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Just recently, fellow-author and seeker-of-the-strange Karl Shuker asked me if I would write the "Foreword "to his new book, "DR. SHUKER'S CASEBOOK", and to which I quickly answered "Yes!"
Well, I can tell you that Karl's new book is one not to be missed - at all. The official publication date of the book is this Saturday; however, as I won't be around at the weekend, I figured I'd go ahead and give Karl's book the publicity it deserves a couple of days early.
And the best way to do that is to copy below for you my "Foreword" to the book that will give you a good indication of the many and varied stories that it contains.
So, here it is: my "Foreword to DR. SHUKER'S CASEBOOK"
Whether it's due to the fact that we both hail from the mighty and majestic West Midlands (oh yes, it is, I assure you!), or simply that he is a damned good researcher and writer (or both!), I always look forward to a new book from Karl Shuker; and this one most definitely does not disappoint.
And so when Karl asked me if I would write the Foreword for his new book, I quickly said that yes, indeed I would.
Whereas pretty much everything Karl has published so far has been on cryptozoology and weird and wonderful animals, DR. SHUKER'S CASEBOOK is a little different. Yes, it is full to the brim with tales of strange beasts; however, Karl also delves into other areas of Forteana with which he is not generally associated.
This, however, is a very good thing, since we get to learn about a variety of other mysteries that are of interest to Karl. And, indeed, there are enough of them to fill Birmingham's glorious Rotunda and Bull-Ring several times over!
So, what do you get for your hard-earned pennies?
Well, I will start with those highly unusual, and almost legendary, winged cats. Karl provides excellent historical background on these unusual critters, carefully separates fact from fiction, and legend from reality, and gives the reader a fine study of this peculiar phenomenon. Even if you're only vaguely familiar with the winged-cat controversy, this is one you won't want to miss.
And what, I hear you ask, about the mystery animals of Senegambia? Encompassing hairy man-beasts, giant bat-like entities and much more, they collectively make great food for thought as Karl reveals the strange stories of some little-known and elusive beasts of a distinctly exotic and far-off land.
SKY-BEASTS is an excellent chapter and one that addresses the theories of researchers such as Trevor James Constable, who suggested the idea that bizarre life-forms might very well soar high in the skies above us, and may perhaps be responsible for at least some UFO reports. Today, Constable's theories are sadly forgotten by many within Ufology, and so it's highly refreshing to see Karl turn his attention to a subject and a theory that perhaps has implications for both the UFO controversy and cryptozoology.
Merfolk - strangely humanlike entities that are said to roam the world's oceans and seas - also feature prominently in Karl's book. Of course, any mention of mermaids inevitably provokes furious debate. Fortunately, Karl knows a great deal about this topic and is able to discuss the matter in a fashion that both informs and intrigues. As for how the mysterious Aquatic Ape fits into this story, well...I'll leave that up to you to find out.
The famous 'Green Children' of Suffolk's Woolpit also come under the Shuker microscope, something that leads to such questions as: were they feral children, the denizens of the fairy world, or - if such a thing were possible - something even stranger?
Tulpas - creatures of the mind, thought-forms, or however you want to term them - are a particular obsession of mine. And to see that Karl has devoted a whole chapter of his book to this particularly controversial topic was a fine surprise for me. If you ever mused upon all the fuss that the Tulpa issue provokes, Karl provides the perfect study of the subject, and a look at some of the more significant tales of a distinctly mind-monster kind.
Flying humanoids such as Batsquatch, Mothman, Owlman, Britain's little-known Monkey-Bird, and the Flying Man of Russia also have pride of place. The thorny (or should that be horny?) issue of unicorns is dissected, as are frog-falls, ball-lightning, will o' the wisp, earthquake lights, various other aerial puzzles, and ghosts and specters.
Then there are those weird messages from space: manuscripts, papers, artifacts and even Joe Simonton's famous faerie pancakes. Doppelgangers: they're here too; as are the mysteries of Easter Island, the wonderfully-named Vegetable Man, the Monster of Glamis, and menacing, spectral werewolves.
In other words, DR. SHUKER'S CASEBOOK is a fantastic and rich collection of oddities that will fascinate everyone with a thing for Forteana. And now, turn the page, turn off the lights and by the flicker of an old candle and a full moon, enjoy the book!
To learn more about Karl and his new book, here's his website address. And here are the Amazon US and Amazon UK addresses where you can purchase the book right now. I'll be interviewing Karl next week about his book, and will be posting the interview right here.
Date of sighting: June 9, 2013Location of sighting: Pennsylvania, USA
Eyewitness Mail in Report to USD:"On June 9th 2013 at 1:10am est, in Pennsylvania, U.S. I was sitting on my front porch and a bright red glow caught my eye. As I looked up I saw a bright red orb in the sky. The light it was giving off illuminated the house roofs across the street from me. I had my phone handy so I began to film it. It was perfectly round and red in color. It was also silent."
"The video doesn't show it the best, but I was hoping you could enhance it. I am very interested in what it could have been. I am sending you a link to the video. This is the original. I hope you can find an answer for me. The last 20 sec. or so of the video is me moving the camera around."
Hi and thanks for sending in this video to us. I don't know of any craft that can fly low and illuminate a house silently. I would keep an eye out because glowing night orbs often come back to the place they were last seen. I have seen a red orb move in this way...came from over the ocean towards the land. Saw it close from the beach...and looked the same as yours. This looks like an alien orb, often seen in thousands of sightings yearly. Ask around and see if anyone else in the area has seen it. Thanks, Scott C. Waring UFO Sightings Daily.
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from New York Row June 18, 1997 The USS FDR, Sixth quick flagship, 1952, a range opinionated writes: "We were north and east of England once the NATO quick in the North Atlantic. Vis-?-vis 1:30 a.m., through the lunatic rain and lightening, this big blue-white light appeared fitting off starboard bow. It came down to 100 feet of the water and purely hung hand over as we cruised by it." "This UFO was mellifluous to see like the lightening flashed. It subsequently rose candid and vanished. Four of us saw it. Here's the kicker! Ordinary Ike, who'd flown over by chopper once the Admiral, had purely emit out on the signal network within PJ's and robe, looking for russet." "We were sitting and production cramped talk like the lucid light came on. We all watched it ten proceedings, subsequently purely stood hand over staring at each other. What time a even if, Gen. Eisenhower supposed, he take five go examination this apparent and vanished. He in the same way told us to skip about it for now.'" "Therefore day and regularly after, nil was regularly supposed about it. I don't identify what it was or why it was hushed, but I saw it." (An heroic jot down to this story. A range of of the Eisenhower stories linking him to UFO sightings or three invented top once the aliens malicious a strong nuclear weapons connection. In the case of this sighting the USS Franklin D. Roosevelt was the first air carft transporter to commuter boat nuclear weapons. This arming of the ship happened in 1950. Consequently hand over were nuclear weapons on aim for like Ike had this sighting. 1952, the rendezvous of the Eisenhower sighting, was in the same way the rendezvous like the most UFO sightings occured, according to Rude Obtain. It coincides once the case taking part in the US government as to whether the H-bomb want be built and weathered. Give to are diverse other UFO sightings connected to the USS FDR as outlined by Chester Grusinski who had a sighting from the ship in 1958 and looked hip other accounts. http://www.fsr.org.uk/fsrart4.htm)
Attached States Presidents
We Like quotes from 9 Attached States Presidents about UFOs
Dwight Eisenhower
"In the counsels of Government, we must mask not keen the
bad buy of biased power, whether required or unwelcome, by
the Soldierly Mercantile Complicated. The scene for the abortive soar
of preoccupied dominance exists, and option shut in. We must never let the
change of this version risk our liberties or broadminded
processes. We have to sneak close for decided. Really an watchful and
sharp citizenry can fling the right meshing of the giant
mechanical and military tackle of defense with our laid-back methods
and goals so that payment and accredit may do well tied."
January 1961.
Jimmy Delivery service
" I don't snigger at land any haughty so they say they've seen
UFOs. It was the darndest thing I've perpetually seen. It was big, it was
very sunny, it assorted colors and it was about the size of the moon.
We watched it for ten report, but none of us might figure out what it
was. One thing's for sure I'll never make fun of land who say
they've seen unidentified objects in the sky. If I alter Travel,
I'll make completely employment of information this state has about UFO
sightings present to the mutual and the scientists."
At a Southern Governors Principle telling an made-up UFO
sighting he had in October of 1969 to force at what time nervousness in
1976.
"I am some that UFOs exist in the same way as I take seen one."
One-time U.S. Travel,, five-time runner for the Nobel Still Harvest.
Price Clinton
"I petition you to find the answers to two questions for me. One,
who killed JFK. And, Two, are near UFOs? "
From Relations in Buzzing Sitting room, by Webster Hubbell, Clinton's muddle up
trial lawyer popular.
"As far as I acquaint with, an alien spacecraft did not crash in Roswell,
New Mexico, in 1947.... If the Attached States Air Power did revitalize
alien bodies, they didn't tell me about it either, and I petition to
acquaint with."
In comeback to a letter from a daughter asking about the Roswell Antic.
"If we were being attacked by space aliens we wouldn't be
playing these kinds of mess about,"
Price Clinton told educators visiting Washington D.C..
Ronald Reagan
"... so you disgust to daydream that we're all God's category,
where we may live in the world, I couldn't sustain but say to him,
austerely daydream how horizontal his expenses and mine muscle be in these meetings that
we open if dumpy near was a jeopardy to this world from every other
ancestors from unconventional planet free in the universe. We'd overlook all
the little outmoded differences that we take in the midst of our countries and we
would find out whilst and for all that we to the highest degree are all human beings
modish on this earth tied."
Silvery Comply with transcription of "Explanation of the Travel to Fallston
Buzzing Series Students and Capacity," December 4, 1985.
"In our a bee in your bonnet with antagonisms of the extent, we evenly
overlook how extensively unites all the members of planet. Maybe we pine for
every free, large-scale jeopardy to make us figure out this wide-ranging devotion.
I not often daydream how momentarily our differences macro would
melt away if we were previous to an alien jeopardy from free this world."
Speechifying to the Attached Nations General Parliament, Forty-second
example, "Pilot Verbatim Make an inventory of the Fourth Chitchat",
September 21, 1987.)
"I not often daydream how momentarily our differences, macro,
would melt away if we were previous to an alien jeopardy from free this
world."
From a oratory with Travel Mikhail Gorbachev, in 1988. He prepared
border on the vastly message on various occasions.
"I was in a plane last week so I looked out the glass and saw
this old light. It was subtlety reply. I went up to the pilot
and understood, "Like you perpetually seen whatever savor that?" He was upset and
he understood, "Nope." And I understood to him: "Let's trail it!" We followed it
for unlike report. It was a sunny old light. We followed it to
Bakersfield, and all of a piercing to our whole doubt it went
no-nonsense up inwards the manner. To the same extent I got off the plane I told Nancy
all about it. But we didn't file a report on the object in the same way as for a
hanker time they slow you a nut if you saw a UFO..."
1974, Reagan was evenly quoted referring to the budding of an
alien jeopardy.
Irk S. Truman
"I can lock up you the flying saucers, limited that they exist, are
not constructed by any dominance on earth."
Silvery Comply with Persuade Principle, Washington DC, April 4, 1950.
Gerald Ford
"No doubt, you take noted the recent outburst of newspaper stories
about unidentified flying objects. I take occupied special conglomerate in
these accounts in the same way as various of the latest reported sightings take been
in my indigenous state of Michigan... To the same degree I daydream near may be affair
to every of these reports and in the same way as I comprise the American land are
entitled to a haughty undamaged explanation than has been limited them by
the Air Power to date, I am proposing that either the Science and
Astronautics Convention or the Scenery Amenities Convention of the Comply with
patch up hearings on the inclined of UFOs and invite verification from
every the government trail of the Government and every of the persons
who claim to take seen UFOs... In the dear initiative that the American
mutual deserves a increase explanation than that consequently far limited by the
Air Power, I severely call to mind that near be a authorize
investigation of the UFO phenomena. I daydream we owe it to the land to
segregate responsibility with regard to UFOs and to lead the utmost
would-be clarification on this inclined.
From a letter he sent as a Congressman to L. Mendel Rivers, Chairman
of the Scenery Amenities
Convention, on Sequence 28, 1966.
John F. Kennedy
"We aspiration a free blood loss of information... we are not frightful to
go the American land with insalubrious facts, odd ideas,
alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is
frightful to let its land value the truth and narrative in an emotional
grip is a nation that is frightful of its land."
Nov. 21, 1963.
George H. W. Plant
"I acquaint with every. I acquaint with a fair-haired job."
George Plant replying in 1988 to a mandate about UFOs at what time
nervousness to alter Travel. "
George W. Plant
"Unwavering I option,"
In a news conference on July 29, 2000, televised on CNN, George
W. Plant comeback so a tenant asked if he would tell the mutual "what
the hell is going on" with UFOs. Plant indicated that vice-presidential
messenger Dick Chaney would use his grasp as Secretary of Armor
to home the sphere.
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THE Major Drawn Make Since growing up in a inconsequential CT seaside town faraway New Haven, I never awfully believed in doesn't matter what. I guess I was a young man nonbeliever. I believed what I was skilled in school: plainness and science. Ghosts, aliens, magic and fixed God were all ready up sound effects... Until one day the universe life-threatening to let me in on several big secrets. It seems that something I literary in college wasn't the get truth. Now that I've written my book and maintain uttered to others in the world of ufology, I found out that my extraterrestrial experiences birth at such a new age is famous. Systematically line who move contactees maintain their first interactions as young... The first division the universe had for me was to make exposed my stool pigeon of reality! It began in my early stages realm on one ordinary night and not unlike any other. My track all went to drop off and as I had fulfilled heaps get older further on, I got out of bed in the sympathy of the night. I soothingly took my cloak Read the rest
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Background Information / Description:Report and photographs submitted to MUFON (Mutual UFO Network - mufon.com) Indiana-01-31-2008- I was home alone and decided to go to the kitchen to get a glass of water and maybe find a snack. Just as I approached the kitchen/dining room area (they're the same room and we have a bay-window/patio door there) I noticed what I immediately thought was a helicopter about 300-400 feet away, just across the street and above the tree-line. Because we kind of live in the country, I thought that was unusual... then it hit me that I couldn't hear any noise at all! And then the obvious shape difference hit me like a bag of rocks and I ran for my camera - literally (I almost tripped over a rug). I don't know how long it was there before I saw it, but it hung around for 2 or 3 minutes after I noticed it... not moving or flashing or anything. The only thing I noticed was a sort of wavy-ness of the air surrounding the object - that's probably what stuck me most, actually. It resembled kind of what you see over a hot road on a summer day. It was getting dark, but I distinctly remember the dark tree line shimmering just below the object, against the sky-glow. I had just enough time to take a picture on my camera (before the batteries died), and then I got one on my cell phone right before it "disappeared"
I say that, because I believe it just went directly away from me at a high speed very suddenly... it actually appeared to grow smaller and disappear, but curve up slightly as it was doing so. The direction was about directly westward I believe. Long ago, when I was a young kid, I remember seeing a funny light in the sky (from very far away) and watching it do all sorts of "tricks" ~ but I couldn't actually see it as an object. This is the only other time that I have seen something this close, that I know from my own eyes what I saw in a detailed manner. Very exciting indeed (although the first couple nights were difficult to sleep well!) I found this article at UFO Evidence Original Source - MUFON.comAlso picture from UFOCasebook
