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Video: Beam of Light Over East Field, Wiltshire, UK - May 2-3, 2010
Russian Politician Claims Alien Abduction, Requests Investigation
The Mysterious 'Cocaine Mummies'
Human, You Really Have To Get Over Yourself!

Video: Beam of Light Over East Field, Wiltshire, UK - May 2-3, 2010

Posted: 06 May 2010 09:33 AM PDT

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Statement with video: This beam of unexplained light was captured on the night of the 2/3rd of May 2010, using night vision goggles. Location East Field - Wiltshire.

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This was witnessed at night over a canola field at East Field, Wiltshire using night vision googles.

Throughout the night we witnessed many unusual sightings of lights - fields lit up with pale blue flashes - streaks of 3 white lights shooting across the sky and then a beam of light appeared over a distant field.

Due to all the activity throughout the night we had hope that a formation had appeared somewhere within the vicinity but as dawn arrived there was nothing to see so we drove through all the possible locations but to our disappointment, we still didn't see any crop formations.

Canola formations can sometimes be hard to spot from the roadside so we flew across the entire location just to be sure that we haven't missed one somewhere, but yet still nothing.

On the 4th of May, colleagues still out in the field begun to witness many lights which were quickly joined by military choppers. These sightings continued for over 3 hours - I get the feeling that there is a bit of teasing going on and testing the patience of helicopter pilots. We haven't a crop formation just yet but other activity has definitely begun.

Source: cropcirclewisdom.com

Back in 2008, a similar beam of light was captured on 8-8-08 after the discovery of the 8 crop circle formation. This beam is almost in the same location as the above footage. Below are 'crop circle ghosts' from the previous season and in the same location. New crops are unable to grown in these areas.

NOTE: I'm going to be watching this to see what develops. The 'crop circle' season may soon get into full action mode...Lon

Video: Beam of Light Over East Field, Wiltshire, UK - May 2-3, 2010

Russian Politician Claims Alien Abduction, Requests Investigation

Posted: 06 May 2010 08:42 AM PDT

bbc - A Russian MP has asked President Dmitry Medvedev to investigate claims by a regional president that he has met aliens on board a spaceship.

Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, the leader of the southern region of Kalmykia, made his claim in a television interview.

MP Andre Lebedev is not just asking whether Mr Ilyumzhinov is fit to govern.

He is also concerned that, if he was abducted, he may have revealed details about his job and state secrets.

The MP has written a letter to Mr Medvedev raising a list of his concerns.

In his letter he says that - assuming the whole thing was not just a bad joke - it was an historic event and should have been reported to the Kremlin.

He also asks if there are official guidelines for what government officials should do if contacted by aliens, especially if those officials have access to state secrets.

Mr Ilyumzhinov said in an interview on primetime television that he had been taken on board an alien spaceship which had come to planet Earth to take samples - and claims to have several witnesses.

He has been president of Kalmykia, a small Buddhist region of Russia which lies on the shores of the Caspian Sea, for 17 years.

The millionaire former businessman has a reputation as an eccentric character.

As president of the World Chess Federation, he has spent tens of millions of dollars turning the impoverished republic into a mecca for chess players - building an entire village to host international tournaments.

Russian Politician Claims Alien Abduction, Requests Investigation

The Mysterious 'Cocaine Mummies'

Posted: 06 May 2010 08:14 AM PDT

On Wednesday evening, the television show 'Weird or What?' presented the case of the 'Cocaine Mummies' ...basically, it was discovered back in the 1990's that many Egyptian mummies had traces of cocaine in their bodies. The following is a description of the phenomena:

The amazing discovery of traces of cocaine and tobacco in Egyptian mummies caused a sensation in the halls of academia. Rand & Rose Flem-Ath examine the case of the 'Cocaine Mummies', revealing that there was contact between ancient civilisations long before previously thought.

In the movie Contact, Jodie Foster plays an astronomer who establishes communication with a civilisation beyond our solar system. In a recent television program, The Curse of the Cocaine Mummies, a different, but equally fascinating, contact is established between ancient Egypt and ancient Peru. A German forensic scientist busted the Egyptian mummy Ramses II for possession of cocaine. Cocaine, as most people know, grows only in the Andes. How did Ramses II get his dope?

The idea of ancient transoceanic contact between the Old and New Worlds before Columbus (other than the Vikings) is simply not acceptable within the tightly controlled halls of academia. Professor John Baines, an Egyptologist at Oxford is a typical case. He calls the idea of ancient transoceanic trade "absurd" and bolsters his "argument" by noting that he doesn't know any professional Egyptologists, anthropologists or archaeologists who are "seriously" researching the idea. This is because, he says, the idea is not "perceived" to have "any real meaning for the subjects."

Professor Baines' view reminds us of the priests who refused to look through Galileo's telescope to see the blemishes on the Moon because this revelation did not conform to their preconceived ideas of reality. Academia is geared to not looking at the problem. This ostrich approach has predictable results: results that do not necessarily have any bearing upon the quest for truth and in fact, impede the search.

The simple fact that we find sun-worshiping civilisations building pyramids, obelisks and preserving their dead by wrapping them in cloth (mummies) on both sides of the Atlantic is rarely even discussed within the archaeological and anthropological journals despite the fact that every child when first confronted with the facts raises the obvious question "why?" For four hundred of the past five hundred years scholars have puzzled over the facts. Three theories emerged yet only one survives today.

Cortes's secretary was one of the first to put forward the idea that both Old and New Worlds were remnants of an even older "lost" civilisation. The "Aztlan" of ancient Mexico and the "Atlantis" of ancient Egypt, he argued, were one and the same. With this simple idea the commonalities between buildings, culture and mythologies of the ancient people of Mexico, Peru and Egypt could all be explained as "echoes" of a lost world.

The second theory presented was the idea that Mexico and Peru were settled by people from the Old World who already possessed the skills needed to build pyramids and preserve bodies. Most argued that they came from ancient Egypt but others suggest the Sumerians, people of ancient India, the Phoenicians and even the Templars from France. Again, a simple idea was used to explain an obvious problem.

The third theory, was the idea of "separate development." Here the focus is upon "how" people arrived in the Americas rather than upon the impressions of the Europeans following Columbus' "discovery" of the New World. Although this is the more complicated of the theories — thus violating the scientific principle of Occum's Razor (so beautifully articulated in Contact) that when confronted by conflicting theories for an unexplained phenomena one should prefer the simpler explanation, it is, nevertheless, the only theory that is considered scholarly in today's universities.

It is within this context that we must watch The Curse of the Cocaine Mummies. Cocaine and tobacco are plants that originated in America and were unknown to the Old World if we are to believe the traditional paradigm. The first tear in the fabric of the dogma came on the 16th of September 1976 when the mummified remains of Ramses II arrived at the Museum of Mankind in Paris. To repair the damage to the mummy, a scientific team was assembled which included Dr. Michelle Lescot of the Natural History Museum (Paris). She received fragments from the bandages and found a plant fragment ensnared within the fibres. When she looked at it under a microscope she was amazed to discover that the plant was tobacco. Fearing that she had made some mistake she repeated her tests again and again with the same result every time: a New World plant had been found on an Old World mummy. The results, little known in North America, caused a sensation in Europe.

Professor Nasri Isk-ander, the Chief Curator at the Cairo Museum thought he had an explanation. As an avid pipe smoker he argued that "maybe a piece of tobacco dropped by haphazard" from the pipe of some forgotten archaeologist. Dr. Lescot responded to this charge of "contamination" by carefully extracting new samples from Ramses II's abdomen, all the while having others photograph the process. These samples which could not possibly be "droppings" were then tested and once again were established to be tobacco.

The discovery of tobacco fragments in the mummified body of Ramses II should have had a profound influence upon our whole understanding of the relationship between ancient Egypt and America but this piece of evidence was simply ignored. Then, sixteen years later, again quite by accident, more evidence emerged. In 1992, toxicologist, Dr. Svetla Balabanova of the Institute of Forensic Medicine in Ulm (Germany) tested the ancient Egyptian mummified remains of Henut-Tawy, Lady of the Two Lands. The results came as a "shock" to this scientist who regularly used the identical testing methods to convict people of drug consumption. She had not expected to find nicotine and cocaine in an ancient Egyptian mummy. She repeated the tests and sent out fresh samples to three other labs. When the results came back positive she published a paper with two other scientists. (Balabanova, S., F. Parsche and W. Pirsig, "First Identification of Drugs in Egyptian Mummies", Naturwissenschaften 79, 358 (1992) Springer-Verlag 1992.)

If Balabanova was surprised by the results of her tests she was even more surprised at the vitriolic response to her publication. She received a flood of letters threatening, insulting and accusing her of fraud. When she reminded her critics that she was simply applying the very same techniques that she had used for years in police work where her results were considered "proof positive" her critics didn't seem to care. She was condemned as a "fraud."

Dr. Rosalie David, Keeper of Egyptology, Manchester Museum took up the challenge of investigating the "cocaine mummies" which she thought "seemed quite impossible." She began by sending tissue and hair samples from her museum out to labs. She was working on the dual assumption that one of two things are true: 1. Balabanova's tests were compromised; or 2. The mummy was not truly ancient" (i.e. it was fake). Dr. David flew to Munich to review the techniques and excavation records to see if the body, which had originally been purchased by King Ludwig I of Bavaria was genuine or not.

Dr. Alfred Grimm, the Curator of The Egyptian Museum in Munich said that "the Munich mummies are real Egyptian mummies. No fakes. No modern mummies. They came from ancient Egypt." After spending days pouring over the docum-entation associated with the "cocaine mummy" Dr. David relented saying: "it seems evident that they are probably genuine…"

When she returned to Manchester she discovered that her own Museum's mummies had traces of tobacco. Dr. David said: "I'm really very surprised at this."

Dr. Balabanova's work had been validated by the test results from Manchester but she was now hooked on the problem and began collecting samples of naturally preserved bodies housed in museums all around Europe. She obtained 134 separate bodies taken from ancient Sudan dating to a time long before Columbus or the Vikings. One third of these bodies contained both nicotine and cocaine.

The exciting realisation that there was certainly contact between ancient Peru and ancient Egypt has now been established. The cocaine mummies from Egypt and Sudan have changed the rules of this controversial game. There is no longer a warrant to exclude the hypothesis of transoceanic trade in ancient times.

Is the principle of Occum's Razor only to be applied when the outcome is safely assured to confirm to traditional dogma about theories of the past? It appears so. The cocaine mummies jumped the tracks of long established views. Despite overwhelming evidence we still find ourselves in the last decade of the twentieth century dealing with a 'scientific' establishment that ridicules its own members and refuses to look at the results of its own principles if the results don't confirm the favourite views of the reigning orthodoxy.

Source: www.esolibris.com

NOTE: My theory is that these substances were transported by air or another means with extraterrestrial or non-human help. I have real doubts that these civilizations were capable of interacting on their own...the evidence is just not there. Your thoughts? Lon

The Mysterious 'Cocaine Mummies'

Human, You Really Have To Get Over Yourself!

Posted: 06 May 2010 07:49 AM PDT

Chris Holly's Paranormal World - I have been watching all the debate and opinions flooding the internet concerning the subject of Alien visitation, what aliens will do, and how it will affect the earth and all who live upon it.

I read the views from the top scientists to those who have no obvious knowledge of the subject at all.

Everyone has a say everyone thinks they are right and EVERYONE bases their view from their limited human understanding of science, life and the universe. That is where our problem lies. Our own foolishness leaves me slapping my forehead in anguish wondering what the living heck is wrong with everyone.

Did it ever occur to the human race that we are not all that and that we really need to get over ourselves? Let us be really honest here and take an uncharacteristic look at reality. Humans are an animal -that is a fact. Humans are intelligent animals as we can alter our surroundings, use tools and advance by way of abstract thinking. So far so good -the humans are looking good as far as earth bound life is concerned. Now let us look at humans via our universal neighborhood. We may be average as far as life forms our age or even more advanced than those who are only starting up the ladder of intelligence. We also may be far less developed as a civilized species than other life forms who may be millions even billions of years older.

Those are the cosmic neighbors who would be visiting us. They would be the life forms we think of as our alien visitors and they are the beings we seem to think are so taken with us that we form every theory, opinion, and decision about them via the idea we are very special and they really are interested in us and our planet.

Really humans – you have to get over yourself!

I have to shake the spiders out of my head as I try to grasp why we would think we are such incredible creatures that visitors far more advanced are really concerned with us. Is it the fact we cannot stop killing each other in war, terror, gang violence, domestic abuse, mass murders or simply acts of rage and hate that you feel makes us so appealing?

Maybe it is our political and broken world economies that make us shine as cosmic super stars! Or can it be how part of the human race is busy like monkey's picking flea's with our cell phones and text messaging while the other parts of the worlds population starves to death or are dying from curable diseases?

Wait – our universal neighbors may be tuning in to our Internet communications leaving them in awe of our hateful attacks upon each other or inability to barely read or write. I do imagine however they are fully impressed by our constant and repetitive usage of every foul four letter word in exchange of the normal vocabulary available.

I think I am making my point. Really people, do you think we are anything other than mid to low rung creatures as far as this universe is concerned?

When are the humans going to figure out it is not about them when dealing with alien species. Has it ever crossed the mind of the human race that we are not the center of attention of other life forms? In fact we may be as relevant, interesting or important to our cosmic neighbors as an ant hill or school or guppies are to us!

I read long intricate articles about the alien subject that simply are ridiculous. First and foremost if aliens are able to visit us from places far from our own solar system they out smart us on a ratio close to comparing a human to a goldfish. To think we are anywhere near the development of those who can harness space and the energy needed to travel the universe is just ridiculous. We cannot get off our own block yet we think we are so special that we are of some great importance to alien visitors.

My comic relief comes by watching the best of us, the scientists of our time stick closely together explaining why it is not possible for aliens to visit us because of bla-bla-bla, you fill in the nonsense.

I find it incredulous that they compare what those who are obviously far older and far more advanced in the technology needed to travel the universe to the limited knowledge and understanding of the universe that we are just now beginning to understand. I laugh openly when I hear some arrogant fool tell us that life does not exist out there because they do not respond to or send out ancient radio signals? How dumb is that? Do they really think that the advanced civilizations that can travel the cosmos are still involved with such limited technology? Do we still use pony express or wait for the stage coach to bring the monthly mail? It is really embarrassing to read that type of defense of why aliens do not exist!

The other great laugh I get is listening to why Aliens are not able to visit us. It is hilarious listening to serious so called deep thinkers tell us that it is not possible because of the science they have sort of figured out. Yes I say sort of figured out as we are only starting to touch on the science of the universe and most days if you throw three scientists in a room you will find you end up with three different opinions that they will fight over for three hundred years!. I am sorry but we do not understand the workings of our universe and are not capable of knowing what is or is not possible at this stage of our technology and scientific development. We are mere babes in the woods as far as finding our way around the cosmos. Goodness we are not even able to figure out how to quickly or efficiently travel or use our own little solar system. As I said before, really human- get over yourself!

How about the idea alien technology is so advanced that aliens may be sitting right over your house and you would never know it. How about alien technology being so advanced that they are tapped in and controlling every transmission or system that we stupid humans have sitting in our houses, cars and stuck on our heads?

The next area of debate that keeps me slapping my head is the purpose of alien visitation. Humans are a riot with that one. Humans feel they are just the cherry on the cake of living beings. Humans feel they are so important that civilizations far more developed are just dying to get at us. Humans feel we are so attractive to the beings of the universe that they want to be in charge of us, take our planet and spend their time in our neck of the woods. That is all aliens think of- getting to the humans. GET OVER YOUR SELF … You just are not all that to other beings. Humans are low level at best, smelly, violent, destructive animals that cannot get off their own planet or keep the planet we have alive and well.

Really people if aliens who pass our way wanted to have this planet for what it offers in resources we would long be taken over. They sure would not wait until we destroy the place. If aliens wanted to enslave us they would do it. They would not wait until we blow each other up. If they were going to do whatever they are going to do they would do it before we pollute, destroy and kill off the best of what this planet offers. That is what the silly little humans do not get. We are here and they take a look, maybe take a few of us and they go on their merry way. It is not about how special we are I think it may be more about the fact we exist and they are curious or simply we are on the way as they pass by. A lot like that rest stop we all use that is cleaner than the others and the food at least hot and edible.

We may be used by certain alien species for scientific material or experimentation. I am sure they are among us all the time. I simply think we need to grasp the fact we are not all we think we are and they are really not all that in to us.

From years of talking to humans who have had contact with the unknown as well as personal encounters of my own the one word I feel that best describes alien feelings concerning humans would be cold. A cold indifference would describe them. I believe that humans are taken and have been used in a mixture of curiosity and experimental encounters. We are an easy mark who can be easily controlled and far too primitive in our science and technology to even know they are right in front of our noses.

Of course my favorite approach to the subject of spacecrafts and aliens is the good old human hold out of they cannot exist if we do not have one on our front lawn. I find it hilarious when they demand real proof.

We have huge amounts of photo's, video's and reliable good people explaining they have seen and or encountered crafts and beings yet all of that – means nothing to the fool who wants to deal with aliens one on one before they prepare to understand they exist. I always shake my head as I know that it this is the same person if found one dark night, alone in their yard , they were the one looking straight into the eyes of the unknown would be the first screaming for the world to believe and protect them. Guaranteed the night that event occurs will be the same night they will wish they had paid better attention to those who have walked that path before them.

We like living in the dark ages of science. If we wanted to understand the universe around us as well as the truth behind many subjects thought of as paranormal – we would stop the nonsense and find the truth.

If we worked together and refused to be herded like sheep to laugh like fools instead of acting like a curious advancing society we would know what is what in our own universe. Instead we want to keep all these things creepy little subjects that thrill and frighten us but ones we only think of abstractly.

We are really far from ready to know the truth. Let's face it we are just too primitive. Aliens see the human species for what we are and frankly I do not think they are as impressed as we think they are. They sure seem to keep us at arm's length. If they want one of us to play with they take us and then throw us back into the pond. That is the truth of alien human interactions.

Here we live on a planet with billions of people. Millions in the populations have reported seeing UFO's or having contact with other beings. We handle that information in three ways. We hide it and never say a word. We laugh at, ridicule and flat out call those who have had horrible experiences liars or we make up stories for attention that throw the real events in to the same pot with the fantasy and fools.

Nothing gets resolved. We seem to be comfortable running on the rat wheel of denial and fear when it comes to things like aliens, UFO's Chem. trails and crop circles. Just give them a quick reason you think it is nonsense and brush it off. Even if your thinking is wrong- it does not matter you will demand it is right so you can keep that wheel spinning. It is the only method mankind seems to handle with things too hard to think about or uncomfortable to deal with. This allows an easy neat little dark door slammed closed for any real study on paranormal subjects. We willingly stay locked in middle age darkness when it comes to real advancement in the science of our cosmos.

I am sure those who visit us find us a strange pack of animals. Why we think we are a special species will continue to confuse me. We are hateful people who immediately attack anyone who disagree with us. We are always at war, always killing each other; we are aggressive and unkind towards one another. We cannot take care of the population of the world or the planet for that matter. We attack all things that are new or unknown and run in packs following whatever fad, TV show, politician or Internet group tells us to. We walk around with technology attached to our bodies quickly losing our humanity over to objects of possible control and get nasty if someone suggests you turn the damn things off! Has it ever dawned on any of you that you may willingly be allowing others to download directly into your brain via the constant use of the wireless world? Come on people start thinking!

Truly we need to begin to get our heads straight about our place in our own universe. I think we have to start by understanding we are not the top dog out there. We may be the big deal in our little solar system however space is endless and so are the life forms out there.

I am not going to argue about intelligent life or aliens. I think you should think whatever you need to in order to handle whatever you need to on this topic.

I know what I have seen and who I have seen. I have talked to many people on this subject. I will admit I have a bigger list of those I do NOT believe telling truthful accounts than I do those who have told me true encounters. That is the nature of the human beast. We are our own worst enemies which keeps us locked in the dark when it comes to the knowledge of the cosmos.

I will continue my upstream swim trying to bring the experiences of those who have walked over this dark line and do have information to share on the subject of crafts and visitors from our cosmos. If I can prepare a handful of my own kind to be aware that the unknown is simply the truth of the universe we simply do not yet understand I will have done my job.

You see I believe you are far better equipped in life to have some knowledge of things you may encounter. Those of us who have faced the unknown and survived may try to share our thoughts with others so they too may endure and live to tell of an encounter they may experience. As I have said a thousand times before. It is easy to have a great deal to say or think the paranormal is hilarious – until it happens to you!

Be careful out there and know sometimes that odd shape in the sky is not a cloud, that light in the sky not a Chinese lantern and that thing behind the tree not a shadow. Sometimes it is a UFO, an unknown object or a big ole creature! And that is just how it is.

Thanks to Chris Holly at Chris Holly's Paranormal World
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chrishollyufo@yahoo.com

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