The Gralien Report

While browsing through back issues of Science Frontiers Newsletter, a scientific/historical journal detailing reports of anomalous occurrences, I came across this famous report of “purple blobs” found in Frisco Texas in 1979:

In early September 1979, the Associated Press carried a story about three purple blobs found in a yard in Frisco, Texas. One blob evaporated away, while the remaining two were preserved for analysis by NASA. The blobs were warm when found and had appeared during the height of a meteor shower. At first, NASA scientists did not rule out the possibility that the jelly-like goo might be extraterrestrial, but an AP dispatch the next day (not as widely printed) inferred that the blobs were merely industrial waste!

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Our present culture is riddled with UFOs. They are literally everywhere we look, and as evidenced by the continued efforts of researchers like Budd Hopkins, even the less-pleasant elements of the UFO mystery remain consistent with us today, especially among these the subject of abduction. Even though the famous “contactee” era of George Adamski and others like him has long since passed, what other kinds of alien or ultra-dimensional “contact” might still take place in the world of today?

Back in the 1970s, famous philosopher and “ethnobotanist” Terrence McKenna first contacted what he called Machine Elves (sometimes referred to also as “Fractal Elves” in popular culture), whose “constant dance”, according to McKenna, essentially wove the fabric of time and space. Along these same lines, McKenna was most famous for his speculations that the fabric of many universes and realities might be more closely aligned than science is capable of expressing presently, and through the use of hallucinogenic substances extracted from plants (hence the term ethnobotanist), he claimed to have become aware of the entites he called Machine Elves “after having taken tryptamine based psychedelic drugs, especially Dimethyltryptamine (DMT).”

A classic depiction of an elemental-type elf from the English painter Richard Doyle.

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When it comes to cryptozoology and animals being out-of-place, I’ve heard some wild ones.

One of the best in my collection came to mind recently, and this morning I finally made my way down into the “dungeon of lore” beneath my bedroom and dug it out of my archives to share here. Interestingly, it was a response to an article about Bigfoot that I wrote for FATE Magazine back in 2004; as you’ll see, the reply I got didn’t have much to do with Sasquatches, but it’s unique all the same, though perhaps reminiscent of some of the early pioneer legends like that of the “hoop snake” and the “hodag”. Here’e the letter:

I read and enjoyed your article in FATE Magazine. I am very enthralled by cryptozoology, especially the second variety dealing with critters which seem to match no others in existence, but rather seem as denizens of a bad acid trip.

Here in central Georgia several years ago a retired chiropractor, while driving to a small town, notices a group of DOT (highway repair) workers standing in a huddle on the side of the road. Since small town folk tend to know each other, he stopped and inquired about the focus of their attention.

It seems that they had captured what he describes as a rattlesnake with two front legs with claws, from around which coarse hair hung forth.

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Indeed folks, this is my official acknowledgement of the recent server issues here at The Gralien Report. For those of you who have spent the last several days visiting the site, only to see the dreaded “500 Server Error” message, I’ve finally been able to fix the problem, after bargaining with tech support over Easter Weekend. 

Hopefully things will be back to normal… well, at least as normal as they can get ’round here.

 -Micah!

It was reported several days ago that the seven member crew of the international space station orbiting our planet await the arrival of a Canadian named “Dextre” who will join them in furthering our understanding of the cosmos. Dextre may not have a heart or brain as we know it, but the New York Times reported that he certainly has “arms to make R2D2 jealous.” Yes indeed, the space station is finally getting its own robot.

As the space shuttle endeavor is about to welcome this “eighth member” to its ranks, back on Earth many are contemplating the passing of one visionary who, in many ways, may have had a hand in getting Dextre’s arms moving; it was announced just yesterday that Arthur C. Clark had passed away peacefully at his home in Sri Lanka. He was 90 years old.

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English Newspaper The Sun reported yesterday (March 11 2008) that a strange midget resembling a “creepy gnome” has been spotted in the South American town of General Guemes, in the province of Salta, Argentina. Below is a link to the story written by Virginia Wheeler that was featured on the paper’s website, along with a video:

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article902014.ece

It was at around 1:00 AM after a fishing trip that young Jose Alvarez claims that they spotted the “gnome”, after he and his friends had begun hearing sounds similar to someone tossing stones at them. At that poing he began filming with his camera phone according to the story, and shortly afterward he and his friends spotted the creature lurking in the tall grass nearby, with a “distinctive sideways walk”, as featured near the end of the video.

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WIS News 10 out of Columbia S.C. reported on March 6th that there may be new developments involving the “Lizard Man” reports in the area. The Rawsons family of Bishopville, whose car was allegedly vandalized by the creature, had also reported several cats on the property had gone missing, and recently Lee County Sheriff E.J. Melvin also discovered the corpses of a cow and a coyote “only yards away from the Rawson’s car”. Is there a large creature that might have had a (scaly) hand in the death of these animals near the Rawson’s property?

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I came accross this unusual footage linked to my colleague Patrick Huyghe’s site, The Anomalist:

http://www.hunttv.com/

Scroll down and click on “Latest Video”, with the subtitle “Unusual Footage Caught on Stealth Cam.” Could this footage actually show a Bigfoot caught on a trail cam? The creature, to say the least, is much less likely to be a bear than some we’ve seen in the last year, most notably the famous trail-trip camera photo of what was called “Jacob’s Creature” photographed in Pennsylvania on 9/16/07. It can be viewed here along with a report from Matt Moneymaker’s Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization (BFRO).

I recently received a phone call from a full time Bigfoot hunter and good friend of mine, Thomas Biscardi who had been in touch with WIS News out of mid-state South Carolina where the latest sightings of the “Lizard Man” have been reported (for my previous piece about the recent vandalism by S.C.’s legendary prehistoric monstrosity, click here). According to news sources in the area, accounts of what folks have seen, as compared to reports actually having made it into print up to now, vary more than slightly.

When he mentioned that people had not only reported vandalisms, but had also claimed to have seen some sort of “creature” around the time of the incident involving vandalism of a vehicle belonging to an area family, Biscardi elaborated: “People in the area are seeing this thing, even describing it with glowing red eyes… the whole bit.” I mentioned that I hadn’t heard any such reports myself (until now), and Biscardi explained that the news station had contacted him with the new reports only after the initial story regarding the vandalism had been printed and aired on the local news. “The red eyes do make it sound like a dead-ringer for a ‘Skunk Ape’ though,” I joked. “Well I dunno… it’s a cryptid at least,” he replied.

At some point soon, Biscardi hopes to visit the area, and I too hope to make it down that way in the not-too-distant future. In making plans to do so, I’ve discussed the possibility of travelling together with my long time accomplice, Joshua P. Warren (author of books like How to Hunt Ghosts and Pet Ghosts), and as is the case with any investigation with Joshua, we’ll hope for nothing less than a truly “prehistoric” occasion! More to come as things develop…

Below is a rather interesting photo I came across on the L.E.M.U.R. Discussion Forums, which may or may not show a UFO allegedly photographed by a peace officer near the now-famous Stephenville Texas area, right around the time of the inital reports of UFO sightings from that location:

Click here for a larger version on the L.E.M.U.R. forums.

The photo was sent anonymously via email to Mobius, a UFO researcher with the L.E.M.U.R. team, along with the following information:

“When we approached the location we saw intense redish lights ahead.
As we came closer they were bright and plasma like, just above
the ground and very large.  The balls of light reacted to us when we
were about 1000 feet from their location and moved skyward at a very
high rate of speed.  I was in my car looking upwards and it was then
I saw a triangle shaped object high over my head.  The orbs
or plasma balls were moving upwards towards the triangle object.  The
triangle object was also moving upwards at a high rate of speed. 
The orbs were moving faster and joined up with the triangle. I had a
camera in the car and reached over and grabbed it.  I took 5 photos
towards this area of the sky with the flash off. Of the 5 photos this
is the only one that was clear.  You will see the 2 orbs and triangle
object.  By the time this photo was taken they had already moved very
high above my location and were almost about out of visible sight. 
There is video of the lights as we approached and the plasma like balls
on the ground but am not in a position to share this. I hope this photo
will serve of some use in your investigation.  I do not believe what I
saw had anything to do with any type of secret military type technology
else I would not have sent you this photo.”

Due to the continued reports of a “cover-up” coming from the Stephenville area coupled with the rather vague information accompanying this photograph, it may be very difficult to validate any such evidence, for now at least. Still, one is left to wonder; could this photo actually show a large triangle UFO over Texas? I’m about 50/50 on this one…