The Gralien Report

Earlier this month CNN.com reported about a collision between a Chinese submarine and an underwater sonar array being towed by the American destroyer USS John McCain. In the report, “ a U.S. military official calls it an ‘inadvertent encounter’… The array was damaged, but the sub and the ship did not collide… the (US) Navy does not believe this was a deliberate incident of Chinese harassment, as it would have been extremely dangerous had the array gotten caught in the submarine’s propellers.”

However, OpEd News writer Brock Novak argues that, based on analysis comparing the incident to an earlier capture of a US Navy P-3 anti-submarine warfare plane, this incident could be viewed as nothing but intentional:

The extraordinary real impact and jeopardization of national security of the P3 episode was masked by the media hoopla of simply getting the plane back, after the Chinese spent weeks “de-engineering” all its sensitive technology and secured the technical know-how they wanted. That is, the proverbial horse was already out of the barn when the plane parts were ultimately returned to the U.S.. The U.S. would get this towed array back too but only after it was thoroughly analyzed and de-engineered by Chinese defense and technology scientists. In relation to the P3 technology compromise incident, a huge parallel exists here with this new incident, disturbingly (and wrongly) being downplayed as a simple “inadvertent encounter”.

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Earlier today, news broke about the death of Farrah Fawcett, a highly anticipated event as media coverage had continued to reveal to the public over the last several months that her health had been deteriorating at an alarming rate. Then, shortly after 3:15 PM today, most major media sources had begun shifting their attention to what has perhaps become the biggest celebrity-death shocker this year; the passing of pop singer and cultural icon Michael Jackson. Jackson was 50 years old.

As I read the news on my Blackberry forty five minutes later, I grimly thought to myself of the old adage, “things happen in threes”. Could this end up being the case today? Now, our worst fears may be confirmed as synchronicity threatens to strike yet again… indeed, details are slowly emerging regarding what may be the death of a third celebrity; a shocking conclusion to today’s unsettling round-up.

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Most folks are familiar with S.E.T.I. (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence), and when discussing it myself, one of my very favorite examples to give is perhaps the most famous imagery associated with it; large arrays of radio transmitters and satellite dishes. However, fewer people realize that, much like a regular conversation, communication with possible extraterrestrials can go two ways, also.

Active SETI (also known as METI, or “Messaging to Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence”) consists of the act of sending signals into space, with the intention of aliens receiving them. But is this practice dangerous?

Stephen Hawking, in his book A Brief History of Time, suggests that “alerting” extraterrestrial intelligences of our existence is not only dangerous, but that it’s also foolhardy. Apparently, according to Hawking, mankind’s history of how we treat other cultures less technologically proficient than us provides the best comparison. He bluntly suggests that we “lay low”. After all, even if aliens weren’t hostile and trying to kill us, they may very well occupy Earth, and pluck us like beets from the ground to be chartered in a anti-graviton wagon to the nearest (at least semi) habitable mudball; a “reservation” of sorts, where we humans can live as we please. So sadly, this sounds so familiar. Perhaps we learn things from history after all…
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Greetings Graliens,

For those of you who haven’t seen already, I’ve added a Twitter button to the sidebar next to this post (that’s right, lovingly allow those precious peepers to drift slightly to the right… see it? Very good). Now you can have links and updates about The Gralien Report, as well as a variety of other neat facets of my research, sent directly to your mobile device. Cool, huh?

Technology is great… ciao!

-Micah A. Hanks

The largest, and perhaps most famous of the macropod family (that is, creatures with large feet) are Australia’s iconic hopping delight, the Kangaroo. Used as a national symbol appearing on the Australian coat of arms, some of its currency, and a variety of other places, this unique saltatating (jumping) creature has become a mainstay of Australian culture.

Considered a cultural icon in their homeland, kangaroos are believed to exist only in their native Australia. But alas, perhaps all the wonderful treatment kangaroos get Down Under just isn’t enough; in spite of our scientific understanding that the creatures are endemic to Australia, anomalous appearances of the creatures elsewhere have occasionally turned up over the years, lending to theories of “Screaming Kangaroos” and large marsupials existing in parts of the United States.
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Whether we live in the depths of the darkest jungles or on the most crowded streets in large urban epicenters, each day we take for granted the plant life which surrounds us. Several years ago, I recall an instance where a friend of mine who had recently been diagnosed with a kind of hyper-sensitivity had been sitting in my driveway with me one evening, when he thought he overheard voices coming from nearby. “Do you hear that?” he asked. I admitted that I hadn’t heard anything in particular. After a brief silence, he laughed to himself. “That’s funny… I could have sworn I had heard voices. Must have been the trees talking to one another.”

At the time, I didn’t really know whether to take him seriously or not. He had been told by doctors that he was particularly sensitive to subtle energies, electric fields, and a variety of other things, which may have explained his frustration at periodically finding himself unable to concentrate easily. Surely, I thought, he wasn’t picking up on any subtle energies from trees; but whether or not he had been joking about overhearing plants speaking, it was clear that my associate had thought he was hearing something. As strange a notion as this seemed, little did I know that there already existed an entire subculture that dealt with whether or not plants might be conscious entities. Furthermore, a growing body of scientific information points to unforeseen ways in which plants and humans interact, with many instances where plant “spirits” even seem to communicate with us directly.

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All News Web reported early this morning about an alleged UFO which locals in the Ukrainian town of Brailov are saying visited their community earlier this month. According to reports, “Radioactiviy levels were high but not extreme,” and “Metal traces were identified and dirt samples removed for analysis.”

The UFO was described as “an intensely bright white light” which appeared over Brailov in the early hours of the morning. Residents describe electrical surges and an accompanying “feeling of electrical currents passing through their bodies” in conjunction with the light. The incident left the community confused and frightened, especially since a number of residents, some of them witnesses, became ill after the occurrence. Symptoms of their illnesses included vomiting and high temperature, prompting emergency services from Kiev to be summoned. Radioactivity was also measured at various locations, one of which displaying strange markings in the soil that resembled “wheels with wheels”, according to one description.

Indeed, elements of the sickness being described by several of the residents does sound indicative of radiation sickness, sometimes called a “creeping dose”. Often, the most prevalent symptoms of this affliction do tend to be nausea and vomiting. Though symptoms can sometimes fail to appear until days after initial exposure, moderate levels of radiation (2-3.5 Gy) can cause nausea and vomiting to occur within a mere 12-24 hours after coming into contact with the source. Fever, hair loss, infections, bloody vomit and stools, and poor wound healing are also symptoms associated with moderate radiation exposure.

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In spite of the fact that a spokeswoman for the Australian UFO Research Queensland said that they had received no reports about the incident, something that recently struck a mountain in the Land Down Under is welling up into a media storm, with the use of the word “UFO” flying around like an anti-graviton spacecraft from left-of-Alpha Centauri.

‘UFO’ hits Queensland Mountain

Of course, just because an area UFO research group hasn’t received a call about the incident doesn’t rule out the other-worldly, though the UFO has been described as “a flaming object”, possibly a plane crash “but now believed to be a meteor or space junk falling to Earth.” In all likelihood, we aren’t experiencing a new Roswell in the Outback here, but some folks may nonetheless be confused by the apparently sensational use of the word “UFO” when the object in question is already believed to be something a bit more mundane. Instead, though I often criticize the media for drive-by sensationalism and the like, in this instance I feel that “UFO” is actually the most appropriate term, if not the only term which accurately describes what this thing is. “Why make such a bold assumption”, you ask? Once reminded, I have a feeling you’ll see where I’m going with this. Read on, dear denizens of the inexplicable…

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Recently, Patrick Huyghe at Anomalist Books was kind enough to send me a copy of Brad Steiger’s latest installment of the Shadow World series, Beyond Shadow World: Our Shared World of the Supernatural. After having enjoyed this book very much, I’m happy to share with you some of the highlights of this masterful evaluation of the spirit realm by one of the most respected experts in spirit phenomenon today.

My introduction to the trilogy was through the intial title Shadow World, for which I wrote a review that appeared at Amazon.com. After this, when the second installment, Otherworldly Affaires, was published, Brad contacted me directly and warned that “because of the controversial nature of the book,” dealing with touchy subjects like sexual relations with members of higher planes of existence, he had hoped I would be willing to review it for him also (today, it remains my favorite book in the series, as well as an over-all favorite as far as books dealing with spirit phenomenon go).

By the time Beyond Shadow World was released, I had expected a dark, brooding culmination of all the most frightening elements of the nether-realms; complete with horrific visions of specters and haunts that both frighten and intrigue us. This, as it turns out, was not the scope of the book at all, however. Instead, Beyond Shadow World was a complete surprise, in the sense that after trudging through shadow-people, demons, disembodied sexual molesters, and God-knows-what-else in previous books, this installment uniquely allows Steiger to illustrate for the reader a cumulative, educational element in the discovery of opening one’s psychic senses.

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News is circulating in exopolitical circles about a strange top-secret document, initially leaked a decade ago, which is alleged to have been rescued from a fire that consumed a majority of files belonging to former CIA chief of counterintelligence James Angleton (pictured below) after his death in May of 1987. The Cold-War era memo, possibly dating back to the Kennedy administration, suggests the astounding possibility that Kennedy may indeed have been requesting information about UFOs prior to his assassination.

According to Michael Salla Ph.D., one of today’s leading exopolitical activists and a former faculty member at American University, a colleague of Angleton’s claiming to have been present at the burning sent it to Timothy Cooper, “a UFO researcher best known for his role in making public leaked MJ-12 documents” on June 23, 1999. Analysts are saying the burned document “is an original carbon with an Eagle watermark characteristic of government work, but so far forensic laboratories have been unable to trace it…. Although no (date) is given, its content directly suggests the month of September. The year is estimated to be in the early 1960s and is still under investigation.”

Salla writes that, “the burned document dates from the Kennedy era and has the characteristics of a government document. If its contents are accurate, it provides smoking gun evidence of a direct link between Kennedy’s efforts to gain access to UFO information and his assassination.” But what exactly was said in the document, and what does this suggest about Kennedy, UFOs, or secret organizations and committees like the infamous MJ-12?  Read the rest of this entry »