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Is It Legal to Kill Bigfoot in Texas?
We’ve been talking a lot about invasive species in Texas as of late, paying special attention to the issue of feral hogs, which are growing in number and cause widespread damage (but taste delicious…
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The 2012 Women’s Symposium on UFOs in Glen Rose , Texas

An invitation to all people who want to have a serious dialogue about UfOs to attend the 2012 Women’s Symposium on UFOS.

The event is for men and women.

Register at    www.starworksusa.com

Here is the Schedule

The Women’s UFO Symposium brings together leading women in UFO research, documentation and related information.

The first annual Symposium will be held at the Somervell County Expo Center and Texas Amphitheater, 107 NE Vernon St in Glen Rose, Texas on May 18-20, 2012. The event will be hosted by Tracie Austin Peters, producer and host of “Let’s Talk…Paranormal” radio and TV talk show.

Early-bird Registration Extended to April 15!

Symposium Admission Includes:

• Pre-conference screening of The Hidden Hand with producer/director James Carman on Friday, May 18
• Entry to all speaker presentations and panels on Saturday, May 19 and Sunday, May 20
• Entry to the Pre-conference “Ladies in Red” Cocktail Party on Friday evening, May 18
• Entry to the Marketplace on Saturday, May 19 and Sunday, May 20
• “Dutch treat” Texas Bar-B-Que Saturday evening, May 19
• Skywatch on the Odom Ranch, Saturday evening, May 19

Register Now Online!

Pricing:
REGULAR • $90 per person for registration received April 16-May 19

Limited spots available. Register now using your credit card or PayPal account:

Friday, May 18, 2012

6:00 pm: “Ladies in Red” Cocktail party with cash bar, Holiday Inn Express

7:00 – 9:30 pm: Screening of “The Hidden Hand” followed by Q&A with producer/director James Carman

Saturday, May 19, 2012 – UFO Sightings Around the World

8:00 – 9:00 am: Registration

9:00 – 10:00 am: Opening remarks – Paola Harris and Tracey Austin Peters, followed by Awards Ceremony

10:00 – 11:00 am:  ”A Call to Action: Ban Weapons in Space” with Carol Sue Rosin

11:00 am – 12:00 noon: “The Phoenix Lights Incident” with Dr. Lynne Kitei

Lunch 12:30 to 1:30 pm

1:30 – 2:30 pm: “Kenneth Arnold - The Man Who Started It All” with Paola Harris

2:30 – 3:30 pm: “The Road to Disclosure” with Paola Harris

3:30 – 4:30 pm:  Stephenville “The Beginning” with Angelia Joiner

4:30 – 5:30 pm: Stephenville panel – Constable Lee Roy Gaitan, Steve Allen, Ricky Sorrells and Robert Powell, moderated by Angelia Joiner

5:30 – 7:30 pm: Texas Bar-B-Que at Hammond’s BBQ (dutch treat)

7:30 – 9:00 pm: Skywatch on the Odom Ranch

Sunday, May 20, 2012 - Cosmic Messages: Researching the Contact Scenario

9:30 – 10:30 am: “Let’s Talk Paranormal” with Tracie Austin Peters

10:30 – 11:30 am: Interview with Karen Gresham Nickell by Paola Harris

11:30 am – 12:30 pm:  ”From My Side of the Bed – A Spouse Speaks About Alien Contact” with Lisa Romanek

12:30 pm: Closing Ceremonies

In the William Laxton Incident: Distortion In Images, the Caravaca Files applies the Theory of Distortion to a 1966 sighting that had even the USAF puzzled. William Laxton was driving to his job at Sheppard Air Force base in Texas early one morning when he was stopped by a UFO parked on the road, along with a uniformed “man” in a hat and uniform doing repairs on the craft. With the Theory of Distortion, the Caravaca Files point out that with the witness’s airbase experience, the man framed the sighting within in the context of a military aircraft, in other words seeing what his mind chose to show him.

Hat tip to www.Anomalist.com

Earlier this year a low budget bigfoot flick was being filmed in Manor, Texas…

Lone Star Scene: Bigfoot hunting indie film sprouts in Manor

The fictional town of Quality, Oregon might look familiar to residents of Manor, where City Hall sets the scene for a contentious town meeting. The conflict between Bigfoot research experts and concerned citizens plays out in a key scene for “Squatch!” It’s debut feature film from Austin-based Look Now Productions.

Manor is also the old home town of director Carlos Samudio. He plans to shoot about 75 percent of the film in Texas with the rest on location at Timothy Lake in Oregon.

Principal photography continues trough the summer as the local cast and crew give their take on a long running supernatural debate.

Watch the video here: austin.ynn.com

Check out the intriguing photos of a possible bigfoot over at the TBRC website.

Possible Wood Ape Photos From Central Oklahoma

Photographs of a Possible Unrecognized Bipedal Hominoid From Oklahoma BE

Some fringe types, and skeptics, think bagging a sasquatch will end the debate once and for all. Fortunately Loren Coleman and company are Taking A Stand Against Killing Bigfoot. Loren has stepped down from the Texas Bigfoot Research Conservancy, along with John Kirk, giving his reasoning behind the decision. www.Anomalist.com

It is rather strange to be a member of the Board of Advisors of the Texas Bigfoot Research Conservancy (TBRC), and not be asked for my opinion, insights, or thoughts on trying to kill an unknown species in the field. I now see that the TBRC came up with a policy without letting me know.

As of today, I am resigning from the Board of Advisors of the TBRC. I understand that earlier today, John Kirk also resigned. John’s short statement related that he quit due to the following reason:

They have adopted a pro-kill policy and I am against this….I cannot condone this kind of thing being done in the name of science.

I find it unfortunate that the members of the Board of Directors of the TBRC are out in the woods, seemingly and randomly, shooting at furry animate objects they feel they should kill to prove the existence of Bigfoot. Besides the unknown legal implications of such behavior (What if the species is found to be Homo? What if it is a human in a hairy suit?), I have been an open advocate of the live capture (telebiology), and non-killing of hairy unknown hominoids for decades.

There is no reason for me to be a figurehead member of a group of advisors who are not being asked for advice. I must resign from this group, immediately.

John Kirk resigned, and brought to my attention the group’s active pro-kill policy, as noted in The Echo Incident and Operation Endurance.

Taking A Stand Against Killing Bigfoot

Author Noe Torres Speaks at Laredo UFO Conference

It’s safe to say Noe Torres lives his life for books.

Torres, 55, has been the librarian at McAllen High School for the past several years, and he earned his degree in library science from the University of Texas at Austin.

In 2008, Torres began co-authoring and self-publishing books about unidentified flying objects in South Texas and Mexico. Now he has more than half a dozen books he’s penned or edited.

He met his writing partner Ruben Uriarte at a conference in Roswell, New Mexico, a hot spot for UFO investigators.

The two embarked on a quest to tell the story of “Mexico’s Roswell,” where a UFO reportedly crashed in 1974 in Chihuhua. The book and Torres were featured on the History Channel’s series “UFO Hunters” and “UFO Files.”

They followed up the first book with a story about a supposed UFO crash in 1955 in Del Rio, Texas, based on the testimony of an Air Force pilot who claims to have witnessed the incident.

“We kept hearing about another case similar to (“Mexico’s Roswell”) that had happened earlier, and that a retired Air Force colonel had been involved in it,” Torres said. “So we tracked him down and we found out he still lives today in Wichita Falls.”

Read the rest here:

McAllen librarian pens books about UFOs, aliens | pens, ufos, aliens – TheMonitor.com.

Connect-the-Dots: Holistic Weltanschauung

By Mankh (Walter E. Harris III). Axis of Logic

Axis of Logic / Thursday, Feb 9, 2012

“What a rag-bag of singular happenings! But surely the most valuable hunting-ground that ever was given to a student of the unusual!”

- Sherlock Holmes

. . .

The Unusual Becomes Usual

It is helpful to note what The Powers That Be wish to exclude. One, they don’t want people to peacefully assemble (hence the wave of raids on Occupy encampments), and two, they don’t want people’s hearts and minds to learn different approaches to reality. Again, not much new here, as much of all history is built on deliberate amnesia; we are trained to, uh, what’s that word, oh yeah, forget . . . because remembering the truth is a powerful thing! Memory can be painful, too, yet is part of the path to recovery.

Charles Hoy Fort, who lived from 1874 to 1932, researched and wrote about those who are forgotten and excluded. Fort considered modern science the new religion and he sought to resurrect the “unusual” by showing that it was, in fact, usual, or simply, a part of the fabric of Existence that much of science so readily ignored (in order to prove its theories).

Fort’s The Book of the Damned begins:

A PROCESSION of the damned.

By the damned, I mean the excluded.

We shall have a procession of data that Science has excluded.

Battalions of the accursed, captained by pallid data that I have exhumed, will march. You’ll read them — or they’ll march. Some of them livid and some of them fiery and some of them rotten.

Some of them are corpses, skeletons, mummies, twitching, tottering, animated by companions that have been damned alive. There are giants that will walk by, though sound asleep. There are things that are theorems and things that are rags: they’ll go by like Euclid arm in arm with the spirit of anarchy. Here and there will flit little harlots. Many are clowns. But many are of the highest respectability. Some are assassins. There are pale stenches and gaunt superstitions and mere shadows and lively malices: whims and amiabilities. The naïve and the pedantic and the bizarre and the grotesque and the sincere and the insincere, the profound and the puerile.⁸

To give but one example of the “excluded” that Fort researched voluminously (before there was Internet access!): “Scientific American, July 12, 1873: “A shower of frogs which darkened the air and covered the ground for a long distance is the reported result of a recent rainstorm at Kansas City, Mo.” As to having been there “in the first place”: Little frogs found in London, after a heavy storm, July 30, 1838. (Notes and Queries, 8-7-437); Little toads found in a desert, after a rainfall (Notes and Queries, 8-8-493).”⁹

The unexplained makes us slow down, take time to ponder, and attempt to understand. On the surface, the news may appear to be the mere reporting of isolated events, yet as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s consulting detective reminds us: we must study the “unusual” . . . so as to connect the dots. Two wrongs still don’t make a right, but several unusuals can make a usual.

Weltanschauung: from the German, Welt = world & Anschauung = view

Reflective of Fort’s approach, is the following quote from a recent article by Adrian Salbuchi:

“It’s high time we make the necessary quantum leaps that will allow us to start joining the dots. We need to move away from silo mentality paradigms, and towards a much more holistic Weltanschauung. We have become too ’specialised,’ which leads to narrow-mindedness. We talk about finance but never join the dots on its geopolitical overtones. We talk about politics but are blind to underlying social forces. We think Hollywood is only about ‘entertainment,’ not realising how they implant ideas and behaviour patterns into our collective psyche.”¹⁰

Mistreatment of books and related information sources is but one category, a dot that connects to a wider system of suppression.

Read the rest here:

Connect-the-Dots: Holistic Weltanschauung – Axis of Logic

Recently, an attempt was made to bring UFO Close Encounter witness Travis Walton to Central Texas (first Austin then San Antonio). Sadly, the attempt failed.

Ironically, there was a successful conference (that was a nearly mirror image of the one attempted in San Antonio) featuring Walton and other presenters in Laredo, Texas late last year…

Webb County Heritage UFO Conference | Pro 8 News.com – News, Weather, Sports – | Laredo, Texas | Local.

Report on the Laredo UFO Conference 2011

UFOs Filmed in Dallas From a Plane

UFOs Filmed in Dallas From a Plane – Analyzed & Enhanced – March 2012

Video Info:

*HD 1080p* – March 21, 2012: Two UFOs filmed from a plane in Dallas/Fort Worth area. Video courtesy of Ann & Jennifer Thomson who just wanted to film the Fort Worth Downtown. Thanks for sharing! The first object passes through the middle of the screen. The second object passes through the bottom right of the screen. After a youtube viewer noticed the second UFO in the bottom right corner I decided to make this second video with the second object slowed down and enhanced.

Special Thanks to crazybreakingnews for sharing this. Ann & Jennifer Thomson sent crazybreakingnews this video after seeing his video of a UFO from a plane in Amsterdam. Thanks again. Original Video link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMgvSqmULFE

Hat tip www.anomalist.com