Entering the Orb: The Big Bird

(This isn’t Mothman related, but it does have a slight mothy vibe, sort of, in terms of a large bird or shadow of a bird in connection with UFOs, missing time and screen memories.)

At my blog The Orange Orb, I’ve been posting entries concerning a new project I’m (and my husband, Jim) are working on. A sort of journal/book — or will be, when all is done — about our missing time experiences. And screen memories. You can read what I have up so far here and here.

I read the two entries to Jim earlier this evening. We were discussing the entries, which led to memories from childhood as well as our memories concerning missing time. He doesn’t remember the orange orb sighting the same way I do; he doesn’t remember seeing, at another time, a sliver sphere shaped craft during late day, early evening… but then he said, just out of nowhere:

“I seem to remember a big bird, not something silver. We were into bird watching at that time. [true] Just you pointing out a big bird through the trees, and I wasn’t seeing it, just a shadow …”
Me; “A big one…” [I don't know why I said that; what made me say anything at all about size or a bird shadow; I have no memory of this.]
Jim “A good sized bird, like a hawk. I don’t want to put too much on it because it might be a projection.”
Me “But something made you say that in connection with this.”
Jim: “Now it sort of haunts me that… I’m very interested, what with everything that’s gone on in our lives…”

That’s it, and it isn’t much, and who knows if it means anything or not. I just found it very interesting Jim was so specific about a “big bird” and “a shadow…a good sized bird” out of the blue like that.

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New TR: Gray Barker; Chasing the Flying Saucers

My new Trickster’s Realm column is up at Binnall of America. It’s about a neat vintage find of an old issue, column by Gray Barker, and some weird goings on in West Virginia “pre Mothman.” Gray Barker’s Chasing the Flying Saucers: A Pre-Mothman UFO Encounter

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Debunking Slant: Mothman, An Expose

Not sure what the point is, and the references cited are interesting (Joe Nickell, etc.) but some nice images: Mothman, An Expose

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Mike Clelland Interviews Nick Redfern on MIB

Mike Clelland of hidden experience blog has a new interview with Nick Redfern, discussing Nick’s recent book The Real Men in Black. Mothman and Keel are discussed, as well as other aspects of the MIB. Always a fascinating phenomena to explore.

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Eyes of the Mothman Podcast on BoA

Tim Binnall of Binnall of America will bring us guests Matthew Pellowski & Anastasia Konstantinou: Eyes of the Mothman, next week. Check out Binnall of America for info on dates and times. Tim brings us great interviews every week, as well as columns from many contributers, including, ahem, myself. (Trickster’s Realm.) There’s also a forum you can join to discuss Mothy goodness and other esoterica.

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Nick Redfern: Creatures of the Crop

Nick Redfern has a new article at Lair of the Beasts about the animals found in crop circles. Redfern comments on crop circle maker Matthew Williams who relates an unusual story of a witness:

Matthew advised me that the story in question concerned a man who had felt curiously compelled to drive late at night to a certain field in Wiltshire many years ago. On doing so, he parked his car and duly, and carefully, began his walk into the depths of the crop. Suddenly, out of nowhere, a large, black, human-like figure appeared in the air over the field.

Right away I thought how much of a mothy vibe this had and of course, Redfern comments on that as well. The fact that this witness “felt curiously compelled to drive late at night to a certain field…” also reminded me of some of those contactees who reported that they felt an urging from elsewhere to drive or go to a specific spot where either sightings of a UFO or telepathic contact with space entities would take place.

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Mothman of Hertfordshire

On author Neil Arnold’s A-Z Zooform Phenomena site: Mothman of Hertfordshire. Eerie mothy story from a century ago. . .

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Alaskan Mothman?

Interesting account of a Mothman type sighting in Tununak, Alaska on Phantoms and Monsters. This story has a Mothman is the devil angle. One witness tells of seeing, as a child, a man-like creature on top of his roof who had red glowing eyes and jumped high into the sky:

Wednesday, April 27, 2011
The Alaska Mothman: Dark Harbinger
On Monday (4/25) I posted an encounter with a Mothman-like humanoid in southwest Alaska. The witness stated that this was his first incident with the being and that descriptions of subsequent encounters would be forthcoming. To begin, I have again posted the first incident:

My first encounter with this thing most people call the Mothman was when I was nine years old and I remember it clearly like it was yesterday. I was walking back from my uncle’s place. I was walking on the sidewalk and I saw this man standing on top of my fathers house close to the edge facing west. He was all black he looked like a man. He stood about 7 or 8 feet tall. I shouted out at him but he acted like he didn’t hear me. I said “hey you…who are you?” I kept trying to get his attention…it was like I wasn’t there. But when I said “hey you’re standing on my house…who are you?” he looked at me for a few seconds.

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From 1980: Letterman Interviews John Keel

Thanks to the John Keel: Not an Authority on Anything blog, this link to a clip from 1980, of David Letterman interviewing John Keel. One neat and surprising thing; Letterman says he thinks most people have seen UFOs, and probably think something’s going on, then he asks the audience to applaud if they’ve seen a UFO, and if they think we’re being visited. Letterman also comments that he accepts there probably is a Sasquatch type creature.

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On Cryptomundo: ‘Mothman’s TNT Site Remains Mysterious’

Loren Coleman has a post, with pics and video clip, on the TNT area in Pt. Pleasant.

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