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Ancient aliens, quantum holograms andanother day on Earth 2012 by Craig R. Lang, MS CHtto a big crashing halt sometime around 10 to 12thousand years ago.Linda does a great job of tying together a lot ofrather disparate topics into one bundle of mystery.In this case, she related a number of previous topics(such as the self-activating technology she talkedabout in 2011) with paleo-archaeology sites. Shetalked more about the photos of dragonfly drones,observed extensively in about 2007, or so (severalphoto analysts have since declared the photos to befakes using Photoshop). She related this to theCARET documents, purportedly leaked documentsdescribing efforts to replicate and commercializealien technology.The biggest piece of information, at least for me,was the idea, in which a set of symbols seemed tocomprise some form "software" that would executeon its own, without the need of a computer toexecute it. According to "Isaac" the pseudonym ofthe person who apparently leaked the documents toLinda, it executed when exposed to some type offield - perhaps a consciousness/quantum field,perhaps an EM field, etc. (use your imagination). Atfirst, the thought ran square into my discernmentfilter - leaving me cold until a bit later when I got achance to think about it a bit more. Then I began towonder - could this be similar to the buddingtechnology of 3D printing, where they canmanufacture parts directly using 3D imaging? Theidea was intriguing.The Monday after the October 2012 ParadigmConference in Minneapolis was a warm fall day andafter a weekend in the stratosphere, I found myselfhome raking leaves and taking care of businessrelated stuff (including this article). It was anotherday on Earth.As I write this article, the last few days have beenfilled with talks, presentations, panel discussionsand perhaps most important, conversations in thebar on the topic of the weekend - the unexplained,both ancient and modern. I met a lot of researchersand writers working in the areas of the paranormal,archaeology, UFO studies and ET contact. This wasa weekend where I was among my own. There waslittle need to justify my interest in the extraordinary- does this stuff exist, is it real, etc. Instead thefocus was on what does it mean, how long has itbeen with us, and what does it imply for our future.To be fair, I did hear a lot of things I didn't believe.But the beauty of events like this is that you can tryon ideas, see if they square with your owndiscernment, and then move on to another. In eachcase, the result is a lot of provocative questions and perhaps new ideas.The first talk was on Thursday evening, put on byLinda Moulton Howe. She always puts on a goodtalk, and this time was no exception. I had heardsome of the material she presented at the MUFONconference in 2011. But there was a lot of newinformation within it, as well. The most interestingof this was on the ruins of Gobekli Tepe, in Turkey.Usually, at conferences, the real science gets doneat the bar, often after a few glasses of wine, andThursday evening was no exception. I ended uptalking with Linda and a couple of other peopleabout this idea. What if, rather than being somekind of executable "software" as we would think ofit, the symbols formed a kind of holographicencoding. Apparently, the symbols were mountedon a seemingly-inert substrate, something like glassor crystal. What if the symbols, when exposed tosome kind of field, would generate a 3D hologramwithin the material? Like a 3D printer, theprojected image would contain information thatwould cause the material to change its properties ina way that would make it functional.I'm not an archaeology expert, so I don't have a lotof ability to evaluate what I heard as would anexpert in the field. Yet apparently, the ruins werefrom over 12,000 years ago. This flies in the face ofthe idea that civilization began only 5000 years (orso) ago. In addition, the ruins were apparentlydeliberately buried, for reasons unknown. Only asmall amount of the area has been excavated, butapparently, it is a large ceremonial site.There are plenty of examples of material changingin response to fields, including lenses that darkenwhen exposed to sunlight and LCDs, in which thematerial changes properties in response to anelectric field. Also, integrated circuit technologysuch as the gate array, does a similar thing, takingon functional properties based upon informationinput. So the idea of a holographically encoded fieldAt that time, Earth was still in the ice age. TheMediterranean seabed was dry and the area (nowdesert) was a temperate and fertile. It would havemade a good location for a civilization. She build agood case for the idea that this was part of anearlier cycle of civilization, one that somehow came4

that, when decoded using some type of referencebeam or field, contains functional informationcausing an otherwise inert material to take onfunctional properties, might not be as far fetched asit seems. There is a lot of work to be done there.And I'm betting that in some R&D lab in some solidstate electronics company, somewhere, this verything is being done.drove home (only a few miles), as quite a few otherscaught airplanes (or began long drives) back totheir respective homes.It was time to return from a world of ET contact,ancient aliens and quantum holograms to anotherday on Earth.But how does this relate to paleo-archaeology andthe ruins of Gobekli Tepe? To me, that was a bit of astretch. She stated there were a number of symbolsthat loosely matched those shown in the CARETdocuments. Thus, she speculated that perhaps therewas a similar function associated (in some way)with the ruins. Indeed, from a larger perspectivesuch as a satellite view, the ruins appear to have asymbolic nature to them. So she speculates thatperhaps the site, itself, has some type offunctionality. While interesting, I found this a bit ofa stretch - yet this was a weekend for stretches - andquestions.UFO Sightings Pose Danger to AviationFlying saucers and other unidentifiedflying objects can distract pilots andcause accidentsBy Michael Morella, October 19, /ufosightings-pose-danger-to-aviationBetween about 8 and 10 o'clock on the night ofMarch 13, 1997, hundreds of people near Phoenixreported spotting mysterious clusters of lights inthe sky. A number of witnesses said that many ofthem seemed to come from a brightly lit, V-shapedcraft, the size of at least several football fields.I thought Linda's was probably the best of the talks,but others were intensely fascinating. Most of thetalks were on closely related topics along theancient-aliens theme. This included presentationsby Georgio Tsoukalos, Eric Von Daniken, andseveral more. There were a lot of references toZacharia Sitchin's writings and the idea that mostreligions were, at least in part, influenced by ETcontact."It was astonishing, and a little frightening," onelocal resident said. School administrator SusanWatson still remembers watching with her childrenas the massive object she describes as a "floating"city passed silently over their home. Air NationalGuard spokesmen later suggested the witnessesmay have seen military flares that were droppedthat night, while some proposed that observerswere confused by aircraft flying in formation. Butthese explanations left many unsatisfied,particularly one witness who, for a decade, wasreluctant to acknowledge he had also seen thevehicle: Fife Symington III, Arizona's governor atthe time.The upshot of the collected talks at the symposiumwas that we are not alone. We never have beenalone. We have been visited all along. Visitation hasleft its mark on our history as well as on thepresent. Whether you believe any particularassertion, or even whether you accept any of theidea of paleo-archaeology, ancient ET contact, etc.,each gives us food for thought. There are a numberof fascinating archaeology anomalies coming tolight, and they challenge our present models ofhuman history."I'm a pilot, familiar with most aircraft," Symingtonnow says, "and what I saw is nothing like I've hadany knowledge of."Thousands of unidentified flying objects arereported each year by the public. The fascinationwith UFOs has become a fixture of contemporaryculture and a staple for science fiction writers andsupermarket tabloids. But in response to the centralquestion—are they alien spacecraft?—most officialsand academics dismiss the idea of extraterrestrialvisitations as unlikely in the extreme.As we got into the final day or two of theconference, I overheard a couple of peopledescribing feelings of loss, primarily over the notionthat after Sunday, they were going to have to returnhome to the same old thing. It's difficult to get intothe daily routine after having spent the weekend ontopics like human history, Armageddon prophecy,alien contact, etc. It's hard to get back into thequarterly sales report, calculating store inventory,or whatever other work-a-day elements one's lifemight contain. Yet Sunday finally ended, and IYet an increasing number of researchers and publicofficials say the subject of UFOs is long overdue formore serious treatment. They're a "mystery that5

science needs to engage in," argues journalist LeslieKean, who spent over a decade interviewing formermilitary officers, government officials, scientists,and eyewitnesses while accessing previouslyclassified government records for her 2010 bookUFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government OfficialsGo On the Record.of UFOs proliferated, media coverage seemed toinspire even more reports. Concerned aboutpotential threats to national security, thegovernment began to investigate.Its most notable program, the Air Force's ProjectBlue Book, began in 1947 and involved the analysisof some 12,600 UFO reports over two decades,most of which were categorized as misidentifiednatural or man-made objects, such as weatherballoons or high-speed aircraft. By the end of 1969,the Air Force declared that none posed a threat orinvolved an extraterrestrial vehicle. The project'sleaders did acknowledge, however, that they couldnot come up with an explanation for about 700 ofthe incidents.Generally, a UFO is defined as a phenomenon inthe sky—be it a light, solid object, or a combinationof these—whose true nature or source can't bedetermined. Those who study UFOs say that some95 percent of sightings can later be explained asordinary man-made objects or naturally occurringphenomena, from flares and military aircraft toweather oddities or reflections of the planet Venus.But that still leaves about 5 percent that seem todefy rational explanation.That margin of mystery continues to thrill diehardbelievers around the world, many of whom haveorganized into groups dedicated to studying UFOsand cataloguing and tracking sightings. The MutualUFO Network, for example, boasts about 3,000members in all 50 states and more than a dozencountries. MUFON receives about 500 reports ofUFO sightings a month, and some 1,000 volunteersinvestigate what they see as the most credible onesby interviewing witnesses and collecting photos,radar data, and other evidence."The bottom line is we don't know what they are,"says Kean, a former broadcast radio producer andveteran investigative journalist who has contributedto publications like the Boston Globe, theInternational Herald Tribune, and The Nation.The public's fascination with UFOs is a modernexpression of an age-old enchantment withremarkable events in the skies, notes AlbertHarrison, professor emeritus of psychology at theUniversity of California–Davis and author of the2007 book Starstruck: Cosmic Visions in Science,Religion, and Folklore.A big challenge for amateur and professionalresearchers is the large number of sensationalreports that later prove to be hoaxes. In 2009, localtelevision stations reported witness sightings ofstrange red lights moving through the evening skyaround Morristown, N.J., on several days inJanuary and February. As coverage spreadnationally, the History Channel series UFO Huntersfeatured the story."Signs from the gods, omens, and portents havebeen replaced by space-age visitors that haveremarkable god-like qualities and power," he says.It wasn't until after World War II that interest inspace-age visitors—and UFOs—really seemed totake off, and then it did so in a spectacular way. OnJune 24, 1947, salesman Kenneth Arnold was flyinghis private plane near Mount Rainier inWashington when he spotted a chain of nine,brightly lit objects moving at incredible speed nearthe mountain's peak. Arnold described each ofthem moving "like a saucer would if you skipped itacross the water," ushering the phrase "flyingsaucer" into common parlance. As with many suchsightings, various explanations were offered—amirage or meteors, for example—but in the eyes ofmany people the mystery was never resolved.In early April, however, two local men admittedthey had created the floating lights by attachingflares to helium balloons, to poke fun at UFOinvestigators and to demonstrate how unreliableeyewitness accounts are. The mysterious cropcircles that have for centuries inexplicably appearedin fields around the world are often held out bysome UFO buffs as markings left by alien craft. Butskeptics scoff, saying they could easily have beenman-made. Such stories frustrate seriousresearchers. "It really gets hard to separate thewheat from the chaff," acknowledges BruceMaccabee, a former U.S. Navy research physicistand MUFON state director.Public interest in UFOs continued to grow in the1950s and '60s as the idea of manned spaceflight toother worlds led many people to imagine what—orwho—might be traveling the other way. As reports6

In fact, many scientists and skeptics don't feel thatsystematically studying UFOs is a valuableendeavor.intelligence files. On Sept. 18, 1976, civilians andmilitary officials at an air base near Tehran spotteda large diamond-shaped object with pulsatingcolored lights flying over the city in the lateevening. Two fighter planes, including one pilotedby the major who recounted the event, werescrambled to intercept the craft, which was alsopicked up on radar and described as being aboutthe size of a 707 tanker jet. The major reported that,as he approached, the UFO seemed to emit aprojectile. Believing it was a missile, the officertried to return fire, but his weapons wouldn'trespond. Though he said the "missile" appeared toland on the ground below, no evidence of it wasfound. The larger craft disappeared from the sky inan instant. A U.S. Defense Intelligence Agencyreview later that year called the incident "a classicwhich meets all the criteria necessary for a validstudy of a UFO phenomenon.""I just don't think the evidence is very good," saysSeth Shostak, senior astronomer with the SETI(Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute, aresearch organization based in Mountain View,Calif.But Kean is convinced that there are enoughpuzzling cases for officials to give the subject a freshlook. In 1999, she was given a report produced by agroup of French military officers, scientists,engineers, and others examining a spate ofseemingly unexplained UFO sightings across theworld. She was struck by the credibility of theinvestigators, who concluded there was a need formore careful analysis of these "unknown flyingmachines" that appeared "guided by a natural orartificial intelligence." The report inspired her toreview once-classified government documents andincident reports from several countries (includingthe United States) as well as relevant photos, radardata, and material from private sources. She alsointerviewed official UFO investigators for severalforeign governments along with military andcivilian pilots, some of whom offered firsthandaccounts reported in her book.Kean points out that countries like France and Chilemaintain official government agencies to handlethis kind of investigation, but the United Statesdoes not. The Federal Aviation Administrationsimply advises pilots to report any incidents toprivate UFO groups or to local authorities if theybelieve property or people are threatened. Thisofficial lack of interest is a concern, Kean says,because of the potential dangers posed by someincidents."These are people that you have to take seriously,"Kean says.In one case, on Nov. 7, 2006, a dozen or so UnitedAirlines workers at Chicago O'Hare InternationalAirport spotted a gray metallic-looking diskapparently hovering for several minutes above anairport gate before shooting upward and vanishing,leaving a hole in the cloud cover. The witnesses,including mechanics, pilots, and supervisors,shared their accounts with the Chicago Tribune,which covered the story. The FAA suggested theyhad seen a "weather phenomenon" and didn'tformally investigate, Kean says, despite thepotential intrusion of an unknown craft in theairspace of one of the nation's busiest airports.Former United Airlines pilot Neil Daniels was onewitness who shared his story with Kean. On March12, 1977, Daniels was piloting a DC-10 on a routineflight from San Francisco to Boston. The aircraftwas operating on autopilot when it suddenly startedto turn left. Looking through the cockpit window,he and several other members of the United crewsaw a brilliantly lit ball, roughly the size of theirown plane, about 1,000 yards away. Daniels thennoticed three of his compasses were pointing indifferent directions. After a few minutes, theglowing ball flew off at high speed. "Whatever itwas, it wasn't an airplane," said Daniels, whopassed away in May at his home in Los Altos, Calif.Air traffic controllers later reported they had notnoticed any unusual radar traffic in the area, andthe incident wasn't investigated further."The FAA's mission does not involve theinvestigation of UFOs," says agency spokesmanTony Molinaro, adding, "Our employees didn't seeanything unusual and nothing caused anyoperational problems that day."Even when government officials do try to examine aUFO sighting, they can be stymied by elusive—orvanishing—evidence. In Kean's book, a pilot in theshah-era Iranian air force describes a UFOencounter that Kean also found referenced in U.S.In fact, many experts are more concerned about thehazards these sightings pose to aviation than aboutthe potential for alien involvement. When flightcrews are distracted by what's going on "outside thewindow," they are focused on that and "not flying7

the airplane anymore," says Richard Haines, aformer senior research scientist at NASA's AmesResearch Center who is now chief scientist of theNational Aviation Reporting Center on AnomalousPhenomena, a private research group focused onflight safety related to unidentified aerialphenomena. Kean agrees, particularly since pilotshave reported encountering some of the morebizarre sights in the sky, including metallic disks,massive cigar-shaped craft, green spheres, andhighly agile objects that seem to stop, accelerate,and turn in response to a pursuing pilot'smaneuvers.Yuzhikov looked at blurring caused by incorrectfocus and movement, both of which he claims areimpossible to correct us

with psychic abilities, several of them sensitive enough to do readings professionally. Most had family histories of strong psychic abilities - mother, grandmother, etc. Several had children who were psychic, . big earth changes and on the personal,