Empire of the Odd

Unless you’ve been living under a rock in the UFO community (or incessantly whining about your lost crap on an old Active worlds account, ) you have probably heard of the great alien exchange program. Known as SERPO (or it’s more sinister moniker Chrystal Knight,)

SERPO reads exactly like a bad Science Fiction story. One that got rejected because it’s not a very good story and it’s all been done before (Close Encounters of the Third Kind comes to mind. ) It’s a tale of some military people who visit an alien world. Its not even on Second Life! Its for real!

One problem I have with this tale is, the world is not very alien, not alien enough to my way of thinking. Set on a small planet in orbit of the binary(!) star system of Zeta Reticul the story recounts an ill fated exchange program with dopey aliens who traveled billions of miles just to crash their ship on some poor sheep rancher’s spread.

(why the f^%@) is it always Zeta Reticuli? Everyone from Bob Lazar to Betty Hill claims(ed) that aliens come from Zeta Reticuli. What’s so special about it?

Anyway, back in 65, some intrepid volunteers journeyed 39.5 light years (roughly 229266389554160.79 miles) to a world where the people were nice but the radiation levels sucked. Most of this information is located on the so-called Open Minds Forum.

Some jerk started trolling .. er enlightening the forum members a few years ago with this thrilling account.

The new revelation pre announcement can be found here

The following was received from Victor Martinez this morning via e-mail. It’s time to gear up the Serpo and Disclosure machine!

On Halloween eve, Tuesday, October 30, 2007 @ 6 a.m., PDT, I will be streaming a never-before-published, highly classified document dealing w/ the UFO subject in both GENERAL terms and very SPECIFIC terms.

I’m acutely aware of and know that for many of you, the “Project SERPO”

story is just that: the story is too UNbelievable and takes belief that such an exchange program ever occurred so far that it’s just too “out
there” for many of you.

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DOC P / STAN FRIEDMAN / BILL HAMILTON: So you guys wanna know how they get from Point A to Point B? Ever wonder WHY we can’t duplicate their technology? Ever wonder how FAR AHEAD they are of us? Ever wonder the different means of alien propulsion that various races use to get to Earth? YOU WILL BE RUBBING YOUR EYES IN UTTER DISBELIEF!

Whatever. SERPO is an obvious and bald faced hoax in my not-so-humble opinion. I often wonder how this kind of thing gets any serious review .You will be rubbing your eyes in utter disbelief. My god! The last time I saw copy like that was on a poster for The Deadly Broccoli of the Earth’s Core! (In Cine-Rama.)

It is certainly too out-there for me, I like my sanity just the way it is thank you very little! This is all SO predictable. The fantastic revelations will be testimony from yet another anonymous source, or it will suddenly quashed by unnamed and sinister government types. Or the very popular “I have to keep my identity a secret to protect my family from the sinister government types.”

Same crap different day. (SCDD)

The script for SERPO was written long ago, it’s appeared in folk tales for hundreds of years, (Rip-van Winkle is just a contemporary example.)
Now fun-seekers; don’t have a problem with a good yarn but come-on people! Can anyone look at this material and NOT instantly toss it into the cosmic dustbin as yet another UFO hoax? (the answer to THAT question is a definitive Yeeees!) Many people are taken in by this, not merely because they are gullible, not simply because they accept any wild story without a shred of evidence, not only because they exist in a fantasy based world where people like the writers of the SERPO nonsence pawn their minds over and over again.

They accept junk like this because they really REALLY want it to happen and no accounting of facts (or lack of fact) will make a smidgen of difference. It’s too bad that real research gets drowned out by this kind of balderdash and otherwise good people get transformed into salivating, demented sounding fools when people (like me) come along and say that it’s just a hoax.

Most of the original posts from this crapfest can be found here.

The original web minister graciously bowing, out when things got too far fetched for even him to believe.

And the noise level continues to rise!

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The Odd Empire is taking a short break. We are retooling and modernizing the Odd Empire web page, bringing it into the 21st century as it were, that and a couple of other small things. We will soon be back, mortally offending the over sensitive, upsetting the emotionally insecure while delighting the rest of you.

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.

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Monday, September 24, 2007

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.

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By Dana Milbank

Tuesday, September 18, 2007; Page A02
washingtonpost.com > Columns

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.”

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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.

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New Statesman; Life and Society

Ziauddin Sardar

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.

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(Be sure to check out comments from “saucer fiends” )

15-18 Intuition Network, Submitted by the Odd Emperor with express thanks to the Red Queen.

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!

Gimme gimme gimme!