Christopher Knowles saw a UFO from his porch

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And I have to say that this object—whatever it was—deeply unsettled me. I can't really call it fear, something much more complex and layered than that. More like a deep sense of dislocation.

Christopher Knowles, the man behind The Secret Sun, saw a UFO from his porch just a few nights ago. This was not a little dot in the sky, this was a very large structured craft making eerie movements in the New Jersey sky. He writes about the experience HERE.

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owl hieroglyphs at Roswell

Lt. John (Jack) Trowbridge and Roswell
Roswell witness testimony

There is a YouTube video of an aging Roswell witness, and he describes handling the debris from the crash site in 1947. Curiously, he mentions owls as part of his memories. The time count is noted in the transcription below. Trowbridge worked alongside Jesse Marcell Sr. at the 509th Bomb Wing at Roswell Army Air Field. Some researchers, like Kevin Randle question this testimony.  

This isn't meant to be any kind of smoking gun of owl weirdness. No conclusions, just a funny little reference worth noting—at least to me!

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Partial Transcription:

(0:40) On this particular evening, we had bridge at major Marcell's home…  my wife, all of intelligence was there playing bridge.

Except Jesse. He was out with a pick up gathering this junk in the debris field. So when He came in it was fairly late I believe. And we broke up the bridge game to see what Jesse had brought in. And it was of great interest.

It was aluminum in appearance. There were fragments of aircraft scanner, or whatever the thing was. And also some girders, with pictures of  hieroglyphic like things on it.

(1:50) I took them to be owls, but who knows.

Anyhow, it was interesting. I did get to handle the material.

And the material  had some peculiar properties. For instance, it looked like Hershey Bar wrappings. If you squeeze it up in your hand as hard as you could, and let go, it returned to the original shape—instantly!

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Thanks to Jamie for the head's up on this!

owls found dead in huge numbers along Idaho highway

dead owl along Idhao Interstate 84

I have been hit with a bunch of email and facebook notices about owls showing up dead along Intestate 84 in southern Idaho. Although terribly sad, I don't sense anything paranormal about this. Yet there are a few synchro-tid-bits.

Here is the initial news item from Boise TV (with video).

One of the two woman who reported the account to the news was Christina White (White Christ). Barn owls are only one of two white owls in north america, the other being the snowy owl

Erin Arnold of Boise Idaho, with a barn owl

A Boise State student recently published a thesis study on the dead owls in southern Idaho for the Raptor Research Center and called it "one of the world’s highest roadway mortality rates for barn owls."

And - the student from Boise State who wrote up a report on the owls is named Erin Arnold. The modern era of the flying saucer can be traced back to Boise resident Kenneth Arnold's 1947 sighting. Two Arnolds, both from Boise? Not sure if they are related, Arnold is a common name, but I've made a few attempts to find out.

If anyone out there can get a message to Ms. Arnold, please ask her if she is related to the late Kenneth Arnold!

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ADDENDUM June 6 2017
I just got a reply to my plea. Erin Arnold is NOT (as far as she knows) related to Kenneth Arnold. It would have been SO perfect if she was, but alas…

Thank you Dave from Idaho!
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Ellens Air Force Base is the fictitious location for "Deep Throat" one of the first X-FIles episodes to explore the back-engineered UFO conspiracy. Mountain Home is an Air Force Base along this stretch of interstate, the only site that would match the site.

Interstate 84 continues West into Oregon, and there is a zone closer to the Columbia River that is the site of a large collection of weird UFO sightings, many in association with owls.

I have an account on file of a fellow who had a lot of owl sightings, often at highly charged moments. He also had a disturbing missing time event while on his way to Boise. It was near I-84, but not on it. He sort of "came to" in view of a gas station in a VERY lonely rural spot. Oddly enough, I've been to that gas station several times and I've even purchased two UFO books on cassette tape at that site. This was years before I read his account (and back before MP3s).

     - Jacques Vallee’s fiction novel - "Fastwalker"
     - C. D. B. Bryan's book - “Close Encounters of the Forth Kind”

It's an odd location to find UFO books on tape, I mean, this place is way out there…

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“Mom, is that you?”

Barred owl, photo taken February 16, 2017. Click on image for HI-rez view.

Last Friday morning at 8:35, Andrea had a photo of an owl show up in her Facebook chat box (see above). The text under the image asked, “Andrea, this owl is on my deck. Do you think it might be injured?”

The message was from Andrea’s friend Suzanne. I was sitting nearby and she showed me the picture. My sense was that it looked fine. Andrea replied and asked when it showed up.

What then took place was a real time back and forth dialogue about the owl right out her window. Suzanne told us over Facebook that her mother had recently died, and that: “Today is my Mom’s birthday.” She had been crying earlier that morning, still grieving over the loss. Her mom had always been a good listener and she desperately wanted to talk to her.

She sat down and took some time to meditate after crying. Her intention was to process her feelings of confusion and loss. It was right when opening her eyes after meditating that she first saw the owl. She remarked that the way the window was lined up she would not have noticed it if she was seated even just a few inches off to either side. Her immediate thought was, “Mom, is that you?”

She tapped on the window and the owl slowly turned its head, its eyes wide open and staring at her. It was at this point that she took the photo (above) and sent it to Andrea.

Suzanne wrote, “So gorgeous… Never seen one so close.”

I was getting the play-by-play as Andrea read each of the incoming messages. When I heard that Suzanne’s mother had recently died I immediately blurted out, “Talk to the owl as if it is your Mom.” My comment was because of all the accounts I'd collected of people talking to owls after a loved one (most often a parent) had passed. 

Suzanne couldn't get out onto the deck because of deep snow, so she opened the window to talk, “It looked at me for several minutes with those eyes and then flew into a tree. Has to be her.”

The owl had sat on the deck chair for about an hour, and then spent about five minutes in a pine tree close to the house. She said this short time felt endless. 

In a follow up phone conversation I asked Suzanne her thoughts on the owl. She said that before noticing the owl she felt alone and despondent. Since the sighting, “I just felt an amazing connection, I don’t feel alone.” 

For the whole rest of that day she felt like crying, “It was so moving, but I wasn’t grieving. The tears are not of despair.”

She had lived in that house for over eight years, and never once seen an owl. 

Her mom would have been 95 years old on the day of this owl sighting, February 17, 2017. If you leave out the zero, the calendar date repeats itself in the year, 2/17 is 2017. 

Suzanne is a psychotherapist, and like so many of the other people who have described similar owl experiences, she is trained in Reiki.

A few days after the owl sighting on her back deck, Suzanne said this, “I am convinced that the visit was also a message to me to take care of business. The business of letting go ... and to commit to my work and my purpose here. Even if it means facing down the loneliness for the time being. But I am not alone. The owl did not seem to leave the yard. I believe it is still around my home.”

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I am indebted to all the people who have shared their stories with me. I realize that I've become a sort of archivist for people's personal exerinces. There is a responsibility to do more than just catalog these accounts and tuck them away in file cabinets. There is a need to share. My hope is that the people who find these little reports will end up being just a little more open to the deeper aspects of our reality.                        

—Mike Clelland.  

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Betty Andreasson's home with FOUR owls and a gray alien

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The 1985 photo book, In Advance of the Landing, is an anthropological study of people who believed in UFOs or belonged to UFO cults from the early 70's-80's. The content is candid understated photographs and a short bio of the people involved in the pictures. 

Betty

The image above is Betty Andreasson's home. It shows a fiberglass alien created from one of her drawings. But in the background are three framed pictures of owls. She was featured in the four book series, The Andreasson Affair, written by Raymond F-OWL-er.

Also in the photo, on the table, is a red monkey-frog thing. If I remember correctly, these were seen in a cave by Betty. She was told that the little grays would harvest their eyes and then put them in their own heads. That's where the big back alien eyes come from.

Thanks to Chris C. for sending me this image from an out of print book.

First Edition, in hardcover

Glorious pre-computer art direction

NEW text added Feb 11, 2017:

There is another owl in The picture! (seen below) In the background on the lamp stand sits a small owl statuette! Thank you Derek Z for playing owl detective!

grainy owl close up
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