The iconoclasitc and prolific writer John Shirley has been a friend of mine for over a decade now. We first met when he noticed me laughing at a line in a David Jacobs lecture at the Orange County MUFON meeting in 1994. While most of the crowd reacted with disapproval, John walked over to my table and introduced himself.

He later wrote a ficitonal piece called “Abducting Aliens” for my magazine, involving a SubGenius wildman who grabs cattle-mutilating aliens and rams things up their rear ends for fun. He used to write a segment on his website called “The Skeptical Believer,” where he examined a multitude of paranormal issues.

Since then, Shirley has written a modern UFO novel (Silicon Embrace), and horror and cyberpunk novels such as Spider Moon, Crawlers, The Other End, and Black Glass. He has also written television, movie, and graphic novel scripts, most notably the script for the original Brandon Lee Crow movie. He was also the recipient of the Bram Stoker award from the Horror Writers of America for his 1998 short story collection entitled Black Butterflies.

For this, John’s second appearance on the show, we talked about his frustration with UFO sightings and researchers, his belief that most if not all crop circles are made with boards and rope, and his interest in esoteric spirtituality such as the writings and teachings of G.I. Gurdjieff. I don’t agree with John on many issues; he appears to take things with more of a grain of salt than I do, but so what? We also discussed the BP oil spill, drug legalization, and his musical accomplishments with Blue Oyster Cult and various punk bands.

John says that his next appearance on Radio Misterioso will be his interview of me. I can’t wait.

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MAURY ISLAND NO LONGER A MYSTERY: A UFO HOAX EXPOSED!

by Anthony Bragalia

After six decades the truth has emerged about the infamous Maury Island UFO incident of 1947. It was a hoax. It finds its roots in fiction and fantasy, as revealed in candid and damning interviews with Maury Island UFO “witness” Harold Dahl’s own son and daughter. The hoax is further detailed in a careful re-examination of the “mysterious” figure Fred Crisman.

It is alleged that in June of 1947, seaman Harold Dahl was with his son scavenging for drifting logs near Maury Island in Puget Sound in Washington State when Harold sighted several “donut shaped objects” flying in formation over his boat. He claimed that one of the discs appeared to lose control after being tapped by another disc, spewing out slag and strange pieces of light metal material which hit his boat. The falling UFO debris supposedly injured Harold’s son Charles and killed the family dog. His story was reported to his co-worker Fred Crisman and was later promoted by publisher Ray Palmer.

The event -which has stirred the imaginations of many over decades- was itself born of imagination. It simply never happened. Harold Dahl’s own family and the sage perspective of history now reveal: The only reality about the “incident” was that it was conjured up in the mind of an enterprising and attention-craving 27 year-old schemer and amateur fiction writer.

Read the entire article here: Maury Island No Longer a Mystery: A UFO Hoax Exposed!

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ANOMALY RADIO ROUND-UP

For …

AntiWar Radio

• Philip Weiss

• Sunita Patel

• Dahr Jamail

• Ray McGovern

• Gareth Porter

• Jacob Hornberger

• Rep. Ron Paul

• Lew Rockwell

• Scott Horton

• Daniel Ellsberg

And More at AntiWar.com/radio

Binnall of America

• Robert Hastings and Robert Salas – The UFO/Nuke Connection

• Jeff Ritzmann and Jeremy Vaeni – Aloha to Paratopia

• Paul Stonehill – Soviet UFOs and Ufology

• Jason Offutt – What Lurks Beyond

More at BinnallOfAmerica.com

Black Fridays

• Dr. Deepak Sarma

• Philip Coppens

• Mack White from Psi-Op Radio

• Michael Schratt talks Black Budgets and Secret Aircraft

• Simulcast with Paratopia – NARCAP and Project Sphere!

More at TheBlackFridays.net

DisinfoPod

• Not So Secret Weapons – Disinformation World News

• Aliens, Occult Nazis, and the Sisterhood of the Rose – Disinformation: The Podcast

• Disinformation World News – Lycans Attack

• The Rennes-le-Chateau Mystery with Henry Lincoln

More at Disinfo.com/podcasts/

Expanding Mind

• Spirit Guides

• Burning Man

• Western Shakta Tantra

• Fear of Death

More at ProgressiveRadioNetwork.com/expanding-mind/

Out The Rabbit Hole

• The Real Story about ACORN

• A talk with Bob Coen and Eric Nadler about their film Anthrax War

• Mack White Discussing Some of the Deeper Threads and Implications of the JFK Assassination Plot

• James W. Douglass Discusses “JFK and The Unspeakable”

• “Family of Secrets” Discussion with Russ Baker

• Reports from Nether Worlds and Strange Dimensions

More at OutTheRabbitHole.com

PsiOp Radio

• PsiOp Radio podcast 120 – 100627

• PsiOp Radio podcast 119 – 100620

• PsiOp Radio podcast 118 – 100613

• PsiOp Radio podcast 117 – 100606

More at PsiOpRadio.com

Radio Misterioso

• Supergroup: Ecker/ Kimball/ Bosley

• Darren McGovern: Music and Esoterra

More at RadioMisterioso.com

Red Ice Creations

• Steve Taylor – The Fall, History of Humanity, Civilization & The Ego

• Andrew Collins – Beneath The Pyramids, Giza Cave System Rediscovered

• Scott Stevens – Weather Wars, Chemtrails, Gulf Oil Spill & Environmental Destruction

• Michael Cremo – Human Devolution & The Yuga Cycle

• Klaus Schmidt – Göbekli Tepe: The World’s Oldest Temple?

• Laird Scranton – The Science and Symbols of the Dogon

More at RedIceCreations.com/audio/

Watt From Pedro Show

• 2010-06-27 The Watt From Pedro Show

• 2010-06-06 The Watt From Pedro Show

More at TWFPS.com

SOURCE: Anomaly Radio » Anomaly Radio Round-Up
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ANOMALY NEWS UPDATES

Headline Round-Up for July 9th, 2010.

U-F-O  N-E-W-S

• UFO shuts airport. Really.
  http://www.shanghaidaily.com/sp/article/2010/201007/20100709/article_442528.htm
• Flights diverted, delayed as UFO detected hovering
  http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2010-07/09/content_10084698.htm
• Source in China cites ‘military connection’ for UFO sighting
  http://tucsoncitizen.com/paranormal/2010/07/08/source-in-china-cites-military-connection-for-ufo-sigthing/
• Europe’s UFO Crash
  http://www.nationalufocenter.com/artman/publish/article_339.php
• Bobby Kennedy and UFOs
  http://beforeitsnews.com/news/86/334/Bobby_Kennedy_and_UFOs.html
• Synthetic Signals Could Foster Unprecedented Life Forms
  What could the future of this technology look like? Two words: living spaceships.
  http://news.discovery.com/tech/synthetic-signals-life-spaceship.html
• ET could ‘tickle’ stars to create galactic internet
  http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn14687-et-could-tickle-stars-to-create-galactic-internet.html
• Out of This World, Out of Our Minds
  http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/04/weekinreview/04schwartz.html?_r=2&ref=science

Giovanni Pegna’s flying wing

Weather Control

• Wow! Jets Punch Holes in Clouds and Create Rain
  http://www.livescience.com/environment/airplanes-punch-holes-in-clouds-create-rain-100614.html

Misc

• The Occult World of CG Jung: How a near-death experience transformed the psychologist’s attitude to the world of mysticism and magic
  http://www.forteantimes.com/features/articles/3847/the_occult_world_of_cg_jung.html
• Science historian cracks “the Plato code”
  http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=5894
  http://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/jay.kennedy/Kennedy_Apeiron_proofs.pdf

ClimateGate Debunked?

• ‘Climategate’ Investigation VINDICATES Scientists, Finds Research Reliable
  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/07/climategate-investigation_0_n_637622.html
• Mann Cleared in Final Inquiry by Penn State
  http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/01/mann-cleared-in-final-inquiry-by-penn-state/

SOURCE: Anomaly News Syndicate » Anomaly News Updates
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L to R: Don Ecker, Rear Admiral Zorgrot, Paul Kimball

Two friends traveled to the studio to join Walter and I for a long (2.5 hour) conversation that ranged far. Don Ecker is best known as the research director for UFO Magazine in the 1990s. He currently hosts Dark Matters Radio, which airs weekdays from 10-midnight PST at Cyberstation USA. Paul Kimball returned for his fourth appearance on the show. Film writer/ producer Paul is probably best known to our audience from his film Best Evidence: The Top 10 UFO Sightings, and his website The Other Side Of Truth.

All of us are currently associated with the Paracast program in various roles as occasional guests or co-hosts. Walter is involved in a small controversy on the Paracast community forums, which we discussed last week, and should be posted soon.

The rare face-to-face meeting of thougthful minds who are all interested in the paranormal gave me an excuse as a host to guide the conversation to areas that I wanted to hear about, such as Don’s stories about middle eastern jinns, Paul’s journey from confirmed skeptic to near-believer during the filming of his latest TV series on ghosts, and Walter’s experiences in the Air Force and FBI. Praise and scorn was also heaped on various personalities in the UFO field.

The show was a lot of fun, Walter brought pizza, I brought beer, and we hope you enjoy the show.

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Darren has been a friend of mine for a very long time. When we met, we were both embarking on journeys of self-discovery, mainly through the writings of people like Robert Anton Wilson and Israel Regardie. Most listeners of this program know Wilson’s work. Regardie is known as the great scribe and philosopher of the Golden Dawn system of Western Ritual Magick. Both Darren and I were enrolled in schools of Western Occult studies, and realized that it was one of the oldest forms of self-therapy.

Darren has also been a composer/ musician for most of his adult life. We talked about influences on our lives and thinking and Darren played selections from his new CD This Old Life. We also talked about (and listened to) his musical influences such as Captain Beefheart, Robrert Johnson and singer/songwriter Pat MacDonald (formerly of the band Timbuk 3.)

We ended with a discussion about the influence of comedy on our lives and philosophies. I played part of a recording I made of a performance from the legendary Tony Clifton from a couple of weeks before.

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Mac Tonnies, Paul Kimball, and Nick Redfern, 2006.

On Sunday, November 1st, Paul Kimball and Nick Redfern joined me to celebrate the life of our friend Mac Tonnies, who was found dead in his Kansas City apartment on October 22nd, apparently of natural causes.

The sense of great loss was still with us as we discussed Mac’s sharp intellect, great sense of humor and his effect on us and others interested in the fields of UFO study, forteanism, and futurism. He was also a damn good science fiction writer. His ideas on the UFO subject were refreshingly non-dogmatic and evinced a refusal to toe the extraterrestrial party-line.

Mac had so much more to give, but we’ll have to be content with his memory, internet output and published writings and his forthcoming book on his Cryptoterrestrial Hypothesis, due out in the spring. We hope this program was a fitting memorial to our late, dear friend.

The program begins and ends with recordings of Mac reading from the draft of his new book. For other Radio Misterioso interviews featuring Mac Tonnies, look here and here.

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If you read the description over at top left of the page there, this show is supposed to alternate interviews with “weird music and audio.” Here’s a great example.

Straight from his excellent blog Music For Maniacs, “Mr. Fab” joined us for two solid hours of musical strangeness on October 25th. Notable tracks played included a reggae song about Apollo 11, four or five old UFO drop-in songs (think “The Flying Saucer” by Buchanan and Goodman), sounds from the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, elephants playing xyolphones and theremins, a mashup of the Muppets and the Stray Cats, Sad Kermit, and music from L. Ron Hubbard.

Enjoy!

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Peter Robbins and Nick Redfern. Not pictured: Tim Binnall

Three past guests joined us for two hours of conversation about the Mass Mystery Weekend which took place on October 16th and 17th in Boston. Tim Binnall was co-organizer and the MC for the UFO lectures, and discussed the joys and problems of running a conference. At the conference, Nick spoke on UFO crashes and also about his research into the chupacabras and Peter talked about his famous research into the Bentwaters UFO landing case.

We spent the show discussing the conference itself, the guests’ recent work, the divide between those interested in UFOs and those who follow other aspects of the paranormal, and possible directions that research can go in the future. We also debated the pluses and minuses of the Disclosure movement, and Peter spoke about the possible use of Reichian Cloudbusters by the U.S. military.

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This is Chris O’Brien’s fourth appearance on Radio Misterioso (since February of 2005) this time to promote and discuss his new book Stalking The Tricksters. The book is a thorough examination of the trickster archetype and its connection to the sort of paranormal events that O’Brien investigated for over a decade in the San Luis Valley of southern Colorado. Chris’ theory is that most, if not all sightings of UFOs, abductions, cryptozoological creatures, ghosts, and other strange events that challenge our collective ideas of reality are the result of a control system that operates on a symbolic level to shock us out of our emotional and intellectual complacency.

We talked about the trickster archetype, more as a force of the collective psyche than a clownish imp prancing about the countryside. Appropriately, the importance of humor and the court jester figure came up–the comedian whose job it is to tell the truth, couched in jokes–so that we can recognize and deal with serious problems.

Chris also discussed his recent work with officials of the Zuni tribe of western New Mexico, and a strange sandstone tablet recently unearthed on the Zuni reservation which appears to have Tibetan or Sanskrit letters carved into it.

We concluded with a discussion of why the paranormal is so compelling and why people would spend their lives in pursuit of something that may never have any conclusion.

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