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Stanton Friedman compares UFO coverup to Watergate

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No denying it. She could be out there. Photo: Rob Speed/Flickr CC

This is the first in a midyear review I’ll be doing over the next week, of the Heretic’s 10 New England Esotericists to Watch in 2010… — MB

Physicist and UFOlogist Stanton Friedman picked up a bit of MSM coverage this week, when Fox noted that Friedman describes in his latest book a vast cover-up of ET evidence, with help from a cast of self-described debunkers:

In Friedman’s new book, “Science Was Wrong,” co-authored with Kathleen Marden, he wrote, “There’s been no shortage of strong, negative proclamations from debunking groups and individuals who refuse to examine the evidence … to support the notion that some UFOs are of extraterrestrial origin.”

via FOXNews.com – Vast UFO Cover-Up a ‘Cosmic Watergate,’ Says Nuclear Physicist.

Zorgy Awards: Put Tim Binnall over the top

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I just picked Tim Binnall’s podcast, Binnall of America, for the Best Paranormal Podcast of 2009.

Loren Coleman gets my vote for top paranormal researcher.

Both are on my list of Ten New England Esotericists to Watch in 2010.

From The Other Side of Truth, which hosts the Zorgy Awards (only a few days to go):

“Voting begins… now!

The polls will close on March 7, 2010, at 11 pm AST.

via The Other Side of Truth: The 2009 Zorgy Awards – Voting Begins.

Binnall: 2009 a "down year" for UFO studies

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A moment of excitement in an otherwise slow year. The Skeptic's Morristown, NJ, UFO hoax. (Photo:The Skeptic)

Hub esoteric expert and podcaster Tim Binnall steps back into 2009 with his  friends and leading UFOlogists Greg Bishop and Nick Redfern, in this two-parter:

Full Preview: We kick things off by getting Nick & Greg's general perspectives on the past year in Ufology and how it seemed like a particularly slow news year, with the exception of mostly unfortunate stories. Nick emparts some wisdom on how to look at these “down years” with proper perspective and Greg reflects on how, in the Internet age, perspectives on time are being altered as well as how the down cycle this year even affected his take on the UFO scene.

Note: For Greg Bishop’s take on the Google UFO logo hubbub (he calls it, “UFO porno”), hit the 79:30 mark in Part One of the 12.31.09 podcast.

via binnall of america : audio.


The Heretic's "10 New England Esotericists to Watch in 2010"

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New England is home to some of the biggest brains in the businesses of esoterica and mad science.

But you knew that already.

Here then, is my list of the busiest folks we know in the worlds of offbeat science publishing, UFOlogy, cryptozoology and the occult — even comics. Ghost-hunting? That is sooo last decade. But keep these peeps on your radar in 2010. They make for an eclectic mix, alright, but I think the list somehow works:

Marc Abrahams announcing "The Penguin Prize" at the annual Ig Nobel Prizes ceremony, at Harvard U. (Photo: Courtesy of the Ig Nobel Prizes.)

1. Marc Abrahams. Few can match the wit, charm and energy of this singular Cambridge, Mass. personality. Abrahams is the publisher of the uproarious Annals of Improbable Research, and organizer of the annual Ig Nobel Prizes awards ceremony, which honors  “research that makes people laugh and then think.” He also writes a weekly column about wacky science (think bras that double as gas masks, and astrology charts for bacteria), for the UK Guardian.

Tim Binnall. (Photo: Courtesy of BoA)

2. Tim Binnall. Did you know that one of the planet’s fastest-growing podcasters to the “Coast-to-Coast AM” crowd is based right here, in the Hub? The young genius behind the whole thing, Tim Binnall, is relaunching his website, Binnall of America, with another season of podcast interviews with big-name UFOlogists and conspiracy researchers, from Texas to Sweden.

Binnall also organizes a successful paranormal confab in the Hub.

3. Loren Coleman. This legend in the world of cryptozoology (2010 marks his 50th year in the business) will be surprising us again with new insights, and new guests and events at his Portland, Maine-based International Museum of Cryptozoology.

A regular contributor to Coast to Coast AM, Boing Boing, and The Anomalist, Coleman is also the keeper of the world’s most popular cryptozoology blog, Cryptomundo.

Loren Coleman and friend. Photo: Loren Coleman (via Thomas Roche/Flickr CC

Coleman this year will be speaking at Bigfoot and “big cats” conferences — both at home and across the pond, in Glasgow, Scotland. This spring, he will also be lending his expertise to the ongoing search for the Loch Ness Monster.

In addition to his ongoing consulting work for History’s “MonsterQuest,” and Animal Planet’s “Lost Tapes,” Coleman will also be working on (we kid you not) five new books.

4. Stanton Friedman. I met Stanton Friedman at a UFO conference in Washington, D.C. a few years ago, and I’ve been trying to keep up his research ever since. But I only learned (after listening to Mr. Binnall’s interviews with this UFO luminary) that Friedman resides in the Northeast. Friedman jokes in his BoA interviews that he is one of the few surviving members of UFOlogy’s “old guard.” But I expect he’ll have a lot more to say at his conferences appearances this year.

5. Greg Kaminsky. If you like your occult podcasts served-up hot, and packaged with vintage Black Sabbath tracks, Beverly, Mass.-based Greg Kaminsky is your guy. Kaminsky is the host of the fantastic website and podcast, “Occult of Personality,” which — like BOA — is poised for big changes (including a subscriber section, with extended interviews) and breakout success in 2010. Kaminsky has landed interviews with leading occult scholars on both sides of the Atlantic since making his quiet start, just a couple of years ago. To taste some of that OoP magic I am talking about, check out this fascinating interview with Penguin’s occult books editor, Mitch Horowitz.

John Rozum and son, at the International Museum of Cryptozoology, in Portland, Maine. (Photo: Loren Coleman)

6. John Rozum. Scooby-Doo. The X-Files comics. The supernaturally-talented writer may be in the business of inventing things that go bump in the night, be he is also said to be living quietly on Cape Cod. One of Rozum’s latest creations, The Hangman, is fighting human trafficking in DC Comics’ just-released The Web #4.

7. Joe Moore. Commended to this list by OoP’s Kaminsky, Moore is a New Hampshire-based podcaster, a breathwork facilitator, and onetime Evolver spore group leader. (Click the links if you are as mystified by these terms as I was.) Not sure if magic is for you? Try the “Mr. Spock” ritual that Moore discusses in his latest podcast with chaos magic expert Andrieh Vitimus. (Skip to the 17-minute mark, if you can’t wait.) Next: Moore and Kaminsky in 2010 are collaborating on a documentary film.

8. Joseph Citro is sick of ghosts. Yeah, that’s right. Ghost-busting, the bane of Binnall and other esotericists — driven half-mad by hacks seeking quick paranormal fame — is tired. Citro made his break from the past last fall, with one of his latest titles, The Vermont Monster Guide, a roundup of the land, air and sea creatures haunting the North.

9. The guys behind NE FOR (the New England UFO Research Organization). When Tim Binnall hints at the political infighting within the New England UFO community, he might be referring in part to the guys who last year formed this New England MUFON splinter group. But more UFO researchers might mean more eyes on the sky, and more thorough documentation of sightings

10. Mr. Crowley. Just be sure you pronounce the first syllable of his name correctly, like the bird, while in Salem, Mass. (Not the way Ozzy Osbourne does in his classic song about the Beast.)

And yeah, I know the guy’s dead. But when the Heretic placed its call for nominees last weekend, a bunch of folks, from Salem and beyond, tapped their peers in magical orders that derive their inspiration from Crowley. Crowley-inspired authors and booksellers, too, all got a good talking-up.

So, stay tuned on this one, because I’m going to need a week-or-two to share with the rest of you, what our magician friends have been sharing with me.

Tesla Tuesday: Telsa relates ET radio contact

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Thanks to David Grinspoon, for this wonderful, found artifact:

“Brethren! We have a message from another world, unknown and remote. It reads: one… two… three…”

via Letters of Note: We have a message from another world.

In the summer of 1899, whilst alone in his Colorado Springs laboratory working with his magnifying transmitter, the inimitable Nikola Tesla observed a series of unusual rhythmic signals which he described as ‘counting codes’. Having just detected cosmic radio signals for the first time, Tesla immediately believed them to be attempted communications from an intelligent life-form on either Venus or Mars, and later said of the experience, ‘The feeling is constantly growing on me that I had been the first to hear the greeting of one planet to another’.

Sand circle baffles Google sightseers

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Fascinatin’:

Saharan Stone Circle Mystery

Right in the middle of the Sahara desert, in the dunes of northern Niger, there’s a circle which is clearly not a natural formation. The circle itself is roughly 52 metres across, but if we zoom out a little, we can see eight other markings which mark the sides and corners of a huge square area, about 620 metres on each side. This French website claims that French soldiers created similar looking circles and markings elsewhere in the Sahara “at the beginning of the aviation era”, although the reason why is unclear. Although the one in the article has no coverage [...]

"God incarnate" needs a gun, and a ride

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Rabid anti-Semite “Stevie” Joseph Christopher, who haunts UFO conspiracy websites, and produces some very unsettling trailer park videos (like this one, below), is now in the care of the Secret Service.

Stevie, in this recent vid, says he has “clearance” to make death threats against the president. Stevie also says the FBI interviewed him about his online rants several months ago, and that they knew what he was up to (i.e., “that I was bluffing,” Stevie says, about three minutes in).

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeWPNEaT-Y8]

Stevie, who calls himself “God incarnate” (I knew the Lord drove a pickup), hit the chat rooms recently… in search of a gun and a ride to Washington, D.C., where he planned to assassinate President Obama.

Steven Joseph Christopher, 42, was taken into custody by the Secret Service in Brookhaven, Miss., and charged with threatening to assassinate Obama for what he claimed was “the country’s own good,” federal prosecutors said. The criminal complaint was sealed until Christopher’s appearance in federal court.

via Alien-Earth.org | News | Breaking News | “Stevie” Arrested for Threatening President-Elect Obama.

Mainstream media slaps candidates over UFO secrets

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Secrecy around spacecraft, EBE’s, likely to continue under next administration. Candidate Giuliani rattles his lightsaber.


Space shot? Critics of U.S. Congressman Dennis Kucinich say his claim of a UFO encounter makes him unfit for command. Kucinich is opposed to the militarization of space. Another candidate, Rudy Giuliani, says America will be prepared for an ET invasion.

U.S. presidential candidates Dennis Kucinich and Bill Richardson are suggesting they know something most of us don’t about extraterrestrial intelligence. And now they are paying a political price for talking about their concerns about UFOs.

Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani also promised a schoolboy last week that America will be prepared for an ET invasion.

The mainstream media largely ignored Giuiliani’s remarks.

But newspaper columnists like the Boston Herald’s Howie Carr (see link and excerpt, below), are smearing Kucinich as mentally unfit for executive office–simply because the Ohio congressman says he once observed an aerial object he could not identify.

Carr also cites Kucinich’s vegetarianism as evidence of the Ohio congressman’s mental illness.

The reason for the disparity in mainstream media coverage might be that Kucinich is opposes the further militarization of space, while Giuliani has been portraying himself as a future military strongman.

But Kucinich is not alone. Other U.S. pols, including President Jimmy Carter and former Arizona Governor Fife Symington, have reported seeing UFOs, along with 14 percent of their fellow Americans, according to a 2002 Roper poll.

And President Ronald Reagan once told the United Nations that “an alien threat” would quickly unite world governments. Continue reading →

OOP takes on the "secret cipher of the ufonauts"

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Listen, and experience the synchronicities

Make new friends, but keep the old. The Rt. Rev. T Allen Greenfield with his Fiji mermaid. 

Greg’s podccats at Occult of Personality are a must-listen if you want to rekindle your studies of Aleister Crowley, Madame Blavatsky and other occult figures of the early 20th century.

In his latest piece, Greg talks with ufologist and occultist T Allen Greenfield, who claims to have discovered a secret code that ties together ufology and occultism (see book cover, left).

The code “is definitely a cypher that is decipherable and comprehendible,” Greenfield tells Greg in the interview.

On another note: I’ve been experiencing the most interesting startling synchronicities in my life after listening to Greg’s chats with Todd Campbell at Through the Looking Glass, and Synchronos23.

I will eat my hat if–after listening to the podcasts–you don’t start experiencing some synchronicities, too. (I don’t know why, it just happens.)

clipped from www.occultofpersonality.com
Podcast 17 – T Allen Greenfield and the Secret Cipher
the Rt. Rev. T Allen Greenfield, who joins us to discuss one of his books, “Secret Cipher of the UFOnauts.”