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A MODERN DAY
EZEKIEL
Could an encounter in 1979 be
a mirroring of the Biblical vision?

ALSO INSIDE: ENCOUNTERS WITH A DJINN


PLUS: THE ALUX / ROBERT BIGELOW

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W
ell hello all once again, for a change I’m going to mention someone else’s
work, in this case an investigative journalist called Annie Jacobsen. She
has written a number of quite hefty tomes and I came across her work a
few months ago while researching material for an article, in this case the
book was called The Pentagon’s Brain and it concerns what The Defense Advanced
Research Projects Agency (DARPA) were developing for the US military. It seems that at phenomenamagazine.co.uk
they are very concerned about the development of artificial intelligence as it applies
to hunter/killer robots, because if there was no way to shut them down we could be
finished as a race. Anyway, as a result of reading this book I bought (yes, actually
bought) two more books by the same author. One is called Area 51 and the other is
called Phenomena’. All her books are written using actual interviews and declassified
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This is useful, but she also mentions the number of old files that have not yet been
declassified and that really dangles a carrot and makes the reader ask why? Actually
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info obtained under the FOIA, both in the USA and here in the UK, has one flaw, any Brian Allan
work that was not conducted by the government and was hived off to a private
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he was not a fake despite the continual scorn poured on him by the likes of the late
James Randi. In fact Geller’s services are still occasionally called upon by MOSSAD, COVER IMAGE
the Israeli intelligence service. Also, the remote viewing results obtained with Ingo Steven Wong
Swann, Pat Price and Joe McMoneagle are truly mind blowing (especially Pat Price, via Artstation.com
what he could do was almost unbelievable) and that is from the declassified material,
so as already mentioned what is in the stuff that is still classified? The CIA and other SPANISH EDITOR CONTACT:
agencies in US intelligence were really panicking, because the USSR was doing the Dario Fernandez
same thing, literally nothing was ‘secret’. There was a belief that remote-viewing dario.alberto.fernandez
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the ‘oneness’ we all share than anything electromagnetic: a bit like the phenomenon of
quantum non-locality. The Area 51 book, well, yes, the UFO angle is there, but it’s the
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CONTENTS A MODERN EZEKIEL?.................. 6


Magazine CEO Steve Mera presents an
unusual UFO case that seems to mirror what
the biblical prophet Ezekiel reportedly

24 saw around 597 BC.

THE ALUX..................................................... 12
All cultures seem to have their own take on
the ‘little people’ and in this article Bill Mack
talks about one species that originates in
Mexico

PAUL DALE ROBERTS.............16


Tales of zombies and hauntings at
Bluebeard’s Castle on St Thomas.

ROBERT BIGELOW AND


THE FUTURE OF US.....................18
Occasional contributor John Ventre asks
us to consider the UFO related organisation
called, ‘To the Stars Academy’ and its
possible connection to the billionaire Robert
Bigelow. What is going on and why?

JOE STEWART’S LETTER


FROM AMERICA...............................22
More evidence of sasquatch in Michigan

THE CRYSTAL:
ENCOUNTERS WITH A
DJINN..................................................................24
Magazine editor Brian Allan tells of one of his
early investigations involving an entity that
turned out to be one of the most enigmatic
entities in paranormal lore: a Djinn.

LIGHTER THAN AIR: THE


STRANGEST SUBSTANCE
ON EARTH...................................................30
30 18 Dr. Brett Cohen Ph.D makes a return to the
pages of Phenomena Magazine with a look
at a genuinely unique substance called an
‘aerogel’

BOOK REVIEWS.................................42
Eternity Revisited; Alien In The Mirror;
The Saucer And The Swastika: The Dark
Myth Of Nazi Ufo’s; Paranormal Sunderland;
UFO Landings UK; The Nanteos Grail

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A modern day
EZEKIEL?

Magazine CEO Steve Mera presents an unusual UFO case that


seems to mirror what the biblical prophet Ezekiel reportedly
saw around 597 BC.

I
n the Book of Ezekiel, the prophet lunch she and her friend chatted about River Mersey, in Didsbury. After saying
describes some type of flying the old days and lost acquaintances. their goodbyes, Lynda and her children
chariot containing wheels within It wasn’t long before Trevor, (Lynda’s headed back, taking their time to look
wheels and powered by angels. Husband) had to leave for work. He at wild flowers; this was one of Lynda’s
Although Bible historians suggest was on a 2.00pm till 10.00pm evening interests. With her Oxford Dictionary
Ezekiel was speaking symbolically shift at the local factory. Trevor left his of Wild Flowers in hand they regularly
about the terrifying enemies facing wife and her friend to chat away in the stopped to examine an intriguing
Israel, could this be another example afternoon sun in their back garden, flower. There was no rush as Trevor
of an alien visitation and proof that whilst looking keeping an eye on the would not be home for at least another
some type of craft existed? If so… children Christopher aged five and Lisa couple of hours.
are there any other examples of such aged fifteen. Time quickly passed and
profound contact cases?... The answer Lynda’s friend reminded her he had to Suddenly Lisa shouted out ‘Mum, the
to that is… ‘Yes’! be on his way before it got dark, as he Moon is coming towards us’. Lynda
had arrived on an old bike that had no turned to see a strange object racing
It was summer of 1979. Lynda Jones lights on it. Lynda offered to show him across the sky, travelling towards
a thirty six year old housewife from a short-cut home which would take them. ‘It was like the shape of a rugby
Didsbury, Manchester was in her them over the nearby fields. Lynda, ball only a lot bigger and was a bright
kitchen when she received a telephone her friend and children set off, it was orange in colour’ recalled Lynda. It had
call from an old friend. Lynda arranged around 7.30pm when they had arrived come into view from behind a crop of
a meeting and over a long leisurely at Simon’s Bridge located near the trees on the golf course situated on the

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other side of the river. ‘The object had The River Mersey, just upstream
a spinning effect and it seemed to be from Simon’s Bridge, Didsbury.
©Phil Champion/Geograph used
travelling towards us at an angle’. ‘Get under Creative Commons license.
Down!, Lynda shouted out, ‘get down
in the grass’. As she crouched down
in the tall grass with her two children
next to her, she braced herself for an
explosion, initially thinking it may have
been a plane from nearby Manchester
airport in trouble or on fire. There was
no sound whatsoever. Slowly looking
up out of the grass, Lynda saw the
strange object pass overhead and
then suddenly drop in a vertical motion
behind an embankment which was
part of the flooding defence for the
River Mersey. It was then she realised
it was eerily silent, not even the sound
of birds nor the traffic from the distant
busy roads of Didsbury village.

Lynda and the children stood up taking bottom Lynda started running so fast What’s wrong, what’s wrong with your
a few steps towards the embankment, that her son Christopher struggled to eyes?’ Lynda looked in the mirror and
wondering if what ever it was had keep up. ‘Oh No!, ‘Its there again Mum’ could see that the skin around her eyes
crashed. Lynda had a compelling screamed Lisa. The object was now was red and scaly. Lisa had run straight
urge to move closer to the top of travelling alongside them. Lynda was upstairs to the bathroom because she
the embankment. First walking then too scared to slow down and picked had wet herself in fear and Christopher,
running, she was suddenly stopped her son up and carried on running. though shook up, seemed okay. Trevor
dead in her tracks by an amazing ‘Don’t stop’ she shouted, ‘keep going’. was concerned. Lynda explained to
sight. There, about 25 yards in front of ‘Mum look, there are two of them him what they had seen from start
her, lay an object which she could only now’, Lisa screamed. On the edge of to finish. After which her asked them
describe as biblical looking. ‘It was so exhaustion, Lynda suppressed the urge all to draw a picture of what they had
weird’. Lynda did not know anything to turn around and look. ‘Keep going!’, seen. He was later startled to find all
about UFOs nor had any interest in screamed Lynda. ‘Don’t look back the pictures looked identical. Then
the subject. With her children standing Lisa, just keep running’ she yelled. As suddenly, Lynda realised Trevor was
beside her, she stared at the object they ran across the grassland, Lynda home, he should have not been home
taking in all the detail. ‘The object was noticed something really strange. The from work until 10.30pm. ‘What time is
about sixty feet across and hovering object was having some sort of odd it?’ she asked him. It was now around
about two or three feet above the effect on their surroundings. Lynda 10.50pm. Lynda had lost around a
ground. It kept disappearing and then noticed that the grass was terribly hour and a half of her life. She had
re-appearing’. It had had a light on the overgrown at least six feet in height left their home in Didsbury around
top of it’. ‘It was a bright white light and seemed to be folding down on 7.30pm and had seen the object
that was somehow separated from itself as if it was being pressed down around 9.00pm. She had run a good
the object itself’. Lynda strangely felt by some force coming from above and ten minutes yet they had arrived home
drawn to the light, and as she got closer revealing an escape route. ‘It was the about 10.40pm???
the light got brighter. Then suddenly strangest thing I’ve ever seen’.
an orange ball of light appeared Lynda would have to wait until the
from the far side of the object and Lynda found herself still running when winter of 1980 before discovering
started to move towards her, it was they had reached the edge of their more about her experience. In the
slowly rotating. ‘As I walked towards housing estate. ‘We never stopped meantime, Lynda and Trevor told very
the object I thought I would soon be running until we were safe inside our few people about the incident. The
looking in at them and watching what house’, said Lynda. Lynda looked up local Manchester International Airport
they were doing, ‘said Lynda’. to see Trevor standing there, he said’ reported nothing out of the ordinary for

The object was about sixty


Suddenly her daughter Lisa shouted
out: ‘Mum, come back, come back’...
The shock of hearing Lisa’s voice jolted
Lynda back to a terrifying reality. ‘I had
a feeling of Deja Vu, really strong, then
suddenly I realised what I was doing’.
feet across and hovering about
I thought ‘Oh My God!’ ‘We’re going
to die’. Lynda quickly turned and ran, two or three feet above the
ground. It kept disappearing.
grabbing her children by their hands,
almost dragging them down the
embankment. When they got to the

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that particular day and there seemed they went really cold’. ‘Every time I tried truth, it’s made me realise about other
to be no other witnesses. Lynda to see what was going on, a bright light odd things in my life’ Lynda stated.
eventually was talked into undergoing a would shine in my eyes’.
series of hypnotic regression sessions. Immediately after her experience
Each session was apparently recorded Even now... some 35 years later, a strange mark had been found on
onto videotape and produced around Lynda still gets frightened about her Lynda’s jeans. The strange mark
ten hours of material. Lynda found the memories of the event. She refuses strangely looked the same shape as
entire experience too disturbing and to speculate about what was being the object she had seen. The mark
was so frightened, she refused to view done to her whilst on the table in the on the jeans were later analysed at a
the majority of the video recordings. strange room. Over the years since University Institute and concluded to
She said ‘I was very upset watching her experience, Lynda, like many be printer ink, however why was it in
myself under hypnosis’. ‘At times I was other alleged abductees, has suffered that same shape? And Lynda did not
becoming extremely upset by whatever from a real life medical condition. She even own a printer. Very odd! Over
I thought was happening to me’. ‘It was discovered that her menstrual cycle the years Lynda has discussed the
just too much!’ However, over the years had been affected about a month incident in depth with her children.
Lynda had pieced together a vague after her experience. Lynda tried to Their memories of that day have never
account of what may have happened get on with her life and to forget what altered, the only one thing of further
to her during the missing one and a half happened to her; however she would interest was Christopher’s memory of
hours, based upon memories during often find strange markings on her seeing a large TV type screen with a
her hypnotic regression sessions and body which would disappear just as picture of his mother and themselves
numerous dreams and day visions. quickly as they had appeared. ‘The on it. Lisa also remembers the object
Christopher and Lisa also had recalled marks would just suddenly appear, jumping back a couple of times as
other events... but after showing them to Trevor, they Lynda approached it, as if to say ‘Stay
would have disappeared before I got to Away’.
‘I remember at the point when we had show my doctor’.
turned to run away from the object, I During 1987, Lynda was working as a
saw several people running towards ‘The weirdest thing was a few months beauty consultant and was required
the object’. ‘These ‘people’ looked after my experience. I had what only to wear a plastic name badge whilst
like men, dressed in long dark coats can be described as a ‘Show’. ‘It on duty. Her name mysteriously
and wearing trilby hats holding what was some type of waxy material; I disappeared from the name badge
looked like satchels’. ‘There was also a immediately made an appointment to within hours of wearing it. This
strange mist that surrounded them and see my doctor’. ‘After talking with him, inexplicably happened numerous times
when they got close to the object, they he told me that I had had a miscarriage; to replacement badges. . Investigators
simply disappeared’. ‘Also, the children ‘But I wasn’t even pregnant I replied! had arranged to have some analysis
and I remember seeing another cloud He seemed adamant about his conducted on the name badge. The
of mist around two or three feet high conclusion’. Lynda’s menstruation did conclusion was rather odd... ‘Radio
and in the mist was some more men, not return and she was referred by Waves’. Scientists stated that the
all around five feet tall, dressed in a one her doctor to a gynaecologist. Many badge was adversely affected due to
piece jumpsuit, all carrying something’. examinations were carried out in hope radio waves. Strange... It was not long
Lynda recalled how odd it was that they of finding her problem. It was not long afterwards Lynda left her job, due to the
all looked identical. She then recalled until Lynda went to see a specialist fact of feeling uneasy. ‘Staff thought I
floating or a moving sensation. ‘The at her local hospital and she was told was some sort of Witch or something!
next thing I remember is being inside that the results from her examinations Lynda Stated.
a room watching six strange beings had been successful and that they
coming in’. ‘They were human looking, had found ‘something’. Her Fallopian After her experience in 1979, Lynda had
wore dark suits with high necks’. Tubes had been examined and scar to re-evaluate other odd experiences
‘They looked oriental; they had slanted tissue was found on them. Lynda was in her life, including a missing time
eyes, dark hair and a yellow / olive told that the scarring was the result episode she and her husband Trevor
complexion’. ‘I seemed to know one of an ectopic pregnancy. Even though shared back in 1972 whilst out in their
of them’. Lynda then went onto report this can be fatal and extremely painful, car.. It was early evening and they had
the impression of being physically Lynda reported no discomfort what so decided to go for a drink at the Swan
examined on a table. ‘I remember that ever. ‘I don’t know what happened to Public house in Knutsford, Cheshire.
they put something on my legs and me, but something did’. ‘To tell you the They had taken the country route, but
when they finally stopped at traffic

The next thing I remember is


lights around 9.00pm the car suddenly
began to spin. One minute they were
seated in the car going around and

being inside a room watching around and then the next minute they
were sitting at the traffic lights again,
the lights were on green. They turned

six strange beings coming in. the next corner to find that the pub
was in darkness. They quickly realised

They were human looking.


that the pub had closed and that it
was around 2.30am. Lynda could not
explain the car spinning as Trevor

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clearly had the handbrake on. Trevor


also claimed to have seen bright lights
behind them whilst spinning. A total of
five and a half hours were missing with
no explanation.

Other unusual experiences include a


man wearing a trilby hat being seen
numerous times. On one occasion
Lynda had seen him in her back garden
and rang the police. When the police
attended, a couple of them went to the
rear of her garden. Lynda noticed that
they had been down there for quite
some time. Eventually on returning,
Lynda asked if they had found anyone
down there. The police officer replied...
‘Yes’, ‘There was someone down there
but they simply disappeared’. ‘Where
did he go’ said Lynda. ‘No’ replied the
police officer, ‘He really did simply
disappear’. Lynda noticed that the
officer looked shocked and confused.
The officer quickly left and Lynda could
not discover who the mysterious man also partially see the lattice as well and seemed as if the object had been
was. On another occasion Lynda was it hovered about two or three feet off directly over them before ascending so
asked to attend hospital for a particular the ground without making a sound. high it became a dot in the night sky.
test and after having the treatment, In fact, there was no sounds at all.
she later found that there was no The object was pulsating backwards Thankfully, a red sports car slowly
record of it, nor did the doctor exist. and forwards. After a minute or so, passed by, a chance for Trevor to follow
To this date, Lynda receives common or what I thought was a minute, the its lights. They quickly jumped back
telephone faults and unusual letters in bottom right side of the object seemed into the car and headed off. They had
regards to further tests to be carried to disappear and was replaced with a followed the vehicle in front of them for
out. She has also been asked on more strange mist. At that point I grabbed several miles, its tail lights were bright
than one occasion if she had been in the children and ran for it’. Lisa did and easy to see, though their car lights
contact with radiation??? give mention to when they were seemed to be OK now. Lynda tried to
running away, the object flew off and put the object she and Trevor had seen
I asked Lynda to describe the object followed a civil aircraft heading in to out of her mind, and thought to herself
she had seen back in 1979, simply Manchester Airport for a few seconds that she would talk about it in more in
because human perception does alter before rushing back towards them and depth once they were home and safe.
as the years pass and I was privy splitting into to separate objects. Then suddenly Trevor said ‘Where the
to the original information reported. bloody hell is it?’ The car they had been
‘The object was nothing like what is I quickly realised that Lynda’s facts had following them had suddenly vanished
generally reported as a UFO’. ‘It was never altered from the original report. from sight. There was nothing but the
not a disc nor triangular in shape’. ‘I darkness. At least the lights on their
have looked through many UFO books Around 1988 Lynda and Trevor had car were working now. Trevor recalled
but never seen anything that looks visited friends in Nottingham, and on the strangeness of the event as he
remotely like what I saw’. ‘The object heading back through the countryside looked for a turn off, even a small lay-
was as if it was in two parts. The bottom their car headlights and interior lights by where the red sports car they had
of the object looked like the shape of a started to fade. This apparently followed could have turned into, but
boat and seemed to be made of some happened several times, fading then there was nothing. Just the straight
type of lattice. It was grey in colour growing brighter then fading again. road ahead. On arriving home they
with small round things all over it. The Trevor was becoming worried as had both realised that the journey
top part of the object was just all ‘light’. his vision of the road ahead was took around three hours longer than
I have thought about this a lot and I becoming difficult. At that time they it should have. Over the next few days
believe there was something there but were travelling in a borrowed vehicle the car was checked out by a mechanic
I could not see it because of how bright which had a diesel engine. After a while who could find no problems with any
the light was. Directly above this light Trevor decided they could not continue of the wiring. In fact, the lights never
was a pole or rod of some kind with a safely and pulled into a lay-by to wait faded again.
strobing red or orange coloured light for another vehicle to pass, so they
on it. I thought this to be at the rear of could follow its tail lights through the During her driving test, Lynda recalled
the object. Between the bottom part darkness. Suddenly, Trevor shouted another strange incident when a dark-
of the object and the light at the top out ‘Lynda, look up’. Though hesitant coloured classic car suddenly drove
part I could clearly see the field behind at first, Lynda looked up to see a large out in front of her and the driving
it, as if it was see through. You could bright circular craft slowly rising. It instructor. Luckily Lynda’s responses

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were fast and she slammed on the experience in 1979 the Civil Aviation something similar on other occasions.
brakes. She remembered seeing the Authority (CAA) telephoned her for a A few weeks after the UFO sighting,
driver and passenger of the car dressed detailed report of the incident so that the location where the object was seen
in dark suits and wait for it...wearing they could forward it to the Ministry of was apparently visited by parkland
trilby hats!!! The driving instructor Defence (MOD). The gentleman from officials who, for some reason took
was surprised at Lynda’s responses the CAA did confirm to Lynda that they up the old grass and re-seeded that
as he stated ‘I wouldn’t have even were in fact aware of the object. Of particular area. About a foot of soil and
seen that’. Lynda also recalls seeing course upon request it’s no surprise to grass was taken away from where this
a strange man when she went to the find that the Ministry of Defence claim UFO stood. Now a divot can easily be
bathroom window, he was standing to have no record of the event. seen, especially after heavy rain where
there wearing a dark suit and trilby hat, the divot fills with water.
this time he was surrounded in mist Finally, when I asked Lynda if she
and was somehow glowing from head could recall any unusual events All Lynda’s has ever wanted is just a
to toe in a strange orange light. She taking place in her life when she was normal life, but her life is filled with
watched him looking up at her from a little girl, she replied... ‘Yes’, ‘I recall anomalies which are anything but
the garden for a minute or so before apparently going missing for a few normal… n
completely vanishing. hours in some near-by playing fields.
My family were out looking for me. NOTES
Lynda was plagued with many unusual But I had not left the playing field and After reading Lynda’s experience one
experiences, including hearing a don’t remember seeing anything odd cannot help draw upon the similarities
to the alleged biblical experience of
mysterious buzzing or bleeping except my parents reaction when they Ezekiel in 597 B.C. After all, Lynda
noise, seeing strange balls of light saw me. They said that they had been did say the object reminded her of
and of course...the odd apparition. to the field several times but there something biblical. Ezekiel saw the
Approximately around 2002 Lynda’s was no sign of anyone there. I don’t object come from the North, just as
periods returned, even though she had understand what happened, it doesn’t Lynda did. Also, Ezekiel described the
object as bright as fire and to consist
been told by experts that she would make any sense. On another occasion of a wheel within a wheel (possibly
never have them again. A specialist I remember seeing a fare or circus two separate stages). Also, Ezekiel
also told Lynda that all her ovaries over near the fields, a large big wheel claimed to have seen angel like beings
had somehow been removed. She has covered in lights yet apparently I was (or beings of fair complexion). Of
course, one can see these similarities
even been diagnosed with numerous the only one to have seen it. I clearly but it all comes down to interpretation
fatal illnesses, one of which was a rare remember seeing the spinning lights of of events. In Lynda’s case, one thing
bone disorder which would result in her the rides and funfair”. stands out more than anything else.
bones slowly crumbling. None of these Her experience is like no others and
illnesses have ever manifested. Also, She tried to find out what she had indicates a more profound encounter
away from the stereotypical reported
two weeks after the UFO Encounter, seen and began to question other local incidents that often involve small gray
Lynda’s son Christopher suddenly residents, however, she’s yet to locate beings with large dark eyes and silver
fell ill and was hospitalised due to an any other witnesses apart from herself coloured saucer shaped craft and often
unknown virus. and children that saw the object on having a physical appearance... Clearly
this is one of the most profound close
So what about any official reports. that particular day, however, a couple encounters ever to take place in the UK.
Apparently a few weeks after Lynda’s of residents did say that they had seen

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The Mexicans call them:


THE ALUX
All cultures seem to have their own take on the ‘little people’ and in this
article Bill Mack talks about one species that originates in Mexico.

F
or countless years, people two-legged homo-sapiens roaming jungle stream nearby spurred him to
from all walks of life from their homeland. Could the Mayans be action. Plunging through the head-
various countries have living next door to mythical dwarfs? high savannah grass, he bulldozed
reported seeing strange his way toward the sound. Eager to
small folk. Such stories have been A timber hunter filed his report in plunge his sweaty body into the cool
incorporated into legends, tales and 1926 with the British authorities in water, he half ran, half trotted towards
myths. But the startling truth to some Belize City, the capital of what was the stream, “As his sweat-blurred eyes
of these stories are surrounded in then British Honduras He was one focused on his objective, he saw that
facts. Strange dwarf like beings have of several hundred people who have he was not alone. Two incredibly tiny,
been sighted, some are believed to claimed to have seen the elusive bearded men standing at the edge of
live beneath our feet, throughout ‘little people’ of Central America and the stream were staring at him with
caves and tunnels systems. Who the Mexican Yucatan peninsula. His fearful, panicked eyes. As the German
or what are these mysteries beings report read: “The beefy German timber stood gaping in amazement, the two
that seemingly have a long and rich surveyor stabbed the soft jungle earth tiny figures turned and vanished into
history? What lies in the ancient with his machete, and reached for the thick forest.”
jungles of South America? According the soiled bandanna to wipe his florid
to some, they might not be the only face. As he rested, the murmur of a First western reports of these ‘little

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Among the hundreds of


reported sightings, only
a handful claim to have
contacted the little people.
possibility of interest was that the
mysterious Olmec civilization –
precursors of all indigenous South
American civilizations – were
of African origin. Among other
objectives, they searched for possible
Phoenician incursions throughout
the area, and although their findings
are challenged by more conventional
archeological theorists, they found
an amazing amount of material that
defies their conventional thought. It
was during this period that the idea
of a tribe of “little people” came about,
who allegedly dwelled in the tangled
forests of Yucatan and Quintana Roo.

The Mayan-Mexicans call them


Alux, and their description of them
coincided with that of the other
Central American sightings – tiny,
hairy, and very scarce. Questions
directed toward younger Mayans,
who had the supposed benefits of
a western style education, caused
embarrassed giggles and earnest
explanations that the Alux were
figments of the older Mayans’
imaginations. To the youngsters, it
was pure folklore – primitive attempts
people’ were made by a member of To the authorities in Belmopan, now to explain natural mysteries. But it
Sir Walter Raleigh’s early voyages to the capital of Belize, these reports was an entirely different story with the
the Americas. The native Americans are taken with a grain of skeptical parents of these young disbelievers
of the Honduran area called them salt -very large-grained salt. To – to them, the Alux were ‘wicked,
‘the Didi. Subsequent sightings by government knowledge, there has powerful, dangerous tricksters’.
Europeans and Indians have occurred been no organized effort to find these
from Panama to the Mexican state of elusive jungle dwellers. To most However, the many hundred Mayans
Yucatan. Different names are given to people in the hodge-podge capital who were questioned admitted that
the Didi, depending upon where they of timber-rich Belize, the stories are they had never seen an Alux. In
are sighted. Some call them ‘the Alux’. products of feverish imaginations, too Quintana Roo, the last frontier of the
Despite the dissimilarity of names, much booze, or the result of the active Mexican Republic, the voyagers were
the description provided by those superstitions of the native American shown an ‘Alux village.’ A wise elder
who have seen them is remarkably population. led them through a bewildering maze
consistent. They are seldom taller of tangled jungle and into a small
than four feet, dark skinned and are In 1974, a privately sponsored ‘Mesa clearing within light of the Caribbean.
heavily bearded. Among the hundreds Expedition’ to Mexico’s Yucatan There, they saw three tiny stone huts
of reported sightings, only a handful peninsula was set up. The objective – windowless and obviously long in
claim to have contacted the little of the expedition was to search the disuse – stood in the center of the
people, and these contactee stories area for archeological anomalies that clearing. The stone structures were
suffer from the same suspicions that occur in abundance in that region. approximately four feet high with
are attached to people who claim to In the simplest term, the voyagers an open doorway, two feet in height.
have made contact with space aliens. were searching for the offbeat. One The elderly guide sincerely explained

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that this had been the dwelling place and faculty of the center were
of a group of local Alux. How did he disappointing. They were adamant in
know? His father had told him so. their belief that the ‘Alux’ were a fairy
Perhaps this well-meaning believer story. Strike one. His next move was
did not know that these tiny huts were to visit his friend ‘Pepe’ Hernandez in
scattered throughout the Yucatan – Izmel. ‘Pepe’ is an enthusiast about
most of them in-proximity to ancient everything – a devoted card and
ruins. stamp collector. Over a few iced beers,
Mack outlined his project to ‘Pepe’. It
Conventional archeological belief was like throwing a firecracker in a pit
is that they are votary shrines, and of snakes.
several have been found with the
desiccated remains of vegetable ‘Pepe’ was off in all directions, and
offerings still resting on pottery within a week, Mack had interviewed
dishes. Were these really the homes of forty jungle-dwelling Mayans. They
the Alux? Or simply just doghouses? ranged from an arguably nutty
Because of the press of work within man who said the Alux had wings
the expedition, prying into the life of and lived in the center of the earth,
the Alux was a part-time thing. But to a graduate of the University of
the similarity of the stories and the Mexico, who airily dismissed the
deep beliefs of the Mayan elders are whole thing as delusion. No one
intriguing. and Searching’. To the casual reader, had ever seen an Alux but a goodly
these stories were the report of a wild number of them knew someone who
During a respite in the states, an ‘goose hunt by some nut, but Mack had. The “someone who had” was,
inquiry was made into the affairs of was completely serious. He went on unfortunately, either dead, moved
the little people. Every race, every to make his headquarters in Merida – away from the country, or missing.
nationality, has legends about little the charming, steaming, sophisticated Strike two.
people. They are kind, malevolent, capital of the Mexican state of
all-powerful, tricksters, hoaxers, witch Yucatan. Mack had been in the Yucatan for
doctors, child stealers and gods . two months, and had notebooks
From Ireland and her leprechauns to Merida is the center of Mayan bulging with stories of people who
the Americas, north and south, the activity, the very heart of the knew people who had seen an Alux. It
legend of the little ones persist. There remains of that great civilization. was discouraging, but for a fortunate
are as many names for them as there Close by are the ruins of such great accident, he might have called the
are peoples. Banshees, kobolds, Alux, ceremonial centers, like Chichen ltza– whole thing off. His car, a laboring
trolls – the list goes on. magnificent, but sterilized by over- relic of an earlier automotive era,
restoration, or the plundered remains decided to take a prolonged siesta
Despite their diminutive size, the racial of the mighty pyramid of Hamel, and on an offbeat road. He hiked to the
memories of a small-statured people the towering splendor of ancient nearest civilization which proved, by
has left a permanent impression in Uxmal. Within a day’s driving distance a lucky chance, to be the fenced-off
the folk tales of all nations. But does is the breathtakingly spectacular, ancient Mayan city of Mayapan.
such a tribe, a remnant of the oldsters, walled city of Tulum, the first of the
still exist? Reason says no, but several native cities spotted by the Spaniards, In the fearsome heat of the Yucatan
hundred thousand Central Americans before they began their devastating summer, Mack was the only visitor.
say yes. conquest of the region. The caretaker, a cheerful young
Mayan named Xuc [Chuck] called for
In 1976, the Yucatan project was Mack’s search began in Merida at the a mechanic, and meanwhile gave
hijacked with unwanted publicity. Center for Mayan Studies. Housed in Mack a one-man tour of the decaying
Newspaper stories twisted the words a beautiful old mansion, the center city which had once been the capital
of a voyager – Bill Mack. He fell provides a college-level education for of the Mayan civilization. As ruins in
victim to tongue-in-cheek headlines, young Mayans, and it houses a small Mexico go, Mayapan is not the most
such as – ‘Bill Mack in Search of but carefully chosen exhibit of Mayan impressive. When it was built, the
Mexican Leprechaun’ and ‘Mack Off artifacts. Talks with the students empire was in decline and the careful
workmanship of earlier ceremonial

As Xuc turned the corner of


centers was woefully lacking. The
ruined buildings were an eyesore –
the carvings inferior and the whole

the Temple of the Birds, he place looked a little bit like it had
been made in Hong Kong. Thankfully,
Xuc was a prize. Bright, happy,

was astonished to see a tiny cooperative, and full of stories about


the Mayans. He had just the news

man, no taller than four feet.


that Mack wanted to hear after he’d
travelled 2000 miles to see him. Xuc
had seen an Alux!

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As caretaker of the crumbling ruins, dropped his machete and reached search of the area. In the spare
Xuc lives with his young wife and for something that hung at his underbrush of the temple site,
seven children in a small house waist. In the next instant, Xuc took he found two small clay balls –
outside the fenced wall. The city cover behind the stone wall of the ammunition of the tiny attacker – that
is padlocked early in the evening bird temple as round baked clay had missed. He showed Mack the
and Xuc is free to pursue whatever pellets were being fired at him with balls. They were about the size of a
Mayans pursue during the balmy alarming velocity. After a few shots small walnut, made from baked clay,
evenings. Xuc recalled that he had that pulverized on the stone wall, and imperfectly molded. They are his
retired early only to be awakened the unknown slingman ceased fire. evidence, and Mack believed him.
about 3 a.m. by the sound of someone Xuc waited for a few moments, and
chopping wood inside the fenced- cautiously peered toward the well. Xuc himself is torn between the theory
off city. Many things are scarce in that it may have been a mischievous
the Yucatan, but firewood is not one There was no one there. But what was child from a nearby village, and not
of them – Mayapan is surrounded there convinced Xuc that he wasn’t an Alux. But he admits to at least
by timber. Mystified by the sound, having a dangerous nightmare. A one discrepancy. Despite his thirty-
Xuc opened the gate and cautiously branch of the tree bore fresh marks of one years of living among his fellow
headed toward the noise. As he the machete. The walls of the temple Mayans, he had never seen any
turned the corner of the Temple of the were splattered with powdery marks, small children with a flowing beard.
Birds, he was astonished to see a tiny where the clay balls had pulverized. Sightings of small strange beings
man, no taller than four feet. He was Xuc returned home, a thoroughly continue to be reported all over the
hacking at a branch that overhung the puzzled young man. He had seen world and have found their way into
natural limestone well, that supplied something that, although his parents folklore, stories and even elements of
the city with its drinking water. had believed, he had dismissed as a the paranormal. Could such beings
fairy story. Xuc had seen an Alux. really exist and be living alongside
As Xuc stood staring, the little man The next day, Xuc began a thorough humanity undetected? n

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FROM THE
SHADOWS
with Paul Dale Roberts

haunted st. thomas


B
ack in 1997, my ex-wife and Croix from St. Thomas. He was also a Besides the celebrities, you also have
stepson and I had a layover boat mechanic and one of his client’s the hauntings. When in St. Thomas,
in Puerto Rico, before we was Morgan Freeman, the movie you must do a kayak run through
landed at our final destination actor. Crazy Jeff was a legend on the the haunted Mangrove Lagoon.
St. Thomas. We were headed to island and it is rumored that the movie This lagoon has a very unsettling
my sister’s wedding. While waiting “Captain Ron” was based on him. atmosphere. The lagoon is a protected
for our flight to St. Thomas, I talked Jeff was just like Captain Ron, very sanctuary and is made up of a system
with David Perez, who worked in the obnoxious, in-your-face type of guy, a of islets that are populated by red
airport and has lived in Puerto Rico his real rugged sailor. My new brother-in- mangroves. Thousands of birds nest
whole life. David says that he lived on law took me to Bluebeard’s Castle that in the mangroves. When I kayaked
a farm with his father growing cacao is reputed to be haunted by the spirits through the lagoon, I received
and avocados. David says that they of pirates. Some of the locales claim goosebumps on my arms. 
also had a few chickens at the farm. that the ghosts of the pirate known as
On one particular night, they heard Blackbeard and the pirate known as The place is just plain creepy. Jeff
loud clucking, the time was 2 a.m. Bluebeard haunt Bluebeard’s Castle. Avakian says that he saw six African
David and his father ran out of the looking men and women walking
farmhouse and saw a 5-foot reptilian Anything can happen in St. Thomas. through the mangroves wearing white
type of creature, with large red eyes, My sister Sharon wearing a bikini robes and as he was kayaking past
reptilian skin, and small wings on stopped inside a gift shop to purchase them, they all looked up at him and
its back. David says what they saw a few items and met up with the then disappeared. There are many
was the infamous Chupacabra! The actor Robert De Niro. Robert asked tunnels, shallow waters and jumbies
creature hissed at David and his father my sister out for a date and my sister (Caribbean ghost tales) that make
and then ran off. The Chupacabra smiled and told Robert that she was up the lagoon. When I went through
killed four of their chickens. The blood getting married. Robert congratulated the lagoon, I could hear the stingrays
was drained out from all four chickens her and walked out of the gift shop. slipping and sliding underneath my
and there were puncture marks on St. Thomas is a very interesting island kayak. Our tour guide explained that
their breasts. David says that the and it’s a place that many celebrities the islet of Cas Cay is very haunted.
legend of the Chupacabra is very enjoy visiting. A tourist named Keith Rowell was
real, because he has encountered the
monster with his father. He also says
that the Chupacabra seen in Texas
is nothing like the Chupacabra seen
in Puerto Rico. David says the Texas
Chupacabra is nothing more than a
coyote with mange. I have to agree
with him.

After hearing this story I wanted to


cancel my flight to St. Thomas, so I
could scour the landscape of Puerto
Rico and search out this monster, but
I was obligated to attend my sister’s
wedding. My sister Sharon was getting
married to a guy named Captain ‘Crazy
Jeff’ Voshell. Jeff was the Captain
of his own boat called the Orion. He
would take tourists to St. John and St.

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your inner guidance

exploring a trail that leads to Red Point Blow Hole and


a man, that looked like a zombie walked past him. The
zombie-looking man, did not look at Keith and when Keith
turned around he was gone. Keith reiterates: There was
no way he could have vanished like that. When the zombie
looking man walked past Keith, Keith turned around after
a split second and he was gone. Keith says there was no
way he could have vanished like that, but he did. Keith
feels that he saw a ghost.
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able to determine if the pirate was Bluebeard, but he
knew that the ghost was a pirate from his outfit. As Jeff
watched the ghostly pirate, the pirate drove his sword
into the sand and then looked up into the night sky and
vanished.  Some locals say that Bluebeard’s Castle was
built by Bluebeard, but history tells another story, that the
Danes built the tower around 1689 as a watchtower. In
the past, Bluebeard’s Castle was known as Frederik’s Fort.

Another known haunted location is Creque’s Alley


Number 3. The haunting at this location started in the
1930s. There are strange sounds that occur there. On
several occasions during the evening, disembodied
voices are heard in the alley. You are able to hear phantom
footsteps. A dark hooded figure is sometimes seen in the
alley, walking and looking down. A former local named
Farrah Woodruff says that she heard disembodied voices
speaking in tongues and when she looked down into the
alley, she saw no one.

What is interesting is that an old Army friend of mine


named Kirk Contino went to St. Thomas on vacation
and said that on one night he went out to the docks to
relax and smoke a cigarette and then he heard footsteps
walking towards him and saw a long-haired blonde
man cussing underneath his breath. The man stopped
in his tracks and yelled “damn!!” and turned around and
started walking back the way he came and then just
faded away. Kirk realized he had just seen a ghost! Also,
what is incredible, it seemed like he was describing my
ex-brother-in-law, Captain Crazy Jeff Voshell who passed
away a few years back and it would make sense that Jeff
would be haunting St. Thomas because it was his home.

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ROBERT
BIGELOW
& the future of us
Occasional contributor John Ventre asks us to consider the UFO
related organisation called, ‘To the Stars Academy’ and its possible
connection to the billionaire Robert Bigelow. What is going on and
why? Find out here.

B
y now you have read the Program (I filed a FOIA for the 490 presence on earth and I have spent
pundits, conspiracy theorists page report) was revealed to the millions and millions.’
and/or supporters of Tom public. The program was sponsored
Delonge and his ‘To the Stars by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid Tom Delonge goes on to say that we
Academy of Arts and Science’. I of Nevada. He based it on the WWII have advanced high speed craft that
offer a different perspective: I say UFO encounter with the USS Nimitz by can move through water and time
everything about this venture points pilot and future Senator Ted Stevens and that these people (scientists)
towards billionaire Robert Bigelow and the 2004 Navy pilot David Fravor are heroes fighting demons. He also
and the Skinwalker Ranch. On Election testimony and video off the San Diego mentions consciousness. So what
Day 2016, John Kerry, the Russian coast of an object defying the laws of are we dealing with here? Aliens from
Orthodox Pope, Buzz Aldrin and others gravity and physics. space or entities from a dimension
were in the Antarctic on a mission. related to earth?
No announcement came as Hillary Reid makes two interesting comments
unexpectedly lost the election to in a televised interview with KLAS Let’s take a look at Bigelow’s
Donald Trump. Was there a connection reporter George Knapp that seems to associates. The National Institute for
here to the 1946-47 Project Highjump just go over everyone’s head. Reid said Discovery Science Board consisted
and a secret Nazi base or alien base? ‘There were concerns about Satanism of familiar names like Col. John
Was disclosure now postponed until and anyone who thinks they have this Alexander, Hal Putoff, MUFONs John
they could get a read on the new, figured out has no idea.’ These two Schuessler, Jacques Vallee, Colm
unpredictable President? comments are essential to my digging Kelleher and others. Bigelow is listed
a little deeper and my suspicions that as President and Founder. Hal Putoff
A year later, in December of 2017, there is more here than just aliens from is one of the six members of Academy
the biggest news to hit Ufology in space. In June of 2017, Robert Bigelow to the Stars. Hal was the Chairman
years was revealed. The $22M five- appears on 60 Minutes and says, ‘there of the Board of Bigelow’s NIDS. Hal
year Advanced Aviation Threat ID has been an existing presence, an ET has worked on remote viewing and

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Agency (NSA). Colonel Alexander is


director of the Non-Lethal Weapons
Department, Los Alamos, and has
been reportedly involved in counter-
intelligence remote-viewing, psychic-
warfare, psychotronic and mind-
control projects with military/security
applications, while maintaining the
cover of nonlethal military/crowd
control physical-countermeasures
research.

OWL: Hal Puthoff, physicist with


the Institute for Advanced research
WHO IS ROBERT BIGELOW? in Austin, specializes in Zero-Point
1945 Born in Nevada Energy, a quantum/resonance
1987 He creates ‘Budget Suites’ hotels, sells in 2007 at a large profit before physics phenomenon and reported
the housing crash. DIA researcher, (along with psi guru
and fellow Scientologist Ingo Swann,)
1994 He funded URC made up of MUFON, CUFOS & FUFOR to research into parapsychological, psychotronic,
UFOs. remote-viewing, and mind-control
1995 He created the National Institute for Discovery Science. projects, and reportedly involved in
1996 Purchases Skinwalker Ranch in Utah for $200K. classified Star Visitor-technology
studies.
1999 He founded Bigelow Aerospace, which supplies NASA with space pods.
2007-12 He received $22M in funding through Senator Harry Reid. PARTRIDGE: Jacques Vallee, Ph.D.,
2008-09 Paid MUFON Star Team $672K for first access information on UFO formerly an astrophysicist with
investigations. GEPAN, the French Government’s
2010 FAA refers UFO UFO investigative agency, principal
investigator with US Defense
2017 60 Minutes interview- “ET presence on earth”.
Department computer network
2017 He became the silent founder/partner of Academy to the Stars? projects; worked with astronomer Dr.
J. Allen Hynek; prolific author on UFO
subject, lately turning to metaphysical
bending space and time for faster than creature. Colm Kelleher, a NIDS explanations for the phenomenon.
light speed travel. He is a member of Board member, writes this 2005 book
Scientology, an alien based religion. with George Knapp entitled Hunt for SEAGULL: Bruce Maccabee, Ph.D.,
the Skinwalker. So far, no one has research scientist in optical physics
In 2012, Dr. Eric Davis said in speculated that the technology that and laser weapons; MUFON physics/
an interview regarding the Utah Tom Delonge refers to came from photo-interpretive consultant, author
Skinwalker Ranch which he ran for the Skinwalker portal. I speculate that and consultant expert on selected
Bigelow. Dr. Davis worked on NASA’s that is the origin of this species! Let’s “leaked” or disinformational UFO
Breakthrough Propulsion Project from take a look at the information and cases/topics, such as the Gulf Breeze.
1996-2002 and is the CEO of Warp players regarding the Aviary in Richard
Drive Metrics: ‘Multiple telepathic Boyland’s book. Again you see many of FALCON: Sgt. Richard Doty, USAF
voices were heard at once. We viewed the same people: (Ret.), Special Agent, Air Force Office
images floating in a fluid. We were of Special Investigations, reported to
telepathically told to contact Jack PENGUIN & Head of Aviary: John have engaged in UFO disinformation
Sarfatti (atheist physicist and a current Alexander, Ph.D. in Death Sciences projects, including reportedly hoaxing
member of the six person Academy to [Thanatology], Col., (“Ret.”), U.S. Army TV producer Linda Moulton Howe
the Stars team) and Hal Putoff (also an Intelligence and Security Command concerning availability of a tape
Academy to the Stars member) - “their (INSCOM), which is undoubtedly his showing a UFO landing at Holloman
work is important”. There is a war in military cover for the National Security Air Force Base, NM; and of allegedly
heaven and tricksters. A swirling black

A swirling black tunnel and


tunnel and a shape shifting creature
were seen. There were three knocks,
humming and then paranormal events.
A green fog appeared and the inability
to move. We can control space-time
with our minds.’
a shape shifting creature
Interestingly, the beast that Dr. Davis were seen. There were three
knocks… A green fog appeared.
describes resembles the Montauk
Project mind-created beast and
the Forbidden Planet mind-created

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waging psychological warfare on Where will this technology take us? embarrassing if aliens were never
Albuquerque defense electronics Should we even go there if this is actually from space. What if Erich von
contractor Paul Bennewitz. (Doty told forbidden knowledge? My guess is Daniken is completely wrong? There
me he wasn’t involved, he said Richard that Harry Reid’s satanic concerns may be aliens from space. There
Helms was the Falcon). are of the religious right if they should be aliens from space but I
found out where this technology more and more question that. What
To date, the Academy to the Stars has originates. There is also the 1938 if they are interdimensional shape-
become a publicly traded stock at $5 Panic Broadcast, 1960 Brookings shifters that have been around since
per common share with a minimum of Institute findings on disclosure and long before we arrived? What if they
40 shares purchased. They have over the 2006 Peters Religious Crisis are Skinwalkers as I suspect and Mr.
3000 investors and have risen nearly survey concerns. Atheist physicist Big knows?
$3M which frankly is not enough Stephen Hawking believes contact will
money to do much with but more go bad for us. Interestingly, no one on I keep thinking of the Phil Klass curse
money than MUFON ever amassed.. record with ALS has lived as long as which has stood the test of time:
Hawking has who has had it 51 years. “No matter how long you live, you will
Tom Delonge has also said that aliens How startling would it be to have never know any more about UFOs than
are malevolent. We know from Gordon a disclosure announcement made you know today. You will never know
Thomas’ book Secrets and Lies that through Hawking only to discover that any more about what UFOs really are,
in 1970 the CIA sponsored Operation he was replaced years ago by an A.I. or where they come from. You will
MK-Often was to harness the powers robot with a synthesized voice? OK I’m never know any more about what the
of the dark side as a weapon. We also letting my imagination get ahead of U.S. Government really knows about
know that in 1954, Dr. Hermann Oberth me. UFOs than you know today. As you lie
said regarding the atomic bomb, ‘We on your own death-bed you will be as
cannot take the credit for our record Is it time for Ufology and UFO groups mystified about UFOs as you are today.
advancement in certain scientific to move away from the extraterrestrial And you will remember this curse”. n
fields alone. We have been helped.’ hypothesis and replace it with the
Who helped us and where are the interdimensional hypothesis which
helpers from? I have been advocating for? How More at johnventre.com

How can we determine our future

It’s time for Ufology to move


when we don’t understand our past?

EVOLUTION: Survival of fittest. Greed


is good. Science is the beginning and
end.
CREATION: In Harmony. Non-violent,
away from the ET hypothesis
all equal. Give don’t take. Image of
Creator. and replace it with the
interdimensional hypothesis.
ENGINEERED: Transhumanism. Merge
man and machine. Enhanced DNA.
Super soldiers.

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I Know What
You’re Hiding…
I
t’s a perfect day for deer hunting, human footprint around seventeen Anybody that would happen to be in
with sunny, blue skies accenting inches long and five inches wide on the such an area would usually witness a
the fall colors north of Lapeer, creek bank. Upon closer inspection, rock-throwing display to communicate
Michigan. Both deer hunters were the hunter realized that he had seen a warning to vacate the location. I
in a prime hunting area, accessible those footprints before. He told his have been on the receiving end of such
only through an old creek bed. They friend there was a Sasquatch in there, a rock-throwing display. It is nerve-
knocked off from the hunt around and it was taking exception to their racking, to say the least, especially
11 a.m. and went to town for lunch. presence; the trees were a warning. when the rocks are landing near you,
Unknown to the hunters, something They were reluctant to leave this good getting a little too close for comfort.
else was hunting that prime area. hunting spot, but considering the trees Yet, the remarkable thing is, the rocks
the hunters realized the strength it never hit me—not once.
The hunters returned two hours later took to uproot a tree and toss it, root
to find the creek bed strewn with two ball and all, into that creek bed. With One day I ate my lunch in a local
to four-inch diameter trees with their that in mind they decided to hunt in restaurant, reading up on genetics
root balls intact. Five uprooted trees another location far from this one. for research purposes. A gentleman
made the creek bed impassable, came up to me, he was curious as
blocking their way. One hunter saw The Sasquatches are very stingy about to why I was reading on that subject.
what first appeared to be a bare sharing hunting and fishing areas. He introduced himself as Dr. Foxe,
a retired medical doctor. He once
was a genetics research scientist
specializing in alleles (multiple
versions of a gene); for example, there
are multiple alleles responsible for
eye color. I found out he was a fellow
researcher of the Sasquatches. Dr.
Foxe and I immediately hit it off. I found
out, to my amazement, that he had
been researching the same area as me
near Lake Ovid. He had documented
tree structures, cast footprints, and
collected hair and possible tissue
samples.

I’ve been researching the lake’s


northern area since the fall of 2018,
observing the Sasquatches’ behavior
through interactions. Dr. Foxe and a
colleague had been working in the
south since 2014, collecting evidence.
Dr. Foxe’s partner grew up in the area

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I’ve researched the lake’s


northern area since 2018,
observing the Sasquatches’
behavior through interactions.
and heard about a breeding population It involved several washed organs The hiking path, ordinarily active,
of Sasquatches living near Lake Ovid. from a deer laid out in a horizontal was abandoned. No matter, I will
line about a foot between each organ hike the flood plain of the lake, and
I created an ‘exchange area’, where and close to a small pond. I found I’ll trek through the swamps to get
I put out their favorite junk foods to no carcass. One of the organs was to my exchange area, bypassing the
promote interaction and trust. I’ve also the liver, prized above all organs for DNR’s attempt to suppress the area.
been casting footprints and collecting nutrition. Why wasn’t it eaten rather I don’t know why those skulls were
hair samples for species identification. than put on display, an offering? I felt displayed in such a manner. Dr. Foxe
In late 2019, I wanted to locate their like an intruder in a sacred place. sees it as a warning to stay out, and
sleeping and eating area. There were maybe he is right. The DNR sees
no signs of them occupying the north, Dr. Foxe explained that he had it as a threat. Dr. Foxe and I, after
so they had to be in the south. But discovered some curious artifacts. One much discussion, struck an accord
COVID kept me from exploring that was two deer skulls on the ground; the to continue our research in that area.
area for the next couple of years. Dr. empty eye sockets, if they still had eyes,
Foxe had proven that the site in the were looking in the direction of the lake.
south was the Sasquatches’ sleeping He also found some deer bones in an
and eating place. The lake offered arrangement on the ground. Dr. Foxe
up plenty of fish and water, all the then informed me the Department of
ingredients to support a small band of Natural Resources (DNR) had closed
Sasquatches. the access road. A berm was created
by the State, blocking vehicle traffic
One day over coffee, I found out that and prohibited hiking. The DNR had
Dr. Foxe hadn’t been in the south forest apparently removed the skulls.
since 2016. I had assumed he and his
colleague had been in there all along. I recently questioned a senior DNR
I was curious about why. He pulled official about closing the access
out his phone and showed me where road in 2016. I showed him the skull
they entered the forest to access their pictures on my phone. He ignored the
research area. I was shocked at what images and walked away, ending our
I saw—nine deer skulls mounted on a conversation. I then interviewed some
group of saplings four to six feet tall. locals, and they said they had never
The samplings supported the skulls seen the skulls. One stated he never
by their foramen magnum (the hole hiked that way; it was too creepy for
in a skull that would receive the spinal him. He always felt like he was being
cord). watched. He did, though, remember
the DNR blocking the access road.
It reminded me of 2004, when I came
across possible evidence of some I found out recently the DNR was
Sasquatches who were performing closing off my research area in
what I assumed to be a hunting ritual. the north with a metal guardrail.

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theencounters
crystal
with a djinn
Magazine editor Brian Allan tells of one of his early investigations
involving an entity that turned out to be one of the most enigmatic
entities in paranormal lore: a Djinn.

T
his opportunity to investigate or voice recorders. Therefore, other The circumstances surrounding
this case was presented to than pictures taken the following these rather alarming occurrences
me by professional psychics day of the actual location, I have concerned a family who are friendly
Jim and Annemarie Lochhead. no photographic evidence to help with my psychic colleagues. The
From my perspective the events substantiate the outcome. family were experiencing a series of
described are unique for two reasons: problems relating to certain artefacts
This was the first time that such in their possession. The items had
1) This was the first time I had been a request had been made, so all been collected during the travels of
directly involved in a case of demonic photographs containing an image of the now deceased head of the family
possession the items involved taken prior to the and consisted of various objects
ceremony were likewise destroyed, from Africa, Asia and the Middle East,
2) It was also the first and probably which is a pity because there were comprising tribal masks, spears,
the last time I will ever encounter a some remarkable pictures involving blowpipes, beads and a variety of
Djinn, although initially I did not realise the self illumination of items central crystals.
that is what it was. to the investigation. Consequently,
I was not even permitted to take For the most part these diverse
As we will discover, because of the video footage of the final cleansing items had mostly been kept in the
possibility that the entity could return ceremony conducted above the murky attic of the family home with a few
after being banished, I was specifically waters of the River Forth on the displayed as ornaments. For years
asked not to record any part of the central span of the Kincardine Bridge nothing unusual occurred other than
necessary rituals using cameras on the Fife/Stirlingshire boundary. an indefinable ‘unluckiness’ which

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Authors note: Due to the


nature of this case I was
specifically asked not
to use the images I took
during the investigation.
It was thought likely
that these images might
somehow ‘call back’ the
spirit. When dealing with
Djinn is it best to take no
chances, so I complied
with the request

seemed to dog all the family, but that affected his life quite markedly. mountains; the waters ran into the
when the owner died and his family He started acting in an unfamiliar Arabian Gulf and the stones were
were going through his belongings and disquieting manner much to the deposited on what eventually became
things quickly changed for the worse. disquiet of his friends and family. vast desert plains. The stones get
There was one item in particular their name from a province of Saudi
that seemed to be the focus of Shortly after this, the Lochhead’s Arabia called Qaisumah, and when
considerable negative energy; this became aware of events and offered they are dressed and polished they
item was a crystal, a semi-precious to help the crystal’s current owner, it resemble a low grade, slightly cloudy
stone, originating from Saudi Arabia. was at this point I became involved. diamond. They do not have any great
Although I had not yet seen it, based intrinsic value, but are nevertheless
Initially, the family did not connect on where it had been bought the often sought out by expatriates as
what was happening in their lives crystal sounded very much like a souvenirs and are mounted in items
with the stone and as a result gave ‘Qasuma Stone’. I already had seen of jewellery.
it as a gift to a family friend who these stones while working in the
had expressed an interest in it. Middle East where they are fairly I should explain that since written
As the psychics later discovered, common. They are also known as Arabic does not always conform to
handling the stone had reactivated ‘Qaisumah diamonds’, after the standard western spelling, there is
whatever force lay dormant within Saudi village where they were first no definitive spelling of the word,
in it. Within a few days of the crystal discovered. Millennia ago, rain ‘Qaisumah’ e.g. ‘Qasuma’, and it is
changing hands its new owner started washed millions of these rough quartz rendered here phonetically; it could
experiencing some personal traumas gems downstream from the Hijaz equally well have been rendered

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as ‘Kasuma’. However for the rest


of this article I will use the spelling
‘Qasuma. This is one of the reasons
why it is often claimed that the only
language to fully express and explain
the Islamic holy book, the Koran, is
Arabic. At the time the point of origin
of the crystal should perhaps have
given some indication of what might
be inducing this energy, but it did not
become obvious until much later.

Annemarie was able to view the


crystal and after examining some
markings on it, deduced that the
crystal had been used in occult
ceremonies. An Islamic shaman,
perhaps a practitioner of the
mystical side of Islam known
as a ‘Sufi’, would probably have
conducted these ceremonies. It is
worth pointing out that in common
with the Christian bible, the Islamic
holy book, the Koran, can, like the
bible, be used for good as well as
evil; the information is there for
those with the knowledge and will
to decode it. As if this was not bad
enough, the crystal was also the focal show the basket in normal and very
point for a ‘lower astral entity’ that had been infested low light conditions and the difference
could and would do positive harm to by a particularly malignant lower is extraordinary, in low light it is as
whomever it came in contact with. astral entity. Lower astral entities if the contents of the basket are lit
This impression was confirmed when are, as I have seen in previous cases, from within. There is a slice of agate
she viewed a photograph of the spirit beings whose malevolence in particular, which, when in close
unfortunate man who was currently is proportional to their condition proximity to the crystal, glows with a
in possession of the crystal; he looked when alive. In other words the more strong inner light and when the crystal
far from well. unpleasant someone has been in life is removed becomes relatively dull
is reflected by their position in the and lacklustre. Also within the agate
The significance of the crystal is that pecking order on the ‘other side’. The there is the image of a man’s head,
(according to Jim), by nature of its worse they were while in physical three dimensional and perfect, I do not
molecular construction it is amenable form the lower down the scale they believe this to be a simulacra either, it
to psychic manipulation. In other are placed, although evidently over is too natural, almost photo realistic.
words it is possible that a crystal time they gradually rehabilitate and
can be influenced or ‘programmed’ rise through the ranks. Rather more alarmingly, in the
either by accident or design. This shadows surrounding the basket can
phenomenon has been suggested In the course of the investigation I be discerned the aquiline face of a
as one mechanism by which alleged was able to view the photographs bearded man seemingly wearing a
ghosts materialise, i.e. the ‘stone tape’ myself; they are truly remarkable headdress, like the Saudi ‘Ghutra’.
theory, where the image is ‘recorded’ and a little alarming. They show a According to Annemarie this is
into the fabric of a building or area variety of semi-precious stones in the entity damaging all those who
and in suitable circumstances can a small wicker basket, the crystal have the misfortune to come within
be replayed. In this particular case in question did not look particularly its malignant influence since the
through its former usage, this crystal unusual. The series of photographs crystal was awakened from its long
sleep. In normal circumstances

Rather more alarmingly, in


‘deprogramming’ the crystal would
have been a straightforward
procedure, but due to the unhealthy

the shadows surrounding the atmosphere it was creating the


attitude of its present owner became
increasingly hostile. This got to the

basket can be discerned the point where he regarded Annemarie


and more so her husband Jim, as

aquiline face of a bearded man.


embodiments of the devil who were
determined to cause them harm.
Another odd effect of this bizarre

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and symbiotic relationship is that the span into the murky, dark, tidal waters in its negative state was enough to
affected person can’t live with the of the River Forth. Within twenty reactivate it. I was able to examine
object and can’t live without it. minutes they had parked outside my the stone, although on advice I did
home and I was introduced to Tom not touch it. It was as I had suspected
This state of affairs is strangely (pseudonym) who was suffering the earlier, the object was indeed a
reminiscent of the relationship ill effects and his mother, they were Qasuma stone and I recognised
between the tortured creature, clearly anxious for the cleansing to it immediately. In appearance it
‘Gollum’, and the ring of invisibility in be carried out. Tom, who is around resembles a small, smooth, milky,
J.R.R. Tolkein’s classic fantasy, Lord thirty, looked quite frail and ill, his translucent pebble.
of the Rings. Although the twisted health having been adversely affected
and deformed Gollum knew that the by the negative emanations from the A small part of its otherwise perfect
ring was slowly killing him, he simply crystal and its resident entity. His surface had been cut and polished to
could not bear to part with it, referring mother explained that it had taken all produce a facet about 8mm in length.
to it as ‘his precious’. This exactly her persuasive abilities to convince This surface had been finely tooled or
paralleled what was happening to the her son to dispose of the gem. I had engraved to produce several images;
acquaintance of the two mediums. intended recording the proceedings using a magnifying glass these
As far as dealing with the situation on video, but the medium, Jim, was appeared to be bas-relief faces. There
regarding the stone, the medium said adamant that this should not happen. was also an Arabic numeral 9 and
that her ‘spirit guide’ explained that what looked like a flower. Annemarie
the crystal should be ‘deprogrammed’ He explained that it was imperative explained that this small area was
and thrown into the sea. This would to remove all reminders of the where the entity gained access to
effectively deal with the entity and crystal once it had been dealt with. the crystal. However the stone was
more importantly, also help the poor Any photographs and negatives on not the only item being disposed of,
soul affected by it, this should cancel which it featured would be burned to there was also an attractive solitaire
all the spiritual interference affecting remove all trace of its existence; and ring. This had been manufactured to
the family. we should even try to avoid thinking feature another stone of the same
about it. Apparently even though type that had been cut and polished
The medium was quite concerned the crystal had been disposed of, then mounted in a gold setting.
that the ‘deprogramming’ should be anything bearing its likeness while Regrettably this item of jewellery,
carried out with a minimum of delay
as the man concerned was quite
likely to become a great deal worse.
Added to this, his mind was liable to
become affected to the point where
his imagination was quite capable of
doing the work started by the entity.
It was getting to the point where
the unfortunate man was, sooner or
later, going to require medical help.
The problem was how to get hold of
the artefact and start working on it.
Try as she might, every time she set
up a meeting with the family with a
view to obtaining the object, it never
actually took place. The medium was
convinced that this was a deliberate
course of action influenced by the
malign entity to prevent her cleansing
the crystal. Then for a time the object
dropped out of sight, and the family
either wouldn’t or couldn’t reveal its
location, this development might
also have been engineered by the
possessing entity.

A few weeks passed with no news of


the whereabouts of the stone, until, in
January 2002, the mediums phoned
and explained that the family who
possessed the crystal had contacted
them and wanted both it and its
effects neutralised immediately. They
intended to drive to the Kincardine
Bridge, carry out a brief ceremony
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although very pretty, also had negative


emanations and was also to be
thrown from the bridge.

Leaving my home we made our way


up onto the bridge, at first due to the
volume of traffic we could not cross
the road, almost as if the entity was
attempting to prevent the psychics
banishing it. We finally got across by
retracing our steps and going under
the bridge to avoid the traffic, up the
steep embankment at the other side
on to the pavement and walked out
onto the centre span. Annemarie took
the stone from its container explaining
what she planned to do. The
ceremony would involve commanding
the entity to return to the stone then
returning it to the astral plain. Once
this had been accomplished, she Taking the stone in his gloved hand, like it and never thought I would. To
would imbue the stone with positive he threw it over the railings into the all intents and purposes this was
energy then have Tom hurl it into the wind lashed, murky, grey water below. an exorcism; the ingredients were
waters below us. While doing this he We watched it as it was blown in an there, curses, a malignant possessing
should say that he was casting away arc down to the turbulent surface and entity, illness and genuine distress.
all the negativity that had plagued the disappeared with a small splash and a The photographs of the crystal in the
family. I was watching intently as she few ripples. The same procedure was basket glowing in its own internal
said this and an unsettling change carried out with the solitaire ring and light, the Arabian face and how Tom
occurred to her face and voice. The again Andrew hurled it over the edge, looked before and after. Annemarie’s
skin around her eyes became very uttering the words of rejection. As he eyes when she held the crystal,
dark and bruised looking and her voice did this, Jim threw the presentation the sensations I experienced when
began to slur, she began the ritual. boxes that had contained the ring she was locked in psychic combat
With the stone cupped in her hands and stone over the guardrail as well. with the entity, these comprised the
she closed her eyes. Coincidentally, as he did this, the wind evidence, but how do you quantify
and rain eased off markedly as if on this in anything like scientific terms?
The weather, which had not been cue and the atmosphere seemed Simply, one cannot, and this is a
particularly good, quickly got worse less emotionally charged. Annemarie failing that stigmatises much in the
and the rain started to pour down, then offered a few words of simple field of paranormal research, the lack
then the wind increased in intensity prayer and we walked back to their of substantive physical evidence
causing us to sway from side to side. parked car. By this time the traffic or proof. All I could do was adopt a
Heavy trucks thundered by behind had slackened off and we were able neutral, open-minded stance to both
us and the bridge shook underfoot. to cross the road with ease. When observe and record
I sensed, heard, felt, (it’s difficult to we returned to my house Andrew .
describe), a buzzing noise like hissing looked transformed. He was smiling What I saw and felt, although entirely
in my ears and sudden pain in my broadly and was obviously in good subjective, convinced me that
forehead. The medium opened her spirits as indeed was his mother; something genuine happened; there
eyes and told us that the entity was they were obviously delighted with was an alteration in my perception
now imprisoned in the stone and their decision. Their good humour of reality. As in so many other cases
would be returned to its own plane. was infectious and we all felt lifted. I I felt that perhaps at last here was
She also asked if we felt anything felt honoured to have witnessed this a glimmer of light, a brief glimpse
while she was dealing with the entity, unique ceremony. of the elusive truth. Did the medium
evidently we all had to one degree actually alter the perceptions of
or another. She looked at Tom and CONCLUSION those around her for a period and
handed him the stone; quite honestly All cases involving the paranormal draw us into the alternate reality she
he looked absolutely dreadful, really ill, are unique and this was no exception created and manipulated, or were
pale and cold. I have never dealt with anything quite the impressions entirely subjective?
Was this a demonstration of quantum

The medium opened her eyes


reality? Perhaps, and it is possible that
the ultimate truth to the quest for the
mechanism behind the paranormal

and told us that the entity was lies here, in the very origins of matter,
the infinitesimal. I awaited reports

now imprisoned in the stone.


about Tom and his family, and
evidently the ‘curse’, if that’s what it
was, had vanished. n

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The Strangest Solid on Earth: A Chemical Perspective

Dr. Brett Cohen Ph.D makes a return to the pages of


Phenomena Magazine with a look at a genuinely unique substance
called an ‘aerogel’

O
ne of the most unique and the supercritical drying process, the drying process, the gel is converted to
supernatural materials on liquid changes into a gas at a finite a porous ultralight solid (producing an
Planet Earth is a solid called rate, while the amount of liquid in the aerogel).
Aerogels. This strange gel decreases. When this happens
synthetic material is straight out of within a heterogeneous environment Aerogels are extremely low density
science fiction. Aerogel is a synthetic in the gel, surface tension in the liquid solids. Aerogels in general, have many
porous ultralight solid, which was body pulls against any solid structures nicknames such as; solid air, solid
created by American scientist Samuel the liquid might be in contact with. cloud, and blue smoke {for silica based
Stephens Kistler in 1931. Kistler Delicate structures such as cell walls aerogels (see below and opposite)}.
created this synthetic solid as a result (the dendrites of the gel), tend to be Aerogels also have the distinction of
of a bet with a colleague (Barron broken apart by this surface tension as having low thermal conductivity. The
& Nellis, 2016). Chemically, Kistler the liquid–gas–solid junction moves term aerogel is not a single material
replaced the liquid in jellies (gels) with by. At the end of the supercritical with a set chemical formula; instead,
gas without causing shrinkage. A gel
is a solid jelly-like soft material. Gels
have properties ranging from soft and
weak in structure to hard and tough.
These gels comprise a microporous
solid in which the dispersed phase
is a gas. Aerogels are produced by
extracting the liquid component of
a gel through supercritical drying.
Supercritical drying (also known as
critical point drying) is a chemical
process to remove a liquid in a precise
and controlled manner (Evangelos and
Mujumdar, 2011).

In other words, this chemical process


allows the liquid in the gel to slowly dry
off without causing the solid matrix
in the gel to collapse (due to capillary
action) as compared to conventional
laboratory chemical evaporation
techniques. As the liquid substance
in a liquid body (gel) crosses the
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friability. In other words, aerogels


have the tendency to chip, crumble or
break following compression. Despite
the fact that aerogels are prone
to shattering, they are very strong
structurally. This is due to the dendritic
microstructure (see above), in which
spherical particles (such as silica or
sand) have an average particle size of
2 to 5 nm which are fused together into
clusters. These clusters form a three-
dimensional highly porous structure of
fractal chains. It is important to note,
that aerogels are a solid material that
is 99.8% air. Therefore, aerogels have
a porous solid network that comprises
many air pockets, with the air pockets
taking up the majority of space within
the material and the lack of solid
material allows aerogel to be almost
weightless (azom.com).

the term is used to group all materials Refractive index is defined as the Aerogel structures can also form a
with a certain geometric structure. ratio of the velocity of light (c) in a sol-gel polymerization solid, where
The first aerogels invented by Kistler vacuum to its velocity in a specified monomers (simple unpolymerized
were produced from silica gels (with a medium. For example, the refractive molecules) react with other monomers
chemical formula of SiO2). Later work index of water is 1.333, meaning that to form a sol. A sol (colloidal
by Kistler involved aerogels based light travels 1.333 times as fast in suspension of solid particles) is a
on alumina (aluminum oxide oxide vacuum as in water. This makes silica substance that consists of bonded,
is an inorganic compound, with the aerogels very poor radiative insulators cross-linked macromolecules to give
chemical formula of Al2O3), chromia (see below). It is interesting to note, silica sol materials with deposits of
(chromium(III) oxide is an inorganic that one type of aerogel created by liquid solution between them. This
compound, with the chemical formula NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in can be done chemically through three
Cr2O3) and tin dioxide {tin(IV) oxide Pasadena, California {derived from different primary reactions (hydrolysis,
(also known as stannic oxide) is an pure silicon dioxide (with a chemical water condensation and alcohol
inorganic compound, with the chemical formula of SiO2)and sand or silica} condensation) to form a silica sol
formula SnO2} (Kistler, 1932). holds the Guinness World Record via the alkoxide technique (aerogel.
for the lightest solid on Planet Earth org/?p=16). During the supercritical
The structure of an aerogel is technically (Guinness Records, 2002). drying process, the liquid within the
a foam. Aerogels can be synthesized in sol gel is evaporated out and a bonded
many different shapes and forms. The Aerogels are solid, rigid and dry and cross-linked macromolecule
majority of aerogels are composed synthetic materials that do not frame is left behind. The result of
of silica, but carbon, iron oxide, resemble the original jelly-like gel polymerization with supercritical
organic polymers, semiconductor before the supercritical drying chemical heating is a material that has a porous
nanostructures, gold and copper can process. Pressing softly on an aerogel strong structure classified as an
also form aerogel (www.azom.com). It porous ultralight solid typically does aerogel. Variations in synthesis can
is important to note, that silica aerogel not leave a minor mark but pressing alter the surface area and pore size of
is the most common type of aerogel, more firmly will leave a permanent the aerogel. The smaller the pore size
and the most extensively studied and depression. Pressing extremely firmly the more susceptible the aerogel is to
used. After the supercritical drying will cause a catastrophic breakdown fracture (aerogel.org/?p=16).
process, silica aerogels form a three- in the aerogel structure. This can
dimensional, intertwined cluster that cause the aerogel to shatter (similar Aerogels are also good thermal
make up only approximately 3% of the to glass) and this property is called insulators because they almost
volume of the aerogel. The remaining

Aerogels are solid, rigid and


97% of the volume is composed mainly
of air in extremely small nanopores.
Silica aerogels also have a high
optical transmission of approximately
99% and a low refractive index of
approximately 1.05 (Gurav, et al.
dry synthetic materials that do
2010). In optics, the refractive index
or index of refraction of a material is a not resemble the jelly-like gel
before the chemical drying process
dimensionless number that describes
how fast light propagates through the
material.

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The slight blue color seen for silica


based aerogels (see Figure 1) is due
to Rayleigh scattering of the shorter
wavelengths of visible light (such as
blue color wavelengths) by the nano-
sized dendritic structure. Rayleigh
scattering is the predominantly
elastic scattering of light or other
electromagnetic radiation by particles
much smaller than the wavelength
of the radiation. This phenomenon
causes silica based aerogels to appear
smoky blue against a dark background
and yellowish against bright
backgrounds. This electromagnetic
nullify heat transfer (due to chemical because infrared radiation can pass range is also known as the visible (light)
processes of conduction and/or easily through aerogels and transfer spectrum. The perception of color
convection) because of two factors; 1) of heat is possible. Because of its that is observed is derived from the
they are mostly composed of insulating hygroscopic (a property of tending stimulation of cone cells in the human
gas and 2) a microstructure network to absorb moisture from the air) eye by electromagnetic radiation.
which prevents gas movement and as nature, aerogels feel dry and act as
a result air cannot circulate through a strong desiccant or a hygroscopic The human eye is not capable of
the solid aerogel lattice effectively as substance used as a drying agent. “seeing” radiation with wavelengths
compared to normal solid materials. Therefore, aerogels are characterized outside the visible spectrum. For
Conduction is the process by which as hydrophilic, because they absorb example, electromagnetic radiation
heat or electricity is directly transmitted moisture. As a result of water is characterized by its wavelength
through a substance when there is a absorption, aerogels usually suffer a (or frequency). The visible colors
difference in temperature. Convection structural change, such as contraction, of the spectrum from shortest to
is the movement caused within a fluid and can deteriorate. It is interesting to longest wavelength are: violet, blue
by the tendency of a hotter substance note, that aerogel degradation due to (approximately 450 to 490 nm),
and therefore less dense material to water absorption can be prevented by green (approximately 520 to 560 nm),
rise, which consequently results in making them hydrophobic or tending yellow (approximately 560 to 590 nm),
transfer of heat. to repel or fail to mix with water orange, and red (approximately 635
(via chemical treatment, such as to 700 nm) (Cohen & Cohen 2017).
In other words, aerogels are good silanization). Interestingly, there are a number of
conductive insulators because they blue holes that are found around the
are composed almost entirely of For examples of the chemical reaction world in the ocean and sea waters. A
gases, which are very poor heat involving the silanization chemical blue hole (from my article entitled, “The
conductors. For this reason silica (with process (please refer to U.S. Patent No. Phenomenon of Blue Holes on Planet
a chemical formula of SiO2) based 5,034,433 to Cohen, 1991), where in my Earth: A Chemical Perspective” found
aerogels are excellent insulators, laboratory research, I have silanated in Phenomena Magazine) is a large
because silica is a very poor conductor silica, silicon dioxide and titanium marine sinkhole (a depression and/
of heat energy. Aerogels as a result, inorganic solid materials for fillers for or hole in the ground caused by some
have a thermal conductivity smaller dental polymer composites. Aerogels form of collapse of the surface layer)
than that of the gas they contain. This with hydrophobic interiors are less or cavern (a natural void in the ground)
is caused by the Knudsen effect. The susceptible to water degradation. For (Cohen, 2019).
Knudsen effect results in a reduction this reason, handling aerogels for an
of thermal conductivity in gases when extended period of time results in dry Blue light is the most enduring part
the size of the cavity within the aerogel brittle spots on one’s skin. Therefore, of the spectrum. The other parts of
encompassing the gas becomes it is recommended that handling of the visible spectrum; red, yellow, and
comparable to the mean free path aerogels should be performed using finally green are absorbed during their
of the gas. In physics, the mean free gloves for skin protection. Silica path through the ocean and sea water,
path is the average distance travelled based aerogels are not known to be into the Blue hole, and only blue light
by a moving particle (such as an carcinogenic or toxic. Silica aerogels manages to reach the white sand
atom, a molecule, a photon) between are a mechanical irritant to the eyes, containing calcium carbonate and
successive impacts or collisions. skin, respiratory tract, and digestive return upon reflection. Thus, this is the
Essentially, the cavity found within the system (Cryogel_5201_10201_ cause of the blue color that emanates
aerogel restricts the movement of the MSDS.pdf). Silica aerogels can also or originates from the Blue hole. This
gas particles, decreasing the thermal induce dryness of the skin, eyes, and effect is silmilar to that found for the
conductivity in addition to eliminating mucous membranes. Therefore, it is observed blue color for silica aerogels.
convection (see above) as a source of recommended that protective gear The opposite effect occurs when
heat energy. including respiratory protection, gloves white (pure) light is passed through
As an aside, aerogels are very poor and eye goggles be worn whenever a prism (please refer to the article
radiative insulators due to their low handling or processing aerogels entitled, “Non-Duality: A Prism as a
refractive index (see above). This is (Cryogel_5201_10201_MSDS.pdf). Metaphor or a Representation for “Ego”

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Consciousness” found in the June When the particle hits the aerogel, it will based technologies in the coming
2017 issue of Phenomena Magazine) be travelling at speeds of up to 6 times years and decades (azom.com). The
and a rainbow of different colors (for that of a rifle bullet. Most chemical future applications for aerogels will
example, six main bands of colors; red, substances would not be able to slow result in innovations which will have
orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet) the dust down without heating, which far reaching benefits for our planet and
are observed (Cohen & Cohen 2017). would result in an alteration to the dust its inhabitants. n
A prism is a glass or other transparent sample collected. Aerogel however,
object that is triangular with refracting will allow the dust to bury itself into the References
surfaces. It is interesting to note, porous solid aerogel material and the Barron, Randall F.; Nellis, Gregory F. (2016).
that different aerogels have different dust collected is gradually brought to Cryogenic Heat Transfer (2nd ed.). CRC Press. p.
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observed colors associated with a stop as the dust loses momentum.
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with the chemical formula Fe2O3) Cohen, Brett I., Cohen, Elissa. (2017). Non-Duality:
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opaque color, whereas Chromia (with insulations (building structures) and “Ego” Consciousness. Phenomena Magazine Vol.
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color (aerogel.org/?p=44). industry and have been used for Magazine In Press 2019.
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Kang, Eul Son; Nadargi, Digambar Y. (2010). “Silica
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have a wide range of useful applications. to displace older technologies such Nanomaterials 2010: 1–11.
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been used as the insulating material polyurethanes. The use of aerogel in Lightest Solid”. NASA. Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
in the spacesuits of NASA astronauts this way is extremely energy efficient 7 May 2002. Archived from the original on 25 May
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ETERNITY REVISITED ALIEN IN THE MIRROR

The near death Experience (NDE) is nowadays pretty For independent-minded readers, those who want all
much accepted as being real and there are many; of the theories and supporting evidence to make up
thousands in fact, accounts of the phenomena given their own minds, Alien in the Mirror brings refreshing
by those who have experienced it and this book is one clarity and sanity to a topic long shrouded in smoke
in a long line. In this case the author, a former police and mirror confusion. Encyclopedic in its scope and
officer and a professor of psychology, decided that mind-expandingly rich in its detail, this book is destined
his experience was so significant that he had to share to be a classic, written by an investigative reporter,
it, perhaps to bring comfort to the bereaved and also Randall Fitzgerald, who has studied the alien contact
to those who are dying. In this case the author’s NDE phenomenon for over five decades. All aspects of this
came about when he suffered a severe internal bleed controversial subject are comprehensively covered—
and was rushed into hospital. When he had his NDE ancient astronaut theories, UFOs and UFO occupants,
he was not aware that this phenomenon can occur contactees and abductees, the ideas of skeptics and
and as a result did not know quite what to make of debunkers, and the SETI science program and its
it all, but he soon learned. As with others who have detractors. Each of the five sections open with new
experienced this, it changed him and amongst other findings and stunning revelations from the author’s
things he started to lecture on the subject. He also own thorough investigations. It presents a fascinating
finds it odd that science in general continues to ignore definitive history of the phenomenon, giving readers
the phenomenon, choosing instead to blame it the on objective and essential information that challenges
fundamental changes in human physiology that occur us to reexamine what we think we know about our
when the body starts to shut down in preparation for consensus reality. As the legendary theorist and
physical death and, to be fair, there is an element of scientist Jacques F. Vallée writes in his Foreword to
truth in this, but the NDE is clearly ‘something else Alien in the Mirror: “This book will stand as testimony
entirely. In fact this is very much the case when/if to a well-traveled road of investigation and wonder.
someone experiences their first ‘lucid dream’, when We should acknowledge it with gratitude, not only for
they are well aware that they are dreaming, but are in its neat classification of complex events, but for the
full control of the dream. The book is well written and hope it gives us of a long-delayed, much welcome
concise, but for this reviewer it is just one of many re-awakening of the true spirt of science after seventy
telling variations on the same theme. years of slumber.”

Author: Joseph B. Geraci, PhD. Authors: Randall Fitzgerald


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THE SAUCER AND THE SWASTIKA: PARANORMAL SUNDERLAND


THE DARK MYTH OF NAZI UFO’S
As soon as the reader picks up this book they know
In many ways this is one of the best-researched and immediately that it is a quality product, everything
important books I have read recently and if it was not from the ‘feel’ of the paper to the abundant images
for the flashes of ironic humour liberally sprinkled and text are all a bit ‘special’, but then again this is an
through it, it would also be deeply-worrying and Amberley publication so you would expect nothing
unsettling. This book is not just about the supposed less. As to the subject matter, well, the paranormal is
Nazi ‘Wunderwaffe’ or wonder-weapons, including the a subject that continually manages to fascinate and
supposed ‘Nazi UFO’s’, it also takes a deep dive into the terrify in equal measure and in this case the author,
mindset and incredible philosophy at the outer edges of Steve Watson, a local lad and resident of Newcastle
the Nazi mindset and what it sets out is often nigh-on takes a trawl through the hidden, supernatural world
unbelievable and literally mind-numbing. One of the of Sunderland. In fact one can pretty much open the
chapters is called ‘Tyrannosaurus Sex’ and describes book at random and something of interest is sure
the lunatic philosophy of Jorg Lanz von Liebenfels, to emerge. It’s all here, pubs, churches, cemeteries,
who, amazingly, managed to attract a following for his old buildings, (the Souter Lighthouse is a case in
revolting dino-porn…worse yet, he actually believed it, as point), theatres (always a splendid source of ghostly
did his followers. It’s the truly strange facts like these sightings) and even a Masonic Lodge and the local
that pepper the book that make it a really fascinating football stadium (the Stadium of Light which is home
and immensely readable one-off. Did these Nazi UFO’s to Sunderland Football Club). All have their own
ever get made and were they ever a real threat to the ghost (or two). Two of the most interesting accounts
Allies? You’ll have to read the book to find out. One appear in Chapters 13 and 23, one is a pub called The
thing I do disagree with, however, is how the author Shipwrights Arms and the other involves the curiously
treats Joseph P Farrell, because Farrell has gone to named ‘Spottee’s Cave’, which is near Roker Beach.
great lengths to show that much of today’s technology Both of the phantoms associated with these locations
did NOT come from UFOs (crashed or otherwise), but are the stuff of nightmares and therefore ideal for
from Nazi technology appropriated by the USA under inclusion in this book. Overall, this publication would be
the scandalous terms of Operation Paperclip…but that’s an ideal companion and guide for anyone considering
another story. Overall this is truly splendid book that exploring the ghostly history of Sunderland. Highly
just deserves to be read. recommended.

Author: S.D. Tucker Author: Steve Watson


Publisher: Amberley Publishing Price: £20 Publisher: Amberley Publishing Price: £15.99
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UFO LANDINGS UK THE NANTEOS GRAIL

This is a magnificent tribute to Ufology in the UK, This fascinating new release casts a fresh light on one
a subject that has largely been sidelined in favour of the most enigmatic objects that exists here in the
of the USA and elsewhere. As it says at end of the UK and that is the ‘Nanteos Grail’, also known as the
introduction ‘The following cases are the result of ‘Nanteos Healing Cup’. This object is closely linked to
something extraordinary and not the ordinary’, how very the fabled Holy Grail, the very Cup of Christ that was
true that is. This reviewer was surprised to see that used at The Last Supper; in fact some insist that it is in
the first report dates from 1767 (happily in my country fact the Grail Cup. The legend surrounding this object is
of Scotland) and continues right up to the present long and convoluted and goes back to the time of King
day. It was really enjoyable to read of encounters that Arthur, it also includes stories of apparently miraculous
were absolutely new to me and I have been around the cures attributed the now-damaged small wooden
subject for many, many years, perhaps too many. Many vessel from the who have taken a drink from it. The
of the accounts originate from the bulging files of the authors are careful to point out that these miraculous
British UFO research Association (BUFORA), with whom ‘cures’ are probably the result of the placebo effect,
the author was closely involved, while others come which is powerful in its own right, but what if they are
from the authors own files plus those of individuals not? The cup, which in 2014 was stolen from a house
like Steve Mera and John Hanson, who have had in Herefordshire and was eventually returned to its
more than their fair share of encounters of all kinds. rightful owners, is in fact a medieval wooden mazer
Yes, some of the classic encounters are represented bowl, which was kept for many years at the Nanteos
here, e.g. Robert Taylor’s famous Dechmont Woods Mansion, and now resides National Library of Wales, at
encounter, and included in the abundant illustrations is Aberystwyth. To be honest the Nanteos grail/cup looks
a shot of the famous trousers that were worn by Taylor pretty beaten up, which is a result of those who have
(now deceased) and ripped while it took place. But drunk from it over the years biting off tiny slivers of
more importantly it is the other encounters that really the wood it is made of. Presumably this was to assist
enthrall, because they happened to people who had no with the cure they hope to achieve; besides, if it really
previous knowledge of the subject and the effect on is the actual cup of Christ they had purloined a piece of
them was often disturbing and profound. Overall, this is the most powerful sacred talisman that is still with us.
an unmissable addition to the canon of material about Overall this book provides a fascinating insight into an
a subject that still confuses and confounds in equal object that may (or may not) have powerful religious
measure. significance and is a delight to read.

Author: Philip Mantle Authors: John Matthews, Ian Pegler, Fred Stedman-Jones
Publisher: Flying Disk Press Price: £13.99 Publisher: Amberley Publishing Price: £16.99
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REVIEWS
He-Man and The Masters of the
Universe (U)
FABULOUS FILMS
Anyone who grew up in the 1980’e and entertain. This collection has it all, 130
cannot but help having come across this episodes, a full length movie, a Christmas
remarkable cartoon character on TV. They Special and loads of bonus features and at
will also recall the stirring cry of ‘By the one time in a comic version He-Man teamed
Power of Greyskull…I have the Power’, and up with Superman He also had an action
the galactic superhero He-Man drew his figure made that the fans could buy. In
sword did battle with the nasty, sneaky, fact the franchise earned the toy company
super-villain Skeletor. This reviewer saw Mattel over a billion dollars. For the fan (they
the shows and remembers it this with still appear in full costume at comicons) this
MAIN CAST: John Erwin, Alan some affection. The tales have lost none is an absolute must-have. It’s not cheap, but
Oppenheimer, Linda Gary, of their power and continue to impress it’s well worth the money.
Eric Grunden
DIRECTORS: Various
AVAILABLE: £39.99 (DVD)

She-Ra: Princess of Power (U)


FABULOUS FILMS

This character appeared in the 1980’s to free Etheria from the tyrannical rule of
as a natural spin off from the He-Man the evil Hordak (another iteration of He-
franchise and since Superman had a female Man’s foe Skeletor) and his thugs. With
counterpart, so should He-Man. As with her magical Sword of Protection, Adora
He-Man, the Princess Adora had a secret can transform into She-Ra. Princess Adora
phrase of power, in this case, ‘For The had been kidnapped at birth by Hordak
Honour of Greyskull…I am She-Ra’ and she is and taken to Etheria. There she served as
transformed into the titular heroine. The set a mind-controlled Horde Force Captain
consists of 93 episodes plus bonus features until her brother (He-Man) rescued her.
MAIN CAST: Melendy Britt, spread over 12 discs and the plot is pretty After reuniting with her parents on Eternia,
George DiCnzo, Linda Gary, straightforward. It concerns the adventures She-Ra returns to Etheria and leads the
Erika Scheimer, Lou Scheimer of Princess Adora, who is He-Man’s twin Great Rebellion. This should be ideal fare for
DIRECTORS: Various sister, and leads a group of freedom fighters the kids…and it’s not all that unremittingly
AVAILABLE: £32.99 (DVD) known as the Great Rebellion in the fight violent either.

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THE LIGHT WITHIN A


HUMAN HEART
Learn how to access your inner light and power with
Denmark’s leading spiritual teachers.
by Lars Muhl

M
uhl invites us to join him on a journey
to the Qumran Caves in the Judean
desert to discover The Book of Asaph.
The journey and the sacred text itself
offer a breath-taking metaphor for the porcess of
spiritual Enlightenment.

In this practical guide to attaining your true Divine


Identity, Denmark’s leading spiritual teacher, Lar
Muhl, reveals exactly how to connect with your
magnificent inner power and attain your highest
possible potential.

Lars Muhl considers The Light Within A Human


Heart his most profound and powerful work. It is
for all who wish to embrace their endless magic
and enter Heaven on earth.

The Light Within


A Human Heart is
out June 2022
Click to buy.

Lars Muhl is a Danish mystic, musician and


betselling author. Since his youth he has studied
the spiritual traditions of the world. In 1996 he
was struck down by an unexplained sickness.
A telephone call put him in touch with the seer
Calle de Montségur, who got him out of bed and
by whom he was an apprentice until the seer’s
death in 2007. Lars’ previous books include The O
Manuscript and The Law of Light.

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Helpful Research Information: June Celestial Events (Info Courtesy of Sea Sky)
June 14
Full Moon, Supermoon
The Moon will be located on the opposite the Northern Hemisphere and the first day
side of the Earth as the Sun and its face of winter (winter solstice) in the Southern
will be will be fully illuminated. This phase Hemisphere.
occurs at 11:52 UTC. This full moon was
known by early Native American tribes as June 29
the Strawberry Moon because it signaled New Moon
the time of year to gather ripening fruit. The Moon will located on the same side
It also coincides with the peak of the of the Earth as the Sun and will not be
strawberry harvesting season. This moon visible in the night sky. This phase occurs
has also been known as the Rose Moon at 02:53 UTC. This is the best time of the
and the Honey Moon. This is also the first month to observe faint objects such as
of three supermoons for 2022. The Moon galaxies and star clusters because there is
will be near its closest approach to the no moonlight to interfere.
Earth and may look slightly larger and
brighter than usual.

June 16
Mercury at Greatest Western
Elongation
The planet Mercury reaches greatest
western elongation of 23.2 degrees from
the Sun. This is the best time to view
Mercury since it will be at its highest point
above the horizon in the morning sky. Look
for the planet low in the eastern sky just
before sunrise.

June 21
June Solstice

pic©m-gucci/istockphoto.com
The June solstice occurs at 09:05 UTC.
The North Pole of the earth will be tilted
toward the Sun, which will have reached
its northernmost position in the sky and
will be directly over the Tropic of Cancer
at 23.44 degrees north latitude. This is the
first day of summer (summer solstice) in

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NEWS NEWS ITEMS FROM AROUND THE WORLD
MAY 2022

DYSON SPHERES: THE KEY TO RESURRECTION


AND IMMORTALITY? SOURCE: BIGTHINK.COM

I s there an afterlife? Despite centuries


of inquiry, nobody’s made progress
on this fundamental question, and
perhaps nobody ever will. So, maybe a
better question is: Can humans create
an afterlife?
Some scientists think so. In 2018,
Alexey Turchin and Maxim Chernyakov,
both members of the Russian
Transhumanist Movement, wrote a
paper outlining the main ways science
might someday make immortality
©Rebekah Smith via Flickr

and resurrection possible. Called the


“Immortality Roadmap,” the project
describes the ways people might be able
to extend lifespan or live forever, from
using cryonics to freeze themselves, to
constructing nanobots for “treatment of
injuries and cell cyborgization.”
But the Immortality Roadmap
mentions one particularly grandiose religious expectations, where he meets his from being able to build such a complex
road to immortality. Outlined in “Plan relatives.” megastructure, and it’s unclear whether
C” of the project, the idea is to create a Of course, these are questions that it’ll ever be possible.
simulation of humanity’s past through Immortality Roadmap can’t answer. But “An actual sphere around the sun is
artificial intelligence that’s able to what’s clear is that, if technology ever completely impractical,” Stuart Armstrong,
digitally reconstruct people. becomes able to create a “resurrection a research fellow at Oxford University’s
The AI would use DNA and other simulation,” it’s going to require vast Future of Humanity Institute who has
information about individuals to create amounts of computing power — far more studied megastructure concepts, told
models of those individuals within a than what currently exists on Earth. That’s Popular Mechanics in 2020.
simulation, allowing recently deceased where Dyson spheres come into play. There are many questions about and
people to experience another chance In 1960, the theoretical physicist arguments against the feasibility of
at life — or, at least an approximation of Freeman Dyson published a paper Dyson spheres. Obviously, our modern
life. describing a peculiar strategy scientists engineering capabilities wouldn’t enable
“The main idea of a resurrection- could use to detect signs of alien life: us to build a structure that big and
simulation is that if one takes the DNA look for stars encompassed by gigantic complex, and then transport it to the
of a past person and subjects it to the megastructures. sun. And even if engineers could build
same developmental condition, as well Why? Dyson figured that if spacefaring an enormous sun shell, we don’t have
as correcting the development based alien civilizations do exist, then they must materials with enough tensile strength
on some known outcomes, it is possible have figured out a way to generate vast to hold together the structure once it’s
to create a model of a past person amounts of energy. One theoretical way surrounding the sun.
which is very close to the original,” the aliens could do that is through harnessing Other potential problems: space debris
researchers wrote. the power of stars: By surrounding a star colliding with the sphere, inefficiencies
“DNA samples of most people who with orbiting structures that capture solar in transporting the energy back to Earth,
lived in past 1 to 2 centuries could be energy, a civilization could theoretically and having to perform maintenance on a
extracted via global archeology. After generate far more energy than they could megastructure that’s dangerously close
the moment of death, the simulated on a planet. to the sun. In short, the Dyson sphere is a
person is moved into some form of That’s the basic idea behind Dyson very theoretical concept.
the afterlife, perhaps similar to his spheres. Of course, modern science is far Click here for the full article

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SCIENTISTS SHINE NEW LIGHT ON ROLE


OF EARTH’S ORBIT IN THE FATE OF
ANCIENT ICE SHEETS SOURCE: PHYS.ORG

I n a new study published in the journal


Science, the team from Cardiff
University has been able to pinpoint
exactly how the tilting and wobbling
of the Earth as it orbits around the
Sun has influenced the melting of ice
sheets in the Northern Hemisphere
over the past 2 million years or so.
Scientists have long been aware that
the waxing and waning of massive
Northern Hemisphere ice sheets results
from changes in the geometry of Earth’s
orbit around the Sun.

©Pixabay
There are two aspects of the Earth’s
geometry that can influence the melting
of ice sheets: obliquity and precession.
Obliquity is the angle of the Earth’s tilt Pleistocene, the duration of ice age cycles were smaller than their more recent
as it travels around the Sun and is the was controlled only by obliquity and these counterparts, and limited to higher
reason why we have different seasons. ice age cycles were almost exactly 41,000 latitudes where the effects of obliquity
Precession is how the Earth wobbles years long. dominate over precession. This probably
as it rotates, much like a slightly off- For decades, scientists have been explains why it has taken so long for us to
center spinning top. The angle of this puzzled as to why precession did not play find evidence of precession forcing during
wobble means that sometimes the a more important part in driving ice age early Pleistocene.”
Northern Hemisphere is closest to cycles during this period. “These findings are the culmination of a
the Sun and other times the Southern In their new study, the Cardiff University major effort, involving more than 12 years
Hemisphere is closest, meaning team reveal new evidence suggesting that of painstaking work in the laboratory to
that roughly every 10,000 years one precession did actually play a role during process nearly 10,000 samples and the
hemisphere will have warmer summers the early Pleistocene. development of a range of new analytical
compared to the other, before switching. Their results show that more intense approaches. Thanks to this we can finally
Scientists have determined that summers, driven by precession, have put to rest a long-standing problem in
over the past million years or so, the always caused Northern Hemisphere ice paleoclimatology and ultimately contribute
combined effects of obliquity and sheets to melt, but before 1 million years to a better understanding of Earth’s
precession on the waxing and waning ago, these events were less devastating climate system.”
of Northern Hemisphere ice sheets and did not lead to the complete collapse “Improving our understanding of Earth’s
has resulted, through complicated of ice sheets. climate dynamics, even in the remote past,
interactions within the climate system, Lead author of the study Professor is crucial if we hope to predict changes
in ice age cycles lasting approximately Stephen Barker, from Cardiff University’s over the next century and beyond. Ongoing
100 thousand years. School of Earth and Environmental changes may be manmade, but there’s
However, before 1 million years Sciences, says that “early Pleistocene only one climate system and we need to
ago, in a period known as the early ice sheets in the northern hemisphere understand it.”

A RARE BOOK PREDICTING ALIEN LIFE COULD SELL


FOR THOUSANDS AT AUCTION. SOURCE: BBC NEWS

A book, published in 1698, was found


at a free antique valuation event in
Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire, by
would have created other planets “just to
be looked” upon from Earth.
He concludes that aliens must have
The writer believed aliens enjoyed
astronomy and observation, sailed boats
and listened to music but also suffered
books valuer Jim Spencer. hands and feet like humans because of misfortunes, wars, afflictions and poverty
Inside, author Christiaan Huygens their “convenience”, writing: “What could “because that’s what leads us to invention
explores his fascination with the potential we invent or imagine that could be so and progress”.
existence of extra-terrestrial beings. exactly accommodated to all the design’d The book is considered such a rare find
Mr Spencer said its contents seemed uses as the Hands are? Shall we give them that it will have a guide price of £2,000-
“almost comical”. The book, lengthily an Elephant’s Proboscis.” £3,000 when it goes to auction in July.
entitled The Celestial World Discover’d: Or, He also suggests that “celestial beings” Mr Spencer said: “It’s fascinating to
Conjectures Concerning the Inhabitants, must have feet “[unless] they have found think who turned these pages in 1698,
Plants and Productions of the Worlds in out the art of flying in some of those what they must’ve felt when reading these
the Planets, Huygens questions why God Worlds”. descriptions of life on Jupiter or Saturn.”

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THE MILITARY’S UFO DATABASE NOW HAS INFO


FROM OVER 400 REPORTED INCIDENTS SOURCE: NPR.ORG
©Alex Brandon/AP

A database of reports of UFOs now


includes about 400 incidents, up from
143 assessed in a report released about a
destigmatize such reports is working, he
added.
“Navy and air force crews now have
Moultrie said in his opening remarks. “Our
goal is to strike that delicate balance – one
that will enable us to maintain the public’s
year ago, a Navy intelligence official told step-by-step procedures for reporting trust while preserving those capabilities
lawmakers at a congressional hearing on UAPs on their kneeboard, in the cockpit,” that are vital to the support of our service
Tuesday. Bray said. personnel.”
The military’s 2021 report said no It’s an important effort, said Rep. Andre “We do not want potential adversaries to
evidence of aliens had been found. Scott Carson, D-Ind., who noted that skepticism know exactly what we see or understand,”
W. Bray, the deputy director of Naval around UFOs likely has led pilots to avoid Moultrie said later in the hearing, which
intelligence, told lawmakers that they still making the reports, or getting laughed at was followed by a closed-door, classified
haven’t uncovered anything “nonterrestrial when they did. session.
in origin,” even though there are incidents Tuesday’s session, the first public As the effort moves forward, Moultrie
they can’t explain. hearing on UFOs in more than 50 years, told lawmakers, a major focus will be on
None of the documented objects had also included testimony from Ronald S. improving cooperation with the Federal
attempted to communicate with U.S. Moultrie, the Pentagon’s top intelligence Aviation Administration and other
aviators, and no attempt had been made official. He noted the competing needs for government agencies.
to communicate with them, he said, as transparency and secrecy in the hearing. In a back-and-forth with Rep. Brad
they all appeared to be unmanned. Moultrie noted that he’s a science fiction Wenstrup, R-Ohio, Bray agreed that
Reports of unidentified flying objects – fan, and that simple human curiosity standardizing the civilian reporting
now called unexplained aerial phenomena means that “we want to know what’s out process would also be useful. While the
or UAPs by the military – have been there just like you want to know what’s out military’s database does include some
increasing, said Bray. He cited improved there.” But he added that his top goal was civilian reports, the vast majority have
sensors, an increase in drones and other to keep U.S. military personnel and bases come from within the military.
non-military unmanned aerial systems, safe. It’s the first congressional hearing held
and “aerial clutter” such as Mylar balloons “We are also mindful of our obligation to on the subject since a push by then-Rep.
as causes for the uptick. protect sensitive sources and methods,” Gerald Ford led to a hearing in 1969.
Incidents in the 2021 report date as far
back as 2004 and were based on both
sensor data and observations by military
While the military’s database does
aviators, said Bray.
Many of the latest entries do not have include some civilian reports, the vast
sensor data — they’re from people coming
forward with older stories that they majority have come from within the
chose not to report at the time, Bray said.
That’s evidence that the military’s drive to military.
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SCIENTISTS HAVE CREATED ICE-19,


A BRAND NEW STATE OF MATTER SOURCE: SCI-NATURE.COM

A new study by a team at the University


of Chicago, published in the October
14, 2021 issue of the journal Nature
Physics, reports on the creation of a new
phase of ice called “superionic ice”. Turns
out, the ice that tinkles in our glasses of
Coke, known as Ih, is actually just one of at
least 19 different phases of ice.
Formed from water, ice is comprised
of only hydrogen and oxygen atoms in
the famous H2O configuration of two

© Psiĥedelisto/Wikimedia Commons
hydrogen atoms attached to one oxygen
atom.
One intriguing idea is that ice may
become superionic when heated at very
high temperatures and pressures. This
exotic state would contain liquid-like
hydrogen ions moving within a solid lattice
of oxygen.
Superionic ice was first predicted in
1988, and since then a number of research
groups have used simulation and static
compression techniques to try and study took up stationary positions, while the possibility of life on other planets that
this phase of ice. hydrogen atoms, which were stripped much more likely.
The first experimental evidence for of their electrons thus turning them into The different phases of ice are
superionic water ice came from a 2018 positively charged ions, were free to flow differentiated by their crystalline structure,
study by scientists from the Lawrence throughout the ice, acting like a fluid. The or the ordering of their protons, and also
Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), UC free-flowing ions blocked all light from by their density. The most common ice
Berkeley, and the University of Rochester. passing through the ice, making the ice on Earth, Ih, occurs when liquid water is
They first sandwiched a droplet of water black in color. cooled to below 32 ° F, 0 ° C, or 273.15 ° K
between two diamonds that functioned The work published in 2021 by the at standard atmospheric pressure.
like miniature anvils, squeezing the droplet team in Chicago used similar methods In 1963, famed writer Kurt Vonnegut
with 2.5 GPa of pressure (25 thousand to elucidate what may be another phase published a novel entitled Cat’s Cradle. It is
atmospheres). This “pre-compressed” of superionic ice. They squeezed water a strange amalgam of science, technology,
water into the room-temperature ice VII, a droplets in a diamond anvil to pressures the cold war, and religion. It concerns a
cubic crystalline form of ice. of 20 GPa, and shoot lasers through the writer who travels to the hometown of
The team then shifted to the University diamonds to heat the sample up. Finally, a fictional Nobel Prize winner physicist
of Rochester’s Laboratory for Laser they sent a beam of X-rays through named Felix Hoenikker to determine what
Energetics where they bombarded one the sample, and pieced together the Hoenikker was doing on the day the U.S.
of the diamonds with up to six intense arrangement of the atoms inside the dropped the atom bomb on Hiroshima,
beams of UV light. This launched strong superionic ice by observing how the August 6, 1945.
shock waves of several hundred GPa into X-rays scattered off the sample. The writer soon learns from Hoenikker’s
the sample, to compress and heat the ice The positively-charged, free-flowing three adult children that the famous
at the same time. The result verified the hydrogen ions in superionic ice also scientist had been playing the string
existence of super-ionic ice but was only create a magnetic field, and this is highly game “Cat’s Cradle” on that fateful day.
able to create it for a few nanoseconds interesting to scientists because many The writer also learns that Hoenikker has
before it melted away - not long enough to icy bodies in our solar system, such as created a mysterious substance called
measure its properties. Neptune, Uranus, and Jupiter’s moons, Ice-9, which is a phase of ice that remains
In a more recent study, conducted in Europa, Io, and Ganymede, have magnetic solid at room temperature and won’t melt
2019, the team was able to create a more fields. Scientists are now wondering if until the temperature reaches 114.4 °F.
stable form of the ice by squeezing a those magnetic fields are caused by the The real Ice-9 wasn’t discovered until
water droplet with a 0.2-carat diamond presence of superionic ice in the cores of 1968, five years after Vonnegut’s book
anvil and blasting it with a laser, those bodies. was published. Gratefully, it doesn’t have
pressurizing the droplet to 3.5 million This question is vital since a planet’s any of the pernicious attributes of its
times Earth’s atmospheric pressure at magnetic field, or magnetosphere, is what fictional counterpart, and we’re not going
temperatures hotter than the surface of prevents dangerous cosmic rays and UV to tell you what happens in the book if the
the sun. The ice was the eighteenth form radiation from reaching a planet’s surface fictional Ice-9 ends all life on Earth, but it
to be discovered, and so was named Ice and obliterating all life. If superionic ice is does make you wonder about new phases
XVIII (“Ice 18”). common in the cores of planets outside of ice yet to be discovered.
In Ice XVIII, oxygen atoms in the droplet our solar system, that would make the Click here for the full article.

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US AIRCRAFT CARRIER ‘STALKED BY 40FT BALL


OF FIRE UFO SEEN BY HUNDREDS OF CREW IN
BIGGEST MODERN MASS SIGHTING’ SOURCE: THE SUN

A UFO was allegedly seen by hundreds


of military witnesses as it hovered
over the deck of a nuclear-powered US
Navy aircraft carrier, former crewmen
have claimed.
The USS Ronald Reagan is said to have
been the scene of what may be one of the
most extraordinary UFO encounters in US
military history as a 40-foot orange ball of
light appeared near the ship.
It comes as US officials are increasingly
opening up about the fact there have been
a string of unknown and unexplained
incidents near warships and military

pic© The Sun


installations.
And the Pentagon now appears to be
taking the UFO issue more seriously, with
a new dedicated office signed into law last
year following a landmark report by the “The entire bridge team was pilots. USS Ronald Reagan was the ninth in
Department of Defence. My assumption is yes [they had seen class of the supercarriers - and had a crew
With bombshell videos showing fighter something similar before], but I asked an of 5,680 sailors, an airwing of 2,480, and
planes observing strange objects in the officer if any of them were talking about it 80 warplanes.
sky, the reports of the encounter over the the next day and he said ‘yes’,” the former The 101,000 ton, 1,092 feet long vessel
USS Ronald Reagan are the latest to be US Navy sailor told The Sun Online. is powered by two nuclear reactors -
revealed by servicemen. The orb - or “the thing” - remained near making her maiden active deployment in
And it comes as next week there will the supercarrier until Mr Olesiak’s watch 2006.
be historic hearings in Washington DC on came to an end and he was relieved by Other crew members Patrick Gokey
UFOs - now more commonly referred to as another crewman. and Derrick Smith have also said they
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP). He described it as reminding him of saw something that night aboard the USS
Documentary filmmaker Dave C. Beaty Biblical descriptions of the “burning bush” Ronald Reagan.
- who produced 2019 film The Nimitz and having “negative energy”. Mr Gokey reportedly saw the object
Encounters about the famous 2004 US Mr Olesiak believes its “possible” when it moved round to the rear of the
Navy encounter with the “Tic Tac” object - someone may have taken photos and ship flying in “half circles” before taking off
has been investigating the case. videos of the object - but the incident “super fast”.
And he has helped former navy occured before camera phones were And meanwhile Mr Smith, who was on
quartermaster Karol Olesiak and his common and crew did not carry their the starboard watch, reported seeing the
shipmates to come forward about what mobiles. object and noticing “all the people on the
happened that night off the East Coast of “It’s hard to believe somebody would be flight deck” looking up at the phenomena.
the US in 2004. sitting on it for this long,” he told The Sun The three shipmates have no idea what
Mr Olesiak - who was in active service Online. the strange object was - and Mr Olesiak
from 2002 to 2006 - was aboard the USS “All the people on the flight decks claims they were told not to report the
Ronald Reagan and was stationed on the [would have seen it], it was 8pm, it wasn’t incident in the ship’s log.
watch. like the whole ship was asleep - at least He puts this down to a culture of stigma
He was on the carrier’s central island 300 people,” Mr Olesiak told Mr Beaty’s within the US military when it came to
when he saw the giant floating orange orb YouTube channel The Nimitz Encounters. reporting UFOs.
at around 8pm. Mr Beaty said the encounter could be “There is an immune system against
The quartermaster estimated the object one of the “the biggest mass sightings” of fairy dust in the military,” he said.
was up to 40 foot across - hovering over a UFO in modern history, with Mr Olesiak However, there is a disagreement
the flight deck - and he says hundreds of adding he is surprised it has not come out between the three witnesses on the
people working on the deck must have before. duration of the encounter - with accounts
seen the phenomena. It is latest UFO encounter to have been ranging from minutes to hours.
The UFO was near ship - which was reported near to a US nuclear asset, And the the exact date of the encounter
travelling around 22 knots - for around following reports of similar objects near is unknown - but it is believed to have
four hours, according to Mr Olesiak. missile bases and other nuclear-powered occured in early 2004.
And he said there was an eerie calm warships. The incident occured while the new
amongst the senior officers and bridge US military personnel have spoken out nuclear-powered carrier was undergoing a
crew - as if they had seen such a about these encounters as the UFO issue shakedown before being moved into active
phenomena before. takes centre stage in Washington DC. service.

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‘WOW!’ SIGNAL LIKELY ORIGINATED FROM


HABITABLE SOLAR SYSTEM SOURCE: CURIOSMOS

S cientists have been baffled by the


“Wow!” signal since it was discovered
in 1977. Since the discovery, we have not
really known where exactly the signal
originated from. There were several
theories and we had an approximate
idea. Now, a paper published by Alberto
Caballero, a Habitable Exoplanet Hunting
Project researcher, suggests the enigmatic
alien signal originated from a potentially
habitable star system, one that could have
a planet where life exists.
On August 15, 1977, at 11:16 p.m., the
Big Ear radio telescope received a radio
signal of unknown origin. This signal is
believed to have lasted 72 seconds, and
it originated from the eastern part of the
constellation Sagittarius. Its intensity
was 30 times higher than the background
noise.
According to the protocol used, this
signal was not recorded but instead was
registered by the observatory’s computer
on a section of continuous paper designed
for this purpose.
The Big Ear telescope – which is no
longer in function — was tasked with
searching the cosmos for messages in
the electromagnetic frequency band of
1420.4056 megahertz, produced by the
element hydrogen.
A few days later, the young Ohio State
University professor Jerry R. Ehman, who the signal could come from, as detailed in 19281982-2640123 with our telescopes
was volunteering on the SETI project by a new study published in the International and detect a habitable planet from which
reviewing computer records, discovered Journal of Astrobiology. the Wow! signal may have been emitted,
the strongest anomalous signal ever The objective was to determine if there it would take hundreds of years for our
detected by a radio telescope. were any habitable star systems within the answer to arrive.
The signal was known as Wow! due to region where the Wow! signal came from, In the meantime, Caballero
Ehman’s annotation on the continuous based on the assumption that “it came suggests looking for exoplanets and
paper, characterizing his surprise and from a star system similar to ours.” technosignatures — technological signs
emotion. The sequence of the said signal Caballero managed to narrow down of extraterrestrial intelligence — in that
was: 6EQUJ5. the search to a single Sun-like star called system and in other candidates.
Decades later, researchers still have 2MASS 19281982-2640123, located According to the American Astronomical
no idea where exactly it came from 1,800 light-years away in the constellation Society’s history, scientists have tried
or what caused it, spawning a host of Sagittarius. It is likely to have a broad repeatedly to find follow-ups originating
theories all along, from it being a pair of habitable zone, and there could be a world from the same place but have been
passing comets—which has since been similar to ours in orbit around it. unsuccessful.
debunked—to the ultimate proof that we While it’s certainly a bit of a stretch— This has led many experts to suggest
are not alone in the universe. Caballero makes some pretty broad that the Wow! Signal most likely originated
Now, astronomer Alberto Caballero has assumptions to arrive at this candidate— from some kind of natural event and is not
searched data collected by the European other astronomers say he’s not as crazy a call from advanced alien civilizations.
Space Agency’s Gaia space observatory to as he seems. Previously, astronomers have suggested
zero in on a candidate star system where However, if we look at 2MASS all kinds of theories to explain the origin
of the Wow! signal. In an interview with

Decades later, researchers still have no “Centauri Dreams,” plasma physicist


James Benford explains his paper

idea where exactly it came from or what presented for publishing in the Journal
Astrobiology and reveals why he believes

caused it, spawning a host of theories.


there are arguments in favor of the Wow!
signal being created by an alien craft.

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