitled but both are inspired by the Oregon coast.

An Orange Orb UFO

The one I saw in the 1980s was very similar, but this one in the clip seems "flat" while the one I saw had substance; counter... and it didn't dance around like this one, although that could be the camera and not the object;

Torchwood, Finally!

The good news is that the British sci-fi drama Torchwood is coming back; it'll air on BBC America, July 20th. The very bad news is, it's only a 5 episode mini-series that will air on consecutive nights, and no word on Torchwood returning after this. For more information go to the BBC America Torchwood page.

Combustible Edison: Vertigo and Cafe Esoterica

I have this on the soundtrack for the movie Four Rooms with Tim Roth, a great movie, great soundtrack. I love this piece, and out of curiosity, not really expecting to find it, I searched YouTube, and here it is. What does this have to do with anything esoteric? Not much, except it's one of the music bits I'm considering using for Cafe Esoterica. After I figure out how the hell I'm going to get that all working, lol. Sometime this summer, that's all I know for now.


And just for fun, here's another clip from Combustible Edison. I'm thinking of this one too. I love this group!

Podcast: Richard Dolan on John Keel

Karyn Dolan interviews Richard Dolan on John A. Keel. Haven't listened to it yet, but it promises to be a good one! Thanks to Alien UFO and Paranormal Casebook for the link.

Three Strange Beings Near Crop Circle

I love the following report from the Phantoms and Monsters blog:
Three Strange Beings Reported at Crop Circle - Silbury Hill, Wiltshire. I think this is the first time actual entities -- if they are entities of course -- have been reported near crop circles. The story reminds me of the space brother type beings from the 1950s and 60s. Thanks to Lesley at The Debris Field for the link.

Orange Lights in the California Sky

Reports of orange lights in the skies of California come in from visitors to the UFO Magazine site.

On Frame 352: Silver Suited Aliens vs. Bigfoot

A recap of a "alien vs. Bigfoot" belief paradigm, inspired by last night's Monster Quest episode, on my Bigfoot blog Frame 352.

Coast to Coast Off Air on Local Station: "Liberal Terrorists?"

Well, I wondered what happened. The only station in my area that carries Coast to Coast is KPNW, a right wing news/talk station that gives home to the ugly rants of Lars Larsen, Rush Limbaugh, and Glen Beck. But at night they carry Coast to Coast, thankfully. Since Friday, the station has been gone. I thought I was going crazy; it simply wasn't there, and the KPNW website, when I checked, didn't offer any explanation. Very frustrating. Today's local paper, Eugene's Register Guard, gives us the story about the station's transmitter problems.

But it seems that isn't all to the story. While the reason for KPNW's off air problems is due to a combination of the heat wave we've been experiencing and old equipment, some locals insist there's a different reason for KPNW going off air. One person quoted in the paper, who lives in Veneta, had this to say about the station being off air:

“You listen to these guys talk, and they are really down on this guy Obama. They really blast him,” he said. “I don’t think he likes it, and I think he has the power to do something. To think, in this day and age that this station can just be off the air for three days … it seems strange.”

(Veneta is a small rural type town; a "bedroom" community just west of Eugene.)

A station representative relates another caller's theory: "liberal terrorists" are the cause:

“One caller said he was convinced that a group of liberal terrorists had gone and attacked our transmitter,” Lundun said. “Obviously that was not the case.”

Obviously.

No mention of Coast to Coast in the article; it isn't weird to follow the likes of the above mentioned clownshoes or to think "liberal terrorists" attacked KPNW, but it's weird if you listen to programming about UFOs, Bigfoot, ghosts, and other fringe topics, even if one is a "liberal terrorist." Ah well, to be expected, since it's a given that marginalization of such interests will always be. A few years ago KPNW's competition, KUGN, another right wing AM station, aired the Jeff Rense show -- at the same time as C2C -- but they took it off air. As much as I loathe Rense, at least it was something to soothe this Fortean junkie's heart in times of need.

Department 47 Forum

Haven't been over there for awhile, and find that it's gone, and their domain name is up for bid. Anyone know what happened?

Triangle Manipulations

This is a pic of a drawing I did a few years ago of the giant triangle UFO I saw several years ago in Dexter, Oregon. I was just having fun with some computer manipulation of images. I did the little sketch in pastel crayon, than played around with the color, etc. on the computer.

The triangle sighting I've posted about before on-line; briefly, it goes like this:
Outdoors at a large gathering in a rural area in August; about five of us standing under a small tree, something, don't know what because there was no sound, made me look up and I saw the huge triangle. No lights, but the shape was definite, and blended in with the night sky. It was still light-ish, not yet totally dark. The triangle blocked out the stars, etc. so you could see a giant triangle shape of dark blue something, not sky, and the surrounding sky was a bit lighter, with stars, etc.

I told everyone with me to look up, they did. We made silly jokes about missing time and checked our watches (there wasn't any) and we just stood there, looking at it. We even commented that we should go tell people, but we couldn't move. Also, sound seemed muffled. Cris and Mark Bales, who had an incredible triangle sighting in Idaho and gave a great presentation on their sighting at the recent McMinnville UFO Fest, said that it was as if a giant blanket had been placed above them. That explains the feeling well.

The triangle left; it just zoomed/slid off, very fast, and very silently. How something so damn big can move so fast, and so quietly, ... very weird. As soon as the thing left, that ears stuffed with cotton ball feeling was gone, and we felt our normal selves again. That sense of apathy and physical sluggishness was gone.

We told others what we'd seen. Just about everyone thought it was interesting, the owners of the property were almost jaded, saying they see stuff like that "all the time around here."

One person was very rude; off the wall rude. He actually, literally made the "you're crazy" motion with his hands; I mean, who does that, as an adult? Then he made a comment about how much beer I'd had; when I told him I hadn't had any beer, since I was the driver, he then said I was smoking too much pot, or on something, for sure. No to all that as well. So then he just said I was lying. Okay, that's when I got pissed off and called him on his calling me a liar, which made him mad, and he walked off.

Anyway. The triangle sighting was different in many ways from other reports; it really wasn't visually as dramatic. It wasn't even black. And no lights. But it was still something else, indeed.

John A. Keel Dies

John A. Keel, Fortean writer and researcher who gave so much to all of us, has died. Keel's books were the among the first ones I read, besides Charles Fort, Brad Steiger and a few others, when I found myself immersed in all this stuff in the 1970s. Rest in peace Mr. Keel, and thank you for all the great work you've done and research you've passed on to us.

Updates: Paranormal Women's League, Crop Circles. . .

My new Trickster's Realm column for Binnall of America will be up sometime tomorrow; this week's column is on crop circles. And joy. Read more to find out what that means.

Later this month I'll be on the Paranormal Women's League podcast, specifics TBA.