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A Few UFO Reflections and Hopes.

It’s a New Year. Looking back on 2006, I can say it went by very fast. On a personal level, there were plenty of moments of intense ups and downs before things straightened out, but it always straightened out, and for the best. I have a good job, one I like. That’s no small thing. I discovered gratitude, and it sounds so simple but it’s very powerful nonetheless. This includes my writing and UFO /Fortean “life." Things couldn’t be better in that regard. Well, they could, I could be making some actual money from all this blogging and writing, but we don’t do it for the money. In terms of my writing; the responses I’ve received, and what it’s done for me on a personal level, it’s been better than I could have imagined. And it happened faster, as well. (and this includes the generosity of Tim Binnall, this site’s amazingly energetic creator, who just goes for it when it comes to facilitating great information for the rest of us "UFO Junkies." )

This has also made me more aware of time; in my early fifties (jesus, really??!! Yeah, really. Mind doesn't know it, body sure does on some days.) I realize, I feel, time more. I’m closer to the end than I am to the beginning. I don’t mean to sound gloomy, it isn’t gloomy. It just is. It’s okay. Simply a change in perspective. I don’t mean to say I’m going to turn in my ticket tomorrow, in fact, I plan to die in my sleep when I’m in my late 90s. I’ll be the eccentric but kindly painter lady in her cottage by the sea, with roomfuls of UFO books and too many cats.

About ten years ago I really believed that a disclosure would take place in the United States regarding UFOs. If not the United States, some country that would release to the world proof that UFOs and its occupants exist. And that along with that proof, we’d have most, if not all, the answers: who they were, where they came from.

I thought that would happen, or, that an ET/UFO event so huge, so incredible, would happen, that no one would have any doubt about the existence of UFOs or aliens.

I don’t think that anymore. No government, anywhere, is going to release anything really big concerning UFOs. And as far as ‘them’ landing, well, they’ve been landing for centuries. They’re here, they’ve been here, and they’re not interested in “full disclosure," after all, what do they care?

While that may sound pessimistic, it isn’t. Part of my "UFO philosophy" is that there is Trickster energy inherent in UFOlogy and Forteana. Which means there will always be oppositions, ironies, contrasts, and strange juxtapositions. There will also always be -- always -- the refusal of the Infrastructure, or I should say, the inability of the infrastructure, to approach or embrace UFOlogy and Fortean things in an open way. So I don’t put my energies there.

There may not be full disclosure or a mass landing, but there are lots of interesting books that are coming out. Mac Tonnies for one, who has an interesting theory he calls the CTH or crypto terrestrial hypothesis.I’m looking forward to reading his book. Another book I’m looking forward to reading is Stanton Friedman’s book, co-written with Kathleen F. Marden, who is Betty Hill’s niece. The book is titled: An Insider’s Look at the Betty and Barney Hill UFO Experience. According to Stanton’s post on UFO Updates, the book should be out in August of 2007.

There are also all the books that came out last year and that I received for Christmas this year: Nick Redfern’s ON THE TRAIL OF THE SAUCER SPIES :UFOs and Government Surveillance and his Body Snatchers in the Desert: The Horrible Truth at the Heart of the Roswell Story, also Colin Bennett’s book on Adamski: Looking for Orthon.

The skeptic crusade to rid the world of woo is still afoot, and always will be. It’s one of those oppositional things; the innate Trickster energy (see Hansen) within UFOlogy and the paranormal. Nothing new there. It’s important, in my view, to address their silliness when the mood strikes, and it’s equally important to call them on their stuff. At the same time, it’s good to remember that you can get too immersed in their drama, instead of working on the real issues.

This year will prove to be exciting, not for disclosures or aliens on CNN, but for the vibrant energies and contributions of many in the field. And I think, I hope,that new voices will appear. Both in terms of researchers and commentators, as well as those who’ve encountered the anomalous.

I’m not making a list of resolutions or predictions, but I did make a list of wishes for UFOlogy for the New Year:

New theories, musings, ideas, hypothesis. Fresh, surprising, intriguing.

An end to the bickering among UFO resetters, witnesses, and commentators. Come on guys, knock it off. Really. We get enough of that from the skeptics and the posers.

Credit, or at least a nod, to where credit is due.

Fearlessness; share that weird, high strangeness, anomalous encounter with the rest of us, or your out there, off kilter theory. We need to hear it! Yes, let your freak flag fly!

Respect: treat the offerings of the above with care.

And at least one more UFO sighted by yours truly in my lifetime. A really big one. (I’m greedy, I know.) And, okay, a Bigfoot sighting of my very own. Why not?

For myself, I plan to keep on writing, exploring, and meeting highly interesting people. I’m fortunate, there are a lot of UFO authors, Bigfoot researchers and the like right here in my area (Lane County, Oregon) as well as elsewhere close by.

A great and interesting Happy New Year everyone!


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