Published by krisse at 20:43 BST, October 3rd 2007
There have been claims of mysterious flying saucers carrying alien creatures for over sixty years now, but very few supposed witnesses have ever taken pictures or filmed these craft. Now that cameraphones are becoming ubiquitous, will we see a flood of UFO images, or a drought of UFO sightings?
(Note: Although “UFO” technically means any unidentified flying object, this article uses “UFO” in its popular sense, to mean a flying craft of apparently non-terrestrial origin.)
In Texas, USA, on the 29th of December 1980, an event known as the Cash-Landrum Incident supposedly took place: three people were driving along a rural road when a huge glowing diamond flew towards them and hovered above the ground, emitting a bright light and great heat. A group of helicopters, apparently belonging to the US military, appeared on the scene and somehow took the object away. Afterwards the witnesses suffered from the symptoms of radiation sickness. While the illness was observed by hospital staff, the cause of the illness wasn’t observed by anyone except the alleged victims. The witnesses had no camera with them, so even if the object did exist there was no way to prove it. UFO fanatics seized on the radiation as proof that the story was true, while sceptics seized on the lack of health checks before the incident which would have ruled out another source of radiation.
Who would have thought that the answers to the mysteries of the universe lie at the bottom of a jar of peanut butter? Well, they do if you believe creationist Chuck Missler’s ‘educational’ video.
Missler, who is billed as an engineer and author, tries to disprove claims by evolutionists that energy plus matter sometimes results in the creation of life.
His theory is that, since no-one has ever found spontaneously-generated life in a jar of peanut butter, matter plus energy from the sun could not have caused life on Earth.
Missler explains: “A jar of peanut butter contains matter and is exposed to light and heat but we never find new life inside unless an outside life contaminates it.
“If the theory of evolution is viable then I should, occasionally, by subjecting this to energy, end up having new life.
I get these every now and again. Messages which flit back and fourth across the networks of the world. This one is from one of my oldest pals, James Gilliland. He seems upset and frustrated with something.
I wonder what?
Spake James on September 19th 2007.
“I find it totally amusing and beyond belief that people in the ufo community still have their heads cranked back into the past or wish to continue keeping the information far away or in the distant future. WHAT ABOUT NOW? Right now ongoing activity is happening over Mt Adams in Trout Lake, WA. Giant cylinder shaped mother ships are
appearing over the mountain, metallic ships are appearing over the ECETI ranch and people with multiple PHDs have witnessed these events. Top skunk works, aerospace engineers testified on Coast to Coast as to the UFO activity over the ECETI ranch.”
James keeps thumping this appeal, over and over again. We can be sure that real ship are flying around his ranch because someone with a PHD or an engineering degree believes it. I know lots of people with very high level degrees who believe the most insane stuff, going to college does not automatically make you more credible, getting evidence outside of some blurry vids of military jets or whatever would really help James’s case.
“We have to ask our selves what is wrong with this picture, what is wrong with ufologists? Roswell is over a done deal, death bed confessions put it to rest, my own relatives were involved with, one is over a hundred. We all know the true story, God sakes the whole world knows the true story, just a few brain dead debunkers are left and why bother. Now we have Linda Molten Howe covering an incident
happening in 1974, 33 years ago and everyone is going wow, cant wait to hear about that one? Hmmmmm go to Mt Adams, have my own personal experience, film them myself or go listen to something that happened
30 to 60 years ago? Tough decision.”
I have to go to Mount Adams to stop from being a “brain dead debunker” I would still be skeptical unless you show me some really REALLY good evidence. So far you have not shown me anything but a lot of talk, I can get all of that over at the local Christian church, and I don’t have to travel thousands of miles. The cookies are better anyway!
“Seriously has humanity become brain dead? Why not ask what about NOW, who are they why are they here? They are showing up everywhere, what do they want? Naw lets just go listen to old news that keeps it in the past and far, far away. Wake up and smell the coffee, that is part of the program and many knowingly and unknowingly keep the
disinformation going. The bottom line is major changes are afoot on every level. We are fast approaching serious earth changes and that is why many of the off world visitors are here. They are also here to assist a birth of a new age, a quantum leap in consciousness. Mean while people are picking up little pieces of metal from 60 years ago from the past and keeping everyone focused on them. It is like a bad
soap opera that never ends. ABC and FOX news are ahead of and more open minded than many ufologists having been here and covered, in a very positive manner I might add, the ongoing activity. I find less resistance from them.”
ABC and FOX? More open-minded? Ha! ABC and FOX only cover Roswell because it is occasionally newsworthy. If something is newsworthy it will sell advertising and keep them in business another day. News organizations like FOX or ABC really don’t give a flying flip about what kind of story is “newsworthy” if they felt a chicken that played tic-tac-toe was newsworthy they would break into Judge Judy with the story.
And occasionally they do just that.
“I think it is time to ask these questions and demand some serious answers. Ask them why they never investigated the ECETI ranch. Why they never looked at the evidence. Why many conferences wont even allow the evidence to be presented, what is the motive? Best question to ask the debunkers is if they have ever been to the ranch, seen the
footage, interviewed the witnesses before making character
assassinations or jealous rants. Bottom line is while everyone has their necks cranked back to the past waiting for the authorities and ufologists to inform them overhead major events are unfolding. Get yourselves a good video camera with night shot, better yet night vision goggles or just go out to a clear sky and look up. Unexplainable things are happening on a regular basis right over your
head. Forget about the past, little pieces of metal, Billy Bob
feeding the pigs in 1960 who saw a orange glow. It is happening NOW.”
Who’s they qui-no-sabe? Seems to me that if someone wants change they need to move into the system and make changes from the inside. If you had real evidence (not that junk you put on your web page) you would have news services lining up on your driveway. Ufologests would come from world over to witness the great event. You would be world famous, people would flock to your cause and buy your overpriced mineral water. You could be a rich man, have thousands of freshly-scrubbed kids at your feet, drinking your every utterance. You could usher in a new age for humanity. Be known with such people as Abraham Lincoln, Mahatma Gandhi, Jim Jones or even Jesus.
BUT! Before all of these things happen you have to produce those pesky aliens. (Shocking I know!) You must actually have a flying saucer and not just photographs of one. You cannot simply produce some melon-brained idiot to spout how they saw galactic cruisers just like you did. The world is full of melon-brained idiots.
James; you must produce evidence that is undeniable, All us “brain dead debunkers” have seen is you spouting off. You cannot convince people that way.
And by the way, for your information, most people don’t believe galactic cruisers have been regularly visiting Earth. Not even when they even bother to think about such things. Most people simply don’t give a hoot about stuff that does not affect them. UFOs by and large only affect people who believe in them, otherwise they are not very important. Interesting perhaps but not something that a rational person wants controlling his or her life. Perhaps that should be a clue as to their real origin?
Federal law limits the participation of resident aliens in the political process. But it is silent on the role of extraterrestrial aliens.
This loophole has not been lost on the life forms who arrived on these shores aboard flying saucers with little more than the antennae on their backs. After years of suffering without suffrage, these beings are now seeking to play a role in the 2008 presidential campaign.
That, at any rate, is the considered opinion of the Paradigm Research Group, which held a news conference at the National Press Club yesterday to demand that presidential candidates support a “truth amnesty” to end the “government-imposed truth embargo on the facts confirming an extraterrestrial presence.”
“The truth amnesty disclosure project is reportedly recommended by the participating extraterrestrials themselves,” Alfred Webre of the Institute for Cooperation in Space announced to the humans-only gathering, next door to a speech on Iraq by Rep. Jack Murtha. “That is the specific extraterrestrial civilization which approximately 60 years ago entered into a top-secret CIA human-extraterrestrial liaison program.”
Here you go funnseekers! A real pic of GWB and an alien! I know some people in Ufolology are saying see-SEEE! here is proof positive that the Bush administration has an alien agenda and has space aliens as secret advisers (or not too secret, this pic is from a Reuters video feed.)
We at the Odd Empire know this this is all crap. From the wisdom of David Icke we KNOW that George W. Bush is a Reptilian and would never be caught dead hanging around a grey!
England is an exotic land of mystery. The English eat parts of animals I’d never consider putting in my mouth. Some of their groceries are named specifically after genitalia and their secret agents are continually impregnating the women of the world. Americans prefer broken beer bottles at the bar; they prefer top hats and pistols at dawn. Yet, our two countries have something in common: UFO enthusiasts seize on the flimsiest evidence and hold it up as proof that space monsters from beyond the moon are visiting the earth.
Take, for instance the “British Roswell,” wherein a handful of military policemen spotted lights coming from a forest outside an airbase. It is, apparently, one of the “premier cases” of the UFO field, and it’s got some enormous holes in it.
It all began Dec. 26, 1980. Early in the morning five men guarding the Royal Air Force base at Woodbrige, bordering the Rendlesham forest, spotted lights that they originally thought belonged to a downed aircraft and went out to investigate.
There were a number of lights: red, blue and white, and they seemed to be flashing on and off. The five men went into the woods with radio equipment to stay in contact with headquarters; however, they began having problems (which the UFO enthusiast will quickly attribute to radiation from a flying saucer) so they set up a relay with one man staying at their vehicle.
In the age of the internet and instant communications, aliens have become irrelevant
It has been a bad summer for aliens. The last UFO sighting in Britain (the only one this year) was in April, in Guernsey, and – alas – it was not a real UFO. But it’s not only here. The United States accounts for more than 99 per cent of all UFO sightings. Yet, while fence-building has failed to staunch the flow of illegal immigrants from Mexico, the department of homeland security has somehow managed to deter illegal aliens of the intergalactic kind.
Maybe the visitors have been put off by the increasing number and ferocity of hurricanes. Whatever the reason, UFO sightings in the US have almost disappeared.
Bring on The Psychic Liberation Movement! I assure you these are not refugees from a fifth season episode of Babylon 5, these are real psychics addressing a real problem!
That problem is discrimination!!! Boooo Hissss!
According to their webpage, The Psychic Liberation Movement’s mission is –
-of initiating a social movement for the liberation of human, psychic potential from the triple restraints of ignorance, prejudice and fear.
See? Your ignorance is adversely effecting the special psychic sooper powers of psychics! Ignorance breeds prejudice and prejudice creates fear! Fear creates anger and anger creates a need for a new class of handicapped people! I have no idea how this works but the psychics can probably tell us!
The focus of this movement will be to shed the light of reason upon those situations where ignorance, fear and prejudice regarding human psychic functioning exist – particularly in the domains of education, science and religion.
When one reads a little closer, one finds that the page author is not really talking about psychic-sooper powers, he’s talking about common intuition. All of this seems to hinge on what we believe the term “intuition” really means. To some people it’s just the inner workings of a healthy mind. We know that the brain works on a sub-conscious level and there is evidence that the brain uses a competitive-parallel arrangements where vastly different ideas are weighed and rejected. Or they are brought fourth for new processing. Some people would tell you this is just so much moose-spit. Of course intuition is the intrusion of the spirit realms into our daily lives! Of course this vastly complicates things but lets not detour us from our path of, well whatever we are trying to prove here.
Now, the web page authors would have one believe that there is loads of empirical and reproducible evidence that psychic powers exist, just that because of prejudice it is all ignored or worse, ridiculed by the general public (odd, this is exactly the same argument UFO fanatics use for their reams of non-evidence of aliens by the way.)
They say;
Those who would maintain that a psychic liberation movement must be predicated upon either credulity, mischief or evil are missing the point.
I tend to agree with that assertion. A liberation movement based on a recursive belief that one has special psychic powers is amusing, not frightening or evil. But if it’s not credulous it’s incredulous? Can it be credulous? I think you would have to prove those special psychic powers are not the same as simple intuition–something most everyone has. Is someone having more intuition than another enough to start a liberation movement? It would be like Heidie Klum getting special privileges because she’s much hotter than me. (Well of course Heidie Klum makes money from her looks, a psychic could open up a psychic counseling business.
Somehow these people seem to think that discrimination against psychics is akin to the Civil Rights movement. I beg to differ! The American Civil Rights movement address real issues of inequality where this Psychic Liberation movement address little more than someone’s opinion that they have psychic powers and that that people discriminate against them. What if I declared that I had an invisible blue tale and that I needed special bus seats with holes in them to accommodate it. One would surmise that I had to prove I had a tale and that not having holes in bus seats somehow harmed me. By the same logic a psychic would need to prove scientifically that they are a psychic and my not believing them causes them hardship.
Of course that entire line of thinking flies in the face of true psychics who should be able to guess lotto numbers and thereby make themselves more wealthy than us mere mortals.
Say! I think that I’m the one getting the short end of the stick here! I don’t have special psychic powers and YOU DO! I want my special parking tag and a bus seat with a hole in it for my imaginary blue tale!
Bill Nye, the harmless children’s edu-tainer known as “The Science Guy,” managed to offend a select group of adults in Waco, Texas at a presentation, when he suggested that the moon does not emit light, but instead reflects the light of the sun.
As even most elementary-school graduates know, the moon reflects the light of the sun but produces no light of its own.
But don’t tell that to the good people of Waco, who were “visibly angered by what some perceived as irreverence,” according to the Waco Tribune.
Nye was in town to participate in McLennan Community College’s Distinguished Lecture Series. He gave two lectures on such unfunny and adult topics as global warming, Mars exploration, and energy consumption.
But nothing got people as riled as when he brought up Genesis 1:16, which reads: “God made two great lights — the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars.”
The lesser light, he pointed out, is not a light at all, but only a reflector.
At this point, several people in the audience stormed out in fury. One woman yelled “We believe in God!” and left with three children, thus ensuring that people across America would read about the incident and conclude that Waco is as nutty as they’d always suspected.
This story originally appeared in the Waco Tribune, but the newspaper has mysteriously pulled its story from the online version, presumably to avoid further embarrassment.
Bet you didn’t know there was a civilization on the moon as recently as 1870. Or that a 900-year-old skull dug up in Mexico dubbed “Starchild” is that of human-space alien hybrid. Or that a whole world of USOs – Unidentified Submergible Objects – swirls in the depths of our oceans.
Don’t feel alone. Most people don’t know these things. Or believe them.
But don’t tell that too forcefully to the crew of scientists and UFO experts gathering in San Jose this weekend for the ninth annual Bay Area UFO Expo. They’re true believers, and they expect to have 2,000 fellow fans of all things extraterrestrial touch down at the Doubletree Hotel today and Sunday to hear their theories and see their evidence.
As the biggest UFO convention in the nation, the event is sure to draw the usual, shall we say, kooks who feel vibrations in their brains from alien rays and the like, organizers admit.
That problem is discrimination!!! Boooo Hissss!