Showing posts with label Open Minds. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Open Minds. Show all posts
Friday, November 21, 2014
Travis Walton UFO Encounter Anniversary Site Visit | VIDEO
Travis Walton allegedly witnessed a UFO with several of his fellow loggers in the woods near Heber, AZ, on the evening of November 5, 1975. The UFO shot a beam of light at Travis and he was sent flying. His friends thought he was dead and took off. When they returned soon after, Travis was gone. They were accused of killing Travis and hiding his body in the forest. Five days later, after what Travis thought was only a few hours, Travis returned. Now it seems that Travis may have been taken on-board the mysterious craft and encountered extraterrestrial beings. . . .
Friday, February 21, 2014
Noted Ufologist, Dr Bruce Maccabee Receives Life Time Achievement Award | VIDEO
This year at the 2014 International UFO Congress Bruce Maccabee was given the "Lifetime Achievement Award" for his dedication and pursuit of the truth in ufology. Dr. Bruce Maccabee is undoubtedly one of the most significant Ufologists of our time. He has made invaluable contributions to UFO research and many of the most important UFO cases. Dr. Maccabee has been active in science research and UFO investigation for over 40 years and is one of the most interviewed researchers in the entire field. . . .
Continue Reading . . .
See Also:
The McMinnville UFO Photos; A Scientific Analysis By Dr. Bruce Maccabee (Redux)
VIDEO | Dr Bruce Maccabee Decodes The FBI 'X -Files'
THE PHOENIX LIGHTS 15th ANNIVERSARY: VIDCAST – Dr Bruce Maccabee Reiterates, ". . . The Lights at Ten O'Clock were Flares; The Real UFO Business was Between Eight and Nine PM" (3-10-12)
Photo Analysis of The Phoenix Lights
- Not The UFO -
SHARE YOUR UFO EXPERIENCE
Sunday, December 01, 2013
Historic UFO Audio Archive Recovered
| Tweet |  |
Historic UFO audio archive dating back to the 40s recovered
.jpg "Alejandro Rojas") | By Alejandro Rojas www.openminds.tv 11-26-13 |
A historic UFO audio archive documenting the beginning of the modern UFO era has been made available online. The archive was compiled by Wendy Connors and Roderick Dyke, and re-discovered and made available online by Isaac Koi and Giuliano Marinkovic.
Connors spent several years in the US Air Force working in communications before settling down in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She had an interest in UFOs, and in particular the Air Force’s official investigations into the matter. She was a founding member of the Project Sign Historical Group, which brought together people related to the Air Force’s original UFO investigation program.
Over the years Connors began collecting audio clips from some of the most important interviews of the time. She called her project to preserve these audio clips, “Faded Discs.” The clips included comments from the administrators of the Air Force UFO investigation projects, researchers, and other notable people, such as astronauts, actors, and presidents, who had something to say about the topic. She painstakingly re-mastered the audio so it could be preserved for posterity. . . .
Continue Reading . . .
See Also:
UFO Icons, Jim Moseley & John Keel Talk CIA, UFOs & Aliens | AUDIO - 1966
Long John Nebel Explores 'The Deros'; A Secret, Advanced, Subterranean Civilization (1956) | AUDIO | VINTAGE RADIO
VIDCAST | Major Donald Keyhoe Said Flying Saucers [UFOs] Are From Outer Space
VIDCAST | REDUX: Tom Snyder Interviews J. Allen Hynek and Peter Gersten
Long John Nebel presents-The Flying Saucer [UFO] Story | VIDCAST | UFO CHRONICLE
VINTAGE RADIO:
George Van Tassel, Dan Fry, M.K. Jessup and Hans Stephan Santeson On The Long John Nebel Show
Mike Wallace Interviews Major Donald Keyhoe of NICAP
SHARE YOUR UFO EXPERIENCE
Thursday, September 20, 2012
New TV Show Will Explore ‘Unsealed’ Alien/UFO files | UFO NEWS | VIDEO
During the past few years, select governments around the world have released to the public files related to unidentified flying objects and/or extraterrestrials. And a new television show is set to investigate these files.
The show, titled Unsealed: Alien Files, “investigates recently released documents regarding alien and UFO encounters, made accessible to the public in 2011 by the Freedom of Information Act.” The show’s website explains, “Each week, Unsealed: Alien Files tackles one compelling alien case by opening these previously off-limits secret files. Based on the newly discovered information the show re-examines key evidence and follows developing leads.”
A companion show, Unsealed: Conspiracy Files, will air immediately following Unsealed: Alien Files.
These shows will feature several “experts” including Jim Penniston, John Burroughs, Jason Martell, John Greenewald, Jr., and Lee Speigel.
The show, titled Unsealed: Alien Files, “investigates recently released documents regarding alien and UFO encounters, made accessible to the public in 2011 by the Freedom of Information Act.” The show’s website explains, “Each week, Unsealed: Alien Files tackles one compelling alien case by opening these previously off-limits secret files. Based on the newly discovered information the show re-examines key evidence and follows developing leads.”
A companion show, Unsealed: Conspiracy Files, will air immediately following Unsealed: Alien Files.
These shows will feature several “experts” including Jim Penniston, John Burroughs, Jason Martell, John Greenewald, Jr., and Lee Speigel.
Saturday, April 14, 2012
VIDEO | Travis Walton and Witnesses Talk Famous Alien Abduction
Wednesday, March 07, 2012
UFO Conference Follies
For the second year in a row, I traveled to The Ft. McDowell Casino near Scottsdale, AZ to lurk about the International UFO Congress and EBE Awards Film Festival. Last year John Rao’s “Open Minds” (OM) group acquired and moved the long-running IUFOC conference from its perennial Laughlin, NV location to it’s new venue, and I was impressed by the speaker lineup at last year’s soiré. The “A-list” luminaries turned out in droves: Stanton T. Friedman, Richard Dolan, Leslie Kean, Nick Pope, Jim Marrs, John Alexander, A.J. Gevaerd and Nancy Talbot. The speaker’s list read like a who’s who of serious research talent, and there was genuine excitement swirling around the event.
I remember thinking at the time: maybe there’s hope for the soon-to-be outmoded “UFO conference” model. But, maybe not. The Internet has irrevocably impacted how the world seeks and finds information, and this especially holds true for the field of ufology, where the average age of conference attendees is somewhere in the mid 60s. It was gratifying to see standing room only crowds at last year’s event, and the transition seemed charmed.
So what the heck happened this year? Attendance seemed substantially down; there was little, if any, excitement permeating the event and the list of speakers seemed to have devolved into the realm of kool-aid makers serving “true believers,” and little known “one-trick pony” presenters. This included one poor guy (who never spoke at a conference before) who had an extremely difficult time stringing sentences together – even after long 20-30 second pauses! If I had been watching I’m sure I would have wondered why nobody came onstage to give the speaker a hand, or yank him off with a sheep herder’s cane. Yikes!
Yes, my friends, it appears that the lure of the almighty dollar has struck ufology yet again. OM obviously cut corners this year on the quality of presenters – opting instead to pander to a true-believer, “butts-in-the-chairs” approach that clearly failed to deliver the caliber of data that you in The Paracast community demand. In my estimation most (but not all) of this year’s line-up, i.e., Steven Greer, Stan (and Lisa?!) Romanek, Whitley Strieber, Lynne Kitei, Jaime Maussan and David Sereda, have little to offer the hungry UFO field that, in my estimation, lusts for out-of-the-box, creative thinkers not tied to foregone conclusions, self-aggrandizing grandstanding, or creating cults of personality.
When Dr. Bruce Maccabbee canceled (?) at the last minute, instead of tapping the resources of the quality talent present at the conference, Open Minds inexplicably opted to bring back, for a second year, the irrepressible Stan Romanek and (get this) they also added Stan’s wife to the podium. That’s right: Lisa Romanek, whose recently published book “From My Side of the Bed: Pulling Back the Covers on Extraterrestrial Contact, A Spouses Point of View,” continues touting the highly controversial (and in my mind, highly dubious) Stan Romanek case.
Several people during the conference asked me what I thought of Stan’s claims and my stock answer for years has been: “If a case appears to good to be true, it probably isn’t.” I’ve been monitoring the meandering claims of the Romanekian worshippers for years, and it would seem that Stan is steadily becoming the model for a new 21st century version of the “contactee” guru – America’s answer to that one-armed Swiss bandit, Billy Meier. Ouch, my fingers smart just from writing that last sentence!
OK, I know, putting on such an extravagant event is fraught with financial peril, and when the bucks are spent, the bottom line is always an issue. But where do you draw the line between kool-aid mixing crowd pleasers and the genuine researchers with quality data?
Not all was a bust. There were several noteworthy presenters this year, including UFO historian Antonio Huneeus, prolithic author/investigator Rosemary Ellen Guiley, media maven Bryce Zabel, Colin Andrews (who was the recipient of the IUFOC Lifetime Achievement Award), and courageous General Ricardo Bermúdez, director of Chile’s Committee of Studies of Anomalous Aerial Phenomenon (CEFAA), the Chilean government’s official organization for the study of unknown aerial phenomena.
Is there hope for the UFO conference model? As the century slowly progresses, the old guard checks out and the kids grow up, I seriously doubt that this mechanism for educating the public will continue to be viable. About the time you read this article, I will be participating in my first-ever virtual UFO/Paranormal conference (http://www.kevinsmithshow.com/AU/ – $10 to stream) At 12 PM Eastern time, March 3, Greg Bishop (“Paranormal UFOs: The Human Element”), Walter Bosley (“The Hidden Landscape”), Andrew Colvin (“Men in Black: The Secret Terror Still Among Us”), William Michael Mott (“The Problem of Density Regarding Non-Human Encounters”) and myself (“UFOs, Abductions, Crop Circles, Miracles & Mutilations: What’s the Connection?”) will be presenting at the first-ever Alternate Universe: The i-Conference.
So is this an indication of the future paradigm in regards to presenting paranormal research to the public at large? Will this model attract a younger audience hungry for data and represent a new approach to the mysteries we cover here at The Paracast? Will the old timers login? Like much of what is happening in the world right now, only time will tell, but like many of us, I sense the future is impacting the paranormal field at faster-than-light speed.
. . . More
See Also:
VIDEO | 20th annual International UFO Congress kicks off in Fountain Hills
UFO NEWS | VIDEO | Day 2 of The International UFO Congress
VIDEO | 2011 International UFO Congress | Stanton Friedman vs. Dr. John Alexander in UFO Debate
SHARE YOUR UFO EXPERIENCE
I remember thinking at the time: maybe there’s hope for the soon-to-be outmoded “UFO conference” model. But, maybe not. The Internet has irrevocably impacted how the world seeks and finds information, and this especially holds true for the field of ufology, where the average age of conference attendees is somewhere in the mid 60s. It was gratifying to see standing room only crowds at last year’s event, and the transition seemed charmed.
So what the heck happened this year? Attendance seemed substantially down; there was little, if any, excitement permeating the event and the list of speakers seemed to have devolved into the realm of kool-aid makers serving “true believers,” and little known “one-trick pony” presenters. This included one poor guy (who never spoke at a conference before) who had an extremely difficult time stringing sentences together – even after long 20-30 second pauses! If I had been watching I’m sure I would have wondered why nobody came onstage to give the speaker a hand, or yank him off with a sheep herder’s cane. Yikes!
Yes, my friends, it appears that the lure of the almighty dollar has struck ufology yet again. OM obviously cut corners this year on the quality of presenters – opting instead to pander to a true-believer, “butts-in-the-chairs” approach that clearly failed to deliver the caliber of data that you in The Paracast community demand. In my estimation most (but not all) of this year’s line-up, i.e., Steven Greer, Stan (and Lisa?!) Romanek, Whitley Strieber, Lynne Kitei, Jaime Maussan and David Sereda, have little to offer the hungry UFO field that, in my estimation, lusts for out-of-the-box, creative thinkers not tied to foregone conclusions, self-aggrandizing grandstanding, or creating cults of personality.
When Dr. Bruce Maccabbee canceled (?) at the last minute, instead of tapping the resources of the quality talent present at the conference, Open Minds inexplicably opted to bring back, for a second year, the irrepressible Stan Romanek and (get this) they also added Stan’s wife to the podium. That’s right: Lisa Romanek, whose recently published book “From My Side of the Bed: Pulling Back the Covers on Extraterrestrial Contact, A Spouses Point of View,” continues touting the highly controversial (and in my mind, highly dubious) Stan Romanek case.
Several people during the conference asked me what I thought of Stan’s claims and my stock answer for years has been: “If a case appears to good to be true, it probably isn’t.” I’ve been monitoring the meandering claims of the Romanekian worshippers for years, and it would seem that Stan is steadily becoming the model for a new 21st century version of the “contactee” guru – America’s answer to that one-armed Swiss bandit, Billy Meier. Ouch, my fingers smart just from writing that last sentence!
OK, I know, putting on such an extravagant event is fraught with financial peril, and when the bucks are spent, the bottom line is always an issue. But where do you draw the line between kool-aid mixing crowd pleasers and the genuine researchers with quality data?
Not all was a bust. There were several noteworthy presenters this year, including UFO historian Antonio Huneeus, prolithic author/investigator Rosemary Ellen Guiley, media maven Bryce Zabel, Colin Andrews (who was the recipient of the IUFOC Lifetime Achievement Award), and courageous General Ricardo Bermúdez, director of Chile’s Committee of Studies of Anomalous Aerial Phenomenon (CEFAA), the Chilean government’s official organization for the study of unknown aerial phenomena.
Is there hope for the UFO conference model? As the century slowly progresses, the old guard checks out and the kids grow up, I seriously doubt that this mechanism for educating the public will continue to be viable. About the time you read this article, I will be participating in my first-ever virtual UFO/Paranormal conference (http://www.kevinsmithshow.com/AU/ – $10 to stream) At 12 PM Eastern time, March 3, Greg Bishop (“Paranormal UFOs: The Human Element”), Walter Bosley (“The Hidden Landscape”), Andrew Colvin (“Men in Black: The Secret Terror Still Among Us”), William Michael Mott (“The Problem of Density Regarding Non-Human Encounters”) and myself (“UFOs, Abductions, Crop Circles, Miracles & Mutilations: What’s the Connection?”) will be presenting at the first-ever Alternate Universe: The i-Conference.
So is this an indication of the future paradigm in regards to presenting paranormal research to the public at large? Will this model attract a younger audience hungry for data and represent a new approach to the mysteries we cover here at The Paracast? Will the old timers login? Like much of what is happening in the world right now, only time will tell, but like many of us, I sense the future is impacting the paranormal field at faster-than-light speed.
. . . More
See Also:
VIDEO | 20th annual International UFO Congress kicks off in Fountain Hills
UFO NEWS | VIDEO | Day 2 of The International UFO Congress
VIDEO | 2011 International UFO Congress | Stanton Friedman vs. Dr. John Alexander in UFO Debate
SHARE YOUR UFO EXPERIENCE
↑Grab this Headline Animator