Dan Aykroyd has never been shy about his intense interest in UFOs, and this seems to be a fascination that reaches all the way back into his childhood. The actor was fist enamored with the phenomenon when he saw a photo of mysterious lights over Capitol Hill from all the way back in 1952, an incident in which fighter planes had apparently been scrambled to chase the fast-moving objects off. This interest was only strengthened when he saw the classic sci-fi film The Day the Earth Stood Still, which he saw as a perfectly plausible scenario. Aykroyd would have the first of his own many close encounters with UFOs in the mid-1980s in upstate New York, when he claims that he woke up in the middle of the night in a panic and told his wife, "They are calling me, I want to go outside."
He claimed that he had had the irresistible compulsion to go outside, which he credits to voices in his head compelling him to do so. When he did go outside as instructed by the vices in his head he reported that he had seen a pink spiral over the Great Lakes area, and it would turn out that others had had the same urge to go outside at the same time and had seen the same thing.
Aykroyd would go on to become a fairly hard-core proponent of UFOs, and he would eventually make a documentary on his interests, called Dan Aykroyd Unplugged on UFOs, in 2005, and he even served for several years as the official Hollywood representative of the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), and he has accrued a vast knowledge of UFO research and lore over the years that would put most UFOlogists to shame. In April of 2010, Aykroyd appeared on the well-known TV show Larry King Live, where the topic was UFOs and Aykroyd appeared as a pro-UFO representative in the debate, among a panel of scientists who had been brought together to discuss the physicist Stephen Hawking's assertion that any aliens coming from the stars would be certainly malevolent. Aykroyd shared some famous cases of UFO abductions, such as those of Travis Walton and Betty and Barney Hill, and on the show he stated:
"They are here, science should accept that they are here and look how they have come from a billion years in the future or the next dimension or wherever they are coming from. They have abducted people."Aykroyd has appeared on other shows about his UFO beliefs, such as a 2015 episode of The HuffPost Show with host Marc Lamont Hill, where the topic turned to the strange and he talked candidly about the U.S. Air Force's UFO alleged cover-up and some details about his own personal UFO sightings. When asked if he truly believed in UFOs, Aykroyd answered:
"I do, absolutely, and I'm not alone. I have seen four, and I can't say that they are alien craft and neither can the Air Force. The Air Force has been very interested in this. They don't deny the existence of these hyperdynamic, super aerodynamic craft. They don't deny. Their anguish comes in that they can't tell you. They want to tell you anything but that they are extraterrestrial. Any excuse at all, even if they are unknown or unsolved. The Air Force cannot just come out and admit that there are extraterrestrial beings far in advanced of our culture that have built these machines. They are very interested in what is going on, but like us, they don't know. I believe that there are probably many species coming and going and that the Air Force is very interested, but they can't come out and say. Because then you're going to go, 'well wait a minute, the parish priest, the cop on the street, the President - you don't got the power. They've got the power!' You'd have complete breakdown of society."On the show, Aykroyd went on to give some further details into his own strange UFO sightings, saying:
"Two specifically were definitely aerial constructs of some kind. One of them with a light, and one of them dull gray, and they were structures - one of them going very slow, one of them hovering over me. Then there were the two that my wife and friends and I saw - a high altitude sighting many years ago in Martha's vineyard. Two flying side by side. They were at about 100,000 feet up, and they were going fast."Aykroyd has also gone on and on about UFOs on his Facebook page, often referencing research and books and talking about his conspiratorial ideas about government cover-ups. He actively plugged the 2014 book The FBI-CIA-UFO Connection: The Hidden UFO Activities of USA Intelligence Agencies on his page, which goes over the vast research done on declassified documents by a physicist named Dr. Bruce Maccabee, who spent thirty-six years at the Naval Surface Warfare Center. Aykroyd would say in a Facebook post of the book thus:
"Ex-Naval Surface Warfare employee and physicist Dr. Bruce Maccabee has assembled the most extensively and meticulously researched body of documentary evidence ever compiled on the U.S. government's genuine interest in the UFO phenomena. The USAF has NEVER denied the existence of these super-performance aerodynamic vehicles. The Air Force's continued anguish over PUBLIC disclosure is not due to the military's genuinely admitted reality of these machines' existence but due to the government's struggle to categorize the phenomena as being ANYTHING but extra planetary in origin."To read more of this article, go here.
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Let the midnight special, shine a light on me
Let the midnight special, shine a light on me
Let the midnight special, shine a ever lovin' light on me
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Can't forget him and that song from The Twilight Zone Movie form the 80's.
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I recall an ancient Hindu saying; 'The force that sends a prepared man straight to Heaven, is the same force that takes an unprepared man straight to hell'.
In a parable of Jesus: The experience of the tenant farmers when the messengers of the 'absented' Master came, was a fear of dispossession of what they took now to be their own, and so they feared and killed them.
The surface consciousness that runs its own bubble reality within a Universe infinitely greater than its own sense of power, is defended against opening to its own depth - which is not merely the denied material pushed down, but the wellspring of life that cannot really be limited, harnessed, exploited and denied, excepting we create a narrative by which to believe it so.
Multidimensionality is in some sense inversely reflected in fragmented entanglement in personae. The capacity to abide, be with, open to and recognize life in unexpected or even distressing appearances, is a sign of releasing the false sense of possession that would rule over and rule out anything that breaks all the rules to let life in. The boxed in mind offers a comfort zone tyranny that is never free of discomfort. As it brings us to an end of cycle, the harvest of those who choose life is the releasing of false limitation to qualities of being that align us in willingness, in place of coercive assertion. Those who defer the choice have their own experience.
In all relationships, what we hold true is what we bring forth, and hidden or denied fear agenda brings reflections that are frightening. Finding our right or true relationship is a matter of living from our true aligned being and thus being the synchronicity in what resonates a like kind. Shared purpose is not unifying in form, but in freedom extended. Give what we would receive - allowing for denied self-hatreds operating in negative projection. The 'trying' to be loving' is the sign of unlove unowned.
As for all the mindgames... Willingness is the key to all things and so truth cannot be forced upon another. Therefore any form of true experience is also a form in which to mask, and the discernment of the true from the false is the basis of 'it takes one to know one'.
Nothing can prepare us for what we do not expect, but we can open to honesty of acknowledgement in our own consciousness such as to recognize in others and in events, what the persona or mask was made to hide.
If you are not ready and willing to expand from the focus of your lifetime as you currently live it, you wont. By whatever agency, the leaks or bleedthroughs of a greater Consciousness will be erased, airbrushed, or cloaked in terms of 'otherness' that don't belong in your 'reality' and so are denied.
I read that when the galleons anchored off the New World, they could not at first be perceived. The mind boxes in concepts that fit in its known world. We see this in emerging from dream state or when meeting events that we cannot at first categorise and identify.
'In My Father's House are many mansions, and I go to prepare a place for you', is a shift to invisibility, but not absence.
There are sounds my ears may not register, that yet enliven the cells of my being. Until we own our shadow and step free, we meet it in our world, or at the borders of our mapped reality.
I havent read a book since 2006. I would read yours!