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UFOs- Reframing the Debate

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by Robbie Graham


  76 Smiles Lewis, “Majestic Art of Mind Kontrol Majestic Art of Electronic Disinformation,” ELFIS Journal of Possible Paradigms, Spring 2001, http://www.elfis.net/mkc/mkcx/majesticarts.htm

  77 Craig Medred, “‘The Fourth Kind’ pays for telling a big fib,” Alaska Dispatch News, Nov. 11, 2009, https://www.adn.com/features/article/fourth-kind-pays-telling-big-fib/2009/11/12/

  78 “PRESS RELEASE: H.R. MacMillan Space Centre reveals starring role in UFO hoax,” H.R. MacMillan Space Centre, Sept. 10, 2013, http://www.spacecentre.ca/images/spacecentre-drone-creates-buzz-091013.pdf

  79 Paul Herman, “New UFO sighting in Sandton a fake,” News24, Dec. 1. 2015, http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/new-ufo-sighting-in-sandton-a-fake-20151201

  80 Raymond D. Duvall and Alexander Wendt, “Sovereignty and the UFO,” Political Theory. Vol. 36, No. 4., 2008, 607-633,

  http://minotb52ufo.com/pdf/Wendt-Duvall-Sovereignty-and-the-UFO.pdf

  See also: Raymond D. Duvall and Alexander Wendt, “Militant Agnosticism and the UFO Taboo: A call for reason and responsible action” in: Leslie Kean (ed.), UFOs: A call for reason and responsible action, 2010, 269-281, https://experts.umn.edu/en/publications/militant-agnosticismand-the-ufo-taboo-a-call-for-reason-and-resp, and: Russ Wellen, “To the U.S. Government, UFOs Are a Threat to Its Sovereign Rule. Few Americans actually fear UFOs, but the U.S. government treats them like an existential threat,” Foreign Policy In Focus, Oct. 24, 2011, http://fpif.org/to_the_us_government_ufos_are_a_threat_to_its_sovereign_rule/

  MJ BANIAS

  1 “The True Cost of the Bank Bailout,” PBS.org, Sept. 3. 2010, www.pbs.org/wnet/need-to-know/economy/the-true-cost-of-the-bank-bailout/3309/

  2 Mike Collins, “The Big Bank Bailout,” Forbes.com, Jul. 14, 2015, www.forbes.com/sites/mikecollins/2015/07/14/the-big-bank-bailout/#6e05e25b3723

  3 Slavoj Žižek, “Looking Awry; An Introduction to Jacques Lacan through Popular Culture” (October Books, 1991).

  4 Alejandro Rojas, “Chris Rutkowski, 2015 Canadian UFO Report,” Open Minds UFO Radio, 2016.

  5 Katie Levine, “Neil deGrasse Tyson Returns Again,” Nerdist Podcast, Mar. 7, 2014, www.nerdist.com/nerdist-podcast-neil-degrasse-tyson-returns-again/

  6 “Heads They Win, Tails We Lose; How Corporations Corrupt Science at the Public’s Expense,” The Scientific Integrity Program of the Union of Concerned Scientists, Feb. 2012, 13, www.ucsusa.org/sites/default/files/legacy/assets/documents/scientific_integrity/how-corporations-corruptscience.pdf

  7 Ibid, 18.

  8 Jennifer Washburn, “Science’s Worst Enemy: Corporate Funding,” Discover Magazine, Oct. 11, 2007, www.discovermagazine.com/2007/oct/sciences-worst-enemy-private-funding

  9 John Sides, “Fifty Percent of Americans believe in some conspiracy theory. Here’s why,” Washington Post, Feb. 19, 2015, www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2015/02/19/fifty-percent-of-americans-believe-in-some-conspiracy-theory-heres-why/

  10 “Noam Chomsky on the (in)compatibility of democracy and capitalism,” Can We Do It Ourselves? 2015, www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xz9HWMX40T8

  RED PILL JUNKIE

  1 Episode 3: “Harmony of the Worlds,” Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1980).

  2 The Terence McKenna Wiki: Shamanic Approaches to the UFO. Angels, Aliens and Archetypes Conference, San Francisco, California, Nov. 21, 1987, terencemckenna.wikispaces.com/Shamanic+Approaches+to+the+UFO

  See also: https://youtu.be/22F6pZU_PC8

  3 J.M.R. Higgs, “From Operation Mindf**k to the White Room: The Strange Discordian Journey of the KLF,” Darklore. Vol. 7, 2012, Daily Grail Publishing, www.dailygrail.com/Guest-Articles/2013/5/The-Strange-Journey-the-KLF

  4 For example, the Shaver Mystery, as popularized by Ray Palmer, editor of Amazing Stories. See: Raymond Hall, The Andreasson Affair (New York: Prentice Hall, 1979).

  5 Grimerica Talks to Crop Circle Maker Matthew Williams, The Grimerica Podcast, Nov. 28, 2014, www.grimerica.ca/williams

  6 Episode 12: “Encyclopaedia Galactica,” Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1980).

  See also: Contact. Dir. Robert Zemeckis, Warner Brothers (1997).

  7 Colm A. Kelleher Ph.D. and George Knapp, Hunt for the Skinwalker: Science Confronts the Unexplained at a Remote Ranch in Utah (Paraview Pocket Books, 2005).

  8 John A. Keel, The Mothman Prophecies (Panther Books, 1975).

  9 Loren Coleman, “Red Dawn Again,” Jul. 26, 2012, http://copycateffect.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/red-dawn-again.html

  10 Batman: The Dark Knight, Dir. Christopher Nolan, Warner Brothers (2008).

  11 Larry Warren and Peter Robbins, Left at East Gate: A First-Hand Account of the Rendlesham Forest UFO Incident, Its Cover-Up and Investigation (Da Capo Press, 1997).

  12 Nick Redfern, Contactees: A History of Alien-Human Interaction (New Page Books, 2010).

  13 Richard M. Dolan, UFOs & the National Security State Volume 2: The Cover-Up Exposed, 1973-1991, (Keyhole Publishing Company, 2009).

  14 Jacques Vallée, Passport to Magonia: From Folklore to Flying Saucers (Daily Grail Publishing, 2014).

  15 Red Pill Junkie, “Portents & Politics: UFO Apparitions Connected to Social Disturbances?”, Aug. 10, 2011,

  http://dailygrail.com/blogs/red-pill-junkie/2011/8/Portents-Politics-UFO-Apparitions-Connected-Social-Disturbances

  16 Ronald D. Story (ed.), The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters (Constable and Robinson, 2001).

  17 Mack Maloney, UFOs in Wartime: What They Didn’t Want You to Know (Berkley: Original Edition, 2011).

  18 Where Did the Road Go? Radio Show. Live on WVBR Every Saturday at 11 PM Eastern, wheredidtheroadgo.com

  19 Seriah Azkath, broadcaster of the New Aeon, Radio Misterioso Podcast, Mar. 29, 2016, radiomisterioso.com/2016/03/29/seriah-azkath-broadcaster-of-the-new-aeon/

  20 See: hiddenexperience.blogspot.com

  21 Dave Lifton, “That Time John Lennon Spotted a UFO in New York,” Ultimate Classic Rock, Aug. 23, 2015, www.ultimateclassicrock.com/john-lennon-ufo/

  22 Timothy Green Beckley, “David Bowie, UFOs, Witchcraft, Cocaine and Paranoia,” UFO Digest, 2010, http://ufodigest.com/article/david-bowie-ufos-witchcraft-cocaine-and-paranoia

  23 Gary Johnson, “Lam I Am,” Aleister Crowley 2012, Oct. 20, 2012, https://ac2012.com/2012/10/20/lam-i-am/

  24 Yabba Dabble Doo: How Aleister Crowley Introduced the Iconic Gray Alien, By Richelle Hawks (2007), http://www.ufodigest.com/news/1107/dabbledoo.html

  25 Alan Moore and David Lloyd, V for Vendetta, DC Comics, 1988.

  26 Richard M. Dolan and Bryce Zabel, A.D., After Disclosure: When the Government Finally Reveals the Truth about Alien Contact (New Page Books, 2012).

  27 “Timothy & Terence,” Podcast 369, Psychedelic Salon, Sept. 17, 2013, https://psychedelicsalon.com/podcast-369-timothy-terence/

  SUSAN DEMETER-ST. CLAIR

  1 Personal correspondence with UFO witness, Aug. 24, 2010. All UFO witness interviews cited within this essay were conducted in confidentiality. Names of interviewees are withheld by agreement.

  2 Massimo Teodorani, The Hyperspace of Consciousness (Sweden: Elmenta, 2015), 206, 208-209.

  3 J. Allen Hynek, Speaking at the United Nations, Nov. 27, 1978, http://www.ufoevidence.org/documents/doc757.htm

  4 Jacques F. Vallée and Eric W. Davis, “Incommensurability, Orthodoxy and the Physics of High Strangeness: a 6-layer model for anomalous phenomena.” In Proceedings, 2003, 223-239.

  5 Personal correspondence with UFO witness, and telephone interviews, 2014.

  6 J. Allen Hynek, personal correspondence with Iris Owen dated Aug. 24, 1977, Henry McKay UFO Archives, http://psican.org/index.php/ufological-information/947-hynek-letter-to-iris-owen

  7 Jacques F. Vallée and Eric W. Davis. “Incommensurability, Orthodoxy and the Physics of High Strangeness: a 6-layer model for anomalous phenomena,” In: Proceedings, 2003, 223-239.

  8 Ibid.

  9 Ibid.

  10 Ibid.

  11 Teodorani, The
Hyperspace of Consciousness, 208-209.

  12 D. Scott Rogo, The haunted universe (Anomalist Books, 2006).

  13 Eric Ouellet, Illuminations: The UFO Experience as a Parapsychological Event (San Antonio and Charlottesville: Anomalist Books, 2015), 25-26, 28-29.

  14 Ibid.

  15 Susan Demeter-St. Clair, “Parapsychology and UFOs: Are UFOs a psychic event?” Susanstclair, Jan. 2016, http://www.susanstclair.com/index.php/podcast/14-parapsychology-and-ufos-are-ufos-a-psychic-event

  16 Ouellet, Illuminations, 25-26, 28-29.

  17 David Halperin and Eric Ouellet, “(Para)psychology and the UFO,” Davidhalperin, Sept.23, 2016, http://www.davidhalperin.net/eric-ouellet-parapsychology-and-the-ufo-2/

  Further Reading

  Hilary Evans, Visions, apparitions, alien visitors (Aquarian Press, 1984).

  Carl Jung, Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth (Princeton University Press, 1970).

  Jacques Vallée, The Invisible College (New York E. P. Dutton, 1975).

  Jacques Vallée, “The Psycho-Physical Nature of UFO Reality: A Speculative Framework,” AIAA Thesis-Antithesis Conference Proceedings, Los Angeles, 1975, 19-21.

  RYAN SPRAGUE

  1 Jasper Copping, “UFO enthusiasts admit the truth may not be out there after all,” The Daily Telegraph, Nov. 4, 2012, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/ufo/9653499/UFO-enthusiasts-admit-the-truthmay-not-be-out-there-after-all.html

  2 Max Miller, Saucers Magazine. Vol. 7, Issue 1, 1959.

  3 Jenny Randles, “Ufology: Is There Life After Death?” UFO Evidence, http://www.ufoevidence.org/documents/doc584.htm

  4 Jim Keith, “UFOs at the Edge of Reality,” Paranoia Magazine, Issue 17, 1997, http://www.paranoiamagazine.com/2016/05/ufos-edge-reality-lecture-jim-keith/

  5 Ibid.

  6 Jacques Vallée, Messengers of Deception: UFO Contacts and Cults (Daily Grail Publishing, 2008), 20.

  7 Eric Wargo, “Consciousness Inside-Out,” The Nightshirt, Nov. 2014, http://thenightshirt.com/?p=1952

  8 Jacques Vallée, Passport to Magonia: From Folklore to Flying Saucers (Daily Grail Publishing, 2014).

  9 Carl Jung, Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies (Princeton University Press, 1979), vii.

  10 David Clarke, How UFOs Conquered the World: The History of a Modern Myth (Aurum Press, 2015).

  GREG BISHOP

  1 Ralph Coon (Producer), Whispers from Space (1995). DVD (out of print).

  2 Bruce Duensing, “Behaviorism Beyond Physicality,” A Transit of Contingencies, May 16, 2015, http://tarnsitsandstations.blogspot.com/2015/05/behaviorismbeyond-physicality.htm

  3 “Pyrrhonism,” Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrrhonism

  4 Keith Thompson, Angels and Aliens: UFOs and the Mythic Imagination (Addison Wesley Publishing, 1991), 191.

  5 Greg Bishop and Wes Nations, “Karla Turner: Don’t Exclude the Anomalous” in Wake Up Down There! (Adventures Unlimited Press, 1995), 94.

  6 Jerome Clark, The UFO Encyclopedia: The Phenomenon from The Beginning Volume 1 (Omnigraphics, 1998), 228.

  7 Albert Rosales. See: http://ufoinfo.com/humanoid/

  8 “Abductee Jan Wolski Interviewed-30th Anniversary of Emilcin Abduction,” ufocasebook.com, http://www.ufocasebook.com/2008/wolski.html

  9 Jim Brandon, The Rebirth of Pan (Firebird Press, 1983), 9.

  10 Greg Bishop (Producer), “John Fenderson and Adam Gorightly—Perception, Magick, and the “Missing Fundamental,” Audio podcast, Radio Misterioso, Aug. 15, 2015, http://radiomisterioso.com/2015/09/05/john-fenderson-and-adam-gorightly-perception-magick-and-the-missing-fundamental/

  11 Joseph McMoneagle, Mind Trek: Exploring Consciousness, Time, and Space Through Remote Viewing (Hampton Roads Publishing, 1993/1997), 187-188.

  12 Greg Bishop, “Interview with Parapsychologist Dean Radin” in Wake Up Down There! (Adventures Unlimited Press, 1995), 313.

  13 Hal Arkowitz and Scott O. Lilienfeld, “Why Science Tells Us Not to Rely on Eyewitness Accounts” Scientific American, Jan. 1, 2010.

  14 Greg Miller, “How Our Brains Make Memories,” Smithsonian magazine, May, 2010.

  15 Donald Hoffman, Do we see reality as it is? [Video file], March, 2015, http://www.ted.com/talks/donald_hoffman_do_we_see_reality_as_it_is

  16 Ibid.

  17 Ibid.

  18 Greg Bishop (Producer), “Mac Tonnies: Cryptoterrestrials” [Audio podcast], Radio Misterioso, Jul. 9, 2009, http://radiomisterioso.com/2009/07/27/mac-tonnies/

  19 Paul Davies and Niels Henrik Gregerson, Information and the Nature of Reality: From Physics to Metaphysics (Cambridge University Press, 2010), 1-2.

  20 John Archibald Wheeler, A Journey Into Gravity and Spacetime, Scientific American Library (New York: W.H. Freeman, 1990), 5.

  ROBERT BRANDSTETTER

  1 Wendy Conners, Faded Discs: UFOs and Law Enforcement 1957-1981 Guide. Officer Dale Spaur & Officer Barney Neff statement at the Ravenna, Portage County, Ohio police station. Interview by Major Hector Quintanilla, Jr., May 11, 1966.

  2 Donald D. Hoffman, “Conscious Realism and the Mind-Body Problem,” Imprint Academic Mind & Matter Vol. 6(1), Department of Cognitive Science, University of California at Irvine, USA, 2008, 87-121.

  3 Ibid.

  4 Alberto Francisco Do Carmo, “UFOVIA internacional.” UFOVIA internacional. The Nautilus Foundation, Warsaw, Poland, 2004. Web. 20 Nov. 2016.

  5 Tomek Wierszalowicz, “Abductee Jan Wolski Interviewed-30th Anniversary of Emilcin Abduction,” UFO Casebook—UFOs, UFO Sightings, UFO Case files, Photographs, Aliens, 2008.

  6 Bruce Duensing, “Understanding Reality.” Letter to TDOS Discussion Group, May 24, 2015.

  7 Aime Michel, “The strange case of Dr. ‘X’ – part 2,” Flying Saucer Review 17.6, 1971.

  8 Greg Bishop, It Defies Language!: Essays on UFOs and Other Weirdness (Los Angeles: Excluded Middle Press, 2016), 183.

  9 Chris A. Rutkowski, Abductions & Aliens: What’s Really Going On (Toronto: Dundurn Press, 1999), 234.

  10 “Iris Phalene Interview 3.” Personal interview, Oct. 13, 2005.

  11 In the early-1950s, one of the most notable of the UFO contactees, Truman Bethurum, claimed to have made contact with a voluptuous female Captain, Aura Rhanes, who piloted a ship from the planet Clarion hidden on the other side of the moon. He wrote her poetry and claimed she was the primary reason why his wife left him.

  INDEX

  A

  Adamski, George 6, 11, 154, 159

  Albarelli, Hank 119–120, 123, 247–248

  Arkowitz, Hal 199, 257

  ASSAP 179

  Azkath, Seriah 157, 254

  B

  Bearden, Thomas 116, 246

  Beason, Joseph 92–93, 106

  Bender, Albert K. 191

  Bennewitz, Paul 83, 124, 233, 249

  Bishop, Greg viii–ix, xvii, xxx–xxxi, 117, 185–186, 189, 216, 220, 233–234, 246, 249, 256

  Bragalia, Anthony 92–93, 104–105, 243–244

  Brahe, Tycho 49–50

  Brewer, Jack vii, ix, xiv, xxvii, 35, 84, 230, 237, 242

  Budden, Albert 112, 245

  Bullard. Thomas E. iv, 51, 239

  Bunge, Mario 55, 239

  C

  Antonio Caravaca, José 96, 100, 102, 243

  Cameron, Ewen 121, 122

  Cameron, Norman 156

  Cannon, Martin 119, 247

  Carey, Thomas 92–96, 99–101, 105–106, 244

  Carr, Robert S. 127

  Carrion, James 36–37, 83, 124, 237, 241, 249

  Clark, Jerome 119, 247, 256

  Clarke, Arthur C. 59, 150, 152

  Clarke, David xxx, 12, 186, 256

  Close Encounters of the Third Kind 167–168

  Coleman, Loren 153, 253

  Condon Report 160

  Crowley, Aleister 61, 159, 254

  D

  Davis, Eric 172, 254–255

  The Day the Earth Stood Still 33, 38

  Delicado, Miriam
, 26

  DeLonge, Tom 128, 251

  Devereux, Paul 111, 112, 118, 245

  Dew, Adam 92–95, 98–99, 101, 103, 106

  Dolan, Richard 51, 102–103, 229, 233, 239, 253–254

  Doty, Richard C. 124

  Dougal, Serena Roney 111, 244

  Douglass, Elaine 25

  Duensing, Bruce 190, 219, 234, 256, 258

  E

  ECETI ranch 80, 86

  Einstein, Albert 8, 50, 150, 209, 238

  Elsberry, Maureen 23

  Espino, Alejandro 96

  Evans, Hilary 170, 255

  Extraterrestrial Hypothesis (ETH) v, xxiii, 18, 35, 50, 68, 73, 167,

  F

  Fernandez, Gilles 95–96, 98, 100, 243

  Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth 166, 255

  Fox, James 28, 233

  Friedman, Stanton T. 52, 65, 127, 239

  G

  Galileo 50, 148–149, 238

  Gellar, Uri 54

  GeoPsyche 110, 117–118

  Gilliland Estate 80

  Glassel, Roger 96, 98

  Goldbranson, Col. Carl 37

  Gulyas, Aaron John 96

  H

  Haines, Gerald K. 64, 124, 238, 240, 249

  Halperin, David 176, 255

  Halt, Col. Charles 153

  The Haunted Universe 174, 255

  Hawking, Stephen 50, 150, 238

  Hebert, Tim 96

  Hendry, Allan 63, 65–69, 71, 74, 240

  Hermeticism 159

  Hernandez, Philippe 96

  High Strangeness iv, v, xvi, xxvii, xxx, 36, 51, 77, 80, 89, 150, 151, 166–68, 170–73, 177–78, 231–32, 241, 247, 250, 254

  Hoffman, Donald D. 201, 257

  Hoover, J. Edgar 154

  Hopkins, Budd 24–25, 51, 84–85, 239

 

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