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- Odd Encounters: Loud Frightening Sounds, Strange White Light and Life Protecting Event
- Fortean / Alternative News: The Human Pincushion, Chupacabras? Nope...Mangy Bear and Resurrecting Hollywood's Dead
- Laura Eisenhower Mahon: "I am fairly certain Ike was aware of aliens visiting Earth"
| Odd Encounters: Loud Frightening Sounds, Strange White Light and Life Protecting Event Posted: 21 Jan 2011 09:28 AM PST  ---------- MUFON CMS - 8/2009 - Utah: I remember it was a sunny, summer day. Blue skies and warm. It was a Saturday, and myself, my husband and 13 yr old son were running errands, and I think we ate lunch prior to this also. We were stopped at the intersection on Redwood Road and 9800 South at the stop light. The all of a sudden we heard a loud BOOM in the car!! Our windows were rolled up, and we don't think it was a car backfire at all. It sounded like a shotgun went off inside of the car. I started shaking and tried to turn to see if my son was OK in the back seat. I was disoriented, so were they. My husband was checking himself for blood on his shirt and so was my son. I looked down at myself also, but I was frightened that I would see blood. It was like a jolt hit us or something. I finally said "is everyone OK?" My son replied, " yea mom I'm OK". We were all OK. The light turned green and we started to go finally. No one around us was affected, by that I mean others in cars around us. We were all saying what the heck was that? It was very strange and weird. My son felt like maybe we were hit by a time warp and got put back or something. It took me an hour to calm down from shaking and being scared. I still won't drive around that area at all. We have had other sightings and strange things happen to us. But that day still frightens me a lot!! ---------- MUFON CMS - 4/1981 - Alabama: My fiance & I had just left her brother's house at around 11PM, in her father's car (mid-late 70's Olds Cutlass), on our way to stay the night at her brother's in-laws house. The house was on a rural peninsula of the Tenn. River, in the Scottsboro, AL area. Approximately a few hundred yards into our trip (with no house immediately close by), the clear, cool night was interrupted by a startling event. The car lost its power, the street light went out and my battery-operated Seiko LCD watch (one of the first, which I still own but never use anymore) lost its power. At the same time, maybe a second or two after this occurred and having the car safely come to a stop, an incredibly bright, white light appeared off to our right side (tree side, not the side of the water). I opened my driver's side window and heard no crickets as we heard when we left her brother's house... it was dead silent. The light stopped over our car and we tried to peer out the windshield to try and catch a glimpse of the object. After being blinded by the light, my fiancee wanted to get out to look. I cautioned her to stay in the car as we didn't know what it was. We locked our doors and sat there, trying to see what it was. After what appeared to be only a few minutes when my fiancee's watch restarted, which seemed like an eternity, the light disappeared as quickly as it had appeared. A few seconds after it left the scene (with no swoosh or other noise that we could discern), the idiot lights on the car came back on, the radio came back on and the headlights came on. I looked at my watch and, it too, had begun to work once again, as had fiancee's dial watch. I started the car and noticed the street light came back on and I heard crickets outside again, as I still had the window open (so much for using the locks). We finished our trip to town where we spent the nights during our trip. Well, 28+ years later, we still talk about that night. Every so often, on long walks at night, in many areas of where we live and even places we visit, we have the street lights go out on us, but not all of them... just one or two... which may not mean anything at all in this context, but it is weird. We once heard from a niece who grew up in Alabama that her grandparents (whom we stayed with on that trip in 1981) had similar events all the time on that stretch of road, at night, on their way home. In conclusion, I have since read and heard many stories of a similar nature, and have seen some UFO type of explanations. However, I have no idea what it was that was present that April night in 1981. I do believe in UFOs and the possibility/reality of there being people other than ourselves in the Universe. And, I have heard double-talk denials of something or someone in the hangers at WPAFB from (now deceased) relatives who worked there. Were these people just pulling my teenage leg at the time? Probably... but, what if... ---------- Terlingua, Texas was a mercury mining town in far west Texas. Open vertical mine shafts were abundant, some said to be hundreds of feet deep. Sometime in the 80's my wife, son and I were vacationing there. One evening after supper I decided to walk to the old cemetery which was perhaps two hundred yards from the motel room we occupied. I took a small flashlight as it was beginning to get dark. The trail was fairly well defined, though not marked. Sunset cames on rapidly in that climate and it was soon dark enough to need the flashlight. The beam was weak but I kept going. When the light finally went out I could still see the trail by star light. Something stopped me. Not a physical presence, but something so strong that I could not take another step. I left the flashlight to mark my turn around point and headed back to our room. Next morning, after coffee, I again headed toward the cemetery...... There was my flashlight in the trail. About six feet farther on was an unmarked, open mine shaft. The path lead directly to it. I'm 76 now and I still remember that feeling as clearly as if it happened last night. Thank you for the opportunity to share. Wayne McMinn Palacios, Texas  |
| Posted: 21 Jan 2011 08:45 AM PST  The Mystery of the 'Human Pincushion' Arnold Gerritt Henske was a Dutch artist and designer with a paranormal bent. In 1933, he changed his name to Mirin Dajo (Esperanto for "Amazing Dajo") and took the stage. His performance? Having his assistant impale his hypnotized body with swords and rapiers. What at first glance looks like a striking version of an Andrew Mayne illusion, was actually something quite different. It was real. Doctors with x-ray machines confirmed: the weapons were penetrating his body, missing major organs somehow. He walked and even ran with swords sticking out of him, and all this took place with little or no bloodshed, even when the implement was removed. How was this possible? Some say Dajo trained with Indian fakirs to learn the ancient art of body piercing, but as famed late magician Ali Bongo points out, no one in India was doing anything close to the feats Dajo was demonstrating. When I first encountered this video, I showed it to author and former magician James "The Amazing" Randi for his take on it. He agreed that it was real, and that they were carefully avoiding major organs. He added that it probably hurt like hell. Dajo also swallowed razor blades and glass, which are feats that can be accomplished by experienced magicians and side show carnies. Mirin Dajo used his "skill" to promote belief in the supernatural and demonstrate that, as swords could not hurt him, materialism was false. Humans could transcend the laws of physics if only they had enough faith in God. Sadly for Dajo, local governments would often refuse to give him a license to speak, though they would allow him to perform. He claimed to hear voices from "guardian angels" that told him what to do. He also claimed that he'd been burned with red-hot pokers and shot in the head at close range, but these stunts were not filmed or otherwise documented. In some places, audiences became alarmed and organized prayer rallies asking God to intervene and stop this man from practicing sorcery. Dr. Jennifer Saw, upon examining the video, suggests that he was creating a fistula, much like an earring hole. By gradually increasing puncture holes that carefully avoided his organs, scar tissue created a tube which would allow swords to pass through without harm. He is said to have performed this feat over 500 times. In the video, you can see that is back is scarred from multiple punctures, though the bandages on his arms are unexplained. Also unexplained is how he dealt with the pain. In May 1948, following the advice of his angels, Mirin Dajo swallowed a very large steel needle. He had it surgically removed two days later, and fell into a "trance." Thee days later, the "trance" was discovered to be "death," and the case of Mirin Dajo, age 36, was closed. Cause of death: a ruptured aorta, though many of his followers deny that. The legacy of Arnold Gerritt Henske demonstrates that you can engage in extremely risky behaviors and impress people, but the odds will eventually catch up with you. Click for video **********  Navy steps closer to producing ultimate laser weapon smartplanet - A recent breakthrough may lead to a powerful laser that gives U.S. Navy ships the upper hand in combat. As part of the U.S. Navy's research into developing a unique technology called Free Electron Laser or FEL, scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory have announced that they've successfully built and tested a device called an injector that can produce the type of electrons needed to generate weapons-grade megawatt laser beams. Originally invented in 1976 by John Madey, a physicist at Stanford University, the Free Electron Laser was of particular interest for personnel working under the Defense Department's Strategic Defense Initiative, better known as Ronald Reagan's "Star Wars" program. And there's a reason why. Typically, lasers are generated by a machine that uses a combination of energy, mirrors and a lens to excite certain atoms to the point of emitting light particles called photons and then turning them into an intense and focused beam of light. Every laser operates on a specific wavelength, which is determined by the "lasing medium," or in layman's terms, the type of atoms used to produce the laser. But FELs are generated with an entirely different technology that involve having an injector send a pulse of supercharged electrons through a particle accelerator, which allows for the beam to be fired at a wide range of wavelengths and for a long period of time. This means that FEL machines can be configured to shoot lasers at frequencies where the beam won't weaken much as it travels through the air. Other lasers tend to get absorbed and scattered by moisture in the atmosphere. Against an enemy, a weapons-grade caliber FEL would be an enormous advantage. Warships equipped with this technology can now shoot down incoming missiles regardless of environmental conditions. The laser can also be fired continuously without downtime between shots, making it capable of taking out multiple targets simultaneously. The achievement of a weapons-grade FEL would be such a boost to the Navy that science and fiction writer Doug Beason has called it the "Holy Grail of Lasers." For now, the current FEL power record is 14 kilowatts — a step closer, but still quite a distance from the 70 kilowatts necessary to make a 1 megawatt beam, laser engineer Olivia Koski graciously pointed out to us on Twitter. (She also noted that as little as 100 kilowatts is potent enough for a weapon.) The U.S. Navy, which recently acquired Madey's FEL, has committed to pouring 163 million dollars into research they hope would deliver a testable prototype by 2018. And as progress continues, FELs might bring us closer to what is becoming an increasingly sci-fi era of warfare. ********** Musicians killed in Mexico after refusing to play more songs for audience Leaving the audience wanting more is the goal of every musician, unless you're a musician in violence-torn Mexico. Two members of local group La Excelencia were murdered in a Guadalajara bar early Monday morning after refusing to play more songs past closing time. Jonathan Martinez, 22, and Gustavo Alejandro, 35, were pronounced dead outside the Vida Divina nightclub, gunned down by unidentified assailants with suspected ties to the country's notorious drug gangs. A third victim, identified as bar patron Leslie Soltero, 26, was taken to a local hospital with a gunshot wound to her ankle. When La Excelencia's performance came to an end around 4 a.m. local time, four reportedly intoxicated and aggressive audience members demanded the musicians continue playing. Sensing trouble, the group extended its set by two songs, but was eventually forced to pull the plug by the bar's owner. Out of nowhere, one of the instigators threw a grenade at the stage. The explosion injured one person and had panicked customers running for the exits. Martinez and Alejandro were among those who fled the bar, but they were met at the front door by a hail of bullets, presumably from the same four men who had harassed them earlier. By the time police arrived at the scene, the killers had already escaped by car. No witnesses were able to identify the getaway vehicle. **********   Man shoots mangy bear cub....thought it was Chupacabras news10 - GEORGETOWN, CA - To handyman Frank Gallo, the creature that almost attacked him beside his rural trailer several days ago looked like the legendary Chupacabra. "Scared the hell out of me," Gallo said. "It crouched and faced me and I shot two warning shots at it - 357-magnum, from 20-feet." The shots seemed to have no effect and Gallo kept firing during the encounter. "He looked down at where he'd been shot and let out a cry that sounded like, maybe a six year old girl. Ahhhhhh, really loud," Gallo said. When Gallo saw the animal up close, it was even stranger. "If you could feel this thing, if you could touch it, it's skin is like an elephant," Gallo said. The animal had huge claws, canine-like teeth and almost no fur on its body. However, it was the animal's lack of fur that tipped off California Department of Fish and Game Warden Patrick Foy. "(It's) probably a juvenile bear and has developed some type of an ailment that's caused it's skin to shed all of it's fur," Foy said. To Gallo, it looked more like, the supposedly, mythical creature known in Mexico as a Chupacabra. Gallo scoured the Internet, looking for images and information on the Chupacabra. "Something like this (animal) will hit an animal, knock it down, grab it and suck the blood out of it. That's where the name Chupacabra comes from, it's Spanish for goat-sucker,"Gallo said. "Could be a fairly new species, you know. Could be a mutation," Gallo said. However the pictures told Foy it was more likely a bear. Late Tuesday evening, a game warden picked up the animal and confirmed Foy's suspicions that it was a young bear. It may take several days to determine what caused the bear to lose it's fur. "Somebody with an untrained eye would look at this and think that this was a pretty creepy-looking character," Foy acknowledged. Gallo is not convinced. "Doesn't move anything like a bear, didn't act like a bear. Doesn't make sounds like a bear," Gallo said. "There are skeptics and there are people that are open-minded." ********** Now, George Lucas plans to resurrect the dead gizmodo - According to Mel Smith—friend of George Lucas and director of Radioland Murders—the creator of Star Wars is "buying up the film rights to dead actors." He says that Lucas plans to resurrect them in future movies using 3D technology: George has been buying up the film rights to dead actors in the hope of using computer trickery to put them all together, so you'd have Orson Welles and Barbara Stanwyck alongside today's stars. Of course, this is the British tabloid The Sun but, knowing the amazing digital 3D actor work in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Tron Legacy, Mel Smith's revelations don't surprise me at all. In fact, the possibility of doing this has been rumored in Hollywood for a while, but, if true, this seems the first actual news of someone buying "film rights" to dead movie stars. In the words of Luke Skywalker: "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" This has so much evil potential for perpetrating crimes against common sense and good taste that it boggles my mind. Maybe we shouldn't forgive Lucas, after all.  |
| Laura Eisenhower Mahon: "I am fairly certain Ike was aware of aliens visiting Earth" Posted: 21 Jan 2011 07:21 AM PST  Ms. Laura Eisenhower Mahon writes, "I am a great granddaughter of President Dwight D Eisenhower and I should say from the start that I am fairly certain Ike was aware of aliens visiting Earth. In so many ways it was obvious. For starters there were the little comments here and there." Laura's mother, Susan Eisenhower, consults to Obama Energy Secretary Steven Chu on The Commission to America's Nuclear Future, and has served on a DOE funded study on terrorism and dirty bombs. Thus far, no one associated with the current Obama administration, including Susan Eisenhower, has come forward concerning the alleged alien tale, which continues to make the rounds amongst former intelligence types, and their associates in the private sector. A confirmed, former US government paranormal consultant, Ingo Swann, claims to have been approached by a 'black' UFO operation in the mid-1970s. In an out-of-print book published in 1998, Swann revealed he had been recruited to use his alleged psychic powers to observe extraterrestrial beings living on the moon. Swann also claimed to have been taken to a remote location somewhere in the northern fringes, where he experienced a close encounter with an unidentified object hovering over a lake. - americanchronicle.com ---------- Dr. Strange Confessions: Or why I learned to stop worrying and love the Martians As you might imagine, we (that is, contributors to STARstream Research) tend to attract some very odd persons, places, and things. It's largely a consequence of our open-source investigation of futuristic technology intersecting the darker, hidden worlds of the subconscious mind, with a healthy dose of cloak and dagger provided by our friends in the Intelligence Community. And, it would seem, you should never underestimate the potentially explosive power of this intersection. As Dan Smith wrote, once upon a time, concerning his CIA friend Ron Pandolfi, to another person in the I.C.: "The situation with Ron is he has handed me my fair share of glycerol. In addition, he points to you as the fellow with the nitrate. He is leaving it up to me to perform the final synthesis." Mr. Smith understands the situation quite clearly: The role of a cut-out asset is to insulate the source from the resulting explosive residue. We enter our way-back machine and set the dial to 2006, a year which, in hindsight, appears to have been the turning point into our present situation. At issue, the bizarre allegations of Laura Magdalene Eisenhower (not her real name, but the identity she has chosen to present publicly as the great-granddaughter of President Dwight D. Eisenhower) concerning an "extraterrestrial affair" and a secret Mars Project. - starpod.org NOTE: Laura Magdalene Eisenhower (actually Laura Bradshaw Eisenhower Mahon) wrote and submitted this narrative to AllNewsWeb.com (yeah, Michael Cohen's AllNewsWeb.com)...which, in my opinion, lessens the credibility of this revelation. Still, the Eisenhower meeting has been a staple of ufology lore. Below are a few previous posts related to this supposed encounter...Lon --------- March 01, 2009 Item 2.25: FOIA Request to CIA re Film Footage of Eisenhower's Inspection of an Alien Spacecraft and Its Deceased Occupants TO: Ms. Delores M. Nelson Information and Privacy Coordinator U. S. Central Intelligence Agency Washington, DC 20505 FROM: Larry W. Bryant 3518 Martha Custis Drive Alexandria, VA 22302 DATE: March 1, 2009 1. On February 3, 2009, a surrogate UFO-E.T.-coverup whistleblower named "Bob" phoned in to the late-night syndicated radio program Coast-to-Coast AM (hosted by George Noory). "Bob related the circumstances of his acquisition of certain 16-mm film footage showing President Eisenhower and the late aviation pioneer Howard Hughes inspecting the apparent remains of a crash-landed flying saucer and its alien crew. (See my below-quoted transcript of "Bob's" account.) This latest evidence implicating Eisenhower in the federal government's sequestering of hard evidence of UFO-E.T. reality dovetails with earlier leakage to certain UFOlogists of a copy of the so-called Eisenhower Briefing Document from the allegedly CIA-created/managed "Majestic-12" operation that began during the late 1940s. 2. In order to unearth the whole story of Eisenhower's UFO-E.T. connection, I submit this letter as a freedom-of-information request that you send me a copy of all CIA-generated and CIA-received records pertaining to the film footage revealed by "Bob's" account. One or more copies of that footage (and/or references thereto) may be housed in the same compartment as that which contains the radar data and other technical material that certain CIA personnel confiscated from former FAA official John J. Callahan during his investigation of the UFO encounter experienced by a Japanese 747 cargo jet over Alaska on Nov. 17, 1986. (Refer to my FOIA-CIA case No. F-2008-01781, which soon will be litigated in U. S. District Court for the District of Columbia.) I therefore ask that your ensuing records search include that special compartment. 3. Please note that the U. S Freedom of Information Act (as amended by the U. S. OPEN Government Act of 2007) requires your agency to conduct a reasonable search for the sought-for records - and that I, as a representative of the news media (RNM), remain entitled to full waiver of all records-processing fees incident to your fulfillment of this request. As with my most recent FOIA requests to your agency, I refer you to my web log - http://ufoview.posterous.com - for ample evidence of my RNM requester status. Note: I shall construe your acceptance of this request as a formal acknowledgment of my RNM requester status. 4. By snail-mail, I'm sending to you a signed printout of this e-formatted letter. LARRY W. BRYANT Columnist for UFO Magazine Copies furnished to: Editor, UFO Magazine Jonathan L. Katz, Esq. Chair, Select Committee on Intelligence, U. S. Senate _________________________________ Did President Eisenhower Meet with Aliens in 1954?  One of the first conclusions an impartial observer must make about the subject of UFOs is that rumors and circumstance play far too great a role in what ought to be a more exacting quest for knowledge. It is just such an observation which once led Dr. Carl Sagan to comment dryly that UFOs "are more a matter for religion and superstition than they are for science." While this dismissal is perhaps unscientific in its own right, the point is well taken. Attend any gathering of "UFO people" you want, and simply listen. Rumors abound. Perhaps worse, however, is that some of these rumors manage to circulate for years (even decades) without anyone making a reasonable effort to get to the bottom of them. One of the most persistent of these is a story that President Eisenhower visited Edwards Air Force Base in early 1954, and either viewed the bodies of dead aliens and the wreckage of their craft, or met with live aliens on some sort of diplomatic mission to earth. The story takes many forms, with the common thread being that Ike mysteriously disappeared one evening while on a vacation to Palm Springs, and that he was spirited to Edwards to view (or meet) aliens. It is said that he returned by dawn and shortly thereafter ordered absolute secrecy about anything having to do with UFOs. No doubt one of the reasons that this particular rumor has continued to circulate for such a long time is that there are a number of verifiable facts associated with it--some of them rather curious. For example, President Eisenhower did indeed make a trip to Palm Springs between February 17th and 24th, 1954, and on the evening of Saturday, February 20th, he did disappear! When members of the press learned that the president was not where he should be, rumors ran rampant that he had either died or was seriously ill. The story even managed to get onto a press wire before being killed moments later. To quell the fuss, White House Press Secretary James Haggerty called an urgent late evening press conference to announce "solemnly" that the president had been enjoying fried chicken earlier that evening, had knocked a cap off a tooth, and had been taken to a local dentist for treatment. When Ike turned up as scheduled the next morning for an early church service, the matter seemed ended. Although the Palm Springs trip was billed as a "vacation for the president", the trip appears to have come up rather suddenly. In addition, it is a matter of record that Ike had returned from a quail shooting vacation in Georgia less than a week before leaving for Palm Springs. While the incidence of a local dentist being called upon to treat a president of the United States is unusual enough that it should constitute a rather memorable event for those involved, the dentist's widow, in a June, 1979 interview, was curiously unable to recall any specifics relating to her husband's alleged involvement in the affair--not even the time of day it had occurred. Yet her memory appeared flawless when asked to relate details of her and her husband's attendance (by presidential invitation) at a steak fry the following evening, where her husband was introduced as "the dentist who had treated the president". This would appear to suggest a cover story, the details of which would have easily been repeated at the time, but quite naturally forgotten 25 years later. Research at the Eisenhower Library has uncovered two other facts inconsistent with the dentist story. The first is that while the library maintains an extensive index of records relating to the president's health, there is no record of any dental work having been performed at all during February, 1954. A file on "Dentists" contains nothing concerning any such incident either. Secondly, there is a large file containing copies of all sorts of acknowledgments which were sent by the White House to people who had something to do with the Palm Springs trip. There are letters, for example, to people who sent flowers, people who met the airplane, people who had offered to play golf, etc. There is even a thank you letter to the minister who presided over the Sunday service Ike attended. Yet there is no record of any acknowledgment having been sent to "the dentist who treated the president." If the matter were as routine as Haggerty attempts to make it appear, then the absence of these records seems strangely inconsistent. The rumor of the president's alleged visit to Edwards is not a new one. UFO contactee fringe writers began making unsupported claims about it less than two months after Ike's trip. So did a bizarre fellow from the Hollywood hills named Gerald Light, who, in an April 16, 1954 letter to the head of a Southern California metaphysical organization, actually claimed to have been at Edwards where he saw Ike, the saucers and the aliens. Light's letter has been controversial for years and copies of it have turned up in all sorts of places, including the National Enquirer. Investigation into Mr. Light's background, however, turned up the fact that he was an elderly mystic who believed that psychic "out-of-body-experiences" were a logical extension of the reality of life and should be treated as such. In the final analysis, Light's alleged visit to Edwards was just such an experience. And so the story ends. Clearly something unusual occurred involving the president on the evening of February 20, 1954. Whether it was a trip to the dentist, a trip to see flying saucers, or something altogether different and unrelated, no one can say. It's the stuff rumors are made of. - William H. 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