Subject: News From The C. Journal.  Part 4.                 Mar. 16, 2012.

  This talks about time travel.

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"I didn't feel anything spooky or look around for Martians or
anything like that," Woody said. "It was just a unique
situation. It's just as vivid now as when I was 12 years old."

Whatever the explanation, tourism officials are hoping all
those decades of unanswered questions add up to a boost in
visitors making their way to scenic outlooks around Linville
Gorge with the goal of spotting something mysterious.

Unexplained mysteries like the Brown Mountain Lights have been
the subject of cable TV documentaries and have fueled vast
online communities of amateur investigators. Ed Phillips, Burke
County's tourism director, is hoping to capitalize on that.

Earlier this month, a sellout crowd of 120 paid $-- a head to
attend a symposium on the lights at Morganton City Hall, and
there was a crowd outside the door hoping to get in at the last
minute.

"It's a good problem to have," Phillips said. "I could have
sold 500 tickets."

Interest in the lights has waxed and waned since the first
known printed reference to the phenomenon appeared in The
Charlotte Observer in 1913. John Harden, a Raleigh-based radio
personality, devoted an episode of his 1940s series "Tales of
Tar Heelia" to the lights, saying they "not only have attracted
the attention of the people of this state, but have aroused the
curiosity of a nation as well." There was also a folk song,
recorded by The Kingston Trio and others, that posited the
lights came from a slave wandering the hills with a lantern in
search of his master.

The profile of the lights has dimmed in recent years, although
the number of reports doesn't appear to be falling off. Making
the area a destination for fans of the unexplained and anomalous
helps give Burke County an edge, Phillips said.

"When you look at everything, you look at what people are
really interested in, and the Brown Mountain Lights was
something I really wanted to bring back to people's attention,"
he said.

There are plans for another symposium and a contest with a cash
prize for the best photo or video of the lights. There are even
T-shirts and refrigerator magnets for sale in the area now.

Also in the works is a regular event tentatively called the
Brown Mountain Par-normal Expedition, where people will pay to
hear a presentation on the lights at a dinner, then travel by
bus to overlook sites where the lights have been reported. The
events will be guided by Joshua P. Warren, an Asheville native
and p-ranormal investigator who plans to allow attendees to use
equipment like night vision goggles in hopes of spotting the
lights.

"The folks who attend will have a true firsthand experience of
what it's like to be out there trying to judge what's happening
with this mountain," Brown said.

The Brown Mountain Lights have drawn serious scientific
interest since the 1920s, when the U.S. Geological Survey issued
a report concluding the lights were reflections from
automobiles, trains and brush fires.

Daniel Caton, a professor in the physics and astronomy
department at Appalachian State University, thinks that's part
of the explanation for what people have reported seeing over the
years. But Caton thinks there's more to the lights, at least in
some cases.

Caton said that about seven years ago, he was ready to give up
studying the lights when he began hearing from people who said
they saw them from mere feet away, not miles across the Linville
Gorge. Those accounts sounded to Caton a lot like firsthand
reports of ball lightning, a little-understood but naturally
occurring phenomenon involving luminous spheres often said to
move or bounce about in the air.

Caton hopes to eventually set up cameras at viewing sites that
will feed to his website, allowing anyone to watch for the
lights at any time. While he's skeptical, guessing that 95
percent of reports of the lights are something like airplane
lights, Caton still thinks there are eyewitness reports worth
checking.

"The cool thing is, if ball lightning is preferentially made by
nature in the Linville Gorge, at least we have a place to look
for the conditions that might create it," he said. "Otherwise,
it's hopeless to try and study ball lightning because it's just
randomly made and you don't know where to look for it."

Source: Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/26/brown-mountain-lightsnc_n_1302204.html?ref=3D3Dweird-news

- DAYS OF FUTURE PAST DEPARTMENT -

UFO Occupants: From Time Not Space?
by Diane T-ssman

There are strong arguments for UFO occupants being aliens of
time, not space. The only real argument against this is that
there is no such thing as time travel. Of course it is also
argued that the distances are too great in space to permit
travel from "there" to "here," so that, too, is said by some to
be impossible. However, these unidentified flying objects with
unidentified pilots inside, have to come from somewhere or some-
when. If they are time-aliens instead of space-aliens, a number
of other questions are answered.

The fascinating reality seems to be that as we of 2012 discover
more sec-ets of space/time and the quantum universe, each new
discovery makes time travel as likely as space travel. After
all, it is "space/time," not just "space." Time has always been
mixed up in the cosmic puzzle. The current theories include the
concept of a "super-highway" which exists thanks to a rupture in
space/time that happened as the Big Bang expanded; due to this
"string," which exists outside the fabric, starships or time-
ships might be able to travel from one point to another,
extremely fast. This point might be a point of space or a point
in time.

http://www.ufodigest.com/article/super-highway-stars-alien-
traffic

There are other theories too, one of which explains that aliens
from far distant planets might be able to take a "wormhole"
through space but wormholes, too, involve time warps as much as
space warps. Black holes are the original jokesters who flaunt
the fact that time is not what we thought it was; the event
horizon of a black hole stops time entirely for the outside
observer watching an object get sucked into the black hole; to
the outside observer, that object remains virtually forever on
the event horizon, never being sucked into the hole. Meanwhile,
the object has been consumed by the black hole from which no
light, no time, no gravity, no-nothing, ever escapes. Let's face
it, "time" is just not the solid march of moments which we
thought it was!

All in all, the imagined obstacle of time being not traversable
is no more valid than the obstacle of space being not
traversable. It is just as likely that UFO occupants are time-
aliens as space-aliens. Simply put, they well may be humans from
the future - or the past - because, after all, if you can travel
time, is there such a thing as time at all?

I hasten to add that I believe that there are aliens
(extraterrestrials), from space as well in our skies, who
somehow travel the far distances involved; perhaps these space-
aliens have a working alliance with the human time-aliens. ETs
tend to dominate UFO theories but I feel we should focus more on
the time-aliens. What UFO questions are answered if UFO
occupants are from our human (Earth) family tree?

UFO Question One: Why do the aliens hang around Earth year
after year? They should have conquered us or helped us or
departed by now to explore other worlds.

Answer: If they are time-traveling humans, they have a vested
interest in Earth's welfare. Earth's environment steadily
degraded as humans developed industry and began their population
explosion on the surface of the planet.

In 1945, the U-ited States used n-clear b-mbs against Japan, a
first in human history; sure enough, UFOs began to appear in
abundance in Earth skies. The development and use of nu-lear
energy is certain to be a milestone as we look back on our
history as a r-ce. For the first time, humans have the ability
to destroy life on Planet Earth and show a willingness to be
stupid enough to do so.

The Year 2000 ushered in the beginning of the Singularity,
which culminates somewhere in the future when humans and
computers become one force, one entity-- thanks to computer
chips in human heads or other similar methods. Already, life
stops if the computer goes down at Walmart; no one is allowed to
add up purchases with a pen and paper, and all humans just stand
there, waiting on the computer to recover. The Singularity is,
of course, a subject worthy of a volume on its own: Some believe
humans will leap ahead in intelligence while others believe the
human s-ul will be lost. One thing is clear, we already know how
advanced technology dominates our lives, and certainly humans
from the future would look back and see the coming Singularity
as the second major milestone of human history.

And so, UFOs hang around because we current humans are
wrestling with nuc-ear power (especially what it can do in w-r),
and with the coming Singularity. It seems clear to me that our
own descendants would find these 2 milestones in their ancient
history extremely important, whereas ETs might shrug and say,
"Well, yes, these are huge human problems, not ours, though, and
so we are traveling on."

UFO Question Two: Why do aliens mess around with our nucl-ar
missile controls; whether we are Russian or American, we have
witnessed UFOs hovering over our missile silos, turning launch
codes on and off, and generally giving mi-itary men a nervous
breakdown.

Answer: Future humans would have the greatest interest in
manipulating human history for the better. Perhaps future humans
do not even exist if nucle-r we-pons are ever launched, one
country against another because at that point, perhaps n-clear
contamination stops the progression of higher life on Earth.

Part 4.

John Winston.  johnfw@mlode.com