Alien Lore No. 46 - Dark Skies

In 1996-97, Dark Skies, one of my all-time favorite television shows, aired. The show detailed the Greylien "history" that has accumulated (like tartar) over the years. Unlike other shows, Dark Skies established an elaborate mythology and framework for the grey lore, built through research of the voluminous outpouring of writing and reporting on alien-related topics. Bryce Zabel developed a five year plan for the show, ranging from the early 60's to the millennium, all grounded in historical events. Each episode details the impact of The Hive on historical events. Harry Truman, The Beatles, Ed Sullivan, Jack Ruby, William Paley, Hubert Humphrey, JFK, Bobby Kennedy (in a recurring role), Timothy Leary, Jim Morrison, Jerry Rubin, Carl Sagan, and others all appear on the program. The "lookalike" actors are outrageously over the top and campy...which adds a note of bent humor to the proceedings.

The Greys, it seems, are merely hosts for the real aliens, called the Hive. The Hive is far more dangerous and insidious than the Greys. The Greys, in fact, are a race not particularly warlike until they are taken over by The Hive.



The Hive in the form of The Greys has stealthily infested America, and the world. The awful truth is kept from the American people by Captain Frank Bach, the leader of a super-secret government organization called Majestic-12. John Loengard and Kim Sayers are on the run from the alien Hive and from the Government. Their travels lead them all around the country as they learn more about the massive infestation of The Hive, and Majestic's efforts to control it at any cost. It's never clear in the show whether the cure is worse than the illness.

Dark Skies seamlessly put together science fiction, UFOlogy, and past political events and social movements that took place during the 50's and late 60's. Unlike the X Files, Dark Skies was a one trick pony--it was about aliens, and UFOs, and nothing else. They cancelled the show just as it was getting traction. You can get a bootleg copy of the series. I did just that, and I enjoyed the show even more the second time around.

Episode One: The Awakening
Bureaucrat John Loengard and his girlfriend Kimberly Sayers stumble across UFO information considered off-limits by the top-secret Majestic-12 group headed by Col. Frank Bach. Loengard joins Bach and the Majestic group, before becoming disillusioned with their desire to shield the public from the truth. Loengard steals evidence to persuade President Kennedy onto their side, propelling the couple on a dangerous journey where the future of the world is at stake.



Episode Two: Moving Targets
Following Kennedy's assassination, John and Kimberly learn from an eyewitness about the first alien encounter years earlier at Roswell. But when the couple return to Washington for the President's funeral, they discover a more sinister alien plan to destroy world government.



Episode Three: Mercury Rising
Kimberly's recurring dreams of a floating astronaut lead them to the newly re-named Cape Kennedy launch center, where they meet astronaut Ty Yount, a fellow alien abductee. Though Yount was not implanted, Kim realizes that his co-pilot was. Kimberly and Loengard eventually discover that the Hive intends to sabotage the next manned space launch -- and they risk their lives trying to stop the final countdown. They do of course. And the world is safe(r) for another week.

Episode Four: Dark Days Night
The Beatles are coming to America, and the Hive has an evil plan to use this event to cause mass suicide. As John and Kim have found out, some humans aren't suitable for implantation for some, as yet, unknown reason. While these people were aboard the alien ships they were hypnotized and given a post-hypnotic suggestion that, when activated, will cause them to go into a trance of sorts and kill themselves. Captain Bach and Loengard team up temporarily on this venture to stop the Hive from broadcasting the glyph during the Beatles set on the Ed Sullivan Show, and they are successful.

The show goes on, and the Beatles become the sensation that we've all come to love. Loengard and Kim leave New York and search for their next adventure.

Episode Five: Dreamland
Billionaire recluse Howard Hughes joins John and Kimberly's investigation of an underground alien base, mistakenly believing the Hive implantees are communists. This episode is wonderful merely for the nutty portrayal of Hughes.

Episode Six: Inhuman Nature
Loengard and Kimberly investigate a series of Midwest cattle mutilations bearing bizarre alien markings. When they recruit a veterinary student to probe a similar living cow, they are shocked at what they find.

Episode Seven: Ancient Future
The great Alaskan earthquake of 1964 uncovers a ghostly alien scout ship, which provides John with glimpses of the future, a future where the aliens have won.

Episode Eight: Hostile Convergence
Loengard attempts to publicly reveal plans by the U.S. government to replicate an alien spacecraft at Area 51. Kimberly attends her sister's wedding, only to find that Majestic's reach extends close to home. Bach makes a horrific discovery when he interrogates a violently ill Jack Ruby.

Episode Nine: We Shall Overcome
Mississippi in the 1960's was a very hostile place. Racial divides were still quite strong, but times were slowly and painfully changing. The Civil Rights movement was in full swing but the Hive had other plans for humanity.

Our own species' lack of unity provided the Hive with a weapon that, although, mostly silent, kept the people fighting amounts themselves instead of uniting to combat the real threat from the stars.

Then FBI director J. Edger Hoover and Majestic clash over who has authority in the Mississippi events, and finally one of Bach's men meets with Hoover and refuses to disclose any information to him, and this displeases Hoover, but the Hoover would be silenced. Majestic knew about Hoover's gay lover, Clyde, and Hoover agreed to drop the matter if they didn't disclose that information to the public.

This one problem was resolved, but it is now clear to John and Kim that the Hive will use any means to conquer humanity through total subversion of our culture. They will continue to exploit our weaknesses until we resolve them.

Episode Ten: The Last Wave
Loengard and Sayers return to Los Angeles to bury a college friend who died under suspicious circumstances. With the help of college friends, and a young Jim Morrison, they uncover the truth behind the illness which has been killing surfers.

Episode Eleven: The Enemy Within
Seeking shelter with his family, John discovers his brother has become Hive, and that Majestic is watching. John is committed to a mental institution by his parents when he tries to remove the alien implant from his brother. Bach uncovers a Hive operative within Majestic.

Episode Twelve: The Warren Omission
With the Warren Commission looking into the assassination of his brother, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy asks John to testify. Despite Bach's warning, Kennedy paves the way with his own testimony before Loengard describes the events that led him into Majestic. And while John has a long way to go before convincing a skeptical Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren and his fellow commission members of his story, Bach decides to thoroughly discredit him anyway.

Episode Thirteen: White Rabbit
On a stealth mission to Vietnam, Bach and John are captured by North Vietnamese. Back in the United States, Kimberly takes matters into her own hands. . .and kidnaps Bach's wife.

When Soviet operatives fire on a Hive ship over the Gulf of Tonkin, Bach claims that US naval vessels were their target and starts the country's involvement in the Vietnam War. After air strikes down a Hive ship, Bach kidnaps Loengard for a reconnaissance mission. Yet, when military officials express reservations about having Majestic's Juliet Stuart co-ordinating with Russians also tracking the Hive, Bach joins Loengard for the trip himself. Teamed with Vietnamese guide Tay Ma, Loengard comes across a crazed American soldier as he finds a Grey's severed head. And when John finds that the crash site has been visited by the Viet Cong, Bach orders him to destroy it while requesting an air strike that could kill them all. Of course, they escape.

Episode Fourteen: Shades of Gray
Both John and Kim now working for Bach and Majestic. They plan to use the resources of Majestic to further their cause while secretly trying to take over the organization from within. Majestic's latest plan is to lure and capture an alien craft by making a fake crop circle. The plan works, but Majestic fails to down the alien craft. An injured Grey is left behind, and he scurries off into the cover of night. Bach decides to send John and Kim after the grey, because of Kim's unique ability to track them using her Ganglion-induced sixth sense.

The Grey finds a little girl named Monica and he persuades her to help him. John and Kim find the gray, but Monica almost kills them, but Juliet, the Russian operative working with Majestic shows up and saves them. They recover the Grey and head back to the Majestic base camp. A successful A.R.T. is preformed on the Grey and the now friendly Grey begins to communicate with Kim telepathically. She learns that Monica is in danger, and John and Juliet head over to the girl's house to help. They rescue her just in time.

Back at the base camp, the gray continues to communicate with Kim, and she learns a lot about the history of the Gray species before the Hive arrived. She also learns some shocking news. She's pregnant... and the child is Hive.

Episode Fifteen: Burn, Baby, Burn
A man helps Loengard search for pregnant Kimberly amid the Watts riots, after aliens abduct her in Los Angeles. A lot of crazy scenes of the Watts Towers and footage of the riots are included.


Episode Sixteen: Both Sides Now
Anti-war demonstrations led by Jerry Rubin sweep up Loengard and Juliet on a mission in Berkeley, California, to shut down a Hive operation

Episode Seventeen: To Prey in Darkness
The search for the Roswell alien-encounter film leads Loengard and Juliet to crusading columnist Dorothy Kilgallen and a TV news network.

Episode Eighteen: Strangers in the Night
Juliet and John are sent with Major Colin Powell to investigate the collapse of Aura-Z, the USSR's equivalent of Majestic, while Bach enlists the help of astronomer Carl Sagan to track down the Hive's home planet.

Episode Nineteen: Bloodlines
Alerted to a planet size object (the Hive's Tenth Planet) transmitting a message to Earth, Bach orders Dr Carl Sagan to decode it while he keeps the news from Majestic's directors. And though he's kept in the dark, Albano agrees to ask the captured Gray to shed some light on its contents. Meanwhile, Loengard and Juliet use Dr Timothy Leary to find the San Francisco lab where the Hive has been producing a hallucinogen under the direction of Steele and Kim. And when Kim tosses the drug into John's face, it causes him to see their son aboard a Hive ship.

Loengard offers to infiltrate the Hive's mothership to gain critical intelligence data and find his son. At the end he tells us he succeeded.

Albano kills Frank Bach and reveals that he is now Hive.

At the end of the episode, Loengard speaks thirty years later. He alludes to the fact that somehow the Hive were beaten.
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The Final Enumclaw Horse/Beastiality Update

An Enumclaw-area man has pleaded guilty to criminal trespass Tuesday in a case in which a Seattle man died having sex with a horse.

James Tait and a 45-year-old Seattle man went onto a neighbor's property last summer to have sex with a horse, prosecutors say. The Seattle man sustained a perforated colon and died from his injuries after being dumped at an emergency room.

Tait was essentially the pimp for a nearby farm where people had sex with animals. . .unbeknownst to the horse owners.

Pathetically, Tait, 54, was given a one-year suspended sentence on condition he pay a $300 fine, perform eight hours of community service and have no contact with the horse owners. I don't understand why he wasn't charged with negligent homicide. The horse owners told a reporter last summer that police showed them a home video of the July 2 incident that investigators seized from Tait's home. That videotape, or a similar one, has turned up on the internet.
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President Bush Discloses His Exit Strategy: Victory

For the first time since the war began, The President today disclosed his strategy for winning the war in Iraq. The White House also released a slick 40 page PDF detailing that strategy.

President Bush at Anapolis today: "So today we're releasing a document called the "National Strategy for Victory in Iraq." This is an unclassified version of the strategy we've been pursuing in Iraq, and it is posted on the White House Web site, whitehouse.gov."
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Redux: President George Bush's Note to Jack Brummet & Speculations On Strange Goings On At The White House And In The Oval Office

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I need to write him again. I'm not sure I really drove the right message home the last time we communicated. I want to stay friends and maintain a certain level of plausible civility. Doing some research last night, I stumbled on this note on the 'net (leading back here, to All This Is That). It's been a bumpy ride all year for the big fella.

You hear things...stories of him reeling around the White House like Nixon. . .babbling to the oil portraits of his fellow Presidents; drinking Knob Creek Bourbon from dawn to midnight; stories of bizarre threesomes with Laura, and Condy, Rumsfeld, Cheney, Ann Coulter, Scooter Libby, Karen Hughes, and even Speaker Dennis Hastert; cocaine-fueled strategy sessions about how to exit Iraq with a "win"; romps with nubile Mexican housekeepers and perky senior staff interns while Laura is on goodwill tours in Africa; an atmosphere of treachery and betrayal permeating and befouling the White House; the staff so petrified they're gobbling pills around the clock: vicoden, vallium, librium, seconal, prozac, codeine, thorazine, opium, even black tar. . .anything to ease the tension. The atmosphere can only be compared to Hitler's Bunker the weeks before the Russians and Patton's Army arrived in Berlin. And here we are, watching the tawdry operation--the entire executive branch--disintegrate into a steaming pile!

The Democrats have to get to work now. Don't be lulled by the G.O.P. self-destruction. That can change at any minute. We need to make hay while the making hay is good. Kick 'em while they're down!
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Free WiFi In New Orleans

People still wait for water and electricity, tens of thousand of buildings are uninhabitable, and 1,000 restaurants will not reopen, but Mayor C. Ray Nagin told a news conference today that New Orleans will deploy a free wireless internet network throughout town. The system will also will be used by law enforcement and for an array of city government functions, such as speeding approval of building permits. But, the main idea is to jump start the recovery by making living and doing business a little hospitable. It seems a little crazy, but it makes a sort of twisted sense.

Just this morning, the New York Times reported that "barely one-quarter" of the houses in New Orleans have electricity...
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Another Republican Pleads Guilty To Putting His Hand In The Till

An eight-term California Congressman has admitted taking bribes in a sleazy kickback scheme with a defense contractor. Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham pleaded guilty today to conspiracy, tax evasion charges, and mail and wire fraud. He's a Republican. Did you even need to ask?

At his tearful resignation press conference, he said, "I can't undo what I have done but I can atone," he said.

Under Republican caucus rules, Cunningham would have lost his chairmanship of the House Intelligence subcommittee on terrorism and human intelligence. "House Intelligence" seems more and more like an oxymoron every day.

The former Vietnam War flying hero was known as a hawk, often given to cranky outbursts.

Cunningham was fingerprinted and released on his own recognizance until a Feb. 27 sentencing hearing, where he could get 10 years in prison. He agreed to forfeit to the government his Rancho Santa Fe home, more than $1.8 million in cash, antiques, and rugs.

In a statement, prosecutors said Cunningham admitted to receiving at least $2.4 million in bribes paid to him by several conspirators through a variety of methods, including checks totaling over $1 million, cash, rugs, antiques, furniture, yacht club fees and vacations.

Cunningham joins the ever-growing list of G.O.P. leaders either in the hoosegow, or headed there: Tom DeLay, Bill Frist, and Scooter Libby.
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Separated At Birth? Mariah Carey's Siblings

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Seeing Mariah Carey's photos this weekend in cheerleader outfits and spooky looking baby dolls, I realized she has a couple of brothers out there. Bert Lahr, David Crosby, and Mariah may well have been separated at birth.
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Alien Lore No. 45 - Dreamland/Area 51, With Its Pants Down

Area 51 also known as 'Dreamland' is located at Groom Lake, just outside the desert town of Rachel, Nevada. Of the Area 51 story, that much that is not in dispute. After that, it becomes extremely complicated. There are charges and countercharges, and thousands of pages have been written, from tales of thousands of alien cannibals living underground (Dulce and other places), down to hard-core skeptics, and the true believers who believe just about everything is a conspiracy.

Like Roswell, Area 51 is a mecca for UFOlogists, nutjobs, and tourists. Over the years the U.S government has allegedly bought up the surrounding area to stop the curious from seeing just what goes on there. It has become the subject of many pop-culture references. Area 51 has become accepted as a sort of folklore--whether anything happened there or not. Glenn Campbell wrote an Area 51 Viewer's Guide in the 90's, that is no longer available. I actually bought a copy. . .at this point, he is offering it for sale for $1,500. Glenn--I'll send you my copy and you can reproduce it via OCR...

Many have claimed that bizarre lights in the night sky can be seen near Area 51 and that flying vehicles buzz around performing impossible maneuvers, like figure eights and stopping dead in the air. The "strange lights" have been thought to change in size and brightness, sometimes disappearing completely, and reappearing in an entirely different place.

Area 51 is said to be surrounded by state of the art surveillance equipment, motion sensors, and is patrolled by security guards in unmarked jeeps. The border perimeter signs which state 'use of deadly force authorized'. If you passed these signs you would be arrested and fined up to a $1,000 and spend the night in jail. If you were to continue any further you would be legally shot and killed. This does not seem to have ever actually happened.

A lot of people believe this is the site where the crashed saucers from the Roswell Incident are kept for study and engineering. Scientists study crashed flying saucers and try and work out how the craft was built and powered. Then once this has been accomplished they try and incorporate it into their own designs. And then maybe fly the alien craft, or incredible facsimiles, around.

Bob Lazar says he worked at Area 51 in a section of the base called S-4 from 1988-1990 and has published a lot of material that has become the core of modern Ufology. He says he worked on nine different saucers while at the base. These flying disks were housed in hangers carved into the mountain side. Lazar also stated that his life was threatened after he allowed friends to watch test flights of the saucers. On one trip, he was arrested by security and threatened. He spoke out about his experiences, thinking that the government would never have the nerve to kill him if he went public. Any mysterious accidents he might have would only validate his claims.

Glenn Campbell for many years (until 1999) maintained the excellent UFOmind website and attempted to research and debunk or verify the many facts. Here is his final word (presumably) on Bob Lazar (if you treat this UFOlogy thing like a spectator sport, you might want to quit reading now, or you'll find out the ending. Glenn Campbell wrote in 2002:

"Lazar did not work with flying saucers in an underground hangar near Papoose Lake. He made the story up. Furthermore, he made it up by himself, without the help of any nefarious agency and probably without any deep motivation other than the pleasure of attracting attention and putting people on."

"The story evolved out of a long heritage of pre-existing underground alien base claims, which eventually infected the pilot and conspiracy theorist John Lear. Lear announced, in electronic bulletin board posts in the 1980s, that gray aliens were eating humans in deep underground facilities at Area 51. Lazar met Lear, heard his ramblings, and decided to give Lear what he wanted. Lazar took Lear's paranoid delusions and repackaged them in a much more intelligent and internally consistent rendition. Initially, Lear was the only audience, but he tipped off a Las Vegas TV station, and the frenzy began. The story soon spun out of Lazar's control, and, at least until the recent Art Bell appearance, Lazar seemed to sincerely want it to go away. "

"Lazar's limited knowledge of Area 51 came from secondhand sources, which are plentiful in Las Vegas. Lazar has never been to Area 51. His "S-4" is a relocated and reconfigured version of "Site 4", a real Top Secret radar testing facility west of Area 51. Lazar's saucers and their propulsion system seem plausible to anyone without a physics degree. They were constructed, in Lazar's head, with the same fastidious care that he has lavished on his real-life fireworks, jet cars and other mechanical projects. "Element 115" and its peculiar periodic neighbors were discussed in an article in Scientific American just before Lazar used it to fuel his craft. Lazar has always displayed an exceptional respect for detail and consistency, and he has an extraordinary ability to focus his attention on whatever his current project is, to the exclusion of everything else. His only deficiencies are moral (that is, if you consider lies and the exploitation of others to be somehow 'wrong')."

In the end, Campbell sums it up better than anyone else I have read:

"Those who believe in Lazar are going to continue believing, and those who don't will only say, "I told you so." The funny thing about oral traditions like this is that they continue to live and propagate regardless of the evidence and far beyond their original source. They spawn new stories, like the similar UFO claims of Bill house, aka "Jarod 2" (which is another fascinating personal journey). Lazar's story has grown much bigger than Lazar himself, and no one will ever be able to follow all of its threads. "

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Photograph Of Mimas, A Moon Of Saturn

Image by: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute - Click photograph to enlarge

A moon of Saturn, the Meteor-hammered Mimas, has been photographed by the Cassini spacecraft, now in the vicinity of Saturn. The heavily pockmarked moon is seen in front of Saturn's rings (the scale of the photo is roughly three miles per pixel).

Mimas is mainly ice. The 80 mile wide crater you see is called Herschel and covers nearly one-third the moon's diameter (yeah, it doesn't look like one-third to me either. But what am I going to do?, have someone else measure it?).

Herschel is six miles deep, with a central mountain rising three and a half miles above the crater floor (presumably the nipple-like protrusion, dead center, in the crater). Fracture marks from the impact can be seen on the opposite side of Mimas.

This image, from the Cassini narrow-angle camera, was taken on Oct. 13, 2005, about 442,000 miles from Mimas.

The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The Cassini imaging team is based at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colo.
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