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She Was Saying Goodbye...
MUFON: Angels Watching Over Me
Chavez Asserts U.S. Spawned Haiti Earthquake With HAARP
New Zealand X-Files To Be Disclosed

Posted: 23 Jan 2010 01:20 PM PST

The following is a true personal experience:

In 1977, it was confirmed that my great Aunt Lydie was suffering from lung cancer. The prognosis was not good and the doctors stated that she had very little time to live despite the fact that her illness didn't slow her down. After a stint in the hospital, she returned home and continued her normal routine.

Lydie was my mother's aunt, my grandfather's sister and would always open her home and kitchen to the family. The fact is that she practically raised my mother since my grandparents both worked. Her and my uncle owned a well-kept home in the south central Pennsylvania countryside that was surrounded by cornfields and woodlands. When I was a boy, I would take long hikes along the dirt roads as well as hunt for squirrel and deer in their woods. When I'd return to the house, my aunt would have a big hug and food on the table. I was very close to my Aunt Lydie.

I had been married to my first wife about a year and was living outside of Baltimore, MD. My mother also lived in Maryland but about 15 miles from me. The family kept daily contact with Lydie and we all continued to visit her to make sure the house was maintained even though we lived an hour away. Lydie seemed resilient and didn't let her illness get her down.

One late night, my wife and I were in bed asleep when 'something' woke me. I rolled on my back, opened my eyes and noticed that the room seemed to be illuminated somehow. By that time, my wife had also awaken and was wondering aloud as to why the room had lightened.

We sat up and looked around the room in amazement. I was just about to get out of bed to check on my baby daughter when suddenly, a white billowy apparition started to materialize by the foot of the bed. The form was about 5 feet in height and continued to take a distinct form. Little by little, the spectre developed into the likeness of my Aunt Lydie.

As I looked at the apparition's face, I could see the mouth and eyes moving. It looked directly at me as it seemed like it was trying to tell me something. Both arms started to raise as if it wanted to hug me...the same way my Aunt Lydie would do when I'd walk through her kitchen door. My wife was motionless, shocked and scared out of her mind! She jumped out of bed and ran into my daughter's bedroom, slamming the door behind her. By this time, the apparition started to dissipate and was completely gone after a few seconds.

I sat on the bed utterly astonished. Honestly, this wasn't the first ghost or phantom I had seen but it definitely was the most unforgettable. Then it struck me...my Aunt Lydie was dead.

I looked at the alarm clock which read 2:33am. Just then, the telephone on the nightstand started to ring. I picked up the receiver and it was my mother calling.

"Lon...don't get upset. But, did you see Lydie?" I acknowledge to her that I had. She continued, "Well, Mom (my grandmother) called me and said Lydie had come to say goodbye to her and Daddy (my grandfather)."

Well, by this time, I was totally freaked out. The fact that we all lived in separate locations many miles apart and that the spectre of my Aunt Lydie had visited us at the same time was mind boggling...at least to this, then, 20 year old.

In the morning we were told that my aunt had been rushed to the hospital a little after 2:00am and had died in the emergency room at 2:27am after suffering a massive stroke.

That night is emblazoned in my mind and I'm grateful Aunt Lydie had the opportunity to say goodbye.

MUFON: Angels Watching Over Me

Posted: 23 Jan 2010 10:55 AM PST

The following account was taken from the MUFON Case Management System log and, frankly, much different than the usual UFO witness report. I have posted it without revision even though it is more 'spiritual based' than what I normally present.

MUFON witness report: I have reported UFO sitings with regularity. Seeing UFOs are not something I think about or ever tell anyone about. They are. On Tuesday morning 6:35a.m. I stepp'd out for my morning "pray'r" walk. I have been doing this faithfully every morning since 2007. I walk and converse with the God of the Universe. My dog, Tiphani escorts me. I live right next to a complex of baseball fields. I always walk between the fields. On Tuesday, I look'd up toward the western sky and one of the large planets was position'd at 4 o clock in the sky. A traveling circle appear'd in the sky just shy of the same position and to the north. It travel'd right beneath the large planet and then disappear'd. At first it appear'd to fade in and out as if traveling through a haze but the early morning sky was perfectly clear.

I stood still and watched it for about 35 seconds and when it cross'd beneath the planet, it disappear'd. I stood there and watched for a bit longer and nothing reappeared.

The thing that makes this sighting interesting is that "first of all, I immediately thought I am going to observe this fully so that I can report it." Which I did.

Noting the height in the sky and the direction it traveled in-north west-to west.

Of course, when objects disappear you can never swear you saw anything, there is no left proof.

I continued my walk and pray'r time to the deep-dark woods where I kneel and pray to a Sovereign Supra-natural God.

On this morning, I experienced an odd vision-trance-awareness.

Where I kneel is a large hill that juts up from a low meadow of trees and a small creek flows at the base of the cliff.

I kneel always with my back to the cliff and the small, babbling stream.

This morning, I didn't so much pray aloud as I was in motion to God. I raised my arms, I stretched them to the heavens and then dropp'd them to my side.

In my mind, I was aware of a MIGHTY PRESENCE OF AN ANGEL shadowing my every move, when I raised my arms,he raised his mighty wings into the air behind me, when I waved my arms, he glided his wings in tandem with my movements.

The fantastical awareness is that this angelic Being was so HUGE. It fill'd up a huge amount of space and simultaneously was not there at all.

Magnificent was the Presence.

I knew it was sheltering me, providing me with security.

These things are never explainable or rational, they are.

Later on Tuesday evening, I was giving a young friend a ride home from a dinner, and we were traveling 70 mph. on I-35. I noted in my rear view mirror the presence of a car weaving erratically behind me.

My young friend was talking and oblivious. Suddenly I re-focused on the road to my front and saw that all the cars on the interstate had come a dead-halt and I was within feet of crashing into the car before me.

Miraculously, I swerved and the lane next to mine was stopp'd a bit more ahead and my reflexes braked and uncannily, I was able to stop my car in a miraculous short amount of distance.

I was not scared.

I was not in control.

In hindsight, I think all of this is related.

NOTE: Personally, I'm not a religious person. I wouldn't say I'm an atheist but that I have a belief in the spiritual unknown, whatever that may be. The concept of 'angels', in my mind, refers to those benevolent beings that inhabit our 'plane' at certain times...Lon

Chavez Asserts U.S. Spawned Haiti Earthquake With HAARP

Posted: 23 Jan 2010 10:23 AM PST

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digitaljournal - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has accused the United States of causing the devastating 7.0 magnitude earthquake in Haiti, which killed possibly 200,000 people. Chavez believes the U.S. was testing a tectonic weapon to produce eco-type devastations.

Last week, Digital Journal reported that the Venezuelan President accused the United States of using Haiti's earthquake as a pretext to occupy the Caribbean country, and since then the US has deployed thousands of troops to the region to bring law and order.

Chavez is blaming the US for causing the 7.0 magnitude earthquake in Haiti as part of testing a "tectonic weapon" that can cause eco-type disasters, according to Russia Today. The Latin American leader added that the US should "stop playing God."
Chavez said these "weapon earthquakes" would eventually be used against Iran and be taken over by the US military.

Chavez says these weapons can alter the climate and set off earthquakes and volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves.

Although Chavez did not reveal his source, Press TV reports the Venezuelan media are reporting the earthquake may be associated with the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP), which has been accused of generating violent and disastrous changes in climate.

HAARP has been met with controversy since the mid-1990s when the State Duma of Russia issued a press release written by international affairs and defense communities on HAARP and signed by 90 deputies:

"The U.S. is creating new integral geophysical weapons that may influence the near-Earth medium with high-frequency radio waves ... The significance of this qualitative leap could be compared to the transition from cold steel to firearms, or from conventional weapons to nuclear weapons. This new type of weapons differs from previous types in that the near-Earth medium becomes at once an object of direct influence and its component."

In 1997, US Secretary of Defense William Cohen also expressed concern over such eco-terrorism "whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves."

However, the U.S. government claims HAARP's primary objective is to analyze and investigate the Earth's ionosphere and the possibility of developing technology for communications and surveillance purposes.

New Zealand X-Files To Be Disclosed

Posted: 23 Jan 2010 10:22 AM PST

stuff - Hundreds of pages of secret files on New Zealand UFO sightings will be released by the military this year.

The files include reports of UFO sightings from 1979 to 1984 and references to the Kaikoura sighting of December 1978.

The files are held by Archives New Zealand and were to have been made public this month, but the Defence Force is removing personal information from them to comply with the Privacy Act.

"At the moment we are working on making copies of these files, minus the personal information," a Defence Force spokeswoman said. "Once this work is completed, we are hoping to be able to release a copy of all the UFO files, including some ahead of their release time, within the year."

Lights were seen in the sky over Kaikoura in December 1978 and were filmed by an Australian news crew. Aircraft tracked the lights, which were also seen on radar.

A man who worked for the Transport Ministry's civil aviation division when the Kaikoura lights were seen said he would like to see the government files.

The man, who wanted to remain anonymous, said he was working at Christchurch International Airport at the time. He saw United States Air Force planes with unusual call signs touring the area and believes the full story about the lights has not been disclosed.

"For the US Air Force to come all that way and spend three days here, there must have been something going on," he said.

The Press sought any Defence Force files on UFO sightings under the Official Information Act in August last year.

The Defence Force said the request "would require a substantial amount of collation, research and consultation to identify whether any of that information could be released" and it was "not in a position to deploy staff to undertake that task".

It said public files on UFO sightings were available from Archives New Zealand.

The Press requested access to those files from Archives New Zealand, but was not able to see them as they had been borrowed by the Defence Force.

The director of research group UFOCUS NZ, Suzanne Hansen, said she was frustrated by the delayed release but understood the privacy reasons.

"We have been in discussion with the New Zealand Defence Force for many years ... It is frustrating from a research perspective because we would like to collate these sightings with international research."

She said some sightings could have been alien technology. "There are cases that are certainly not our technology. It has been scientifically proven that this is entirely possible."
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New Zealand Skeptics chairwoman Vicki Hyde said the secret files would not be as interesting as they appeared. "Governments all around the world have these kind of files and they are not as exciting as you might possibly hope.

"The Government is required to log these things and it can give a false impression that there is a vast amount of activity out there.

"There is probably intelligent life elsewhere, but whether it has come here to play silly buggers with us in a game of cosmic hide and seek is another matter.

"It is a big jump from `there was something in the sky and I don't know what it was' to `that was a craft piloted by aliens'."

She said most sightings could be of mundane things such as satellites and flocks of birds.

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