Mysterious Universe reviews Owls and the UFO Abductee

The Australian duo of Aaron and Ben discuss my recent essay Owls and the UFO Abductee. They read aloud and explore the issues in that report. I'm posting an audio excerpt of their exchange. This was posted at their site on July 15th.

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The Owl Service

ancient Welsh mythology transposed to BBC children's television

The Owl Service was an eight-part television series based on the children's fantasy novel of the same name by Alan Garner. Produced in 1969 and televised over the winter of 1969-1970. The direction was quite radical and seemed to be influenced by the avant-garde, a noted contrast to what might be expected of a children's serial.

Text added July 25th: I just finished watching this series and I was astonished at it's power. It was like peering thru into a shadow-box of another realm of reality. It was dark and haunting. On one level it was a beautiful piece of film-making, on another it was a creation of the soul, so it might seem unwatchable to some. Subtlety and a heavy-hand side-by-side.

The Owl Service was originally a fantasy novel for young adults by mythologist Alan Garner, published by Collins in 1967. Set in modern Wales, it is an adaptation of the story of the mythical Welsh woman Blodeuwedd, an "expression of the myth" in the author's words.

Many of the cast later commented on the lasting effects the serial had on them, Michael Holden commenting that it felt like "we were personally living the whole thing", while Hills said that "it was all so real, it was frightening". Raymond Llewellyn said in 2008 that the role of Huw has haunted him ever since.

Gillian Hills as seen in The Owl Service

This BBC series stars Gillian Hills. She was in both Blow Up and A Clockwork Orange, she was in those scenes.

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The Outer Limits and a dire warning

People with nothing to hide have nothing to fear from O.B.I.T.

Yesterday Christopher Knowles posted a link to this amazing Outer Limits episode on the Secret Sun facebook page. I had watched this pretty much exactly a year ago, and I rewatched it again last night. Blown away is an understatement. This is a dire, haunting, dramatic condemnation of the horrors of secret technology. Even if you choose to see the alien meddling in our secret government as a metaphor (or literal) this episode plays out as an ominous warning. Without exaggerating, this is happening right now.

November of 1963 just screams secret government harshness

Spoiler alert, be forewarned. The plot revolves around a top secret research defense department facility known as Cypress Hill. This is an eerie stand in for the NSA's mega creepy data center in Bluffdale Utah (more on this below). The tele-play is basically a courtroom drama. An idealistic Senator arrives at the site to investigate a murder. The episode is played out with a precision that is mind numbing.

O.B.I.T. stands for Outer Band Individuated Teletracer, a computer technology that can track and monitor any individual, anywhere on earth. When the Defense Departments representative for the project takes the stand he is forced to admit that nobody knows where the technology came from, who invented it and how it works. Later the Colonel breaks down and admits he is addicted to the power of O.B.I.T. I can't help but see this as an exact depiction of our own present day government's enslavement to spying technology. The O.B.I.T. device is a product of an alien race. These invaders are methodically breaking the will of humanity in order to eventually enslave us.

Aliens and the National Security State

The UFO literature is swimming in reports of aliens working with the secret military in underground bases and within the halls of the pentagon. Take this as you may.

O.B.I.T. was written by Meyer Dolinsky (1923–1984), who wrote a very similar story for an episode of The Invaders titled The Watchers (1967). The term The Watchers is straight out of the Bible (and The Andreasson Affair) and it implies a manipulating race of alien overlords. He also wrote Plato's Stepchildren (1968), the Star Trek episode where Kirk plants the first interracial kiss on Uhura. Also in this same episode, Kirk is forced to imitate a horse while a dwarf rides on his back. The very tiny actor Michael Dunn (who rides the good Captain) also played Dr. Loveless, a character that Bruce Rux points out is a stand in for a gray alien.

Conrad Hall was the director of photography for this, and 14 more, Outer Limits episodes. His genius is all over the visual look of this show. I grew up on the television of the 1960's and this kind of eerie black and white story telling is forever stamped on my psyche. There is simply nothing creepier than this sparse, claustrophobic low-budget shadow-box narrative style. (a good essay here)

O.B.I.T. was directed by Gerald Oswald, who also directed 13 more Outer Limits episodes. He was also the director for two Star Trek episodes, The Conscience of the King (1966) and The Alternative Factor (1967). I watched The Alternative Factor two nights ago. Christopher Knowles has been exploring the tightly knit connections between The Outer Limits and the Star Trek franchise, more to this at The Secret Sun.

Lomax comes clean in the mega-theatrical finale

Jeff Corey steals the show in the role of Mr. Byron Lomax, quite possibly the finest portrayal of a villain in the history of television (I am quite serious). A few years later he went on to play Plasus in Star Trek's The Cloud Minders (1969).

Dream sequence from Shock Corridor

Handsome actor Peter Breck plays the investigating senator Orville. Sadly, there seems to be no such animal as this principled and incorruptible Senator. Breck is the son of Barbara Stanwyck and was the lead in Sam Fuller's Shock Corridor (1962).

Big Brother.

The fictional Cypress Hill in the episode is just weeks away from it's ribbon cutting in Utah. The National Security Agency’s Utah Data Center is expected to open its doors this fall. This Orwellian nightmare is located in Bluffdale Utah, just over 20 miles from Salt Lake City.

This NSA site is estimated at 1.5 million square feet. The technical and administrative support staff is expected to be less than 200 employees. This site in the bleary hot desert will use an estimated 17 million gallons of water per day to cool the computer electronics.

Senator Orrin Hatch and then governor Jon Huntsman Jr. (both Mormons) take the credit for bringing this gigantic data syphon to Utah. The LDS church has a cozy (and well documented) relationship with the CIA and NSA.

a lost form of film-making

How to watch this episode:

Watch O.B.I.T. on Hulu (HERE). Or rent it from Netflix, alas it's not avialable to stream. Also avalable online thru the somewhat complicated VeeHD (HERE).

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White Owls and Odd Events

Experiencer, researcher and blogger Chris Holly writes about her lifetime of white owl sightings and how they relate to the paranormal and UFO lore. She is describing exactly what I’ve been seeing.

Her insightful post linked HERE.
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owls and the UFO abductee

This 2013 essay was the foundation for the 2015 book 

The Messengers

Clicke here for a direct LINK

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This is a long format essay where I attempt to unravel the the mystery of why so many UFO abductees report weird owl experiences. There are reoccurring accounts of screen memories throughout the literature, but this is something much more elusive. Much of this reporting comes from my own direct experience.

For reasons I don't understand, owls are somehow attracted to people who tell of direct contact with the UFO occupants.

I need to thank all the people who helped me with this report, your willingness to share has been a powerful gift to me. Thank you.

Click on the title text below for an easy-to-use 

PDF document reader:

Owls and the UFO Abductee 

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This essay makes a tidy companion to another essay titled:

Synchronicity and the UFO abductee

These two essays essentially tell the same story. The owls are playing a very similar role to the synchronicity, at least in the way they have directly influenced me and my journey.

This essay will be a chapter in the upcoming collection title The Contact Book. edited and compiled by Frank Zero. Fellow contributors include: Brad Steiger, Christopher Knowles, Loren Coleman, Theresa Lee Clark and Colin Reid.

Also, in writing this essay I realized that this could well be the foundation of a stand alone book. There is a wealth of reporting - and it's incredibly weird.

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Update added July 5th:

I have heard from two people (both with UFO experiences) who saw an owl within minutes of reading this essay. This mirrors David Weatherly's experience (noted in the essay) where he actually saw an owl while reading this essay.  To me, this is a sort of confirmation that I am onto something with this avenue of research.

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At some point at the end of July (2013) this essay has become the most popular post in the four and a half year history of this blog.

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Jacob and Esau, a metaphor of the hairy ape and modern human

Hairy Esau realizes he's been duped! 

(art by R. Crumb)

Linked below is short excerpt from the 1994 book TAKEN by the late Dr. Karla Turner. (PDF of the entire book HERE)

This is one of the more bizarre things I’ve ever read in a book about UFO abduction (or any book for that matter). Turner was was an insightful and open-minded researcher, author and abductee; so much so that she was somewhat ignored by many within the research community.

What follows is a re-examination of the story of Jacob and Esau from the book of Genesis; this was  presented to Dr. Turner in a theatrical virtual reality dream. A set of hidden entities were trying to explain something to her. Are the twin brothers in this biblical story a metaphor that explains the alien intervention of the human species? Was the the lowly hairy caveman altered to create a smooth skinned intellectual product of genetic manipulation?

The PDF document includes illustrations from R.Crumb's Book of Genesis, the entire Jacob and Esau story linked HERE.

Dr. Karla Turner - Jacob and Esau by Mike Clelland

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