Phantoms and Monsters

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Fortean / Alternative News: Possible Abduction Attempt, More Wisconsin Strangeness and NZDF Says NO to UFOs
Lloyd Pye Comments On Our Recent Starchild Project Post

Posted: 01 Apr 2011 12:42 PM PDT

This anecdote was forwarded to me by a friend and details an incident experienced by her sister and niece in July-August 2009:

The following story is true and centers around my daughter Carmen when she was five years old. The poor economy required us to move into an older modest house in western Pennsylvania. From the day we moved in Carmen began to have, what I considered at the time, terrifying nightmares. She would come running into my bedroom in the early morning hours screaming, claiming she had witnessed "something very bad." After a while, I would calm her down and convince her to return to her room. In a month's time the situation was at a point where she totally refused to go back to her own room. So she began to sleep with us...unfortunately, no one was getting any sleep.

One day I asked her to tell me what was really bothering her in her room at night. She told me instantly that an scary woman with no face would come into her room, close the door and stand in front of it so that Carmen couldn't get out. She said the woman had long hair and was dressed in a bloody dress. I thought to myself "where did she get theses ideas from?" So in order to prove to her that there was nothing to be afraid of I agreed to sleep with her in her bed that evening.

That night, after she'd already been asleep for a few hours, I lay awake wondering again how she dreamed up this scary scenario. But what happened next convinced me that something was not right. Suddenly Carmen sat up in bed, out of a dead sleep, and clutching the covers against her she said "Mommy...you scared me! I thought you were the woman!" I hadn't made a sound...but she woke instantly. It seemed like she could sense that something was in the room even though she was sound asleep. I calmed her down and we soon fell asleep together.

Around midnight, I heard what sounded like a gun firing or a large firecracker. It was so loud it seemed to go off in the room. I assumed it was just a dream and my mind playing tricks on me. Carmen was sound asleep, like nothing had happened...so I went back asleep. Just as I drifted off, I woke to the sound of something downstairs. I sat up and realized that someone was banging wildly on the front door. I ran down the stairs and looked out onto the front porch from a side window. The light was kept on, but I could see that there was no one on the porch. I went back upstairs and woke my husband to see if he'd heard anything. He looked up at me like I was crazy and said "go back to sleep." What the hell was going on, I thought. I got something to drink, went back to bed and slept through the night without any further disturbance.

The next morning I felt awful. I'm one of those people that needs to get a certain number hours of sleep or I can't function well the next day. At about 10 am, the owner of the house came by with a plumber to work on a leaking pipe. She was wondering how we were getting along, so I briefly told her what had been going on, especially my experiences from the previous night. It sort of spooked me when she started to nervously looked around as I described the incidents. I asked her if there was anything wrong...she said 'no' and said that she was going to check with the plumber. She got up from her chair, walked over to the basement door and started walking down the basement stairs. Now what was that all about? After the plumber finished, he left the house...but the landlady asked if she could talk to me for a minute. She softly said not to be alarmed, but after what I had described to her she needed to tell me what had happened previously in the house. I didn't like this already.

She started by saying that the woman that lived there before us was very strange and had told her numerous stories about odd incidents. She had dismissed these stories to her eccentric behavior and the fact that the woman was known to drink heavily on occasion.

Many years before that, a young woman had rented the house. She had expected her fiance to move in as well but on the very same day she moved in, he called to say that he'd met someone else in another city and that he didn't want to see her again. She attempted to call him back several times, threatening to commit suicide if he left her. Each time he hung up on her. Later that evening, the calls stopped. The fiance became worried and tried to call her but after an hour without success, he called the police. When the police arrived they woke the landlady in order to get a key to get in.

It was around midnight as the police banged feverishly on the front door (the same time I heard banging on our front door). When they got no reaction they let themselves in, only to find the young woman in the room that Carmen now slept in. She lay dead by the door after she had shot herself under the chin. She had used a large caliber handgun and the gunshot had completely disfigured her face. This had to be the loud noise I heard while in Carmen's room. There was a dark stain on the hardwood floor by the door but I never gave it a second thought. I asked the landlady about and she admitted to me that it was blood, and that they had never been able to completely remove it.

I assume it's possible that this young woman had been visiting my child the night. We didn't wait to find out...we moved out shortly after.

Fortean / Alternative News: Possible Abduction Attempt, More Wisconsin Strangeness and NZDF Says NO to UFOs

Posted: 01 Apr 2011 10:34 AM PDT

Possible Abduction Attempt?

MUFON CMS - unedited: My experience took place in the summer of 1979. I believe it was July but it's possible that it was June or August. My sister and I were driving north on I-75 in Burton, Michigan. It was probably close to 8:00 pm. It was still light outside and we were looking at the moon in the sky and suddenly we both realized that there was something wrong with it. So I pulled off the expressway onto the shoulder of the road so I could see it without worrying about traffic. After I pulled over, the "half-moon", which had been hanging motionless in a vertical position, tilted to an horizonal position and began to descend towards us. Of course, we then realized that it wasn't the moon at all.

It was a huge metallic craft. It wasn't exactly round but it had rounded corners. It's color was a silver/gray. Large rectangular windows went around the center of the craft. Something rotated on it but I don't recall what it was. My sister said it had a dome. Again I don't recall that because my eyes were fixed on those well-lit rectangular windows. The craft was descending slowly towards us. It didn't make any noise at all (we had the windows rolled down). It also had colored lights on the ends of the body. There were at least two colored lights, maybe more. I don't recall the colors but they were normal ones like red, blue, or green. It was coming so close that I expected to see something in those windows.

About this time, a car pulled off the expressway behind my car. Some guy asking if we needed help. As soon as this guy pulled behind us, the craft switched directions and quickly flew to the left. It made a 90 degree turn without turning. It just stopped in mid-air and flew left instead of forward. The kind stranger didn't see it until I pointed to it. But he didn't see it like we did. He saw enough to know it wasn't a plane, helocoper, etc.

I believe that if that guy hadn't pulled over that we would've been abducted. No doubt in our minds that it was coming for us. Neither one of us were scared. We were excited.

I believe the reason that it was hanging in the sky in that location (above and to the right of Bishop Airport)was because Bishop Airport was having an air show that weekend. Some of the pilots of the WWII airplanes were flying around the air field and I believe this UFO was observing them. I did check the time after the craft flew away to make sure we didn't lose any time and it was probably about 10 minutes later. My car didn't stall out at any time. I've never reported this to any authority because we didn't know who to call and calling the cops didn't seem like the right thing to do since there was no crime.

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New Zealand Defense Force Says 'NO' to UFOs

stuff - Spotted a bird, a plane or a UFO lately? Then the New Zealand Defence Force doesn't want to know about it.

The most recent instalment of previously classified UFO files were made public yesterday – and within the documents, former chief of defence Jerry Mateparae makes it quite clear the military has no time for little green men.

"The NZDF does not have any expertise or role in respect of ... `flying saucer' matters, nor is it qualified to address questions on the existence or otherwise of extraterrestrial lifeforms," he writes in a staff guide from October 2009.

"The NZDF believes that rational explanations, just as aircraft lights or natural phenomena, could be found for [unusual aerial sightings] if resources were diverted for this purpose but ... it would be inappropriate use of defence resources."

All UFO reports should be referred to police, he said.

Meanwhile, a blue-tinted light racing across the North Island's night sky on Tuesday was definitely not a UFO. It has been identified by the Carter Observatory as an exploding meteor – one that could have been as big as a desk.

Witnesses were treated to a dramatic light shower after the meteor exploded 80km above Auckland. Some described the light as "several times brighter than daylight with a definite blue tint", and "like a firework", while a Raglan resident reported a sonic boom that "awoke the dog and nearby birds".

This was not an unusual occurrence, the observatory said, estimating it happened once every three years.

More than 2000 pages of Defence Force files, containing every UFO report since the early 1950s – including the 1978 Kaikoura lights mystery – were made public in December. The most recent files, dating from 2009, contain news articles and Official Information Act requests from the public and media.

There is one reported sighting, of a wingless object appearing to have "magnetic media emitting from the ends", spotted flying over the Kapiti Coast last May. The Otaki witness informed the Defence Force he had submitted the photo to an expert analyst in the United States, and would keep it in the loop.

The files also show repeated requests by citizen investigators group UFOCUS for access to the Defence Force documents. In a 2009 letter, director Suzanne Hansen expresses her concern at the "marked increase" in UFO sightings around New Zealand.

Her organisation was receiving credible reports from farmers, hunters, logging contractors and scientists, which continued to "defy logical explanations"and fit with worldwide trends showing sightings were on the rise, she said.

Ms Hansen offered to meet the Defence Force to discuss UFO phenomena.

This offer went unacknowledged by Lieutenant General Mateparae when he replied to Ms Hansen a year later, assuring her the files were being declassified.

Before their release last year, he wrote to alert many of the agencies that had dealt with UFO sightings over the years – such as Internal Affairs, the Civil Aviation Authority, Metservice and Carter Observatory. "While most correspondents were remarkably restrained in their comments (given a degree of skepticism about the subject)", he warned that some material could still "give rise to minor

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Stunning Photos Capture Great White Shark Lurking As Children Play On Australian Beach

myfoxdc - HAWKS NEST, Australia - Shocking photos emerged Thursday of a great white shark lurking in the shallow waters of an Australian beach as two little boys play happily on the sand.

The photographs, published by The (Sydney) Daily Telegraph, show how frighteningly close the juvenile maneater came to the shoreline at Bennetts beach in Hawks Nest, a popular tourist destination about 130 miles (210 km) north of Sydney.

The images were taken a few weeks ago on the same stretch of beach where wakeboarder Lisa Mondy was mauled by a great white on March 16.

Locals said that while shark sightings were not uncommon, to see them so close to the beach was rare and alarming.

David and Tracey Lowe were at the beach the day these photos were taken and saw a 6.5 ft (2m) great white, less than 32ft (10m) from the beach.

"We thought this was a good spot to go swimming and at first it looked like a shadow or something in the water," Tracey Lowe said.

"Then this wave came up and you could see the shark swimming through it. Once you got over the fear it was quite fascinating.

"There were two sharks at one point but the other one just came in close for a short while and then moved out again."

Hawks Nest Surf Life Saving Club president Stephen Howell said sightings were common at this time of year because of the schools of bait fish and salmon in the area, adding, "That's what the sharks are after."

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More Wisconsin Strangeness

MUFON CMS - Firth Lake, Wisconsin - unedited: In the following statement I will include two separate UFO sightings. One of them was sighted by My grandfather,grandmother, and uncle. The other sighting was sighted by myself.

It was the 09' deer gun season. My grandfather, grandmother, and Uncle were deer hunting in Cornell, WI near Firth Lake and were camping off a road called Moses Lake Road. Approximately 1 am my grandfather spotted what looked to be about 30 lanterns outside hovering above Firth Lake. He stepped out of the camper and to his amazement this was a craft...a disk shaped craft hovering over Firth Lake approximately 20 feet above the lake and the craft was approximately 40-50 feet wide. My uncle stepped out of the camper and was also amazed at the sighting. He grabbed a flashlight and flashed it at the UFO. My grandfather yelled at him to not do that. My grandmother did see it from inside the camper, however, she didn't go outside. She pulled the covers over her head and hid. My grandfather immediately knew what it was as now he states when he was in the air force "they" had a hangar were they kept a "captured" UFO. He called it NFO for the longest time, but he meant UFO. Approximately 10 minutes when by and the craft as they say shot what seemed to be 100,000 mph into space and didn't even make a sound.

The second sighting was sighted by myself, however, I was bow hunting with my uncle. Approximately late October 2010 at around 4pm. I was in my tree stand and I could see Firth Lake through the trees pretty clearly. All of a sudden a white orb comes out of nowhere and is circling the lake. It was moving up and down as well. This lasted for about 5 minutes and then the white orb disappeared into the woods. I had such a clear sight of it, it was just unreal. I knew there was no explanation for whatever this was. I was pretty shook up and I went to my truck early. My uncle came out and asked me why I was out of the woods already. I told him, he said "hmmm maybe it was a duck boat?" This is the same Uncle who tells the story of the first UFO incident by the way. Anyways I told him no, absolutely not, I saw this thing very clearly literally going in FAST circles around the lake and moving up and down.

I haven't been back to that hunting area since then. They still hunt there.

Lloyd Pye Comments On Our Recent Starchild Project Post

Posted: 01 Apr 2011 10:52 AM PDT

I received an email from Lloyd Pye this morning in reference to my post Starchild Project DNA Results: Skull Possibly From New Earthly Species. Lloyd wanted to clarify certain comments included in the post:

Lon:

Good job with promoting the latest from the Starchild Skull research. The first part is excellent, the quote from the summary and the call to action. However, your comment about the "MonsterQuest" show requires a bit of clarification.

The "expert" who spoke on that show is Dr. Susan Myster, Ph.D., an associate professor of anthropology and director of forensic sciences at the Hamline University college of liberal arts in Saint Paul, MN. She is not a geneticist, as you state in your comment.

As you probably know, prior to the recent "Ancient Aliens" series, TV shows were more or less bound to the unwritten but firmly enforced "Sphinx Rule," that meant no "alternative" theory could be seriously posited on national TV without an obligatory mainstream "expert" on the show to ridicule and/or dismiss the alternative theory as complete hogwash. If you've ever wondered why such people come on those shoes, that's why--it's an unwritten rule that came into existence after the classic "Mystery of the Sphinx" in 1993, in which the "weathering of the Sphinx" theory was put on national TV without a strong mainstream counter voice to tell unwary viewers that from their perspective it was all hogwash and they should no believe it. Thus, hundreds of outraged Egyptologists and other conservative scientists cowed the networks into agreeing to never let it happen again, and it hasn't until "Ancient Aliens." How that show got their exemption from that rule, I do not know, but they obviously did.

In any case, on the day we shot with Dr. Myster the rule was still in full effect. Before the filming of our segment in El Paso, we shared a congenial lunch in which she informed me that she had learned nothing at all about the Starchild prior to seeing it that day because she had been told they wanted her unvarnished original opinion. I told her that could only be that it was a "cradleboarded hydrocephalic" because that was what virtually every "expert" who laid eyes on it would automatically say. Why? Because they live and die by what they call "Occam's Razor," which is to always expound the simplest, most obvious answer to any confounding problem and then stick with that. One more problem out of the way, bring on the next one!

At lunch I explained how it could not possibly be either cradleboarded (utterly impossible), nor hydrocephalic (also utterly impossible). So by the end of the lunch she knew a helluva lot about what it could and couldn't be. But when it was time to film, she knew what her role was and she played it. I understood then and I understand now. These are expensive events to arrange. The whole day of shooting, all the arrangements, all the flights and expenses, would have had to go down the toilet if, after knowing the truth, she had been unwilling to go on camera and say what they had brought her there to say. She was being paid to do a certain job, and she did it. Nobody can fault her for that.

Just because an "expert" says something, that does not mean it is true, nor even that they believe it to be true. We all act on certain motives, and sometimes those motives are at odds with our knowledge or our basic morality. We all find ourselves stuck between such rocks and hard places, and we have to live with the decisions and actions we make at those times. Maybe in hindsight Dr. Myster would take back some of what she said. Maybe when the Starchild's entire genome is recovered and there can no longer be any doubt about its alien genetic heritage, she will regret that she went on camera to say the things she said.

Maybe, too, the dozen or so other "experts" who have slammed the Starchild on camera doing various other shows (National Geographic, UFO Hunters, etc.) will come to regret doing so. But we all have to understand and accept that there is a kind of "game" being played between those in the mainstream trying desperately to defend their various paradigms against those of us who are on the other side of the field trying to upend and replace those paridigms. It's a tough game and both sides are playing to win, so sometimes the rules of fair play get bent or broken in that process. It's all part of the game, but in the end the best arguments supported by the most truth WILL prevail. That is inevitable.

Lloyd followed up after I replied to his email:

You do great work and I follow it regularly.

Do be careful, though, with posting old material about the Starchild. It seems to change regularly, and I'm always up front about the changes and errors that get corrected. If older material is posted, sometimes it's been corrected. Something like the Starchild is so far out on the cutting edge, there is no way we can know the truth about every aspect of it at any given time. That's what we're always working toward, though, sharper and sharper refinements to get to the ultimate truth about it.

Since the DNA result in 2003, which was more than adequate for its time, we thought the Starchild most certainly had a human mother. That was what the result said. But early this year we found out that the 2003 test was not refined enough, and in fact the mother was NOT human! Whooooaaah! What a turn of events! But on the upside, now we don't have to jump through intellectual hoops to try to explain how a human mother produces an offspring with NO human physical traits. How could that happen? How could Dad so totally dominate the pairing? It never really made sense, but we had to live with it.

Now, with the new refinement that confirms the Starchild is a "pure" alien in the sense that both parents were alien, we are on much firmer ground. But don't misunderstand, there is still a great deal of human-LIKE DNA in it, just as chimps have 97% human DNA, gorillas have 95%, rats have 70% and mice have 65%. Certain biochemical functions are similar in ALL species on Earth, so if we can accept that the life functions on Earth are ubiquitous throughout the universe (which is my personal belief based on the incredible complexity of it, I can't imagine it being created twice or more times), then ALL of the species in, say, the bar scene in "Star Wars" will have the same biochemical processes as we do, so we will ALL share large chunks of what we now call "human" DNA but which, in the fullness of time, will come to be known as "life" DNA.

Lloyd Pye

NOTE: "Just because an "expert" says something, that does not mean it is true, nor even that they believe it to be true." An absolute true statement. I sincerely welcome comments from those people mentioned in "Phantoms and Monsters"...Lon

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