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Saturday, 13 April 2013
New ebook ParaNews UFOs, Conspiracy Theories, Cryptozoology and much much more. Now fully updated and revised
Very pleased to announce that the NEW revised, updated and expanded version of my PARA-NEWS book is now available as a Kindle ebook. This version has twice as much material as the original edition released in 2011. Buy it on Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.com.
Sunday, 20 January 2013
Through The Keyhole interview about Para-News
Thursday, 27 December 2012
Talk Radio Europe Richard Thomas Para-News Book Interview
Is the Bermuda Triangle a good place for an alien base? Kenny Jones interviews me about a chapter in my new book Para-News: UFOs, Ghosts, Conspiracy, Cryptids - and More.
Monday, 10 December 2012
Signed copies of Para-News and Sci-Fi Worlds now available!
I am now selling signed copies of my two books, Para-News and Sci-Fi Worlds. Use the PayPal button at the bottom of this post or visit my Amazon store to make a purchase.
ISBN 9781907791727 Para-News: UFOs, Ghosts, Conspiracy, Cryptids - and More, Bretwalda Books (11 October 2012)
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Saturday, 3 November 2012
Time slips
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As for my experience, I had written recently to Dr. Pam Heath regarding a paper that she had published a few years ago on place memory (although not my area of specialization, I have always been somewhat of a physics geek.) It was she who introduced me to the term “time slip,” and led me to you.
I suppose I can dispense with the urge I feel to begin by saying “I know this is going to sound crazy, but…”
What happened was this: Up until the 4th grade, all of my teachers had been attentive, benevolent creatures, I excelled, and school was a joy to me. That year, however, instead of spending all day in “home-room,” we began to change classes for different subjects and I found myself in a math classroom with a teacher who was always angry, especially at me for some reason. She would call on me incessantly and find a reason to upbraid me. I became so afraid that I would feel physically ill every day on the way to her class.
A few weeks into the year, she reassigned our seats because we were all “bad.” I now found myself much further back in the room, and near a side wall. Along with all of the usual things found on elementary school walls, there was a painting there, just at eye level, that I had never noticed before. I would sit and stare at it, and it made me feel calm and safe. The teacher never called on me again, despite the fact that I was clearly paying no attention. I must have done my work and turned it in, although I have no memory of doing any work in there after the painting appeared. So far, sounds psychological, right?
Then it gets strange. Near the close of the year, an art teacher visited our home room. He talked about various artists, gave us some simple drawing supplies, and passed around a humanities book with some color plates of paintings. One reminded me of the painting hanging in the math room; I raised my hand and said so. To my surprise, other students who shared that class with me said there was no such thing. My homeroom teacher trusted me and asked that I go down the hall and see if the math teacher would mind very much if we borrowed it for the day’s art lesson. I happily went, but when I got there, it was gone. There was nothing on that part of the wall at all, and the teacher said there never had been. I was confused and embarrassed. It did not reappear.
Afterward, I did my best to describe the painting to my mother, but it wasn’t enough to go on to track down the artist/image. I wondered about it on and off, but could never make sense of it. Many years later, I came across a café selling postcards and foam-board posters on a sidewalk. While idly flipping through them, I spotted it. It was a Wyeth entitled Christina’s World; I was stunned. So, it did exist!
Okay, my brain did not create a painting out of nothing…but rather brought us together somehow? How? Was I transported, or was it? Why that image? What is the connection?
I still have no idea, but do think that Jung was correct about the existence of a collective unconsciousness, and that certain conditions can spark connections. Since then, prints and copies of Christina’s World have continued to unexpectedly pop up in my life, seemingly only during times of great stress. But it is such a famous image, I would have to concede that there is some chance of coincidence.
There you have it. Not my only brush with the paranormal, but one of the weirdest. If truth be told, I do not believe that there is a “para” normal, only a normal that most scientists have yet to fully engage, to their shame.
If you are not familiar with the group IONS, you might want to check them out.
Wednesday, 18 April 2012
Top ten UFO sightings caught on surveillance cameras
Excellent guest article by Clint Henderson about UFOs caught on surveillance and security cameras. If you have an idea for a guest article email Richard Thomas at richard@richardthomas.eu.
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About the Author: Clint Henderson works for 2M CCTV, a surveillance and security solutions website. They design, install, and supply complete security systems world-wide. You can contact them for a free quote here.
We have scoured the web for the top 10 UFO sightings captured by security and surveillance cameras. Some are a bit older than others, but if there are some you’ve seen before, here’s your chance to take a second look. Feel free to leave your comments below!
1. UFOS CAUGHT ON ISS LIVE CAMERA!!!! 4_11_2012. While reflections can be a possible explanation of these objects, it seems unlikely considering the pattern of their appearance. There is something unknown here.
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2. UFO Sighting Caught on Security Camera Russia, May 22, 2009 A mysterious object flies in from the top let corner of the screen at 0:10. What is that object flying in the atmosphere?
3. UFO CAUGHT BY CITY SURVEILLANCE CAMERAS ( MEXICO ) Well it sure isn't the moon. It looks like the Death Star. Should we be concerned?
4. Australia - UFO Hovers over Queensland, Australia The UFO is thin and long. What could it possibly be? It’s not a plane for sure.
5. Tucson, AZ July 6, 2011 UFO Caught on Security Camera The lights emitted from both UFOs are overtly brighter than a normal airplane.
6. 3 lights over Flintshire, UK - 16 July 2010 Again, another sighting of 3 lights in a triangular shape. How can there be identical reflections in a triangular shape? This cannot be a coincidence.
7. UFO Sightings Caught on US News Report LIVE July 2010 An object is clearly flying beyond the smoke. There has to explanations as to what this camera picked up.
8. UFO caught on security camera Kent UK 1998 What is that large object? Could it be a blimp, or is it a UFO? It doesn’t seem to have enough lights to be either. What do you think?
9. WebCam UFO, Phoenix, 2/14/2009 This recording is particularly interesting because the object appears as a halo. Like most UFOs what is captured is a brief light that cannot really be explained by anything.
10. UFO SIGHTING: UFO seen over Fukushima Reactor For once, an object is actually seen during the day. This makes the recording even stranger because there are no lights or glow. Just a flying object that does not look like anything known to us.
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Top UFO Sightings Caught on Surveillance & Security Cameras
About the Author: Clint Henderson works for 2M CCTV, a surveillance and security solutions website. They design, install, and supply complete security systems world-wide. You can contact them for a free quote here.
We have scoured the web for the top 10 UFO sightings captured by security and surveillance cameras. Some are a bit older than others, but if there are some you’ve seen before, here’s your chance to take a second look. Feel free to leave your comments below!
1. UFOS CAUGHT ON ISS LIVE CAMERA!!!! 4_11_2012. While reflections can be a possible explanation of these objects, it seems unlikely considering the pattern of their appearance. There is something unknown here.
.
2. UFO Sighting Caught on Security Camera Russia, May 22, 2009 A mysterious object flies in from the top let corner of the screen at 0:10. What is that object flying in the atmosphere?
3. UFO CAUGHT BY CITY SURVEILLANCE CAMERAS ( MEXICO ) Well it sure isn't the moon. It looks like the Death Star. Should we be concerned?
4. Australia - UFO Hovers over Queensland, Australia The UFO is thin and long. What could it possibly be? It’s not a plane for sure.
5. Tucson, AZ July 6, 2011 UFO Caught on Security Camera The lights emitted from both UFOs are overtly brighter than a normal airplane.
6. 3 lights over Flintshire, UK - 16 July 2010 Again, another sighting of 3 lights in a triangular shape. How can there be identical reflections in a triangular shape? This cannot be a coincidence.
7. UFO Sightings Caught on US News Report LIVE July 2010 An object is clearly flying beyond the smoke. There has to explanations as to what this camera picked up.
8. UFO caught on security camera Kent UK 1998 What is that large object? Could it be a blimp, or is it a UFO? It doesn’t seem to have enough lights to be either. What do you think?
9. WebCam UFO, Phoenix, 2/14/2009 This recording is particularly interesting because the object appears as a halo. Like most UFOs what is captured is a brief light that cannot really be explained by anything.
10. UFO SIGHTING: UFO seen over Fukushima Reactor For once, an object is actually seen during the day. This makes the recording even stranger because there are no lights or glow. Just a flying object that does not look like anything known to us.
Saturday, 24 March 2012
NASA’s Project Blue Beam - Will the US Government Stage UFO Sightings in 2012?
Not since the Millennium Bug panic in the years running up to the year 2000 has a specific date been the subject of so many apocalyptic theories about the end of the world as December 21, 2012. The date believed to be the end of a 5,125-year-long cycle in the Mayan Long Count calendar.
The Maya civilisation used many calendars to measure time and record history. The main two calendars used by most ordinary Maya would have been the 260-day Tzolkin and the 365-day Haab. Because neither of these calendars numbered years, a combination of both the Tzolkin and Haab dates was used to identify the precise date. This method was sufficient because a particular combination of the two dates would not occur again for about 52 years, which was above the general life expectancy of the time.
To specify dates that occurred more than 52 years ago the Maya used another calendar called the Long Count. This calendar identified a date by counting the number of days from the day when the Maya believed that time began, on August 12, 3114 BCE. The Long Count used a 360-day year called a Tun, in which 20 Tuns made up a Katun (72,00 days) and 20 Katuns made up a Baktun (144, 000 Tuns). The 13th Baktun will be completed on December 21, 2012, which is said to be the end of the 5,125-year-long “Great Cycle.” However, sceptics say that this is a misinterpretation and that there is no evidence that the Maya believed the world would end on that day.
Whatever the truth about 2012 it would seem that someone wants us to believe something Earth shattering will happen on December 21 in that year. The doomsday theory has been featured in bestselling books, as well as documentaries, films and popular TV shows.
In the last episode of The X-Files (tantalisingly called The Truth) it is discovered by agents Mulder and Scully that aliens plan on colonising the Earth on December 21, 2012.
When I asked Dean Haglund, who played Langly in The X-Files, about the 2012 revelation in the final episode of the sci-fi cult, he told me he was sceptical about 2012 doomsday scenarios:
Haglund was less sceptical, however, about the possibility that US government agencies could have been feeding information to The X-Files writers.
“I have heard that the popular culture is used as a tool by whatever elite, business, government, Illuminati, etc., to both gauge and control the populace,” The X-Files and Lone Gunmen star told me when I asked him about his comments on The Alex Jones Show back in 2005 about the script writers being approached by members of the CIA, FBI and NASA with ideas for episodes.
But why would US Government insiders want the viewers of The X-Files to associate 2012 with an alien invasion? One popular theory on the internet is NASA’s alleged partly declassified Project Blue Beam, a supposed plan by the US Government to create a “New World Order” by staging a fake UFO invasion using holograms and other advanced technology. A researcher who appeared in the documentary film The New World Order and is a screen writer himself, told me in an interview:
“The alien invasion hoax is also another reason why so many Hollywood science fiction movies involve aliens arriving in vast armadas to destroy us and take over our planet. They were quite prevalent in the 50s and you can find modern-day examples like Independence Day, War of the Worlds and even Mars Attacks. Very few movies about extra-terrestrials actually involve aliens with peaceful intentions. E.T. certainly comes to mind, but even movies where they arrive as our benevolent ‘saviours’ like The Day The Earth Stood Still, is still another permutation of the New World Order hoax, in which case it's about giving up our sovereignty, our ‘petty little differences’ as Reagan put it, and joining a fascist global regime in order to achieve an alleged ‘world peace’. It will be world peace but with a seriously heavy price on our freedoms. Mostly, though, these movies are programming us to believe that once we see vast armadas of classified military vehicles hovering in the sky, that they will in fact be UFOs driven by ‘extra-terrestrials’ who are here to ‘kill us and take over our planet.’ And then the only solution we'll be presented with will be a heavy reliance on a Militarised 'New World Order' to save us. That's where the real agenda lies.”
While many UFO researchers are sceptical about some of the specifics about Project Blue Beam, the basic premise that the US Government might be fostering the belief that UFOs represent aliens from outer space is another matter. The US government definitely has technology a lot more advanced than what they admit to having. In 1993 the “father of stealth” Ben Rich, director of Lockheed's Skunk Works from 1975 to 1991, stated at the University of California School of Engineering in 1993: “We already have the means to travel among the stars, but these technologies are locked up in black projects . . . and it would take an Act of God to ever get them out to benefit humanity.”
Other government insiders have also made comments implying the US Government were behind UFOs or at least hyping the ETH. In his book, The Secret Team, Colonial Fletcher Prouty, who was the real life basis for the Mr X character in Oliver Stone’s film JFK, speculated that with the fall of communism in the early 1990s UFOs and aliens would take the place of the Soviet Union as the new major threat to the United States.
"This is the fundamental game of the Secret Team. They have this power because they control secrecy and secret intelligence and because they have the ability to take advantage of the most modern communications system in the world, of global transportation systems, of quantities of weapons of all kinds, and when needed, the full support of a world-wide U.S. military supporting base structure. They can use the finest intelligence system in the world, and most importantly, they have been able to operate under the canopy of an assumed, ever-present enemy called ‘Communism.’ It will be interesting to see what ‘enemy’ develops in the years ahead. It appears that ‘UFO's and Aliens’ are being primed to fulfil that role for the future. To top all of this, there is the fact that the CIA, itself, has assumed the right to generate and direct secret operations."
More recently Mark Pilkington in his new book Mirage Men has argued that instead of perpetrating a UFO cover-up the US intelligence agencies have really been promoting ideas like alien abductions, UFO crashes and recoveries, and secret bases all along.
“In the book I'm specifically referring to those people from military and intelligence organisations who have used the UFO lore as a cover for their operations and, in extreme cases, have seeded new material within the UFO culture to further muddy the waters,” Mark Pilkington told me when I interviewed him in 2010. Although Mark didn’t think all UFOs were explainable.
“I'm not sceptical about UFOs themselves – people see them every day – nor am I sceptical of the existence of ET life, I believe it's out there, and I can accept that it will come here and perhaps even has done at some point in our past. What I am very sceptical of is the popular notion of ET visitation as presented in the UFO lore that has emerged since the late 1940s. This has developed out of a multi-directional feedback loop between UFO experiencers, UFO book authors, mainstream popular culture and those in the military and intelligence worlds who would exploit and shape these beliefs and ideas.”
So will the US Government or one of its alphabet agencies really stage a massive UFO sighting on December 21, 2012? We’ll have to wait to see. But with the London Olympics, Queen’s Diamond Jubilee and the US presidential election all taking place in 2012 perhaps we shouldn’t be so focused on December 21 in particular.
The Maya civilisation used many calendars to measure time and record history. The main two calendars used by most ordinary Maya would have been the 260-day Tzolkin and the 365-day Haab. Because neither of these calendars numbered years, a combination of both the Tzolkin and Haab dates was used to identify the precise date. This method was sufficient because a particular combination of the two dates would not occur again for about 52 years, which was above the general life expectancy of the time.
To specify dates that occurred more than 52 years ago the Maya used another calendar called the Long Count. This calendar identified a date by counting the number of days from the day when the Maya believed that time began, on August 12, 3114 BCE. The Long Count used a 360-day year called a Tun, in which 20 Tuns made up a Katun (72,00 days) and 20 Katuns made up a Baktun (144, 000 Tuns). The 13th Baktun will be completed on December 21, 2012, which is said to be the end of the 5,125-year-long “Great Cycle.” However, sceptics say that this is a misinterpretation and that there is no evidence that the Maya believed the world would end on that day.
Whatever the truth about 2012 it would seem that someone wants us to believe something Earth shattering will happen on December 21 in that year. The doomsday theory has been featured in bestselling books, as well as documentaries, films and popular TV shows.
In the last episode of The X-Files (tantalisingly called The Truth) it is discovered by agents Mulder and Scully that aliens plan on colonising the Earth on December 21, 2012.
When I asked Dean Haglund, who played Langly in The X-Files, about the 2012 revelation in the final episode of the sci-fi cult, he told me he was sceptical about 2012 doomsday scenarios:
Here is an excellent example of a collective fear manifesting itself into popular culture. Since this airing, 2012 has become the hot topic at all the conventions, however, as Paul Dean said in our documentary, when he was talking to a Mayan priest about all of this, he said that ‘western society has it all wrong’ and that since we cannot hold a duality in our minds, a quantum Schrodinger's Cat scenario if you will, then we can only picture the end of something as a finite disaster and not both that and the re-awakening into the light.
Haglund was less sceptical, however, about the possibility that US government agencies could have been feeding information to The X-Files writers.
“I have heard that the popular culture is used as a tool by whatever elite, business, government, Illuminati, etc., to both gauge and control the populace,” The X-Files and Lone Gunmen star told me when I asked him about his comments on The Alex Jones Show back in 2005 about the script writers being approached by members of the CIA, FBI and NASA with ideas for episodes.
But why would US Government insiders want the viewers of The X-Files to associate 2012 with an alien invasion? One popular theory on the internet is NASA’s alleged partly declassified Project Blue Beam, a supposed plan by the US Government to create a “New World Order” by staging a fake UFO invasion using holograms and other advanced technology. A researcher who appeared in the documentary film The New World Order and is a screen writer himself, told me in an interview:
“The alien invasion hoax is also another reason why so many Hollywood science fiction movies involve aliens arriving in vast armadas to destroy us and take over our planet. They were quite prevalent in the 50s and you can find modern-day examples like Independence Day, War of the Worlds and even Mars Attacks. Very few movies about extra-terrestrials actually involve aliens with peaceful intentions. E.T. certainly comes to mind, but even movies where they arrive as our benevolent ‘saviours’ like The Day The Earth Stood Still, is still another permutation of the New World Order hoax, in which case it's about giving up our sovereignty, our ‘petty little differences’ as Reagan put it, and joining a fascist global regime in order to achieve an alleged ‘world peace’. It will be world peace but with a seriously heavy price on our freedoms. Mostly, though, these movies are programming us to believe that once we see vast armadas of classified military vehicles hovering in the sky, that they will in fact be UFOs driven by ‘extra-terrestrials’ who are here to ‘kill us and take over our planet.’ And then the only solution we'll be presented with will be a heavy reliance on a Militarised 'New World Order' to save us. That's where the real agenda lies.”
While many UFO researchers are sceptical about some of the specifics about Project Blue Beam, the basic premise that the US Government might be fostering the belief that UFOs represent aliens from outer space is another matter. The US government definitely has technology a lot more advanced than what they admit to having. In 1993 the “father of stealth” Ben Rich, director of Lockheed's Skunk Works from 1975 to 1991, stated at the University of California School of Engineering in 1993: “We already have the means to travel among the stars, but these technologies are locked up in black projects . . . and it would take an Act of God to ever get them out to benefit humanity.”
Other government insiders have also made comments implying the US Government were behind UFOs or at least hyping the ETH. In his book, The Secret Team, Colonial Fletcher Prouty, who was the real life basis for the Mr X character in Oliver Stone’s film JFK, speculated that with the fall of communism in the early 1990s UFOs and aliens would take the place of the Soviet Union as the new major threat to the United States.
"This is the fundamental game of the Secret Team. They have this power because they control secrecy and secret intelligence and because they have the ability to take advantage of the most modern communications system in the world, of global transportation systems, of quantities of weapons of all kinds, and when needed, the full support of a world-wide U.S. military supporting base structure. They can use the finest intelligence system in the world, and most importantly, they have been able to operate under the canopy of an assumed, ever-present enemy called ‘Communism.’ It will be interesting to see what ‘enemy’ develops in the years ahead. It appears that ‘UFO's and Aliens’ are being primed to fulfil that role for the future. To top all of this, there is the fact that the CIA, itself, has assumed the right to generate and direct secret operations."
More recently Mark Pilkington in his new book Mirage Men has argued that instead of perpetrating a UFO cover-up the US intelligence agencies have really been promoting ideas like alien abductions, UFO crashes and recoveries, and secret bases all along.
“In the book I'm specifically referring to those people from military and intelligence organisations who have used the UFO lore as a cover for their operations and, in extreme cases, have seeded new material within the UFO culture to further muddy the waters,” Mark Pilkington told me when I interviewed him in 2010. Although Mark didn’t think all UFOs were explainable.
“I'm not sceptical about UFOs themselves – people see them every day – nor am I sceptical of the existence of ET life, I believe it's out there, and I can accept that it will come here and perhaps even has done at some point in our past. What I am very sceptical of is the popular notion of ET visitation as presented in the UFO lore that has emerged since the late 1940s. This has developed out of a multi-directional feedback loop between UFO experiencers, UFO book authors, mainstream popular culture and those in the military and intelligence worlds who would exploit and shape these beliefs and ideas.”
So will the US Government or one of its alphabet agencies really stage a massive UFO sighting on December 21, 2012? We’ll have to wait to see. But with the London Olympics, Queen’s Diamond Jubilee and the US presidential election all taking place in 2012 perhaps we shouldn’t be so focused on December 21 in particular.
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