The Gralien Report

I would like to wish a very happy Independence Day to everyone, both here in America and abroad, as I know we have many international regulars here at The Gralien Report. May the spirit of peace be with you, and may liberty’s little flame keep burning inside you all your days.

I woke up this morning feeling rather patriotic, for obvious reasons aforementioned, and instead of donning a star-spangled necktie or slicing into a big slice of strawberry-rhubarb pie (yet, anyway), I felt the urge to see what other Americans are doing to celebrate their independence. What I found was more than a mere hint of urgency, and maybe even a bit of a preoccupation, with economic and environmental concerns; a kind of “neo-patriotism” for the modern era. In the midst of celebrating this patriotic holiday, folks are nonetheless keeping their minds wrapped around rising fuel costs, global warming, and personal sacrifice. I’ll have to share a few of these with you, and then finally we’ll take a slightly paranormal look at the lovely lady of liberty to whom I’ve already alluded.

Always with one eye kept toward the energy crisis, and even in the “heat” of the political season, Time Magazine’s Joe Klein has decided he’ll show his patriotism by cutting off his air-conditioner. “For the good of the country, we should be sweating,” he said in an editorial this week, where he tosses attractive numbers at us like a savings of 20% on your air conditioning expenses by raising your thermostat a mere five degrees. He goes on to later describe President Bush’s failure to address energy and fuel conservation “one of the great failures of his presidency,” and notes that Barack Obama and John McCain have both addressed the matter in recent campaign stops. “I’d like to see both candidates call for an immediate 5 degree F adjustment,” Klein says, “just to get the conservation ball rolling – and because it would be a ‘personal virtue’ for each candidate to ask it of us.”

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Last year, just before her release from a short prison sentence, American starlet Paris Hilton described feeling like spiritual forces had sent her to jail (contrary to what any tabloids may have said otherwise). She reported feeling that her “spirit or soul did not like the way I was being seen and that is why I was sent to jail. God has released me.”

Whether or not you can take this statement seriously, on a personal level at least Hilton seemed to describe what she felt to be “divine intervention”, instances of which may not appear to be a blessing of any sort at the onset, only to reveal later that there was a hidden meaning behind the hardship.

In one form or another, We all get “moved” by the spirit from time to time. My father is an Episcopal Priest, and growing up I’ve known a few people over the years who have come to me and personally described having “interventions” in their lives that seem to stem from someplace other than their inner consciousness. No doubt, my father has witnessed a lot more of this than I have, but I’ve still heard my fair share of bizarre instances of synchronicity from time to time in this regard, and of the amazing way that the spirit world, when it has something to say to us, will seem to communicate directly if necessary.

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I was sent a press release this morning detailing new information involving a nurse’s experience with the alien long said to have survived the UFO crash at Roswell, New Mexico on July 7th 1947. In the account, the nurse who examined the survivor claims to have been able to communicate with the alien via a telepathic link, a “channel” which seemed open only to her:

When we arrived I learned that one of the four personnel on board the craft had survived the crash, and was conscious, and apparently uninjured. The conscious alien was similar in appearance, but not the same as, the others. None of the other personnel present could communicate with the survivor, as the being did not communicate verbally or by any recognizable signs. However, while I examined the “patient” for injuries I immediately detected and understood that the alien being was attempting to communicate with me by “mental images” which projected directly from the mind of the being.

This excerpt, taken directly from the Press Release titled “Alien Interview: Top Secret transcripts from Roswell, N.M. 1947 Provided by Matilda O’Donnel MacElroy”, may provide a glimpse at new perspectives of America’s longest speculated UFO cover-up. For more information, visit http://www.alieninterview.org.

I’ve recently been reading Dr. Rick Strassman’s book DMT: The Spirit Molecule, in which participants in a study at the University of New Mexico were injected with Dimethyltryptamine (DMT) in order to observe the strange hallucinogenic effects it had on the human mind. Many participants described out of body experiences similar to near-death type encounters, and close to twenty percent even described encounters with strange insectoids, reptilians, or “Graliens”.

Today, I recieved an email from Brad Steiger which details his “strangest alien abduction case”. In this article, featured at the UFO Digest website, one can see that Steiger’s research draws many parallels with what Strassman describes in his book. Below is a link to Steiger’s fine piece:

http://www.ufodigest.com/news/0608/strangest-case.html

How fascinating it is that there are so many “mystical” qualitites still reported in alien abductions. These, and other reoccuring themes, will no doubt continue to stir the great Fortean melting-pot.

The news website Australia.to posted a frighteningly good UFO photograph yesterday, depicting what appears to be a black helicopter chasing an object reminiscent of other famous UFO photos from days past. Below is a link to the article, as well as a photograph:

http://www.australia.to/story/0,25197,23040467-289,00,00.html

From time to time, it seems that fascinating photographs are presented, and then subsequently forgotten. In this age of (fake) drones and digital renderings of everything from Chupacabras to Nessie, it seems like fewer people show appreciation for the often vague, yet strangely sublime photos we see from time to time of blurry UFOs buzzing around. Personally, though I concur with Mr. Keel that “belief is the enemy”, I am duly impressed with the photo linked above. However, it’s not the only recent photo I find impressive…

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In past Gralien Report articles, I’ve discussed some astonishing recent studies and observations in the world of the higher primates, specifically involving chimpanzees who have learned to use tools, and even swim. another reoccurring theme here has involved the concept of “Humanzees”, that is, human-ape hybrids. The fact that the small apes can display such learned “human” characteristics implies similarities between humans and chimpanzees on a genetic level which may previously have been overlooked.

CHIMPS IN SPACE: Enos, NASA’s “Space Chimp”, prior to being inserted into the Mercury-Atlas 5 in 1961, displaying typical human-like behavior among what he perceived to be “curiously chimp-like people.”

However, a new study suggests that chimpanzees also exhibit other man-like activities, including planning for the future, as well as avoiding cat-fights among females by keeping quiet about their sexual partners. Originally published in Animal Cognition, the study which resulted in a display of planning on behalf of the apes involved Linda and Maria Magdalena, a pair of female chimps, along with a male orangutan named Naong, who were shown how to sip “a yummy fruit soup using a straw-like hose.”

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Prior to hitting the open roads for a brief visit to Pennsylvania this weekend, I thought I’d poke around this morning and see what  anomalous news might be pushing the envelope around the world. Here are some of today’s top stories:

The mother of an autistic schoolgirl is now saying she feels the public school board in Barrie, Canada, acted unprofessionally by allowing a psychic to suggest that her daughter was a victim of sex abuse. “I have trust issues now,” she told the Toronto Sun, asking “What are they going to concoct next week?” School board directors, on the other hand, stated that all cases of suspected abuse must be reported if there are “reasonable grounds.” The autistic child, age 11, has been diagnosed with severe autism, and is nonverbal. School officials correlated her behavior with a recent psychic consultation, which described that a child whose name began with the letter “V” was being sexually abused by a man in his twenties, and called the for an “urgent meeting” where the girl’s mother, Colleen Leduc, was informed of the circumstances. According Leduc, “that’s when I got sick to my stomach. I was shocked (by) the whole meeting.”

http://www.torontosun.com/News/Canada/2008/06/18/5910691-sun.html

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In a news release issued by the Univeristy of Florida, a machanical and aerospace engineering associate professor has designed what he thinks may be a functional flying saucer, and not surprisingly, it’s proposed propulsion methods involve the use of magnetohydrodynamics, that is, passing electrical current or magnetism through a conductive fluid. What fluid do you suppose they might plan on using (and no, it’s not liquid mercury)?

Image courtesy of Danielle Zawoy and the University of Florida.

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In September of 2007, I was sitting in a Billiards room upstairs above Barley’s Taproom in Asheville, North Carolina, having a tasty microbrewery beer with my pal Jim Marrs, one of the most popular conspiracy authors in America. Jim knows, or has at least met or written about most of the notorious figures in modern conspiracy theories, and on that clandestine afternoon I took the opportunity to ask him about one who has perplexed me for years.

“Jim, what do you think about John Lear?”

Jim smiled a broad grin that emerged from under his beard. “Well, I know John,” he replied, telling me he’d met John Lear on a number of occasions.

“This ‘Dark Theory Hypothesis’ thing of his really has me mixed up,” I said. “Part of me… the biggest part of me, doesn’t buy it at all. But somewhere all this horrific shit he talks about, you know, like aliens bathing in ground-up human remains and all this Majestic 12 stuff, almost seems plausible when you look at his record.” Lear, who has been a frequent guest on programs like Coast to Coast AM and is one of the biggest proponents of the theory that our government has “bargained” in shady deals with aliens over the years, also holds every attainable medal in the USAF, which seems to lend greatly to his credibility. Still, many presume Lear may be a disinformation agent, planted with the purpose of “stirring the pot” and creating confusion among the American populace with regard to aliens and UFOs.

“So Jim, do you think he’s telling the truth?” I asked. Jim’s brow wrinkled a bit from beneath the long brim of his fedora, and after a mighty gulp of his brew, he told me, “well, I think he believes what he says.”

It was a telling response, and Jim was right; even if what some of the modern “informants” are saying about UFOs and Ufology isn’t 100% accurate, due to the number of contacts, stories, and personal encounters that people like Lear have gathered over the years, it doesn’t seem unlikely that portions of what they compile must be accurate. Still, these islands of truth may nonetheless float in a dark sea of conjecture and rumor.

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Doing a blog like The Gralien Report keeps me in touch with all the strangest stuff anyone could imagine, and on a daily basis. Still, from time to time I like to hear about weird encounters and other first-hand accounts of paranormal oddities from Gralien Report readers. If you have a story you’d like to share, email me by clicking here.

As always, I’ll look forward to seeing what strange news floats this way… keep in mind however that, due to the volume of reports I receive, I can’t post them all on the site, though I’ll always share the best ones when I can!

-Micah!