Mysterious Universe

After looking at those pics of the drones I think it’s not CG at all. It looks like the complex Sony spud wrench the repair man used to take apart my Blu-ray player. Either that or a Pitbull’s dog collar.

Typed in ‘Phil Imbrogno’ onto anagram server and got some interesting results:

Him Pro Goblin (fits with Aarons view he is a troll)
Hi Mr Op Goblin
No Pro – Him Glib (my favourite)

Oh wow, you guys played my phone message! I was a little nervous; I realized that was a bit too close to public speaking for my tastes as I was doing it. Thanks for the kind words.

The pants thing had me laughing so much! You two are so funny together.

In case you didn’t catch my compliment on the other post, Ben, I just wanted to say – you have a remarkable story telling voice. I always get drawn in the moment you begin to narrate these paranormal stories or encounters. Rather soothing, you should make Samuel Jackson run for his money haha. Loving the shows and I’ll continue to follow along for time to come. I’m very close to getting plus – - – soon…soon. 

It’s amusing to watch, but yeah, totally unbelieveable.  All those high trees around him and he’s getting hit at ground level?  Yeah right.

Re. Phil Imbrogno degree.  It sounds like it was investigated satisfactorily to me (by them going to the registrar).  While those automated systems are used to provide info on who went to the college (some businesses use them to vet job applicants), they can’t be used as a sole source.  

In my case, the college I went to happened to have the year AFTER I graduated as the oldest year in the automated system.  So when the HR of my current job checked on my credentials, the automated system said I didn’t attend, and they were going to deny me the job.  Fortunately they had subsequently followed up with the registrar and gotten the details, so I didn’t have to go hit them over the head with my degree.

It’s good that you guys are asking questions about Linda Moulton-Howe. As ever, you’ll draw your conclusions in your own time and that’s a good thing. With the podcast being so popular, your thoughts kind of take listeners with you and they can also make up their own minds.

6 seasons in and you’ve avoided becoming ego-monsters or the final word on anything. That might not sound like a big compliment, but it is.

I would love the Mysterious universe on telivision,  maybe on sbs or public broadcasting where you guys can have the show exactly how you like it. You guys have so much material and your show will not be like the tacky unexplained and reality telivision shows.

Oh no I can’t believe it’s the drones again, haha! **Mini CGI lecture warning**: The expert who suggested that they weren’t CGI because there was colour fringing… clearly doesn’t know about modern day CGI production. Most likely in 2007 these kind of effects were just done in Photoshop (there are free filters specifically designed for this! And many free tutorials!), whether intentionally or it just occured as a result of manipulation or JPEG artefacting. These days however, colour fringing in CG (usually called ‘chromatic aberration’) has literally gone the way of the lens flare or bullet time effect, tons of semi-pro/advanced hobbyists use it in their work because it looks cool. They usually overdo it, but it’s not hard to use it correctly. Normally it’s a filter or process applied after you’ve rendered your image, however it has gone so mainstream now that rendering softwares are coming with that feature built in, so you just tick the checkbox for it! Not only that… but these days you can render your CGI scene and pick a camera model (say, Canon 5D MKII or a Kodak one etc) and it will use the same colour response algorithms etc that the specified camera would have used if it had actually photographed your CGI world! This isn’t top level stuff either (though back then it would have been). I work in CGI and I really love/hate to say it, you can pretty much do anything you want with it, it’s just up to the individual or group to put the effort in.

This isn’t the first time Linda has been taken for a ride. She worked on a documentary in the late 80s for HBO on cattle mutilations, during which she got an interview with the military, where they took her into a room and showed her a document that claimed that Jesus was installed by aliens (groan). She still believes the veracity of the document to this day. A very well known disinformation guy named Richard Doty was the one who gave Linda the document.

http://www.etfriends.com/conference/addinfo/howe.html

He can be heard explaining his scheme/con on a Coast to Coast interview on Feb 27 2005.

There’s also some conflicting / evolving testimony among Jim Penniston and others in the
Rendlesham Forest case that should have raised some flags with a serious journalist.

I have been listening to Whitley Streiber’s “Dreamland” for years.  What a waste of f@cking time, now that I have found you two, I won’t be listening to that crap again.  I can’t believe I didn’t know anything about this podcast before now.  You guys are genuine, if you think something is nonsense, that’s what you say.  If anyone listens to the other podcast that I mentioned, I’ve become increasingly irritated that it is all about sponsorship – someone has written some book about a paranormal subject, pays their fee to sell the book on the aforementioned site, and gets an interview on Dreamland thrown in as part of the deal – regardless of whether it is believable or not.  This is truly refeshing.  And the fact that you are Australians just makes it better.  Thanks.