The Gralien Report

An interesting one made news recently with regard to an Out of Place Animal (in this case a bear) witnessed in Rendlesham forest, site of one of the most infamous UFO reports ever documented. Below is the link to the article:

Bear Spotted in Rendlesham Forest?

Nick Redfern, a native of England and also famed for his research of such areas as documented in his book Three Men Seeking Monsters, comments over at his blog Man-Beast UK:

“As some of you may know, the forest’s main claim to fame is that it was the site (in December 1980) of what is without doubt Britain’s most famous UFO incident.

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An eerie photograph taken recently by tourist Christopher Aitchison is being touted as “proof” of a ghost haunting Tantallon Castle, a mid 14th century fortress in East Lothian, Scotland. Aitchison says he didn’t tamper with the image, and cannot explain who or what the entity in it may be.

ABOVE: The Aitchison photograph, purported to show an odd, doll-like “ghost” starring down from a castle window.

“I was not aware of anyone, or anything, being present in my picture, only noticing the anomaly when I got home,” Aitchison told news sources earlier this week, who inquired about the 2008 photograph. “Staff have verified that there were no sinister dummies in period costume or historical reenactments going on that day at the castle. I did not notice any nice old ladies wearing ruffs walking around the stairs!”
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In a fascinating piece of video exclusive to the Wired Magazine blog, below you can watch odd footage depicting metal bits aligning themselves and behaving in life-like ways, within the presence of a specially-tuned magnetic field:

NASA has already suggested that dust particles and other tiny bits of debris may do similar things in the vacuum of space, resulting in life-like plasmas. Could this shed light on how life first formed on planet Earth; or perhaps even how alien life might form on distant planets?

Recently, my buddy Jim and I were exchanging emails regarding a series of articles that dealt with climate change and the like, particularly coastal waters creeping up and covering low-lying areas that might include Washington DC, among others. A particular article Jim found pointed out, as reported by the Huffington Post, that when an ice sheet melts, its gravitational pull on the ocean is reduced; hence water moves away from it. This means, for instance, that sea levels could fall near Antarctica, but simultaneously rise more than expected at various places in the northern hemisphere. Considering strange geomagnetic affects occurring around the globe as Earth changes continue to occur, what other ways might this be affecting us?

“I have heard quite a few people of all ages lately saying that time seems to have ‘sped up’,” Jim mentioned, musing on the fact that “normally you hear our younger set complaining that it’s too slow!” But then Jim asked me, “but is it possible that the speed of earth’s rotation has changed?” Jim points out that this might be an imperceptible change, but if indeed this were to be occurring, he asks “what effect would it have on us in either case, and what change in speed would be enough to affect us? I studied this concept in college, but that was 37 years ago and I don’t remember the outcome of the study. To add even more, what if the magnetosphere changes mentioned in the article could also be affecting Earth’s liquid core? Might this also affect our perception of time?”

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Greetings all you Graliens,

Things have been busy for yours truly lately, and with all that’s been going on regarding a variety of music-related studio projects I’ve been involved in lately, I’ve had my hands sorta full. Regardless, I hope to be back in the swing of getting posts up on the site more regularly after the next few days… thanks for your patience in the meantime!

-Micah!

As a member of the US office of the UK-Based Center for Fortean Zoology (headed here in the states by my colleague Nick Redfern), I had to share this unique couple of posts with readers of The Gralien Report. Over at the UFO Mystic blog, Nick recently commented on an interesting study in how strange phenomenon seems often to be associated with landmarks like bridges. In fact, the legendary British “Man-Monkey” for which Redfern is well known was often seen near a bridge as well, and thanks to research provided by Raven, our CFZ Rep for the state of Michigan, we now have a variety of perspectives on this unusual consistency linking weird activity to bridges and the like.

Bridging the Unknown

Here’s the link to Raven’s post in its entirety over at her blog, Into the Shadows:

Knock-knock Bridge

In addition to strange activity being linked to bridges, I’ve often heard that chimneys and other man-made structures and fortifications often seem to serve as “strange attractors” of sorts (not the same as the kind discussed in physics though, all you string-theorists out there)!

What a lovely holiday… Saint Patrick’s Day is my personal favorite, for a variety of reasons. I’ll likely be toting a Guinness on draft this evening (and on that note, cheers Jim; as well all you others who like to raise a glass every so often).

The funny thing about Saint Patrick’s Day is that, traditionally, it was once associated with the color blue rather than green, as this color was originally pinned to Saint Patrick early on. However, being the color most often associated with Ireland and its people, “the wearing of the green”, likely stemming from the practice of wearing a Shamrock on one’s clothing, overtook the color blue at some point. Hence, the colored beer we drink in bars on this day looks more like a leprechaun, rather than a smurf.

Saint Patrick’s Day is no exception to strange phenomenon, however. Today over at the Wired blog, an interesting discussion regarding cows and their apparent electromagnetic sixth-sense is all the rage. Wired reports that “Satellite images of cattle and deer herds suggest that low-frequency magnetic fields disrupt the tendency of four-legged animals to align their bodies with geomagnetic fields. When herds stand next to power lines, which emit a mild electromagnetic field, they point in different directions. In the absence of power lines, they point along a north-south axis.”
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Politico.com reported today that a new conspiracy theory surrounding President Barack Obama is now making the rounds, this time involving the secretive Bilderberger group and its operations. As reported to Politco by journalist Kenneth P. Vogel, “It sounds crazy, but that’s what a group of very persistent conspiracy theorists insists, and they point to President Obama’s nominee for Health and Human Services Secretary, Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, as the latest piece of evidence supporting their claims.”

ABOVE:  Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, nominee for Health and Human Services Secretary

Sebelius has attended past Bilderberger annual meetings, in addition to other top administration economists that include Timothy Geithner, Larry Summers and Paul Volcker. Two of President Obama’s leading diplomats, Richard Holbrooke and Dennis Ross, are also Bilderbergers. But perhaps no Obama administration staff member is more reputed for her involvement with the group than Hillary Clinton, whose husband former President Bill Clinton also attends the group’s meetings.

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We’ve survived not one, but two of them so far. That’s right, for two consecutive months now we have had the thirteenth day fall on a Friday. However, as the saying goes, “things happen in threes”… and point in case, 2009 will bless us with yet another of the unlucky pseudo-holidays again later this year. Indeed, we’ve yet to experience a third Friday the Thirteenth, scheduled to arrive on the second Friday in November of this year.

But for those of you who may be superstitious types, fear not. National Geographic reminds us that “three Friday the 13ths is the yearly maximum, as long as societies continue to mark time with the Gregorian calendar, which Pope Gregory XIII ordered the Catholic Church to adopt in 1582.” Indeed, it just so happens that we had two of them falling within consecutive months in 2009; at least we get a little break before the next one.

However, there are other strange coincidences that occur within our calendar regarding this most unlucky of numbers. According to Underwood Dudley, a professor emeritus of mathematics at DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana, the 13th actually falls on Friday more often than any other day of the week. Dudley told National Geographic that this is “just a funny coincidence.” But is the prominence of the number 13 throughout various cultures so simply brushed aside as something trivial, or could there indeed be more to the equation?

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Spring has arrived here in the mountains of Western North Carolina, and just in time for Sunshine Week 2009. This March 15th through the 21st, journalists, students, teachers, private citizens, and bloggers like myself will engage in trying to stimulate discussion about the importance of open government. Whether or not this has to do with popular conspiracy topics like UFOs is up to the individuals who participate, although the general focus is to help promote the idea that often unnecessary secrecy should be avoided, especially if the information isn’t so sensitive that it couldn’t be released without causing harm anyway.

At the Sunshine Week website, the following information is outlined:

Sunshine Week is a national initiative to open a dialogue about the importance of open government and freedom of information. Participants include print, broadcast and online news media, civic groups, libraries, non-profits, schools and others interested in the public’s right to know.

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