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Source: Anomaly Archives eNews – September 27th, 2023 – So much media, so little time…
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September 27th, 2023 – Austin, Texas
Greetings everyone. There are a ton of links I want to share so let’s dive in…
Recent local paranormal activities…
We’ve told you about Ryan Sprague’s free “Anomacon” online event before and it went forward as scheduled and was a great achievement with a ton of fantastic presentations. If you missed the event’s premiere you can watch the entire day’s recordings. Ryan says he’ll likely be subdividing the presentations and uploading them individually but for now, you can surf through each day’s 11-plus hours of lectures. Check em out at the links above.
At the end of last month I recorded a podcast episode with longtime friend Russell Dowden, for his new Paranoid America podcast series. My appearance marked his eleventh episode and you can watch that HERE. I really enjoyed chatting with Russ and reminiscing with him. One of the things we talked about was the history of how his publishing career started – you can watch an excerpt from the show wherein I describe the Origins of Russell’s Weird Publishing Career.
My wife and I recently had the pleasure of seeing Greg and Dana Newkirk present their storytelling approach to the paranormal worlds of haunted objects at the Stateside theater that is part of the historic Paramount theater on Congress Avenue in downtown Austin. This was one of three stops on the Texas leg of their current tour promoting their Haunted Objects podcast, Museum of the Paranormal, and their new movie, The Unbinding, which is a documentary about a mysterious statue allegedly found in the Catskill mountains.
The Newkirks have been part of a movement of paranormal investigators using something called the Estes Method (see link for background on this intriguing technique pioneered by some of the Newkirk’s closest creative cocreators). Local paranormal performance artists known as The Austin Séance, publish the Journal of Séance and Spiritualist History whose Summer 2023 issue features an article in its “History and How-To” column titled, “The Estes Method & the Modern Séance – Combining radio scanning and sensory deprivation for surprising results.” Therein you can see a photo of local Weird ATX / Beyond Weird Paranormal podcaster Megan experimenting with the Estes Method.
“A. Lucio and Jake Cordero of The Austin Séance demonstrate tools used by working mediums and then employ those tools in a modern recreation of an old-time séance.”
In the ongoing experiencing of our Second Summer following our False Fall seasonal transition we present to you another Saucerian Summer Song. In recent issues of this newsletter, I’ve joked about the Summertime activity of “skipping rocks” that reminds one of the description generating the classic Flying Saucers phrase, that described the motion of a rock or saucer skipping across the water. Well, this week’s musical video interlude certainly stirs some paranormal waters with its imagery. We hope you enjoy the video.
It is with great sadness that we report the passing of legendary conspiracy researcher and zine publisher, Kenn Thomas. We’ve known Kenn since the 1990s. He was to be one of our honored speakers at the ill-fated 2001 National UFO Conference. In the photo above, I finally had the chance to meet Kenn in-person at the 2018 ParaMania party aboard the Steamboat Natchez in New Orleans. Kenn will be greatly missed.
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El Arte Pictorico De Los Antiguos Mayas
“The Pictorial Art of the Ancient Mayans”
by Manuel Cirerol Sansores
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ParaPeculiar Museum & Podcast
ParaPeculiar Podcast #45 Brittany and Megan of Weird ATX – Paranormal experimenters and hosts of Beyond Weird Paranormal Podcast.
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The Chemical Brothers – Skipping Like A Stone ft. Beck
Some of the lyrics…
When you feel like nothing really matters
When you feel alone
When you feel like all your life is shattered
And you can’t go home
I’ll come skipping like a stone
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August 27th, 2023 – Austin, Texas
Farewell Flying Saucerer…
David Perkins: October 18, 1945 – August 20, 2023
Last week I learned of the passing of friend and researcher, David Perkins. When I encountered his ideas a few decades ago I knew I’d found a kindrid spirit and fellow seeker. News of his passing has sent ripples through the UFO community and rekindled my ongoing grief over the loss of friends and family. Back in 2020 David and I had a great conversation as part of the Streamathon Emergency Fundraiser wherein I excitedly explored my ideas about the nature of the UFO phenomenon as inspired by his and other researchers whose perspectives I deeply respect. While his passing saddens me I’ve been glad to learn that his massive library has been donated to David Marler’s National UFO Historical Records Center nonprofit there in New Mexico. Farewell my fellow Space Brother…
Everything is Connected: The Influence of the Internet on Conspiracy Theory, its Communities and Culture
What weird times we are living through. Late last year a friend reached out to tell me they had been interviewed by a young lady doing grant funded research on the influence of the internet on conspriacy communities. After looking into her public work I took the plunge and began interacting with her as part of the project. Then earlier this year she told me the NYTimes wanted her to do an article on the project but focused on one of her interviewees to give it a more personal angle. So we did another interview and continued our discussions. The article was published online earlier this month and appeared in the physical print version of the NYTimes on Sunday, August 6th.
Everything is Connected – sites.manchester.ac.uk/eic/
Even Conspiracy Theorists Are Alarmed by What They’ve Seen
(Originally titled: How QAnon and Jan. 6 Ripped the Conspiracy Theory World Apart)
by Annie Kelly, NYTimes OpEd, August 4th, 2023.
“A version of this article appears in print on Aug. 6, 2023, Section SR, Page 6 of the New York edition with the headline: How QAnon Broke Conspiracy Culture.”
Here is a link to an interview Annie did about the article and project a week ago…
For old-school conspiracy theorists, QAnon crossed a line – Think @ kera.org
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Featuring Clas Svhan & Kevin Randle
“In Sweden, a man sees a UFO hitting a lake, generating a great explosion, but after deep research, no one could find debris of the craft.”
by Howard and Connie Menger
“Howard Menger (February 17, 1922 – February 25, 2009) was an American contactee who claimed to have met extraterrestrials throughout the course of his life, meetings which were the subject of books he wrote, such as From Outer Space To You and The High Bridge Incident. Menger, who rose to prominence as a charismatic contactee detailing his chats with friendly Adamski-style Venusian “space brothers” in the late 1950s, was accepted by some UFO believers.
Later in his life Menger stated in several documentaries that he believed he had misunderstood the space aliens and where they came from. He stated the space aliens did not live on Venus but they had bases on Venus or were passing by or exploring the planet.[1][2] Menger also wrote about this newer position about where he believed the space people come from in one of his later books.
Menger states:
“‘Years ago, on a T.V. program, when I first voiced my opinion that the people I met and talked with from the craft might not be extraterrestrial, it was thought that I had recanted. However, they (the aliens) said they had just come from the planet we call Venus (or Mars). It is my opinion that these space travelers may have by-passed or visited other planets (as we are planning) but were not native to those planets any more than our astronauts are native to the moon.'” [3]
There are also some who claim the memories of Howard Menger, George Adamski, Buck Nelson and other contactees were manipulated by evil ET’s (known as the Omegans) in order to trick them into believing in life on Venus in order to discredit the message of the positive ET’s.[4]
Menger had religious revelations to impart after his “experiences,” and also came back from his contacts with practical messages.
When he was still young he moved with his parents to the rolling hills of Hunterdon County, New Jersey. His first alleged contact with a person from another planet was at the age of ten, in the woods near his hometown of High Bridge, New Jersey.[5]“
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THINK‘s Krys Boyd interviews Annie Kelly about her recent New York Times essay “Even Conspiracy Theorists are Alarmed by What They’ve Seen.”
“For conspiracy theorists dedicated to the moon landing, Bigfoot and UFOs, the development of QAnon, crisis actors and government false flags have introduced unwanted political and financial elements to their favorite pastime. Annie Kelly is a postdoctoral researcher working on conspiracy theories and a correspondent for the podcast “QAnon Anonymous.” She joins host Krys Boyd to talk about how these old-school skeptics raised on late-night call-in radio fear modern day conspiracy theorists are giving their passion a bad name. Her recent New York Times essay is headlined “Even Conspiracy Theorists are Alarmed by What They’ve Seen.”
Check Out Krys Boyd’s Interview with Annie Kelly
“Authentic Music From Another Plant Full Song by Howard Menger In the 1950’s Howard Menger claimed to be visited by friendly space people from other physical planets in other star systems in the universe. The friendly space people are concerned about the immorality and constant warfare on this planet. They see us as their brothers and sisters. They helped Menger to learn this song so it could uplift and evolve all those who willingly listen to it by unlocking from the subconscious feelings of universal love which is the feelings of compassion, morality, and understanding. They hope one day the Earth may be a moral and peaceful world so they can come to our planet openly and invite us to join their interstellar group.”
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Source: Anomaly Archives eNews – July 23rd, 2023 / UFO-Hearings
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July 23, 2023 – Austin, Texas
Welcome back to another edition of the Anomaly Archives eNews. The UFO/UAP whistleblower headlines just keep coming, and it would seem there is growing bipartisan support for government disclosure of UFO information. In the last few weeks there has been more activity including Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Senator Mike Rounds (R-SD) introducing an amendment (July 14) to the National Defense Authorization Act mandating anamolous phenomena reports to “carry the presumption of disclosure.”
“The amendment will be modeled on the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 which required that documents regarding the Kennedy Assassination be made public no later than 25 years later after enactment.” – Young.Senate.Gov
The actual amendment states that the, “Purpose: [is] To provide for the expeditious disclosure of unidentified anomalous phenomena records,” including the establishment of… “an independent agency, a board to be known as the ‘‘Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Records Review Board,’’” the composition of, “The President shall make nominations to the … after considering persons recommended by…
Additionally…
“It also establishes that the federal government would have “eminent domain” over any recovered technologies of unknown origin and any biological evidence of “non-human intelligence” that may be controlled by private individuals or entities.” – Reuters
Six days after Majority Leader Schumer’s UAP amendment, Rep. Burchett held a press conference announcing an upcoming Oversight Committee hearing on UAPs scheduled for this coming Wednesday, July 26th at 9am CST. You can read all about it at the links below and you can watch the live hearings at THIS LINK. It is of course interesting to hear Rep. Burchett and his colleagues speak of the resistance they have received from the Pentagon and Intelligence Community regarding their attempts to move these hearings forward.
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National Security Subcommittee to Hold Hearing on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena – – Posted July 20, 2023
Date July 26, 2023, Time 10:00 am, Place 2154 Rayburn – National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs (Watch Live on YouTube)
Video of the Burchett press release (C-SPAN)
WITNESSES:
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Since humans have been conscious enough to ponder the nature of reality they have had metaphysical experiences. These experiences are always beyond the scope of understanding based on the current scientific paradigm. Do metaphysical and mystical experiences serve as some evolutionary mechanism where human beings are unknowingly dangling the carrot in front of themselves, or is something far more strange happening? Do UFOs and DMT offer a chance to peer beyond the veil of our built in senses?
Cast: (In order of Appearance)
By Erik Davis
“An exploration of the emergence of a new psychedelic spirituality in the work of Philip K. Dick, Terence McKenna, and Robert Anton Wilson.
A study of the spiritual provocations to be found in the work of Philip K. Dick, Terence McKenna, and Robert Anton Wilson, High Weirdness charts the emergence of a new psychedelic spirituality that arose from the American counterculture of the 1970s. These three authors changed the way millions of readers thought, dreamed, and experienced reality—but how did their writings reflect, as well as shape, the seismic cultural shifts taking place in America?
In High Weirdness, Erik Davis—America’s leading scholar of high strangeness—examines the published and unpublished writings of these vital, iconoclastic thinkers, as well as their own life-changing mystical experiences. Davis explores the complex lattice of the strange that flowed through America’s West Coast at a time of radical technological, political, and social upheaval to present a new theory of the weird as a viable mode for a renewed engagement with reality.”
Source: Publisher – The MIT Press
Erik Davis’ new book ‘High Weirdness’ explores how 3 authors in the 1970s changed the way readers experienced reality – King5.com
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Episode 96 – Patrick Harpur – Daimonic Reality
“Patrick has written extensively on a range of fortean subjects but is perhaps best known for his 1994 book Daimonic Reality: A Field Guide to the Otherworld. This applied the ideas of people such as William Blake, W.B Yeats and Carl Jung to examine the connections across a wide range of paranormal phenomena and explore the history of the realm many believe exists between the states of body and spirit.
The book is regarded as classic of it’s kind and a must have for the bookshelves of people interested in the sort of subjects It covers.
In the interview I begin by talking with Patrick about the concept of daimonic reality and what that term describes. From there we discuss the book and how it came about and then move on to the daimons themselves, what they are, their interactions with humanity and how and why they manifest in our world the way they do.
More information about Patrick and his writing can be found at harpur.org/patrick.htm.”
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Time Has Come (Original Song) by Louise D’Arcy
“Now we are tumbling towards disclosure of the biggest secret kept from humanity in the history of …well…EVER, I decided to write a song…a simple little song about UFO’s (past to present). Enjoy!!”
TIME HAS COME
Music and Lyrics by Louise D’Arcy
A long time ago in New Mexico A plane crashed down Little did they know The papers said a Saucer crashed But the Airforce came and pulled the pin on that
On late night drive Back in ’61 The Hills saw lights And Barney grabbed his gun A strange ordeal started to unfold With some missing time And Betty’s belly probe
CHORUS
It’s been a long black night A trial, a test But what is buzzing round us We can only guess The time has come to lay the lies to rest We deserve the truth But haven’t got it yet
We had Hynek, Keogh [sic ? Keyhoe ?] and Friedman too Who fought tooth and nail pushing for that truth But the CIA was busy seeding lies Got those tin foil hats and their alibis And the decades passed Never getting far Till a Punk Rocker put down his guitar He left the stage And headed ‘To The Stars’ And as history goes Now here we are
CHORUS
It’s been a long black night A trial, a test But what is buzzing round us We can only guess The time has come to lay the lies to rest We deserve the truth But haven’t got it yet
From the Roswell crash to the Pheonix Lights Even schoolyard sightings in broad day light But the truth stays hushed, the world stays blind And those UFO’s unidentified But the cracks are there that you can be sure Here the whistleblowers all coming forward There’s a ‘Need To Know’ Now a lines been drawn We can’t stand the secrets anymore
CHORUS
It’s been a long black night A trial, a test But what’s buzzing round us We can only guess The time has come to lay the lies to rest We deserve the truth But haven’t got it yet
Its been a long black night Through all the shadows and the lies Ain’t it time we get things right now
END
Source: Anomaly Archives eNews – July 4th, 2023
Roswell Anniversary Flashback and More
The Anomaly Archives Email Newsletter
July 4, 2023 – Austin, Texas
Welcome to the July 2023 edition of the Anomaly Archives eNews. Happy World UFO Day / Week, AGAIN! It’s a contested dual / duel competition as to whether you are more inclined to celebrate Kenneth Arnold’s historic June 24th sighting of a series of crescent shaped objects moving like saucers skipping across water over Mt Rainier or the infamous July 2nd alleged crash of a mysterious object in Roswell, both occurring in the Summer of 1947.
Well, let’s not forget that the first “Flying Saucer” sighting may predate the Saucer Summer of ’47 by nearly 70 years: First “Flying Saucer” was in Texas (via TexasCoopPower).
Is there any more iconic Summertime activity than skipping stones across the water? Okay, swimming, for sure but…
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The Michael Shermer Show # 359
“Shermer and Shellenberger discuss:
Michael Shellenberger is an investigative journalist who has broken major stories on crime and drug policy; homelessness; Amazon deforestation; rising climate resilience; growing eco-anxiety; the U.S. government’s role in the fracking revolution; climate change and California’s fires, and now UFO whistleblowers, which he revealed in his substack article in Public. He was on the show previously to discuss his book Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All, and since then he wrote San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities. Earlier this year he worked with Elon Musk, Bari Weiss, and Matt Taibbi on the “Twitter Files,” which revealed the extent to which censorship of unpopular ideas and politically incorrect beliefs was rampant at Twitter before Musk purchased the company. In his Public Substack article Shellenberger revealed what he learned from UFO whistleblowers, which he shares with us in this episode.”
Alabama Museum of Natural History, Inc. Report 1
The Discovery and Possible Significance of X-Kukican, Ancient Mayan Site
by J. Manson Valentine
Includes color photograph of “The Guardian” at Loltun Cavern
(by “M. d’Obrenovic”) attached to frontispiece.
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Radio Misterioso Roswell Roundtable 2017
Greg Bishop “gathered together a group of friends in our hotel room at Roswell, where the 70th anniversary festivities had just concluded. I was joined by Peter Robbins, Jack Brewer, Nick Redfern, Miles Lewis, and Adam Sayne to discuss the events of the weekend, and other UFO-type issues.”
See Also… Photo Gallery of the 2017 Roswell 70th Anniversary Events.
Asteroid City Soundtrack
★ Intro ★
One, two, three, four
★ Verse ★
(How-dee-dee) Dear alien, who art in Heaven
(How-dee-dee) Lean and skinny, ’bout six foot seven
(How-dee-dee) Though we know you ain’t our brother
(How-dee-dee) Are you friend or foe? (Or other?)
★ Chorus ★
Hop on one foot, skip on two
Dance the spaceman,
Bounce on four and spring on three
Left this space
How-dee-dee (How-dee-dee)
How-dee-dee (How-dee-dee)
How-dee-dee (How-dee-dee)
How-dee-dee (How-dee-dee)
How-dee-dee (How-dee-dee)
How-dee-dee (How-dee-dee)
How-dee-dee (How-dee-dee)
Come on, y’all
How-dee-dee (How-dee-dee)
★ Chorus ★
Hop on one foot, skip on two
Dance the spaceman,
Bounce on four and spring on three
Left this space
How-dee-dee (How-dee-dee)
How-dee-dee (How-dee-dee)
Left this space
Left this space ❲?❳
Left this space ❲?❳
★ Outro ★
Yo-de-lay
Yo-de-lay, yo-de-lay, yo-de-lay
How-dee-dee
Okay, very good, you guys, that was great
Uh, okay, so let’s—
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National Security Subcommittee to Hold Hearing on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena – Posted July 20, 2023
Date July 26, 2023, Time 10:00 am, Place 2154 Rayburn – National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs (Watch Live on YouTube)
Video of the Burchett press release (C-SPAN)
WITNESSES:
SCU Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies
AAPC Anomalous Aerospace Phenomena Conference Online – July 29-30
https://www.explorescu.org/copy-of-aapc-2023
ANOMACON: A Virtual Conference on the Anomalous
FREE virtual conference on September 1 & 2 via YouTube with over 30 speakers from around the world
www.anomacon.com
Stateside at The Paramount presents The Newkirks: Haunted Objects Live!
Chilling, True Tales from the Newkirk Museum of the Paranormal
Stateside at the Paramount Sunday, September 17, 2023
https://tickets.austintheatre.org/9973
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