Billboard heading North on South First.

Will I see her again? Every day for the past six months I’ve seen her on my way to work. Her round hairy bosom and bounding wide stride juxtaposed next to the motionless sleek backside of a Cylon “Number Six” clone.

In this odd billboard I’ve seen at 3 locations around Austin the advertisement’s designers have turned Patty into a “Patsy for Hair Removal,” hawking “the latest in medical and cosmetic services as well as relaxing spa treatments.”

Of course, as much as the barebacked blond temptress reminds me of BSG actress Tricia Helfer the very name of the Serenity Creek Spa conjures sultry imagery of the same named sci-fi flick’s mysterious  “River Tam” played by actress Summer Glau.

But today on the way to work, my drive-time mistresses were nowhere to be seen. Considering just how elusive a phenomenon bigfoot creatures have been, it felt strange to see one every day. So much for my daily hairy hominid sighting and the strangely balanced cognitive dissonance created by the imagery of a black-haired bulk of yin energy coupled to the slender white yang energy, swirling together through mutual acts of bodies twisting backwards to flirtatiously glance at us over their shoulders.

We’ve seen this sort of thing before and we’ll undoubtedly see it again.

Here is a shot of another of the billboards…

Billboard heading South on South Lamar

]]> http://www.anomalymagazine.com/2010/08/05/bigfoot-every-day/feed/ 0 http://www.anomalymagazine.com/2010/08/01/us-wave-of-orange-balls-of-light/ http://www.anomalymagazine.com/2010/08/01/us-wave-of-orange-balls-of-light/#comments Mon, 02 Aug 2010 01:39:42 +0000 SMiles Lewis http://www.anomalymagazine.com/?p=2170 On the heels of release of the phenomenal NARCAP (National Aviation Reporting Center  on Anomalous Phenomena) Sphere Report back in April (Spherical UAP and Aviation Safety) we get these two reports dealing with an apparent rise in specific types of UFO reports this July of Orange Glowing Fireballs. The first report comes from Peter Davenport of NUFORC (National UFO Reporting Center)…

Read the rest here:

USA Struck by Wave of Orange Fireball Spheres?

There has been a lot of media attention for the news reports of a UFO over China causing authorities to shut down an airport. Many photographs and some video footage are circulating and being ascribed to the sighting reports. Here are two examples of said video footage:

Click here to view the embedded video.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnszlJC8iGs

Russian version without the cool music:

However it, along with nearly every photograph allegedly of the sighted objects, is probably not what was actually sighted in China.

While I certainly don’t know this for sure myself most of the examinations of the photographs and video seem to indicate that they are not of the alleged China ufo – though the media continue to mislabel them as such.

It appears that the footage is from a “sighting of a Russian Soyuz-U launching a Progress M-06M vehicle to the ISS on June 30, 2010.” And most of the photos presented as those of the Chinese ufo appear to be long exposure photos of aircraft – specifically helicopters.

Things similar to this have been happening a lot lately, where the media mis-attribute previously existing footage to a new sighting:

• Another ?Dublin UFO? Hoax Underway Against the Media?

• Triangular UFO Footage Mystery Solved

So while there may have been a true UFO sighting it appears that no actual visual evidence of the sightings has been released, yet.

John Etgen speaks with KHOU news on report of FAA rocket incident in Houston.

“There will be another such loud report!”
- Carl Gustav Jung to Sigmund Freud

“Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.”
– Auric Goldfinger

The other day a friend was telling me about a new book by local author James Hynes titled NEXT. My friend described part of the book’s premise, that of the main character Kevin Quinn worrying about being shot-out-of-the-sky by a shoulder mounted rocket while coming in for a landing in Austin, Texas:

In the first paragraph of “Next,” he imagines terrorists “kneeling in the bed of a dinged-up pickup truck with Texas plates, or crouching on the springy backseat of a rented convertible on a dirt track just outside the airport fence.” He envisions a Stinger launching “toward the sleek underbelly of Kevin’s plane, a Pringles can with wings, packed full of defenseless Pringles.”

I joked with my friend that, since the character was flying into the Austin-Bergstrom International Airport and not the Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston, he had nothing to worry about. I then proceeded to explain that there have been two very similar near-miss aviation events, almost exactly one year apart, where the unidentified flying object was described as like a missile or rocket, reported by commercial pilots and corroborated by witnesses on the ground. I suddenly realized we were now within the same time-frame as those two past events.

“It was the same situation, almost identical,” DeFoor said. “The FBI are pulling their records on that one. It was roughly in the same area almost a year ago.”

Both events involved “Continental Airlines,” though the second incident was actually with an ExpressJet plane that “flies regional routes for Continental Airlines as Continental Express.”

In the case of the 2008 event:

Continental Flight 1544 was flying at 5,000 feet about 11 miles east of Bush Intercontinental Airport after takeoff Monday morning when the pilot called the tower to report an object headed toward the plane. The pilot described seeing a fast moving object with a thick smoke trail nearing his airspace.

The 2009 incident also occurred shortly after take-off from Bush Intercontinental Airport, over the southern edge of Liberty County but with the plane at 13,000 feet on its way to Greenville, South Carolina. The 2008 event involved a commercial flight headed to Cleveland, Ohio.

While the first incident was at a relatively low altitude, compared to the second event a year later, the second closer-call was witnessed by two Hardin High School students who were interviewed by the local Sheriff’s department.

Besides local law-enforcement, the incidents have been investigated by the FAA, FBI and the Houston Area Joint Terrorism Task Force. Investigations have centered on the assumption that the rocket was launched by a model rocket hobbyist / enthusiast.

Model rockets can reach as high as 40,000 feet, although enthusiasts are supposed to notify the FAA if a rocket is entering controlled airspace, said Robert Morehead of the Amateur Spaceflight Association in Houston.

Investigators combed huge swaths of land (a 24 x 12 mile area in the case of the 2009 incident) where the mystery objects were presumed to have originated, however, nothing has ever been found. It can be difficult to locate such a potentially small object when there is so much ground to cover. In the case of the errant 6 and a half foot model AIM-120 AMRAAM pictured spiraling over the moon several paragraphs above, the rocket was out of control and quickly flew out of sight and “was not to be found until exactly one year later about a mile away from the launch site.”

So what does this all mean? Are there reckless hobbyist rocketeers in Liberty County trying to test their aim with high-flying civilian aircraft? Are there terrorists lurking in the Texas scrub-brush, salivating at the chance to take down an American airliner? With the approach of the same time-frame as the first two events, I have to wonder… will there be another near miss this year? Or have the perpetrators perfected their aim?

Coincidentally, in 2008 the Department of Homeland Security changed its mind and decided that shoulder fired missiles represented a threat so significant that they began outfitting jets ”with anti-missile systems as part of a new government test aimed at thwarting terrorists armed with shoulder-fired projectiles.”

If you have any information that could help resolve these mysterious near-miss events, please contact the Liberty County Sheriff’s Office at (936) 336-4500.

Boeing 737 Aircraft similar to the plane in the 2008 incident

Click here to view the embedded video.

Continental Airlines Pilot Reports UFO – FBI Investigates
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VI23UaVEp9o

Flight 1544 - May 26th (Monday), Boeing 737 Event in 2008 at @ 10:20 am CST

• FBI: Pilot saw flaming object near Cleveland-bound jet – USATODAY.com
• Continental jet has near miss with ‘rocket’ - Texas Cable News KHOU
• Continental jet has near miss with ‘rocket’ – Rocketry Planet - KHOU (Video)
• Feds mum on “missile” incident involving passenger airliner – The NEIN Blog

Embraer 145 Aircraft similar to the plane in the 2009 incident

Click here to view the embedded video.

Pilots leaving Houston near miss with rocket / UFO – ABCnews www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFqM3tmBmkE

Flight 2822 – May 29th (Friday), Embraer 145 Event in 2009 at @ 8:20 pm CST

• FAA looks into what pilot saw over Liberty – Mystery at 13,000 feet / What jet pilot saw over Liberty - Houston Chronicle
• Pilots leaving Houston spot strange object – ABC local
• Authorities investigate strange object in sky – ABC local (Video)
• Texas UFO Was Missile or Rocket: Pilot – NBC Dallas-Fort Worth
• FBI: Pilot saw flaming object near Cleveland-bound jet – (Video)
• Missile Possibly Launched in Liberty County – MyFoxHouston (Video)
• Pilots Leaving Houston Report Near Miss With Mystery Object - National Terror Alert
• Continental Pilot Reports Missile Flying Near His Plane Over Texas … - Above Top Secret forums
• Near miss with Ufo says Pilots leaving Houston Bush … - RealUFOs.net
• Model rocket buzzes Continental jet claims authorities - Rocketry Planet - KIAH-TV39 (Video)
• Continental planes’ rocket scares have rumor mill flying - Rocketry Planet - Houston Chronicle

Related News

• Next: An excerpt – James Hynes
• ‘Next’ by James Hynes crackles with wit as the novel goes inside a Midwestern male’s head – Review by Karen R. Long of The Plain Dealer
• DHS Decides Shoulder Fired Missiles are a Threat – The Aviation Nation
• Passenger jets get anti-missile devices – USATODAY.com

Unrelated News

• Three killed as Bush private jet crashes – PlaneNews.com
• Three Dead in Private Jet Crash Near Hobby Airport in Houston, Texas – EMSresponder.com
• Jet crashes before picking up elder Bush - China Daily

A Few Choice Reactions

• Feds mum on “missile” incident involving passenger airliner

Flashback… It was on November 26, 2005 when the pilot of American Airlines Flight 612 reported a “near-hit” from what was described as a rocket passing nearby as the aircraft was traveling over the Santa Monica Bay at approximately 5,000 feet. Although the incident received scant media attention the Northeast Intelligence Network provided an extensive investigative report on the incident, complete with audio from the pilot and control tower, at this link.

theneinblog.blogspot.com

• UFO Researcher Bruce Maccabee:

Pilot reports of “rockets” go back to the 40′s. One of the first is in a report made to the FBI by a pilot flying over West Virginia. Another in the 90′s was by a pilot flying northward in Maryland not far from Camp David (north of Frederick). I have not tried to collect these reports but I know they are “out there.”

UFO UpDate: Re: What Pilot Saw Over Liberty

“People Often Fear What They Don’t Understand”

Paranormal Response

The Paranormal Response Team

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Photo: Cropped version from the original. MUFON database.

Hat tip to Roger Marsh:

UFO Image Captured by Texas Photographer

Austin IONS January 26th. Movie Premier: Beyond Belief by Austin filmakers, Becky Hays and James Holtzknecht. Embark on a journey of expanded awareness with interviews of leaders in the conscousness movement.

Austin Center for Spiritual Living, 4804 Grover Ave, just south of 49th street and just east of Burnet Road.

7 PM Free and open to the public.
Go to …. www.IONSAustin.org for more information.
www.beyondbeliefthemovie.com/bbproject.html

Save the date Jan 26th, Tuesday next week, for the Austin IONS~INACS combined meeting will be a movie premier, of Beyond Belief: the movie. Check out the trailer. See the press release below.

DVD’s of the film will be available for sale.

The producers of Beyond Belief are committed to empowering individuals and organizations to achieve their maximum potential.

IONS~INACS will be in our NEW event location:

Austin Center for Spiritual Living
www.AustinCSL.org

For More Information:
www.beyondbeliefthemovie.com

I N A C S » Blog Archive » Free INACS Event in Austin Tuesday Night Premiere of BEYOND BELIEF.

Click here to view the embedded video.

Who’s Pranking Whom? Why Ireland and Why Triangular UFOs?

AUSTIN - It’s like déjà vu all over again … remember back in October 2008 when we broke the story of how someone in Ireland’s media had been convinced that a then recent UFO sighting flap (which featured an apparent triangle ufo with a red laser caught with cellphone video footage) was connected to this amazing footage of a triangle ufo with red laser darting about but which turned out to be reused footage of an award winning model from a UFO hoax contest? Well it appears that someone has yet again pulled the wool over the media’s eyes.

I was just made aware of some “dramatic new triangular ufo footage” and as soon as I saw it I recognized it as something I’d seen just a few months ago in October 2009 when I was researching the ufo videos of Ed Grimsley who claims to witness ufo battles complete with lasers and explosions using only a pair of expensive nightvision goggles. Yet none of his footage is anywhere near as interesting as this “new” triangular footage which happens to apparently use this same type of green-tinting night vision tech

The video I saw in October of last year was allegedly “filmed 12/5/08 in fremont, ca.” and uploaded to YouTube the same day by someone who appears to own a pair of the goggles and/or collects footage of nightvision anomalies. Yet the online news reports and bits of information offerred so far contradict that stating…

A triangular formation of lights was filmed flying at night at “incredible speed”.
Sighting near the River Liffey in Dublin.

One has to wonder, who got this misrepresentation of the footage started? Was it deliberate or could it just be a simple case of a news editor / web manager posting an interesting accompanying video that looks like what was described but which apparently has absolutely nothing to do with the “new” alleged Dublin sighting?

So far a handful of newsites has been taken in by this “hoax” or misidentification / miscommunication. But the list is growing everytime I check:

• Liffey on Mars
  The Sun – Vince Soodin – Jan 21, 2010
  EXPERT Nick Pope says it’s vital for our security to log sightings – and he will review yours. Among the most mysterious include a UFO over Parliament in …
  www.thesun.co.uk
• UFO spotted above Ireland (video)
  Daily Contributor - 11 hours ago
  A strange triangular formation of lights moving at an “incredible speed” has been filmed flying near the River Liffey in Dublin. …
  ailycontributor.com
• Triangular light formation UFO seen in Dublin
  NewsLite – 17 hours ago
  Witnesses say the lights moves at an “incredible speed” as they sped over the River Liffey. In the footage – which seems to have been taken via a night …
  newslite.tv
• Footage of ‘UFO’ taken in Ireland
  Oneindia – 21 hours ago
  news.oneindia.in
• UFO spotted above Dublin as Ireland turns X-Files
  Metro – 13 hours ago
  www.metro.co.uk
• Footage of ‘UFO’ taken in Ireland
  Newstrack India (blog) – 22 hours ago
  London, Jan 22 (ANI): The footage of a UFO flying near the River Liffey in Dublin has left experts thinking it could either be a secret aircraft or …
  www.newstrackindia.com
• Footage of UFO taken in Ireland
  Little About (blog) – Jan 21, 2010
  London, Jan 22 : The footage of a UFO flying near the River Liffey in Dublin has left experts thinking it could either be a secret aircraft or spacecraft. …
  www.littleabout.com

We’ll keep you posted with updates as we receive them.

- SMiles Lewis

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Reminds me of that great song by DEVO called Space Junk.

- SMiles

“Loud. Loud enough [that] you could hear it, maybe, a block or two away,” recalls Reese. “I’m surprised it didn’t break our glass. That’s how loud it was.”

Something had come hurtling out of the sky, and crashed through the roof of a nearby doctor’s office, landing in an empty examination room.

“I thought something fell in Dr. Gallini’s office,” explained his partner, Dr. Frank Ciampi. “I thought a bookshelf fell on him, so I ran out and saw that he was okay. And then I looked to the left and saw the debris in the hallway.”

The debris was smoldering and metallic. The two physicians puzzled over the items. Whatever had come through the roof had broken into several pieces. The two doctors speculated that part of an airliner had come off and fallen through their roof. A nearly circular hole was punched through the building’s roof.

An acquaintance suggested the possibility of a meteorite, so the debris was sent to the Smithsonian’s Natural History Museum in nearby Washington, D.C.

Doctor’s Office Hit By Meteorite

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