Tighclops posted:

I think they've been studying it for the better part of a century and they still don't know poo poo and that scares them to death

Tighclops posted:

I think they've been studying it for the better part of a century and they still don't know poo poo and that scares them to death

Tighclops posted:

I think they've been studying it for the better part of a century and they still don't know poo poo and that scares them to death

Tighclops posted:

I think they've been studying it for the better part of a century and they still don't know poo poo and that scares them to death

blatman posted:

what if they're deliberately doing a bad job of researching it because there's more money in it this way

like if you were the head of the figure-out-the-tictacs project with zero oversight and plenty of funding, how motivated would you be to actually produce more than the bare minimum?

PokeJoe posted:

They're keeping the aliens to themselves because they don't want to share the amazing space drugs and xeno bussy

SniperWoreConverse posted:

Xenussy is too powerful. Only the most hardy of human sex havers can begin to handle it.

Wheeee posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jQ5gPHLvHQ

Gods_Butthole posted:

Woah woah woah, backup. What's this about pedophiles? Is loving Jung going to be ruined for me too? I haven't gotten around to reading the Red Book yet and the experience is going to be ruined if I find out it was written by a chomo.

NUFORC posted:

Me & my friend were coming home from races & saw two large saucers at the road to gate 1 at Arnold Air Force Base. WE watched them for about 10 min. I decided to get out of the car & walk under them. I got to within about 150 ft. They went from setting still to a speed faster than a jet. I have been a fishing guide for 30 yrs. & fished allot at night & have seen probably 20 to 30 UFO's. I have tried approaching them in my boat & about 150 ft. is as close as I can get. They are gone almost as fast a you blink you eye. They make no sound. I ask my father who worked at Arnold Air Force base if there was such a thing as flying saucers. He give me a odd answer he said I have top secret clearance & I can't tell you if there are & can't tell you there are not real. I think if there are not real he just said no. He had worked top secret work since WWII at UK college.

I know there saucer shaper objects that fly & can go from setting still to gone in about 2 sec. with no sound.

NUFORC posted:

Out side of Arkadelphia returning to Camden on state hyway car was stopped at intersection we saw the ocupants watching the sky. My Mother-in-law her husband, myself, my wife and her brother all witness a large orange glowing ball witch appeared to be rotating in the sky at around 30 degrees and to the north of us over the woods. The distance was to distant to be determined. We continued on for 20 or so minutes when a small plane approched the ball and it seemed to disapear into itself at a very fast rate. After the small plane passed it returned to the same position where it remained until we reached home some 10 miles norh east of Camden. We called the local radio station to see if anyone else observed the craft and they said they had received dozens of calls. The total trip was over 100 miles and lasted 2 hours and the craft remained visible the entire trip. Same location, same intensity and appeared to be the same size even after traveling such a lon distance.

NUFORC posted:

I observed one pink/orange glowing ball, @ 3 ft. in diameter "bouncing" along railroad tracks for the length of @ 2 city blocks, this occurred slowly enough for me to follow it down the 2nd "block" at a distance of @ 25 yards. When the ball reached a bridge over a small creek, it shot straight up into the air and disappeared out of sight range. At the time, I was @ 10 years old, and have never found a reasonable explanation for this phenomenon. I have considered ball lightening, or St. Elmos fire as opposed to intelligently operated alien craft.

NUFORC posted:

My Dad, my sister, our dog and I went out to the mailbox, probably early evening. I specifically remember the three of us looking up and seeing a round object with all different colored lights that went round and round on the bottom of it. It seemed very high up in the sky. I have no idea how long it was there. I think only a minute or two, probably. Anyway, it was there and then it just disappeared in an instant. Not even a helicopter could have disappeared that fast. I remember us all wondering what it was and how it could disappear so fast.

I asked my older sister about this a couple years ago to see if she remembered that happening. She told me that she did remember, that it had happened, and that Dad had been pretty freaked out by it. She told me that he had watched the news for a couple weeks after that wondering what it was. There must not have been any reports though that she remembers.

Anyway, I can only guess the year to be between 1967-1970. I must have only been 7 or 8 at the time. I estimate this because my Dad died of Muscular Dystrophy in ’72, and at the time this happened, he was still healthy enough to be walking. I was hoping to find other reports on your site, but didn’t. Therefore, the exact year is unknown. I’d be interested to see if anyone else saw and maybe what year, if they remember.

NUFORC posted:

My mother was leaving to work at cecils coctail lounge. My father was in vietnam. So we did not live on base. (travis airforce base) My mother entered her car and our neighbor a german lady ran over and was poumding on her window and speaking in german and pointing to the sky above the house across the street. My mother got out of her car and saw a cigar shaped craft with a pink glow and making no noise. She is not sure if it was seconds or minuetes she watched object. The craftsuddenly took off toward twinsisters moutain at incredible speed. When she arrived at work and told people the srory she was scoffed at and made fun of, These were mostly pilots and flight line workers as the bar was just outside the base gate. I know this happened. MY MOTHER WOULD NEVER HAD MADE UP SUCH A STORY. And neighbours up and down the streetwitnessed this on a summer evening. My mother says she had know idea what she witnessed but had a feeling it was generating some kind of conection with the neighbors shortwave radio antena wich was very tall.

NUFORC posted:

I was about 9 yrs. old, playing in my back yard. I looked up over the house at about a 45 degree angle and saw a craft. It was like nothing I had seen before or since. It was multi-facited and it seemed like there were antennas sticking out. There was no sound, lights anything. It was huge. I watched it come out of the west and at first thought it was an airplane. It left no trail and finally stopped. I guess it was about as big as my thumbnail if I held my arm outstretched. I was daylight. I can only guess at the time. The sun did not reflect off of it. It was a slate gray color. After a short time it turned back to the west and slowly left my sight.

Barry Foster posted:

I'm on holiday and I am absolutely caning my kindle, birdthread!

Also reading

After by Bruce Greyson

Skinwalkers at the Pentagon by Lacatski, Kelleher and Knapp (lol, oh yes)

Barry Foster posted:

Ah but do they have to be?

I used to be in the "good chance ET, probably probes" camp, but reading Vallee really got me questioning

You should read Dimensions, it's really fascinating

Barry Foster posted:

Absolutely devoured Abduction by John E. Mack over the weekend

Hachi machi that poo poo's bloodcurdling, + also managed to freak myself by how many of the "signs" of being an abductee I apparently exhibit (aversion to grey imagery and lifelong fear of/fascination with the whole concept, weird sinus issues, randomly bleeding ear, fear of windows/things coming and/or looking through the window at night, fear of the dark, some p.suggestive sleep paralysis episodes, deepset bad/trauma(?) feelings which I can't consciously attribute to anything I remember, etc. ). poo poo's like Doctor Internet, though, since those are obviously extremely nonspecific things

It's interesting how even back then all of the experiencers + Mack himself are totally on board with the interdimensional/non-nuts'n'bolts side of things. It really does a good job of getting across how surreal it apparently is, and just like Vallee, he notes the similarities with shamanistic experiences, visonary experiences, encounters with demons, angels, jinn, fairies, general non-local/semi-material extra-human intelligences, and the like

I dunno what to make of the whole thing, really. The fact that so much of it is based on hypnotic regression (which as far as I know is pretty conclusively bullshit??) isn't great, though

I can't say I'm convinced of Mack's hypothesis that the extreme terror and trauma of being taken from your bed and - essentially - raped by beings with absolute, total power over you is actually a necessary part of the spiritual enlightenment that the beings stress is the reason why they take people, though. He likens it to Zen practices, saying that teaching isn't all a bed of roses, that pain, shock, fear etc. are also valuable tools, especially when the goal is broadening the very horizons of your consciousness, stretching the very limits of your ability to think and experience. Like, the aliens might just be lying when they say they love you and are doing this for your own good, y'know? Like, that's actually probably the safest assumption?

WEH posted:

badass pooky, can we get those edited into the op?

WEH posted:

badass pooky, can we get those edited into the op?

Barry Foster posted:

Couple of my own contributions (not trying to be egotistic - well, maybe I am, a bit - but it's easier to remember what your own self has posted)

Pooky posted:

Pooky posted:

toggle posted:

I can’t work out what the red image is. is that a hindu statue?

Pooky posted:

Pooky posted:

My partner asked me what the difference between "Woo" and "High Strangeness" is. I didn't have a clear answer for that. I told them generally "Woo" is having some sort of control or ability to use/invoke "High Strangeness".

Anyone got a better definition?

PokeJoe posted:

Woo is more ephemeral "energy" and "vibrations" and other nonsense easily disproven by highschool physics. High Strangeness is when you see a UFO and then feel like it noticed you and zipped away. It's strange and unexplainable. Woo attempts to explain and understand via magic being real