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Can 'Healing Aliens' Be Summoned At Will?

A woman is going through several negative life experiences, when she is confronted by an unknown 'energy' or entity that continues to manifest in order to help her heal.

The following account was forwarded to me by a reader:

"This happened a number of years ago. I was in a terrible state of mind, because I had just left a relationship that had basically brainwashed me into not knowing who I was at all. I moved back to my parent's house and could barely socialize. I spent all my time meditating because I didn’t know what else to do, I just wanted to get better. A bunch of crazy things happened during this time and I went through a huge transformation, but I’ll just explain the alien bit.

I was laying in bed, during daylight hours, basically “praying.” I remember mentally calling out to any beings who wanted to genuinely help me to come to my aid. Suddenly my face became the face of what looked like an alien. To me it seemed like a fairy-like being. It had the traditional face shape of an alien with super big eyes, not much of a nose but it wasn’t ugly at all. It was pulsing with a swirling pink energy, and it felt extraordinarily beautiful, magical and loving. It was like I became this being, or rather this being became me/took over my consciousness yet we were still in a sense separate. Then, very clearly I heard a high-pitched slightly feminine voice speak in my head. It said, “now we are going to heal you, with bubbles!” Then suddenly thousands or millions of the same being that was inhabiting my face coursed through my body, like tiny versions of this being were pulsing through me, still with swirling pink light. It was like they were of a collective consciousness all together, but there was one main being who spoke first who was leading them (I think).

As they coursed through me, I physically felt small bubbles in my body being popped, as if there were bubbles of energy that were being released over and over again. It felt amazing. After a little while the beings left me. It felt as if they rose out of me and kind of got suctioned away.

At this point I was super sad, almost heartbroken that they had left. So I begged them to come back. And they did! The alien/fairy became my face again and once again I felt this amazing source of love and magic. Then they left for good.

Since then I still experience the same sort of energy bubbles in my body popping - usually when I meditate or do reiki on myself, but nothing to the extent of that experience.

I never really considered these beings to be related to the grays or as an alien encounter until now. At the time it felt like they were coming from a different dimension, and they felt completely loving and wonderful.

Has anyone else had any positive experiences or anything like this happen to them?" GV

NOTE: I'd like to know your thoughts on this experience. Is it possible to 'summon' healing energy or entities capable of healing? Where these entities alien or another type of metaphysical manifestation? LMK. Lon

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Possible Bigfoot Encounter at Panther Creek Falls, Georgia

A local northeast Georgia fisherman encounters a possible stone-throwing Bigfoot and discovers other evidence while at Panther Creek Falls, Georgia

The following is an old account I recently found:

"I live about a mile away from a decently popular hiking trail named 'Panther Creek Falls Trail' here in the northeast Georgia mountains. What follows is a detailed account of something that happened in 2014.

What I like to do in the summer, since I have so much free time, is to go down to the local rivers and lakes in my area and fill my bucket with fish. When I go to Panther Creek, I usually will just get right in and get wet. Walking in the river for about a mile or two, then climbing the mountain, and walking back on the trail. This time however, things got weird.

When I know most people won't be at the trail. (I don't like to compete for my trout holes). There were no cars when I got there, and none when I left. I'm at a particular hole, that you have to be driven or crazy to get to. Or, you have to just walk in the river like I do. It's at the bottom of a small gorge. A good 50-100 ft of very steep hillside on either side of it. I've nearly died getting to it several times. It's one of those hills that if you start sliding, you don't stop without luck.

Well, I had been at this hole for about 20 minutes. And all of the sudden, the weirdness happened. Out of nowhere, a stone the size of my shoe comes tumbling down the waterfall directly behind me. I paid no mind to it, as I figured it was just a rock that had gotten wiggled loose. I went back to fishing.

About 10 seconds later, I see two kids and their father break the tree line up at the top of the gorge. And they're all looking at something over in the trees behind me. They had their noses turned up, and eyes squinted, really trying to see something. That's when the second stone came flying in my direction. It landed even closer this time. A good 5 ft from me. At this point, I'm waaaay pissed off. I'm yelling at the man to "Get his kids" and he's making gestures at me like "WTF?" I hear his kids making sounds like they just smelled something bad. (Since I can't remember what they said verbatim lol). And they kept on the trail. Passing, what I found out only minutes later, was the culprit.

When they had passed, I just kept watching the tree line where I had seen some swaying. And sure enough, I catch the top of a massive hand, right as it throws the final stone at me. The damn thing got so close, it splashed water on me. At this point, I'm pissed. I know there are hillbillies back here who do in fact live on National Park land. I've found signs of them everywhere. But this hand was huge. So I decide, instead of confronting a huge mountain man who's possibly armed, that I can't really see, I'd just continue down river like usual.

Well, sure enough not 50 ft from where I was standing was this little secluded spot next to the river. One one side of the bank (The river is only maybe 10ft wide at this particular spot) there is a very soft nest like area. Complete with dirt/leaves pillow. Now, again. There are mountain men up here, so I thought nothing of it. Figured it was a pleasant little nap site for some guy.

Well, directly across from that is some strange Bigfoot sign. Now, I've failed to mention until now that the entire time I could smell BO. You know how you can smell body odor and tell if it's yours? Well this wasn't mine, and it was strong. This thick BO seemed to "Follow" me the entire time that day. But again, I digress.

What I found on the other side of the river was many trees stacked. These things were bigger around than my wrists, and had been snapped in half and shoved in the ground. From what I understand, that's classic BigFoot sign. I can only imagine what a nice rain roof, and natural camouflage those trees would have been when alive. It's literally extremely obvious that those trees were broken, not cut. Then shoved in to the ground at an angle, to make a teepee.

That's about the gist of it really folks. Was fishing, had rocks thrown and bad smell, with what looked like a nesting place close to where I was. I went back a few days later to document. And when I got to the spot where the rocks were thrown from I knew I had something strange. Because in order for me to have been able to see the hand that threw the rock the last time. The person/thing would have had to been 8ft + in order to get their hands over the 12-15 ft high tree line." PD


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Join me as I welcome author, investigator and explorer David Weatherly to Arcane Radio. David is a renaissance man of the strange and supernatural. He has traveled the world in pursuit of ghosts, cryptids, UFOs, magic and more. From the specters of dusty castles, to remote, haunted islands, from ancient sites, to modern mysteries, he has journeyed to the most unusual places on the globe seeking the unknown. David has investigated, and written about, a diverse range of topics including, Hauntings, Cryptozoology, Ufology, Ancient Mysteries, Shamanism, Magic and Psychic Phenomena. He has been a featured speaker at conferences around the world and has lectured for countless paranormal, UFO, and spiritual groups. He is a frequent guest on Coast to Coast AM with George Noory, Darkness Radio and other radio programs. David has also appeared on numerous television shows including Ancient Aliens, Mysteries at the National Parks and Beyond Belief. His latest book is 'Monsters of the Last Frontier: Cryptids & Legends of Alaska.' His website can be found at eerielights.com - This will be a very informative and entertaining show! Join us this Friday, June 26th at 9PM ET / 6PM PT on ParanormalKing.com. Direct links can be found at mixlr.com/paranormal-king or at LiveRadio/Paranormal King Radio Network - Meet us in the chat room...just click the banner or go to www.paranormal.olicentral.com
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If you are interested in helping out, you can use the PayPal donation buttons on the blog and newsletter or go directly to PayPal.com and use my email lonstrickler@phantomsandmonsters.com as the recipient. You can also make a donation through Facebook Messenger. Thanks for your continued support. Lon

The launch of our newest project has begun! 'Beyond Explanation' is a collection of first-person encounters, directly from the pages of Phantoms & Monsters. Please subscribe & feel free to distribute to your friends and other paranormal enthusiasts. The Facebook page can be found at Beyond Explanation on Facebook - Thanks for your help. I hope you enjoy! Your comments are welcomed. Lon

PLEASE NOTE: In the not so distant future, the Arcane Radio YouTube uploads will be moved over to the 'Beyond Explanation' channel. You may want to subscribe to 'Beyond Explanation' so that you don't miss an episode. Thanks.


Would your paranormal / cryptids group like to become an affiliate of Phantoms & Monsters Fortean Research? By becoming an affiliate investigative group, we can forward reports to you from your area in which none of our team can physically investigate. If interested, send me an email at lonstrickler@phantomsandmonsters.com. The member / affiliate list can be found at Phantoms & Monsters Fortean Research Team / Affiliate Groups. Thanks. Lon

Click Here For Lon's Suggested Reading List - Books & Films / DVDs

'Winged Cryptids: Humanoids, Monsters & Anomalous Creatures Casebook' is now available on Amazon.com and from our new publisher Singular Fortean Publishing
A review of 'Winged Cryptids: Humanoids, Monsters & Anomalous Creatures Casebook' by Linda Godfrey

SUGGESTED LINKS
'Tentacled Being' Came at Night

Montana 'Werewolf' Incident

Getting Too Deep Into Paranormal Phenomena: A Cautionary Story

Spirits of the Trees: Taking a Look at Ancient Beliefs

Haunted Car in Yellowstone / Alien at the Door

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'Beast' of the Land Between the Lakes Encounter in Grand Rivers, Kentucky

3 cousins encounter an unexplained upright canine in the Land Between the Lakes area of Kentucky. This is a very frightening and detailed account.

I recently received the following account from a reader:

"The summer of '88 will always be a turnabout in my beliefs of 'real monsters' versus the demonic or paranormal type, when a new avenue of fear introduced itself and made a permanent pathway inside my mind.

It was on one of those hot July summer evenings in Grand Rivers, Kentucky, back in 1988, when this took place. (Grand Rivers is at the beginning of Land Between the Lakes entrance.) The sun was not completely down. I was staying at my Aunt's house with my cousins for a few weeks during summer vacation, a very welcome home at the end of a dead end road. Hundreds of acres of woods surrounded the home that had been built down a hill and into the side of a large hill of dirt.

There were several homemade trails throughout the woods that led to several places; an old abandoned railroad track that went on for miles, another abandoned place-the old sawmill, and other paths led to parts of the shore line of the Kentucky lake. They all started out as walking trails, but with the new addition of a dirt bike that my cousin Joe had the trails became well outlined and defined. As with almost every day that I was visiting, Joe was out riding his bike through the woods, exploring, and just being with his own thoughts of a 15 year old. His younger sister, Ronda, was with me outside on the porch swing. She was 10, and I was 13 at the time. My uncle was working and my aunt was at the local IGA store down in town. Beside the driveway was a huge dog pen where their pet basset hounds lodged and was at the moment quite relaxed in the shade. The woods had been filled with only the sounds of birds and the chatter of squirrels for a few hours. Joe must have been way far off on a trail somewhere to not have heard that distinct sound of the dirt bike screaming through it's gears echoing around the trees. I knew he must be on his way home, because his dad forbid him to be out in the woods at dark, so Ronda and I was waiting to hear that familiar putt putting of the bike slowly coming down the drive as he reluctantly came home to park it for another night.

As we swung back and forth, we heard something a bit strange in the distance. It was Joe's dirt bike screaming at almost a soprano type of gear, long, steady, and fast, with no shifting sounds, just a straight stream of one gear in motion with a full throttle, going at top speed. The sound accelerated as he drew closer at such a fast pace, and we watched from the swing up to the top of the driveway where he would appear from the other side out of the woods. I couldn't help but think that he had better slow down or he would come flying up over the top of the hill and downwards missing a wide stretch of pavement by being airborne. The noise didn't softened or slow. Steady and fixed was his speed. And just as I had thought, he emerged from the woods in such a tenacious movement, that he did indeed go airborne a few feet before pounding down the front tire on the driveway, continuing his descent now with a struggle of keeping the bike upright and straight. Ronda and I jumped from the porch swing and got out of the way as we didn't know where he was going to stop or in what position. The brakes hit hard and the bike slid sideways and as it came down to the edge and end of the drive, Joe tilted his body and let the bike slide out from under him before he went down the rest of the hill with it. Instead of the bike continuing to slide to the edge it was caught in a spin that variably died down as the engine sputtered, and then quit altogether.

Everyone was wide eyed and full of adrenaline, all our mouths open in shock. But Joe's mouth was open in a strange fearful grimace, he was sweating profusely and his breaths were coming and going in great heaves. Tears were coming down his cheeks, mixing with the dusty dirt that the trail had left him powdered with. His eyes were at the top of the hill, at the top of the drive, unblinking, searching, waiting. We followed his gaze not understanding what this escapade was all about. In silence we watched with him for a about 30 seconds and then the dogs started barking. Growling. And then whining, trying to get out of the pen in a frantic panic of digging and gnawing at the fencing.

"IT GRABBED ME!! LOOK AT MY LEG!!", Joe screamed, making us jump with alarm at the sound of his voice. We looked down at his Levi's and saw scratch marks going across his right thigh, scratches that tore through the tough denim and left small bloody marks on his skin. The marks were like a bear-claw-rake, not those caused by branches or sticky bushes, but a definite wide pattern of a paw print. "IT WALKED ON TWO LEGS!", his voice startled us again, as he was trying to tell his story in between huge gulps of air. He was frightened beyond belief, and the bits and pieces of what he was striving with extreme effort to tell us was coming out in loud syllables that filled us both with the same dread. "It was following me through the woods....along the path....from the old sawmill....hairy...it was so hairy...and it's snout was so long...and it walked on two legs....it ran on two legs...", his voice was sputtering, slowing, his eyes were still wide, and I could see the pulse of his heartbeat throbbing under the skin of his temples.

A howling began. From the woods, not from the dog pen where now the dogs suddenly stopped their own complaining, standing deathly still, staring up at the top of the hill, the nape of the hair on their back standing up, ruffled, their noses up in the air breathing in a strange scent. Then, a wolf's howl. It was close. It seemed it was just a few yards from the road up above. Just as the idiot in a horror movie stands and stares at something to appear, that was what I was doing then, with a mixture of anticipation and confusion. What the hell was he talking about? I thought to myself, mulling over the brief descriptions; torn blue jeans, walks and runs on two legs, stalking him, hairy with a long nose and calling the mysterious hunter an "IT". Joe's tears came quicker and he started to push us towards the front door of the house demanding that we go inside and lock the doors. He had a hand on each of our backs and was urging us onward when IT came out of the woods above. At first it appeared to be a very large wolf emerging from the dark outline of the trees, but as it approached the one lane road that connected to the driveway, it's height grew to a towering shadow that stood on two legs. Much taller than a man's height, maybe by a foot, and with the sun gone down behind the clouds, it only cast a silhouette of blackness, hairy blackness. My mouth dropped wide as well as my eyes. This was not happening, this was not what I was seeing. My mind was going back and forth from rationality to reality.

It raised it's long snout up in the air and let out a gurgling, slow, deliberate howl. One of the creatures arms bent and shaded its eyes from the glare of the security light above it. It wasn't an 'It' any longer, nor was it a bigfoot. This was a wolf-like creature that, like Joe said, stood on two legs, was taller than a man, and was staring at the three of us down the hill. Those huge, black eyes, I will never get out of my mind. They were like two sockets of ebony oil shining under magnifying glass lenses. We ran into the house, tearing the screen door in the process, slamming the main door, locking it, pushing things, anything we could reach against the inside of the door. The kitchen was right behind us and so was the knife drawer which we raided and took several with us as we tried to decide where to hide. There was a house dog inside, another basset hound, Stubby, and he met us in the kitchen wondering what the racket was. Another howl from outside, coming from the driveway. Stubby's hair raised and he started backing up at first, then he went to the front door and was smelling around the edges. The three of us ran to my Aunt's room and was about to slam the door and lock it when the dog tucked tail and ran after us, beating us under the bed. All of us squeezed under the four poster, knives clutched in our hands, scared half to death.

We could hear the dogs in the pen outside going absolutely crazy with barking, and we could also hear other things being knocked around on the porch, then on the side of the house, then at the side door. We heard glass break. We could tell it was from one of the bedrooms, the windows were up high and they were very narrow so we knew that it would take some effort for anything to get thru them, but still we shivered from fright. Then my Aunt's horn on her Cadillac sounded several times as she drove down the road and approached the house. That meant for us to meet her outside and help with the groceries. We didn't budge. We couldn't move. We didn't answer her yells from outside for us to come unload the bags, we didn't crawl out and unlock the door for her, nor answer her knocking. She finally had to use her keys and then give some hefty pushes against the pile of items we had up against the door; the trash can, 25 pound bags of dog food, water jugs, and a variety of other stuff. We stayed put. She discovered us only after all the groceries had been brought in and she noticed that her bedroom door was closed and locked.

It was amazing that we hadn't cut each other in some way or another with the immature use of the knives in our haste to hide, and we were chastised in more ways than one when it came down to my Aunt observing us slowly emerging from her bedroom with the kitchen weapons in hand. We all started talking at once in a fervor, then we finally let Joe tell his story first, then we finished with it breaking a window just before we heard her horn on the car. She must have startled it. She didn't laugh, she didn't respond at all at first, in fact she never said a word until she came back from inspecting the windows in the bedrooms. My Aunt said indeed there was a broken window, broken from the outside in. She made us clean up our barricade and put up all the groceries. Later that night, after we were all in bed and my uncle came home, she related that evenings events to him. The next morning, their dad warned us, "Stay out of the woods."

No problem.

He went on to say that he himself had went down in the woods earlier that morning and found several pits dug and filled with animal bones and parts of carcasses along the path that led to the old sawmill that couldn't be explained. There were also holes dug in the sides of the bluff along the hills that over-looked the old mill that looked like deep caves, big enough for a man to hide in. Then he told us that years before when the old boy scout camp use to be on the other side of Grand Rivers, that an unexplained creature with wolf features was seen along the waters edge close to the camp sites. He and his older son had witnessed it themselves one evening. I went back home a few weeks after this happened. And since then it has never ceased to be a moment of complete terror lodged inside my mind.

Not to awful long ago, in the late '90's, my uncle and my dad who had come down from Missouri to visit, decided to venture into those same woods in front of my aunts house. They took a couple of pistols and two rifles and were gone for several hours. These were two brave men, the bravest I know of, both of whom served in the military and fought in wartime. These two men came back ashen faced and bewildered. They had walked all the way back to the old saw mill. The pits, fresh ones, were still around, filled with the bones of forest animals. The holes in the bluff still there also. They both experienced the feeling of being watched and felt an uneasiness that 'something' just wasn't right. The area where the sawmill was had no life stirring around it. No birds, no squirrels, no crickets, no bugs, even the small pond was still and lifeless. They couldn't shake the feeling of being observed by a secret watcher and both swore they saw a large black shadow lurking in the shade of one of the mysteriously dug caves. That had been the first time they had been down that far on that side of the woods in many years, and both of them agreed that it was to be the last. My dad said there are some things you just can't explain, that science doesn't know about it, and these things should be left alone, they are not a part of our modern world. He felt that whatever it was that had scared the shit out of us so many years ago, still existed in the same area. His intuition has never been wrong so far.

Urban legend? Maybe some of the stories passed along the years have been added too, stretched a bit, like all local folklore, and first hand stories are over time. My story wasn't an urban tale though. It was a first hand account of something I really and truly do not want to believe in, and wish I could forget; erase from my memory, because the nightmarish image remains real even though the events are still unexplained by the laws of science as we know it." JT


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Join me as I welcome author, investigator and explorer David Weatherly to Arcane Radio. David is a renaissance man of the strange and supernatural. He has traveled the world in pursuit of ghosts, cryptids, UFOs, magic and more. From the specters of dusty castles, to remote, haunted islands, from ancient sites, to modern mysteries, he has journeyed to the most unusual places on the globe seeking the unknown. David has investigated, and written about, a diverse range of topics including, Hauntings, Cryptozoology, Ufology, Ancient Mysteries, Shamanism, Magic and Psychic Phenomena. He has been a featured speaker at conferences around the world and has lectured for countless paranormal, UFO, and spiritual groups. He is a frequent guest on Coast to Coast AM with George Noory, Darkness Radio and other radio programs. David has also appeared on numerous television shows including Ancient Aliens, Mysteries at the National Parks and Beyond Belief. His latest book is 'Monsters of the Last Frontier: Cryptids & Legends of Alaska.' His website can be found at eerielights.com - This will be a very informative and entertaining show! Join us this Friday, June 26th at 9PM ET / 6PM PT on ParanormalKing.com. Direct links can be found at mixlr.com/paranormal-king or at LiveRadio/Paranormal King Radio Network - Meet us in the chat room...just click the banner or go to www.paranormal.olicentral.com
Listen to our podcast at Arcane Radio on Podbean or on my YouTube channel. You can also listen to the podcast at Arcane Radio on Stitcher - iOS, Android and the Webplayer. Please consider becoming an Arcane Radio patron. Thanks...Lon

Hey folks. I do understand that everyone is tightening their belts during the Covid-19 situation. But I ask that you may consider supporting Phantoms & Monsters through a donation. Yes, I do receive some funds through books and advertising. But it is far from enough to cover expenses, especially since Amazon.com and other affiliates have lowered royalties and CPM because of the Covid-19 lockdown.

If you are interested in helping out, you can use the PayPal donation buttons on the blog and newsletter or go directly to PayPal.com and use my email lonstrickler@phantomsandmonsters.com as the recipient. You can also make a donation through Facebook Messenger. Thanks for your continued support. Lon

The launch of our newest project has begun! 'Beyond Explanation' is a collection of first-person encounters, directly from the pages of Phantoms & Monsters. Please subscribe & feel free to distribute to your friends and other paranormal enthusiasts. The Facebook page can be found at Beyond Explanation on Facebook - Thanks for your help. I hope you enjoy! Your comments are welcomed. Lon

PLEASE NOTE: In the not so distant future, the Arcane Radio YouTube uploads will be moved over to the 'Beyond Explanation' channel. You may want to subscribe to 'Beyond Explanation' so that you don't miss an episode. Thanks.


Would your paranormal / cryptids group like to become an affiliate of Phantoms & Monsters Fortean Research? By becoming an affiliate investigative group, we can forward reports to you from your area in which none of our team can physically investigate. If interested, send me an email at lonstrickler@phantomsandmonsters.com. The member / affiliate list can be found at Phantoms & Monsters Fortean Research Team / Affiliate Groups. Thanks. Lon

Click Here For Lon's Suggested Reading List - Books & Films / DVDs

'Winged Cryptids: Humanoids, Monsters & Anomalous Creatures Casebook' is now available on Amazon.com and from our new publisher Singular Fortean Publishing
A review of 'Winged Cryptids: Humanoids, Monsters & Anomalous Creatures Casebook' by Linda Godfrey

SUGGESTED LINKS
Lycoming County, PA UFO Flap of 1992

Black Eyed Woman Demands 'Let Me In!'

The Wilson/Davis Documents – My Twenty-Three Year Journey

Hal Puthoff’s Crash Document Revealed

The Vancouver Island Photo: Best UFO Evidence To Date?

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2nd Airline Pilot Reports & Describes O'Hare Mothman Encounter

A 2nd airline pilot at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago comes forward to report and describe the 'O'Hare Mothman.'

Phantoms & Monsters Fortean Research team investigator Manuel Navarette (UFO Clearinghouse) submitted the following report:

"My name is Bruce (*Name changed per witnesses request*) and I am a pilot for (*redacted*) and have been with (*redacted*) since 2008. I previously flew for (*redacted*) and before that served for 6 years in the United States Air Force. I have over 9000 hours of flight time and have flown a variety of aircraft in my career in virtually all types of weather. The incident I am about to tell you happened on Thursday, August 8th, 2019 at O’Hare International Airport at approximately 1800.

I had flown into O’Hare the previous day and had stayed at a hotel for the night. I was due to fly out at 2000 to the UK. I was taking the airport shuttle toward the terminal. As I looked out the window, I saw a large human with enormous wings and glowing red eyes perched upon a rail and looking straight at me. The being appeared to be squatting down on the rail but had its wings completely open and moved them slowly as he stared at the shuttle bus as we drove by. I knew it was watching me as its head swivelled and followed the shuttle as we passed. Its eyes locked on me the entire time. I was startled and I’ll admit it, very frightened. Not only by this encounter, but the absolute boldness of this thing as it did not move or attempt to hide itself as we approached knowing that it could be clearly seen. We passed it on the outside lane and were at our closest approximately 15 feet away from where it was perched. It never once flinched or attempted to hide itself. It just stayed put and watched as we passed. When we passed, I attempted to look back and see if it was still perched there. I saw nothing and can only assume that it must have flown off when we passed.

I have heard the stories of the O’Hare Mothman or as some have called it “Batman,” but I simply dismissed them as nothing more than fantasy. An urban legend that was associated with an already spooky airport. I mean, who hasn’t heard of the weird UFO sightings over O’Hare and stories of ghosts and whatnot. What happened to me that evening changed my entire view of those stories. So when I saw the post asking for pilots to step up forward and share their stories, I took advantage of the opportunity to tell my encounter with the O’Hare Mothman."

Investigator Notes:

I received the witness report as a result of my investigation with the first pilot who reported his and his co-pilot sighting of a winged humanoid earlier this month. The pilot had told me that he had heard of fellow pilots having similar sightings via social media. I was put in touch with this witness by that first pilot and after reading this pilot’s sightings. I reached out to him to conduct a phone interview. It was after that phone interview that we set up a face to face interview about his sighting.

The witness advised that he was being driven from the hotel to the international terminal that evening and that he was the only person on the shuttle that evening and was seated approximately halfway down on the driver side of the vehicle. The witness also stated that they arrived at the terminal about 5 minutes after the encounter and that when he disembarked he looked around to see if he could see anything but saw nothing out of the ordinary. When asked if he could give a description of what he saw that evening the witness gave the following description of the entity seen.

The being was squatted down. Its arms appeared to be gripping the guard rail and were long and very skinny, almost boney and were jet black. He did not get a good look at the fingers of the entity but he described the length of the arms to be about 3 feet long but could not give an accurate measurement. The witness says that even squatting down, the entity was still about 4 feet tall and that if he were to stand up would be well over 6 1/2 feet tall. The head was rounded and featureless other than the two illuminated eyes that he described as ruby red in color. He did note that the head was not overly large and appeared to be rounded at the top. The wings were black and were large and pointed at the end, appearing to be segmented but still looked like the wings of a large bat. The pilot estimated the wings to be at least 10 feet wide from tip to tip and about five feet in height. The wings appeared to be taller than the being by at least 2 feet and black in color.

When asked about the encounter, the witness stated that the entity did not move at all. It stayed perched on the guard rail and held its ground and did not move other than moving its head to follow and maintain eye contact with the witness. When asked how he felt during the encounter, the witness said he felt helpless and a little apprehensive but did not describe any overwhelming feelings of dread or fear. The witness described the entire encounter taking approximately 10-15 seconds from beginning to end.

The witness presented airline company and federal identification to prove his employment and also showed me photos of his time with his previous employer and his military service. The witness also answered any and all questions regarding his background and sighting without hesitation and did not deviate from his initial sighting report. It is the opinion of the investigator that this witness is credible and has satisfied all claims as to his employment and background. I find his sighting as valid and worthy of follow-up investigation and further research.

NOTE: In the late Summer of 2011, reports of Mothman-like flying humanoids began to surface in the city of Chicago. After three brief sightings, there were no further accounts. Then unexpectedly in early 2017, a smattering of encounters emerged from different locations throughout the Chicago metro area; until the number reached near fifty sightings before the end of the Summer. The currently number of viable sightings reported has reached 105...and it continues. We are determined to find the truth.

Since October 2019, the majority of sightings / encounters have been reported at O'Hare International Airport and the surrounding communities. We need your help.

Have you had a sighting of a winged humanoid or huge bat-like creature in the Chicago, Illinois metro area and/or the Lake Michigan region? Please feel free to contact me at lonstrickler@phantomsandmonsters.com or at 410-241-5974 - your anonymity and confidentiality is guaranteed. Lon

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Possible Bigfoot Sighting Leads to a Frightening Encounter in Central Illinois

A group of friends go exploring in the woods behind the one boy's house and see a large biped figure. Believing that it was a Bigfoot, they venture into the same woods a few years later. This time they are met with a frightening encounter.

The following account was recently sent to me:

"What I'm about to tell all of you is very real. It happened in the fall of 2003 in the area of Clinton Lake in central Illinois and has left a mark on me ever since.

It was a Friday, and the only reason I remember it was a Friday is because I used to have friends over during that particular time on Friday evenings. We used to play video games and other things normal typical teenage boys used to do, but that's neither here nor there. My friends and I were immensely interested in the paranormal. During times of boredom or times of spontaneous adventure, we liked to wonder around the woods behind my mom's house, which is still standing to this day.

These were typical woods. dark, forbidden, and creepy at night. Nothing was ever expected to be seen or heard in these woods. We just liked to scare ourselves. All fun, until after exiting the woods on that particular Friday night in the fall of 2003. As we were walking away from the woods, we saw a dark figure walking in the darkness of a shadow casted by a telephone poll. Not until the figure moved out of the shadow did we see that it wasn't just a random man walking around at midnight. It was something else.

This creature was walking as fast as any human could run. Its giant step span was a dead giveaway. This was not a human. Once we noticed that it was something other than a fellow man or any animal that we've ever seen, we sprinted all the way back to my mom's house.

That was the first and last time I ever seen this creature, but it was not my last encounter with it.

These account, you see, might not be entirely connected. My second encounter with Bigfoot was hard to tell. This time it was 2006 and in the pitch blackness of the woods. The three of us daringly set out to experience the presence of Bigfoot once again. This was not our first time back in the woods since the first meeting nor was it the first time looking for the creature again.

Our group started out as five, but as soon as we hit the woods, two cowardly bowed out. We entered the woods with a flashlight and nothing more. it was the middle of the summer and very dark inside the woods due to the thickness of the brush. We walked rather cautiously for about 20 minutes. we reached deeper and deeper into the woods. Once we came upon a small stream, we heard something ELSE among us.

A loud crash sounded like it was directly in front of us. We were terrified that we had been spotted by whatever was with us in the woods. We all immediately whispered to turn the flashlight off. Standing there in the dark, we heard the noise again. A very loud crash. The sound of something metal hitting something else metal. A very odd sound for it being heard in the middle of the woods.

After about a minute of these loud crashes, the worst thing happened. It got quiet. It was so horrifying standing there in the middle of the woods in the dark. Silent. Standing so very close to this beast. The dead giveaway that it wasn't a human was the piercing low growl it emitted after another minute of silence. We could almost feel the vibration of this creature as it snarled at us. We were that close.

To say that we ran would be an understatement. Totally disregarding the trail, we all split up escaping to the outside. Once we were out of the woods we did not look back. We continued to run all the way home.

This was my last encounter with the creature, whatever it may have been. For the sake of classification, it matched very well with other Bigfoot descriptions, so I decided to call it Bigfoot. As I've said before, the beast in the first encounter could have been entirely different, but the events were so similar. In my mind it was the same.

I have been back to those woods many times after the last encounter, and still have yet to experience anything else. Occasionally we hear noises, but nothing significant enough to call an "encounter." BN

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Bleeding Pregnant Woman Healed by Alien Entity

A pregnant Finnish woman begins to bleed profusely because of a haematoma. After leaving the hospital, she still experiences difficulties. She then states that she was 'healed' by an extraterrestrial being.

The following account was posted less than 24 hours ago on social media. I am in the process of contacting the experiencer:

"I live in Finland. I am currently pregnant and last night I suddenly had the most intense bleeding. I was 100% sure I miscarried. Our floor was filled with blood. I immediately called the hospital and asked for advice. The midwife said that I needed to get to the hospital quickly. In about 15 minutes I was at the hospital and they were checking me. They said that I had a haematoma which is bleeding profusely. The baby is doing fine but the doctor said I could bleed for many days (or maybe even weeks) since the haematoma was quite big.

So I left the hospital and got back home. I fell asleep but I woke up every now and then to the fact that I was still very heavily bleeding. After a while I realised I can't sleep anymore and I needed to eat something. So I ate a kiwifruit and drank some water. After I started walking back towards the bed I felt like I'm gonna pass out. I barely got on to the bed and then I started to bleed even more. It was followed by the worst nausea you could ever imagine. I threw up for a half an hour or so.

After I was finished throwing up I crawled up to fetal position and my body was shaking all over. I didn't manage to sleep for a couple of hours. The shaking eventually stopped, but I was left wide awake. Still bleeding and having some pain.

Then I felt myself slipping to another reality... most people would say this was a dream but it wasn't. I was awake in that other realm and fully conscious. A taxi with the taxi driver popped in front of me and I felt this pull I need to jump inside the taxi. So I did.

Immediately I noticed that the taxi wasn't a taxi and the driver definitely WAS NOT human. He spoke to me in my head telepathically. He drove to a certain location, stopped the car and I felt I needed to get out of the vehicle. When I was out he walked next to me and put his arm around me. He telepathically told me that I am safe and it'll all be ok. He also told me to raise my right hand and as I did he put his left hand towards it. I could feel a force field surrounding the palm of his hand and then we put our hands and fingers together. He sent me energy or something. I am not sure what it was but I could feel it and I knew it was healing me.

Then he put his left hand/palm against my tummy and uterus and sent those same healing vibes. It was definitely unlike anything I've ever felt here on Earth. Then he told me that it's better if I'm unconscious. So I immediately blacked out.

The feeling I was left was immense peace and a sense of other worldly protection. After the experience the bleeding was almost totally gone. Some light bleeding was left but it was very very light compared to what it was before. Almost non existent. There was no pain left. No nausea. The bleeding is now totally gone. All of this happened less than 12 hours ago.

The fake taxi and the fake human appearance of the driver felt like a camouflage of some kind. Like he wanted to present himself to me in that way for some reason. Maybe he didn't want me to be scared. I'm not sure." GZ

NOTE: The experiencer did later state that they have had previous encounters with non-terrestrial entities. Lon


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Smelly White Humanoid Spooks Campers at Monjeau Lookout Near Ruidoso, NM

3 servicemen are camping at Monjeau Lookout outside of Ruidoso, New Mexico when they encounter an odorous white humanoid that is circling them in the adjoining trees.

The following account was recently forwarded to me:

"Two of my friends and I used to be stationed at Ft. Bliss in El Paso, TX and we decided a Memorial Day camping weekend would be a good idea; so we took a trip up to Monjeau Peak outside of Ruidoso, NM. We planned to stay for 3 nights, the first two of which were very relaxing. On our first day there when were were deciding where to set up our tent we found loads of bones from various animals, not mounded up or anything like they were collected, just bones all around the campsite. The campsite had 5 places to pitch tents over about 300 square meters. We decided to pitch our tents on the highest point at the campsite, about 30-40 feet higher elevation than the parking lot.

On the third night, it was well after sunset when all noise from the woods died out. I'm not sure how long it was silent before me and my friends broached the subject. But it wasn't long after that that the hair on the back of my neck started to stand, followed by goosebumps all over. I could see my friends starting to get jittery and from one of the other campsites we heard their two dogs going absolutely ape sh*t. These were very relaxed and happy dogs for the last two days. We had also made decent acquaintances with the couple who had the dogs and they had lunch with us on day two. The other 2 groups that were camping at the same time had gone silent as well.

The car was about 60m from our campsite and we unanimously decided to go get our guns (AR-15's and 9mm pistols). On our way back we started to smell a rotting, fetid stench. I don't know if anyone has ever had to burn feces before, but it smelled like that mixed with death. It was cloying and felt like it was almost physical it was so strong. We got back to our campsite, and decided to post guard all through the night. One man up and two asleep, or at least resting. I volunteered for the first shift because I knew I wasn't getting any rest at all.

We had plenty of firewood for the night, especially because we were leaving the next morning. I kept the fire blazing as much as I could because I figured that if it was some sort of animal it wouldn't be too interested in messing with me. I kept my back to the fire so I could maintain good night vision. The forest to the southwest of our campsite was pretty burnt out, but what you cant see very well is the elevation change. Once you got into the tree line it was very steep, not impassable by any means; but not somewhere you need to be walking at night. Behind the trees I notice a stark white shape. I shouldered my rifle and it didn't move at all.

I assumed it was a tree partially hidden tree behind another one. I started scanning the treeline with a flashlight because I felt the stench was stronger than it was before. As my beam passed over what I thought was the obscured tree I saw eye shine from the white shape, as soon as I registered what I was seeing it disappeared behind the tree. I debated investigating but instead just roused my friends, and we scanned together. When my shift ended I took off my rain fly on my tent so I could see out if needed. I didn't see anything on my next shift, just the smell.

In the morning, just before dawn broke the smell seemed to recede but only so much, almost like it left a scent as a warning was the impression that I got. We broke camp and started packing up. About halfway through our breakdown we saw the other three groups packing up as well. I went over and talked to the couple with the dogs, asking them if they saw anything last night, or if their dogs calmed down after the barking stopped. They told me that even when they stopped barking the dogs didn't sleep. They spent the night whining and growling in the direction of the hill to the southwest." CE



Hey folks. I do understand that everyone is tightening their belts during the Covid-19 situation. But I ask that you may consider supporting Phantoms & Monsters through a donation. Yes, I do receive some funds through books and advertising. But it is far from enough to cover expenses, especially since Amazon.com and other affiliates have lowered royalties and CPM because of the Covid-19 lockdown.

If you are interested in helping out, you can use the PayPal donation buttons on the blog and newsletter or go directly to PayPal.com and use my email lonstrickler@phantomsandmonsters.com as the recipient. You can also make a donation through Facebook Messenger. Thanks for your continued support. Lon

The launch of our newest project has begun! 'Beyond Explanation' is a collection of first-person encounters, directly from the pages of Phantoms & Monsters. Please subscribe & feel free to distribute to your friends and other paranormal enthusiasts. The Facebook page can be found at Beyond Explanation on Facebook - Thanks for your help. I hope you enjoy! Your comments are welcomed. Lon

Would your paranormal / cryptids group like to become an affiliate of Phantoms & Monsters Fortean Research? By becoming an affiliate investigative group, we can forward reports to you from your area in which none of our team can physically investigate. If interested, send me an email at lonstrickler@phantomsandmonsters.com. The member / affiliate list can be found at Phantoms & Monsters Fortean Research Team / Affiliate Groups. Thanks. Lon

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Menacing 'Winged Cryptid' Torments Native Family in British Columbia

A 6 ft+ menacing winged cryptid torments a native family on several occasions on their property in British Columbia. What was it?

The following interesting account was recently posted on social media and referred to me by a reader:

"My grandfather was a badass. He was born in Alberta during the early '30s, and raised his three brothers on a reservation from the time he was 9, when his parents left for BC with their only daughter, promised to return, and none of the boys ever saw them again. To make ends meet, he learned carpentry and worked as a laborer, and bare knuckle boxed against older men for extra cash. He learned how to track and hunt, and always came home with something to eat when work was scarce. When he was 14, he put the second oldest brother in charge of the household, left the rez in search of his parents and a better life, and never went back. That was the last time he saw any of his family members.

He spent several months riding the rails, befriending some transients while using his fighting skills to defend himself against others. He eventually made his way to Vancouver, the last known whereabouts of his parents and sister, and started working in a pulp mill. At 17, he met my grandmother, and the two eventually married, leading to him giving up his search for his family. They bought some land, and he spent his free time building several houses, which still stand today. One of those sat on the land he bought with my grandmother, which included acres of wooded area. On this land, my grandparents kept horses and dogs and small farm animals for eggs and meat.

My aunt was born in the early '50s, and then my mother came along right before the end of the decade. As far as I've heard, nothing bad or strange really happened until my mom found an old Ouija board and played with it by herself, but I don't know if that has any relation to this story. My mother was around 8 when she was riding her horse through the wooded part of their acreage, when the horse stopped dead in its tracks. My mom tried to spur it on, but it was frozen in fear, and all of a sudden she smelled something like rotting garbage and meat. She pulled back on the reins and the horse instantly turned and took off back towards the house, almost knocking her off its back several times along the way.

Afterwards, that horse was never the same. It would try to kick her, and if she got on it, it would fall backwards, trying to crush her beneath it. Once, it started acting like its old self again, letting her climb onto it, but once she did it ran towards the road and stopped abruptly, bucking her forward into the path of an oncoming car. My grandpa saw it happen and put a shotgun to its head, and the horse just kept breathing heavily and staring straight ahead. My mother barely missed being run over by a car that saw the horse coming and managed to swerve out of the way, and my grandmother begged my grandfather not to shoot the horse. He finally decided to give it away when he saw my mother wasn't badly injured. That same horse fell on the next person to ride it, breaking her collarbone, and the father did what my grandpa said he should've done the first time.

After that, animals started going missing, and one of the hunting dogs was injured by something during an attack at night. My grandpa set out some traps and stayed in the hayloft above the barn with a shotgun and rifle beside him, and slept out there for several nights. He figured it was foxes, or maybe coyotes or wolves, or even a desperate bear, which is what he attributed the smell in the woods to and the horse's reason for losing its mind. But nothing came the entire time he slept out there, and eventually he figured it had moved on to easier prey or died.

The day after he stopped sleeping in the barn, my mom was out near the treeline playing with the injured dog as it was healing. Out of nowhere, the dog started sniffing the air, then positioned itself between my mom and the trees, growling and barking. My grandpa heard the noise and came out, stopped in his tracks, and called back to my grandmother to bring his rifle, then whistled for the dogs. My grandma came out, handed him his gun, then asked what was going on. As the dogs all started to react like the first one, my grandfather pointed to one of the treetops, which looked longer and thicker than those around it, but it was very slightly moving.

It was at least six feet tall, he told me later on when he'd retell the story, but probably a good bit taller. He took aim and fired just as he saw a pair of wings start to open up. Whatever was up there was watching them, but he beat it to the punch. It was a kill shot, directly in the chest with a high powered rifle, and he instantly started running forward with all of the dogs following him as the thing plummeted to the ground, the breaking of tree branches wholly unmistakable. When he reached the impact point, he raised his rifle again and commanded the dogs forward to flush it out, but they all just stood in the spot and kept spinning around, trying to catch a scent that seemingly disappeared.

A pile of broken branches lay in an obvious landing spot, but beyond that there was no proof that anything had happened. No body, no blood, no trail. It had either disappeared or gone straight back up the way it came. He searched those woods for several days but never found a sign of what that thing was, and they didn't see it or experience issues with the animals after that.

Decades later, when he was dying, he kept talking about how he saw something. In his delirium, he referred to it as an alien, but said it was coming back for him. I've never seen that man scared of anything in my life, but there was actual panic and fear in his voice. A few nights before he died, he had already been too weak to stand on his own for several days, and my grandmother awoke to the sound of a gunshot. She ran outside, fearing the worst, and saw my grandpa lowering his rifle, staring at something in the distance. She took the gun away and helped him back inside, and that was it.

I don't know if whatever it was actually did come back for him, or if it was a hallucination of an old memory, but I'd like to think he went out with a final F-you to the thing that tried to torment his family all those years ago." ST

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Foundations of the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization (APRO) - Part II

Foundations of the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization (APRO) - Part II

By Dr. Raymond A. Keller, author of the international awards-winning Venus Rising Trilogy, available on amazon.com while supplies last.

Dr. Donald H. Menzel (1901-1976), Harvard astronomer
“Revenge of the Nerd”
Turning Tide

Beginning in the summer of 1952, Coral Lorenzen, Director of the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization (APRO) in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, remained perplexed over a series of statements made by Dr. Donald H. Menzel, the famed astronomer and astrophysicist serving as the then Acting Director of the Harvard University Observatory in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to the effect that there was nothing of note to be gained from any study of the so-called “flying saucers” appearing in our skies. In the midst of a huge flying saucer flap gripping the nation, Menzel came out with an article in the 17 June 1952 issue of Look magazine dismissing the majority of extant UFO reports as the result of unusual atmospheric conditions that could produce “saucer-like light inversions.”

Menzel thought that all UFO reports could easily be explained in the context of misinterpretations of atmospheric or astronomical phenomena, the misidentification of conventional aircraft, or just outright hallucinations or maybe even hoaxes. There were no substantial reasons for astronomers to believe that life existed on other planets, let alone that alien life forms were visiting the Earth in flying saucers.

In the Look magazine article, Menzel asked, “Why have so many civilized individuals taken such an uncivilized attitude toward flying saucers?”

To this, Lorenzen opined that, “He (Menzel) was assuming that the system of mechanized barbarism which constitutes the world’s way of life is civilized.” She added that, “He also assumes by that question that the obvious explanation, that the flying saucers are interplanetary and controlled or manned by a superior intelligence, is an uncivilized attitude.”

The APRO director clarified her remarks, noting that, “Pages of newsprint could be used to disprove Menzel’s theory; but being that it is not worth the time or effort, let the following suffice: Menzel’s light inversions do not account for flying lights (Gorman case); New Mexico’s green fireballs, double-decked ships trailing flames (Chiles-Whitted case); and hundreds of saucers with a red leader (Farmington, New Mexico, case); and that’s just naming a few.”

Lorenzen wondered what was really going on in academic circles. In the 1 July 1952 issue of Look, members of the Air Force were interviewed who clearly left the idea that some flying saucer reports, like the ones noted above, could very well be representative of a type of extraterrestrial technology. These interviewed Air Force personnel created the impression that the government planned on slowly educating the public to the idea that the flying saucers were manned or remote-controlled vehicles from outer space, but not coming out with a direct disclosure until such a time as the planet of origin of these objects could be determined, as well as the intentions of the extraterrestrials in conducting their surveillance of our planet. What the APRO director did not know, at the time, was that Menzel opted not to become the director of the Harvard Observatory because he was already fully committed to working with the United States Navy on a TOP SECRET project in improving radio wave propagation by tracking the Sun’s emissions and studying the effect of the aurora on radio propagation for the Department of Defense. He continued with this project until 1955, when he resumed the directorship of the Observatory until 1966. Whereas the airmen were basically stating their personal opinions, Menzel was working on a lucrative government contract and needed to be quite circumspect in anything he said about flying saucers or any other subject reflecting national security concerns.

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Amazing Spider-Man

Moving on to the 9 September 1952 issue of Look magazine, correspondent Chester Morrison does a follow-up piece on the flying saucer phenomenon, interviewing the eminent Dr. Donald H. Menzel. In this article, Morrison upholds Menzel’s debunking theory, that being that the UFOs aren’t really “unidentified,” but easily identified in the context of being “any one of several explainable natural phenomena and definitely not of extraterrestrial origin.” In a rather creepy but quixotic turn of events, Menzel illustrates his theory with an experiment using cobwebs that reflect sunlight to create eerie saucer lighting patterns on the wall of his Harvard basement laboratory. He even allowed Morrison to take a photograph of his pet spider who collaborates with the professor in conducting his web ventures. Do you suppose Peter Parker was anywhere on campus at the time, covering the story for the Daily Bugle?

Our friendly neighborhood Spider-Man’s antics did not go unnoticed overseas, however, for Dr. Frank B. Crane of Frankfurt, Germany, took Menzel to task in a rebutting article that appeared in an unspecified issue of the Sioux City, Iowa, Journal, published sometime in mid-to-late September 1952 and referenced by Lorenzen in the September 1952 issue of the APRO Bulletin. According to Lorenzen, “Crane believes Menzel finds it too easy believing things which he can prove no more easily or thoroughly than the ordinary, uneducated man. Crane cited the Link (sic) sighting in Germany, and admitted that although he had been almost indifferent to saucers previous to that, he began to sit up and take notice after hearing about it.”

The following pages are an exact copy of an “unevaluated” document from the archives of the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Notice that this document comes from that section of the CIA that works with “military and scientific information from foreign documents or radio broadcasts,” as indicated on the first page banner letterhead and subject line. This is important to keep in mind, because Coral Lorenzen was probably as closest as she was going to get, at that time, to the heart of the vast UFO conspiracy. Of course, Lorenzen was perturbed by Dr. Donald H. Menzel’s gnawing skepticism, undermining the credibility of the extraterrestrial hypothesis for the flying saucers wherever he spoke or whenever he wrote an article. But little did she realize Menzel’s key role in the then relatively new but TOP SECRET machinations of the flying saucer cover-up taking place behind the backs of millions of Americans.

Please open I. Kithirmerini, CIA Report 00-w-23682, dated 23 August 1952, based on report from Athens, Greece, newspaper about the flying saucer encounter of an East German defector when he lived behind the Iron Curtain: https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/DOC_0000015464.pdf.

Menzel’s Real Agenda

With the passing of time, we have come to realize that the astronomer Menzel played a key role in the United States government’s great flying saucer conspiracy since its very inception. Menzel, a hardcore, “nuts-and-bolts” expert in the physical sciences of astronomy and astrophysics, was called upon in 1951 by the director of the Psychological Strategy Board (PSB), a special committee under the auspices of the Executive Branch, to serve as an initial consulting member and advocate for skepticism concerning the existence of genuine UFOs. The PSB was formed on April 4, 1951, during the Truman administration, and was composed of the Under Secretary of State, the Deputy Secretary of Defense, and the Director of Central Intelligence, or their designated representatives. The board's first director was Gordon Gray, later National Security Advisor during the Eisenhower administration. While it had only been four years since the civilian pilot Kenneth Arnold reported nine disc-like objects zooming over Mt. Rainier in Washington State like “saucers were skipping across water,” and thus inaugurating the age of the “flying saucers,” the phenomenon had already attained a worldwide scope and interest.

The PSB was originally created to carry out psychological warfare against the Soviet Union and its communist satellite countries. The PSB defined psychological warfare as “any nonmilitary action which influenced public opinion or the foreign policy and national security interests of the United States.” This included, but was not limited to, the creation of propaganda designed to foster trade and economic aid; cultural and educational exchange; threats to use force, where deemed appropriate by the Executive Branch of the United States; generating peaceful diplomacy; and of course, shaping minds to downplay the subject of UFOs as mere “science fiction,” having nothing to do with anything in the real universe. The inclusion of UFOs under the prevue of the PSB was probably due to the national security aspects evident in the phenomenon. Any significant advancement in Soviet aerospace technology might be quickly obtained through the analysis of some UFO reports. In addition, there were some indications in the mass of contactee reports that visiting extraterrestrials might have their point of origin on a planet organized along communist lines, some sort of collectivized society hundreds or maybe thousands of years in advance of our own.

Cultural memes against the existence of flying saucers were generated through the creation of various “buzzwords,” such as branding the witnesses of UFOs as “crazy” or the contactees with the flying saucer occupants as “delusional” or “hoaxers.” After President Dwight D. Eisenhower was sworn into office in January 1953, the PSB was integrated into the Operations Coordinating Board (OCB) of the Central Intelligence Agency, where the group organized and dispatched psychological warfare operatives at home and abroad. Throughout his life, Menzel remained a government consultant and spokesperson on all matters UFO and exobiology-related in sundry capacities within the PSB-OCB organizational hierarchy.

Menzel was noted as the world’s foremost skeptic in those early days of ufology. He went on to write three books about UFOs: Flying Saucers (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1953); World of Flying Saucers: Scientific Examination of a Major Myth of the Space Age (New York, New York: Doubleday, 1963), co-authored with Lyle G. Boyd; and UFO Enigma: Definitive Explanation of the UFO Phenomenon (New York, New York: Doubleday, 1977); this latter book co-authored by Ernest H. Taves. In all three of these books, the Harvard astronomer argues that all UFO sightings can ultimately be explained as nothing more than the misidentification of prosaic aerial phenomena such as airplanes, clouds, planets or stars. Usually, according to Menzel, these conventional objects are seen through the haze of “unusual atmospheric phenomena” that they normally would not be acquainted with. Menzel was the frequent guest on many of the prominent radio and television interview programs of the 1950s and 1960s, and is counted among the first to pooh-pooh the entire flying saucer phenomenon as a “myth of the space age.”

Being the director of an observatory and the Harvard University Department of Astronomy, Menzel’s eyes were frequently focused on the heavens. Therefore, it should not come as any surprise that Menzel has seen his share of the so-called “UFOs.” One of his more spectacular sightings took place while he was onboard an Air Force weather patrol plane on one of that agency’s regular “Ptarmigan” flights over the North Pole. The date was 3 March 1955. The entire crew became highly agitated, witnessing a flying saucer out the starboard side of the airplane. Menzel took a look at the object and immediately deduced that it was not a flying saucer, but a mirage of the ringed planet Saturn, as it was being projected through a dense, atmospheric haze. Such temperature inversions could distort the image of stars or planets, making them appear to be larger than they really are, i.e. unusual in their shape, and in their apparent motion. Naturally, Saturn with its rings might easily assume the shape of a typical flying saucer.

For Menzel, it was apparent that his access to insider information from the CIA, PSB-OCB and other agencies of the United States government, gave him a totally different perspective on the UFO phenomenon than what his public persona projected. Interestingly, in his off-duty hours, Menzel was an accomplished writer of science fiction stories. He wrote and even illustrated several stories for Galaxy in the mid-1960s, a popular science fiction magazine published by World Editions in New York City, New York, from 1950 to 1980. His articles and water colors featured alien creatures and spaceships, as well as humans and extraterrestrials passing through inter-dimensional star gates. Perhaps this was some small way in which he could get out of the straight jacket he was forced into by the powers-that-be, thereby dropping a hint to the public-at-large that of the truth that is waiting to be discovered in outer space.

Cover art by Dr. Donald H. Menzel on September 1969 issue of Galaxy science fiction magazine. His fictional art and writing expressed more truth than all three of his UFO books and many articles on UFOs in purely scientific journals.
Counterbalance

Lorenzen had no idea of the emerging power of the vast flying saucer conspiracy she was up against, just what agencies were behind Dr. Donald H. Menzel’s push against the extraterrestrial hypothesis for the origin of the UFOs suddenly populating our skies in such large numbers since the summer of 1947. The APRO director took note of an editorial appearing on the possibility of intelligent alien life in the pages of the Green Bay, Wisconsin, Press-Gazette newspaper, date unspecified. The editorial writer concluded that because we, as a human species, are still in the process of progressing, then beings of other worlds could have progressed to the point where travel in space is already realized, instead of a mere dream, as it is with us Earthlings.

Apparently, the drumbeat of Menzel and the other skeptics was already catching on in the extant news media of the early 1950s. The Ottawa, Illinois, Daily Republican newspaper of 6 August 1952 carried a notice that it was henceforth going to “ban all news of flying saucers;” and it even encouraged the editorial boards of other newspapers to take similar actions. Lorenzen wrote a letter of complaint to the editorial staff of the Daily Republican, arguing that the arrival of extraterrestrial visitors on our planet would be the biggest news event in the history of the world, since God parted the Red Sea and allowed the Israelites to cross over to freedom from the wicked Egyptian pharaoh. It would be such a shame for any newspaper to lose a scoop on the first case of public extraterrestrial contact and disclosure.

Mt. Palomar Revelations

Perhaps the biggest UFO revelation wasn’t that far off. In the September 1952 issue of Sir, a man’s magazine, Dr. R. S. Richardson, an astronomer from the Mt. Palomar Observatory in Southern California, mused about the possible physical characteristics of beings from other planets in our solar system, particularly Mars. Lorenzen commented that the article, “Meet the Men from Mars,” was “well written, and well thought out beforehand.” Lorenzen went on to declare that “We (of APRO) believe as Richardson believes that beings from other planets will be very much like we humans!”

- Look magazine, biweekly from Des Moines, Iowa, published 1937-1971.
- Coral Lorenzen, “The Saucer Bandwagon,” APRO Bulletin, July 1952, vol. 1, no. 1, Box 358, Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, pages 1 and 9.
- L. G. Boyd and Donald H. Menzel, World of Flying Saucers: A Scientific Examination of a Major Myth of the Space Age (New York, New York: Doubleday, 1963), 5.
- Coral Lorenzen, “The Saucer Bandwagon,” APRO Bulletin, vol. 1, no. 2, Box 358, Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, page 4.
- This refers to Oscar Linke’s flying saucer sighting in East Germany. Attached with this article is a report on the Linke observation from the files of the United States Central Intelligence Agency.
- Office of the Historian, Foreign Relations 1964-1968, Volume XXVI, Indonesia; Malaysia-Singapore; Philippines: Note on United States Covert Action Programs (Washington, D.C.: United States Department of State, information released online from 20 January 2001 to 20 January 2009. See https://2001-2009.state.gov/r/pa/ho/f... (Retrieved 9 June 2020).
- John Prados, Safe for Democracy: The Secret Wars of the CIA (Chicago, Illinois: Ivan R. Dee, 2006), 150.
- Coinciding with his consultancy on UFO matters, Menzel also served as a United States Department of State consultant on Latin American affairs from 1964 until his death. One of the PSB-OCB missions was to coordinate the transmission of anti-communist radio programs through the Voice of America to Latin American countries. Menzel, with his expertise in radio engineering and the propagation of radio waves, must have been an outstanding asset in this regard. He would have also been in an opportune position to intercept UFO information coming out of Latin America as well as to filter information on the UFO enigma emanating from the United States, thus keeping groups like APRO, with strong Central and South American connections, in check. See Michael Nelson, War of the Black Heavens: Battles of Western Broadcasting in the Cold War (Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press, 1997), for more detailed information on the Voice of America.
- Coral Lorenzen, “The Saucer Bandwagon,” APRO Bulletin, vol. 1, no. 2, Box 358, Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, page 4.
- R. S. Richardson, “Meet the Men from Mars,” Sir, September 1952, Volitant Publishing Company, New York, New York.
- Coral Lorenzen, Op cit

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Editor’s Note: If you would like to ask the Cosmic Ray any questions about Venus or life on other planets, do not hesitate to send him an e-mail at rkeller1@mix.wvu.edu. The doctor will be appearing with Omnec Onec, the Ambassador from Venus, along with premier ufologist Laura Eisenhower, at the Promise Revealed Meet the Venusians Mt. Shasta Summer Conference, to be held Wednesday, 26 August 2020 through Sunday 30 August 2020 at the Siskiyou Masonic Lodge, Mount Shasta, California. For event information or to purchase tickets, please call Rob Potter at (530) 925-3502. Until then, in the profound words of Venusian Moon Base Clarion Commander Aura Rhanes, “Work, study, and meditate on all good things!”


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Sasquatch Threatens a Young Hunter in Greenup County, Kentucky

A Kentucky teen encounters a hairy biped in the woods near his home while squirrel hunting. The Sasquatch threatens the boy with a terrible growl, sending the young hunter into a panic.

The following account was recently forwarded to me:

"In September 1990, when I was 15, I had gotten up early one Saturday morning to go squirrel hunting on a small piece of property near my parent's house. This stretch of woods is located in Greenup County, Kentucky in the northeastern part of the state. The property is bordered by Raccoon Creek and the Little Sandy River. I hunted this area on a daily basis when I was younger and had never seen anything unusual. On this particular day in early September, there was a heavy dew on the trees so it was easy to hear anything moving as the dew would fall and make a very distinct noise.

I was walking down the ridge top overlooking Raccoon Creek and had not made any noise since arriving way before daylight. As often happened, my neighbor's dog followed me that day and I thought I had ran him off a couple of hours earlier. Everything was completely still with almost no wind that morning. I started to hear the dog, Gruffy, start barking and growling in a way that I had never heard before.

At first I tried to ignore the noise but after a few minutes I decided to go run him off again as he was screwing up my hunt. As I quietly eased down the ridge about 50 yards, I saw what I thought to be a young bear through the trees. The animal was standing on its back legs and was only around 6' tall. I noticed that as Gruffy would lunge at the animal it would knock him back with its hands. He would let out a yelp and then go back after the animal. I eased closer, being as quiet as possible, as I planned to shoot near the animal to keep it from killing the dog. As I got directly above the animal it noticed me and turned to look directly at me. This is when I noticed that it was not a bear.

I did not immediately distinguish the animal as a Sasquatch but was very confused as to what I was looking at. The animal began to growl viciously which scared me more than I have ever been scared. When Gruffy noticed me, he ran to me and kept barking at the animal. I thought about shooting the animal but decided that with a 20 gauge shotgun at this distance with #6 shot that I would just tick it off. I started to walk backward slowly. After 3-4 steps the animal let out a blood-curdling growl. I literally threw my shotgun down and ran home. When I got home, I told my father about what had happened.

After he got over the fact that my gun was still in the woods, he decided to grab his rifle and take me back to get the gun. He would not accept that this was anything other than a bear. I have never spoken of this encounter because if my father would not believe me then who would? Although black bears are in the area, I have only seen one in the wild here. I have been a hunter my entire life. I still am not entirely sure of what I saw that day but I know it was not a bear and it was not a human. A human couldn't possibly make the sounds that this animal made at the volume it made them." CY

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