Random Thoughts, Random Places

Psychospy, a.k.a. Glenn Campbell is back, re-incarnated as Kilroy. Among other web pages, he has an Area 51 Blog.  It’s an interesting read from someone who’s interests over the years have been, borrowing a phrase from Hand, “shall we say, eclectic”.  Start with the first post to get an update; then browse the entire busy Blogspot page.  Much is interesting history but there are a few bits of new information that add more pieces to the mosaic. 

The information about the Interceptors has been slowly disappearing from the Internet lately.  It’s good to see this blog appear.  Definitely one you’ll want to bookmark.

Former NASA astronaut Edgar Mitchell still believes ET is among us.  In a radio interview in the UK yesterday he told host Nick Margerrison, “This is really starting to open up. I think we’re headed for real disclosure and some serious organisations are moving in that direction.”

Mitchell is no newcomer to the UFO/paranormal scene. Shortly after leaving NASA in the 1970’s, where on the Apollo 14 flight he walked on the moon, Mitchell founded the Institute of Noetic Sciences to study psychic and spiritual phenomena. Subjects included spoon bender Uri Geller. At a 1998 conference of “alien abductees” and other contactees he said that he’s 90% certain that many of the UFO reports of the past 50 years are actually visitors from another planet.

I’d dismiss Edgar Mitchell’s claims as the ramblings of an old man.  He is 77 years old.  But he’s been making such claims for decades.  And we’ve yet to see any revelations by the government or any proof of aliens zipping about the skies. Have fun Edgar.  I’ll stick to more serious sources of information about strange things in the sky.

Every so often we hear stories of giant blimps as the “next big thing” coming out of Area 51.  Well, maybe we should look further north. Or east.  SkyHook International Inc. of Calgary, Canada is teaming up with Boeing to produce the SkyHook blimp/rotorcraft.  This story by Lauren Krugel from the Canadian Press via Yahoo is interesting.  (I’d link to the Canadian Press but they charge to view their stories online.) Krugel writes, “The SkyHook JHL-40 heavy-lift rotorcraft looks like a blimp with four helicopter-like rotors underneath and will be able to lift a 40-tonne load slung from its belly and carry it 300 kilometres without refuelling.” Under terms of the agreement Boeing is designing and building two prototypes at its plant in Ridley Park, Pa.

If Boeing is building prototypes they’ve got to test them.   Maybe those giant blimp stories aren’t so far fetched.

It must by something in the water. 

Strange lights in the sky once again over Phoenix.  It happened the night of April 21st.  Of course the usual UFOs were suspected, but another possibility this time was “Sky Lanterns“, big balloon-like things that have a flame at the bottom and slowly rise like a helium balloon. I’ll admit, it sounds plausible.

But the next day the Marines, not the Air Force, played the usual spoiler role. They said it was amber-colored flares from training flights on the Barry Goldwater Gunnery Range outside Gila Bend, according to the Yuma Marine Air Base. 

And it may be the truth.  Arv Schultz, a retired airline pilot said said the flares were a common sight. “We would fly at night from Phoenix to Yuma. And, we’d always see the people out at the Luke Gunnery Range at Gila Bend and we’d see the flares out there because that’s how they light up the bombing range, so that they can drop their bombs at night.”

But those “Sky Lanterns” sound like a lot more fun.

Is Time Travel and Teleportation impossible?  Not according to Professor Michio Kaku of City University in New York.  Professor Kaku says that unless something breaks the laws of physics, “then it’s not only possible, it is sure to be built someday”.  He was interviewed recently by the London Telegraph and Manchester Guardian. Kaku divides science-fiction impossibilities into three categories — possible soon, possible in the far future and really, truly impossible. Read the articles to see what he places in each category.

Of the items in his first category, possible soon, I’d say the discovery of extraterrestrial life is most likely the first to be realized.  The discovery of likely planets is progressing at an amazing pace.  Finding actual traces of life on one can’t be far behind. 

Of course some of these achievements might cause big changes in our daily life. Take, for instance, telepathy.  Can you imagine how you’d decide who to vote for if you really knew what the candidates were thinking?