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The UFO Congress was held February 21st through February 27th in Laughlin, Nevada.  It has  been very successful in the UFO community for nineteen years.   It’s not just because of the talented speakers that they always seem to acquire, but also because of that certain type of individual who has also sacrificed their personal time and money to join in on all of  the excitement.

I talked with people from the East Coast, West Coast, Middle Coast, and beyond.  People from the UK, Australia, Japan and even from Missouri.  Yep, from Missouri, go figure. (I used to live in Missouri)  The one thing I noticed the most about the large genre of humans I conversed with was how interested they were and excited to learn about the latest non-human aspect of this business.  And business it was.  Not from the selling point of how to make a buck, but from the selling point of knowledge and how to get it out.  Oh, sure people were trying to cover their expenses, but they were also covering something much more important, once again, “knowledge”.   This is something much more valuable than the mighty dollar.  It never depreciates and always appreciates.  Numerous times I saw speakers like Stan Romanek, Rich Dolan, Dr. Roger Leir, Paola Harris, Travis Walton (just to name a few) who took the time to” chat the chat” rather than “sell the book”.  It was about teaching, nurturing and sharing experiences. It was about discussing, explaining, and understanding thoughts and visions.  Good lectures always derive from good people, and these are the “good-est”.  It takes a certain individual to sacrifice their time, and their personal life, to share their knowledge to the world. This is humanity at its best and the results I always experience at every great lecture series like this, always exceed expectations.  Sometimes the audience comes there to confirm a feeling or thought, but most of the time they come there just to learn.  And that’s the most powerful tool we can utilize in this crazy environment we call UFOLOGY, learning.

As a speaker at this year’s conference, I too have my idols in which I enjoyed rubbing elbows with.  People I look up to, who help motivate me to try a little harder or go the extra mile.  These are real people, the real investigators, not the posers you seen on TV.  The so-called UFO investigators portraying themselves as experts in the field when actually they are nothing more than a simple actor or some producer’s friend or family member.  Or, maybe they probably read a book or two and sorta did an investigation somewhere, sometime, but they never made the sacrifice the people I saw lecture this past week have made.  And what I saw there this past week was indeed “the real deal”.   As a speaker I’m always asked, “How did you get involved with all this?”  And my reply?  I was just like you and still am.  I used to be in the audience, and am still there.  I used to buy the books, and I still buy.  I used to dream about doing investigations and still dream.  It’s not who you say you are, it’s who you really are.  And you know something?  The visitors at this conference do know the difference and that’s why they made the trek looking forward to brushing their elbows with their idols, just as I did.  It doesn’t matter if you agree or disagree with what the lecture is all about, and it doesn’t matter if you can relate or think you can relate to what they’re talking about.  What matters is you’re there sharing and learning.  Regardless of what some researchers say, there is only one way disclosure will ever succeed, and that’s with people like you who visit the conferences and websites like this one.

So, just to fill you in on what you missed, here are the names of the real investigators who spoke last week.  If you get a chance, try to visit the conference next year.  Maybe you’ll be the one to help get the word out.

Neil Freer: Sapiens Rising to Cosmic Citizenship

Jim Nichols: President Eisenhower’s Contact with Extraterrestrials

Gary Heseltine: The History of British Police UFO Sightings

Ross Hemsworth: Separating Conspiracy Theory from Conspiracy Fact

Ann Eller: Prophecy from the Stars

Fred Burks: Mind Control and UFO’s

Judy Goodman: The Unseen Realm, A Three Dimensional Journey

Daniel Sheehan: Questions Raised by Human Contact with Extraterrestrials

Wendelle Stevens: The Gorbachev Contacts

John Ventre: 2012 End Times Prophecy

Marc D’Antonio: Photo and Video Anomalies

Paul McCarthy: Extraterrestrial Connections

Dolores Cannon: Convoluted Universe

Donald Ware, Lt. Col: Sharing Earth, Various Intelligent Species

Mary Joyce & Evelyn Gordon: Sky Ships and Cosmic Spirituality

Dr. C.V. Tramont: From Birth to Rebirth

Mary Rodwell: Australian Close Encounter Resource Network

Melinda Leslie & Niara Isley: The Reality of Government Sponsored Covert-Ops

Stan Romanek: Messages, The Stan Romanek Story

Travis Walton: Fire in the Sky 34 Years Later

Douglas Taylor: inside Starship, A Visionary Journey to Life on Other Planets

Barbara Lamb: Crop Circles, Evidence and Communication

Richard Dolan: Looking Back, Looking Ahead, A New Understanding of Exopolitics

Michael Horn: Apophis & The Final Meier Prophecies

Paola Harris: I See You Changing, Trends in Exopolotics

Jamie Maussan & Santiago Garza: Continuing Wave of UFO Sightings from Mexico

David Sereda: Reverse Engineered UFO Technology

Chuck Zukowski: Roswell, The Mystery Continues

What can I say about this movie? Not much. As for action packed with over and over and over again cliff hangers, it definitely keeps you on the edge of your seat. As for repeated situations our concerned key players get themselves into, it’s not diculous, but ridiculous. As you root for your favorite characters while they consistently maneuver around Mother Nature’s disastrous obstacles; You tend to forget about the little things in life, like the hundreds of thousands of people in the background going through unmentionable agonizing deaths. Oh the humanity of it all, someone’s grandparents, parents or children getting ripped apart through explosions, or falling great distances to their deaths, or being swallowed up by exaggerated fiery explosions or ultimately suffocating to death while drowning. But you don’t seem to mind, hey, you’re cheering for a dysfunctional family not only trying to save their own lives but trying to save their dysfunctional relationships too! Give me a break. How shallow the movie industry has become writing crap like this, and unfortunately yes, how shallow I’ve become spending money to watch it. And can you believe what they’re charging for large soft drinks now? geeesh. Sure you can sneak in candy and avoid a $4.00 a box charge, but try sneaking in a large soft drink. They can spot that super-sized bulge in your pants a mile away. But let’s forget that ugly picture for a moment and focus on the movie’s premise, “The world comes to an end in 2012.” First let’s look at the movie’s semi-realistic plot then we’ll jump into some information about the Mayan culture and why some think this could actually happen.

The Plot:

In 2009 the sun emits a massive solar flare which causes the Earth’s liquid core temperature to start increasing rapidly. This rapid increase of temperature is due to “Neutrinos” caused by a coronal mass ejection traveling from the Sun through the solar wind. Neutrinos are elementary particles that travel at the speed of light and are electrically neutral. These neutral particles can pass through ordinary matter undisturbed and are difficult to detect. Thus the ordinary citizens of the planet Earth wouldn’t know the event ever happened. Now the Earth has an outer silicate solid crust, a mantle, a liquid outer core and a solid inner core. The Neutrinos react with the liquid outer core which causes the Earths tectonic plates to shift. This shifting was first realized by Alfred Lothar Wegener’s theory proposed in 1915. He hypothesized that the continents were slowly drifting around the Earth over time, but was unable to show a model to demonstrate his theory. Later in the 1950s numerous discoveries inked his theory thus creating evidence of continental drift. So now after the solar flare takes place, a period of three years is needed for the liquid core to be altered and cause a massive continental drift. This three year time period peaks “you guessed it” on Dec 21^st 2012. This is also the date the Mayan’s next Long Count Calendar begins.

Disclaimer: I don’t claim to be a specialist on Mayan theology let alone an expert on the 2012 scenario, so if I’m way off base with this please help out in the comments section. If I’m slightly off base also comment, and if I’m close enough, then roll with the flow.

According to information off of various Internet sites and books, we are currently living in the fourth Mayan world. The previous world ended on a Mayan long count calendar date of 12.19.19.17.19. Another 12.19.19.17.19 will occur on December 20, 2012, followed by the start of the next date, 13.0.0.0.0, on December 21, 2012.

From what I’ve read, the Mayan calendar is actually a multitude of other calendars used together. Two common calendars which were used were the Tzolk’in consisting of 260 days and the Haab which has 365 days. The use of both these calendars created a 52 year cycle and is referred as “The Calendar Round.” Another calendar used to follow longer periods of time is called, “The Long Count”. This particular calendar was used to track dates relative to each other on somewhat of a linear scale. This calendar also uses a type of numeric decimal system to record future dates. One example for the Mayan date for December 21^st 2012 is [13.0.0.0.0.] The long count calendar cycle was also referred to as the “Great Cycle” and lasts for 5,125.36 years. Researchers in the field of Mayan time analysis say based on our current Gregorian calendar system, the starting date for the current long count cycle was August 11^th, 3,114 B.C. Thus the difference between the Great Cycle date and the starting date for the next long count puts us within the December 21^st 2012 date.

Did the Mayans also predict the Galactic Equinox where the sun aligns with the center of our galaxy? And does this date also fall on that dreaded 2012 date?

Well some say the Mayans were able to calculate the exact duration of a year to a thousandth of a decimal point, and much better than the Greeks did. Researchers also say the Mayans were able to predict every solar and lunar eclipse up until modern times. Depending on which Mayan researcher you read about, they say the Mayans were able to predict the exact date in which there will be a very close conjunction of the Winter Solstice Sun with the crossing point of the Galactic Equator (Equator of the Milky Way) and the ecliptic. (Path of our Sun). This event the Mayans referred to as the Sacred Tree and will occur on December 21st, 2012 A.D. or 13.0.0.0.0 the beginning of their next Long Count calendar.

There is also concern an alignment of inner planets within our solar system will also fall within that time frame. Well, referring to a Sky and Telescope Sky Chart, these are the planet alignments I found for December 20^th and 21^st 2012.

Dec 20^th 2012 7:00am: Saturn, Venus, and Mercury in our South East horizon.

Dec 20^th 2012 5:00pm: Mars, Moon, and Jupiter in our North East horizon.

Dec 21^st 2012 7:00am: Mercury, Venus, and Saturn in our South East horizon.

Dec. 21^st 2012 5:00pm: Mars, Moon, and Jupiter in our North East horizon.

All these alignments were referenced as seen from Colorado on those respective dates.

There is also concern about what our Sun will do if there is a Galactic Equinox along with inner planet alignments. Remember it was a solar flare which caused the demise of our planet in the movie.

Well some researchers say the end of the Great Cycle is also the culmination of a series of long-term sunspot cycles which will flip our planet’s magnetic field causing earthquakes and flooding. One large coronal mass ejection could flip an already weak magnetic field we are currently experiencing causing our magnetic poles to shift. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration – US Department of Commerce, predicts our current 11 year cycle of solar storms will peak in late 2011 or mid 2012.

Segment from the NOAA website:

During an active solar period, violent eruptions occur more often on the Sun. Solar flares and vast explosions, known as coronal mass ejections, shoot energetic photons and highly charged matter toward Earth, jolting the planet’s ionosphere and geomagnetic field, potentially affecting power grids, critical military and airline communications, satellites, Global Positioning System signals, and even threatening astronauts with harmful radiation. These same storms illuminate night skies with brilliant sheets of red and green known as auroras, or the northern or southern lights.

Solar cycle intensity is measured in maximum number of sunspots – dark blotches on the Sun that mark areas of heightened magnetic activity. The more sunspots there are, the more likely it is that major solar storms will occur.

So based on what we know about Mayan predictions, about the Galactic Equinox, about inner planet alignment and solar activity, was the movie 2012 Movie Fact, or Movie Fiction? Well all I can say is, “Run for Africa! Do it now!” Just kidding… ( but ) Magnetic Pole shifting was theorized by Charles Hapgood in his book, “The Earth’s Shifting Crust (1958)”. Albert Einstein actually wrote the forward for that book. Hapgood speculated the forces that caused shifts in the crust must be located below the surface possible within the liquid core. Hapgood also argued that each shift took roughly 5000 years, followed by 20,000 to 30,000 year periods with no polar movement. Also the area of movement never covered more than 40 degrees. Some speculate that the next shift falls on December 21^st 2012.

So once again, was the movie 2012 Movie Fact, or Movie Fiction? I guess it all depends on who you talk with. I would like to think I’ll be celebrating Christmas at home on 2012 worrying more about my Christmas lights working (which are way-cool) than worrying about the end of our planet. We should actually be more concerned about small asteroids traveling between our planet and our moon which happen quite frequently. At least two this year as far as I know. But the 2012 scenario will still be debated from now till December 2012, and if you’re like me, you’ll just sit back listen to all the arguments, read all the data, then still plan on celebrating a 2012 holiday season. How about some Egg Nog with Rum?

On October 15th when I first heard about a weather balloon becoming un-tethered and flying around the state of Colorado, I thought hmm, we’re going to get allot of  UFO sightings with this one.  When I heard a 6 year old boy might be inside the balloon, I thought, “ Holy Shi@#$%&”.  I along with others watching this on TV and monitoring the news on the Internet needed to see how it would all play out.

UFO investigators watch events like this one very closely and learn from them.  Doing so can help us with future dramatic investigations in learning how the media and the public deals with them.  I’m sorry to say that after I started reading the initial reports to get my self up-to-speed with the media, I quickly started thinking hoax.  Somehow deep down, I knew the little boy would not be in the balloon and still be at home.  Call it an investigative gut feeling, or just being cautious and not throwing the horse before the cart.  I know the media is good at exploiting any situation to extreme conditions to satisfy their own publicity needs.   They are no longer reporting the news to inform the public, but have become the very intrusive Paparazzi clones that instead of stalking celebrities, stalk the news.  And stalk they do, capturing every channel, interrupting favorite TV shows just to push information to the viewer they believe is relevant to what the viewer needs.  They’ve become so flaccid as so called news investigators, that they themselves miss the very red flags, which once again defines a comfort zone between common sense and intelligent common sense.  How sad they’ve become, and I have to laugh now when they’re only excuse is, “Oh even the mighty TV reporter can get ‘shammed’ from time to time, then they proceed to give us previous examples when this happened.  They refuse to admit that their investigative skills have gone the way of the Dodo and Woolie.  Maybe they should start taking lessons from UFO Investigators who handle the unusual stories regularly and think before they speak.

While reading initial reports my Spider senses started kicking in, I mean my UFO investigative skills I immediately started thinking hoax.  Not a day or 2 days later, but at the get go.  Something didn’t smell right with this story and too many red flags started showing up.  This event was turning into a (grade A) number one hoax, something seasoned UFO investigators have a tendency to spot from time to time.

Disclaimer:  Even though I originally thought this event was a hoax and still do, the Colorado judicial system will ultimately make that decision and we should consider the Heene family innocent until proven guilty.

Ok back to the hoax.. (he he)

Immediately, I started questioning some of the media facts. (ie: Media facts are not necessarily the real facts, but what they consider factual news and report on.)  The media has been known to “bend” the truth for ratings.  Ya think?  And, they are just as responsible for the “proposed” hoax as the individuals who initiated it.  Ratings, it’s all about ratings and mindless TV sponges suck it all up and bow to the demi-Gods of media expertise who shove it down their faces.  Yeah, I have issues with these guys, and yes I’ve dealt directly with them in the past so I do have the right to voice my opinion.

Well the first Original Red Flag for me was: Why was the Mylar weather balloon filled with helium?  Helium is a natural gas which is drilled for.  I believe Texas and Oklahoma have natural gas wells that contain around 5% more helium, and is extracted there.  Helium is actually rare!  The gas field has to be enclosed in radioactive rock for helium to be produced.  It takes millions of years for the radioactive rock to slowly decay to create this gas.  So, why was the balloon partially filled with helium?  This balloon was getting ready for flight!  If someone was going to check for leaks in an experimental balloon, then you would use just air, it’s a lot cheaper.

Second Original Red Flag: How was the balloon released?  Authorities claim the silver balloon was 20 feet long and 5 feet high. This sucker was big?  Only a complete idiot would partially fill a balloon of this size with helium, and then use only mediocre constraints to secure it.  This didn’t just escape, it was released.  Well, later reports confirmed my original assumption.  It was purposely released as seen by later video.

Third Original Red Flag: An older brother saw his younger sibling go inside the base of a helium filled balloon, to play? Where the Hell were their parents?  Geeesh!  Can you say, “Child Services?”

Fourth Red Flag: Could this type of balloon carry a pay-load weight of an average size boy of his age?  A Colorado State University physics professor, using dimensions given by Richard Heene, had told sheriff’s officials as they were tracking the balloon Thursday that it was plausible for it to lift off with 37-pound (17-kilogram) Falcon inside.  So, the fourth red flag was answered by a creditable authority.  But what about the other three?

Let’s look at the original report:

The father had told reporters the family was in the early stages of working on a “3D low-altitude vehicle” (aka balloon) when the contraption and the boy went missing.  His brother had said he watched Falcon get into the balloon before (the father) had un-tied the tethers, setting it free.  Heene later said Falcon was videotaped getting into the vessel by his brother, but “obviously he got out.” Once it was untethered, the saucer-like craft flew eastward from the Heenes’ neighborhood and across Colorado’s countryside.

Now a week later we have a better idea how this event went down and of course now the media is screaming “Hoax!” Well maybe if they thought more like a UFO investigator they wouldn’t have egg on their face. With every UFO investigation assigned to me or one I go after, I always start as a skeptic first.  Yep, you have to look for all the red flags then proceed with caution.  This story is a great example of jumping into an investigation too quickly and not being careful then leaning towards “stupid”.  Yep, we can all learn something valuable from this story when it comes to investigations.

First, look at the source of information.  If your witness has a history of suspicious behavior, then suspect him, or her and perform the appropriate tasks to cover all the bases, and this does include chasing a balloon which may have the slightest chance a child is on board.

Second, what happened to completing an on-site initial investigation?  In the case of the missing boy, a proper canine unit would have found him pretty quickly.

Third, suspect and expect the unexpected.  Challenge everything!  Look for anything unusual, watch for red flags and go after them.

Fourth, keep an eye on what’s going on around you and watch your eyewitness’s actions and reactions.  If the media is present, watch what they’re doing which may make your investigation more difficult to pursue.

Fifth, try to run your own initial investigation and don’t let your initial opinion or thoughts be curved by outside sources.  Go with your gut feeling even though it may be completely different from the majority rule.  Use your previous experience through investigations to help you decide what your next plan of action is.

Sixth, compare notes with other investigators after your initial thought process. This will help you excel in the direction you want to go.  You may or may not agree with the other opinions, but give yourself the opportunity to make that decision.

So after reading this blog please leave a comment, because my blog and your comments will help me and other investigators excel in this crazy business.  What are your thoughts about the “Balloon Boy Incident”?

 
The UFO WatchTower resides in Hooper, Colorado over looking one of Colorado’s many visitor sites, “The Greate Sand Dunes”. 

 
Judy Messoline controls the tower with grace, witt and a great sense of sincerity. In June of 1995 her and her companion, Stan Becker moved to the San Luis Valley to become cattle ranchers. They had a small herd of Scotch Highlands in Golden Colorado. With Golden becomming more golden to city dwellers, they hoofed it to the San Luis Valley. 

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