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existence of a conscious and intelligent mind.
This mind is the matrix of all matter."
MAX PLANCK
This week
Conspiracy Journal brings you such
quantum-craziness tales as:
-
July,
2012 Hottest in Recorded History -
- Secret
Australian UFO Files Released -
- Nick
Redfern on Demon Dogs to Sherlock Holmes -
- University
Professor to Study Life After Death
-
AND: Lake
Serpent Captured on Film in Norway
All these exciting stories and MORE in this week's
issue of
CONSPIRACY JOURNAL!
~ And Now, On With The Show! ~
NEW! NEW! NEW!
Hounds Of The Baskervilles:
From Demon Dogs To Sherlock Holmes:
The True Story Of The Beast!
PICKS UP WHERE SHERLOCK
HOLMES’ LEFT OFF. . . DEVIL HOUNDS. DEMON
DOGS. PHANTOM CANINES FROM HELL. THEY DO
EXIST!
One nearly scared to death
eyewitness proclaimed after the beast loomed in
front of him: “It was the biggest bloody ‘dog’ I
have ever seen in my life!”
Legends of black dogs and phantom hounds are
widespread throughout the United Kingdom as well
as in the United States. Though presented in
novelized form, Sherlock Holmes creator Sir Arthur
Conan Doyle based his most popular detective
thriller on true accounts of a mysterious black
beast with blazing red eyes who is said to have
attacked those crossing the moors. Some were lucky
to have gotten away with their lives. Perhaps
there are others who disappeared and their bodies
were not accounted for.
Who can say for certain? In addition to presenting
the number one classic detective thriller of all
time in its unabridged, fully illustrated, form,
this work goes way beyond the boundaries of
fiction into the realm of the supernatural.
Today’s top paranormal researcher’s delve into
stories of the bloody beast who comes in various
sizes and apparently even has the ability to shape
shift into a more hideous creature when cornered.
As England’s leading
cryptozoologist, Nick Redfern, points out, “There
is one important factor to remember: Conan Doyle
did not invent Britain’s phantom, fiery-eyed
hounds. He merely brought them to the attention of
the public in spectacularly entertaining style. In
reality, the creature had been prowling around the
British countryside for centuries; and
particularly so Dartmoor – the fictional home of
the world’s most famous hound of horror in all its
awful glory.”
Here are dozens of
accounts of devilish, gruesome, repugnant
“monsters” – some of whom stand eight feet tall –
who are said to be Satan’s watch dogs protecting
the portals to another dimension or realm where no
mortal should be made to tread!
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- SWEATING WITH THE OLDIES DEPARTMENT -
July, 2012 Hottest in Recorded History
This probably comes as no
surprise: Federal scientists say July was the
hottest month ever recorded in the Lower 48
states, breaking a record set during the Dust Bowl
of the 1930s.
And even less a surprise: The U.S. this year keeps
setting records for weather extremes, based on the
precise calculations that include drought, heavy
rainfall, unusual temperatures, and storms.
The average temperature last month was 77.6
degrees. That breaks the old record from July 1936
by 0.2 degree, according to the National Oceanic
and Atmospheric Administration. Records go back to
1895.
“It’s a pretty significant increase over the last
record,’’ said climate scientist Jake Crouch of
NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center in Asheville,
N.C. In the past, skeptics of global warming have
pointed to the Dust Bowl to argue that recent heat
isn’t unprecedented. But Crouch said this shows
that the current year “is out and beyond those
Dust Bowl years. We’re rivaling and beating them
consistently from month to month.’’
Three of the nation’s five hottest months on
record have been recent Julys: This year, 2011 and
2006. Julys in 1936 and 1934 round out the top
five.
Last month also was 3.3 degrees warmer than the
20th century average for July.
Thirty-two states had months that were among their
10 warmest Julys, but only one, Virginia, had the
hottest July on record. Crouch said that’s a bit
unusual, but that it shows the breadth of the heat
and associated drought.
For example in 2011, the heat seemed to be
centered mostly in Oklahoma and Texas. But this
summer “the epicenters of the heat kind of
migrated around. It kind of got everybody in the
action this month,’’ Crouch said.
The first seven months of 2012 were the warmest on
record for the nation. And August 2011 through
July this year was the warmest 12-month period on
record, just beating out the July 2011-June 2012
time period.
But it’s not just the heat that’s noteworthy. NOAA
has a measurement called the U.S. Climate Extreme
Index which dates to 1900 and follows several
indicators of unusually high and low temperatures,
severe drought, downpours, and tropical storms and
hurricanes. NOAA calculates the index as a
percentage, which mostly reflects how much of the
nation experience extremes. In July, the index was
37 percent, a record that beat the old mark for
July last year. The average is 20 percent.
For the first seven months of the year, the
extreme index was 46 percent, beating the old
record from 1934. This year’s extreme index was
heavily driven by high temperatures both day and
night, which is unusual, Crouch said.
“This would not have happened in the absence of
human-caused climate change,’’ said Pennsylvania
State University climate scientist Michael Mann.
Crouch and Kevin Trenberth, climate analysis chief
of the National Center for Atmospheric Research,
said what’s happening is a double whammy of
weather and climate change. They point to
long-term higher night temperatures from global
warming and the short-term effect of localized
heat and drought that spike daytime temperatures.
Drought is a major player because in the summer
“if it is wet, it tends to be cool, while if it is
dry, it tends to be hot,’’ Trenberth said.
So the record in July isn’t such a big deal,
Trenberth said. “But the fact that the first seven
months of the year are the hottest on record is
much more impressive from a climate standpoint,
and highlights the fact that there is more than
just natural variability playing a role: Global
warming from human activities has reared its head
in a way that can only be a major warning for the
future.’’
Here are some more numbers unlikely to provide
cold comfort. The coolest July on record was in
1915. The coldest month in U.S. history was
January 1979 with an average temperature of 22.6
degrees.
Source: The Chippewa Herald
http://chippewa.com/news/local/ouch-july-in-us-was-hottest-ever-in-history-books/article_7646918a-e243-11e1-88a8-0019bb2963f4.html
- THE X-FILES DEPARTMENT -
Secret Australian UFO Files Released
It is probably the closest
Australia has come to scrambling fighter jets to
intercept a UFO.
Documents that have just become available under
the 30-year rule at the National Archives of
Australia reveal how two RAAF Mirage jets were
placed on the second highest level of alert to
determine the cause of unidentified radar contacts
seen on screens at Mascot.
The ''X Files'' viewed in Canberra also give
details of other unexplained sightings, some of
which are supported by witness statements to
police.
text
In the Sydney alert, the papers stamped
''restricted'' tell how operation ''Close
Encounter'' was launched by No.3 Control and
Reporting Unit at RAAF Base Williamtown near
Newcastle on June 30, 1983, after the phenomenon
was first noticed earlier in the month.
Senior air controllers at Mascot said the contacts
were mostly located between 70 and 150 nautical
miles north of Sydney at ''alleged speeds of
1100-6500 km/h that suggested high altitude''.
The papers state that no scramble was to occur in
the round-the-clock operation unless confirmation
of any reported tracks was made on the radar
screens at RAAF Williamtown or any radar other
than Sydney.
At the same time, three senior air defence
controllers were dispatched to Sydney to
investigate and plot every contact and ''control
interceptors against these contacts if a
reasonable chance of interception presented
itself''. But then one of the defence controllers,
a squadron leader, asked whether a comparison had
been made of the contacts on the screens of
Mascot's Area Approach Radar Centre and those in a
''workshop across the corridor''. Soon after,
tests showed that the ''unidentified objects
reported by Sydney were generated entirely by
radar interference known colloquially as 'running
rabbits' ''.
Squadron leader K. Keenan, in his six-page report,
said operation Close Encounter cost 66½
days of overtime, 1000 kilometres was travelled by
a staff car and a C130 Hercules transport aircraft
''may have been diverted to Sydney airport'' to
deliver one of the defence controllers.
He wrote: ''The lines of communication, extending
as they did across the width of an entire
corridor, seem to have been insufficient for the
purpose.''
He added rather dryly: ''Fortunately there was no
temptation to launch aircraft and add to the fuel
bill occasioned by use of the RAAF Datsun.'' A
cautiously worded statement was released as a
result ''in a manner that would not embarrass
departmental personnel'' which blamed ''random
atmospheric conditions''. Other reports in the X
Files give details of an ''unidentified physical
feature'' of circles on Milo Station at Adavale,
Queensland, in 1982. The file refers to
photographs that apparently were taken, but they
were not among the papers.
Constable Geoffrey Russell, from the local police
station, visited the site and wrote a report for
RAAF Base Amberley near Ipswich. The officer saw
depressions in the ground and thought they were
caused by a motorcyclist doing donuts but then
dismissed the idea.
He wrote: ''I strongly feel this [is] no hoax even
though I do not know the cause of this
'feature'.''
He described a large circle of 2330mm in diameter
with one inner circle of 2010mm which were 160mm
in width and about 15-20 mm deep. The soil around
the outer circle appeared to have been ''blown
away'', he said.
Elsewhere in Queensland, dairy farmer Robin Priebe
phoned Imbil police at 5.30am in July 1983 to
report seeing a strange object in the sky to the
north of the town. The papers state that a
Sergeant Waterson then went to his back verandah
and saw ''a large white light with several
flashing lights around it'' which did not appear
to be a normal aircraft.
A similar sighting was made by Constable R. Keys
from a separate position. He was also of the
opinion that it wasn't a normal aircraft.
Mr Priebe said both he and his wife saw a bright
red glow gradually change to a white light which
then started to move slowly east. Through
binoculars, ''the light was disc shaped with a
very bright light around the perimeter of the disc
with two flashing lights in the front and one to
the side'', he said.
The only photographs in the X Files were of
unusual lights over Bendigo, witnessed by hundreds
in May 1983. An interim report by the RAAF stated
that Mike Evans, a 17-year-old disc jockey with
the Bendigo radio station 3BO, received calls from
listeners, then saw the lights himself and took
photos.
One anonymous caller to the RAAF said the lights
were caused by a rock group experimenting with
laser lighting. The report said they were probably
caused by train headlights or lasers or from
planets or stars. There had been unusual weather
atmospherics on the night.
Zoe¨ D'Arcy, director of digital and online
access at the National Archives, said: ''Where you
and I might think UFO - a spaceship - the RAAF and
other agencies were probably wondering if there
was a security threat.
''Most of the files you read and you think that
most probably was a meteorite, but there are ones
that you read and you think - well, what could
that have been?
''I can't explain that from my knowledge.
''So what was it that these people have
experienced? It has that open-ended question to it
that I find really intriguing.''
Source The Sidney Morning Herald
http://www.smh.com.au/technology/sci-tech/secret-ufo-files-released-20120804-23mhq.html
- RED EYES IN THE
NIGHT DEPARTMENT -
Nick Redfern on Demon Dogs to Sherlock
Holmes
By Jeffery Pritchett
A great pleasure indeed to
get into the world of Sherlock Holmes with Nick
Redfern concerning the new book "Hounds of the
Baskervilles. From Demon Dogs to Sherlock
Holmes. The True Story of the Beast!" Featuring
authors Timothy Beckley, Nick Redfern, Andrew
Gable, Claudia Cunningham, and William Kern.
Also the book contains the original story from
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. As well as actual case
accounts of run ins from eye witnesses who have
seen these actual black demon dogs. I have
always been interested in the paranormal genre
and explored it openly on my radio show at the
Church of Mabus. With Nick Redfern and Timothy
Beckley and Claudia Cunningham appearing as
guests in the past. It it was great pleasure to
present this interview.
1. What was the inspiration behind Hounds of the
Baskervilles From Demon Dogs to Sherlock Holmes?
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle fetish?
Nick Redfern : Basically, the idea of the book
is to demonstrate to people the little-known
fact that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle took his
inspiration for The Hound of the Baskervilles
from existing folklore, legends, myths, tales
and real-life encounters with huge,
blazing-eyed, black hounds of a definitive
paranormal nature in the UK. The British Isles
has a very rich history extending back centuries
and right up to the modern era of encounters
with spectral, phantom black dogs. So, it's
essentially the case that the book is the "truth
behind the fiction" of the Doyle novel.
2. I have seen some Arthur Conan Doyle
documentaries lately revolving around Sherlock
Holmes. He tried to escape the character but
Sherlock's fame always came back to haunt him
and kept him on the storyteller's path with the
detective mysteries. What are some of your
thoughts about Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's life and
writing?
Nick Redfern: First and foremost I would say
that Doyle possessed the two most important
attributes when it comes to writing good, solid,
adventurous and atmospheric fiction: (A) the
ability to weave a story that captivates and
enthralls the reader; and (B) the talent to
create life-like, believable characters to who
the reader can relate, and who have image, style
and a sense that they really exist. Doyle had a
fine writing ability, a keen eye for what the
public wanted, and also a deep belief in the
existence of a very real world of the paranormal
and supernatural - all of which helped create
some great, classic stories.
3. Very cool that the original story of the
Hounds of the Baskervilles is included with the
book. I recently got a hold of some of the older
films and plan to watch them particularly the
Hammer film. What intrigues you about the
original story?
Nick Redfern: Everything about The Hound of the
Baskervilles is perfect: the spooky, sinister
setting of the foggy moors of old England; the
creepy and atmospheric Baskerville Hall; strange
and mysterious characters roaming the moors by
night; the legend of the devilish beast; the
chief characters - Holmes, Watson, Sir Henry
Baskerville, Stapleton, etc - and the sheer
brilliance of how Doyle took the old legends,
played around with them and brought them into
the mind of the reader in a great new fashion. I
would say that the best two filmed versions of
The Hound of the Baskervilles are the Hammer
version and the Basil Rathbone/Nigel Bruce
version. Both are great, and I'd say I watch
both of them at least once or twice a year.
4. You mention that Doyle didn't invent the
fiery red eyed hounds but instead brought them
to the public's eyes. What do you mean by that?
Nick Redfern: Well, all across Britain you can
find centuries-old stories of huge, hulking
black dogs that were - and still are! - seen
roaming around old cemeteries, ancient bridges,
old crossroads and countless other places that
have long and traditionally been associated with
paranormal activity. Their names include The
Black Dog of Bungay; Black Shuck; the Girt Dog;
and Skriker. Doyle heard these stories from
friends and colleagues who were knowledgeable
of, and steeped in, British mythology and
folklore. And, on hearing these old and - in my
view - very real cases, he found a way to bring
the old tales to life in a fantastic novel that
is as good today as when it was written.
5. What exactly do you think these demon dogs
are paranormally speaking per say?
Nick Redfern: I can only speculate, but there
can be no denying that many researchers and
witnesses to the Phantom Black Dogs note how
they seem to appear around the time of death and
misfortune. And, of course, they are often seen
in the vicinity of cemeteries. That's to say
they have a Grim Reaper quality to them. Even
today, it's perceived as being quite ominous and
unsettling to see one of these things. It
doesn't take long for the old legends, myths and
fears to take hold again, even in the 21st
Century.
6. The Wisht Hounds are said to travel with the
headless devil who rides a horse doing his
satanic bidding. Druid pagan rituals in the deep
woods. Sounds like a party! When it comes to
dogs in belief systems and ancient cultures.
What do we know about them exactly as far as
their purpose and symbolism?
Nick Redfern: Interestingly, to expand on my
answer above, in many old cultures around the
world these hounds were seen as the guardians of
the gateway to the next realm of existence after
this one. Or they were perceived as being
responsible for taking people to the next realm.
Or, they manifested as a way of telling someone
that death was imminent - for them or a close
family member or friend. Or, a combination of
all these scenarios. Occasionally, however, and
somewhat paradoxically, Phantom Black Dogs are
helpful and will help a lost traveler on a
lonely road, etc, late at night.
7. Could you share some real life cases of
people really seeing these black dogs through
out history and in modern times?
Nick Redfern: Yeah, sure. Dartmoor, England -
where The Hound of the Baskervilles is set - has
been a hotbed of sightings of black dogs for
hundreds of years. The English county of Suffolk
is rich in such tales, many of which are still
revered today in the little villages where the
events occurred. The central England county of
Staffordshire has reports dating up to 1985 of
great hounds that would materialize and
dematerialize in front of petrified witnesses.
8. The book says it shares articles from various
researchers about the phantom black dogs. What
can you share about?
Nick Redfern: My contribution to the book is a
lengthy paper on the history of the Phantom
Black Dog in the UK. It discusses cases old and
new, from all across the UK. It also dissects
the theories that these hounds are associated
with the land of the dead. Or that they are a
kind of Grim Reaper. I also dispel the myth that
the beasts are chiefly a phenomenon of times
long gone. I include in my paper many encounters
from the 20th and 21st centuries.
9. What is your perspective on Sherlock Holmes
and how do you think this literary famous
character has influenced yourself and the world?
Nick Redfern: There's absolutely no doubt in my
mind that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle created the
finest fictional detective of all time. People
are going to love and appreciate the Holmes
novels forever - or, at least, until the looming
New World Order subtly tries to ban books and
turn us all into brain-dead, controlled mush. We
have to stop that from happening and encourage
people to read. I'm not so sure Holmes - as a
fictional character - has influenced me. But I
realize - as he does in the stories - the
importance of gathering facts, evidence and
analysis when doing investigations. I can't say
I share his taste in music though. Violins? No
thanks!
10. And what would Mr. Redfern be up to next
when it comes to books and events? Anything you
can share? Thanks Nick!
Nick Redfern: I have a new book out with New
Page Books in September called The World's
Weirdest Places. I'll be speaking at the
Oklahoma-based Cryptid Fest on September 8; at
the Austin, Texas-based Austin Center for
Spiritual Living on September 29; and at the
Paradigm Symposium in Minneapolis on the weekend
of October 19-21. So, if anyone reading this is
coming along, say hello and hang out!
Book Description
PICKS UP WHERE SHERLOCK HOLMES’ LEFT OFF. . .
DEVIL HOUNDS. DEMON DOGS. PHANTOM CANINES FROM
HELL. THEY DO EXIST! One nearly scared to death
eyewitness proclaimed after the beast loomed in
front of him: “It was the biggest bloody ‘dog’ I
have ever seen in my life!” Legends of black
dogs and phantom hounds are widespread
throughout the United Kingdom as well as in the
United States. Though presented in novelized
form, Sherlock Holmes creator Sir Arthur Conan
Doyle based his most popular detective thriller
on true accounts of a mysterious black beast
with blazing red eyes who is said to have
attacked those crossing the moors. Some were
lucky to have gotten away with their lives.
Perhaps there are others who disappeared and
their bodies were not accounted for. Who can say
for certain? In addition to presenting the
number one classic detective thriller of all
time in its unabridged, fully illustrated, form,
this work goes way beyond the boundaries of
fiction into the realm of the supernatural.
Today’s top paranormal researcher’s delve into
stories of the bloody beast who comes in various
sizes and apparently even has the ability to
shape shift into a more hideous creature when
cornered.
As England’s leading cryptozoologist, Nick
Redfern, points out, “There is one important
factor to remember: Conan Doyle did not invent
Britain’s phantom, fiery-eyed hounds. He merely
brought them to the attention of the public in
spectacularly entertaining style. In reality,
the creature had been prowling around the
British countryside for centuries; and
particularly so Dartmoor – the fictional home of
the world’s most famous hound of horror in all
its awful glory.” According to Redfern the same
area the imaginary Sherlock Holmes conducted his
investigation around, is also, in reality, rife
with ancient tales and legends of a group of
diabolical and unholy creatures known as the
Wisht Hounds – fearsome devil-dogs with glowing
eyes and large fangs. “They are said to have a
taste for both human flesh and human souls, and
ride with the Devil himself, as he crosses the
windswept wilds of Dartmoor late at night - and
atop a headless, black horse, no less.”
According to legend, the Wisht Hounds inhabit
the nearby Wistman’s Woods – a sacred grove
where, in centuries past, ancient druids held
pagan rituals in honor of a veritable multitude
of old Earth gods and goddesses. Here are dozens
of accounts of devilish, gruesome, repugnant
“monsters” – some of whom stand eight feet tall
– who are said to be Satan’s watch dogs
protecting the portals to another dimension or
realm where no mortal should be made to tread!
Source: The Examiner
http://www.examiner.com/article/nick-redfern-on-hounds-of-the-baskervilles-from-demon-dogs-to-sherlock-holmes
- MYSTERY MUTILATORS
DEPARTMENT -
Livestock Mutilations Shake Up Colorado
Ranching Community
GUNNISON — Recent livestock
mutilations have Gunnison area ranchers shaken
and on the alert for more strange attacks on
cattle and horses.
In recent weeks, a horse was shot and had its
head skinned at the LeValley Ranch property,
which is part of the Esty Ranch holdings about
eight miles east of Gunnison. The horse also had
its tongue and anus removed.
Less than two months ago, a prize heifer in the
same heavily traveled area just off of Colorado
50 and Colorado 114 had its tongues, lips and
anus removed.
"To me it looks like a ritualistic issue. Either
that, or they are high on drugs. There is just
no logical explanation for it," said Esty Ranch
owner Mike Clarke.
Two other incidents took place on other ranches
in that vicinity in May and July.
The four mutilations have prompted the Gunnison
County Stockgrowers Association to offer a $500
reward for any information that will lead to a
conviction. The Colorado State Patrol has also
been alerted to watch for strange activities in
that area. The Gunnison County Sheriff's Office,
the agency investigating the mutilations, did
not return phone calls asking for comment.
Clarke's ranch foreman, Allen Roper, told the
Gunnison Country Times that the mutilated
animals appeared to be shot, but no bullets were
found and that the mutilations were done with
knives and were not a result of predators.
Cattle mutilations have plagued ranchers in
Colorado, New Mexico, Texas and other parts of
the Southwest for decades. Many explanations
have been put forth, including extraterrestrial
aliens, religious cults and chupacabras.
So far the favored theory in this case is that
the killings are the product of a sacrificial
ritual. Why else would someone shoot and
mutilate a horse?
Animal sacrifice has historically been a part of
many religions, including Christianity, Judaism,
Islam and Hinduism. In America today the
practice is mostly limited to Afro-Caribbean
religious groups, such as Santeria. Though
extremely unlikely, followers of Santeria might
have happened to be driving through rural
Colorado when they decided to make a pit stop to
sacrifice a horse.
Of course, it’s possible that one or more of the
deaths were intentional. Sadly, cases of random
strangers and sick pranksters shooting,
torturing and sometimes even mutilating pets and
livestock are not unheard of.
The recent mutilations have similarities to
mutilations that occurred in the 1960s in
neighboring Saguache County. The most famous
incident was reported in 1967 when a horse that
became known as Snippy" had its head and neck
skinned. Like in the most recent cases, there
was no blood at the scene or tracks. The
mutilations were never solved.
In 2009, a San Luis Valley rancher found four
calves with their tongues sliced out, udders
removed, eyes cored and faces skinned. Those
cases were never solved and there also was no
blood nor tracks around those animals.
Clarke said if there is another incident he
expects "the ranching community will really be
up in arms."
"What concerns us is what they are going to do
next?" Clarke said.
Source: The Denver Post
http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_21258089/livestock-mutilations-shake-up-gunnison-ranching-community
- AND NOW, MORE OF THE
SAME DEPARTMENT -
There Were 2 UFO Crashes at Roswell,
Says Ex-Air Force Official
By Lee Speigel
The 1947 UFO controversy of Roswell, N.M. is
like a bad penny: It keeps turning up.
The legend, rehashed by conspiracy theorists in
countless documentaries, revolves around
allegations that an unusual object fell from the
sky -- an object so bizarre that the U.S. Air
Force issued a press release that a flying
saucer had crashed.
That story was quickly recanted, creating what
would become one of the greatest urban legends
in American history.
Until now, most debunkers doubted that there was
even one crash. Now, in an exclusive interview,
retired Air Force Lt. Col. Richard French told
The Huffington Post that there were actually two
crashes.
This revelation is especially remarkable
considering that French was known in the past to
debunk UFO stories.
"There were actually two crashes at Roswell,
which most people don't know," French told
HuffPost. "The first one was shot down by an
experimental U.S. airplane that was flying out
of White Sands, N.M., and it shot what was
effectively an electronic pulse-type weapon that
disabled and took away all the controls of the
UFO, and that's why it crashed."
French -- an Air Force pilot who was in
Alamagordo, N.M., in 1947, being tested in an
altitude chamber, an annual requirement for
rated officers -- was very specific in how the
military allegedly brought down what he believes
was a spacecraft from another world.
"When they hit it with that electromagnetic
pulse -- bingo! -- there goes all their
electronics and, consequently, the UFO was
uncontrollable," said French, who flew hundreds
of combat missions in Korea and Southeast Asia,
and who held several positions working for
Military Intelligence.
Another retired officer doubts French's story.
"No chance! Zero chance!" said Army Col. John
Alexander, whose own top-secret clearance gave
him access in the 1980s to official documents
and UFO accounts. He created a top-level group
of government officials and scientists who
determined that, while UFOs are real, they
couldn't find evidence of an official cover-up.
"In the 1980s, I was the guy developing all of
the pulse-power weapons systems. We couldn't
have done it then. In the 60s, they had a laser
system, but your range was extremely limited,
and we didn't have operational laser weapons in
that time frame," said Alexander, who is working
to get amnesty for military personnel who wish
to talk about their UFO experiences.
Except for the initial newspaper headline
declaring the military had captured a flying
saucer outside of Roswell, the Air Force closed
the books on Roswell, claiming that the true
identity of the object was a high-altitude
surveillance balloon, code-named "Mogul."
But after eyewitnesses -- including numerous
military personnel -- began to tell stories of
their participation in an alleged cover-up of
the Roswell incident, some researchers insisted
that it was, in fact, an alien ship that crashed
at Roswell.
French says he was told about the UFO
"shootdown" by another military officer -- a
confidential source -- from White Sands Proving
Grounds, an area of the New Mexico desert where
the U.S. military tested many weapons systems.
His source told French there was a second UFO
crash near Roswell a few days after the first
one.
"It was within a few miles of where the original
crash was," French said. "We think that the
reason they were in there at that time was to
try and recover parts and any survivors of the
first crash. I'm [referring to] the people from
outer space -- the guys whose UFO it was."
While French offered no further details on what
he says was a second UFO crash, he teased
something else.
"I had seen photographs of parts of the UFO that
had inscriptions on it that looked like it was
in an Arabic language -- it was like a part
number on each one of them. They were
photographs in a folder that I just thumbed
through."
That's an interesting parallel to the recent
story of ex-CIA agent Chase Brandon, who claimed
he found a box at CIA headquarters in the 1990s
-- a box labeled "Roswell."
Brandon told HuffPost he looked in the box and
went through written materials and photographs
confirming his suspicions that the object which
crashed at Roswell, "was a craft that clearly
did not come from this planet."
That story set off a fury of controversy between
those who believed and didn't believe Brandon's
story.
And now we have French, who served more than 27
years in the military, including as an
investigator and debunker for the Air Force's
famous study of UFOs, known as Project Blue
Book, which began in 1947.
"I'm one of the authors of Project Blue Book,
and started with the Air Force Office of Special
Investigations, stationed in Spokane, Wash. One
of the duties I had in 1952 was to debunk UFO
stories," French said.
"In other words, if someone had a UFO sighting,
I and another agent would try to come up with
some logical explanation for this strange aerial
appearance. Most of the reports were from
civilians than military. We gave our analysis
and tried to debunk it by saying it was swamp
fog or that the thing they saw was actually
hanging on wires. It went up through channels
all the way to the presidential level."
But why was French ordered to debunk UFO reports
in the first place?
"They never give you an explanation, but I'll
tell you what my analysis of it is: If they
accepted the fact that there are creatures
coming to Earth from other universes or from
wherever, it basically would destroy religions,
and the fact that our military's helpless
against them would destroy the reputation of the
military," French said. "You're talking about
military, national defense and religious
reasons."
As it often turns out with eye-opening UFO
stories, it comes down to who you believe.
Antonio Huneeus is a 30-year veteran UFO
investigative reporter who recently spent time
with French and is trying to uncover more facts
about the information the former Military
Intelligence officer would have us believe.
"We did a search and found his name on an
official Air Force page that confirmed he was a
combat pilot, but that page had nothing to do
with UFOs," Huneeus, editor of Open Minds
Magazine, told HuffPost.
"My reservations are about some of the claims
that he makes, and because of his age, his
memory isn't as good as it used to be," Huneeus
said. "It's clear to me that he's fairly well
read on the subject of UFOs, or he might have
heard stories or talked to people. So, I'm
trying to separate exactly what he lived and saw
directly from what he heard and read."
Sixty years after French began investigating
UFOs for Project Blue Book, he still thinks
there's a cover-up.
"It's going on today. There's no question about
it. I've listened to their denials many times
and, at that time, I was in direct opposition to
their position. In my mind, there wasn't any
question that UFOs were real."
Source: Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/03/roswell-ufo-crash_n_1715663.html
- NO EXTRA CREDIT FOR
ALIEN-ABDUCTIONS DEPARTMENT -
University Professor to Study Life After
Death
A University of California,
Riverside philosophy professor, John Martin
Fischer, has been awarded a three-year, $5
million grant by the John Templeton Foundation
to study just this topic—and yes, students can
take his class.
"Both I and my post-doc, Benjamin
Mitchell-Yellin, will teach related classes
over the next three years. I have frequently
taught classes on death, immortality, and the
meaning of life both at Yale University and UC
Riverside," Fischer said.
So what's the meaning of life? More on that in
a moment.
Fischer noted, "We'll be open both to studying
religious and non-religious views about
immortality. One thing that we'll study is
whether human beings would want to live
forever: would it be boring? Would it lose its
meaning and beauty and urgency? Does death
give meaning to life?"
According to the university's website
announcing the grant award, many anecdotal
reports of the afterlife abound, but there has
been "no comprehensive and rigorous,
scientific study of global reports about
near-death and other experiences, or of how
belief in immortality influences human
behavior." The research will look at a range
of phenomena, including heaven, hell,
purgatory, and karma. The grant is the
largest ever awarded to a humanities professor
at UC Riverside, and one of the largest given
to an individual at the university.
Fischer said in a statement, "We will be very
careful in documenting near-death experiences
and other phenomena, trying to figure out if
these offer plausible glimpses of an afterlife
or are biologically induced illusions,"
Fischer said. "Our approach will be
uncompromisingly scientifically rigorous.
We're not going to spend money to study
alien-abduction reports."
The grant will also fund two conferences to
discuss the findings. Said UC Riverside
Chancellor Timothy P. White, Fischer's
research "takes a universal concern and
subjects it to rigorous examination to sift
fact from fiction."
The Immortality Project, as it is called, will
solicit research proposals from eminent
scientists, philosophers and theologians whose
work "will be reviewed by respected leaders in
their fields and published in academic and
popular journals."
The research will also delve into cultural
aspects of the afterlife. For example, there
are reports of millions of Americans seeing a
tunnel with a bright light at the end. In
Japan, reports often find the individual
tending a garden.
The professor added that the academic research
could include a range of issues, like "heaven
and hell: If we are material beings, how can
we exist in heaven, where we would not have
physical bodies (or not of the sort we have
here)?
"There is a lot of interest in near-death
experiences. We can carefully catalog them and
look into whether there are patterns. There
has already been a lot of work on this.
Perhaps some cross-cultural studies would be
helpful.
"We'll also be open to studying the
relationship between beliefs in afterlife and
behavior--moral behavior and crime rates."
Sounds like the kind of research topics that
many college students have already spent hours
pondering. As for the meaning of life? The
professor says check back in three years.
Source: Yahoo News
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/university-professor-study-life-death-231726553.html
- IT'S NOT ALWAYS
ABOUT LOCH NESS DEPARTMENT -
Lake Serpent Captured on Film in Norway
Three men claim to have
photographed a mysterious creature in lake
Hornindalsvatnet, Norway.
On Wednesday, August 1, Andreas Solvik, Arvid
Otterdal and Finn Nyhammer were enjoying some
time on the lake when they saw something
making large "ripples on the water," reported
the newspaper Fjordingen.
"It was almost silent on the water as the
ripples began. We sat in a small motor boat 70
meters away, but did not know what we saw, but
I got a picture of it," Solvik said.
The three men are convinced that they saw a
lake monster in Lake Hornindalsvatnet, the
deepest lake in Europe, with spots eportedly
up to 514 meters deep. The men estimate that
"the beast" was between two and three feet
long, dark in color with a gray head.
Senior Engineer Rupert Wienerroither of Marine
Research in Bergen, who specializes in fish
identification, has no explanation on what the
three men photographed.
"I doubt that there is something alive. There
are no animals that swim like the that, eels
and snakes swim back and forth, not up and
down."
He has never seen anything quite like the
photo before, and will not completely rule out
the existence of sea serpents.
"They could be real, but there is no
scientific evidence that they exist...the
probability is very small," he said.
Zoologist Petter Boeckman at the Natural
History Museum in Oslo said that the sea
serpent is "a good old glory crowned cryptid."
A cryptid is an animal that has been observed,
but never officially identified. The Loch Ness
monster, the Yeti of the Himalayas, the North
American Bigfoot, these are examples of
cryptid animals.
Boeckman says the image from Lake
Hornindalsvatnet is exciting. "It would be
cool if a kjempeorm (lake serpent) lived
there, but unfortunately there are things that
speak against this," he says.
Boeckman is pretty certain that the photo does
not show a living animal. He believes that the
explanation may be "cables, drainage or odd
roots."
"For such large animals to be able to live in
a lake, they need a substantial amount of
food. Also, they need a minimum population to
ensure generational survival. If this photo
shows a living creature, it would have to be a
whale or otter, since only these creatures
swim with an up and down motion. I don't think
there are any giant otters or whales in Lake
Hornindalsvatnet."
However skeptical, Zoologists believe that
"the myth of sea serpent" is not going away
anytime soon.
"There is a deep human trait to want things
that are more exciting than in real life."
Source: Dagbladet
www.dagbladet.no/2012/08/03/nyheter/sjoorm/hornindalsvatnet/dyr/levende_vesen/22807829/&usg=ALkJrhic9jzKuts05cAJNWF5g9yZiyBoXg
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