Anomaly Archives presents Robert Powell on UFOs & Govt
Saturday, March 29th, 2014
Free Event – Donations Welcomed!
Robert Powell has been the Director of Research at MUFON since 2007 and is also the head of MUFON’s Science Review Board. He is an active Field Investigator in the state of Texas having completed over 120 investigations and is a MUFON Star Team member. He is one of two authors of the detailed radar/witness report on the Stephenville Lights. Robert is also a member of the Society for Scientific Exploration, the National Space Society, and the Académie d’Ufologie. Robert is active with FOIA requests to various government organizations to obtain information on historical cases and is a co-author of a book published in July 2012: UFOs and Government: A Historical Inquiry. Robert currently resides in Austin, Texas.
Robert has a BS in Chemistry and is a former collegiate debater. He has 28 years in engineering management in the semiconductor industry from 1978 to 2006. While working at Advanced Micro Devices he has taken numerous internal courses related to device physics, design of experiments, and statistical analysis. He helped Advanced Micro Devices develop its first flash memory technology that is used in today’s flash cards for cameras, PCs, video cameras, and other products. His experience includes managing a state-of-the-art chemistry laboratory and managing a Research and Development group that worked on nanotechnology using atomic force microscopes, near-field optical microscopy, and other techniques. Robert is also a co-holder of four patents related to nanotechnology.
Talk Synopsis: UFOs & Government: The Historical and Changing Role of Government over Time
Governments have been concerned about UFO sighting reports since WWII, but historians have never made a concerted attempt to understand their often contradictory responses to the phenomenon. How could something of such potential technological and national security consequence have left no visible trace in the history books? Whether it’s a conspiracy or not, the subject has been marginalized to such an extent that it’s as if the military never acted with alarm on the heels of a UFO sighting, as if the intelligence community never took up the issue behind closed doors, as if government research and development efforts never attempted to duplicate the phenomenon. But they have. Robert Powell will discuss how governments, especially the U.S. government, have dealt with the UFO phenomenon and will provide a hypothesis as to why the phenomenon took its roots during WWII.
SMiles Lewis will explore UFO Close Encounters and “alien abductions” with an eye towards an interpretation of these events as a Transpersonal Inter-Species Virtual-Reality Communications mechanism using “out-of-body-like” altered states of consciousness. He will speculate on the nature and meaning of these experiences and the possible manipulation of these phenomena by “alien” and human agencies for parapolitical purposes. Drawing on both witness testimony and the work of the world’s leading UFO researchers, SMiles will explain the various intelligences (human and otherwise) behind the UFO phenomenon which have the apparent ability to manipulate belief systems, consciousness, space-time, and what some might term the “soul.”
UFOs & Consciousness – Part One – Video / AudioPresented by SMiles Lewis for INACS’ monthly Consciousness Connections meetings. Co-Sponsored by the Anomaly Archives lending library. Presented / Recorded 10/25/11 at the Austin Center for Spiritual Living.
For more information please contact:
Stephen MILES Lewis
Scientific Anomaly Institute / Anomaly Archives
Founder, President and Director
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Greetings everyone. We apologize for the long delay in getting this eNewsletter out to you.
This edition of the eNewsletter contains a report on last month’s meetup discussions and videos watched, as well as news of the first Annual Women’s UFO Conference right here in Texas, plus a ton of Anomalous Headlines, information on our next monthly meetup and more!
MONTHLY MEETINGS!
The Anomaly Archives holds monthly meetings on the Fourth Saturday of most months. The meetings are held from 1-5pm on the fourth Saturday at the INACS / Anomaly Archives headquarters located in North West Austin just past the intersections of Research and Technology Boulevards (see bottom of email for detailed directions):
12593 Research Blvd., Suite 302, Austin, Texas 78759
This month’s meeting will be one week early, on Saturday, April 21st with a viewing of the second live online Alternate Universe i-Conference:
Anomaly Archives monthly meeting report for March 24th 2012
At last month’s (March) Anomaly Archives meeting we had some great discussions on a wide range of topics, from talk of ufo whistleblowers to channeling to what books we’ve been reading. We also watched some interesting videos. More on the videos (with links) at the end of this brief meeting report for now here is more about the conversations we had.
At the beginning of the meeting we continued a discussion we’ve been having about the merits of people like UFO “Whistleblower” Robert O. Dean. For more background on the interesting story of Bob Dean and the alleged 1964 SHAPE Ufo Assessment document check out these links. This first one from an interview in mid-1996:
UFO Whistleblower Robert O. Dean Speaks Out / Robert O. Dean / Randy Koppang, Perceptions Magazine, May/June 1996 Original file name: CNI – Bob Dean Speaks Out http://www.ufoevidence.org/documents/doc1976.htm
Here is a brief assessment of Bob Dean (and others claiming insider information) from long-time down-to-earth UFO investigator and Roswell crash believer Kevin Randle:
Meeting attendees talked about Dolores Cannon and Channeling in general, though Dolores clarifies that her messages come through the use of hypnosis. One person mentioned that they are currently reading one her books. Here are some introductory videos about Dolores:
Preview of Interview with Dolores Cannon
Dolores Cannon – Three Waves of Volunteer Souls & Ascension (Starseeds, Indigos, Crystals, etc.)
We also discussed the Trickster element within various UFO and paranormal encounters as well as deceased persons appearing in alien abductions / CE3Ks / NDEs, etc.
Of course David Icke’s ideas about reptilian’s was raised and we talked about precedents in shamanism and resonant speculative hypothesis suggested by alien abduction researcher Karla Turner in this 1994 interview at the Annual Mufon Conference which was that year held in Austin, Texas. Here are links to that interview:
From The (old) Archives: Karla Turner – Anomalous Abductee Experiences
Mike DeGroff reminded the attendees about an intriguing plan proposed by NUFORC’s (National UFO Reporting Center) Peter Davenport. It is his passive radar plan, first proposed back in 2004.
From the “Coast to Coast AM” Newsletter COASTZONE Weekend Edition for March 19, 2012:
UFO Detection: In the latter half, Director of the National UFO Reporting Center, Peter Davenport, discussed his revolutionary proposal ( PDF file) for detecting UFOs in near-Earth environment, out to a distance of around 250,000 miles. The plan calls for using a passive radar system in which signals could be analyzed to determine a target’s size, location, and other details. For example, such a system would be particularly useful in identifying craft that are in our atmosphere, doing 20,000 mph, and making sudden right turns, he said. This detection data could be shared with scientists for analysis, and eliminate the need for government disclosure, which doesn’t appear to be forthcoming, he commented. Davenport said he is seeking funding for this project– around $750,0000 is needed to set up a prototype of the passive radar system operating station (much of that cost would go toward developing the software for analyzing the intercepted signals). Ultimately, he foresees a kind of webcam system in which all the UFO detection information would be available on one public website in real time. He also talked about his UFO Hotline, which recently has received reports of spherical fireball-type objects
Here is the introduction to the paper presented at the 2004 Annual Mufon Symposium in Denver:
USING MULTISTATIC PASSIVE RADAR FOR REAL-TIME DETECTION OF UFO’S IN THE NEAR-EARTH ENVIRONMENT
Copyright 2004 Peter B. Davenport All rights reserved. Author: Peter B. Davenport Director, National UFO Reporting Center Seattle, Washington
ABSTRACT: The author proposes a system for the remote, real-time detection of UFO’s in the near- Earth environment, using passive, multi-static, frequency-modulated (FM) radar. The system capitalizes on the use of multiple, time-synchronized radio receivers to capture high-frequency radio signals reflected from a target. The time-lapse between received signals, together with three-dimensional Doppler-shift analysis, permits calculation of a target’s location, velocity, acceleration, flight path, and other parameters, possibly to include target size estimation. Signal analysis of the reflected signal, combined with analysis of target characteristics, will permit discrimination between suspected UFO’s, and targets of terrestrial origin, e.g. aircraft, satellites, space debris, meteor trails, upper atmospheric conditions, weather phenomena, migratory birds, the Moon, etc.. One application proposed may allow detection of UFO’s out to a range of at least 27,600 kilometers from the Earth’s surface.
Here is some background on similar ideas noted on the UFO UpDates eList:
RECORDING MAGNETOMETER: Track and record moving ferrous objects (see comments for correction from Ray) magnetic fields overhead. It’s pictured below — check out the tape drive! And the big capacitors!
“The laser [seen in the background] can provide a video readout of the UFO for the PSI people as well as transmit information to the spacecraft. The pan-and-tilt head can be moved up and down and sideways simultaneously by means of the remote-control “joystick,” but it still takes the skill of an anti-aircraft gunner to strike the UFO with the laser beam.”
For much of the middle of the meeting we each briefly talked about what we have been reading? Some of the titles and authors mentioned included Jim Mars’ RULE BY SECRECY, Tom Campbell’s MY BIG T.O.E. as well as the books of Dolores Cannon. Also mentioned were Bob Frissell, Paul Smith’s READING THE ENEMIES MIND (about the military’s Remote Viewing). We also talked about Smith’s documenting of the military’s Dowsing programs. Miles spoke about reading Jenny Randles’ book PARANORMAL PENINES.
The SERPO Saga was raised and a brief talk ensued about the merits or lack thereof regarding the whole sordid affair. Mike DeGroff mentioned it’s having caught his attention because of the inclusion in the story of a sighting that sounded strikingly similar to the famous Lonnie Zamora sighting. Here are some investigations by various groups into the strange story of SERPO:
Ancient Aliens episode on Rendlesham and the mysterious 1001010111010101001001 message:
Ancient Aliens – Rendlesham Binary Code Revealed – edited
An attendee mentioned some striking footage they remember and we’d like to look at. They described it as being from Mexico and of a cloud-cigar type ufo disgorging smaller orbs. If you think you know more about this video or have a link to it online please let us know.
Miles had brought a number of long, medium and short length videos for the group to watch. He mentioned several feature length UFO documentaries that the group might want to watch but ultimately we chose to watch a sampling of shorter length videos including:
2012 UFO Congress Researcher of the Year Lee Speigel
2011 Year-in-Review
FLASBHACK: Nick Pope and MSM on Triangular UFO Videos in Ireland… Miles spoke briefly about his ANOMALY Magazine website and articles being cited on this MSNBC news video and how they got the story completely wrong, confusing two different incidents of bad-jacketing of an alleged ufo sighting with other known footage not related at all to the new sighting. Here is the MSNBC video with Nick Pope – whom Miles communicated with about this case. Here also are the articles alluded to in the video:
Nick Pope and MSM on Triangular UFO Videos in Ireland
Miles mentioned one of his favorite weird close encounter cases from the early days of flying saucers. He played an old recording of Close Encounter witness Joe Simonton where he describes the pancakes the occupants gave him: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9Ih8jH3J88
Lastly, before wrapping up after a long and interesting meeting, we watched the preview for recent interview of musician Billy Corgan by Austin’s Alex Jones from during the recent SXSW media festival. Below are links to the sneak peak and the full interview:
2012 Women’s UFO Symposium Glen Rose Texas, May 18-19-20th
Early bird registration until April 15th, at $75.00 for the three days.
After April 15th it will be $90.00 www.StarWorksUSA.com
Klaus Dona – “Ancient Evidence of Possible Anunakki in Americas”William Michael Mott – “The Problem of Density Regarding Non-Human Encounters”Don Ecker – “Is Somebody Else On The Moon?”Adam Gorightly – “Sex, Drugs and UFOs”Kevin Smith – “MARS: The Fading Fog”
UFOs at the Lake! ~ April 21, 2012 ~ Smith Mtn Lake, VA
Saturday, April 21, 2012 from 11:00 AM to 9:30 PM (ET) Huddleston, VA
http://ufos-sml.eventbrite.com
We need your help! The Anomaly Archives is always looking for new membership and needs your support both financially and as volunteers at the lending library and educational outreach events.
INACS (Institute for Neuroscience And Consciousness Study) and the Anomaly Archives present:
Part Two of UFOs and Consciousness: The Fantastic Facts About UFOs, Altered States of Consciousness, and Mind-at-Large
Tuesday, November 29th, 7pm This Event Has Been Postponed
Part two of this lecture continues where the first presentation ended with further discussion about SMiles’ ideas about UFOs as a Transpersonal Virtual Reality Communications Channel facilitated by human psychic ability interfacing within Jung’s Collective Unconscious which appears to be the matrix within which Contact with various Alien Others can occur.
What can we learn about UFOs from studying such diverse arenas of consciousness exploration as shamanism and drugs like DMT? What about Carl Jung’s collective unconscious and parapsychology? What about near death and out of body experiences? What have human agencies (governmental, corporate, aboriginal and esoteric) discovered about the UFO phenomenon’s effects on consciousness? Has humanity interacted with Alien Others throughout history? Could we be communicating with CryptoTerrestrials or a Gaian Mind? What do we really know about these diverse and exceptional experiences and those who’ve had them? Come discover the fantastic facts about UFOs, Altered States of Consciousness, and Mind-at-Large!
Part Two – Tuesday, November 29th at 7pm
This Event Has Been Postponed
Austin Center for Spiritual Living
5555 North Lamar, Suite D-117
Austin, TX 78751
Exploring UFOs and Consciousness with SMiles Lewis
UFOs & Consciousness – Part One– Video / Audio: Presented by SMiles Lewis for INACS’ monthly Consciousness Connections meetings. Co-Sponsored by the Anomaly Archives lending library. Presented / Recorded 10/25/11 at the Austin Center for Spiritual Living.
Please join us in welcoming Nick back to Austin and the Anomaly Archives for an exciting discussion about his latest book on the infamous MEN-IN-BLACK as well as the latest revelations concerning the mystery of Roswell, UFOs, Area-51 and what the United States Government is covering up.
Perhaps he will give us a sneak peak at what’s coming up in his next book:
The Anomaly Archives and Austin Mufon present a Free Lecture by UK ET Contactee Steven Jones…
Steven Jones – “A modern-day ET Contact Experiencer: After nearly an unbelievable 50 years of ET contact he is now able to assist others like him to move through the barrier that restricts so many from understanding what Contact really is” – Author of An Invitation To The Dance: The Awakening of the Extended Human Family
Saturday, April 23rd, 2011 – 7pm at the NEW ACSL LOCATION
[Behind Half-Price Books on North Lamar] Austin Center for Spiritual Living
5555 North Lamar Blvd.
Building D, Suites D115 & D117
Austin, Texas 78751
. . .
Steven Jones: The Life and Times of An ET Contact Experiencer
“Steven Jones is a modern-day ET Contact Experiencer: no longer the confused and powerless Abductee, but an empowered participator in the extraordinary events that remain such an important and profound part of his life. After nearly an unbelievable 50 years of ET contact he is now able to assist others like him to move through the barrier that restricts so many from understanding what Contact really is.
Through perfect recall and in great detail Steven will guide you through a landscape of contact events with several types of ET. From early Contact experiences seen through the innocent eyes of childhood to the young adult whose perspective of events was unavoidably influenced by the world he lived in, Steven will safely deliver you via a roller-coaster ride of experiences that ultimately inspired his adult years. Even die-hard skeptics will have a problem dismissing the details of so many of the experiences that Steven has been through.
As we all head towards 2012 with a mixture of apprehension and anticipation, Steven will share the knowledge that has been passed on to him by the ETs and explain how we might begin to re-evaluate our position as caring and responsible human beings, not only as residents of the planet Earth, but as universal citizens within the cosmos.
On this challenging journey of discovery we will begin to understand what the purpose of ET Contact has been, how we might consider responding to it and hopefully to identify who the ETs actually are. In doing so Steven will give you a glimpse into a point of view that goes beyond the usual belief systems about extraterrestrial reality, to give you valuable insight to make up your own mind about what this mystery actually means.”
Friday, February 18th, the Anomaly Archives hosted a free lecture featuring cryptozoologist Ken Gerhard. Local ABC news affiliate KVUE‘s Shelton Green covered the event on the 10 o’clock news. And the San Antonio affiliate KENS5 has since re-syndicated the video and article on their own website.
Anomaly Archives & Austin Mufon Present: Lecture by Alien Abductee/Contactee Steven Jones in Austin, Texas in April 2011.
Alien Themed Products & Businesses
Do cats like the classic western image of aliens? Or are most cat owners into SciFi themes? These are the kinds of products people tell us about (and sometimes give us) all the time…
Back in the August and September 2005 issues of the eNewsletter we included reference to the proposed, suitably sci-fi dome-shaped, “Earth Station Roswell” project in New Mexico as well as the dome-shaped Star Trek-esque, Starship Pegasus, located on IH-35 north of Austin. Now the Starship is “For Sale”…
Here are some past examples of UFO and Alien themed products that have actually been given to us:
Continued Controversies within the UFO & Alien Abduction Research Communities
High Strangeness: The Co-Creation Of The Abduction Phenomenon
by Carol Rainey – Source: Paratopia Magazine – Vol 1 Issue 1 http://tiny.cc/2pzis (PDF download) or at UFO UpDates eList online:
UpDate: Re: John Carpenter/Status Report Request – Carpenter
From: John Carpenter Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2000 00:39:07 -0400 … >report regarding the notification of the clients whose files you sold? … www.ufoupdateslist.com/2000/aug/m05-023.shtml
UpDate: Re: Velez, Andrus And Carpenter – Hammond The ‘source material’ of the files that were sold >becomes of paramount importance in light of Mr. Carpenter’s role >as head of the MUFON Databank Project. … www.ufoupdateslist.com/2000/jul/m06-006.shtml
UpDate: Re: P-47: John Carpenter’s Sale – Gates Likewise with Carpenter peddling his 140 files and this entire sordid affair is now public, I suspect John will no longer be the commanding presence he once … www.ufoupdateslist.com/2000/jul/m17-008.shtml
UpDate: Re: John Carpenter – Apathy/Damage Done – Hart >They don’t have an ethical liability because the files were >redacted, according to Carpenter. >Thank you, >Josh Goldstein Josh, To my knowledge one and … www.ufoupdateslist.com/2000/aug/m14-033.shtml
UpDate: Re: John Carpenter Responds – Carpenter
Jul 27, 2000 … People have called these files “medical records” — but they … with project ideas until he came along to help out. John Carpenter … www.ufoupdateslist.com/2000/jul/m27-021.shtml
UpDate: Re: Open Letter To Elizabeth Carpenter And Gary Hart – … a copy of the >list of names and addresses of the 140 abductees whose files >were sold. … www.ufoupdateslist.com/2000/jul/m25-015.shtml
UpDate: Re: John Carpenter’s Australian Video – Gates
Aug 2, 2000 … We _know_ they don’t know >>>their files were sold and need to learn that truth! … www.ufoupdateslist.com/2000/aug/m07-006.shtml
Re: The Current Mrs. Carpenter Speaks Out –
Aug 18, 2000… lot of obvious pain (just like the >abductees whose files John sold! … And to go >out of your way to involve Mrs. Carpenter (who is so … www.ufoupdateslist.com/2000/aug/m18-021.shtml
UpDate: Re: Velez, Andrus And Carpenter – Hammond >WA- It’s true, John did sell some files to Bigelow. … >(*The reason I asked this question is because John Carpenter was >in charge of gathering material … www.ufoupdateslist.com/2000/jul/m06-006.shtml
Re: Bigelow/NIDS Purchase Of Records – Velez In the case of the sale of client files by John Carpenter to Robert Bigelow I raised a red flag and questioned the propriety and even the legality of the … www.ufoupdateslist.com/2000/dec/m13-014.shtml
UpDate: Re: John Carpenter Responds – Carpenter
Jul 27, 2000 … People have called these files “medical records” — but they … Robert Bigelow arranged the project for his NIDS Science Board which is not … www.ufoupdateslist.com/2000/jul/m27-021.shtml
Re: Bigelow/NIDS Purchase Of Records – Kaeser In the case of the sale >of client files by John Carpenter to Robert Bigelow I raised a >red flag and questioned the propriety and even the legality of >the … www.ufoupdateslist.com/2000/dec/m14-001.shtml
The al-Qaida supergrass and the 7/7 questions that remain unanswered (Video)
The early release of a jihadi turned US supergrass who helped a London bomber has rung alarm bells. Shiv Malik reports on doubts held by the victims’ families http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/feb/14/al-qaida-supergrass-77-questions
We need your help! The Anomaly Archives is always looking for new membership and needs your support both financially and as volunteers at the lending library and educational outreach events.
Contactees contains the fascinating stories of the select group of people chosen by visitors to Earth to spread their message. Are aliens really among us? Don’t be too quick to dismiss their claims.
Truman Bethurum was divorced by his wife because she believed he was having close encounters of a very personal kind with a beautiful extraterrestrial “space captain” named Aura Rhanes. Is he nuts? Prescient? An omen?
A band of eerily human-looking, blond-haired aliens–later known as the Space-Brothers–informed other contactees that they were concerned by our warlike ways and wished us to live in peace with one another. Acting on the advice of the Space-Brothers, contactees such as George Van Tassel and George Adamski went out and spread the extraterrestrial word to anyone and everyone who would listen. And many did, including U.S. government agencies.
More than half a century later, the contactees are still among us, still telling their tales of personal alien encounters, and still maintaining their cult-like status in the world of UFOlogy. Nick Redfern’s Contactees relates their thought-provoking, lluminating, controversial, and sometimes bizarre stories in all their appropriately out-of-this-world glory.
Originally from England, Nick Redfern lives in Arlington, Texas. He is a full-time author and journalist specializing in a wide range of unsolved mysteries, including UFOs, alien contact, Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, government conspiracies, and paranormal phenomena. He writes regularly for UFO Magazine, Fortean Times,
Paranormal Magazine, and Fate. His previous books include Memoirs of a Monster Hunter; Strange Secrets; A Covert Agenda; and There’s Something in the Woods. Among his many exploits, Redfern has investigated reports of aliens in Mexico; lake-monsters in Scotland; vampires in Puerto Rico; werewolves in England; and crashed UFOs in the United States.
This new monthly event will be a FREE showing of lesser known “Flying Saucer Films” with a focus on those that have important points to be made regarding the nature of paranormal, UFO and other anomalous phenomena, as well as society’s cultural reactions to UFO related phenomena.
UFO related phenomena and the Modern Wave of Flying Saucer sightings in the United States have had a lasting effect upon American Popular Culture. For that reason we feel it fitting to host this new event series at the South Austin Popular Culture Center (frmly the South Austin Museum of Popular Culture).
Our next showing is … Invaders From Mars, the 1953 original classic.
The Anomaly Archives holds monthly meetings on the Fourth Saturday of most months. The meetings are held from 1-5pm on the fourth Saturday at the INACS / Anomaly Archives headquarters located in North West Austin just past the intersections of Research and Technology Boulevards (see bottom of email for detailed directions):
From the “Coast to Coast AM” Newsletter COASTZONE Weekend Edition for March 19, 2012:
UFO-VECTOR SYSTEM: Communicate with UFOs by transmitting signals along a joystick-guided laser. 
From Wikipedia:
“Steven Jones is a modern-day ET Contact Experiencer: no longer the confused and powerless Abductee, but an empowered participator in the extraordinary events that remain such an important and profound part of his life. After nearly an unbelievable 50 years of ET contact he is now able to assist others like him to move through the barrier that restricts so many from understanding what Contact really is.
Baby Bighead
Contactees: A History of Alien-Human Interaction
Originally from England, Nick Redfern lives in Arlington, Texas. He is a full-time author and journalist specializing in a wide range of unsolved mysteries, including UFOs, alien contact, Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, government conspiracies, and paranormal phenomena. He writes regularly for UFO Magazine, Fortean Times,
