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…
Last week I learned of the passing of friend and researcher, David Perkins. When I encountered his ideas a few decades ago I knew I’d found a kindrid spirit and fellow seeker. News of his passing has sent ripples through the UFO community and rekindled my ongoing grief over the loss of friends and family. Back in 2020 David and I had a great conversation as part of the Streamathon Emergency Fundraiser wherein I excitedly explored my ideas about the nature of the UFO phenomenon as inspired by his and other researchers whose perspectives I deeply respect. While his passing saddens me I’ve been glad to learn that his massive library has been donated to David Marler’s National UFO Historical Records Center nonprofit there in New Mexico. Farewell my fellow Space Brother…
Everything is Connected: The Influence of the Internet on Conspiracy Theory, its Communities and Culture
What weird times we are living through. Late last year a friend reached out to tell me they had been interviewed by a young lady doing grant funded research on the influence of the internet on conspriacy communities. After looking into her public work I took the plunge and began interacting with her as part of the project. Then earlier this year she told me the NYTimes wanted her to do an article on the project but focused on one of her interviewees to give it a more personal angle. So we did another interview and continued our discussions. The article was published online earlier this month and appeared in the physical print version of the NYTimes on Sunday, August 6th.
Even Conspiracy Theorists Are Alarmed by What They’ve Seen
(Originally titled: How QAnon and Jan. 6 Ripped the Conspiracy Theory World Apart)
by Annie Kelly, NYTimes OpEd, August 4th, 2023. “A version of this article appears in print on Aug. 6, 2023, Section SR, Page 6 of the New York edition with the headline: How QAnon Broke Conspiracy Culture.”
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Check out the rest of this issue’s content:
Audio-of-the-Week:THINK‘s Krys Boyd interviews Annie Kelly about her recent New York Times essay “Even Conspiracy Theorists are Alarmed by What They’ve Seen.”
Book-of-the-Week: Threads of Light to You by Howard and Connie Menger
Music-of-the-Week:Authentic Music From Another Planet by Howard Menger
Video-of-the-Week:UFO Dives Into A Lake Generating A Huge Explosion But Leaving No Debris – Close Encounters
“Howard Menger (February 17, 1922 – February 25, 2009) was an American contactee who claimed to have met extraterrestrials throughout the course of his life, meetings which were the subject of books he wrote, such as From Outer Space To You and The High Bridge Incident. Menger, who rose to prominence as a charismatic contactee detailing his chats with friendly Adamski-style Venusian “space brothers” in the late 1950s, was accepted by some UFO believers.
Later in his life Menger stated in several documentaries that he believed he had misunderstood the space aliens and where they came from. He stated the space aliens did not live on Venus but they had bases on Venus or were passing by or exploring the planet.[1][2] Menger also wrote about this newer position about where he believed the space people come from in one of his later books.
Menger states:
“‘Years ago, on a T.V. program, when I first voiced my opinion that the people I met and talked with from the craft might not be extraterrestrial, it was thought that I had recanted. However, they (the aliens) said they had just come from the planet we call Venus (or Mars). It is my opinion that these space travelers may have by-passed or visited other planets (as we are planning) but were not native to those planets any more than our astronauts are native to the moon.'” [3]
There are also some who claim the memories of Howard Menger, George Adamski, Buck Nelson and other contactees were manipulated by evil ET’s (known as the Omegans) in order to trick them into believing in life on Venus in order to discredit the message of the positive ET’s.[4]
Menger had religious revelations to impart after his “experiences,” and also came back from his contacts with practical messages.
When he was still young he moved with his parents to the rolling hills of Hunterdon County, New Jersey. His first alleged contact with a person from another planet was at the age of ten, in the woods near his hometown of High Bridge, New Jersey.[5]“
[NOTE: Inclusion of news & event info is purely informational
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Audio-Of-The-Week
For old-school conspiracy theorists, QAnon crossed a lineTHINK‘s Krys Boyd interviews Annie Kelly about her recent New York Times essay “Even Conspiracy Theorists are Alarmed by What They’ve Seen.”
“For conspiracy theorists dedicated to the moon landing, Bigfoot and UFOs, the development of QAnon, crisis actors and government false flags have introduced unwanted political and financial elements to their favorite pastime. Annie Kelly is a postdoctoral researcher working on conspiracy theories and a correspondent for the podcast “QAnon Anonymous.” She joins host Krys Boyd to talk about how these old-school skeptics raised on late-night call-in radio fear modern day conspiracy theorists are giving their passion a bad name. Her recent New York Times essay is headlined “Even Conspiracy Theorists are Alarmed by What They’ve Seen.”
Authentic Music From Another Planet
by Howard Menger
“Authentic Music From Another Plant Full Song by Howard Menger In the 1950’s Howard Menger claimed to be visited by friendly space people from other physical planets in other star systems in the universe. The friendly space people are concerned about the immorality and constant warfare on this planet. They see us as their brothers and sisters. They helped Menger to learn this song so it could uplift and evolve all those who willingly listen to it by unlocking from the subconscious feelings of universal love which is the feelings of compassion, morality, and understanding. They hope one day the Earth may be a moral and peaceful world so they can come to our planet openly and invite us to join their interstellar group.”
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Welcome to the July 2023 edition of the Anomaly Archives eNews. Happy World UFO Day / Week, AGAIN! It’s a contested dual / duel competition as to whether you are more inclined to celebrate Kenneth Arnold’s historic June 24th sighting of a series of crescent shaped objects moving like saucers skipping across water over Mt Rainier or the infamous July 2nd alleged crash of a mysterious object in Roswell, both occurring in the Summer of 1947.
Is there any more iconic Summertime activity than skipping stones across the water? Okay, swimming, for sure but…
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Michael Shellenberger on UFO Whistleblower – Skeptic
The Michael Shermer Show # 359
“Shermer and Shellenberger discuss:
the original article in Debrief
the authors Leslie Kean and Ralph Blumenthal
why this story was not covered by the New York Times or the Washington Post
whistleblower David Grusch and his claim that the U.S. government and its allies have in their possession “intact and partially intact craft of non-human origin,” along with the dead alien pilots
claims of the many types of alien ships and alien beings, and that the aliens might be multi-dimensional in nature
that there is a sophisticated cover-up by the military of which even the POTUS isn’t aware
what Shellenberger’s new sources told him about Grusch’s claims, and more…
Michael Shellenberger is an investigative journalist who has broken major stories on crime and drug policy; homelessness; Amazon deforestation; rising climate resilience; growing eco-anxiety; the U.S. government’s role in the fracking revolution; climate change and California’s fires, and now UFO whistleblowers, which he revealed in his substack article in Public. He was on the show previously to discuss his book Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All, and since then he wrote San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities. Earlier this year he worked with Elon Musk, Bari Weiss, and Matt Taibbi on the “Twitter Files,” which revealed the extent to which censorship of unpopular ideas and politically incorrect beliefs was rampant at Twitter before Musk purchased the company. In his Public Substack article Shellenberger revealed what he learned from UFO whistleblowers, which he shares with us in this episode.”
Greg Bishop “gathered together a group of friends in our hotel room at Roswell, where the 70th anniversary festivities had just concluded. I was joined by Peter Robbins, Jack Brewer, Nick Redfern, Miles Lewis, and Adam Sayne to discuss the events of the weekend, and other UFO-type issues.”
★ Verse ★ (How-dee-dee) Dear alien, who art in Heaven (How-dee-dee) Lean and skinny, ’bout six foot seven (How-dee-dee) Though we know you ain’t our brother (How-dee-dee) Are you friend or foe? (Or other?)
★ Chorus ★ Hop on one foot, skip on two Dance the spaceman, Bounce on four and spring on three Left this space How-dee-dee (How-dee-dee) How-dee-dee (How-dee-dee) How-dee-dee (How-dee-dee) How-dee-dee (How-dee-dee) How-dee-dee (How-dee-dee) How-dee-dee (How-dee-dee) How-dee-dee (How-dee-dee) Come on, y’all How-dee-dee (How-dee-dee)
★ Chorus ★ Hop on one foot, skip on two Dance the spaceman, Bounce on four and spring on three Left this space How-dee-dee (How-dee-dee) How-dee-dee (How-dee-dee) Left this space Left this space ❲?❳ Left this space ❲?❳
★ Outro ★ Yo-de-lay Yo-de-lay, yo-de-lay, yo-de-lay How-dee-dee Okay, very good, you guys, that was great Uh, okay, so let’s—
Greetings fellow Anomalists. Welcome to another edition of the Anomaly Archives eNews. I’m excited to announce that Mark Jackson and I will resume our weekly live anomalous news roundup show, Anomaly-NOW!, this Wednesday evening, January 25th at 7pm CST.
As many of you have likely heard, Amazon is ending its “Smile” charity donation program. This is an extreme disappoint and many are expressing their dismay at the company’s decision and the way they have announced this significant change. See commentary at WPTVnews, Nicole Schuman at PRnewsOnline, Seth’s Blog, and older critiques of the Amazon Smile program and the company in general at HeyDavid (circa 2019), John Kenyon (circa 2017?), and ArsTechnica (circa 2015). The “donation” program has always been problematic but it was a funding source we were slowly cultivating and growing – but no more. Thanks to all of you who participated over the past several years by choosing us as your charity of choice; you have until the end of February to continue supporting us through this soon to be ending charitable funding source.
Meanwhile… the Anomaly Archives will soon be launching a new membership community fundraising portal using the Patreon platform along with an educational initiative that has been a part of the long-term mission and vision for the Anomaly Archives / Scientific Anomaly Institute.
More details coming soon.
In the meantime, check out the rest of the eNewsletter below!
“Synopsis: On the surface ‘Armen Victorian’ seems like a regular guy. He lives in Nottingham with his wife and two children and his occupations have been variously listed as insurance salesman, shop assistant and cleaner. But dig a little deeper and Armen’s life starts to resemble that of a latter-day Walter Mitty.
Diplomat, adventurer, UFO investigator, crop circle researcher, intelligence officer – is this the secret life of a Nottingham shop assistant? His world is a shadowy world of counter-espionage, disinformation, subterfuge, spooks, spies, lies and the keeping and revealing of secret knowledge.
The Mythologist explores Armen’s life and his impact on the murky and mythic realms of paranormal research”
Graduating Crew Director/Producer – John Lundberg Cinematographer – Zillah Bowes Editor – Mathias Dombrink Sound Recordist – Tom Harrison Sound Designer – Miha Jaramaz Composer – Angus Havers
Also appearing in Google Arts & Culture as part of NFTS’s 50th Anniversary celebrations.
Book-Of-The-Week
Dreams: Your Magic Mirror
With Interpretations of Edgar Cayce
by Elsie Sechrist
“The book that started thousands on their journey of dream study and interpretation is now available to a new generation. Elsie Sechrist knew well-known psychic Edgar Cayce personally and received readings from him. In its seventh printing, Dreams: Your Magic Mirror provides clear evidence from Sechrist’s own research and from the Cayce material that dreams are of crucial importance to all of us. Includes a foreword written by Hugh Lynn Cayce, Edgar’s eldest son.
Until her death in 1992, Elsie Sechrist was an internationally known speaker on dreams and the Edgar Cayce readings who lectured at colleges, universities, and churches. She also appeared on numerous radio and television shows providing audiences throughout the world with guidance in dream interpretation.”
As I write this we are hurtling towards the new year. 2022 has not been a particularly good year for me personally but I hope we all have gained something positive from the experiencing of it. It has certainly been a momentous year for the study of UFO encounters and for the continued expansion of “conversations over saucers.” The halls of academe and the offices of governments and militaries have been abuzz with talk of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena and the Archiving of the Impossible. “Strange things are afoot at the Circle-K” my friends. Even the former President & First Lady’s production company are apparently getting in on the UFO/UAP-Action with a new Netflix series based on the famous Betty & Barney Hill abduction case…
For more on the latest news on the government’s attempts to rebrand UFOs as UAPs, check out these links and more in the Anomaly News Headlines section below:
Meanwhile, you should absolutely check out the new Vodcasts featured in our Video-Of-The-Week section below from Greg & Dana Newkirk / Planet Weird / Newkirk Museum of the Paranormal, called the Haunted Objects Podcast. The Newkirks have created the best paranormal community and recently launched this phenomenal podcast. All 5 episodes released thus far have been fantastic and I highly recommend each of them but for those of you interested in UFOs you should take a gander (you can also listen to an audio-only version via your favorite podcatcher app) at these 2 episodes about Mothman and the Betty & Barney Hill abduction case.
PLUS!!! An Extra Super MegaAudio-Of-The-Week with The scary sound of Earth’s magnetic field and a slew of amazing audio podcast content focused mainly on UFOs, Alien Abduction, Sexuality / Gender Identity, Tarot and the often sorely lacking issue of ETHICS plus some ecological approaches! All links to Spotify unless otherwise indicated.
Until next year … have fun, be safe, and keep exploring the mysteries of reality!
Defending the Mothman: High Strangeness Holiday Special – Episode 005 – Haunted Objects Podcast
“Ever been so scared you dropped a baby? In this holiday special, we crush on the best high strangeness movie ever made: The Mothman Prophecies. Along the way, Connor offends Indrid Cold, Greg demonstrates how to drive ultraterrestrials crazy, Dana has trouble talking to ghosts, and we learn why West Virginia’s official monster is a queer icon. Slather on your chapstick and hold onto your babies, because it’s time to defend Mothman from slander.”
“In September of 1961, on a desolate mountain pass in New Hampshire, strange lights in the sky heralded the introduction of a new, more terrifying type of extraterrestrial encounter; one where stolen memories, painful medical experiments, and regression hypnosis replace friendly visitors from Venus. In this episode, we examine one of the rarest artifacts in the Newkirk Museum: pieces of the dress Betty Hill was wearing as she was abducted by aliens. The gang discusses their own ill-advised adventures in hypnosis, Greg lays out a government conspiracy, and Connor learns that the answers to life’s mysteries are found in Super Mario 64.”
Audio-Of-The-Week
The scary sound of Earth’s magnetic field
“Despite being essential to life on Earth, the magnetic field isn’t something we can actually see in itself, or ever hear. But, remarkably, scientists at the Technical University of Denmark have taken magnetic signals measured by ESA’s Swarm satellite mission and converted them into sound – and for something that protects us, the result is pretty scary.”
The Tujunga Canyon Contacts by Ann Druffel and D. Scott Rogo
Tujunga Canyon Contacts: Revisited, Reconsidered by ProfessorWHAM
“…tells the true stories of five young women “abductees” who lived in and near Tujunga Canyon, northeast of Los Angeles, and who were all linked by more or less intimate personal relationships. The abductions and related events, which took place over a period of more than two decades, were first investigated by UFO researcher Ann Druffel for five full years, and later by Druffel and parapsychologist D. Scott Rogo together. Many of the abduction details first revealed in the Tujunga Canyon case have been confirmed in the hundreds of cases that followed it. First published during the peak of the 20th century’s UFO abduction epidemic, THE TUJUNGA CANYON CONTACTS was only the second book written about so-called “alien abductions.” This edition of the classic work contains the two new chapters prepared for the updated version of the book. During this updating of the story, Druffel first realized that abduction scenarios can be fended off by strongwilled, confident experiencers, since three of the five young women intuitively discovered, and used, various “resistance techniques” to fend off, and eventually end, the harrowing attacks.”
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 
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