I talk about many of the issues that happened to me, but the real point is that these happen to everybody. I’ve got a couple of agenda items I admit to, one is to try to make it more permissible for our best and brightest scientists to get involved in these areas. And another is to get people to talk about it, because I really don’t like the word ‘paranormal’, because these things are normal. Maybe rare, but that doesn’t mean they are ‘different from’. A lot of this has to do with vocabulary, our thinking about it, we’re willing to relegate it to ‘weird’. It’s terribly complex, whatever we’re dealing with. As you know, I’ve dealt with a wide range of phenomena— I do think they are all interrelated. I do think that consciousness is a key piece of this. I point out, whatever we’re dealing with is at least as complex as cancer or AIDS. One of the things that would be very helpful is for people to tell other people about the things that have happened to them. ESP, clairvoyant experiences, precognition, near-death experiences…far more common than most people believe. - New Mental Battlefield Author and NIDS researcher Lieutenant Colonel John Alexander made this statement concerning studying UFOs and anomalous phenomena in a 2020 New Thinking Allowed interview with Jeffrey Mishlove

“Anomalous Phenomena”

Sgt. Rock vs. The Army of the Dead #6 (April 2023)

Bruce Campbell, Eduardo Risso and Kristian Rossi

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Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Implications on National Security, Public Safety, and Government Transparency (Full Committee Hearing)

Fractured Landscape - Neurological Event

Philosophical Topography and Anomalous Experience

The esoteric form of the essay, constructed to polarise the opaque element and release the latent forces in it, sparks moments of sudden reciprocal insight, in which the deeper the remoteness which a glance has to overcome, the stronger will be the spell that is apt to emanate from the gaze.

The essay has to cause the totality to be illuminated in a partial feature, whether the feature be chosen or merely happened upon. The catalyst for this essay, abandoned by the birds for which it was intended, is a derelict dovecote on Gop Hill, North Wales. As an earthly ruin, in the retrospective unfolding of strange encounters through the medium of the essay I found a celestial correlate in the Talmudic tradition that the Messiah will not come until the ‘heavenly birdhouse’ (Guf - note the accidental resemblance to Gop) is emptied of all its souls. See Geoff Dennis, January 14, 2007, ‘The Guf: Mystical Body, Well of Souls' http://ejmmm2007.blogspot.com/2007/01/guf-mystical-body-well-of-souls.html.

The speculative drift on this feature, with its intimations of a lost transcendence in the departure of the doves, prefigured the appearance of a migraine aura, the form of scintillating scotoma of its visual fortifications imitative of the stepped outline of the dovecote's gable, known as 'crow steps'.

Nearly two years on, a similar intensity of focus directed towards an archaeological feature, Arthur's Stone - seemingly aligned on a 'Holy Hill', known as The Skirrid - coincided with more drastic neurological symptoms. It was as if there was some correspondence between the fissure in the capstone of Arthur's Stone, inspiration for the Stone Table on which the Christ-like figure, Aslan, was sacrificed by the White Witch in C.S. Lewis’s The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, and the small stroke undergone during this period of heightened attention. At the precise moment of Aslan's resurrection, the Stone Table fractures, fulfilling a  prophecy that ‘the Table would crack and Death itself would start working backwards’.

A remarkable conjunction was noticed with the tradition that The Skirrid - the strange hill on which Arthur's Stone seems to be aligned - was struck by lightning or an earthquake at the moment of Christ's Crucifixion, causing a landslide. Interjecting Adorno’s words on the late style of Beethoven:

Objective is the fractured landscape, subjective the light in which – alone – it glows into life. He does not bring about their harmonious  synthesis. As the power of dissociation, he tears them apart in time, in order, perhaps, to preserve them for the eternal. In the history of art late works are the catastrophes.

Read more: 'Between Fractured Landscape and Neurological Event: A Philosophical Configuration of Anomalous Experience'

NASA Releases Footage of Unidentified Flying Object over the Middle East, Analysis of UAP Study Meeting

NASA has unveiled the footage of an enigmatic aerial entity that purportedly traversed the skies above the Middle East. The inaugural public assembly concerning the exploration of unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) was conducted by the esteemed organization. Within this assembly, NASA showcased visuals of a spherical unidentified flying object gracefully soaring over the expanse of the Middle…

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"I did a remote viewing in early 1980s, 82 or 83, where a UFO target was mixed in with other targets so I had no idea it was a UFO target. It was very general – the targeting material was a newspaper clipping from 1952 referring to a sighting in Tacoma WA, a pattern of lights dancing on the horizon, people getting out of their cars and watching for a few minutes. It was double-wrapped in a thick envelope. My actual remote viewing was unique in that it was not the dissociative kind of RM, it was an automatic out-of-body experience. I found myself inside a white cube. That had never happened and has not happened since. Finding myself in this cube, I started to look for windows, doors, some kind of ingress-egress, and while I was looking, an apparition of my father appeared. He had died three years earlier. The apparition was very angry and told me to leave, that I had no business being where I was, which was not my father’s nature. He would never have done that. So I knew it was a projection of some kind. My response was to continue to look for an ingress-egress point. The apparition seemed to be confused for a minute and then vanished, to be replaced by a light being that folded into two of itself, it seemed to be arguing with itself in some strange language. My first perception was to be concerned, my second was that I was supposed to be concerned, so I wasn’t going to be, which confused the light being. I was then threatened with a light being which I thought was ridiculous, I almost said it out loud. The entity argued with itself some more then folded up and disappeared. I had a sense that something reached inside my being and strummed a nerve ending that instantly made me ill. I felt I was going to projectile vomit and found myself slam bang back in my body sitting bold upright and I collided heads with my monitor. Both of us were walking around the room holding our heads in pain. I explained to him what had happened and it turned out I had gone almost comatose, slipped backwards on the chair, and he became concerned. He figured things were out of control and we terminated the remote viewing. We recorded the material and opened the envelope and discovered that the target was the UFO target. Now, here’s the fascinating part: the length of the remote viewing session was almost identical to the length of the UFO event. In the newspaper report, they said the lights just winked out at the end of the UFO event. The particular physicist who had given us the target said, jeez, I wonder if you’re the reason why the lights winked out. Or are you the reason why there were lights in 1952?"

— Joe McMoneagle, 2021 interview with Richard Thieme [Ref.]

Ida’s Guide To Flustering and Frustrating Bastion

Being an escape artist, ain’t nothing more frustrating or flustering to a spider than escaping the traps they’ve laid.

Know your riddles and puzzles not only will it frustrate and fluster the spider when you disarm his traps. It’s also good for the brain and it makes you feel clever!

Read the room, Fae literally have to play fair so there’s typically a way out of everything, they might try to obfuscate it but if you know what to look for ain’t nothing they can do to stop you.

Know your folklore don’t eat the Fae’s food, don’t make promises you don’t intend to keep, don’t agree to anything you don’t know the fine print of, follow warnings if they are given, but generally mistrust any information that is not verbally airtight. Establish your own loopholes and interpretations where possible.

Knife! Iron! Good for stabbing and throwing.

Small Fae can be bribed with chocolate and sweets even the spider ones.

Large Fae creatures can be stabbed and outrun. Also bribed though more rarely.

If it’s scary or disorienting you’re probably being herded.

There are places that aren’t dangerous, typically monsters can’t get in and the Host frequents these places. Also there might be symbolic signs of protection or sanctuary around.

Fluster host persona by treating him like a person and being nice to him. Also swear! he makes a face it’s funny.

Folk remedies and small rituals of safety, not all of them work but many do.

Be good at running, climbing, jumping and other athleticism.

Don’t open blue door, that’s the parlour door, it will get you eaten. If someone else opens the door don’t try to help them. If somehow the door opens on its own. Knife the spider he’s not used to people doing that.

Don’t kill other guests, if other guests are hostile and you are at risk of dying before they get eaten for breaking the rules. Lure them into traps, monsters or the parlour. You can’t kill other guests but the Manor can.

If at any point Bastion tries to tease or taunt you tease back he can’t handle it. Especially if it’s about his appetite. Man is so used to being a big bad predator he becomes putty at the slightest hint of reciprocation. Not really a survival strategy, but he’s cute when he’s flustered!

22nd September

UFOs

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Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) are perhaps the greatest source of modern folklore. On this day in 1956, dozens of townspeople in Cleethorpes, in Humberside, saw a large object hovering in the sky above, described by most witnesses as ‘a glass disc’. It was estimated to be 25 metres long, and about ten miles above the ground. UFO sightings took off in the aftermath of the Second World War, but do have a long heritage - both ancient Egyptian scribes and medieval monks have described terrifying airborne phenomena, often tantalisingly similar to more modern sightings, with bright lights, fiery objects and dragon-like creatures all being cited. In Britain, Cradle Hill near Warminster in Wiltshire is a favourite UFO haunt, but definitive proof remains elusive. Although many sightings are likely to be weather balloons, strange cloud formations, comets and even secret prototype military aircraft, there remain some sightings that have not had a satisfactory explanation, including the mass sighting at Cleethorpes sixty seven years ago. In fact recent declassified reports on what are now termed Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAPs) have stimulated renewed interest, given the number of incidents reported by credible witnesses such as air force pilots. There are more things in heaven and earth, perhaps…

NASA Shares Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Independent Study Report

In response to a recommendation by an independent study team for NASA to play a more prominent role in understanding Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP), the agency announced Thursday it is appointing a director of UAP research. from NASA https://ift.tt/LxMG82R

The agency commissioned a panel of experts in 2022 to examine data related to unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP), a new term for UFOs that now encompasses abnormal objects or events in the sky, underwater or in space that can't be immediately identified. Now, the team is set to release its first report on Thursday (Sept. 14) that will offer suggestions to NASA on how to better collect and analyze data that might help explain the nature and origin of UAP.

One thing that people keep forgetting is that the U in UFO stands for UNIDENTIFIED.

Whenever a large number of people hear or see "UFO" they assume that it means some extraterrestrial civilization is here to spy on us, take our genetic material, or even eat us. Most of the time sightings turn out to be something with a more down-to-Earth explanation.

Considering what we've done to this planet and the rapacious dictators we often put in power, any intelligent species would probably want to avoid our planet.

Recent hearings by a congressional committee on UFOs were about what you'd expect in Kevin McCarthy's House.

When renowned skeptic Michael Shermer watched the recent U.S. Congressional House committee hearing — which included shocking testimony about UFOs, alien spacecraft and alien remains — he was, perhaps not surprisingly, unimpressed. Indeed, what was more amazing to Shermer, publisher of Skeptic magazine, was the fact that such a hearing was even taking place.  "It's astonishing it's come this far without any real evidence, without anybody in the scientific community making an appearance," said Shermer, publisher of Skeptic magazine. "We are still seeing not a shred of physical evidence." But the fact that the House Oversight Committee would take the time to listen to allegations of dead aliens, crashed alien spacecraft and a secret government program to retrieve such technology, signifies to some just how seriously some U.S. politicians are treating the subject of UFOs, or UAPs — unidentified anomalous phenomena. 

The testimony the committee heard was devoid of serious proof to back up what was stated.

While he had made the claims in public before, it was the testimony of a former air force intelligence officer, retired Maj. David Grusch, that captured the most attention.  Grusch told the committee he had been asked in 2019 by the head of a government task force on UAPs to identify all highly classified programs relating to the task force's mission. At the time, Grusch was detailed to the National Reconnaissance Office, the agency that operates U.S. spy satellites. He said he'd been informed of "a multi-decade UAP crash retrieval and reverse-engineering program." Grusch also alleged that government officials had retrieved non-human "biologics" from the crafts.

The expression "non-human biologics" could accurately be used to describe mouse poop. 😆

Americans have big mouths. Accusations of a multi-generational cover-up of extraterrestrials crashing on Earth sound too stupid for words. The recent case of Jack Teixeira trying to impress his internet buddies by leaking classified documents puts this into perspective.

In 2020, Congress instructed the director of national intelligence to provide "a detailed analysis of unidentified aerial phenomena data" from multiple agencies.  That report, made public the following year, did not find extraterrestrial links in its reviews of mysterious aircraft sightings. But many of those sightings could not be explained.

Of course they could not be explained. We are not omniscient. Tornadoes couldn't be explained 150 years ago. And we are still discovering new subatomic phenomena. But just because something in the sky can't be explained doesn't mean it's automatically little green men from Planet Zontar.

I concede that various national security agencies may not wish to reveal that they know more about foreign intelligence gathering efforts than is publicly known. That's one way to feed them false information. That may have been a reason the Chinese balloon was not immediately shot down.

As an amateur astronomer, I am aware of how boring our local star (AKA: the sun) must appear to anybody viewing this sector of the galaxy. It's middle aged and stable. It is not the sort of object that would attract much attention.

And we have only been sending radio waves into space since the late 19th century. Those waves would not have been significant until the 1920s. So there's a radius of maybe just 100 light years where anybody with the capability of detecting them would have noticed.

Humans have always had difficulty understanding that they are not the center of the universe.

I do believe that there are probably extraterrestrial civilizations in our galaxy – but they are few. And they almost certainly wouldn't look like us or use the type of technology we're used to. Of the many millions of species on Earth, only the other great apes (gorillas, chimps, and orangutans) look even remotely like us; don't expect a creature which evolved on a distant planet with much different biology to look even like a Klingon or Ferengi.

Those short bipedal "aliens" with big eyes in pop culture are strictly products of Earthly imaginations. Genuine intelligent extraterrestrials are probably far more extraordinary; author David Brin's Kanten (essentially sentient trees) would be one hypothetical example.

Back to Congress, the Washington Post's Dana Milbank wrote a hilarious column about the House alien hearing...

Aliens are among us – and they want to impeach Biden (archived)

I could go on and on, but I'll let the late astronomer Carl Sagan have the last word on this...

"[E]xtraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence."

Phone home.

NASA's Public Meeting on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP)

Don't miss NASA's public meeting on May 31 to discuss Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP). Also, check out our new podcast "What Did You See" for more on unexplained phenomena. #NASA #UAP #podcast

NASA is holding a public meeting on May 31, 2023, to discuss and evaluate data related to unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP). The full meeting will air on NASA Television and the agency’s website and will include an opportunity for public comment. The meeting is focused on final deliberations before the agency’s independent study team publishes a report this summer. The report will inform…

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