- HALLOWEEN MAY PROVIDE INSIGHT INTO ABDUCTIONS
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- I obtained some background data on Halloween to determine
the significance of the popular American holiday. I was surprised to learn
some startling similarities in ancient folklore of Halloween and modern
abduction stories. Apparently, Halloween started with the Druids several
thousand years ago who were a great far-reaching priesthood who ruled over
a people known as the Celts in ancient England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland.
The Druids were in control of everything and often even controlled the
kings. They served as priests, teachers, prophets, magicians, doctors,
and lawyers. They were cruel, bloodthirsty, superstitious, and practiced
human sacrifices. The Irish Druids believed that on Samhain evil spirits
came out of the Cave of Cruachan in Connaught, known as "the gate
of hell." With them came copper colored birds that killed farm animals,
and stole babies, leaving demons (changelings) in their place. Today, abductees
tell similar stories of flying metal objects, that their animals are mutilated
and their babies have been taken by the aliens. The people also believed
that the Druids could cause sleep, illness, or death by casting spells.
Abductees describe how they are unable to move, suddenly fall asleep, and
later become ill.
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- Researcher Dr. Jacques Vallee who has searched for logical
answers states, "The 'medical examination' to which abductees are
said to be subjected, often accompanied by sadistic sexual manipulation,
is reminiscent of the medieval tales of encounters with demons. It makes
no sense in a sophisticated or technical framework: any intelligent being
equipped with the scientific marvels that UFOs possess would be in a position
to achieve any of these alleged scientific objectives in a shorter time
and with fewer risks." "Confrontations"
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- Halloween originally a festival of fire and death, is
still celebrated by satanists, and witches as the eve of their New Year
and is considered to be the High (Black) Sabbath that is often celebrated
by orgy and sacrifice. Halloween celebrates a spirit world of witches,
ghosts, hobgoblins, ghouls, demons, phantoms, vampires, and even monster
aliens. It is becoming one of United States' the most celebrated holidays
and millions of children dress in costumes, masks, and go to their neighbor's
doors asking for candy or gifts. It struck me that if any aliens lived
among us, these costumes and the new styles of teenagers might be useful
for aliens to hide among us.
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- The Druids claimed to be able to change into animals
and other shapes (metamorph, shape-shift), to become invisible, to control
the weather and to produce fruitfulness. Abductees often mention they see
various animals, aliens changing shape and moving through walls. It was
believed that on Halloween the barriers between the physical and spiritual
world were the weakest, and demonic spirits as well as the souls of the
dead walked the countryside. The origins of Trick or Treat are also interesting.
The Druid priests would go from house to house demanding food, and if they
were given none, they would speak a curse over the household to cause someone
to die within the next year. They carried with them a large turnip or pumpkin,
carved out on the inside with a demonic face carved in the front. Offerings
of food and drink were also put out for the ghosts who came to warm themselves
in familiar households. A gray ghost is similar in appearance to a gray
alien. Those who have investigated abductions may see many similarities
between the ancient customs and today's testimony from abductees. It is
possible UFOs come from places we cannot comprehend; and the aliens are
beings we cannot even understand? Reality may include concepts, ideas,
and factors we never considered.
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- Although, most UFO investigators have come to the conclusion
we are being visited by advanced alien civilizations, other respected investigators
have come to very different conclusions - John A. Keel for example states,
"The UFO manifestations seem to be, by and large, merely minor variations
of the age-old demonological phenomenon." " Operation Trojan
Horse"
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- Almost every day, I'm able to obtain creditable reports,
photographs or video from reliable people. It appears the aliens deliberately
hide their identity, perhaps to cover up their vulnerabilities. Many abductees
claim they can stop the abductions by a powerful prayer. During this Halloween
season it might be worth considering other possibilities for the alien
presence. See http://members.tripod.com/~KarleenP/holidays/HALLOWEEN.htm
for more information on Halloween.
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- NEW YORK DIAMOND RED BEAM THEN BLUE BEAM
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- JONES BEACH -- On October 11, 2000, while taking a drive
my girlfriend and her friend and I, who are all in our 30's saw two shapes
appear in the sky coming in off the ocean. It was moving too quickly and
was much too large to be a plane. As it came closer at 8:55 PM, we were
all in shock and still are. I jammed on my brakes and watched it. It landed
on the beach just past the dunes with an amazing rainbow effect going around
underneath the craft. We stayed in the car with the lights off to see what
would happen. As we were staring at the objects, the larger one sent something
like a red beam on our car. We all screamed and I tried to start the car
that would not start. We then tried to open the doors, which would not
open. We all were very upset. Then the lights on us changed to blue. I
felt a calming feeling coming over me and heard someone telling me that
nothing had happened and that I should leave and never come back. After
that, I felt the car drop and we all were bounced around the car. All of
us felt we should get the hell out of there fast. We have been together
for the last few days just talking about this and this is our first attempt
to let anyone know about it. We are very scared about saying this and want
to keep our identity from anyone as we are all known. Thanks to Peter Davenport
Director of the National UFO Reporting Center http://www.ufocenter.com/
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- PENNSYLVANIA - THREE UFOs CAVORT
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- PORTERSVILLE -- On Saturday, October 7, 2000, at 9:00
PM, Mr. and Mrs. Alan Yost drove up on the hill to see if any thunderstorms
were headed in their direction. Alan says, "I was outside our van,
checking the electrostatic meter I had made when my wife called me back
inside to see what she had been observing through her binoculars."
"Using my binoculars, I was able to clearly see a small but brilliant
point of light which was flicking about in an extremely unusual manner,
changing color as it did so. It would be crimson red in one spot, then
blink out only to reappear in the same instant in another but would now
be brilliant green, or a silver blue/white. I observed this one for a few
minutes, then I checked for a reference point of land so I could make sure
that the UFO's movement was not caused by my binoculars. I was able to
put the tree line just inside the bottom of the lens and still see the
object. It was definitely doing the moving as the tree line remained perfectly
still." "Then I was able to see that there was not only one but
three or more of these 'objects' all doing the same 'dance in the sky.'
I also noticed that whenever they blinked out and reappeared they would
form a perfect triangle. The size of the triangle was constantly changing
as they darted about." The UFOs "remained in the same quadrant
of the sky--a couple of miles due west" of the hilltop. "Many
airplanes were also flying into and out of Pittsburgh International Airport.
One of their main flight paths goes straight over the hill where we were,
and I was able to track the airplanes quite well with my binoculars."
The UFOs formed triangular formations in the same quadrant of sky. "We
were able to view the objects doing their 'dance' for 25 minutes, and then
they suddenly disappeared." Thanks to Alan Yost and Joe Trainor Editor
of UFO Roundup Vol. 5 #41 Oct. 12, 2000.
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- MARYLAND DISC HOVERS FOR 4 MINUTES
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- SEVERN -- At 6:10 PM, I was out in the back yard grilling
a steak on October 4, 2000, when I saw an orange white light shoot down
and across the sky and stop dead a hundred feet away. It hovered about
40 feet above the ground. It just hovered there and wobbled a little before
it moved sideways to hover again. The first thing I thought was did anyone
else see this? My neighbors were all indoors. I really did not want to
move but, I ran inside and got my digital camera. When I got back outside
it had apparently moved some more and was a bit lower. I was kind of scared
to get any closer so I just snapped a couple pictures right where I was.
One came out OK, so that is the one I'm sending. It was a domed craft or
kind of like a half a donut with some smaller dome with a point on top
of it. It had what looked like smaller lights all the way around it. There
wasn't any noise but I heard a very low hum. The lights on it would alternate
between yellow and orange to white now and then. It seemed like it would
always wobble before it moved. It would wobble then shift to the side.
When the lights were mostly white it looked like it was shiny on the outside
like silver or a shiny gray color. I tried to watch it every second. I
just couldn't figure out what this thing was. I was going to try getting
more pictures of it and started to reset the camera, but all of a sudden
it shot straight up! I mean like a rocket. One-second it was sitting still
and the next it was moving at top speed! Either the lights went out or
it just disappeared. Thanks to Peter Davenport, Director of the National
UFO Reporting Center http://www.ufocenter.com/,
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- ALABAMA STAR UFO VIDEOTAPED MAY BE VENUS
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- ARAB -- Field Investigator Mark Ausmus for MUFON of Georgia
has investigated the UFO videotaped on September 19, 2000, shortly before
sunset. In Filer Files #40, M. J. Ruben wrote: 'We have received incredible
UFO footage at the Alien Abduction Experience and Research web site. A
colorful star' UFO was spotted in the sky over Arab and as night fell,
the 'star' UFO dropped below the horizon." Mark Ausmus writes,"
I immediately recognized this object as an old friend, and a quick check
with my astronomy software confirmed that this is NOT A UFO, nor a star.
It is the planet Venus. From the picture on the website I was able to determine
the approximate position of the object to the setting Sun. This relationship
was quite fortunate in that it establishes the position of the planet Venus
perfectly. On Sept 19, 2000 at sunset, Venus was approximately 35 degrees
south of the Sun and 15 to 20 degrees above it. The movement of the object
as described by the witness was also identical to the movement of Venus.
It is interesting to note that camera artifacts of focusing on a pinpoint
of bright light can be mistaken as rotation. Fortunately, we have MUFON
to investigate cases. Our job is to separate the wheat from the chaff.
Tom Sheets and John Thompson have done much to get our Georgia chapter
on the right track of performing serious UFO investigations. Thanks to
Mark Ausmus Assistant State Director mausmus@mindspring.com, and ISUR founding
member
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- INDIANA, WISCONSIN AND LAKE MICHIGAN CONTRAILS
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- SOLSBERRY -- Barry Taylor writes, "A correspondent
from Indiana sent me this report and image of Chemtrails that had been
sprayed over his property. Paul says, "I managed to get twelve excellent
photographs Friday the 13th of October. The sunset was beautiful Saturday,
with chemtrails everywhere. The sun was orange with a halo covering probably
three degrees. I was seeing as many as six aircraft at a time, they were
changing course as they flew over, one actually made an 'S' shape as if
following a predetermined course. When I arrived home it was dusk and there
was a chemtrail directly overhead illuminated by the moon. A few minutes
later, the trails had spread and the whole sky was haze. I am going to
mount a camera on my eight inch scope and photograph the aircraft, hopefully
tomorrow. Thanks to Barry Taylor stingray@nor.com.au and Paul.
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- Sally Suddock writes, "Chemtrails derive their name
from the vapor trails (contrails) left by jet aircraft in flight--harmless
condensation common in the world's skies and air traffic routes."
Chemtrails, on the other hand, are reported to be more sinister, and are
suspected to be composed of chemical vapors and matter that are reported
to cause flu-like and other illnesses. Unlike contrails, that dissipate
in a relatively short time, chemtrails fan out and cause the sky to haze
and, in some cases, appear as oily rainbow-like residue above. Chemtrail
patterns in the sky range from parallel to criss-crossed formations distinctly
different from typical commercial flight patterns. A consensus among witnesses
associates the spraying with large, unmarked military or white jet aircraft.
In a number of recent cases, witnesses also have seen and photographed
what appears to be UFOs within the chemclouds. This week, one of the most
dramatic photos of chemtrail activity appeared on the www.sightings.com
website--taken by an Orbital Imaging Corporation SeaStar satellite over
Green Bay, Wisconsin and Lake Michigan on October 9, 2000.
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- Submitted to Sightings by the Health Action Network Society
(www.hans.org), of Canada, the photo was taken as part NASA's Sea-viewing
Wide Field-of-View Sensor (SeaWiFS) project. The bird's eye photo eerily
portrayed "contrail"-like vapor extending from cloud cover for
a short distance and then disappearing. On the Sightings site, as well,
is a detailed letter from a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel, who says
the phenomena are nothing like the typical contrail he ever experienced.
"At the time I retired after 29 years of service, I was a squadron
commander with a KC-135E unit and I certainly can recognize a normal tanker
contrail when I see one or identify the shadow outline of one of our aircraft
in the sky," wrote Den Ardinger, of Pittsburgh. "One of the things
I want understood is that 'spraying' from a tanker is not unheard of regardless
of what anyone tells you. It's what is being sprayed that is the puzzle,"
said Ardinger, adding that military aircraft often jettison fuel for load
reasons. "However, what we are seeing today is not the occasional
spraying I am talking about. When we dumped fuel we didn't fly in a grid
pattern, for example." Meanwhile, a new group has formed to inform
the public on health issues related to toxicity and promote alternative
environmental technologies. "The initial focus of Blue Skies International
will be to address the assault on our health and environment by the ongoing
chemtrail operation," said Toni Thayer, the founder of the organization.
http://www.chemtrailcentral.com/bsi/. Thanks to Sally Suddock dexxaa@webtv.net
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- MINNESOTA WHITE PLANES AND TANKER TRUCKS
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- DULUTH -- Brenda Livingston writes a friend sent her
this story. "I've been watching the chemtrails aircraft in this area
for a couple of years and taken a lot of photos. I noticed while using
my binoculars that some chemplanes have a strange antennae attachment on
the back. It was quite tall and appeared to be made of some type of tubular
metal and somewhat resembled a TV antennae. It was located just ahead of
the tail section. I noticed these same large aircraft fly into the Duluth
Airport. The 148th Fighter Wing (ANG) is located there, but they fly small
fighter aircraft. One Sunday morning around 11:00 AM, near the Duluth Airport
I encountered a convoy of 12 tanker trucks, in green camouflage. Its possible
these tankers could transport some of these special chemicals they are
spraying? Thanks to Brenda Livingston
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- TEXAS, OKLAHOMA, KANSAS, NEBRASKA BOLIDES OR UFOs?
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- L. G. Sikes writes, "We've recently had a rash of
bolides sightings in Oklahoma which have been well covered by the Media.
I do not know what makes bolides explode in the air and display the type
of fireworks displayed when they do. The "Experts" do not have
the answers either. One of our major Meteorologists at TV Channel # 9 says
the prevalence of these bolides is very unusual and was not expected because
there was no meteor showers forecast. Observers claimed the object lit
up the sky at sunset and took a full minute to cross from horizon to horizon
from the south to north northeast passing almost overhead of Dodge City,
Kansas. KFOR news in Oklahoma City claimed, NASA had studied the video
and concluded that it was a Russian "Proton" Rocket that had
reentered the atmosphere on October 13, 2000, at 6:08 PM http://science.nasa.gov,
Thanks to L. G. Sikes tao@telepath.com
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- Hundreds of people in Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska
reported seeing several fireballs streak across the sky about sunset. An
explanation on a NASA news Web site, says the lights' trajectory matches
the path of three Glonass satellites that launched from Kazakstan aboard
a Russian Proton rocket earlier in the day. But military officials said
there's no way the lights were caused by anything made on Earth. "We're
chalking it up to natural phenomenon," said Maj. Perry Nouis, with
US Space Command at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado. The lights were
associated with the Orionid meteor shower, he said, which is expected to
reach its full splendor this weekend. "We track that stuff,"
he said. "We did not record a re-entry." North American Aerospace
Defense Command also discounts the space junk theory. "That was not
man-made," said Master Sgt. Larry Lincoln, a spokesman for the agency.
"We track man-made objects. Had that happened, of course we would
have known that!" Some witnesses reported hearing noise from the object.
A video of the object showed an effect similar to a cloud of bright stars.
Various reports claim that the object was orange in color, although some
of the fragments were bluish. Thanks to the Wichita Eagle: http://web.wichitaeagle.com/content/wichitaeagle/2000/10/19/frontpage/meteor10
19_txt.htm
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- Editor's Note: Fireballs seldom last more than 15 to
20 seconds, so reports claiming it was visible for more than a minute suggest
satellite reentry fragments or a slower moving object. NASA and astronomers
assert its space junk, yet US Space Command and NORAD claim this was definitely
not space junk. One possibility is that thousands of observers were looking
at antimissile weapons system that had been fired to calibrate the Project
Starshine Strategic Defensive Initiative targeting systems. Of course people
may have observed a UFO entering our atmosphere.
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- TEXAS UFO Sighting Report
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- DENTON -- George writes, "I think I saw a UFO tonight
as I was leaving the Lodge, at 8:53 PM on October 3, 2000. I was looking
due east at Morison's Corn crib through my car's windshield. Above the
red Morrison's sign I saw a white light composed of a steady white and
a flashing white, just like an ordinary airplane. Since some of the Dallas
air traffic passes near Denton, I thought it was an airplane with its landing
lights on. At that moment, it stopped flashing, brightened, and reversed
direction moving off to the east from whence it came. There is no way for
me to estimate how far, how high or how fast it was traveling. It suddenly
reversed direction without turning around, slowing down or stopping as
an ordinary aircraft or helicopter would have done. I noticed no sound.
The sighting lasted about half a minute from the approach to the departure
of the light. The sky was clear with no clouds. The light was not Venus,
which had all ready set in the west, nor was it Jupiter nor Saturn which
had not risen. In any event, no planet moves or flashes like that. Thanks
to George A.
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- ARIZONA UFO SIGHTING
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- TUCSON -- On October 6, 2000, at 9:15 PM while sitting
in my back yard in East Tucson, I noticed six to eight amber lights."
The lights were approximately 200 feet off of the ground using a tree in
our yard known to be 50 feet tall. The lights moved in unison as only a
whole object would move. I don't think even a group of aircraft, could
move in unison like that. And do it so perfectly. At night? The object's
shape was hard to define since it was dark. But I will try to come as close
as I can:
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- There were two lights on the top left * * and more under
those two * * * and a couple of more kind of like * * *
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- It came from east to west over the top of my head and
as they made their way towards downtown Tucson, about over the University
area it seemed, it made a slow banking turn southeast, almost turning around,
but making an adjustment carrying him directly south. As I said, the object
seemed to be at least two hundred feet high, It went directly overhead
and I never heard a whisper of a sound. Just for comparison, I decided
to see at what height I could begin hearing airplanes overhead and at what
height I could stop hearing them. I was not expecting what I saw next.
From the Southeast their lies a large US Air Force base that shall remain
Monthan-ious. Four minutes later six A-10 Tank Killers went overhead to
the northwest. They were at least at a thousand feet in altitude, and I
had no problem hearing them. It was by the very definition a UFO in my
book. Thanks to Waltpeg
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- COLORADO
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- HOWARD -- Christopher O'Brien writes, "Its real
quiet here in the valley lately, but I received a call from a reliable
skywatcher who lives near Howard who claims she had a sighting Tuesday
night October 17, 2000. She was able to videotape including a zoomed in
close-up of the UFO! I'm waiting to meet with her on Tuesday and review
tape. I'll keep you posted and let you know what the scoop is. Christopher
O'Brien tmv@amigo.net author of: "My Mysterious Valley"
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- ARIZONA LADY ENCOUNTERS TALL HOODED FIGURES
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- TUCSON - My name is Donna and I had an encounter similar
to one you wrote about recently that stated, "I went to bed a 3:00
AM and I was very tired. All I remember was just laying my head down. Next
thing I was awake wide awake and I couldn't move. The whole room was filled
with this whitish-bluish light and I saw this tall hooded figure walk across
the window in my room!" Donna says, "The night before last, there
was a tall, hooded figure that sat on the edge of my bed. I tried to kick
him off, but he would not budge." I tried to turn on the light, but
could not. I didn't feel scared (as would be a normal reaction), but I
did feel exasperated. The rest I don't remember; there is a blank space.
Later on, I woke up, turned on my light okay and went to look for the intruder.
Dream? Reality? A merging of both? My imagination? This is just one of
the weirdo things that have happened around here in the past few months.
Thanks to Donna B.
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- NEW US AIRCRAFT MAY BE ANNOUNCED
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- Popular Science Magazine for November portrays a black
world-style fighter-bomber nicknamed "Switchblade" by pilots
because of its ability to move its wings in and out of the fuselage. The
plane dubbed "Bird of Prey" by magazine writer Steve Douglass
is described as a follow-on to the FB-111 Aardvark switch-wing fighter-bomber
that bombed Libyan strongman Moammar Khadafy's palace in 1985. The aircraft
operates with its wings extended for landing and airborne refueling at
550 MPH. The wings are almost completely tucked into the fuselage as it
builds its speed to more than mach 5 over 3000 mph. Air Force officials
have denied the announcement but presidents regularly release data on advanced
technology just prior to elections.
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- THE MARS FACE: JPL'S CATBOX FRAUD EXPOSED
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- Lan Fleming writes, the September 8, Fox News article
stated: "according to the disparate band of believers who since the
big letdown have kept the torch of artificiality burning on Web sites and
in newsletters and books. They branded NASA's image "the Catbox"
or "the Footprint" and said a poor-quality picture was deliberately
released as a public relations move to kill the topic." (URL: http://foxnews.com/science/090800/mars_face.sml)
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- While there is no way, of course, to prove what the motives
were behind JPL's release of the shoddy Catbox "enhancement"
of the MGS Face image to the world news media two years ago, it can be
proven beyond reasonable doubt that a deliberate fraud was perpetrated
once it is understood what extreme and bizarre image "processing"
had to be done to produce the Catbox from the raw image. What I think is
a very likely procedure is described at: http://vgl.org/webfiles/mars/face/catbox2.htm
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- While the resulting "enhancement" is not an
exact replica of the Catbox, it's close enough for government work. The
process involves the use of a high-pass filter, which has long been suspected
to be the primary culprit in the creation of the Catbox. But to get something
as truly bad as the Catbox, it was also necessary to apply the Photoshop
noise filter and embossing filter. Both of these latter two filters are
used for fancy special effects in computer graphics, but are bogus in the
extreme for any image purporting to depict a real scene. In summary, it
appears likely that JPL used a high-pass filter to remove visual cues to
the true height and shape of the object, a noise filter to obscure unwanted
features that couldn't be removed, and an embossing filter to add features
that don't exist, but that make the terrain look rougher and more "natural"
than it would in an honest enhancement. I see very little chance that this
is anything other than deliberate fraud. It seems unlikely that even gross
incompetence could explain the Catbox. Thanks to: Lan Fleming http://foxnews.com/science/090800/mars_face.sml
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- Editors Note: It seems obvious JPL is attempting to hide
the Mars face. An ancient Face on Mars was already accepted as fact by
the public. Why go to all the trouble to carry out steps to deny its reality?
This infers that other secrets are also being hidden such as ancient cities,
underground bases come to mind.
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- NEW NASA SHUTTLE VIDEO OF UFOs IN SPACE
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- Jeff Challender has prepared a new tape of various UFOs
that were caught on recent Shuttle video footage. Jeff has noticed that
when NASA is picking up UFOs they have tendency to first zoom in to observe
the UFO better and then they cut the feed to the outside world. Jeff spends
hundreds of hours watching the shuttle broadcasts from space. He is now
an expert on NASA missions and even those onboard the shuttle are unlikely
to see what Jeff does. He has gained his experience from watching numerous
shuttle missions and using Jeff's directions you will be able to learn
the difference between space junk, ice crystals and real UFOs. Using his
experience you can also learn the difference. One segment has 24 UFOs watching
the shuttle from space. I feel confident we could go into a court of law
and convince any jury that there are UFOs moving at high speed around the
Earth. Send $25 to: Jeff Challender 2768 Mendel Way - Sacramento, California
95833-2011
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- An open letter to George Filer and those who have read
his Halloween/alien speculations in Filer's Files #42 -- 2000:
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- I read your column frequently, you usually do a fine
job. But that piece on Halloween regarding abductions is based on a fundamentalist
Christian website that clearly has an ax to grind, and is dead wrong on
virtually everything.
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- Pumpkins didn't come over from the New World until centuries
after the Druids had been obliterated, there is no Celtic Lord of the Dead
(Samhain means "summer's end"), Samhain is pronounced SAVen or
SOWen, scholars debate whether the Druids actually sacrificed as a general
rule (the written accounts we have are by the Romans, as the Druids were
primarily an oral culture, and history is always written by the victors).
Plenty of other errors, misconceptions, and outright fabrications. Don't
try to base any speculations on such rubbish, please. There's a lot of
faulty information out on the web. I can recommend some that is based on
actual scholarship and fact.
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- I'd suggest you visit http://www.illusions.com/halloween/hallows.htm
and read the excellent debunkery of this sort of Halloween hysteria and
demonizing by professional folklorist WJ Bethancourt III "Halloween:Myths,Monsters
and Devils."
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- Other useful sites are these:
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- The Origins of Halloween http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/5452/hallorig.html
Rowan Moonstone,s FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) about the background
of Halloween celebrations.
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- Halloween: The Schizophrenic Holiday http://www.digitalberean.com/
Halloweendb_halloween_introduction.htm Robin Paterson points out many of
the urban legends that contribute to misconceptions about Halloween, witchcraft,
and alleged Satanic cult activity.
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- Religious propaganda in the schools: Halloween mania
http://www.religioustolerance.org/int_educ.htm Halloween: Facts and
misinformation http://www.religioustolerance.org/hallowee.htm Analyses
of Halloween by the Ontario Center for Religious Tolerance, a non-sectarian
organization which seeks to present all religious viewpoints without bias.
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