We all know Hoks have trouble with spiders...
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UFO stuff & "The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch"
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We all know Hoks have trouble with spiders...
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March Madness 2022: Richmond shocks Iowa in 12-5 upset for Spiders' latest NCAA Tournament stunner
The Hawkeyes are going home early after losing to Richmond, which added to its history of upsets in the Big Dance
www.cbssports.com
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Did this astrophysics team film a wormhole? Research trip captures several UFOs
ALBANY, NY — The scientific research nonprofit UAPx is like a 21st-century A-Team composed of two highly regarded astrophysicists and a computational astrophysicist, two Navy veterans who are radar experts, a mechanical engineer and a former Air Force pilot who can MacGuyver a vehicle into a mobile lab. They research a controversial but critical field of UAPs — or Unidentified Aerial Phenomena...
...The data and video UAPx collected seems likely to command respect, especially given the reputations of Knuth and his teammates. It will take years to analyze completely all that UAPx collected in one week.
Much more at:
In S3, E2 UAPx is mentioned in the article as part of the Skinwalker investigation team.
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Who the **** cares about UFOs when it’s an absolute disgrace they misspelled MacGyver.Did this astrophysics team film a wormhole? Research trip captures several UFOs
ALBANY, NY — The scientific research nonprofit UAPx is like a 21st-century A-Team composed of two highly regarded astrophysicists and a computational astrophysicist, two Navy veterans who are radar experts, a mechanical engineer and a former Air Force pilot who can MacGuyver a vehicle into a mobile lab. They research a controversial but critical field of UAPs — or Unidentified Aerial Phenomena...
...The data and video UAPx collected seems likely to command respect, especially given the reputations of Knuth and his teammates. It will take years to analyze completely all that UAPx collected in one week.
Much more at:
After watching interviews of SSR's cast members off-set, they give accounts of unreported (thus un-aired on the show) camera failures and incidences of videographers being affected.
So this does happen! Travis seemed to indicate they demur to show these (and the video did not capture anything worth airing). So SSR producers, for whatever reason, do not address this issue-which is startling on several fronts.
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(Aliens and UFO Documentary) THE SECRET HISTORY OF UFOLOGY
Pretty good, and long, documentary of how people studying the phenomenon have come to conclusions.The video gives a discussion on the Drake Equation (calculating possibility of life in the Cosmos). And if there is a case for high probability, where are the aliens then: why don't we detect them? (This question/observation is called the Fermi Paradox).
Diverse views on the abduction craze and other reasonable speculations based on thorough investigations are offered.
"The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch"
Season 4 seems to be a work in process with the opening episode offering in May 2023: https://the-secret-of-skinwalker-ranch.fandom.com/wiki/Season_4
Now I have mentioned that though the State of Iowa has had a few UFO/UAP activities, it is far from a hotbed of reports. However! I have discovered two more connections with Iowa and IOWA STATE!
I recently learned Edward Ruppelt, a United States Air Force officer probably best known for his major involvement in Project Blue Book and author of the essential "The Report On Unidentified Flying Objects" book, is another Iowa State Grad and native from Davenport!
He attended Iowa State College where, in 1951, he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in aeronautical engineering: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_J._Ruppelt
Even more recently, I discovered the founder of MUFON (a respected science based UFO/UAP research and investigative organization) and long-time National Director Walt Andrus was from Des Moines. https://www.dailygrail.com/2015/09/end-of-an-era-mufon-founder-passes-away/
They join this group (which to me is oddly long) with Iowa/Iowa State Connections::
Kevin D. Randle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_D._Randle
Randle has a degree from University of Iowa in journalism (1973). He has many UFO connections and is regarded on of the top resources on the Roswell crash. He holds a high level of skepticism on many aspects of the UFO phenomenon, especially abductions, but contends there was a crash in Rowell, and more.James McDonald, a highly regarded Atmospheric Physicist has a PhD (1945) from Iowa State in Physics. McDonald believed UFOs were of great importance, especially after his observation of the phenomena. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_E._McDonald
Donald Menzel was a famous UFO debunker and taught at the University of Iowa for a short time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Howard_Menzel
Philip Klass was another major UFO debunker and was born in Des Moines and grew up in Cedar Rapids. Klass received a degree in Engineering from Iowa State. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_J._Klass
Donald Keyhoe was from Ottumwa, joined the military, and was a proponent of a Government deep-dive into studying UFOs. Keyhoe was an author and investigator. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Keyhoe
Brad Steiger was born in Fort Dodge. Studied at Luther College and wrote many UFO-related books. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad_Steiger
Harley D. Rutledge. Rutledge condensed his findings into a remarkable book called Project Identification: https://archive.org/details/rutledge-project-identification Harley Rutledge spent his childhood in Iowa, (Onawa) though he was born in Omaha. He is therefore on this list of those interested in UFOs with Iowa connections!
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As I indicated way back earlier in this thread, my reading of the 70s to 90s UFO literature was done as if it were SCI-FI. Several current movies about scary aliens (like NOPE! and the upcoming 2023 Alien: Romulus) got me thinking about some of the weird stuff scores of UFO researchers have come across.
Especially chilling are the well-documented horrors (which still may be occurring) in the N.E. of Brazil especially on and around the city of Belem near the Amazon mouth.
Even though there was quite a bit of evidence for the cases disclosed in the book-read here free: "UFO Danger Zone by Bob Pratt, " I have a hard time seeing it as a reality and instead as some tall tale. https://tinyurl.com/bdzm4ba9
Give it a read and see what you think. The warnings: Don't read alone, at night, with the door unlocked. Seriously makes you think.
Especially chilling are the well-documented horrors (which still may be occurring) in the N.E. of Brazil especially on and around the city of Belem near the Amazon mouth.
Even though there was quite a bit of evidence for the cases disclosed in the book-read here free: "UFO Danger Zone by Bob Pratt, " I have a hard time seeing it as a reality and instead as some tall tale. https://tinyurl.com/bdzm4ba9
Give it a read and see what you think. The warnings: Don't read alone, at night, with the door unlocked. Seriously makes you think.
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Link to Brazilian Military story on UFO attacks and deaths: https://www.mysterywire.com/ufo/ufo-brazil/
Iowan Talks to an Alien.
From 1974 on Robert Gribble to his retirement in the 1980s manned The UFO Reporting Center phones in Davenport, Washington. He taped the calls and often worked with witnesses and experts to investigate the sightings.
Many of those taped phone calls are archived such as the few here:
In one of those calls Mechanical Engineer (Iowa State Grad.?) Robert Estes while driving had an encounter with a flying craft near Sioux City and spoke to an occupant on 9/14/78: http://www.noufors.com/audio/NUFORC/NUFORC Humanoids/Humanoids 30.mp3
You may listen to uninterrupted hours of these firsthand, some real-time, witnesses telling what they saw and how it affected them:
From 1974 on Robert Gribble to his retirement in the 1980s manned The UFO Reporting Center phones in Davenport, Washington. He taped the calls and often worked with witnesses and experts to investigate the sightings.
Many of those taped phone calls are archived such as the few here:
In one of those calls Mechanical Engineer (Iowa State Grad.?) Robert Estes while driving had an encounter with a flying craft near Sioux City and spoke to an occupant on 9/14/78: http://www.noufors.com/audio/NUFORC/NUFORC Humanoids/Humanoids 30.mp3
You may listen to uninterrupted hours of these firsthand, some real-time, witnesses telling what they saw and how it affected them:
You can get in line behind these:
-The name sounds like a brothel in Vegas.
-Vodka Sam was a skinwalker.
-Those guys are everywhere.
Thought that I would check up on Robert Estes. Turns out that he is famous in the Southern California automobile dealership scene including building and racing cars. He was inducted into the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame that is located in Knoxville, Iowa in 2001. He did two years at UCLA in automotive engineering but dropped out when his father, Clifford passed away. His father was an engineer.
In the recorded report by Bob, he tells how he encountered a "machine" that landed next to his car while driving from Sioux City. He describes it as a machine like a tank and with wheels. The guy that got out of it said "Bob, what do you think of this?" and turned around and got back in and the machine left. The machine made no sound and had nothing on it to produce flight.
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Obviously, Bob Estes momentarily lost his mind on that lonely stretch of highway out of Sioux City! Right? How else does one explain that a highly educated, successful, person with no other incidence (as far as I could find) of a psychotic lapse?
"The Mothman Prophecies" https://archive.org/details/johnkeelthemothmanprophecies.atruestorybookzz.org has one example of this exact same type of incidence: A person is driving along and stop by a craft only to open a conversation with its occupant. (It is a reoccurring theme in "contact stories.") In Mothman, it's the mysterious Indrid Cold who makes an appearance: https://villains.fandom.com/wiki/Indrid_Cold
(The contactee with Indrid Cold, Woody Derenberger, wrote a book of his experiences: https://www.amazon.com/Visitors-Lanulos-Contact-Indrid-Illustrated-ebook/dp/B00N0WYGKK )
Cold, or a similarly named figure, pops up in this and other of these scenarios. It is beyond coincidence and a bit of insanity that this is the case. Skinwalker Ranch has this same bat-crap crazy stuff. What does it all mean?
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If you can get the link of "Mothman" to open on page 33 appears this passage in regard to Indrid Cold:
Woody Derenberger gaped in amazement at the thing. It wasn’t an automobile but was shaped like „an old-fashioned kerosene lamp chimney, flaring at both ends, narrowing down to a small neck and then enlarging in a great bulge in the center.“ It was a charcoal gray. He slammed on his brakes as the object turned crossways, blocking the road, stopping only eight or ten feet from it. A door slid open on the side of the thing and a man stepped out.
I didn’t hear an audible voice,“ Woody said later. „I just had a feeling ... like I knew what this man was thinking. He wanted me to roll down my window.“ The stranger was about five feet ten inches tall with long, dark hair combed straight back. His skin was heavily tanned. Grinning broadly, his arms crossed and his hands tucked under his armpits, he walked to the panel truck. He was wearing a dark topcoat. Underneath it Woody could see some kind of garment made of glistening greenish material almost metallic in appearance.
Do not be afraid. The grinning man did not speak aloud. Woody sensed the words.
We mean you no harm. I come from a country much less powerful than yours.
He asked for Woody’s name. Woody told him.
My name is Cold. I sleep, breathe, and bleed even as you do.
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A time traveler perhaps? Bob was very connected to mechanical (automobiles) geniuses and was one himself. I agree, Bob seemed to be a very stable, level-headed guy who was very technical and analytical.
The people that Bob was associated with were a very close knit group; mechanics, designers, builders, racers, financial backers, sponsors, automobile manufacturers, promoters, etc. The visitor in the machine casually called Bob by his first name as if he knew him or was closely connected to him. There were a couple of Bob's race drivers that he was close to that died in races and practices. Who knows what or how the visitation from the visitor happened because of one of those close relationships...or if it even did happen.
Since we are locked into this physical world and most of us can only experience it through our physical senses, we cannot know what is out there on other planes of existence. History is full of stories of beings not in our plane of existence that visit people on earth and these stories go back thousands of years.
I tend not to make a judgement as to rather the visitation occurred or not, but I tuck the story into my brain filing cabinet for possible future use.
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I really am confused as to how to interpret this stuff. But like you do I store it away and hope some pattern(s) emerges. I think the phenomenon is very adept at using what we think, or what we think we know, to confuse, hide, and manipulate what we perceive. But why?
The Boogie Monster with Kyle Kinane and Dave Stone is a fun podcast that covers a ton of these type of stories. Both of them are comedians. They used to be better at staying on topic so if you go back to old episodes there are some really good ones. They recently talked about the doc Moment of Contact about a crash in Brazil in 1996 that had a bunch of eye witnesses. If you don’t already have too many podcasts it’s worth a try.
