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Fortean / Oddball News - 6/24/2010

The Father of Psychic Warfare, UFOs and the NIDSci

Posted: 24 Jun 2010 09:27 AM PDT

I found this interesting narrative today in reference to Col. John Alexander and NIDSci:

In the early 1990s, I had a chance to visit a Col. John Alexander at his office in Las Vegas.

Apparently he had just moved in to that office there.

He was quite cordial.

We asked him some questions about non-lethal weapons systems and their applications.

I even asked him a couple of questions about "thanatology" (since, at that time I was a full-time licensed funeral director in Los Angeles).

It was quite interesting.

However, towards the end of the interview we asked him a question about "UFOs".

As soon as he heard us mention "UFOs", his attitude suddenly changed and he became totally upset.

He then scolded us and told us never to bring up that topic again.

He said that he had absolutely no interest in "UFOs".

Anyway, upon leaving his office (after we apologized to him), he led us the way out of his office.

As soon as he started walking towards the hallway to lead us out of his office, I instantly went behind his desk and had a quick look at his computer screen.

To my amazement, his computer screen showed a partial list of UFO organizations and names of UFO researchers.

To this day, I have no idea what to think of him and this experience there in his office.

This is why I still have a difficult time trusting the ultimate goal of organizations such as the National Institute for Discovery Science (NIDS), financed and headed by Robert Bigelow of Las Vegas.

Col. John Alexander, I believe, was under the payroll of Robert Bigelow in the 1990s. (He still my be, even today).

My fear is that the goal of NIDS is to dominate and control the flow of UFO information and to infiltrate organizations such as MUFON, through their vast financial resources.

I may be wrong on this.

I am not sure.

Norio Hayakawa - MySpace

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Col. John Alexander admits UFOs are real - Alexander's wet blanket - Unlike many researchers, Alexander has long contended there's no UFO coverup, that the only info the feds are holding back involve sources and methods. Near the end of his military tenure, Alexander says he queried military brass about UFOs – all the way up to two-star rungs – and insists they were entirely candid when they said they didn't know squat about it. What he does have scalding words for is the way the Air Force fumbled the ball on the Roswell Incident (three separate official verdicts), as well as the 1969 University of Colorado study on UFOs. The Colorado whitewash marginalized the evidence and allowed the USAF to close to its public investigation.

"UFOs are real. The evidence for things flying all over our skies that aren't ours is overwhelming," Alexander says. "And most scientists won't go near it because they think Condon" – first name Edward, who supervised the Colorado project — "conducted a thorough study, which he did not. We need to make it permissible for scientists to study again, and what Senator Pell went through shows you what happens to a serious person attempts to study it.

"I think this is something a John Podesta could in fact do. He could help to make a formal request to the National Academy of Science to take another look at this thing based on evidence that's been ignored. But this isn't going to be easy, because it's not politically enhancing. And the scientific community doesn't even want to look at the evidence. They dismiss it a priori."

Col. John Alexander's recent interview on 'Coast to Coast'

NOTE: I'm not sure what to make of this post. Col. Alexander is best known as the father of non-lethal weapons who developed 'psychic warriors' for the U.S. Army and was the driving force behind the film 'Men Who Stare at Goats'. But there have also been rumors of connections with the 'New World Order', that he is/was a mind programmer for the NWO (hey, I'm just reporting the rumors). As far as Hayakawa's statement in reference to Robert Bigelow, I'm still trying to wrap my head around Bigelow's motivations for making the comment of people being directly and/or indirectly killed by ET's as well as the interest it has prompted. Whatever the agenda, I agree with Hayakawa...we need to be very wary of people mucking up the already murky cesspool of ufology...Lon

The Father of Psychic Warfare, UFOs and the NIDSci

Saucer Shaped UFO Photographed Over Peru

Posted: 24 Jun 2010 08:29 AM PDT

Date: June 24, 2010

An Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) was photographed during a commercial flight over Perú.

The object was seen in broad daylight on June 18th during a TACA flight headed from Lima to Piura.

The object is visible along with some detail of the aircraft's wing. Around 3:00 p.m., one of the TACA passengers saw the object beyond one of the wings.

Not believeing what he was seeing, the passenger alerted other travelers, and was able to ascertain that they were seeing the same thing.

He then reached for his camera and took these photos, which were turned over to Con Nuestro Perú

The passenger is a renowned attorney who requested confidentiality.

[Aside from the considerable quality of the images, and the corroboration by fellow passengers, the fact that the Piura region has become known for its luminous phenomena is also noteworthy. See "The Piura Lights" entry earlier this year in INEXPLICATA -- Scott Corrales]

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Piura, Peru Lights Sightings - 4/19/2008

Description: Saturday April 19, 2008 - In the evening a strange yellowish light appeared in the south indicating that something was going to happen. Suddenly disappeared. At 9:30 PM east, flying over a hill appeared a big oval light that suddenly split in three. Then between 10:30 and 10:50 PM an object full of light that changed in shape and color. Exactly 11:02 PM a oval pale orange light suddenly jumped into the air scattering many tiny bright stars around and finally, two minutes later, an incredible powerful silver flash of light was seen in the middle of the dark of the desert.

Saucer Shaped UFO Photographed Over Peru

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Jaws...Meet Jaws

Posted: 24 Jun 2010 07:41 AM PDT

ntnews - This monster crocodile has just proven who's the king of the swamp.

The 5m saltwater croc made mince meat of a bull shark at Kakadu National Park.

A bunch of tourists looked on in shock when they saw the croc chomping on the shark at the upper flood plains of the South Alligator River on Saturday morning.

The shark had already been bitten in two by the hungry beast when this photograph was taken.

But tour guide Dean Cameron, 34, believed it would have been at least 3m long and weighed 60kg.

"It would have been amazing to see (the attack) - very wild footage," he said. "The croc would've taken the shark at night and then it would've had to take it to the bank to eat it."

Two separate tour boats with about 45 tourists each on board were shipping along the river as part of the Yellow Water Cruise about 8.15am when they saw the wild feast.

Mr Cameron, who was guiding one of the boats, said the visitors were over the moon to see the spectacle.

"Nearly 100 people saw it all up and they were jumping for joy," he said.

"They said this had made their Kakadu trip."

But it was not the first time a crocodile has been witnessed feasting on a shark.

Maxine Rawson-Rodriguez was on a jumping crocodile cruise at Adelaide River - about 100km south of Darwin - when the tourist boat came across a crocodile eating a shark on March 24.

And the Northern Territory News reported on January 29 how five fishermen fought off a crocodile to defend a prized shark caught off a Territory beach.

Mr Cameron, who has been a tour guide for two years and a park ranger for several more, said he would come across such a spectacle once a year.

And he said he was not surprised about finding sharks that far into a freshwater river system.

"With the wildlife here you just don't know what you'll get to see," he said.

"That's the beauty of it."

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Fortean / Oddball News - 6/24/2010

Posted: 24 Jun 2010 07:33 AM PDT

Mysterious Martian Cave Discovered By 7th Graders?

HP - A class of 16 seventh-graders has found a mysterious cave on Mars--a kind of "Martian skylight"--during the course of their research project analyzing images snapped by NASA's Mars orbiter.

The Evergreen Middle School class pinpointed a "hole in the roof of a cave on Mars" that may have been formed by volcanic activity on Mars. The pit is believed to measure some 620 by 520 feet wide and 380 feet deep.

Space.com's Clara Moskowitz explains the Mars Student Imaging Program in which the students were participating:

The intrepid students were participating in the Mars Student Imaging Program at the Mars Space Flight Facility at Arizona State University. The program allows students to frame a research question and then commission a Mars-orbiting camera to take an image to answer their question.

The students have submitted their site to be further imaged by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which could reveal enough detail to see inside the hole in the ground.

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'Horse Boy' Becomes Internet Sensation!

bbc - Mystery surrounds a man wearing a horse's head who has been captured on Google's Street View in Aberdeen.

The man - who has become known as 'horse-boy' - can be seen in the Hardgate area of the city.

The sighting has become a popular attraction on Google's service, which offers a photographic map of streets.

The man is wearing dark trousers, a purple shirt - and a brown and white horse's head.

Dozens of BBC news website users have e-mailed from across Europe to say they know who horse boy is.

Others have sent in images of the mystery horse-head wearer and some have claimed to be him.

Stefan Kleen from Germany said he and a friend met horse-boy at a German festival last weekend.

He added: "He only spoke English so we didn't really talk a lot to him."

Anders Hauge reckons he has been shopping in Haugesund in Norway; John Hammond was convinced he was playing the fairways and relaxing in the bars of Marbella and Julian Sykes said he had been sighted in Cardiff.

John Ainsworth insisted he saw horse-boy in Norwich earlier in the year walking through Wensum Park.

He said: "I thought I was hallucinating at first but then realised it was real."

Other readers have not been impressed with the story and some have told the website that it is not newsworthy and is a prank to generate further publicity.

A number of contributors have said that horse-boy features in other parts of Google's street view service.

Mark Coates said: "If you go down the road and turn back you can see him putting on the horse head and on the shot back up the road again he has white hair."

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Saudi Women Threaten to Breastfeed Drivers if They Aren't Allowed to Drive

latimes - Many were stunned when Saudi cleric Sheik Abdel Mohsen Obeikan recently issued a fatwa, or Islamic ruling, calling on women to give breast milk to their male colleagues or men they come into regular contact with so as to avoid illicit mixing between the sexes.

But a group of Saudi women has taken the controversial decree a step further in a new campaign to gain the right to drive in the ultra-conservative kingdom, media reports say.

If they're not granted the right to drive, the women are threatening to breastfeed their drivers to establish a symbolic maternal bond.

"Is this is all that is left to us to do: to give our breasts to the foreign drivers?" a Saudi woman named Fatima Shammary was quoted as saying by Gulf News.

Obeikan argued in his decree that if the women give their drivers their breast milk, the chauffeurs would be able to mingle with all members of the family without having to worry about violating Islamic law. Some Islamic scholars frown on the mixing of unmarried men and women. Islamic tradition, or hadith, stipulates that breastfeeding establishes a maternal bond, even if a woman breastfeeds a child who is not her own.

Drawing from the cleric's advocacy, the women have reportedly chosen a slogan for their campaign that translates to, "We either be allowed to drive or breastfeed foreigners."

The current driving ban applies to all women in Saudi Arabia, regardless of their nationality, and it's been a topic of heated public debate in recent years.

The ban on driving was unofficial at first but was introduced as official legislation after 47 Saudi women drove cars through the streets of the Saudi capital, Riyadh, in 1990 in an attempt to challenge authorities.

The incident brought harsh consequences for the women, who were jailed for a day and had their passports confiscated. Many of them were said to have been forced to leave their jobs after the driving protest.

Still, every now and then, reports of Saudi women driving in defiance of the ban emerge in the media.

Two years ago, 125 women in Saudi Arabia signed a petition that called on the Saudi interior minister to lift the ban.

One of the Saudi female signatories, Wajeha Huwaider, posted a video of herself driving on YouTube in a direct appeal to the Saudi authorities to allow women to drive.

"For women to drive is not a political issue," Wajeha said as she sat behind the wheel. "It is not a religious issue. It is a social issue, and we know that many women of our society are capable of driving cars. We also know that many families will allow their women to drive."

NOTE: like I've stated on several occasions, Saudi Arabians are a nutty bunch...though, I'm sure this threat will get a response. Lon

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Arizona Restaurant's Lion Burgers Draw Protests

azcentral - A Mesa restaurant owner is providing customers a South African experience to honor the World Cup on Wednesday and Thursday, serving burgers made with African lion meat.

But the novelty meal is creating a backlash.

Il Vinaio restaurant in downtown Mesa has received more than 150 emails from protestors as well as a bomb threat, owner Cameron Selogie said Tuesday.

According to Selogie, African lions are on the protected list, but not endangered.

"Because it is from a farm, it in no way affects the scarcity of lions in Africa," Selogie said.

The restaurant ordered five pounds of the African lion meat from a USDA regulated free-range farm in Illinois, which Selogie said he researched to make sure they were humane. After some positive feedback and more reservations were made, however, they ordered five more pounds.

Selogie estimates that only 15 of the burgers will be served each night.

During one of the restaurant's Wine-Pairing dinners, where they serve wine with other uncommon meats such as wild boar, customers heard about the availability of lion meat and seemed interested in trying it. Selogie was inspired by the FIFA World Cup's location and decided to serve the meat to coincide with the games.

The restaurant advertised their decision through their e-mail newsletter club to keep the attention to a minimum, but one member and animal activist, Susan Cooper, spread the word.

Cooper said she called the restaurant to clarify their newsletter, thinking the "lion meat" was a joke or a name, but when she discovered it was not she informed other animal advocates about what she calls a "snob appeal" dish.

"I'm thoroughly disgusted to say the least," Cooper said. "I've gotten information around to the animal community and everyone is thoroughly disgusted too."

USDA spokesman Jim Brownlee said lion meat is an uncommon dish, but he knew of no prohibitions against it. Selogie said Il Vinaio will be the first restaurant in Arizona to serve it.

The lion burgers, which will be mixed with ground beef, will be served with corn and spiced kettle chips. The restaurant will offer a South African wine to complement the $21 dish.

Selogie has interacted with the protesters and replied to their emails.

While he does not expect much will happen over the two days, he has informed Mesa Police and bought bottled water for any pickets that may show up at the door each night and according to Cooper, they intend to.

"We have been interacting with several of the animal activists and we committed to making a donation to the ASPCA after this, because we are animal lovers," Selogie said.

Selogie did not want to draw too much attention to the dish, which he said will not be put on the regular menu. He said he was reluctant at first about serving the meat and wanted to order as little as possible.

Selogie himself has not tried the lion meat yet.

"A beautiful, exotic creature that should be out in the wild is being killed for someone to eat as a burger," Cooper said. "What's next? Dogs? Cats? What's the difference?"

Fortean / Oddball News - 6/24/2010

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