UFOs - A Global Phenomenon / Part 2 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. 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! Nostalgia can sometimes hit you like a hurricane; a rush of emotions overwhelming the senses akin to a tidal wave overtaking a seawall. Searching for "1970s swing set" on Google and then searching Google Earth for the old homestead. That did it for me. In 1981, a teenager living on a farm in rural USA was babysitting a 9-year-old cousin. They decided to do something fun and different that weekend: they were going to camp out under the stars by throwing a blanket over the slide of the swing-set and the teeter-totter in the big front yard and sleep under that, with some bug repellent slathered on to combat the summer mosquitoes.
She ordinarily would not have suggested the camping out, except her father, whom she both despised and feared, had moved out of his parents' farmhouse a few months ago. The teen had been living there since she was three, her immediate family being a troubled one. Her dad was a drunk and a womanizer and abusive. He was also heavily into UFOs and Bigfoot and was obsessed with both to the point of annoyance. Even recently he had regaled the family: grandmother, uncle, and her, of tales of alien abductions and experiments the extraterrestrials performed on people. The teen was always terrified, and had trouble sleeping. And it had gotten worse in the year since her grandmother had seen a actual UFO coasting over the farm. She originally didn't believe her grandmother when she told the story, running in screaming from taking in laundry off the line. She made fun of her and told her grandmother she had to be seeing things. She didn't think her good Baptist, non-drinking grandmother would ever lie, but she was getting on in years. Maybe she was getting senile. The girl was of a rebellious nature. She didn't believe many of the things she was told through the years, even the stories of other family members having encounters with strange things, fireballs chasing their cars and lights in the sky that followed people home. People in the family who were sensitive to seeing or feeling when ghosts were present. Stories they told of the strange wanderer who somehow entered their locked houses and slept in a spare room, leaving money and a "Thank You" note on the kitchen table without being seen. Even though she had a great imagination, fancied herself a young writer, and she enjoyed a good tall tale, this had been a bit unreal and hard to accept. Still, the girl was the only one who didn't believe her grandmother, even a year later. But truth be told, she was afraid to believe it was the truth. Life proceeded as usual toward dusk. Dinner was made with both girls helping their grandmother, and after they ate, they gathered the blanket, some snacks and some water to enjoy as they lay in the makeshift tent, looking at the stars. Towards 9 o'clock, the younger girl was sleeping and the teen closed her eyes and was beginning to drift off when she heard a low humming noise in the distance. Thinking it was a plane at first, she tried to pat it no mind. But the humming kept growing. Finding it odd, because there was not another sound to be heard...even the crickets were quiet, finally, she peeked out from underneath the blanket. Her whole world changed in that second. Coming over the top of the cornfield was a slowly moving, very large, something. It was flattish and round, but kind of thick, like a real good pancake. There might have been a thicker part on the top, but many long years have past and she doesn't remember what the top of it looked it. It had colorful blue and red lights that blinked in turns all around the edge of it. And it was from this large flying craft that the humming sound was coming. She watched, mesmerized for a few seconds. Then, she shook her little cousin awake. "What.??" Alissa (name changed to protect living relatives) said. "What is it? What time is it?" The teenager said something like: "'Bout 10. Doesn't matter! You gotta get out here and look! Come on. It's grandma's UFO!" The smaller child gave her a look like she was being pranked. They did tease each other a lot, as cousins who are close will sometimes do. But the older girl, very serious, said: "I'm not kidding." Alissa crawled out from under the the slide and looked in the direction her cousin was pointing. By now the large UFO was even closer, getting ready to close in on the road separating the field and the yard where the girls stood. Alissa's mouth hung open. The teen's mouth hung open as they backed away toward the house. Then...Alissa screamed and took off running for the farmhouse. The teenage girl, as afraid as she was of many things, did not scream...did not run. She sensed a slight directional change, as if the motherwhateverthehellship floated right a bit (well...left in the perspective of whoever was flying it) and she moved over to stand at the edge of the driveway, but closer to the front door to the house...in case she had to book it (thats's what they said in the 80's... or haul ass...basically run). But she didn't want to go in , even though somebody was at the door calling her to come in (her grandmother...frightened...probably recognizing the same thing she saw). She didn't even hear them. Her focus was elsewhere. Because by now the UFO was across the road and nearing her. It was SO BIG. Her home life (aside from hanging with the cousin and her grandmother's loving care and inspiration and her Uncle who was funny) was crap. Her father was abusive. She was bullied at school for being poor. Her mother had left her father a few summers ago and she was miserable. Her first boyfriend was a jerk and cheated and broke up. She was past the point of caring. She felt like..."God, I just wish they'd beam me the hell up and get me off this rock!" a la Luke Skywalker...or something like that. Honestly, she just didn't give a fuck. As the huge pretty lighted disk flew over her, she looked up, eyes wide. Sort of defiantly. But it passed on over. After it had passed the small well-house behind her, and into the next cornfield behind that, she continued to watch it, amazed. Until it suddenly shot into the sky with a flash and was gone. She stood there, in awe, and somewhat sad and disappointed and not a little scared. But in the end, the awe won out over the fear. At the moment. After that, her father bullied her for details and wanted her to write it down. He bullied Alissa too. Her uncle told him to leave the girls alone. The teen tried talking to young cousin about it, but she just wanted to forget it. As for the teen, she refused to share the experience with her father. She kept it inside. And everything that happened later too. And whether she tells anyone but her girlfriend and a few other people about the other experiences she has had, both with the UFO phenomenon or with the paranormal, she isn't yet sure. Her younger cousin passed away in December 2020 of breast cancer, so the once-teen (now older woman ) can share the story publicly. But everything changed for her that night. Not necessarily bad...not all of it. But some if it was not necessarily good, either. But thinking back, remembering. She is glad it happened. She might like to see something like that again. She keeps on looking for people's renditions from that period and for other people's experiences...searching for someone who may have seen the same thing...she may have found one. Maybe another. A year to two apart. Someday, she might see how she can find out. Soon, she may post her own account on NUFORC or MUFON. And she keeps on looking up. Always. Still working on my witnesser post. Was relaying it over to a New Yorker on Twitter who said she'd "never seen anything like that" but did say she saw "two stars move strangely once and appear to wink" She said they moved quickly together and blinked a couple times together and moved apart again. I told her, "Stars don't behave like that, neither do satellites, or planes. Helicopiters? Possible, but not likely, if they moved very close together. They just don't like taking a chance on crashing. Hon, you saw something really cool." Unbelievably cool. Unidentifiably cool.
Today is the day before (supposed) disclosure. I've been reading some of the old Tom Delonge notes (posted by someone on 'alien reddit') from To the Stars Academy about "The Others" and it's really out there. If even, half of it is true, no wonder the global govs have kept a lid on it for nearly a hundred years. It's pretty shocking stuff. Yeah, world altering. Paradigm shifting. Reality changing stuff. The kind of stuff that , if true, that would drive some people over the edge. I could see it doing that. Religious people, especially. I mean, I can kind of see where govs get the idea of distraction now. And let's face it, us humans, even the brightest among us, are easily emotionally swayed. We really need to do something about that. (I need to do something about that my damn self, and am working on it, and as an empath, I have a lot of work to do on maintaining the sympathy level while losing all the anger I sometimes feel at worldly injustices). But like I said, much of that may not even be true. And, as Smoking Man said... "What is the Truth?" I think he said that at one time or another. Anyway, it's Kenneth Arnold day today. The day that the term "flying saucers" first came into being. The first modern UFO sighting, but not the first by a long stretch. Never the first. Read about it here! https://www.wdam.com/story/25854934/on-this-day-in-history-june-24th-1947/ With the UAP Report due out next week, I thought it might be a good time to go a little deeper into the studies and terminology of the UAP phenomena. We're likely only going to touch the barest tip of the iceberg of it next week, the stuff that military pilots have seen and experienced. Maybe we'll get into the stuff that commercial pilots have witnessed, if any feel comfortable enough to come forward without fear of losing their jobs or licenses. There have been plenty of those type of incidents. What we won't get into is the big scary A words...like "aliens" or "abductions." We will put those scary words wayyyyy up on the top shelf for now, behind some other scary words. But...we need to hear about them sooner or later. I will touch on them a bit here. Everyone ought to be familiar with J. Allen Hynek. He started as an astronomer and a professor, but he is probably best known as the U.S. Air Force's scientific advisor for first Project Sign, then Project Blue Book, two of the first government agencies tasked with researching UFO phenomena that operated during the 1950s and 1960s. Mostly it consisted of Hyneck being sent to interview people who'd seen UFO's and then the government telling him to report that it was swamp gas or weather balloons (as in the Dexter, Michigan case). Eventually, Hynek's work debunking for Uncle Sam led him to become a believer, and a UFO researcher. He created a scale of types of sightings and kinds of UFO/entity sightings, called "close encounters." There were originally three types of each in the taxonomy, but the kinds of close encounters have been added to over the decades by other researchers of UAP. Ted Bloecher's* Subtypes to the Close Encounters of the Third Kind are as follows:
I really think CE-6 and CE-7 should be switched because the thought of CE-6 is so incredibly horrifying, in my opinion. *From the New York Public Library's Archives & Manuscripts: "Ted Bloecher (1929- ) is a retired actor and member of the New York City Gay Men's Chorus. His papers (1950-2000) consist of correspondence, personal journals, a memoir and other writing, theatre memorabilia, and his New York City Gay Men's Chorus files. The papers document daily life of a struggling actor and singer in New York City, gay life before and after Stonewall, and thirty years of UFO research." "It's white. It has no wings. It has no rotors." "It didn't fly like an aircraft. It was so unpredictable—high g, rapid velocity, rapid acceleration." "I didn't see a trail." "It was going 70-plus knots underwater." ~Cmndr. Fravor & Lt.Cmndr. Deitrich, describing their encounter with the UAP that has become known as the "Tic Tac." In 2019, Lue Elizondo, former head of the Pentagon's Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), along with other parties interested in expediting the process of UAP disclosure in the US, made a documentary series called Unidentified: Inside America's UFO Investigation. I'm just starting to watch this series myself, so it is not on my earlier list of recommended documentaries to watch about disclosure...but I may need to revise that list. In an epsiode, Elizondo describes the key elements military personnel have been trained to look for when it comes to making credible witnesses for UAP (unidentified aerial phenomenon) sighting. He calls these elements "The Five Observables." Lue explains what the Five Observables are in the video clip from the series below, and he does it so much better than I do, so please watch it. But I will briefly list them below. The Five Observables:
May 27th, 2021 Alien Disclosure Group YouTube channel posts a video of what appears to be a large black triangle UAP in the skies of Brooklyn, New York. Three lights are visible, in what looks like an equilateral triangle formation. Similar large and smaller black triangles have been seen throughout the history of UFOs in the world, most notoriously on March 13th, 1997, in Arizona, when several UFOs appeared and were seen by 10,000 witnesses, including a massive black triangle that slowly made its way down the main interstate in Arizona, cruising low and slow so people could get a good look. This mass-sighting UAP event came to be known as the Phoenix Lights. Black triangles have been sighted in every state in the U.S This is an awesome sighting, and the gentleman who videoed it did an amazing job of keeping the phone still and zooming in on it right before it disappeared behind a building. Can't tell whether it is a solid black triangle UFO like so many others have been, or three sphere/orb UFOs flying in a triangle pattern. It's quiet, so we can rule out helicopters. |
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