Caret Drone: Hoaxed

Why do people do this? The impressive Caret Drone UFO footage ends up being part of a video for a crap tune. I always thought there was something fishy about it. The images seemed too clean to my eye. Link.

Richard Dolan At The X-Conference 2007

Dolan, author of UFOs and the National Security State, is a bit of a hero of mine. He has tirelessly excavated government documents on UFOs and points out over and over again the extreme interests given to UFOs by the US military, despite public statements to the contrary. Hear what he has to say for yourself.

Dip in UFO sightings caused by the Internet?

How inaccurate can one article on UFOs be? Take 10 seconds to enter 'UFO sightings' into a search engine and get over 1 million returns. UFO reports have never been so common. This year alone there have been hundreds, some from very credible sources. The proof on the Internet completely contradicts the key 'point' of the article:

My friend Kevin Fitzpatrick, who spends a great deal of time thinking about these things, says there is a simple answer. He suggests an exact parallel between the rise in the use of the internet and the fall in UFO sightings. Logical: the amount of time spent staring at the sky must be in inverse proportion to the amount of time available to stare at a computer screen.

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Amazing UFO baffles NZ experts

Now with pictures. Link.

Fake?

I don’t understand. Link.

Dust Comes Alive In Space

SCIENTISTS have discovered that inorganic material can take on the characteristics of living organisms in space, a development that could transform views of alien life. Link.

Big News - Amazing UFO footage from Haiti

Incredible. Link.

Storm Worm Rising

The Storm Worm is a huge botnet that may have commandeered up to 2 million PCs around the world. You visit a site, download a piece of malware, and unbeknownst to you, your computer becomes just another 'zombie' node in the botnet army. Then the creators use yours and the other computers on the network to launch spam or denial-of-service (DDos) attacks.

As sci-fi writer Sterling himself says,

The Storm worm is an amazing piece of work. Anyone who has taken the time to reverse engineer Storm will tell you that it is a very sophisticated piece of software and it is highly unlikely that it was created just to send spam.

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Tibetan lamas banned from reincarnating

"The Chinese government, on the other hand, is determined to gain total control over Tibet’s Buddhists, even to the extent of manipulating their religious beliefs and practices." Link.

Corroboration of abductee's 'Star Map'

Barney and Betty Hill were out driving one night in 1961 when they were abducted by aliens. During the abduction, Betty was shown a 'starmap' which indicated the home world of extraterrestrials as well as various 'trade routes'. Now, after painstaking work by researchers, some details of that map have been confirmed... Link.

Caret Drone controversy rages

Is it? Or isn't it? The controversy rages over the amazing Caret Drone footage. Link.

Norwegian UFO mystery solved?

This is a typical story about a UFO mystery "being solved". Exactly how has it been solved? “According to the scientists, it is now clear that the phenomen is not UFO-related, but are luminous balls containing some form of energy.”However, he says much work remains before he is ready to give the final answer. I.e. it’s not solved. Link.

Mayan Shamanism and 2012: A Pyschedelic Cosmology

Leading 2012 writer and researcher John Major Jenkins puts it all in context. Amazing stuff!

The profound integration of celestial, psychological, ritual, and mythopoeic elements at Izapa bespeaks the psychedelic influence, because those tools of vision open the consciousness to higher states of awareness in which multiple dimensions are seen for what they are – mutually interweaving and interpenetrating aspects of a unity that is simply not apparent to the “normal” consciousness that functions on more limited planes of perception.

These processes and concepts are intimately involved in the understanding that the Milky Way is the Great Mother, and the dark rift is her vagina or birth place. It is the place of transformation that the prospective male king must enter in order to be reborn as the king, a divine being. That these things are templated upon the alignment of the December solstice sun with the dark rift in the Milky Way – on the 13-baktun cycle end date, December 21, 2012 – is mind-boggling.

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Ancient Astronauts

Giorgio Tsoukalos of Legendary Times gives his thoughts on 'ancient astronaut' theories and mysteries of the past. Link.

60th anniversary of Roswell - was it real?

Interesting post on the Daily Grail looking at the evidence.

I was permitted from a safe distance to first observe the object just recovered north of town. It was approx. 12 to 15 feet in length, not quite as wide, about 6 feet high, and more of an egg shape. Lighting was poor, but its surface did appear metallic. No windows, portholes, wings, tail section, or landing gear were visible.

I personally feel something momentous did happen in Roswell, but that competing accounts, profiteers and government misinformation has garbled the account of what really happened, perhaps forever. Link.

Anniversary of the UFO

This big BBC article celebrating 60 years of the UFO phenomenon falls down when it trots out the usual, "official" explanations for UFOs. Here they are with my retorts:

Sundogs: Refracted image of the sun - WHICH DON’T MOVE
Space debris: Burning satellites or rocket fragments - WHICH MOVE IN A STRAIGHT LINE
Meteors: Such as bolides or fireballs - AGAIN, A STRAIGHT LINE
Clouds: Lenticular or disc-like - OKAY BUT *SLOW* MOVING
Mirages: Hot or cold-air induced images - HMMMMMMM
Stars/planets: Such as Venus - WHICH DON’T MOVE!!!
Planes: Such as experimental aircraft - POSSIBLY, BUT AERODYNAMICS
Ball lightning: Unpredictable brilliant spheres - USUALLY FOUND NEAR THE GROUND
Weather balloons: Classic explanation - OKAY, A LOT OF UFOs ARE PROBABLY BALLOONS
Hallucination: Viewer under stress - I SEE BETTER WHEN I’m TRIPPING!
Mass hysteria: Early explanation - COME ON!
Earthlights: Caused by electromagnetic fields in seismic activity areas - WTF DOES THAT MEAN?

This cool article in Wired too is a bit more open minded, although there's the usual skeptical perspective from writer Darius Lockwood

7/7 Conspiracies

Some odd consistencies popping up in the official events on the London 7/7 attack. Make your own mind up. Link.

Get The Zeigeist

Zeitgeist is a freely distributed movie, designed to prompt the audience into questioning their own beliefs on the subjects of US involvement in the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Christian theology, the Federal Reserve System, and the decreasing status of personal freedoms in the United States of America due to introductions of laws and organizations such as The Department of Homeland Security and the Patriot Act. It is divided into three parts - Part I: "The Greatest Story Ever Told", Part II: "All The World's A Stage", and Part III: "Don't Mind The Men Behind The Curtain". Link.

Are We Heading For Another Great Depression?

It's coming. By 2012, most of the world's financial institutions will be on their knees.

The Bank for International Settlements, the world's most prestigious financial body, has warned that years of loose monetary policy has fuelled a dangerous credit bubble, leaving the global economy more vulnerable to another 1930s-style slump than generally understood.

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Chicago Airport UFO Report

I've been following this story for some months here and there. Now there's a semi-official report out from the National Aviation Reporting Center on Anomalous Phenomena which concludes:

The NARCAP report comments:

"It is interesting that an incursion over one of the busiest aviation facilities in the world would receive such superficial attention" from the FAA."