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!
