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- There are places of mystery in the world. Strange
things are seen and bizarre events unfold in these mysterious places.
Sedona, Arizona is such a mysterious place. Visitors flock to this
Arizona New Age capital to view the striking red cliffs and rocks that
highlight the verdant growth of pine and juniper as well as to feel the
uplifting energy of Sedona's vortices. Conservative people think the
vortex believers are a little short of a full deck. After all, if the
vortex is invisible, how does one know that a vortex is on one sight
and not another. Even if people claimed that could feel the energy of the
vortex, why doesn't it just twirl them around?
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- There are other visible
mysteries that occur in the
Sedona region. There are UFOs and strange
orbs of light that move through
the back canyons, notably Long and
Boynton Canyons. A mysterious military
or para-military presence has
been reported in Boynton Canyon, Secret
Canyon, and Sycamore Canyon.
Back in 1991 I traveled to Sedona to visit
a man who lived in Long
Canyon. John was a caretaker on an old housing
project. He had
sighted a large boomerang traveling from the direction
of Secret
Canyon in the north to the edge of Sedona in the south.
The
remarkable thing about this very large vehicle was its attitude
of
flight: it was flying on end and leaving a sparkling trail!
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- Strange, unmarked
helicopters had been seen coming
from the direction of Secret
Canyon and flying south, the same
direction as the boomerang flew.
That day when I was in one section
of Long Canyon I could hear
the whooping blades of a helicopter
behind the mountains to
the north. Shortly, an olive drab helicopter
flew low over the trees
after taking off from somewhere within the
canyon. Once, a fellow
investigator tried to hike back to Secret
Canyon around one o'clock
in the morning when he heard the whooping
swish of helicopter
blades. Attempting to follow the trail back into
the canyon, he was
stopped by a voice that emanated from a loudspeaker
warning him to
go no further. Thinking the speaker was there to ward
off hunters,
he proceeded further when he was stopped again by a laser-targeting
light moving around his chest. From the direction of the laser's source,
he heard another voice telling him that he had entered a restricted area
and that he was to turn around at once.
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- Field investigator and
researcher Tom Dongo has spent
his last few years living in the Sedona
area, interviewing witnesses,
and chasing UFO sightings, abductions,
and other paranormal phenomena
as well as trying to track down the
reports of a secret military
presence in the canyons. He has
written books on his findings.
He kept searching for a focus for
the phenomena and found three, one
was on a 90 acre ranch off theBoynton Canyon back roads in an isolated
canyon between Red Canyon and Loy B
utte.
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- Our
friend Kim had moved to Sedona to raise her children
and attend
Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff. We introduced her
to Tom
and she started going on nightly sorties with Tom out to the ranch
in
this isolated canyon where all manner of things were happening.
Tom
always brought his camera loaded with 400 ASA film and a
time
exposure trigger. Kim brought her own camera. They would shoot
one, two, or three rolls of film just pointing and shooting whenever they
felt moved. The owners of the ranch are Bob and Linda Bradshaw. Bob
was a freelance photographer as well as a rancher and his beautiful
photos of Arizona landscapes have been published in books and
magazines.
Linda seems to be the contact point between worlds. Her
experiences
of the paranormal go back to childhood.
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- My wife and I were
invited to go out on a sortie
and meet Linda. We gathered our
cameras, videocam, binoculars, and
tri-field detector and headed
north for Sedona on October 7, 1995.
I was prepared to meet the
unknown.
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- We rendezvoused at Kim's house in Sedona. Tom arrived
bringing photographs that he had taken at the ranch. These photos
mostly
showed a variety of inexplicable light phenomena. In one
photo,
a randomly laced trail of vari-colored light hovered over the
ground.
Other photos showed light streaks, orbs, and, in a few cases,
structured
objects. Tom did not see most of these lights and orbs,
but they registered
clearly on his film. I was eager to travel
out to the ranch site
before sunset so I could get a look at the
surrounding terrain.
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- We traveled in two vehicles, Tom in his van, and the
rest of us in Kim's trans-sport van. We piled jackets and cameras in
the back. The road was rough and rocky in places and riding in the van
gave me the feeling of riding in a nineteenth century stagecoach.
The last mile or two along the ranch road was the roughest surface
we had yet encountered. We managed to arrive as the sun was
setting
and I could still get a good daylight view of the property.
The main
house and two other buildings sat squarely at the bottom
of a little
valley surrounded by trees and bushes. We were far away
from city noise.
Linda and her dogs came out to greet us as we
disembarked from the vans,
making us feel welcome and invited. We
went into a well- decorated
house that all of the accouterments one
would expect to find in an
urban house and sat around the
kitchen table. Linda served us coffee
and handed us a large photo
album filled with the strange pictures of
paranormal light phenomena.
The sheer number of such photos was remarkable.
Others have taken
similar photos, but not in such quantity. Linda told
us parts of her
story as we sat looking through her fascinating photo
album.
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- Linda tells us that
she has experienced strange phenomena
all her life, but after moving
onto the ranch, the frequency and
strangeness of the
experiences increased. One night while her and
her husband were
sitting in the kitchen they heard a noise that sounded
like
shattering glass come from inside their kitchen space, but nothing
was
seen and no shards of glass were ever found. She has heard footsteps
both outside and inside the house when nobody could be seen. To
further compound the mysterious events, some unknown agency would
lift her camera at night and snap picturesaround various parts of the
house. One picture showed the light over the kitchen table, yet the area
surrounding the light was completely dark! Another picture taken by the
unknown agent showed the yard as seen through one of the kitchen
windows,
but it wasn't quite the same yard as a portion of the scene
seemed blocked
off by a mysterious illuminated border.
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- As it was getting
darker and a full moon was rising
in the east, we decided to gather
our coats and equipment and go for
a walk around the property. Linda
first took us to the horse corral. There
were many nights when her
horses were spooked by something that
left tracks in the dirt.
These large three-toed tracks were not identifiable
as belonging to
any of the known wildlife in the canyons. Linda indicated
a trail that
we could walk toward an old western movie set that had
been
erected sometime ago. She said that we would find more tracks as
we
walked into the old west town. Most of the buildings were
just facades. Linda said we should look for the tracks of Big Girl, a
bigfoot that both she and her son had seen on occasion and which had
left evidence of its presence at nearby locations.
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- I was told that if I tripped by
camera flash in the dark
I would see that the air was filled with an
unusual sparkling energy.
I deliberately flashed my camera in the
dark while looking through
the viewfinder, and, indeed, I
could see glowing particles filling
the air. Seeking a
conventional explanation for this spectacle, I
surmised that
particles of dust must be suspended in the air, and that
my flash
simply reflected off these numerous particles of dust,
but as I
continued the experiment, I noticed that the glittering
particles
did not move around as I have seen dust move, but rather
seemed to
be suspended or frozen in the air.
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- As we continued walking, I
noticed from time to time,
a tiny light would flicker on in
distant bushes then extinguish.
I asked Tom about this and he said
that he noticed this on all of his
frequent excursions out there. They
appeared to be like the fireflies
I used to watch at my uncle's house
on Long Island when I was a young
boy. But fireflys were not known
in Arizona.
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- Tom kept looking around the horizon for the lights
of UFOs.
He claims that the frequency of UFO sightings over the canyons
had
picked up lately. He then proceeded to pull night-vision binoculars
out of his pack to scan the horizon more closely for signs of
movement.
I could see a number of aircraft lights off in the distance
to the south
and east of us. When we came to the movie set we
turned our flashlights
on the ground and could make out some
unusual tracks. One track looked
exactly like those I had seen
published of alleged bigfoot tracks. I
photographed it. Other tracks
were the of the large three-toed variety
akin to those made by large
birds or small dinosaurs.
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- At the end of the trail sat a platform made into a
gallows. It was an ominous sight to greet in the light of the full moon.
The women climbed the stairs to sit on the platform followed by one
of Linda's dogs. Tom and I walked around, scanning the horizon for any
faint movement. The air was still and silent. Occasionally, Tom
would raise his camera and shoot on a seeming whim. When the camera
flashed, I could see the strange glitter in the air, but nothing else
seemed
out of place or mysterious.
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- After standing around for a
half-hour or so, we headed
back to the ranch. When we all got cozy
in the kitchen, Linda served
coffee and I started to ask more
questions. Linda told me about her
son Victor's experiences. Victor
had taken a hike back in the canyons
one day and stumbled upon some
white trucks and men in white suits. One
flat-bed truck carried a
wingless craft on its bed. Victor felt that
he was being observed.
He had his video cam at the ready and scanned
the scene below his
position when he thought he heard a noise in
the bushes behind
him. When he turned to look, he saw a creature
peering back at
him, then duck out of sight. This creature looked
like a
typical gray alien. On another hiking expedition into
the
canyons, he had become lost. He was walking in one place in daylight,
then he found himself in an unknown location and it was suddenly
night!
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- Tom
had also seen a creature, but it was right near
the ranch. One night
while Kim and Linda were talking, he saw a small
humanoid in a brown
suit dash across the field near the juniper tree.
The dogs gave
chase, barking and running after the entity. As
it neared the
fence line, it seemed to vanish into thin air, and the
dogs quite
suddenly gave up the chase. Tom had never seen anything like
this and
was startled only after the entity vanished from sight.
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- Linda gave me a copy
of the book that she and Tom had
published, titled "Merging
Dimensions". It is replete with
dozens of photos.
Unfortunately, the photos are reproduced in black
and white and
one misses seeing some of the startling colors that are
visible in
the original photos. Each of them are accumulating more
anomalous
photos every week. Anomalies have also appeared on
some of
Kim's photos.
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- Pamela and I went back to the ranch for a second
visit
on December 7, 1995. The night was even colder than the first
night's visit. After nightfall, the stars sparkled like jewels. Tom
set his camera up on a tripod with a timer attached to the camera
to get long exposure photos of distant moving lights. Tom and Linda
had been seeing "a ship" that would characteristically pop
up behind some far hills to the south and west. Pamela had loaded
her camera with 400 ASA film. We did see some unusual moving lights
that night, but they seemed too far off to classify them as
UFOs. Skywatching is a game that involves a lot of
patience.
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- During a break in our watch, I went inside to get warm
and
convinced Linda to show me the video that Victor had pieced
together from several different shoots around the canyon. This fifteen
to twenty-minute video was shot in daylight and darkness. On
it I saw some of the most peculiar "things" flitting around
near the ground. One segment focused on a low-flying airplane which
was blocked out by a brilliant orb of light that flew across the
plane's
path. The video was compelling. Very strange things were
happening on
this ranch.
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- I kept asking Linda details about the photograph
of the window or gateway taken near the juniper tree. She had only
seen a bright rectangle of light, yet the developed photo looks like
a window into another world. Unless Tom, Linda, and now Kim were in
collusion on a magnificent hoax, I would have to think that the photos
are untampered and show what they purport to show. While it is true
that they have not been subject to expert analysis, it still leads
one to speculate about the happenings on the Bradshaw Ranch.
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- There seem to be
three significant elements to the Bradshaw
events: 1) The Gateway
Window; 2) the ever-present orbs; and 3) the
sparkling energy in
the air. The presence of humanoid entities,
mysterious craft, and
mysterious animals seemed tied into the elements
offering clues to
the mysterious world that was intersecting our familiar
world in
this remote canyon beyond Sedona.
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- Looking at the Gateway photo
reveals a number of things.
The scene inside the window area is in
daylight. A structure that
looks exactly like a telephone pole
with the cross struts and insulators
is on the right. A third of the
way down from the top of the window
one can see an a dark oval object
that looks like a flying saucer. At
the bottom left corner is a jumble
of indistinct objects that could be
foliage or even a humanoid
figure. What is even stranger is an embossed
area to the left of
the phone pole that looks like a light round object
with projecting
lines and the number 39 raised up to the right of the
round object.
There are two photos of the window taken in rapid succession
before the window closed down. There are no telephone poles on the
ranch property and there are certainly none stuck in the ground next
to the juniper tree. If one wanted to come up with a hoax scenario, it
would have to involve snapping a picture in daylight and super-imposing
it over a picture taken at night in another location. Of course, then
one would have to explain how the daylight photo was taken of a hubcap
or some other plain object thrown into the air to simulate a flying
disk. Photo experts could examine the negatives for signs of double
exposure or superposition. I, for one, would like to see the photos
analyzed, but for the sake of argument, let us examine the implications
if the photos were taken as described by the witness.
Additionally,
supporting the authenticity of the photos is the fact
that photos
taken by Kim and Pamela also show anomalous
images.
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- A
little research on photographic film reveals that
it is essentially a
thin plastic base coated with an emulsion. The
emulsion is
composed of gelatin within which tiny particles of
light-
sensitive salts have been suspended. Because of the silver halides
in
the emulsion, all light-sensitive photographic emulsions are sensitive
to the blue, violet, and ultra-violet end of the visible and
invisible
spectrum. There are emulsions that make film sensitive
to infrared
frequencies and, of course, film made sensitive for
x-rays. Objects
beyond the range of sight could register on various
types of film. No
special film or filters were used by Tom or Linda
to capture the invisible
energies around them.
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- Some percentage of abductees
have reported seeing
glowing orbs. These orbs will appear in the
abductee's house and pass
right through solid barriers. In
Brian Scott's case, he reported seeing
an orb pass in front of a
dresser mirror without reflecting in the
mirror. Others have
reported seeing orbs float above the ground
without
reflecting light off the ground even when the orb appeared
brilliant to the observer. Orbs have appeared of various colors
and from baseball to basketball sized. An orb is a good candidate for
a hyperdimensional object. Not all of the orbs photographed are
visible, yet they appear on film as translucent objects.
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- Even when orbs are
visible, they are capable of passing
through a solid wall or
closed window. Their light emission may excite
the optic nerves in
humans and animals, yet may not reflect off
surrounding
surfaces. In actuality, the light-band frequencies of radiation
may
pass through a material object because they cannot be fully absorbed
or
re- radiated by atomic electrons, and yet their radiation
will affect film because of radiation at ultraviolet frequencies. The
impression made on the film shows variations in photon density
between
different orbs appearing in the same image. We can only
surmise that
there exists stages of progressive materialization of
hyperdimensional
objects where they can appear only as a ghostly
glow or become a fully
objectified source of light. The evidence
viewed in this way gives
strength to the idea that the
hyperdimensional parameter is a frequency
dimension and not an
extra-spatial dimension. In other words, the orb
is moving into and
out of this dimension by shifting its frequency and
perhaps its
phase. According to physicists, sub-atomic particles
are
composed of wave packets, and these matter waves can pass through
a
small slit and show evidence of wave-like interference. Most of
the matter waves we can see absorb and reflect photons within a
narrow
band of frequencies. Suppose objects composed of higher
frequency
wave-packets, and out-of-phase with our normal mundane
sensible world
were to approach a mundane material barrier composed
of every-day
protons and electrons. It would probably look just
like a ghost
passing through a wall. The wall would offer it
little or no resistance.
If a hyperdimensional cesium atom would
be compared to a mundane cesium
atom in normal dimensions, we would
probably measure a faster rate of
time and the space the cesium atom
passed through would be isolated
and separate from our normal
space. There could be various levels of
dimensional states. Without a
more rigorous data collection and analysis,
this remains only
a speculative hypothesis.
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- We might also consider that the "glitter" seen
in the air around the ranch property is caused by radiation from
another
dimension causing excitations in atmospheric molecules. Some
of the molecules
of oxygen and nitrogen could be absorbing
radiation from the other
side of the dimensional barrier, causing
random photon re-radiation
in the air. The "glitter"
appeared static. These glittering
particles did not seem to be
moving.
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- The implications of this phenomena require a reassessment
of
the nature of physical reality. If our scientists are studying
only a portion of physical reality and basing theoretical models
on the data collected from only one frequency dimension of the universe,
then we may be harboring a very narrow view of this
all-encompassing
universe. Other worlds peopled by other beings might
not only be found
in the far reaches of intergalactic space, but in
the near reaches of extradimensional
space.
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- A phenomena that resembles the
orbs is ball lightning.
Ball lightening usually appears during
thunderstorms. The ball is
usually bright, fuzzy, and orange-yellow
in color. Ball lightning has
been seen that was up to 16 feet in
diameter. Ball lightning has
been seen to materialize inside
enclosures, even an all-metal
aircraft. How it accomplishes this
feat is unknown. If we could
produce ball lightning in a
laboratory, we could probably experiment
and record its weird
behavior and antics and gain some insight as to
how the orbs
materialize inside of homes.
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- The typical view is that a parallel reality exists
along a fourth-dimensional spatial axis, however it is possible
that a parallel reality exists along a fourth-dimensional temporal
axis or energy axis. If space and time are fundamental dimensions,
then it is possible that universes exist in other dimensions of space
and time. The real hint comes from the energy expended in moving from
a point in our world to a point in some adjacent world. But
until
some scientists take this phenomena under serious study, we
are not
likely to dymystify these bizarre happenings.
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- Some UFOs may be
someone else's spacecraft from an extra-solar
planet in our Milky Way
galaxy, but some UFOs may be visiting us from
points of space that
cannot be seen. I remember a conversation that
I had with my
informant, Charlie, about objects that had completely disappeared
from
the surface of the earth, some which he acknowledged were known
about, and others that were classified as military secrets. According to
Charlie not all UFOs come to earth from outer space. Some tunnel here
from another space- time dimension. He told me that some of the
recovered crashed disks had a unit that we called a transpatial
resonator.
These resonators could open portals allowing the craft
to pass
from one dimension to another. Maybe Charlie is telling
the truth.
After visiting the ranch on the edge of forever, I
not only think
of Sagan's billions and billions of stars, but the
possible billions
and billions of universes that are out there
somewhere.
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- P.S. Linda sold the ranch and now lives in Montana.
I moved
from Arizona back to California.
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- Bill Hamilton Executive
Director Skywatch International,
Inc.
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