owls = UFOs = synchronicity

Animal symbols will show up at certain times, almost like reality is a dream and animals can be placed into the dream when needed.

This statement came to me in an email, it was part of the ongoing owl research I've been all swallowed up in. The email was from a man describing an owl sighting on the farm of his father-in-law who had just died. He felt strongly that is was the spirit symbol of his father-in-law, looking at the farm one last time before he left.

This short little statement rang true to me. I sense that the script writers of reality can easily pencil in symbolic imagery right into the storyline of our lives. If they need to punctuate something within the narrative, they’ll just add what’s required for the desired effect.

The animal looking at the farm was an owl, and this is a powerful symbol, at least to me. What I also see in that statement is simply changing the word animal to either UFO or synchronicity, and the message would ring just as true.

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audio conversation with Colin Andrews

Author, researcher and experiencer

Colin Andrews brought us the term crop circle. He was one of the initial team of investigators that were looking into the unusual formations that were emerging each year around the world, but with a particularly flurry in southern England.

Along with is wife and co-author, Synthia Andrews, they've just published On the Edge of Reality. This book has the lengthy sub-title: Hidden technology, Powers of the Mind, Quantum Physics, Paranormal Phenomenon, Orbs, UFOs, Harmonic Transmissions and Crop Circles. They could have added this: A bunch of really weird personal experiences too!

  one-click audio download HERE  

We dig into a lot of extremely interesting stuff. I tried to keep the focus on personal stories, either his or my own. We cover the list below (and lots more) but these are linked for more follow-up info.

* Colin's recent interview with Mel Fabregas on Veritas

* Stace's Doug story

* Dr. Steven Greer and the mosquito

* Teton Crop Circle report

* Stace's weird experience in the Teton circle

* The initial crop circle event from 2002

* All the posts revolving around the two Byrons and the giant triangle

* Stace's line on a map across Kansas

* And, Colin's own web-site.

Presentation from the 2009 X-Conference

the number 123 shows up

from my blogs "hit" counter

The numbers 123 and 321 show up on the overview of stats on this blog. Yes, I realize this is something minor, but I fee a responsibility to post any and all synchronicities.

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Off-Planet Radio interview

Randy Maugins from Off-Planet Radio asked me on is show to spend two-hours in conversation. His co-host Chris Holly couldn't make it, and that was too bad because she has had some odd experiences with owls that exactly fits what I have been digging into, hopefully someday we can all talk together. Also, there is a bonus segment featuring Richard Dolan interviewed by Randy at about the half way point.

  one-click audio download HERE  

This was a live show recorded on Friday Oct 18th.

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audio conversation with Elaine Douglass

There is a dark side to the UFO abduction phenomenon that seems to get lost in the online podcasting scene. Elaine has been digging deep into this research, and her conclusions are at odds with many in the community. What she sees is a cautionary tale, one that challenges my own outlook on these complex issues.

Elaine Douglass has been a UFO investigator for over 25 years. She holds a masters degree from MIT in military policy. She was with MUFON for 25 years as state director of Washington DC and then Utah. In the 1990s she was an organizer for ORTK, Operation Right to Know which held street demonstrations in several cities protesting UFO secrecy.

Elaine has investigated a huge number of sighting reports, but early on she turned her attention to the abduction cases. In 2008 she founded JAR, The Journal of Abduction-Encounter Research, an email magazine which published 9 issues. In 2012 she was a guest on the Jesse Ventura show where he interviewed on her contention that Robert Bigelow is an intelligence asset operating in the UFO community.

  one click audio download HERE  

2 hours / 18 minutes

For more information Elaine's experiences with MUFON, and also what others have been through, I’m going to suggest a series of informative interviews from Jerry Pippin under the title MUFON UNDER SIEGE. You’ll hear her tell about some demoralizing experiences within that organization. Elaine also started an organization, The Committee to Reform MUFON in the hopes of lobbying for more openness within that organization.

Here's another very good interview with Elaine, from March of this year. Elaine can be reached at her email address: edouglass [the 'at' symbol] frontier.com.

Here is a link to the article by Elaine where she tells the story of a young man who was at a job interview with the CIA, and he was given a lie detector test by an alien. Linked HERE.

Excellent essay on researching UFO abduction posted HERE.

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Sad news, Elaine Douglass died on January 27th, 2014 after a long battle with cancer. Here is a report  of her passing. Linked HERE.

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my blog stat counter from May 2014

I pay attention to the number 1234, and it shows up here (albeit with a zero) on the stat counter for this blog. No answers from this tiny clue. I am at the point that when I find these, I take note, try to document it on this site, and then see where it points. Alas, there isn't much to say, but those numbers remain.

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the elusive search for truth

Robbie Graham from  the website Silver Screen Saucers

posts an insightful and highly recommended essay:

 Letting go of UFOs

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Jerome Clark talks about the stranageness in UFO reporting

Jerome Clark

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Extremely interesting talk given by UFO researcher Jerome Clark. He spoke after being presented the Tim Dinsdale Award in 2009. He addresses some of the stranger aspects of UFO reports and how these correlate to mystical events in history. I lifted this audio from a 4-part youtube presentation.

owls and a mournful call

great horned owl

I saw an owl tonight, actually two of them.

It started on a bike ride heading north from my house to town, I had been writing about owls all day and my head was swimming with owl imagery and thoughts, the tape loop still grinding away as I rode the bike trail. It was a gray afternoon and for the first time this fall, it was starting to feel cold. The area along the bike path is mostly open flat horse pasture. At one point as I rode along I heard a mournful harsh squawking. I looked up to the telephone poles to see what it might be. I am an okay birder, and it sounded like it might be a hawk, but my mind thought owl. The squawk was ringing out at very defined intervals, perhaps once every 20 seconds or so. It was coming from a cluster of cottonwoods, all rusty gold with the season.

I got off my bike, walked through the dry grass to the barbed wire fence and stayed still looking and listening. The squawking seemed so sad, and it continued at steady intervals, but I didn’t see anything. It was definitely coming from that set of trees, but whatever bird was making the noise was hidden from my view. I got back on the bike and continued to town.

On the way back from, now riding south, I heard the same sound again, and this time I saw a bird on the back side of this stand of trees. No way to tell what it might be from that distance so I set my bike down again and walked up to the same barbed wire fence but a few hundred yards north from where I stood earlier.

The squawking continued and I could see the outline of the body and it sure looked like an owl. I shimmied under the fence and walked towards it to get a better look.

I had spent the day writing about the owls heightened ability to see and hear, so I was hyper aware that there was no way I could sneak up on it. I got fairly close and in the steely twilight I realized I was looking at a great horned owl.

All this time it continued that melancholy squawking at a steady interval. As i stood below it, I heard a faint response off to the west. The owl in the tree near me would squawk loudly, and just a second later I would hear the exact same call but way off in the distance. At first I wondered if it was an echo, but that would be unlikely in this big open terrain.

I turned my head for a few seconds to see where the faint noise might be coming from, and in that moment the owl dropped off the tree. When I looked back the owl was in flight, coasting slowly with what seemed to be impossibly large wings given that she only looked to be about a foot tall in the tree.

I watched her drop down to the hug the ground level and I lost sight of her as dipped low. Eventually I saw her reappear and alight on a big hay barn about a quarter of a mile from where I stood. Seconds later I saw another owl land on that same barn and one or the other of them took off. When I walked back to my bike there was only one owl on that barn.

Curiously, that was the very same barn where I had my picture taken with a great horned owl. This happened last summer, and I wrote about it, and the follow up synchronicity here. And equally curious the owl was doing some of the things I had just been writing about. Dropping from tree branches, flying oddly slow and hugging the ground as it flew.

I got home and search out that mournful screech, you can hear it on this page, about half way down a set of audio players. The audio is titled: Female squawk. This is an exact match, including the length of the interval between calls. It’s because of this that I am referring to this owl as a she.

This post comes the day after a posting a series of extremely bizarre owl sychronicities, involving driveways and laundry, linked here.

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Text added Oct. 13th, the following day from the post above

I feel pretty sure I saw two owls today, both of them were quite far away.  I am saying they were probably owls by the chubby barrel shape of their bodies. One was on the same hay barn as I wrote about yesterday. The other was in a tree. I saw them while driving. Not much to say, I feel like the ones way off in the distance don't have much synchro-resonance. That said, four in two days is a lot.

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Owls, driveways and laundry

A string of owl sychronicities emerged last week, and I’m trying to make sense of the overlapping weirdness. Like any synch, these things get so intertwined and personal that it ends up being almost impossible to convey their power, let alone their meaning. I’ve gotten to the point where I trust that the more entangled this stuff gets, the more I trust it. That said, I trust this flurry of synchro-weirdness.

What follows is my (excessively hyper-linked) attempt to unravel this knotted cluster of owl stuff.

I'm visual, so charts help me focus

On Monday (Sept. 30th) I had a Reiki session with a woman I know here in my little town. You can read a long post about what happened HERE. At the end of our meeting I asked if she had ever had any odd owl experiences.

I asked her: “Have you seen any owls recently?”

She said, “Well, me and my boyfriend saw a great big owl last night, it was really incredible.”

She explained about seeing a great horned owl that flew along side her, from fence post to branch, as she walked along a path. It would swoop down low and then landed further down the path, staying ahead of them as they walked. It was huge and it would glide low and incredibly close to the ground as it stayed in front of her and her friend.

I calmly told her, “That was me. That owl was all about this, us here right now.”


She agreed.

That same night I got an email where she told me she had see another owl after our session. She wrote that is was a huge gray owl (I am assuming it was a great gray) in the same spot, and it “appeared” right in the moment when she thought to herself that she wanted to manifest an elephant.

I wanted to talk with her but didn’t call until the next day Tuesday (Oct. 1st), right before calling her I switched on the live broadcast of Micah Hanks’ The Grailien Report. The show was only on for a little bit, just enough for me to hear that Micah had two guests, Cam and Kyle from the Expanded Perspectives Podcast.

I turned off the audio, walked next door to do a load of laundry (I use my neighbors washing machine) and when I got back to the house I made the call to the Reiki therapist. I left a message on her machine and then switched the audio back on.

The first thing I heard was Micah’s voice excitedly declaring, “The gentleman you guys are talking about is… Mike Clelland of the Hidden Experience blog. So, someone needs to get him in the chatroom, we’re talkin’ about owls!”

I was sitting right at my desk, I clicked on skype, send a little note, “Micah - I JUST started listening - and guess what I heard…” Within seconds I was on the air with him and his guests.

You can hear the excitement in amazement in their voices as they reveled in the fact that I heard my name and got on the air so quickly. I felt a little bit like I’d hijacked the conversation for the remaining half hour of the show. One thing I talked about was a weird synchronicty surrounding a woman from Asheville North Carolina, right where Micah lives, and her mystical experiences with owls and a very strange UFO sighting.

Now, what I hadn’t heard was just how my name came up. This morning I listened to the archived edition of the show from that night, and a a highly charged number comes up.

There it is again, 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 !

At the 1:23:45 time count, Cam begins a very interesting owl story by saying, “Now a little stranger than that, here’s another story that my mother actually shared with me…” What follows is an extremely eerie sighting of a giant 4 and 1/2 foot tall owl seen in a driveway.

As the guy tells this story, he says he pressed his mother for details because there is a guy who has a blog where he talks about owls and UFO abduction. He was obviously talking about me, but I hadn’t hear this part live.

Fast forward to yesterday, Thursday (Oct. 10th). I was at my desk all day obsessively working on this owl book project. As it got to be evening I received an email from Alan Abbadessa-Green, he was replying to a note I had sent him on Monday (Oct. 7th) where I said, “Are you up for a call?”

I don’t know if I’ve ever just asked him to chat like this, but I really enjoy talking with him. So it was a little bit unusual that I would just ask to talk like this. He said lets talk and later that night he rang me up on skype.

He excitedly asked, “What did you think of that picture I sent you!”

I hadn’t received anything, and he resized he had tried to tag me on someone else's photo on facebook, so I never go it.

a small owl in Alan's driveway

He sent it as we talked. He explained that last week, on Wednesday (Oct. 2nd) he was coming home from doing the laundry, and as he was nearing his driveway he had a strong thought in his mind, “Mike Clelland - owls - owls owls - Mike Clelland.” When he pulled into his home, there on the driveway was a small little owl. He was with a friend and he took a picture of it. He said he was close enough that he could see it’s big eyes dilate from the flash.

Caption from the site: 
Ran into this cute little guy on my walk to work.
He didn't move, just starred at me.
I even gave him a boop on the head.

Now that morning Thursday (Oct. 10th) the first email in my in-box was a link to this image. It was from someone who I didn’t know, but had heard me on Greg Bishop’s Radio Mysterioso. It was just a cute owl image found online, but it weirdly matched Alan’s experience. It was an owl in a driveway!

Alan and Micah both live in the same town, along with the woman who had the owl and UFO experience, that being Asheville North Carolina. Both Alan and Micah are podcasters, bloggers, authors and publish books. I've interviewed both Alan and Micah, in both of these there was huge focus on synchronicities.

Now, there is no better person on earth than Alan to try to unravel this kind of synchro-weirdness. The laundry connection seemed odd, and Alan pointed out that I had my own powerful laundry sync (linked HERE). But weirder to me was the striking similarity of the two owl in the driveway pictures.

We both tried to untangle this weird knot of owl stuff, but all we ended up doing was seeing more and more little threads that seemed to lead everywhere. No answers, just a recognition that this stuff really happens.

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2014 International UFO Congress

I'll be one of the presenters at the upcoming IUFOC (International UFO Congress) just outside of Phoenix. This is a 5-day conference run by Open Minds Magazine. The event runs through the 12th through 16th of February 2014.

A while back I sent in a written proposal to the conference organizers; writing this letter involved some coaching from Micah Hanks. They got back to me recently with a yes, explaining that they've been receiving some feedback that attendees wanted to have more abductees as presenters. I'll be one of 20 speakers in the line-up.

This is an event I've been attending annually since 2008. The reason I make the pilgrimage each year is because it's a long format conference. This allows for much more time to sit and connect with the other attendees, many of whom have their own experiences.

Here's the synopsis of my presentation:

Owls, Synchronicity and the UFO Abductee:

Mike Clelland began his study of the UFO abduction phenomenon in 2006 as a way to better understand his own personal experiences. This act of looking unleashed a flood of synchronicities as well as intense owl sightings. These events have been the focus of his ongoing research. Both owls and profound synchronicities seem to play a guiding role in the direct experience of some abductees, this connection points to a deeper reality at play in these mysteries. By looking at these elusive and often ignored aspects of the abduction lore, something truly mystical seems to be revealing itself.

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the Oz factor

I've attached a short essay describing the unusual effects reported by close up UFO witnesses. There seems to be something directly influencing the consciousness of anyone in close proximity to a UFO.

An the eerie silence is consistently reported by close encounter experiencers, but what also gets described is a bizarre warping of reality, as if their consciousness was being altered or distorted.

The term Oz Factor was coined in 1983 by British UFO researcher Jenny Randles to describe this strange, but commonly reported, effect of the proximity to an unknown craft. This recommended essay is posted below in a one-click PDF reader.

The Oz Factor by Jenny Randles

owls as highly sensitive input receivers

Here are two cool videos, both of 'em show off the owl's weirdly hyper-specilized physiology.

A wonderful 4-minutes of wildlife film-making featuring a Great Gray Owl. The narrator describes the highly attuned senses of this amazing creature.

As I proceed forward with my owl research, I am speculating that it's these extremely focused senses that allow the owl to see things that we can't, things that might be in the realm of the paranormal.

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One more cool video. This shows the weird head stability of an owl. It looks as if there the owl is wearing a snug zippered body covering. This would have been a fun job for the seamstress. Alas, this 45 second clip is silent, it seems in need of Benny Hill music. 

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And this too:


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If you've made it this far, you should read THIS!
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Dr. Karla Turner on Coast to Coast AM from 1994

Author, researcher and abductee

This is a two-hour interview featuring Dr. Karla Turner on Coast to Coast AM with Art Bell. This audio is sort of scratchy, but really amazing content. Dr. Turner talks about her personal experiences, her books and her research. More audio from Dr. Turner HERE; this is where I found this amazing C2C episode.

I didn't edit this at all, there is an almost nostalgic charm in the way the almost 20 year old recording sounds. Linda Moulton Howe's voice sounds different, and at certain points you can hear someone trying to adjust the AM dial.

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