Around 6:35 PM this evening, many young men were finishing the day’s work, arriving home, and getting geared up for a Friday night on the town.
I, on the other hand, found myself working diligently on a new blog project while Nikki, my sassy little long-haired feline familiar, slept on the bed nearby. Suddenly, a new message popped into my email inbox, which posed an enigmatic question in its subject line:
“did u see this?”
It appears that UFO Hacker Gary McKinnon may have a friend on the inside.
This isn’t to imply that McKinnon was helped in his now famous efforts at breaking into NASA security systems and other US government computer databases, however. As reported by The Inquirer yesterday, former NASA employee Joseph Richard Gutheinz Jr (above, left), a practicing criminal lawyer and formerly a decorated special agent with the US Space Program, is claiming that McKinnon is being treated unfairly. “Having also spent the last four years on the Texas Criminal Justice Advisory Committee on Medical and Mental Impairments, he felt qualified to call on the US government to cease its unfair hounding of the UFO hacker,” The Inquirer reports.
In May of last year, motorists in Washington County, Pennsylvania traveling along a major route suddenly pulled over to watch what many described as a “huge dark-colored flying creature” flying low as it passed over the cars. Prolific researcher Stan Gordon noted at his website how witnesses to the event agreed that the creature looked “more like a giant bat than a bird.”
Indeed, of all places, giant bat-like creatures are often described over America’s skies, though generally speaking, many of this country’s best known cryptozoological mystery-monsters host bat-like traits. Take for instance the membranous wings of the Northern The Jersey Devil
Some would say silence is golden. However, many scientific bodies around the world, especially NASA, have found the recent trend toward silence taken by Earth’s sun to be a bit intimidating. This morning, Paul Harvey mentioned this during his early news broadcast, with notions prevailing that such “silence”, that is, inactivity of solar flares and other activity on the surface of our planet’s ancient light-giver, may be likened to “calm before the storm”. But if indeed the solar inactivity may be leading up to any significant changes; for instance, a reversal in the sun’s magnetism, what might the repercussions of such activity be once any such changes take place?
This notion of a coming “storm” is far from new, however. As far back March of 2006, NASA had been discussing this on their website, as indicated in this excerpt:
March 10, 2006: It’s official: Solar minimum has arrived. Sunspots have all but vanished. Solar flares are nonexistent. The sun is utterly quiet.
Like the quiet before a storm.
This week researchers announced that a storm is coming–the most intense solar maximum in fifty years. The prediction comes from a team led by Mausumi Dikpati of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). “The next sunspot cycle will be 30% to 50% stronger than the previous one,” she says. If correct, the years ahead could produce a burst of solar activity second only to the historic Solar Max of 1958.
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