I saved a copy of this tape last time you had it posted and uploaded it last year; it’s amassed an awesome *4* downloads in 6 months. Gosh almighty indeed. These recordings deserve to be out in the wild to ensure their existence so I doubly appreciate your putting them out there.

The impression this tape left on me was one of sadness for Bender. I didn’t feel convinced by his claims and instead heard a lonely, vulnerable person compensating by claiming special powers. It’s tragi-comic as he implies terrible forces will be wreaked upon his detractors if he loses self-control – reminiscent of the impotent bully victim warning that ‘one day they’ll be sorry.’

On some level, I wonder if his visiting entities and special powers weren’t the ‘imaginary friends’ that some of the loneliest children conjure up.

You know it’s funny, the impression left on me by most of the Contactees is broadly thematic along similar lines; from Buck Nelson to Orfeo, they frequently seem to conjure fantasies that plug the (perceived) holes in their self-esteem and status. Aura Rhanes taught an ungrateful wife to value her husband and Nelson’s male-centric Solar System validated the bachelor life-style.

Bringing up Reich always makes me think of Trevor James Constable and his theories of his plasma-based amoeba-like ‘critters’ he found in the infra-red range, floating in the upper atmosphere. He used Reichian cloudbusters to draw them in and had interesting theories… I remember he mentioned somewhere that he’d moved on from cloudbusters to using geometric shapes to draw in the organisms. Completely left-field and almost Lovecraftian, but just crazy enough to have some possible discoveries in the mix.

Greg, did you ever get to talk to him?

I’d also really like to read that research material he mentioned posting online

PS — Do you ever plan on speaking in LA? I would love to see you do your thing live.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VPJajJSArE&feature=player_embedded

Amazing info. He’s got his own website….

http://www.rockethub.com/projects/7461-mortality-and-the-mind.

All the way through…oompah oompah dah dah dahhh. Dramatic pause…diddlee dee dee dah dah dah. If I have one gripe it’s the absence of a funky wah wah pedal.

Nowadays, folk complain at the overuse of X-Files theme music and say it doesn’t take ufology seriously. Here we have a CUFOS release with more dramatic music than a Hammer House movie.

@ Ward – I still managed to miss the Monty Python music dammit!

I tend to come at the problem of UFO sightings first from the angle of “Is it more likely that this object was an example of advanced tech?” There are many reports that can be reasonably treated in this way, and there are also many that cannot. One that was likely earthly tech was the Cash-Landrum UFO. One that was probably not would be the object that landed during Herbert Schirmer’s abduction. Most sightings before WWII are probably not due to human technology.

I’ve always suspected that our guesses and indeed our perceived interactions with “them” are colored entirely by our senses and expectations, and therefore, we have no way as yet of knowing how to understand non-human consciousness. As soon as we look at them, we are looking at our own prejudices, conscious, unconscious cultural, etc.

go to 1:42 to hear the same thing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVbb6pZLfzU

guess there is a lot of canned music being used. Still one of the best earlier ufo audio documentaries I’ve ever heard.

Willingham was a hoaxer, Cooper an elaborator and Hill something else altogether. It doesn’t matter though because it’s part of our history and puts a twist to the mystery.

Putting Don King aside, I wonder if you have a copy of the interview with police pilots Arey and Dellinger from 1977? They had a heli encounter with a couple of *somethings* above Charlottesville.

Ward

P.S. Really liked the music Darren.

It stands to reason then that if Kurzweill gets away with it and humanity attains immortality, that moment civilization will simply collapse out of a perennial state of procrastination –”Meh… I’ll finish that book next century”

Go and read the last few installments…

Charles seems on the verge of a breakdown..

Be well

Laurence

Bill

The NSA is building the country’s biggest spy center (watch what you say).

An installation 5 times bigger than the Pentagon, with servers capable of storing and analyzing yottabytes (there’s not even an official name for what comes after yotta , 10×24 bytes) of data from American citizen’s e-mails and phones, using the fastest computers ever created (their immediate goal is to reach exa-flops speeds).

They are not destroying any data. They are hoarding it all, to be prepared when they finally get to break the encryption codes protecting all that private data, using brute processing.

“The former NSA official held his thumb and forefinger close together: “We are that far from a turnkey totalitarian state.”

Last few years I’ve come to reject the ETH for reasons that have been better elucidated by guys such as Greg, Mac, Jaques Vallee, Nick Redfern etc.

But Mac’s story made me think of another cat story told to me by the Literature Professor (great old ex MI-6 guy then teaching at my university) who first introduced me to the idea that UFOs are real. He seemed to belive the ETH. I had a long, ongoing conversation with him, and at various I remember asking him a question of the type “but if they’re aliens, why would they do X?” and he would always respond with his “cat analogy.” It went like this.

“In the morning, I read the paper in my couch drinking tea. My cat often sits at my feet watching me. Imagine the cat’s thoughts. Imagine it trying to understand what I am doing when I read the paper. It might see it as some sort of clothing, or housing mechanism. The point is, within the cat’s frame of reference and field of information, it is simply impossible to understand what I am doing reading the paper. Us asking questions like “why would aliens do X?” is the same as the cat asking why I am reading my paper. Such entities would be so advanced compared to us that we would be to them as cats are to us.”

Food for thought. I noticed this podcast (and many other conversations on the subject) involved lots of reasoning along the lines of “isn’t it ridiculous to think that that aliens would exhibit this behaviour/have these motives/be subject to these limits?” (there goes Mac just now asking just such a question about implants…)

Maybe its not ridiculous. Maybe it only seems so if we’re all cats…..

P.S., I will add that when I say “alien” I include cryptos and interdimensional hypthesis

Being so close to it, did it emit any heat?

I remain unconvinced. The report prepared by NATO and the radar readings showed that when the pilots were ready to ‘lock in’, the object either ascended or descended at an incredible acceleration. They did not beat the jets by slowing to a halt; they would have been sitting ducks to the jets missiles.

So, even if we’re talking about huge drone platforms that remain afloat for long periods and use solar cells on their fuselage as a source of power, if it’s lighter than air it wouldn’t be able to climb or descend so quickly.

These hybrid platforms that are being considered by the military to work as cargo systems or ‘lower atmosphere satellites’ protect themselves by staying to high anti-aircraft weaponry can’t reach them. It’s when they are close to the ground that they would make lovely targets

It would be more plausible to think of a holographic projection instead. But a hologram powerful enough to be shown as a solid target brings us with other problems.

What you say about keeping the pilots in some type of breathable liquid is very interesting. It reminds me of the infamous UMMO letters, and how the ‘Ummites’ explained that during their travels aboard their saucers the crew would be kept protected in a tube filled with liquid because of the accelerations.

Or maybe your informant was a fan of Neon Genesis Evangelion

Perhaps the flying saucer shape is a message from our future or collective unconscious about where we should be heading. I think we must be aware that the message may be garbled!

Also see locomosky.ru; they are working on multiple saucer shaped hybrid craft.
Saucer #1
Saucer #2
Putin approves (actually he’s poker faced as usual)

This stuff reminds me of that Canadian saucer-like hovercraft – the Avrocar – from the 60′s. Question: are humans feeling compelled to re-create the “real” UFOs, in the manner of a cargo cult? Or maybe in the same way as some human crop circle creators are feeling compelled to create their designs (as described by Colin Andrews?)

I never assumed that these supposed hybrid airships had pilots on board. They could not withstand the g-forces, as you point out. I was told many years ago about an experimental cockpit in which the pilot was enclosed in a liquid, which would move with the craft and protected them from inertial forces. The pilots supposedly breathed the liquid. I’ve never been able to confirm this.