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		<title>PsiOp-Radio LIVE Sundays at 7pm CST</title>
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		<title>Speaker Pelosi on Tiananmen Square and Chen Guangcheng</title>
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Speaker Pelosi on Tiananmen Square.
Today, the House passed H. Res. 489, a resolution recognizing the 20th anniversary of the brutal suppression of protesters and citizens in and around Tiananmen Square, expressing sympathy to the families of those killed, tortured, and imprisoned in connection with the protests, and calling for the Chinese government to conduct a [...]]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSrEnFrXs98">Speaker Pelosi on Tiananmen Square</a>.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><em>Today, </em><a href="http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2009/roll294.xml"><em>the House passed H. Res. 489</em></a><em>, a resolution recognizing the 20th anniversary of the brutal suppression of protesters and citizens in and around Tiananmen Square, expressing sympathy to the families of those killed, tortured, and imprisoned in connection with the protests, and calling for the Chinese government to conduct a fair investigation and to release those imprisoned for participating in the 1989 demonstrations. </em><a href="http://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/legislation?id=0312"></a></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><a href="http://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/legislation?id=0312"><em>Read the full resolution</em></a></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><em><strong>Chen Guangcheng</strong>, a self-trained legal advocate who tried in June 2005 to investigate reports that officials in Linyi city, Shandong province, had subjected thousands of people to forced abortions, beatings, and compulsory sterilization in order to meet population control targets. Although central government officials agreed that the officials used illegal means, authorities rejected the class-action lawsuit Chen tried to file. Chen was tried on August 24, 2006, and sentenced to four years and three months for “intentional destruction of property” and “gathering people to disturb traffic order.” Chen, who is blind, has reportedly been severely beaten in jail and has gone on a hunger strike to protest the beatings. He is serving his sentence in Linyi Prison.</em></p>
<p><a href="http://www.anomalytelevision.com/site/2009/06/07/speaker-pelosi-on-tiananmen-square/">Anomaly TeleVision » Blog Archive » Speaker Pelosi on Tiananmen Square</a></p>
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		<title>Flashback: Austin Daze Volume #2, Issue #12 - September 2001</title>
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FLASHBACK: In early 2001 I was actively promoting the then upcoming 38th Annual National UFO Conference that I was Hosting and Organizing for a 3 day / 3 night ParaUfological Extravaganza here in Austin at the Original Alamo Drafthouse cinema. It was “The Best UFO Conference nEver!” … it was canceled due to the terrible [...]]]></description>
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<p><strong>FLASHBACK:</strong> In early 2001 I was actively promoting the then upcoming <a href="http://www.nufoc.com/nufoc38/">38th Annual National UFO Conference</a> that I was Hosting and Organizing for a 3 day / 3 night ParaUfological Extravaganza here in Austin at the Original Alamo Drafthouse cinema. It was “The Best UFO Conference nEver!” … it was canceled due to the terrible events of September 11th.</p>
<p>The following article appeared in the 12th issue of <a href="http://www.austindaze.com/" target="_blank"><em><strong>Austin Daze</strong></em></a> - a very Austin publication that has thrived ever since. I don’t recall the author’s name, the article credits him only as <strong><em>“D”</em></strong>… but we met in his East Austin abode and discussed all manner of strange subject matter. His excellent stream of consciousness, gonzo-style approach to his writing was mirrored in the funkiness and fun of our actual meeting. I wonder what he’s been up to since …</p>
<p>So now, presented here for archival purposes, is the text, cover and a PDF of the <em>Austin Daze</em> issue featuring pre-NUFOC event coverage.</p>
<p>- SMiles Lewis</p>
<h3>Austin Daze Volume #2, Issue #12 - September 2001 -   <a href="http://nufoc.com/wp-content/uploads/austindazevol2iss12-2001.pdf" target="_blank">pdf </a></h3>
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<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><em>It was late and I was anxious to get home. The day had been rough, and I was looking forward to a hot dinner, a cold brew, a lukewarm shower… and maybe, if I played my cards right, a clandestine midnight romp, a hairdresser with blue eyes and sturdy hips and a taste for decadence. I goose the truck along and curse the length of the road and bop to ‘jamming oldies’, whatever that is.</em></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><em>The Toyota stalls out and rolls to a stop smack dab in the middle of a railroad crossing. Wonderful. Dinner and suds and cleanliness are suddenly a long shot, and the odds on snatch are totally off the board at this point. Then the lightshow commences and the bells start clanging and big pieces of wood with orange stripes begin to descend towards my ride.</em></p>
<p><a href="http://nufoc.com/2009/03/10/austin-daze-volume-2-issue-12-september-2001/">Austin Daze Volume #2, Issue #12 - September 2001</a></p>
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		<title>Collateral Brain Damage, The Hollywood Propaganda Ministry, 7/02</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Collateral Brain Damage? The Hollywood Propaganda Ministry
 
by Alex Constantine, July 2002 issue of High Times.



&#8220;Without censorship, things can get terribly confused
in the public mind.&#8221;
&#8211;General William C. Westmoreland,
Time, April 5, 1982



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Brandon&#8217;s office was conceived on December 20, 1991 by the &#8220;Task Force on Greater CIA Openness&#8221; in a study undertaken at the request of then [...]]]></description>
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<h1><a href="http://www.elfis.org/wp-content/uploads/high_times_323.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-412" title="high_times_323" src="http://www.elfis.org/wp-content/uploads/high_times_323.jpg" alt="high_times_323" width="159" height="212" /></a><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica; font-size: x-small;"> </span></h1>
<p>by Alex Constantine, July 2002 issue of <em>High Times</em>.</p>
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<p>&#8230;.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Brandon&#8217;s office was conceived on December 20, 1991 by the &#8220;Task Force on Greater CIA Openness&#8221; in a study undertaken at the request of then CIA director Robert Gates, a Bush, Sr. appointee,  and immediately classified, though a few copies were leaked. The report proposed an image upgrade to neutralize public hostility. The task force was in &#8220;substantial agreement that we generally need to make the institution and the process more visible and understandable rather than strive for openness on specific substantive issues.&#8221; Forget openness, the Openness Task Force advised. The report &#8220;seems to recommend no real change in attitude,&#8221; complained <em>The Excluded Middle,</em> an anti-CIA Internet site, &#8220;only in the way that the agency presents itself to a hostile or at least an indifferent public.&#8221; The authors of the report boast arrogantly that the CIA&#8217;s Public Affairs Office (PAO) censored and had buried projects that it found objectionable in the past. Chase Brandon hails from the PAO. Contact with &#8220;every major wire service, newspaper, news weekly, and television network in the nation&#8221; was advised by the panel. The result was the Entertainment Liaison Office. (Anonymous, &#8220;<a href="http://www.excludedmiddle.com/ciaduh.htm" target="_blank">CIA MEMO ON GREATER OPENNESS REVEALS CONTRADICTIONS</a>,&#8221; <em>Excluded Middle,</em> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica;"> <a href="http://www.elfis.net/tem/ciaduh.htm">http://www.elfis.net/tem/ciaduh.htm</a></span>)</p>
<p>Read entire original articles at:</p>
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<li><a href="http://www.ratical.org/ratville/JFK/JohnJudge/linkscopy/CBD.html">Collateral Brain Damage, The Hollywood Propaganda Ministry, 7/02</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.excludedmiddle.com/ciaduh.htm" target="_blank">CIA MEMO ON GREATER OPENNESS REVEALS CONTRADICTIONS</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://www.lafayette-online.com/events/2009/02/purdue-galleries-urban-legends-rural-myths/">Purdue Galleries presents Urban Legends and Rural Myths</a> - Lafayette Online</li>
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<li><a href="http://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/4151739.Course_to_examine_paranormal/">Course to examine paranormal From Swindon Advertiser</a></li>
<li>Interview: <a href="http://mpalecek.blogspot.com/2009/02/loren-coleman-bigfoot-is-real.html">New American Dream: Loren Coleman: Bigfoot IS Real</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/4701034/Has-the-Loch-Ness-Monster-emigrated-to-Borneo.html">Has the Loch Ness Monster emigrated to Borneo?</a> - Telegraph</li>
<li><a href="http://mullysculder.blogspot.com/2009/02/ayahuasca-paranormal-investigators.html">Paul Kimball &amp; Holly Stevens: Ayahuasca - Paranormal Investigators Ghost Buster?</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.mania.com/mimicking-monsters_article_113018.html">Mimicking Monsters</a> - by Nick Redfern at Mania.com</li>
<li><a href="http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2008/10/evidence_of_a_g.php">The Evidence of a Global Superorganism</a> - by Kevin Kelly — The Technium</li>
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<p>Read entire eNewsletter here: <a href="http://www.anomalyarchives.org/2009/02/28/anomaly-archives-enews-januaryfebruary-2009/">Anomaly Archives eNews - January/February 2009</a></p>
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Flashback: Guide to Para Texas
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<h3>Flashback: Guide to Para Texas</h3>
<p>In late 2001, in the wake of September 11th, a new publication was born out of fear for our Republic and a need to communicate the weirdness of post-911 life to our Central Texas friends, family and neighbors.<a onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/www.elfis.org');" href="../wp-content/uploads/aptcover3big.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-379 alignright" src="../wp-content/uploads/apt3_cover.jpg" alt="Austin Para Times issue 3 cover" /></a></p>
<p>From early 2002 to mid 2003 I was editor of the <a onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/www.elfis.net');" href="http://www.elfis.net/austin/AustinParaTimes/" target="_blank"><em><strong>Austin Para Times</strong></em></a> news-zine. We covered a variety of paranormal and parapolitical issues and topics.</p>
<p>I left the magazine to finally start my non-profit community lending library, the <strong><a onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/www.AnomalyArchives.org');" href="http://www.anomalyarchives.org/" target="_blank">Anomaly Archives</a></strong>.</p>
<p>In issue #3, I wrote an article as my alter-ego Jackson Valient (with co-writer Yogina Bare … another pseudononymous author and fellow fringe explorer) that serves as an introduction to all things anomalous here in Central Texas.</p>
<p>I offer it here for archival purposes and as part of my personal introduction to our new audience within the <strong>LOWFI</strong> network.</p>
<p>- SMiles</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><em><a href="http://forteanswest.com/wordpress-mu/texaslowfi/2009/02/13/flashback-guide-to-para-texas/">AusTex Anomalous Para Guide to Texas</a><br />
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<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://forteanswest.com/wordpress-mu/texaslowfi/2009/02/13/flashback-guide-to-para-texas/">Flashback: Guide to Para Texas | Texas L.O.W.F.I</a></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[The ELFIS Network is Proud to Announce the Launch of the Latest Addition to The Portal to Possible Paradigms:

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LOWFI Guest Editorial for February - Government Files, Police Helicopters and Wind Turbines: The Incredible Story of Britain&#8217;s Latest UFO Flap by Nick Pope
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<h3>- LOWFI:</h3>
<p><strong>The League of Western Fortean Intermediatists</strong>:</p>
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<li><strong>LOWFI Guest Editorial for February</strong> - <em><a href="http://www.forteanswest.com/lowfiguesteditorial-NickPope0209.html">Government Files, Police Helicopters and Wind Turbines</a>: The Incredible Story of Britain&#8217;s Latest UFO Flap</em> by <strong>Nick Pope</strong></li>
<li><a href="http://forteanswest.com/wordpress-mu/blog/2009/02/02/welcome-to-the-league-of-western-fortean-intermediatists-lowfi-you-may-already-be-a-member/"><em>Welcome to the League of Western Fortean Intermediatists (L.O.W.F.I.): You may already be a member!</em></a> By <strong>Skylaire Alfvegren</strong></li>
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<p>Plus our other Bureau Chiefs are already introducing themselves and starting the dialogue &#8230;</p>
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<li><a href="http://forteanswest.com/wordpress-mu/arizonalowfi/"><strong><span class="yshortcuts">Arizona</span> L.O.W.F.I</strong></a><br />
<em>Arizona’s Anomalous Activities Assessed</em> with <strong>Thomas Cosgrove</strong></p>
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<li><a id="flink_100_9781790017824263020" title=" Here’s a cool tale I became aware of just a few years ago.When Missionaries first arrived in this area from New Spain (Mexico) they set about to convert the locals in the usual ways, sometimes quite heavy-handedly. The reaction to this was succinctly put by the Elders of southern Arizona tribes. ”The Lady in Blue has already told us about this Jesus, and she is why we have sought you out to know him better, and be baptized, as she instructed.It does not seem to us that their ways are yours. You beat us to believe,when we already do. Lighten up.”.They did, and continued East, only after establishing missions along their route.Kino and company were clueless about “La Dama De Azul” until they reached the New Mexico/Texas region,where virtually every tribe they met told of the Blue Lady and her appearances to them, preaching and healing, always disappearing into the air when done with the task at hand, but returning frequently.Farther to the East, around 1639, fifty members of the Jumano Indian tribe came to Mission Corpus Christi de la Isleta south of El Paso and asked for instructions in the Catholic faith.When the astonished padres asked the Indians what motivated them to come to Isleta, they said their people living in East Texas had been visited by a beautiful lady who always wore a blue habit and taught them religion in their own language. The lady in blue, they said, urged them to search out missionaries to hear the word of God and be baptized.At the time, Isleta and another mission, Nuestra Senora de Socorro, were originally in Mexico, but a change in the course of the Rio Grande River placed them on Texas soil.Through his work, Father Alfonso de Benavides learned that Mother Maria de Jesus de Agreda, a cloistered abbess who lived in Spain, was the lady in blue. A Catholic nun of Jewish descent, Sor María de Jesus of Agreda  authored Mystical City of God, an 8-book narrative of her direct revelations from Mary, mother of Jesus. Commanded to burn her writings because “surely God would not chose a woman for such an important work,” María, a controversial 48-year old cloistered abbess, was seized in 1650 from her sick bed and carried to the feet of a Spanish Inquisitor. Although ultimately acquitted, the interrogation covered her mystical experiences and missionary work in the American Southwest, events corroborated by witnesses in Spain and as far as Texas,  New Mexico and Arizona, where she is honored yet today as the legendary missionary known as the Lady in Blue.Often consulted by King Phillip IV, Mother Maria said she visited the new world in a manner known as bi-location, a phenomena that allows one individual to appear personally in two places at the same time. Maria de Agreda had always wished to come to the New World as a missionary, but her vows in Spain prevented her. While praying for the welfare of the Indians, she often fell into a trance and was taken by God, without her awareness, to a different place where Indians lived. She said she saw the Indians, heard them speak and felt the difference in the climate of the land. All told there were more than five hundred visits by her to the Native Americans of over thirty tribes.After a life of service, both mundane and sublime, she passed away in Agreda, Spain, never having corporally visited the New World. The last reported appearance of the lady in blue was in the 1840s when a mysterious young woman wearing a long blue dress came into the homes of families stricken by a “black tongue”  epidemic at old Sabinetown on the Sabine River.She remained in the community for days, brewing a tea from forest herbs, tending to the ill, weeping over the dead, and never sleeping. When the epidemic ran its course, she disappeared as mysteriously as she appeared.Although it is uncommon, bilocation is an ancient phenomenon. It is claimed to have been experienced, and even practiced by will, by mystics, ecstatics, saints, monks, holy persons, and magical adepts. Several Christian saints and monks were adapt at bilocation such as St. Anthony of Padua, St. Ambrose of Milan, St. Severus of Ravenna, and Padre Pio of Italy. In 1774, St. Alphonsus Maria de’Ligouri was seen at the bedside of the dying Pope Clement XIV, when in fact the saint was confined to his cell in a location that was a four-day journey away.A pioneer psychical researcher, Frederic W. H. Myers, one of the founders of the Society for Psychical Research in England, along with others collected and studied reports of bilocation, however the phenomenon has received little interest in modern times.    " href="http://forteanswest.com/wordpress-mu/arizonalowfi/2009/02/13/la-dama-de-azul/" target="_blank">La Dama de Azul</a></li>
<li><a id="flink_100_13431396157828913238" title="“We are not realists. We are not idealists. We are intermediatists–that nothing is real, but that nothing is unreal.” Charles H. FortTHUNDERBIRDS (pictograph at Black Dragon Canyon, Utah)Imagine: huge birds, large enough to attack adults and carry off children… riding the arcs of storms, thunder and lightening flashing menacingly. It seems as though every Native American tribe has stories featuring these legendary creatures-and gargantuan birds haunt legends the world over.In Arabia, it is known as the Roc. In Malaysia, the Garuda. In Papua New Guinea, they are called Ropen. In China, they call them Peng. Here in the United States, the feathered menace is known as the Piasa, or Thunderbird.The archaeological record will attest to the massive winged creatures, which once thrived about our primordial world. The Pterosaurs-reptiles–lived during the Mesozoic Era (248-65 million years ago), and were the first vertebrates to evolve the power of flight. The largest had wingspans of over 40 feet!More recently, true “giant” birds, the Tetratorns, soared above the mastodons and giant sloths of North and South America. With wingspans of up to 25 feet, their fossils abound in the northwestern corner of Arizona. They are thought to have gone extinct a mere 8,000 years ago. Or did they? Arizona’s Papago, Pima, and Cochiti people have their tales of giant birds, and in the Sonora region of Mexico and the southwestern U.S. live the Yaqui people. They, too, tell of encounters with Thunderbirds.On July 25, 1977, ten-year-old Marlon Lowe, of Lawndale, Illinois, was playing in his backyard when two large birds appeared. One bird descended upon the boy and tried to carry him off, and had him airborne for a time. His mother, seeing this from the kitchen window, gave chase, screaming. The bird could barely “lift off” with the boy, and dropped him after a hundred-yard chase. Both Marlon and his mother describe a dark bird with a naked head and a wingspan of 15 to 20 feet.In 2002, in Dillingham and Manokotak, Alaska, pilots and townsfolk observed large flying creatures with 14-foot wingspans. These were described as reptilian, with membrane wings and crested heads.In May of 2008, numerous reports of Pterodactyl-like creatures with wingspans of up to 18 feet were reported in Washington County, Pennsylvania.So many of the world’s legends talk of massive birds sharing the earth with us-and indeed, American Teratorn bones have almost always been found “in conjunction with human habitation sites.”It’s just plain startling to see a massive, unknown (or unclassifiable) bird in flight. It’s downright bizarre to contemplate the idea that the progeny of an Ice Age flock could still inhabit the planet. But is it more bizarre than the steel workers who saw flying reptiles over modern-day Pennsylvania, or the “Man-Birds” being reported in the lands of the mythical Thunderbird?Are these archetypal images of our racial memory, as Carl Jung might have interpreted them? Or are these as-yet unclassified creatures, as cryptozoologists might imagine them?Or are they phenomena that Fort would ponder over and report upon, patiently awaiting the next “impossible” airborne creature?Go to binallofamerica.com/index.html for Tim’s interview with Ken Gerhard,A great discussion of all things Thunderbird, Texas Big Bird, and Cryptozoological!    " href="http://forteanswest.com/wordpress-mu/arizonalowfi/2009/02/08/thunderbirds/" target="_blank">THUNDERBIRDS</a></li>
<li><a id="flink_100_13609791199806651612" title="Between 9/30/1946 and 1/9/09, there have been 1,853 documented sightings of UFOs / UAPs in Arizona (thanks, National UFO Reporting Center!-The actual number could be closer to 6,500 as a majority of witnesses are reluctant to formally report their experiences for fear of ridicule or other unwanted attention.Understandable.Who wants to be snickered at by Barbie and Ken on the six O’Clock news?Others do not hesitate to report the anomalous… and I find them admirable.Cym at Natural Nomad http://natural-nomad.blogspot.com/ had an interesting view of the Catalinas on 1/10/09. Seems she caught an image of something anomalous lingering near Mt Lemmon Observatory. My first impression had it looking like a digital artifact. Second look in hi res had me wondering… and hooked.Visit her site for images and info on what it could NOT be.If Charles H. Fort were to hear of this he might remark:“It appeared to some to be a great Beetle clasping the ridge with legs or strangely formed pedipalps, wings in their chitinous covers. Was it simply resting a bit, on its way back to the aether? Or was it FEEDING?”.‘Till next time, friends.    " href="http://forteanswest.com/wordpress-mu/arizonalowfi/2009/02/05/unidentified-arial-phenomena/" target="_blank">Unidentified Aerial Phenomena</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://forteanswest.com/wordpress-mu/"><strong>SoCal L.O.W.F.I</strong></a><br />
<em>The League of Western Fortean Intermediatists</em> with <strong>Skylaire Alfvegren</strong></p>
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<li><a id="flink_99_7203558270400020406" title="SUNDAY, MARCH 1st: our next southern California excursion will be to the haunted Richard Nixon library in Yorba Linda. On deck will be a psychic medium to pick up the vibrations, Nixon’s “ethereal conduit” Jeffrey Vallance and L.O.W.F.I.’s NorCal Bureau Chief, Adam Gorightly. $13, with an optional outing to a secret, undisclosed location in Whittier, a scant 22 minute drive from the Nixon library. The birthplace of Discordianism, a trip to this facility is as close to a religious pilgrimage as a Fortean can get. All hail Eris! (The birthplace of Kerry Thornley himself, Whittier also gave us Nixon and Tom Waits.)http://www.geocities.com/tribhis/KerryThornleyIntro.htmlStay tuned for details as the date looms near!    " href="http://forteanswest.com/wordpress-mu/blog/2009/02/13/lowfi-seeks-nixons-spirit-are-you-up-for-a-trip/" target="_blank">LOWFI seeks Nixon’s spirit… are you up for a trip?</a></li>
<li><a id="flink_99_12338078760942281367" title="WHAT OF THE WEIRD, WAY OUT WEST?It’s not that the phenomena that Charles Fort so diligently catalogued is rarer these days–quite the opposite! Living in the schizoid 21st century, we have galaxies of information at our fingertips-and to me, it’s a wonder that few have taken up Fort’s gauntlet in modern times.Who am I, you ask?I would say I was a Fortean in the womb, but truth is, I didn’t see my first UFO until I was six. I could say I was a Fortean in a previous life, but too many people have debated whether I am a very young soul, or very old, so much so that I quit the debate team. (No, I wasn’t Cleopatra in a previous life, but I have an inkling I once leapt to my death.)Starting L.O.W.F.I.-I call it a wire service of the weird, serving the great western states of our sometimes-great nation-has been a long-standing wish of mine. It wasn’t a dream, because I knew it would happen.The western states, as defined by the U.S. Census Bureau, number lucky 13, and are California, Oregon, Washington, Arizona, Hawaii, Alaska, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, Montana, Wyoming and Idaho.That’s quite a mouthful. Presently, L.O.W.F.I. has seven of those states represented by a “Bureau Chief”-a regional Grand Poobah of weird phenomena. My stars are blessed, because I’m surrounded by some of the sharpest minds in Forteana. I envision L.O.W.F.I. as a network of urbane explorers comparing data, collecting anomalous reports, going on Fortean expeditions-and having a damn good time while they’re doing it.Literally and figuratively, the byways of our great western states reek, stink, and verily, almost ooze-the weird, the inexplicable and the unexplained. The east coast has boasted the Fortean Society since 1931, and the International Fortean Organization (INFO) has been around in Maryland since 1965. But they’ve largely neglected our wild and wooly west!Our states boast Thunderbirds and Tesla and cemeteries for vampires; everyone knows Sasquatch makes his home in the Pacific Northwest. Ancient Egyptian tunnels fan out from the Grand Canyon. The ancient lizard race known as the Lemurians built their own network under the west coast. Skinwalkers shape-shift over our desert sands, and redheaded Native giants have roamed Nevada and the Utah basin. Haunted old west saloons dot the landscape; illuminated by the glare of a thousand UFO crashes.While there are a handful of UFO organizations, and lots of ghost-hunting gangs out here-a tip of the hat to all of them-what exists for the lone crypto hunter? The conspiracy theorist with an interest in the paranormal? The UFO buff with a cracked, black sense of humor?Or those of us who know that reality is like the contents of a rearview mirror-things in it are often distorted, much bigger than they appear, or can only be glimpsed out of the corner of your eye?We are greater than the sum of our parts. In Los Angeles, I’ve already had L.O.W.F.I. up and running for the better part of a year. One of the best things about it have been the wacky expeditions I’ve gotten to take people on. It’s been a gas to share a weird, musty Bible museum with pagans, hunt for the ghost of Richard Nixon with a posse of true independents, and explore the origins of tiki with people who listen to punk rock and Scarlatti. Forteans, I think share a particular mental aesthetic.I’m shy. Actually, I’m a misanthrope with a heart of gold. But I’ve never been a joiner, and we’ve got something of an anti-club going on here. But it’s not all fun and games. L.O.W.F.I. is specifically interested in collecting and disseminating damned data, and for too long have we been deprived of a connecting force.MY HOME, SOUTHERN CALIFORNIADavid Bowie left Los Angeles after becoming convinced that his swimming pool was possessed by demons. In the documentary, Cracked Actor, he commented on the city: “Fancy building a bleeding wax museum in the middle of the desert. You’d think it would melt! Ha, ha, ha ha!”It is my contention that, although an ever-shifting mirage, Los Angeles has an old soul, that the asphalt here is wise beyond its years.Southern California is so central to the planet’s existence, that not one–but TWO-locations here have been christened the absolute apex of everything. Guru Krishnamurti proclaimed the “Center of the Universe” could be found in Ojai. But “The Center of the World” was drawn from the novel, Coe the Good Dragon, and is set at Latitude 32º 45? 01?, Longitude 114º 45? 55?, and is marked–for all to see–just off the I-8, with a bronze star and granite pyramid.As a native Angeleno, I have spent my entire elfin life exploring southern California, its oddities and daemon-haunted spots. I track down eccentrics, or more often they find me in a crowd. I love my town, even though it has multiple personalities, and I vow to you, dear reader, to do the best possible job of bringing you all that’s weird, cosmic, and phenomenal about southern California.Skylaire Alfvegren    " href="http://forteanswest.com/wordpress-mu/blog/2009/02/05/fortean-societies-have-existed-before-but/" target="_blank">Fortean societies have existed before, but…</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://forteanswest.com/wordpress-mu/norcallowfi/"><strong>NorCal L.O.W.F.I</strong></a><br />
<em><span class="yshortcuts">Northern California</span>’s Untamed <span class="yshortcuts">Weirdness</span></em> with <strong>Adam Gorightly</strong></p>
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<li><a id="flink_101_2813294818594607926" title="“Ahhh, it’s gone, it’s gone, it’s gone…All the shitty shows are gone, all the idiots screaming in the fucking wind are dead, I love it…leaving nothing but a cool, beautiful serenity called Arizona Bay. That’s right, when L.A. falls in the fucking ocean and is flushed away, all it will leave is Arizona  Bay….” - Bill HicksRecently I stumbled across a map of what the U.S. will look like after the coming prophesied (by some) Earth Changes. Years ago, I had seen this same map in a north coast new age shop and smirked and snortled accordingly, but whatever the reason may be, it certainly can’t be denied that some sort of global climate change is currently underway, whether caused by HAARP, Al Gore’s Global Warming agenda, or just a cyclic pattern that occurs time and again over the course Mother Earth’s many rotations.  The map in question (above) was produced by psychic channeler Lori Toye in 1983, and doesn’t bode well for the current structure of LOWFI. Most of California and the Pacific Northwest will be submerged in the resultant deluge, a future Atlantis in the Atlantic. Skylaire will either have to join me on the island of central California, or take refuge in sunny San Diego. Regan Lee in Oregon appears sunk, and the fate of Mothman experiencer Andy Colvin in Washington State doesn’t appear much drier. Jarret Keene in Nevada is appropriately buried in the watery ruins no doubt on account for the wicked and wanton ways exhibited by a sinful state that allows such vagaries as gambling and prostitution. (God can be pissy this way!) Looks like Thomas Cosgrove is Arizona will have beach front property, no doubt driving up the value of his home and making it a prime tourist destination ala Bill Hick’s Arizona  Bay. Everybody else looks high and dry for the time being…that is, until the aliens come and snatch them up!Learn more about Lori Toye’s ascended master channelings here.    " href="http://forteanswest.com/wordpress-mu/norcallowfi/2009/02/14/restructuring-lowfi-as-arizona-bay/" target="_blank">Restructuring LOWFI as Arizona Bay</a></li>
<li><a id="flink_101_16465449599529993292" title="Photo Courtesy of John RhodesThe photo below was taken on Highway 140 at Noon on Monday, Feb. 9th, 2009, just outside of Merced, CA. In this regard, the photographer points out that 2+9 =”11? Then given the fact it was taken on 2009, it equates to 11:11, a number of seeming import in regards to the exact time that the Mayan Calendar will presumably end on 2012. I don’t necessarily know what to make of all that, but it sure is a cool photo and I suspect that the Freemason-inspired obelisk somehow was part of a Masonic Sorcery Theater conjuration that brought into existence this wicked Wizard of Oz type tornado! (Photo courtesy of John Rhodes.)    " href="http://forteanswest.com/wordpress-mu/norcallowfi/2009/02/09/a-funnel-cloud-formed-near-this-obelisk-outside-of-merced/" target="_blank">A Funnel Cloud Formed near this Obelisk, outside of Merced</a><a id="flink_101_14497440968683202160" title="Some recent blog posts I’ve stumbled across exhibit the high strangeness that seemingly haunts our NorCal skies.Strange Tentacled UFO - Soquel, CASausalito, CA UFOWhich is not to say that I have any predisposition, one way or the other, as to what the photos in said blogs represent. With that noted, I’m constantly perplexed that some people instantly equate “UFOs” with Extraterrestrials (ET’s), which seems a great leap of faith.This is not to say that actual ET’s don’t inhabit our airspaces upon occasion. But dig: UFO’s are just that, Unidentified Flying Octopi …er, I mean…Objects. We don’t know what “They” are, simple as that: Objects up there looking strange as shit, that don’t appear or act in the same manner as conventional aircraft. However, this fixation of UFO’s = ET’s seems forever synomous in the minds of many who cannot separate the two terms.I remember (somewhat painfully) a radio interview I did sometime back where the lady host asked me, pointedly, “So you firmly beleive in UFOs?” Of course, how she arrived at this supposition was completely beyond me, as I had never even come close to asserting such, before or since — I had just indicated that, at one time, I had seen some things that qualified as “UFO’s.” And, of course, she made the leap: UFO’s = ET’s. And because I had seen UFO’s that then meant I believed in ET’s. Of course, I believe that there are things in the sky that we cannot conclusively identify. That’s where the “U” in UFO’s comes from! Not to beat a dead horse, but I think it’s important that when we talk about UFO’s, we are alluding to things witnessed in the skies that we cannot positively identify, and that appear to be out of the ordinary.And, of course, I get my panties all into a bunch when people pretend to know, or delude themselves into “believing” – pro or con, one way or the other — be they skeptics or true believers. To make up your mind is to close your mind. Skeptics and true believers, alike. They are really one and the same, in a sense. Once you close your mind to other possibilities, you are closing your mind to ALL POSSIBILITIES.Whatever the case, Forteans tend to lean toward the proposition that UFO’s are not actual physical nut and bolt craft, but are, in essence, some type of phenomena perhaps partially conjured in our little ‘ol brains or collective consciousness ala Carl Jung. This is a hypothesis explored in a lecture I’ve delivered upon occasion entitled “Were The Early UFO Contactees Ritual Magicians?” which presents the theory that the early contactees, as well as current day abductees, have used magic rituals to contact UFO’s.In this lecture, I posit that — when under the influence of certain psychoactive substances — one can sometimes look into what Fortean researcher John Keel has called the Superspectrum: a realm, or alternate dimension that is all around us, although hidden from everyday, or normal modes, of perception. And, furthermore, that this Superspectrum is what those who have dabbled in the magical traditions have gained access to. What this suggests — to your humble reporter — is that, in order to observe UFO’s, one must often enter into a more receptive state, like a psychic or channeler tuning into voices or subtle energies. Psychedelic drugs are just perhaps one avenue of tapping into this Superspectrum, as well as other methods, including sensory deprivation, sex magic rituals, hypnosis and chanting. For instance, psychic channelers must first induce in themselves a trance state before being able to invoke spirits, so maybe it’s the same thing going on with UFOs, in some instances. Whatever the case, I’m certainly not encouraging people to experiment with mind expanding drugs, although some have found this approach to be productive. Different maps, for different chaps, as they say.The Superspectrum theory contends that UFO’s exist at frequencies beyond visible light, but that they can adjust their frequency and descend into the electromagnetic (EM) spectrum — just as you can turn the dial of your radio up and down the scale of radio frequencies. UFO’s, Mr. Keel suggests, are energies of a different frequency. Like tuning a radio, you pick up and amplify only the signal coming in at a certain point, or frequency, of the EM spectrum.Our eyes are also receivers tuned to specific wavelengths, as the brain is also a receiver. So, in the same manner, one can presumably alter their consciousness to lift the veil of consensus reality that seemingly shrouds our third eye. Likewise such things as infrared photography can be used to peer into these realms. Following this line of reasoning, it could then be conjectured that infrared technology would also enable us to perceive things what the naked eye normally cannot. This approach was explored most exhaustively by UFO researcher Trevor James Constable, who spent many years filming strange spectral creatures (ala UFOs) using infrared photography. These he often described as “critters”; strange undulating amoeba like shapshifters; some sort of chaotic energy unleashed, as opposed to what many typically think UFO’s to be: actual alien craft of a fixed size and substance.More recently — and in a similar vein to Trevor James Constable — a Northern Californian, Ed Grimsley, has witnessed a war going on, or so he perceives, between opposing UFOnauts in our skies. Through the use of state-of-the-art infrared goggles, Grimsley has apparently filmed these spectral battles on numerous occasions, which is documented in a film that can be purchased at his website. http://edgrimsley.com/At the 60th Roswell Festival in 2006, I met a fellow named Jeremy Ray, formerly of Sacramento MUFON, who regaled me with tales of how he had captured numerous UFO’s with his trusty video camera. Further, Jeremy claimed, anyone could do it, as well, if they trained a video cam to the skies on a continual basis.(Above) Jeremy Ray at RoswellLast fall, I bumped briefly into Jeremy again at the Las Vegas Crash Retrieval Conference, and asked him how it was going with the UFO video taping thing. Currently, Jeremy has changed his position somewhat and now believes that the UFOs he filmed were actually appearing specifically for him, which is akin to “calling them down” or a magic ritual, of sorts; that somehow Jeremy was attracting these things. Jeremy also alluded that certain individuals had either confiscated many of his video recordings, or that these vid recordings had some how disappeared or been removed from his computer — if I remember correctly our conversation. This brings up the spectre of those mystical men in black who are apparently suppressing the shocking truth of UFO’s haunting our skies! But that’s another story for another day…So there seems to be, at least in my way of thinking, some sort of borderland area where the use of photographic and video equipment (infrared or whatever) — in conjunction with someone intently looking for something — will eventually find something. This, in essence, is the theory presented in my aforementioned lecture: that we are perhaps interacting with some sort of non-human intelligence, or ultra dimensional entities, and that we — as the experiencers — are actually part of the experience; that we help bring it into being, whether consciously intending to, or not.     " href="http://forteanswest.com/wordpress-mu/norcallowfi/2009/02/08/strange-craft-in-the-norcal-skies-and-other-ruminations/" target="_blank">Strange Craft</a></li>
<li><a id="flink_101_14497440968683202160" title="Some recent blog posts I’ve stumbled across exhibit the high strangeness that seemingly haunts our NorCal skies.Strange Tentacled UFO - Soquel, CASausalito, CA UFOWhich is not to say that I have any predisposition, one way or the other, as to what the photos in said blogs represent. With that noted, I’m constantly perplexed that some people instantly equate “UFOs” with Extraterrestrials (ET’s), which seems a great leap of faith.This is not to say that actual ET’s don’t inhabit our airspaces upon occasion. But dig: UFO’s are just that, Unidentified Flying Octopi …er, I mean…Objects. We don’t know what “They” are, simple as that: Objects up there looking strange as shit, that don’t appear or act in the same manner as conventional aircraft. However, this fixation of UFO’s = ET’s seems forever synomous in the minds of many who cannot separate the two terms.I remember (somewhat painfully) a radio interview I did sometime back where the lady host asked me, pointedly, “So you firmly beleive in UFOs?” Of course, how she arrived at this supposition was completely beyond me, as I had never even come close to asserting such, before or since — I had just indicated that, at one time, I had seen some things that qualified as “UFO’s.” And, of course, she made the leap: UFO’s = ET’s. And because I had seen UFO’s that then meant I believed in ET’s. Of course, I believe that there are things in the sky that we cannot conclusively identify. That’s where the “U” in UFO’s comes from! Not to beat a dead horse, but I think it’s important that when we talk about UFO’s, we are alluding to things witnessed in the skies that we cannot positively identify, and that appear to be out of the ordinary.And, of course, I get my panties all into a bunch when people pretend to know, or delude themselves into “believing” – pro or con, one way or the other — be they skeptics or true believers. To make up your mind is to close your mind. Skeptics and true believers, alike. They are really one and the same, in a sense. Once you close your mind to other possibilities, you are closing your mind to ALL POSSIBILITIES.Whatever the case, Forteans tend to lean toward the proposition that UFO’s are not actual physical nut and bolt craft, but are, in essence, some type of phenomena perhaps partially conjured in our little ‘ol brains or collective consciousness ala Carl Jung. This is a hypothesis explored in a lecture I’ve delivered upon occasion entitled “Were The Early UFO Contactees Ritual Magicians?” which presents the theory that the early contactees, as well as current day abductees, have used magic rituals to contact UFO’s.In this lecture, I posit that — when under the influence of certain psychoactive substances — one can sometimes look into what Fortean researcher John Keel has called the Superspectrum: a realm, or alternate dimension that is all around us, although hidden from everyday, or normal modes, of perception. And, furthermore, that this Superspectrum is what those who have dabbled in the magical traditions have gained access to. What this suggests — to your humble reporter — is that, in order to observe UFO’s, one must often enter into a more receptive state, like a psychic or channeler tuning into voices or subtle energies. Psychedelic drugs are just perhaps one avenue of tapping into this Superspectrum, as well as other methods, including sensory deprivation, sex magic rituals, hypnosis and chanting. For instance, psychic channelers must first induce in themselves a trance state before being able to invoke spirits, so maybe it’s the same thing going on with UFOs, in some instances. Whatever the case, I’m certainly not encouraging people to experiment with mind expanding drugs, although some have found this approach to be productive. Different maps, for different chaps, as they say.The Superspectrum theory contends that UFO’s exist at frequencies beyond visible light, but that they can adjust their frequency and descend into the electromagnetic (EM) spectrum — just as you can turn the dial of your radio up and down the scale of radio frequencies. UFO’s, Mr. Keel suggests, are energies of a different frequency. Like tuning a radio, you pick up and amplify only the signal coming in at a certain point, or frequency, of the EM spectrum.Our eyes are also receivers tuned to specific wavelengths, as the brain is also a receiver. So, in the same manner, one can presumably alter their consciousness to lift the veil of consensus reality that seemingly shrouds our third eye. Likewise such things as infrared photography can be used to peer into these realms. Following this line of reasoning, it could then be conjectured that infrared technology would also enable us to perceive things what the naked eye normally cannot. This approach was explored most exhaustively by UFO researcher Trevor James Constable, who spent many years filming strange spectral creatures (ala UFOs) using infrared photography. These he often described as “critters”; strange undulating amoeba like shapshifters; some sort of chaotic energy unleashed, as opposed to what many typically think UFO’s to be: actual alien craft of a fixed size and substance.More recently — and in a similar vein to Trevor James Constable — a Northern Californian, Ed Grimsley, has witnessed a war going on, or so he perceives, between opposing UFOnauts in our skies. Through the use of state-of-the-art infrared goggles, Grimsley has apparently filmed these spectral battles on numerous occasions, which is documented in a film that can be purchased at his website. http://edgrimsley.com/At the 60th Roswell Festival in 2006, I met a fellow named Jeremy Ray, formerly of Sacramento MUFON, who regaled me with tales of how he had captured numerous UFO’s with his trusty video camera. Further, Jeremy claimed, anyone could do it, as well, if they trained a video cam to the skies on a continual basis.(Above) Jeremy Ray at RoswellLast fall, I bumped briefly into Jeremy again at the Las Vegas Crash Retrieval Conference, and asked him how it was going with the UFO video taping thing. Currently, Jeremy has changed his position somewhat and now believes that the UFOs he filmed were actually appearing specifically for him, which is akin to “calling them down” or a magic ritual, of sorts; that somehow Jeremy was attracting these things. Jeremy also alluded that certain individuals had either confiscated many of his video recordings, or that these vid recordings had some how disappeared or been removed from his computer — if I remember correctly our conversation. This brings up the spectre of those mystical men in black who are apparently suppressing the shocking truth of UFO’s haunting our skies! But that’s another story for another day…So there seems to be, at least in my way of thinking, some sort of borderland area where the use of photographic and video equipment (infrared or whatever) — in conjunction with someone intently looking for something — will eventually find something. This, in essence, is the theory presented in my aforementioned lecture: that we are perhaps interacting with some sort of non-human intelligence, or ultra dimensional entities, and that we — as the experiencers — are actually part of the experience; that we help bring it into being, whether consciously intending to, or not.     " href="http://forteanswest.com/wordpress-mu/norcallowfi/2009/02/08/strange-craft-in-the-norcal-skies-and-other-ruminations/" target="_blank">In The NorCal Skies (And Other Ruminations)</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://forteanswest.com/wordpress-mu/nevadalowfi/"><strong>Nevada L.O.W.F.I</strong></a><br />
<em>… Anomalous Nevada Tales …</em> with <strong>Jarret Keene</strong></p>
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<li><a id="flink_103_568756383205929233" title="There are, in fact, a few virgins left in Vegas.The Weeping Virgin stands proudly in the driveway of a residential home on the edge of North Las Vegas. Eyes askew, immaculate in her blue-green robes, she inhabits what looks like an old phone booth, its white paint flaking off. The booth is webbed in Christmas lights; a video camera is perched at the top.A gold curtain frames Mary. There’s a picture of Saint Lucy with her trademark dish, upon which rest two plucked eyeballs. A ceramic Noah’s Ark burdened with animals. A black Saint Martin statuette posing with his broom. Flowers, dead and fake, surround the Weeping Virgin. Grocery-store prayer candles line a makeshift votive altar. Chairs and benches are arranged for visitors.The driveway is covered by a crisp blue tarp. Everything else, though, seems a bit untidy. The dusty yard is completely devoid of grass and full of junk: Rusty AC unit. Charred grill. Shattered foosball table.The neighborhood, predominantly Mexican, is a little on the loud side. Cars blast by on I-15 and someone nearby persists in lighting firecrackers in mid-August. A jet from Nellis Air Force Base screams overhead.Otherwise, it’s the perfect prayer space.Why would anyone want to pray here? Well, Our Lady of Guadalupe is originally from the Basilica in Mexico City. A man named Pablo Covarrubias brought her with him to North Las Vegas in 1991. According to Pablo’s friends and family, it’s true the statue was almost destroyed by U.S. customs. They assumed it was full of heroin. But Pablo prevailed, placing his personal Mary on a stone pedestal in the backyard of his home in North Las Vegas.Two years passed before Pablo’s daughter Martha saw the statue weeping real tears. Pablo contacted KLAS-TV Channel 8. Video cameras were dispatched. But reporters insisted the statue be removed from its pedestal — just in case there was, you know, a water source hidden beneath? Pablo complied. Mary cried on cue.At least that’s how Pablo’s people tell it. KLAS no longer has the tape, and Pablo took his copy with him when he returned to Mexico in 2004. According to religious Internet sites, the footage clearly shows tears falling down the plaster statue’s face.But that’s not all that’s special about the Weeping Virgin. Her tears, when absorbed by cotton balls, have healing powers. They’ve remedied troubled pregnancies, corrected bad vision, and cured cancer. Also, the angel (that carries the moon Mary stands on) sweats a rose-scented oil. Over the years, other miracles have supposedly occurred — visions of Mary herself, crosses appearing on the statue’s forehead — but since the statue was moved from Pablo’s backyard to its current home in North Las Vegas in 2004, the miracles have come to a halt.“I’ve never seen her cry,” says Juan Serrano, whose family now cares for the Weeping Virgin, “so I can’t say. But you never know. People come here from all over — Denver, Phoenix, L.A. — and for them it’s just enough to be in her presence.”Juan maintains that he and his family dance for the Virgin on the Day of the Dead, and on Dec. 12, the Day of Our Lady of Guadalupe. Juan is a mestizo (a person of mixed Spanish and Amerindian blood), for whom dancing is a beautiful and sacred rite.“We dance out of respect for Mary,” he says. “We dance out of happiness. We dance in celebration. And we dance so that Mary won’t feel so lonely.”Juan doesn’t just dance in his front yard. He dances at the Winchester Cultural Center in Las Vegas with other mestizos at the Day of the Dead fiesta each year. The dancing involves the hypnotic rhythms of Indian drums, wild costumes and masks. Very intense.Pablo transferred ownership of the statue to Juan and his family last year before moving back to Mexico. Juan invites kind and respectful people who wish to pay their respects to Mary to drive to 2809 Samantha Court (between Basin and Darby) on the Northwest end of the Community College of Southern Nevada’s Cheyenne campus.Bring tissues. Just in case.    " href="http://forteanswest.com/wordpress-mu/nevadalowfi/2009/02/04/weeping-virgin-las-vegas/" target="_blank">The Weeping Virgin of Las Vegas</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://forteanswest.com/wordpress-mu/newmexicolowfi/"><strong>New Mexico L.O.W.F.I</strong></a><em><br />
Tales of New Mexico&#8217;s stranger side…</em> <strong>Lesley Gunter</strong></p>
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<li><a id="flink_102_16656633947667204572" title="Friday afternoon, as normal, I was outside with the cats and looking at the sky.  Something caught my eye, it was the white plane I saw a couple months back that appears to have no wings.  Above is one of the zoomed photos that I took back then.  A couple days later when I was in Albuquerque I saw the same plane again at a much lower altitude and I still could not make out any wings.Back to Friday — I see the plane and then it is blocked by a tree.  I sit there about 3 seconds and decide to get up, get it in view and see if I can zoom in and see any wings this time.  I get up, walk a couple steps to where the tree is no longer blocking my view, but the plane is GONE.  There is no place that plane could have gone in 5 or so seconds.  To disappear behind the mountain it would have had to completely change direction and even if it did that it should have still taken quite a while to make it beyond the mountain.Just one of those unexplained things.    " href="http://forteanswest.com/wordpress-mu/newmexicolowfi/2009/02/15/what-i-didnt-see/" target="_blank">What I didn’t see</a></li>
<li><a id="flink_102_6690777674334592037" title="Adam Gorightly forwarded me this earlier.  Not sure when this happened or where the original report is, but it is interesting.BTW, check out Adam’s NorCal LOWFI blog and his Untamed Dimensions blogLittle Grey BEINGS seen, on High School Property, in DULCE,  N.M. * Multiple Witnesses, on Multiple Occasions. Witnesses report “Little people with large heads”.  About  2 feet tall.   They hid  under the bleachers.  The odd thing about this is that normally the Greys are  reported to be 3 1/2 to 4 feet tall.      Are these  “Teenage” Greys coming out from underground to see what “Teenage” human children  do ? NOTE :  The high school will soon undergo a transformation, being  rebuilt into a twenty-two million  dollar modern structure. The current high school is a studious  environment that has serviced students for many years.A panoramic view of the current high school can be seen here  :http://www.dulceschools.com/Panoramic/highpanoramic.html    " href="http://forteanswest.com/wordpress-mu/newmexicolowfi/2009/02/13/little-grey-beings-seen-on-high-school-property-in-dulce/" target="_blank">Little Grey BEINGS seen on High School Property in Dulce</a></li>
<li><a id="flink_102_2424359620614082684" title="Nick Redfern reviews the DVD, Navajo Skinwalkers and Legends at Reviews of the Mysterious Kind.    " href="http://forteanswest.com/wordpress-mu/newmexicolowfi/2009/02/12/reviewing-the-skin-walker/" target="_blank">Reviewing the Skin-Walker</a></li>
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<li><strong><a href="http://forteanswest.com/wordpress-mu/oregonlowfi/">Oregon L.O.W.F.I</a></strong><em><br />
Oregon’s oddities reviewed in a new light </em>with <strong>Regan Lee</strong></p>
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<li><a id="flink_104_7401266372486167775" title="The Oregon coast, and in particular the Lincoln county area (Waldport, Yachats,Newport, Toledo,) has its share of UFO events. The Reeves case in the 1960s is a classic; complete with strange multi-colored lights, three very odd high strangeness furry entities walking across a field, UFOs, . . . and I’ve been wondering off and on through the years if a lot of these sightings, including the Reeves case (where UFOs were seen all over the area, not just at their home on Pioneer Mountain just outside of Newport near Toledo) weren’t due to military/naval projects. Naveed at Naveed’s Realm had an interesting post recently about hidden bases in Oregon, including the Oregon coast:Hidden Bases in My Locale…Oregon!In today’s paper I read the following:Lawmakers voice concerns about expanded Navy training along coast Oregon’s congressional delegates say the fishing fleet’s safety is among the issues that need more time for public input, by Wintston Ross.FLORENCE — Submarines can sink fishing boats, hooking into the nets of midwater trawl boats and rolling the vessels like an alligator in a swamp. Lincoln County Commissioner Terry Thompson said he knows of at least eight boats downed by subs off the West Coast in the decades he’s been a fisherman. He has lost five friends in such incidents, he said.“One boat hooked into a submarine and got dragged sideways, at 6 knots,” Thompson said. “The crew was sitting at the back deck and the captain was at the wheelhouse. Only one crewman lived to tell the story.”So when Thompson found out recently that the Navy was planning on expanding the training it does in a 126,000-square-mile swath of the Pacific Ocean between Washington and California, he wanted to make sure the military has Oregon’s fishing fleet in mind.The navy was very quiet about their plans, taking area residents by surprise and not giving much time for citizens to speak their minds about such plans. Among other things, whales are in danger from the Navy’s exercises.And it seems the navy’s been around in that area for some time:Many people may not know the Navy trains out there in the first place, even though it’s been going on since the early 1900s and includes exploding bombs underwater, firing missiles and 5-inch naval guns, and doing high-intensity sonar testing.Naveed found that one underground base in the Lincoln County area;here we go, the first base in Oregon that I found is located around the Lincoln City area (on the gorgeous Oregon Coast) in the Van Duzer Corridor. There people have seen everything from weird lights to army bases somewhere in the woods. One couple apparently even had some missing time out in that area, which tends to be a good sign of alien abduction.It’s quite possible some of the UFO and anomalous related events were, and are, due to naval and other military actions on the coast.    " href="http://forteanswest.com/wordpress-mu/oregonlowfi/2009/02/10/the-oregon-coast-and-the-navy-responsible-for-some-ufo-events/" target="_blank">The Oregon Coast and the Navy: Responsible for Some UFO Events?</a></li>
<li><a id="flink_104_16667583177264296786" title="It’s no surprise Oregon has its share of Bigfoot encounters; including paranormal Bigfoot events. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the town of MIllersburg, Oregon, (about forty five miles north of Eugene) experienced some very strange events involving a white Bigfoot or “BHM” (Big Hairy Monster) with a lot of high strangeness surrounding the encounters.The creature was called the “Creature of Conser Lake,” also the “Ghost of Conser Lake” (because of its white color) and the “Monster of Conser Lake,” the lake’s name was Conser at the time, but  isn’t called Conser Lake anymore, the name has been changed and is on private property. I’m not revealing the name of the lake out of respect to the owners.Reported as a bigfoot type creature; about seven feet tall, bipedal, white shaggy fur, the creature mystified Millersburg residents for over a year. The story begins with a story of a UFO or strange light crashing into Conser Lake in either 1959 or 1960. Soon after the strange light crashed into Conser Lake, a Millersburg truck driver was understandably startled to find a white, shaggy furred bigfoot type creature trotting along beside his truck as he was driving down the road. The driver, a  mint farmer, was going about 35 miles an hour; the creature was easily keeping pace with the moving vehicle.The creature was described as being about  seven feet tall.  The mint farmer described the creature as a “shaggy gorilla.” Local Bruce Hamilton remembers the creature in Conser Lake, and a story about a “young couple driving by the lake; a seven or eight foot creature ran alongside their car.”As if the truck farmer’s experience  wasn’t odd enough, another report of a tall, white furred shaggy Bigfoot type creature running alongside side a truck made its way into the news. This time the creature was seen in Telephone, Oregon, in Eastern Oregon. (I realize the town doesn’t seem to show up on maps or Google searches, as I have found, and a recent e-mail alerted me to. However, this is the name cited by several sources. Many small “towns” are not listed, also, it’s possible the name has changed, the area incorporated, or simply disappeared over time.) Witness C.A. Cissman saw a bright light approach, hover about 30 minutes, then disappear, shooting upwards and disappearing within seconds.  Later, in Prospect, Oregon  a logger was shocked to see a white furred, Bigfoot or Bigfoot type being, leisurely jogging  alongside his truck on a deserted rural road.Stories of Bigfoot running alongside cars aren’t new, either. A report from 1926 tells of a  Bigfoot creature encounter in Yankton, Oregon: “Bigfoot following alongside a truck looking in. Sheep and children would disappear.” (UFO Casebook) It seems there was a history of bright zipping lights and white Bigfoot — or white somethings — following cars and trucks in Oregon.Other reports of white Bigfoot creatures can be found; for example, Chris O’Brien writes in his Secrets of the Mysterious Valley about a “New Mexico cattle inspector”  who told O’Brien:he watched with binoculars a white bigfoot clamor up a rocky slope . .  a witness in Washington “reported seeing a Bigfoot with large pointed ears” (p 231 Secrets of the Mysterious Valley, Christopher O’Brien)The reference to “pointed ears” is interesting; Flix, our creature in Conser Lake, was also described as having pointed or “cat like” ears. A “ten foot white Bigfoot” was seen on the banks of the Ohio river in the 1960s. In fact, sightings of a white Bigfoot in the area were reported from the 1900s to the 1990s .(The I-Files: True Reports of Unexplained Phenomena in Illinois, Jay Rath)Peter Guittilla’s The Bigfoot Files contains stories of white BHM or Bigfoot like creatures that transcend the flesh and blood variety. Guittilla references an account from Fate magazine out of Peter Bottom, Arkansas. In 1966 reports of a “monster”  living in the Bottom emerged. The creature was described as being nine feet tall with snow white fur. Aside from giving off a strong smell, the creature “made a sound like a radio signal . . . the signal sounded like ‘beep, beep, beep.” (The Bigfoot Files, p 86)The synchronicity of the white bigfoots is intriguing, along with the mysterious lights in the sky. As far as the Conser Lake “monster” goes, witnesses reported feelings of disorientation, dizziness, severe headaches, and hearing loud thuds and running footsteps right by them but no source for the sounds. Some insisted they were in telepathic communication with the being, who said his name was “Flix” and was from outer space.Flix was Bigfoot like in many ways, yet there were other characteristics described by witnesses that are strange. Flix was said to have claws and or webbed feet and hands and cat like ears.There are some similarities with Bigfoot; the height, bipedalism, shaggy fur. As noted, there were other similar beings in Oregon scattered throughout the state. But enough high strangeness episodes take the idea of a strictly flesh and blood creature out its comfortable unknown animal category, and into the truly Fortean or esoteric. All the above noted incidences: UFOs or bright lights, telepathy, sounds with no visible source, feelings of disorientation, and the synchronicty of similar creatures adds up to something beyond a flesh and blood Bigfoot.NotesJanet Bord; Colin Bord: Bigfoot CasebookPeter Guittilla: Bigfoot FilesRegan Lee: The Ghost in Conser LakeChristopher O’Brien: Secrets of the Mysterious ValleyJay Rath: The I-Files: True Reports of Unexplained Phenomena in Illinoisphotos by Regan Lee    " href="http://forteanswest.com/wordpress-mu/oregonlowfi/2009/02/08/high-strangeness-bigfoot-the-ghost-in-conser-lake/" target="_blank">High Strangeness Bigfoot: The Ghost in Conser Lake</a></li>
<li><a id="flink_104_11894131707965778686" title="The 10th annual UFO Festival in McMinnville, Oregon is coming! It happens in May, and  I’ll write more about this as we get closer to the date. Meanwhile, check out the official UFO McMinnville website.I’ve attended the last two years, and it was great fun both times. Last year I had the honor and pleasure to spend a long lunch with Richard and Karyn Dolan (Richard was the keynote speaker at the Festival.)You can download my  McMinnville, Oregon UFO: Festivals and Hoaxes at Lulu.com.    " href="http://forteanswest.com/wordpress-mu/oregonlowfi/2009/02/04/mcminnville-ufo-festival-and-free-download/" target="_blank">McMinnville UFO Festival (and free download!)</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://forteanswest.com/wordpress-mu/texaslowfi/"><strong>Texas L.O.W.F.I</strong></a><em><br />
Tales of High Texan Strangeness </em>with <strong>SMiles Lewis</strong><span class="yshortcuts"><br />
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<li><a id="flink_106_12490647788946609561" title="In late 2001, in the wake of September 11th, a new publication was born out of fear for our Republic and a need to communicate the weirdness of post-911 life to our Central Texas friends, family and neighbors.From early 2002 to mid 2003 I was editor of the Austin Para Times news-zine. We covered a variety of paranormal and parapolitical issues and topics.I left the magazine to finally start my non-profit community lending library, the Anomaly Archives.In issue #3, I wrote an article as my alter-ego Jackson Valient (with co-writer Yogina Bare … another pseudononymous author and fellow fringe explorer) that serves as an introduction to all things anomalous here in Central Texas.I offer it here for archival purposes and as part of my personal introduction to our new audience within the LOWFI network.- SMilesAusTex Anomalous: An APT Guide to Para TexasBy Jackson Valient and Yogini Bare PDF Downloads: apt3-pg6 / apt3-pg7Why Austin Para Times? What’s so “Para” about Austin or Texas?People might not think of Texas as particularly paranormal or parapolitical, but we have a long tradition as a disputed territory and have retained the right to secede from the United States. Our state sports a lot of stereotypes about backyard barbeques, cowboy roundups, and other wholesome family fun, but Texas has also seen some of the most notorious mass killings in the country, from murders by free-range serial killers like Henry Lee Lucas &amp; Angel Maturino Resendez the “Railway Killer” to the Matamoros massacre graves found along the Texas/Mexico border. We have one of the largest training facilities for Air Force intelligence in the country, and we’ve even had a President ceremonially sacrificed as part of a Military-Industrial Complex coup right on Dallas’ own Grassy Knoll. The Lone Star State may seem pretty straightforward at first, but, for the curious and well-informed, there’s a lot more lying beneath the fac?ade of normalcy.Texas Cryptoozoology ConnectionDeep within the heart of the East Texas Piney Woods lies the mysterious Caddo Lake region, a place of great cinematic interest which has seen the filming of many movies, including the drive-in classic The Legend of Boggy Creek about a bigfoot creature. But East Texas is also the stomping ground of real life bigfoot hunters. A network of dedicated outdoorsman and naturalists forensically investigating the physical traces of these intriguing and archetypal Sasquatch reports stretches from Conroe to Jefferson. Chester Moore, a contributor in previous APT issues, is headquartered in Conroe where he just held the annual Southern Crypto Conference last month. Meanwhile, Craig Woolheater, Assistant Director of the Texas Bigfoot Research Center in Jefferson, is busy organizing the 2nd Annual Texas Bigfoot Conference scheduled for October 12th.All across the State you can see the tell tale folktale markers in such placenames as HarryMan Road. Sombunall of these street namings actually originate from local sighting reports. Even Austin has a Cryptozoological Connection. The Fortean coincidence of names in these “alien animal” phenomena recurs with the strange goings-on reported down along Austin’s own … Boggy Creek. Residents along a certain stretch of Boggy Creek have reported mysterious shadowy shapes and animal noises. Reports one person:“I heard a strange animal call: it was positively mournful. It was almost like the hooting of our owls, but not quite. The cry had a resonance to it that was mammalian; it had expression.” And later … “This was a ‘textbook’ chimp sound, starting with the characteristic low, heaving grunt, working its way up to a shrieking “OOH-OOH-OOH-OOH- AH-AH-AH-AH!”Soon after, a resident’s dog went missing. When the dog was found barely alive, it:“… Appeared to have fallen off the bluff, and was unable to move. ‘He was ripped to shreds’, recalls Darrell, ‘The skin on the top of his head was flipped back like a bad toupee, and his skull was punctured. He was a bloody mess.’”The main witness was so frightened that he actually contacted Texas Parks and Wildlife. TPW was rather dismissive but sent out a two person team armed with rifles. The team searched the area along the creek and up on the bluff:” … they reported having found a veritable boneyard in an area up above the bluff, with skeletons ranging from dog-and-cat-size to entire deer. Their official opinion was that our ‘monster’ was a mountain lion.”As cut and dried as this case appears it offers typical Fortean and Paranormal anomalous details that are the hallmark of such ambiguous mysteries. The main witness, who was only one of the people to report these happenings, stated he was  part of a consciousness group experimenting with their own version of Stanislov Grof’s Holotropic Breathwork, and quoted another para-investigator as saying:“It is inevitable that the intention to investigate and communicate any experience alters the ultimate reality of that experience.”Whether you are a Fortean, Anomalist, Paranormalist or Cryptozoologist, the subject of “Bigfoot” offers an opportunity to consider various possible paradigms. From a purely Fortean or Anomalist (informational) perspective, one can consider these reports as possible misidentification of escaped chimps as bigfoot creatures or even the reverse: the misidentification of bigfoot as an escaped chimp. The Fortean or Anomalist will focus on the report as a narrative with possible but unnecessary physical evidence. The paranormalist usually will focus on the mysterious aspects of the beasts’ sudden appearance and disappearance. They may also link the witness reports of extremely foul odors preceding bigfoot sightings with smells like sulphur and rotten eggs that were supposed to accompany the presence of Medieval-style demons and Mephistophelean visitations. Austin even has it’s own paranormal oriented cryptozoologist, Rob Riggs, the author of In The Big Thicket: On The Trail Of The Wildman. An interview with Mr. Riggs will be included in a forthcoming issue of Austin Para Times.Texas Parapsychology ConnectionBridging the gap between Cryptozoological Investigations and Paranormal Research are the multitude of ghost, haunting, ESP and remote viewing seekers populating all of Texas. There’s the Lone Star Spirits and Capital City Ghost Research Society in Austin, North Texas Paranormal Investigation and Research Studies group in and around Dallas, and the South Texas Paranormal Society in Corpus Christi. Also of note is Michael Weaver and his San Antonio Paranormal Research Society. The SAPRS is a membership based division of the Institute of Paranormal Investigations, which conducts research in the areas of Apparitions, ESP, Hauntings, Remote Viewing, Mediumship and other paranormal phenomena using the rigid tenets of scientific method.Last but not least, we have legendary psi scientist Hal Puthoff, who has been in Austin for a while now studying possible alternative power sources involving Zero Point Energy. Puthoff produced the psi research scene’s premier Remote Viewing project at Stanford Research Institute in California working with the Father of Remote Viewing, Ingo Swann. Both Putoff and Ingo Swann spoke at last month’s International Remote Viewing Conference held here in Austin by former military remote viewer Paul Smith. Smith actively trains people in the art of Remote Viewing and makes his home in Round Rock.Of Crashed Craft &amp; Soaring Airships: Texas UFOs - The Early YearsPerhaps the richest alternate paradigm engrained in Texas history is the state’s legendary UFO sightings &amp; hotspots. An alleged crash of an alien ship has left a legacy of tales in Aurora, Texas. Some people believe, the interred body of the ship’s dead crewmember rests in the town’s cemetary. Someone even made a children’s movie based on the accounts, but didn’t attempt to portray an accurate record of the alleged events. Owners of the legendary Austin underground zine and counterculture store, FringeWare, commissioned a sculpture by artist Steve Brudniak to replace the stolen Aurora Alien tombstone.Let’s not forget other paranormal phenomenon like the Marfa Lights in West Texas that have mystified indigenous peoples as well as early and modern day settlers and travelers for a hundred years or more. The Marfa Mystery Lights appear almost everyday starting around dusk, and have been widely studied, but never solved. North East of Marfa is the site of another famous Texas UFO Mystery, the Lubbock Lights. The unidentified lights were seen by multiple witnesses and even photographed, but many dismissed them as geese flying in formation, reflecting the city lights off the bottoms of their bodies.In the late 1800s and early 1900s Southwestern States from California to Texas experienced a wave of unidentified flying objects before terms like UFO or flying saucer were ever introduced. These unidentified objects are known as airships because they predate the Wright Brothers’ contraption and seem to mimic early experimental blimps. Yet, in a strange twist some of the crew / occupant appearances portend both the Italian-looking olive-complexioned Space Brother crews of the 1950s and, in some cases, the short grey aliens of the 1980s seem predated by the Asian-eyed airship occupants.Several sightings of the airship were reported in Austin within the pages of our  city’s precursor to today’s Austin American Statesman. The first sightings took place on April 19th and were reported in the next day’s Austin Daily Statesman. Two more mysterious airship sighting reports appeared in the April 26th &amp; 29th issues.“About 3 o’clock yesterday morning, it began to rain and the young men were compelled to get up and fasten their tent. It was at this time they saw the mysterious air craft. They claim it was in sight fully fifteen minutes and are positive they could not have been mistaken. At intervals of every few seconds it would throw its searchlights, and the boys said the light looked as big as four ordinary arc lights. It made its appearance from behind Mount Bonnell and traveled north.” - Austin Daily Statesman, April 26, 1897“The airship, carrying a large headlight, passed over the city yesterday morning, apparently about 300 or 400 feet above the earth. … an intelligent and wholly reliable gentlemen living at the corner of Colorado and Second Streets. … Saw a great light slowly moving over the Salge Hotel. It was coming from the southeast and moved in a northwesterly direction… It traveled very slow, the light being so blinding that I could not see the shape of the vehicle. … After it had passed me, I could see the shape of the rear end of the vessel, and it appeared to be in this shape,’ and Mr. Porsch arranged his hands in a V shape, somewhat like the tail of a fish.”  - Austin Daily Statesman, April 29, 1897Nearly a hundred years later, one of the most famous physical trace UFO cases would occur in North Texas. The Cash-Landrum Encounter is a well known case in ufology that left rather significant physical traces in the form of conspicuous radiation burns on the witnesses, the road, and the witnesses’ car. It was December 29th, 1980, when Betty Cash, Vickie Landrum and Colby Landrum were driving along Highway FM1485. Colby was the first to spot the distant object which would eventually approach them and block their way on the road. Vickie screamed to, “Stop the car or we shall be burned alive!” The diamond shaped object hovered at tree top level above the road, occasionally belching flames below. It also had small blue lights on its dull aluminum surface and occasionally emitted a beeping sound. The three of them got out of the car, but the heat terrified them. Then the helicopters arrived. “They seemed to rush in from all directions… it seemed like they were trying to encircle the thing,” Betty says. An adequate explanation for this sighting has never surfaced; most people assume it was a military test aircraft gone awry.Several Air Force Project Blue Book files document sightings throughout the State, including one in Austin at Mansfield Dam on June 24th, 1967 (the twentieth anniversary of the Kenneth Arnold sighting and the birth of the “Modern UFO Era”). The witness was none other than psychic-sensitive ufo-researcher contactee-artist Ray Stanford.Ray Stanford pioneered one of the world’s most interesting and instrumented approaches to civilian UFO research ever with his historic Project Starlight International. Armed with radar, cameras, magnetometers, lasers, computers and other equipment, Ray and company documented several interesting sightings just outside of Austin. In one incident an orange ball of light appeared while they had a very special terrestrial visitor on the property; Charles Hickson of the Hickson/Parker Pascagoula Mississippi Abduction. Ray Stanford has since disbanded this research lab and now uses his psychic intuition to find a wealth of rare dinosaur fossils up in the North East United States.So next time you’re ready to dismiss Texas as just another boring state, take a trip to Marfa to see the Mystery Lights dance or visit the Capitol Building in downtown Austin and peruse the Freemasonic symbolism. Look at the anomalous right above you in the Austin sky, or consider that anyone you pass by on the street could be one of the numerous contactees, researchers, and paranormalists that make this place a lot more interesting than most people would suspect.reSOURCES:-Southern Crypto Conference&lt;www.CryptoKeeper.com&gt;-Texas Bigfoot Research Center &amp; the 2nd AnnualTexas Bigfoot Conference&lt;www.TexasBigfoot.com&gt;-Rob Rigg’s Mysterious Dimension&lt;www.MysteriousDimension.com&gt;-Austin’s Boggy Creek Monster&lt;www.elfis.net/elfol8/e8bbeheab6.htm&gt;-Lone Star Spirits&lt;www.LoneStarSpirits.org&gt;-North Texas Paranormal Investigation and Research StudiesDallas and Surrounding Areas&lt;www.geocities.com/boxer75161/NTPRS.html&gt;-South Texas Paranormal Society Corpus Christi&lt;www.SouthTexasParanormalSociety.com&gt;-Paranormal Research Society of TexasSan Antonio&lt;www.ParanormalTexas.net&gt;-Capital City Ghost Research SocietyAustin-Institute of Paranormal InvestigationsSan Antonio&lt;hometown.aol.com/psiexplorer/index.html&gt;-Remote Viewing Instructional Services&lt;www.RViewer.com&gt;-Austin’s Airship Sightings&lt;www.elfis.net/elfol5/e5aa.html&gt;-The Great Texas Airship Mystery by Wallace O. Chariton-Whitley Strieber&lt;www.UnknownCountry.com&gt;    " href="http://forteanswest.com/wordpress-mu/texaslowfi/2009/02/13/flashback-guide-to-para-texas/" target="_blank">Flashback: Guide to Para Texas</a></li>
<li><a id="flink_106_8881432498504374306" title="Upcoming Event in the Piney Woods of Texas … 2009 Texas Bigfoot Conference By Daryl Colyer and Alton Higgins (February 4, 2009) The Texas Bigfoot Research Conservancy (TBRC) announced today the finalized location for the 2009 Texas Bigfoot Conference. Over the last several years, the annual fundraising event has continued to grow in size from 150 attendees in 2001 to over 500 attendees in recent years. In 2006, the event was combined with the Bigfoot in Texas? exhibit in San Antonio at the University of Texas at San Antonio’s Institute of Texan Cultures. This year’s event will be in Tyler, Texas at the Caldwell Auditorium and is scheduled for 26 September 2009. The all-day conference event features an impressive list of speakers who present the latest in bigfoot sightings and research. The list of speakers will be announced at a later date.The TBRC is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt non-profit scientific charitable organization, comprised of volunteer investigators, scientists and naturalists, pursuing education and research activities pertaining to the centuries-old “wildman” phenomenon in North America. The TBRC proposes that the source of the phenomenon is a biological entity, probably an unlisted large primate. The organization is actively engaged in activities designed to test that hypothesis, including the onsite investigation of credible reported sightings in the Ark-La-Tex-Oma region.Find out more at… 2009 Texas Bigfoot Conferencewww.TexasBigfoot.com / www.TexasBigfoot.orgFor more Texas Events check out our new EVENTS page.    " href="http://forteanswest.com/wordpress-mu/texaslowfi/2009/02/13/texas-bigfoot-conference-september-26th-2009/" target="_blank">Texas Bigfoot Conference - September 26th, 2009</a></li>
<li><a id="flink_106_17699388249725230479" title="“Tales of High Texan Strangeness”“Out here we is stoned - immaculate” - The WASP: Texas Radio and the Big Beat, The Doors.Welcome aboard the LOWFI network. I’m SMiles Lewis, your humble guide and Bureau Chief for the easternmost state in our League of Western Fortean Intermediatists.I was born and raised here in Central Texas, having migrated north from San Antonio to Austin as a toddler - at the direction and with assistance of a parental unit, not hitch-hiking on my own mind you.I’ve had a life-long interest (obsession) with all things anomalous, first devouring my elementary school’s library of books on UFOs, bigfoot and the Loch Ness monster. Eventually I learned of Charles Fort’s legacy which has enabled weird-seeking as both a hobby and life-path.An early age ability to remember my nightly dreams is generally what I credit for sparking that obsession but it was equally spurred on by an assortment of personal paranormal experiences ranging from dream-switching, various synchronicities and apparent telepathic / empathic episodes.Having been raised on lots of science fiction (I was 8 or 9 years old when Star Wars first hit) I was drawn to the UFO phenomenon above all other Fortean pursuits. This lead me to local UFO groups like Austin MUFON and the Austin Abductee Support Group. I’d eventually be requested to head both of these organizations and did so for many years. These organizations sponsored several local conferences at which I would audio and / or videotape the proceedings. Some of these videos have been posted online including the Austin Mufon 9/26/92 mini-conference with Ed Conroy - author of Report on Communion - Parts 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 .It was my own EHEs (after Rhea White’s Exceptional Human Experience Network) with strange phenomena, particularly anomalous information transfer (ESP, Psi, Remote Viewing, etc.) and lucid dreaming, that would drive me to investigate the field of consciousness research and parapsychology. I found a local non-profit group (The Institute for Neuroscience And Consciousness Studies) that had all the same interests as me in scientifically investigating. I currently serve as its VP, webmaster and librarian.Years of voraciously reading and collecting books, paper files and magazines on the paranormal, consciousness, UFOs, Forteana, strange and mysterious phenomena, parapsychology and more led me to networking with various other publishers, researchers, seekers and writers like Greg Bishop, Robert Larson, and Peter Stenshoel of The Excluded Middle magazine (out in California), Wes Nations of Crash Collusion magazine (here in Austin), Adam Gorightly, Joan D’Arc and the Paranoia magazine crowd and many others.Networking with so many publications and people inspired me to try my own hand at desktop publishing and I began doing limited print-runs of a zine focusing on electromagnetic aspects of the paranormal, UFOs, parapsychology and mind control lore. It was called E.L.F. INFESTED SPACES - Journal of Possible Paradigms. Less than half-way through its life-cycle I adapted it for internet distribution and thus was born the ELFIS Network which has served as a Portal to Possible Paradigms for over ten years now.Eventually, I’d also become editor and content wrangler for a brand-new Austin tabloid news-magazine called Austin Para Times. (I’ll be posting shortly some rare archival articles from the print editions that have never appeared online before, including this Flashback: Guide to Para Texas.)The ceaseless collecting of Fortean books on topics as diverse as UFOs, consciousness, the paranormal, parapsychology and more ultimately led me to found my own non-profit community organization, The Scientific Anomaly Institute and its Anomaly Archives lending library. The Anomaly Archives has hosted and helped sponsor a number of local events including The Prankster and the Conspiracy (a free public lecture by Adam Gorightly about the strange world of Kerry Thornley), Reading The Enemy’s Mind (free public lecture by Former Military Remote Viewer Paul Smith), Texas Ghost Lights Conference with Paul Devereux, Nick Redfern, James Bunnell, and Rob Riggs, and most recently a lecture by C.B. Scott Jones on UFO Disclosure.Along the way I’ve spoken at a handful of public events and conferences on UFOs and related phenomena as well as organized one of “the Greatest UFO Conference that never occurred” wherein we were going to honor guerrilla ontologist Robert Anton Wilson with a lifetime achievement award. The 38th National UFO Conference would have been the 3rd time for the event to occur inside Texas. However, the tragic events of September 11th would cause the cancellation of that event. You can view television and movie trailers for this event that never happened here, here, here and here.Nowadays I’m maintaining The Elfis Network of sites, writing articles for ANOMALY Magazine and doing regular installments of my 3 radioshows (Blue Rose Report, PreCognitive Dissonance and PsiOp Radio) on my Anomaly Radio Network. I am honored and excited to be hosting the LOWFI network and serving as the Texas Bureau Chief.…Well, that’s gotta be it for now. Please do CONTACT US here at LOWFI and send us your strange experiences and encounters. We hope to chronicle and report on YOUR experiences while undertaking our own investigations of the strange and mysterious worlds of Fortean phenomena.- SMiles Lewis    " href="http://forteanswest.com/wordpress-mu/texaslowfi/2009/02/13/high-texan-tales/" target="_blank">High Texan Tales</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://forteanswest.com/wordpress-mu/washingtonlowfi/"><strong>Washington L.O.W.F.I</strong></a><em><br />
Washington’s weirdest tales waxed wisely </em>with <strong>Andy Colvin</strong></p>
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<li><a id="flink_105_14358534510380950092" title="Hello…First of all, it’s my esteemed pleasure to serve as the Washington State representative of LOWFI.I will no doubt need to occasionally focus on the Sasquatch creature. This will once again bring me head to head with my dreaded enemy, Col. J. Platypus Maddoxtopus, Ph.D., the Galaxy’s Greatest Cryptozoologist ®. J-Plat, as I like to call him, keeps his arms tightly wound around the Bigfoot world. Keep your eyes open for the dastardly deeds of this dynamic demonologist!Now… As a paranormal conspiracy anarchicrat, it is my sworn duty to warn the public that an evil doppelganger group, The League of Western Fundamentalist Industrialists, is pushing to keep West Virginia out of the The League of Western Fortean Intermediatists. They don’t even care that West Virginia, as its name indicates, is really a Western State!In order to stop this paranormal genocide, we must act now to include West Virginia! Remind the corporatists that is was they who decided that geography no longer mattered. The multinational military-industrialists themselves first broke the prison walls that once were our state boundaries.Whew! I’m glad I got that off my chest… Andy Colvin    " href="http://forteanswest.com/wordpress-mu/washingtonlowfi/2009/02/03/lowfi-doppelganger-alert/" target="_blank">L.O.W.F.I. doppelganger alert</a></li>
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		<title>Gorightlys Latest Books: James Shelby Downard’s Mystical War</title>
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“James Shelby Downard’s Mystical War”
by Adam Gorightly
Mind Control, occult scenarios, conspiracy and ritual crimes… In “James Shelby Downard’s Mystical War,” author Adam Gorightly chronicles the famed conspiracy researcher’s life long battles against Masonic Sorcery as an investigator and exposer of the Science of Symbolism, Onomatology (Science of Names) and Mystical Toponomy (Science of Places). “James [...]]]></description>
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<p><strong>“<a href="http://gorightly.wordpress.com/2008/11/18/james-shelby-downards-mystical-war-now-available/">James Shelby Downard’s Mystical War</a>”</strong></p>
<p><strong>by Adam Gorightly</strong></p>
<p><em>Mind Control, occult scenarios, conspiracy and ritual crimes… In “James Shelby Downard’s Mystical War,” author Adam Gorightly chronicles the famed conspiracy researcher’s life long battles against Masonic Sorcery as an investigator and exposer of the Science of Symbolism, Onomatology (Science of Names) and Mystical Toponomy (Science of Places). “James Shelby Downard’s Mystical War” picks up where Downard left off and follows the bread crumbs down a rabbit hole where only the brave (or crazy!) dare follow.</em></p>
<p><em>Available through amazon.com and <a href="http://www.virtualbookworm.com">virtualbookworm.com</a></em></p>
<p><em>For review copies and interviews contact Mr. Gorightly at <a href="adamgorightly@yahoo.com">adamgorightly@yahoo.com</a></em></p>
<p><em>“Adam Gorightly is one of the great divers into the mnemonic deep. If his readers come away with less than the definitive answers about the arcane creatures that populate these waters–from Kerry Thornley to Charlie Manson to James Shelby Downard–it will be only because they have become exhausted by the swim.” - <strong>Kenn Thomas, Steamshovel Press</strong></em></p>
<p><em>“Adam offers a unique take on virtually every conspiracy of our time. There are few answers to Adam’s rants, but they pose questions only the brave or seriously warped would dare ponder.” – <strong>Erskine Payton, “Erskine Overnight”</strong></em></p>
<p><em>“Adam Gorightly is a ‘crackpot historian’ of the highest order!” - <strong>Victor Thorn, wingtv.net</strong></em></p>
<p><em> Visit <a href="http://www.adamgorightly.com">www.adamgorightly.com</a></em></p>
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		<title>Elfis Network Sites in Fluxxx</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2009 22:15:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Several websites are transitioning from there to here or somesuch &#8230;
Do Not Panic.
- SMiles
Management?
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Several websites are transitioning from there to here or somesuch &#8230;</p>
<p>Do Not Panic.</p>
<p>- SMiles</p>
<p>Management?</p>
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		<title>PsiOp-Radio LIVE Sundays on Freedom Underground Radio</title>
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