The Ancients

Background

Recently I’ve taken to watching the Ancient Aliens television series while doing my morning exercise regimes. It’s truly a mind expanding show if you’re at all interested in this kind of thing. In the very least, it gets you to thinking that some of this ancient archeology is just not quite what traditionalists make it out to be.

Case in point: it’s always bugged me how sharp and crisp all the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics are! Especially when one show, elsewhere, tried to show how they were made and with what tools! There was no way that they could be made with such primitive copper tools–and they knew that because it was quickly glossed over!

And that’s just one reason.

As I’ve come to gain more familiarity with the series, as much as I love it, I do part company in believing that absolutely everything they claim stems from extraterrestrial aliens (do you get my “funny” here? “STEM“!) Giorgio Tsoukalos, David Childress, and the gang all seem to fervently feel that all they’ve witnessed had to come from elsewhere.

I disagree.

My Argument

But don’t get me wrong–I do believe most of what they present, but with a caveat: I don’t think much of what they feel happened were as a result of extraterrestrial aliens. I feel another faction was also involved: ancient civilizations.

Not UFO ETs, but ancient, far-more advanced “Humans” were involved, in civilizations much farther into our past than even we know.

You see another thing that really bugs me about their series is that these guys and gals never differentiate between the different kinds of tech involved with the so-called ET aliens. There are two distinctly different technologies involved in so-call ancient events and encounters:

• Sleek high-tech, nifty Star Trekkie/Star Wars-like technology
• Present-day, brute-force fire-and-brimstone rocket-fuel-like technology

These guys never seem to realize or comment on that. I mean, they’re all quite smart and notice all kinds of other discrepancies across history, but not one of them has ever commented on this stark, in-your-face discrepancy! Do they truly not see this?

I feel that you can’t really have both, because one presupposes the other. Why would you need a brute-force launching mechanism that breathes fire and smoke and rattles the earth like an earthquake if you had quiet, sleek, smooth hyperdrives that are subtle and beautiful and sleek in design?

You wouldn’t.

Therefore the only real solution, in my humble opinion, to this would be different sets of “aliens.”

Now these different sets could be far more than what I’ll present here, but I just see it as another, unexplored consideration.

I feel that there were extremely advanced civilizations much farther into our past than ever realized. And I feel it were these civilizations that may have been responsible–and still are, to present day, for many current sightings–for the more “muscular tech” described and portrayed in the ancient writings. I also feel it were these civilizations that were involved in the more embattled scenarios described throughout history, where one faction fought another, as presented in Sumerians, Akkadians, Assyrians, Hindus, and other similar depictions. I feel any so-called ET aliens had gone way beyond fighting among themselves. At their level of development such acts were no longer be any kind of a consideration to them–or would result in immediate and total obliteration. I don’t feel a civilization could get to their level of advancement keeping violence in their inventory.

It would be those who are, then, the extraterrestrial aliens. They have the sleeker, more advanced technology that doesn’t involve brutish, action/reaction propulsion with all the smoke and fire ejecta.

I feel that it were these unknown ancient-ancient civilizations (even long before such people as the Atlanteans, Lumarians, etc.) that helped the known-ancient civilizations that we all know and love. It were these people who still ended up fighting amongst each other and had more “primitive” high technology.

This said, I also feel that it were some of these civilizations that then did, in fact, leave Earth for Mars and other …locations. They could very well have then also become…extraterrestrial aliens.

But…

You may well ask.

Do I believe in other ET aliens that don’t originate from Earth?

Fair question. I do not.

My reasons for this may be a bit out there, but I feel that physical existence is all about Humanity. That there is a physical (corporeal) and nonphysical (incorporeal) universe, and in the corporeal world, humans are, indeed, it. We are how incorporeal entities are manifested when they “impress” themselves upon the corporeal landscape. And we need this corporeal existence to properly learn how to control/manipulate our individual and en mass powers before progressing on to other forms of existence. That is why I feel Humanity is really all that exists in terms of “other physical beings.” It’s not just about the Drake Equation and statistics. That’s Human logic, not incorporeal, metaphysical logic. And since it’s be hard-pressed for an Human to think that way, you have to get as close to it as possible, and math and statistics is not that way, because those are physical constraints, not nonphysical ones.

That said, I do believe there are unimaginable (types and quantity) incorporeal beings out there! Beings who used to be corporeal and/or had never been corporeal that inhabit an unimaginable existence “outside” Human experience…but who do intersect with our experience. I feel all of these different experiences merge and weave throughout each other, like multi-dimensional Venn diagrams.

I also feel that there are “forces” out there who are intentionally muddying the waters and perhaps “displaying” themselves as “reptilians” or some other odd form of corporeal expression. For whatever reason(s). Non of this matters to me. I’m concerned about spiritual and philosophical growth. Not about the “toys” that are being focused upon (and I don’t mean this dismissively to those concerns with these…but that is how I look at it–it’s not the tech that’s important, to me it’s what’s behind all the tech).

It is from all of the above that all these weird events originate–in my humble opinion. I think some of the “events” were mass dreams/hallucinations/even flat-out fiction that [in/advertently] became “fact,” while others were intentionally created from these dreams and myths to be presented as fact for whatever reasons they had back then. I mean look at today: governments and secret societies make shit up all the time. They present these “stories” to the public at large to intentionally muddy their secrets and keep them as secrets. And…HUMANS being HUMANS..all over and across all Time and Space…is it that far of a leap that other humans in other times didn’t do the same exact thing we’re doing?

Yeah, So…

How did I arrive at my theory?

I have read many books on many topics over my life time: everything from the Bible to Edgar Cayce and Jane Roberts. The most neutral readings I have ever come across were from Jane Roberts and Rob Butts. Like Cayce, the information they detailed also came from a trance state, and the person involved was Jane Roberts (again, as I’ve mentioned before, all belief systems claim “inspiration” in their creation, so it’s no leap that a trance state could also be consider “inspiration”). Her husband, Rob, transcribed it all. While some transmogrification errors have been induced in some of the material (usually in the beginning and at the ending of each session), it was in these works that I found the most clarification of all-things esoteric that were NOT heavily garbed or filtered in either the belief systems of Jane and Rob or the tropes of Humankind and religion or anything else. Jane and Seth’s messages are as pure and clean as a message of this kind can possibly be. And it is even quite self-aware of this fact, sometimes even commenting when it is being somewhat filtered by Jane’s views or not. In nothing else have I found such self-awareness on the part of the messenger and/or the message, such neutrality in content.

While I never knew Jane, I did know Rob. We’d become pen pals when I was a teenager in the late 70’s and remained friends until his death in 2008. We wrote a fair amount back and forth, and he always came across as a very level-headed, thoughtful, and reasonable man. An artist he also was. He was a you or me. Solid, not flighty. Wasn’t about chants and crystal balls. Had even served in the military. I’ve read all their published works, many of their books more than once. It is in these works that I have read of what I’ve presented above and experienced in my own life hat were therefore proven to me many, many times over my life and even presented in this blog page (yes, I put it all to the test and it always came through with flying colors).

As to the ancient civilization discussion from Jane and Seth, you can search this link for a listing in several of Jane’s books. In my journey through life I’ve just further applied reason to all the “ET alien logic” that Giorgio and the Gang propose. Though they are thoughtful and serious about their work and I hope I could meet them someday, it just surprises me that they haven’t come across Jane’s work, but have mentioned Cayce’s work. They could at least mention it as a possibility, like they do with other considerations. Hopefully Seth’s work is merely an oversight on their end.

So, even if you think I’m daffed, just watch the show and make up your own mind: does it make sense that all that they’re saying is “the same”? Sure, I could be wrong, but it makes zero sense for there to be those two sets of “opposed” technology simultaneously present and so classified as described. I hope Giorgio and The Gang can reconsider their position.

Shameless plug: My novel ERO has some of the above incorporated into its story for further, more entertaining (if unnerving) reading!

UFO Watchtower…Revisited

UFO Watchtower, Hooper, Colorado, June 28, 2014

Well, this is kinda funny.

This past weekend I’d posted about the UFO Watchtower, a place I’d visited about once a year since 2005, then hadn’t been to for a couple years. I’d talked of trying to make my way down there this year, for certain. Well, no sooner had I posted that post, when my wife says, “Do you wanna go today?”

I’d never even considered it, and had, in fact, been looking to head down there in a couple weeks.

I looked outside.

Mow the lawn and yard work, standard weekend chores…or a fun, spontaneous road trip?

We day-packed the car, made our hotel reservation, and sped out about an hour-and-a-half later.

There’s nothing like a road trip…heading out on the open road, leaving the cares and chores of everyday life for asphalt (or concrete) and rolling scenery. It was a gorgeous Saturday. Blue, sunny skies, mid-to-upper eighties. We only ran into one glitch, with a temporary delay just south of Colorado City. A pickup truck and it’s camper had flipped and gone off the Interstate. As we’d approached, I’d seen the Flight-for-Life chopper heading north, low, off to the right of us. The accident had happened before we’d driven by, so we didn’t have much of a delay. Was a heck of an accident, but, so far, both people have survived. The truck ended up pointing north, but was on the southbound side of the Interstate. Must have been quite the flip. Was sad to see so many personal effects scattered about, like a cat carrier (what happened to the cat?), clothes, and any of the standard items people take with them on vacation, spread out alongside the road. We wish them well.

It did take us a little over 3 hours to get to the Alamosa area. We had to eat, but the restaurant we frequented while there, Dos Rios,

UFO Enchilada, Calvillos Restaurant, Alamosa

had been bought out and renamed, so we went to Calvillos, instead. We’d been there before, and the food was great. The maître d’ was extremely attentive.

Of course, I had to have the “UFO Enchiladas.”

We then backtracked and took a left on Highway 17, up to the UFO Watchtower.

Well, though it’d been a few years, turns out not much had changed. We did find that the green alien sign that had been on the right side of Highway 17 was no longer there. Those (Judy Messoline, owner and operator of The UFO Watchtower, had later told us), had been removed at the behest of the Colorado DOT. It had all been part of the Lady Bird Johnson Beautify America “act” years ago. No advertising billboards in non-industrial areas—even though Judy owns the land upon which said billboards resided. Apparently when land has a road bisecting it, you cannot put up any signs that advertise and tell drivers to “turn here.” Okay, I get that. This stretch of Highway 17 isn’t busy, so drivers can (and probably do) simply stop and backup to see the signs at her entrance. Makes for a good story….

Anyway, the road to turn left on, off of Highway 17 into the Watchtower, indeed remains a dirt road. Once off Highway 17, Judy has her little alien directional signs to the Watchtower, and most things there remain the same. The Garden is much more packed with visitor trinkets. Once section was of particular note, given I’m a writer: there were tons of pens and pencils jammed into the earth (I’d meant to take a picture of that, but got sidetracked, so never did…).

Judy isn’t smoking as much anymore, and, in fact, never lit one up once, while we were there. She says she no longer smokes as much, and is actually using e-cigarettes now. But her patio table and chairs remain outside, under the Watchtower’s mesh platform, and she still has several dogs, one of which was there when we’d last visited. Another she’d lost to an illness, if I remember right. Had a couple new ones.

Judy Messoline, Owner/Operator, UFO Watchtower

And, Judy remains as friendly and outgoing as ever!

Judy’s gift shop is a little more sparse. She no longer has her horses or cattle. Too expensive to care for, et cetera, so she had to let them go to someone who could give them adequate care and attention. All I could think was the same applied to her gift shop. Things are just more expensive now, is all. She showed me some new additions to her notebook on strange incidents, like how one visitor took pictures of the The Garden, her pictures had shown orbs in them…her camera had malfunctioned (actually stopped working)…and when she’d returned home, The Garden pictures had disappeared from her camera. Okay. As you can see, below, my picture remained…and no orbs. Inneresting, as my Man With No Name character would say….

Another funny thing happened: while as I was setting up my books for consignment in Judy’s gift shop, from behind me I heard someone hail me by name. I turn around, and it’s Ron Cree, a writer friend of mine. Of all places to meet someone who actually knows me…it’s usually my wife who runs into people she knows, since she was essentially raised in Colorado (an early transplant)! I haven’t seen Ron in some two years, since the last writer’s conference I’d attended (and he mentioned he hadn’t seen me at the last one). He and his friend had been on a road trip, and were heading north. So we chatted a bit, took some pictures, and off they returned to their road trip. On his way out, Ron had gone back to his car to fetch something for The Garden. On his return he called to me to show me what he thought would be perfect for him to leave as a “Garden gift”: a writer’s conference pen. We both chuckled, and he stuck it in the ground, by one of the so-called “vortex centers.” Was good seeing ya, Ron! He mentioned he’d just sent his next novel manuscript to his agent. Be on the look-out for that. He writes for young adults, but mostly 30-something women seem to like reading his work.

It was cool finally “delivering” on my promise to give Judy a copy of ERO…and to leave a few (signed!) copies behind for

The Garden, from Atop Watchtower

consignment, and some ERO business cards. I also left copies of Sleepwalkers and The Uninvited. Be interesting to see how they do, especially given her upcoming UFO Conference, July 26th and 27th. One thing we forgot to do was sign in at the gift shop’s register, dang it.

As we hung out at the watchtower, I was up on the platform, just hanging out, when I see this “interesting” bird fly low, over the tops of the brush, some distance out from us. I grab my binoculars, and home in on it…and find a whole parliament of ground owls! I counted seven! And they were so funny, the lot of them just hanging out at this one location, just messing around with each other, hopping on and of brush, branches, and each other! So, we figured, they must have been young ones. One of them seemed larger, probably the mom. We didn’t have any “long lenses,” just our little digital camera, which took far better pictures than I’d expected,given the distance, even if blurry. But, maybe the photos were blurry for a reason? Were they really ground owls…or “screen memories”…memory images (or photographs…?) of aliens replaced by something familiar or perhaps friendly (owls or deer are typical screen memories of aliens). We watched them for quite a while, it was the coolest thing!

But, alas, no UFO sightings.

We had a great time talking with Judy, and a couple other visitors who stopped by while we were there, but come around 7 p.m., she had to part company.

Ground Owls…or “Screen Memory” Aliens Keeping Watch….

We then drove to Monte Vista, to The Best Western Movie Manor hotel we always stay at. The rooms are named after movie stars, and we stayed in room 102, this time, the “Paul Newman” room. The movies were Dragon 2 and Transformers. From within the hotel rooms, you can only see one of the screens, and the one we could watch was Dragon 2. Didn’t do anything for me, so only watched part of it before calling it a night. That didn’t keep us from getting some popcorn and (for me) a hotdog, though. This really is a unique hotel…there’s no other like it that I’m aware of in the US, anyway. Do check it out if you can! You can call ahead to see what movies are playing, and if you want to see the other screen, you can hop in your car and drive in to the other one, for free. We love drive-ins, and do try to make at least one drive-in a summer. When we had our dog, Mac, and our truck (and the local drive-in that is now a Wal-Mart…), we used to back into the drive-in slot, and all pile into the truck bed, blankets and sleeping bags and watch in the open air! So, try to support you local drive-ins, if you can!

So, the trip was fun, not much had changed, and it was good seeing Judy (and Ron!) again. If you’re ever “in the neighborhood, do make a trip down to Hooper-way, and tell them we sent ya!

By the way, as I post this, it is the 67th anniversary of the Roswell Incident, July 1-4, 1947. Again, I hadn’t planned this. Funny how it all happened, though. Synchronicity.

Blanca Peak. Only Thing I Saw Disappear Into It Was Melting Snow….

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UFO Watchtower

UFO Watchtower, Hooper, Colorado, c. 2005

The place, 2 1/2 miles north of Hooper, Colorado (about 40 minutes north of Alamosa, Colorado).

The mission?

Well, the mission is similar in scope to the  likes of Area 51 or the Marfa Lights Viewing Area. Located in Saguache County, Colorado, in the heart of the San Luis Valley—where all the “weird shit” one hears about in Colorado originates (e.g., cattle mutilation, UFO sightings)—is this interesting little destination run by Judy Messoline, called the UFO Watchtower.

Near as I can tell, my wife and I made our first excursion there back in July 23, 2005, the same year Judy’s book, That Crazy Lady Down The Road, came out. I forgot about how or when I’d first been made aware of the Watchtower, but once I’d heard about it—and the Best Western Movie Manor hotel, with its own drive-in theater you can watch and listen to from your hotel room—I had to go there.

Alamosa, Colorado is located about 3 hours southwest of Colorado Springs, west of the Great Sand Dunes National Monument (also a great place to visit!). When you hit the town of Alamosa (if you take the I-25/Highway 160 route), you take a right on Highway 17, and head north. About 22 1/2 miles later, just north of Hooper, Colorado, you might see (if it’s still there), off on the right, after you past the Colorado Gators Reptile Park (I told  you, this is an interesting place, didn’t I?), a little green alien waving at you (I can’t remember if we’d been told the little guy had been stolen or not, but, in any event, it used to be there…). A half-mile later, you’ll take that left (on our first trip there, my wife had played the X-Files soundtrack, as we pulled up to the place; it was surprisingly—or not so surprisingly—apropos to the mood!). You’ll be able to see the Watchtower from the road at that point. Out in the middle of your average, everyday Colorado plains. You’ll then follow a side road (I think it was a dirt road when we last went) around to the right, veering away from the campground entrance off on the left, and end up in the little dirt parking lot. If Judy’s not immediately there, she’ll eventually catch up, maybe like she did with us, in her golf cart, with her “little friend.”

Judy runs this little “bubble” gift shop hut, in which she sells all manner of book, posters, and fun “alien and paranormal stuff.” It’s beneath the UFO Watchtower, and the dome-shaped structure fits perfectly in-line with the location’s mission: to promote and observe extraterrestrial phenomena.

And hold stimulation conversations on the patio, beneath the Watchtower.

Along with Judy’s campground is a bed & breakfast, which should have already begun taking reservations (see site). In front of her watchtower is a place, called “The Garden,” which she built in 2002 (again, see the site, and click on “The Garden” link under the “Must See Tower Links”; she has a lot going on at her website, so check it out). The Garden, we are told, is the center of a cosmic vortex…but I have never seen this vortex that others have claimed to see. That’s cool. We all have our superpowers.

Entry to the Watchtower used to be free, with a requested donation (which we always paid), but I now see that she charges a mandatory $2 to enter. Judy (when not doing her chores and all) usually sits out there with any guests and shoots the breeze, as she smokes her cigarettes, her dogs milling about. In the past, she’d occasionally put out cookies or some kind of munchies. She’s very easy to get along with and will chat with you about near anything. I think on our last trip down there, a fiddlist friend of hers, from up Denver way, had her instrument out and played a tune or two for us—then later showed me some basic violin handling. It was fun…sitting out on the plains during that summer, listening to our own private, little concert, then getting a private, mini-violin lesson!

It was also on our first trip there, back in 2005, after we’d left the Watchtower, that we stopped at a couple of locations, in Hooper,

UFO Watchtower, Hooper, Colorado

and asked around about any strange activity people might have seen. Besides the personal interest in things-paranormal, I was getting ready to begin work on my novel, ERO, so I’d come down here to do what UFO research I could, in my own “backyard,” so to speak. And, surprisingly (or not so surprisingly), we found everyone we talked to open and eager to share their stories of seeing strange things in the San Luis Valley skies. The strangest of these was from one lady who told us of a great-great-grandmother who’d seen a hovering craft flying around over Blanca Peak, to the east of Hooper. It had been above the mountain…then descended down and into the top of it.

Yes, great-great-grandmother. Who’d seen this in the late 1800’s.

Over the next five or so years, we’d gone back to the Watchtower about once a year, and I’d given Judy progress reports on how my UFO novel had been coming along. We had some interesting conversations, about things she’d seen, things others had seen. UFO speculation. Conspiracy theories. You know the drill. She showed me some cool pictures, books, and other things in her gift shop, and I bought an item or two. It has been several years since those annual pilgrimages, and with this year, we hope to make another. I’ve sent Judy a copy of ERO, but have only just done so (am kinda embarrassed I hadn’t earlier—I thought I had, but it had just gotten lost in all the “paperwork” of life…).  Be interesting to talk with her about it, once she’s read it….

That Crazy Lady Down The Road (Judy Messoline, © 2005)

Now, every year, for I don’t know how long, Judy also hosts a UFO Conference. This year’s conference is July 26th and 27th. On her site is a brochure that can be checked out. The hyperlink is cute. Or, again, check out her Facebook link. She also hosts annual UFO Watches,and has had members of MUFON in attendance.

As mentioned, Judy has also written a book. It’s about her life and the creation of the UFO Watchtower. She discusses what brought her down to the Hooper area, the creation of the watchtower and its “garden,” and of course, aliens abductees, and sightings. I’d read it years ago, and made for interesting reading. Some of the info in there makes the hair on the back of your neck stand up, even if you’ve read it elsewhere. It all still makes you think, and will make for great conversation fodder!

Judy and her Watchtower have even been featured on the Travel Channel (2011), with Alejandro Rojas, as well as other interviews. She seems very busy, and in demand, for having been pegged…”That crazy lady down the road….”

Check out Judy’s Facebook  page. She may also be contacted at 719/378-2296, or by e-mail, at ufowatchtower “at” yahoo.com.

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