My paranormal UFO encounter (from 'Monsters of the UFO)

  This is an excerpt from my book, Monsters of the UFO, which should be available world wide very soon.

My paranormal UFO encounter

I would be remiss if I didn't include my encounter with a UFO that delved into the weird paranormal realm.  My wife and I were walking to a parking garage when we both spotted something out of the ordinary.  It seemed at first like an odd shaped plane flying in an odd pattern when I realized something was definitely off about it.  I quickly grabbed my pocket HD mini camcorder and fixing the object's position near a lamp post.  I remember following the object keeping it in the view finder and talking to my wife as we observed the flight of the strange object.  Quickly the object went out of sight, and I was confident I had some concrete evidence of what we had seen.

I was shocked and surprised on the playback there was nothing to be seen.

Baffled by this, I still uploaded the video onto youtube.  I was mystified by disappearance of the object.  Did I imagine it?  My wife and I both saw the object and I remember taking the time to use the lamp post as a reference point for the path of the object.  Ironically, you can still hear the audio of us talking about the object where there is nothing on the video playback.

Only later after dealing with the strange concepts of UFOs, and monsters of the UFO from the ideas of Holiday, Keel, and Swann could I go back to my strange UFO video and look at it differently.  The concept is UFO's, men in black, bigfoot, and sea serpents such as the Loch Ness Monster are in effect paranormal things that can wink in and out of our existence and come from dimensions beyond our comprehension.  Thus the hundred of years of eye witness testimony of strange creatures, and aerial phenomenon that could now be called UFO's with modern ideas and pop culture.  Yet other than shaky evidence, nothing solid to back up the eye witness accounts.

If UFO's and other creatures of the UFO are truly paranormal things connecting worlds, perhaps we 'saw' the object either by some form of telepathy, but the technology of the camcorder simply isn't sensitive enough to capture something that could be flittering about the dimensions.  One of the frustrating aspects of the monsters from the UFO is the lack of concrete proof that cannot be replicated in laboratory conditions, and so like my camcorder footage...its subjective proof which is only backed up by personal accounts.  Perhaps with more advancements in science and detections can we truly see monsters of the UFO.

For the blog UFO Blur zone, I've also included the link to the video I took that day...

Thomas Edison, the first ghost buster

Thomas Edison, ghost buster

When you think of inventor Thomas Edison, you think of the light bulb, the phonograph, and any one of his amazing inventions which are still a part of modern society.  It was no wonder that he acquired the title 'the wizard of menlo park' with his invention of the electric light.  What people don't realize is that Edison also took to finding a way to contact the dead with a device full footed in science.

Thomas Edison working on an invention

Spiritualism was the craze then, and it usually centered on a 'sensitive' who could bridge our world and the other world of ghosts.  The problem was, and still is, that the evidence is completely subjective on who the sensitive is, and to enter the realm of respected science it had to pass the idea of 'repeatable experiments' in a lab, and under laboratory conditions.  The field of spiritualism became a field of fakers, hustlers, and con artists who would use crude 'proof' such as ectoplasm photographs and the like to bilk people hoping to contact the dead.  This led a backlash to the spiritualism movement, where popular magician Houdini would devote a segment of his show to showcasing the fraud in most mediums.

one of the early photo fakes which was passed off as legit contact

Enter Thomas Edison.  He believed if there was a way to confirm the world of ghosts, it could be done with science and technology.  He announced with great fan fare of his intention to make a device to contact the dead.  Edison worked on the concept and device with his usual intense drive, but with no results he reluctantly said he could not create the device(although some believe it was a strange combination of radio/electric phonograph).  There the story ended, right?

Not quite.  Although Edison himself never completed the device, some say he did and was 'dissuaded' by some in power to suppress his work.  Like the electric light, Edison's efforts are still in the field of parapsychology with the idea of EVP...Electronic voice phenomenon.  Originally the idea was to place a radio reciever in a section of 'white noise' and with electronic recordings you could pick the voices of places and things from other places, other times.  This idea moved into recording sessions where an interviewer would ask to the spirits in haunted locations and with special playback, you could confirm that there was a reply from otherworldy sources.  While still not embraced by the scientific community, EVP is a step in the right direction of gathering evidence of the beyond, and perhaps with new technology and more methods to ferret out fraud, perhaps we can discover the answer the timeless question, what is the next world?

A news segment about EVP

Edison Death Machine
I would be remiss if I didn't mention the Edison Death Machine by ZP films.  I mentioned the Edison device to filmmaker George Bonilla, I was pushing a story called spooky action...that never got anywhere, but George really liked the idea of Edison's machine and came up with the script for Edison Death Machine.  I got to help out as the assistant director on the film, and it was a fun experience working on the film. It's available at various stores right now, and worth a look.

for more info go to ZP international website.

www.zpmovies.com 

edison death machine trailer