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The Anomaly Archives Presents: Fortean Cryptozoologist Jonathan Downes

Saturday, March 20th 1:30-3:30pm CST

12593 Research Blvd., Suite 302, Austin, Texas 78759

“Cryptozoology’s answer to Hunter Thompson” – Nick Redfern

[Jon Downes at Loch Ness in 2005]

The Anomaly Archives welcomes British Fortean researcher Jon Downes to Austin, Texas for a lecture on all things anomalous, Fortean, cryptozoological and UFOlogical. Please join us at the Anomaly Archives lending library (located at 12593 Research Blvd., Suite 302) from 1 to 5pm, Saturday, March 20th for an enlightening lecture from one of the world’s leading cryptozoological field investigators.

This lecture event is FREE, however, a $5 donation is respectfully requested for those wishing to help support the Anomaly Archives in its non-profit community education, outreach and research efforts.

Jonathan Downes is the Director of the British-based Center for Fortean Zoology, the world’s only full-time group dedicated to the investigation of unknown animals, including Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, Ogopogo, and the Abominable Snowman.

In both 1998 and 2004, Jon traveled to the island of Puerto Rico in search of the deadly, blood-sucking creature known as the Chupacabras – a beast that has been linked with a large amount of UFO activity, including UFO crashes, on the island.

Jon will be speaking about his two expeditions, findings, theories and conclusions as to what the creature may be. Jon will also reveal the very latest news on his quest to find out the truth concerning the so-called Texas Chupacabras.

Are the beasts of Puerto Rico and Texas one and the same? Or, is something even stranger going on? Don’t miss this rare chance to see Jon Downes expose the truth of this strange and sensational mystery.

Jonathan Downes is the author and co-author of numerous books on the subjects of Fortean phenomena, especially cryptozoological critters such as Owlman, the Monster of the Mere and others. Besides his research, writing and activism, Jon Downes is also an accomplished film maker having worked on over 7 films. He also produces a regular online video series for the Centre for Fortean Zoology called On The Track (Of Unknown Animals).

Anomaly Archives Presents Fortean Cryptozoologist Jonathan Downes.

Join us at the First Anomaly Archives Meetup of 2010 this Saturday at the Austin History Center from 3-4pm.(See end of email for venue details)

Sponsoring this meetup and venue is the local Austin Mufon chapter headed by Anomaly Archives board member Mike DeGroff.

The monthly Austin Mufon meeting is 1-4pm the first Saturday of most months.

As this is our first official “MeetUp” we’ll be answering questions about the organization, its mission, projects and goals, etc.

We may watch a video or two, talk about books we’re reading, and generally talking about a wide variety of anomalous subjects.

We’ll also be giving away a couple of books to some lucky attendees. Kind of like a door prize. Details at the meeting.

Also, after the meeting, if there’s enough interest, perhaps we can retire to some comfortable outdoor eatery for “conversations over saucers” with coffee, tea, beer, etc.

Finally, we’re pleased to announce that the Anomaly Archives will be hosting British Fortean Cryptozoologist Jonathan Downes the afternoon of Saturday, March 20th. Details to follow shortly.

Thank you for your support. We look forward to seeing you all at the Austin History Center this Saturday.

- SMiles Lewis

Founder & President
www.AnomalyArchives.org
AUSTIN HISTORY CENTER
810 Guadalupe, Austin, TX 78701

Anomaly Archives Meetup this Saturday – Austin Anomaly Archives (Austin, TX) – Meetup.com.

Another recent Texas UFO report via the Mufon database:

TX, February 27, 2010 – Beautiful, amazing, humbling, it felt personal, like it was waiting for me to come outside and notice it, it was really large and like nothing I had ever seen before. MUFON Case # 22051.

My boyfriend, Russell,and I were standing in our small suburban backyard enjoying the clear morning. We had been up all night hanging out with 2 friends of ours. They were in our living room at the time of our sighting.

I spotted a white reddish pulsating Orb high in the north-eastern sky. I pointed and said to Russ, ” what is THAT?”

He looked and started to say “Oh thats just a plane but said after a moment instead “I don’t know, what IS that?”

Then it started moving slowly from north-east toward the eastern quarter of our house. As it got closer we were able to see 3 smaller orbs connected to the larger orb.

Then it started moving west directly over our heads!!! Surrounding the Orbs was a very large, CLEARish, flat craft or ship. As a whole! But it was clear, we could see light glimmering very subtly off of it, and it radiated a trail of “heat-like” substance behind it- also clear.

The UFO Stopped completely over Russell and I for about 45 seconds, the light in the middle pulsated reddish white and greenish white..all we could hear was a very low octave drone coming from the stealthy craft…..when it hovered over us, we went from amazement to feeling paralyzed in fear for a moment…we felt completely vunerable and at the mercy of this advanced ariel craft.

All I could do was murmer,”Oh my God Russell, What are we LOOKING at????!!!,” We felt scared and in shock. The craft then continued on toward the west. Making all the neighboring dogs bark frantically.
The entire experience lasted about 5 minutes…or less, it’s hard to tell…it seemed like forever!

I then went inside to get our friends to come outside and see it…but when they came out it was to far away for them to see it. I will never be the same. It was beautiful!

Source:  Flat UFO surrounded by orbs moves over Texas couple.

Discovery Channel’s GhostLab Investigator Brothers, Barry and Brad Klinge.

Fans of paranormal investigations and ghost hunting reality tv shows set your itineraries for Beaumont, Texas’ Civic Center. On March 13th the Texas Society of Paranormal Investigators (TSPI) is hosting the Texas Ghost Show which is set to feature authors, researchers and reality tv personalities including:

• Brad Klinge of “Ghost Lab”
• Brian Harnois of “Ghost Hunter” and Ghost Hunters International
• Cryptozoologist Ken Gerhard
• Father Andrew Calder from “Paranormal State” 
• Ericka Boussarhane, the “Oprah of the Paranormal”
• Dash Beardsley, the “Ghost Man of Galveston”
• Author Dr. Rita Louise
• Emcees Brian and Anna Marie

Penny LeLeux of TheRecordLive.com did a brief but interesting Question & Answer session with Ghost Lab investigator Brad Klinge in which she asked some interesting questions like “What effect has reality TV had on your investigations” and “What’s the most unusual or startling piece of evidence you’ve recorded to date“:

 Brad: Everything is startling in its own way.  Obviously, the Gettysburg soldiers were the most vivid.  We have caught photographs of solid human forms as if someone was in the room with you such as what we call “The French Guy” at the Institute of Texan Cultures in SA or “the bartender” at the Harlequin Theater in SA.  We have clear, vaporous shadow forms of children moving in and out of a bedroom at the Myrtles.  We caught a chair moving on video.  We caught a shadow person on thermal that allowed us to study the temperature phenomenon associated with paranormal activity.  Our library is quite extensive.

Details: Tickets are only $20. The doors open at 8 a.m. Presenters speak from 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m.  The Beaumont Civic Center is located at 701 Main St., Beaumont. A special room rate of $79 is available at the MCM Elegante’ with code TXSPI. For more information call Don Dennis at (409) 553-4456 or go to txparanormal.com

Read more of Penny LeLeux’s Q&A with Ghost Lab’s Brad Klinge at the link below:

TheRecordLive.Com: Paranormal investigators converge at Texas Ghost Show.

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PsiOp Radio podcast 107 – 3 Year Anniversary with guest Skylaire Alfvegren

RESCHEDULED FOR TUESDAY MARCH 2nd

“People Often Fear What They Don’t Understand”

Paranormal Response

The Paranormal Response Team

Paranormal Response – People often fear what they don’t understand

Join the Paranormal Response Team LIVE Tuesday Night on Austin Community TeleVision as they welcome their guest, SMiles Lewis, to talk about the Anomaly Archives lending library, UFOs and other Anomalous Phenomena.

Tune in to Austin cable Channel 10 from 9-10pm CST Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010 – Hosts Sara & Kristi will discuss with SMiles Lewis the various areas of overlap between paranormal and UFO investigations.

Check out these interesting episodes exploring Lucid Dreams, Marfa Mystery Lights and the UFO world of Freeman:

SMiles Lewis is guest on Paranormal Response TV live in Austin, Tuesday Night.

Is this a UFO or just the streaked image of a street light?

TX, January 26, 2010 – I take pictures of cloud formations as a hobby, found this ufo? object during a review of the pics. MUFON Case # 21894.

Background
As a relaxing hobby, I enjoy taking pictures of various cloud formations, storms etc.

Event Time:
Jan 26th 2010 at 4:54pm

Event Location:
Addison Texas at the Intersection of Arapaho and Monfort

I parked in the lot across from a Walmart to snap a few cloud photos. I did not see or notice any planes /crafts or lighting in the sky, all normal. Only later that day, as I reviewed the photos, I found the ufo? object on one of the photos.

Photo: Cropped version from the original. MUFON database.

Hat tip to Roger Marsh:

UFO Image Captured by Texas Photographer

Texas Photographer takes pic of… UFO or Street Light?.

Jon Downes and his wife Corinna of the Centre for Fortean Zoology will be visiting Texas next month.

They will be joining Richie and Naomi West in an investigation of what CFZ terms “Texas Blue Dogs” – what the mainstream media and local folks often call Chupacabras.

RICHIE AND NAOMI WEST: CFZ EXPEDITION TO TEXAS

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A woman in southeast Texas has discovered a small family of hairless canines (referred by the CFZ as the Texas Blue dog) living behind her back yard. She has been feeding them and wants the CFZ to film them.

Naomi and I will be going down to that location next week to install day/night video cameras to film these creatures in action.

When Jon and Corinna arrive, we will be going there to further investigate them. The word from the family who discovered these creatures is that they have very unusual habits not normally associated with canines. Jon and Corinna will be accompanied for part of their trip by a team from a London TV Company who are following the CFZ for 8 months for a feature documentary for BBC2 and will be including the blue dog research in their documentary. We are excited as this will be a big story in the Fortean world. This picture was taken of the creature by the woman in southeast Texas.

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Jon is planning to make a few appearances at local MUFON groups.

- Richie and Naomi West: CFZ Expedition to Texas

CFZ (Centre for Fortean Zoology) – cryptozoology, mystery animals

LOWFI Texas will keep you posted as we learn of when and where Jon may be speaking locally.

- SMiles

Hat tip to Roger Marsh and Anomalist.com

Texas, February 16, 2010 – MUFON Case # 21927

My friend and I were in route from Port Arthur to Houston, traveling west bound on Highway 73, we had just passed the landfill(between Winnie Tx.)The time was about 11:45Pm. We were visiting my aunt, in ICU in Port Arthur.

I had just activated(the Google Navigator) on my 3G phone. I was thinking to myself how cool!, we are tracking in virtual time on a satalite map…”this must be the way we appear from an arial view.”

At that same instant my friend who was driving,in a calm collective manner says “See I told you that there are UFO’s around here!” I looked up, my eyes immeadiately fixated, to the top left corner of the windshield.

And….Sure enough!!! There IT was!!!! traveling east bound, about 200 ft above the hwy. It appeared to be pulsating a irradescent/flouresent bright rainbow color, however all of the colors displayed at the same time…….

I find that words are very difficult to express completely what we expireinced!!! There is just not any vocabulary that I know of that can replicate what we saw!! However, I will continue at the risk of sounding completely out of my mind…lol

There were three Rumboid shaped pulsating objects they seemed to be seperate, but yet as one unit?!?!? silently/fluidly traveling east bound,paralell to hwy 73… I have always had a scientific curriosity….I asked my friend”DID YOU SEE THAT?!?!WHAT THE HELL IS THAT!!!???? four times, I also rolled all of the car windows down and I opened the sun roof.

This was to reassure myself that we were’nt just seeing a reflection off of the car’s glass and the fact that my friend confirmed four times that we were both seeing the same phenomina. As I opened the sun roof,never taking my eyes off of the object, I popped my head up through the sun roof,and said WOW!!!! that’s no reflection!!! That’s a Bonified UFO! That very instant, the object made an immeadiate U-turn!!!!!!!!!

And now it was following us down hwy73!!! I never once left visual contact with the object. I jumped down into my seat and shouted”THEY ARE COMING!!!!THEY ARE FOLLOWING US!! keep in mind that this is a dark and desolate hwy at this time of the night.

I kept my eye on it, while my friend was franticly speeding up to get away! I could see the same colors pulsating 100FT above the pavement behind us!!,but it seemed very different than what colors you or I are use to???!!!

I was almost hypnotysed by this strange sight…That’s when I realized that we were not only being folowed but, also being monitored on a level that no Human/Animal could even begin to comprehend!!!

I could see the triangle shaped pulsating Rumboids getting larger, and closer, leaving and getting smaller, and yet not moving at all?!!?!?!? well my friend, as strange as it may sound, all of this was taking place simutaneousley, My eyes and brain were not quiet sure how to process all of this together!
We became panicked and sped up to approx. 120mph. Again this thing never changed perspective, of course we were speeding, but the object stayed behind us, but not ever moving?!!??!!?

My friend says to me”STOP STARING AT IT”!!

Read more of Roger Marsh’s comments at …

Texas witnesses report UFO chase along Highway 73 near Winnie.

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Chicken deaths near Horizon City spark talk of Chupacabras

HORIZON CITY — The legend may be back, just as mysterious and dark, to stalk the unsuspecting.

Until last weekend, Cesar Garcia and brother-in-law Juan Miranda saw their life near Horizon City as secluded and peaceful.

They moved to the area from Chicago three years ago, but have suddenly been beset by strange and unexplained occurrences.

Their rabbits went into hiding, their cat spent the weekend on the roof of their house, their roosters didn’t crow, and their dogs didn’t bark.

And at least 30 of their chickens were killed by an unknown interloper.

The brothers are hesitant to say what they think spooked their animals or killed their chickens.

But when pressed, they said it: El Chupacabras.

Chicken deaths near Horizon City spark talk of Chupacabras – El Paso Times.

Hat tip Caitlin MacKenna of Paranormal Dimension…

El Chupacabras Fear In El Paso County, Texas