High Strangeness In Fatima Portugal: 1917

"I saw clearly a luminous globe, which moved from the east to the west, gliding slowly and majestically through space", said Monsignor John Quaresma. Another witness described the event this way: "It was not the sun,,,.it was a huge disc that moved in front of the sun". The preceding points to a seemingly routie UFO sighting; the kind I receive on a fairly consistent basis. Yet: the object photographed here was anyting but routine, The year was 1917 and the world was at war; but here in Fatima, Portugal, 70 thousand people were on location awaiting a Marian apparition, and watching the sun dance in the sky.

BY

ALEX MISTRETTA

The miracle of the sun as the event described above would eventually be known happened on October 13,1917. The last day that the “Lady” appeared in Fatima, and had promised a miracle on that very day. The apparitions began six months earlier on the 13 of May to three local Children.  Lucia dos Santos age 10 and her two cousins Francisco Marto and his sister Jacinta the youngest by two years.  They were tending to their sheep in an area near Fatima called Cova da Iria when Lucia noticed a couple of flashes in the sky.  The weather was promising and there was not a single cloud in the sky, but Lucia cautiously thought that perhaps the weather was turning and that they should head back home. To add to her uneasiness, she recalled a day a couple years earlier when she noticed a lone little cloud in the sky that seemed to take the form of a person.

Back to the present day, Francisco and Jacinta also noticed the flashes in the sky and were ready to head back to Fatima when by an oak tree a lady appeared. Four feet in height, dressed in white with dark black eyes she was illuminated by a very bright light. When she spoke, she told them not to be afraid and that she was from heaven. Lucia, the leader of the three asked the lady why she was here. She simply told them that she would appear every 13th of every month for the next six months. She told them to pray the rosary daily and that, sadly, they would have to suffer greatly for the sins of the world.  A month later on June 13th she appeared as promised and informed Lucia that she would be taking Jacinta and Francisco to heaven very soon. A prophecy fulfilled two years later when Jacinta and Francisco both died of the Spanish flu; an epidemic that was sweeping Europe at the time.

Having heard about the May apparition, a small number of villagers came to see the lady. They initially saw nothing, but heard a murmur;  voices from far away was the way they described it. When the lady disappeared a cloud rose up above the oak tree, seen by all and heading east.
By July 13th over three thousand people were now at Cova da Iria, expecting a vision. Again the lady could only be seen by the children, but a strange humming could be heard by all and a large clap like thunder shook the ground.  This was the day the lady gave the children what she called the three secrets.

THE SECRETS
The first was a rather stereotypical vision of hell, with demons, fire and burning souls. A warning of what may befell the world. The second was a plea for Russia to be consecrated to “My Immaculate Heart” .  Otherwise another great war will erupt. She also went on to say that before this happens a great unknown light will be seen in the sky. It will be a sign of upcoming war and that God is about to punish the world for its sins.  A message that she repeated on following visits.

The third secret, Lucia insisted was not to be revealed right away. She also insisted that perhaps it would be best to wait until 1960, for the secret to be better understood across the world. The third secret written down by Lucia in the 1940′s became the most heavily guarded document at the Vatican. Hints were given through out the years, and then subsequently denied.  The hints usually were of an apocalyptic nature, and mentioned a great danger to the faith and to the world.  In any case, the third secret was revealed by the Vatican in 2000. The official statement stated that the third Secret was a warning against persecution of the Church, and quite honestly not much else. A discussion on the veracity of the Vatican’s revelation and the behind the scene intrigue associated with it, is beyond the scope of this article, which after all is about Fatima, Marian apparitions and UFOs. Which brings us to October 13, 1917;  the day the “Lady” promised a miracle.

MIRACLE OF THE SUN
A scientist from nearby Coimbra University,named Almeida Garret was among the 70,000 people present that day. He himself never saw the actually apparition, instead witnessed a bluish column of smoke. This is how he described what happened next:”It was raining hard, and the rain trickled down everyone’s clothes.  Suddenly, the sun shone through the dense cloud which covered it;  everybody looked in its direction.  It looked like a disc, of a very definite contour.  It was not dazzling. I don’t think that it could be compared to a dull silver disk, as someone said later in Fatima. No. It rather possessed a clear, changing brightness, which one could compare to a pearl.  It looked like a polished wheel.

This is not poetry. My eyes have seen it.  This clear shaped disk suddenly began turning.  It rotated with increasing speed.  Suddenly, the crowd began crying with anguish.  The sun, revolving all the time, began falling towards the earth, reddish and bloody, threatening to crush everyone under its fiery weight”.

The correlation between Marian apparitions and “miracles of the sun” is not solely relegated to Fatima; and pattern does emerge. It seemed like a shiny wheel separated from the sun and headed towards earth,… and some sort of shinning balloons began to emerge from the sun… This last statement is not from Fatima, but from Medjugorje, Croatia in 1981, and was another miracle promised by a “lady” claiming to be the mother of God.

BRAZIL
Since 1917, there has been hundreds of Marian apparitions worldwide, with various degrees of eyewitness reliability. Many, involving unusual cloud movement, unusual movement of the sun with strange disks seen before and after an apparition. The messages are also interesting as they often involve warnings of doom, war and destruction. The same messages often given to individuals who claim to have been in contact with aliens.
One of the modern cases reminiscent of Fatima occurred in north eastern Brazil. April of 1994, a luminous figure appears to Jose Ernani dos Santos, who was at the time praying. The figure announces that she would appear again in the first days of September and October.

Word spread quickly and an estimated three thousand arrived on September 1st to witness the apparition and a unnatural darkening of the sun. One witness, who was also a UFO investigator described seeing a cloud in the sky that was emitting multicolored light in all direction, and how the top of the trees were illuminated by the lights.

Another sign was promised for the following month. This time, a crowd of over five thousand believers and a handful of scientists, members of the Brazilian UFO Research Center, came together on October 1st. At around two in the afternoon while Jose Ernani was praying, two large clouds moved rapidly towards the sun, in effect darkening the sun. One of the scientist, Reginaldo de Athayde mentioned that there seem to be a large amount of static electricity in the air.

As people were crying, praying and falling to their knees, a silver disk appeared briefly before the cloud.  By this time Jose Ernani was is a trance, apparently receiving a message from the “holy virgin”.  The disk disappeared briefly only to reappeared  next to the sun. It was described at about the size of the full moon. It disappeared once again and all was silent, until someone shouted “look at the beads of the Virgin’s rosary”  It the sky was four metallic looking discs.  Three were line up in a row, and a fourth was off to the side slightly obscured by a cloud.

Tears of the Virgin somewhat called the disks; others found in hard to differentiate these disks from standard UFOs. This dichotomous view goes way beyond Fatima and Brazil. Arguing about what constitutes a religious event and what constitutes a paranormal/UFO event is missing the point in my opinion. What may be of more importance is that regardless of the event, we are dealing with the same source. Whatever this source may be, it appears to have a very unique way of communicating.  A code that we have yet to decipher.

THIS EPILOGUE IS WRITTEN BY DR. BARRY E. TAFF

An additional side note here is that two of the three children who were frequently encountered the apparition died not long after the events ceased.  The cause of death was assumed to be consumption, i.e. of an unknown origin.  Decades later, their bodies were exhumed and a proper medical autopsy determined the actual cause of their death.  This is where the real high strangeness shows itself.

What killed these two young children was radiation poisoning/sickness.  The only problem here is that other than around Madame Curie in France, who was experimenting with radium, there was NO ionizing radiation on earth at that time that could have killed those children.   Was their frequent close encounters with said aerial apparitions what irradiated them?  You might want to study the Cash-Landrum UFO case from Dayton, Texas in December 1980 for comparison, as both of the adult women were irradiated by the hovering UFO being sheparded by some twenty Chihnook helicopters, one of whom later died as a result of radiation sickness due to high neutron & gamma flux exposure and whose medical records strangely vanished from the hospital at which she was receiving treatment.

Come Fly With Me: The Last Plane Standing?

The incredible Aurora spyplane?

Ever traveled across the country by plane?  Remember how long the entire trip took?  Four to five hours, right?  What if you could travel from Los Angeles to New York in less than thirty minutes with a superior level of comfort than available today?  Well, believe it or not, such advanced propulsion technology already exists and it has the power to deliver people, cargo and unfortunately weapons, anywhere on earth in less than one hour.

This type of aircraft has been in use since the early 1990′s and was developed by Lockheed Martin’s Advanced Development Corporation (Skunk Works) under a program called Aurora, and has never been acknowledged by the United States Air Force (USAF) or the US government in general.

If you’re alive today and reading this post, don’t expect to ever fly by this method anywhere for any reason in your lifetime, it’s that much of a classified “unspecified” black program whose development budget has very likely exceeded $100 billion by padding other defense acquisition programs.

The Aurora, sometimes referred to as Senior Citizen, the SR-78, SR-91 or F-100, is the follow-on replacement aircraft for the coveted SR-71 Blackbird spy plane also from Lockheed Martin.  Aurora is a hypersonic (Mach 5+), trans-atmospheric, wave-riding, single stage to orbit (SSTO) spaceplane, that can cruise at speeds in excess of Mach 15 (11,000+ mph) at 200,000 feet altitude.  The Aurora might be considered the first single-stage-to-orbit vehicle, something the old Space Shuttle design started out as, but was reconfigured and cheapened due to lack of adequate funding.  Sound familiar?  But wait, there’s much more.

This incredible vehicle most likely incorporates a combined cycle, pulsed detonation wave turbojet, turbo-ramjet, scamjet (Supersonic Combustion Ram Jet) and rocket using liquid methane fuel and oxidizer within one system, a true masterpiece of aerospace propulsion engineering.  Built of composite materials, this crew of three vehicle might also be able to deliver small satellites into low-earth-orbit (LEO).   According to eyewitnesses who have seen the Aurora in flight, the engine’s sound is extremely loud, sounding like the sky literally being torn apart while occasionally leaving peculiar donuts-on-a-rope contrails behind it.

It’s predecessor, the SR-71 was developed in the early sixties through the engineering genius of Kelly Johnson, the former head of Lockheed.  While it’s official top speed is recorded as Mach 3.2, or 2,193 mph at 80,000 feet, that is primarily disinformation.  From speaking with several retired SR-71 pilots “off-the record”, the SR-71 flew hypersonic on a regular basis and could easily reach altitudes of 100,000 feet.

During the cold war, the Blackbird flew with impunity over the the former USSR, China and Vietnam from the mid-1960′s through the late 1980′s, as there was nothing in existence back then that could touch it.  Even today, most anti-aircraft weapons, especially missiles, are not hypersonic (but they’re currently under development and very costly).  The old USAF ABM (Anti-Ballistic Missile) Sprint and Spartan systems would have been hypersonic, had they ever been deployed.  Our SALT treaties prevented that system from ever seeing the light of day.

There’s also the persistent rumor that the SR-71 could project a radar image of itself up to five miles away from it’s own fuselage, which was inherited from the slightly older, medium range, supersonic, General Dynamics/Convair B-58 Hustler delta-winged bomber, which sucked fuel like a pig and was very limited in its payload and range and therefore didn’t see long service with the USAF, but nevertheless stills holds some impressive records for altitude and speed of manned bombers in sustained supersonic flight.  And remember, this technology is more than six decades old.

Given the real performance envelope of the Blackbird, I wonder whether there was ever the thought of  eventually incorporating attitude control thrusters on its wingtips, nose and tail in order to maneuver at altitudes above 100,000 feet where dynamic control surfaces are all but useless.  Making a turn at Mach 3+ speed requires about 5-6 states (like Nevada, Arizona, Colorado, Idaho & Oregon) of space.  Trying to maneuver at such velocities poses many inertial problems as just witnessed by the second failure of the unmanned, USAF’s  Hypersonic “Faclon HST” that recently plunged into the ocean.

Aurora’s shape is quite extraordinary and radically different than almost everything else flying except the Lockheed Martin TR3A & B.  In some ways, it’s derivative of the early 1960′s Mach 3, North American XB-70 Valkyrie bomber, whose legacy ended in a fiery crash during a test flight and the USAF’s realization that ICBMs were the wave of the future as opposed to manned bombers, at least until someones brainchild became the low-level, subsonic, Rockwell B1A & B Lancer were developed as a make-work’s defense program.  Now, the USAF wants to upgrade the B1Bs into a full supersonic B1R with Mach 3 capability.

In still other ways, you can clearly see the SR-71 lineage in the Aurora’s illustrations depicted here.   Majestic, to say the least, isn’t it?  Think of a highly tapered, 75 degree triangular shape with twin vertical stabilizers above and below the rear wing trailing edges at each corner.  In the center of the blended body triangle is the fuselage which incorporates the combined cycle engine nacelles in the aft, ventral portion of the triangular hull.

Another interesting application of advanced aerodynamics which might also be incorporated within Aurora comes from Northrop’s B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber, where the leading and trailing edges of the plane’s fuselage are charged with polarized, high-voltage electrostatic (ES) fields during flight to significantly reduce the drag coefficient and possibly generate a subtle form of wave-riding.  With this application, the power required to achieve lift, vector thrusting and maintaining stable hypersonic flight would be dramatically reduced and might even create a powerful laminar flow that helps prevent air compression that leads to a sonic shock wave and boom.

Another possible application of the electrostatic field generators might be to absorb and scatter any incoming microwave energy (radar) further reducing the B-2/Aurora radar cross-section.  In fact, the patents filed regarding this specific ES power usage openly discuss this specific function. although few possess the technical knowledge to comprehend it.   And just think, these systems were all developed in the 1980′s, some thirty years ago!  I wonder as to whether the high amplitude ES fields were reverse engineered from recovered, crashed UFOs?  Interesting possibility?

Certainly the most tantalizing technology that could be employed in such a “black” aircraft is an electrochromic skin.  This is where the entire fuselage, wings and tail of an aircraft are covered with sophisticated sensors that detect and read the surrounding visual environment and mimic it.  Therefore, if you were looking up at an electrochromic aircraft, its ventral section, or bottom, would look exactly like the sky above the vehicle.  Similarly, if you were looking down upon the plane, its dorsal, or top section, would resemble the air and ground beneath it.   The end result would make you believe that you’re staring into empty space.   Visually, this is very similar to the way the alien creature was depicted in the Predator movies.  For all intents and purposes, this is a visual cloaking device, but not for radar evasion.

This technology does exist and has been somewhat openly discussed over the last decade or so.  This is not science fiction.  Whether such has even been applied to a military craft currently in service is another question altogether.

The physical evidence strongly indicating that the Lockheed Martin’s Aurora SR-91 exists and routinely flies, was photographed on at least one Space Shuttle flights (STS61, 5th flight of the Endeavor Shuttle, 1st Hubble Space Telescope service mission) where the astronauts are shooting video through a window only to record the impressive black, delta-winged hypersonic spaceplane in a hard left bank.  When they go tight on this flying machine, you can clearly see precise details on the fuselage and the vertical stabilizers on each of the trailing edge corners.

I wonder how the astronauts felt knowing the the shuttle in which they’re flying is obsolete space junk compared to the SSTO Aurora cruising beneath them?  I guess it’s like driving a forty year old Chevy Impala and video taping a new Porsche 918 passing you in the left lane.  One doesn’t need to think much to realize that what they’re driving of flying is little more than primitive, old world garbage.  The incredibly rapid forward movement of aerospace technology is truly astounding.

Will the Aurora program ever be declassified?  It’s very unlikely, given that much of it’s technology is still way too sensitive for public dissemination.   However, as our military/defense industry is dying a rather slow, agonizing death, who really knows what the end will bring.  When we consider the fact that Lockheed Martin’s F-22 Raptor fighter was supposed to cost “only” $139 million per plane, but eventually ballooned up to approximately $430 million, the orders dropped from the original 687 to about 180.  What a surprise?

To make matters even worse, the F-22 has been plagued with numerous problems such as its corroding stealth coating that is very difficult and costly to maintain, which completely breaks down if encountering water (so much for an fighting in the rain). You don’t need anti-aircraft missiles or AAA to shoot down this turkey, just a good strong water hose or squirt gun.

For every hour that an F-22 flies, it requires at least thirty (30) hours of maintenance, has a critical failure for every 1.7 hours of flight (Mean Time Between Failure [MTBF] = 1.7 hours), it’s canopy often refuses to open resulting in pilots having to be cut out with torches, and it’s pilot oxygen delivery system failures have caused several crashes and pilot deaths, forcing the entire fleet of around 180 planes to be grounded.  Hard to imagine that the engineers who designed the F-22 simply made such critical errors in such an incredibly expensive aircraft?

However, when learning the the building of the F-22 was outsourced to 40 different states across the U.S. so almost very congressman’s district would receive jobs, it’s not hard to understand why many of the aircraft’s components did not fit and had to be individually retooled before they could be properly assembled.  The F-22 might be the largest financial boondoggle in our military’s history.  Every time your taxes increase just remember that they’re being wisely spent on worthless technology.  It just amazing to discover how utterly corrupt and incompetent our government has become, and it doesn’t really matter who’s living in the White House.

Then we have the Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF), the 21st century replacement of the subsonic Sea Harrier Jump Jet, which was going to be the most lucrative defense contract in military history with over 2,500 aircraft being sold to the Air Force, Navy, Marines and many allied countries.  The F-35 was designed as a supersonic Vertical-Short Take Off and Landing (VSTOL) aircraft that could be deployed on standard runways, carriers and into theaters with very short or no runways at all.

Seemingly the perfect aircraft for all reasons, except one of cold, hard cash.  Rather than being outgunned by an enemy, the world’s collapsing economy forced the F-35 JSF program to be canceled as neither we, nor anyone else, can afford this new technological wonder anymore.

Speaking of squandered military money, one cannot fail to mention the Navy’s supersonic cruise McDonnell Douglas/General Dynamics A-12 Avenger II attack aircraft that was supposed to replace the aging F-14 Tomcat and the very old A-6 Intruder.  This stealthy, exotic, tailless, triangular-shaped Avenger would have been a wonder for the Navy and possibly even Marines with it’s stealth, range, speed and payload advantages over its predecessors.  The A-12 Avenger II was to be purchased by not only the US Navy, but by the Marines and Air Force as well, totaling well over 600 aircraft.  The A12 Avenger II eventually gained the nickname of “flying Dorito” due to its shape and rapid disappearance.

However, the inevitable cost overruns, major electronic system errors and haggling within the Pentagon and DOD killed this most promising machine only after spending billions on its development during the late 1980′s and early 1990′s.  Never let it be said that our tax dollars are not being well spent, especially when a hammer or toilet seat in the military can cost many thousands of dollars?   Yet, we’re wondering why the country is near bankruptcy?  Can’t imagine?

Given that the US is far too broke to field new military aircraft, what happens when our aging fleet of F-15s, F-16′s & F-18′s are no longer air worthy due to the fatigue and stress factors of their time?  There’s already been incidents where these decades-old aircraft are breaking apart in mid-flight due to fuselage fatigue.  As these fighters can pull up to 9 g’s during combat maneuvering, the accumulated stress is enormous.  As military pilots are considered expendable assets, their safety is somewhat ignored.

However, it’s hard to fathom the fact that the probability of being killed while flying a military aircraft (even in non combat conditions) is one in four, that’s 25%!  If commercial aviation had that kind of attrition factor, the airlines would have gone out of business long ago as no one with a brain would ever fly.  So when we run out of fighters and bombers, what then?

Remember the new Army Comanche helicopter being developed several years ago?  It also got the production axe (after spending several billions in development) due to budgetary constraints.  But much of its stealth technology somehow ended up in the helicopter used by Seal Team Six that killed Bin Laden several months ago.  As they could not afford to deploy something new, maybe they simply applied some of the new systems to older helicopter models? I wonder how much of the crashed stealth helicopter was really salvaged?

Some years back there was an interesting concept circulating in our military given the enormous cost of developing and producing ever more advanced aircraft.  Military planes would eventually become so insanely expensive that there be only one fighter/bomber in existence.  On one day, the Air Force would have it.  On the next day, the Navy would get to use it.  On the third day, the Marines would have their way with it.  On the fourth day that Army could use it (what does the Army need fixed-wing aircraft for?). For the remaining days of the week, the different military branches would simply draw straws to determine who had access to the last military flying machine.

It’s sad to admit that we have now reached this point.  Maybe some good will eventually come out of all of this.  If the world grows so economically depressed that it’s armed forces can no longer afford advanced weapons of war, perhaps war will become obsolete as the world can no longer afford building more efficient weapons for depopulating the earth (do you remember where this particular line of dialogue comes from?).

Many people do not even know what really caused the collapse of the former “Evil Empire”.  It’s really amazing to discover how well disinformation works on a global scale when it comes down to strategic war planning.  What really caused the collapse of the former Soviet Union was their belief that the US military was going to build and deploy President Ronald Reagan’s “Star Wars” or Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), that would have consisted of a constellation of orbiting directed energy weapon satellites to shoot down enemy missiles in their boost phase.

Instead of the Soviet economy building cars, appliances, televisions, stoves, etc., most of the country’s money went towards developing effective countermeasures to SDI that was, in reality, nowhere near mature enough to even think about deploying.   Some thirty years later, such directed energy weapon technology is still too crude to effectively deploy on earth at the scale discussed by Reagan, let alone in orbit.  Even the current Airborne Laser (ABL) program aboard a heavily modified Boeing 747, which has demonstrated great success thus far during testing and evaluation,  has been scraped due to lack of funds.

So without firing a single shot and turning the cold war into a hot one, Reagan defeated the old “evil empire” as he put it.  Problem is, we’re in the same place today that the Soviet Union was a mere twenty-two years ago, but for different reasons.  What if they gave a war and no one came because they could not afford to attend?  Sound interesting?

Then of course, there is the developing unmanned combat aerial vehicles (UCAV) that are smaller, cheaper, can perform maneuvers impossible for living drivers and do not put pilots and their families in harm’s way.  Wow, a unilaterally deathless war, at least from our end.

What really saddens me is the fact that all of this incredible aerospace technology will never come to serve us in a commercial way, in making the transport of people and cargo extremely efficient and timely.  However, without war, most of our modern conveniences such as jets, microwave ovens, cordless and cellular telephones phones might never have been invented.  However, the incredible strides within the military that have been made over the last sixty years are so extraordinary. that many of them threaten the very power structure of modern society in general and therefore may never see the light of day in terms of making a better way of life.

But what if brilliant minds that design, develop and build such astounding weapons were turned loose to improve the human condition at every level?  May the day when we finally beat our spears into plow shears be close at hand?  Only time and the collapsing world economy will tell, although it’s when one is down on their collective knees that their adversaries are likely initiate warfare.  A scary thought for everyone.  Perhaps this time more level heads will prevail?   What do you think?

The Real Entity Case

Luminous anomalies over Doris Bither in 1974.

Contrary to what many people believe, the case of Doris Bither, that later became the novel and motion picture The Entity, was not, in my professional opinion, the result of spectral rape, .a.k.a. spectrophilia, but a rather disturbingly real poltergeist outbreak.   Unfortunately, the amassed data on the case does not in any way support ghostly sex, but back in the mid-1970′s in my mid-20′s, such a notion was intriguing to say the least.

The passage of almost four decades and the experience of thousands of more cases, have provided this author with a rather unique perspective regarding such experiences and claims.  Remember, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and while there was plenty of evidence that we were dealing with real paranormal phenomena, it very likely had nothing whatsoever to do with incorporeal sex, except in the minds of Doris and her children.

Doris was very evasive and somewhat cryptic regarding her background, so much so that she refused to even tell us her age, which we knew was older than ours, but not by how many years.  Had we pushed Doris hard to reveal more about her hellish past, such efforts on our part might have pushed us right off the case.

Had we even attempted to secure the type of background information we currently collect, such as medical, psychological, family psychodynamics, prescribed medications (names of meds, dosage and duration) as well as recreational drugs and alcohol usage, Doris would surely have shown us the door from the outset.  We had no way of knowing just how utterly disturbing of a life she really had led: disowned by her family as a young teenager and cast out to fend for herself.

It’s fascinating the way time has a way of providing answers to those who wait.  Some years ago, I was contacted by Javier Ortega from Ghost Theory.com to interview me on The Entity case.  Somewhat later, Javier also interviewed one of Doris Bither’s sons, Brian Harris.

Brian spoke to Javier of how his mother was banished by her family while still a teenage due to her rambunctious lifestyle and rebellious nature.  How his mom started playing with Ouija Boards and séances at very early age, finally mixing such with drugs and alcohol to quell the irritable psyche within her.

Brian’s interview was disturbing at many levels in that he continuously contradicted himself in terms of his responses to all questions asked of him, certainly damaging his credibility as a witness.  It was not until Javier interviewed Doris’s other two sons that he learned that Brian was a chip off the old mother’s block in terms of drinking and drugs.  However, some of his statements were supported by corroborative testimony by his brothers.

According to Doris’s other sons, there were subtle amounts of paranormal phenomena present long before she moved onto Braddock Drive in Culver City, California.  They spoke of some psychokinetic events and even the occasional apparition, although I would never refer to such an occurrence as subtle.

However, not long after Doris moved from Santa Monica to Culver City, a strange Hispanic woman appeared at her door warning that her house was a bad or evil dwelling.  When Doris asked what the lady was talking about, the mysterious lady simply walked away without further explanation.  Shortly thereafter, Doris was beset with the paranormal attacks.  Was there a connection, in that the unknown lady knew something ugly about that particular ramshackle tinderbox Doris now lived in, or was this just a coincidence?  We’ll never really know unless we find that woman, some thirty-seven years later.

Currently, Javier is in the final stages of writing a book about Doris Bither and The Entity case from the perspective of her three male children, which begins long before we made her acquaintance in the summer of 1974.  Such detailed information may help us further clarify exactly what occurred and why, some 37 years ago.  Although, as it appears that Doris is not available to further study, we must deal with the somewhat fragmented memories of her children.

According to Doris’s son’s, she passed away in 1999 at the tender young age of 59 from respiratory failure, and as such we’ll never really know if Doris fit the longitudinal pattern that has emerged in this type of parapsychological research strongly indicating a link between poltergeist activity and epilepsy/seizure prone individuals coupled with anomalous electromagnetic/geomagnetic environments.

It would have been really interesting to have given Doris a full neurophysiological medical workup combined with taking environmental electromagnetic and geomagnetic measurements.  Odds are, that such data collection would have revealed the true nature of what was really going on here.

Due to the fame or infamy this case gathered over time, there’s an incredible amount of misinformation and disinformation circulating about what did and did not actually occur back in 1974-5.  There has even been erroneous scuttlebutt pertaining to when Doris died, to the point where many mistook the death of Barry Conrad’s ex-girlfriend, Lisa McIntosh in 2006, as that of Doris Bither.

There have also been many people who have claimed that they were part of our lab and were also part of our investigation of this case.  There were only three names formally associated with this case, one being Kerry Gaynor, my associate at the time, Dr. Thelma Moss, the head of our former UCLA parapsychology lab (who only visited the site on one occasion), and yours truly.

During the last three decades I can think of at least ten different people who’ve claimed to have worked with us on this case.  Some of them I’ve never even met and would not even know if standing next to in a room.  Over those many years, people in other states have even claimed that The Entity case occurred in their own backyard, not here in a suburb of Los Angeles.  Put simply, they’re all lying or emotionally disturbed.

In recent years. several others have surfaced, who were even more blatant and deceptive in the claims.  One of them has recently been boasting to have worked in our lab, where we were allegedly training him as a medium to work for the U.S. government when he was well under eighteen years of age at the time.  This man is either a seriously disgusting opportunist, delusional or just psychotic.

Neither our lab, nor the U.S. government, has ever trained anyone as mediums, and we were not even allowed to work with anyone under the age of eighteen due to the university’s Human Use Committee regulations.  Such people should at least check their historical facts before pontificating.

More recently, a psychopathic woman has appeared on the scene who has been attempting to take credit for every case on the book, such as the one mentioned in chapter three (“A Hazardous Haunting”) of my book as well as The Entity case.  You can read more about this criminally insane excuse of a human female on this site at “A Demon’s Lair”.  This is one seriously frightening person to be around.  If one needs to chase a demon, here’s one just waiting for you in La Crescenta.  But beware; your valuables might mysteriously disappear while in her presence.  Trust me on this, as this paranormal predator has stolen very large sums of money from her her benefactor (the man she lives with).  Spend time with her at your own risk.  This is not a joke.

As there are no academic credentials required for anyone to go out and investigate the paranormal as they try emulating the garbage they’ve seen on cable TV paranormal reality shows, every uneducated and ignorant new age groupie is out there looking for demons.  Like I just said, there’s one in La Crescenta waiting to be captured and disposed of.  What are you waiting for?

To fully comprehend the possibility that a living person’s subconscious mind can involuntarily generate such power as to manifest luminous anomalies, apparitions and macroscopic psychokinetic events, is for me, far more compelling than if a discarnate intelligence was responsible.

My assessment and conclusions are fully discussed within Chapter 2 (The Real Life Entity Case) of my book Aliens Above, Ghosts Below: Explorations of the Unknown.

The following is written by GhostTheory.com’s Javier Ortega:

I never imagined being in the place in which I stand today. For years, I’ve read about the Doris Bither case and thought that such claims as “spectral rape” were of the most absurd things that I’ve ever heard. Although I was highly skeptical about this case, something inside of me was always terrified when I would read over the case details just for fun. What I never imagined was I being involved in such manner with this case. A case that officially began in 1974, but has a much longer and darker history to it. Four years before my birth, a single mother of four, living under dire circumstances, battled unseen forces that physically assaulted her and her children in a small house in Culver City, California. Thirty-seven years later, I find myself believing that Doris did suffer some paranormal assaults against her body. Assaults from unseen forces in which Doris was, and always had been, the catalyst to.

There are three journals sitting on my desk that are full of notes. These notes are my prized possession. It took me years to catalog in a chronological order the major events in Doris’ life. With the help of Doris’ eldest son, I managed to get an insight to the life of Doris Bither. A life full of abandonment, abuse and a very deep and dark void.  As I sometimes glance through my journals, I can’t help but feel that Doris’ psychodynamics with her family, started her off in a wrong direction in life. It only became worse, after an adolescent Doris Bither got mixed up with the dark side of seances.  Something that at first seemed like bar trick to impress her friends, became an obsession that quickly spun out of control.  Sending Doris in a hellish ride that continued on until the final moments of her life.

Although there is much more to Doris’ life and haunting that I can mention in this article, I can tell you that all the evidence leads up to this being a case of extraordinary psychokinetic powers.  Or at least that’s how I see things. Dr. Barry Taff is correct when he stated that Brian Harris seemed to contradict himself when I interviewed him.  Although this is evident in the interview, I don’t believe this was done with intent.  As I recall, when talking with Brian for a few hours over the phone, he seemed extremely agitated and very emotional over the fact that some things that were written about his mother were not true. He was so emotional that it was apparent how jumbled his thoughts were at the moment. Mr. Harris just wanted to get the facts out there about his mother. He is the middle child and remembers a few things quite clearly.

“She was no drunk. Sure she liked to drink every now and then, but not the way they [investigators] painted her.”

I listened intently as the sound of his voice cracked a little.

“And all that stuff about her manifesting these entities because of there being three young males in the house that created this ‘tension’ is all crap! These things were real! I saw them and they saw us.”

I do believe Mr. Harris experienced things that his other brothers did not. There was a time when one of the children was slapped by an unseen hand during the middle of the night. Another story involves one of the boys bumping into an invisible person in the hallway. The boys all experienced and saw different things throughout the years, but the bottom-line is that they ALL experienced something in that house. Something that was paranormal.

I had mention to Dr. Taff when we first met that Doris was visited by an old Mexican lady when she had first moved in to the house in Braddock drive. She received a knock at the front door and was surprised to see an old Mexican woman standing there. Possibly in her 70s or 80s, the woman seemed somber and was there to delivery a chilling message:

“You need to get out! I used to live here in this old house, back when it was just a farm and I was a little girl. There is something very evil here. This place is haunted and you need to get out!”

The old Mexican woman left without saying another word. This warning unnerved both Doris and her eldest son. It was only a few months after that dire warning that the attacks began.

The life of Doris is plagued with demons both literally and figuratively speaking. Because of the vast amount of information that I was privileged to have, Doris eldest son and I have been talking about converting his memories of the time spent on Braddock drive into a book. A book that I’ve been working on for some time and expect to finish soon. The book contains major events in Doris’ life in a chronological order. From the day she abandoned her family in Illinois, to her final days. Doris Bither passed away alone in a room, a room from which her son reported seeing balls of light appear just like they did back in the early 70s. You see, Doris died a haunted woman.

The book is a project in the works and I expect to have it complete late this year. This will be a first-hand account of Doris’s eldest son. The dark past he knew about his mother, his experiences during the time spent on Braddock drive and his adult life with his mother. This is a non-fiction piece, based on meticulous research into the case. With the help from the good folks over at the Los Angeles County Hall of Records and Doris’ family, I piece together the history of one of the greatest cases in the annals of the paranormal.

Javier Ortega
August, 6, 2011
Los Angeles, CA

A Demon’s Lair?

The Creature and her friends on a good day!

I never used to believe in demons.  In fact, the very word annoyed me to the point of wanting to utterly ignore it.  For those of you who know of my work, also know the great lengths I’ve gone to avoid the use of such inappropriate and absurd nomenclature.

However, things dramatically changed for me in 2006, when I actually encountered a real, live (figuratively speaking), physical demon, disguised (and a poor disguise at that) in human form.  This demon’s visage was vile beyond words, so much so that it keeps changing it’s appearance and name to avoid detection by unsuspecting people near it.

Everything it touches figuratively goes to hell, if not literally.  Wherever it goes, items of monetary value seem to mysteriously disappear, although we have a pretty good idea as to where they eventually end up.   This undercover demon is incapable of speaking any form of truth, using deception and disinformation to successfully accomplish its goals and obfuscate its secret identity.

The best way of describing the way this “thing” operates is to quote an old phrase from late 1960′s television.   That classic old phrase is: “Everything I’m saying is a lie and I’m lying to you now”?  This is the essence of how this demon successfully manipulates others.

It all began when my ex-colleague (whose name is being withheld to avoid further reprisals from this demon, but you’ll probably figure out who he is, or was) and I met what initially appeared to be a woman while on a case in August of 2006 in Calabasas, a suburb within the west San Fernando Valley here in California.

This disgusting example of a female homo sapien, and I use that term very loosely here, bares a striking resemblance to a Morlock from the original Time Machine (MGM, 1960) movie.  When this female “thing”, whom I dispassionately refer to as “The Creature”, first viewed my associate, she/it looked at him as a hungry vulture orbiting its’ prey might, just before pouncing to disembowel it.

The Creature quickly sensed that my colleague was extremely vulnerable at that time as he had just lost his live-in girlfriend of five years to cancer and blamed himself as he was unable to save her from a disease that is poorly understood and virtually incurable.

She/it immediately was aware of the fact that I was easily able to see through her overly obvious transparency, especially when she volunteered the fact she was in communication with god and his angels in order to drive the demon’s (herself, that is)  away from this particular townhouse.  Yeah, right, and I’m 6’4″ tall with blond hair and blue eyes.

Once those words passed from her forked tongue, I realized exactly who and what we were dealing with.  For the rest of our time at this location, I simply ignored The Creature’s presence as my reason for being at this specific location did not include engaging in dialog with delusional, psychotic people.  It was quite obvious by her/its body language that The Creature was not pleased with my lack of attention.

A few days later. she called an associate of mine on the east coast to solicit his help in promoting herself as the world’s greatest medium…whatever.  My associate told her to speak with me about such matters and she responded quite angrily at that suggestion for obvious reasons.  My associate went on to inform The Creature that we do not endorse or support such absurd claims in anyone, as they’re unprovable.

It was then quite apparent what this “thing” wanted from all of us….consensual validation, in order to misrepresent herself as being affiliated with and officially endorsed by academically trained parapsychologists.  In more simpler terms, she/it wanted to use our names and credentials in order to deprive ignorant, gullible and naive people of their money.  This was one of the most blatant attempts at such I’ve ever encountered in my four decade career.  Now the stage was set, and best and worst were yet to come.  Read on.

Shortly thereafter, I learned that this demon referred to my colleague (the one she met with me) as a “bank”, from which it would make numerous withdrawals, while he was making numerous deposits in hers, metaphorically speaking, if you get my drift.  Going from bad to worse, this creature later referred to my colleague as a “mark, a pigeon, a chump and a sap.”

Sounds more like a common, petty thief who struck gold and knew it, but nothing could be further from the truth.  However, like I’ve said, this demon is extremely transparent to anyone paying attention, as almost any sentient being in its’ presence shortly begins to shudder out of fear for its money and very existence.

In purely psychological terms, this creature would be defined as a sycophantic, gold-digging, psychopath.  A psychopath who cannot even keep track of what lies she’s tells to what people, a very common trait of psychopathic behavior.

For quite some time she/it was telling anyone that listened that we were working together.  When I was forced to post some disclaimer blogs on another website back in 2008, stating that I’ve never worked with her, nor did I ever intend to work with this creature (although I used her allegedly real name), she went absolutely ballistic and demanded that my colleague give her money so she could sue me.

A friend we have in common told The Creature to just post my disclaimer on her website and everyone would be happy.  Everyone except The Creature, that is.  When hearing this, The Creature went into a violent rage screaming “NO, NO, NO NO!!!!!!”  and then violently hung the phone up on him.  Needless to say, they are no longer friends.  Of course The Creature reacted this way, for she wanted everyone in the paranormal community to believe we were working together so she could profit from and steal more from unsuspecting victims while using my name.  What a disgusting example of humanity at its worst.

The very next day I went down to my car and discovered that someone had tried to steal it.  However, as I have a triple redundant alarm system, they were unsuccessful, although they did manage to do considerable damage to my driver’s door as well as the key cylinder lock in both the door and dash.

I found this to be just a little too coincidental given how manically insane The Creature became just one day prior regarding me.  I do not believe that she herself committed this criminal act, but had one of her many crooked friends pay my open carport a visit in the very early morning hours.   And as the man whose house she lives in has my address in his computer and knows the make and model of my car, it would have been very simple for her to order someone to vandalize or steal my car.  In fact, I suggested to the police who might be responsible for the attack on my car, and they didn’t even care.  Happens every day to them, no big deal.

About one year later, this hideous, demonic beast attempted to convince a TV series producer she was working for at the time to sue me, claiming that I was interfering with his company’s ability to obtain guests for their show.

In reality, this was yet another lie on the part of the creature, as I was instrumental in bringing this particular person to their attention, and would have therefore received a substantial referral fee had she appeared on the show.  The real reason this individual refused to appear on the show dealt with personal, emotional problems this lady had at the time, as she certainly could have used the additional income.  Fortunately, these lawsuits were never filed.

Back to the demon itself, I assure you that this creature is far worse than any lying, psychotic thief you’ve ever heard of.  This abhorrent thing is the ultimate manifestation of an opportunistic leech, that literally scavenges everything and everyone near it.

It wasn’t long before I informed my colleague about this demon’s intentions, yet he didn’t seem to care, as this demon had already gained control of his depressed, fragile mind, which was negatively conditioned from being raised in a dysfunctional, alcoholic family.  A family, wherein his mother repeatedly tried to kill him and later turned him in to the police, claiming he was responsible for the death of a girl he hadn’t seen in years.

By this time, this demon had already moved itself into, and had been living within my ex-colleague’s Glendale home for several years and had subsequently stolen and squandered substantial amounts of his income and savings.

This man’s mind has been so thoroughly overwhelmed, corrupted and controlled by this demon’s presence that he doesn’t even appear to care that his finances are in serious jeopardy and that “The Creature’s” presence has very likely cost him many millions in failed entertainment project contracts.

The more this man is mistreated and abused, the better he responds to this woman (oops, sorry about that) demon he’s with.  It’s control over him is so absolute that he often dares to speak his mind while they’re together in company for fear of being verbally, emotionally and physically attacked by her, even though she/it is substantially smaller than him, at least vertically.

He is so utterly dominated and controlled by The Creature, that if he’s asked a question by someone while in her presence, he immediately looks in her direction, knowing what’s about to occur.  She then scowls at him, forcing him to lower his eyes like a badly beaten, subjugated and conditioned dog, silently commanding him not to answer.   The Creature then answers the question while the man usually stands up and walks out of the room with his tail between his legs.

Several years ago another one of my associates was at this man’s house delivering some computer products.  The Creature began ranting that yours truly is a total fraud in that there was never a parapsychology lab at UCLA and therefore I never worked there.  She went on to state the I’ve totally invented or fabricated myself having never even attended college, let alone graduate school.   The Creature kept harping on the fact that I claim to have a doctorate on parapsychology from UCLA and that according to the university such a credential was never offered (and never will be).

My visiting associate told The Creature that I never claimed to have a doctorate in parapsychology.  He told her that my degree is not in parapsychology, but in psychophysiology (the interrelationship between the mind, brain and body).  As The Creature probably did not even comprehend what my associate was referring to here, she kept insisting that I’ve faked my entire background in order to make money (money, what money?).  I think this is called projection, isn’t it?

The man of the house within which The Creature resides just sat there and did not utter a word, like he had been lobotomized.  When the visiting associate turned toward the house’s owner saying;  “You’ve worked with this man for twenty-two years aren’t you going to saying anything in his defense?”, the man simply looked away, stood up and left the room.  My associate had the strong desire to punch The Creature’s lights out at this point, but unfortunately did not.  Too bad, as he would have done this man, and the world in general, a huge favor by ridding them of this preying entity.  This is a very sad state of affairs?

This is really, really sick.  I knew for a very long time that this man/child was troubled and disturbed, but never suspected the severity of the his emotional problems.  Yet still, he refuses to evict her for fear that he might lose his surrogate mother.  Even after driving away most of his friends, this man is way too humiliated and embarrassed over his lack of courage and emotional strength to come to his own defense, and is therefore content to leave things alone as opposed to confronting this demon and disposing of her.

Fate has dealt him a lemon and he’s satisfied with making lots of sour lemonade, more indication of his severely depressed stated of mind, as he feels that he really deserves the abuse he’s getting.  For a while, I suspected that this demon was possibly poisoning him or slipping drugs into the food it/she cooks for him.  While this might be occurring, his actions speak more of a person being maliciously manipulated.

This man is an easy target for such a demon, as he has suffered from lifelong, morbid clinical depression and very low self-esteem, regardless of his success within the entertainment industry and, not surprisingly, is an admitted, ardent misogynist (referring to all women as sneaky, untrustworthy, devious, deceptive, underhanded, treacherous and mercurial), due to the abuse he suffered during his formative years at the hands of his raging alcoholic mother.

In a strange, seemingly karmic manner, he has managed to obtain exactly what he allegedly feared most in life, an emotional replica of his mother.  This whole event is more on the level of a Twilight Zone episode in terms of his meeting, attracting and becoming entangled with that which he so dreaded, especially as it came in the form of an immediate rebound from his deceased girlfriend.

This man is now so brow-beaten by this creature that he, himself, has become a very proficient liar in attempting to defend her slow. systematic, destruction of him, a quality that is totally contrary to his being over the last quarter century.

This whole matter is very difficult for me to articulate and put into words as I was not educated or trained to think, speak or write in such metaphysical terms, but this sleazy example of a woman is the essence of darkness and evil.

This miscreant has no redeeming qualities whatsoever, and is a menace to all intelligent life on earth as she is utterly vampiric.  The real problem is that the man she lives with cannot even recognize it for what it really is, as this demonic creature has emotionally assumed the pleasing (for him) shape of his deceased mother

Several months ago I received a call from a Glendale police detective who was responding to a complaint this demon had filed against me as she did not like what I was saying about her to others.  I told the detective what had been transpiring with her and my ex-colleague for the last four years as well as how she/it had been lying to everyone about working with me.

The police detective asked if “The Creature” had a job.  My reply was simple; “Her job is depriving the man she lives with of his hard earned money”.  The detective then asked me if she/it had an education and I told him that she had purchased a degree in” spiritualism” from some fly-by-night organization overseas where they teach their “students” how to effectively and efficiently rob gullible, naive, apathetic and ignorant people, and how all scientists are evil because they can instantly see through your B.S.

The detective’s reply as “Oh, she’s a professional bunco artist”, as he immediately understood exactly who and what this miscreant is all about.  He then asked why my friend was allowing her to do such damage to himself and I spent a great deal of time educating him on my ex-colleague’s emotionally disturbed past and resultant psyche.  The detective’s final words was for me, and anyone else, to stay as far away from her and her live-in companion as possible as they are really bad news.  I totally agree, which is why I walked away from this man as a friend and twenty four year colleague in April of 2010.   At this point, they certainly deserve each other.

Very recently, this hideous, demonic creature had one of her friends contact me via this website, posing as a friend of the man which I speak of here.  This anonymous email was from a woman who concurred with virtually everything this particular commentary states, claiming she too was very concerned and worried about this man’s well being.  She stated in her email that she wanted to chat with me about the severe danger my ex-colleague is in due to The Creature’s presence in his life.  It all sounded a little too good to be true.

After some careful research and investigation, I was able to identify this anonymous woman from Kansas and Mississippi as one of the The Creature’s close friends. and that her real motivation for contacting me was to provoke me into recklessly and foolishly writing something online about her that might be construed as a threat, therein allowing The Creature to either contact law enforcement again or possibly sue me.  When I tried to contact this particular lady with what I had learned about her, she never responded.  What a surprise?

Interesting, how this demonic being keeps attempting to involve law enforcement in matters that she herself creates?  Perhaps, given her penchant for making things of monetary value suddenly vanish, she’s readily familiar with law enforcement protocol and methodology?  This an all-too-common scenario wherein the perpetrator (The Creature) goes to the police first and files a claim against their intended victim/target, therein setting the stage for misdirecting the authorities away from the real criminal and eventual act.

This is classic disinformational obfuscation at it’s best.  Sounds like The Creature is a real “pro” at this stuff through lots of personal experience?  At least she’s good at something?  At this point. I would not be surprised to learn that this female denizen had outstanding warrants on her in other states.

As “The Creature” claims to be a real witch (hmm, I think she’s got the first letter incorrect here) who can cast spells, curses and incantations while wearing amulets and talisman, it appears that she’s well versed in the notion of manipulating others by using nonsensical, new age psycho-babble and metaphysics to her advantage.  Perhaps in her delusional and demented state of mind, the Creature really believes she’s controlling the man-child she lives with through the use of her magical powers, when in reality she’s a cunning, clever, trailer park trash crook.   Her methods of madness have apparently served her very well as she’s been able to successfully steal people’s money and jewelery for years without being caught?  But nothing lasts forever, does it?

Now you tell me, based on the aforementioned information, would you call this creature a demon?

If you know of whom I speak here, please reach out and try to help him, even if he’s in denial and refuses assistance.  The only way this man is going to survive this demon’s onslaught, short of this demon self-destructing,  is if everyone around him makes him aware of his problem and offers some form of emotional support and potential intervention.  Once this demonic creature is aware that everyone else knows of its skulduggery intentions, it will leave him for greener and safer pastures where it is not immediately recognized.  His future is in our hands, literally.

UFOs In Brazil: Not A Pleasant Picture

By

Alex Mistretta

The UFO phenomena is a continual presence in the world today, where patterns of events and physical characteristics attributed to the phenomena remain consistent across borders and throughout history. The interpretation of events may differ, but the phenomenon remains a constant. Yet, once in a while certain locations and events fall outside the zeitgeist.

Nowhere is that more true than in Brazil.  There, the UFO phenomena has taken a much more aggressive approach to contact, even violent at times.

Preceding Betty and Barney Hill by four years, was the abduction of Antonio Villas Boas of 1957.  There was no missing time or screened memories to alleviate Boas fears. Boas was forcefully taken and dragged into a UFO by two small humanoids.

The event took place in the Minas Gerais region where Antonio Villas Boas was working his field late at night; a common practice due to the heat in this part of the world.  He noticed in the sky above a red star, which seemed to be increasing in size.  Once the object starting changing directions however, Boas realized that this was not an ordinary star. A realization further enforced by the fact that the object was coming closer.

The egg shaped shaped object, landed just a few feet ahead of a now stunned Boas.  Panicking, he goes to his tractor.  Unable to get it started, he runs, although not very far, as he finds himself forcefully grabbed by humanoid creatures he would later describe as about five feet in height with small blue eyes.  They were wearing grey overalls and seemed unable to speak. They would emit strange sounds, more akin to yelps and barks than any kind of speech Boas could recognize. He is taken aboard the object.

Inside the craft, he is left alone in a room, but not before he is stripped naked and covered by a gel like substance.  He feels ill from a gas released in the atmosphere, which quickly dissipates.  Shortly thereafter, a naked female walks in, blue eyed with long white hair.  She is clearly one of them, and cannot speak. Her meaning is clear, and intercourse follows.  Once finished, she walks out of the room, but before she does so completely, she points to her stomach and then she points upwards. Boas is released.

While the event was somewhat traumatic. Boas suffered minimal physical symptoms, which included nausea, headaches and lesions that were painful for a few weeks thereafter.  All in all, a relatively benign event, with short lived after affects.

Not so, for the following individuals.   Minas Gerais seems to be a focal point of the UFO presence. One of the more active areas is the Valley of the Old Women, where in 1976 a most disturbing case took place.

Heirmelindo Da Silva was walking his dog at two in the morning when much like Boas, notices a bright light up above.  The light increases in size as he begins to realize that this is some kind of flying aircraft.

He starts to run when cables with hooks come out of the object.  To make the story even more bizarre, a small humanoid in a silvery suit descends along with the cables and attempts to abduct Da Silva.  They struggle as he is lifted about twenty feet off the ground and eventually dropped.  He is stunned, but left unhurt.   However, three months later the dog dies of unknown causes.

As unusual as this story appears, even in the field of Ufology, it is by no means singular in Brazil.  Rio Grande Do Norte, in northern eastern Brazil, has a history of similar happenings.

UFO’s in these regions are called Chupa Chupa; and a pattern begins to emerge.  The targets are very remote rural areas.  Bright objects chase and illuminate, usually lone individuals walking late at night.  The light from the object is often perceived as very hot, at times causing burns to the individuals.  The worst comes with the cold wind that also emanates from the object, because it has the ability to lift the victim off the ground and in some cases into a hovering UFO.

People have gone missing for several hours, and in one case three days.  Strangely, in most cases, the object seems unable to abduct individuals, which at this point are holding on to tree trunks in order to resist the upward thrust.  As a last resort, the UFO will at times drop unidentified hot oil-like liquid on the victim.  A rather primitive resort considering the technology involved.

Post event symptoms include burns, headaches, nausea, diarrhea and eyestrain.  More serious effects include body numbness and pain that may last for months following an encounter.   Impaired vision may last for years and in one case in Minas Gerais, death, by what appears to be similar to radiation poisoning.

Let’s not forget that these are very remote and poor locations where access to a doctor, and much less a hospital, can be problematic.

In January of 1996, Minas Gerais was once again the epicenter of the UFO world.  This time in a city called Varginha.

Liliane da Silva, along with her sister and friend were walking through a vacant lot on their way home, when Liliane noticed a strange creature among the tall grass and weeds to her left.  Once spotted, the creature turned and looked at the rather surprised girls, who gave the girls a good look at the creature.

They described it as having oily brown skin, large red eyes and three projections on the top of the head. They ran away and never saw the creature again.  The story doesn’t end there however.  That night, Army vehicles and personnel were seen outside of Regional Hospital were sections of the hospital were closed off to both patients and employees.

Later that night, the same scene occurred at a more secluded hospital called Humanitas. The chaos made it difficult to contain the story, as several eyewitnesses came forward, claiming that a creature matching the description given by the three girls was seen at both hospitals.

Several military personnel also claimed to have participated in the recovery of another creature, separate from the one seen by the girls.  Adding to the girls description, the creature was humanoid, presumably bipedal and under five feet in height.

Once the U.S military showed up, the trail goes cold.  What happened to the creature or creatures is unknown.  Speculation is that they were flown to the United States.  Why and how the United States military was allowed to operate and take control of this situation in a foreign country is unclear.  Central America, South America and also Puerto Rico are a gold mine of UFO data.  From the Zone of Silence in Mexico to the underwater UFOs in Chilean lakes and interior of Puerto Rico.  A wealth of data awaits.

Disinforming The Paranormal and Ufology

You all know what disinformation is, right?  This method, commonly used in war-fighting and intelligence work, is VERY important to consider when dealing with the paranormal and ufology, as it appears that the powers that be want to keep the public both uninformed and misdirected on these topics.

Disinformation is when people are fed erroneous information regarding a specific subject(s) with the intention of creating an illusory reality so as to misdirect ones’ attention from one event onto another, or to obfuscate the truth with a generic lie.

One relatively recent instance involved our government’s officially terminating it’s remote viewing program some time ago.  Afterwards, they hired some professional debunkers (whose names have been omitted here to avoid any legal consequences) to re-evaluate the results from the many years of research and application.  Once these debunkers finished their manipulation of this program’s statistics, it suddenly appeared as if the entire remote viewing program was little more than an experiment in stupidity, gullibility and naivety coupled with an error in judgment and reasoning on the part of our military and intelligence community (which of course is always possible when dealing with any government).

These debunkers then claimed that with their “corrected” statistics, all the years of significantly positive qualitative and quantitative results were actually meaningless dogma and amounted to little more than the work of ignorant zealots who were misinterpreting their own data.   One may ask why our government even resorted to disinformation regarding such an underfunded and poorly utilized intelligence program? The reason is rather simple and yet complicated at the same time.

Even after all the development work, numerous experiments and applied usage of remote viewing, no one really understood how and why it worked, and why, on occasion, it failed.  Our scientific theories and models of space-time and consciousness are far too crude to encompass such extraordinary perceptual events.  However, the brilliant minds in our government wanted to insure that our immediate, as well as any potential future enemies, could never employ such non-localized spying techniques against us, as there are no known effective countermeasures against remote viewing.

The most efficient way to protect us against against future paranormal adversaries would be to make everyone believe that remote viewing never worked to begin with and that it’s nothing more than a waste of time, money, material and assets.  Yeah right?

During the initial phases of the remote viewing work, the United States Navy was so paranoid that Soviet psychic spies could penetrate into our deep diving boomers (nuclear ballistic missile submarines) and the Strategic Air Command’s underground ICBM launch complexes to psychically force (remote influence) our servicemen into pushing the wrong buttons or not pushing any buttons at all, that the military were actually trying to design and develop talisman and/or amulets to be worn by servicemen in sensitive positions to shield their minds from being remotely controlled. However, I seriously doubt as to whether such ridiculously absurd countermeasure efforts produced any results.  This may really sound off the wall, but it’s true.

But this is what tends to occur when we’re dealing with a subject that is not fully understood, other than being aware of some of its immediate, although limited, applications.  As to whether the debunker’s efforts succeeded regarding remote viewing we may never know, but that doesn’t mean that they won’t keep attempting such similar efforts.

Disinformation can be used in many different ways, but the two most common forms of it’s use are the following.   A significant truth is surrounded with many lies, and once said lies are uncovered and exposed as falsehoods, the truth within the middle of them is discarded and forgotten as little more than just another of the many lies. The inverse, is where a powerful lie is surrounded with considerable truths, and when the surrounding truths are confirmed as factual, the lie within the middle is also believed to be factual.

A simple way of describing the essence of the disinformational method is a line from an episode of the original Star Trek series entitled “I,  Mudd”, wherein Kirk utters the following fascinating words to an android bent on controlling and stealing the Enterprise; “Everything I’m saying to you is a lie and I’m lying to you now”.  Confusing, disturbing and certainly disorienting, but nonetheless, effective.  Precise, concise and succinct, is not it not?

Most people are probably not aware of the fact that our government’s intelligence apparatus has dramatically affected media such as newspapers,  television and radio to disinform the public regarding UFOs for many decades.  One of the best sources of information on this topic are two books written by Richard M. Dolan; UFOs and the National Security State, Vol. 1 & 2.

Apparently, the powers that be do not want the public to believe in the existence of UFOs or aliens.  The reasons for this attitude on the part of our government are numerous, and many of these are discussed in Dolans’ excellent books as well as my own.  Ever notice how at the end of almost every TV news story on UFOs there is a line thrown out by the reporter ridiculing the entire matter?

During a UFO flap that occurred during the mid-1990′s there was one report that came in of a large, glowing object hovering over someones home in the mid-west.  The object in question was probably even bigger than the house it hovered over, yet the media suggested that what people really saw was the moon or the planet Venus.  What?   If a person cannot differentiate between the moon that they’ve seen all their life or a distant light in the sky (Venus) and a very large, structured, glowing object hovering over their home, they need to be institutionalized, as they’ve lost their mind and are now psychotic.

This brings me to the most current bit of moronic, idiotic and downright historically absurd piece of disinformation I’ve ever seen regarding UFOs.   A new book written by Annie Jacobsen, Area 51,  goes into some detail discussing many previously classified military/intelligence programs at Nellis Air Force Base’s Groom Lake and Area 51.   Much of what Jacobsen writes of is very precise and historically accurate, except when it comes to UFOs and the 1947 Roswell, New Mexico crash.

The Air Force has spun numerous tall tales in their attempt to obfuscate the truth about Roswell.  At first, it was just a weather balloon.  Then, several decades later, the story was changed to something called “Project Mogul”, a high-altitude surveillance balloon used to monitor nuclear tests within the old Soviet Union before we had spy planes and satellites.

But wait, that didn’t account for the diminutive alien bodies allegedly recovered from the crash site.  The next level of disinformational spin from the Air Force was that the strangely colored bodies were nothing more than crash dummies utilized to test new types of ejection seats on supersonic aircraft.

Wait a minute, the crash dummies (full sized, not little humanoids as described by Roswell witnesses) were not even used by the Air Force until the mid-to-late 1950′s, so how could this explain the bodies recovered at Roswell in 1947?

Oh, well it seems that the people who claimed to have seen the bodies really couldn’t remember what decade they were in at the time and mistakenly thought it was 1947, when it was actually 1955-1958?  Sure, we can all lose a decade or so every now and then.  Happens every day, right?  Or is it every decade?  How stupid do these government liars really think we are?   Pretty damn stupid and ignorant apparently.

Jacobsen’s book spins the tale that the Soviets, with the help of Dr. Joseph Mengele from Nazi Germany, helped them genetically engineer some tiny, alien looking human pilots that they inserted into a makeshift spacecraft that was derived from the Horton brother’s flying wing design for the Nazi Luftwaffe at the end of WWII.

This piloted vehicle was then purposefully crashed in the New Mexican desert in the hope of triggering mass hysteria and panic across the United States similar to what occurred during Orson Well’s 1938 War of The Worlds radio broadcast.

My god, these people are working in the wrong profession, as they should really be science fiction writers within the entertainment industry.  Interesting story to say the least, but full of more holes than a large block of Swiss cheese.  Where to begin?

Let’s see, Joseph Mengele did NOT go to the Soviet Union at the end of second world war.  There is absolutely no evidence whatsoever suggesting that Mengele even desired to go to the Soviet Union, or that they wanted to get their hands on a real alien body that the Nazi’s might have recovered from an alleged, unconfirmed crash of a UFO in 1936 within Germany’s Black Forrest.  Had Mengele even attempted to find sanctuary there, he would be been immediately killed.  He may have come to the U.S. for a while, but clearly ended up and died in South America. How could anyone, including Mengele, have genetically engineered anything back in 1947 when DNA had not even been discovered yet?  That wasn’t until the early 1960′s.

Next, the first Horton Brothers 229 flying wing crashed during one of its’ early test flights in Germany due to its port engine failure.  The debris and a second, unfinished prototype, were brought to the U.S. along with the Horton brothers after the war.  In fact, Jack Northrop’s YB-49 flying wing, so beautifully depicted in the original War of the Worlds movie (1956) was, in many ways, derived from the Horton Brothers flying wing.  Due to some poorly clarified political backstabbing during the 1950′s, Northrop’s YB-49, which first flew in 1948, was never deployed into military service even though it apparently demonstrated superior aerodynamic qualities, greater ordinance capacity and higher cruising speeds on military power.  So far, Jacobsen’s batting zero.

One last note here regarding her claims.  The configuration depicted within her book representative of the crashed Roswell craft could not have flown based on any form of jet or rocket propulsion known back in 1947.  Additionally, the description of the Roswell crash material does not even conform to any type of aerospace materials that existed then or now, except some crude forms of memory metals currently in use, but they do not possess many of the qualities described by the individuals who held remnants of the real Roswell crash.  In the end, there’s one final question that needs to be addressed regarding Jacobsen and her book.

Is Jacobsen a mole working for the U.S. government’s military/intelligence apparatus or, is she just a naive, gullible and relatively ignorant reporter who is being used by our government to propagate more erroneous myths and disinformation?

Given that she’s a writer/reporter for the Los Angeles Times newspaper, what better way to be unwittingly used than as an asset for our government as they already are familiarized with how our government’s used the media to disinform the public regarding UFOs?  Either of these possibilities are equally plausible.

However, lending support to the latter of these possibilities was the appearance a new show “Area 51 Declassified” on the National Geographic Channel last Sunday evening, for which Jacobsen was a consultant.  Given the coordination between the release of her book and the immediate broadcast of this show, strongly suggests that this entire matter is a very well orchestrated disinformational campaign put forth by factions within our government.

Reinforcing this belief was the airing of a two-hour National Geographic show entitled “When Aliens Attack”, immediately preceding the Area 51 show.  Why in the world this show was produced is really a mystery.

“When Aliens Attack” posited the unlikely scenario that the Earth will be invaded and conquered by malevolent extraterrestrial life forms in search of protein and chlorophyll, and that we have already prepared a battle plan or contingency combat strategy to deal with such an event.

For a government that’s been denying the very existence of UFOs and aliens for more than sixty years, why are they even planning for such potential hostilities?  That’s the equivalent of planning for Godzilla’s or Rodan’s hostile actions (and remember, they’re movie monsters).

Given how long it normally takes to successfully pitch, sell, produce and air a show on TV (especially on this subject), this whole matter stinks to high heaven of a well organized project to dramatically rewrite history and misdirect our attention in order to dissuade us from believing in UFOs and their occupants.  Jacobsen’s publisher has put forth an extraordinarily intense PR media campaign on this book.  I wonder who the parent company of the publisher is and if they have any asset connections to the intelligence community?  Only time will tell.

In the end, please remember that all forms of disinformation work best when used against uneducated, ignorant, gullible, naive and apathetic populations, which is primarily what many of us are, especially as related to these subject matters.   This type of disinformational program has been used quite extensively over the last six decades, but the real question here is; WHY IS IT BEING DONE NOW WITH SUCH INTENSITY?  WHAT IS IT THAT WE’RE NOT SUPPOSE TO BE PAYING ATTENTION TO NOW?

You Can Live With It and You Can Live Without It

Awareness

By

Rogers Johnson

People who believe that one’s consciousness and personality transcend corporeal death are known as ‘survival theorists’. One of the prevalent arguments made by this group, is that consciousness and perhaps personality are forms of energy, and as science reminds us, energy cannot die, it only changes form. Eintsein’s famous equation, E=MC2, addresses this in part by saying that energy=matter and therefore, matter = energy. Then again , we’re not really saying consciousness is a form of matter, but manifested by matter (the brain). At least that’s what debunkers and skeptics (most scientists ) would suggest. Even though no one REALLY knows what consciousness is, it is thought by most neurobiologists, that consciousness is a epiphenomenon of the brain…a result of something called ‘emergent properties’. This simply means that consciousness is an illusion brought about by the incredibly complex structure of the brain…the whole is greater than the sum of its parts essentially. Along these lines, the law of conservation of energy is also flung about by survival theorists. Energy can travel to and fro, but it is retained (conserved) in some way and form. But if consciousness is nothing more than an illusion, a dream, as fleeting as a cloud, then the argument made by the energy-doesn’t-die crowd falls apart. Clouds, a skeptic might say, have personalities (shape and size), and are literally matter and energy changing form before our eyes, yet when they cease to retain their familiar form, they don’t go to cloud heaven! I mean the fact that a cloud looks like a flying elephant, doesn’t mean it is one. No, we would need to make a case that consciousness is a form of energy, and does not die with the physical brain! First, let’s change the word ‘consiousness’ to the word ‘awareness’. Is a cloud aware? I would venture to say…no. But what exactly is ‘awareness’? Put your finger in boiling water to answer that. But is the visceral nature of pain and pleasure, what we’re calling a subset of consciousness, more compelling than our ability to reason or have a dream? Here’s the thing, when we experience pain or pleasure, when we reason, and especially when we have a lucid dream, we are aware THAT WE ARE AWARE!  We are witness to sensation, to someone (us) thinking, or having ourselves having a dream. That witness, it’s been suggested, is the real You. And that witnessing took energy. It wasn’t merely a chemical reaction, survival theorists say, but the essence, the ENERGY that is you, the real You. A breakthrough? Don’t know, but even without meanderings like this to form a model of life after death, the anecdotal evidence is so strong, (xenoglossy, the ability to speak another language never learnt, is especially interesting), you pretty much…CAN LIVE WITH OR WITHOUT IT! (meaning your body too, for those who didn’t get the pun.)   Finally this:  Rene Descartes famously suggested, “I think therefore I am.” This is the much quoted ‘cogito ergo sum.’ But what’s being proposed here is more, ‘consius cogito ergo supersum’…I’M AWARE THAT I THINK, THEREFORE… I WILL REMAIN!

A True Medium Is Rare, Burned or Half-Baked

Back in the 1980′s, the term channeling was created to promote the notion that living people were able to have literal conversations with the dead and occasionally aliens (yeah right, and I can fly without a plane. That’s odd, I seem to have misplaced my cape and boots?).

The belief that certain individuals are able to speak with the dead the same way us normal people speak with each other has been around since ancient Greece.  In fact, the dawn of psychical research in 1882 began with the investigation of such claims, which were and still are, untestable.  There is nothing new under the sun here, only the way its depicted to attract the attention of naive and gullible people with their hard-earned money.

Let me make my position on this issue very clear.  Over the course of forty three years of research I have seen absolutely no scientific evidence or proof whatsoever that we humans can directly speak to the dead.  Although, if you watch enough television these days, you might doubt my conclusions, as one might believe they’re hearing from the dead on a regular basis, especially if they’re politicians (oh, excuse me, they’re simply dead from the neck up and lacking a conscience).

There was a great line in an episode of The X-Files where Mulder said to Scully something along the lines of:  “We can talk to God all day and we call that prayer, but when God talks back, you’re schizophrenic”.  I am in almost total concurrence with that statement with one minor exception.  If I were making the statement, it would read:  “You can talk to God all day and we call that prayer, but when God or the dead talk back, your schizophrenic”.

So at this point you understand that my skepticism regarding mediumship and/or channeling is rather extreme to say the least, correct?  Over the last four decades, I’ve seen incredible amounts of evidence and data strongly demonstrating that most paranormal phenomena are real, objective and somewhat demonstrable, but that their true nature is far more complicated and intricate that we ever imagined.

Such phenomena has been displaying itself to us in many forms for several millennia, although our interpretation of such events is extremely biased due to our lack of scientific knowledge and religious orientation.

Simply put, it’s the concept of Ockham’s Razor, which states that all things being equal, the simplest explanation is generally correct.  Before we assume that an event is paranormal in nature, we must painstakingly demonstrate that it cannot be explained by any other means.  Once we’ve reached that crucial threshold, Ockham’s Razor must be utilized even further .

If we can more readily and easily explain paranormal events in terms of ESP (telepathy, precognition, retrocognition, clairvoyance or remote viewing), why must we reach for the most improbable and outlandish explanation, that such information is being generated by discarnate entities or disembodied personalities?

In essence, almost all of the data collected over the last 129 years indicates that people can, unquestionably, access information at a distance, from the past and from the future, as well as from living minds in their own time but non-locally.

Depending on where we are in both space and time relative to where said paranormal information originates from, determines its classification, and therefore, it’s name.

If the information appears to originate from the future, we call that precognition.  If it originates from the past, we call that retrocognition, and if said information is remote from your body in space independent of others’ perception, we call that clairvoyance.   The bottom line here is that this is all information and it appears to all be the same other than where it appears to come from in space-time and where we are in space and time when we perceive it.

There are those researchers out there (whose names will not be mentioned here) who have made the claim that they can clinically distinguish between information accessed via an ESP mechanism as opposed to a dead person.

The problem with their assumptions and conclusions is that they are very subjective and not, as yet, clinically validated through contemporary neurophysiological methodologies and protocols and therefore not quantifiably demonstrable in any way.

When people converse, whether verbally or electronically, it is generally linear in its nature.  That is, there is a normal progression from one item to the next.  When psychically gifted people access information through ESP mechanisms, it is generally non-linear in nature, as if tapping into some form of non-local, random access memory source.

When individuals claim to be contacting or channeling spirits or aliens, the outcome is in the identical type non-linear formatting, not in the linear way we communicate amongst ourselves.  Doesn’t this then suggest that such alleged mediumistic communication is the same as any psychic (not medium) giving you a reading in person?

Of course it does.  In the mid-1990′s I was in the green room at a studio waiting to go on a television show regarding the paranormal.  I was approached by a man I did not recognize and he introduced himself as a well-known medium/channeler/psychic, whom I had never heard of.  When he asked me if I believe in what he does, I looked him square in the eye and said “No, as everything you claim to do we’ve done in a far more precise, controlled, scientific manner in our psi training groups UCLA’s former parapsychology lab, and there were no dead people floating around conveying the information to us.”

As this gentleman knew who I was, he was rather shocked to hear my skeptical reply.  He then asked what he might do to convince me of his alleged gift.  Thinking for a brief moment, I said that if  and when he was doing he “reading” an apparition of the departed person he was allegedly communicating with, appeared on at least two video cameras simultaneously demonstrating parallax. The medium looked at me and smiled, as he turned and walked away, not fully understanding what I said or why.

Around the mid-to-late 1980′s, I was interviewed by a reporter from the Los Angeles Times regarding channeling.  When I discussed my skepticism and all the aforementioned points, the reporter agreed with me but then said “Yeah, that but that’s not very interesting or sexy, it’s downright boring.  No one’s going to pay you a huge sum of money for a reading if your just tapping into a holographically distributed space-time information system.”

Needless to say, this reporter never published his interview with me as it did not support the sensationalistic orientation of his pending article.  Forget all the multi-dimensional, quantum physics talk, this reporter made the most relevant point of all, and I’ve made mine.  While I do believe in the possibility for survival of consciousness and personality at some level (my book addresses this in detail), I have yet to see any real, hard evidence that we can sit down and break bread with the dead, especially if one expects real conversations to occur.  About the closest we ever really come to such an event is when we must consult and attorney over a legal matter (more on this in my book as well).  End of story.

Psi’s Circus Sideshow?

At last count, how many alleged paranormal reality shows are on television? Do you remember all their names?  Do you recall what any of them are really supposed to be about?  Probably not, because they’re about absolutely nothing.

Does anyone really believe that these shows are unscripted?  They’re as well choreographed as any Broadway show in many respects.  After one hundred and twenty nine years of formal psychical research and forty three years of my own investigating close to five thousand field cases of poltergeists, hauntings, apparitions, doppelgangers, UFO abductions and the like, one clearly obvious pattern has emerged:  the chance of regularly or consistently running into real paranormal phenomena while investigating a case is the chance of winning the lottery ten times in a row at the hundred million dollar level.  More simply put, the odds are astronomical against you.

However, if you’re producing a paranormal reality show where something paranormal must occur during every episode, perhaps even several times per segment, you have a serious logistics problem on your hands, don’t you?  You cannot simply have talking heads on camera for forty minutes out of every hour, or you’re ratings will be as remote as your chances of encountering real paranormal phenomena are.

Therefore, if one wants their reality show to get ratings worthy of renewal, one must do one of three things;  a) fake paranormal events.  b) populate the show with such colorful or outlandish individuals that they’re weekly rantings serve the same purpose as observing real phenomena would or, c) dramatically exaggerate and embellish whatever really does occur to make it appear more important than it really is.

Long before the air was littered with such ridiculous shows, I was approached by the creator of one of the first (whose name will remain absent as I do not wish to promote this clown in any way).  Years ago, when we first met, I made it very clear to him what the true reality was regarding investigating such paranormal events was like.  His answer was simple and straightforward.

Each episode of his show would fake such occurrences, and on the very rare occasion when they actually encountered demonstrable paranormal events, they would make it appear as if it were a hoax.  Compelling reverse logic indeed, but not for me.   I made it clear to this producer (who already had a well established track record), that his thinking was certainly novel and provocative, but his show idea was nothing I could ever be associated with as it would be a blatant fraud.  I shook has hand and walked out.  About six weeks later, I once again met with this producer along with one of my colleagues at the time, and he again made his pitch.  But now, to the both of us.

We both shook our heads in unison to the negative as we were not even vaguely interested in his offer.  The seriously disturbing aspect of all these shows are that they’re doing a tremendous disservice and injustice to academic, scientific researchers within parapsychology by misinforming the public as to the real nature of these types of events, which in reality are not as frequent or intense as erroneously depicted in these juvenile, ludicrous shows.

If paranormal events were as consistently reliable as seen in these “unreality” shows, they wouldn’t be referred to as paranormal, as we’d already understand what they are, how they operate and why they occur.

Trust me on this, no one on earth really knows what’s going on with such other worldly events, which is why they’re referred to as phenomena.  The primary reason that these shows follow the the same intrinsic formula is that they are feeding a population that is totally ignorant as to what’s real in the paranormal world, let alone within science in general.

It’s very easy to fool and manipulate large audiences if they are unaware of the facts regarding a specific subject.  And when it comes to the paranormal, this applies to probably 98% of the population.  In the end, one must remember that all these shows are nothing more than mindless entertainment for people with way too much spare time on their hands and cannot differentiate between reality and fantasy.

All too frequently, amateur paranormal investigators venture forth on their own attempting to emulate what they’ve seen on these shows.   The results of such copycat investigators is nothing more than sheer fantasy and misinterpreting very normal, everyday events as something paranormal.   An interesting closing note here is that several of us (parapsychologists) have been officially banned from ever appearing on one particular cable network for consistently refusing to lie to the public on their behalf.   With the exception of myself, the names of the three other gentlemen forbidden from appearing on this network will not be disclosed in order to protect their innocence and privacy.  When I learned of my being banned from this network, it was like being told that my photograph and name will not appear in the post office.

Very, Very Personal and Enduring Synchronicities

In the early 1970′s I met a young man by the name of Richard Christian Matheson, the son of Richard Matheson, veteran writer for The Twilight Zone (1959-1964), Star Trek, The Night Stalker, Legend of Hell House, Somewhere In Time, etc., who later became a successful writer/producer of both feature films and television.

Shortly after meeting each other and becoming friends we discovered that we have the same birthdays; month, day and time, but he is at least five years younger than I.  We worked on a few projects together and he accompanied me on several investigations.  As his career grew more successful we lost touch of each other for almost thirty years.

Upon reconnecting again in the middle 2000′s, far more peculiar synchronicities were apparent.  He drove a Lexus and I, a Toyota Supra Turbo, whose license plates differ by only one number.  When we met for lunch, I saw that he was wearing a very specific watch, a stainless steel, Tag Heuer Kirium Chronograph, to be specific.

I’ve always loved watches and I used to have a stainless steel Rolex Submariner Date for almost thirty years.  It was a piece of junk that never kept accurate time (at least on my wrist) and required frequent maintenance (every three years at a cost of around $700).  I wised up and sold the non- working, although beautiful, watch in 1997 for more than twice what I paid for it.

The only other watch I really wanted after the Rolex was a Tag Heuer Kirium Chronograph, which Richard just happened to be wearing (his parents bought it for him as a birthday gift).  I finally was able to actually obtain my own stainless steel Tag Heuer Kirium watch, although mine is the F1 model.

Alright, I’ve spent enough time on the time here, let’s move on to the next level of synchronicities related to Richard and myself.  During the course of our lunch I learned that Richard had been married and divorced since we were last in touch, although this particular aspect I fortunately, did not share in common with him.

He had a relatively new girlfriend who lived with him, and her name is Diana.  All right, wait a minute here.  The last girl I dated before meeting up with Richard again, was named Diana.  What a coincidence?

Several years later I had to have several moles removed from body, one above my navel, one directly behind it on my back and one on each side of my body, forming a perfect circle around the center of my thorax all equi-distantly space around my body, sort of north, south, east, west.  About a week later I was speaking with Richard and learned that on the very same day I had my moles removed at a local dermatologist’s office, Richard had similar moles removed at another dermatologist’s office.  Think this is strange?  Read on, the best is yet to come.

Quite recently, I was speaking with Richard about an incident when I was seventeen and body surfing off a California beach.  Suddenly I was pulled under the waves by a powerful rip current.  I struggled fiercely against it only to eventually be overwhelmed by the irresistible force.  I shortly ran out of breath and began to drowned.  I vividly recall blacking out as my lungs filled with salt water.  Everything went dark and I assumed that I was near death.

Suddenly, I miraculously found myself standing erect in what was probably just two feet of water.  I have no idea how I got there or what happened after I lost consciousness several feet below the ocean’s surface.  There didn’t appear to be anyone even close to where I was who could have helped extricate me from my apparent drowning.   I never figured out what happened in this situation as there was absolutely no evidence whatsoever regarding the extraordinary rescue that occurred.  What pulled me out from the rip current beneath the waves?

Not surprisingly,  five years later, Richard, at the age of seventeen, was at the same beach and experienced the same type of apparent drowning and otherworldly rescue. Who saved him and how?  Perhaps the real question should be who saved both of us and why?

I couldn’t invent this stuff if I wanted to.  Okay, I’ve heard of being joined at the hip, but this is ridiculous.

The last and perhaps most significant synchronisitic link between us is something I never even knew about until my mother passed away in the summer of 2009.  I was telling Richard about her passing and he asked what her name was.  When I told him that my mother’s name was Ruth, there was a definite pause in his voice, as if to contemplate what he just heard.

As it turns out, Richard’s mother’s name is also Ruth.  Fortunately, Richard’s mother is still very much alive.  Whenever Richard and I start talking about these synchronicities, I always comment that as we are in some strange way linked, that he perhaps come out on the better end of things as he received the height, the hair, the looks and the financial success I’ve never experienced.  What’s left after all of that?  I really don’t know.  Well, nothings perfect, is it?

Better that one of us have these aspects in their life, than neither.  One last significant synchronicity related to Richard and I.  As I was actually writing this blog, I received an email from Richard having no bearing whatsoever to this topic, but nevertheless, timely in its arrival.

One way in which synchronicities are defined is that of an acausal link between people and events.  Supposedly, such occurrences are nothing more than coincidences, right?  In lieu of what I just discussed between Richard and I, would you call such an extraordinary lifelong coincidences?  Bottom line, how many coincidences does it take to make a fact?

What does all this mean?

God only knows, and its for us for eventually discover how reality might really work and why.

A Really Human Ghost

Every once and a while, there are cases where the antics of certain paranormal phenomena are so literal that they mimic those of living people in every almost every way.

During the summer of 1987, I was fortunate enough to run into just such a case that was “given” to me by an old friend who knew of my work.  Having married for the second or third time, Roger was off on a honeymoon with his new bride.  He asked if I’d care to house sit and take care of their two dogs.

Located in Studio City, California, the house was spacious and rustic, but incorporated a large swimming pool and built-in, stone barbecue in the backyard.  Who could say no to such an offer?  However, I had no way of realizing the actual reason Roger wanted me to stay at his house….it was haunted.

Arriving the first night I threw my duffel bag onto the bed in the master bedroom at the rear of the house.  I returned to the kitchen to get a drink of water. Upon re-entering the bedroom I discovered that my duffel bag was now on the floor.  Assuming it was too close to the edge of the bed, I simply put it back on top and returned to the living room to watch some TV.

Back in the bedroom about two hours later, I once again found my duffel bag on the floor.  But this time it was on the opposite side of the very large room.  I was very tired and just wanted to sleep so I didn’t pay it much mind.

My sleep was very sound, but at around 6 a.m. something pinched my side and awakened me quite suddenly.  As the rear facing walls of this bedroom were primarily glass, the room was already well lit given that this was the middle of summer.  As I turned onto my left side to continue my sleep the quilt above me began to rise from behind and the mattress compressed as if another physical body was entering the bed.  I then felt a body roll into my back, and the sensation was as that it had long hair and large breasts, which were then compressing against my back in an obvious effort to cuddle. Almost immediately, I felt and heard what appeared to be an arm wrap around my right shoulder area, further raising the quilt.  All the while, there was a strong floral fragrance around me accompanied by a vocal presence of definitive human breathing.

When I abruptly turned in an effort to see what was there, it quickly recoiled and departed, throwing the quilt up into the air with the mattress rebounding in unison.  What in the hell was that?

Now remember, I was not asleep at that time, I was still very much awake from the initial pinch.  Well, this was just the beginning of what was going to transpire over the next several weeks, as the onslaught of events escalated into hearing disembodied voices, photographing visual luminous anomalies and the very human presence of absconding with food and throwing a breakfast nook table into my side as I sat talking on the phone in the kitchen.  The full accounting of this particular case is detailed in Chapter 4, “An All Too Human Haunting” of my book Aliens Above, Ghosts Below: Explorations of the Unknown.

In ending this brief encapsulation of my book’s chapter, I should let you all know that when Roger returned from Europe and asked how my stay at his house was, I really let him have it.  But then again, this was actually Roger’s way of setting up a single-blind experiment in that he and his wife knew that the house was haunted, but I did not.  After I told him all that I and others had encountered at his home, he opened up to me with many instances where different types of phenomena were occurring on a fairly regular basis.  As Roger’s marriage did not last very long, we lost the ability for conducting further research on this most interesting home.  This is one case that definitely smacks more of a haunting than an RSPK poltergeist case.  Read the chapter and let me know what you think.  Thanks.

Psychotronics: Weaponizing the Paranormal 2

Back in the mid-1980′s there was a fascinating book written by Ronald M. McRae entitled Mind War, (St. Martin’s Press, N.Y., 1984) which discussed and chronicled the alleged development of psychotronic weapons, that is, weapons that use electronics to access and utilize paranormal forces to attack one’s enemies.  If anything within this book is real, then warfare as we currently know it may soon become obsolete. Given that this book is now almost thirty years old and no such advanced psychotronics weapons have been deployed (as far as we know), strongly suggests that the validity of such claims are more science fiction or fantasy than reality.

However, the incredible nature of these potential miraculous weapons need to be known, therefore, I feel obligated to discuss them here.  First up is a “Psychic Neuron Disruptor” (and no, it’s not Klingon!), a sort of electronic paranoia inducer that interferes with the synaptic connections of our brain’s nerve cells to induce temporary states of confusion, disorientation, memory impairment, loss of concentration and severe paranoia utilizing a combination of ultra-low-frequency (ULF) and radio-frequency (RF) radiation.  This device might be similar to what was once known as “Oregon Woodpecker” signals that had similar effects from an undetermined, but theorized Soviet source.

Next up is the list is a device called “Lida-4″ (Soviet in design) that could more accurately be referred to as “radio sleep”, which can put large groups or populations of individuals to sleep at-a-distance without their consent through the controlled application of ULF & RF radiation.  Don’t we already have this?  I think it’s called television, specifically paranormal reality shows or political debates?

Next up is the “Multispectral Image Analyzer”, a device which denudes or “cures” weapons of their potency from a distance, especially nuclear weapon systems.  Interestingly, in the real world this might be referred to as “lack of funding”.  However, if this system is even partially real, then we’re wasting billions of dollars on maintaining our nuclear stockpiles.

You’re going to love this next one; “Photonic Barrier Modulator”, which is basically an electronic amplifier and focusing device for psychotronic forces.  By inserting a photograph of the desired target (object or person), the target can be disabled or destroyed at-a-distance.  Allegedly, this device would be excellent for transmitting illnesses and/or death via biological disorders of new varieties.  This particular weapon sounds very similar to the way radionics was supposed to work many years ago.   If this device exists, why do we need any form of conventional weapons whatsoever?

The next device is a real mouthful both literally and figuratively.  It’s a “Hyperspace Nuclear Howitzer” in which a thermonuclear detonation is triggered within a specially controlled environment which then transmits all of it’s effects (light, thermal pulse, blast, EMP and radiation) to an unlimited number of distant sites without warning, once its receivers have been previously planted at these locations.  With this type of weapon, no missile, rocket or aircraft delivery system is required.   Well, if this is true, then the entire world should immediately scrap it’s nuclear arsenals as their obsolete and worthless.

The second to the last device is known as “SADDOR”, short for a “SAtellite Deployed DOwsing Rod” that could make all the mobile and submarine launched ICBMs obsolete even before their deployed.   A really gifted psychic from any country (although presumably from the old Soviet Union) would be telepathically linked to SADDOR and could then pinpoint the exact location of any weapon system or person anywhere on earth.  Given the problems we’ve had in the middle east finding and catching almost anyone, this is sure bet not to exist.

I’ve saved the best for the last as it’s so way over the top.  It’s the “Anti-Missile Time Warp”, which is the ultimate anti-ballistic missile system, wherein fields of energy are transmitted up from the earth to intercept ICBM MIRVs in their mid-course busing or terminal course phase and literally send them backwards in time to say the Jurassic period where they would explode harmlessly, except of course for the dinosaurs.  Yeah right?

Hey, maybe this is what really killed off the dinosaurs as opposed to a meteoric major impact in the Yucatan peninsula some 65 million years ago?  Don’t bet on it.  My god, who actually thinks this stuff up?  Where’s Gene Roddenberry when we need him?  Pushing up daisies with the dinosaurs, unfortunately.  After reading all this, you’re probably scratching your head going “Come on, get real”, which was exactly the reaction I had when first reading this book back in 1984.

The author had pretty impressive credentials, so I was and am curious as to his sources at the time.  Needless to say, there is absolutely no evidence whatsoever that any of these weapons were successfully developed and deployed.  But it does give one reason to think that such incredible, science-fiction oriented devices were even conceived of.   Actually, I’d be far more concerned by the HAARP system up in Alaska, as such could theoretically be a precursor to such psychtronics weapons.

A Case of Precognitive Synchronicity?

By

Rogers Johnson

In his tape/CD series on synchronicity called SynchroDestiny, Deepak Chopra gives people exercises to try and help them manifest more of these meaningful coincidences in their lives.  He also shares some stories that he finds especially interesting, in an effort to inspire listeners and show them what he thinks fascinating synchronicities look like.  One example he gives is of a boy at a baseball game who says in his mind “If there’s a god, let the next swing by the batter result in a  home run.”  Of course, the player complied and hit a homer.  When I first heard this I thought “Wow, that’s amazing!”  But when I shared this with a friend who’s an expert in sports statistics, he casually and in an unimpressed tone said, “Yeah, that’s a 100-1 shot.”   Well that burst my bubble, 100-1 certainly ‘isn’t beyond probability’, the definition I used here previously about this subject.  Most really complex and brain-boggling synchronicities aren’t so cut and dry, and are much more nuanced.  So even though it’s a sweet story, it’s really not a good example.  The following is the most important synchronicity, with an intriguing twist, that I’ve ever had, in terms of it’s unlikeliness.  It altered my views forever on synchronicities and the paranormal.  A true game changer, because in that moment, it honestly felt like there was something more at work than mere chance could ever hope to produce.  I was looking for a very, very rare paperback book for years. It was nowhere to be found in Los Angeles or anywhere else.  I’d intensely wanted it and invested years of serial thinking on finding it at some point, although it seemed futile after a decade of looking.  A rare bookstore had a waiting list twenty (20) people long for it, and they had never even seen a copy, and that was the business!  One day I ambled into a small, used bookstore in Santa Monica, feeling a bit whimsical.  This store had thousands and thousands of paperback books, and as I stood there amongst that ocean of literature, and suddenly a thought entered my mind…wouldn’t it be magical, if right where I was pointing my finger, I turned a rack around “the closest one to me”, and the book I had been looking for all those years, appeared in exactly that location.   So I turned the stand, and there it was, with me pointing at it dead center!  Now mind you, the rack had eight levels and was four deep on every level. Finding the book period, would have absolutely amazing!  Finding it exactly where I pointed, changed me forever, because the statistical probability of this happening the way it did is beyond statistical conception. However, there was an additional element to this event that makes it especially interesting and perhaps important scientifically,  the thought that preceded the event.  This thought, by itself, was more indicative of precognitive phenomena.  I sensed it was there unconsciously it seems, and through what one might call ‘primary process’, my mind couched this sensation in a way that was palatable to my conscious mind.  “Primary process” has been defined as:  A mental state that is done unconsciously. It includes unorganized and illogical thinking patterns, but all with one goal; to experience immediate pleasure and gratification.  Of course, my pleasure and wonder was great, immediate and intense!  But the real importance here is that, as I suggested within my first blog, there might be a quantum field of a sort, that was mediating this hybrid process, what one might call a precognitive synchronicity…something that was highly relevant to me personally on a deep emotional level, but that a precognition facilitated.  A field, as just cited, that perhaps mediates all paranormal experiences. The book in question was of the movie The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (the tag line on the cover is “Expect the unexpected, He does.”)…the condition was perfect…and the price, $2.00.  Upon doing a quick survey on Ebay.com, of the six pages of Banzai related items, they had no copies.  Amazon.com had one person with 27 copies, mostly in poor condition.  And that represents the whole world! This book sells in mint condition for $150+, which mine nearly is…despite having been published in 1984.  One more quick and happy synchronicity:  I was speaking with a friend about this subject for some time and we had been particularly prone to noticing the numbers 1 and 2 in our dealing with things.  Going on the premise that our discussion and therefore our consciousness, was a contributing factor to seeing these two numbers frequently in odd ways, I suggested we start discussing something of more value, presuming that bringing those things into our consciousness more regularly might produce the same kind of results. Specifically, I recommended we dwell on making ourselves “more healthy, wealthy and wise.” A few days later (about a month ago now) I would find, on a very busy, well-trodden sidewalk, a hundred dollar bill, with Mr. Franklin staring at me knowingly…the very man who created that quote!

The Paradoxical ENTITY Photographs

You’ve probably seen them way too many times by now.  I have.  These extraordinary 35 mm. SLR photos from The Entity investigation in 1974 depict far more than meets the eye.

In fact, they are paradoxical in the extreme.  In the first photo you see Doris Bither on her bed cowering under what appears as a brilliant arc of light framing her below.  No one during our investigation saw anything vaguely resembling this.

What we all visually perceived at that time were large, brightly luminous, balls of lime green light (the third photo depicted here) rapidly flying about the corner of the bedroom where Doris sat.

The reason an arc was captured here is probably because we weren’t shooting fast enough in terms of our shutter speed and therefore the resulting image was essentially a time-lapse shot, similar to what occurs if you take a time exposure of stars at night without a moving platform…you get streaks.

But what’s really extraordinary about this particular shot is that if you look behind the arc you’ll notice that the walls meet at a 90-degree angle, which means that if this arc was a projected light source as if by hoax, it would have been bent in accordance with the wall upon which the image would have fallen.  This arc is not bent, indicating that the light source was in free space and not a projected image.

In the second photograph there are two inverted arcs present in the frame and yet Doris is not even in the frame.  When these intriguing photos were captured, the room was pitch black, illuminated only by the light emitted from the luminous anomalies we observed and photographed with our deep-red filtered strobed 35 mm. cameras.

The high point of another particular photo session was when these lights coalesced in the corner of Doris’ bedroom forming into a large humanoid apparition that was visible to all of us, bathed in the same lime-green light.

We must have fired off well over one hundred of frames of film from different cameras and with different photographers,  yet we could not photograph it.

As you’ll read in my book Aliens Above, Ghosts Below: Explorations of the Unknown, we all carefully wrote down what we saw before we spoke of it.  All twenty-five of us apparently saw exactly the same thing at the same time.

Then why couldn’t we photograph it?  Maybe because we really didn’t see it with our eyes?  Maybe we “sensed” it (a mental image not a visual one) and only thought we we visually observed it?  I know this doesn’t make a lot of sense, but if you read Chapter 2 of my book (The Real Life Entity Case), this paradoxical photographic aspect is discussed in exhaustive detail.

So does this mean that something in that environment was causing all of us to share some type of collective, telepathic hallucination?  What in the hell is that?  Contrary to what we see on TV or in films, there is no such thing as a mass hallucination, although there certainly is mass hysteria.

So, in the end, what are we seeing in these most extraordinary photographs and what is it telling us about the nature of these phenomena?  For some theoretical answers, check out my book.

Synchronicities: Smoking Gun of the Paranormal?

When the legendary Swiss Psychiatrist Carl Jung coined the term “synchronicity”, he described such an event as “acasual”, i.e., not having any connection to the process of cause and effect.

He was moved to create this neologism after treating a patient who was describing a dream that prominently featured a scarab beetle.  Now this insect happened to be very rare in that particular region, as its primary habitat was and is in Egypt. But while listening to the lady’s tale, Dr. Jung’s concentration was interrupted by a tapping sound on a nearby window.  To his surprise, it turned out to be the very golden scarab beetle that his female patient was referring to passionately from the dream in question.

Jung thoughtfully opened the window, and the beetle  dutifully landed directly on the palm of the doctor’s hand. He presented it to the lady as she was in the heat of talking about it and it was so stunning that she seemed forever changed afterwords, apparently cured of the issue that had been troubling her.

Jung realized there was something of great importance here, as the odds of things unfolding in this exact way must have gone to the point of infinity.

The word synchronicity has been defined as a “coincidence that goes beyond probability.”  And The New American Webster’s Handy College Dictionary defines coincidence as a notable occurrence of events, apparently accidental.

Well of course there’s a problem with the first definition, because you cannot use the word coincidence (an accident…acausal) and the phrase “beyond probability”, in the same sentence.  If something is beyond probability, it is the same as saying it happened beyond chance and goes to the point of infinity, and is therefore NOT an accident.

This would imply a mechanism mediating such an event.  The Webster’s definition is interesting in that is says apparently accidental.  This would also open the door to such a mechanism.  If such a mechanism exists, it would nullify Jung’s assertion that synchronicities are without any cause and effect relationship.

So what might this mechanism be?  Well, as has been mentioned here a number of times, CAUSE AND EFFECT! But cause and effect on such a subtle level that it would be impossible to quantify.

However, we can say that there definitely appears to be an inextricable link between consciousness, especially deep feelings (emotions) and serial thinking, and some sort of, for lack of a better term, quantum field.

It’s funny, but the “Law of Attraction” should be called the “Theory of Attraction” (not proven scientifically), and the Theory of Relativity should be referred to as the “The Law of Relativity” (a slam dunk scientifically!).

The quantum field mentioned here might be the oft described ‘zero point field”, which has many synonyms, but could, in fact, be the hand behind the curtain of all paranormal reality, or as the title of this post suggests, the smoking gun!

But this is why, and the most important part to consider…ANYONE can and do experience synchronicities, whether they’re aware of them or not, even if they aren’t psychically gifted.

Things that happen beyond chance, on such a incredibly massive scale, surely put these occurrences in the category of a “smoking gun”?  It goes without saying that scientists are far from proving any of this, but perhaps someday, if you already have not had your own “coincidence beyond probability”, one that utterly blows your mind, and when you do, it will be all the proof you’ll ever need.

This post was not written by me.  This fascinating glimpse of another facet of the paranormal was penned by one of my long time associates and paranormal researcher, Rogers Johnson, who can be reached at multiverse2012@yahoo.com

If you like this particular blog, Rogers will follow up with others featuring some of his personal synchronicities that have changed him forever…which hopefully you’ll find entertaining and informative.

Think you know what a ghost is? Think again.

We all know what a ghost is, right?  Or should I say, we all know what a ghost is not?  It isn’t a solid, liquid, gas or even a plasma, at least not as we currently understand them.  It’s essence cannot be distilled into a test tube or mass spectrometer and analyzed.

Is there anything in our solid, 3-dimensional world that mimics or serves as an analog to ghosts?  Yes there is, and they’re called holograms.  Unless you’ve lived in a cave for the last three decades you’ve surely seen holograms.

In fact, they’re even used on credit cards and in other security applications.  In essence, a hologram is a three-dimensional photograph that is produced by using lasers in a very unique way and some of these incredible images bare a striking resemblance to ghosts in that they’re made of light, demonstrate parallax and yet have no mass or substance (as photons do not possess rest mass).

It’s pretty obvious that ghosts are holograms, the only question is what their source is.  A holographic image must be projected from a source material and of course illuminated by monochromatic light.

Isn’t it odd that our brain appears to function in many ways holographically, as does memory, our genetic information is equally distributed in all of our cells in a holographic fashion, space-time itself may operate holographically in order for us to psychically access the past, the future and things non-local to our bodies? Therefore, it’s really not that surprising to consider the possibility that our essence, soul, spirit, consciousness, etc., can display itself holographically to others under the right circumstances.

In my book Aliens Above, Ghosts Below: Explorations of the Unknown, I dedicate the entirety of chapter twelve “Brain Holograms: The Light Within” to exploring many of the various holographic aspects related to consciousness and the paranormal.

In historical parapsychology, there are three primary types of apparitions classified according to researcher/author G.N.M.Tyrrell in his 1969 book, Apparitions.

The first type is the telepathic apparition and as it’s name implies, the image one sees in these situations is purely within their own mind.

Then there is the crisis apparition, wherein the person appearing as an apparition is in a crisis like an accident, a war, or near-death situation, while the recipient or observer does not know of the crisis.

The last category is called a post-mortem apparition and accordingly, the person’s apparition being observed has been deceased for at least 48 hours, but the observer is unaware of said person’s death.

What if all of this, including us at every level, are merely holographic projections from the 4th dimension.  You know, the way three-dimensional objects cast two-dimensional shadows?  What if our sensory perceptions are not entirely what we think they are?

Think about this for one moment.  We do not perceive anything directly in our physical reality.  We do not see an object, photons either reflected from or emitted by an object enter our eye, our optic nerve and then the occipital region of our brain for processing.

When we hear, our ears are reacting to acoustic compression waves generated or reflected by something else.

When we smell, our noise is reacting to olfactory molecules in our localized environment that then send signals to our brain.

Touch is where sensory nerves on our body react to physical contact and pressure and alert our brains, while taste is where taste buds positioned on our tongue translate information from food we chew into data our brain can assimilate.

As we get older, many of these sensory mechanisms atrophy and our connection to the external, physical world is adjusted downward accordingly.  None of these sense scenarios are direct perception, they are all indirect, at best.

Then if we consider that our memories may not even be stored within our own brains (see Post “The Universe Within”), requiring us to access them remotely (non-locally), it should not be hard to conceive that most of our perceptual abilities are by their very nature, paranormal, whether we like to admit or not.  What do you think?