Faerie UFO Connection.

[sahgwa]

I'd probably attempt to eat it

This makes me want to read one of those Joshua Cutchin books, because I know he talks about alien/faery food/drink/medicine offerings to humans.

[sahgwa]

I think the tripod page linked says it the best in regards to consciousness '
The Oz Effect

Another notable feature of many cases is the sudden unusual silence and an overwhelming feeling of isolation in the proximity of a UFO. Many people have noted that normal sounds—birds, insects, traffic—suddenly stop just before and during a close UFO sighting.

A man from Wisconsin reported that he had observed a UFO hovering over the treetops directly over his head once while deer hunting. He stated that the day had been windy and the trees were swaying and creaking pretty loudly in the breeze. What made him look up was the fact that all of a sudden the forest went “completely dead.”

He noted that the trees had stopped moving as if “frozen in place.” That is when he noticed a strange, dark, triangle-shaped object floating over the trees.

“It was a little bigger than a pickup truck and was solid black. I didn’t see any lights or hear any kind of sound from it.”

The hunter reported feeling like he was “looking up through a tunnel with me at the bottom and the UFO at the top. I knew that I was completely alone and that no one could help me.”

As soon as the UFO passed overhead the forest returned to normal.

The experience of such unusual sensations around a UFO has been dubbed “the Oz Effect” by UFO researcher and author Jenny Randles, and may indicate that there could be a field of influence that is being emitted around a UFO. Anyone close enough to a UFO would find himself completely contained within this field. The odd effects noticed by eyewitnesses could give us some kind of indication of the true nature of these energy fields. Unfortunately, anecdotal accounts of UFO experiences have rarely been followed up with rigorous studies of their content.'


When we are in altered states of consciousness, like in deep meditation, or absorption in a task, what feels like seconds can actually be minutes.  If we are really relaxed to lose all sense of a body, or to even go out of body, then time has the sensation of stopping or standing still.  
I think perhaps these UFO's are always there, but our consciousness has to shift, to see them.
Then they exist 'in between' time, or outside of time.

[ReturnofBroccoli]

This makes me want to read one of those Joshua Cutchin books, because I know he talks about alien/faery food/drink/medicine offerings to humans.

Mmmm fae food

[Karl12]

I'd probably attempt to eat it

Don't do it Broccoli lol!

It might look like 'a scrumptious banquet' but apparently..

The person who ate faerie food whilst in Faerieland would either remain trapped there indefinitely, or if they were able to escape, would pine for the treats of Faerie and sometimes die from their burning desire for it.

Folks abducted to 'Faerieland' were also known to be offered strange, thick, coloured or sweet liquids to drink.

Folks abducted onto 'UFOs' appear to be reporting the same.

VIDEO

If an extraterrestrial handed you a glass of strange liquid and said, "Drink this," would you drink it?

It's one of the stranger and more unusual experiences that people have when taken onboard a UFO. They are given alien drinks, weird glowing liquids, and are told to drink them. What are the contents of these extraterrestrial beverages? What do they taste like? What is the purpose behind them?

This video presents 15 cases in which abductees were given alien drinks. There aren't a lot of cases, but there are enough to provide some insights and answers into this unique and bizarre aspect of UFO abductions.

[Karl12]

This makes me want to read one of those Joshua Cutchin books, because I know he talks about alien/faery food/drink/medicine offerings to humans.

The similarities are off the charts mate and he certainly knows his stuff - would say 'A Trojan Feast' is definitely up there with Vallee's 'Passport To Magonia' and there's a nice write up here:

Now and again, a book is published that is destined to become a classic. Granted, it doesn’t happen too often nowadays in Ufology, but when it does, it’s well worth the wait.

There is one that falls into that exact category and which has just been released: Joshua Cutchin’s A Trojan Feast, which is published by Anomalist Books.

With the subtitle of The Food and Drink Offerings of Aliens, Faeries, and Sasquatch, this is – in my view – the definitive study of an aspect of the paranormal that has, until now, been vastly unappreciated and consistently misunderstood.

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[Karl12]

'The experience of such unusual sensations around a UFO has been dubbed “the Oz Effect” by UFO researcher and author Jenny Randles, and may indicate that there could be a field of influence that is being emitted around a UFO.'

Do like Jenny Randles earlier work mate and she did a great job shining a light on 'the UFO witness 'Oz Effect' back in 1983 - further research by lots of different folks has also turned up the experience in ye olde Fae encounters, cryptid encounters, apparitions etc. (E.M. effects and self luminous globes also appear to be involved right across the board).

Just had a good rummage through the archives and loads of links have now been deleted on this subject.. so will post full saved articles for posterity.



• Oz Factor

Defined by Jenny Randles in her 1983 book, UFO Reality, as "the sensation of being isolated, or transported from the real world into a different environmental framework...where reality is but slightly different, [as in] the fairytale land of Oz." 

E.g., UFO witnesses commonly report that their neighborhood strangely lacked, during the sighting experience, the usual background sounds of barking dogs or other animal sounds.  UFO investigators may note that there were no other witnesses to a daylight sighting in a populated area, or that no motor vehicles were seen on what is normally a busy city street. 

Randles adds: "There appears to be a zone of influence surrounding these close encounters.  If you are inside of it, then you experience the episode in all its glory and as a total reality.  If you are outside of it, then the UFO sighting might as well not have happened.

"The Oz factor certainly points to consciousness as the focal point of the UFO encounter...Subjective data that override objective reality could be internal [from our subconscious], external [e.g., from some other intelligent agency], or both...The encounter has a visionary component.  You might interpret that as meaning it is all in the imagination.  But it really means that there is a direct feed, if you like, from the source of the encounter to the consciousness of the witness...

Some witnesses report a strange sensation prior to the encounter -- a sort of mental tingling as if they are aware that something is about to happen.  They just have to look up and see what is there, as if it had called to them silently...Then time seems to disappear and lose all meaning." 

UFO Journal, June 2004, 434, pgs.18-19; also Reality Transformation

• Effects of Oz effect:

_ Presence of a slight haze or haze.

_ The object is often perceived as a mass. cloud, compact but soft-edged, or solid metallic but surrounded by nebulosity.

_ Body tingling.

_ Perception of an electromagnetic field or electrostatic charge control body, perceived by elevated body hairs. Alteration in electrical appliances, motor paralysis, blackouts (local or wide), headlights off, deviation light rays, interference in communications (radio and radar), among others.

_ At first perception of low temperature and then gradually increased until it became intense heat.

_ Presence of lights of various colors, always predominantly red, yellow or orange.

_ Perception mild low frequency hum, like the hum produced by a honeycomb, or the purring produced by the operation of an electrical transformer or motor.

_ Sense of timelessness (temporary anomaly), or alteration of real time (spatiotemporal dislocation). _ Geographical and temporal Transport.

_ Feeling pressure.

_ Sometimes nausea and vomiting occur.

_ Sometimes mild skin rashes, which becomes red on the affected area produced.

• The Oz Factor - Entering The Magical Realm.

In her 1988 book Abduction, Randles describes the mysterious Oz Factor as, "an induced form of sensory deprivation which seems to alter the state of consciousness of the percipient. It can become visible as a sensation of time standing still, or interfered with, or it manifests as all sound vanishing, a very odd feeling of being isolated from our world into a magic world. It is less easy to describe than recognise, since witnesses often refer to it without having any idea of its significance. This underlines its importance." (Randles, p.57)

Ufologists have long been familiar with the reporting of such sensations as a prelude to UFO related experiences including witnesses to so-called abductions. Participants tell of feelings of disassociation and timelessness. The impression created for the individual concerned is one of having temporarily vacated the material world with its distracting sensory input and entered a timeless, silent, dreamlike, mental state, unlike any other previously experienced. Obviously a type of altered state of consciousness.

The records kept by UFO researchers are replete with cases involving aspects such as the paralysis of the witness, periods of missing time, the silence of the craft observed, its rapid or instantaneous disappearance and often the seeming absurdity of a lack of other witnesses, despite the vast size of the craft and the fact that it is seen in broad daylight. These underlying patterns remain pretty standard and common to the Oz Factor, irrespective of language or location.

An early example of its operation is recounted by Jenny Randles:

"It occurred one hot and thundery day in the summer of 1944. World War II raged around the village of Le Verger, near Toulon-sur-Arroux, France, when a thirteen-year-old girl, Madeleine Arnoux, decided to risk the many Germans and resistance fighters in the woods to cycle out and pick berries. In doing so she confronted a strange object in the grass, like a small car but dull grey in colour. She then noticed that small men stood beside it, no more than three feet tall and dressed in brown one-piece suits. Feeling desperately afraid, she tried to run but was paralysed and lost all sense of time (the Oz Factor once more). Then, inexplicably, the object had gone and the hold on her was relaxed. She fled back to her village." (Randles, p.23)

In the same way that reports of hauntings describe how ghosts can suddenly disappear from view, not only do UFOs have the capacity to vanish in mid-air, but to disappear from radar screens as well. In their informative and perceptive book of essays on UFOs, UFOs The Final Answer?, David and Therese Barclay include a chapter by Joseph Dormer in which he recounts the following personal experience recounted by a teacher in Rochdale, England:

"It was late November and I had just got home from college. It was already dusk and, as my mother prepared to pull the curtains, she drew my attention to something she could see in the darkening sky. I looked out through the window and saw this extraordinary craft, just hanging there, low in the sky, motionless and completely silent. It was huge. I mean it must have been about 100 feet long. It was cylinder shaped, but rounded at the ends. There were port holes along its entire length, and I could see figures in silver space suits moving about inside. I couldn't believe what I was seeing. I wanted to cry out but could not .... I mean I literally could not speak or move. Neither of us could. It was as if we were paralysed. We just stood there, watching this thing as it began to glide slowly across the sky. Then suddenly it was gone. It did not just move off at tremendous speed, I'm certain of that – it just vanished into thin air. And another strange thing was that we seemed to be watching it for only a few minutes or so, yet when I looked at my watch afterwards, I found that a whole hour had gone by." (Barclay, p.130)

The confusion caused by the Oz Factor is well illustrated by a case investigated by university lecturer, Frank Johnson, in Faringdon, Oxfordshire, involving the reported abduction of a family of five, three adults and two children, travelling by car from Reading to the Gloucester area. Following the sighting of what they thought was a bright planet, their car appeared to drive itself, passing the same scenery again and again, including a non-existent brightly lit house (obviously an imposed screen, aimed at blocking out something perhaps a little more alarming). During this whole sequence, time appeared to unravel slowly in classic Oz Factor style. The end of the experience was marked by the appearance of a spinning, brightly lit disc and the stunned participants found their way home, eventually finding out that they had arrived an hour later than expected.

It would appear that in many instances, witnesses to a UFO event may experience a momentary amnesia, not realising at the time that a time-lapse had occurred..

I think perhaps these UFO's are always there, but our consciousness has to shift, to see them.

Then they exist 'in between' time, or outside of time.

Yes definitely think you're onto something there and considering we've all got DMT inside our heads perhaps am altered frequency state can happen to anyone at any time lol.

As well as time also reckon magnetism plays a role somewhere and there's an interesting Oz factor analogy in this short vid.


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Been dipping into a lot of John Keel over the festive period and am sure he's also onto something regarding bizarre crossover phenomena, super-spectrums, reality frequencies, window areas and 'paranormal soup'.

[ReturnofBroccoli]

Would being trapped in fae land forever really be so bad though?

[Karl12]

Would being trapped in fae land forever really be so bad though?

Ha don't know mate but after going through the folklore (and assuming it exists) I wouldn't be that keen myself - if you do go hang with the Seelies (nice) rather than the UnSeelies (not nice).

Sounds completely bonkers but DMT Shamans claim to go somewhere similar and reckon UFOs are just 'spirit world tech'.


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Don't know if you ever caught this documentary but it also involves 'shamanism' and a young Argentinian chap seeing UFOs emitting strange beams of coloured light - he then witnessed a landed 'domed' object with humanoids (and a dead relative).

[Karl12]

Pretty fascinating scholarly discussion on UFO 'psychopomp' tricksters acting as guardians of liminal thresholds.

Also covered is the proposal that 'the people who have UFO experiences are, many times rather unwillingly, being dragged into a shamanic apprenticeship'.



VIDEO

In this guest lecture from the MA in Ecology and Spirituality, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, Joshua Cutchin discusses the ideas behind his book Ecology of Souls: A New Mythology of Death and the Paranormal.

[Karl12]

Professor Michael Swords delves into the ye olde Faerie / modern day UFO connection.

His UFO files are also discussed here and it's a pretty fun read.

SUMMA FAERYOLOGICA

As those of you know who have been reading the previous postings in the blog , the result of all of that immersion was The Leprecat.

Leprecat (The Little People Case Catalog) had ten three-ring notebooks of encounter claims. Within those pages were about 500 case references.

Added to that, The Fairy Census of Simon Young chipped in with 600 case claims. Janet Bord's book contributed more, etc etc. Though some of this overlapped, this journey encompassed over a thousand claims.

Even then, it paled in comparison with my own UFO files (about 4000 SELECTED reports and good ones generally) plus CUFOS' files and the USAF Project Blue Book cases etc.


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