Stan Romanek: Time Lord

MUFON's International Director, James Carrion, has a new post on his blog "Follow the Magic Thread" (or was it"Fallow" ? *snort*) regarding the threat of legal action by Stan Romanek towards MUFON.

Apparently Stan (or rather Stan's vocal chords, Lisa Romanek) are now claiming that James is lying - and that Stan never called and never mentioned legal action. Later on, she mentions that Stan did call the MUFON office (having previously said he didn't) and did ask for the legal department.

The new claim by Lisa is that Stan made the call after having read what James posted. The problem here is that the message was left at MUFON's office on December 28th, while James' article was published on the 29th. So, as Mr. Carrion points out, that would only be possible if Stan had travelled forward in time to December 29th, read James' article, then traveled back in time to December 28th, where he left the message asking for the legal department and where papers could be served.

Excerpt:
So let’s examine some recent events that demonstrate how off kilter you are about the Romaneks. On December 28, 2009 Stan Romanek called the MUFON office asking for MUFON’s legal department. On the same day a “recorded voice” called the MUFON office asking for MUFON’s legal address so that MUFON could be served papers. On the same day, Leslie Varnicle, MUFON Colorado State Director received a voice mail from Stan Romanek also asking for MUFON’s legal department...

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The New (Age) Knights of the Roundtable

Speculative Realms recently posted a fun article about Project Camelot, appropriately titled "Daydream Believers". While I don't agree with all of Gary's opinions, it is nice to read criticisms on Camelot to help remind interested parties to tread carefully on what they choose to buy into or put faith in.

My favorite part of the article is where Gary mentions Camelot's habit of interviewing individuals who make predictions that "generally speaking, don't come true". Of course, the most obvious problem in this is that they are interviewing people who make UFO-related predictions, period. The concern of whether they end up true or not, is almost besides the point.

Project Camelot associates with some very - in my opinion - questionable folk, such as David Wilcock, Pete Peterson and Bob Dean. I don't claim that any of these people are purposely bullshitting their 'followers'. They may or may not be, and my opinion is not important here (I think its mostly bullshit *wink*), but as Gary mentioned, maybe these guys should just write books and leave the predictions up to... well - no one.

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Oldies by the Moldies

By The Interstellar Housewife

I've been sitting here sifting through my daily does of Google Alerts, which are significantly fewer than the last couple of days, in which a number of them piled up while I was busy working more than I generally care to. Most of them were crap of course, and the rest -- well, they either weren't worth mentioning or I had no real opinion of them.

After finishing up with my Alerts, I then got the crazy idea of going through all of the pages I have bookmarked in the last few months, pertaining to U-know-whats. See, when I find a certain article that I think make be interesting, but don't have the time or wordage to write about it, I bookmark it with the misguided assumption that I'll come back to them again, shortly, or on a slow news day -- and the last couple of weeks have been a long chain of slow news days. Sure, there are a lot of articles out there that come through each and every mother-lovin' day, but most are crap, the same old-same old, or just UFO reports. I could post the UFO reports, but there are bazillion other sites that do just that (though I reserve the right to post reports that are interesting to me, on occasion).

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Layover in Denver: An Alien Lovestory

By The Interstellar Housewife

If you haven't read about it yet, on November 30th, Jeff Peckman received a letter telling him that the Extraterrestrial Affairs Commission ballot initiative had enough signatures to be officially placed on the ballot. If you're wondering how I really feel about the Extra Campaign, read this.

Oh, and while you're at it, you might as well read this, too.

I simply cannot wait to see the "education" that Jeff and his entourage will provide for the residents of Denver. I can just imagine the 30 second spots on Colorado television: Overly dramatic, shadowy propaganda, a la Anti-Gary Hart campaign ads.

Hrm. I wonder if Donna Rice digs UFOs...

Just think about it -- this time next year, Peckman could be fist-bumping with the Nordics at City Hall!

And people thought I was crazy when I proposed The Portland Oregon Ballroom Dance and Charm School for Hyper-Dimensional Beings.

Project Spamalot

Here's a shocker! The people over at Project Camelot are saying they do not have high-hopes for a disclosure today.

From the November 26, 2009 Project Camelot Blog post:

"We're not holding our breath: there's no immediate sign of this, and we doubt that this will happen."

Ya think?

"And as a note of interest, we were told recently by an insider source that a speech had been written for Bill Clinton - in his first term - as a Disclosure announcement."

Oh goodie, we can look forward to this sort of bullshit-hype whenever we elect a new President.

"Recent events, however, suggest a steady build-up to an announcement of something, sometime."

I bow to the accuracy of your predictions.

"Two weeks ago the Vatican held a conference on extraterrestrial life (we enjoyed the 'ET phone Rome' headline). NASA has now stated that there's water on the moon. And there have been more interviews by Larry King on UFOs this year then ever before."

Well, sure! I mean, if it's on Larry King, it has to be important!

"Like everyone else, we're watching and waiting for the announcement to be made: whether it's this year, next year, or in 2012, it has to come sometime."

Genius! Way to help keep 2012 speculation alive and well!

Disclosure: Behind Closed Doors

I found this on ATS last night, in a thread about the November 21/22 Floridian First Contact thing. Fucking hilarious.

*Whoever is responsible for this piece... thanks!

UFO Pink Tank (I Kill Me!)

So, like... what do the people who don't believe that disclosure will happen on the 27th, get if it doesn't happen? I mean, we would most certainly deserve something, since those of us interested in UFOs have to weed through that crap on a near-daily basis just to find something of relative interest. Not that disclosure wouldn't be interesting, but considering the sources, I won't be purchasing a ticket to Florida, anytime soon.

I've always wanted a motorcycle. Make it an Indian cruiser with a pink tank, please.

One Denver Omelet, Hold the Ham and Cheese

By The Interstellar Housewife

A couple of weeks ago, I received a comment from the Rocky Mountain Paranormal Research Society, an investigative organization, taking a scientific approach to the paranormal research. The comment was in response to an article I wrote a month earlier, “The Um, Extraterrestrial Affairs Commission”, which poked fun at the ridiculousness of this spacey ballot initiative.

At first, I wasn't sure if the comment, which at least sounded positive, was actually meant to be positive. After checking out the link they provided in their comment, I quickly discovered that my opinion of Peckman's ET campaign was indeed shared by them.

In fact, they've done a helluva job of presenting the big picture of this whole sketchy affair.

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The Um, Extraterrestrial Affairs Commission

By The Interstellar Housewife

So, I was reading a summary of the Denver ballot initiative for an Extraterrestrial Affairs Commission, because I'm a glutton for punishment and I have this problem where I can't help but watch certain kinds of train wrecks. Anyway, I'm reading the summary of the ballot and somewhere in the middle, the main proponent of this initiative slaps in a little advert for his patented Metatron Technology.

If you don't know about this technology, you're missing out! Or missing out on a hearty chuckle, at the very least. This particular ad offered a software download that was listed as free, but I'm certain it's just an arrow to help promote his other Metatron devices which are very un-free. I knew about the card for a while now, but just discovered the number of products under this "technology" that he offers. Apparently it helps protect you from EMFs.

*Interesting side-note: The indie band EMF had a hit in the early 90s called Unbelievable.

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The Galician UFO Incident

For those of you unware of the Galacian UFO video that's been causing somewhat of a stir, here is the video:



There is an excellent write-up about it from Inexplicata:

Although the “Galician Trawler UFO” video has all the marks of a “Blair Witch Project” event, it appears to have been embraced by the UFO community as proof of extraterrestrial visitation. Angel Rodriguez, director of Spain’s GEIFO organization, is a former officer in the Spanish Navy and suggests that the video is actually showing a fishing boat being warned away from an area where naval aviation maneuvers are about to take place, hence the helicopter and the dropping of a marker buoy into the water (the “UFO” that plunges into the ocean, as in a Gerry Anderson TV production)...

Read the rest of the article here.

A followup article can be found here.

'UFO' footage captured on phone video

Check out Nick Pope's more grounded response and also Pat Regan's simply for his astute observation. I love me some Nick Pope.

A Lancashire man claims to have captured footage of a large saucer-shaped UFO above Preston.
Martin Horbury, 22, from Walton-le-Dale, said he was in Ribbleton on Saturday, September 26, at 10pm when he saw the peculiar sight.

He said: "Out of nowhere, this bright object, as seen on the video, appeared before our eyes.

"I was only able to get around 10 seconds of the footage due to a low battery on my phone which stopped the recording.

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