Source: Anomaly Archives eNews 6/25/2017
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June 25th, 2017 – Austin, Texas. . .
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70th Anniversary of the Birth of the Modern UFO Era
Audio interview of Kenneth Arnold (YouTube)
This week marks the 70th anniversaries of the two most seminal events in the birthing of the modern UFO era’s major myths: Kenneth Arnold’s sighting of a shimmering squadron of delta shaped objects over Mount Rainier, Washington and the crash of a mysterious ‘whatsit’ outside Roswell, New Mexico with alleged alien bodies recovered by the military. Both events occurred in the Summer of 1947, with the Arnold sighting cited as kicking off the American Flying Saucer craze and the Roswell newsflash only coming to prominence with the publication of The Roswell Incident (by Charles Berlitz and William Moore) in 1980.
I grew up believing in the classic myth of Roswell representing crashed saucers and pickled aliens scooped up and covered up by the US government but have since come to lean heavily towards the research documented by Nick Redfern in his two books: Body Snatchers in the Desert in 2005 and its recent follow-up, The Roswell UFO Conspiracy (May 2017). Both books detail a probable American project melding nefarious human experimentation with advanced avionics / nuclear radiation research. A sort of Project Paperclip (American importation of German Nazi scientists) meets Unit-731 (the Japanese version of Germany’s Dr. Mengele horrors) combining Fugo-balloons, unwitting human subjects (both Japanese and American), and Nazi Horten-brother flying-wing technologies. It’s a lot to take-in and no one wants to believe it but given the facts that we already know regarding each area of research (not to mention the CIA’s MK-Ultra sub-projects) it becomes all too plausible. Well, Nick Redfern is among the illustrious list of speakers presenting at one of two different UFO conferences being held in Roswell this year.
“Challenges to ET” conference organizer Guy Malone.
Albuquerque Journal coverage of upcoming conferences.
Given the sad state of UFOlogy this year (see our previous issue and this issue’s news headlines) it will be interesting to see what new information is presented at the two conferences being held. I will be attending the “Challenges to ET” conference hosted by Guy Malone that features Nick Redfern, Jack Brewer, Greg Bishop, Michael Heiser, and Joseph Jordan. I’ll also likely catch a speech or two at the Roswell Incident conference that is presented by the Roswell Daily Record newspaper which is set to feature presentations from Richard Dolan, Linda Howe, Nick Pope, Chase Kloetzke, Chuck Zukowski, Debbie Ziegelmeyer, Race Hobbs, David Marler, Marc D’Antonio, Alejandro Rojas, Courtney Brown, and Josh Gates.
So, if you are going to be in Roswell from June 29th to July 2nd, drop me a line at SMiles@AnomalyArchives.org and maybe we can have some interesting conversations-over-saucers!
Meanwhile…
Stop UFOlogical Cultural Appropriation &
Exploitation of Ancient Human Remains!
You have undoubtedly come across news items alleging the discovery of a new mysterious body from Peru being touted as a mummified, possibly alien, body. Blogger and researcher Curt Collins (Blue Blurry Lines) writes:
“The remains of the dead should not be used as props for UFO promoters and entertainers like Maussan and Gaia. We’ve had the Star Child, Greer’s Sirius “Atacama Humanoid,” and when challenged about the BeWitness Slides, Maussan offered a bounty for the child’s body itself.
Forensic Anthropologists should be in charge of this kind of thing. Once the science is done, if there’s anything valid, share it with the world.
Until then, let the dead rest in peace. Don’t support the exploitation.”
I couldn’t agree more with Mr. Collins on this issue. You’d think folks would have learned by now, especially after the Roswell “Alien” Slides debacle promoted by Jaime Maussan and others fell apart in May of 2015. Yet the human will to believe continues, with many UFOlks looking for the next Smoking-Gun / Holy-Grail to prove their beliefs in ExtraTerrestrial visitation. For a more probable, down-to-earth explanation, see this Peruvian website’s investigation of this and other likely “manipulated artifacts.” (Hat tip to Sharon Hill of Doubtful News)
Check out the other great news links in our headlines section below.
Find all of them and more at our Flipboard page: Anomaly Archives Flipboard.
– CARGO CULTure
We’ve also got a great musical interlude this issue to satisfy the alien in all of us… the band Blur performing “Thought I Was A Spaceman,” live
– BOOK OF THE WEEK
This week’s book focuses on the man who some say…
“Made the World Believe in UFOs”
Check out our Book-of-the-Week below!
See y’all next issue!
Blur – Thought I Was A Spaceman
La Musicale 2015
[Verse 1]
Thought I was a spaceman
Digging out my heart
In some distant sand dunes
In a car park
Cause the desert had encroached upon
The places where we lived
People like me fight
To keep the demons in
But we never succeeded
We never succeeded
In fact we failed
[Verse 2]
Thought I was a spaceman
Digging out my heart
In some distant sand dune
In a car park
By the empty harbour
Where the junk boat phantoms float
The fight for happy valley
Sadly, the line broke
[Verse 3]
Thought I found my black box
Washed up on the shore
On outlying islands
Past the land fall
Thought I thought I’d found it
But that was not true at all
I’d walked into a bar
Raised hell
[Verse 4]
Cut the chasm out me
Always and always the same
Put the ghost in writing
And let it be (you again)
Thought I was a spaceman
Digging out my heart
In some distant sand dune
In Hyde Park
[Verse 5]
Thought I was a spaceman
Digging out my heart
In some distant sand dune
You again
Thought I was a spaceman
Digging out my heart
In some distant sand dune
You again
You again
You again
[Lyrics via Genius.com]
Book of the Week…
The Close Encounters Man
How One Man Made the World Believe in UFOs
by Mark O’Connell
‘The Close Encounters Man’ tells the unlikely story of how the government’s astrophysicist debunker became the phenomenon’s most expert defender.
“If you’re jonesing for an extraterrestrial, you should check out The Close Encounters Man by Mark O’Connell. O’Connell, a writer for Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and founder of the UFO blog High Strangeness, set out to write “a UFO book people wouldn’t need to hide from other people.” He found his ideal subject in J. Allen Hynek, the astronomer hired by the United States Air Force in 1948 to debunk the reports of strange objects in the sky flooding in from across the country. Eventually Hynek broke with his handlers and became the first scientist to lend credence to the UFO phenomenon. The author of 1972’s The UFO Experience: A Scientific Study, he would go on to found the Center for UFO Studies in 1973, present a speech on flying saucers to the United Nations in 1978, and develop the “close encounter” scale that would inspire Steven Spielberg’s popular Close Encounters of the Third Kind (“a huge boon to his work,” O’Connell told me. “They shot a scene where the little aliens grab Hynek’s pipe from him and stick it up their noses, but it was cut down to a six-second cameo.”)
In telling the life story of Hynek, the “astro-beatnik,” O’Connell winds up with a stunning panorama of the UFO movement—from fringe conspiracy theorists to amateur astronomers to agnostic scientists—as well as its colossal impact on pop culture and modern science. I recently spoke with O’Connell over the phone about Hynek’s unique story of skeptic turned believer, the scientific study of the inexplicable, and what makes a good UFO witness.”
Read the rest of this interview with author and UFO researcher Mark O’Connell at the Source: The Professional UFO Skeptic Who Believed in Aliens – VICE by J. W. McCormack – May 30 2017
On the MUFON / John Ventre Scandal …
“Mark O’Connell, formerly an active MUFON investigator but also an open-minded critic of the organization has severed his ties with them over this series of incidents: UFO Fever.”
On Roswell & his debate with Don Schmitt …
Beating a Dead UFO – HighStrangenessUFO.com
“So, the other day I did a webcast with noted UFO authority and all-around nice guy Kevin Randle (you can listen to it here), in which we discussed the Roswell Debate I had recently with Don Schmitt. The debate, for those of you new to the story, took place at the Milwaukee Paranormal Conference earlier this fall. It was sponsored by well-known UFO and paranormal media outlet KGRA Radio, but after webcasting the debate live, KGRA has decided for reasons known only to them to reneg on their promise to post the debate on their website.”
Book Page at Anomaly Archives…
Headlines
Here are some headlines of note for this week:
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- The “Roswell Alien Slides” And My Apology To A Dead Chlid Of The Mesa Verde – June 25, 2017
- Anonymous Hacktivist Group: NASA Is About To Announce Discovery Of Technologically Advanced Alien Life – June 25, 2017
- How One Gaming YouTuber Started An Actual Cult June 25, 2017
- Select Memories Can Be Erased, Leaving Others Intact June 25, 2017
- MUFON, Racism and Dodging the Questions June 25, 2017
- 1954 UFO Whistleblower: Frank E Keely June 23, 2017
- ADP: Jan Harzan – MUFON’s Inner Circle and Some Racist Members June 23, 2017
- The San Luis Valley, CO/NM June 21, 2017
- Dean Radin – The Importance of Studying Consciousness June 21, 2017
- New statement from Gary Heseltine regarding Peter Robbins statement about Warren’s lies. Warren is innocent, Peter is weak minded, Barry Greenwood a forgetful old man, Sacha Christie and Col Charles Halt are liars. June 21, 2017
- Nancy Jeane, Remote Viewer June 21, 2017
- Author Nick Redfern talks about his new book “The Roswell UFO Conspiracy” June 20, 2017
- Bunk Psychic Absconds from Criminal Sentencing June 19, 2017
- Travis Walton and Jennifer Stein – May 21, 2017 June 18, 2017
- ‘Bigfoot crossing’ signs go up in Round Rock June 17, 2017
- ‘Bigfoot’ Prints in TX City Explained June 17, 2017
- Scientists smash quantum entanglement distance record June 17, 2017
- Dr. J. Allen Hynek on the Cash-Landrum UFO case June 16, 2017
- Images show Bigfoot may be roaming north of SA, according to Texas Park officials June 16, 2017
- ‘UFOs: Reframing the Debate’: The Complete Introduction June 16, 2017
- John Keel, Witness to the Birth of the UFO Subculture June 16, 2017
- The Supremacy of Scientism: Is Science the Only Legitimate Method of Gaining Knowledge? June 16, 2017
- Dulce, New Mexico family victimized by “domestic terrorism” June 15, 2017
- The Fall of a New Age ‘Star’: Sean David Morton June 15, 2017
- The Shocking Doomsday Maps Of The World And The Billionaire Escape Plans June 14, 2017
- UFOs: Reframing the Roswell Slides Fiasco June 12, 2017
- Detroit Now Has a TARDIS-Shaped Library June 12, 2017
- Whitley Strieber’s Dreamland | Abduction: Insights and Help for Experiencers June 11, 2017
- NOW PLAYING! June 11, 2017 — Robbie Graham and Robert Brandstetter June 11, 2017
- These two fishermen faced down a sea monster in Casco Bay June 11, 2017
- Is There A Link Between Dreaming And Brain Disorders? | International Business Times June 11, 2017
- Eric Davis, Physicist, Explains Why Scientists Won’t Discuss Their UFO Interests June 11, 2017
- Sasquatch sightings in the Bay? June 10, 2017
- VINTAGE SCI-FI COLLECTION: COVER ART – Lombard-Avenue June 10, 2017
- Genetic Memory, DNA and Reincarnation: The Science of Past Lives June 10, 2017
- Evidential Mediumship – What is Mediumship Evidence June 10, 2017
- Human GPS—a Theory for Right Place Right Time Coincidences June 9, 2017
- SEXISM, RACISM AND UFOLOGY June 9, 2017
- Video Nugget: Military Screening for Remote Viewers with Paul Smith June 9, 2017
- The “Other” Rendlesham Forest UFO Encounters June 9, 2017
- UFO FOTOCAT BLOG June 9, 2017
- New book on alleged Roswell “saucer crash” controversy points to far more sinister secrets June 8, 2017
- Oldest Homo sapiens bones ever found shake foundations of the human story June 7, 2017
- Happy Anniversary, Remote Viewing! June 7, 2017
- Joe Pyne Was America’s First Shock Jock June 5, 2017
- The Flying Saucers Are Real(ly Profitable) June 5, 2017
- The extraordinary legacy of Dr. J. Allen Hynek – “The Close Encounters Man” June 4, 2017
- The U.S. Military Believes People Have a Sixth Sense June 4, 2017
- Roswell has FINALLY been ‘solved’ – and ‘truth’ is more shocking than you could believe June 3, 2017
- Following in John Keel’s Footsteps (but with references) June 3, 2017
- AP Magazine June 3, 2017
- AP Magazine June 3, 2017
- TERROR IN BRITAIN: WHAT DID THE PRIME MINISTER KNOW? June 2, 2017
- A Field Full of Secrets – Deleted Scenes – The Military, Operation Blackbird and the “D Notice” June 2, 2017
- IRVA Conference 2016 June 1, 2017
- Successful FOIA Request For Larry Warren’s Military Records. They DO Exist. June 1, 2017
- Nick Redfern – Alternative Roswell Theory – May 30, 2017 May 31, 2017
- Paranormal Convergence-Linking NDEs, OBEs and Abductions May 31, 2017
- The Professional UFO Skeptic Who Believed in Aliens May 30, 2017
- Good Riddance, Conspiracy Nuts: Why You Won’t Hear Me Talk about “Pizzagate” and Other Bullshit… May 30, 2017
- Pizzagate: Truth, Lies, New Dutroux X-Dossiers Ties May 30, 2017
- UFO expert accuses co-author of ‘deceiving’ him with account of sighting during infamous Rendlesham Forest incident May 30, 2017
- Military Intelligence Interest in Remote Viewing with Russell Targ May 29, 2017
- Space Pioneer & Billionaire, Robert Bigelow Talks UFOs & Aliens on 60 Minutes May 29, 2017
- Olm issue 8 May 29, 2017
- Dr. Dean Radin, Urges Science to Examine the Supernormal – Skeptiko #216 May 29, 2017
- “I am Indrid Cold” – Archetypes, Tricksters, and Divisions in UFO Discourse May 29, 2017
- The Paranormal: Just When You Thought It Was Safe to Go Back in the Water May 29, 2017
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Source: Anomaly Archives eNews 6/25/2017