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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

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

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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On the eve of Obama’s Nobel Prize acceptance visit, a mesmerizing white spiral vortex, accompanied by a beautiful blue plume, has been recorded and reported by numerous sources across Norway. Amazing pictures are pouring in as well as several videos that are going viral as we type this message.

The aerial occurrences are getting lots of discussion across the internet. Could this stargate-like display be connected to the Large Hadron Collider? Is it a dimensional doorway into other realms? Is it a publicity stunt presaging the arrival of President Obama?

So far the consensus seems to be it is the result of a failed Russian missle test - which Russia has now confirmed.

The pictures which show the most distinct spiral form, at first seem to be the most likely to have been photoshopped. Yet there are already scientifically modelled cgi videos that would seem to vindicate the spirals plausible rocket science origins.

In fact the photos and video footage seem very familiar and after doing a little scroogling yesterday afternoon I found the footage which was causing my pseudo-Déjà vu:

Click here to view the embedded video.

UFO – Spiral Slips out of Wormhole in Tomsk Russia

It seems that a very similar phenomenon was recorded and similarly swept the net by storm just a few years ago. The footage was allegedly from Tomsk in Russia circa either 2006 or 2007. Speculation then as now was that this was a Russian missile test. That appears to be the most sound explanation so far with the Norway Spiral.

Here is another video which seems somewhat suggestive of rocket test and is apparently from Toe’s Beach in Playa del Rey, California (the earliest upload date I’ve found is 2006):

Click here to view the embedded video.

Russian rocket / missile tests have a long history of connection to modern UFO reports. UFO researcher Jacques Vallee and UFO skeptic James Oberg have both written about this subject, showing that the Kremlin (like its American counterparts) has often utilized UFO reports as cover for covert weapons testing and deployment – sometimes even in violation of international treaties.

It all kind of reminds me of the Babylon 5 Jumpgate graphics…

 - SMiles Lewis

Western media coverage:

• Norway spiral: Space aliens welcoming Obama?
• Awesomely bizarre light show freaks out Norway
• Strange spiral phenomenon appearing on the sky in Northern Norway

Norwegian media coverage:

• Background on Bulava Missile Tests
• VG Nett
• Altaposten.no
• NRK.no
• Framtidinord.no
• Nordlis.no

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Last week I got quite a shock on my way out from my day-job’s parking garage. What should be staring straight at me but a big new bright blue U.S. Air Force recruitment bus. It was parked right alongside Waterloo Park on Trinity Street where many visiting tour buses park temporarily while their occupants generally tour the Capitol complex which is two blocks west of (behind) this camera shot. But I’m not used to seeing military recruitment buses among the tour-busloads of folks who are usually either an elderly lot or bunch of school kids (often dressed up in matching colored shirts to more easily spot them in a crowd). So I snap a picture of the bus and proceed on my way …

Only to be shocked and disturbed by what I next see now that I can peer around the other side of the bus. Waiting to get on the bus I see a group of African-American elementary school aged kids all dressed in Gitmo-Orange T-shirts getting onto the bus. I’m shocked! Several thoughts and questions flash through my head: “Surely this isn’t a field-trip from an ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?! Surely no school working with kids as young as that would allow their kids to be ferried to the State’s Capitol, to see our seat of government up-close, in a military recruitment limo?!”

Not wanting to slam on my brakes in the middle of the street and start taking pictures of little kids I kept driving, thinking all the while, “I’ve got to get a picture of this. Should I circle the block? No, I haven’t got that much time.” I pull up to the next traffic light which is thankfully red and turn around in my driver’s seat and snap a quick pic through the back window of my car…

As I had been dazedly driving towards the stoplight I was now stationary at, I had passed a local radio-station’s mobile broadcast or PR van (KGSR, I think) which was pulling away from the Waterloo Park events setup area. I had noticed at least one event tent setup in the park as I drove by and which you can see in the left-most part of my first photograph. The picture I took through my back window is obviously a very distant shot but if you zoom in on the bus you can just make-out at least two small Gitmo-Orange shapes and one taller shape to the left that is obviously their teacher and chaperone. Look how small those kids are in the enlargement below. The adult in the green top is nearly twice their size.

So later on I get home and do a little online research Scroogling these search words: kids austin texas US “air force bus” and the very first result spells it out for you…

Our first search result is a direct-hit for the “Air Force Recruiting Service” section of the official U.S. Air Force website:

www.rs.af.mil/photos/index.asp?galleryID=2798

Immediately you may notice as I did that the bulls-eye thumbnail image, in the clickable link gallery to the left of that page, is the bus I saw with the kids. It is mixed in with all the other “cool” vehicles including a hot-rod and oversized 4×4 “Montster Truck.” If you click on that thumbnail bus image it takes you to this page where you can read about some of the buses recruitment projects:

www.rs.af.mil/photos/index.asp?galleryID=2798

So was this entourage of little kids part of the normal “Air Force Recruiting Service Distinguished Educator Tour“? That program is designed to get educators thinking about the military as a viable opportunity for their students:

“Air Force Recruiting Service’s Distinguished Educator Tours give educators such as principals, superintendents and guidance counselors from all over the nation the opportunity to experience the Air Force firsthand.

The main objective of the four-day tour is to show educators that the Air Force is a viable career opportunity for their best students. The Air Force recruits to retain, so the service seeks the brightest candidates possible, then provides them with tough, highly technical training that gives them the right skills to sustain the combat capability of America’s Air Force. High school and community college educators are effective mentors who can tell their students about the many opportunities the U.S. Air Force offers. Air Force Recruiting Service accomplishes this by showing off the Air Force’s best resource — its Airmen.”

The next day I saw the bus again, parked in the exact same location. I snapped a picture or two again and proceeded to investigate the situation, however minimally. I didn’t see the kids anywhere nor a driver for the bus. So I decided to take a look around Waterloo Park to find out what event was being setup for … as there was now event-fencing around the park, a large musical stage platform, porta-potties as well as amusement park rides sized for very little children including a cute little ferris-wheel. I asked someone setting up one of the tent areas what the event was, figuring he’d tell me what I already knew from searching online the night before. “The Austin Ice Cream Festival. It’s about five dollars to get it. There’s gonna be music and fun for the kids.” I asked him if he knew anything about the Air Force Bus and pointed in its direction. He said, ”no.”

So later on I look online for more information about the Austin Ice Cream Festival and find out that the main beneficiary is the awesome Big Brothers, Big Sisters program. In my early childhood my Mother signed me up and I briefly had a University of Texas student as my “Big Brother.” I think this is a very good program. However, all one has to do is Scroogle Big Brothers, Big Sisters and Military as search terms and you will find several examples of their convergence. I have absolutely no evidence that this child-ferrying Air Force military-recruitment bus and the Big Brothers, Big Sisters / Austin Ice Cream Festival have anything at all to do with one another. But each separate example illustrates how, at a very young age, there are programs in place that subtly and overtly indoctrinate our countries youth into our nation’s militaristic ways. Just look at some of the news links provided below.

I don’t mean to completely poo-poo the military. I believe in the need to have a military force to protect our country. I just don’t agree with the way these forces have been used historically by our corrupt Government.

“War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small ‘inside’ group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes.”

“I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.”

- Smedley Darlington Butler (July 30, 1881 – June 21, 1940),

• Boy Scouts Train to Become Homeland Gestapo / nytimes.com/ Boy Scouts Train to Become Homeland Gestapo – Rigint Forums
• School Shooting PsyOp Drills Thread
  rigorousintuition.ca
• Militarizing the Homeland -  www.truthout.org/080609A
  uruknet.com
• Georgia Parents Fight Military High School
  www.indypendent.org

Still no migas… but this time our review is at least TexMex.

Lunch Menu Review – Serranos at Symphony Square – Chicken and Cheese Enchiladas

Another extremely hot day downtown at lunch time this Summer. A few days into this Summer heat wave and I found myself eating at an outside venue that’s always been of interest to me. I’d run an errand in the car yet ended up dining at a locale nearby to where I work; definitely within walking distance lying at 1111 Red River Street. I found a nice shady spot in one of the two small parking lots across Red River from the restaurant.

Despite having beaten the crowds and having the whole interior to myself I chose to brave the incredible heat and sit outside at one of the metal patio tables under a red-canopied umbrella. No one else joined me outside for lunch.

The friendly waiter took my order: Chicken Enchiladas lunch special – one of their “5 LUNCH SPECIALS for 5.99″ … a good deal featuring two delicious verde-sauced enchiladas stuffed with juicy chicken with sides of Spanish brown rice and a cup of charra beans. I love their frijoles a la charra! Very savory. They come with a small topping of melted cheese on top. Complimentary chips and salsa, as it should be. A very good menu for very little money. My only criticism would be the waiter should have been more attentive to my aquatic needs on such a sweltering day; he never refilled my glass (which I finished very quickly) or asked if I’d like more water.

I thoroughly enjoyed sitting outside under the umbrella despite the intense heat. The interior of this particular Serranos is rather dualistic in that it is partially in an old house with many homey rooms featuring hardwood floors – an intimate and familial atmosphere. The other paradoxical part of this location’s interior is a medium sized open dining room with windows on three sides opening up onto the patio and grounds outside that make up Symphony Square.

The Symphony Square complex is in fact an historic locale…

Jane Dunn Sibley Symphony Square, an attractive complex of four historical limestone buildings and a 350-seat amphitheater at the corner of Red River and 11th St. near the Capitol in Austin, is thought to be the only restoration project in the United States to house the offices of a symphony orchestra. The complex serves a growing audience 12 months of the year.

The Symphony Square Project, begun in 1971, was conceived and directed by prominent citizens on a wave of civic awareness. It was sponsored jointly by the Austin Urban Renewal Agency, the City of Austin, and the Austin Symphony Orchestra. The Square is within easy walking distance of Capitol grounds, the LBJ Library and other downtown Austin tourist attractions.

So the project to build this place began the year I was born, 1971. I guess it’s kind of historic for me personally too.

The Jeremiah Hamilton Building is an attractive, triangular building at the corner of 11th and Red River. It is thought to be one of only three stone triangular buildings still standing today in Texas. It houses the Box Office and Facilities Office of the Austin Symphony. Jeremiah Hamilton, one of nine black legislators serving in the 12th Texas Legislature from 1869-1871, built it in 1871.

Interesting… one of three stone triangular buildings… nine black legislators… built in 1871. Another 71! Hmmm…

In addition to the Hamilton Building, Symphony Square contains the Michael Doyle House, considered one of the few remaining good examples of a simple, one-story vernacular stone cottage in Austin. It serves as the home to the Women’s Symphony League of Austin.

The third building is the Hardeman House, which was moved from its original location in East Austin and serves as home to Serranos, a popular restaurant serving Tex-Mex food.

It always amazes me when they physically move entire houses.

The fourth building is the New Orleans Club Mercantile, at one time a popular Austin nightclub and now a beautifully restored 19th-century building serving as a space for private parties catered by Serranos.

The property also includes a 350-seat stone amphitheater where the Austin Symphony hosts Children’s Day Art Park every Wednesday morning in June and July for youngsters from pre-school through age nine. Children’s Day Art Park features performances by local entertainers, an Instrument “Petting Zoo,” storytelling and arts activities under a large tent next to the Doyle House.

I have a very fond memory from my youth when my Mom brought me to the square to see Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers perform live. Unfortunately I don’t remember the details. But thinking of Tom Petty and my youth immediately conjures memories of his great song, You Got Lucky.

[Oops, looks like embedding is disabled. Please go to YouTube and check out this classic Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers video from the 80s. Here is a live version from 1985.]

On a more recent excursion back to this particular Serranos I got one of the other lunch specials, the “2 Entrees & 2 Sides for $7.99″ and chose two cheese enchiladas as my entrees and frijoles a la charra plus stuffed jalapeño peppers as my sides. It was delicious! And the wait-staff were much more attentive to my water needs this time around.  

I highly recommend this downtown location of SERRANOS “Tex-Mex Mesquite” as a tasty, inexpensive lunch time destination.

www.Serranos.com

1111 Red River Street

Austin, Texas 78701

Locations around Austin.

Addendum:

Lunchtime Reading

Tracking the emergent properties of the collaborative online story “deus city” for testing the standard model of Alternate Reality Game

By Adam Lloyd Brackin (PDF / PDF)

More ARG Papers at Scribd

Richard H. Hall

(December 25, 1930 – July 17, 2009)

On Friday I learned of the death of UFOlogist Richard Hall by way of an email sent from Jerome Clark through the UFO UpDates eList:

I have just received word that veteran ufologist Richard Hall,
who was both a friend and hero to me, died this morning of the
cancer he had been fighting.

Ufology has lost a giant.

Jerry Clark

ufoupdateslist.com/2009/jul/m17-001.shtml

Richard Hall was a very significant researcher and historic advocate for rational and scientific investigation of the UFO phenomenon. He was rather unflinchingly anti-paranormal and rejected the works of two of my favorite UFO researchers, Jacques Vallee and John Keel.

Falling on the heels of John Keel’s passing and the tributes to his work and falling within the slew of other “celebrity” deaths of late Hall’s passing perhaps signals that we are indeed moving into new ufological territories bereft of some of our best travelling companions and guides…

I never met or corresponded with John Keel but I did have the opportunity to meet and interact with Richard Hall at least a few times. At my first big UFO conference experience in 1992, at the annual MUFON symposium (that year’s was in Albuquerque, New Mexico) I found myself in line at the bar with Richard Hall. I struck up a conversation and immediately planted my foot deeply in my mouth by accidentally disrespecting him and obviating my lack of historical ufological knowledge by referring to him as “that columnist in UFO Magazine.” At the time I had a decent knowledge of the history of civilian UFO investigation organizations but I did not realize that Richard Hall had served for a decade helping the historic NICAP group (and Donald Keyhoe pictured to the right) as well as serving as Chairman of the Fund for UFO Research.

Years later, Mr. Hall was incredibly dismissive of some email list postings of mine on the previously mentioned UFO UpDates eList. All because I dared mention the Bilderberg meetings, thus branding myself a conspiracy nut and not worthy of his time. Oh well. I respected him then and I respect his legacy now.

Farewell Richard Hall! Your efforts shall be remembered.

 - SMiles Lewis

Here are the tributes, remembrances and obits from his peers and others in the ufological field:

Further research links on Richard Hall…

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Video clip from Paul Kimball’s BEST EVIDENCE: Top 10 UFO Sightings  featuring Richard H. Hall

Richard Hall
The UFO Page contains articles and essays by Richard Hall on significant UFO sightings, skepticism, scientific method, and politics as they bear on the …
www.hallrichard.com

The UFO Evidence – Richard Hall
Over thirty years of data since then have totally replicated its findings.  Now Available: The UFO Evidence . Richard Hall Brentwood, Maryland …
www.nicap.org/hallstate.htm

CONCEPTUALIZING UFOs By Richard H. Hall
8-March-2001 – Note: This timely and thoughtful article is provided by Richard H. Hall, a true legend among persons interested in UFO. …
www.cufon.org/contributors

Richard H. Hall – Wikipedia
Apr 25, 2009 … Richard H. Hall (1930 -) is a leading Ufologist and proponent of the extraterrestrial hypothesis to explain UFO sightings; …
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_H._Hall

Richard Hall – UFO Researchers & People UFO Researcher: Brief Biography Richard Hall was born December 25, 1930, in Hartford, Connecticut. When the Korean War was imminent, …
www.ufoevidence.org/Researchers/Detail10.htm

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Trailer for BEST EVIDENCE: Top 10 UFO Sightings