Terra Incognita

This is the Year the World will end–in Stereo!

2012-01-18T06:33:00.001-08:00

As we make our way into the year the Mayans and various others believed/hoped the world will end, the first hint of High Strangeness appears in News outlets worldwide. What had been an isolated phenomenon (see Taos Hum) is now escalating into a full-blown manifestation. I don’t know if it is the phenomenon that’s escalating, or the number of people who take the trouble to shoot and post online, but it doesn’t make that much of a difference either way.
Combined with the recent UFO flap, it makes for interesting speculation…

UFO towed though town (!)

2011-12-21T10:10:00.001-08:00

In this very interesting piece of news, a very hush-hush operation took place, in which a large saucer-shaped object was hauled through a town under a tarp, in plain view of everyone and with police under instructions not to ask too many questions. It must be a flying saucer! Duh!

How come no one ever hauls a UFO through my city? Damn…

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Aokigahara Forest

2011-11-16T06:57:00.001-08:00

Steadily numbered among the Creepiest Places on Earth, Aokigahara forest, on the foothills of Mt Fuji in Japan, is where people go to die, and where spirits seek comfort. It is so dense that it has areas that have never seen the light of day!

Dear friend Aerosol sent me the link this August, but kept putting it off. Well, here is a nice excerpt:

Aokigahara is a wonder of nature, a place of pristine beauty. That being said, beauty is not what the forest is most famous for.

No, it is most famous as a forest of death. Or, more accurately, a forest where people come to die.

It’s a forest of suicide.

In the past sixty years or so, nearly five hundred people have gone to Aokigahara to end it all….

….

The forest has long been associated with ghosts. One type of ghost in particular: the Yurei. These are the restless dead, spirits who have been torn from life unnaturally. They howl their suffering to the winds. But maybe that’s simply the winds whistling through the stillness in the Sea of Trees, being mistaken for ghostly moans by frightened and superstitious travelers.

In any case, the Japanese take this idea of Yurei very, very seriously. Yearly sweeps are made of the forest looking for suicide victims. Beyond these, the members of the forestry service go about their daily duties, but keeping a watchful eye out for bodies. Now and then they find one. Many times they’re hanging from low branches, decomposed and gnawed by wild things. They cut the poor soul down and take the body back to the station, to a special room built for the dead. A room with two beds.

See, the Japanese believe that if the body were left in the room alone, the Yurei will scream its agony all through the night. Worse still, the body of the dead will rise up and enter the regular sleeping quarters. To prevent this, someone must share the room with the body.

Spooky, right? I love places where legends are right there, where you feel something is wrong, but cannot quite tell what.

Original story, and also on CNN

Air Force still investigating UFOs?

2011-11-10T10:33:00.001-08:00

The Huffington Post reports that after an enquiry they made to the US Air Force about UFOs being mentioned in the Personnel Manual, the Air Force promptly deleted any reference to UFOs in the said manual.

The Huffington Post asked Pentagon officials about the purpose of the UFO section.

Before the recent revisions, the document -- Air Force Instruction 10-206 -- advised pilots, radar operators and other Air Force personnel on what to do when they encountered any unknown airborne objects. Now in the 2011 version, the reference to UFOs -- which simply means "unidentified flying objects," not necessarily spaceships with little green men -- has been eliminated.

Now this is interesting, mainly because this is highly suspect behavior, right? I mean, why do it at all if you have nothing to hide?
The author goes on to quote a former military officer about the Nuclear Missile Incident in 2010. Apparently it was not the only one of it’s kind..
Besides named and unnamed informants of doubtful credibility, the case is suspect nonetheless, and the smoke here surely suggests fire..

Read the full article and accompanying documents HERE.

Chinese Area 51 attacked? Strange Pics

2011-11-09T08:41:00.001-08:00

This is one of the images from Google Earth sent to an editor of viewzone, along with the claim that this is the “Chinese Area 51” and was recently devastating by unknown causes. The rectangle pictured above is of unknown origin and spans almost a mile (!) while the road-like lines are more than 30 meters wide!
What could it possibly be?
In other photos runways are clearly seen, antennas, buildings, containers and more shapes of unknown purpose around a small village.

Shapes erected in 2006 seem to be blown to bits, craters can be seen and lots of weirdness throughout.

Here’s what the sender says:

The reader says this is Top Secret area in a remote part of China. This is the Chinese "Area 51" where captured (alien?) technology is kept and tested. It is also near by where the nuclear bombs were detonated many years ago. Supposedly the main laboratories are underground. You can see the entrances if you look at the images. Contact has been made with other "technology" (?). A new propulsion system was being tested. But it was not well controlled and could not be stabilized. An accident happened and the device blew up. The area is very contaminated now.

Wow. And I mean if all this is not a munitions bunker in an air force base destroyed by accident and the strange white lines are not some sort of greenhouse, then we definitely have something going on!
I mean the writer claims that
“There's a sign of an explosion in places with the ground riddled with 10 foot craters, as if cluster-bombed. “

Cluster bombs from above are not the sign of an accident. Then again, they are not the sign of an alien attack either! Really? Aliens with cluster bombs?

Nevertheless this is really interesting, and I have a feeling there’s more to this than meets the eye. We just need an aerial photography analysis expert to let us know what we are seeing.

And on a side note, isn’t Google Earth a great tool? I mean, all you need is patience and a lot of luck! Besides all the random UFOs, imagine the strangeness waiting to be discovered….

Original article and pics here.

Alien appearing in the Amazon

2011-10-26T09:56:00.001-07:00

In this weeks World Weirdness, an alien appears in some footage from the Amazon. Original Story Here, and video Here.

I have not that much to tell, nor to see in the video or the photos.. Light play, puppet, cgi, your guess is as good as mine.

Rendlesham, UFO on BBC.com and PCMag

2011-10-10T06:15:00.001-07:00

First, this interesting page on Rendlesham Forest, it’s weird history continuing, as it does in all truly Haunted Places. For those not familiar with the history of Rendlesham, read this: You Can't Tell the People: The Definitive Account of the Rendlesham Forest UFO Mystery: The Cover-up of Britain's Roswell , as the Jenny Randles original book seems to be out of print. Containing several reports about the area of the forest, as well as about the Woodbridge Air Force base, the article (or a collection of clippings) makes a valid case about the High Strangeness that never left, as well as some government involvement:

The contactee, said he was astounded to read in her book "You Can't tell the People", that Georgina Bruni had been allowed entry to some of the buildings in the air base at Woodbridge….
"The sealed sectors, Georgina could not inspect, were decontamination units for soldiers who had been in contact with viruses and other gases - some died; some were very ill; others had to be sent home", he said.

His weirdest encounters involved tall, spindly people, who used certain doorways to enter and exit buildings, mostly at night. They never spoke, seemed to be in control and their faces were always concealed by breathing apparatus.

After the war, these strange characters remained on the base for years and might still be there. ..
A security guard told him that he did not know what was kept in the many vaults around this particular room. He stressed that it best not to ask questions, although innocent, could be misconstrued as an offence leading to courtmartial…

Although some information about past events begins to surface, he suspects that projects still continue there today, in secrecy under the ground.

Full Page Here

On another, more recent case, this man writing to the BBC did a pretty thorough job of trying to find out what he saw. Not that he succeeded in any way, but an A+ for trying.
Read it, as the letter is as sincere as they come..

Last but not least, an article in PCMag (!) states that an alien invasion is imminent as shown by the spike in UFO activity during the last three months.
Invasion Talk going mainstream? Slowly but steadily..

Temple Mount UFO a film exercise?

2011-09-23T07:12:00.001-07:00

In an anticipated turn of events, and after some fine journalistic research, an Israeli reporter managed to uncover some evidence that the Temple Mount UFO footage could be fake. Read the full sordid story here.

Although nothing conclusive is being mentioned, and no confession is on record, it casts a major shadow on the most High Profile UFO case of recent years.

The truth is yet to be uncovered..

Interest or Involvement?

Temple Mount UFO - hot topic!

Comet Elenin in Doomsday scenarios

2011-09-07T07:12:00.001-07:00

I was somewhat oblivious of the fact that many many people believe that the Comet Elenin, passing now through our Solar System is in fact Nibiru, Blue Kachina, a spaceship and also responsible for all recent earthquakes, including the Big One in Japan. Not in an alphabetical order.

Starting with the obvious flaw of the theory, the flaw being it’s proponent, Richard Hoagland, conspiracy theorist and fanatic of major cover-up theories including the Moon landing and buildings found, the face on Mars and more.

Now it’s the Elenin Comet. It is supposedly tetrahedroidal in shape, changing course, getting bigger, has windows and is an all-around Doomsday Machine coming towards our way, this October (2011).

Read it if you are interested in some far-fetched theories, and hope they are not true. I do.

Read this

And This

Strange sounds are heard around the globe

2011-08-31T06:44:00.001-07:00

Well we have mass UFO sightings, aliens walking among us, fringe sciences infecting mainstream media and literally thousands of UFO videos on YouTube released every week. It is hard to tell if the events are spiking, but it’s all interesting nonetheless.

Now this video is about eerie sounds coming from the Earth apparently, heard from Russia to Canada and probably elsewhere. Of all the crazy theories going around the net nothing comes near an explanation, so I’ll go for a War of the Worlds scenario, where huge Ships are revving up Underground getting ready to show their ugly faces. Well….

The sound is as creepy as it gets. Nothing beats High Strangeness. Listen for yourselves below.

UFO activity in an all-time high. Video

2011-07-25T07:59:00.001-07:00

Yes, it’s just what the title says. We have all seen the UFO reports flooding in this Summer, but here’s a nice video compilation to complement the news clippings. Think of it as a visual aid on imagining the strange days to come.

And it’s all from THIS June!

UFO found at the bottom of the ocean?

2011-07-21T07:25:00.001-07:00

The above image is a picture from the sonar of the Ocean Explorer salvage team from Sweden. They where searching for ship wrecks when, on June 19th, this popped up. The team leader said:

"At 87m down, between Sweden and Finland, they saw a large circle, about 60 feet in diameter," he told local media last week.

"You see a lot of weird stuff in this job but during my 18 years as a professional I have never seen anything like this.

"The shape is completely round … a circle."

Mr Lindberg said the team has also noted what they say could possibly be tracks running some 300m up to where the disc lies.

The team claims the tracks show the object has moved, either on or since settling to the ocean floor.

Six of the nine-member team were asleep in their bunks on-board the Ocean Explorer's ship at the time of the discovery, but the three watching the sonar "couldn't believe" what they were seeing.

Despite the promise of alien riches, Mr Lindberg said his team would not attempt to investigate the disc.

"It is not in our sphere of interest to go for this object, since it might be nothing," he said.

Then again it could be something.. I find it strange that a modern treasure hunter would pass up the chance to find a fallen UFO or even an underwater Stonehenge, both of which would bring untold riches.
This all seems as an attempt at fame, and maybe some financial backing. But then again, who knows?

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UFO caused the 2010 Nuclear Missile incident?

2011-07-18T08:56:00.001-07:00

From Reuters:

TAOS, N.M., June 20, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On October 23, 2010, F.E. Warren Air Force Base in Cheyenne, Wyoming temporarily lost the ability to communicate with 50 of its Minuteman III missiles. The five Missile Alert Facilities responsible for launching those ICBMs—Alpha through Echo, comprising the 319th Strategic Missile Squadron—would have been unable to do so during the period of the disruption.

This dramatic story was leaked to Mark Ambinder, a contributing editor at The Atlantic, which published it three days later. The U.S. Air Force then quickly acknowledged the problem, saying that a back-up launch system could have performed the task and claiming that the breakdown had lasted a mere 59 minutes.

However, the latter statement was untrue, according to two missile technicians stationed at F.E. Warren, who say that the communications issue, while intermittent, actually persisted over several hours.

Significantly, these same individuals report sightings by "numerous teams" of an enormous, cigar-shaped craft that maneuvered high above the missile field on the day of the disruption. The huge UFO appeared similar to a World War I German Zeppelin but had no passenger gondola or advertising on its hull, as would a commercial blimp.

The confidential Air Force sources also report that their squadron commander has warned witnesses not to talk to journalists or researchers about "the things they may or may not have seen" in the sky and has threatened severe penalties for anyone violating security. Consequently, these persons must remain anonymous at this time.

Mmmm, this is interesting. Although I had not heard of this incident, a semi-public leak of UFO involvement in something as serious as nuclear weapon malfunction is no small thing.
Could they be testing the waters, or, more to the point, showing a little of what they are capable of?

Crop circle with a message

2011-07-12T09:22:00.001-07:00

Article in Earthfiles:

Two extraordinary 2011 crop formations have been reported in the northwestern town of Poirino, Italy, on June 13 and 20, 2011. Poirino is a town in the Province of Turin in the Italian Piedmont region located about 12 miles (20 km) southeast of Turin (Torino) where the famous Christ Shroud is kept. Poirino has also been the location of other crop formations over the past decade, including one alleged a year ago on June 11, 2010, that was described by the CMM research group in 2010 graphics below in More Information.

This year on June 20, 2011, a 7-petal pattern emerged that has a 7-pointed star around a ring at its center. The seven petals are divided by seven straight lines of dark (standing crop) and light (flattened crop) patterns of seven circles. ..

Strob (George Costanza) on Circle Chasers Facebook writes: “The Poirino 2011formation contains some coded information. Among other things, the outer rim contains the names ‘Enki Ea,’ coded in ASCII. These are names of a Sumerian god: Lord of the earth, god of water, creator of mankind.”

Apparently the crop circle creators are Evangelists of Sumerian origin, trying to convert the computer-literate part of our society to convert.
Or it could be Students of Mathematics and Computer Science with lots of time on their hands.

This sucks.

Yep, they’re here.. Haven’t you heard?

2011-07-01T05:10:00.001-07:00

It’s all over the news anyway, but for those who live in caves and haven’t seen it, here are the videos taken on Friday 24 (last week) showing a bunch of UFOs over London doing, well, whatever UFOs do. Youtube is full of videos and a quick search will produce thousands. Thank god (and Sony) for all those HD cameras on smartphones…

Mirage City in China

2011-06-28T04:02:00.001-07:00

This story has been making the rounds lately, and although a glimpse into another reality is always intriguing, I am still not convinced of it’s authenticity. Another factor to cloud the waters is the video below, which many say mistranslated the original narrative about the fog in the video. And it is in another city.. Oh well.

Original story

Doomsday Signs

2011-06-24T08:16:00.001-07:00

Well, sure it can be just what the meteorologists say, but where’s the fun in that?
I mean, picture a giant spaceship watching us. Through some ionization caused by it’s cloaking (it’s not even fully in our dimension), water particles condense where the inter-dimensional object meets our atmosphere.
Way cooler, right?
And then it emerges and starts liquefying Japan. Cool, huh?

Strange Aerial Being over Mexico

2011-06-22T07:48:00.001-07:00

Although this cannot be described as a UFO as the title says, or even as a video, as it is a series of photographs, it is nonetheless amazing!
It is a news story by Openminds.tv, describing a series of photos of the skies of Mexico City. The photos, taken with an extreme telephoto lens (see telescope on camera), depict what the reporter describes as a jellyfish-like being, undulating in the upper layers of the atmosphere.

Although I wish he had a video DSLR, so we could see some HD footage for ourselves, it still makes a very interesting watch, and raises some hard questions: What is out there? (yeah, I know, the Truth is out there)

Original Story

Conspiracy time, Bilderberg style

2011-06-16T10:07:00.001-07:00

Just to keep the blood boiling, read this article on Attainable Mind, on the Bilderberg Club, and it’s latest annual meeting a few days ago.

The article itself is quite concise, but my thoughts on the subject are summed up in this:
If these guys represent a Global Coven that controls the fate of the world, then they are not doing a very good job, by any standard. Or are they?

Interesting lineup though.

Australian UFO reports “lost” by Military

2011-06-09T07:13:00.001-07:00

How convenient. Read this:

After a two-month search in response to a newspaper Freedom of Information (FOI) request, which forces government officials to release documents of public interest, Australia's Department of Defence had been unable to locate the files, the Sydney Morning Herald said.

"The files could not be located and Headquarters Air Command formally advised that this file is deemed lost," the department's FOI assistant director, Natalie Carpenter, told the paper. Defence officials could not be contacted by Reuters.

Original article

hat tip to Surrealitee

Could it be true?

2011-06-07T03:36:00.001-07:00

The rumor has been around for ever, (well, since E.T. was released anyway) and it was one of those urban legends that have a tendency to remain forever unproven.

Not this one! A reporter had a chance to ask Steven Spielberg about the E.T special screening in the White House, and a comment supposedly made by Ronald Reagan about it being all true. And, yes, confirmed!

“He just stood up and he looked around the room, almost like he was doing a headcount, and he said, “I wanted to thank you for bringing E.T. to the White House. We really enjoyed your movie,” and then he looked around the room and said, “And there are a number of people in this room who know that everything on that screen is absolutely true.”

And he said it without smiling! But he said that and everybody laughed, by the way. The whole room laughed because he presented it like a joke, but he wasn’t smiling as he said it. …

…. Steven Spielberg: I don’t think he let something slip there, no. I think he delivered a joke without smiling, without a little bit of a twinkle behind the joke. I think the joke landed because everybody laughed, but because I’m a little bit of a Ufologist I was hoping that there was something more to the joke than met my eye. I’m sorry to say I think he was simply trying to tell a joke.”

Could be a joke. But, then again, it could be more. Nothing significant learned here, but the truth comes in small doses.

Story from Openminds

UFO videos and cinematic reality

2011-06-03T09:12:00.001-07:00

Seeing this UFO video (or videos) supposedly shot by multiple witnesses, somewhere in Canada, made me want to share some thoughts.
These thoughts are not in regard to the validity of the video, since plenty of people have already commented “how fake it looks”..
I don’t feel a video is enough to make an analysis any more. It was enough 30 years ago, but not now.. Bear with me:

I began to wonder what makes people claim out loud “it’s fake”. Most of them deal in Photoshop and After Effects, so they are no strangers to graphics. But the argument “I can make this in After Effects” is a non-argument: I can make the Space Shuttle launch in After Effects and 3D Studio Max, but that does not mean that the launch you see on TV is fake!

We are deeply saturated with visual effects iconography, so much that it makes me wonder: Would we know the difference between Visual Effects and reality?
The difference between a good and a bad VFX shot these days is camera shake!

I wonder, if the video had camera shake, how would it alter the perception of the viewers?
And, more importantly, since so many commentators relied on the “it looks fake” proposition, I have another question:
If the event pictured was real how would it look? I mean, have you seen many Inter-dimensional Wormholes lately? Then, please, let us know how they look on video!

My point is that if we are to judge something outside everyday reality, we cannot afford to use everyday reality arguments on it.

That being said, the video is probably fake, but I made my point..

UFO fleets getting closer to Home

2011-05-31T07:00:00.001-07:00

Okay, so we have come to expect (!) UFO fleets over backwater countries such as Mexico, Chile, Taiwan and Lebanon. I don’t think there is a reason for that, other than the fact that the people of those countries are somewhat less educated than.. well… us, and thus we perceive the media of those countries as prone to folklore and sensationalism.
It’s not that I think it’s all crap: Just that it is not quite credible, not quite proven, not quite meaningful.

Well, it’s getting interesting. And closer to home.
First, Russia: On May 12, a vast UFO 200 meters across (!) terrorized a village in Far East Russia hovering above their heads.

The object was seen with the naked eye even from people at a military base nearby, but was not detected by radar. The military thus decided to fire artillery shells at the UFO if it became hostile. But, apparently, the mysterious aircraft would then start up quickly and disappear from view.

Complete account here.

Now, Milan, Italy:

Now, Milan isn’t your typical third-world city, is it?
Makes me wonder.. Is the phenomenon increasing in intensity, as it certainly appears to? I am not sure, but I have a sense that more and more things will come to light as the time passes.
Are they, Alien Crafts, strange beings from another dimension, refracted light, or a mass delusion by people trapped in a small planet with no way out?
Maybe it is the Strange Days we’ve all been waiting for, the Interesting Times we cursed each other with.

Either way, I’m watching, patiently. The Pattern will be revealed eventually.

More fleets here.

Hole from Within

2011-05-25T06:59:00.001-07:00

The hole above appeared in someone’s yard, apparently in broad daylight, and with no one seeing or hearing a thing.

“To me it looked like something blew out of the ground because the grass was folded back, the rocks and dirt were all spewn out into the cul-de-sac and across the driveway,” Sue, who asked not to be identified out of concern that the hole may draw unwanted onlookers and crowds, said…
…

Officials and experts are also scratching their heads. For now, it appears the small crater that splayed debris across a 100-foot area wasn’t caused by a meteorite. Beyond that, it’s a mystery.

“It’s just really, really weird,” said Jerry Vinski, director of nearby Raritan Valley Community College’s planetarium, who conducted tests on the site. “We dug around and couldn’t find anything. We used metal detectors because all meteors have metal in them, and we couldn’t find anything, large or small.”

Bernards Township Police Capt. Edward Byrnes said whatever hit the front yard left a crater about 18 inches deep and roughly the size of a coffee table.

A State Police bomb squad ruled out explosives, Byrnes said.

There you have it. A War of the Worlds scenario, right in our front yard. Or hers anyway. I enjoy these High Strangeness events, that cannot be categorized and put in neat little Paranormal Boxes.

I wish there were more of them, although I suspect that their nature is what prevents them from ever being reported...

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Pyramid Ufo Film from 1968

2011-05-19T09:24:00.001-07:00

The above film segment aired on the History Channel, apparently retrieved from Government Records in the Ukraine.

Very interesting, and probably not a hoax, but that is not why I am posting it.

My problem is with the timing: These days, UFO sightings are on the rise, and most of them are triangles, or pyramids if you prefer.
Dozens of reports from all over the world, plus photos and videos.

Why is that? The Pattern is unmistakable. In the 40’s it was flying saucers, in the 50’s and 60’s it was cigar shapes, now it’s triangles.
So is it a coincidence that this film appeared just now?

The above pie chart pretty much illustrates the scarcity of triangles, compared to the ever-popular flying saucer.
So, is it a meme? A mass delusion? Or, more importantly, is this a case of Truth being in the Eye of the Beholder, as Jacques Vallee has illustrated long ago?

Are triangle UFOs the product of our mind’s eye, or are they the First Wave?
And why does it all stink so much with purpose?

Terra Incognita

This is the Year the World will end–in Stereo!

UFO towed though town (!)

Aokigahara Forest

Air Force still investigating UFOs?

Chinese Area 51 attacked? Strange Pics

Alien appearing in the Amazon

Rendlesham, UFO on BBC.com and PCMag

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