In the video below, an alleged UFO is depicted, having been filmed recently over King’s Dominion, a theme park in Virginia. Spokespeople with the theme park told Denna Smith, who made the film, that the odd ring-like object is smoke from a volcano-themed ride they feature… could this indeed be the cause of the odd phenomenon?

Though I state that the clip above was filmed recently, this video has in fact been circulating for a while already, with initial reports appearing by early-to-mid June. However, it is still of interest at present, especially after having provided time for two other incidents to come to light from decades past, which also resulted in photographs of a ring-like object appearing in the sky. The first of the two other known incidents occurred in Florida in 1999, the other near Fort Belvoir–incidentally, also in Virginia–in the 1950s (see photo below). The latter of these was described in official reports as “A black ring that became obscured by an opaque white cloud, reportedly witnessed by about 15 persons and photographed by the principle witness is identified as the by-product of an ‘atom bomb simulation’ on the army base.” One must admit that the visual similarities between these objects, filmed several decades apart, are striking.

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Posted by Micah, filed under UFOs. Date: July 3, 2009, 6:17 pm | No Comments »

On opening day of the new film Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, my brother Caleb and I eagerly attended an early showing to see the film before the evening after-work-rush began. An entertaining flick by all means, it nonetheless seemed to lack a bit of the spark (or perhaps in this case, a bit of the all-spark) of its predecessor, though I was still glad to see it maintained a variety of anomalous references in the film. These included an apparent near-death-experience by Shia LeBeouf’s character Sam near the film’s climax; also, what may have been a reference to various locales where fossilized dinosaur footprints allegedly appear alongside early human tracks is shown during the film’s opening sequence, as explained by the arrival of “the Fallen” to prehistoric Earth eons ago.

Though these instances provided a bit of food for Fortean thought, they pale in comparison to the number of Ufological references made in the first film. For instance, the initial teaser trailer depicted the famous loss of the Beagle 2 probe, a British landing craft sent to Mars by the European Space Agency in 2003. In reality, whether the Beagle 2 ever made it to the red planet is uncertain, as it mysteriously lost contact with the European Mars Express, six days before its scheduled entry into Mars’ atmosphere. In Transformers the event was explained as being the result of an “exo-skeletal-type” robot (apparently the popular Autobot character Bumblebee) encountering it after it successfully landed. The trailer detailed classified footage which “…transmitted approximately 13 seconds”, before the rover is crushed by the robot, initiating a cover-up by the film’s “Sector 7” organization, which fabricated the story that the probe had crashed.

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Posted by Micah, filed under Conspiracies, UFOs. Date: July 2, 2009, 1:00 pm | No Comments »

Earlier today, Gralien Report news correspondent Christopher McCollum sent me a link to a bizarre video discovered on YouTube recently, depicting bizarre “life forms” discovered in a sewer system beneath Cameron Village, a shopping center in Raleigh, North Carolina. The video linked below details the journey of a cable or “snake” camera into what appear to be six-inch clay pipes… and the “creatures” discovered within. However, I must warn readers of this blog that the video is a bit graphic, and those with sensitive stomachs may be advised against viewing it:


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Posted by Micah, filed under Cryptozoology. Date: July 1, 2009, 1:13 pm | No Comments »

Since man’s expansion across the globe first began through the use of sailing vessels, a variety of reports of animals unknown to science have been documented, with at least a handful still remaining inconclusive in the present day. Occasionally, some of the large marine animals that have been reported have been fairly large, causing many a mariner to consider whether great writhing monsters of the deep—sea serpents, for lack of a better term—might actually exist.

ABOVE: Baby eel or “Leptocephalus,” used under the GNU Free Documentation Liscense

Of particular intrigue is when accredited marine biologists and other experts in sea life report seeing large creatures they can’t identify or explain. One odd report in particular, dating back to July 18, 1963, seems at-a-glance to describe a strange, unknown “jelly-like” something from the depths of the oceans, witnessed swimming off the coast of the North Eastern US near New York City by Dr. Lionel A. Walford from aboard the research vessel Challenger. “It resembled a transparent sea monster,” Walford explained. “It looked so much like jelly. I could see no bones and no eyes, nose, or mouth. But there it was, undulating along, looking as if it almost made of fluid glass.” Indeed, Walford gives us a strange, vivid description of the beast he witnessed. However, what it was, exactly, seems to have been left to the imagination… or was it?

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Posted by Micah, filed under Cryptozoology. Date: July 1, 2009, 1:09 am | No Comments »

Earlier this month CNN.com reported about a collision between a Chinese submarine and an underwater sonar array being towed by the American destroyer USS John McCain. In the report, “ a U.S. military official calls it an ‘inadvertent encounter’… The array was damaged, but the sub and the ship did not collide… the (US) Navy does not believe this was a deliberate incident of Chinese harassment, as it would have been extremely dangerous had the array gotten caught in the submarine’s propellers.”

However, OpEd News writer Brock Novak argues that, based on analysis comparing the incident to an earlier capture of a US Navy P-3 anti-submarine warfare plane, this incident could be viewed as nothing but intentional:

The extraordinary real impact and jeopardization of national security of the P3 episode was masked by the media hoopla of simply getting the plane back, after the Chinese spent weeks “de-engineering” all its sensitive technology and secured the technical know-how they wanted. That is, the proverbial horse was already out of the barn when the plane parts were ultimately returned to the U.S.. The U.S. would get this towed array back too but only after it was thoroughly analyzed and de-engineered by Chinese defense and technology scientists. In relation to the P3 technology compromise incident, a huge parallel exists here with this new incident, disturbingly (and wrongly) being downplayed as a simple “inadvertent encounter”.

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Posted by Micah, filed under Conspiracies, Science and Technology. Date: June 26, 2009, 12:37 pm | No Comments »

Earlier today, news broke about the death of Farrah Fawcett, a highly anticipated event as media coverage had continued to reveal to the public over the last several months that her health had been deteriorating at an alarming rate. Then, shortly after 3:15 PM today, most major media sources had begun shifting their attention to what has perhaps become the biggest celebrity-death shocker this year; the passing of pop singer and cultural icon Michael Jackson. Jackson was 50 years old.

As I read the news on my Blackberry forty five minutes later, I grimly thought to myself of the old adage, “things happen in threes”. Could this end up being the case today? Now, our worst fears may be confirmed as synchronicity threatens to strike yet again… indeed, details are slowly emerging regarding what may be the death of a third celebrity; a shocking conclusion to today’s unsettling round-up.

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Posted by Micah, filed under Fortean Phenomena. Date: June 25, 2009, 7:21 pm | 3 Comments »

Most folks are familiar with S.E.T.I. (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence), and when discussing it myself, one of my very favorite examples to give is perhaps the most famous imagery associated with it; large arrays of radio transmitters and satellite dishes. However, fewer people realize that, much like a regular conversation, communication with possible extraterrestrials can go two ways, also.

Active SETI (also known as METI, or “Messaging to Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence”) consists of the act of sending signals into space, with the intention of aliens receiving them. But is this practice dangerous?

Stephen Hawking, in his book A Brief History of Time, suggests that “alerting” extraterrestrial intelligences of our existence is not only dangerous, but that it’s also foolhardy. Apparently, according to Hawking, mankind’s history of how we treat other cultures less technologically proficient than us provides the best comparison. He bluntly suggests that we “lay low”. After all, even if aliens weren’t hostile and trying to kill us, they may very well occupy Earth, and pluck us like beets from the ground to be chartered in a anti-graviton wagon to the nearest (at least semi) habitable mudball; a “reservation” of sorts, where we humans can live as we please. So sadly, this sounds so familiar. Perhaps we learn things from history after all…
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Posted by Micah, filed under Science and Technology, UFOs. Date: June 24, 2009, 10:56 pm | No Comments »

Greetings Graliens,

For those of you who haven’t seen already, I’ve added a Twitter button to the sidebar next to this post (that’s right, lovingly allow those precious peepers to drift slightly to the right… see it? Very good). Now you can have links and updates about The Gralien Report, as well as a variety of other neat facets of my research, sent directly to your mobile device. Cool, huh?

Technology is great… ciao!

-Micah A. Hanks

Posted by Micah, filed under Uncategorized. Date: June 24, 2009, 10:07 pm | No Comments »

The largest, and perhaps most famous of the macropod family (that is, creatures with large feet) are Australia’s iconic hopping delight, the Kangaroo. Used as a national symbol appearing on the Australian coat of arms, some of its currency, and a variety of other places, this unique saltatating (jumping) creature has become a mainstay of Australian culture.

Considered a cultural icon in their homeland, kangaroos are believed to exist only in their native Australia. But alas, perhaps all the wonderful treatment kangaroos get Down Under just isn’t enough; in spite of our scientific understanding that the creatures are endemic to Australia, anomalous appearances of the creatures elsewhere have occasionally turned up over the years, lending to theories of “Screaming Kangaroos” and large marsupials existing in parts of the United States.
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Posted by Micah, filed under Cryptozoology, Fortean Phenomena. Date: June 24, 2009, 2:42 pm | 7 Comments »

Whether we live in the depths of the darkest jungles or on the most crowded streets in large urban epicenters, each day we take for granted the plant life which surrounds us. Several years ago, I recall an instance where a friend of mine who had recently been diagnosed with a kind of hyper-sensitivity had been sitting in my driveway with me one evening, when he thought he overheard voices coming from nearby. “Do you hear that?” he asked. I admitted that I hadn’t heard anything in particular. After a brief silence, he laughed to himself. “That’s funny… I could have sworn I had heard voices. Must have been the trees talking to one another.”

At the time, I didn’t really know whether to take him seriously or not. He had been told by doctors that he was particularly sensitive to subtle energies, electric fields, and a variety of other things, which may have explained his frustration at periodically finding himself unable to concentrate easily. Surely, I thought, he wasn’t picking up on any subtle energies from trees; but whether or not he had been joking about overhearing plants speaking, it was clear that my associate had thought he was hearing something. As strange a notion as this seemed, little did I know that there already existed an entire subculture that dealt with whether or not plants might be conscious entities. Furthermore, a growing body of scientific information points to unforeseen ways in which plants and humans interact, with many instances where plant “spirits” even seem to communicate with us directly.

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Posted by Micah, filed under Science and Technology, Uncategorized. Date: June 23, 2009, 5:22 pm | 1 Comment »

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