Empire of the Odd

Here is the breif introduction. I’m using the alias Isaac, and used to work in what was called the CARET program in the 80’s. During my time there, I worked with a lot of the technology that is clearly at work in the recent drone/strange craft sightings, most notably the “language” and diagrams seen on the underside of each craft. What follows is a lengthy letter about who I am, what I know, and what these sightings are (probably) all about.

The appearance of these photos has convinced me to release at least some of the numerous photographs and photocopied documents I still possess some 20 years later that can explain a great deal about these sightings. On this site you will find some of these. They are available as high resolution scans that I am giving away free, PROVIDED THEY ARE NOT MODIFIED IN ANY WAY AND ARE KEPT TOGETHER ALONG WITH THIS WRITTEN MATERIAL.

Or it could be a viral marketing ploy for the film “The Transformers”

Naa! No one would believe that!

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Submitted with thanks to James Gilliland

I found this on Michael E. Salla’s Exopolitics web page, you remember that one! A bunch of people struggling with the idea that one might have to find some aliens before we try to negotiate with them. Simply saying over and over again “we know you are out there you mighty space crushing empire and we know you fear our atomic bombs, can we talk?” simply does nothing for anyone, not the aliens, not Joe-public, certainly not the Odd Emperor (although I do get a chuckle out of it.)

Michael E. Salla begins;

A whistleblower has recently emerged alleging secret preparations are underway for a false flag operation to justify a military response to “alien invaders” by August 2007. The whistleblower claimes that s/he was asked “to write up ‘spin’ and propaganda that would help win the country’s leaders over to our new ‘war effort'” against extaterrestrials. The whistleblower posted his/her message at the Above Top Secret forum and has generated immediate interest by many (see: http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread288370/pg1 ). While the whistleblower’s statement appears plausible at first hand, there really is little need to demonise extraterrestrials to justify a false flag operation if an upped military response is desired by those in control of extraterrestrial related information.

What’s funny about this is Michael E. Salla and several other luminaries in the UFO biz either don’t know or do not care that the so-called whistleblower has come forward and admitted that the whole thing was a hoax.

The thread on the Above Top Secret board begins with this..(“GhostRaven; a member of AboveTopSecret.com says)

Anyways, what ATS needs to know is that, around early August, a ‘false flag’ operation will occur that will make the ETs/Visitors look like they are attacking america. Do not believe it. We cannot allow ourselves to be drawn into a war with an enemy like that.

Sorry that I cannot verify my position as I have a family and assets that would surely be taken from me if my identity were revealed.

Sheezer! What a dead giveaway! We all know that a real government employee would capitalize America.

This was posted by (apparently) the moderators of the Above Top Secret forum.

The following “story” is the produce of an unethical, patently flawed attempt at a study that exudes the lowest form of deceit. Before you read the HOAX/”story” you will see the admission of the individual who attempted (and FAILED miserably) to fool this community after his ploy was falling to pieces. –
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What you are about to read is the tawdry work of one who sought to abuse our courteous community and was ultimately handed his hat.

Well, I agree with the mods of ATS Sort of. Iâ’m not sure I would ban the person unless he was getting seriously flamed, (I would really think about banning the flamers.)

Unfortunately things are not so simple in UFO “la-la land. For one thing, I don’t think the hoax failed miserably’“ even after the original poster admitted that he made the thing out of whole cloth, people are insisting that it *might* really be true!

Despite the fact the wording of the original post is so typical of about a hundred other such stories, not to mention this one has been used as a plot for several Science Fiction novels and at least one TV anthology series (Twilight Zone I think.) It was even used by the Germans in the early days of World War II, substitute aliens with Poland or aliens with Saddam Hussein oops! Wrong world war!

The point here is, one would think that people on the ATS board and elsewhere would be more discerning of their so-called evidence. This fellow did not produce a smidgen of verifiable information; he words the thing in such a way to make his statements laughable, I.E I can’t reveal my identity because my/job/family/cat/etc will suffer.” Then, after getting threatened with arrest, harassed and so fourth by the UFO buffs (big surprise; UFO buffs HATE to have their clown-car tipped over) he admits that the thing was a joke (or more lamely, a “social experiment”

Good try Joe! It was a hoax, you are a troll and you laughed your ass off! Admit it!

After all this, some of the more gullible types are STILL chirping about how this could be true, how CNN just MIGHT announce that aliens are about to attack the national Christmas tree and we must all vote republican in the next election, for our own safety you understand! Now, I don’t give the hoaxer points for pulling the wool over people’s eyes, that’s child’s play in the UFO biz. You tell people what they want to hear, validate their forgone conclusions and you are in-like-Flint. Heck I almost never validate people (and get roundly disliked for it) I still get people posting over here saying HEY YOU ARE NOT A REAL EMPEROR! YOUR JOE SHMOE FROM SHMOOO STREET, YOU CAN”T FOOL ME!” Well Duh Alfred! It kind of says so on,.hmmmm EVERY FREAKING PAGE of the this blog and the Odd Empire webpage.

! Think what would happen if I made a consorted attempt at pulling the wool over people’s eyes.

Which kind of illustrates my second point. It doesn’t matter what one says, it doesn’t matter who you are (or who you are not.) It only matters what you say and how you say it. If you happen to be a fantasy prone, belief based person, it only matters that you hear what you want to hear. If you are a passionate advocate of the strange explanations of more or less mundane occurrences, you will probably be taken again and again by people like this guy on the ATS board.

Why? Because he’s saying exactly what you want to hear. He’s validating things you passionate advocates of the ETH have already decided on. That the government(s)’ have been keeping their dealings with aliens a deep-dark secret and that NOW they have a nefarious plan to TAKE OVER THE WORLD! ..

I suppose governments kinda-sorta have already  taken over the world, (other than in places like Mogadishu and maybe Antarctica.) It makes me wonder what they need the aliens for in the first place. Perhaps it’s to trick people into voting Republican.

Yep! That’s got to be it!

Anyway; here is the piece on Exopolitics that started this whole rant.

Here is the thread header on Above Top Secret.

Here is a photo of Oolong the pancake wearing rabbit for no apparent reason. (May you rest in peace Oolong!) I’m sure Regan Lee will miss you!

Share and enjoy!

Want to experience all the travails of being an astronaut with none of the glory? Now’s your chance! The European Space Agency is seeking healthy, psychologically-stable test subjects to make a mock trip to Mars.

What does a simulated Martian voyage entail? Well, for starters, 500 days in a “hermetically sealed module.” The crew of six (bound to become either your best friends or worst enemies) will live and work in a roughly 650 square foot area filled with everything a fake astronaut could ever desire: Sauna! Gym! Experimental greenhouse! Food will be rationed, smoking and alcohol is forbidden, and every seven days you get a two-day “weekend.” (which begs the question: what does one do on days off?) Should you need to communicate with “earth,” a 20-minute signal delay will replicate interplanetary conditions.

So, aside from faint praise what can a pretend astronaut hope for in terms of compensation? “I don’t remember the exact amount, but it’s comparable to what is used regularly in medical studies,” says Marc Heppener, the scientist behind the program. “About 120 euros a day.”

Get yer application form here. No shoving, folks.”Abby Seiff

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Two Durangoans publish book, photos

June 26, 2007

By Patricia Miller Arts & Entertainment Editor

Photos courtesy of Michael Richard

Review

They Call Me “The Ghost Guy” by Michael and Susan Richard, Lulu.com, 107 pages, 71 paranormal photographs, $17.95 paperback or download at LuLu.com

Durango’s ghost guy says he now makes a living from spooks. He sells his paranormal pictures to collectors and, with his wife, Susan, has self-published a short memoir They Call Me “The Ghost Guy.”

As for the division of labor, Mr. Richards is the paranormal photographer. Mrs. Richards takes backup rolls of photos to check results and has written most of the book.

The book contains 71 black-and-white photographs, most of which have white blurs in them. The Richards’ claim is that the blurs are pictures of spirits. Should we pay attention to their claim?

Who knows? One thing the Richards could have done to help their claim would have been to print the pictures on glossy paper so they would show up better. But this still begs the question of what the blurs are in the first place.

A whole posse of 958-pound gorillas lumbers around the book. First there are the basic questions of whether spirits exist and, if so, what they look like. Then there’s the question of Photoshop. Mr. Richard said by phone on Sunday that Mrs. Richard had colorized one photo so it would show up better, but no other picture had been altered.

As for technique “only two types of film, high speed and infrared, will give me the detail and dependability I demand,” they write. “You can, however, get interesting results with regular film. I have also found that manual cameras are best.” After a shoot, Mr. and Mrs. Richards send their film to separate labs.

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R. Lee

June 20, 2007

I’ve been noticing the use of the phrase “real ufo” recently. It seems to mostly come from the skeptic milieu, which is surreally ironic, since they often don’t “believe” in ufos anyway, have strange ideas about the whole thing — as in UFOlogy being some sort of “church” — and are, overall, ignorant of the entire phenomena. Still they push on, rejecting a lot of theories and ideas out of hand, often insulting “believers,” with ad ad hominin comments and chiding us for spending time on the whole silly thing. All this framed by the idea that there are “real UFOs” which of course invokes the question: are there unreal UFOs?

This mangled perspective is bizarre, for sure, but not atypical in UFO or Fortean studies. (In fact, the whole idea that there is the need to promote the idea there are “real”UFOs, while charmingly frustrating, shouldn’t be surprising. It’s just one more dance from the Trickster that is an inherent part of UFOlogy, showing off.)

They can’t quite get there; not seeing the forest for the trees, and they push on. Already involved in pontificating on something spectacular, they at the same time ignore the spectacular. UFOs exist, they begrudgingly admit –er, real UFOs, that is — but it’s nonsense to seriously consider “ËœDaimonic Realities,”â„¢ or Trickster manifestations/presences, or even good old fashioned extraterrestrials.

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Two prominent defenders of science exchange their views on how scientists ought to approach religion and its followers

(Scientific American)

By Lawrence M. Krauss and Richard Dawkins

Editor’s Introduction
Although the authors are both on the side of science, they have not always agreed about the best ways to oppose religiously motivated threats to scientific practice or instruction. Krauss, a leading physicist, frequently steps into the public spotlight to argue in favor of retaining evolutionary theory in school science curricula and keeping pseudoscientific variants of creationism out of them. An open letter he sent to Pope Benedict XVI in 2005, urging the pontiff not to build new walls between science and faith, led the Vatican to reaffirm the Catholic Church’s acceptance of natural selection as a valid scientific theory.
Dawkins, an evolutionary biologist, prolific author and lecturer, is also an eloquent critic of any attempt to undermine scientific reasoning. He has generally shown less interest than Krauss, however, in achieving a peaceful coexistence between science and faith. The title of Dawkins’s best-selling book The God Delusion perhaps best summarizes his opinion of religious belief.

These two allies compared notes from the front lines during breaks at a conference devoted to discussing clashes between science and religion held at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in San Diego late last year. In a dialogue they re-create here, the authors explained their respective tactics for engaging the enemy and tackled some of the questions that face all scientists when deciding whether and how to talk to the faithful about science: Is the goal to teach science or to discredit religion? Can the two worldviews ever enrich one another? Is religion inherently bad? In an extended version of their conversation available here, the authors also delve into whether science can ever test the “God Hypothesis.”

Krauss:

I have, on occasion, debated both creationists and alien abduction zealots. Both groups have similar misconceptions about the nature of explanation: they feel that unless you understand everything, you understand nothing. In debates, they pick some obscure claim, say, that in 1962 some set of people in Outer Mongolia all saw a flying saucer hovering above a church. Then they ask if I am familiar with this particular episode, and if I say no, they invariably say, “If you have not studied every such episode, then you cannot argue that alien abduction is unlikely to be happening.”

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by Patrick Cooke

Posted: 19:30 June 14, 2007

Perhaps no aspect of the UFO paradigm has had so serious a negative impact on the UFO community than the UFO cult phenomenon. Even though it was not the worst tragedy to hit the UFO field, the Heaven’s Gate suicides had the most lasting impact and are instantly associated with the mistaken concept that UFO believers are on the fringe of reality.

For those not aware of the incident, it hit the headlines in March of 1997. The cult leader of the Heaven’s Gate group, Marshall Applewhite, had deceived 40 of his followers into believing that a UFO was riding in the tail of the Hale-Bopp comet, then passing near Earth. His brainwashing had convinced the others that by taking their own lives they could ascend to the craft, reach a higher spiritual level, and be taken away from the devastation about to befall Earth.

The victims were found in a multi-million dollar mansion in Rancho Santa Fe, an exclusive community north of San Diego. Twenty-one women and eighteen men, aged 26 to 72, were all found lying face-up on cots and beds throughout the mansion, covered with triangular purple shrouds, all sporting buzz cuts and dressed alike, with their hands to their sides. Investigating officers said it appeared, “as if they had simply fallen asleep”. A 40th member committed suicide at later date.

Heaven’s Gate – The Sequel

Unfortunately, no lessons were learned by the survivors of this death cult and, in a macabre twist to this horror story, new members have joined them and the cult is attempting a revival. Boldly proclaiming their return in a website ironically titled “Heaven’s Gate Lives: Apocalypse Now”, they show clearly the delusion is still strong and, by default, just as dangerous.

Pay very close attention to the statements of these new followers found on the above mentioned website. We will provide a link to that website and certain blog entries at the end of this article.

“The message of “Heaven’s Gate” is NOT dead. It is still very alive.” (Emphasis, theirs)

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JUSTIN NORTON

Associated Press

June 12, 2007 at 11:59 PM EDT

Is The Truth to be found in this remote New Mexico town?

Driving alone down a stretch of desolate highway en route to Roswell, I begin to understand why conspiracy buffs have long argued that aliens crash-landed in the desert here a half-century ago.

Darkness engulfs desert fields. A misshapen yellow moon hangs in the sky. Husks of abandoned buildings litter the roadside. Has an alien invasion already taken place? I notice a blinking light in the sky  but quickly discern it’s an airplane.

Being out here by yourself is enough to make you think twice.

Enlarge ImageThere’s no shortage of alien-themed shops in
Roswell, N.M. – even the banks are spacey.
(Jake Schoellkopf/AP)

I do know this: There are other things out there in the universe, said John Turner, 78, who was working the desk of the International UFO Museum and Research Center on Roswell’s North Main Street when I visited.

I have secretly wanted to go to Roswell since I was a boy. What I got during my brief visit was a lesson in how a small city in the middle of the American Southwest – about 300 kilometres from Albuquerque  became enshrined in American pop culture.

The 60th anniversary of the so-called “Roswell Incident” will be marked July 5-8 at the city’s annual UFO festival. City officials say 50,000 people are expected for the event, which will include lectures, book signings, tours, entertainment and, according to the organizers, perhaps an alien abduction or two.

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By: Aaron Sakulich

I’ve made some bad choices in my life. I once drank a quart of butter on a dare. I wrote an article about scientology wherein I called them a bunch of names, not knowing that scientologists regularly shoot people for such things. Even now, as I’m writing this, I’m eating sesame-covered anchovies in hot sauce, which I bought at the Chinese supermarket in Chinatown.

And what are the results of these poor decisions? It depends on who you ask. Other than high cholesterol and a blinding, irrational distaste for the state of Oregon, they haven’t had too much effect on my life. On the other hand, if you ask an Alphabioticist, they’ve had the effect of disrupting the True Flow of Life Energy into my Spiritual Consciousness, leading to a serious upset it my Right Intent.

Alphabiotics is sort of a medicine and a religion. It was started in the 1920s by a certain Virgil B. Chrane and continued by his son, Virgil Chrane Jr. The original Virgil’s grandson, Michael, is in charge of it today, based out of Texas.

The Alphabiotics Web site is chock full of information; unfortunately, none of it states precisely what Alphabiotics are. They go on and on and on about the benefits, though, from Alphabiotic sessions one can expect to feel and think better, achieve inner peace, foster a tighter connection to their inner source of power, and gain the ability to take advantage of the body’s natural capacity for wellness. Sounds good! I could use all of those things, except the tightening of my inner power source. That sounds unpleasant.

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SCIENCE, SPIRIT AND
WORLD TRANSFORMATION
July 6th – 8th, Trout Lake, WA
2007 ECETI Benefit Conference

Whoa! I should contact the Imperial Travel Agency and book a flight to Washington, right away!

On second thought, I’m sure I have something far more important to do that weekend, like rearrange my sock drawer!

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