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UFOs: The Immortality Factor

A cool new article from Timothy Green Beckley...

Colorado in Pics

Been working in Denver, Colorado for the last few days, and here are a few shots of what is a very cool place:

 

Mothman High-Strangeness!

There's a new Mysterious Universe article from me, which deals a  degree of "Mothman weirdness" that I encountered last weekend. It starts like this...

"There can be very few researchers of the world of the unexplained who have not experienced, now and again, a sense that the phenomena they  investigate sometimes manipulates them. For some people, it can be an exciting and illuminating experience. For others, it can be downright terrifying, and something which has led people to quit – forever – the world of the paranormal. I have experienced this sense of manipulation more than a few times, but last Saturday night things became downright crazy.

"Right now, I’m working on a new book that includes a small overview of the Mothman mystery, which dominated the town of Point Pleasant, West Virginia in the 1960s. So, over the course of the last week, and even though I’m very clued-in on the subject, I have been doing a bit of additional research into the winged beast made most famous in John Keel’s classic study of the case, The Mothman Prophecies."

MIB Terror: Audio

A couple of years ago, I wrote the foreword for a new edition of Gray Barker's book, Men in Black: The Secret Terror . Well, the good news is that if you like audio-books, it's now available in that very format.

Here's the link.

Did Japan Invade Roswell?

That's the question I ask in my latest Mysterious Universe article...




And here's the opening paragraphs of the article:

"One of the intriguing threads in the never-ending Roswell affair of July 1947 is that which posits a link between the craft and bodies that came down on the Foster Ranch, Lincoln County, New Mexico and the activities of the Japanese military. In 1997, Popular Mechanics magazine published an article written by columnist Jim Wilson on the Roswell controversy. In part, Wilson revealed that Popular Mechanics had been told of a looming release of files that could possibly shed more light on what happened at Roswell.




"Not only that, Wilson very specifically stated that the magazine had been informed the paperwork in question would document a Japanese equivalent of the post-Second World War Operation Paperclip . As it transpired, such files ultimately did not surface. The story, however, does not end there.   Sergeant Melvin E. Brown , who claimed to have seen the Roswell bodies shortly after they were recovered, said they had yellowish skin and an Asian-style appearance."






 

Saucers, Soviets, MIB!

My new Mysterious Universe article is on a very odd story, one I uncovered while doing an archival visit a few years back. A mysterious Russian, Flying Saucers, MIB overtones, and weird debris are just for starters. It begins like this...

"A couple of days ago here at Mysterious Universe, I penned an article titled An Extraterrestrial 007? The subject was one of the strangest reports I have ever received of a UFO-themed event in the UK. It prompted one person to email me and ask what is the strangest UFO case I have come across in the United States. Well, I can say for sure that there have been far more than a few of them! But, one that really stands out in the weird stakes is a case that became the subject of an official investigation in the early 1950s, the records on which can be found at the National Archives, Maryland, USA.




"The documentation, declassified under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act, dates back to 1952, was prepared by the Air Force’s Office of Special Investigations, and is titled “Unconventional Flying Objects Sighted; And Portions Recovered by [Note from Nick: First name deleted] McLean, Friona, Texas.” It’s a deeply weird file that is suggestive of one of three things: (a) that the witness may have been suffering from a degree of dementia; (b) something highly unusual really did occur; or c) maybe it was a bit of both."

John Keel, Mothman, Bigfoot

Just had a parcel delivered, thanks to Andy Colvin: four new books he has published. They are: Praise for the Hairy Man , (a Bigfoot book Andy has co-written with Jeffery Pritchett), The Mothman Shrieks , (written by Andy) and two collections of John Keel's writing: Flying Saucer to the Center of Your Mind and The Outer Limits of the Twilight Zone . Reviews will appear as soon as I have read them...

John, Keel, Mothman, Bigfoot

Just had a parcel delivered, thanks to Andy Colvin: four new books he has published. They are: Praise for the Hairy Man , (a Bigfoot book Andy has co-written with Jeffery Pritchett), The Mothman Shrieks , (written by Andy) and two collections of John Keel's writing: Flying Saucer to the Center of Your Mind and The Outer Limits of the Twilight Zone . Reviews will appear as soon as I have read them...

Remembering A Great Dog

Ten years ago tomorrow, a great friend was taken all too early. Her name was Charity the Shar-Pei. Noted for being able to knock furniture out of the way and people over when she was on a mission, Charity was a fun, gentle and loyal dog who loved walks and pizza crust, and who is still much missed a decade later. Here's a few pics of her, at rest and play.



 

Not Exactly James Bond...

Are extraterrestrial 007's on the loose on our planet? Just maybe they are...

That's the subject of my new Mysterious Universe article .