Spirit In The Sky

I always hesitate to post UFO footage or unknown alien phenomena on my Facebook page because everyone has a crank as to what they see. If you are especially careful not to say UFO in your post you get some surprisingly interesting theories about the subject matter.

Last week, there was a lot of speculation about black rings that mysteriously were hovering over Kazakhstan. There were similar rings sighted in Leamington Spa England.

There was also a remarkable clip from Nebraska, KeriLeigh Shriver posted a video to her Facebook. She was driving out to capture some lightning pictures and to the side of her windshield she saw a gigantic object shoot by.

Was it a plane? It looked like a giant bird traveling at fast pace.

The debate continues over exactly what the truth is behind the sightings of anomalous objects that are above the earth. The US Air Force has explained on many occasions that a lot of what is seen can be explained. However with the obsession of extraterrestrial mythology and reality, every bright light, shooting star, experimental plane, and weather anomaly can end up on the front pages of tabloid newspapers and on special fringe news programs labeled as bona fide extraterrestrial craft with the acronym “UFO” attached to it.

Special effects wizards can create on a computer grid, creatures that once occupied our darkest nightmares from dinosaurs to slimy tentacled aliens with acidic blood and gnashing teeth.

They are fun to watch with a fist full of popcorn at a matinee but when they are made to deliberately fool you then we start to see the devaluing of the subject matter.

I enjoy science fiction myself and I embrace the enduring wonder and the introduction of aliens in the pop culture, however not everyone is enchanted by Star Wars or the geekiness of “Star Trek.” People complain that every where they look there is a buggy-eyed alien looking back at them.

The end result is future shock, a term that is applicable when we begin to have media bombard us with one particular way of thinking. This creates a tune out factor and prejudice that blocks out any information that may be valuable.

This is unfortunate. The UFO has lost its charm in some circles and many people are distancing themselves from the cartoonish alien Greys that have now made their way into beer commercials and ads for fast food.

This may be tainting serious research and creating a bit of noise that detours the researcher from taking baby steps in gathering sound research in order to form a detailed hypothesis about such matters.

The literature available about UFO’s is abundant and the obsession of such topics is evident as we see many people cash in on every new age philosophy and whim. The trouble is that the faith in UFO’s and their oogly alien pilots may be premature when you consider that we have thrown all logic off kilter and anthropomorphized many aspects of the possibility of life forms outside of earth.

It seems that the UFO or anomalous objects have been in our history for several millennia. They have taken on the characteristics of Gods, demons, angels, fairies, sprites, gnomes, leprechauns, and aliens. They have traveled in pillars of fire, fiery chariots, glowing spheres, demon ships, glowing clouds, silver eggs, and brooms, buzzing insects with breastplates of iron, comets, saucers, and triangles.

This phenomenon continues to exist, and while the argument is that it is a psychological phenomenon we need to acknowledge that hypothesis without reticence in order to maintain a bit of credibility to our research and study.

However I must clarify that It is highly unlikely that every experience is psychological and we must cautiously embrace the other explanations as well.

It is also important to acknowledge the possibility of nature and its ability to continually surprise us with new data and new life that we have overlooked. It is far too tempting to engage in flights of fancy when investigating these miraculous sightings.

Astrobiological explanations have blanketed the mainstream lately giving us hints and clues that the probability of life everywhere in the universe is highly likely. There are still the rigid scientists that want some of this speculation to go away. It seems that the universe is beginning to become less mysterious and more indicative of how we became living breathing beings on this planet.

Panspermia had been talked about since the 1960s, however the idea of living cells coming from space was dismissed based on the possibility of contamination from earthly contact.

According to exobiological research, the discovery “gives support to the theory that a “kit” of ready-made parts created in space and delivered to Earth by meteorite and comet impacts assisted the origin of life.” The obvious implication of this discovery is that, if life blocks are spread through the universe through comets and asteroids that impact on planets, the possibilities of life that uses the same blocks on other planets is a very real one.

An event took place in 2001 that could only be described as a biblical rain of blood. A red rain fell for two months over the southern Indian state of Kerala. The strange meteorological anomaly was documented by Cochin University of Science and Technology physicist Godfrey Louis. Louis collected numerous samples of red rain, determined to find out what was causing the anomaly. What he found was intriguing. He found no evidence of sand or dust.

According to his findings the rain water was filled with red cells that looked remarkably like blood cells or tiny bugs. Louis had said that the cells had a different outer layer and a distinctive quality that did not appear to be anything from this Earth.

Louis published his results in the peer-reviewed journal Astrophysics and Space in 2006, along with the tentative suggestion that the cells could be extraterrestrial, perhaps from a comet that had disintegrated in the upper atmosphere and then seeded clouds as the cells floated down to Earth. In fact, Louis says there were reports in the region of a sonic boom-type noise at the time, which could have been caused by the disintegration of an object in the upper atmosphere.

What I am proposing is that religion may very well be the result of man’s ancient encounters with a presence from the sky that he did not fully understand. His flight of fancy was to declare what is out in the heavens as a “God” and in his humility kneel down, worship and supplicate to the power that dwells above him. A power or being that he hopes will return to him and give him the personal love and acceptance that he has hoped for every breathing day of his existence.

Isn’t that what abductees and the faithful have been telling us all along? That whatever may dwell in the heavens will eventually return and reassure a faithless planet that all is well and that they will be saved from certain annihilation?

I am also proposing that the modern image of the Grey or the angelic look of the Nordic alien race is in similitude of religion but with the icing of technology and its promise of liberation if it is used correctly and without malice.

I am also stating that Ufology lends itself to a variety of theories and that no theory is absolute because it is based primarily on data that is vague. It is vague not because of the evidence in hand but because the casual observer in most cases is not planning on witnessing an event as sporadic as a UFO or supernatural occurrence.

Lately however there have been a number of people who have had with them a camcorder in hand and have been able to capture breathtaking images of UFOs and brightly-lit spheres that hover, change direction, and in some case send messages to the observers below them.

With this technology we are able to see duplication of activity, similar shapes and characteristics that show that something intelligent is in control of whatever it is that’s in the sky and there are others who believe that perhaps some of the anomalies are living things.

It can be all of the things mentioned but for the sake of this compendium of thought I have chosen to re explore the idea that one type of phenomenon, the one that is less nuts and bolts is something as simple as a life form that exists, that observes us, watches over us, and is in some way a protector of the planet.

Charles Fort chronicled in his books a history of sightings of creatures that live in the skies above us. He said these creatures are like jellyfish and that they move about unnoticed. Every once in a while these creatures attack. They seem to be invisible, carrying with them enormous energy.

In articles on MysteriousUniverse.org, this and similar phenomena are termed “atmospheric monsters.” In addition to the jellyfish, writer Rob Murphy discusses sightings of “air whales,” “air krakens,” “skyfish” and headless dragons. The phenomena were fictionalized in the works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Howard Phillips Lovecraft, among others. Lovecraft’s story From Beyond postulated that we would all be able to see such creatures all around us if only our pineal glands (a residually photoreceptive organ) were larger.

This may sound a bit odd but let me demonstrate how history has given us calling cards of proof that an extra terrestrial life form exists and that this life form is as simplistic as bacteria or a microbial bug. It’s a simple phenomenon that has all of the attributes of the angels and some of the attributes of the common extraterrestrial.

The ancient Vedas, and The Book of Dyzan reveal to us the advent of the appearance of glowing spheres that appear to be living beings of light. Angels and lights have been referenced in the bible many times, especially at the birth of Jesus. A ball of light appears above the house where Jesus was after his birth, and a multitude of heavenly hosts (glowing balls of singing light) appeared with angels making beautiful music.

In July and August of 1566 aerial phenomena appeared in the skies over Switzerland. The account was duplicated in a wood carving showing large spheres hovering in the skies.

In the mid 1940’s European theater, World War II was about to end. Bomber crews were starting to notice glowing spherical objects hovering and maneuvering near their planes as they flew bombing runs over Germany. These spheres were known as “Foo Fighters.” To this day no one has been able to explain what these orbs were and what their purpose was.

In 1947 Kenneth Arnold’s sighting made headlines and the “age of the flying saucer” begun however what Arnold saw was not a saucer but shimmering orbs that skipped across the sky “like a saucer on water” the term stuck and the media created the term flying saucer. The sightings increased and the military became interested creating the term UFO.

The idea of alien beings piloting these craft never caught on until after the account of Betty and Barney Hill and then came the buried story of the Roswell Incident and the alien infestation was created.

This led to an obsession or overwhelming interest in the phenomena and the mainstream media was able to paint UFO believers with one ugly brush making them out to be white trash dullards who were looking to make fast cash and quick notoriety.

The saucer and the spacemen were the hot topic now. And every cynic and debunker was ready to pounce on the person who even claimed to have seen an anomalous calling card even though sober and responsible individuals were still seeing the spheres and orbs in the skies above the earth.

In 1962 John Glen flew his Friendship Seven spacecraft over the Southern Hemisphere. While flying he noticed several glowing spheres surrounding his aircraft. Glenn described them as fireflies and later said they acted like living critters. NASA dismissed the anomaly as ice falling off the module.

Christmas Day 1968 Houston Mission control sat in silence for six agonizing minutes as Apollo 8 encountered a “bogey” that was a glowing sphere. Jim Lovell then told Houston in an attempt at a joke that he knew now that Santa Claus existed.

It was even rumored that in 1969 when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were out in space they spoke to NASA on a secure channel describing brilliant orbs lined up above the moon watching them.

This communication could be bogus but several other witnesses including some Russians claim that it indeed happened.

On July 11th 1991, during an eclipse of the sun, Mexican nationals looked up into the sky and with Video cameras in hand managed to get on tape the appearance of several orbs hovering in the skies and then moving erratically. Some were disc shaped and others looked like small shimmering Christmas tree ornaments flying in formation.

In March of 1997 a chain of events took place that eventually led to the deaths of 39 people Near San Diego, California.

Not only was the world gazing into the skies to see the comet Hale Bopp but others were seeing things that had them wondering if an invasion had begun.

Glowing orbs or spheres made their presence known and many people were frightened and demanded answers. March 13th 1997, will be a day that will be remembered as the day of the most remarkable American UFO sighting ever recorded.

It will be remembered as the Phoenix Lights incident where Glowing orbs made a huge triangular formation over a 300-mile corridor from the Nevada line through Prescott Valley and Phoenix to the northern edge of Tucson. Later in the night, a series of bright spheres appeared on the city’s southern horizon.

Then came the stories from amateur astronomers that a glowing orb was caught in the gravitational pull of Hale Bopp. This so impressed Marshall Applewhite, the leader of the Heaven’s Gate cult that he was willing to believe that this was a sign that the God’s were returning. Especially those who dwelled in the “Evolutionary Level Above Human.”

Applewhite convinced 38 of his followers to commit suicide for a chance to ride on what has been called “the companion” an alleged beam ship that was in the tail of the comet. After the bodies of the dead cult members were taken from scene, the people who were responsible for reporting that a “companion” was following Hale Bopp were silenced.

Others were chastised for reporting dangerous information. After the initial shock had wound down it was later reported that Zdenek Sekanina of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory confirmed that a natural satellite about 33 kilometers wide was orbiting about 200 kilometers from Hale-Bopp’s nucleus. The Orb in the tail of the Comet was very real and not a hoax.

It was much later that Ufologists were looking again to the astronauts for confirmation that orbs were positioning themselves in the sky. There was footage that made its way to mainstream news organizations that clearly showed something being fired upon in space above Australia.

This footage has been called the STS-48 Footage. It was footage downloaded from NASA K-band in September of 1991.

What is seen is up for debate however there is no question that something interesting has been caught on film. A serene capture is shown at first and then there is a flash off out of the frame. Shortly afterward, an unidentified orb or sphere changes direction abruptly, and then what appears to be a laser projectile, shoots linearly past where the UFO was drifting.

The conclusion that was given as to what was seen was perhaps a “Star Wars” weapons test against a drone decoy. Other UFO investigators say that it was as a Star Wars attempt against an extraterrestrial UFO.

Many investigators say that the projectile that was fired at the UFO was most definitely coming from Australia. This would have to mean that if any Star Wars weapons were being fired they could be traced to the secret Pine Gap facility or the North West Cape military facility in Australia.

NASA of course concluded that that the UFO was most definitely an ice crystal, and the off camera flash was a burst from an adjustment rocket on the Shuttle. The question is if there was an adjustment firing of a rocket, why then was there no shift in the horizon on the field showing on camera?

The shuttle missions of course are mostly civilian however the crew on this shuttle was military. It was after this debacle that NASA decided it was time to move their satellites and delay their broadcasts.

However the resourceful Ufologists found a way to get more footage and later another Shuttle broadcast was taped showing even more anomalous orbs that were hovering between Australia and Chile. This footage is known as STS-80.

In 1999 other footage was surfacing showing the same anomalies with confused astronauts asking NASA for explanations.

Orbs were clearly seen in STS-75’s mission. This mission was the ill-fated “tether mission,” where a tether carrying a satellite broke after it was extended 12 miles away from the shuttle. The Tethered Satellite System was a joint NASA-Italian Space Agency system that was flown aboard Space Shuttle Columbia in an experiment to better understand the electrically charged environment of Earth’s ionosphere, and how tether systems behave in it.

The Tether breaks synchronistically in an area where there is no danger to the shuttle or her crew. After the tether breaks and it is some 22 miles away an infinite number of Orbs start attacking the tether with the satellite attached.

The strange thing NASA concluded was that an external foreign object may have caused a breach in the tether however it was not specified as to what it was. It was not classified as space junk, orbital debris, or micrometeoroids. NASA also said that even though the mission was a failure they were able to make what they call “startling scientific discoveries” however they did not elaborate.

When NASA re-established contact with the tethered satellite, they discovered that all of its on-board computers had been mysteriously reprogrammed.

Tonight, Clyde talks about mysterious objects and lifeforms in the atmosphere, and interviews Professor Milton Wainwright from the University of Sheffield about the small metals balls he has discovered in the stratosphere, which he believes contain alien DNA.

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