UFOs - A Global Phenomenon / Part 1 with Roberto Pinotti, Shi-Li Sun, Grant Cameron, Nick Pope and Antonio Huneeus Held at the National Press Club, Washington D.C. April 29th - May 3rd, 2013
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This is a little long, but it's been on my mind. This is taking on the alien abduction phenomenon and the way people who say they've experienced that have been treated. It's a longish rant based on a Twitter UFO feed I took part in the other day, one that got me both a little miffed and a lot sad.
Give a thought to what you say or type, before you let the words leave your lips or before you press send on that email, tweet, message, or Facebook post. Your words carry weight...the weight of how someone feels about themselves. Decisions are made to understand, heal, or hurt with words, and the wrong words can do more damage than you can know or even ever be aware of. If you said something bad that caused your (insert beloved family member here) to harm themselves, how would you feel? What if your words prevented them from talking about something that was troubling them? So they kept unbelievable trauma locked away inside them until they couldn't bear it any longer. Why am I going on like this? I'll tell you. During the past few weeks there has been rumors and accusations in the Twitter UFO community over whether or not Travis Walton faked his UFO abduction. Alien abductions and experiencers are a touchy subject at best, and even in the UFO believer circles. I was astonished to discover that there are many UFO believers who don't believe people are taken against their will by non-human intelligences. That's fine. I'm of a more open mind. I don't believe they've been flying around up there and visiting us for the fresh air and water, after all we've been doing to it. And they are sure as hell not just doing it to please us because we think they're pretty. So what do they want? Leaving that aside, I said it is perfectly okay to be 100% nuts and bolts science when it comes to UFOs if you want. I love science, too. You might be leaving out a helluva part of the equation (the why of abductions, given that so many people have reported them and continue to do so). But it's fine. You don't have to believe in alien abductions. Or aliens. Whatever. What I absolutely can not understand is why you would mock or laugh at someone who confesses that they have been abducted, that they have experienced traumatic kidnapping by NHI and have had things done to them. Personally, I don't think, given the stigma still attached to the abduction phenomena that anyone would want to admit to something like that if they didn't truly believe it happened to them. And who is anyone else to say it didn't? I made a tweet to the point of saying that I had been seeing the treatment on Twitter lately of experiencers and I didn't like it. A UFO believer responded with "Well, maybe they should have some proof then?" Can you believe those words were typed by someone who believes in UFOs? What's more, a click on the person's profile indicated they were somewhat liberal. So I responded by saying "It's sort of like 'believe all women.' I guess. Most women and girls (and men and boys too) don't have "proof" when they are raped, or molested, or beaten by significant others, or sexually harassed. Who are you to say they weren't abducted. Were you there?" I believe there were some experiencers on that thread. I felt bad for them, but I'm sure it's nothing they haven't heard before. We have only gotten to the place in our society where we can generally accept that people see UFOs. I suppose accepting something as terrifying as an abduction may take a little more time. In the meantime, does it freaking hurt to not say a word if you personally don't believe it? Do you have to cajole, mock, torment and laugh at people who say they have been made unwilling guinea pigs to non-human intelligences, only to then have most of their memories of it erased? Does it hurt you to be kind to someone? It doesn't. Or it shouldn't anyway. I have heard some people say some strange things, but I don't laugh at anyone's experiences...because I DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY WENT THROUGH. I was not there. Let me ask this: If you don't believe in abductions, but you did see a UFO, when you finally told people about your UFO experience, did anyone laugh at you? I can imagine a few of you might have to think about this, but some of you, probably yes, huh? Doesn't feel good, does it? Why don't you remember that? You are hurting people in the same way. Even if you disbelieve, keep that shit to yourself if you can't be understanding and sympathetic. Be nice or scroll on by. Don't be a dick. Yes, I know I sound like a mommy right now. There's a reason I never had kids. This is it. Other human beings are generally disappointing. Not all of you. Some of you are the sweetest, compassionate, most kind and empathetic people I've had the joy of getting to know over the last couple of months or so. I'm glad to know most of you. One or two percent of you out there need to work on your empathy and compassion. Human evolution is social. And we can only do that by attaining the highest levels of happiness for ourselves, our loved ones, and others around us...every one of us. We are all one people. We are connected. We are One. Please check out my last page on this website, Soul Seeds, for daily inspirational pictures, slideshows, and coming soon, mp4 clips with ambient/binaural beats music when you are feeling down or need a lift. The "stars" of August are actually meteors and planets. As it always seems to be. The full moon is wrapping up and it's time to get my crystals and rocks off the window ledge, they are done charging and are now ready to help me with balancing the energies in my world and manifesting what I want to manifest, higher vibrations and such. I am currently searching for a new crystal, citrine. Jupiter and Saturn are at opposition this month. Saturn opposition occurs on the first say of the month, August 1st (August 2nd if you're in Europe according to BBC Sky at Night Magazine). Jupiter opposition occurs on August 19th. "In astronomy, opposition describes when a planet or other body is in the opposite part of the sky to the Sun. At such times, planets appear brighter and larger than at other non-opposition times." (BBC Sky at Night Magazine). In other words, it's a great time to try and see these planets with a naked eye, though binoculars, nightscopes, and telescopes will give better views, of course. At opposition, Jupiter will shine at -2.9 magnitude, and should be handsomely and pretty finely detailed through a good telescope. "Jupiter and Saturn—the two largest planets in our solar system—both come to opposition this month, making them each optimally bright, big, and out all night." (NIGHT SKY FOR AUGUST 2021- The Old Farmer's Almanac). "The Moon and Venus will pass within 4°17′ of one another on the night of August 10th. This is too far apart to view through a telescope or binocular view, but don’t let that dissuade you. Venus is bright and the Moon will be only 11% illuminated making it a perfect night to view them both." (Space Tourism Guide). Peak Perseids! "Given a young Moon, the Perseid meteors will perform at full glory on August 11 and 12. This is the most watched meteor shower of the year. The post-midnight hours are best for viewing these very fast shooting stars." (NIGHT SKY FOR AUGUST 2021- The Old Farmer's Almanac). August 18 – Peak of the K-Cygnid Meteor Shower. "On this night, you can look for the peak of the κ-Cygnid meteor shower at a rate of roughly 3 meteors per hour. This meteor shower is not as bombastic as the Perseids a few days earlier, but the moon will be only 1% illuminated – nearly new – and ideal for a night of stargazing and meteor spotting, even if those shooting stars are quite infrequent." (Space Tourism Guide). On August 20th, the moon and Saturn will closely approach one another. On August 21st the moon and Jupiter will closely approach one another. I try to give a night sky report as if to a person who doesn't have a pair of binoculars or a telescope and wants to try and see things with the naked eye. Doing this is harder the more light pollution you have (if you live in a heavily populated city with lots of lights at night). Your best bet at seeing planets with the naked eye is to remember the rule, "stars twinkle, planets don't." Planets will have a steady sort of light to them. But of course, the best thing would be to get a telescope. Even an inexpensive one would afford you some better view of the stars and planets. I only have a nightscope and binoculars. I do okay with those for now. I would like to have a telescope someday, when we have the room for it and a sky with enough stars and planets to see with it (and no city light pollution!) If you have scopes to see with, visit the websites below for more viewing options, such as asteroids in opposition this month. Always keep looking up! You never know what you'll see up there! Websites:
BBC Sky at Night Magazine: www.skyatnightmagazine.com/advice/skills/how-see-planets-night-sky-august/ Space Tourism Guide: https://spacetourismguide.com/night-sky-august/ NIGHT SKY FOR AUGUST 2021- The Old Farmer's Almanac: https://www.almanac.com/night-sky-august-2021 Last Saturday night, Val and I went to spend a few hours at Ft. DeSoto campground barbecuing some burgers and dogs and looking for UFOs, once it got dark for National UFO Night Out (NUNO). It rained to postpone the cook out which calmed the nasty bite-y bugs for a little while so we could cook out with a nice breeze. We saw a clan of trash pandas that were hanging out in the trees above. They came down and Val got a pic of this one while it was trying to do it's bidness. It turned and gave her this look as it was finishing up as if to say "Human, how dare you? We don't bother you when you're out in the wild taking a crap!" No, and to be fair they didn't bother us while we were cooking out. But this will forever be my go-to image when I want to give somebody shit on social media. It's already my Twitter cover. Facebook will be next if they don't ban me for it, since they ban everything these days.
Oh, the UFO night. After we ate, the stars came out and we did see a UFO! Val spotted it. It didn't fly very fast but fast enough. It was kind of flying straight-ish, but there were several off-things about it that made me know it was a UFO instead of a plane.
There are other things that kind of lead me to believe this was no plane. It was just a gut thing. Kind of like I kind of knew I would see the orb. Kind of like the ones I thought weren't UFOs maybe weren't really. No matter how much I longed for that triangle thing I saw wayyyyy up in the sky in the 90s in St. Pete to be a UFO, the fact remains that it was most likely a Stealth bomber...since we're so close to MacDill Air Force Base. It didn't give me the same gut feeling or the same excitement or sense of awe and wonder. Nothing but a gen-u-wine UFO does that for me. I get chills. The hairs on my body stand up. I tingle. I have not filed the case to MUFON or NUFORC (Are they still around? Website has not been updated since May FFS!) yet, along with my summer of 1981 encounter. I'm still getting my stories sorted on paper. But I will definitely make the recent report soon. There's no video as I couldn't get my night scope's video turned on in time and the video that Val took on her phone is kind of short and not focused really well. But we'll have better luck next time. National UFO Night Out has decided to make their events monthly, but we think we're going to wait until it gets to be non-mosquito season...or at least until our bites heal up! We do have a trip planned to go see Bok Tower and Spook Hill, two sites of purported high magnetic energy and in the area of a supposed energy vortex: Lake Wales. We're going in October so we hope it will be cool enough outside to sit and partake of the night skies a bit. Lake Wales is an area that sees a bit of action, so who knows what will happen! UFOs - South American Encounters / Part 2 with A.J. Gevaerd, Antonio Huneeus, Ariel Sanchez, Anthony Choy, Oscar Santa-Maria and Alex Chionetti Held at the National Press Club, Washington D.C. April 29th - May 3rd, 2013 UFOs - South American Encounters / Part 1 with A.J. Gevaerd, Antonio Huneeus, Ariel Sanchez, Anthony Choy, Oscar Santa-Maria and Alex Chionetti Held at the National Press Club, Washington D.C. April 29th - May 3rd, 2013 UFOs : Roswell / Part 2 with Donald R. Schmitt, Stanton Friedman, Lt. Col. Kevin Randle, Col. Jesse Marcel Jr., Jesse Marcel III and Denice Marcel Held at the National Press Club, Washington D.C. April 29th - May 3rd, 2013 Roswell - Part 1 can be found here: Citizens Hearing on UFO Disclosure: Roswell - Part 1 This was finally uploaded last week on 7/2/2021, the anniversary of Roswell. I've just been late getting all of the videos uploaded here. I will upload Part 2 here tomorrow. UFOs : Roswell / Part 1 - with Donald R. Schmitt, Stanton Friedman, Lt. Col. Kevin Randle, Col. Jesse Marcel Jr., Jesse Marcel III and Denice Marcel Held at the National Press Club, Washington D.C. April 29th - May 3rd, 2013 Roswell - Part 2 can be seen here: Citizens Hearing on UFO Disclosure: Roswell - Part 2 I said I was going to make monthly posts for Astronomy News, but got a late start for this month. Blame my birthday and the 4th of July. Sorry about that.
So I will cover now (7/13/21) until the end of the month. Saturday, July 17 - First Quarter Moon (at 10:10 GMT) "When the moon completes the first quarter of its orbit around Earth at 6:10 a.m. EDT on Saturday, July 17 (or 10:10 GMT) its 90 degree angle away from the sun will cause us to see the moon half-illuminated - on its eastern side. At first quarter, the moon always rises around mid-day and sets around midnight, so it is also visible in the afternoon daytime sky. The evenings surrounding first quarter are the best ones for seeing the lunar terrain when it is dramatically lit by low-angled sunlight, especially along the terminator, the pole-to-pole boundary between the lit and dark hemispheres." Saturday, July 17 - NUNO - National UFO Night Out (as soon as it gets dark out, wherever you are) From the groups Reddit page: "Instead of tirelessly debating things we can't know, we should be out there looking at the skies with cameras and optics and collecting evidence. We could altogether get some buzz going about a certain date in UFO communities here, on Twitter and Youtube and wherever else. Pick a single night we all spent as much time as we can under the stars and report back any evidence of anomalous stuff." So they picked this Saturday. I'm ready with my IR night vision scope I got for my birthday. Link to their main page: https://linktr.ee/NunoSkywatch Friday, July 23 - Full Thunder Moon (at 2:37 GMT) "The moon will reach its full phase on Friday, July 23 at 10:37 p.m. EDT (or 02:37 GMT on Saturday, July 24). The July full moon, commonly called the Buck Moon, Thunder Moon, or Hay Moon, always shines in or near the stars of Sagittarius or Capricornus. The indigenous Ojibwe people of the Great Lakes region call this moon Abitaa-niibini Giizis, the Halfway Summer Moon, or Mskomini Giizis, the Raspberry Moon. The Cherokees call it Guyegwoni, the Corn in Tassel Moon. The Cree Nation of central Canada calls the June full moon Opaskowipisim, the Feather Moulting Moon (referring to wild water-fowl habits), and the Mohawks call it Ohiarihkó:wa, the Fruits are Ripened Moon. Because the moon is full when it is opposite the sun in the sky, full moons always rise in the east as the sun is setting, and set in the west at sunrise. Since sunlight is striking the moon vertically at that time, no shadows are cast; all of the variations in brightness you see arise from differences in the reflectivity, or albedo, of the lunar surface rocks." Saturday, July 24 - Bright Moon below Saturn and Jupiter (all night) "While the moon’s monthly visit with the gas giant planets will begin with Saturn on the previous evening, skywatchers who are outside on Saturday night, July 24 will find our slightly-less-than-full natural satellite shining very brightly below and between bright Jupiter on the left (or celestial northeast) and Saturn on the right (celestial northwest). After they finish rising around 9:30 p.m. local time the trio will make a nice wide-field photo opportunity when composed with some interesting scenery." Thursday, July 29 - Southern Delta-Aquariids Meteors Peak (at 5:00 GMT) "The annual Southern Delta Aquariids meteor shower lasts from July 21 to August 23. It will peak before dawn on Thursday, July 29, but it is quite active for a week surrounding that date. This shower, produced by debris dropped from periodic Comet 96P/Machholz, commonly generates 15-20 meteors per hour at the peak. It is best enjoyed from the southern tropics, where the shower’s radiant, in southern Aquarius, climbs higher in the sky. Unfortunately, the bright gibbous moon shining in the night-time sky on the peak date will severely reduce the number of meteors seen – so continue your meteor-watching on the following few nights, when the moon will wane and rise later." Night Sky News for July copied from space.com. Got to this link for more sky stuff for July (especially if you have a nice telescope): https://www.space.com/16149-night-sky.html Held at the National Press Club, Washington D.C. April 29th - May 3rd, 2013 |
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