Mysterious Universe

In the years following World War II, technological improvements that resulted from competition between world superpowers stoked the fire beneath innovation in a number of areas and fields. These ranged from industries like automobiles and weaponry, to aviation and, ultimately, technology that would allow flight and exploration into outer space.

For many, such innovations might be perceived as the result of certain necessity. In other words, if the United States hadn’t thrown their proverbial weight around and gotten to the Moon before anyone else (especially following the milestone achievement that was the launch of the Soviet Sputnik satellite), concerns over whether another nation might have done so–and thus capitalized on the potential strategic advantages Earth’s lonely satellite could provide–might have been a game changing event.

History, of course, proved otherwise, at least when it comes to utilizing lunar property for futuristic “Star Wars” style defense systems. But even today, there may be other startling branches of futuristic science that will present nations around the world with little other option than to cross the ethical threshold into a trans-human future… and one where human-animal hybrids may become an unsettling reality.

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Open any 20^th Century history book and you will read that the first female ever to slip the surly bonds of Earth was a 26 year-old Russian woman by the name of Valentina Tereshkova. Young Tereshkova was launched into an orbital trajectory aboard the Vostok 6 on June 16, 1963, officially becoming the first woman to fly in space, but there are those who would suggest that this brave soul was not the first woman ever to make it into orbit… just the first one to make it home.

In the July, 1962, issue of Fate Magazine, journalist and radio personality, Frank Edwards, published an article entitled “Those Lost Soviet Astronauts,” which made headlines across the globe. In his article, Edwards proposed that translations of tracking station tapes and other intercepted communiqués indicated that between five and seven unidentified cosmonauts had lost their lives while engaged in early attempts at manned space flight.

As if that weren’t intriguing — mot to mention horrible — enough, Edwards further revealed that one of these cosmonauts was said to be a woman… a woman who, if the reports are to be believed, was the actual the first female space traveler in human history. But before we delve any further into this enigma, let’s take a quick look at the official story of the first woman into space.

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Back in late-2009,  I traveled with good friend Greg Bishop to Angel Fire, New Mexico, where we were both due to speak at a conference in town – Greg on UFOs and me on Cryptozoology. Before heading out of Albuquerque for the gig, however, we met for lunch with a man named Gabe Valdez, who – while serving in a position of authority and significance with the New Mexico State Police in the 1970s – had been heavily,and officially, involved in the investigation of New Mexico-based cattle-mutilation incidents. Well, now comes the very sad news from Greg that Gabe has passed away.

But, Gabe’s legacy, his investigations of the mute kind, and his place within the history of this curious phenomenon will not be forgotten. Indeed, we can learn a great deal about the work of Gabe, his theories on cattle-mutilations, and much more from studying official files on the man’s discoveries, courtesy of none other than the FBI – one of several official U.S. agencies that took a close look at the grisly mystery in the 1970s.

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Plans for an artificial sovereign nation floating in international waters spark visions of a utopian society, but will our future machine masters allow us such freedom?

Also featured is a family harassed by an evil little man, fairy psychosis in Mexico, and new tales of time slips.

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This week we lead off with news that Darpa has lost yet another football over the neighbour’s fence, (a $380 million dollar stealth football that is), Seti has risen from the ashes, and new Submarine tech to take us deeper than ever before could be in civilian hands as early as next year.

Also featured is a Canine advisor to world leaders, real Cowboys and Aliens, and the duality of human consciousness revealed in NDEs.

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There are a number of reports of UFOs and strange aerial objects (even black helicopters) that follow automobiles at various times. A few recorded instances even have to do with the UFO craft in question managing to cause equipment or complete engine failure with these vehicles. Whatever it is about these odd flying craft–whether they be strange alien devices, or advanced airships of our own human design, they certainly appear to have the ability to control and manipulate space around them in strange ways.

But there are also a few instances where people driving in close proximity to alleged UFO craft have lost entire control of their vehicles; and perhaps even more strangely, the cars have been described as having piloted themselves along dark, country roads and out-of-the-way avenues in such instances, as though literally being manipulated by the craft itself.

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Somewhere in the wilds of Washington State is a bizarre geographic anomaly that locals believe may well be a gateway into another dimension. While the legend of the Devil’s Hole allegedly goes back for decades… if not centuries… the public at large did not become aware of the phenomenon until 1997, when legendary radio host and paranormal enthusiast, Art Bell, invited a man named Mel Waters to be interviewed on his globally syndicated radio program Coast to Coast AM.

Mel Waters is a captivating character who claimed to be the owner of an unusual piece of property located near Manastash Ridge, Washington. The property, which is adjacent to the Yakima Firing Range near the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, was, in and of itself, nothing special, but situated on an isolated portion of the acreage is a geological irregularity — a hole to be specific — that was said to bear strange and arcane attributes that could only be found at one other place on Earth.

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