My favorite book on the subject is still The Projection of the Astral Body by Sylvan Muldoon.

However, as I mentioned before, documentable paper trail or it didn’t happen.

I once saw my doppelgänger (or at least someone who looked a lot like me) at some distance. The interesting thing though was that my mind said “hey I am down there better getting moving”. I then felt my “conciousness” leave my body and start to travel towards my doppelgänger, but before I got there my more rational mind said hang on a minute, this is a bit weird and I was retracted back into my body. It felt like I was attached by the classic silver thread that is mentioned in astral travel reports and was then brought back by this thread.

Here’s a site that puts together a bunch of the articles and videos related to “sky sounds”. What I am seeing in my desultory web investigation is that the “sky sounds” phenomenon is the whole UFO phenomenon writ small. You have all the various opinions about the subject: closed-minded skeptical, open-minded skeptical, credulous, looney, and every where in between. Just like with UFOs, many of the videos are obvious hoaxes — which leads some people (the closed-minded skeptics) to deduce that ALL the videos must be hoaxes. Some earnest scientific types are trying very hard to explain the phenomenon with our current understanding of geology, physics, and what-not — while not even considering that the phenomena may be explainable only with a kind of scientific knowledge that we don’t have yet. Some people leap right to “therefore Aliens”. Those who are conspiratorial in outlook submit that perhaps the phenomena is a military psy-ops experiment. Of course with 2012 and all, the sky sounds could be the trumpets of Revelation ushering in the Apocalypse. Everything happens faster today — stories develop quickly, people opine instantly, videos get posted easily, hoaxes get perpetrated soon after the initial story has “trended”. If I cared more, I would probably follow the sky sound phenomena and see where it all goes. But barring a major breakthough occurence, I will probably let it slide back into oblivion, like most everyone else.

Um, the laws of Netiquette?

Thanks for the suggestions. I’ve been wanting to branch out!

Also love the idea of RA Wilson show as I don’t know anything about him.

Be great to hear about other fringe cultural topics that interest you that aren’t necessarily UFO related, maybe… The Diggers, Gurdjieff, Cults, Church of Subgenius, etc, whatever intrigues you.

The bottom line: Choosing this setting for a psy-ops exercise would have been insane, and it almost certainly would have been halted at the highest levels of the military. Under the circumstances, alien visitation actually sounds like a rational and sober possibility by comparison. There’s no way it went down like that.

Actually I managed to find a commercially produced VHS copy of that particular show a few years back and I started looking into the whole disinformation aspect of it a while before that. When I heard an interview that you did about your book, I knew that I needed to start checking out your show, and your book too.

Thanks for the reply Greg.

I was thinking of these issues as well (at least some of them) and I think it comes down, as Matt wrote, to the provenance of the document(s).

Specifically, did this supposed psychology conference take place? Are the authors around to verify their work? Are the technologies mentioned in their paper actually in existence? Unless all of these issues (and any other claims contained in the document) are satisfied, the issue remains open. If any are proved to be false (not just unproved, but false) then the whole document can be ignored. I believe that conjecture about what would or would not have been appropriate at the base at the time or second guessing without any other information is subservient to this issue.

Bentwaters has not been proven to be anything specific. It was apparently a strange and highly unusual series of events that appear to stem from an extraordinary source. There’s not much beyond that, at least until we can prove beyond any doubt that the events were caused by a non-human agency, which may never happen. If the psy-ops angle can be proven, so be it. The preceding is my opinion only, of course.

I will give Peter a yell this week.

Thank you for your kind comments. I think the show appeals to a rather narrow audience, so any new listeners are encouraging.

I have a copy of that program, and it’s available on YouTube (at least it was the last time I checked) but thank you for your kind offer.

Thanks for commenting on the site.

I am encouraged by your comments as they seem to support the idea that paranormal events often cannot be pigeonholed into neat categories.

See my overall answer about the psy-ops angle to Bentwaters.

Here’s a question, when Peter Robbins visited the area of the sighting for the first time while researching the book, he was with Larry Warren, and they BOTH SAW UFOs IN THE SKY.

This implies that the team of secret spy-ops guys would have needed to stage that too. They would need to be waiting for a decade until Peter and Larry left their quaint little British inn and strolled around the farmland near the base.

And this must mean Col. Halt is in on it somehow. He lied to Peter Robbins when he claimed that the nuclear ordinance was “adversely” effected.

What was shooting those blue beams down into the nuclear bunker? This was witnessed by men in the watch tower.

The base was on a heightened state of alert because of the tensions with Poland durn one of the hottest moments in the cold war. This seems an odd time to run a drill. I mean, this was a big air base loaded with weapons. I wouldn’t wanna be hiding in the woods controlling a fake ufo with a bunch of terrified airmen with guns!

just a thought.
Mike C!

After all, isn’t it just as likely that the government would create a false paper trail to make a truly unexplained event look like a psy-ops exercise? And wouldn’t the government be more likely to muddy the waters in this manner when the incident calls into question their ability to protect and control a nuclear weapons storage facility?

At the very least, declaring the documents to be a “solution” strikes me as terribly naive.

But yes, I’m interested in hearing his opinion re. this ‘new’ development. I use the marks because it is not the first time Rendlesham was considered some kind of test or false flag UFO event. Jacques Vallee proposed the same thing in Revelations.

The problem I have with Vallee, and keep having in Sacha’s new findings, is that they fail to mention the heated political context in which the incident occurred. Left At Est Gate explains how NATO bases were on high alert because the Russians were reading shock troops on the Polish border, ready to stop Lech Walessa and his plans for Democracy.

Conducting PsyOps games right on the middle of a conflict that could have potentially escalated into WW3?

Another thing Sacha doesn’t mention was the briefing the guards had with what appeared to be Navy & NSA officials, where they were shown alleged pictures of strange craft taken in several different theaters of war, including one that appeared to have been taken on the surface of the Moon by an Apollo astronaut. Shouldn’t that have been the perfect moment to come clean and say to those shaken boys “it was all a test fellas”?

I gave Dennis Rano credit (and a link) for the caricature at the bottom of the post.

And yes, I picked that about Greg’s ascendancy too. Might explain why he always acts like a Fortean Ronin

Don’t worry, Greg. If aliens do end up coming from Zeta Reticuli, we won’t force you to perform seppuku

On a more serious note, I seemed to catch the impression that you’re of Japanese descent on your mother’s side. Or is that an erroneous inference?

I also enjoy the strange music. You are rat Pfink http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XXYvnw2S_s is one of my favourites (I am sure you have seen it). Finally thanks for introducing me to Come on-a My House.

I think the hairmatch would be a draw, but any edge would go to Gorightly, since he’s non-dogmatic and I like that.

Was just out back with the celestron telescope trying to get fucking mars into focus and listening to you on the headphones.

Wonderful, wonderful stuff.

Cheers,

Bob Desnos

Parafornia, eh? How about CaliFORTnia? We need to spread the name of our patron saint more, don’t you think?