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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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]“
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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—
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
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
David Perkins: October 18, 1945 – August 20, 2023
“Howard Menger (February 17, 1922 – February 25, 2009) was an American 
July 4, 2023 – Austin, Texas
Radio Misterioso Roswell Roundtable 2017
