Of UFOs in Eugene, and Drone Research at Oregon State

It just occurred to me to look at the local news for any item related to the sighting I had last night (see posts below.) I don't watch the local news and it's not on my radar -- pun unintended. Justin Stapleton, a reporter with KEZI, had posted on his FB page an item and short video clip about the presumably same object. I couldn't see anything on the clilp however.

What popped up on the KEZI page was this item about Oregon State (OSU, home of the Beavers) and their drone activity. Love this quote, the understated comment of the year:

Drone Research at OSU | KEZI: “Technology is good up to a point,” said Corvallis resident Jai Adams. “And then it’s not. It gets misused.”

See posts below for my UFO -- or drone -- sighting on New Year's Eve, and items on drone "studies" in Oregon.

I emailed Stapleton at KEZI with my report. Interesting to see if anything comes of it.

Post New Year's Sighting Creepy UFO Dream

Dec 31, 2013

"If the dream is a translation of waking life, waking life is also a translation of the dream.”   ~ Rene Magritte

After seeing this object in the Eugene skies last night, had the following dream:

     I'm with Jim. We're on the run, for some reason. Unfamiliar neighborhood. UFOs and aliens are after us. We can't see them, not with the naked eye, but their presence is absolutely real. Very concrete, palatable. They're here all right, all around us.  They are not at all friendly but very creepy, very nasty.

Rene Magritte (1898 - 1967)  Homage to Mack Sennett

     I go into a home -- we've been running down alleys, in between houses -- and there is an elderly couple in one of the houses that we enter.  White haired, short, in their nineties it seems. At first they seem quite nice and sweet, helpful. But as soon as we are in their house, I see the woman walk by, without a head! Her appearance is like a surreal painting by Dali or Magritte. Where here head should be, the top of her neck, it is just a pedestal. No blood or gore, just skin. Like you could place her head right on top of the neck. I scream and panic and she turns to me and says "Oh get over it, we're here and you know it, nothing you can do about it."  (How she says this without a head is illogical but that's how dreams work.) Seems that these aliens can shape shift into looking like humans. 

     We just keep running and hiding and trying to escape the invisible aliens.

Then I enter a house, with lots of witchy wiccan type objects. At first I think it's comforting, I recognize the Stag, the Deer, all these deers made of wicker and other objects. A definite pagan place that I assume will be safe and not only that but in the know. I can find some help here, some tools and magick to use to repel these nasty aliens. 

Wenceslaus Hollar 1607 - 1677 

     As I'm wandering about the place, the straw deers come "alive" and try to attack me, eat me. I scream again and it turns out the people here are not what they seem either. They are not pagans, witches or practice wicca, they are simply nasty people on the side of the aliens, and many of them are aliens themselves. Again there are a few that are headless ones. I scream and try to run, it's pretty awful.

When I woke up this morning, and was trying to remember the dream, it occurred to me how interesting it was that I had this dream the night I saw the UFO or whatever it was that same night.

Oregon Drones: Approved!

Oregon is one of the nine states recently approved/selected by the FAA to be a test site for drones:

Unmanned aerial vehicles, from high-altitude balloons to hand-launched aircraft, apparently will ply the skies above Warm Springs, Tillamook and Pendleton followingthe Federal Aviation Administration's approval Monday of a regional application that includes at least three test ranges in Oregon. [FAA decision means more unmanned aerial vehicles -- drones -- are coming to Oregon skies]

I find this interesting for your basic government Big Brother We're Everywhere spying conspiracy realm, but also in relation to my UFO sighting last night. (See post below.) Was the object I saw last night a drone of some kind? What better time to test a thing like that, during New Year's, when people are setting off fireworks and making all kinds of noise? How many people are looking up? Enough, those watching the fireworks, but combine that with the celebratory feeling of those out and about and a lighted orange object like the one I saw last night would both go unnoticed as well as assumed to be a part of everything else going on. And for those, like myself, who wonder at such a weird sight - -not a plane, not a flare, not a Chinese lantern -- well, so what? Added bonus for them; confusion amongst the citizenry. UFO reports come in, maybe, to further muddle things. Well, technically, it was a UFO: Unidentified Flying Object.

I have no idea what it was I saw last night (my husband also saw it) but as the saying goes in UFO Land, I know what it wasn't.

New Year's Eve UFO (?) in Eugene, Oregon

In the literal sense of the word, it was a UFO I just saw, about twenty minutes ago. I can't identify it, and have never seen anything like it before.

We were standing on our porch, watching the fireworks, right at midnight. A few minutes after midnight, the fireworks display had stopped, and through the trees across the busy street at the corner of our street, to the east, I see a very large object come towards us (moving west.) This thing which I assumed was a plane, though an odd one, was moving upwards. Cylinder shaped, with bright -- really bright -- orange lights, or more like, the whole thing was one orange light. I didn't see any other lights like a plane would have -- no red, white, etc.

Odd, and we watched it ascend, still moving west but also to the north. It suddenly became very small, and all the lights (or one light) dimmed, almost going out completely. All we could see now was a sort of grayish white light. That's when I got my binoculars. I ran inside and grabbed them off the bookcase that's right by the front door.

Through the binoculars, I could see a large, bright white light, round. This object, or plane, appeared as a single translucent white-ish blue light. It the descended, moving downwards, to the north, north west. I kept watching it until I couldn't see it anymore.

If it was something like a plane I'd love to know -- but I have never, ever seen anything like this before and it was very strange, like no plane I have ever seen.

Love to hear from anyone in the Eugene area who might have seen it, or have an idea what it was.

UFO UpDates Fades to Black

Very sorry to learn that the UFO Updates List, long run by Errol Bruce Knapp, is no more. The posts will be archived. Thank you Errol for the hard work all these years! More on details at Frank Warren's UFO Chronicles.UFO UpDates Fades to Black

7 Traits of Magical People. | Rebelle Society

I like this from Rebelle Society, on traits of all of us magical people, which seems a very Christmas Eve type post for tonight:

7 Traits of Magical People. | Rebelle Society

 2. Synchronicities happen for you – a lot.
And they tend to speed up when you spend a lot of time on meditation, art, ritual, intentional movement or prayer. Sometimes these synchronicities are just cute or silly, but often they’re life-changing and dramatic.
The biggest synchronous thing that can happen to a magic person is to meet another magic person. Or a whole enclave of them. It’s thrilling. It’s overwhelming. It’s love.
When lots of synchronicities are going on, I like to say “the jewel net is moving.” Why?
Because we’re all jewels in an infinitely connected web of silken joy.
And sometimes the net shifts and folds in on itself and we run smack into a whole bunch of other jewels. And it’s great.

Dream Synchronicity: "Dream Cloud Inside Your Mind" And Dog

Artist: Sir Edwin Landseer (1801-1873

Synchronicity: I was just working on a post about my dog dreams of late, including black dogs, on my White Wolf Oracle blog, and took a break to check out The Anomalist, where I found the following link:Naked in public? Dreams Cloud wants to get inside your mind. This is either an exciting idea and intriguing, one that is tempting to participate in, or, cause for paranoid thoughts regarding mind control and social manipulations. I haven't decided which.

Image source

"Dreams Cloud has the largest database of dreams in the world, and also gives its users access to a group of expert professional dream reflectors," Dreams Cloud co-founder Matt Tabrizi told Crave. "Dreams Cloud users can request a professional reflection when they log their dreams, then someone from our team of experienced dream workers will get back to them with thoughts and insights to help lead and guide them towards their personal self-reflection process." (Dream Cloud)

JFK, MJ-12 & UFOs on Coast to Coast

Now this is the stuff us conspiracy UFO nerds wait for; JFK, and MJ-12 all in one night's episode: JFK, MJ-12 and UFOs - Shows - Coast to Coast AM

Vintage Creepy Clown Covers

It might be a Fortean cliche to hate clowns and find them horrifically creepy, but so be it. Clowns are horrifically creepy. I've always found them so, and the older I get, the sadder and creepier I find them. Also gaudy, tawdry, and shoddy. I've always found it interesting that many, including adults -- parents! -- do not see clowns for the unwholesome frightening creatures they are.

And so with that, here are some creepy clown images to brighten your day.

Oracle card: The Owl

On my blog White Wolf Oracle: Daily Oracle Sites: Wisdom of Avalon. Reposted here because of the OWL motif.

From Eyewear (the blog): THE GREAT COLIN WILSON HAS DIED

Sad to read that Colin Wilson died at age 81. Rest in peace Mr. Wilson. Colin Wilson was one of my early influences -- I was first exposed to him in my early teens. I still have several of his books on my shelves.  A great thinker, not afraid to go into areas often considered fringe, or where his mind took him, from fiction to crime to the occult to philosophy.

Here's a nice and personal excerpt from a blog post at Eyewear blog on Colin Wilson:

Eyewear (the blog): THE GREAT COLIN WILSON HAS DIED: As such, almost no British media, TV, radio, or papers, reported his death. It will be interesting to see if the nationals run mocking obituaries, or if some sort of decency will prevail. I wrote many years back at nthposition THE CASE FOR COLIN WILSON, and I stand by it. I corresponded with him by email, and sent him this link, which he appreciate, and he read my poetry with some enjoyment though he preferred older poets he told me. I was thrilled to hear from him, though we never met. His books meant a lot to me when I was a teenager. I was not alone: Groucho Marx was a huge fan.

Fortean Nerd Dreams: Of Mothman and Strieber

My new Trickster's Realm column is now available at Tim Binnall's BoA: Fortean Nerd Dreams: Of Mothman and Strieber.

Talking with a friend a couple of weeks ago who has had UFO and alien encounters since cTalking with a friend a couple of weeks ago who has had UFO and alien encounters since childhood — as her entire family — she mentioned that she had contacted Whitely Strieber years ago. She didn’t get to speak to Whitly, but did speak with Anne, who, according to this friend, kept referring to Whitley as ‘the master” and “the priest” which creeped out my friend. I can’t speak to anything other than reporting this little anecdote, and I’m not making any comments either way on Strieber, his work or his experiences. It’s just a background story to the following dream I had last night;

Jim (my husband) and I are walking through a large station of some kind, like a train station, or bus station. We’re pretty happy but in a hurry, we have to catch a bus somewhere. We’re going out of town; east towards the McKenzie river area.  We want to get there before the snow hits hard. (Now in waking life, snow was predicted for today, but it wasn’t snowing quite yet, and, while I like the McKenzie river area, it’s not where I particularly want to live or visit, certainly not in the snow — where snow hits hard up there — I don’t like snow!)  As we’re walking through this place, full of bustling people, a boy about seven or eight comes up to me. He’s wearing a grey hooded sweatshirt and has such large black eyes! He’s a cutie. He takes my hand, and is very self assured, leading us. He pulls up his hood to cover his head. I laugh and tell Jim that “Oh well, he’s just a kid,” and I worry a little about him being alone and so young, and not wearing enough warm clothing. He seems fine however. As he’s leading us, holding my hand, but in a very take charge way, he turns and asks me “Is Streiber still the Master?” This throws me for a loop; unnerves me a bit. Then he disappears, just vanishes before our eyes, as we step out onto the bus loading area. 

Hasbro's Magic Jinn Game

A poster at Binnall of America left this link to "The Magic Jinn Game" from Hasbro. "Think of an animal and I'll try to read your mind!" Interesting appropriation and culture stream to insertion. Magic Jinn Game | Electronic Games for ages 6 YEARS & UP | Hasbro

Target on-line has it a few dollars cheaper. Some customers have left reviews.

It glows or lights up. The pictures at Hasbro, Target and elsewhere show a turqouise colored Jinn in a yellow box, Toys R Us has a purple one in a blue box.

Part 2 Skeptiko Interview with David Jacobs: Spiritual Side of UFOs

Part 2 of the Skeptiko interview with David Jacobs:

Alex Tsakiris: I’m not a religious person and I’m certainly not pushing any kind of religion or any kind of specific spiritual tradition. I just come at it from the data and I think there’s a reality to these unity-consciousness experiences.
Dr. David Jacobs:  Well, you’ve asked me a personal question that has nothing to do with the abduction phenomenon.
Alex Tsakiris:  Why do you think that?
Dr. David Jacobs:  Because all I know is when I started doing abduction research I really didn’t know what I was doing and I didn’t know what I was going to hear. If this turned out to be a spiritually enlightening phenomenon, that would have been fine. That’s okay with me. That’s great. I’d like to be spiritual enlightened. That would be terrific. But I just never hear this. It’s just not part of this phenomenon.

Abduction Research and the "Spiritual"

I find it incredible Jacobs rejects any type of metaphysical aspect to UFOs and abductions, and, while I don't know he's outright lying, I do wonder at his statement that "It's just not part of this phenomenon." He says he hasn't heard anything from witnesses concerning more paranormal/spiritual/esoteric experiences. Maybe that is true, but again, I find that very strange that not one witness has ever shared this aspect of the phenomena with Jacobs, according to Jacobs. 

That aside, Jacobs "works around" certain details of an abductees memory because, according to Jacobs, such things simply aren't true. They don't exist, aliens really don't look like that, whatever. The witness is "confabulating" Jacobs says, which gives Jacobs the right to mess with their heads by planting suggestions to the witness. This is one of the things he did with Emma Woods --  giving her the suggestion she had multiple personality disorder. This is dangerous and not research that can be taken seriously.

Good for Tsakiris for pushing on this issue; that for lack of a better term "spiritual" experiences are a part of the UFO and abduction phenomena. 

The entire UFO phenomena is still being consistently dissected into either/or paradigms.

Hypnosis and Rejection of Data

Several times Jacobs makes statements, presented as facts, that are his opinions on the UFO/alien/abduction theater the world has been witnessing for thousands of years. What hasn't occurred to Jacobs (or maybe it has, and he's rejected the idea due to extreme hubris) is that this whole UFO performance is incredibly interconnected within itself and includes an array of contradictions, correspondences, synchronicitiess and experience. Removing one aspect to study is worthwhile. Stating that the data gleaned from the study of that one aspect is the answer and the facts is irresponsible.

We cannot be sure that hypnosis is a valid tool for UFO research. I don't know. I have gone back and forth with my own experience and hypnosis; do I undergo hypnosis? I've arrived at the point now where, if I do, it would simply be for the data. But, I would not want any hypnotist to plant suggestions into my head or ask me leading questions or outright tell me I am "confabulating" when I relate what I believe to be true. 

And that's the thing. I don't know what happened to me. But something did. So if I don't know, how the hell can anyone else know? 

With my own experiences, I've had "spiritual experiences" as well as non-spiritual experiences. Everything from nuts and bolts: straight forward sighting of a craft, to out of body astral realm entities appearing before me and down the rabbit hole experiences. 

I think part of the problem is the use of the phrases "spiritually enlgithed" and "transformative spiritual experiences." those statement s assume that once you had an experience you're somehow evoled, better, smarter in a metaphysical sense, than the rest of us. Nope. Some of us have just seen that blazing light and are trying to figure it out is all. And of course, there's always the possibility that those experiences are manipulated by "them."

It is a puzzle. There are those "new age" types who are so blissed out they make want to spit nails, and I have found them both terribly patronizing as well as naive.

 Tsakiris on Worldview
Excellent points by Alex Tsakiris on Jacob's worldview and how that personal view affects his research. Also an interesting rebuttal shared by Tsakiris to Jacobs statement as fact that John Mack simply gave up on the metaphysical aspects of UFOs because there was nothing there. 

Skeptiko Interview with David Jacobs Part 1

Skeptiko interviews David Jacobs, part 1 of 2:230. Dr. David Jacobs Claims Academia Has Abrogated Responsibility to Investigate Alien Contact | Skeptiko - Science at the Tipping Point

I'm posting the link to the interview because it's important to get what Jacobs is about and continue to analyze his research and his methods. He is still taken seriously by many in the field and I find this very interesting for many reasons. One being the contradictory and hypocritical nature of critics from within, who moan about what should not be considered UFO research, what researchers, witnesses and all around UFO scholars should not be taken seriously. More often than not those reasons are invalid. Those reasons have nothing to do with the reality of witness accounts, but the personal biases of individual UFO researchers.

Meanwhile, people like Jacobs still go about their thing, taken seriously by many, including women. Now this is another point; simply because one is female, does not mean said female is on the "right" side of the Jacobs debate. We're not a one celled entity, we have our own minds and experiences. Jacobs has, say many a woman witness, helped that witness. I can't speak for or against that. But at the same time, I cannot fall into some sort of party line -- ignoring what I perceive to be the most unethical, immoral and frankly, deranged, treatment of Emma Woods -- and support those women that support Jacobs simply because I too am a woman. Expecting all women to blindly support each other's veiws on the UFO phenomena -- that's not solidarity, that's fascism.

Interesting Jacobs talks about his early research as as student:

"I was actually working on a dissertation on the image of women in very early film history, pre-1915. That was my target date.I had done about six months’ worth of research on that but in my feted brain all I did was think about UFOs and the UFO phenomenon."

Now, Jacobs does have valid things to say regarding the utter lack of interest -- outright visicnousness in fact -- from science and acadmia about UFOs. Jacobs has contributed to UFO studies. Regardless of what you think about his theories on abductions, the information presented is not to be dismissed. It is worthy of consideration. The interpretations, that's another issue. And certainly the entire issue of hypnoisis as a valid UFO research tool is another. Much to be dicussed and thought through. Jacobs points about the global UFO phenomena being ignored by those that could "own it" : science, academia, authorities, are good ones.

But what to do, what to do, about Jacobs now? 

Jacobs aside, I like Skeptiko host Alex Tsakiris questions concerning the spiritual side of abductions; human consciousness, telepathy, etc. Jacobs acknowledges those are not his areas, but at the same time, I am frustrated by his resistance to this aspect of abducitons. And here is where Jacobs hubris creeps in. Jacobs contends that Dr. John Mack gave up abduction research because he could not fit the experience into his ideas of consciousness:

Alex Tsakiris:  Yeah, but we have to be careful with that because a lot of people would make the same accusation to you.
Dr. David Jacobs:  No. That they can’t do.
Alex Tsakiris:  They can do it.

Jacobs treatment of Emma Woods aside for the moment, the end of Part 1 of this interview shows us how far off the fringe Jacobs has gone. His opinions stated as fact on hypnosis and "confabulation" are astounding. Jacobs presents himself as the only researcher who knows how to ask the right questions during hypnosis, how and why abduction hypnosis is different than other hypnosis in other contexts, and how downright sneaky the aliens are, which only Jacobs can perceive.

Finally, the blithe manner in which Jacobs admits he leads witnesses and feeds them false information is, again, astounding. It is unethical and truly bizarre. These are tactics Jacobs used on Woods, including the bizzarro world of alien spy vs. spy stuff that, again, should be a huge red flag for  UFO witnesses and researchers.