Tuesday, June 17, 2025

Monday, June 16, 2025

Angels in an Orb?

 Referring to an incident during World War I, a newspaper account states this:

"Some of the Tommies [British soldiers] claimed to have seen a trio of winged beings standing together in the ball of light. Private Robert Cleaver, of the First Cheshire Regiment, signed an affidavit to that effect."

A similar story appears in a 1940 news article:

angel sighting


Thursday, June 12, 2025

Green Sky Orbs: A Retrospective (Part 5)

Below are some photos I previously took of mysterious green orbs in the sky. All of the photos were taken in clean, dry air when there was no fog, mist, rain or precipitation.

My photo below shows a green sky orb that rather seems to have a face. 

multicolored orb

 My photo below shows (below two green sky orbs) a green orb seeming to play "tag the statue."

orb

My photo below shows a green sky orb and also a purple sky orb. 

green sky orb

 My photo below also shows a green sky orb. 

green sky orb

Below we see a green sky orb I photographed near the Trump International Hotel and Tower.

green orb

My photo below shows a big green orb floating above a building in New York City

green orb

 Below we see a green orb I photographed near a church steeple:

green orb in sky

 

Wednesday, June 11, 2025

A Metaphysical Interpretation of a Dream I've Had 17 Times

This morning I had another instance of a recurring dream that I have experienced 17 times. It is what I call the "accrued earnings" dream. It always has the same two features. In the dream I am working at a job and I suddenly realize that for a long time (usually months) I have forgotten to fill in my time card. The idea is always that I have some bonanza of accrued earnings waiting for me. Often there is the idea that if I can go to some office and explain what happened, I will be able to get all of this money I am due but have not yet received. 

Condensing the dream into a description as short as possible, the two themes are these:

(1) There was some important thing that I forgot. 

(2) Some bonanza of earnings I have earned await for me to claim. 

I have an interesting speculation that may explain the dream.  In the dream the job being worked at may symbolize your earthly life. The "accrued earnings" in the dream may symbolize some afterlife reward that will be paid upon death to every good person who lived on Earth, with a reward proportional to how long you lived or how much trouble you endured, or both.  An interesting speculation is that each of us signed up for "Earth duty," lured by a promise that at the end of such a duty our participation would be very richly rewarded -- perhaps with some ratio such as 100 or 1000 units of pleasure for every unit of pain experienced, or maybe a reward of 10,000 units of happiness for every unit of earthly unhappiness we experienced.  The "forgetting" motif in the dream may symbolize a non-earthly existence that each of us may have had before being born, something we forgot about when being born on Earth, but may one day remember. 

To understand this speculation, you would need to understand the hypothesis of the nonearthly pre-existence of the soul. I explain the concept and some evidence that may suggest it in my post "Dreams and NDEs Suggesting the Soul's Non-Earthly Pre-Existence," which you can read here. The hypothesis may be supported by frequent cases in which someone having a near-death experience may encounter some mystical realm, and may have a strong feeling that such a place is his "true home." 

I admit that I am being speculative here, and that interpreting dreams is a very tricky business. If anyone else has had a dream like the dream I have described, I would be interested to hear about it. 

Tuesday, June 10, 2025

UAP Buffs Are All Talking About That Wall Street Journal Article, But It Sounds Hard to Believe

 In my earlier post "Mystery Orbs Should Make Us More Humble," I discussed a very unsatisfactory article written by the former "UAP grand chief" Sean Kirkpatrick. The US Department of Defense had an office dedicated to investigating reports of UFOs (or UAP, variously defined as Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena or Unidentified Aerial Phenomena). The office was officially called the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office or AARO. Sean Kirkpatrick led the office in 2022 and 2023, but resigned around the end of 2023. 

Kirkpatrick wrote an article that appeared in Scientific American, one entitled "Here's What I Learned as the U.S. Government's UFO Hunter." My post on the article noted that Kirkpatrick made some statements in that article that made him sound ill-suited for the role that he had, partially because of an attitude that you might call a "why-am-I-wasting-my-time-on-this-stuff?" attitude. 

Now we have a big new article involving Sean Kirkpatrick. But it is not one he has written himself. Sean has teamed up with a Wall Street Journal writer, who has written a UFO/UAP article in which Sean has a starring role. It is a very strange mishmash entitled "The Pentagon Disinformation That Fueled America's UFO Mythology."  I call it a mishmash because of a few little scraps here and there which do not amount to anything that sounds like any unified coherent plausible narrative. 

The first anecdote told by the story seems hard-to-believe and not very important even if it is true. We read about some colonel who supposedly gave a bar owner fake UFO photos, which the bar owner put on his walls. The bar was near Area 51. We are told that this was done so that people would think sightings of strange craft around that area were UFOs, rather than suspect the truth: the government was testing a new type of aircraft.  

The story sounds far-fetched. If you wanted to spread misinformation about what was seen around area 51, why do something so ineffective as making fake photos that would go up on the wall of a bar?

There follows in the article paragraph after paragraph not giving specific examples, but trying to create the idea that government officials may have done something to create false ideas about UFOs, maybe to confuse people so that they would not know about classified information.  

We have this far-fetched account, which includes no specific confessions by anyone involved:

"But Kirkpatrick soon discovered that some of the obsession with secrecy verged on the farcical. A former Air Force officer was visibly terrified when he told Kirkpatrick’s investigators that he had been briefed on a secret alien project decades earlier, and was warned that if he ever repeated the secret he could be jailed or executed. The claim would be repeated to investigators by other men who had never spoken of the matter, even with their spouses. 

It turned out the witnesses had been victims of a bizarre hazing ritual. 

For decades, certain new commanders of the Air Force’s most classified programs, as part of their induction briefings, would be handed a piece of paper with a photo of what looked like a flying saucer. The craft was described as an antigravity maneuvering vehicle. 

The officers were told that the program they were joining, dubbed Yankee Blue, was part of an effort to reverse-engineer the technology on the craft. They were told never to mention it again. Many never learned it was fake. Kirkpatrick found the practice had begun decades before, and appeared to continue still. The defense secretary’s office sent a memo out across the service in the spring of 2023 ordering the practice to stop immediately, but the damage was done. 

Investigators are still trying to determine why officers had misled subordinates, whether as some type of loyalty test, a more deliberate attempt to deceive or something else."

The account sounds hard to believe. Why would someone mislead "commanders of the Air Force’s most classified programs" into thinking that there was some captured UFO that was being reverse-engineered?  The explanation of a "hazing ritual" makes no sense at all. A "hazing ritual" is some trick or ordeal typically pulled on people at the bottom of some academic or military hierarchy, usually so that people higher up on such a hierarchy can remind the people at the bottom of their lower status.  It sounds  unbelievable that such a "hazing ritual" would be applied to  "commanders of the Air Force’s most classified programs." 

We have a quote that may initially sound impressive, but which is actually unimpressive, because it does not come from a named witness, and does not speak precisely. The quote is this:

 "Ma’am, we know it went on for decades. We are talking about hundreds and hundreds of people. These men signed NDAs. They thought it was real.“

But what exactly is the "it" being referred to here from this anonymous source? We don't know. So the quote means little. 

The story ends with an account that does not sound right. We read about how a mysterious disabling of a nuclear launch system was associated with the sighting of one or more mysterious light anomalies some thought were UFOs.  The article attempts to persuade us that the explanation was some weird device the government was using to test the effect of electromagnetic pulse effects (EMP). But the article fails to link in any convincing way the construction and activation of such a device with the reported events of nuclear launch systems being mysteriously deactivated.  An article by Kevin Wright points out one reason the claim does not hold water:  any device testing EMP effects would probably not merely temporarily turn off a nuclear launch system, but also do permanent damage to such a system. It would be crazy for the government to be deliberately creating EMP effects near nuclear launch systems. 

We are left with a mishmash of bits and pieces that fails to add up to  some convincing narrative of the government systematically providing disinformation to mislead people about UFOs.  The story mostly sounds like a deal in which Sean Kirkpatrick is trying to further convince people that there's nothing to UFOs or UAPs, as he tried to do in his Scientific American article in 2024. The Wall Street Journal article's main photo is a giant photo of Sean. 

I do know this much: US government web sites continue to state enormously false claims about the nature of the human genome consisting of DNA and its genes. I documented this false information in my post "The US Government's False Claims About DNA." That post was written in 2022, and the very false claims I documented still exist on the US government web pages I cited. We have heard some claims that the new US administration is attempting to correct pages with false biology information, but no such correction has occurred in the pages I discuss in that post. 

I cannot think of any reason why anyone at the US government would have engaged in "hazing rituals" to deceive "new commanders of the Air Force’s most classified programs," as the recent Wall Street Journal article claims. I do understand well a reason why biology authorities would be making false claims about the nature of DNA. That reason is explained in my widely-read post here

They Saw a Spooky Orb

 Below is part of an old newspaper account you can read here

orb visible to naked eye

Monday, June 9, 2025

See-Through Something

 Photo date: June 9, 2025.  Photographer: Mark Mahin. 

We see below a mysterious orb I photographed indoors. 

mysterious yellow orb

Sunday, June 8, 2025

Were They Saved By an Orb?

 Below is an account from the Psychic News, 1980-06-28 (Page 3), which you can read here. The title is "Supernormal light save pair lost on mountain." We read of the appearance of a "big blue ball of light" which leads a lost pair in the right direction to safety. 

saved by a mysterious orb

Thursday, June 5, 2025

Orb Rising From a Mountain?

 Below is a news article reporting the sighting of a mysterious orb rising up from a mountain top. We read of a witness claiming that he saw "a big ball of light shoot from the top of the mountain."

orb rising from mountain

Wednesday, June 4, 2025

A Green Orb

 Photo date: June 4, 2025. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

We see below a mysterious green orb that I photographed indoors. 

mysterious green orb

Green Sky Orbs: A Retrospective (Part 4)

 Below are some photos I previously took of mysterious green orbs in the sky. All of the photos were taken in clean, dry air when there was no fog, mist, rain or precipitation.

The photo below shows a mysterious orb I photographed near a building in New York City. Was it peeking through the lighted window?

green orb near building

My photo on the left we see a green orb that seems to be acting like a tightrope walker. 

orb on wire

The photo below shows a green orb above a very old church in New York.

 green sky orb


My photo below shows another green orb in the sky:

green sky orb

In my photo below you can see two or three green sky orbs, along with a much larger purple orb.  The column is a war memorial.

orb swarm 

My photo here shows green sky orbs:

green orbs in sky

My photo below shows another green sky orb:

green sky orb


Monday, June 2, 2025

Dumbfounding Drops

Below we see a set of lovely flowers that one of my daughters recently bought. 


 When I came up to the kitchen area this morning to get tea, I noticed something strange. There was a fist-sized concentration of pink pedals at a spot roughly corresponding to the bottom left part of this photo. "How strange" I thought to myself, before cleaning up the pedal mess.

When I came back for lunch more than an hour later, I saw another fist-sized concentration of pink pedals, at the same spot that I had seen the pedals before. Again, I cleaned up the pedals. I prepared myself some lunch, which took only about ten minutes. I was alone in the kitchen. 

After sitting down for lunch, I noticed that once again there was another fist-sized concentration of pink pedals, at the same spot I had found the first two concentrations of pedals (roughly corresponding to the bottom left of the photo above). The third concentration of pedals had appeared within a time span that could not have been more than 15 minutes. 

Usually pedals falling can be naturally explained.  But in a case like this we have pedal-falling behavior that seems to defy anything that chance might produce. The pedals were only seen in the same fist-sized area of the counter, although randomly falling pedals from this flower arrangement would have fallen over an area maybe ten or twenty times bigger. And it seems that randomly falling pedals would not have fallen to make a concentration of pedals during a time span of only 15 minutes. There is no strong wind today where I live. 

Maybe there is some symbolic significance here. The spooky event involving pedal drops may portend  that something important is about to drop. Let us hope it is not the stock market. 

Postscript: After publishing this post at about 2:30, I went back up to the kitchen, and found the following (the previous pedals had all been cleaned up):


The pedals were in the same spot that the previous three pedal droppings had occurred. For the fourth time today I cleaned up all the pedals from the counter.  I then went out to buy something. Returning with some flowers for the front yard, I checked the kitchen counter again. Now there were no pedal droppings near the vase.  I planted the flowers I had bought, and went back to the kitchen to make some coffee. Now there was once again a big dropping of pedals or pedal fragments, only in the same spot where the previous four pedal droppings had occurred. Below is what I saw:


Someone who believes that plants are conscious might speculate that this is some flower trying to act in some attention-getting way, by dropping its pedals or pedal fragments in concentrated bursts rather than at random intervals. 

Post-postscript: The next day I found the rather heart-shaped pedal below, on the floor, about 18 or 20 inches away from the flower vase. I can't explain how it got to that position. The windows were closed at the time. 


When I saw this, I also saw some pedal or pedal fragments near the vase, which I cleaned up, leaving the area around the vase clean. When I came back 90 minutes later, there was the big concentration of pedals and pedal fragments shown below. I can't understand how so much material could have naturally fallen in so short a time. I was the only person in the house, and the windows were still closed.


Again, I cleaned up all these pedals and pedal fragments, leaving the area near the vase clean. Coming back about 90 minutes later, for lunch, I saw what we see below.


Once again I cleaned up all the pedals and pedal fragments, and decided I would carefully observe whether any pedals or pedal fragments fell during the 30 minutes I would be in the kitchen for lunch. Not a single pedal or pedal fragment fell.  

Saved by an Orb Taking Human Form?

 In an old newspaper account (Psychic News, 1984-10-13, page 2),  which you can read here, we read of a German woman lost in the Bavarian Alps:

saved by an orb

Another account of a mysterious orb sighting can be read here. We read that Ronald Martin, 18, of Levelland saw a "big ball of fire" drop on to the highway, when it changed to a bluish green color. Martin then says the object changed to a fireball again, and then rose up and disappeared. We read that another witness (Nowell Wright) reported a "similar occurrence."