UFO Sightings Reported Across California | VIDEO

From Frank Warren's blog, this item about sightings on New Year's Eve California. The following description is very similar to what I saw on New Year's Eve. With video.

UFO Sightings Reported Across California | VIDEO: Terry and Hans Mauth of Auburn said they watched a large egg-shaped object with a bright light shining upward drift over their neighborhood, then suddenly accelerate.
"There was no sound, that's the funny thing," Terry said. "Just this big illuminated form."

New Year's Eve Sighting: Conclusion (Possibly)

After having a day to think about our sighting last night, I've come to the conclusion the object was not a plane.

Nor Chinese lanterns.

And not fireworks.

While I "believe" (abhor that word in this context; I don't "believe" in aliens, or that they exist, not in a religious doctrine fervor framework. I am of the strong opinion, based on experience and evidence, that they exist) aliens exist, and we are being visited, and have been visited, by extra-terrestrials for a very long time, not everything seen in the skies is an alien craft. Oh most definitely much of it is; in this case though, I think what I saw (or we, as my husband saw it as well) was a human made object. Military or industrial, or both, since both are indeed strange and cozy bedfellows. That relationship has been an open secret for decades.

What makes me think last night's sighting most likely was of something from this earth, as opposed to outer space? Timing, for one. Midnight, or a tad after, on New Year's Eve? What better time for the government, or private industry testing some new technology, than midnight on New Year's Eve? It's possible whoever was behind such an object was testing its visibility factor. How noticeable is the object under certain conditions? On the one hand, no one is paying much attention. Too much going on. Fireworks, lanterns, partying, drinking, drugs, excitement. How many people look up and notice under such conditions? And what is their reaction in that context when they do?

Well, if one has had too much to drink and is full of general New Year's Eve joy, seeing something like that in the sky might not compute. Just another fireworks, or something . . .

Those that did not drink or party (like myself, we stay in and have a quiet night) look up and notice. In fact, Jim and I both commented that, out of the entire block, we were the only ones who stepped outside at midnight to look up. Neighbors were home, they just didn't bother to step outside.

Another reason I think what we saw last night was some type of human made object: the recent media items about drones. Oregon is one of nine states recently approved by the FAA to test drones. The bulk of that goes to Eastern Oregon, quite a ways from Eugene. But then today, I read that OSU -- Oregon State University in Corvallis, forty-five minutes from Eugene -- has also been given a contract to explore drone technology. It's possible setting off a drone at midnight was a perfect time to test it; how it works at night under certain conditions (New Year's Eve, etc.) and how it's perceived by people, at night, and under those conditions.

So, big deal, human made object, not an alien craft from Mars.

That's a frequent response from many, that a weird looking and behaving object in our skies is "just" an object made by us.  Such an explanation is given, accepted, and dismissed.

Okay, so the thrill of aliens from outer space is gone, but still. Still. We are now faced with the fact we, us, humans, are creating drones and other flying objects that spy, patrol, collect data, mess with the weather, mess with us... this is not cause for dismissal, but diligence. 

There are drones and other flying things created by us that are very tiny and unobtrusive, as well as big and obvious. There are things up there that have nothing to do with ET, but everything to do with us and our not so nice side. Our violent, cruel, controlling, arrogant selves. We create these objects to do harm. Sometimes we create these objects to help, or so we tell ourselves. Make things easier; rescue operations, agriculture, for example. Technology, partnered with private industry and government, is a creation unto itself. Regardless of the ostensible purpose of such technology, we need to remain aware. We need to avoid the inane response that aliens/UFOs are silly, paranoid and uneducated fantasies, while taking responsibility for the repercussions of our own technological creations.

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.