Arizona L.O.W.F.I

Archive for February 3rd, 2009

Hell, yeah! Arizona’s a great place to be. Mountains, deserts, canyons, high plains and low valleys. The urban and the urbane (and sometimes, just the “erb”). Suburban and subhuman, we’ve got it all. A good piece of what we have is the paranormal. While this is a very broad category, Arizona seems to have manifested almost every aspect of the word I can think of. Haunting legends and haunted people, out-of-place artifacts and out-of-place people (oops!)… and between our Vortices and our Portals, we even have out-of-place places.

As this blog is intended to share all things Fortean in this here great state, feel free to email me with your strange tale, sighting, event, urban legend, haunting, or anything that defies categorization.

Why study anomalous events? Let’s let famed scientist Jacques Vallee answer that. “[...] current hypotheses are not strange enough to explain the facts of the [U.A.P.] phenomenon, and the debate suffers from a lack of scientific information. Indeed, from the viewpoint of modern physics, our Cosmic Neighborhood could encompass other (parallel) universes, extra-spatial dimensions, and other time-like dimensions beyond the common 4-dimensional spacetime we recognize, and such aspects could lead to rational explanations for apparently “incomprehensible” behaviors on the part of entities emerging into our perceived continuum.

As it attempts to reconcile theory with observed properties of elementary particles and with discoveries at the frontiers of cosmology, modern physics suggests that mankind has not yet discovered all of the universe’s facets, and we must propose new theories and experiments in order to explore these undiscovered facets.

This is why continuing study of reported anomalous events is important: It may provide us with an existence theorem for new models of physical reality.”

Forteans, at least most Forteans I know, deeply believe in the Scientific Method. We simply seek to apply it to the type of anomalous events that most mainstreamers insist do not exist (until their first unexplained event, that is).

I present my first item: The Arivaca Portal. My comments follow.

–Thomas M. Cosgrove, TucsonFodderButWiser@hotmail.com