NorCal L.O.W.F.I

Archive for February 8th, 2009

Some recent blog posts I’ve stumbled across exhibit the high strangeness that seemingly haunts our NorCal skies.

Strange Tentacled UFO – Soquel, CA

Sausalito, CA UFO

Which is not to say that I have any predisposition, one way or the other, as to what the photos in said blogs represent. With that noted, I’m constantly perplexed that some people instantly equate “UFOs” with Extraterrestrials (ET’s), which seems a great leap of faith.

This is not to say that actual ET’s don’t inhabit our airspaces upon occasion. But dig: UFO’s are just that, Unidentified Flying Octopi …er, I mean…Objects. We don’t know what “They” are, simple as that: Objects up there looking strange as shit, that don’t appear or act in the same manner as conventional aircraft. However, this fixation of UFO’s = ET’s seems forever synomous in the minds of many who cannot separate the two terms.

I remember (somewhat painfully) a radio interview I did sometime back where the lady host asked me, pointedly, “So you firmly beleive in UFOs?” Of course, how she arrived at this supposition was completely beyond me, as I had never even come close to asserting such, before or since — I had just indicated that, at one time, I had seen some things that qualified as “UFO’s.” And, of course, she made the leap: UFO’s = ET’s. And because I had seen UFO’s that then meant I believed in ET’s. Of course, I believe that there are things in the sky that we cannot conclusively identify. That’s where the “U” in UFO’s comes from! Not to beat a dead horse, but I think it’s important that when we talk about UFO’s, we are alluding to things witnessed in the skies that we cannot positively identify, and that appear to be out of the ordinary.

And, of course, I get my panties all into a bunch when people pretend to know, or delude themselves into “believing” – pro or con, one way or the other — be they skeptics or true believers. To make up your mind is to close your mind. Skeptics and true believers, alike. They are really one and the same, in a sense. Once you close your mind to other possibilities, you are closing your mind to ALL POSSIBILITIES.

Whatever the case, Forteans tend to lean toward the proposition that UFO’s are not actual physical nut and bolt craft, but are, in essence, some type of phenomena perhaps partially conjured in our little ‘ol brains or collective consciousness ala Carl Jung. This is a hypothesis explored in a lecture I’ve delivered upon occasion entitled “Were The Early UFO Contactees Ritual Magicians?” which presents the theory that the early contactees, as well as current day abductees, have used magic rituals to contact UFO’s.

In this lecture, I posit that — when under the influence of certain psychoactive substances — one can sometimes look into what Fortean researcher John Keel has called the Superspectrum: a realm, or alternate dimension that is all around us, although hidden from everyday, or normal modes, of perception. And, furthermore, that this Superspectrum is what those who have dabbled in the magical traditions have gained access to. What this suggests — to your humble reporter — is that, in order to observe UFO’s, one must often enter into a more receptive state, like a psychic or channeler tuning into voices or subtle energies. Psychedelic drugs are just perhaps one avenue of tapping into this Superspectrum, as well as other methods, including sensory deprivation, sex magic rituals, hypnosis and chanting. For instance, psychic channelers must first induce in themselves a trance state before being able to invoke spirits, so maybe it’s the same thing going on with UFOs, in some instances. Whatever the case, I’m certainly not encouraging people to experiment with mind expanding drugs, although some have found this approach to be productive. Different maps, for different chaps, as they say.

The Superspectrum theory contends that UFO’s exist at frequencies beyond visible light, but that they can adjust their frequency and descend into the electromagnetic (EM) spectrum — just as you can turn the dial of your radio up and down the scale of radio frequencies. UFO’s, Mr. Keel suggests, are energies of a different frequency. Like tuning a radio, you pick up and amplify only the signal coming in at a certain point, or frequency, of the EM spectrum.

Our eyes are also receivers tuned to specific wavelengths, as the brain is also a receiver. So, in the same manner, one can presumably alter their consciousness to lift the veil of consensus reality that seemingly shrouds our third eye. Likewise such things as infrared photography can be used to peer into these realms. Following this line of reasoning, it could then be conjectured that infrared technology would also enable us to perceive things what the naked eye normally cannot. This approach was explored most exhaustively by UFO researcher Trevor James Constable, who spent many years filming strange spectral creatures (ala UFOs) using infrared photography. These he often described as “critters”; strange undulating amoeba like shapshifters; some sort of chaotic energy unleashed, as opposed to what many typically think UFO’s to be: actual alien craft of a fixed size and substance.

More recently — and in a similar vein to Trevor James Constable — a Northern Californian, Ed Grimsley, has witnessed a war going on, or so he perceives, between opposing UFOnauts in our skies. Through the use of state-of-the-art infrared goggles, Grimsley has apparently filmed these spectral battles on numerous occasions, which is documented in a film that can be purchased at his website. http://edgrimsley.com/

At the 60^th Roswell Festival in 2006, I met a fellow named Jeremy Ray, formerly of Sacramento MUFON, who regaled me with tales of how he had captured numerous UFO’s with his trusty video camera. Further, Jeremy claimed, anyone could do it, as well, if they trained a video cam to the skies on a continual basis.

(Above) Jeremy Ray at Roswell

Last fall, I bumped briefly into Jeremy again at the Las Vegas Crash Retrieval Conference, and asked him how it was going with the UFO video taping thing. Currently, Jeremy has changed his position somewhat and now believes that the UFOs he filmed were actually appearing specifically for him, which is akin to “calling them down” or a magic ritual, of sorts; that somehow Jeremy was attracting these things. Jeremy also alluded that certain individuals had either confiscated many of his video recordings, or that these vid recordings had some how disappeared or been removed from his computer — if I remember correctly our conversation. This brings up the spectre of those mystical men in black who are apparently suppressing the shocking truth of UFO’s haunting our skies! But that’s another story for another day…

So there seems to be, at least in my way of thinking, some sort of borderland area where the use of photographic and video equipment (infrared or whatever) — in conjunction with someone intently looking for something — will eventually find something. This, in essence, is the theory presented in my aforementioned lecture: that we are perhaps interacting with some sort of non-human intelligence, or ultra dimensional entities, and that we — as the experiencers — are actually part of the experience; that we help bring it into being, whether consciously intending to, or not.