August 14th, 2016 – Austin, Texas

It’s been a couple of weeks since the last issue… the newsletter will likely continue along in the near future in irregularly scheduled installments.

Successful anomalous events organized by and/or featuring friends and acquaintances have recently occurred across North America – sadly, I wasn’t able to attend any of them. These ranged from the Cryptozoological Dogman Symposium organized by Ken Gerhard (and featuring Nick Redfern, Lyle Blackburn and others) to the East Coast Paracon (featuring friends Greg Bishop, Paul Kimball, Aaron Gulyas, Tim Binnall, and others) and down here in Texas, theEdinburg “Out of this World” UFO Festival (organized by Noe Torres and featuring David Hatcher Childress, Nick Redfern, Ben Hansen, Lynne Kitei, and Stephen Andrasko).

Sadly, the field of UFO inquiry has lost another great seeker… Errol Bruce-Knapp. Many in the field of (what passes for) UFO “research” won’t know who he is but they should. I came to know of him through his moderation of one of the oldest and most important UFO email lists, UFO UpDates (Archives 1996-2013). You can learn more about him (including his involvement in off-shore Pirate Radio DJ years) and his important contributions facilitating communication and hosting a community of UFO truth seekers by listening to these interviews here (on the Spectrum Radio Network), and here (with fellow Canadian Paul Kimball). He hosted several terrestrial radio shows and transitioned to internet streaming and podcasting his Strange Days… Indeed (and Mind Shift) programs. I was honored to be a guest on his show back on September 11th, 2007 (MP3). Good luck finding all of his wonderful interviews of some of the best UFO researchers. Here you can listen to him talk with legendary Area-51 researcher Glen Campbell(MP3), who hosted Errol’s UFO UpDates list site (and maintains the Archives).

“It’s alive… ALIVE!!” Austin Mufon has been resurrected as MUFON-ATX.

A couple of weeks ago I was surprised to learn that the local MUFON (Mutual UFO Network) chapter had been re-launched and begun monthly meetings held way up in the furthest reaches of North West Austin. I was involved in Austin Mufon from about 1990 until 2012 when its chain of leadership was finally broken. I led the group from about 1999 – 2002.

Above: Robert Powell “shares about cases from Georgia, England, Utah, Iowa, New York, and Canada as well as information on the process of UFO investigations.”

I was excited to learn of these new monthly meetings and attended the second such meeting held on July 31st. The meetings are at 7pm on the last Sunday of each month at Palm Beach Vapors. July’s meeting featured Austinite and Mufon’s Director of Research / Founder & Leader of Mufon’s Science Review Board. Also present were Texas Mufon leaders Steve Hudgeons (Director of Investigations & former State Director of Texas) and Teresa Turner (State Director of Texas – and State Section Director). There were about a dozen attendees from around Austin and outside the Central Texas metro area. The highlight of the meeting was getting a sneak peak of Robert Powell’s upcoming presentation for the annualMufon Symposium 2016 – Orlando, FL – August 25th-28th whose theme is “UFOs From Our Oceans to Outer Space.” Robert’s presentation is MUFON’s Top 10 UFO Cases for 2015. You can watch this sneak preview thanks to another attendee I was glad to meet, Daniel Jones of the Vortexas Network, whom I’d briefly met a few months ago in Dallas at the ParaMania event.

For this installment of the Book-of-the-Week we feel it appropriate to highlight the aforementioned Robert Powell’s contribution to the printed knowledge-base of UFO history. Robert was kind enough to speak about that history to our Anomaly Archives audience in his Lecture in 2014 (Video).

Our Monthly Public Meetings Are Changing! We Need Your Help! Why Not Volunteer? We’re transitioning our monthly public meetings into volunteerism opportunities. I’ll be up at the Anomaly Archives Saturday, August 27th from 1-3pm to train new volunteers on various on-going processes as well as upcoming special volunteer projects.

The Anomaly Archives holds Monthly Meetings on the Fourth Saturday of Each Month. Contact SMiles Lewis via email for updates. The meetings are held from 1-3pm at the INACS / Anomaly Archives headquarters located in North West Austin.

Coming up in September, the Anomaly Archives will be holding its annual Free Lecture Event. This year’s talk will be presented by former military Remote Viewer Paul Smith. Details Coming Soon!

Until next time…

SMiles Lewis / FounderAnomalyArchives.orgSMilesLewis.com

UFOs and Government: A Historical Inquiry
By Michael D. Swords and Robert PowellWith contributions from Clas Svahn, Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Bill Chalker, Barry Greenwood, Richard Thieme, Jan Aldrich, Steve Purcell

Here are some headlines of note for this week:

UFO Headlines

Errol Bruce-Knapp Passes:

• Errol – alienviewgroup.blogspot.com
• The Errol Bruce-Knapp Phenomena RIP – theufochronicles.com
• Archive.org Archive of Errol’s Virtually Strange Network

• Errol Bruce-Knapp interviews SMiles Lewis on his Strange Days… Indeed radio show circa September 11th, 2007, episode #448 (MP3)

• Heldag på AFU (Photos of the Archives For the Unexplained) – Clas Svahn
• Grant Cameron – Classified documents suggest UFO/consciousness link– Skeptiko 324, Alex Tsakiris
• Your Coffee Table Needs This Lavish Collection of Retro UFO Pulp Fiction Art – Motherboard VICE · Tim Maughan
•  ‘The Fourth Kind’ is a Highly Underrated Found-Footage Flick – Brendan Morrow on
• The Roswell Slides – Who Got the Five Grand? kevinrandle.blogspot.com
• Ufology Indicted (Stan Romanek) – ufotrail.blogspot.com
• (Video) Nick Redfern: Acoustic Levitation, the Pentagon, and Morris K Jessup
• Project CORE PARATOPIA: OCULUS
• Blurred lines, continued – Billy Cox
• Tabby’s Star: Is It Beginning To Look A Lot Like Aliens?  DailyGrail.com
• An Interview with Sweden’s leading Ufologist Hakan Blomqvist discussing John Keel, Mothman, the contactee phenomenon, and esoteric traditions – Alternate Perceptions Magazine, August 2016
• App State Researchers Capture Image Of Unexplained Light At Brown Mountain – WFAE.org, Marshall Terry
• (Video) Robert Powell: Top UFO Cases for 2015
• (Video) UFOs and the Paranormal with John B. Alexander
• The famous UFO/helicopter encounter of 1973 and the secret Pentagon inquiries – Alternate Perceptions Magazine, August 2016, Brent Raynes
• FLASHBACK: ET Go Home: Let’s Retire The Extraterrestrial Hypothesis – Greg Bishop, Steamshovel.press
• FLASHBACK 1976: Planet X! We’re Waiting for You! Texas Monthly, Stephen Harrigan, When the flying saucers land, Ray Stanford and his space cadets will be there. February 1976
• Texan Inventor Jacob Brodbeck Makes World’s First Powered Flight – TexasLessTraveled.com, Logan Hawkes
• Amazing first hand testimonials from Dulce, New Mexico families – Norio Hayakawa, CIVILIAN INTELLIGENCE NEWS SERVICE
• Alien Photographed at Mutilation Site – kevinrandle.blogspot.com
• Rational Ufology – psychosocial hypothesis over extraterrestrial hypothesis – Norio Haywakawa’s, CIVILIAN INTELLIGENCE NEWS SERVICE
• UFOs, “Pokémon Go”, and Augmented Reality – Part 1 – terraobscura.net
• With positive growth at all levels, Edinburg is being transformed into “Destination City”, Mayor García says… – EdinburgPolitics.com
• Cash-Landrum UFO case in American Myths, Legends, and Tall Tales – Curt Collins

Deep State ParaPolitics

• Tom Cruises Mena Pushed Back, Gets New Title – Alex Stedman News Editor, Variety.com
• (Video) John Judge The Reagan shooting 1988
• Why were Saudis “bulletproof” even AFTER the 9/11 Attack? Daniel Hopsicker, MadCowProd.com
• Prince and the ’28 pages’: Indirect 9/11 link to Saudi royal revealed – CNN, Jennifer Rizzo
• Coups Inside NATO: A Disturbing History – ConsortiumNews.com

 

Super Natural / Parapsychology

• ‘Poltergeist’ baffles hardened police officers in Lanarkshire – Jane Hamilton, DailyRecord.co.uk
• ESP in EEG? Study Finds That People’s Brains Show a Neural Spike When a Friend’s Brain is Stimulated – Greg, Daily Grail
• (Video) Archeological Remote Viewing in Japan with Joseph McMoneagle
• (Video) John C. Lilly: Interview at Future Communications Lab
• (Video) Frederic Myers & Psychical Research with Terence Palmer
• New Study of Electroencephalographic Detection of ESP – Carlos S. Alvarado, PhD, Research Fellow, Parapsychology Foundation
• Becoming Edinburghs second Koestler Chair of Parapsychology – Koestler Unit, Caroline Watt
• The Man Who Could Fly: St. Joseph of Copertino and the Mystery of Levitation – Society for Psychical Research, spr.ac.uk
• How Do Intentions and Energy Affect Manifestation?  MonroeInstitute.org, Joe Gallenberger, Residential Trainer
• Is Hypnosis All in Your Head? Brain Scans Suggest Otherwise – The New York Times, Erica Goode
• The Hypnotist and the Warts – RadioLab.org,  Brenna Farrell
  In Near-Death Experiences, Blind People See for First Time – TheEpochTimes.com
• Stanford Scientist: Vast, Powerful Realm Between Particles Influenced by Human Consciousness – TheEpochTimes.com
• Parapsychology: Quantum Mechanics of the Mind Interview with Lloyd Auerbach – Bob Bain, MysteriousMatters.com
• Evaluating the Evidence for Paranormal Phenomena (PDF) –  A Review of Parapsychology: A Handbook for the 21st Century by Etzel Cardeña, John Palmer, and David Marcusson-Clavertz (Eds.) – PsycCRITIQUES May 30, 2016, Vol. 61, No. 22
• Daryl Bem on Parapsychology – PsycCRITIQUES / American Psychological Association

Misc

• Slashed and Hidden from Sight: The Strange Power of Cursed Paintings – Allison Meier, HyperAllergic.com
• Petroglyphs unearthed along Hawaii’s Waianae coast – CNN
• Science Snobs Make Us All Stupid – Hayley Stevens
• Is Austin Really That Weird Anymore? KUT.org, Phil Benpott

 

Mind Kontrol

• ‘Stranger Things’ Is Based on Real-Life Experiments – Sarah Sloat, Inverse.com
• The Propaganda Machine Strikes Out Against Targeted Individuals  – cryptoscatology.blogspot.com

Cryptozoology

• The Secrets of the Wood Wide Web – The New Yorker, Robert Macfarlane
• The Dogman Symposium Reviewed – MysteriousUniverse.org
• Officer who shot Loveland Frogman in 1972 says story is a hoax – WCPO.com, James Leggate
• The Bizarre Saga of Gef, the Talking Mongoose – MysteriousUniverse.org
• “Frog-Men” On The Loose – MysteriousUniverse.org
• What Is A Cryptid? The Gizmodo Guide To Undocumented And Unusual Beasts – gizmodo.co.uk
• New “Black Panther” Reports – texascryptidhunter.blogspot.com
• This beautiful deep sea purple orb has scientists baffled – Michael d’Estries, MNN.com
• Monday Madness: Ecuador Giants, Pulitzer’s Sketchy Contest, Paranormal UFOs, and “Natural Selection” Movie – JasonColavito.com

Evolution / Ancient Civilizations

• The mystery of an ancient site in Britain just took another fascinating twist – Independent.co.uk, David Keys Archaeology Correspondent
• Ancient Earthwork at Winchester, Indiana Shows Stellar Alignments to Cygnus & Orion—From AP Magazine, Dr. Greg Little, Researcher
• TED Can Hold a Grudge: New Graham Hancock TEDx Talk Pasted with Disclaimer About ‘Counterfactual… – DailyGrail.com
• (Video) Gordon Rutter – Mushrooms, Myths & Magic – from The Scottish UFO & Paranormal Conference Glasgow – livestream.com
• The Viking-Less Newport Tower – Episode 37, ArchaeologyPodcastNetwork.com

Copycat Effects

• Evoking Charles Whitman: The UT Tower Shooting in Film – apps.texastribune.org

Archives and Libraries

• Syria’s secret library – BBC World, Mike Thomson BBC News
• Oxford museum exhibits roast under newly cleaned glass roof – ChannelNewsAsia.com
• Why the Internet Needs the WayBack Machine, the Site That Archives the Web – Entrepreneur.com, Grace Read