What is your pet case?

[Burnt State]

The firsthand witnesses from the Modern Era who are still alive might very well be the last generation to experience the real deal.

If you include at least airships at the turn of the century, as part of an ongoing human experience of seeing strange things in the skies, then the phenomenon has always been technologically and culturally relevant to our own culture and tech. Now that we're all about digital control and drones maybe all we get is orbs and tic tacs?

That age of the witness, especially the group of witnesses, or the focussed flap in a small geographical area, is just not really part of the contemporary UFO lexicon. It's all just time wasting talking about disclosure B.S.

I digress — But I have an increasingly bad feeling about humanity's future, with trillionaires and the CCP tooling-up to create an entire race of intelligent slaves.

There have always been emperors, Caesars, czars, mad kings, dicktators and the ultra wealthy who back them and really run things while the rest of us are just serfs, available to be jailed,.deported, beaten up, dragged through court, the streets or maybe shot on sight. Nothing much has changed for a really long time in that regard.

I have a very bad feeling — a very bad feeling indeed. Like something big is going to smack us all down — completely out of left field.

That's apocalyptic thinking. Might as well worry that Asian hornets will make their way up north and kill everyone the way we worried about Killer Bees in the late 70's and early 80's - whatever happened to that damn invasion!?

Remember Y2K and that supposed apocalypse, or the Mayan calendar? None of it came to fruition. Just gotta get Zen about everything! First.principles: you shouldn't waste time worrying about things you can't control, and that includes the end of the world & human civilization as we know it.

Personally I think octopi should be in charge. We're not that special really - we've wrecked the planet. We have great potential, but just can't really agree collectively to get rid of our old hatreds, nationalist and religious leanings, and would rather surrender to the corporate godhood and buy their plastic while governments bomb and kill women and children mostly in wasteful wars. You know where that's gonna get us \/

Or not . . . I dunno . . . maybe this is how the old people felt in the 1700s, after they invented the steam engine

 

[Burnt State]

I was going to post a focus on the 1977 Broadhaven mystery including the school UFO sighting and all the weirdness the Coombs family went through.at Ripperston Farm. That case has always intrigued me for the broad spectrum of phenomena and witnesses sustained over a period of time. I'm very fascinated by any flap concentrated on a narrow piece of geography. While it lends itself to a heightened mass hysteria, it also produces hoaxers and some quite startling paranormal events.

So I'll get to that later....

But lately I've been listening to interviews featuring Christopher O'Brien. Of all the commentators and inquisitors of Fortean events, he's definitely in my top ten list.

I really miss his voice on the Paracast. He had an encyclopedia for a brain, opened up discussions for better and worse for guests and was fairly humble in his approach. He was fast taking and smooth, never hesitated and was so easy to listen to. He was such an engaging communicator. His intelligence is evident in how quick his mind travels.

He was committed to the scientific pursuit of the UFO conundrum through the monitoring system he developed and his Stalking the Herd is a definitive text.

He was also an experiencer from a very young age. His childhood and life arc was well painted by the weird brush, as if to mark him for contact. His brain was wired differently and this interview expresses it very well.

(He also shared the opinion that there may be other tenants in the building and that the NHI behind some of the phenomena is local to this planet. I agree.)

This is another focus of mine - who are the experiencers and the contactees? What makes them? Can we actually use the protocols that Tyler in American Cosmic suggests to follow to make contact with NHI? Should we be trying to join The Order of the Dolphin?

If I keep asking these questions am I going to end up in Walter Bosley territory? Ahem.....I digress. This podcast interview with COB is a pretty strong overview of what he was about as a Fortean and how he got there.

 

[SRL+]

The Broad Haven School incident of 1997, never heard of it until just now. Doesn’t it remind you of the Ariel UFO school incident of 1994? Do you remember that we had discussed the Ariel incident some years ago, whereas you suggested there may have be some type of entheogen that may have been introduced through bread yeast or perhaps some other form of natural origin? On one other note, I would suggest that the reason experiencers experience is simply because they can. On the last note, Chris was all things to all people at all times. I felt as though he would occasionally pander to the unworthy.

 

[Burnt State]

Doesn’t it remind you of the Ariel UFO school incident of 1994? Do you remember that we had discussed the Ariel incident some years ago, whereas you suggested there may have be some type of entheogen that may have been introduced through bread yeast or perhaps some other form of natural origin?

I also once suggested that Robert Taylor's experience in Dechmont Woods msy have come from him eating a deadly nightshade berry growing among some raspberry canes .He was after all very thirsty, feverish and had a racing heart....it all fits. There was this period where I had a real skeptical streak and tried to look for possible materialist alternatives that could explain these cases. I must have been more angry back them or something?

I have since come to see these cases as Hallmark examples of an NHI in contact with humanity, as is Broadhaven. These are some disturbing and surreal components to the best cases. In cases where the trickster is at play I see the examples of our various religions and how folk beliefs work in our culture. It's why Passport to Magonia rings so true. This is our history.

Some commentators identify a new religion emerging from the UAP cultural soup. It's got a full pantheon of demons and space brothers




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