Just the name, Fox News, can usually elicit a few pointed conversations... but if you can get passed the political stigma and just go for the subject matter, it is also one of the most likely US media outlets to go out on a limb.

This one concerns incidents of unexplained aerial phenomenon (UAP), or more universally, UFOs.

Note the setup for the video that was almost certainly designed to satisfy the skeps with the gentle man/person playing the part of good humored disbeliever. But beyond that, the force of the dialog is impressive and gives a legitimate weight to this subject.

Outlink: http://video.foxnews.com/v/4322799/unsol...

Nuance of meaning retained with newly invented word

by Will Bueche
John E. Mack Institute

An website contacted the John E. Mack Institute for permission to translate some of Dr. Mack's articles into Italian.

We granted permission, and I asked what word they would use for "experiencer", since that is an invented word in English that Dr. Mack popularized. It has become an important word in the lexicon of alien encounter research, so needed some careful attention.

"Experiencer" is a deliberately vague term meaning "one who has experienced something", which in its vagueness allows for many possible interpretations of what exactly may be the nature of the experiences.

We asked a librarian what resources existed for getting the finer sense of word meanings, and she turned us to this site, http://www.woxikon.com/english-italian/e... , which suggested that "esperienza" can carry the meanings of knowledge / mental sensation / skill. Sounded about right, and the word is a good sound-alike.

So I proposed "esperienzer" (esperienza with an "er" substituted at the end), but I did not know if adding an "er" to the end of a word turns something into a noun like it does in English. (As in "one who travels" becoming "traveler".)

The translator replied that "esperienzanti" may be what we were seeking. (As anticipated, Italian does not place an "er" at the end.)

"'Esperienzanti' is like 'those who are experiencing something'", he wrote.

"I think this word does not exist," he noted, "but I like the idea. I can use it."

So, barring any further revisions, I believe that the words "experiencers" and "experiencer" in Italian will henceforth be:

"esperienzanti" (plural),
"esperienzante" (masculine singular), and
"esperienzanta" (feminine singular)

...At least in articles by the late Dr. John Mack.

When the translations are complete, links will be posted to them from the originals at www.JohnEMackInstitute.org and www.PassportToTheCosmos.com.

UPDATE: American-based Italian researcher Paola Harris confirmed that there has not yet been an Italian term for "experiencer" invented yet, and that "esperienzanti" is not a term that has been used (or indeed, even exists), so we are truly pioneering the use of this new term.

I hope it catches on as a more direct translation of "experiencer", because a unique, invented English word deserves a unique, invented Italian word.

Harris added that a word similar to the English word "contactee" is most often used in alien encounter literature -- "contattisti, or contattati ...mostly contattisti".

Which returns us to the very reason that "experiencer" was needed: "Contactee" carries the implication that a person has been contacted by an outside agency, and that is the sort of pre-loading of meaning that the term "experiencer" is meant to avoid. By being more broad, "experiencer" allows for many interpretations.

Though granted, the neutrality "experiencer" was designed to possess has developed a positive emphasis, even as it retains as an open question what the experiences are.

"Experiencer" has come to mean a person who has come to embrace, or be open to, their sometimes frightening experiences as a means to learn and grow -- elements which the knowledge / mental sensation / skill elements of esperienza agree with well enough to affirm our enthusiasm for the new Italian term.

RELATED NOTE: Foreign publishers interested in translating Dr. Mack's book Passport to the Cosmos, please contact the John E. Mack Institute. Italy -- we are ready for you now!

http://johnemackinstitute.org/center/cen...

Apparently the reports on weird sightings in Chine seem to be growing in number and strangeness!

Check out this link:

http://www.sott.net/articles/show/212022...

Greets

T left Earth 33 years ago, now it's claimed the Voyager 2 spacecraft may have been hijacked by aliens after sending back data messages NASA scientists can't decode.

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/wa...

On the abduction front two of the most thorough investigators are David Jacobs PhD and artist Budd Hopkins. You can see the 2 together in New York City this weekend at the Intruders Foundation (IF) first seminar of the year.

The Dynamic Duo of abductions have done some very excellent work in the field, numerous books and some ground breaking data collection, and both have done their best to be actually scientific about it. Brought together in friendship through their mutual interest in the UFO phenomenon both of these gentlemen have also indicated how they came to be in this field of research very reluctantly.

David Jacobs finds himself to be 'extremely embarrassed' to be believing in what he believes. On the topic of extraterrestrials visiting Earth Bud Hopkins says ' Well.. it's an unfortunate thing to have to admit but yes, I don't have a doubt. I no longer have the luxury of disbelief...'

IF meetings are few and far between and these researchers are not getting any younger... if you can swing it, you won't be disappointed. (Crossing fingers and toes that a DVD will be made available afterwards.)

Historian Dr. David M. Jacobs and
Budd Hopkins, Executive Director of the Intruders Foundation
Updates and New Cases
April 24, 2010 New York City
212-645-5278

http://www.intrudersfoundation.org/if_events.html

More about David and Budd from my old website with lots-o-links at the bottom of each.

...or are we just "left alone"? A story of meat.

http://www.terrybisson.com/page6/page6.html

Arash Amini is an undergraduate Physics major at the University of Illinois-Chicago. His mathematics paper, “On the Norway Spirals and Their Physically Impossible 'Ripple' Propagation” serves to debunk the assertion made by the Russian Ministry of Defense. Amini uses time lapsed photography, video footage, and basic trigonometry to attempt to prove the Norway Spiral could not have been caused by a failed submarine launched missile:

http://www.realitysandwich.com/calculati...

Vatican looks to heavens for signs of alien life

E.T. phone Rome. Four hundred years after it locked up Galileo for challenging the view that the Earth was the center of the universe, the Vatican has called in experts to study the possibility of extraterrestrial alien life and its implication for the Catholic Church.

"The questions of life's origins and of whether life exists elsewhere in the universe are very suitable and deserve serious consideration," said the Rev. Jose Gabriel Funes, an astronomer and director of the Vatican Observatory.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/arti...

"Humans have managed to make speedy progress in terms of external capacities. Nuclear weapons, space travel, etc. Our internal capacity to oversee and manage those technologies has not kept pace. Our ability to intimately connect with the hearts and souls of EACH OTHER has languished far behind, receding to a remote after-thought as our infatuation with ungoverned technology has grown.

And this turns out to be quite central in the UFO / Alien phenomena. Because, while we're enrapt with wonder at the spectacle of the outward technological implications, we skip over the inward imperative it imparts: EVOLVE.

..."

continued on the website of singer/songwriter Stuart Davis:

http://www.stuartdavis.com/blog/ufos-lif...

A very passionate Buzz Aldrin, speaking about cooperation with other nations in space exploration, drops this bomb: "There’s a monolith there – a very unusual structure on this little potato-shaped object that goes around Mars once every seven hours [aka Phobos]. When people find out they will say, 'who put that there? who put that there?' Well, the universe put it there. If you choose, God put it there."

The monolith is old news, but Buzz Aldrin talking about it publicly is new news.