What lies beyond Earth and inside of Pandora's box?
He’s the Albert Einstein of our time. Even more blasphemous, Albert’s superior in many ways. His deformed atrophied body, the shell of a normal man, houses perhaps the greatest mind in the short history of the Homo sapien.
There he is: Stephen Hawking, astrophysicist and genius. In all of his brilliance he’s making a profound statement. He’s saying that we should think twice before attempting to talk to other life forms in the heavens. In fact, his tone is extremely wary in this area.
To this day, we’re still enamored with what lies “out there.” It secretly drives our probing into space. Like children looking to please their parents, we try to do the right thing and be peaceable by sending out songs from the Beatles. We talk in mathematics, the language of the universe. Our clunky machines sail aimlessly to the outer rim with the hopes of our Whoville-type society telling someone, or some thing, that we are here. Yes, we are here.
As we explore, Hawking just sits – compact and scrunched by ALS. His statement about communicating with others in the vast universe is akin to “do not open Pandora’s box”. Anyone else would only garner a nod, a snicker, or a snort of contempt. However, Stephen Hawking is someone we actually stop and listen to. What is he afraid of? What can that supercomputer of a mind really be thinking?
Most humans have no idea that the Earth is a very noisy planet. Our televisions and radio waves, to say nothing of our cell phones and communication arrays, spill an untold amount of static into the galaxy. Even if we wanted to remain quiet and heed Hawking’s warning, we are far too late. Like noisy neighbors having a beer bash well into the wee hours, we have been chattering away for far too many decades.
SETI Institute literally scans the cosmos in search of a hiccup or a cough, anything that denotes sentient life. Our mining for gold has turned up very few specks of evidence, yet we continue to listen.
What is Stephen Hawking afraid of? Klingons, The Borg, Wraiths, or Minbari? My humble opinion tells me it may be something subtler. My judgment, my heart, tells me that Hawking simply feels the “children” are not ready for what we might find or what might find us. In our egocentric way, we fancy ourselves as the Universe’s perfect computers, the ultimate machines, guided by an organic computer whose limit we have yet to realize, but is that really the case? Are we really at the top of the intellectual food chain?
What if there is something more out there? What if there is something so superior, we would be reduced to mere shadows that stretched under the feet of cosmic gods? What if these gods were not benevolent?
What does a wild animal imagine when a rope is flung around its feet and a cloth is thrown over its head? I don’t think we ever really want to know, but we might be able to relate if our efforts at communicating go awry. Our benevolent and fuzzy images of Ewoks or Yoda would be gone and replaced by something quite different. The current hierarchy in our world and in the universe would be irreversibility changed. Our innocence and a whole lot more would leave us forever.
I have a feeling Stephen Hawking already knows what might be in store for us and I fear he may be correct.
It was circa 1972 when I heard my father say that for the first time. As a kid, I would watch the very British television show, UFO, with my dad and when the moment struck he would utter those two words. This was the fuel for my fantasies. If my father could believe that we were not alone in the universe then what chance did a six year old have in denying that train of thought?
What came next seemed only natural. Being a comic book hound, super heroes that lived on Earth suddenly became humans reaching for the stars.
Everyday before school, I’d pass a large photograph of Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Buzz Aldrin. They sat in their bulky space suits and held their helmets as if they were just coming back from battle. The moon sat like a throne behind them, gray and silver. Majestic.
I would stay awake until the sun came up, dreaming that we were being watched by some benevolent race, maybe even being chuckled at like parents who watch over their children at the playground. Still the years rolled on. My love for sci-fi grew as my dreams for “out there” spread into my every day life.
Then it happened. It was a hot summer night (aren’t they all) and I was out in the backyard embracing the inky black that was night. The sky was indigo against the tree line and I was just like any other teen soaking in his summer vacation – savoring my freedom from the rigors of high school and all that entailed.
Unexpectedly, a blood-red streak flew through the sky. It wasn’t the 4th of July and this streak made no sound. It wasn’t linear in its arc. Rather, it streaked at a series of 50 to 70 degree angles. It also moved at a fantastic rate. At the risk of sounding Star Wars-ian, the streak and the three others that followed were not random, but very precise. Meteorites? Maybe, but these were heading up into the atmosphere, not downward. It all happened in less than 10 seconds. There was no fanfare. No portentous musical prelude. Just the event itself, barren and devoid of any magnified salutation.
I never reported the occurrence. I wasn’t even sure that what I saw wasn’t my version of a “weather balloon.” Still, decades have passed and I continue to look to the sky. It doesn’t have to be the oppressive heat of summer or the paralyzing cold of winter. I always count the stars until I’m bored. It gives the vastness of space before me even more scope.
We can’t comprehend what we can’t touch. Tangible is our personal universe. Quantum physics puts other beings and mirror images of what we are in other dimensions. These aren’t concepts for the faint of heart. Yoda would tell us, “stagnant you have become,” as we occupy our thoughts with little league, PTO meetings, and identity crisis when our best pair of jeans don’t fit anymore. I went outside again tonight on the first real spring-like evening of the year. The red streaks have never appeared again and chances are they probably never will.
Somewhere, out there, second star to the right and straight on till morning…I still believe.
Sharon reports from Cleveland on the Lake Erie shore
Over a week of continuous sightings of a strange light over Lake Erie in Cleveland, Ohio was brought to my attention just yesterday by my friend, Sharon. Upon looking into this further it’s obvious that word is not getting out of the local area.
Lucky for Believe It Tour that Sharon lives in Cleveland and was able to report on the “Cleveland UFO” for us. Unfortunately, the weather conditions over Lake Erie last night were far from favorable, which created an unfit setting for capturing any video of the strange light.
“It was 33 degrees and the sleet and hail was pelting down! My lips were frozen! We drove to the lake shore and the visibility was poor! The cloud cover was so thick we couldn’t see more than 1/4 mile. We drove along the shoreline hoping to find a break in the clouds, but to no avail. I will return again nightly until I can capture something,” Sharon reported.
If you are at all curious, like the people commenting on our YouTube video, Cleveland UFO Report, you’re wondering why there isn’t more media attention on this. Why, after more than a week of curious crowds gathering to watch this nightly occurrence on the Lake Erie shore, are there are no authorities documenting this mysterious light?
Has the Balloon Boy incident ruined all believability for any future phenomenon?
Whether there’s a plausible explanation, it’s a hoax, or it’s true evidence of aliens visiting from outer space, we’ll try to stay with this story to bring you more information as it happens. Be sure to check back here at BelieveItTour.com for updates.
Special thanks to Sharon for taking the time away from her Bigfoot field reporting to brave the elements for us out there in Cleveland.
To pay homage to this classic UFO and Alien sighting I have added a new drawing to our set of Believe It Tour Characters. Click the photo to order.
It was last October, while driving home from the Texas Bigfoot Conference, that we decided to make a stop in Flatwoods, which is located in Braxton County, West Virginia. That’s right we stopped to see the home of the legendary Green Monster or, perhaps better known as, the Flatwoods Monster.
It was way back in September of 1952 that the legend started and changed the face of this small town forever. On a late summer evening there was a reported sighting of an alien type creature that was 10 feet tall with a blood-red face, fiery eyes, and green lizard-like skin.
Was I expecting to come across such a sight myself? I didn’t think it was likely, but anything is possible. However, that made me question what it is that drives us to want to go out of our way to catch a glimpse of where something reportedly took place so many years ago. After I asked myself why I stopped in Flatwoods I didn’t have just one answer.
The explorer in me just enjoyed seeing something new, but the investigator in me wanted to grasp what the area was like to better understand the reports. However, the kid in me just wanted to be a little scared at the idea of the 10 foot tall creature that once stood there!
Recently, a friend from Texas contacted me on facebook to let me know her son is involved in a ghost hunting club at his Jr. High. How’s that for progress? I’m pretty sure that would not have been supported when I was that age, so good for them.
More good news is that this will be a great example for the schools we hope to be visiting this coming year. Believe It Tour is working in the New England area with a teacher right now to formulate a group talk on cryptozoology, but it’s now growing into some paranormal topics as well.
Our regional meeting groups are doing well with the adults, but we know kids are interested in the topics we cover, too. Why not share with the younger fans out there that are just as interested, if not more, in cryptids, ghosts, UFOs, and other mysterious subjects as adults. After all our core concept is based on the idea of journeying through life like a child with an open mind.
Does your school have any program like this? Are a teacher or student that is interested in getting one started? Let us know. We’d like to help promote your club or help get one created.
On July 22, 2009, Chinese scientists and students captured on film something mysterious flying in the skies over China during the recent solar eclipse. From the few photographs being released it’s fairly safe to say it wasn’t a bird, plane, or even Superman.
Scientists from the Purple Mountain Observatory in Nanjing are puzzled over what they saw and the resulting images that were obtained by the scientists and students observing the solar eclipse. Researchers will spend the next year analyzing the 40 minutes of footage and numerous photographs to try to determine what the object was. The observatory’s director, Ji Hai-sheng, has stated that scientists will not publically speculate on what the unidentified object might be until they have analyzed all data. The July event was just the latest in a series of unidentified sightings that have been reported in China.
The question remains as to what was seen in China? Was it an anomoly caused by the solar eclipse, a commercial airplane that had an unusal refection due to the solar event, or something truly unidentified that might indicate life exists elsewhere?
On our tour we heard a rumor there were aliens in Baker, so on the way to Death Valley we decided to make a quick stop to visit a shop called Alien Fresh Jerky. When you drive up to the building you’re struck by the eclectic collection of alien paraphernalia that decorate the façade. There was an alien sitting on a sign, one on the roof, a family of aliens sitting in a car, and, of course, a space ship. Inside the shop was filled with a variety of snack items for the road weary traveler and more alien related merchandise.
We thought a quick trip off our path to Death Valley was worth it to see a few aliens.
Do you have any favorite alien inspired locations you’d like to share with us? Let us know.
Day 3 started with the Believe It Tour crew hitting the road to head to Landers, which is adjacent to the Mojave Desert. We decided to explore another vortex and check out an extraterrestrial inspired building.
The The Integraton was built in 1957 by George Van Tassel as a time machine and a mechanism to rejuvenate people. George designed and built the domed Integration based on the research and theories of Nikola Tesla and by guidance he received from extraterrestrials. The site was also carefully chosen by George for its unique geomagnetic forces, which create a vortex that the dome sits on.
When we pulled up to the dome we were impressed by its remoteness and the solemn landscape surrounding it. When we arrived the dome was closed for a private function, but that didn’t stop us from soaking up the unique atmosphere and snapping a few photos before getting back on the road.
The countdown has begun to the kick-off for the 2009 CA Believe It Tour. We’ve planned an exciting tour of CA with trips to see things like haunted houses, investigate UFO sightings, and search for Bigfoot! Those are only a few of the exciting things we pan to explore on the tour. The group plans to start in San Diego travel through the central valley up to the Redwoods and back down the coast. However, we need your help. Believe It Tour is seeking believers to support the CA tour.
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Perhaps the next Believe It Tour road-trip should be down in South America throughout Argentina.
While reading my news alerts I noticed a few articles and photos related to an alleged Lake Monster said to inhabit Nahuel Huapi Lake in Argentina. With reported sightings since the 1890s, the “Nahuelito” is described as a giant serpent.
As I was reading different sites about the history of this creature, for some reason I remembered another story not too long ago to come out of Argentina. One that still sticks out in my head. Who doesn’t remember that creepy gnome video that went viral? Again Argentina. Hoax or no hoax, it got everyone talking.
That is when I thought maybe there is something going on down there. Another quick search and I found that Argentina is having a slew of UFO sightings.
All setting the stage for when Believe It Tour goes international. Argentina might have to be stop number one.
What other creatures, stories, reports do you know about Argentina? Please comment so we can get a list going.
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