Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.
This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.
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UFO'S of UAP'S, ASTRONOMIE, RUIMTEVAART, ARCHEOLOGIE, OUDHEIDKUNDE, SF-SNUFJES EN ANDERE ESOTERISCHE WETENSCHAPPEN - DE ALLERLAATSTE NIEUWTJES
UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
MUFON of het Mutual UFO Network Inc is een Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in alle USA-staten en diverse landen.
MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com.
Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
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(N.Morgan) Mars has been seemingly buzzing with a lot of activity lately and in this newest capture by Paranormal Crucible, we see what appears to be some sort of light g lowing on Mars. A mysterious moving light, has been caught on the red planet, by the Mars Curiosity rover. The anomaly, which was photographed in Sols Front Hazz Camera, clearly shows a white ball of light, surveying the Martian surface.
An incredible UFO video, uploaded to YouTube on Nov. 5, shows an unidentified flying object skipping like a stone over and through the clouds above Las Vegas, and was caught by a passenger in a jet preparing to land at McCarran airport. The UFO, shaped like a classic flying saucer, performs aerodynamic maneuvers unlike any aircraft known. And, the object displays no outward signs of identifying markers, navigational lights, wing shape or engine exhaust.
The amazing video rolls out in two parts, the first being the raw footage recorded by the unidentified passenger. In it, the UFO flies past much too fast for the naked eye. But, after enhancement, the object becomes more visible, revealing its fantastic aerial abilities. The sequence is magnified and slowed down to show the black, saucer-shaped craft, hopping wildly through the air, above and through significantly bilious clouds, much like a flat stone skipping over the surface of a lake.
At the start of the fantastic flight caught on video, the UFO seems to hang for a moment in mid-air. At the end of the clip, the craft performs a move which allows it to fly forward while perpendicular to the ground, a feat which no known military aircraft is capable of, unless it has yet to be revealed to the public. In any case, it’s unlikely that any military aircraft, secret or otherwise, would be permitted to execute such incredible maneuvers so close to a commercial airliner making its final approach to one of the busiest airports in the world.
This astounding video raises several questions, least of which is, what is this thing? The more pressing question is whether or not the government has achieved such amazing flight capabilities, it allows an unmarked, unlighted, secret aircraft with no visible engines, to fly in a hazardous manner so close to unsuspecting civilian populations. If this is not an alien spaceship accidentally revealing itself to the world, then unmanned drones are the least of society’s concerns when it comes to undreamed of government power.
What do you think? Is this evidence of alien life other than humanity in the universe? Or, is the government hiding from the public one of the biggest advances in the history of flight? Have a look at the video above and please feel free to leave comments below.
Scientists of the University of California came up with an unusual hypothesis suggesting that space aliens have long settled on Earth and lived among us as observers.
Of course, there is no evidence of this, but according to ancient sources, including the Bible, our planet has been visited by representatives of extraterrestrial civilizations since its inception.
In 2000 scientists of the University of California, led by Professor Jonathan Malkisom, held a press conference, during which the sensational news that representatives of extraterrestrial civilizations have long been among humans was reported. They adopted human appearance and closely monitor our every move. “It’s like an extreme version of the camouflage found in some insects and animals. Moreover, according to historical records, there have been aliens on Earth from the beginning of creation,” says Adrian Kent of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Canada.
A confirmation of the words of the Canadian scientist can be found in the Book of Genesis, at the point where the confrontation of Jacob with the Almighty is described:
“And Jacob remained alone; and a man wrestled with him until the rising of the dawn.”
The ancient philosophers were always looking for the answer to the question whether beings arriving from the sky are members of the same tribe as the angels. But as a rule, the answer was no, since the arriving beings were mortal, while the angels live forever. The question of extraterrestrial civilizations was openly and seriously discussed for the first time only in the twentieth century, especially after the CIA declassified a small part of the archive on the so-called Roswell case, when the U.S. militaries found a crashed flying saucer and delivered its parts to the base.
There is information that in addition to the unknown space object debris, the bodies of three aliens were found and taken to the base. The cause of the incident was the impact of ground radars on the navigation equipment of aliens.
According to another version, the UFO was hit by lightning.
There are reports that U.S. President John F. Kennedy, a few days before his death, asked the head of the CIA to provide all the materials about the incident, but he did not manage to access the most secret archives.
From the 1980′s, many people started claiming that they not only had seen the appearance of a UFO in the sky, but had been inside these objects, and even had come into contact with the aliens.
One of the most famous contactees is Bulgarian prophet Vanga:
“Sometimes one of the aliens takes my hand. They communicate only with a few inhabitants of our planet. They are constantly watching us,” said Vanga about her contacts with representatives of extraterrestrial civilizations.
What do aliens want on Earth?
There is only a hypothesis, which was suggested by British scientist Timothy Good in his book,
“The Earth is no longer an ‘intermediate base.’ They have settled here for a good long time now.”
In January 2011, British scientists announced the need to prepare for emergency meeting with an extraterrestrial civilization, and even suggested the foundation of a special committee at the UN.
You think of this as a spaceship. An “ET” craft. It may be “ET”, but is usually just crafts from our own time matrix. We have many levels within our matrix, and 14 of them are outside of your eyesight. Eyesight, like hearing, smelling, touching, all have VIBRATIONAL SPECTRUMS (lower to higher, all very short).
To this, you think of as imaginary. I must be crazy. Okay.
TIME creates the illusion of life. And TIME is the manifestation of artificial existence. In other words, when you create “time”, you create a creationary “view” of the dimension you are expressing it in. ONLY LIFE can create “time”. PERIOD. LIFE is TIME. And LIFE is experience, not a “distance”. It is a SPOT, a POINT in the fabric we call “time.
What the hell does THAT mean?
Each level of all time matrices (each one has 15 levels), have 5 “planetary” positions in the frequency spectrum. These are limitations of sight and perception. The 5 “planets” (also illusionary, there are no such things as planets, there are no such things as “things” made up of “matter”, all are factually holograms and of this there is all the scientific quantum data you could imagine to support that claim, even here where we are educated about roughly 7 day old infants) are spheres of frequency exchange, or “observation”. These are elements of sub-quantum data being expressed differently on each level, allowing each level to go higher and higher in “view” of what exists in the multiverse. It has NOTHING to do with “magic”, it has everything to do with your connection to your atomic core, sub-quantum spirit, and is only brought to your sense through holograms which are nothing more than projections on a video screen within your mind that offer you SIGHT, HEARING, TOUCH and SMELL. EACH of your senses are attached to the VERY REAL LAWS OF PHYSICS which exist and DIFFER on every DENSITY AND DIMENSION of all of the 15 “floors” of your time matrix. And no, this isn’t some fable concocted to “trick” you into being a fool, it is sub-quantum science fact. Give me a few thousand hours to show you the scientific data.
Of the 5 “planets” of your time matrix are 3 dimensions within each, consisting of a different frequency band that you are allowed to see, hear, touch, and taste. The “planets” are called DENSITIES. You are currently on Density 1. The lowest, least educated “planet” in the entire time-construct. Of this density, you are now in “dimension 3″, meaning you can see, touch, taste and smell things here in a 3D perspective. It is epically rudimentary in perception, but it “looks” like reality to you. Because that’s all you have ever known.
As you progress through each dimension, then density, step by step, through a 32 year process, you then ultimately achieve what it was you were before you ever came down into that time matrix as, which was an ascended “master”, an over-used term coining someone who is a “god”. Which is ridiculous, because every singe soul on this planet was an ascended “master”, and not one of them was ever greater than any other. Pure understanding, pure knowledge, and pure love is just that, pure. End of story.
Once you go through the 1st dimension of density one (you look like a sheet of paper in that time plane), you are at the lowest level of knowledge and you are learning how to make fire and stay warm. On the 2nd dimension of the 1 DENSITY (“PLANET”), you have a 2D view of the world around you, as if everything was sketched out with a side view as well as a front view. There you were learning things like making a wheel, and molding raw materials into chiseling instruments. Next, you entered the 3D world where life appears absolutely full and manifest, where people are able to make cars and planes and soar through space. It is a fantastic world to the child who views it for the first time. And THERE is where you are as a species. And THERE is where you were trapped as energy slaves (through your gold, taxes, child support, college loans, etc. etc.), because THERE is where it really brings human energy into serious business, while remaining in the 1st DENSITY, the CRADLE of life. Not just BABIES, but 7-day-olds with ZERO knowledge of higher dimension.
Every ONE of the experiences ever witnessed by any being, any tree, any frog, any cow, any human, any stick, rock or puddle of mud (ALL are conscious and ALL are just as fully alive as you are), is a MOMENT in time. There is a geo-position to where that experience happened, there are trillions of bits of data that are collated to re-produce that date perfectly, down to the dust speck on the nose of the fly on the head of deer in the forest, all stored within the database of the water which is the hard-drive of this world’s memory. That water is alive and stores every memory of any consciousness who ever existed on this planet, since the days of Tara, 550 million years ago. Its now in all the trees, all the rocks, all the water and all the “flesh” of earth, the dirt, that circles the globe. NO POINT ON THIS PLANET has ever forgotten ONE SINGLE MEMORY of anything that has EVER been witnessed, not ever.
Every single “moment” of time carries with it is something called a “Cymatic Geometric Pattern”, which is a snapshot of that moment. Every piece of every second, of every minute of every hour of every year and every century are EASILY stored in the WATER database of your planet who was once named Tara, but who’s name was replaced with Nursery Earth after her near annihilation 246,000 years ago. She had to repair, and her vibration was lowered into the 1st density (she was a 4th Dimension, 2nd Density “Planet” for hundreds of millions of years prior to this point).
The “moments” stored in the database of “Tara”, renamed Nursery Earth 246,000 years ago, and then in 2007 renamed ARhAyas Ascension Earth, are still there. I mean that the “old” memories of the earlier seedings of your species that were lost have been re-collated by the healing of her “flesh” (soil), back from much of it spacedust, into what we see now as a robust, and glorious planet). EVERY MOMENT is databased here. EVERY MILLISECOND is databased here. And EVERY ONE of those has a fingerprint. They are called FIRE LETTERS in sub-quantum speak. Perhaps better understood as CYMATIC GEOMETRIC PATTERNS in your counterfeit language you use to think, communicate and to manifest here.
Your “planet” is made up of crystalline structures (so far vast the possibility of your understanding that it is simply a waste of time to try to quantify) that hold this data safe and fast. The crystalline memory of your computer is like a single grain of sand on planet earth compared to the memory of your “planet”. One DROP of water represents MILLIONS of this quantum here. Every grain of sand in every ocean floor, of every beach, of every desert, one grain of “dirt” (crystal) on planet earth, every speck of tree, plant, goat, cow, human, rock, or any other “thing” that exists is the sub-quantum memory of your 1st density of the 15 level time matrix. And EVERY SINGLE MOMENT of all witnessed, observed, experienced millisecond in all of “time” (TIME is an OUTRIGHT LIE), are the stored memories of your “soul” essence. YOUR cumulative empirical experience on your time plane. And EVERY SINGLE PARTICLE of that experience, and of ALL conscious beings (which is literally ALL THINGS you have ever seen, smelled, tasted or heard) is HERE. NOW. RIGHT NOW.
EVERY SINGLE ONE of those milliseconds have been recorded and given FIRE LETTERS that envelope all of the “space”, all of the “sky”, all of the wildlife, all of the human interaction, curve of every leaf, color of every lake, shade of every cloud and all of the moments of all things ever witnessed by all of these trillions of conscious beings at that one precise moment. These are FIRE LETTERS of the sub-quantum geometric expression of “life”. And not ONE are forgotten.
“Spacecrafts” are “timecrafts”. They DO NOT attempt to go to “there” from “here” without the FINGERPRINT of a geometric CYMATIC manifestation of THAT ONE MOMENT IN ALL OF HISTORY. There is a FINGERPRINT IN TIME and “SPACE” that holds that ONE MEMORY, that ONE MOMENT. These are “realities” inside of their OWN TIMELINE. There is an INFINITE (no limit, no number, no sub-quantum to their count), number of timelines, and all memories exist inside of this plane, on 1st Density, 3rd Dimension ARhAyas Ascension Earth. They are here, you are “remembered” and all of “time” within this time matrix is permanently stored AS the living being TARA lives. If she dies, your “soul essence” of the Gaia (the name of this time matrix) experience evaporates just as water does, because your “memories” here, and are held in the WATER as the life-blood that circulates these memories into all “things”.
Spacecrafts use TIME positioning of MOMENTS to dictate WHERE they want to go, so they can be, say in the grand canyon on this date in history, so they can then easily slip into the “space” of the next moment. They are NOT limited to “speed”, “time” and ESPECIALLY “space” which is an utter Illusion and has been proven such even by our infant scientists.
When they want to “go” somewhere, they go to a PLACE in CYMATIC history, then they “travel” to the geo-position (place on earth) they want to go to. This does NOT take “light years”, or “years” or “months” or “hours”, all of which as an absolute LIE. THEY GO THERE NOW. THIS SECOND. And then they simply use earth’s atmospheric physical limitations (laws of actual, real life physics of this density) to move to where they want to be next in that timeline, (say, the Gettysburg Address for instance) . And since there has been a recorded and databased memory from every moment, from every geo-location, from every conscious view in every second in all of “time” on your density, there is a CYMATIC GEOMETRIC MOMENT that can be programmed in to the photradionic timecrafts’ memory banks which can place you THERE, NOW. RIGHT NOW. NOT TOMORROW. NOT in 300 million “light years”.
There has never been one single particle of one single piece of matter on the periodic scale of planet earth that has even been shown to have “mass”. Not one. Not ever. All things are holographic. That means that all things are photonic (light waves). That means all things are PHOTO (light), RADIONIC (energy). PERIOD. I offer a million dollars to the first person who can show me a speck of “matter”. Takers? Not yet, and we have been counting down for about 950 million years just since the Angelic Human Krystos God Avatar evolution began. Come on if you have proof that the Guardian Alliance is full of shit here. BRING IT. Because I have just about 1 billion years of proof that it doesn’t exist. Spacecrafts are ALL timecrafts. It is time we started using the vernacular of our older (higher) selves here. “SPACE” doesn’t EXIST people. Therefore there is NO SUCH THING as SPACECRAFTS. TIME is the makeup of our matrix. and it it through YOUR MEMORIES that “TIME” (YOUR SOUL ESSENCE IN THIS TIME MATRIX) exists at all.
Uit de berichtgeving van de laatste dagen blijkt dat er zich veel “toevallige” gebeurtenissen afspelen rondom kerncentrales.
Niet alleen dat, maar ook dat ze zich uitstrekken tot andere dimensies.
We schreven enkele dagen geleden in een artikel over hoe er een waarschuwing is verschenen in Amerika aangaande malware in de besturingscomputers van energiecentrales. Hoe de timing van dit alles opmerkelijk is te noemen, temeer omdat deze malware al vanaf 2011 in die computers zit en er nu plots een waarschuwing komt.
Alsof er iets gaat spelen op dit gebied. Iets dat een bepaalde ramp zal veroorzaken die dan vervolgens weer Rusland in de schoenen geschoven gaat worden.
Naar blijkt spelen er niet alleen in Amerika kwesties rond kerncentrales; ook in Frankrijk. Wij ontvingen de volgende e-mail van een lezer (dank!) die al lange tijd in Frankrijk woont.
Ik lees uw artikels met plezier en uw website is een van de weinige die echt interessant nieuws geeft.
Ik las in één van uw laatste artikels over de malware in de Amerikaanse elektriciteitscentrales en een eventuele voorbereiding van een False Flag die Rusland moet aanwijzen.
Ik leef in Frankrijk, en daar zijn de laatste week veel zorgen over onbekende drones die s'nachts over ALLE kerncentrales hebben gevlogen. De enige reden dat ze tijdens de nacht over de centrales vliegen met infrarood camera's is niet om de reacteurs te ontdekken (men weet waar die zich bevinden en zijn veilig onder 1 meter beton) maar om de exacte plaats van de transformators te vinden, die ook warmte afgeven.
Niemand weet wie hier achter zit, en de politiek is radeloos. Het schijnt te goed te georganiseerd te zijn (drones zijn meer dan 2 m lang) om aan een of andere ecologische beweging te denken.
Als alle transformators op de zelfde tijd vernietigd worden, zit Frankrijk helemaal zonder stroom voor de volgende aantal jaar, want ze hebben maar een paar transformators in reserve en het duurt lang om ze te produceren. Er is op het moment geen andere uitleg voor die drones.
Als het France nucleaire systeem wordt uitgeschakeld zal heel de economie platliggen, ook in Europa. Misschien is dit onderdeel van hetzelfde plan als die malware in de Amerikaanse centrales ? Misschien wordt Rusland hier ook van beschuldigd als er eenmaal iets mee gebeurt. Er moet oorlog komen voor Amerika, en ze hebben Europa ervoor nodig...
Niet alleen in Frankrijk verschijnen er vreemde objecten bij kerncentrales; ook in Mexico.
Enkele dagen geleden werd door een technicus bij een kerncentrale in Vera Cruz in Mexico een vreemde UFO waargenomen. Die er als volgt uitzag:
In de volgende korte video-opname zie je het object dat een vorm heeft die lijkt op een soort kruis, langzaam bij de kerncentrale rondvliegen.
Zo hebben we weer één van die toevalligheden waarin zich binnen een periode van een aantal dagen vreemde zaken voordoen met betrekking tot energievoorziening en kerncentrales.
Waren het drones boven de kerncentrales in Frankrijk of misschien ook UFO's?
Weten buitenaardsen misschien dat er een bepaald vuil spel gespeeld gaat worden met energievoorziening en kerncentrales en zijn ze daarom in de buurt om een oogje in het zeil te houden?
We hebben de laatste tijd een grote toename gezien van UFO-activiteit. Niet alleen dat, maar ook duidelijke beelden en getuigenverklaringen van een soort moederschip/portalen van waaruit UFO's worden gelanceerd en weer opgevangen.
De strijd tussen licht en duister speelt zich niet alleen af binnen het voor ons zichtbare 3D gebied. Ook in de achtergrond en andere dimensies is er volop activiteit te bespeuren. Doordat de frequentie op aarde geleidelijk hoger wordt is er ook steeds meer overlap met hogere dimensies en zijn er dus ook vaker dingen zichtbaar uit dat veld.
De Endgame is in volle gang en dus kunnen we de komende tijd nog veel "vreemde" dingen verwachten.
UFO mania: New Loch Ness Monster Video May Be Clearest Yet, Creature Seen Swimming Resembles...
UFO mania: New Loch Ness Monster Video May Be Clearest Yet, Creature Seen Swimming Resembles...
A new video of the Loch Ness monster captured by a passer-by on his iPhone could provide the clearest evidence yet that some sort of strange creature inhabits the mysterious lake in the Scottish Highland — as legends have described for centuries.
Or is this new “evidence” of the Loch Ness monster’s existence just another put-on? The man who shot the cell phone video — seen above — marveled at the fact that the creature seen swimming through the choppy waters of Loch Ness bears a striking resemblance to the iconic, 1934 “Surgeon’s Photo,” which is easily the most famous photo of “Nessie” ever snapped.
Iconic 1934 Loch Ness Monster Photo Now Considered A Hoax
When the Surgeon’s Photo — so called because it was allegedly taken by a physician who at the time chose to remain anonymous — was first published it ignited a worldwide craze for new proof of the apparently dinosaur-like creature, a fascination that clearly continues to the present day.
But that instantly recognizable photo was revealed in the 1990s to be a hoax. Supposedly the hoaxer’s motive was revenge against the Daily Mail newspaper, which had earlier hired the man to find evidence of the monster then fired and publicly humiliated him when he failed to do so.
On the other hand, many Loch Ness monster hunters believe that the “hoax” story is itself a hoax, and that the photo may indeed authentically depict the famed aquatic beast.
New Video Shows ‘Loch Ness Monster’ Resembling Famous Photo
In either case, the video posted Sunday on YouTube as well on the websites of Scotland’s Daily Record and England’s Daily Mirror newspapers, does appear to show a moving, snake-like or lizard-like creature moving rapidly through the water, breaching the surface repeatedly.
“It’s an anomaly that I can’t really explain. I’m a bit of a doubter of a lot of things until I see it myself and I wouldn’t have believed what I saw if someone else was telling me,” said Richard Collis, the 58-year-old tree planter who took the video — and who also says that he has fished in Loch Ness since his childhood and never experienced a sighting anything like what he saw last week.
“I don’t really believe in anything like that until I see it but what I saw was obviously what the Loch Ness Monster is,” Collis told the Daily Record. “I’m not saying it was a fire breathing dragon and I never saw teeth or anything like that, but I must have thought there was something there if I stopped to take pictures.”
The new Loch Ness monster video appears just days after a new photo purporting to show the creature poking its head through the waves of Loch Ness was revealed at a paranormal conference in Scotland.
Source: http://www.inquisitr.com/
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Best UFO Sighting - November 2014 Delhi INDIA
Best UFO Sighting - November 2014 Delhi INDIA
Gepubliceerd op 9 nov. 2014
In the outer region of New Delhi, India two Glowing Orbs were spotted in the matter of in 2 - 3 minutes.
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Flim Flam Extolled!
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The Unbelievable Skepticism of the Amazing Randi
James Randi in front of a painting done by his partner, the artist José Alvarez.
Credit Jeff Minton for The New York Times
A few minutes before 8 o’clock one Sunday evening last July, around 600 people crowded into the main conference hall of the South Point casino in Las Vegas. After taking their seats on red-velvet upholstered chairs, they chattered noisily as they awaited the start of the Million Dollar Challenge. When Fei Wang, a 32-year-old Chinese salesman, stepped onto the stage, they fell silent. Wang had a shaved head and steel-framed glasses. He wore a polo shirt, denim shorts and socks. He claimed to have a peculiar talent: from his right hand, he could transmit a mysterious force a distance of three feet, unhindered by wood, metal, plastic or cardboard. The energy, he said, could be felt by others as heat, pressure, magnetism or simply “an indescribable change.” Tonight, if he could demonstrate the existence of his ability under scientific test conditions, he stood to win $1 million.
The Million Dollar Challenge was the climax of the Amazing Meeting, or TAM, an annual weekend-long conference for skeptics that was created by a magician named the Amazing Randi in 2003. Randi, a slight, gnomish figure with a bald head and frothy white beard, was presiding from the front row, a cane topped with a polished silver skull between his legs. He drummed his fingers on the table in front of him. The Challenge organizers had spent weeks negotiating with Wang and fine-tuning the protocol for the evening’s test. A succession of nine blindfolded subjects would come onstage and place their hands in a cardboard box. From behind a curtain, Wang would transmit his energy into the box. If the subjects could successfully detect Wang’s energy on eight out of nine occasions, the trial would confirm Wang’s psychic power. “I think he’ll get four or five,” Randi told me. “That’s my bet.”
The Disillusionist
In this excerpt from the forthcoming documentary film “An Honest Liar,” James Randi explains how Harry Houdini inspired him to also become a famed magician and escape artist.Video
by Justin Weinstein and Tyler Measom on Publish Date November 7, 2014.
The Challenge began with the solemnity of a murder trial. A young woman in a short black dress stood at the edge of the stage, preparing to mark down the results on a chart mounted on an easel. The first subject, a heavyset blond woman in flip-flops, stepped up and placed her hands in the box. After two minutes, she was followed by a second woman who had a blue streak in her hair and, like the first, looked mildly nonplused by the proceedings. Each failed to detect the mystic force. “Which means, at this point, we are done,” the M.C. announced. With two failures in a row, it was impossible for Wang to succeed. The Million Dollar Challenge was already over.
Stepping out from behind the curtain, Wang stood center stage, wearing an expression of numb shock, like a toddler who has just dropped his ice cream in the sand. He was at a loss to explain what had gone wrong; his tests with a paranormal society in Boston had all succeeded. Nothing could convince him that he didn’t possess supernatural powers. “This energy is mysterious,” he told the audience. “It is not God.” He said he would be back in a year, to try again.
After Wang left the stage, Randi, who is 86, told me he was glad it was all over. For almost 60 years, he has been offering up a cash reward to anyone who could demonstrate scientific evidence of paranormal activity, and no one had ever received a single penny.
But he hates to see them lose, he said. “They’re always rationalizing,” Randi told me as we walked to dinner at the casino steakhouse. “There are always reasons prevailing why they can’t do it. They call it the resilience of the duped. It’s with intense regret that you watch them go down the tubes.”
The day before the challenge, Randi was wandering the halls of the casino, posing for snapshots and signing autographs. The convention began in 2003 in Fort Lauderdale, with 150 people in attendance, including staff. This year, it attracted more than 1,000 skeptics from as far away as South Africa and Japan. Often male and middle-aged, and frequently wearing ponytails or Tevas or novelty slogan T-shirts (product of evolution; stop making stupid people famous; atheist), they came to genuflect before their idol, drawn by both his legendary feats as an illusionist and his renown as an icon of global skepticism.
One fan, in his early 20s, with a thick mop of dark hair, introduced himself with, “So, I read that you spent 55 minutes in a block of ice.”
“A cinch,” Randi replied.
Ajay Appaden was 25 and had come from the Indian city Cochin. He was attending the conference for the second year with the help of a travel grant from the James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF), which was established with donations from the Internet pioneer Rick Adams and Johnny Carson. In addition to offering grants, JREF holds the $1 million in bonds that back the challenge, and pays Randi’s annual $200,000 salary.
Raised as a Catholic, Appaden told me that he discovered Randi in 2010, when he watched the magician in an online TED talk discussing homeopathy. At the time Appaden was a student at a Christian college, struggling with his faith; two years later, during Randi’s first visit to India, he took a 13-hour bus ride across the country to see Randi in person. “It literally changed my life,” he told me, and explained that he now hopes to help teach skepticism in Indian schools.
The magician looked small and frail, lost in the folds of his striped dress shirt, leaning on his cane, but he mugged gamely for every acolyte. For many of his most zealous followers, the opportunity to meet Randi at TAM may be as close as they will ever come to a religious experience. “It’s an obligation, it’s a very heavy obligation,” he said. “I can’t stand one person being turned away and not being given the same attention that others have been given.”
A few days before the conference, I visited Randi at his home, in Plantation, Fla. The modest octagonal house was almost hidden from the street by a lush garden of finger palms, elephant ears and paperbark trees. As we sat upstairs, surrounded by some 4,000 books — arranged alphabetically by subject, from alchemy, astrology, Atlantis and the Bermuda Triangle to tarot, U.F.O.s and witchcraft — he said that he disliked being called a debunker. He prefers to describe himself as a scientific investigator. He elaborated: “Because if I were to start out saying, ‘This is not true, and I’m going to prove it’s not true,’ that means I’ve made up my mind in advance. So every project that comes to my attention, I say, ‘I just don’t know what I’m going to find out.’ That may end up — and usually it does end up — as a complete debunking. But I don’t set out to debunk it.”
Born Randall James Zwinge in 1928, Randi began performing as a teenager in the 1940s, touring with a carnival and working table to table in the nightclubs of his native Toronto. Billed as The Great Randall: Telepath, he had a mind-reading act, and also specialized in telling the future. In 1949 he made local headlines for a trick in which he appeared to predict the outcome of the World Series a week before it happened, writing the result down, sealing it an envelope and giving it to a lawyer who opened and read it to the press after the series concluded. But no matter how many times he assured his audiences that such stunts were a result of subterfuge and legerdemain, he found there were always believers. They came up to him in the street and asked him for stock tips; when he insisted that he was just a magician, they nodded — but winked and whispered that they knew he was truly psychic. Once he understood the power he had over his audience, and how easily he could exploit their belief in the supernatural to make money, it frightened him: “To have deceived people like that . . . that’s a terrible feeling,” he said.
Once Randi understood the power he had over his audience, it frightened him: ‘To have deceived people like that . . . that’s a terrible feeling.
He turned instead to escapology — as The Amazing Randi: The Man No Jail Can Hold — and feats of endurance. He broke a record for his 55-minute stint encased in ice, and bested the time his hero Houdini had spent trapped in a coffin on the bottom of the swimming pool at the Hotel Shelton in Manhattan. But Randi never forgot the believers, and how susceptible they were to exploitation by those who lacked his scruples. And so, as his reputation as a magician grew, he also began to campaign against spiritualists and psychics. In 1964, as a guest on a radio talk show, he offered $1,000 of his own money in a challenge to anyone who could show scientific evidence of supernatural powers. Soon afterward, he began broadcasting his own national radio show dedicated to discussion of the paranormal. He bought a small house in Rumson, N.J., and installed a sign outside that announced randi — charlatan. He lived there alone, with a pair of talking birds and a kinkajou named Sam. Although Randi had known he was gay since he was a teenager, he kept that to himself. “I had to conceal it, you know,” he told me. “They wouldn’t have had a known homosexual working in the radio station. This was a day when you had to keep it completely hidden.”
During the late ’60s and early ’70s, popular interest in the paranormal grew: There was a fascination with extrasensory perception and the Bermuda Triangle and best sellers like “Chariots of the Gods,” which claimed Earth’s ancient civilizations were visited by aliens. There were mystics, mind-readers and psychic surgeons, who were said to be able to extract tumors from their patients using only their bare hands — and without leaving a mark. Randi continued on his crusade. Few of his fellow illusionists were interested in exposing the way that conjuring tricks were used to dupe gullible audiences into believing in psychic abilities. “Everybody else just kind of rolled their eyes,” Penn Jillette, a good friend of Randi’s, told me. “'Why is Randi spending all this time doing this? We all know there is no ESP. It’s just stupid people believe it, and that’s fine.’ "
Randi kept up his $1,000 challenge — and eventually increased it to $10,000 — but found few takers. Then in 1973, he met the nemesis who would define his struggle: Uri Geller, who had recently arrived in the United States from Israel. Geller was a charismatic 26-year-old former paratrooper who performed mind-reading feats similar to those with which Randi baffled audiences as a young mentalist. But Geller said that his powers were real and also claimed to have psychokinetic abilities: He could bend spoons, he said, using only his mind. His supposed gifts were studied by a pair of parapsychology researchers at Stanford Research Institute, who were persuaded that some of them, at least, were genuine. Randi told me that he met Geller soon afterward. “Very flamboyant,” he recalled venomously. “Very charming. Likable, beautiful, affectionate, genuine, forward-going, Handsome — everything!” His manner, Randi explained, was the key to the techniques employed by Geller and others like him. “That’s why they call them con men. Because they gain the confidence of the victim — and then they fool ‘em.”
Geller provided Randi with an archenemy in a show-business battle royale pitting science against faith, skepticism against belief. Their vendetta would endure for decades and bring them both international celebrity. Recognizing that the psychic’s paranormal feats were a result of conjuring tricks — directing attention elsewhere while he bent spoons using brute force, peeking through his fingers during mind-reading stunts — Randi helped Time magazine with an exposé of Geller. Soon afterward, when Geller was invited to appear on “The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson,” the producers approached Randi, who had been a frequent guest, to help them ensure that Geller could employ no tricks during his appearance. Randi gave Carson’s prop men advice on how to prepare for the taping, and the result was a legendary immolation, in which Geller offered up flustered excuses to his host as his abilities failed him again and again. “I sat there for 22 minutes, humiliated,” Geller told me, when I spoke to him in September. “I went back to my hotel, devastated. I was about to pack up the next day and go back to Tel Aviv. I thought, That’s it — I’m destroyed.” But to Geller’s astonishment, he was immediately booked on “The Merv Griffin Show.” He was on his way to becoming a paranormal superstar. “That Johnny Carson show made Uri Geller,” Geller said. To an enthusiastically trusting public, his failure only made his gifts seem more real: If he were performing magic tricks, they would surely work every time.
Randi decided Geller must be stopped. He approached Ray Hyman, a psychologist who had observed the tests of Geller’s ability at Stanford and thought them slipshod, and suggested they create an organization dedicated to combating pseudoscience. In 1976, together with Martin Gardner, a Scientific American columnist whose writing had helped hone Hyman’s and Randi’s skepticism, they formed the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal. Csicop, as it became known, was funded by donations and by sales of a new magazine, which became The Skeptical Inquirer. Randi, Hyman and Gardner and the secular humanist philosopher Paul Kurtz took seats on the executive board, with Isaac Asimov and Carl Sagan joining as founding members. Soon Randi was traveling across the globe, often “as the ambassador” of Csicop, Hyman told me recently, “the face of the skeptical movement all over the world.”
In his new role as a paranormal investigator, in books and on TV shows, Randi debunked everything from fairies to telekinesis. But he also stalked Geller around the chat-show circuit for years, denouncing him as a fraud and duplicating his feats by levering spoons and keys against the furniture while nobody was looking. In 1975, Randi published “The Magic of Uri Geller,” a sarcastic but exhaustive examination of the psychic’s techniques, in which he argued that any scientist investigating the paranormal should seek the advice of a conjurer before conducting serious research. The campaign helped make them both more famous than ever. Even today, Geller credits Randi with helping him become a psychic phenomenon — “My most influential and important publicist,” as Geller described him to me.
In 1989, Randi and Geller were booked to appear together on a TV special, “Exploring Psychic Powers, Live!” According to Randi, before the broadcast, Geller pulled him into his dressing room and offered to end the feud. “There’s no way that we are going to make peace until you level with your audiences,” Randi replied. “Until you say that you are a magician like the rest of us, and that you don’t have supernatural powers.” Geller refused. (Geller says he does not recall the incident.) Soon after, Geller brought the first of several libel actions against Csicop and Randi — who, among other things, had characterized him as a sociopath and suggested his psychic feats had been learned from the backs of cereal boxes. Geller’s suits in the United States were eventually dismissed. But the legal costs of fighting the cases were overwhelming, and Randi went through almost all of a MacArthur Foundation grant of $272,000 awarded to him in 1986 for his paranormal investigations. Finally, the struggle with Geller even cost Randi his place in Csicop; when Paul Kurtz told him it had become too expensive to keep going after such a litigious target, and demanded he stop discussing Geller in public, Randi resigned in fury.
Geller, who now lives in a large house beside the Thames River in England, says he long ago put the feud with Randi behind him. He claims to have used his show-business career as a cover for paranormal work on behalf of Mossad and the C.I.A., but he no longer calls himself a psychic. “I changed my title to ‘mystifier,’ ” he told me. “And I love it — because it means nothing.” But Randi’s contempt for him still burns brightly. “He knows he is deceiving these people — individuals, in most cases — and he doesn’t care what damage he does to them,” Randi said. “They depend on the paranormal after they have met Geller, and you cannot talk them out of it. And that has crippled them for life.”
Early one morning last summer, on a visit to Randi’s house in Florida, I drew up outside a few minutes later than we had agreed. Randi, wearing a canary yellow sweatshirt, was waiting at the front door, holding his watch in his hand. “You’re late!” he barked, and it was hard to tell if he was joking. We sat down in the living room to talk, and Randi spent half an hour laboriously adjusting his watch, winding the hands to display the correct date. “I am a little bit obsessed with having the right time,” he said. “I’ve always been very, very, big on knowing what time it is. That’s one of my connections with reality.”
Randi has never smoked, taken narcotics or got drunk. “Because that can easily just fuzz the edges of my rationality, fuzz the edges of my reasoning powers,” he once said. “And I want to be as aware as I possibly can. That may mean giving up a lot of fantasies that might be comforting in some ways, but I’m willing to give that up in order to live in an actually real world.”
That fixation on science and the rational life — and a corresponding desire to crusade for the truth — has a long history among magicians. John Nevil Maskelyne, who founded a dynasty of English conjurers in 1855 and became a prolific inventor, began his career by exposing fraudulent spiritualists and reproducing their tricks. Houdini turned to debunking mediums in his middle age as his career as an escapologist went into decline. He offered his own $10,000 reward to any spiritualist who could perform a “miracle” he could not duplicate himself. Martin Gardner, whose book “Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science” is a founding text of modern skepticism, was also fascinated by magic, and became well known for his books explaining how many conjuring and mind-reading tricks rely upon strict laws of probability and number theory. Penn and Teller have since followed Randi down the path of conjurers who have become debunkers.
Randi now sees himself, like Einstein and Richard Dawkins, in the tradition of scientific skeptics. “Science gives you a standard to work against,” he said. “Science, after all, is simply a logical, rational and careful examination of the facts that nature presents to us.”
Although many modern skeptics continue to hold religious beliefs, and see no contradiction in embracing critical thinking and faith in God, Randi is not one of them. “I have always been an atheist,” he told me. “I think that religion is a very damaging philosophy — because it’s such a retreat from reality.”
When I asked him why he believed other people needed religion, Randi was at his most caustic.
“They need it because they’re weak,” he said. “And they fall for authority. They choose to believe it because it’s easy.”
In the 1980s, Randi turned his talent for deception to debunking the supernatural. He set out to expose New Age channelers, mediums who — on shows and in profitable public appearances — purported to be possessed by ancient spirits. One, JZ Knight, a former cable TV saleswoman, claimed to be the terrestrial mouthpiece of Ramtha, a 35,000-year-old warrior from Atlantis who could predict the future.
To show how credulous audiences could be in the face of such claims, in 1987 Randi collaborated with the Australian version of “60 Minutes.” He invented Carlos, a 2,000-year-old entity who, his publicity material stated, had last appeared in the body of a 12-year-old boy in Venezuela in 1900 but had now returned to manifest himself through a young American artist named José Alvarez. He prepared to take Alvarez on a tour of Australia.
Alvarez, at the time a 25-year-old student at the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale, was in fact Randi’s boyfriend, and also his assistant. They met the year before in a Fort Lauderdale public library, where Alvarez was seeking visual references for a ceramics project. Randi, who had only recently relocated to Florida from New Jersey, struck up a conversation with him. They talked all afternoon and moved in together soon afterward.
Randi coached Alvarez carefully for his role as Carlos, rehearsing him through mock news conferences and TV appearances. He taught him how to squeeze a Ping-Pong ball in his armpit so that his pulse would appear to slow as he became “possessed” — “an old, old thing from Boy Scout camps,” Randi told me. Before the trip, Randi sent out press kits to Australian TV networks and newspapers, filled with reports charting the apparently sensational — but fictional — progress of Carlos across the United States.
Soon after they arrived in February 1988, Alvarez was booked on many of the country’s leading TV shows. Through an earpiece, Randi fed him answers to interview questions and the lines of doomsday prophecies. The climax of his tour was an appearance at the Sydney Opera House, after which the audience was invited to place orders for crystal artifacts, including the Tears of Carlos, priced at $500 each, and an Atlantis Crystal, offered at $14,000. Each proved popular — though Randi’s team never accepted any money for them.
When the hoax was revealed a few days later on “60 Minutes,” the Australian media was enraged at having been taken in; Randi countered that none of the journalists had bothered with even the most elementary fact-checking measures.
Afterward, Randi and Alvarez returned to Florida together, and Alvarez’s reputation as an artist blossomed. For the next 14 years, he toured the Carlos persona around the world as part of a performance piece, appearing onstage in Padua, Italy, and sitting for photographs on the Great Wall of China re-enacting the hoax. In 2002, the work Alvarez created from the Carlos episode was exhibited at the Whitney Biennial in New York.
Meanwhile, the establishment of the James Randi Educational Foundation in 1996 allowed Randi to continue his own pursuits with the foundation’s headquarters, a Spanish-style stucco building in Fort Lauderdale, as his base of operations. He created the Million Dollar Challenge and regularly wrote bulletins for the foundation’s website, where the message boards formed an online hub for skeptics worldwide. In recent years, he began making regular podcasts, and he also created his own YouTube channel to discuss everything from Nostradamus to cold fusion. In 2007, during his TED talk taking aim at quackery and fraud, Randi delighted his audience by gobbling an entire bottle of 32 Calms homeopathic sleeping tablets — which Randi speculated was certainly a fatal dose.
Disappointed by what he saw as the media’s indifference to the Million Dollar Challenge, that same year Randi revised the rules and announced a plan to take the challenge to high-profile psychics, including Sylvia Browne, John Edward and — once again — Uri Geller. None of them agreed to participate. He had more success in 2008, when he invited James McCormick, a British businessman, to take the challenge. McCormick had built equipment that could supposedly detect explosives from afar, which Randi recognized was simply a telescoping antenna swiveling on a plastic handle — a dowsing rod. Randi publicly offered the million-dollar prize to McCormick if he could prove that the device worked as claimed. McCormick, who was selling his product to security forces in the Middle East, never responded. But the British Police began an investigation, and last year McCormick was found guilty of fraud and sentenced to 10 years in prison, having sold at least $38 million worth of his miraculous device to the Iraqi government.
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Randi with his partner of more than 25 years, the artist José Alvarez, at their Florida home.Credit Jeff Minton for The New York Times
Recently, age and illness have begun to slow Randi down. In 2009, following chemotherapy for intestinal cancer, he presented the opening address at TAM from a wheelchair. Earlier this year, JREF’s Fort Lauderdale building was sold, and its reference library and collection of memorabilia were boxed up and relocated to Randi’s home. When I visited, many of the cartons remained unpacked; the portrait of Isaac Asimov that once hung above the fireplace in the JREF library was propped against a wall.
Randi was all but marooned in the house — he was forbidden to drive while he awaited cataract surgery — and Alvarez had been forced to surrender his driver’s license, after a series of events that began on Sept. 8, 2011. That morning there was a knock on the front door. When Randi opened it, a pair of federal agents stood before him. They asked to speak to Alvarez. Outside, Randi could see two unmarked S.U.V.s blocking the driveway and at least half a dozen agents surrounding the perimeter of the property. When Alvarez came downstairs from his room, the agents explained there was a problem. They wanted to talk to him about passport fraud. They cuffed him and took him out to the car. Randi was left alone in the house, holding business cards from State Department agents, who, Randi said, gave him instructions to wait 24 hours before calling them.
The agents took Alvarez directly to Broward County Jail, where he was photographed, issued a gray uniform and registered as FNU LNU: “first name unknown, last name unknown.” In an interview room at the jail, he told an agent everything: He had fled homophobic persecution in Venezuela and had come to the U.S. on a two-year student visa. He met Randi and knew he wanted to stay with him. But when his visa expired, there was no way to renew it. He said he was given the name and Social Security number of José Alvarez by a friend in a Fort Lauderdale nightclub, and used it to apply for a passport in 1987. Alvarez told the agent he was deeply sorry for the trouble he had caused the real Alvarez — who he believed was dead but turned out to be a teacher’s aide living in the Bronx. FNU LNU said his real name was Deyvi Orangel Peña Arteaga.
Charged with making a false statement in the application and use of a passport and aggravated identity theft, Peña faced a $250,000 fine, a sentence of up to 10 years in prison and deportation to Venezuela. After six weeks in jail, he was released on a $500,000 bond, and he subsequently agreed to plead guilty to a single charge of passport fraud. At a sentencing hearing in May 2012, the judge considered letters of support from Randi and Peña’s friends from the world of art, science and entertainment, including Richard Dawkins and Penn Jillette, as well as from members of charities to which Peña had given his time and work. The judge considered Peña’s long relationship with Randi, and Randi’s failing health. He gave him a lenient sentence: time served, six months’ house arrest and 150 hours’ community service.
But Peña still had to contend with the immigration authorities. After the sentencing hearing, he had been home for five days when Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents appeared at the door. “Say goodbye,” they told him. Peña assured Randi he would be back that afternoon. He was taken to the Krome detention center in Miami, and remained there while his lawyer tried to find a way of keeping him in the United States. After two months of incarceration, Peña was finally released from Krome on the evening of Aug. 2, 2012, to find that Randi had spent half the day waiting outside the front gate for him. The couple were married in a ceremony in Washington the following summer.
Today, Peña remains on probation and no longer holds any identity documents except a Venezuelan passport with his birth name. United States immigration authorities have agreed not to deport him for now, but he has no formal immigration status in the United States: were he to leave the country, he would be unable to return. Since his arrest, Peña has not entirely shrugged off his former persona. He signs his paintings with the name he has exhibited under for 20 years — but now followed by his true initials, D.O.P.A.
Sometimes when Randi forgets himself, he still refers to his partner as José. Yet exactly how much Randi — the master of deception and misdirection — knew about his partner’s duplicity, and how complicit he may have been in it, is unclear. When Randi first met him in the Fort Lauderdale public library, it seems certain that Peña would have introduced himself by his real name: A profile of Randi published in The Toronto Star the following year describes the magician’s young assistant, named David Peña, struggling through La Guardia Airport with Randi’s luggage. When they traveled to Australia together for the “60 Minutes” stunt, Randi may have been masterminding a deception one level deeper than he ever acknowledged: Deyvi, pretending to be José, masquerading as Carlos, the 2,000-year-old spirit from Caracas. What followed might be the longest-running hoax of The Amazing Randi’s career.
When I asked Randi how much he knew about Peña’s true identity before the federal agents came to his door, he demurred, citing legal concerns. “This is something I don’t think I’d like to get into detailed discussion about,” Randi said. “Simply because it could prejudice our status in some way.”
When he was still a young man appearing in Toronto nightclubs and pretending to predict the future, Randall Zwinge created what he hoped would be his greatest trick. Each night before he went to bed, he wrote the date on the back of a business card along with the words “I, Randall Zwinge, will die today.” Then he signed it and placed it in his wallet. That way, if he were knocked down in the street or killed by a freak accident, whoever went through his effects would discover the most shocking prophecy he ever made. Zwinge kept at it for years. Each night, he tore up one card and wrote out a new one for the next day. But nothing fatal befell him; in the end, having wasted hundreds of business cards, he gave up in frustration. “I never got lucky,” he told me.
Since then, Randi has had several brushes with death. But nothing has shaken his steadfast rationalism: neither the heart attack he suffered in 2006, nor the cancer that followed. Nor, for that matter, did a conversation he had with Martin Gardner a few years before Gardner’s death in 2010, when his friend confessed to having chosen to believe in the possibility of an afterlife. “That really surprised me, because he was the rationalist supreme,” Randi recalled. “He said: ‘I don’t have any evidence for it, you have all the arguments on your side. But it brings me comfort.’ ”
Randi told me that he now feels mild trepidation each time he goes to sleep at night, and pleasant surprise that he wakes up in the morning. But he insists he does not need the sort of reassurance that Gardner sought in his own last days. “I wouldn’t have any comfort from it — because I wouldn’t believe in it,” he said. “Oh, no, I have no fear of my demise whatsoever. I really feel that sincerely.”
Most mornings, Randi is already awake at 7 o’clock, when Peña comes in to check on him; sometimes he’s up at 6. “I’ve got a lot of work to do, still,” he told me, “and I’ve got to make use of my viable time.” He is currently completing his 11th book, “A Magician in the Laboratory,” and spends several hours a day responding to emails from his desk in the chaotic-looking office he maintains upstairs. He Skypes with friends in China or Australia once a week. Peña likes to cook, and paints downstairs, beside the framed lithograph recalling the triumphs of the Man No Jail Can Hold. The couple have spent much of the last year traveling to film festivals and screenings across the United States, helping to promote a new documentary about Randi’s life, “An Honest Liar,” which will be released in February. Randi has been surprised by the response. “Standing ovations, the whole thing,” he told me.
In July last year, Randi came closer than ever to the end. He was hospitalized with aneurysms in his legs and needed surgery. Before the procedure began, the surgeon showed Peña scans of Randi’s circulatory system. “Very challenging, a very difficult situation,” the surgeon told him. “But he lived a good life.” The operation was supposed to take two hours, but it stretched to six and a half.
When Randi began to come to, heavily dosed with painkillers, he looked about him in confusion. There were nurses speaking in hushed voices. He began hallucinating. He was convinced that he was behind the curtain before a show and that the whispering he could hear was the audience coming in. The theater was full; he had to get onstage. He tried to look at his watch, but he found he didn’t have it on. He began to panic. When the hallucinations became intensely visual, Peña brought a pen and paper to the bedside. It could prove an important exercise in skeptical inquiry to record what Randi saw as he emerged from a state so close to death, one in which so many people sincerely believed they had glimpsed the other side. Randi scribbled away; his observations, Peña thought, might eventually make a great essay. Later, when the opiates and the anaesthetic wore off, Randi looked at the notes he had written.
ENORMOUS LIGHT CRAFT WITNESSED BY MANY OVER SCOTLAND JANUARY 14, 1991 …… EDINBURGH SCOTLAND
It had been a cold cloudy night on the 14th of January in 1991 in Edinburgh, Scotland. At the time I was 10 years old living with my father who was a soldier and my mother a Berliner (German). We lived in an army estate overlooking Edinburgh City. It all started when our upstairs neighbor had informed me and the other 10 families in our block of flats that he had seen UFO activity on the night of the 13th and that the lights had returned. I initially dismissed the lights as the spotlights on Edinburgh castle which were occasionally tested and shone into the sky but the lights were indeed different. Everyone in the block went to look out their windows. What I observed was one bright white light that was of considerable height above Edinburgh Castle that gradually split into five lights that formed into formation like of 5 on a dice. As they floated in our direction the middle light turned red and the other lights moved in synchro-nised movements and patterns.
Our observation point was about 10 miles from Edinburgh castle itself, which was on the south side of the city. At one point people were getting nervous as I could see from my own parent’s behaviour. The lights closed in on our location. It appeared that whatever the lights were, they had knowledge that we were observing them because as they floated above us they seemed to have grown in considerable size. I judged the object to be larger than a 747. As we gazed out our windows at approximately a 60 degree angle we noticed that nearby animals were alarmed and acting distressed.
Dog’s barked excessively and other pets acted strangely. At the age of just 10 I was more curious then afraid. My stepfather went outside and estimated the size of the object as he himself couldn’t explain what the lights were. The object then moved slowly away and my mother and I ran to the bedroom window to get a better look at it. My curiosity got the better of me and I went and got my flashlight that I’d got for Christmas while my mother stood at the window. When I returned, I pointed the flashlight at the object and then turned it on as if to signal. At exactly the same moment I switched the flashlight on the hovering lights went out and immediately disappeared in front of my eyes or so it seemed.
My mother and I were confused and bewildered that it had suddenly disappeared at the moment I shone my flashlight at it. The whole encounter lasted approximately 25 minutes and as far as I am aware the incident was never reported to the base Commanding Officer and nothing was heard about the incident again.
Pleiadian Aliens or Nordic Aliens are alien beings from the star cluster Pleiades in the constellation Taurus. They have been described by many as humanoid, very tall in stature with light blond hair and an exceptionally fair skin tone.
Various theorists have claimed that the Pleiades aliens and humans share a common ancestor, but no evidence of this has ever been discovered until now. Due to the aliens exceptionally fair appearance and above average height, the Northern European races, particularly the Scandinavians have long been hypothesized to be the closest hybrid race of humans and Pleiades aliens.
During excavations in a small village in Romania, peasants found dozens of giant skeletons and prehistoric solar calendars created by an unknown race.
What happened to these giant bones?
One man who participated in the digs, reveals a massive cover-up…
“I dug to a depth of four feet, I unearthed a giant skull. It was two or three times the size of an ordinary human.”
Giants were by no means only mythological beings. They were genetically engineered by a certain group of ancient astronauts and they played a very important role on our planet. It is no secret that remains of giants have been discovered world-wide.
It is also an unfortunate fact that there has been a massive cover-up to deny the world any knowledge of these immense skeletons. Ever since the first giant bones were unearthed, scientists, historians and archaeologists have all been involved in debunking the existence of this powerful ancient race that once almost ruled the world.
Bones of giants have been deliberately destroyed, hidden in secret vaults, or simply labelled asremains of long extinct animals, like for example dinosaurs.
Our search for traces of giants takes us this time to Romania in Eastern Europe. We learn from Romanian mythology that Earth was inhabited by different humanoid races in the past.
At the beginning, the Oghars walked the Earth. However, they resembled deformed humans and they disappeared eventually.
Were the Oghars perhaps an early, failed genetic experiment conducted by our ancient astronauts.
Our extraterrestrial gods created a number of human races during different time epochs. Ancient Romanian stories tell that after the Oghars vanished, giants suddenly appeared. They rebelled against God and were sentenced to die during the Flood.In numerous sacred ancient texts, myths, and legends relate how the gods attempted on several occasions to create intelligent beings.
After the giants, humans started ruling the planet. However, humans will eventually be replaced with blajinii, a race of small stature beings who have a good soul and are pleasing to the gods. Although many graves of giants have been discovered across the world, it is not often we encounter people who have participated in the excavations and can tell the public about what they saw with their own eyes.
Ionita Florea, who is today an old man, has been involved in several archaeological excavations in Argedava, Giurgu county, Romania. Romania has a long tradition of giants. For some reason, no-one knows why, giants were nicknamed Jews.
One possible explanation could be that people called them “Jews”, is because these beings came from Israel. Did the mysterious pre-Adamic Didanum race that originated from Israel visit Romania? The Didanum people were ancestors of the Nephilim and Rephaim who were giants.
The country’s most famous giant was called Novac. He fought several battles against a dragon that tried to harm people. Novac finally defeated the dragon that fled and left a trail on Earth. Ionita Florea tells of an old place called Nucetul. It is a town in Bihor county, western Transylvania, Romania. Its name means “Walnut Trees”.
From his parents, Ionita Florea learned that this place was once inhabited by huge giants. For a long time, Ionita Florea did not believe all those stories about giants, but everything changed when he unearthed very large bones himself…
Corbii din Piatra, Romania is home of a strange giant sculpture of a…giant’s leg
Ancient Romanian stories tell that after the Oghars vanished, giants suddenly appeared. They rebelled against God and were sentenced to die during the Flood…
In 1926, a Dacian fortress, that was very unusual in size and much larger than excepted was discovered in Argedava. Vasile Parvan, the archaeologist in charge of the excavation was convinced that he had found the first capital of Burebista. Excavations were carried out several times until 2000. Later, it turned out that the fortress was in fact the first citadel of Burebista, the king who united all the Dacian tribes and ruled half of Europe between 82 B.C. – 44 B.C.
Between 1946 and 1956, archaeologists and peasants who helped with the dig, discovered 80 skeletons of giants. The remains were of humanoids who had had been between 4 to 7 feet tall. Ionita Florea who participated in the excavations for three years, tells his story of what really happened at Argedava.
“I began to dig here in 1947 with a team of archaeologists. They employed about 30 people in the village. I was the youngest of all, being only 18 years. They paid us 400,000 lei, ($9-$12US) per day. I was poor at the time and I needed work. I could buy almost one kilogram of corn for the money.”
Once, after I dug to a depth of four feet, I unearthed a giant skull. It was two or three times the size of an ordinary human. I went and told Dinu V. Rosetti, one of the archaeologists about my discovery. As soon as I showed him the skull, all villagers were immediately sent home, and the archaeologists continued to dig on their own.
I saw how they put the bones of the giants on a truck and drove away. I did not know where they took the skeletons or what happened to them.”
What Ionita Florea relates is just one many dreadful cover-ups undertaken by so-called men of science who are determined to deny generation after generation the right to learn the true history of our planet. Voltaire (1694-1778) was certainly correct when he declared that “History is the lie commonly agreed upon”!
“This is the second UFO video to come out of Mexico in the last 2 years with a UFO over a power planet. There was another in March 2012. Aliens are interested in our technological advances and how we make energy, while impacting the Earth with pollution. Or, if their ship is damaged in some way, they may be harvesting some of the plants energy to help them get home,” reports Scott Waring author of UFO Sighting News.
News states: This short video was taken by an engineer at nuclear electric plant in Veracruz, Mexico where a UFO was recorded fortuitously like a cross.
A remarkable video, allegedly released from sources inside a Puerto Rican federal agency, appears to show a UFO. The object, filmed in infra red, and from a Homeland Security helicopter, was caught over the International Airport in Puerto Rico.Footage credit to Jorge Martín Miranda. Posted by Paranormal Crucible
Local residents believe the truth about the crash is being concealed.
Crónica Fenómenos Paranormales. The official story states that a gas leak caused an explosion in Monte Grande on the evening of 26 September 2011. A growing number of voices, however, asserts that a flying saucer crashed at the site.
Three years removed from the terrible explosion that caused one death and the total destruction of two dwellings, there are still too many issues regarding the causes behind the mysterious explosion whose magnitude overwhelmed all mathematical calculations. Official inquiries ascribed it to a gas leak in a domestic oven. However, many consider that the whole truth has not been told about what happened on 26 September 2011 in the 9 de Abril district of Monte Grande (Esteban Echeverría prospect).
Night of the Saucer Crash: The Monte Grande Conspiracy Continues
By Roberto Leiva – Grupo Crónica
The event is remembered as the night of the UFO crash. A field research project conducted by a group of private researchers asserts that the official report conceals the true cause of the impressive event that changed the history of the popular Buenos Aires district.
Against those who insist that it was all restricted to a gas leak and a domestic explosion, space experts indicate that something very strange and hard to explain took place at the site. In spite of the time that has elapsed since then, the shadows of doubt and hesitation still persist. The subject is still discussed on the street and many believe there is sufficient evidence to think that the truth is hidden behind the apparent domestic mishap. They affirm that various reports alluding to an ungovernable, space-related phenomenon gained strength based on the evidence collected. Nonetheless, there are other dark and inexplicable aspects that have been the subject of deeper analysis by ufologists and researchers alike.
A Space Phenomenon
One of the earliest voices heard in that environment makes reference to that event, defined as a space phenomenon. “That night I was able to see the sky light up and then hear the explosion caused by a UFO crash. Several of us saw it and agree that an unknown artefact fell on the two homes. But after the studies were conducted, someone decided to hide the truth,” explains Julio Espinoza, who owns one of the properties and is the cousin of the deceased victim, Silvia Espinoza Infante, 42.
The man states that he has photographs of his late cousin. He says that there are marks on her body that lend credit to the hypothesis that an unidentified flying object was the cause of it all. The other house belongs to a married couple, Fabián Sequeira and Yiani Grey, accused of having a clandestine gas connection. Three years following the bizarre event, the families are still expecting a response from the authorities.
Witnesses to the Crash
Something fell over the homes located on the corner of Luis Vernet and Los Andes streets in Monte Grande at precisely 2:30 in the morning. At least a dozen people believe having seen a flying object that lit up the sky before plummeting and causing an explosion that leveled the entire structure. Whether descriptions of such an object are precise or not, the fact is that it caused one death, several injuries and tremendous desolation.
The Implosion Hypothesis
Interviews conducted in the neighborhood were done by personnel specializing in extraordinary events, and the points in which the versions agreed was critical, since this had to do with what later turned into the implosion hypothesis. Sources believe that a large luminous mass descended from the heavens at prodigious speed, and after crashing into a light post, rose again and passed over the trees surrounding the leveled houses.
This was the moment in which the implosion occurred. All objects in the vicinity were attracted to the main focus of the explosion. This was demonstrated, although engineers visiting the site have been unable to uncover the origin and magnitude of the phenomenon.
The First on the Scene
Few hours after the unprecedented explosion, members of Grupo Aurora – in charge of the significant task of collecting data and research on the UFO phenomenon – appeared on the scene. “What occurred that morning was truly impressive…the place looked like it had been bombed,” explained Pablo Daniel Warmkraut.
That very afternoon, states the researcher, the property was cordoned off by municipal edict. From a neighboring home it was possible to see that something was taken out of the pit left behind by the explosion – an object about which no information was given. The authorities made no reference to this and subsequently said that it was all a result of a gas leak at one of the dwellings. “Our group’s efforts are aimed at finding the truth, and the witnesses we interviewed agree that an enormous artifact fell from the sky. We believe that the truth about what happened that morning is being concealed, and for that reason, we will continue to lend our support to the survivors,” Warmkraut stated.
Strange Characters
Following the event’s occurrence, personnel from various organizations involved in space exploration arrived. What is striking about this is that no official mention was made of the results of their investigations.
According to the property owners and neighbors, there was great confusion due to the fact that the personnel only spoke English and made no contact with the accident victims. Most of them wore special gear, and following an inspection with sophisticated instrumentation, the word was given to condemn the premises and declare them uninhabitable.
MOTHER AND 6 CHILDRENS CLOSE ENCOUNTER IN WASHINGTON DECEMBER 29,1994 …….. LA CROSSE WASHINGTON
At approximately 2145 hours on Thursday night, December 29, 1994, a mother (with her six children) was driving north on the Zaring Cut-Off Road in southeastern Washington State, just 5 miles north of the Snake River. Several of her children suddenly started shouting, and called the mother’s attention to three extraordinarily bright lights above a recently harvested wheat field off to the right (east) side of the road. At first they thought the lights were the landing lights of an airliner at low altitude, perhaps making a forced landing in the field, and flying directly toward them.
Then one of the older children suggested the lights were the headlights on a “semi” (an 18-wheel truck), but they almost immediately realized that description didn’t fit, either. Suddenly, the family began to see the objects that were attached to the three lights, and they were awed by the vision! They saw three coal black, delta-shaped craft, with articulating structures on their noses, from which the blinding lights were radiating. They appeared to be scanning the ground ahead of them. The objects, apparently locked in tight, unwavering formation. The mother reported that the objects were right above their car, they gave off a barely perceptible humming sound (“…like an electric refrigerator…”), and they were close enough that a “person with a good throwing arm could have hit them with a rock.” When I talked with her on January 01, 1995, (Our first call of the year), she was still seemingly upset by the experience. She volunteered that she was frightened to either drive, or even go outside, after dark, which is not uncommon among people who have had recent UFO experiences.
It drifted across the road at very low speed, slowly turned left (south) and proceeded south parallel to the road the family was on.
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