High Strangeness
The mystery behind the unidentified flying objects was highlighted again recently when leaked videos - filmed by the US Navy's Super Hornet jets - popped up in the public domain, showing the military aircraft interacting with UFOs. The Pentagon had stirred up much hype among ufologists, officially saying that the viral clips actually depicted "Unidentified Aerial Phenomena" (UAP).
But for veterans of two of America's most secretive institutions, these sightings, at least, were not at all sensational. They claim the UFO encounters can be attributed to a top-secret radar-tricking program commissioned for the military, according to the Drive.
Gino Meekis was hunting grouse several kilometres from Sioux Lookout, Ontario on 3 October alongside his wife and grandson when the family heard the strangest and eeriest sounds, faintly resembling screams. The video, later posted on YouTube, has collected almost a million views, with people left guessing about who or what could have made these sounds.
Meekis, who was later approached for comment by Vice, is an experienced hunter accustomed to different sounds in the Canadian wilderness but even he was confused by the howls.
"When it let out the first scream, I thought it was a moose, but my mind changed when it screamed again and again", the hunter said. He began recording the shrieks almost straight away, as well as his grandson trying to mimic them. The family retreated to their vehicle shortly after the sounds appeared to move closer, as Meekis's wife became particularly scared of the noise.
"I've heard many different animals in the wild but nothing like this. I grew up hunting with my grandfather for the first 12 years of my life", Meekis said.
The Brooklyn photojournalist was taken by surprise while watching a private reading with Gretchen Clark, a fifth-generation medium.
"All of a sudden, she started laughing at nothing," Taggart tells The Post. "Apparently the spirit of her brother was in the room and told her a joke."
"I told him not to interrupt me while I'm working," Clark explained to her client and then turned to an empty spot and yelled, "Chapman, we've talked about this!"
She composed herself and returned to the reading and then just as quickly turned back to Taggart.
"Margaret's here," Clark announced.
"Margaret? I don't know any Margaret," Taggart insisted.
Clark closed her eyes and listened. "She says 'Texas.' What does 'Texas' mean?"
Taggart instantly knew. "My great aunt Margaret lived in Texas and she'd died a few months earlier," Taggart says. "I'd totally forgotten. My whole body just tensed up. It was truly spooky."
That encounter was just the beginning of a spiritual awakening for Taggart, who would spend the next 18 years documenting mediums in New York as well as Essex, England, and Antequera, Spain. More than 150 of her photographs, many never before seen, are published in her new book Séance (Fulgur Press).

Hawaiian residents statewide see strings of lights in the sky for the second night in a row.
Locals in Hawaii have reported en masse that mysterious near-perfectly ordered lights returned to the night sky after they first appeared the night before, Hawaii News Now has revealed.
"I was jumping up and down, freaking out like, 'What is that? What is that?' It was pretty weird. I couldn't make any sense of it", Kala Holiday told the outlet, while another viewer spoke about 20 to 25 lights "that resembled a Roman candle shot across the sky".
Comment: In the absence of official confirmation or denial from SpaceX, or any other official body, and given a hint of thought engineering, one has to wonder exactly what is going on.
When some of Elon Musk's other projects are taken into consideration, thought engineering in regards to the subject of UFO's doesn't seem too wide of the mark.
- Elon Musk claims brain microchip has allowed monkey to control a computer.
- Elon Musk venture aims to connect human brain with artificial intelligence.
- Elon Musk says with artificial intelligence we are summoning the demon.
- International Astronomical Union concerned about satellite constellations interfering with ground based observations.
- SpaceX satellites could blight the night sky warn astonomers.

Members of the US Navy aboard the Boeing P-8A Poseidon plane.
On a training mission with the Nimitz carrier group in November 2004 about 100 miles off the coast of Southern California, technicians on the USS Princeton began to notice anomalous "ghost tracks" and "clutter" on the ship's radars.
Concerned the Princeton's brand new AN/SPY-1B radar system was acting up, the crew recalibrated the high tech gear to clear the errors, but the ostensibly "false" radar tracks only amplified and became stronger, the first sign something rather strange was happening.
"Once we finished all the recalibration and brought it back up, the tracks were actually sharper and clearer," former Petty Officer 3rd Class and Princeton radar technician Gary Voorhis told Popular Mechanics. "Sometimes they'd be at an altitude of 80,000 or 60,000 feet. Other times they'd be around 30,000 feet, going like 100 knots."
Their radar cross sections didn't match any known aircraft; they were 100 percent red ... no IFF [Identification Friend or Foe].
Levin's son had reported him missing on June 28 after the 70-year-old actor called a friend to say he was lost near Cave Junction, Ore. On July 13, his body was found in a slope near the road where it had been partially consumed by what police believe to be turkey vultures.
According to new details obtained by USAToday, police were baffled by how Levin's orange Fiat made it so far down the desolate mountain road in a remote part of Oregon. Responders reportedly noted that there were several fallen trees in the area that made getting vehicles down the path particularly difficult. The Fiat was reportedly found four miles from the nearest paved road on terrain that was so treacherous to traverse that officers had to walk a quarter of a mile away from their emergency vehicle to reach the spot.
Comment: David Paulides, author of the Missing 411 series, poses some interesting questions about the case:
On November 4th, the Inyo County Sheriff's Office received a call about a missing hiker in the park.
The missing man, later identified as 40-year-old Alan Stringer from Huntington Beach, started the hike in the Bishop area on Sunday, but never showed up back home the next day.
Stringer reportedly did not tell anyone where he planned to hike or what routes he might take.
Comment: See also:
- Missing 411: 'Expert' hiker found dead at bottom of Appalachian Trail embankment
- Missing 411: Body of 53 y.o. hiker found in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park one week after she went missing
- Missing 411: How 1,600 people went missing from public lands without a trace
- Missing 411: 'Stuff They Don't Want You To Know' interviews David Paulides
It started with 5 missing children in 2016. Now, 3 years later we follow the trails of missing hunters. This Halloween, we bring you something truly special. Haunting true stories of the unexplainable. Based on the book which documents 185 cases of missing people from 4 countries. This former police detective, now investigator and author will surely blow your mind. So get ready, because the one and only David Paulides is coming to Edge of Wonder!
Part One
That potential sighting came to light after a video appeared on YouTube, showing a disc-like object that remained stationary over Cleveland County for several minutes before vanishing, according to a witness.
The video was recorded in morning rush hour on Oct. 25 and posted with a request that viewers give ideas on what it might have been, including the possibility it was just a reflection or strange play of light.
Aaron Bostic, 33, told McClatchy news group that he was stuck in traffic on U.S. 74 in Shelby when he spotted the "diamond shaped object glowing really brightly" against a cloudy sky. It appeared to be rotating, he said.
The curious matter unfolded on October 10 in Bountiful, Utah, and was captured on camera by a local resident as he was in his front yard and communicating with the Amateur Radio Emergency Services Net, which is a network of trained, organized volunteers who assist in public services in the event of a disaster.
The video has garnered more than 3,000 views since being posted on YouTube page ET Data Base on Monday.
This is crazy what I've been seeing here," says the unidentified individual as he attempts to zoom in on the blinking lights. "Picture is really bad ... there's like crazy ... these lights keep appearing. There's one, now split into two, three, four, five, six, eight.The brief video cuts off as the sounds of passing vehicles are heard in the background.
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