What is your pet case?

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The suggestion was that perhaps the experience was more internal and the product of sleep paralysis and the distorted nightmarish versions of reality that accompany those experiences. If you've never truly gone through sleep paralysis and their intense visions you have no friggin' idea just how absolutely real it all feels. It's not like being in a dream at all - it is far more tangible, ohysically threatening and backed up with an immense amount of sensory detail.

Perhaps like the Night Hag.

Night hag - Wikipedia

On a different note, another pet of mine is named Stephenville.

 

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On a different note, another pet of mine is named Stephenville.

Probably the last great, genuine multi-witness UFO sighting we've had in the modern era. It prompted me to do some research and outside of these navy sightings, which are being processed through very select witnesses, there really hasn't been a lot of very significant sightings in the last 25 years - just a handful really, including the O'Hare airport incident.

And if you try to look for UFO sightings that include occupants you have to go all the way back to Varginha in 1996. The phenomena certainly shifts and changes over time.

 

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Probably the last great, genuine multi-witness UFO sighting we've had in the modern era. It prompted me to do some research and outside of these navy sightings, which are being processed through very select witnesses, there really hasn't been a lot of very significant sightings in the last 25 years - just a handful really, including the O'Hare airport incident.

And if you try to look for UFO sightings that include occupants you have to go all the way back to Varginha in 1996. The phenomena certainly shifts and changes over time.

In this case you have a pilot (Steve Allen) with a clear view in witnessing the unknown along with his buddies. He was so disturbed after the event he went home to be with his family in thinking the end was near. Additionally, he sought out his minister. Furthermore, radar reports verified Allen’s account of the direction of the unknown with the unknown at one point at a stand still and then accelerating practically instantaneously to Mach 2.02 or 1,500 mph. To top it all off, the woman who fired Joiner from the Empire Tribune later allegedly witnessed the unknown along with her daughter.

Ricky Sorrels (below) a welder by profession briefly shares his alleged experience. The experiencer claimed in not seeking the limelight and was reluctant to come forward. He alleges having interactions with whom he thinks were the ABCs in attempting to intimidate him with one leaving a bullet near his home one evening.

 

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You can all go home now and “dust off your bibles” (Kid Rock), as the UFO mystery has been solved!

… and all of our musings were just for nothing.

JD Vance says he was 'obsessed' with UFOs, believes aliens are actually 'demons'

 

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I watched the doc you posted, and a few minutes in was reminded I had seen this one before, and watched it all over again. The vivid descriptions are absolutely outstanding. The witness response, as always, is intense. They describe an intelligently controlled technology way beyond our capacity, enormous and magical - truly.

(Anyways I'm going to make this into a pet peeve about ufology - does that qualify as a kind of pet case? I apologize if it looks long winded but I think it's important. As a pet case I bring up Portage County 1966 which is a critical one for me for a number of reasons.)

Each time I watch this doc I am taken by the Angela Joiner part of the story, and how the pursuit of the UFO can be very self destructive. She lost her job as the main reporter of this event. It is a destabilizing agent to be certain. We have seen examples of this across decades of ufology. It pushes people beyond their own capacities, can make them obsessed and/or paranoid, and even shunned from society. Why is it such a repeated theme in ufology, how profoundly it impacts some of the people most involved in it?! I'm also thinking here of contactees and how many of them moved further into fantasy.

People's careers, livelihoods etc. are ruined like poor Deputy Sheriff Dale Spaur, from Portage County 1966, and his later relationship with the UFO named Floyd. He lost his job, his wife, his home - everything. There are so many different law enforcement officers who dare to bear witness to the UFO and are treated miserably. The people of the town once burned a hanging effigy of a law enforcement officer outside his house after reporting a UFO.

Maybe we are not meant to study it or seek answers from it, but just admire it. Call it sky art and be amazed. Many witnesses report everything from apocalyptic fear to a stunned disbelief and great unease. Being near them seems to be always fairly life altering. Just like getting up close to Bigfoot.

This is a photo snapped of the UFO Dale Spaur chased across two states. It's not a nothing burger. It's a high impact event. Is the paranormal meant to be both awe inspiring and totally dangerous at the same time? I don't think it's indifferent. I think it's on purpose. UFOs are hands down the best air shows ever seen in a lifetime. It calls attention to itself. Sometimes It dresses like monsters and scares the hell out of people. Is that saying "Stay Away" in big letters?

 

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I watched the doc you posted, and a few minutes in was reminded I had seen this one before, and watched it all over again. The vivid descriptions are absolutely outstanding. The witness response, as always, is intense. They describe an intelligently controlled technology way beyond our capacity, enormous and magical - truly.

Here, I found as almost irrefutable, and indelible

Each time I watch this doc I am taken by the Angela Joiner part of the story, and how the pursuit of the UFO can be very self destructive. She lost her job as the main reporter of this event. It is a destabilizing agent to be certain.

Speaking of the late Mr. and Mrs. Joiner there is an occurrence you’ve probably never heard of. And that case in known as the Oregon Bob case. In this case there was Vertical Horizons Studio here in Portland Oregon who went out (allegedly via Oregon Bob) and videoed orbs described with faces within, and at one point struck a cameraman to the ground disabling their batteries in the Oregon Coast Mountain range. It was a fantastical narrative. I decided to contact Frank Warren (great guy) in asking him what he knew. Up until this very moment I promised to keep our dialogue private. The only reason in sharing now is that the Joiners are long deceased. It was supposedly a juicy case where NIDS became involved. The Joiners purchased their own airfare to come to Portland. They weren’t tremendously well off, but Mrs. Joiner was chasing the Ufological dragon. Once arriving, they both were made to lie on a van floor where they would venture west toward the Oregon coast. Along the way Mrs. Joiner (for some reason) believed there was a black triangle above, possibly following them.

As it turns out, Oregon Bob was most likely mentally disturbed and the whole thing became a bust.

As far as Vertical Horizon Studios is concerned, they went belly up.

In response to your posting, I am in total agreement with you, as this stuff can mess one up.

 

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this stuff can mess one up

And yet people chase. Some give up their lives for the chase, make chasing into a religion, a lifestyle, a way of being.

Though, I can understand how the desire to meet and see the alien other, to witness the monster in the woods, to be the contactee - there's a lot of appeal to the world of magic.

Sometimes people have no choice..They get chosen by some incarnation of the trickster to have an experience, and that's that. Their life is screwed.


But then no one really gets to choose what may befall you in a lifetime. You can try to steer the ship, but sometimes the rocks are unavoidable, other times you can't help but street yourself towards the rocks. Me, I just like doodling around in a kayak these days, far away from people and any large, open and unpredictable waters. Chasing UFOs is a sucker's game.

 

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Chasing UFOs is a sucker's game.

Chasing down a rainbow, and then tackling a leprechaun for his pot of gold may provide as more worthwhile.