Austin MUFON » Aliens http://www.austinmufon.org/blog Travis & Williamson Counties Tue, 30 Nov 2010 19:27:16 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Review: C.B. Scott Jones Austin Lecture http://www.austinmufon.org/blog/2008/12/31/review-cb-scott-jones-austin-lecture/ http://www.austinmufon.org/blog/2008/12/31/review-cb-scott-jones-austin-lecture/#comments Wed, 31 Dec 2008 21:12:44 +0000 admin http://www.austinmufon.org/blog/?p=95 Review: C.B. Scott Jones Austin Lecture

by SMiles Lewis

In November the Austin community was treated to an intimate lecture by the enigmatic paranormal, ufo, mind/science personage, C. B. “Scott” Jones. Scott Jones led the audience through a non-linear journey encompassing several of the anomalous highlights of his life.
This lifetime of mysterious experiences included a possible multiple child alien-abduction-like encounter with a cartoon Felix the Cat come-to-life off a film projector screen and an early age brush with death as a baby that was later revealed to Scott by two independent psychics to have been his earliest possible contact with Alien Others. This early age contact was seemingly confirmed when Scott Jones underwent regressive hypnosis sessions with UFO researchers Dr. Leo Sprinkle and Dr. Richard Haines which led to “memories” of  being healed by an Alien Other and an Out of Body Experience, recall of which ends with him as a baby, floating out in space above the earth and about to enter a UFO.
Scott continued recounting his extraordinary life-experiences, including his work investigating the paranormal for Senator Claiborne Pell and seeking UFO disclosure for Laurence Rockefeller. He detailed his psychic intuitive hunt for missile sites during his service as Attaché in India. He spoke of his work tasking psychic Remote Viewers for military, intelligence and political clients in Washington and even gave details of his strange encounter with the FBI in which his friend Michael Drosnin (author of The Bible Code) was seemingly targeted with what they both believe to be some sort of electronic mind-control device which temporarily incapacitated Mr. Drosnin. It was likely this encounter and their other research that led to this alleged statement addressing Dr. John Gibbons (science advisor of President Bill Clinton) regarding the Rockefeller UFO Initiative:

“…I urge you to take another look in the ‘UFO Matrix of Belief’ that I provided you last year. My mention of mind-control technology at the February 4 meeting was quite deliberate. Please be careful about this. There are reasons to believe that some government group has interwoven research about this technology with alleged UFO phenomena. If that is correct, you can expect to run into early resistance when inquiring about UFOs, not because of the UFO subject, but because that has been used to cloak research and applications of mind-control activity.”

- Dr. C.B. Scott Jones

After the official lecture Scott and many audience members migrated to the BookPeople store a few blocks away and continued the discussions about UFOs and much much more.
We look forward to hearing more from C. B. Scott Jones in the coming years.
]]> http://www.austinmufon.org/blog/2008/12/31/review-cb-scott-jones-austin-lecture/feed/ 0 Hello world! http://www.austinmufon.org/blog/2008/12/10/hello-world/ http://www.austinmufon.org/blog/2008/12/10/hello-world/#comments Thu, 11 Dec 2008 03:07:08 +0000 admin http://www.austinmufon.org/blog/?p=1 Howdy Folks,

The website of the Austin Mufon group has been switching servers and things should be up and operational shortly.

Thank you for your patience.

- SMiles Lewis

Host and Webmaster via The Elfis Network

Past MUFON State Section Director for Austin, Texas

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“UFOS have been popping up en masse over Texas and Brazil recently, grounding planes in Chicago, menacing Indiana Jones and the Energizer Bunny, and planting themselves firmly in the minds of the American public.

The spaceships arrived in San Jose this past weekend, as the floating annual symposium of the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) was held this year at the Doubletree Inn. Co-organized by local businessman Les Valez (founder of the Organization for Paranormal Understanding and Support) MUFON ‘08 attracted nearly 600 registrants with presentations like “Britain’s X-Files,” “Resolving Current Reporting Bias of Pilots” and “Chilean Army Investigates UFOs.”

Alejandro Rojas, MUFON’s press agent, quoted from the ad campaign for the new X-Files movie, responding to the common perception that UFO researchers have hyperactive imaginations.

“We don’t want to believe,” he said. “The evidence led us to believe.””

News & Culture | UFO | Hole in the cloud over OHare Airport in Chicago

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UFOlogy 101 with Mike DeGroff and SMiles Lewis

Tuesday, November 27th – Austin History Center

Explore the fascinating world of UFOs, Close Encounters and Strange Entities through a dazzling array of historic imagery; from ancient cave art, to classical paintings on to the modern era of digital photography and fakery. How do scientific groups like Austin’s Mutual UFO Network and Anomaly Archives investigate these mysterious encounter events? Come join the exploration and discussion of these fascinating topics being presented by Austin MUFON and the Anomaly Archives lending library. This IONS-SAI lecture will be at 6:30 PM at the Austin History Center, 9th and Guadalupe, Austin, Texas. Admission is free.

Mike DeGroff is the current State Section Director for the Travis and Williamson County Chapters of MUFON.

SMiles Lewis is a past leader of Austin MUFON and the Austin UFO Experiencer Support and Study Group and founder of the Scientific Anomaly Institute’s lending library, the Anomaly Archives.

www.AustinMufon.org / www.AnomalyArchives.org

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We missed you at this month’s MUFON meeting (this past Saturday, February 23rd). We had one new person show up – giving up the good weather for a chance to meet and talk with people about UFOs. We thank our new friend for his interest and openness. That’s alright, it gave me a chance to leave early and get a bunch of stuff accomplished.
For those of you who haven’t heard… I’m editor of a new local newspaper: Austin-Para-Times: Not Your Normal News. Look for it at your favorite coffee house or newstand FREE starting this Friday. Also, keep an eye out for our new website (not up yet) www.AustinParaTimes.com

More soon!

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2.24.01 Greetings from Stephen Miles Lewis, MUFON State Section Director for
Travis & Williamson Counties. This past Saturday (2/24/01) we had our second
public meeting of 2001. Much was discussed and a lot of information was
transferred. We had about 12 attendees and I thank each of you who came for
attending.

Among the many things discussed…

-Our next public MUFON meeting is April 28th at the Austin History Center
Reception Room from 1-4pm

-Four Triangular UFOs were spotted in Tyler Texas on Sunday, February 11th.
For a brief article about this sighting see the UFO RoundUp archives for
Volume 6, Number 8 available here:
http://www.ufoinfo.com/roundup/v06/rnd06_08.shtml

-Speaking of “triangular” craft with “rounded edges” see the Lockheed/NASA
vehicle site:
http://www.venturestar.com/

-The “Dr. Reed Hoax” and the alien/monolith photos:
http://www.artbell.com/aliens4.html

-The IBM / Air Force Supercomputer to Identify UFOs
You might remember back in November the news report about the Air Force
supercomputer to identify ufos.
http://www.ufomind.com/ufo/updates/2000/nov/m23-006.shtml

Apparently there is an Austin, Texas connection.
Powerful Technology Keeping a Lookout in Space
http://www.kvue.com/click/293057_click_here.html
Watch the story in Real Video
http://www.kvue.com/realvideoclips/click.rm
02/21/2001  KVUE News Staff

-Articles from Crone Chronicles Winter Solstice 2000-2001 issue
http://www.cronechronicles.com/current.htm
Former Texan Lisa Berg describes her experiencing of alien
influences…

“I Want to See the Invisible,” an interview with artist and psychic Lisa
Elizabeth Berg, a 4th-generation “Contactee.”

And another article titled ‘”DNA Activation,” or Mind Control?’ by Kay
Barnsdahl which also features a blurb on “Psychotronic Weapons” from such
writers as Col. John Alexander and “Electronic Mind Control: Brain Zapping,”
by Jason Jeffrey
http://www.newdawnmagazine.com/Articles/Brain%20Zapping1.html
http://www.newdawnmagazine.com/Articles/Brain%20Zapping2.html

-Upcoming INACS event at the Austin History Center Reception Room, March
24th, from 1-4pm featuring electromagnetics expert Jim Beal
www.emfinterface.com and Miles Lewis discussing the issues raised
in a video to be shown called “Haunted House, Haunted Mind.” INACS is the
Austin based non-profit; the Institute for Neuroscience And Consciousness
Studies.

-INACS is also sponsoring a lecture and workshop by consciousness researcher
Stanley Krippner at the UT Thompson Center, April 20th & 21st. For details
see the url below…
http://www.inacs.org/krippner.htm

-Derrel Sims will be featured by The Eclectic Viewpoint in Dallas on March
30!
http://www.cheyennes-dream.com/Mar01Sims.html

See you at the next meeting.

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The First Meeting

Founded in the Summer of ’92, our first meeting was on August 2nd. Earlier that year the groups founder, Jean Staffen, had decided to investigate her own UFO sightings and close encounters by contacting Austin MUFON (local chapter for the Mutual UFO Network). Jean found that others were having similar encounters and had no forum within which to explore each others experiences. Jean created the Austin Abductee Support Group and was inundated with correspondences from around the State. About 60 people showed up at the first meeting. Many were simply curiosity seekers and news reporters. Most people were simply interested in UFOs while others had friends who thought they had seen UFOs. Some found the supportive environment for which they were looking to both tell of their own experiences and perhaps find answers to the many riddles of UFO phenomenon. Unfortunately, many of the first attendees who had experience with UFO encounters were frightened away by the sheer numbers of curiosity seekers. Once the initial pandamoneous media attention subsided the groups size settled around a core group of 10 to 20 attendees per meeting.

From Abductee to Experiencer

During the course of past monthly meetings members came to realize that many of them shared not only UFO sightings and encounters but also various other seemingly related experiences of a psychic, paranormal, near-death, and/or spiritual nature. Shortly thereafter it was decided by the meeting’s members and founder to change the name from Austin Abductee Support Group to the Austin UFO Experiencer Support Group. About the same time within the UFO research community debates were raging on the terminology of Abductee versus Experiencer. In some circles the terms Encontrant and Percipient were also common. Sensing that UFO Close Encounters and these other experiential phenomena might be related the group opted for the more general title of Experiencer.

A Change in Leadership

The Austin UFO Experiencer Support Group thrived for a few years under the leadership of Jean Staffen until she felt compelled to move out West to Arizona. While there she learned much within the Constitutional rights and UFO research communities. Before she left we discussed with the other group members her suggestion that I (Stephen MILES Lewis) be handed the reigns as organizer and moderator of the meetings. After a unanimous decision I began coordinating the groups, by then, twice monthly meetings.

From Support Group to Forum & Study Group

Not too long thereafter I considered changing the name of the group once again. This time from the Experiencer Support Group to Forum and Study Group. My reasoning hinged upon the actuality of what the group meetings had become:
a supportive networking point within which experiencers and interested individuals could connect with people and information that furthers their understanding and integration of these strange encounters.

We were also keenly aware that despite the supportive non-judgmental environment we created, some people will always be reluctant to tell there stories in front of strangers and/or non-experiencers. Also, at this time there was concern among researchers that a dangerous guru style atmosphere was developing within some support groups. On these grounds the research which centers around such support groups has been both rightly and wrongly criticized. Another unanimous decision by members changed our name to the Austin UFO Forum & Study Group.

After the second name change attendance fluctuated up and down, eventually leveling off at 5-10 people per monthly meeting. This was during the beginning of the recent exponential upswing of UFO media attention and marketing ploys. Some local attention did come about but only due to the Heaven’s Gate debacle, Arizona flap and Roswell mania. The result? No marked influx of attendees and the continued negligence of uninsightful news reporting.

What we learned most during these strange days of the Austin UFO Forum & Study Group is that you can not please all the people all the time. Many compliments and criticisms were leveled at our group over the years. For some the group was perfect. For one attendee it lacked structure and he preferred the Austin MUFON meetings. To yet another the same Austin MUFON meetings were painfully unstructured and he could only occasionally stand the level of dialogue within our meetings. For some their enjoyment of the meetings was entirely dependent upon the pressence or absence of specific past attendees. Past attendees who tended to over-enthusiastically exclaim their support for one idea or another, dominate the dialogue, randomly switch topics, rant about the same things, over and over and over and over and . . . .

As a public forum for experiences of strange phenomena we must give attendees a platform to express and explore those anomalous encounters in a non-judgmental environment. However, often this is the ONLY forum attendees have. Such persons in an effort to express their ideas, fears, etc. can come to dominate the forum and it is necessary for the moderator to successfully re-orient such out-of-balance communications scenarios.

Our Founder Returns

1998 marks the return to Austin of our groups founder: Jean Staffen. Having recently moved back to Texas, Jean attended a meeting earlier this year and offered to move back to Austin to become leader / moderator of our group once more. Since that meeting she has returned and rightfully reclaimed her place as facilitator of the Austin UFO Forum & Study Group.

Towards the Future

Much needs to be done to improve the current status of UFOlogy. Perhaps it isn’t even ufology that close encounter witnesses need to best live with there strange experiences. These Encounters with the Fantastic are an opportunity for transformation. Like any significant life event, they can positively or negatively influence a single person, a family, an entire community. By dialoging on such sacred and profane encounters we can collectively explore the positive potentials latent within all numinous and luminous intimations of our invisible Others.

]]> http://www.austinmufon.org/blog/1998/05/10/history-of-the-austin-abductee-support-group/feed/ 0 July 1994 Annual International MUFON Symposium in Austin, Texas http://www.austinmufon.org/blog/1994/07/01/july-1994-annual-international-mufon-symposium-in-austin-texas/ http://www.austinmufon.org/blog/1994/07/01/july-1994-annual-international-mufon-symposium-in-austin-texas/#comments Fri, 01 Jul 1994 20:22:48 +0000 admin http://www.austinmufon.org/blog/?p=69 July 1994 Annual International MUFON Symposium in Austin, Texas

Ellen Stuart and Walt Andrus

Author & Abduction Researcher Dr. Karla Turner & Excluded Middle Magazine Editor Greg Bishop.

LEFT: Linda Cortile of Budd Hopkins’ book WITNESSED.

RIGHT: Tuning In to Cable Channel 10?

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Austin Mufon 9/26/92 min-conf with Ed Conroy

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Central Texas UFO mini-Conference on September 26, 1992 Ed Conroy is a San Antonio based journalist who generally writes about Art, Culture and Literature. He also investigated the claims of fellow local Whitley Strieber, regarding his paranormal and ufo related experiences and published the book, REPORT ON COMMUNION. Mr. Conroy helps unravel the enigma of Strieber’s strange and mysterious experiences with alien others. Conroy educates his audience into a truly Post Modern understanding of Whitley’s magickal and mystical mind kontrol experiences. Abduction experiencer and researcher Dr. Karla Turner was also a presenter at this event. Crop circle researcher George Wingfield also spoke. The audio and video quality are terrible. It can be difficult to hear what the speaker is saying. Also, the hotel had booked a live-action murder mystery theatre event right next door and the screams and noise came right through the auditorium’s thin metal accordion-style dividing partition (aka “wall”). This is part 1 of 5 parts.

– SMiles Lewis

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Part One

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Part Two

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Part Five


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