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The following article was written by Terry David Burgoyne, alias Lonecat

Whenever somebody asks me if I have ever seen a U.F.O. I’m never really quite sure how to answer. I did once have an experience in Spain which, viewed with hindsight, I tend to rationalise almost to the point of dismissing it entirely from my mind. And yet… And yet, one thing that I must admit is that the incident taught me an a important lesson.

One fine day I was standing at the bar of one of Madrid’s ubiquitous “Mesónes” enjoying a fine wine with an american friend of mine from New York, Tony Lugano, (not his real name) and our conversation turned to getting out of Madrid for a weekend. Tony was writing a “trilogy” at the time and he felt he wanted to give it a rest for a bit and I hadn’t been out of the city for months anyway. We both felt that a good walk somewhere out in the country was what we needed where we could breathe some fresh air after the heat of Madrid.

Lonecat reporting here from space, halfway to the Moon. While I am out here, although I have much to do and there also being much ado I still have a bit of time for reflection on quite a number of matters. Just lately I have even had time to read, for the second time (so far) an enthralling book called "Alien Agenda". Although this book does not strictly deal exclusively with the possibilities of life beyond our planet and the the peoples who might have visited us in the past, it does have a very interesting section which is concerned with the mysteries of the Moon, our Moon. the only "natural" sattelite of the the Earth. The thing is that it has started me off on a train of thought about the very nature of the Moon. The Moon still holds many mysteries for us humans, not the least of them being the sounds that come back to us after both natural meteor imapcts and impacts caused deliberately by falling probes and parts of rockets especially intended to set up a series of vibrations through the lunar crust.

Lonecat here, reporting back to Earth and hoping your are all handling the economic crises on Sol-Three reasonably well. Viewing Earth from this distance and seeing it as a gently rotating, calm and beautiful blue and white planet, apparently undisturbed by anything for the the last couple of hundred million years, I get to thinking about what things in this universe should be considered as important and what others not so important. The wars and hatred that I could not handle when I was on Earth seem now distant and unreal, yet I know that this is not really so. Are there other planets beyond our reach which are suffering similar problems? Are there "fundamentalist" philosophies which seek to impose their ideas on the inhabitants of other planets? Are there religions which claim to have the only and absolute TRUTH way beyond the confines of what we call our Solar System?

By Gaiaguerrilla

“BUT WHAT ABOUT THAT??”

There's a fairly choppy account of strangeness throughout the world. Whatever the public knows of the big mysteries doesn't seem very organized. The culprit could be human tendency to jumble up our absurdly assumed with our vastly understudied. We believe perhaps the first explanation we hear, and avoid the alternatives. It makes our lives convenient . . . after all we can't be doddling the mysteries of the universe when there's a roast to cook. Surely we can't all go out and measure the data for ourselves, but do we really need one person developing the acceptable theory from the data? Unless there's something big to hide, they may as well stick a webcam in any laboratory, any satellite, any dig that researchers may find themselves in. Let the public see in realtime.

THIS IS Lonecat again reporting from Earth orbit and having a busy time keeping up with events in Space, particularly in the Earth-Moon system and in the Saturnian system. The big event this last week was the change of orbit of the indian moon craft Chandrayaan 1, when it switched from its expanding orbit of Earth to one around the Moon. Now, this lunar orbit will gradually be reduced in height until it becomes circular and very close to the lunar surface. Meanwhile, Cassini is busy at Saturn taking some spectacular photographs of the moon, Enceladus's south polar region. You can read more about these events by scrolling down this page.

Meanwhile, I am beginning to get "cabin fever" out here all alone in orbit and I am missing the mountains, hills and seas of Earth. I really hope that the Book of Thoth will manage to provide the "BoT OSV" the space vehicle in which I am currently swinging around the Earth, with this new magnetic shield which will give me better protection against solar radiation. To find out more about that, read this next article:

Hello, everybody. This is Lonecat still in orbit, orbit number 14 in fact, taking measurements and keeping and eye on what is taking place in our Solar System but also keeping a star-gazers' eye out for things further afield. Here is my report back to Earth for this week.
I have often wondered if the so-called "paranormal", or what I call "fringe-reality events" is peculiar to Earth. Could the Earth's magnetic field, which swings out like a comet's tail away from the Sun, make the night-side of the planet significantly more prone to the manifestation of ghosts and Poltergeists than the "Day-side" or side turned towards the Sun and have something to do with phenomena from other dimensions? We may never know, but the following article is interesting and may help to clarify the matter:

By Newbs

Samhain ... October 31st for the Northern Hemisphere

Samhain, or Halloween, the festival of death and the marking of the arrival of Winter.

The Lord of Life Greenwood Man will now adopt his position as Lord of the Underworld, the dread Lord of Shadows.All around leaves are changing colour and falling from branches , with life itself retracting back into roots and bulbs . Not destroyed , but moved to another plane for the Winter , to rest , to recouperate in order to be re born. This is a time to draw in our energy , and prepare for Winter.

By Lonecat

Hello again from Lonecat out here in orbit. This week, because of some technical problems I have experienced over the last eight days I'm afraid that the material, or some of it at least, is a bit on the out-of-date side but I hope that, by next week, things will be back, more or less, to normal.

They say that the truth is out here, but you know, the more I think about it, the more I become convinced that the Truth is everywhere. It depends on one’s interpretation. With the “attitude” of this space vehicle stabilized, everything outside the observation port seems to be either motionless or to be moving in very gradual stateliness and yet everything is “really” moving at a rate of thousands of mile/kms. an hour. When we see astronauts going about their work outside the space shuttle or on the Hubble space telescope there is no sense of the enormity of the velocity that those objects, including the astronauts themselves, are travelling at in their orbits around the Earth.

by Manuel Ulliac (a.k.a. “Gaiaguerrilla”)

This booklet is a brief reasoning on the philosophy of what I call “Syllogistic Autopsy.” This is a fairly simplistic application to Logical Positivism. It'll essentially outline what is “the pudding” when we say the analogy that “proof is in the pudding.”

A summary of this philosophy is to say that you can prove something with physical measurements, and on top of that, you need to present it with a complete detachment to any affiliation of any kind at all.

By Lonecat

HELLO once more from Lonecat still in orbit around the Earth and wishing I could get to the Hubble telescope to take a close-up look at it. I like telescopes and will never forget the time I first saw the Moon and Jupiter through a refractor I had made, myself, when I was about 13 or 14. I remember that to get a good view of an open patch of sky I had to take the telescope and tripod ( which I had also made) out into the local cemetery or rather church yard. Both The Moon and Jupiter were to be seen in the sky and I was able to view the craters on the gibbous Moon which shone down upon the gravestones. I was absolutely astonished and literally open-mouthed at the sight of the lunar mountains along the terminator (the line along the Moon's surface which separates the lunar day from the lunar night). This is the best time to see the Moon through a telescope, when the angle of the Sun throws the shadows of the features on the Moon's surface into stark relief. I was also treated, on that same night in the graveyard, to a sighting of the so-called Gallilean Moons of Jupiter. the very Moons which Gallileo dei Gallilei himself discovered with his first rudimentary telescope.