Anomaly Archives eNews – August 17th, 2022

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The Anomaly Archives Email Newsletter

August 17, 2022 – Austin, Texas

Well… I can’t take any longer to get this newsletter out. It’s long overdue and we need to get back on our regular irregular schedule. Its been too many months and the news headlines are piling up!

First, I want to thank Ben and Joe of the Ufo Garage Podcast for their fundraising for the Anomaly Archives. They donated over $500 and we greatly appreciate it.

Thank you SO MUCH, Ben and Joe!

Check em out at … UfoGaragePodcast.com / YouTube Channel / Merch Store

So many Videos! So much News! So many things I want to comment on and focus your attention towards … However, in order to get this newsletter out ASAP, I’m just going to point you all at some interesting and important stuff in the VIDEO section! You can do your own digging through the mass of news headlines in the NEWS section.

So, have you seen the new film from director Jordan Peele? It’s called NOPE and for me and others, its a fantastic exploration of an old idea within classic Ufology… while also being an important and powerful indictment of The Spectacle.

SPOILERS AHEAD!!!

If you want to be a blank slate going into this movie (which is NOT for the faint of heart – its a “horror” movie but not necessarily the way you likely think of traditional horror movies) then don’t click any of these links. The first link gives you some important insight into the most horrific aspect of the film and perhaps helps viewers decide whether the film is something they can watch:

Gordy the Chimp Is the Key to ‘Nope’
‘Nope’ explained: Gordy the chimpanzee and more clues to unpacking Jordan Peele’s epic
‘Nope’ explained: All the references in Jordan Peele’s new movie
NOPE review by Victoria Alexander (yes THAT Victoria Alexander – creator of the Bigelow Foundation funded Alexander UFO Religious Crisis Survey and wife of John Alexander) – FYI, she didn’t like it and truly does not seem to GET IT.

FLASHBACKS that might be related…

“Flying Persinger Helmets“- Hallucinogenic Hypno-Vision and the Plasmatic Cells of Gaia by Andrew Gaze
Unidentified Flying Amoeba by Andrew Gaze
Flying Saucers Explained by John Walker of AUTODESK fame
Space Animal Theory (of UFOs) by Ronald D. Story, from UFOs and the Limits of Science circa 1981
Charles Fort, Ken Arnold & Space Animal UFOs

And speaking of Gaia and CryptoTerrestrials …

Also, there is an old archival video of Terence McKenna and John Mack in Prague, circa 1992, that has been making the rounds. McKenna asks Mack to expound upon his sense of what is going on with the “Alien Abduction” phenomena, and… well, I think you will enjoy Mack’s description of what he thought was happening. See the VIDEO section below.

And speaking of Terence McKenna, check out our BOOK(S) OF THE WEEK section!

Meanwhile… In the NEWS section below, you’ll find a TON of Anomalous News Headlines but we want to specifically point you towards the government’s new “All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office” and what exactly NASA’s role will be in this renewed government UFO investigation.

Thanks to David Haith for the transcript below from this YouTube video: NASA Announces Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) Study.

A NASA spokesman explains…

“Given the paucity of observations, our first task is simply to gather the most robust set of data that we can,” said David Spergel. “We will be identifying what data – from civilians, government, non-profits, companies – exists, what else we should try to collect, and how to best analyze it.” . . .

QUESTION: “NASA has tens of thousands of hours of video of spacecraft, the international space station, it can be argued that NASA’s got more access to the public data looking up and looking down than any other public organization in the world.

So are we to understand that that you will be reviewing all that’s accessible publicly within NASA as well as other public videos or signals intelligence or whatever that may be and putting it in a study for a hundred thousand dollars or less?

ANSWER from one of the NASA officials “Okay I can answer. This is no different to any scientific investigation that we would undertake and the first step in any of those investigations is to figure out what data is at hand that’s step one. THIS IS ALL THIS STUDY IS DOING IS TO FIGURE OUT WHAT DATA ONE MIGHT USE TO INTERROGATE BETTER. Okay we’re not actually going to be within that budget analyzing those data directly. This is just step one, what data out there that could be brought to bear upon the problem.”

QUESTIONER COMES BACK... “Just to clarify, so there will be no determination on whether this is prosaic or something else… it’ll just be basically what we’ve kind of seen from the DOD which is, we have you know 200 and some cases or such and such many cases of unexplained phenomenon, is that what the the final product or the final first product may look like at the end of this study?”

THOMAS ZURBUCHEN: “What I expect the final product to look like is to really address the questions that relate to what are the data we should be looking at? How should we doing that? Are there data we should get that that are not currently there? So it’s much more kind of that the output from this particular study is not to sift through all the data and do all this research, it’s to kind of make a proposal for a research program that we can then implement, based on the inputs and the principles that are there. Dave I’ll kick it to you”

DAVID SPERGAL: “Just to reinforce what Thomas said I think we will end up probably saying, look here’s the data we have usually. When you do that you then reach the conclusion that while the data we have is okay but if only we took the data differently… you know observed from above and below a certain region of the sky at the same time, for example, I mean without having done the analysis, I don’t know what it’ll look like, but ways of observing the future that might give much more insight, ways of analysis in the future. You know Thomas mentioned AI and MI (?) – we now have a lot of methodologies that are effective at finding anomalous events, finding fast moving objects, finding objects that move anomalously. I’m imagining we will end up pointing it perhaps in future directions, that NASA may want to consider future stuff. You know we will hopefully at least, lay out some of the roadmap of how we might make progress in the future.”

Also, you should pay attention to what’s been going on with the media’s reportage on Travis Taylor’s involvement in the recent UAP investigations:

“The first time Travis Taylor met Chris Bartel, who worked for Bigelow’s BAASS at Skinwalker Ranch, he asked him: “How does it feel to know you’re a human guinea pig?” Claim made by Carl Vibe here.

Well that’s all for now. More … Coming Soon!

SMiles Lewis / Founder
AnomalyArchives.org
SMilesLewis.com

Terence McKenna Digital Revival Series (Episode 1) – Alien Abduction Experiences

We Plants Are Happy Plants on YouTube

“Join Terence McKenna in a new series featuring never before seen footage, as he interviews prominent figures in the transpersonal community. Terence McKenna Digital Revival is a twelve-part series by Peter Bergmann, creator of the documentaries “The Transcendental Object At The End Of Time” and “Terence McKenna’s True Hallucinations”. In episode one, Terence interviews John E. Mack, an American psychiatrist, writer, and professor and department head at Harvard Medical School. As the head of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, Mack’s clinical expertise was in child psychology, adolescent psychology, and the psychology of religion. He later became a researcher in the psychology of alien abduction experiences.”

Alien Abduction and UFOs: Why Are Grays So Common? (feat Josef Lorenzo) | Monstrum – June 16, 2022

Monstrum with Emily Zarka, Ph.D. / EmilyElizabethZarka.com

Check out Subcultured’s episode on UFOs and aliens on @PBS Voices: https://youtu.be/QTcshwqZUL0

Don’t miss future episodes of Monstrum, subscribe! http://bit.ly/pbsstoried_sub

For audio descriptions, go to Settings – Audio Track – English Descriptive.

Grey Aliens, sometimes called Zeta Reticulans, Roswell Greys, or just Grays, are defined by their humanoid forms, long limbs, large black eyes, small noses, thin mouths, and of course, gray skin or gray clothing. They are some of pop culture’s most recognizable representations of extraterrestrial life. But where did this depiction of extraterrestrials come from, and why are Grays the ones mostly responsible for all the abductions?

Special thank you to Josef Lorenzo and the entire Subcultured team for the delightful conversation and invaluable contribution to this episode.

The world is full of monsters, myths, and legends and Monstrum isn’t afraid to take a closer look. The show, hosted by Emily Zarka, Ph.D., takes us on a journey to discover a new monster in each new episode. Monstrum looks at humans’ unique drive to create and shape monster mythology through oral storytelling, literature, and film and digs deep into the history of those mythologies.

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Eghigian, Greg. “Making UFOs Make Sense: Ufology, Science, and the History of Their Mutual Mistrust.” Public Understanding of Science (Bristol, England), vol. 26, no. 5, 2017, pp. 612–26.
Gomel, E. Science Fiction, Alien Encounters, and the Ethics of Posthumanism: Beyond the Golden Rule, Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2014.
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Kocis, Desiree. “Ghost Airships of the 1800s.” Plane&Pilot, April 2020, pp. 10–11.
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UFOs in the USAF

“Audio transferred from old sound tapes that were once the property of the US Air Force. They were part of the investigation tools used by Project Blue Book. Several years ago I received them as well as other items from a former officer assigned to the program. The visuals are also from the collection.”

Book(s) Of The Week

The Ecology of Souls: A New Mythology of Death & the Paranormal

By Joshua Cutchin

“Those of us who work in these strangest of folklores work with conjectures, not certainties, with intuitions, not conclusions. Still, there are particularly gifted writers whom I profoundly trust to guide me. Joshua Cutchin is among them. Here are yet two more big books from him on a global comparison that many of us have made but no one has pursued to the literal ends of the earth, as he has here—that between the world of the dead and the world of the UFO. Please read these books. And please recognize that when we can only speak of these glowing presences as ‘threats’ in the sky, we might as well be trying to shoot down souls. Good luck with that.”

— Jeffrey J. Kripal, J. Newton Rayzor Professor of Religion, Associate Dean of the School of Humanities, Rice University