Phantoms and Monsters

Dulce Base: What Are We Seeing?
Just the Facts? - Jackie O Tapes, 'False Flag' Alien Invasion and Rendlesham 'Clever Hoax'
Recalling the Clarence Bigfoot Hoopla

Posted: 08 Aug 2011 12:24 PM PDT

During the past several months, I have accorded some attention to several unexplained livestock attacks and cryptid sightings on the Dine Navajo lands in the Four Corners region...in particular, those areas in northwest New Mexico. Many of these attacks were, most likely, the result of Bigfoot-type hominids that are regularly seen in this area. Other attacks have a more bizarre angle, especially when the tracks of the perpetrator are of an unfamiliar genus and / or suddenly end in mid-stride as well as animal carcasses drained of blood and not fed upon.

The Archuleta Mesa area near Dulce, New Mexico has long been rumored to hold a joint government-alien biogenetic laboratory designed to carry out bizarre experiments on humans and animals. It has also been said that the lower levels of this underground system stretches between Dulce and Los Alamos some 90 miles to the south-east. Because of the proximity of these facilities to the Dine Navajo lands, is it possible that these attacks are of unknown experimental beings that have either escaped from the facility or have been released in order to be scientifically monitored?

It may seems to be a far-fetched hypothesis...unless, of course, you are the victim of the attacks and have no idea of what you're dealing with. The following narratives may temper your resolve or offer some curiosity to the question.

In March 2011 I received the following email:

Lon, I read the letter you posted recently about the Dulce Labs genetics experiments and wanted to share my experiences with your readers. When I was an undergraduate studying genetics in the mid-1970s, I did a 10-month internship at Dulce Labs. My primary duties were on level 1, that is where I spent almost all of my time. But once a week I accompanied one of the junior researchers to levels 5, 6, and 7 to collect data tapes and other documentation. I never got past the "clear zone" on those levels, but on a couple occasions I heard inhuman shrieks and wailing noises on level 6. I was told that level 6 was a psychiatric facility for especially disturbed patients, and that they were known to have emotional outbursts.
On one occasion while we were waiting for someone to bring out the tapes, I heard part of a message come through the intercom, and the words are burned into my memory.

VOICE 1: "CELL 34 COMPROMISED, ENTITY HAS BREACHED CONTAINMENT"

After a pause a second voice came over the speaker:

VOICE 2: "AVAILABLE PERSONAL REPORT TO THE BLUE ZONE FOR C&C. MAXIMUM FORCE AUTHORIZED."

The guard at the desk told me and my colleague that we had to leave immediately, we were rushed back into the elevator before the materials were delivered to us. It was two days before they let us go pick up the tapes, and when we went that time, everything was normal. Nobody ever talked about it. I tried to ask my colleague, the junior researcher who was there at the time, about it, but he said he didn't know what I was talking about, and something in his tone told me I'd better forget about it too.

After I graduated I was interested in returning to Dulce because I was really excited about the potential for genetic science, and Dulce had some very advanced equipment and knowledge - better than anything being used anywhere else. But I was told that there weren't any openings. I wondered if I was being blown off because of my curiosity about that event, if I was considered a risk. I tried contacting the junior researcher, but never got a response from him. - MP

The above anecdote was in response to this posted email:

Sir, first off, if you want the full story let me know. But this will explain how Mothman came about. U.S. Energy Secretary John Herrington named the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and New Mexico's Los Alamos National Laboratory to house advanced genetic research centers as part of a project to decipher the human genome. The genome holds the genetically coded instructions that guide the transformation of a single cell, a fertilized egg, into a biological organism.

"The Human Genome Project may well have the greatest direct impact on humanity of any scientific initiative before us today", said David Shirley, Director of the Berkeley Laboratory. Covertly, this research has been going on for years at the Dulce bio-genetics labs. Level 6 is hauntingly known by employees as "Nightmare Hall". It holds the genetic labs at Dulce. Reports from workers who have seen bizarre experimentation, are as follows:

"I have seen multi-legged 'humans' that look like half-human/half-octopus. Also reptilian-humans, and furry creatures that have hands like humans and cries like a baby, it mimics human words... also huge mixture of lizard-humans in cages. There are fish, seals, birds and mice that can barely be considered those species. There are several cages (and vats) of winged-humanoids, grotesque bat-like creatures...but 3 1/2 to 7 feet tall. Gargoyle-like beings and Draco-Reptoids."

"Level 7 is worse, row after row of thousands of humans and human mixtures in cold storage. Here too are embryo storage vats of humanoids in various stages of development. I frequently encountered humans in cages, usually dazed or drugged, but sometimes they cried and begged for help. We were told they were hopelessly insane, and involved in high risk drug tests to cure insanity. We were told to never try to speak to them at all. At the beginning we believed that story. Finally in 1978 a small group of workers discovered the truth. It began the Dulce Wars".

When the truth was evident that humans were being produced from abducted females, impregnated against their will, a secret resistance group formed. This did little though. Over time they were assassinated or "died under mysterious circumstances".

The witness also supplied the following information:

An underground Military Base/Laboratory in Dulce, New Mexico connects with the underground network of tunnels which honeycombs our planet, and the lower levels of this base are allegedly under the control of Inner Earth beings or Aliens. This base is connected to Los Alamos research facilities via an underground "tube-shuttle." (It can be assumed that such a shuttle way would be a straight-line construction. It should then be possible, by using maps and some deduction, to determine the most likely location of this base, especially since the general location is already known.) Beginning in 1947, a road was built near the Dulce Base, under the cover of a lumber company. No lumber was ever hauled, and the road was later destroyed. Navajo Dam is the Dulce Base's main source of power, though a second source is in El Vado (which is also another entrance). Most of the lakes near Dulce were made via government grants "for" the Indians.

Dulce Base - The Central Hub

-1st Level - contains the garage for Street Maintenance.

-2nd Level- contains the garage for trains, shuttles, tunnel-boring machines and UFO maintenance.

-3rd Level - the first 3 levels contain government offices.

-4th Level - Human Aura Research as well as aspects of Dream Manipulation, Hypnosis, and Telepathy. They can lower your heartbeat with Delta Waves and introduce data and programmed reactions into your mind (for those implanted with brain chips). Most people already are, they just don't know it.

-5th Level - witnesses have described huge vats with amber liquid with parts of human bodies being stirred inside. Rows and rows of cages holding men, women and children to be used as food. Perhaps thousands.

-6th Level - privately called "Nightmare Hall." It contains the genetic labs. Here are where the crossbreeding experiments of human/animal are done on fish, seals, birds, and mice that are vastly altered from their original forms. There are multi-armed and multi-legged humans and several cages and vats of humanoid bat-like creatures up to 7 feet tall.

-7th Level - Row after row of 1,000s of humans in cold storage including children.

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It is alleged that Los Alamos and the mountainous regions east and southeast of it in and around the Santa Fe National Forest are the major holding area of earth based extraterrestrial (interterrestrial) beings in North America, although there are a number of smaller habitation locations scattered throughout the underground networks between Dulce and Area 51. 'Dulce Base' is said to hold the second largest repository of extraterrestrials and equipment in North America. None of this information takes into account what resources other nations and governments possess. All the evidence I have received is anecdotal but, in my opinion, the sources are reliable. You can find more at Dulce Conference Ends / The Dulce Report, What Really Happened in the 1979 Dulce Firefight? and Blue Planet Project - The Dulce Base.

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Archuleta Mesa

In May 2010, through the MUFON CMS, a Jicarilla Apache tribal police officer recalled an alien encounter he had in Dulce, New Mexico (unedited):

Mid 80's Dulce, NM my self a law enforcement officer w/Jicarilla Apache Police. Background Police Science/Forensic Western NM Univ., Silver City. Had gone to graveyard shift at midnight w/ another officer and dispatcher. Immediately went to a single females home with the other shift and was informed that a small being was in her house at the foot of the bed with a box shining a laser like red light at her, the other officers knowing it was there shift change left without further investigation. Making fun mind you. She was obviously shaken up and I did notice some electrical malfunctions within her home and her animals, dogs and horses were uneasy. Throughout the night I continued to check on her, once in the early morning I was called to her home, her house was dark and as I entered I could hear her down the hall crying for help. I was informed again of visitors with a light in her home and it seemed strangely quiet. No one to be found in the home or area. In the early morning when the sun comes up when their is light I drove up to the home to make a check I noticed some movement in the brush and trees just west of her home about 15 yards away. I still don't understand what I may have saw, but soon after as I was stepping out of my unit three oval craft in a triangular pattern about the size of a three bedroom home lifted off from behind some juniper trees just 30 yards at the most taking off silently without noise/down drafts, then turn a bright white light and slow went in the direction east towards Chama, NM slowly gain altitude. My other Officer and Dispatcher was witness to this also. Shortly after I heard on the State Police Frequency from Chama about those UFO.s that were being called in to them. I felt completely helpless as a Officer to help someone who asked for help and was unable to assist and protect her in her time of need. It still bothers me today. S/GJ. (I spoke with Norio in Dulce, NM during the Dulce Base Conference also.)

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A map of the alleged underground connections emanating from Dulce Base

The original sources to activity at the Dulce underground Military Base/Laboratory are as follows:

Thomas Edwin Castello

Thomas Edwin Castello claimed to be a former security technician, employed by the Rand Corporation, at the Dulce underground facility. However, Castello has only provided stories, nothing solid, and has yet to come forward in person. There is some doubt as to whether he actually exists. He allegedly stole a set of controversial papers called the "Dulce Papers," along with over 30 black and white photos and a video tape.

Castello reported that the Dows [Greys], the Dracos [Reptiloids], and the Ciakars are working there hand in hand with over 18,000 short "greys" living the Dulce Facility. A colleague had come face-to-face with a 6-foot tall Reptoid which had materialized in his house. The Reptoid showed an interest in research maps of New Mexico and Colorado which were on the wall. The maps were full of colored push-pins and markers to indicate sites of animal mutilations, caverns, locations of high UFO activity, repeated flight paths, abduction sites, ancient ruins, and suspected alien underground bases.

The multi-level facility at Dulce is reported to have a central HUB which is controlled by base security. The security level goes up as one descends to lower levels. Thomas had an ULTRA-7 clearance. He knew of seven sub-levels, but there may have been more. Most of the aliens supposedly are on levels 5, 6 and 7 with alien housing on level 5. The only sign in English was over the tube shuttle station hallway which read "to Los Alamos."

There appears to be a vast network of tube shuttle connections under the U.S. which extends into a global system of tunnels and sub-cities.Connections go from Dulce to the Page, Arizona facility, then onto an underground base below Area 51 in Nevada. Tube shuttles go to and from Dulce to facilities below Taos, N.M.; Datil, N.M.; Colorado Springs, Colorado; Creed, Colorado; Sandia' then on to Carlsbad, New Mexico.

At the Dulce Base, most signs on doors and hallways are in the alien symbol language and a universal symbol system understood by humans and aliens. Thomas stated that after the second level, everyone is weighed in the nude, then given a uniform. Visitors are given off-white uniforms; jump suits with a zipper. The weight of the person is put on a computer I.D. card each day. Any change in weight is noted; if over three pounds, a physical exam and X-ray is required.

Scales are located in front of all sensitive areas and are built into the floor near doorways and the door control panels. An individual places his computer I.D. card into the door slot, then enters a numerical code onto a keypad. The person's weight and code must match the card or the door will not open. Any discrepancy will summon security. No one is allowed to carry anything into sensitive areas. All supplies are put on a conveyor belt and X-rayed. The same method is used in leaving sensitive areas.

All elevators are controlled magnetically; there are no elevator cables. The magnetic system is inside the walls of the elevator shaft, there are no normal electrical controls. Everything is controlled by advanced magnetics, including lighting. There are no regular light bulbs and the tunnels are illuminated by phosphorous units with broad structureless emission bands. Some deep tunnels use a form of phosphorous pentoxide to temporarily illuminate areas. The aliens won't go near these areas for reasons unknown.

Level 1 contains the garage for street maintenance. Level 2 contains the garage for trains, shuttles, tunnel-boring machines and disc maintenance. The studies on Level 4 include human-aura research, as well as all aspects of telepathy, hypnosis, and dreams. Thomas says that they know how to separate the bioplasmic body from the physical body to place an "alien entity" life-force-matrix within a human body after removing the "soul" lifeforce-matrix of the human.

Level 6 is privately called "Nightmare Hall." It holds the genetic labs, where experiments are done on fish, seals, birds, and mice that are vastly altered from their original form. There are multi-armed and multi-legged humans and several cages (and vats) of humanoid bat-like creatures as tall as 7-feet. The aliens have taught the humans a lot about genetics; things both useful and dangerous.

At Level 7, Thomas encountered humans in cages. Row after row of thousands of humans, human-mixture remains, and embryos of humanoids were kept in cold storage. He says, "I frequently encountered humans in cages, usually dazed or drugged, but sometimes they cried and begged for help. We were told they were hopelessly insane, and involved in high-risk drug tests to cure insanity. We were told to never speak to them at all. At the beginning we believed that story. Finally in 1978 a small group of workers discovered the truth. That began the Dulce wars."

The Grey and reptoid species are highly analytical and technologically oriented. They have had ancient conflicts with the Nordic humans from other space societies, and may be staging here for a future conflict. Intensely into computing and bio- engineering sciences, they are led to doing reckless experiments without regard for what we consider to be ethical and empathetic conduct toward other living creatures.

Principal government organizations involved in mapping human genetics, the so-called genome projects, are within the Department of Energy (which has a heavy presence on the Nevada Test Site); the National Institute of Health;
the National Science Foundation; the Howard Huges Medical Institute; and,
of course, the Dulce Underground Labs which are run by the DOE. Thomas had revealed that the chief of the genetic experiments for Los Alamos and Dulce is Larry Deaven.

According to Thomas, the alien androgynal breeder is capable of parthenogenesis. At Dulce, the common form or reproduction is by polyembryony. Each embryo can, and does divide into 6 to 9 individual "cunne" (pronounced cooney, i.e. siblings). The needed nutriment for the developing cunne is supplied by the "formula," which usually consist of plasma, deoxyhemoglobin, albumin, lysozyme, cation, amniotic fluid and more. The term "genome" is used to describe the totality of the chromosomes unique to a particular organism (or any cell within an organism), as distinct from the genotype, which is the information contained within those chromosomes. The human genes are mapped to specific chromosomal locations. This is an ambitious project that will take years and a lot of computer power to accomplish.

Thomas also says the aliens don't want the land, the gold, the minerals, or water that we possess, nor even the human or animal life. What they do want is magnetic power that surges on and through the Earth. The aliens harvest this magic power in a way unknown to us. Thomas says the aliens recognize this power as more valuable than any other commodity on our globe.

Paul Bennewitz

Paul Bennewitz, a physicist in Albuquerque and a UFO researcher affiliated with APRO (Aerial Phenomena Research Organization), traveled to Dulce in 1977 to investigate reports of cattle being mutilated on the ranch of Edmound Gomez. He became friends with the local law enforcement official in the area of the Jicarilla Indian Reservation, Gabe Valdez, and the two investigated the mutilations and also some mysterious lights reportedly seen over Archuleta Mesa. Two gentlemen named Howard Burgess and John F. Gille (Jean Francois Gille), also seem to have been involved in these investigations.

Bennewitz along with Dr. Leo Sprinkle then studied the case of Myrna Hansen who said under hypnosis that she had been abducted by the aliens and taken to a secret underground base where they saw the cattle being mutilated and drained of their blood and vats containing human body parts. Implants were placed in the bodies of her and her son and that the aliens could control their minds through these devices.

Bennewitz began filming the strange lights he was seeing over Manzano. He also built a complex electronic surveillance equipment network to receive low-frequency electromagnetic transmissions that he believed came from the alien craft. Bennewitz had several contacts with Air Force Officials that he tried to warn about the threat represented by aliens against the Manzano Weapons Storage Area.

The year after, Bennewitz wrote a computer program that he claimed could translate the alien radio transmissions. He now came to believe that he was intercepting the messages that the aliens were transmitting to mind-control devices such as those that Myrna Hansen claimed had been placed in her and her son.

During this period, 1980 to 1987, Bennewitz was visited by many other UFO researchers, including John Lear and Linda Moulton Howe. In 1987, another abductee named Christa Tilton, added to the tales of underground bases and aliens and vats with human body parts in them.

Bennewitz told Thomas Moore, the famous ufologist, that the alien transmissions he had received indicated that the grays, who he said were responsible for cattle mutilations and the abductions of humans, were building a secret underground base beneath Archuleta Peak on the Jicarillo Indian Reservation near Dulce, New Mexico with the help of the US Government.

When he said in a final burst of paranoia that aliens were coming through the wall of his house to inject him chemicals, it was time to send him to the Hospital. The story says that he has recovered but refuse to deal with the subject of UFOs.

Phil Schneider

Phil Schneider was an engineer who claimed to have discovered the alien base accidentally. Schneider is said to have committed suicide, but others claim he was found with either (1) piano wire, or (2) rubber catheter hose, wrapped around his throat, which indicate that he was murdered, ostensibly to silence him. Some sources say, however, that Schneider both had severe brain damage and was also a paranoid schizophrenic, which makes his stories about Dulce somewhat questionable.

"Back in 1954, under the Eisenhower administration, the federal government decided to circumvent the Constitution of the United States and form a treaty with alien entities. It was called the 1954 Greada Treaty, which basically made the agreement that the aliens involved could take a few cows and test their implanting techniques on a few human beings, but that they had to give details about the people involved. Slowly, the aliens altered the bargain until they decided they wouldn't abide by it at all. Back in 1979, this was the reality, and the fire-fight at Dulce occurred quite by accident.

I was involved in building an addition to the deep underground military base at Dulce, which is probably the deepest base. It goes down seven levels and over 2.5 miles deep. At that particular time, we had drilled four distinct holes in the desert, and we were going to link them together and blow out large sections at a time. My job was to go down the holes and check the rock samples, and recommend the explosive to deal with the particular rock. As I was headed down there, we found ourselves amidst a large cavern that was full of outer-space aliens, otherwise known as large Greys. I shot two of them. At that time, there were 30 people down there. About 40 more came down after this started, and all of them got killed. We had surprised a whole underground base of existing aliens. Later, we found out that they had been living on our planet for a long time, perhaps a million years. This could explain a lot of what is behind the theory of ancient astronauts."

NOTE: there are other links from past posts that may be of interest - UFO Witnesses - Sandia Mountains, New Mexico and The Reptilian Files. So, I ask again...is it possible that these attacks on the Dine Navajo lands are of unknown experimental beings that have either escaped from the facility or have been released in order to be scientifically monitored? Lon

Sources:
PhantomsandMonsters.com
aliens.monstrous.com
theonlinemail.co.uk
ufos-aliens.co.uk
theregister.co.uk
orgoneblasters.com
bibliotecapleyades.net
burlingtonnews.net
'Alien Base: The Evidence For Extraterrestrial Colonization Of Earth' - Good, Timothy
subversiveelement.com
exopolitics.org
ufomind.com
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Just the Facts? - Jackie O Tapes, 'False Flag' Alien Invasion and Rendlesham 'Clever Hoax'

Posted: 08 Aug 2011 10:26 AM PDT

Jackie O tapes reveal how she believed LBJ killed JFK / affair with William Holden

Jackie Onassis believed that Lyndon B Johnson and a cabal of Texas tycoons were involved in the assassination of her husband John F Kennedy, 'explosive' recordings are set to reveal.

The secret tapes will show that the former first lady felt that her husband's successor was at the heart of the plot to murder him.

She became convinced that the then vice president, along with businessmen in the South, had orchestrated the Dallas shooting, with gunman Lee Harvey Oswald – long claimed to have been a lone assassin – merely part of a much larger conspiracy.

Texas-born Mr Johnson, who served as the state's governor and senator, completed Mr Kennedy's term and went on to be elected president in his own right.

The tapes were recorded with leading historian Arthur Schlesinger Jnr within months of the assassination on November 22, 1963, and had been sealed in a vault at the Kennedy Library in Boston.

The then Mrs Kennedy, who went on to marry Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis, had ordered that they should not be released until 50 years after her death, with some reports suggesting she feared that her revelations might make her family targets for revenge.

She died 17 years ago from cancer aged 64 and now her daughter, Caroline Kennedy, has agreed to release the recordings early.

A programme featuring the tapes will be aired by U.S. network ABC, and it is understood British broadcasters are in talks to show it here too.

ABC executives claimed the tapes' revelations were 'explosive'.

They are believed to include the suggestion that Mr Kennedy was having an affair with a 19-year-old White House intern, with his wife even claiming that she found knickers in their bedroom.

And they go on to reveal that she too had affairs – one with Hollywood star William Holden and another with Fiat founder Gianni Agnelli – as a result of the president's indiscretions. It has also been claimed that, in the weeks before Mr Kennedy's assassination, the couple had turned a corner in their relationship and were planning to have more children.

Historian Edward Klein, who has written several books on the Kennedy clan, said: 'Jackie regarded the pretty young things in the White House as superficial flings for Jack. She did retaliate by having her own affairs.

'There was a period during which she was delighted to be able to annoy her husband with her own illicit romances.'

It is believed that Caroline, 53, agreed to the early release of the tapes in exchange for ABC dropping its £10 million drama series about the family.

The Kennedys, starring Tom Cruise's wife Katie Holmes as Jackie, critically charted the family's political and personal trials and tribulations since the 1930s. The series was eventually broadcast on an independent cable channel, and on BBC2 in the UK, against Caroline's wishes. - dailymail

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"World's powers will fake alien invasion at the Olympics closing ceremony to keep us living in fear" — Ian Crane at Exopolitics Expo

It's drizzling on a grey Saturday morning and the leafy university campus is deserted.

That's except for the main auditorium, where hundreds of people stream into a lecture theatre where the air is thick with theories and dire warnings, including that next year's Olympics will be an Independence Day-style bloodbath.

This is the Exopolitics Expo in Leeds last weekend - the UK's largest UFO conference.

Among the 300 attendees at the three-day event are computer programmers, full-time mums, engineers and even a police detective constable.

But they all have one thing in common - they are all fascinated by the idea that governments are covering up the existence of aliens - and other things besides.

There are stalls selling everything from healing aura scent sprays to DVDs explaining how the world is controlled by influential cartels hell-bent on global domination.

The notion that the Government is covering up the truth is the strongest theme in Ian Crane's DVD stall at the expo. Dad-of-three Ian, 55, is hoping to spread the word that the closing ceremony of the 2012 Olympic Games on August 12 could be a target for a full-scale "alien invasion".

He said: "I think it will be the perfect setting for a 'false flag' invasion, in other words the event will be made to look like an extra-terrestrial invasion but in fact it will be a deception and really the work of the world's governments, to keep us all living in fear.

"I don't care if people call me a nutter, I hope that by spreading the word about what's going to happen I can help save thousands of lives."

"If enough people know about it in advance then the attack will not be carried out. I'm simply sowing the seed in the mind of the public."

Full-time mum Brigitte Barclay has travelled to the conference from her home in Devon.

She may be recognisable to some Sun readers, as in the late Eighties and early Nineties she was one the paper's most popular Page 3 girls.

Brigitte, 40, also posed for Playboy and Penthouse.

But after giving up modelling she moved to LA where she worked as a make-up artist and, she says, had alien encounters.

Brigitte, who founded a support group for other people who have seen UFOs, is here today to share her story.

She told The Sun: "I've always seen UFOs, since I was a little girl. I've had 17 sightings altogether.

"People write off what I'm talking about as nonsense and one bloke even told me I must be on LSD but my memories and things I've seen were real. The information is out there if you want to read it, and for people to just say this didn't happen to me is ignorant."

Brigitte was driving to a colleague's house in February 1993 when she had one of her most memorable ET encounters.

She recalls: "I'd come off the freeway exit in Brentwood, LA, near the Holiday Inn hotel, when I got a sudden feeling of nervous energy like butterflies in my stomach, and I knew something was going to happen.

"I saw a 50ft craft about five metres away. It had no wings but a glowing orange light underneath it. It was right in front of me and I was gripping the steering wheel very tightly.

"I felt myself being sucked through the car and suddenly I was in a field with three beings and a child. They were around 6ft tall, naked with iridescent, shimmering skin and pieces of white hair. Their energy was amazing and I didn't feel scared. There was no talking or conversation, I just felt a strong bond with them.

"Then all of a sudden I was back in the car."

Conference organiser Anthony Beckett, 35, from Skipton, North Yorks, is one of the few people I meet who hasn't had an alien encounter.

"I don't think we're oddballs, as UFOs and extra-terrestrial life are questions everyone has considered," he explains.

Not that Anthony should care - with tickets selling at £99 for a three-day pass, the organisers are quids-in whether flying saucers turn out to be real or imaginary. - thesun

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Lecture explores 'supernatural' past of Pennsylvania Dutch

There were no ghost stories at the Berks County Heritage Center on Sunday afternoon, no tales of UFO sightings or mind reading.

Instead it was a tour through the paranormal history of the Pennsylvania Dutch, stories of hexes and charms to ward off evil.

The heritage center hosted "Hex Signs and Himmelsbriefs: Pennsylvania Germans and the Supernatural," a lecture by Candace Kintzer Perry, curator of the Schwenkfelder Library and Heritage Center in Pennsburg, Montgomery County.

Himmelsbriefs were words written on paper, kept to ward off evil spirits.

Sponsored by the Pennsylvania Humanities Council, Kintzer Perry spoke of the paranormal activity she said was commonplace from the 1700s to the early 1900s.

"Berks County is a hotbed of weirdness," said Kintzer Perry. "It's very clear that a lot of these beliefs hung on longer here and in Schuylkill County than other places."

A famous example Kintzer Perry gave was Mountain Mary, a woman who lived as a hermit in the Oley hills during the Revolutionary War.

"We know for a fact she was a country doctor of some kind," Kintzer Perry said. "But others call her the 'patron saint of pow wow' in Berks County, which can't be proven."

For the Pennsylvania Dutch, the term pow wow was a type of folk medicine based on charms. A common pow wow practice to extinguish a fire without water was to write an ancient palindrome - "sator, arepo, tenet, opera, rotas" - on both sides of a plate and throw it into the fire, Kintzer Perry said.

"This palindrome was written on the walls in Pompeii, it was found on shards of pottery in England," Kintzer Perry said.

"It's not like they just came up with random words, these things were around for a long, long time."

Ruth Post and her husband, Bob, of Wernersville came to the lecture to learn more about their German ancestors.

"We just moved to this area about two years ago, so we're trying to learn as much as we can," Ruth Post said.

Some of the paranormal practices of the Pennsylvania Dutch are still around today. Hex signs were commonly placed on barns in the 1850s, and were said to ward off evil spirits and bad luck. They were often used on early tourism posters enticing visitors from Philadelphia and New York City.

Kintzer Perry said these compass-style drawings are common in Pennsylvania Dutch art. Whether they were good luck charms or decorations is unknown, she said.

Berks County residents were also known to have himmelsbriefs folded away in their wallets or posted on their walls at home. Himmelsbriefs reminded people to keep the Sabbath holy or suffer the wrath of God. The letters also said if you reprinted the notes, you would be rewarded in the future.

"They were a staple in Pennsylvania Dutch homes," Kintzer Perry said. "And they also happened to be the earliest form of the chain letter or dreaded chain email." - readingeagle

NOTE: a brief post on my personal history with pow-wow, talisman, family hex-meisters, etc. - The Hex Hollow Murder. I was raised around the practice and witnessed several of the healing and binding spells as a child. I occasionally refer to these mystical arts for certain situations. One day I may go into greater detail on these experiences...Lon

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Iceberg Hauling Pitched As Drought Cure

French entrepreneur backed by a software company claims to have proved that he can tow giant icebergs across the world to end drought conditions.

Georges Mougin, 86, has championed his plan to harvest icebergs to solve water shortages for 40 years -- and a computer simulation now shows that the ambitious project might be possible, The (London) Sunday Times reported.

Under the plan, engineers would encircle an iceberg with a harness that contains a skirt made from an insulating textile. The skirt unfolds underwater and covers the iceberg to stop it from melting.

With the help of ocean currents, the iceberg is then towed to drought-stricken lands.

"They are floating reservoirs," Mougin said.

He formed his company, Iceberg Transport International, in 1976 but shelved his iceberg-towing project after he was told repeatedly that it was too expensive and too difficult.

However, in 2009, he was approached by the French software firm Dassault Systemes, which provided Mougin with 15 engineers to build a computer simulation to test his ideas.

The simulation proved that it was possible to tow a seven-ton (6.35-tonne) iceberg from the waters around Newfoundland, eastern Canada, to Spain's Canary Islands in 141 days, with only 38 percent of the iceberg melting.

But the cost of the enterprise remains prohibitive. To tow the iceberg from Newfoundland to the Canary Islands would cost an estimated £6 million ($9.8 million). - myfoxdfw

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US Commander states Rendlesham Forest Incident was a 'clever hoax'

The incident had been known as Britain's Roswell: a group of American servicemen stationed in Suffolk go into a forest to investigate mysterious lights and emerge convinced they have seen an alien spacecraft.

The sightings, in December 1980, remain unexplained and have become the country's most tantalising and enduring UFO riddle.

One of those involved even claimed to have touched an alien spacecraft.

Now, the man who led the only investigation into the "Rendlesham Forest Incident" has spoken about the sightings - but his decision to end thirty years of silence is unlikely to please the UFO-believers as he suggests his men could have been hoaxed.

In 1980, US Air Force Colonel Conrad was base commander of the twin airfields of Woodbridge and Bentwaters, near Ipswich, which are understood at the time to have stored nuclear weapons.

Just after Christmas mysterious lights were seen in the sky above nearby Rendelsham Forest, and after a second night of reports from his men, Col Conrad investigated himself.

During the day, he went into the forest himself to a clearing where the lights had been seen and where markings on trees and on the ground had been found, indicating a possible landing by a spacecraft.

Col Conrad said he found them "unremarkable". Nevertheless, he returned to the base and hand picked a team of his best security officers and sent them in the forest that evening to investigate.

Armed with a Geiger counter, cameras and night vision devices they staked out the "landing site". After seeing nothing suspicious, most of the team returned to base late that night. A handful remained, including his deputy, Lt Col Charles Halt, who stayed in contact with his superior by radio.

It is his account of what happened next which has fuelled rumours of a UFO landing. Over the radio, he reported seeing more lights on the ground and in the sky.

At home on the base, the commander and his wife went outside to look for the lights after hearing about the sighting. Other senior officers on the base – and their wives – did the same. But despite it being a clear, cloudless night, they saw nothing suspicious.

Lt Col Halt filed a report of the incident to the Ministry of Defence some days later and has since go on to say the lights he saw were "extraterrestrial in origin" and accuse the US and UK security services of a cover-up. Col Conrad, who had gone home convinced he had seen nothing unusual, has remained silent.

Now he has provided a series of statements about the sightings to Dr David Clarke, a Sheffield Hallam University academic and the UFO adviser to the National Archives - which this week will release some Ministry of Defence files relating to the incident.

"We saw nothing that resembled Lt Col Halt's descriptions either in the sky or on the ground," Col Conrad said.

In a damning indictment of his former deputy, Col Conrad added: "We had people in position to validate Halt's narrative, but none of them could."

He said there was no "hard evidence" of anything suspicious.

The Geiger counter was initially said to have given slightly elevated readings in the clearance, but that these were later found to indicate "normal" levels of background radiation.

Col Conrad is scathing about his former deputy.

"He should be ashamed and embarrassed by his allegation that his country and England both conspired to deceive their citizens over this issue. He knows better," he said.

The former base commander also disputes the subsequent testimony of another serviceman, Sgt Jim Penniston, who had gone into the woods on the first night of the sightings and has since claimed he touched an alien spacecraft.

Col Conrad said he interviewed the officer at the time and that, while he described seeing strange lights which had moved off into the distance, he had not mentioned touching a spacecraft.

Although he cannot explain the subsequent accounts of his subordinates, Col Conrad said he thinks the incident may have been a hoax.

This chimes with the theories of some experts who suspect the lights the men first saw were actually from a fireball or Orford Ness lighthouse, about five miles away, and that they were subsequently hoaxed by their colleagues, including some who went on to hold senior positions in the US military.

Col Conrad said: "The search for an explanation could go many places including the perpetration of a clever hoax. Natural phenomenon such as the very clear cold air having a theoretical ability to guide and reflect light across great distances or even the presence of an alien spacecraft.

"If someone had the time, money and technical resources to determine the exact cause of the reported Rendlesham Forest lights, I think it could be done. I also think the odds are way high against there being an ET spacecraft involved, and almost equally high against it being an intrusion of hostile earthly craft."

Dr Clarke, who is a sceptic on UFO issues, believes Lt Col Halt saw some form of optical illusion and that his and Sgt Penniston's claims have become increasingly extreme over the years, as speculation over the sightings has increased.

"I don't think anyone, least of all Conrad, doubts that Halt and his men saw "something" in the woods. They had an extraordinary experience. And that experience would remain extraordinary regardless of whether ultimately it was a lighthouse or poacher's lanterns – which has also been suggested.

"But Col Conrad is responsible for the only proper investigation of this incident. He went to look and if there was anything to be seen, I cannot see how he could not have seen it." - telegraph

Recalling the Clarence Bigfoot Hoopla

Posted: 08 Aug 2011 08:58 AM PDT

Five years ago this summer, the attention of the world focused on the farm fields of Clarence -- for one big, hairy reason.

Bigfoot.

Hans J. Mobius, a Clarence farmer and horseman, claimed he saw a hulking apelike creature while out working on his 100-acre farm. He supplied photos as proof. Remember those images of a furry black monster standing next to Mobius' John Deere Gator?

For a moment, monster-hunters around the globe turned their attention to Western New York.

Now, five years later, the excitement has largely died down. Mobius said he still gets inquiries about his Bigfoot sighting -- but not nearly as much as when it first happened.

"It went around the world. I had people from Australia calling me, from all over the world," Mobius said. "There are people that are very interested. They believe there is a sasquatch around. They wanted to see my property."

"I kind of liked the activity," he said. "It's quiet out here."

Today Mobius maintains he doesn't know -- or even much care -- whether that was Bigfoot he saw five summers ago, or a creatively dressed prankster.

"If it was real, I really saw one," he said, matter-of-factly. "And if it wasn't -- it wasn't."

But one thing is certain: His experience with the "Clarence Bigfoot" is not out of the ordinary for Western New York.

In our region's history, there have been claims of sea serpents and lake monsters, ghosts and goblins, and -- yes, more than once -- yeti-like creatures of unusual size.

Western New York seems to be chock-full of monsters and mysteries, if you know where to look.

It's also full of people who believe these stories and think they have meaning.

As well as people who scoff at the tales -- and say we're only fooling ourselves.

The Clarence Bigfoot

Mobius' brush with the large biped covered in black fur is typical of monster stories in Western New York.

First of all, it makes a great tale. A senior citizen farmer runs into sasquatch while surveying a stand of trees and happens to take pictures? Great legend material there.

It's also the type of story that inspires both skepticism and credulity.

Mobius' farm was visited by Bigfoot-hunters from the West Coast, who came to town to film the farm site and their search for the creature there.

Others, including Mason Winfield, a local author on supernatural and paranormal subjects, point out that there have been yeti- or sasquatch-like sightings in Western New York before, for instance, in the Southern Tier.

But one of Western New York's well-known investigators of the paranormal, Joe Nickell, a former magician and private investigator, said the Clarence Bigfoot is more than likely a case of "Big Suit."

In other words: After investigating the facts, Nickell says the safe bet is that the Clarence sighting was of a man wearing a large ape suit. Whether someone was trying to prank Mobius, or there is some other explanation for why the sighting happened where it did, Nickell said it may be difficult to ever tell.

"I don't make any accusations -- but that is definitely a man in a suit," said Nickell, who delves into the case in a new book, "Tracking the Man-Beasts: Sasquatch, Vampires, Zombies and More," out from Amherst's Prometheus Press.

Nickell said you don't have to be a full-time paranormal investigator, as he is, to deduce something about the Clarence Bigfoot.

"If there are photographs that look like a man in a suit, that's as far as you have to go," Nickell said. "If the pictures look fake, it's likely fake. That's as far as I need to go -- until someone provides some further information."

Silver Lake serpent

The facts of the Silver Lake serpent are simple, yet shiver-inducing. In 1855, dozens of residents of the area around Silver Lake in Wyoming County reported seeing a giant, snakelike creature in the placid waters of the lake. The serpent surfaced so many times that summer that tourists began to visit the village of Perry hoping for a glimpse Ñ and the local newspaper even ran a special "Serpent Edition," reporting details of the various sightings.

After that, the serpent disappeared. In 1857, a local hotel burned down, and some material discovered in the attic -- coils of wire and canvas, according to some reports -- were thought to be the remains of the celebrated monster.

The question remains: a hoax or no?

Nickell said he doesn't believe the story of the serpent -- but he doesn't believe the story of the elaborate hoax, either.

"It just wouldn't have worked," he said. He posits a different theory: otters swimming in the lake -- which he thinks would have been unfamiliar enough to residents in 1855 to be mistaken at a distance for one large snake.

Winfield, an author of numerous books whose new volume, "Iroquois Supernatural," will be published this fall by Vermont's Bear & Company press, said the skepticism over the Silver Lake serpent may be well-founded. "Silver Lake was almost certainly a hoax," he said.

But, said Winfield, there are other long-standing stories of water monsters in the area --from both Native American and other sources -- that aren't so easily explained.

"Many of the lakes in Western New York have some kind of a serpent legend," Winfield said. "Canandaigua, Seneca, Cayuga, even some of the smaller ones. Sometimes, whites see things that Native American sources say used to be there Ñ and whites didn't know the legends."

Whatever the true story of the serpent's origin, Wyoming County tourism officials said there's no doubt the slithery creature was good for business.

"It was really big news in the 1800s when it happened -- there were articles as far away as the Chicago Tribune," said Meghan Stearns, director of tourism and marketing at the Wyoming County Chamber & Tourism office. "There was a lot of tourism at the time related to the sea serpent. That's what Perry was known for across the Northeast: the Silver Lake sea serpent."

Today, Stearns said, Perry and Silver Lake are trying to recapture interest in the old snake story, to boost the community's profile.

"It kind of died down for a little bit, lost some interest," she said. "They're trying to find ways to bring the sea serpent back Ñ to bring that story back again."

The Lake Erie monster

Lake Erie, a relatively shallow body of water, wouldn't seem to be a setting that would inspire monster lore. And yet the lake has had its share of "lake monster" sightings, stretching back to the very beginnings of recorded history in the city.

The creature even has a name: Bessie.

"There are tremendous serpent legends from Lake Erie," said Winfield. "There have been sightings for at least 200 years. They come from all the old papers."

One major year for sightings was 1817, said Elizabeth Burns, a University at Buffalo graduate student in history who is writing her doctoral dissertation on sea serpent stories.

In that year, people claimed to have seen a large serpentlike monster in Lake Erie near Buffalo; there were also many reports that year of serpent sightings in New England, particularly at Gloucester, said Burns.

There were some differences in the sightings, she said.

"You had hundreds of people who saw the New England sea serpent, whereas the numbers in Lake Erie were much less," said Burns, who lives in North Buffalo. "Because of that, the Lake Erie [serpent] is a little scarier. We don't really know what we're dealing with."

Sharen Trembath, a lake expert and coordinator of the Western New York portion of the Lake Erie Beach Sweep each fall, said she wonders if some of the "monster" stories surrounding Lake Erie weren't really sightings of a much more prosaic kind of fish: a giant sturgeon.

That antique species of fish could grow to more than 6 feet long, Trembath said.

Burns, a Salt Lake City native, said she has spent plenty of time pondering the reasons people report "serpent" sightings in bodies of water.

"The temptation is to say mass hysteria," she said.

But that doesn't seem to fit the entire situation, whether the case happens to be New England or Lake Erie, Burns said.

"The thing is, it keeps happening, year after year," she said. "Big hotels go up to support the hunt. That doesn't sound like mass hysteria to me.

"The fact of the matter is, it was undoubtedly real to these people." - buffalonews

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The Clarence Bigfoot

Hans Mobius swears up and down that last weekend, he saw – and photographed – a bizarre beast covered from head to toe with dark hair that walked on two legs, near a patch of dense woods on his 100-acre horse farm in Clarence.

Scientists and experts in wildlife, photography and Bigfoot say the photos are clearly phony.

"It's obviously a man in a suit," said Dr. D. Jeffrey Meldrum, an assistant biological sciences professor at Idaho State University, who specializes in anatomy, evolutionary morphology, primatology and paleontology and has written extensively on Sasquatch footprints. Meldrum pointed out that the head is proportioned like that of a human being. He also pointed out the short, un-apelike arms.

"Look at the forearms," he went on. "There's not natural taper at the wrist. It looks like a sleeve transitioning into a glove."

The hair, he added, "looks unnatural." "It disperses light like artificial fur would."

He also said that the series of photos show the creature standing in one spot while moving back and forth, rather than quickly running away.

"That raises real questions about the credibility of the photos," Meldrum said. "Is someone pulling a prank on him? Or is it him having a laugh, just killing time at others' expense?"

Hoaxes make the serious study of possible Bigfoot-type animals extremely complicated, Meldrum said.

"It's frustrating when people intentionally muddy the water with this type of thing," he said. "It gives the entire question a rather dubious character and that's the biggest struggle: trying to promote serious interest in what I see as a large number of credible incidents in the forms of footprints and inexplicable hairs and things like that." - Sharon Cantillon/Buffalo News - May 31, 2006

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