An as yet
undiscovered planet might be orbiting at the dark
fringes of the solar system, according to new
research.
Too far out to be easily spotted by telescopes,
the potential unseen planet appears to be making
its presence felt by disturbing the orbits of
so-called Kuiper belt objects, said Rodney Gomes,
an astronomer at the National Observatory of
Brazil in Rio de Janeiro.
Kuiper belt objects are small icy bodies—including
some dwarf planets—that lie beyond the orbit of
Neptune.
Once considered the ninth planet in our system,
the dwarf planet Pluto, for example, is one of the
largest Kuiper belt objects, at about 1,400 miles
(2,300 kilometers) wide. Dozens of the other
objects are hundreds of miles across, and more are
being discovered every year.
(See "Three New 'Plutos'? Possible Dwarf Planets
Found.")
What's intriguing, Gomes said, is that, according
to his new calculations, about a half dozen Kuiper
belt objects—including the remote body known as
Sedna—are in strange orbits compared to where they
should be, based on existing solar system models.
(Related: "Pluto Neighbor Gets Downsized.")
The objects' unexpected orbits have a few possible
explanations, said Gomes, who presented his
findings Tuesday at a meeting of the American
Astronomical Society in Timberline Lodge, Oregon.
"But I think the easiest one is a planetary-mass
solar companion"—a planet that orbits very far out
from the sun but that's massive enough to be
having gravitational effects on Kuiper belt
objects.
Mystery Planet a Captured Rogue?
For the new work, Gomes analyzed the orbits of 92
Kuiper belt objects, then compared his results to
computer models of how the bodies should be
distributed, with and without an additional
planet.
If there's no distant world, Gomes concludes, the
models don't produce the highly elongated orbits
we see for six of the objects.
How big exactly the planetary body might be isn't
clear, but there are a lot of possibilities, Gomes
added.
Based on his calculations, Gomes thinks a
Neptune-size world, about four times bigger than
Earth, orbiting 140 billion miles (225 billion
kilometers) away from the sun—about 1,500 times
farther than Earth—would do the trick.
But so would a Mars-size object—roughly half
Earth's size—in a highly elongated orbit that
would occasionally bring the body sweeping to
within 5 billion miles (8 billion kilometers) of
the sun.
Gomes speculates that the mystery object could be
a rogue planet that was kicked out of its own star
system and later captured by the sun's gravity.
(See "'Nomad' Planets More Common Than Thought,
May Orbit Black Holes.")
Or the putative planet could have formed closer to
our sun, only to be cast outward by gravitational
encounters with other planets.
However, actually finding such a world would be a
challenge.
To begin with, the planet might be pretty dim.
Also, Gomes's simulations don't give astronomers
any clue as to where to point their telescopes—"it
can be anywhere," he said.
No Smoking Gun
Other astronomers are intrigued but say they'll
want a lot more proof before they're willing to
agree that the solar system—again—has nine
planets. (Also see "Record Nine-Planet Star System
Discovered?")
"Obviously, finding another planet in the solar
system is a big deal," said Rory Barnes, an
astronomer at the University of Washington. But,
he added, "I don't think he really has any
evidence that suggests it is out there."
Instead, he added, Gomes "has laid out a way to
determine how such a planet could sculpt parts of
our solar system. So while, yes, the evidence
doesn't exist yet, I thought the bigger point was
that he showed us that there are ways to find that
evidence."
Douglas Hamilton, an astronomer from the
University of Maryland, agrees that the new
findings are far from definitive.
"What he showed in his probability arguments is
that it's slightly more likely. He doesn't have a
smoking gun yet."
And Hal Levison, an astronomer at the Southwest
Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado, says he
isn't sure what to make of Gomes's finding.
"It seems surprising to me that a [solar]
companion as small as Neptune could have the
effect he sees," Levison said.
But "I know Rodney, and I'm sure he did the
calculations right."
Source: National Geographic
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/05/120511-new-planet-solar-
system-kuiper-belt-space-science
- FLY THE FRIENDLY
SKIES DEPARTMENT -
"UFO"
Nearly Causes Mid-Air Collision Above Denver
Aviation authorities are scratching their heads
over a mysterious flying object in the skies above
Colorado that almost caused a mid-air crash.
The object was sighted by a commercial jet pilot,
who claimed to air traffic controllers that some
kind of flying craft got too close for comfort on
Monday.
In a transmission that appeared on LiveATC.net,
the operator of the Cessna Citation 525 CJ1 says:
'A remote controlled aircraft, or what?
'Something just went by the other way ... About 20
to 30 seconds ago. It was like a large
remote-controlled aircraft.'
A spokesman for the Federal Aviation
Administration, Mike Fergus, told 9News that it is
working to get some answers, and that if the
pilot’s story is true, such an object can be
extremely dangerous.
Mr Fergus said: 'The threat is there from a
collision standpoint. We'll do as much as we can
here to try to track back what time it was.
'Probably talk with some remote-control clubs,
that type of thing.'
In an emailed statement to USA Today, the agency
said: 'The FAA is investigating the incident and
will try to positively identify the object the
Citation pilot reported, where it came from and
who was operating it.'
Greg Feith, a former NTSB investigator and an
aviation analyst for 9News, told the station that
proximity of the object is an issue, because 'now
we have something in controlled airspace that
poses a danger.'
Mr Feith said that the object could have been
either a military or police drone or a large
radio-controlled craft - like the pilot suggested.
He also posed the idea that in the pilot’s haste,
he may have mistaken the object for a large bird.
Any one of those objects has the ability to bring
down a plane in mid-air.
In a followup the the above earlier statements,
the Federal Aviation Administration has found no
evidence of unidentified aircraft or objects in
its inquiry into the pilots claim. In reaching its
conclusion, the FAA reviewed radar and audio
communications, and no other pilots reported
seeing an unidentified aircraft, according to an
agency statement.
9News reported the Citation was about 8,000 feet
above sea level, or about 2,800 feet above the
ground, at the time the pilot reported the seeing
the object.
The pilot's name was not immediately available and
it's not clear how many people were on the plane.
No damage or injuries have been reported.
Source: Daily Mail (UK)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2145505/Mystery-flying-object-nearly-
causes-mid-air-collision-Denver.html
- CRASH GO THE
SAUCERS DEPARTMENT -
UFO Crash/Retrievals in Chile
By Raul Núñez
[Stories of
saucer crashes and retrievals are not the
exclusive province of the American Southwest.
The Pacific coast of South America has some
interesting cases to offer, as we can see from
Raul Núñez's "UFO
Crash/Retrivals in Chile. Mr.
Núñez is the director of his
country's branch of the Instituto de
Investigaciones Espaciales (IEEE) and a
frequent contributor to Inexplicata. This
article appeared in Issue #9 of the
INEXPLICATA journal -- SC]
On October 7, 1998 at 15:45 hours, residents
of Paihuano, a small village in Valle de
Elquí (Chile) underwent an
extraordinary experience which keep its 2,500
residents on the edge of their seats. A flying
object described as having a metallic color
and measuring some 15 meters across remained
motionless over the Las Mollacas hill, from
which the entire town could be seen.
The object began to rise and abruptly made a
sudden turn that split it in two before the
awestruck witnesses. One part of the object
fell on hill's peak and the other behind it.
Accounts collected on the field by this
correspondent among the many persons who
witnessed the uncanny event lead us to
consider the following events: a) the object
witnessed was metallic (silvery); b) the sun's
rays reflected off its structure, aiding its
visibility; c) Its shape was elongated; d) it
remained on the summit of the hill throughout
the afternoon of Wednesday the 7th, Thursday
the 8th and Friday the 9th, when it was
removed by personnel in uniform; e) all of the
townsfolk, including mayor Lorenzo Torres,
witnessed the event; f) earthquakes were
registered after the object fell to the
ground; g) electric blackouts covered the
entire region; h) radio and TV broadcasts
throughout Paihuano, Pisco Elquí and
Monte Grande (two neighboring towns) were
disrupted.
In view of the alarm caused by the event, a
detachment of Carabineros (Chilean militarized
police) looked at the object through
binoculars and made an effort to reach the
area on horseback after confirming the events
described by the locals. The rocky soil,
composed of sedimentary stone, made getting to
the top an arduous affair--it is known that
several efforts were made to reach the top and
that one of the animals died during the
operation. Furthermore, communications between
the police forces and their base were
successfully intercepted: the law enforcement
agents stated that they had found nothing on
the summit, but that "comments would be made
after the descent."
This transmission was sent by means of "Condor
One", the special code employed by local
police only in very special cases, and it is
the first and only instance of the Carabineros
taking part in this matter. 24 hours later,
this unit was relieved military personnel
dispatched to the area to take charge of the
investigation. Independent researchers carried
out a survey among the local population to
confirm in detail all of the information on
what transpired as of the moment that the
military forces cordoned off the area.
A Military Operation
Military personnel did not restrict its
investigation to the residents of Paihuano--it
extended the operation to cover the
neighboring towns of Pisco Elquí and
Monte Grande, aside from "combing" nearby
hills to expel the local muleteers. This
correspondent's investigation, conducted
jointly with military analyst and local
researcher Roderick Bowen, was able to
ascertain that local hotels reported an
increase in the demand for lodging by U.S
citizens who in all instances claimed to be
tourists.
On Friday, October 9, several eyewitnesses
described the arrival of trucks bearing
uniformed personnel. Residents of the sector
nearest the hill, including the goatherds who
customarily make use of secondary alternative
routes, were issued orders to refrain from
ascending the hill and to stay away from the
location.
A goatherd who was in the rear of Las
Mollacas, and who will not state his name for
fear of reprisals, claims having seen the
arrival of unmarked helicopters. These
vehicles worked tirelessly from midnight until
the early hours of Friday the 9th to hoist the
object on metallic nets. It was subsequently
installed in containers which were dragged to
the positions occupied by large trucks
belonging to the armed forces.
Researcher Patricio Díaz, who lives in
the area, managed to collect several accounts
from locals who described the nocturnal
operations of these unmarked choppers as they
lit vast part of the hill and recovered the
strange object on its summit, which shined
intensely throughout Thursday the 8th before
the startled eyes of Paihuano's residents.
Omar Prieto, manager of the "Gabriela Mistral"
tourist resort in the town of Pisco
Elquí, stated the following: "I had the
chance to see it with my own eyes. It was
something like the wing of an airplane,
everyone could see it. It remained on the hill
for 2 1/2 days. After that, it disappeared
during the night and there was no further
information. Soldiers and members of the
Carabineros kept us from going up the hill.
Strange things are always going on here, such
as blackouts or TV interference. We don't know
why."
The site used by the military as their base is
known as "La Palmilla" and is located on the
slopes of the hill. The tread marks left
behind by heavy trucks were in evidence the
day after the object was collected, and
intense activity was also reported behind the
hill. One witness claimed that there was a
large cleft, measuring some 5 meters long and
some 40 centimeters deep, surrounded by
bootprints and heavy vehicle tracks. This
account was confirmed hours later by
researchers Patricio Díaz, Luis
Sánchez Perry, Miguel Jordán and
Roderick Bowen, members of ESIO (Equipo
Superior de Investigaciones
Ovnilógicas), who visited the area to
conduct field research.
As of Monday the 12th, persons climbing to the
summit of Las Mollacas find stones painted the
color of aluminum, clearly giving the
appearance of being some sort of premeditated
disinformation effort. Surprising hypotheses
were aired to explain the strange
glare--abandoned beverage bottles, or an
optical effect caused by sunlight.
Significant Reactions
The El Tololo astronomical observatory stated
unequivocally that the phenomenon had been
caused by an out-of-control weather balloon
which had fallen in Las Mollacas. However,
Gustavo Rodríguez of the
Dirección General de Aeronáutica
Civil and Secretary of the Comité de
Estudios de Fenómenos Aéreos
Anómalos (CEFAA) made it clear that
there was no information regarding the
launching of a weather balloon in the area,
since all activities of this sort require 48
hours advanced notice.
Strangest of all is that El Tololo assumed
powers it didn't have, even going beyond the
competence of the CEFAA, while this Air
Force-dependent agency recused itself and did
not even initiate an investigation into the
area, at least not officially. During the
interview granted to this correspondent,
General Ricardo Bermudez, CEFAA's director,
stated that his agency simply had no faith in
the events occurred at Paihuano. However, an
interesting bit of information emerged in a
subsequent conversation with Mario Dusuel, a
psychiatric consultant for CEFAA who had
visited the area along with geophysicist
Carlos Leiva. Apparently, these persons
collected the testimony of a muleteer who had
been visited by a captain in the Chilean Air
Force who questioned him about the object's
fall. Now then, if CEFAA officially recused
itself in this case, why then did it covertly
send some of its best-qualified members to the
area?
Incident at Quebrada de Huchumi
Valle de Elquí is a special place. Its
soil is rich in minerals and even has uranium
deposits which are often related to the UFO
phenomenon. On June 15, 1998, only four months
prior to the Paihuano incident, an object
which had crashed into the snow in the region
known as Quebrada de Huchumi was detected,
some 20 kilometers from Cerro Tololo. The
crash was accompanied by a deafening noise.
Windows on many local homes shattered to
pieces while an intense, lightning-like flash
gave witnesses the impression that "night had
turned into day."
The spectacular luminous phenomenon reached
the localities of El Indio and Ovalle, located
at a distance of some 200 kilometers away.
Sudden storms were also detected. Eyewitnesses
speak in terms of the panic created: a local
taxi driver named Juan Veliz, who carried four
passengers along the road from Paihuano to
Vicuña, felt powerless in the face of
the fear that gripped his passengers. "I'm a
highly skeptical person," Veliz told
researchers. "But that night last June, my
passengers were made very nervous by a great
light that flooded the entire valley. It's as
if it had suddenly become daylight. I couldn't
stop them from getting out of the vehicle in
the middle of the road to pray. The fact is
that I see lights chasing me constantly when I
drive at night. These lights pop out from
behind the mountains and I get the impression
tha they respond to something that's
intelligence. I've lived in this valley all my
life and many people have seen the same things
I have..."
On this occasion, the Quebrada de Huchumi area
was also afflicted by a considerable amount of
"official" activity. According to eyewitness
accounts, the object was recovered and
transferred to Vicuña aboard large,
containerized military trucks, in exactly the
same way seen months later at Paihuano.
This region is constantly visited by "flying
lights" reminiscent of the so-called "Foo
Fighters". Only scant days before this
researcher arrived in the city of La Serena,
that city's lighthouse was "buzzed" by strange
lights for some twenty minutes. Local
residents are familiar with these phenomena
due to their frequency.
Everything points to the fact that the
authorities are trying to cover up events
which have sometimes escaped from their hands.
Too many people witnessed the object on the
summit of Las Mollacas hill. Moreover, the
fear of reprisals is still palpable when
interviewing witnesses. Nevertheless, there
are photos of the helicopters busy at work in
the region and recordings of communications
between the military personnel involved in the
recovery operations. All of this material is
zealously guarded to avoid complicating the
lives of persons living in the area and who
have kindly provided their assistance with
this investigation. Many of them hold
positions in public administration and even
political appointments.
An Alien Spaceship?
In the light of these events, it is well worth
asking if we are facing the prospect of
crashed alien vessels or the collision of
secret military prototypes. We must keep in
mind that these events coincided with the
UNITAS Exercises held jointly by the Chilean
and U.S. military.
Some researchers have expressed the belief
that it is precisely when said joint exercises
are held that UFO activity reaches its highest
point in Chile. But there are also
considerable accounts which support the
suspicion that -- in the cases in question --
crashed alien artifacts could be involved.
Thus, for example, the research conducted in
Vicuña includes the statements made by
a hospital worker who claimed having seen some
strange bags during the recovery of the
remains of the Las Mollecas object. According
to his account, said bags are similar to the
body bags employed in collecting corpses.
Are we dealing with a secret military
operation or a UFO crash? The numerous
accounts regarding the activities conducted to
"recover the thing that fell" cannot be
ignored.
(Translation (c) 2001, Scott Corrales,
Institute of Hispanic Ufology. This article
originally appeared in Año Cero
No.06-119)
Source: Inexplicata
http://inexplicata.blogspot.com/2012/05/ufo-crashretrievals-in-chile.html
- A KODAK MOMENT
DEPARTMENT -
Kodak
Facility Housed Underground Nuclear Reactor
A Kodak industrial facility in Rochester, N.Y.,
was home to a little-known nuclear reactor
containing weapons-grade uranium, the Democrat and
Chronicle newspaper reported.
The research reactor -- which was the size of a
refrigerator -- was housed in a bunker underneath
one of the buildings at the former Kodak Park
site, the newspaper reported.
Kodak used it to check chemicals and other
materials for impurities, as well as testing
imaging techniques.
Although the reactor was not a secret, it was
unclear if Kodak informed police and fire
departments of its existence. Local authorities
were also unaware of its existence.
The reactor contained more than 3lbs (1.36kg) of
highly enriched uranium -- the same material used
to construct nuclear weapons. The uranium was
removed in November 2007 in protective containers,
the report said.
Company spokesman Christopher Veronda said he
could find no record that Kodak ever publicly
announced the reactor.
Albert Filo, a former Kodak research scientist who
worked with the device for nearly 20 years, told
the newspaper, "It was a known entity, but it was
not well-publicized."
Information on nuclear power plants has been
restricted since the 2001 terrorist attacks.
Kodak employed the device to carry out research
into neutrons -- subatomic particles that can
create an image of a material without damaging it.
In 1974, it acquired a neutron flux multiplier --
which multiplies the neutrons flowing from the
core of the reactor.
Access to the chamber was restricted, and no one
was allowed into the room while the reactor was in
operation.
Veronda said, "This device presented no radiation
risk to the public or employees. Radiation from
the operation was not detectable outside of the
facility."
Source: Fox News
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/05/14/kodak-facility-in-new-york-state-
housed-underground-nuclear-reactor-report-says/
- APOCALYPTIC
SHOWDOWN DEPARTMENT -
Newly
Uncovered Maya Calendar Shows World Goes On
After 2012
The ancient Mayans were masters of time, keepers
of good calendars.
And now we have one of their timekeepers’
workrooms to prove it.
In a striking find, archaeologists in Guatemala
report the discovery of a small building whose
walls display not only a stunningly preserved
mural of a brightly adorned Mayan king, but also
calendars that destroy any notion that the Mayans
predicted the end of the world in 2012.
These deep-time calendars can be used to count
thousands of years into the past and future,
countering pop-culture and New Age ideas that
Mayan calendars ended on Dec. 21, 2012, (or Dec.
23, depending on who’s counting), thereby
predicting the end of the world.
The newly found calendars, which track the motion
of the moon, Venus and Mars, provide an
unprecedented glimpse into how these storied
sky-gazers — who dominated Central America for
nearly 1,000 years — kept such accurate track of
months, seasons and years.
“What they’re trying to do is understand the large
cycles of cosmic time,” said William Saturno, the
Boston University archaeologist who led the
expedition. “This is the space they’re doing it
in. It’s like looking into da Vinci’s workshop.”
Before the new find, the best-preserved Mayan
calendars were inscribed in bark-paged books
called codices, the most famous being the Dresden
Codex. But those pages hail from several hundred
years later than the newly found calendars.
Saturno said researchers have long assumed that
the Mayans had worked out the cycles of the moons
and planets much earlier, but no evidence of such
work had ever been found.
But in 2010, an undergraduate student working with
Saturno, Max Chamberlain, stumbled onto the house
as the team began to excavate at a Mayan city,
Xultun, which, despite being known since 1915, had
never been professionally excavated. Over the
decades, looters had dug deep trenches to access
buildings. One day at lunch, Chamberlain announced
his intention to find paintings by crawling
through the trenches.
Saturno scoffed. The buildings were too shallow —
any paint on their walls would surely be long
gone, erased by water, dirt, insects and
encroaching tree roots.
But sure enough, Chamberlain stumbled onto a wall,
open to a trench, showing two red lines.
A quick excavation revealed the back wall of the
building — replete with a mural of a resplendent
Mayan king, in bright blue, adorned with feathers
and jewelry.
Saturno’s team brushed off the wall and “ta-da!”
he said. “A Technicolor, fantastically preserved
mural. I don’t know how it survived.” Saturno
immediately e-mailed contacts at the National
Geographic Society, which agreed to fund a full
excavation of the building.
The mural is the first Mayan painting found in a
small building instead of a large public space.
And it’s also the oldest known preserved Mayan
painting.
Next to the king, a scribe holds a writing
instrument. Three mysterious figures wearing black
also march across the wall. One of them is named
“older brother obsidian.” Mayan experts have no
idea whom these mysterious figures might
represent.
Once the team uncovered several columns of red and
black dots and dashes — the Mayans’ numbering
system — the meaning of these figures was almost
immediately evident to David Stuart, one of the
world’s foremost experts in Mayan hieroglyphics.
It was a lunar table, showing a 4,784-day cycle of
the moon’s phases.
The table is broken into 27 columns, each
representing six lunar months. Each column is
topped by the face of one of three moon gods — a
jaguar, a skull and a woman. These three repeat.
So by consulting the table, a priest, say, could
tell which moon god would preside over a
particular date.
“It’s really cool because it shows us the tools
the ancient astronomers and priests were using to
do their calculations,” Stuart said.
On another wall sits a smaller set of four columns
of figures. These took a bit more puzzling. But
eventually Saturno’s team figured it out: This
second table was filled with huge numbers relating
to how long it takes Mars and Venus to cross the
sky and come back again. This calendar spans some
7,000 years — heading much farther into the future
than the supposed doomsday date.
“Like a lot of ancient cultures, they were able
with naked-eye astronomy to calculate the paths of
the planets,” Stuart said. “We tend to forget that
before telescopes, people were able to analyze the
movement of planets in a lot of detail — and
figure out exactly, to the day, the length of a
Venus year and a Mars year.”
Heather McKillop, a Mayan expert at Louisiana
State University who was not involved in the
research, called the Xultun murals “stunning new
evidence of the ancient origins of Maya
astronomical record keeping, best known from later
documents.”
Tulane University’s Marc Zender, another Mayan
expert not involved in the work, said that “it’s
about as exciting as discovering lost manuscripts
of a famous mathematician like Archimedes. It’s an
amazing privileged glimpse over their shoulders.”
Saturno said the building had been filled in by
the Mayans, heaped with dirt and rubble. “They
just backed themselves out the door and left,” he
said; no one knows why. But the fill probably
helped preserve the paintings.
With the virtually unexplored city of Xultun
containing hundreds of buildings stretching across
at least 16 square miles of jungle, Saturno
guesses that plenty of other surprises await
excavation. “It might take another two decades,”
he said.
He expects the world to still exist then and said
he’d bet anyone a million dollars that it will.
The Mayan calendar does start a new “long cycle,”
later this year, but he equated that with the
odometer on a car rolling over from 99,999 miles
to zero: “You go, ‘Yay,’ but the car just doesn’t
disappear.”
Source: Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/mayan-prophecy-the-world-wont-end-as-a-newfound-calendar-goes-on-and-on-and-on/2012/05/10/gIQA03s3FU_story.html?hpid=z4
- WATCHING THE
WATCHERS DEPARTMENT -
Are Angels
real?
Are They Our Personal Protectors?
What is Their Association with UFOs?
By Sean Casteel and Timothy Green Beckley
They are known as The Watchers. The Protectors.
Heavenly Benefactors. Or simply God’s
Angels. And each one of us is said to have one or
more personal “Guardian Angels” sent to observe,
guide, and remove us from harm’s way. They are
invisible, but yet we are lead to believe they are
never far from our side. In fact, if we are
to accept as factual the Scriptures, the Creator
has given us the power to command Angels to do our
bidding. . .and they CANNOT refuse!
Ok let me say first off – and anyone who knows me
can verify this – I am not a religious person in
any way, means or form. Seldom go to church. Don’t
watch televangelists, and haven’t picked up a
Bible unless it’s to check out some reference to
what might have been an ancient UFO sighting
described in the Holy Book. I did visit the
Vatican and produced a 90 minute documentary
SECRETS OF THE VATICAN.
Let me explain that I am not an atheist, but I am
prone to wanting to examine the evidence and
demand proof from scholars, not religious
rhetoric. To me, some of the Good Book is just
absurd. But I am interested in the supernatural
and in miracles, and in visions, and the Bible is
a great reference, a fabulous study of a great
deal of paranormal activity. And Angels, of
course, are as supernatural as you can get.
To prove that we practice “individuality” at
the Conspiracy Journal/Bizarre Bazarre which I
publish, not everyone on our staff is of like
mind. Associate and the author/co-author of
numerous books for Inner Light/Global
Communications, California-based Sean Casteel
expresses his Christianity openly. While he does
not have any actual degrees in Biblical studies,
he is about as well-versed on the Bible as a
layman is likely to get. In addition, he has
cultivated friendships with several Christian
clergy and even fundamentalists. He is one of the
few researchers to have a close Christian
connection that he manages to relate to UFOs,
though most of his writings are of a secular
nature, not being one to proselytize.
Recently, Sean and I worked on a book together
that has caused a certain degree of controversy,
it being a topic that is a bit out of the scope of
what I normally would tackle to either research or
write on. Round Trip To Hell In A Flying Saucer
pertains to what I call “the dark side of
UFOlogy,” i.e. demonic influences, blood rituals,
animal and human mutilations, the Nazi tie-in, the
shape shifting powers of aliens as well as the
morphing of their craft, the Jinn, and a host of
other horrifying, shadowy aspects that seem to go
hand and hand with the sightings, encounters and
abductions. Some UFO witnesses, it turns out, are
literally pulled down to hell after what they have
experienced. UFOlogists, for the most part not
wishing to deal with the possible “Satanic
influences,” have avoided this area of
investigation like the plague. Its UFOlogy’s
“dirty little secret,” but one Sean and I were not
willing to sweep under the rug. So, with the help
of a number of other luminaries in the field such
as Nick Redfern, Chris O’Brien, Allen Greenfield,
Tim Swartz, and Scott Corrales, among others, we
tackled the subject head on, offering up some
pretty starting and frightening conclusions as to
what sinister force might be behind this
phenomenon.
From the outset of our laboring to edit this
material together in a comprehensive manner, Sean
was concerned that we might be giving only one
side of the story – that we hadn’t told the entire
tale. He felt that if some of the UFOs are
occupied by “demons,” there have to be others
coming here of good will that are of a highly
evolved spiritual nature. These beings, whether of
a flesh and blood consistency or of a pure etheric
serenity in form, are what apparently are referred
to in the Bible as Angels that would be part of
God’s Heavenly forces.
WAS MY LIFE SAVED BY A GUARDIAN ANGEL
During the time I have been involved in UFO
research and in publishing books on what I like to
term “alternative studies,” several people have
asked me if I have ever had an abduction
experience or feel that I am being guided to do
this work since hardly anyone else can claim they
have made a career since the age of 14 out of
publishing such diverse, almost inspired, books
and magazines, resulting in printing hundreds of
titles which would probably otherwise never have
seen the light of day. Well, the only missing time
I can recall was in first grade when I tripped
over my own two feet while playing a game of
kickball in the school playground and ended up in
the hospital with a loss of memory and my late
sister looking down over me when I came to. I
could have been lifted out of my body in some
astral way then, but let’s not go that far. Early
on, at the age of three or four, I did have a
“near death” experience of sorts which I haven’t
related previously and which may have involved a
guardian angel or some other corporal being.
My father was raised in Kentucky, in the small
town of Shelbyville, located about 30 or 35 miles
from Louisville. It’s the home of the king of
fried chicken, Colonel Sanders .My
parents met and married in Kentucky, but soon
relocated back to my mom’s home state of New
Jersey. My mother had asthma and other allergies,
which were relieved by a yearly trip to Kentucky
in the family Oldsmobile. Naturally, I went along
on the trip, which lasted three or four days,
nestled in the back seat with my blanket and toys.
One time, as the family “legend” goes, it was
getting really late and there were still a few
hours of driving to do. My father was at the wheel
and wanted to continue right through to their
destination. But it was getting increasingly foggy
and my mother insisted he pull over to the side of
the road right away so as not to meet any unseen
traffic.
The next morning, when the sun came up and cut
through the fog, it turns out the vehicle we were
in was on the cusp of going over the side of a
mountain cliff. If they had driven another two
feet, I would not be here today to tell you this
story or to be the publisher of so many works on
spiritual and paranormal subjects. Of course, I
can’t prove it, but with all the other things that
have happened in my life, there is a good
possibility that angels and UFOs are related. I do
believe that they are inter-dimensional beings and
come from another realm. So it’s quite possible
that my life was actually saved by an “angelic
being” of some type so that I could carry out my
life’s work, which might in turn benefit their
overall mission. I guess it wasn’t my turn to go.
Someone is sort of sitting “up there,” to see that
we don’t end up dying before our allotted time.
GOD CREATED ANGELS TO DO OUR BIDDING
Of course it’s all well and good that Angels are
assisting us in our personal lives, as well as
protecting the planet from Satan’s ravages.
Sometimes they come in the whispering of the wind,
wielding their fiery swords. At other times they
may enter our world using craft known to us as
UFOs or flying saucers. Many of the old religious
paintings show beings surrounded in light, thus
the concept of Angels having halos. Adding wings
was a good indication that they flew about one way
or another. They were said to look just like you
and me, but were always bathed in a golden aura.
One of the things most people don’t fully realize
is that God created Angels to do our bidding. It’s
not a sin to push them to help you out. But one of
the primary things is that you know HOW to contact
them and WHEN it is the best time.
My late friend, William Alexander Oribello, is one
of the most advanced spiritists to have ever
served the planet. His works, such as Candle
Burning With The Psalms, God Spells and Master
Book Of Spiritual Power, have provided a great
deal of enlightenment and satisfaction to those
who have diligently studied his study guides.
Because of the continued demand for his work, we
have updated and considerably expanded a previous
edition of ANGELS OF THE LORD – CALLING UPON YOUR
GUARDIAN ANGEL FOR GUIDANCE AND PROTECTION.
In this rejuvenated edition, Oribello discusses
not only his own ongoing relationship with Angels
that started visiting him, materializing on the
street and in his bedroom at an early age, but how
with a few simple rituals which include burning
different colored candles and knowing what is the
best time of day to attempt to communicate, makes
them highly receptive to our demands. Your
Guardian Angel MUST assist you – he has been
created by God to do so and nothing else!
ANGELS OF THE LORD tells you how to make use of
your own angels and so much more.
SEAN CASTEEL SPEAKS OUT ABOUT ANGELS
But I defer to Sean Casteel to assist in putting
together this edition as he is the “expert” on
matters of this nature. In fact, I was inquisitive
myself, so I recently conducted a mini interview
on the subject of Angels to expand on my own
knowledge and am hereby sharing his responses with
you.
BECKLEY: When we were putting together Round Trip
To Hell In A Flying Saucer you mentioned how you
felt that we should provide evidence for the
"other side of the coin," to tell people that not
all UFOs are operated by negative beings, but that
some of them harbor positive forces and angelic
beings. Do you think we have completed our task
with Angels Of The Lord And why do you feel this
was so essential when there have been hordes of
books about angels before this one
CASTEEL: I guess I felt that we needed to make a
personal statement about angelic, righteous UFOs
to sort of shine a little light into all the
darkness involved in our work on Round Trip To
Hell In A Flying Saucer. I freely admit that there
are hordes of books that argue for angelic UFOs,
but I also wanted to reaffirm my own angel karma,
so to speak, so that the benevolent Watchers would
know for sure where I stood on the
issue. BECKLEY: You are one of the few
fulltime UFOlogists who seem to allow for bringing
religious concepts into their writing. It’s a
subject that most researchers shy away from, with
the exception of the Reverend Barry Downing and
Professor G.C. Schellhorn. Why do you think
this is And what are your general feelings about
UFOs that lead you to conclude that we should
venture down this path, a path which is certainly
outside of the boundaries of a normal scientific
investigation
CASTEEL: To answer that question is sort of a
complicated undertaking. Let’s just say that I had
a profound conversion to Christianity shortly
after I suffered a near fatal industrial accident
over 30 years ago, and I’ve perceived the world in
religious terms ever since. And even though I
didn’t begin studying UFOlogy until many years
after that, I was always open to things like Erich
Von Daniken’s “Chariots of the Gods” approach to
human history, that aliens were the gods of our
more technological age, what the ancient Jews used
to call Elohim or God in a kind of collective
sense. It took a while to put everything together,
but reading Whitley Strieber’s “Communion” back in
1989 sort of put the last brick in place. As to
why this is such a minority opinion, that’s a
question I don’t really know how to answer. It
seems to be the obvious one to me and maybe it
will appear to be obvious to everyone
eventually. BECKLEY: What personal
experiences have you had in the UFO arena
CASTEEL: I sighted a pair of ships over my
apartment house in 1982. They were a shiny,
metallic kind of green and gold and totally silent
except for a faint sound of wind as they moved
through the air. But no kind of engine or
propulsion sound at all. I’ve also got some
“screen memories” of very strange moments in my
life, where I do think there was a kind of
telepathic contact happening. But I don’t have any
memories of seeing grays or Nordics face to face
or anything like that.
BECKLEY: Have you had any negative experiences
that would draw you closer to a Christian path in
life
CASTEEL: Yeah, like I said, I had a near fatal
industrial accident and was actually baptized
while I was in the hospital recuperating. I had a
lot of the typical teenage angst and depression as
well around that same time, so converting to
Christianity was kind of a response to all that, a
lifeline to another way of seeing the world.
BECKLEY: Have you had any angelic experiences Why
are you so convinced these Messengers of God
really exist CASTEEL: I think I have angelic
experiences every day. I definitely believe
someone angelic is there helping me cope with day
to day existence, keeping me from going around the
bend with anxiety or depression or whatever. I
think I can feel them sometimes correcting my
thinking and keeping me straight. I can also
literally feel a sense of peace and love, a truly
physical sense of well-being that I believe is
spiritually separate from my consciousness and is
not just something my mind is conjuring up.
BECKLEY: What exactly are angels Are they flesh
and blood What do they look like Can we touch them
In the Bible they are said to enter homes and eat
alongside of humans. Don't their wings get in the
way CASTEEL: I think those questions are
impossible to answer really. I don’t think anyone
truly knows whether angels are flesh and blood and
can be touched like any physical creature or what
they look like. I do think it’s good to be
hospitable, however. As the Bible says, some have
entertained angels unaware.
BECKLEY: Have there been incidents where angels
might have changed the course of history or at
least influenced it
CASTEEL: In Angels Of The Lord, there’s a section
that deals with a prophetic vision that was
experienced by George Washington. Washington would
pray often, with tears running down his face,
asking for God to help him cope with the poor
condition of his soldiers and for victory in
battle. At one point, he saw a beautiful female as
he sat at his table preparing a dispatch. He asked
her who she was then found himself unable to
speak. The figure addressed him as “Son of the
Republic,” then showed him a series of visions of
America being settled from one coast to the other
with beautiful towns and cities and defeating a
vast array of enemies from throughout the world.
It’s a fascinating part of the book.
There’s also the story of the Angels of Mons told
in the book, which took place in France in August
of 1914, in a famous battle of World War I. The
British forces were greatly outnumbered by the
Germans, and it was a terrible time of retreat and
utter weariness on the part of the British. A
British soldier later reported seeing a strange
light over the battlefield with a shape in the
center that looked like spread wings. The soldier
said that all those present with him also saw the
light, which they watched for forty-five minutes.
A yellowish mist was seen rising up before the
Germans, which revealed a tall man with yellow
hair and golden armor on a white horse brandishing
a sword. Instantly the Germans turned and
retreated in panic and confusion. The intervention
of the Angel of Mons turned the tide of battle and
gave new strength to the British war effort.
BECKLEY: How are people able to communicate with
their personal angel
CASTEEL: That’s a question that everyone must
answer for themselves. I think the kind of
communication you’re talking about is different
for everybody. Contact with angels comes in all
kinds of forms and through all kinds of methods of
communication. One simply has to be open to the
possibility, to show enough faith that contact
with angels can really happen in the real world.
An angel will manifest in many different ways,
depending on what the given situation calls for.
Often an angel is there helping you before you
even realize you need help at all.
[If you enjoyed this article, please visit Sean
Casteel’s UFO Journalist website at
www.seancasteel.com
Several of his books are available for
purchase there, as well as at Amazon.com]
Source: UFO Digest
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