Mysterious Universe

One of the most outrageous, but certainly intriguing, theories surrounding the early years of the Contactee movement suggests the Contactees were in the clandestine employ of the United States’ Intelligence community.

Their secret role: to spread outlandish – and utterly fictitious – tales of trips to the Moon and Venus with long-haired aliens. Their purpose: to make the entire UFO subject seem ridiculous, and to bury the truly unexplained and mystifying reports amongst a mass of largely unbelievable tales of cosmic contact. As controversial as it may seem, however, when we look for connections between the Contactees and elements of U.S. officialdom, we do find them.

For example, documentation that has surfaced via the terms of the Freedom of Information Act demonstrates that while the FBI of the 1950s was hardly enamored of Contactee George Van Tassel, that was most certainly not always the case. The Freedom of Information Act has shown that in previous years Van Tassel had what could be termed quasi-official links with the FBI which were most assuredly not frowned upon.

An FBI document of November 16, 1954, for example, references Van Tassel as having been “acquainted” with FBI Special Agent Walter Bott (who had then recently died), and that furthermore, Van Tassel “helped [Bott] on many cases at Lockheed.” Furthermore, a number of those same cases involved attempts by Soviet “plants” to learn U.S. defense secrets that Van Tassel helped Bott to thwart.

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On this very special episode of Mysterious Universe we are joined by Mark L. Cowden who discusses his experiences talking to spirits from the other side.

We also take a look a phantom train encounters, the Bob White Alien Artifact and discover the dangerous nature of the Devils Pool.

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When it comes to UFOs and insider sources willing to impart apparently extraordinary and secret information on UFOs, we hear a great deal. The alleged revelations of the notorious “Falcon” in the affair of MJ12 and Roswell is a perfect case in point. And, of course, it’s just one of many! But, what we don’t often get is insight into how, why and if the Government takes note of what these saucer-themed Deep Throat’s” are saying to those of us within the the UFO research community. But, just occasionally, we do get to see a bit of what goes behind the scenes, and how the official world keeps watch on certain people determined to leak classified UFO data.

And the case I’m referring to here has to do with NASA’s Gemini program…

As far as the Gemini program is concerned, NASA states: “The National Aeronautics and Space Administration announced December 7, 1961, a plan to extend the existing manned space flight program by development of a two-man spacecraft. The program was officially designated Gemini on January 3, 1962.”

And now: onto the Gemini/UFO connection; an admittedly very strange story that surfaced in the pages of a report prepared by what became known as the Condon Committee – a wholly informal title for the University of Colorado’s UFO project that ran from 1966 to 1968, under the direction and control of a physicist named Edward U. Condon.

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Earlier this year, New Page Books released a UFO anthology called Exposed, Uncovered and Declassified: UFOs and Aliens. This book features articles on ufology from some of the very best out there in the field, including Nick Pope, Marie D. Jones, Nick Redfern, Stanton Friedman, and a number of others. As you might have imagined, I was also featured in this hearty tome of oddities, where the editors allowed me to share my humble insights on proposed ways UFOs might achieve the apparent ability to go about unnoticed; true, in many reports, UFO craft seem to be able to vanish into thin air, the possible byproduct of cloaking or invisibility technology.

The reason I say “apparent ability” here is because, while it may appear that UFOs can dissappear (slightly oxymoronic sounding, but bear with me), their presumed disappearances in mid flight, described by a number of witnesses in well documented cases, could represent other facets of their operation. One theory might involve the craft opening dimensional rents in space, which after passing into this alternative dimensional state in such a way, may cause a perceptual illusion that you or I would perceive as literally vanishing.

While we must respect this idea as a possibility, we can’t help but entertain the alternative as well: that these physical craft are equally capable of physical processes that render them invisible to the naked eye. That said, now we’re left with the utterly jocular task of deciphering how the hell they do it… but fear not; as always, I have a few ideas about how this works, as well.

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What are UFOs? Are they strange craft, piloted by visitors from other worlds? Are they merely the weird looking products of secret government projects that seek to build advanced aircraft for military purposes? Or, given the possibilities that may exist, could they be something else entirely?

Though it seems obvious now, based on the way I’ve framed the questions above, in truth what we might call “the UFO enigma” has to do with a broad variety of different kinds of strange phenomenon. Each potential solution constitutes its own individual area that could be researched and studied independently, and adds its own various array of mysteries that pertain to the broader phenomenon we call UFOs… and we actually stand to gain from making this distinction.

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It was late when Valery Denny left work to board the commuter train.

“I just wanted to go home,” she said aloud to herself as she stepped out of her office door that early October San Francisco night. It was 8 p.m. Working on emails through her cell phone as Denny, thirty-four, boarded the train, she didn’t know she walked onto the wrong one. “I noticed immediately when the train departed and the driver announced which line we were on,” she said. “I began to make my way to the doors to exit the train at its next stop. It was then that I noticed a man who was sitting a couple of rows away.”

She immediately sensed something was wrong with that man. “This being public transportation, you get all sorts of perverts, weirdoes and colorful folks,” she said. “It becomes commonplace to see strange people. For some reason, this man sent a chill up my spine.”

The man wore a black priest’s habit, which wasn’t unusual. Denny had seen plenty of priests, nuns and monks on the train. “But something about him frightened me,” she said. “His skin was impossibly pale and wet looking, as though he was sick. He had a strange smile on his face that I can only describe as menacing.”

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We dust off some old west UFO reports for this episode before re-visiting incredible tales from Police Officers including a one on one Reptilian encounter.

Also featured is an exciting new documentary project, “Space Penguins”, and new rapture predictions.

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