911 Anniversary Special from the Audio Archives: 2008 Interview with Len Bracken
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Greetings everyone. This is Anomaly Archives founder, SMiles Lewis.
Here we are, a quarter century after the devastating 911 attacks of 2001. Once a year those of us who were alive and aware at the time often reflect on the long strange journey our country and the world have travelled in the wake of the events of that day.
Many of you are aware of my having to cancel NUFOC 38, the 38th annual National UFO Conference that I had organized and was to host at the original Alamo Drafthouse cinema location that weekend of September 14th through 16th. However, with most flights cancelled that week, I had to cancel the event.
Within a year of that terrible attack on America, a friend and I would found APT: Austin-Para-Times, a paranormal and parapolitical newsprint magazine. My editorial for the second issue featured a description of a drone sighting* I’d had and then a rant about 911 conspiracy theories as well as parapsychological data and precognitive dreams associated with the attacks. Sometime in late 2005 or early 2006 I would create an audio version of that editorial for episodes of a 911-Podcast and a DreamPodcast that I launched. A few years later that audio would be played by a radio host on Austin’s KOOP 91.7 fm station. Then a few more years later, I created a video version for an informal 2015 lecture titled, “SynchroMystic-911: Deep ParaPolitics & Esoteric-Occult High-Strangeness Surrounding September 11th’ A Post-Modern Audio/Video Exploration of Pop-Culture, Through A Jungian-Synchronicity-Lens … Darkly.” You can watch that video here and read the second half of that editorial here.
Over the years I hosted or was a guest on various terrestrial and internet radio shows talking about the events of September 11th, 2001 (see an incomplete list below). From appearances on Robert Larson’s Cartoon Pleroma and Out the Rabbit Hole shows to hosting parapolitical discussions on my Anomaly Radio LIVE and Blue Rose Report shows as well as co-hosting PsiOp-Radio with Mack White and co-hosting Austin News & Views with Thom White – founder and publisher of CITIZINE magazine. More recently, I spoke about my deep feelings surrounding the events of 911 and other sadness inducing memories I now associate with August and September ever since 2021 during broadcasts of Anomaly-NOW in 2023 and 2024.
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911 Anniversary Special from the Audio Archives: 2008 Interview with Len Bracken
In 2008 I interviewed the author of the first book published about September 11th, Len Bracken’s The Shadow Government: 9-11 and State Terror. I’ve grabbed that audio from the archives and done some cleanup and slight editing. So without further ado…
Blue Rose Report 20 – 080827 with guest Len Bracken 2026 Redux
Other Shows with SMiles Lewis about 911…
- 2005 Cartoon Pleroma Reunion Show – Part Two (MP3s)
- 2006 Out the Rabbit Hole: 911 Anomalies / Precognition (MP3)
- 2006 Out the Rabbit Hole co-interview of Webster Tarpley (MP3)
- 2008 Interview with author Len Bracken on The Blue Rose Report (MP3)
- 2010 Interview with Jeremy Begin on PsiOp Radio (MP3)
- 2011 September 11th anniversary Austin News & Views LIVE show on KOOP 91.7fm (MP3)
- 2013 September 11th anniversary Anomaly Radio LIVE show (MP3)
- 2014 Interview with 8bitAgent on Anomaly Radio LIVE show (MP3)
- 2017 September 11th anniversary PsiOp Radio LIVE show (MP3)
* = #DroneDreams 2024 and 2023 / #DroneDreams 2024 and 2023 via Oneironauts.com
References:
- 911 – September 11th, 2001
- NUFOC 38 – 38th annual National UFO Conference
- APT: Austin-Para-Times
- Editorial about September 11th 2001 911 circa 2002 by SMiles Lewis
- DreamPodcast #2 – 911 Premonitions
- 911-Podcast (via archive.org)
- Syncrhomystic / Synchromysticism
- Mack White
- Austin News & Views (via archive.org)
- Anomaly-NOW! 9/13/2023 – Somber September Secrets
- Anomaly-NOW! 9/11/2024 – Anniversaries, Farewells, and UFOs – of course
- The Shadow Government: 9-11 and State Terror by Len Bracken
Other Links:
- The New 9/11 Scandal – New Questions About the Cause of 9/11 – Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and 9/11: A Scandal Beyond What Has Been Seen Before by Matt Everett
- Anomaly-Radio 9/11/2013: Special 911-Anniversary Edition
- Deep ParaPolitics & Esoteric-Occult High-Strangeness Surrounding 911 – SMiles Lewis Interviews 8BitAgent (2014)
- Todd Ronan on Remote Viewing 911, January 2016
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It was much later that Joan Jeffers – a devoted Pennsylvanian researcher of UFO and related phenomena – told me to get a hold of Bob Girard, saying he could find any book or periodical I might remember from the early days of sauceriana, or even material from other countries. Oddly enough, I was sort of in touch with Bob already. His former partner, the late Ron Bonds, had set up Illuminet Press expressing an interest in publishing my translation of Salvador Freixedo’s “Visionaries, mystics and contactees”, a great introduction to the Spanish Jesuit’s vast body of work on the paranormal. Bob’s wife Monica provided the cover art for the project, so when I picked up the phone to call Arcturus, no introduction was really necessary.
So it was that Bob helped me rebuild my collection of UFO books, which had been lost over the course of years, some lost over the course of international moves and others forsaken as new interests commanded my attention. Getting into “new” materials was never difficult thanks to Bob’s reviews, which made the Arcturus Books catalogue a joy to read – probably more so than a number of newsstand offerings available at the moment! Some descriptions are etched in my mind, like an old samizdat whose cover “depicted a hayseed peeing into a pond with a flying saucer hovering overhead” – I’m paraphrasing here, but I still smile at the laughter the description caused in me at the time.
1993 saw the birth of my first newsletter on “UFOs in Latin America and Spain” and Bob Girard was pleased to add it to Arcturus’s offerings, cautioning me not to charge too much for it, since “mystics never have any money”. The price point must’ve been right, as SAMIZDAT (as it was called) became a strong seller for Arcturus over a time frame of five years. When I announced that I the little newsletter was folding (its news stories rendered stale by the Internet), I told him I intended to come back with a new idea. “Whatever you do, make sure it’s good!” he said, and INEXPLICATA came out within months, available in print format for many years before the same situation – the immediacy offered by electronic sources – forced it to migrate to the web, where it has remained since 2003.
We didn’t see eye to eye on everything, though. The Chupacabras Diaries, my initial offering on Puerto Rico’s paranormal predator, didn’t really meet his approval. Bob thought the correct approach to take should have been a dismissive one. He particularly disliked a chapter bearing the title “It’s In the Trees- 
