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Flashback: Abduction Researcher Karla Turner

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Austin Mufon 9/26/92 with Karla Turner Pt1

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Part One

Central Texas UFO mini-Conference on September 26, 1992. Karla Turner was an exceptional researcher and experiencer of Alien Abductions. This is part 1 of 9 parts. – SMiles Lewis

The following was originally published in the Fall 1994 edition of E.L.F. INFESTED SPACES – Journal of Possible Paradigms:

TAKEN INTO THE FRINGE
RESEARCHER FOCUS: Dr. Karla Turner
by SMiles Lewis

My first exposure to abduction researcher/ experiencer Dr. Karla Turner was on September 26, 1992. She was speaking to an audience of approximately 200 people in Austin, Texas. The mini-conference also featured Ed Conroy and George Wingfield, and was organized by the local Austin MUFON chapter. I have seen very little from abduction researchers that I qualified as being of any significance, so Dr. Turner was a particularly unexpected surprise.

She comes across as very strong willed, a trait she may already have had, but which could have been tempered by her interactions with this phenomena. She admits to not knowing the origin of UFOs or their occupants. She simply reports the data that she gathers and experiences herself (about three hundred cases at that time). Some have been critical of her calling attention to “negative” cases. She admits to reporting on those aspects, but is quick to point out that, a) these reports exist, and other researchers are sweeping them under the rug, and b) there are already a number of sources for cases showing “positive” interactions with supposed benevolent entities. Part of her focus seems to be an attempt to strike a balance. How can we gain an objective perspective if we are not hearing all the data?

This mini-conference coincided with the release of her first book on the subject, Into The Fringe . Shortly after her talk I bought the book and thoroughly enjoyed it. It details the emergence of the UFO and abduction phenomena into her family’s life and their struggle with the ongoing experiences. It is a very personal account which begins in 1987-1988.

Karla earned her B.A. from California State University, her M.A. from the University of Nottingham in England, and her Ph.D. in Old English Studies from the University of North Texas. She is a skeptic in the best sense of the word, but she does believe that something extraordinary is going on.

Her 1992 Austin speech was less about her own experiences, and more about the overall points of interest that she noticed in her research (300 cases she investigated with the help of Barbara Bartholic and others-Barbara had worked with Jacques Vallee on the mysterious cattle mutilations sometimes associated with UFOs). In her speech Karla made twenty specific points regarding trends noticed in the data. These trends are not specifically found in her book “Fringe,” although they are there thematically. The trends reflect darker sides of hidden memory and sexual encounters, which seem to be power plays to dominate the abductee, rather than simple hybridization studies.

These trends continue to be seen in the eight case studies in her most recent book, Taken – Inside The Alien / Human Abduction Agenda. In the book, and during her speech at the July 1994 Annual International MUFON Symposium in Austin, Texas, she made some very important assertions regarding the UFO and abduction phenomena:

“The abductee also learns from experience that the aliens induce an altered perceptive state in humans during every encounter. Employed for control, it can be used to prevent any undesired responses from the abductee. And the altered state also prevents any objective assessment of the situation by the witness. This means that the witness can only report what was seen, felt, and heard, which is not necessarily a reflection of what actually occurred. By inducing and manipulating altered consciousness in the abductee, the aliens assume full control of the situation and thus exert control over the data reported by the witness.

Abductees report alien-controlled information. This is a fact abduction researchers must face. ….. Until the day we can unmask the alien illusions, however, we can at least study the entire body of reported data, controlled though it may be, trying to learn more about why certain images and events are employed and what they can tell us about the covert directors of these scenarios.”

This statement and her coining of the term Virtual Reality Scenario to describe these altered perceptions are the best recent developments within the abduction research field. They enable us to discuss these experiences as REAL, but with the added potential inherent in describing some encounters as non-physical while there are still other more physical encounters.

Another positive aspect of Taken (in my estimation) is the inclusion of much testimony described as “UFO dreams.” Once again we see the flowing together of dream experiences” with “real” experiences and hypnotically retrieved “memories.” The results are fascinating! Though much of the abductee narratives could be seen as particularly negative, the overwhelming feeling that I came away with after reading the book, and which the abductees themselves seem to have come away with, is a deep sense of ambiguity and indeterminacy. Even if this seems daunting in the search for truth it could just be the ultimate result of our encounters with the unknown. Perhaps we can take some solace in Dr. Turner’s belief that these intelligences are truly “physical, finite and fallible.” If this is so, and they are not some aspect of ourselves or God then we may indeed be able to develop defenses against their intrusions into our reality.

For information about ordering her research, write to:
KELT WORKS
PO Box 32
Roland, Arkansas 72135
[Uncertain whether above address is still active or not]

www.elfis.net/elfol2/resfockt.html

Contact Austin Mufon

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For All The Latest News and Information, Please Contact:

Austin MUFON’s Mike DeGroff Directly

Mufon State Section Director for Travis and Williamson Counties.

Hello world!

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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.

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Past MUFON State Section Director for Austin, Texas

Mike DeGroff on The Patrick Phillips Show

admin — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 17:04:06 +0000

BREAKING NEWS!
UFO Sightings all across Texas In January 2008

Zoomed in image of UFO captured over Lake Travis.
Photo by: Virgil Fowler

“I am joined today for a special report from Mike Degroff, (State Section Director for Travis and Williamson County chapters of MUFON) on recent UFO sightings.

This morning, my inbox was inundated with articles, and news from many of you regarding a recent sighting in Stevensville Texas.”

UFOlogy 101 with Mike DeGroff and SMiles Lewis – November 27th, 2007

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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

UFO Stalls Car Near Sargent Texas

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Re: UFO Stalls Car Near Sargent Texas

Author: harry ashburn
Date: 08-03-05 14:16

Question: At 8:50 pm on July 5, it still was at least twilight; I’m guessing it wasn’t “dark” ’til almost 9:20-9:30. Can the witness address this?
thanx

UFO Stalls Car Near Sargent Texas

Author: Admin
Date: 07-15-05 09:37

UFO STALLS CAR NEAR SARGENT, TEXAS

On Tuesday, July 5, 2005, at 8:50 p.m., eyewitness M.R. reported, “I was coming home from a fishing trip in Sargent, Texas. I had just turned off FM587 on to FM2611 when, all of a sudden, the lights in my car blinked twice, and then the car went dead.”

“I coasted to a stop at the top of a small hill that was a curve. I was frightened. For one, I am female and was traveling alone, and I was in the middle of nowhere. I thought that the reason for the power giving out in my car was because my brother had been using my car battery earlier in the day and may not have tightened the battery cables properly.”

“I didn’t have a flashlight (torch in UK–J.T.) on me and I grabbed my cell phone to let someone know what had happened. Then I decided to get out of the car, knowing that my cell phone had a bright light on it, and I was going to check the battery cables.”

“Before I could open my cell phone to turn it on, a bright bluish glow started to light up a wooded area across the highway from me. At first I thought it was another vehicle coming up behind me, and I panicked for a moment because my car had stopped on top of the hill on a curve, and, if the vehicle was coming up the curve too fast, it would hit me.”

“But I realized quickly that it was not another vehicle. I couldn’t quite identify the light, but the woods got suddenly brighter. The light went bright like a blue-white light bulb. It was more like the light from a giant blue flashlight or helicopter (search) light.”

“I watched it slowly start moving upward through the trees. I sat in complete silence while I watched it move up out of the trees until it was above the trees and clearly in the sky with the stars for a background. It was a huge bluish translucent ball of light, with the center of the ball much darker than the outer edges.”

“The outer edges of the ball seemed to vibrate or tremble slightly. It continuously rose up into the sky, at first slowly, but, the higher it got, the faster it went. Which was straight up into the sky until it disappeared.”

“I sat in the silent darkness for a few seconds and then turned my car keys, which I had never taken out of the ignition switch, and the car started right up.”

The UFO “was about 30 to 40 feet (9 to 12 meters) up. It was huge, maybe 30 to 40 feet (9 to 12 meters) across, but I could be mistaken. It was much larger than my car– a Volvo DL wagon. I resumed my drive to Sweeny, Texas.”

Sargent is in Matagorda County, on Texas’s Gulf of Mexico shore about 40 miles (64 kilometers) southwest of Galveston. (Email Form Report)

http://www.ufoinfo.com/roundup/v10/rnd1028.shtml

Expert Says East Texas Is Hotbed For UFO Sightings

admin — Tue, 17 May 2005 00:13:09 +0000

Expert Says East Texas Is Hotbed For UFO Sightings

Author: Admin
Date: 05-16-05 17:06

Expert Says East Texas Is Hotbed For UFO Sightings, Has Video To Prove It

For as long as there have been cameras, folks have captured on film what they say might be from another world.

Or, they say the UFOs might be a secret aircraft the government doesn’t want us to know about.

Despite the true answer, the fascination with the strange objects in the sky is stronger than ever, mainly because of the internet.

B.J. Booth says it’s just a great mystery.

What is this in the East Texas sky?

“We know there are many objects that are seen, photographed, and videotaped by reputable individuals.”

Booth speaks for a man in Kaufman County — a man named Larry who doesn’t want the spotlight. He just took these pictures, and video.

“To be honest, I don’t even know his name. Just Larry,” Booth says.

Over the past few years, Booth says his video shows objects that defy explanation. Like a strange white object moving toward a low flying plane.

“He was picking up some objects in his camera that he wasn’t really seeing or didn’t notice when he was taking his film.”

Some of the video and pictures are just of strange lights in the night sky — moving quickly. But some of the pictures Larry has sent to Booth’s website, www.ufocasebook.com are jaw-dropping.

“We haven’t been able to supply a lot of answers, and no one has because these objects have not been able to be identified,” Booth says.

Take for instance a bronze colored shape. It doesn’t look to be a plane.

Neither does a spectacular beacon of light moving within the clouds in the daytime.

“They cannot be explained by anything that we know of, or anything that’s flying today in our skies,” Booth proclaims.

He says he’s never seen a UFO himself, but believes the photos and video from Kaufman County are authentic.

There was something up there.

And he wants an answer from someone.

“There are so many of them that there aren’t really the resources or personnel to actually go out and further investigate these things,” he says.

There’s no shortage of people who might say this activity is military.

Strange reddish lights in a triangular pattern might be some experimental aircraft.

Some others might say they’re spacecraft.

Booth says the government is mum about these pictures, that his source, Larry doesn’t have a clue, and that he hopes someone has an idea.

“What is it? [Larry's] asking us. I don’t have an answer for him,” Booth says.

Every day studying these pictures and others from East Texas skies just deepens the mystery.

What might be looking on us from above?

5/13/05-East Texas-VIDEO INCLUDED

http://www.kltv.com/Global/story.asp?S=3320269

Texas Man Videotapes UFO

admin — Tue, 18 May 2004 00:03:37 +0000

Texas Man Videotapes UFO

by Admin on 2004-05-17 20:33:30
UFOs Reported Over South Texas Skies – Man Captures UFOs On Video

Slideshow with nine pics

FORT WORTH, Texas — A Texas man claims he captured the images of an unidentified flying object on his camcorder.

The man from Mission, Texas, doesn’t want to be identified but did
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July 1994 Annual International MUFON Symposium in Austin, Texas

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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.

Audio Interview of Karla Turner by Greg Bishop – download

LEFT: Linda Cortile of Budd Hopkins’ book WITNESSED.

RIGHT: Tuning In to Cable Channel 10?

Austin Mufon 9/26/92 Mini-Conference

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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 Three

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Part Four

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Part Five