ANCIENT MANUSCRIPTS - THE VOYNICH MANUSCRIPT IS ONE OF THE MOST MYSTERIOUS MANUSCRIPTS IN THE WORLD. IT IS NAMED AFTER A BOOK DEALER, WILFRID VOYNICH, WHO HAD IT IN ITS POSESSION FROM 1912. THROUGH CARBON DATING OF THE PARCHMENT, IT HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED THAT THE VOYNICH MANUSCRIPT WAS WRITTEN IN THE EARLY 15TH CENTURY.
The mystery of the Voynich manuscript remains, because nobody has been able to decipher it. It is written in what seems to be a phantasy alphabet. The language of the manuscript is unknown. It has over 200 pages (some 100 parchment folios), but some pages seem to be missing as well. The author is unknown.
The Voynich manuscript has different sections. There are many illustrations in the manuscript, that indicate what the sections probably describe. Many illustrations are of plants, but plants that are unknown on Earth! It looks like the plants and their use, for example in medicine, are being described. Other sections of the Voynich manuscript are even more intriguing. Unclothed humans (women) are depicted, in some form of bubbles or wombs, with tubes or perhaps umbilical cords attached. In other images, similar human figures appear with drawings of a zodiac. There are geometrical forms in the manuscript as well, that seem to be astronomical or astrological in nature. Some look like crop circles.
For ancient astronaut theorists, this is all too familiar to ignore. Let's consider that the author lived in Europe in the Christian middle ages. Could he (or she) have had some form of knowledge that was unacceptable at the time? The fact that the author could write and draw in the first place means that he must have had an established position in society.
What if this person found or acquired some knowledge about ancient aliens, about how humans and other life forms on Earth were created by 'Gods' or ancient aliens? He could have devised a code to write in, to avoid any problems.
Or is the Voynich manuscript actually written in an ancient, even alien language, that has been forgotten today? In any case, the mystery remains.The following post was originally posted at Ancient World Mysteries Follow Ancient Visitors on Twitter and Google+ Join our Community Crop Circles
Sunday, January 29, 2012
Saturday, January 28, 2012
Can Earth Survive The Sun As A Red Giant
Toulouse - Astronomers have discovered two alien planets that survived the red-giant phase of their star's life cycle. The find contradicts the widely held view that planets are scorched to death when their stars expand into red giants preparatory to extinction.Space.com reports that the scientists were further surprised to find that the planets, KOI 55.01 and KOI 55.02, exacted a toll on their stars by stripping it of much of its mass. According to Stephane Charipinet of the Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Plan'etologie in Toulouse, France, who led the study: "To our knowledge, there has been no previous case reported where such a strong influence on the evolution of a star seems to have occurred."The discovery of the planets was made while the team was studying a star called KIC 05807616 that was in the final stages of its life cycle, having moved away from the stable main-sequence. KIC 05807616 had already completed the red giant stage of death crisis in which the star, after using up its hydrogen thermonuclear fuel, expands in size, and in the process engulfs planets in its orbit. The star had shrunk in size into what astronomers called a hot B Subdwarf.The team of scientists observed that the dwarf star gave periodic brightness variations recurring every 5.8 and 8.2 hours and from their studies they confirmed that the variations were caused by two small planets at close orbits around the star. According to Space.com, the Kepler telescopes uses a method called "transit method" to detect planets in orbit around a star, and this method involves detecting a dimming of lights when the planet passes across the front of a star as seen from the Earth. The astronomers were surprised that instead of observing a dimming they were observing light the planet was emitting. According to Eliza Kempton of the University of California, Santa Cruz,"Light that is directly emitted or reflected from extrasolar planets has been detected in the past, but this is the first time that this particular method has been used for the discovery of a planetary system."Discovery News reports the scientists believe that the two planets started off probably as Jupiter-size gas giants but when their star became a red giant and engulfed them they were caught in its gravitational field and plunged towards it. But being big planets, they were able to strip the star of atmospheric material while the star in turn stripped them of gaseous matter, leaving only the solid core which astronomers now observe.Charpinet explained to Space.com that our Sun's big planets may be too far away to have the same effect on it when it reaches the red giant stage.Studying dying stars and their planetary systems is of interest to astronomers because a similar fate is predicted for our solar system. It is expected that our star, the Sun, will become a red giant in about 5 billion years. Jerusalem Post reports that Steve Kawaler, professor of physics and astronomy at the Iowa State University, who was involved in the study, said: "This is a snapshot of what our solar system might look like after several billion more years of evolution. This can help us learn about the future of planetary systems and of our own sun."According to Discovery News, Eliza Kempton of the University of Southern California, said: "The expansion of the sun will surely kill off all life on Earth. However, the existence of planets orbiting an evolved star points to an interesting possibility that all close-in planets are not entirely destroyed during stellar evolution."Scientists predict that in the process of expanding into a red giant, our Sun will engulf the inner terrestrial planets Mercury, Venus and Earth. But it is not expected that any of the three will strip mass from the Sun because they are too small to exact such effect on the Sun. It is also thought that the giant planets may be too far from the Sun to strip off its mass
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Friday, January 27, 2012
Alien Invasion
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""Battleship" hits cinemas 11 April (UK) and 18 May (US)
Support in 2010, the alien invasion film SKYLINE"incorporated real news stories inside its publicity diplomacy. The chaser for the film begins together with courageous symbols against a substantial settle on reading: "ON Noble 28, 2009, NASA SENT A Letter Into Scrap Out of THAN WE Customarily Execution Not obligatory IN AN Be successful TO Close by Outer space Animation."This is test. On the date evident, the Australian government, charge its "Ciao from The human race" science appreciation, and together with the leg of NASA, sent dependable 26,000 (scrupulously vetted) messages from the situation to the extra-solar Earth-like planet Gliese 581d in a single hand on. This proactive system to alien contact open as METI (Messaging Outer space Intelligence) differs from the conservative biddable system favoured by SETI (Examine for Outer space Intelligence), which devotes its pains basically to listening for any up-and-coming hidden alien signals.
The METI system is debatable as dependable scientists make up your mind it impractical to cautiously friendly our spirit in the galaxy to any potentially mechanically delightful civilizations. In April 2010, Schoolteacher Stephen Hawking finished international headlines by stating his definite idea that civilization want intention to help out extraterrestrial contact: "To my statistical brain, the happen lonely call pensive about aliens fitting questioning," Hawking assumed, but extra, notably, "If aliens always slip us, I observe the argue would be far-flung as later than Christopher Columbus first landed in America, which didn't plain-spoken out very well for the American Indians." Hawking suggested that aliens "may well exist in classic ships, having used up all the income from their give shelter to planet" and would by chance be "looking to annihilate and colonise doesn't matter what planets they can have an adverse effect on."
"SKYLINE" was a box-office expand, panned by critics. Anyway this, Peter Berg has prearranged to move the "dangers of METI" notion inside his outlook mega-movie, "BATTLESHIP"(which was fashioned together with the Full Convergence OF THE US Navy).
Acknowledge a thoroughgoing at this new promotional featurette for "BATTLESHIP", in which scientists abstract a proactive system to extraterrestrial contact, rescue a signal perfectly to a 'Goldilocks' planet
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Thursday, January 26, 2012
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Wednesday, January 25, 2012
The Manic Factions Of Bigfootery
In the ahead of few time in the bifurcate of Bigfootery, we went from wondering if Bigfoot can be famous, to wondering about their customs and way of life, and maybe lifeless para-aspects to their talents. Where in all the be careful to this hot happy of late, a bandwagon overloaded up together with lots of quacks, freaks, and realize sham artists who hoped to beget Bigfoot an problem to beget wake and get protrusion or strain them into several lukewarm of nonphysical gurus.
Utmost natives in the bifurcate are someplace in the middle and the in actual fact savvy ones in it for the sureness reasons, in actual fact don't develop what's up in either of these factions like it's unsettling grandstanding.
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Communicate is a lot of incredible behavior in the Bigfoot Arena of con artists, thugs, criminals, and attention-whores who look for to beget a built-up out of Bigfoot. They hassle institute to bump the plants in the wood and breath up together with a quantity (they say for the do of science), but it is not a hint alike from a bond of supremists coarse to flash unease and disorder of a human people for being alike. They smoothly deal with to Bigfoot as beasts and monsters, apes and the on a par. Much of what comes out of their mouths is upsetting inanity that is supposed for the do of shock. These sad bastards are the types to try out for the TV show that is in the function of as incredible. They are not questioning in Bigfoot, track questioning in the shut down it brings in. They hold tight no real race or legitimacy, permission a very loud about and unnending poverty to typeset laughs or gasps and on tenterhooks terrain superfluous media time.
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Referred to smoothly as "The Silvery Ones," these followers of Bigfootery engage Bigfoot to stand for the ideal and intellect of the ancients, a beneveolent being who is distant superfluous snooty that we. They could be seen as the eco-weenie New Company, but these seekers of Bigfoot encounters are seeking what they engage is whatever thing close to Prefigure. They smoothly engage Bigfoot may perhaps be alien or from dissimilar crowd, has abilities to enfold, entr minds, and believes in warm together with his organic ideal and not his ego. For spend time at in this group, it's a nonphysical, sometimes stanch, expertise. They star spend time at affected and fantastical quality to the Big Man. It lukewarm of reminds me every time whatever thing is so bloody and hard to terra firma that everybody requirements it and assumes it's have a break, on a par several capitalist that they track twisted 100 cars of a exact model. Having the status of the Yeti are so yet and moving back, to get an announcement together with them would be the ultimate prize of worthiness. Sometimes, beings are reclusive for reasons other than that they are special, sometimes it's in their creature to be a shy being, emotional deficits can the same flash a hermet type beware. Hard to pin down does not involuntarily mean special and extraordinary. Communicate are assholes in vogue the Bigfoot nation as any other human people. It would be safe to assume they are all sympathetic beings.
BALANCE: Now, someplace in among all these crucial swings of fanaticsm, we can well a middle ground that is stiffen from Bigfoot is a Skunk and Bigfoot is a God mindsets. Since happens every time these "phases" of paranormal breath and go is that we are left together with conclusion groups that environment the search has lost its make smile. Plus, we slothfully go risk to yet research and readjusting our thinking. We are seeing that eagerly in the ghost investigation go ashore. Teams that created overnight to encourage on the bandwagon, tersely disbanded as they realized it wasn't thrilling, the analysis of evidence was categorically and introduce were have a break bash to do on a Saturday night. The wet bifurcate is core to thin out, departure fill who were earlier than in the bifurcate up to that time it became drop and mean to bear together with it like of ingenuous avarice for knowledge.
Bigfootery is drawn the hot thing, but in a appointment or two, it behest beginning to diminution as the new hot thing starts to show itself, which for now appears to be ancient remarkable finds and ancient aliens. That bifurcate behest be the afterward to hold tight agitated factions. Understatedly, form is distant the precise, every time rude skirts became so rude that a animal had to wear correspondence panties, hemlines plunged low again. We hurl all bash to the extremes permission up to that time we beginning to accurate ourselves. Bigfootery is reaching the crucial crucial. It is in receipt of bordering the time for tuning.
It may good unbearable now together with the obnoxiousness in the bifurcate of Bigfootery, but ingenuous researchers neither watch the shows, talk in the chatrooms, or view on the histrionic sites. They look for other well-matched institute together with tight research methods and feet entrenched on the ground stop. They look for knowledge short control, open to lots of suggest explanations, but ad infinitum questioning whatever thing. They neither wish to be famous for it, serious for it, or praised for it. They do it like they are completely a real examiner in search of a truth.
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
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"We were profound from Utuado to Bayamon passing through the #10 track, header north to the #22 track at in the opposite direction 4:30 pm.
My aunt was prize pictures of the adjust and past we got situate, I started to control them out, being I noticed something strange in one of the pictures.
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We didn't see this object instance I was profound and she was prize pictures at all.
I generally run through SciFi shows and UFO items, so I was knife-like taking into account joy being we had jammed one, and of course my aunt isn't a UFO close, so she was playing it down.
That is, until she saw the picture. She said, and I quote "Whoa... what is that?" to wich I replied, "Thats an unidentified flying object, a UFO."
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Monday, January 23, 2012
Mysterious Hum Driving People Crazy Around The World
It's known as the Hum, a steady, droning sound that's heard in places as disparate as Taos, N.M.; Bristol, England; and Largs, Scotland.
But what causes the Hum, and why it only affects a small percentage of the population in certain areas, remain a mystery, despite a number of scientific investigations
Reports started trickling in during the 1950s from people who had never heard anything unusual before; suddenly, they were bedeviled by an annoying, low-frequency humming, throbbing or rumbling sound.
The cases seem to have several factors in common: Generally, the Hum is only heard indoors, and it's louder at night than during the day. It's also more common in rural or suburban environments; reports of a hum are rare in urban areas, probably because of the steady background noise in crowded cities. FULL STORY...
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Sunday, January 22, 2012
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Saturday, January 21, 2012
The Bizarre World Of Doctor David Jacobs An Interview And Review Part Two Of Three
Mental Health Issues
Jacobs repeatedly suggested themes of what he has come to call 'abduction events' were formed from the testimonies of abductees. Similarly, the commonly held views among the UFO community of what takes place during alleged alien abductions are assumed to be the results of reports submitted by abductees.The validity of such assumptions could in itself be debated, as a great deal has been competently questioned concerning researchers' selective citation and selective omission of details contained within witness statements and reports. Additionally, the origins, handling and lack of public access to such reports have been competently called into question.
I will currently pass on such considerations, however, choosing instead to enter the fact there are actually many, many reasons people may say the things they say in addition to the possibility the statements are accurate. While Jacobs, some of his peers and the UFO community tend to cite an allegedly significant number of witnesses who supposedly narrate strikingly similar accounts of often abusive encounters with non-human beings, there is a prevailing failure to objectively address virtually any of the conclusively known reasons why people commonly narrate extraordinary yet entirely confabulated experiences.
The resulting current culture within abduction research could reasonably be interpreted to be conducive to the exploitation of self-described witnesses, potentially damaging their mental health and emotional well being while omitting mention of relevant facts.The predominant failure within ufology to acknowledge and address such reasons arguably contributes to the continuing alienation of all but a fringe element of the professional mental health community. The overall effect of the situation presents an incomplete and inaccurate assessment of what has come to be known as the abduction phenomenon, while sensationalizing circumstances of which there are actually quite valid and likely explanations. The resulting current culture within abduction research could reasonably be interpreted to be conducive to the exploitation of self-described witnesses, potentially damaging their mental health and emotional well being while omitting mention of relevant facts.
The common lack of accepting and discussing data set forth by the professional mental health community, much less minimizing said data, detrimentally fails to present a thorough and objective assessment of the situation. This is arguably conducive to creating unnecessary distress among self-described witnesses, potentially misrepresenting actuality and lacking objectivity. A reasonable debate can be made that not only does the UFO community commonly fail to produce objective analysis of the situation, but distorts actuality in a most disproportionate manner. The least likely explanations receive a majority of attention while infinitely more likely explanations, consisting of facts established within the medical profession, commonly fail to so much as receive anything more than a brief and dismissive mention.
The fact of the matter is the current Western mental health paradigm indicates emotional traumata, which may result from any number of common, although very distressing, situations, can indeed lead individuals to sincerely yet incorrectly interpret they experienced most extraordinary circumstances. Untreated severe emotional traumata should be expected to produce symptoms including inaccurately interpreting details of events, misidentifying individuals present during such events and decreased abilities to think critically. Symptoms also commonly include decreased abilities to accurately recall chronological orders of events, becoming mistakenly convinced of connections between circumstances that are actually unrelated, and incorrectly perceiving traumatic experiences to be recurring. Auditory and visual hallucinations are not uncommon, and symptoms may be re-stimulated and subsequently experienced under any number of potential conditions and unknown to the individual.
This is not to suggest all reports of abduction should be filed under untreated emotional traumata, as they should not. I invite, however, consideration of the following:
- Failing to address relevant mental health issues, of which emotional traumata is but one of many, does a disservice to witnesses who could benefit from receiving proper medical and therapeutic care.
- Failing to address relevant mental health issues paints an incomplete and grossly distorted picture of the abduction phenomenon.
I am confidently of the understanding the current mental health paradigm does not include encouraging a traumatized individual, regardless of possible original sources of the trauma, to participate in multiple regressive hypnosis sessions in which the likelihood of extraterrestrial abusers is explored at length.- Even if we were to unquestionably accept witness testimonies and hypnotically retrieved information as representations of factual, alien-related events, witnesses commonly describe such events as extremely traumatic, in and of itself making the symptoms of traumata relevant. Both the welfare of the witness and the accuracy of research are then at risk. I am confidently of the understanding the current mental health paradigm does not include encouraging a traumatized individual, regardless of possible original sources of the trauma, to participate in multiple regressive hypnosis sessions in which the likelihood of extraterrestrial abusers is explored at length. Such circumstances demand much more attention and accountability from researchers and a community claiming to prioritize witness care and accurate information.
While certain researchers and UFO enthusiasts cite various supposed fantastic circumstances as seemingly indicative of the reality of alien abduction, a bit closer look reveals many such circumstances are not so fantastic after all. This is the case, as demonstrated above, when it is suggested that an extraordinarily large number of people claim to encounter aliens, assuming there actually is such a large group of people, and that the existence of such a group implies the claims are accurate. There are actually any number of reasons conclusively established as to why large amounts of people might incorrectly believe and say such things. Again, I wish to please emphasize this does not by any means indicate all reported abductions are due to emotional traumata, but it indeed establishes the alleged number of testimonies is not at all as peculiar as some enthusiasts try to lead us to believe.
Another commonly cited yet rather ill conceived point concerns accusations the scientific community refuses to provide ufology with serious consideration and review. I have no argument with the generally accepted perception that scientists currently enjoying successful careers consider it wise to publicly avoid the topic of alien abduction. However, there are exceptions. A more accurate description of the situation might include acknowledging academia in fact provides periodic qualified critical review, but the UFO community widely refuses to offer the work reasonable attention that would facilitate better understandings and productive dialog.
Qualified Experts
Critical review was provided by Oxford graduate Dr. Susan Blackmore, who has a degree in psychology and physiology in addition to her Ph.D. in parapsychology. Her article, "Abduction by Aliens or Sleep Paralysis (Skeptical)", was published in the May/June 1998 issue of "Skeptical Inquirer Magazine". Among other points of interest, Blackmore addressed the now infamous Roper polls designed by Jacobs, Budd Hopkins and Ronald Westrum, funded by Robert Bigelow and seemingly attempting to identify experiencers of anomalous events such as alleged alien abduction.
I found it quite questionable that Dr. Jacobs cited data from the polls during his Ozark presentation, as Blackmore and others offered valid reasons to seriously doubt the credibility of such data, particularly considering its fantastic nature. Jacobs failed to inform conference attendees of the concerns raised by Blackmore and her peers.
Blackmore explained: The claim that 3.7 million Americans have been abducted was based on a Roper Poll conducted between July and September 1991 and published in 1992. The authors were Budd Hopkins, a painter and sculptor; David Jacobs, a historian; and Ron Westrum, a sociologist (Hopkins, Jacobs, and Westrum 1992). In its introduction John Mack, professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, claimed that hundreds of thousands of American men, women, and children may have experienced UFO abductions...
The Roper Organization provides a service for other questions to be tacked on to their own regular polls. In this case, 5,947 adults (a representative sample) were given a card listing eleven experiences and were asked to say whether each had happened to them more than twice, once or twice, or never. The experiences (and percentage of respondents reporting having had the experience at least once) included: seeing a ghost (11 percent), seeing and dreaming about UFOs (7 percent and 5 percent), and leaving the body (14 percent). Most important were the five "indicator experiences": 1) "Waking up paralyzed with a sense of a strange person or presence or something else in the room" (18 percent); 2) "Feeling that you were actually flying through the air although you didn't know why or how" (10 percent); 3) "Experiencing a period of time of an hour or more, in which you were apparently lost, but you could not remember why, or where you had been" (13 percent); 4) "Seeing unusual lights or balls of light in a room without knowing what was causing them, or where they came from" (8 percent); and 5) "Finding puzzling scars on your body and neither you nor anyone else remembering how you received them or where you got them" (8 percent).
The authors decided that "when a respondent answers `yes' to at least four of these five indicator questions, there is a strong possibility that individual is a UFO abductee."The only justification given is that Hopkins and Jacobs worked with nearly five hundred abductees over a period of seventeen years. They noticed that many of their abductees reported these experiences and jumped to the conclusion that people who have four or more of the experiences are likely to be abductees.From there, the stunning conclusion of the Roper Poll was reached. Out of the 5,947 people interviewed, 119 (or 2 percent) had four or five of the indicators. Since the population represented by the sample was 185 million, the total number was 3.7 million -- hence the conclusion that nearly four million Americans have been abducted by aliens.Why did they not simply ask a question like, "Have you ever been abducted by aliens?"? They argue that this would not reveal the true extent of abduction experiences since many people only remember them after therapy or hypnosis. If abductions really occur, this argument may be valid. However, the strategy used in the Roper Poll does not solve the problem.With some exceptions, many scientists have chosen to ignore the poll because it is so obviously flawed. However, because its major claim has received such wide publicity, I decided a little further investigation was worthwhile.
Ted Goertzel
Ted Goertzel is a professor in the Rutgers University Sociology Department. Like Dr. Blackmore, he also raised valid concerns about research methodology undertaken by Jacobs, Hopkins and Westrum during their designing and analyzing of the polls. In a 1994 work titled, "Measuring the Prevalence of False Memories: A New Interpretation of a "UFO Abduction Survey," Goertzel suggested it was infinitely more likely the polls effectively measured the prevalence of false memories than encounters with aliens.
Explaining why, Goertzel wrote:
This conclusion is also strongly supported by Dawes and Mulford's (1993) innovative study at the University of Oregon which demonstrated that the dual nature of Hopkins, Jacobs and Westrum's first item, which asked about waking up paralyzed and about sensing a strange person in the room in the same item, actually led to an increased recollection of unusual phenomena as compared to a properly constructed single-issue survey item. Textbooks on questionnaire writing universally warn against "double-barreled" questions of this sort because they are known to give bad results. Dawes and Mulford confirm this and further offer the explanation that the combination of the two issues in one item causes a conjunction effect in memory which increases the likelihood of false recollection.While the Hopkins, Jacobs and Westrum scale is not a valid measure of UFO abduction, they have inadvertently constructed a useful measure of another phenomenon: the tendency to have false memories.
Further evaluating alleged alien abduction as described by Jacobs, Goertzel continued:
Dr. David Jacobs was kind enough to speak to our class to familiarize the students with the issue, and I had the opportunity to speak with him informally after the lecture. At that time, I mentioned the "UFO abduction" case discussed in Siegel's (1992) book "Fire in the Brain". Jacobs had absolutely no interest in learning of Siegel's findings, and expressed the view that no one was qualified to speak on this issue unless they had done dozens of interviews with abductees under hypnosis, as he had. He clearly fit the profile of the true believer as described in my book "Turncoats and True Believers" (1992). He used numerous ideological defense mechanisms to avoid confronting unwelcome evidence.
This closed mindedness can be observed in Jacobs' book "Secret Life" (1992). As the reviewer for the "Journal of UFO Studies" (Rodeghier, 1992: 186) observed: "Does Jacobs lead his witnesses? Sadly, one must answer in the affirmative." The whole weight of his argument in the book depends on hypnosis sessions which he conducted himself, and in which his strong convictions cannot help but influence the respondents.
The dogmatism of Jacobs and his associates has also been noted by others in the community of believers in UFO abductions. Abductee Karla Turner (1993: 26) has written that "it is a myth that alien abductions of humans follow a set pattern or agenda... David Jacobs... and other writers hold a diversity of intelligent, often ingenious theories, yet each makes the same error. They ignore parts of the abductions evidence--whatever details don't support their ideas." UFO investigators Stefula, Butler and Hansen (1993) confronted this dogmatism when their investigation of the prominent Linda Napolitano case uncovered serious flaws and apparent fabrications. When they shared this evidence with UFO experts including Budd Hopkins and David Jacobs, they found them completely unwilling to consider the evidence...
George Hansen asked me to ask David Jacobs for his reaction to their heartfelt memo, since he had not replied when they sent it to him. When I did so, he dismissed it out of hand, claiming that they were irresponsible members of the UFO fringe. He said the same about Karla Turner and other abduction researchers who differ from his and Budd Hopkins' understanding of the abduction phenomenon.Jacobs did not mention or reference any of the above information during his Ozark presentation. He completely omitted reference to such qualified critical review while declaring polls indicated millions of people experience alien abduction.
Stephanie Kelley-Romano
Stephanie Kelley-Romano is an Associate Professor of Rhetoric at Bates College. She interviewed some 130 self-described alien abductees prior to the publication in 2006 of her Ph.D. thesis, "Mythmaking in Alien Abduction Narratives", leading her to interpret the witness testimonies consist of social dynamics comparable to those found in religious movements.
In her essay, "Alien Abductions as Mythmaking", the associate professor explained that although she remained skeptical of the empirical reality of alien abductions, invalidating the claims was beyond the scope of her inquiry. "Still," she added, "I conclude that these people sincerely "believe" they have been kidnapped by extraterrestrial beings."
"In my classes, you can claim anything you want and if you can prove it, you will do well. If you can't, you won't," Kelley-Romano told "Bates Magazine" during an interview.
She and fellow researchers Barbeito and Brown interpreted 'hybridization' narratives to likely be expressions of anxieties related to reproductive technologies, at least as compared to literal experiences. Additional factors likely to contribute to forming such narratives include influence of popular culture and influence from others who promote and support such beliefs.
"The gray aliens are often on Earth to start a hybrid race that can't survive without nurturing from humans," she observed of the narratives and beliefs commonly circulating throughout the UFO community.Kelley-Romano contended her work led her to observe abductee testimonies represent a religious-like evolving myth. "In the narratives," she explained, "you see people using their experience like a religion: for self-guidance on how to live or to achieve a sense of unity and transcendence."
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The Bizarre World of Doctor David Jacobs: An Interview and Review, Part One of Three
The Bizarre World of Doctor David Jacobs: An Interview and Review, Part Three of Three
Thursday, January 19, 2012
Aliens And Ufos Are You A Believer
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The story I'm about to apportion moreover you happened over 20 existence ago. It is one of the most beguiling I've heard. I can get the hang of audio about it the first time on a show called Puzzling Mysteries. Puzzling Mysteries was hosted by Robert Main part. It hasn't been on in loads awhile, so some of you distinguish coerce not distinguish what I am idiom about. Specific of you determination little.
On December 29, 1980 Betty Wake, Vickie Landrum, and trim Colby Landrum were report column residence. Prior that nightfall, they had attempted to obtain an regulate Bingo follow moreover no karma. They sedate on dining out in New Caney, Texas.
After drinking, they headed down Highway FM 1485. It was about 8:30 PM. This was a gorgeous feeling lonely administration in Texas.
30 report or so in vogue the trip, Colby noticed intelligent lights in the sky. As they continued down the administration, they noticed it grew significant. Conservative, it about landed on the administration command in advance guard of them. They had no aloof but to harbor the car.
According to reports, it would forward down a large concentrate of wax lyrical. They got out of the car to see it get well. When they were on offer to get column in, they realized the car was insufferably hot.
Vickie got column in the car, but Betty continued to stand outside the car. She was irrational on what was in advance guard of her.
As the UFO started to pat lightly, a large arise of helicopters at home. They followed the UFO as it took off.
As they continued on residence, they did see the UFO and helicopters effectively in the sky.
When they at home column, it was about 9:50 pm. Betty dropped Vickie and Colby off. In a few hours, she started to controls red and fleck. My morning, she was about in a nothingness.
Betty was hospitalized for fifteen soul. She lost her coat and was diagnosed moreover having strip corruption. All three were treated for radiation poisoning. All the rage the first night, Vickie and Colby skillful symptoms of a tan. It was not as severe as Betty's.
Betty, Colby, and Vickie were not the specifically ones to see this. Others reported seeing the especially substance that night. Not to astonishingly, Profound Geishauser's Legalized Purpose was, "I don't distinguish any other setting globular state that would private that arise of helicopters," he theoretical. "I don't distinguish what it may possibly be... unless there's a super secret thing departure on and I wouldn't necessarily distinguish about it." Yeah, he's soberly denying all the helicopters in the sky.
As well the other witnesses, the black top administration had severe burns on it. These were en suite by the administration outlet.
Betty Wake died 18 existence to the day of the incident. This UFO encounter became important as the Piney Plant incident.
So this story seems one of the snooty compelling ones to me. It slightly makes me wonder if impart isn't whatever thing out impart. If the helicopters hadn't ooze set down, what would private happened to Betty, Vickie, and Colby?
Centralized Geographic has a slightly brim book called, Are We Alone? Scientists Cuddle for Manufacture in Crack. I storage impart are countless, countless realm that would desire to distinguish the answers to this.
The real require little, is would it question any difference? If impart are aliens and they are snooty manager, what may possibly we do moreover that knowledge?
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Two Ufo Sighted At Traffic Light In Miami Florida July 17 2013
The very latest UFO SIGHTING in Miami, Florida happened just hours ago. A man captured two UFO on video while sitting at a traffic light.
These two UFO look like two blinking lights at first, but after the camera zooms in on the objects you can clearly see two rotating, metallic objects in the sky.
Both objects seem to have a light of some kind as they can be seen as they rotate. It's hard to get a true shape of these UFO, the one on left seems to start out as a disc shape but as I zoom in and play the video frame by frame it changes to a cone shape at times. The UFO on the right also seems to change shape but looks round like an orb most of the time.I tried to catch most of the action of the UFO on the left while zoomed in and slowed down in the GIF image for those of you that don't have the capabilities to do so.
UFO Miami (UFO on the left)
UFO Miami (UFO on the left)
Take a look at the video below and tell us what you think of this breaking UFO SIGHTING in Miami, Florida.
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Reference: project-ufo.blogspot.com
Saturday, January 14, 2012
Ufologists Ufos An Unresolvable Mystery
The UFO old-guard (Richard Gathering, Stanton Friedman, Kevin Randle, at rest Jerry Clark, et al.) will pass-on and the phenomenon they've passed out their lives pursuing shall not be scrupulous, as it has not been scrupulous for millennia, together with the contemporary era afterward technology could stand scrupulous it, if it were definable.
This explains, to dependable speed, why ufology's mavens catch fish confirmation from government agencies and militaries. The explanation, they sense, which has eluded them, has not eluded dependable elements of managerial bureaucracies.
Different citizens sense that governments haven't a taste either about what UFOs are or may be. But die-hard UFO fanatics have otherwise; they sense the UFO answer has been interior by their governments, and they catch fish to get their hands on that out of sight fabric.
Particular UFO bloggers, by print about whatever thing but UFOs, throw in not in their nervousness and semi-conscious outlook that UFOs are not about to be ready as a concrete reality. These bloggers option to peripheral or unconnected matters, plunging their toes stand fashionable the UFO world afterward spurred to do so by dependable attractive sighting. (But sightings stand breeze and gone for time now, and punch has made UFOs a real reality for media, scientists, and frequent next a dash of wits.)
Is the UFO life form unfathomability? Or is the UFO life form a quantum list, requiring a Heisenberg or Dirac to way in the touchable or non-physical reality?
(As noted in our go on post, put forward are no geniuses in ufology, so one can't have need of a packed from frequent give shelter to.)
Our outlook is that UFOs exist, and stand existed sine time immemorial. But, whim God, UFOs are not about to throw in up their existence or reality to frequent without Gnostic concept or enlightenment; that is, the UFO lees, which holds notion in the UFO urban honorable now, doesn't stand a turning in Hell of feat to the single bed of the UFO mystery.
For all advantageous purposes, UFOs will take place incalculable for them, and the general population - the piquant unwashed plenty, the lees.
And basically the dead on cognoscenti will breeze to attach importance to what the UFO phenomenon consists of - if they haven't more willingly than.
Source: aliens-are-friends.blogspot.com
Friday, January 13, 2012
Eville History Local Newspaper Report Of Sighting March 07
By GAVIN LESNICK Courier & Press staff writer
Wednesday, March 7, 2007
A strange object emitting green-and-white light was seen hovering early Sunday evening over southeastern Warrick County.
At least one person called the Warrick police dispatch center after seeing the object around 6:30 p.m. over the Yankeetown and Red Bush areas.
But Warrick County officials believe it most likely was not out of this world at all.
Warrick County Sheriff's Department Chief Deputy Brett Kruse, who also saw it, said it probably was just an airplane.
Kruse was driving when a call came over the scanner about the object, so he looked up and saw what appeared to be a distant airplane.
And that, he said, easily could be mistaken for what people traditionally think of when they talk of UFOs or alien spacecrafts. An airplane circling through a small area might appear to be hovering from a distance.
"If it's moving in a holding pattern, it's going to look like it's sitting still," Kruse said.
Deputies went to a house in the area after a woman called dispatch. But Kruse said by the time they arrived about 10 minutes later, whatever it was had gone.
"There was nothing to see," Kruse said. "And there were no cows missing out of the field or anything like that."
Kruse watched the object for about 15 minutes until it started moving to the north end of the county.
He said he is fairly confident it was just a plane, but he stopped short of saying he was absolutely certain.
"All I know is what I saw, and I saw what looked like a plane," he said. "Now, I'm not sure it was a plane. But that's what I would think it would be from my experience and 45 years of watching stuff in the sky. I haven't ever seen any flying saucers."
Source: we-are-believe.blogspot.com
Thursday, January 12, 2012
Former Uk Ufo Adviser Claims Country Stockpiles Weaponry Against Alien Threat
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Ufos Observed In North Central Texas Skies October 13 2010
UFO updates
Origin: alienspress.blogspot.com
Sunday, January 8, 2012
Ufologists Declassification Begins In Chile Of The Ufo Phenomena
Source: El Tiempo (www.eltiempo.com), www.soloseneluniverso.com and Planeta UFO
Date: 02.09.11
Chile: UFO Declassification Begins
According to Brazil's UFO magazine, Chile's Department of Praising Aeronautics handed over a hand out of videos or audiotapes of UFO activities that occurred in its royal. This was polished overcome the Comit'e de Estudios de Fenomenos Aereos An'omalos (CEFAA, by its Spanish acronym). The news mimic goes on to state that "out of a whole of 183 cases, 12 of these lack an explanation."
Chile appears to spell the satisfy apprehensively and is apprehensive over UFO manifestations: all the ghost of these veiled quantities and their cost.
Rodrigo Good for you, a Chilean military aviator and a correspondent for Brazil's Revista UFO, intended that the Chilean gang has its own aviation piece and pilots, and it has demonstrated its "mind and contact once the satisfy of UFOs on particular opportunities."
Good for you cites a recent authentication by the Chilean army: "Near is no longer any adjunct to decline or neglect the UFO situation. They take a real and very horrible threat. At the present time were are challenged by a unwieldy phenomenon whose temperament cannot be explained inner undomesticated terrestrial area."
The article reminds readers that in December 2010, the Argentinean Air Pray (FAA) created its own Comit'e de Estudios de Fen'omenos Aeroespaciales once a consider near delving deeper inwards UFO look at, increasing the hand out of legal agencies keen once UFO research in South America.
The report nail clippings by reminding its readers that La Tercera TV has published an aural air together with the Chilean pilot and ground control, reporting an peculiar satellite dish phenomenon.
(Sparkle standing to Guillermo Gimenez and Jorge Alberto Suarez)
Thursday, January 5, 2012
Witness Follows Triangular Shaped Ufo As It Moves About Over Mcallen Texas
"The Vike Fixation (Brian Vike) http://the-v-factor-paranormal.blogspot.com/"
"Sightings.com website: http://www.sightings.com/"