Fortean Blogscan 20-06-2009
Posted by Greg at 09:26, 20 Jun 2009A few odd items to keep you busy over the weekend...
- Fortean Times takes you to Italy, to visit the "Sisterhood of the Skulls" (free registration may be required to view the article).
- Nick Redfern reviews a new release from Anomalist Books: Outbreak!, by Hilary Evans and Robert E. Bartholomew (available from Amazon US and UK.
- At Paranormalia, guest columnist Matthew Colborn wonders why skeptics are more media-savvy.
- Another article from the archives at Magonia, the new addition is Mike Hallowell's "Invizikids: Imaginary Childhood Friends".
- The latest Binnall of America audio podcast features Marie Jones and Larry Flaxman discussing the esoteric nature of numbers.
- This week's eSkeptic newsletter features Darren Iammarino's article "The Emergence of God".
- The Psychedelic Salon is offering Part 1 of Terence McKenna's lecture "The Ethnobotany of Shamanism".
- Sentient Developments has a guest blog from Michael Anissimov on the transhuman goal of "Eliminating All Pain, Forever".
- The latest Skeptics' Guide to the Universe podcast features an interview with Richard Wiseman, as well as discussion of chiropractic controversy and quantum mechanics.
- Greg Bishop urges you to "Walk in Someone Else's Shoes" when it comes to the believability of UFO reports.
- Forgetomori investigates the case of a "Vortex UFO over King's Dominion.
- Psypioneer 5:5 is now available for download (links to PDF file).
- Richard Wiseman shares some more results from the Twitter remote viewing experiment.
Enjoy!
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Comments
11 June 2009
1 year 38 weeks
I'm having trouble buying the smoke ring explanation, for mainly two reasons.
1) the ring is pretty dark, narrow and well defined for 'smoke', and it doesn't appear to be dissipating at all over the period of the video.
2) If it's from a ride, then there should have been smoke rings made all day long, so reports of a "UFO vortex" should have been made several times that day (not to mention repeatedly since the park opened a couple decades ago). We should maybe see remainders of the prior smoke blast from the ride.
Yes, no? Any discussion?
6 February 2008
47 weeks 3 days
of the ride hypothesis, it was related to the shape/size of the ring that was close to the circular ride on the right of it, hence an optical reflexion of some sort. Personally, I don't think so, but I'm no optical expert. The smoke ring is also out of the question, IMHO. So that leaves very few options...
Cheers