Coming Up For This Month’s Anomaly-Academy Patron Presentation…
Adam Gorightly Presents…
“The Bob Beck Collection: Space Age Photos From The Past!”
Sunday, May 25th, 2025 at 5pm Central / 3pm Pacific
“What initially inspired myself and collaborator Greg Bishop to co-author A is for Adamski: The Golden Age of the UFO Contactees was the discovery of The Beck Collection, a series of photos taken by a fellow (you guessed it) named Bob Beck.
In 1948, Robert “Bob” Beck (1925-2002), started a photographic-audiovisual firm, Color Control Color Laboratories Company, that designed special lighting techniques for a number of MGM productions like An American in Paris and Show Boat. In the 1960s, Beck was responsible for the groundbreaking special effects featured in Roger Corman’s psychedelic epic The Trip.
Somewhere along the way, Beck befriended George Van Tassel, attending several Giant Rock Interplanetary Spacecraft Conventions where he photographed the UFO contactees in attendance, many of these photos which appear exclusively in A is for Adamski. Van Tassel’s work in “cellular rejuvenation” dovetailed with similar interests shared by Beck related to alternative health cures produced by electromagnetism. To this end, Beck was involved—at least in an advisory capacity—with the construction of Van Tassel’s Integratron.”
MEANWHILE … So much has been going on in the weird wild world of UFOlogy / UAPology it can be hard to track it all. Check out founder SMiles Lewis’ recent coverage of all things anomalous in the two most recent episodes of Anomaly-NOW!
“Micah Hanks is a writer, podcaster, researcher and speaker whose interests cover a variety of subjects, including history, archaeology, science, and the future of humankind.
A longtime researcher and proponent of the scientific study of unidentified aerial phenomena, or UFOs, Micah has authored a number of books and has contributed many essays, articles and blogs to various publications. Along with his podcasts, he has also worked as a narrator, lending his voice to several audiobooks, radio programs, and other recorded projects over the years.”
Anomaly Archives is looking for new board members and officers (including an Officer in the role of Treasurer). These are unpaid board / officer positions and we ask for someone willing to commit for at least a few years.
The ideal candidate is interested in and/or passionate about one or more anomalous phenomena and the preservation of materials exploring the wide spectrum of topics in our collections. They will hopefully have experience with non-profit board service but this isn’t necessarily a requirement.
For the Treasurer Officer role they should have experience with non-profit finances or basic financial principles and can provide guidance to the board on P&L statements, Budgeting, Cash Flow, and analysis of the financial health of the organization.
Greetings fellow Seekers! What strange fast-moving times we are living in. I’ve not been able to do our weekly “Anomaly-NOW!” show for a couple of weeks now but hope to resume soon. We’ve done two 2024 Year End Review episodes (Part One / Part Two) and need to do a final Part Three show but we shall see…
Its understandable if you have to play catchup with regard to the many UFO whistleblower claims and other interesting news going around lately. Here are just a few Anomaly Archives resource pages to get you started on your journey of discovery:
Anomaly Academy Lecture – Wednesday, October 23rd at 7pm CST!
Greg Bishop Presents… Can Hard Data and Materialism Solve the UFO Enigma?
Greg Bishop is the author of multiple books on strange subjects, the Los Angeles based radio host of the Radio Misterioso show, Excluded Middle magazine editor, Project Censored Award Winner, Conspiracy Zone tv-show consultant, author of numerous magazine articles, digital audio engineer, film production supervisor and paraglider pilot.
His writing and research includes the acclaimed books PROJECT BETA – The Story of Paul Bennewitz, National Security, and the Creation of a Modern UFO Myth, Weird California, and other works. Greg’s writing on the UFO subject appeared regularly at the UFOmystic blog and was compiled, along with new writing, into the book, It Defies Language! Essays On UFOs And Other Weirdness. Another collection of past writings from Excluded Middle magazine were published in the anthology Wake Up Down There!
For more information and links to a wide variety of lectures by and interviews with Greg Bishop, please see our Anomaly Archives webpage for Greg Bishop. Those include his recent appearances on Jeffrey Mishlove’s New Thinking Allowed, at the Athens-Clarke County Library on UFOs as Cosmic Art, talking with Whitley Strieber, speaking on Alien Writing to the National Museum of Language, at the opening of Rice University’s Archives of the Impossible, and much more!
[Below: Greg speaks with SMiles Lewis on the SUAPS (Society for UAP Studies) Conference]
If you aren’t already a Patron of the Anomaly Archives, please consider becoming a Patreon member today. We recommend the Anomaly Academy Cadet monthly supporter level for $10 a month. That monthly donation gets you access to each month’s new live online lecture presentation and to the archive of past presentations that this monthly schedule will generate over time.
Our first three monthly presentations included Brent Raynes, Professor WHAM, and Joshua Cutchin, and last month we released a long lost audio recording of one of paranormal cryptozoology researcher Rob Riggs’ last lectures given to the Anomaly Archives Austin audience in 2014.
Anomaly Academy 2024-06 – June – Brent Raynes – “Brent Raynes: A Lifetime of Exploring the UFO mystery and its psychic components”
There are other membership levels you can subscribe to at the monthly rates of $1, $2, or $5. All levels of support help us fulfill our nonprofit mission and goals, however, the $10 a month level gets you access to the monthly lecture presentation and past presentations. Future benefits are planned ranging from early access to Anomaly-Roundtable panel discussions, patron-only content, deep-dive interviews, online classes and more!
Thank you for your commitment to furthering the Anomaly Archives’ mission of preservation of anomalous materials and public education about those collections.
If you haven’t already become a member and are curious about the recently released audio recording of Rob Riggs’ 2014 lecture on “The Texas Bigfoot Enigma” then you may want to take a listen to thisAudio Sample (MP3 approx. 9 minutes excerpt) which features Rob describing our infamous synchronicity experience on the Sabine River with researcher Chester Moore on his “Swamp Devil” boat. You can find that and more at our Anomaly Archives webpage for this Rob Riggs lecture.
Greetings from Anomaly Archives founder, SMiles Lewis. Thank you for your past and continued support of our nonprofit charitable community goals and mission. The Anomaly Archives is launching a new Patreon-based community building and fundraising program and we need your support. One of the Anomaly Archives’ longtime original goals since its founding in 2003 has been to establish a distance learning academy focused on the many anomalous fields of inquiry orbiting the worlds of UFOs and the paranormal. In the coming year, we plan on expanding our community programming to include online classes as part of a distance-learning Anomaly-Academy / UFO-University / Visible-College curriculum.
Beginning this month – Saturday, June 29th, 2024 – we are launching a new Anomaly Academy Monthly Lecture Series. Each month we’ll be hosting a fascinating presentation from fellow Anomalists and Fortean Seekers. Each month’s presentation becomes part of a growing back-catalog of content available to our community of Patreon members.
We are asking that you consider becoming a Patreon member today and we recommend the Anomaly Academy Cadet monthly supporter level for $10 a month. That monthly donation gets you access to each month’s new live online lecture presentation and to the archive of past presentations that this monthly schedule will generate over time.
July 13th – Prof WHAM – Saturday, July 13th at 3pm CST – “Congratulations! You’re a Paranormal Investigator”
August 24th – Joshua Cutchin, Saturday, August 24th at 1pm CST – “SoulCraft: Understanding the UFO as a Death Symbol”
There are other membership levels you can subscribe to at the monthly rates of $1, $2, or $5. All levels of support help us fulfill our nonprofit mission and goals, however, the $10 a month level gets you access to the monthly lecture presentation and past presentations. Future benefits are planned ranging from early access to Anomaly-Roundtable panel discussions, patron-only content, deep-dive interviews, online classes and more!
Thank you for your commitment to furthering the Anomaly Archives’ mission of preservation of anomalous materials and public education about those collections.
We look forward to seeing you at each month’s lecture presentation.
If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to inquire…
We started doing the Anomaly Archives eNews back in January of 2005 and then creating the MailChimp versions starting in January 2016. So we’ve been fulfilling part of our nonprofit’s Public Education mission through these efforts for about 20 years (we formed the 501c3 nonprofit back in 2003).
The Anomaly Archives will continue putting out similar eNewsletters but there will be changes going forward into 2024. Stay tuned for updates!
In the meantime, check out our recent post at the website with all of my favorite links from 2023 as I take a two-part look back in the official…
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 Austin SéanceJournal of Séance and Spiritualist History … the Estes Method and WeirdATX / Beyond Weird Paranormal podcast!
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.”
Second Summer Rock / Saucer Skipping … Song/Music-Of-The-Week
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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Check out our free weekly live news show, “Anomaly-NOW!” If you’ve missed any episodes of the show (streaming Wednesdays @ 7pm Central Standard Time) check out the episode directory on our website or catch it live via our YouTube channel, Facebook page, Twitch channel, and Twitter page.
Wow! I didn’t expect a new wave of whistleblowing claims for my 52nd birthday month. Not only did I get an intense media campaign featuring someone I was completely unfamiliar with (Dave Grusch making the usual claims of crashed saucers, pickled aliens and government cover-ups) but also the 22nd year anniversary of Steve Greer‘s famous 2001 UFO Disclosure Project press conference at the National Press Club in Washington D.C. for over three hours on my birthday. You can watch our coverage of this news in the June 7th and June 14th episodes of Anomaly-NOW!
If you’ve missed any episodes of “Anomaly-NOW!”, our live, weekly, news roundup show, Wednesdays @ 7pm Central Standard Time, there are various ways for you to catch it. It is usually streamed live via our YouTube channel, Facebook page, Twitch channel, and Twitter page.
Check out the rest of this issue’s content:
Book-of-the-Week: Memoirs of a Monster Hunter: A Five-Year Journey in Search of the Unknown by Nick Redfern
Video-of-the-Week below: Ingo Swann: A Life Gone Wild New Thinking Allowed with Jeffrey Mishlove
News Links: From the end of April, all of May and most of June. See below…
Ingo Swann: A Life Gone Wild
New Thinking Allowed with Jeffrey Mishlove
“Ingo Swann (1933-2013) led what can only be called a life filled with a constellation of connections.
In 2009, Ingo invited filmmakers into his home to begin what was going to be a documentary on his contributions to remote viewing, but what happened instead was it turned into a wild ride into with myriad of facets of Ingo’s life. Footage shot during this time, from 2009-2011, captured Ingo at his eccentric best, and was coupled with interviews of 20+ people who had been in Ingo’s orbit at some point during his life’s adventures.
After Ingo passed away, Swann-Ryder Productions, LLC, began expanding the dimensions of the film, and between 2015-2017, 30+ additional interviews were undertaken, covering everything from Ingo’s early days, to his encounters with UFOs and ETs, to his sojourn into the powers of the human mind. In total, the footage shows that Ingo’s life is truly as Ingo said, “… a life gone wild.”
A short trailer was created offering a hint of what a full-length documentary film could be. This short film, the video herein, won Best Bio Pic at the 2017 Philip K. Dick Film Festival in New York City. We are releasing this short film on the New Thinking Allowed channel with permission. We hope you enjoy this small peek into the life of Ingo Swann.”
“For centuries, people across the world have had a fascination with monsters and strange creatures. They marvel at the tales and legends of the Bigfoot of the Pacific Northwest; of the Abominable Snowman of the Himalayas; of the infamous and diabolical Moth-Man of West Virginia; of fire-breathing dragons; and of those dark denizens of the deep: lake monsters and sea serpents. But do such creatures really exist? Can it be true that our planet is home to fantastic beasts that lurk deep within its forests and waters? Memoirs of a Monster Hunter proves the answer is a resounding yes!
In this follow-up to his wildly successful Three Men Chasing Monsters, paranormal investigator and author Nick Redfern chronicles his surreal road-trip through the United States and beyond in search of all-things monstrous. His strange adventures lasted five years and saw him doggedly pursuing a menagerie of creatures, including gargoyles, giant birds, and what some believe are living dinosaurs.”
Photo above: Jim Bunnell, Renee Lewis (behind), Rob Riggs, Miles Lewis (behind), Paul Devereux, and others from the trip to the Big Thicket.
Excerpts below detail the Ghost Lights Mini-Conference put on by the Anomaly Archives with the help and sponsorship of Rob Riggs. Anomaly Archives founder SMiles Lewis MC’d the event which featured Nick Redfern, England’s earth lights researcher Paul Devereux, and Marfa, Texas mystery lights researcher Jim Bunnell.
Timber! The World’s First Wooden Transistor – Balsa-based circuit component could be integrated into living plants. By Dina Genkina, 29 APR 2023 https://spectrum.ieee.org/wood-transistor
Do fish bay at the moon? Can their odd songs identify Hawaiian mystery fish? Eavesdropping scientists progress in recording, understanding ocean soundscapes. Peer-Reviewed Publication, NEWS RELEASE 26-APR-2023 – PROGRAMME FOR THE HUMAN ENVIRONMENT, THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/987111
“Micah Hanks is a writer, podcaster, researcher and speaker whose interests cover a variety of subjects, including history, archaeology, science, and the future of humankind.
Greetings from Anomaly Archives founder, SMiles Lewis. Thank you for your past and continued support of our nonprofit charitable community goals and mission. The Anomaly Archives is launching a new 
ParaPeculiar Museum & Podcast
