Posted on 04/13/2025 5:01:47 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
As a novelist, I am prone to obsessions. These are what I call “creative outbursts.” And as strange or off-putting as my creative outbursts may be to my family and friends, I’ve learned to follow them.
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So yeah, I’ve learned to follow my creative outbursts, even if that means spending my hard-earned PTO at a UFO conference in Houston, which is what I did last weekend.
This wasn’t just any old tin foil hat convention at a Hampton Inn; this was “The Archives of the Impossible!” hosted by Houston’s brainy little jewel, Rice University.
The speaker list had more Ph.D.s and military personnel than a NASA group chat. The conference opened with Jeffrey Kripal, the avuncular founder of the Archives of the Impossible, dressed like a party magician in a paisley shirt.
Kripal established the program at Rice with Jacques Vallée’s personal archives to create a serious academic home for studying often-dismissed extraordinary experiences like UFO encounters and psychic phenomena. Kripal, a religious studies scholar, sees these not as bizarre curiosities, but as modern expressions of enduring mysteries, legitimizing them for serious inquiry.
The conference kicked off with Kripal welcoming Diana Walsh Pasulka to the podium — fellow convener and author of the seminal American Cosmic: UFOs, Religion, Technology, a first-person account of how Pasulka, once a skeptic, began to reconsider everything after visiting alleged UFO crash sites with Stanford’s Garry Nolan and an enigmatic government contractor she calls “Tyler.”
Pasulka was followed by Nolan, who runs the Sol Foundation, a UFO think tank, then by Rear Adm. Timothy Gallaudet, who testified before U.S. House subcommittees regarding encounters with UAPs (unidentified aerial phenomenon — the new terminology replacing UFO) and associated safety-of-flight risks.
(Excerpt) Read more at dallasnews.com ...
UFO Ping: “The Archives of the Impossible!” convention at Rice University.
E.T phone home.
Thanks for posting—the article was much more reasonable than normal journalistic ventures on the topic.
The author did slip and prove they were a newbie—and Leslie Kean sniffed it out.
(Newbies have their own “theories” and “explanations” which have long been explored and debunked—but they do not know that because they are newbies.)
I did go to one of these conferences a few years back—and the trick is listen and learn—and ask open ended questions which do not give away your biases.
Then people will be comfortable talking to you.
E.T. Phones home: “Please come get me, there is no intelligent life here.”
What are some of the things people felt comfortable telling you?
Biff!!
I had folks who claimed that they were abducted by aliens tell me (and my wife who was with me) details about their experiences.
These were “normal” folks who did not write books, did not make videos, were not interviewed on podcasts—made zero money.
When they went home after the conference they had normal day jobs and families waiting for them.
They had their experience and they were happy to share it with anyone who (they believed) sincerely wanted to hear it.
Some of the little details (that were not publicized) were very helpful in figuring out who is larping (lying) and who was speaking the truth in this field.
There are multiple possible explanations for what was going on—but they have one thing in common—the vast majority of folks here would never believe them.
My wife was interesting—she did not change her views as a result of the meeting—except that she now knows that these folks should not be ridiculed as crazy—something real happened to them.
One example: If you listen very carefully to exactly what most (not all to be fair) are saying you will realize they have no hard evidence they were in “space” at all—they could have been underground or just in a closed area above ground. That is what is called a “clue”.
Commie paywall
You’d think someone would have stolen an anal probe by now. Or at least an ashtray.
That was good, thanks for the laughs.
So where do you think they were?
And from where and how do they believe they were taken?
Theory Where Taken Physical or Non-Physical? Common Markers ETH (craft) Nearby ship or orbit Physical Medical rooms, flashing lights, metal surfaces Interdimensional Parallel reality Non-physical or hybrid Wall-passing, time distortion Underground/Underwater Secret Earth-based base Physical Cavern walls, military/UFO overlap Virtual/Simulated Constructed mental space Non-physical Surreal scenes, odd logic MILAB Human facility Physical Military presence, drugs, fear Control System Metaphysical plane Non-physical Symbolic or religious themes
There’s no doubt that Houston and other liberal cities close to the southern border have an (illegal) alien subculture.
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