The Gralien Report

Easy now, don’t panic. R2D2 and C-3P0 aren’t turning hostile and attacking Verizon phone users. However, in a strange bit of information coming to light regarding the phone company’s new Droid cellphones, a bug recently discovered in the phone has been mistaken for what Charlie Sorrels at the WIRED Blog calls “a secret, silent, over the air invasion by Verizon’s software update police.”

Image by Polimerek

“When a problem with the Droid’s autofocus mysteriously disappeared overnight, paranoid Droid owners assumed that a secret update had been sent over the air to fix it,” Sorrels writes. “This would be rather creepy. It is also wrong. In a comment on an Engadget story about the mystery fix, Android developer Dan Morrill explained what had happened, and the truth is rather stranger than the fiction.” And what was Morrel’s excuse? He says there’s a rounding-error bug in the camera driver’s autofocus routine, apparently controlled via timestamp, that is making the autofocus function on the phone’s camera to malfunction on a 24.5-day cycle. “It’ll work for 24.5 days, then have poor performance for 24.5 days, then work again,” Morrel explained. “(November) 17th is the start of a new ‘works correctly’ cycle, so the devices will be fine for a while. A permanent fix is in the works.”

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Retired Colonel John B. Alexander, in addition to being a key figure portrayed in the new film The Men Who Stare At Goats has been a leading advocate for the development of non-lethal weapons for decades. His views and research into the subject of New Age ideas influencing the military has made him noteworthy among fringe science and Ufological communities, as well as the fact that he was head of Las Vegas billionaire Robert Bigelow’s NIDS organization investigating paranormal sites (similar to Tom Slick’s funding of Bigfoot expeditions to Nepal in the late 1950s, hoping to find the Yeti). Alexander was also a member of the Aviary group involved in UFO cover-up matters as orchestrated by the global power group, The Cabal, according to Wikipedia.

With a vast and involved history having to do with research of the unexplained, we are fortunate to also receive some clarification from the retired Colonel regarding allegations made in The Men Who Stare At Goats, many of which he says were outright fabricated to fit a Hollywood screenplay.

Referring to the book the film was based on, Alexander states “While listed as nonfiction, the facts were extrapolated almost beyond recognition.” He tells in a review of the film appearing at the Films in Review website that, “With support of senior leadership, we were consciously pushing the envelope. It should be noted that all of the explorations undertaken were done based on solid rationale.” There were, however, a few allegations made in the film which don’t appear to have met this “solid rationale” that Alexander mandates, to which he emphatically states there was no participation, or even basis of reality to confirm these activities. Chief among these, regarding the use of LSD in government mind-science programs that involved remote-viewing and the like, he says “not only NO, BUT HELL NO.”

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According to Rev. Jose Gabriel Funes, an astronomer and director of the Vatican Observatory, “The questions of life’s origins and of whether life exists elsewhere in the universe are very suitable and deserve serious consideration.” It seems that the Vatican is again attempting to further their knowledge of the cosmos, in search of alien brothers who “may even be free of original sin.”

News broke in May of last year that Funes was apologetic for the Catholic Church’s previous treatment of historic astronomers, namely Galileo. “Mistakes were made, but it is time to turn the page and look towards the future.” Galileo was condemned four centuries ago by the Church for his interest in worlds that may exist beyond our star system, as well as for his suggestion that the Earth may not be the center of the universe. Galileo wasn’t the only man persecuted by the Church of Rome for speculating about life elsewhere, however. Italian philosopher Giordano Bruno was burned at the stake as a heretic in 1600 for holding similar views.

But, as Funes emphatically states, the Church’s views have changed since those times. “If biology is not unique to the Earth, or life elsewhere differs bio-chemically from our version, or we ever make contact with an intelligent species in the vastness of space, the implications for our self-image will be profound,” Funes says, begging questions such as whether or not man–made in God’s image–made aliens in his image also.

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Here at the Gralien Report, I typically avoid articles with political overtones, opinion and content. Although I enjoy items of historical interest a great deal, typically this subject matter also has to have an unnatural or Fortean theme to appear here. All this taken into consideration, today a friend of mine named Jim “Kojack” from Georgia, sent me a historically-oriented essay, which also deals with a number of changes taking place in America today. Since it is Veteran’s Day, I thought I’d make a special exception and post Jim’s article, Days Of Fear Are Here, on the Gralien Report in honor of the men and women who have served (and who continue to serve) this country.

Well, it seems that history does indeed repeat itself. I’ve been reading extensively about our early fight for independence and European history lately. Tactics of the times were mind boggling. Tens of thousands of men and boys marching in hollow squares or vast parallel lines while their commanders watched from a safe distance. No regard to loss of life unless it exceeded that of the enemy. Gentleman warfare with breaks for care of casualties, inclement weather, holidays, whims of kings or the “Elite”, and sundry nonsensical reasons. Marching men across open fields to avoid wooded terrain. I could go on and on with idiotic examples but it is not pertinent to my intent with this short essay.

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Although there have been some fairly unsavory things being said of the recent alien abduction flick The Fourth Kind, another film released only last weekend, The Men Who Stare At Goats, seems to have received a little more positivity from audiences and, namely, anomalists abroad.

But what of “real” remote viewing and use of the mind in ways that may help law enforcement, national security, and a host of other wholesome patriotic endeavors? In the video below, Mike Webster, one of Britain’s leading professional remote viewers, describes his job as “perceiving people, places or events that are separated from the viewer by distance or time”, for investigations funded by agencies including police forces and private businesses in Britain and America:

The reality of Remote Viewing may be somewhat less glamorous than the movies depict, but nonetheless fascinating.

Recently during a press briefing regarding the Large Hadron Collider beneath Geneva, Sergio Bertolucci, a physics theorist and Director of Research and Scientific Computing at CERN told reporters, “Out of this door might come something, or we might send something through it.” What “door” does Bertolucci refer to? Believe it or not, he is actually referencing a potential rift in space-time that could result from experimentation with the LHC, and warns that unspecified “somethings” could indeed interact with this realm as a result of experiments with the massive machine.

“We’re hoping to see supersymmetry and extra dimensions,” said Bertolucci, who also postulates that, though the discovery would be ground-breaking, the event he warns of would be rather small, if noticeable. “Of course, after this tiny moment the door would again shut, bringing us back to our ‘normal’ four dimensional world … It would be a major leap in our vision of Nature, although of no practical use (for the time being, at least). And of course, no risk to the stability of our world.”

That’s reassuring… until Mothman comes through the dimensional doorway with a legion of Mothmen to take over Earth in the name of King Hybreed Manthuzlar IIV. Only time will tell, I suppose.

Milla Jojovich famously appeared several months ago in a trailer for a film to be released–strangely, portraying herself, rather than her character–promoting a new horror film released yesterday called The Fourth Kind. Leading up to the film’s release, a variety of articles and interpretations of the film were made; would it be an actual documentary film dealing with UFO witnesses and abductions? Perhaps a cheesy horror film that tries to cash in on similar releases (Paranormal Activity)? In all likelihood, could it be anything more than a hoax?

With the film’s release this weekend, the hubbub has yet to die down, and no doubt, it will be a good while before it does. One thing has changed, however; people are seeing the film, reviews are pouring in, and criticism of the film’s content, as well as its viral marketing campaign, are becoming prolific.

Prior to the film’s release, many avid web searchers (this one included) managed to find various websites that housed information about an Alaskan psychiatrist, Dr. Abigail Tyler, who is represented by Jovovich  (above, photo by Rita Molnár) in the film. At the time, I didn’t bother to look into how long the site had existed, or who the registrant information might point to, since doing Google searches for Abigail Tyler, as well as the so-called “Alaska Psychiatry Journal” led to very few results. Granted, much like the film Cloverfield, it seems that a majority of the movie-going blogging community enjoys solving the riddles presented by such obvious viral marketing campaigns, and a handful of them will continue investigating until they reach a dead end… which is exactly where the aforementioned website, as well as some other promotional information about the film, has gone.

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I’ve been finding so much craziness lately I haven’t known what to make of it. Therefore, I thought I’d just share a few of my favorites with you from the last couple of days, ranging from gigantic 18-foot-tall silverware in California to a Brazillian man showing up for his own funeral. Enjoy!

GHOST TOWNS: First up is a link to the most desolate and abandoned cities around the world:

BIG SURPRISE: The Fourth Kind hits theaters today… and is a big fake. Didn’t see that one coming…

BEATLE BUGS: Next, bigger than Jesus might not qualify, since this Beatle is only the size of a water droplet

TURN LEFT AT THE (GIANT) FORK IN THE ROAD: Super-sized silverware in Pasadena

HOSPITAL HELL-LETTER: Overhaul of health care is needed in more ways than we realize

GROWIN’ SHARPIES: Encouraging spikes to grow on an abandoned naked hedgehog

A RENDEZVOUS WITH DEATH: Man shows up at his own funeral in Brazil

According to an article published in the Huffington Post by Steven M. Gillon, a resident historian with the History Channel, new revelations about the alleged plot to kill former President John F. Kennedy do indeed point to a conspiracy.

“After being informed at Parkland Hospital that Kennedy was dead,” Gillon writes, “Johnson raced back to Air Force One, where he waited for Mrs. Kennedy and the body of the slain president, and made preparations to take the Oath of Office.” Meanwhile, the widowed first lady waited on board the plane, desperate to leave. Brigadier General Godfrey McHugh had been Kennedy’s military aide on the fateful Dallas trip, and interacted with Mrs. Kennedy on board the plane, and at her request, tried to find out why the plane couldn’t leave immediately. According to a newly declassified oral history McHugh has released, certain claims made about Lyndon Johnson’s behavior in the wake of the assassination are startling at best.

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