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Libarary Update: Brainsturbator UFOlogy Collection

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  • Date Created: January 12, 2007
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This is a warmup for an upcoming series on the state of UFOlogy in the United States.  It’s a collection of our best documents on the subject—a subject that fascinates the hell out of me, and most thinking people.  UFO phenomena is a scientific puzzle, a historical mystery, and a great study in how religions get formed.  All of the competent researchers work on the fringes, the most interesting cases get ignored and distorted, and the field is dominated by cheap liars and honest morons.

A few books which are not included, but I highly recommend:  Revelationsand Passport to Magonia by Jacques Vallee, UFOs and the National Security State, by Richard Dolan.  Also take a look at Greg Bishop’s excellent UFOlogy reading list from his site, UFO Mystic. 

If this is all unfamiliar to you, dig in.  It’s worth studying because it’s a topic which constantly tries to throw you off, and evades easy answers at every turn.  I may never come to any conclusions about UFO phenomena, but it’s great practice for building my critical facilities and learning how to beat my brain into submission.  Humans are wired for pattern recognition—it’s a great skill, but if you can’t control it, it becomes a handicap.

Flying Saucers Are Real—Donald Keyhoe 1940s classic...definitely out of date, but definitely interesting.

Historical UFO Paintings Not an exhaustive survey, but it makes for very odd reading. 

The Physics of High Strangeness—Jacques Vallee Without question the best document in this collection, it’s from a recent talk Vallee gave in Las Vegas with Erik Davis.

Public Opinion Surveys and UFOs—MUFON collection Worth looking into, no matter how you feel about UFOs, this is a very revealing document.

Prime Numbers and ET Communication A discussion of why SETI is big on prime numbers.  Anthropocentrism at it’s most hilarious.

Magnetic Levitation How-to Included for obvious reasons.

Inscribed Matter vs. Electromagnetic Transmission 7 page white paper re-examining the logic behind SETI—the authors argue (quite persuasively) that over the vast instellar distances, it’s more energy efficient to disperse “inscribed matter” or written artifacts than to broadcast an EM signal.

Disclosure Project Briefing Document Huge collection of dubious documents from Dr. Stephen Greer, who works with the Rockefellers and is involved with oil company contractors The Craddock Group, along with Tom Bearden.  Some people are impressed by the Disclosure Project, I am not.  (Dan Akroyd is, if that helps you decide.)

Jacques Vallee on Crop Circles A short, essential read.

Altruism and ET Civilizations—Brin An excellent examination of why ET civilizations would be “enlightened space brothers”.  Odds are fairly good they’d just as soon eat us.

Andijra Puharich, “Hearing Aids” and UFOs A chapter from a dubious biography of Puharich centering around his more dubious work. 

“Rendezvous With the Damned” a chapter from John Keel’s “Our Haunted Planet” very out there stuff, but highly potent food for thought.  Mormons, Ultraterrestrials, and UFOs.

Odors from UFOs Sounds like a pretty damned absurd topic to write about, but if you’re actually studying UFOlogy, this is a key document.  The electromagnetic spectrum is a mighty big river.

The Man Who Invented Flying Saucers—John Keel A very, very important historical read.  “UFOlogy” is mostly repeating the same old bullshit to a new generation of “seekers”, don’t fall for the same tricks.  Please.

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3 responses to "Libarary Update: Brainsturbator UFOlogy Collection"

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    Jan 14, 2007 at 4:08 AM
    Aloysius     says...

    TIGHT

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    Jan 14, 2007 at 5:29 AM
    Miqel     says...

    I LOVE the fact that for this post you used the pic of the very interesting SUN-RA, visitor to earth from Saturn by way of Birmingham Alabama.

    During WWII he was put in JAIL for beng a ‘Religious Objector’ to war (back before the civil-rights revolution). He was brought to a white military court where his detailed reasons as belonging to the Cosmic Space Religion! They said despite this he had to go anyway.
    He then told the judge that if taught to kill, he would kill their own captains and generals first! The judge said (quote) “i’ve never seen a nigger like you before!” and Sun-Ra replied “And you never will again.”
    Off to Jail he went, until being diagnosed as a “well educated colord intellectual with a psychopathic personality” and was discharged from jail.

    Later he founded the Sun-Ra Omniverse Research Arkestra and kept a psychedelic big-band on the road for nearly 50 years, was the first to use an electronic keyboard on a recording, recorded over 250 albums, created over 1200 musical compositions, traveled the planet playing every form of music and forms of music never seen before or since and spreading his message of the “ALTER-DESTINY” (the alternative to our current destiny of self-destruction).

    RA was the creative-channel behind-the-scenes responsible for much of the development of modern far-out music in Jazz, rock, punk and noise. Huge influence on George Clinton/Funkadelic and big influence on Sonic Youth too .... RA was the ORIGINAL Brother from Another Planet.

    WIKI on Ra
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Ra

    TRIPPY RA Album Art
    http://www.andyw.com/sunra/quilt01.htm

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    Jan 15, 2007 at 12:35 AM
    George     says...

    HA! Brother from Another Planet! A classic movie in our family. We reference it regularly, when we get together. That, and, Kipperbang, a whole other story.
    Anyway…
    I’d like to see a report on whether or not changes, no matter how slight, have been made to anyone’s DNA, with relativeness to abduction stories. I’m thinking, (Aliens) know that an abductee would be tested using standard methods here; CAT scan, MRI, and the like, but I wonder how many, if any, have been tested on a molecular level. I mean, I’m sure some abduction claim by a farmer in Kansas wouldn’t warrant the expense of a DNA test, then again, what of all the cattle that have been allegedly viva-sectioned?
    The way I see it, it would seem that if another species wanted to insert themselves, the molecular level would be the place to start.
    Assuming, that’s what they wanted to do.
    Or, maybe I just watch too much Sci-Fi.

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