NY Times: Loose Nukes Echo Chamber

The tempo of apocalyptic fear-mongering has kicked into overdrive: the MSM is literally awash with portentious articles of new terror attacks involving loose nukes.

Let's be very clear about this: the 9/11 drug is wearing off, the wheels are coming off that lie, and they're hustling "the next big thing" to market as fast as they can. These madmen are doubling down on terror, just as they're about to do the same with Iraq.

I can barely keep up with the sowing-the-ground articles, and I focus almost exclusively on the top tier NYT, WaPo & BBC--and THIS IS NOT A GOOD THING.

The NY Times' second "we're-gonna-get-nuked-soon" article this week, via the Huffington Post, behind the NYT firewall:

"Frank Rich: Experts Warn Al Qaeda "To Detonate Nuclear Device" In US, But Bush Punts on Threat."

In an op-ed in the New York Times, columnist Frank Rich argues that
over five years after the events of September 11, 2001, President George
W. Bush is still ignoring serious terrorist threats to the United
States. Faced with warnings from terrorism experts and a White House
seemingly more focused on Iraq, Rich begs readers to ask, "Haven't we
been here before?"

Yes Frank, on the same pages just this past Sunday in fact. And that's what really scares the Hell out of me.

Jumping The Gun Big Time: BBC Reported WTC7 Had CollapsedWith Building Still Standing In Plain View

This is beyond outrageous.

A video has just been uncovered (ht to Alex Jones for spreading the word) of Jane Stanley, reporting live for BBC World and standing before the smoldering ruins of the WTC complex, as she announces on air that the Salomon Brothers Building, aka WTC Building 7, has just collapsed.

The only problem is that WTC7 can plainly be seen still standing behind her left shoulder. WTC7 wouldn't fall until nearly a half hour after she gave her report.

Google and YouTube scrubbed the video soon after it surfaced, the BBC claims it has somehow lost the original footage (and two backup copies), and the MSM refuses to report this astounding revelation.

This coming right on the heels of the BBC's hatchet job on the 9/11 truth movement. Karma's a real bitch sometimes...

The wheels are coming off 9/11. This lie is simply too big to keep in a box.

Here we go...

Dept. of In-Your-Face Symbolism:McClown Shows Presidency Is a Joke

From today's WaPo:

McCain Joins Race for 2008

On "Late Show With David Letterman," senator says he is seeking the nomination for president.

They are laughing in our faces.

This has been carefully considered. McCain is a messenger, by launching his campaign on a late-night comedy show, he is telling us what a joke the Presidency really is. But then after Reagan and two terms of W, no one but a fool would think differently.

Owl Gods Redux

In a prior post on 9/11 and secret societies, I mentioned Bohemian Grove and Molloch, the ancient Babylonian owl god worshipped there. Though none of what follows is particularly new information, I wanted to expand on that prior post here.

The question why Presidents, CEOs, media moguls and financiers secretly gather to worship huge stone owl effigies in Redwood forests is obviously an interesting one, and quite revealing.

The owl, of course, can see in the dark, and thus is the perfect symbol for the Illuminati, that most secret of societies, which sees behind and in large part plans the apparently random events that form our "current events": carefully planned accidents, false-flag terrorist attacks, financial and political machinations that pop up in our MSM long after the fact--if at all.

The owl then is a symbol of hubris, of condescension--there is even a tiny one perched on the upper right corner of the front of the one-dollar bill--which of course sports the Illuminati/freemasonry pyramid with its all-seeing eye of Isis/Osiris on the verso, just above its inscription dedicated to a Latinate "new world order." And there's another one drawn in the roads surrounding the Capitol, which sits in its belly--the belly of the beast.

Neat little package, the dollar bill--all the conspiracies in a nutshell--and even better, you carry it in your pocket every day, totally in the dark about all its hidden symbolism. The dollar bill is a talisman, and these secret-society nutjobs think that it generates positive auguries for their plans and projects.

The current half-dozen posts give you some idea of their current projects--provoking war with Iran and dismantling American civil rights being foremost on the agenda--and I think that 2007 will be a critical year in American history. We are heading for a crisis of their making, and they have gambled enormously and dug themselves so deep into their occult-feathered nest of unprecedented lies, crimes and manipulations that it can only lead to horrific confrontation. You know, enough is enough. This sh*t has got to stop.

So fasten your seat-belts and stock up on duct tape, it's going to be one Hell of a bumpy year.

Even Barnum Would Blush: Jesus' Purported Ossuary Becomes PR Tool

James Cameron of Titanic fame and an Israeli documentary filmmaker claim to have solid proof that a burial chamber found in Jerusalem 26 years ago actually held the caskets of Jesus Christ, Son of God, the Virgin Mary, Mary Magdelene, and Jesus' son. (Here's the NY Times blog on the story.)

The story starts in 1980 in Jerusalem’s Talpiyot neighborhood, with the discovery of a 2,000 year old cave containing ten coffins. Six of the ten coffins were carved with inscriptions reading the names: Jesua son of Joseph, Mary, Mary, Matthew, Jofa (Joseph, identified as Jesus’ brother), Judah son of Jesua (Jesus’ son - the filmmakers claim).

The ossuaries claimed to have held Jesus' and the Virgin Mary's remains go on display in New York today, to coincide with the start of the marketing campaign for the documentary about the discovery.

Blessed are the filmmakers, for they will inherit the net receipts.

And of course the End-Timers are putting on their Sunday-Go-To-Rapture best and waiting by the door.

You Have Been Warned: Loose Nukes & Dirty Bombs

From today's NY Times Magazine:

Former Senator Sam Nunn's nightmare scenario for our future. The lede:

By now we can too readily imagine the horror of terrorists exploding a nuclear weapon in a major American city: the gutted skyscrapers, the melted cars, the charred bodies.

Ok, you've got my attention, but I've read this sort of long, sober, but utterly hair-raising Sunday Times Mag "they"-could-nuke-NYC-or-Washington article just once too often. Here comes another, just at the moment we have three full carrier task forces within striking distance of Tehran.

Again, the operative word is terror.

Just For Laughs

The lede of an article entitled "Is Cheney Next?" at ABC News:

Could a guilty verdict for a former aide bring further criminal scrutiny of Vice President Dick Cheney?

The "further" is what gets me ROTFL.

Chilling Prescience: Jim Garrison Speaks, 1967

Here I cede the floor to a remarkable man, whose words should not be lost.

Earling Carothers "Jim" Garrison was District Attorney for New Orleans, and placed local businessman Clay Bertrand on trial for conspiracy in the assassination of John F. Kennedy. He is the focus of Oliver Stone's film, JFK. From a Playboy interview in 1967:

PLAYBOY: Many of the professional critics of the Warren Commission appear to be prompted by political motives: Those on the left are anxious to prove Kennedy was murdered by a internal conspiracy within the establishment; and those on the right are eager to prove the assassination was an act of "the international Communist conspiracy." Where would you place yourself on the political spectrum--right, left or center?

JIM GARRISON: That's a question I've asked myself frequently, especially since this investigation started and I found myself in an incongruous and disillusioning battle with agencies of my own Government. I can't just sit down and add up my political beliefs like a mathematical sum, but I think, in balance, I'd turn up somewhere around the middle. Over the years, I guess I've developed a somewhat conservative attitude--in the traditional libertarian sense of conservatism, as opposed to the thumbscrew-and-rack conservatism of the paramilitary right--particularly in regard to the importance of the individual as opposed to the State and the individual's own responsibilities to humanity . . .

I was with the artillery supporting the division that took Dachau; I arrived there the day after it was taken, when bulldozers were making pyramids of human bodies outside the camp. What I saw there has haunted me ever since. Because the law is my profession, I've always wondered about the judges throughout Germany who sentenced men to jail for picking pockets at a time when their own government was jerking gold from the teeth of men murdered in gas chambers. I'm concerned about all of this because it isn't a German phenomenon; it's a human phenomenon. It can happen here, because there has been no change, there has been no progress and there has been no increase of understanding on the part of men for their fellow men.

What worries me deeply, and I have seen it exemplified in this case, is that we in America are in great danger of slowly eroding into a proto-fascist state. It will be a different kind of fascist state from the one the Germans evolved; theirs grew out of depression and promised bread and work, while ours, curiously enough, seems to be emerging from prosperity. But in the final analysis, it's based on power and on the inability to put human goals and human conscience above the dictates of the State. Its origins can be traced in the tremendous war machine we've built since 1945, the "military-industrial complex" that Eisenhower vainly warned us about, which now dominates every aspect of our life. The power of the states and the Congress has gradually been abandoned to the Executive Department, because of war conditions; and we've seen the creation of an arrogant, swollen bureaucratic complex totally unfettered by the checks and balances of the Constitution.

In a very real and terrifying sense, our Government is the CIA and the Pentagon, with Congress reduced to a debating society. Of course, you can't spot this trend to fascism by casually looking around. You can't look for such familiar signs as the swastika, because they won't be there. We won't build Dachaus and Auschwitzes; the clever manipulation of the mass media is creating a concentration camp of the mind that promises to be far more effective in keeping the populace in line. We're not going to wake up one morning and suddenly find ourselves in gray uniforms goose-stepping off to work.

About the photo: Paramilitary police attacking lawful demonstrators protesting against the Free Trade Area of the Americas pact (FTAA) in November of 2003 in Miami.

But this isn't the test. The test is: What happens to the individual who dissents? In Nazi Germany, he was physically destroyed; here the internal process is more subtle, but the end results are the same. I've learned enough about the machinations of the CIA in the past year to know that this is no longer the internal dreamworld America I once believed in. The imperatives of the population explosion, which almost inevitably will lessen our belief in the sanctity of the individual human life, combined with the awesome power of the CIA and the defense establishment, seem destined to seal the fate of the America I knew as a child and bring us into a new Orwellian world where the citizen exists for the State and where raw power justifies any and every immoral act.

I've always had a kind of knee-jerk trust in my Government's basic integrity, whatever political blunders it may make. But I've come to realize that in Washington, deceiving and manipulating the public are viewed by some as the natural prerogatives of office. Huey Long once said, "Fascism will come to America in the name of anti-fascism." I'm afraid, based on my own long experience, that fascism will come to America in the name of national security.

Dr. Evil: Rumsfeld, $2.3 Trillion and 9/11

Here's a staggering bit of recent history that should not be allowed to disappear down the memory hole: On September 10, 2001--yes, that is one day before 9/11--Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld announced that, "According to some estimates we cannot track $2.3 trillion in transactions."

I'll be brief here. A few obvious points:

What better way to hide such an outrageous revelation in plain sight than announcing it on the eve of 9/11? The result: Only one major news outlet, CBS News, reported the story. Yet more proof of the conspiracy, if any was needed.

All that money didn't just disappear, nor was it all siphoned off in corruption. This is the cost of our black-ops programs. That means, for the 10-year period of the accounting inquiry, that the Pentagon is spending half the amount in black programs that it does with those officially budgeted, currently some $450 billion per year. And this has been going on since Truman. Let your imagination run free with what they've developed with all that cash.

Also, all those F-22s and submarines and toilet seats don't cost the amounts the Pentagon attributes to them either. They're inflated by at least a quarter, if not by half, with that money also going into black-ops programs. This of course explains why those Humvees in Iraq aren't properly armored, among other things.

Finally, why isn't anyone paying attention? Why no outraged calls for oversight, no moves to reform this mess? Well I know why, just thought I'd play the naif to wrap it up.

Oh, and one last thing: now you know why that manifestly incompetent and sinister nutjob hung on so long.

It Could Never Happen Here:Russian Press Derides Concocted Terror Alert

From today's Metro France (yes, even Metro, the International freebie daily):

Yesterday, the majority of Russian newspapers derided the anti-terrorist operations conducted throughout the country a day earlier, questioning whether the alert wasn't in reality a political exercise or maneuver.

It's come to this: the Russians have a freer, more skeptical press than we do.

The Times, they are a changin'.

George W. Bush: Their Pet Goat

"We seem to be moving, drifting, steadily against our will--against the will of every race and every people and every class--towards some hideous catastrophe. Everyone wishes to stop it, but they do not know how."
Winston Churchill, April 13, 1937

Churchill's words, spoken on the eve of World War II, resonate even more profoundly today. They can be applied to any number of gathering storms--to environmental degradation and global warming; to globalization and the impoverishment of the Western middle class; to terrorism and the loss of Constitutional liberties in the United States; to the Bush administration's Strangelovian determination to broaden its Middle East conflagration to Iran and Syria, following the PNAC agenda, and the open talk of using tactical nuclear weapons to achieve these ends; and, finally, I would add to the Bush administration itself.

I believe the root causes of this relentless tow "towards some hideous catastrophe" are not pure happenstance or random drift. There are larger forces in action, determined groups, very real agendas, if only rarely glimpsed, and they find their nexus in the secret government of the United States. They are two overlapping groups: secret societies and the military industrial complex. Their doubled aims and their raison d'etre are the effacement of what they view as the insane experiment of creating a republic of free men, embodied in the US Constitution, and the militarization of American society, the better to control the American (and world) population and confront the alien question.

With the administration of George W. Bush, these players have boldly advanced their agenda, in what for all the world looks like an endgame. Like the relentless march toward World War II, it seems the Bush administration cannot be checked by any counterforce. Bush himself has nothing really to do with this. He is the puppet of and cheerleader for his masters--the most blatantly obvious Presidential marionette of all--and that he attained the office of President, twice, in successive rigged election/putsches, shows the utter disdain the true powers controlling America have for the public and for world opinion. They are literally thumbing their noses at us as they erect their unitary executive and their police state, using this pathetic boy-king as their posterboy.

We see the unease everywhere; it is even starting to appear in the mainstream media, even though 90% of the MSM is under the firm control of but five corporations. Throughout the blogosphere, the claxons have been ringing for years; political commentators--moderate, liberal and libertarian, in short all those not obviously allied with these authoritarian/totalitarian elements--document with growing concern and rage the increasing dangers and the mounting threats. However, they cannot break free of the "established order" of the staged clash of left and right, of liberal and conservative, of Democrat and Republican. They cannot see the forest for the trees. They attribute the administration's motives to hubris, incompetence, and warmongering; but they do not see the bottom of the iceberg, these networks of power and influence and their insidious agenda. Once revealed, the current, seemingly insane moves toward war with Iran become perfectly explicable, the clash inevitable. Likewise, every other move of this administration--from Katrina to the GWOT to the dismantlement of objective science--fall into place as well.

George W. Bush, Bigger Patsy than Oswald

I return to Bush, that pathetic idiot manchild. Several independent reports (see Webster Tarpley & the 911 Timeline below) indicate that Bush had no involvement in plotting 9/11 and that indeed he was a target of the conspirators--if he did not join their cabal and become its cheerleader, then he would be disposed of. There was no downside: assassinating Bush on 9/11 would have completely demoralized America and installed an active conspirator in power. In any event, it was seen to it that Bush was publicly humiliated and made to feel the full extent of his superfluousness and expendability that morning. Shock and Awe indeed.

Look anew at those infamous nine minutes in the Florida classroom. Think about why the President was set amid first-graders, reading The Pet Goat, when he learned of the second jet hitting the second WTC tower. Ponder the importance of stagecraft in the modern Presidency, and consider Bush's 9/11 stage. Think of his immobility, his rising panic, the fear and dumbfoundment on his face. Think about why his handlers, in flagrant contravention of all Secret Service emergency protocols, purposefully left the President of the United States publicly exposed for over 40 minutes after the gravest attack on American soil since Pearl Harbor. Consider why he then pointlessly wandered across the nation in Air Force One for the rest of the day.

All this was no coincidence. Bush was the patsy, the pet goat, and soon enough he would be given his ultimatum--when Air Force One was in the air, denied fighter escort for nearly two hours: Become chief cheerleader for the 9/11 cabal or become another among thousands of victims of that brilliant mastermind in an Afgan cave. Bush was then flown to Offutt AFB in Nebraska, home of the US Strategic Command and operational center for Global Guardian--the most important of the astounding 20-odd "war games" exercises organized by the Pentagon and held on that most coincidence-laden morning (Global Guardian anticipated a Russian nuclear strike and raised US military alert status to DEFCON 3; all strategic nuclear weapons were at hair-trigger readiness).

It is no surprise that the first foreign leader to speak with Bush after the attacks was Russia's President Putin, as Russia was well aware of the sudden and threatening change in US force posture. Apparently Bush informed him that the Strangelovians were now in control and that the PNAC agenda was going to be implemented, and that if Russia didn't accede to America's Middle Eastern agenda, then Global Guardian would no longer be a game.

In yet another set of absurdities and coincidences to add to an already overflowing basket, Warren Buffett, one of the richest men in the world and who is now disconcertingly interested in "loose nukes," was also at Offutt that morning, hosting a "charity benefit" with business leaders, a number of whom otherwise would have been working in the WTC. I can't think of any location more conducive to charity, or a more congenial setting for the Morgan of our day to host a power breakfast, than the US Strategic Command HQ in eastern Nebraska--except perhaps Windows on the World. What on earth did they all talk about when the Pet Goat made his courtesy call?

9/11 Clearinghouse

First, a word on the photo: note the now-infamous demolition squibs shooting out of the WTC, caused by major detonations of the central columns in roughly 20-story increments, as above secondary charges pulverize the tower, bringing it down at free-fall speed.

September 11th was an inside job, the third US coup d'etat after the Kennedy assassination and the first George W. Bush administration, and if possible it was even more destabilizing and insidious than JFK's murder.

Like many, after the initial shock of events, I hadn't given 9/11 much serious thought until I read of the results of a recent Zogby poll showing nearly half of Americans and well over 60% of New Yorkers believe the US government is somehow involved in the conspiracy. Those are shocking numbers.

So I began to Google and indeed the evidence is overwhelming and irrefutable. The government's cover-up relies upon media collusion and mass apathy, but 9/11 must not be allowed to stand, as it is the base of the present regime's "legitimacy," the staggering treason that underpins their fascist agenda.

Fletcher Prouty--CIA liaison and man of conscience--penned words concerning the JFK assassination that find new relevance today: "Almost everyone who has taken the time to do any reading and thinking about that crime knows this is a game for the biggest stake of all--absolute control of the government of the United States of America; and, with control of this government, control of the world. And yet the real crime underlying all of this has not even been identified, stated, and charged. The real criminals still walk the streets, run their corporations, control their banks, and pull strings throughout their political and financial machines."

Following are links to the best online websites and video presentations concerning the events of September 11, 2001.

Overview
The Complete 911 Timeline: Compilation of all journalistic media accounts of 9/11; a massive undertaking.

Loose Change, 2nd Edition: A 90-minute documentary that concisely marshals the basic facts about what really happened on 9/11. Clear and straightforward, highly recommended.

The American Scholars Symposium, Los Angeles, 8 July 2006. Organized by Alex Jones, a panel discussion about 9/11 and the false-flag terrorism it embodies.

The WTC Towers
South Tower Collapse. A short (-2 min.) slow-motion video of the beginning of the South Tower's collapse, showing jetting plumes and flashes as cutter charges are set off in the impact area. Also, note that the 20 uppermost floors--a massive structure in and of itself--initially intact and toppling at an angle, simply explodes in mid-air. What more proof does one need?

911 Mysteries: A 90-minute documentary examining the collapse of the three WTC towers. Clear, straightforward presentation, though the narrator has a banal delivery. Nonetheless highly recommended for its content.

9/11: Scientific and Ethical Questions, by Prof. Steven Jones. Jones, a physicist at BYU, is the leading scientific proponent of controlled demolition. Compelling for anyone who is not afraid to think.

Interview with Prof. Steven Jones. A straightforward digest of the physical evidence of controlled demolition of the WTC towers. Prof. Jones is in many ways the epitome of the mild-mannered professor--cautious, logical, and relying upon sound evidence for his deductions--and thus his concluding statements in this video are absolutely chilling.

WTC 7 Collapse
Alex Jones on the collapse of WTC Building 7. The collapse of WTC 7 on the afternoon of 9/11 is the most outrageous element of the 9/11 conspiracy. Here Jones has every right to express his indignation.

WTC7.net, a website documenting the controlled demolition of WTC Building 7, command and control center for the 9/11 attacks.

The Plotters
Facing 9/11 Truth, a lecture by Webster G. Tarpley, Seattle, April 2006. An expert on false-flag terrorism, Tarpley lays out the whys and the hows of rogue government involvement in 9/11. A brilliant exposition; should not be missed.

TerrorStorm by Alex Jones. Jones is a courageous, in-your-face provocateur to power and researcher into secret societies and conspiracies, and here explains 9/11 as a government-sponsored terrorist event: the foundational event in the Global War on Terror--by Western governments against their own populations.

Hijacking Catastrophe, A half-hour video explaining the geopolitical benefits--among them, permanent US bases in Iraq and Afganistan and dominance of the Caucusus Basin--that the self-inflicted wound of 9/11 permitted. Ask yourself, "Who benefits most?," and you will find the perpetrator.

The O'Hare UFO:Target of Ridicule by Our Media Circus

The power of secrecy, disinformation, and the fear of ridicule has effectively blocked ET disclosure in the US. Apathy, disinterest, media collusion, and the ingrained belief that only government can certify the reality of ET visitation and contact creates a remarkable national dissonance, where over half the public believes in UFOs and ETs but the subject itself, taboo in the MSM, hovers at the outer limits of the national psyche, reserved for children's toys and Hollywood fantasies.

When UFO/ET events do break into the MSM, they are invariably reported as inherently suspect, and badly reported at that. A perfect case in point is the recently publicized sighting of a classic saucer-shaped craft seen hovering some twenty minutes over the United Airlines terminal at O'Hare airport at about 4:30 on the afternoon of November 7, 2006. The craft was seen by a number of United pilots and ground personnel, approximately a dozen of whom reported the UFO to supervisors and the FAA. Several pilots have been recorded speaking with air traffic controllers, wanting to know if the craft had appeared on their radar screens (reportedly it had not, but this information comes from the same FAA that initially denied the existence of these very conversations.)

Originally reported by the Chicago Tribune on January 1st, 2007, the sighting was, surprisingly, taken up by a number of major media outlets--CNN, CBS News, and Fox News among them. But this rare media coverage only occurred because the case, lacking photographic or radar evidence--simply the testimony of several commercial pilots and airport personnel--lent itself to an easy, sniggering ridicule pitched to the lizard brain, such as this from Yahoo News: At least one O'Hare controller, union official Craig Burzych, was amused by it all. "To fly 7 million light years to O'Hare and then have to turn around and go home because your gate was occupied is simply unacceptable," he said.

Among all the major media, only the initial Chicago Tribune reporter, John Hilkevich, seen here in a Tribune video report, gave a thorough, balanced and convincing report of the incident, well worth viewing. He was of course virtually alone, and the media soon closed ranks to simplify, distort and debase the story, ensuring that, when distributed nationally, it would hold content worthy of a sidebar on USA Today's gossip page. The inverse trajectory of plummeting information vs. rising controversy and widening audience defines media manipulation over time. The first, local reports of unusual events are virtually always the most thorough and truthful; often they are breaking news and so initially escape corporate/governmental censorship. Later iterations inevitably, as here, become caricatures of actual news reports--the informational equivalent of Wonder bread.

The media duly incorporated the government's disinformation--hoary theories of temperature inversions and funny atmospherics that are nearly as old as Roswell itself--to supplant the eyewitness accounts in the initial news reports. Though the sighting occurred well before 5 pm, with a cloud ceiling at 2000 feet, the FAA spokesperson attributed the sighting to lights bouncing off low clouds at night, though it was neither night nor was the object described by any witness as glowing or emitting light of any kind. Of the later print reports, only that of CBS News bothers to cite an actual eyewitness description and offer evidence of the FAA's blatant distortion and dishonesty:

"I tend to be scientific by nature, and I don't understand why aliens would hover over a busy airport," said a United mechanic who said he saw the object while taxiing a Boeing 777 to a maintenance hangar. "But I know that what I saw and what a lot of other people saw stood out very clearly, and it definitely was not an [Earth] aircraft."

The witnesses, who all spoke to the Tribune under condition of anonymity, said they had a difficult time finding the object as it flew through dense clouds. Witnesses also said the object created an open hole of clear air in the cloud layer that disappeared a few minutes after it passed through the clouds.

The FAA initially denied there were any reports of a UFO sighting, but later backtracked after a Freedom of Information Act filed by the newspaper revealed the call by the United supervisor to the FAA.

I cite this incident as a recent but not at all extraordinary example of sixty years of MSM complacency and complicity in promoting UFO/ET disinformation on those rare occasions when it publishes on the topic at all. Here is an audio link for those who wish to hear extensive, unedited testimony from the mechanic cited above, a prime witness to the incident.

Literally dozens, if not hundreds of other compelling cases are reported each year, but none of them will reach your newspaper or television screen. And you can rest assured that, if decent photographs or actual radar records surface to corroborate the O'Hare sighting, you will not learn about them in follow-up reports in the MSM. At that point the sighting will have long ago slid down the memory hole, replaced by the latest antics of Paris Hilton and the Bush twins.

Update: here are the latest photographs to surface, not yet verified.

Space Shuttle Video, Part II:Entities Inhabiting Near Space

Perhaps even more incredible than the fact that ETs and alien craft exist is the evidence of two distinct, quite probably biological, entities captured by the shuttle's video cameras on numerous occasions.

"Spheres"
The first of these entities, known to many researchers as "spheres" or "critters," are best seen teeming about a 12-mile-long broken tether during STS mission 75. The tether was attached to a $100 million satellite launched by the shuttle Columbia in an experiment to capture electricity from the ionization of the long tether/antenna. Due to miscalculations, the energy captured was much more than anticipated and caused the tether to break free from the shuttle and drift off into space.

At about 70 to 100 nautical miles from the shuttle Columbia, the ionized tether attracts a huge swarm of remarkable, pulsating entities, which teem about it like fish rising to be fed in an aquarium. NASA astronauts and mission control describe the show as "debris" and "a couple of star-like things and a lot of things swimming in the foreground." Since we know that the tether is 12 miles long and can clearly see that many of the UFO/entities pass behind the tether, and fall in and out of focus with the tether itself, we can estimate the diameter of the largest at 2-3 miles across.

For those skeptics who would argue that these images represent the "airy disk" phenomenon of optical refraction, here is a very clear piece of video from the mission showing both the airy disk effect and the entities in the same frame. Apparently, the cameraman/astronaut here purposely creates the airy disk phenomenon while recording the "spheres" to allow comparison and to foreclose exactly this explanation.

These entities do not look to be manufactured and may be organic in origin. They have consistent, but irregular amoeboid shapes, a dark center, and a clear notch and flange at their edge. They pulsate with electromagnetic energy that manifests itself in a spiral pattern and that has been provocatively analyzed by ufo researcher David Sereda in this extensive investigation, "Evidence: the Case for NASA UFOs," Part 1 and Part 2.

Indeed, John Glenn witnessed "space fireflies" in his first orbital flight, as have astronauts in subsequent space flights, and NASA representatives later admitted that they had theorized that what came to be known as "John Glenn's fireflies" were living entities. Here we see at least a hundred of them, swarming around NASA's tether experiment, quite possibly attracted to its high electrical charge like moths to a flame. A number of other shuttle clips also capture these entities, NASA's fabled "space dust."

"The Second Phenomenon"
Unlike spheres, these entities are nearly invisible, and usually are far less than a meter in length. They appear as varicolored traces or "scratches" in shuttle videos, and move at such high speeds that they are nearly invisible to the naked eye. However, shuttle astronauts have witnessed and commented upon them, and extensive discussion and footage of this second space phenomenon is presented in Martyn Stubbs' Shuttle video documentary.

These second entities seem to be virtually pure energy, and can only be seen when they decrease their fantastically high velocities to investigate foreign objects such as the shuttle. They seem to ping about the craft and rebound nearly instantaneously at acute angles, losing virtually none of their incredible speed in the process.

Stubbs discovered this phenomenon while analyzing over 400 hours of shuttle video footage, much of it frame by frame, and has found they appear in most shuttle videos. When he brought his findings to the attention of NASA and Canadian space program representatives, they were simply flabbergasted. Unprepared for something they themselves had never noted--a phenomenon that could not be explained away as space debris, camera refractions or space dust--these scientists were forced to acknowledge both the phenomenon's existence and their total inability to explain it.

The "second phenomenon" has a certain relationship to so-called "rods." UFO researcher Jose Escamilla first claimed to have discovered rods in normal, earthbound videos, though I do not believe that what he has captured are indeed some new life form. I rather believe the evidence that they are fast-moving insects and birds caught and blurred by the relatively slow shutter speeds of camcorders. (Several images of Escamilla's rods and Trevor James Constable's much more compelling ameoboid "critters," captured with infrared-sensitive film, appear in this trailer for his rather overwrought film, "UFO: The Greatest Story Ever Denied"). You can find more about Escamilla's rods, and judge for yourself, here.

The Best Visual Proof of UFOs: The Space Shuttle Footage, Part I

Until the late 1990s, NASA's space shuttle video footage was transmitted unscrambled except during the military components of missions. Thousands of hours of video were broadcast via satellite downlink, and luckily several people, among them Martyn Stubbs, a cable station manager in Vancouver, BC, had the means and the determination to record dozens of complete shuttle mission video transmissions.

Once analyzed--notably, Mr. Stubbs compiled a complete, multi-year record of STS mission footage (a digest is presented here in documentary form)--the results yield a wealth of staggering evidence, not only of traditional UFOs, but also of two other phenomenona that indicate that earth's near space is inhabited by two as-yet unrecognized life-forms. I will post on these two phenomena later, but for now I will only present evidence of "normal" UFOs.

Traditional UFOs are well-documented on Stubbs' videos, as well as on transmissions recorded by others, and a few short samples (each less than 3 minutes long) of UFO maneuvers that defy the laws of our physics are shown in the following links. UFOs exhibiting incredible speeds and abrupt turns at high velocity, UFOs with the ability to materialize and dematerialize at will, and precisely structured UFO formations have all been captured by the shuttle's video cameras.

The Mir Flyby: "Where's Waldo?" In Orbit
The infamous Mir flyby footage is almost as comical as it is staggering, and demands special comment.

As the Mir approaches the shuttle Columbia, both the shuttle astronauts and mission control simply cannot locate the Russian space station among the literally hundreds of objects swarming earth's near space. The footage looks for all the world like a drop of pond water viewed under a microscope, with space teeming with "critters." The soundtrack is particularly revealing, as NASA personnel simply ignore the incredible display and painfully struggle to locate the needle of Mir in the UFO haystack.

Objects are recorded entering and leaving the earth's atmosphere at high and low speed, many are slowly drifting, and a good number change speed, luminosity, and/or course--all indicating that these are intelligently controlled craft, not stars or space debris. Also, note the large number of objects appearing in front of the earth, quickly glimpsed against the earth's curvature as the camera pans upward early in the video: the camera operator suddenly realizes that "stars," particularly moving ones, should not be photographed in front of the earth and rapidly pans back to the relative safety of space. Also of special note are the pair of "meteors" that streak past in an arcing formation, exhibiting speeds far beyond the maximum velocity possible for a true meteorite, and that show no sign of disintegrating as they skirt the earth's outer atmosphere; and several UFOs that accelerate out of the earth's atmosphere into space and decelerate as they approach it.

Several general observations should be made about the NASA footage. First, for many years, NASA was willing to transmit these UFO events, uncensored and without comment, knowing that "unauthorized" capture and dissemination would occur. Secondly, it is quite apparent that many of these events were planned to be captured by shuttle cameras, as there are numerous instances when UFOs manifest themselves just after a camera is repositioned or immediately after a camera zooms into a certain area above the earth. This indicates either that NASA is recording secret flights of US DoD ARVs (Alien Reproduction Vehicles) and/or pre-arranged rendezvous with alien craft. Thirdly, this disturbing sequence of a UFO in earth orbit suddenly flying off into space, trailed by a beam shot from earth, indicates that the US government has secret space weapons and that it is actively defending earth from certain UFO intrusions. Finally, the several UFO formations or "ballets" captured on shuttle cameras (above, a video still of a hub-and-wheel formation involving nearly a dozen craft) indicate ETs wish to manifest themselves to NASA and the public, as we can assume that the US government prefers that its own ARVs remain a closely guarded secret.