Granted, it’s a fluff piece, but they get the message right.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again….

We have lost touch with another side of ourselves and reality.

If you have never had an intense psychedelic experience you’re missing out on a part of the world and your own mind that has to be experienced to be believed.

Indeed, we are all one.

In honor of the excessive spraying these last couple days, I rounded up these:

More and more things seem to be spiraling lately. In Shropshire, England, we have a Ministry of Defense investigation of a UFO sighting that was filmed by a soldier:

The 38-year-old soldier, a member of the 1st Battalion Irish Regiment, said: “I was on duty in the guard room when the other boys outside began shouting.

“I went out to see what the commotion was about and could see 13 craft in the skies. They were like rotating cubes with multiple colours.”

Former MoD UFO expert Nick Pope said that an inquiry to establish what had been seen by the witnesses was vital.

Mr Pope said: “Something quite extraordinary does seem to be going on in British air space at the moment.

Just sayin’.

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Visited with John Lindsey again today and made quite a bit of headway into the narrative of the documentary. One of the nuggets of gold out of these meetings has been access to all the documentation, both photographic and scientific. The following is a home video shot by a friend of John’s during the 1998 dig, and shows testimony by several geologists, engineers, and locals. The guy in the brown coat at the end is Bud Shelton.

I’ll let the image speak for itself.

Great comedian and social commentator George Carlin died yesterday at the age of 71.

“There will always be language taboos in any culture. There are aspects of our bodies that certain religions have put beyond the pale. I don’t think it’s cheapened our discourse. I think it limits people,” he said. “I’ve always said I enjoy using all the language. Human beings invented all of this language. When I was a little boy, I was told to look up to policemen and look up to sports stars, and look up to the military. And we all know how they speak. Apparently it hasn’t corrupted them morally. So. I think these words are overrated for their power.”

I think that true intelligence is measured by wit, the ability to make light of things in our serious and rather sickly world. George, you join the ranks of Robert Anton Wilson, Hunter S. Thompson, and Kurt Vonnegut, and of course, Bill Hicks, as disembodied heroes for those of us left here in this strange material world. Thanks for truly being alive while you were here, and thanks for being dead and alive at the same time for ever more. Oh, and if your consciousness briefly stops off on another dimension we’d agree was “Heaven”, you know, silly angels in white with harps and shit, please give God a good ole sock in the face. The bearded fucker sitting on the thrown, not the “real” One consciousness, all loving, all hilarious.

From Crooks & Liars…

There’s good news and bad news. The good news is that scientists in Silicon Valley have bred genetically modified bacteria that consumes agricultural waste and secrete crude petroleum oil.

That’s the good news. The bad news is…

I’m not quite sure. What about this pulling research and development away from cleaner renewable energy sources just to make more of the old stuff? Well, except… instead of pumping out more carbon into the atmosphere, this “Oil 2.0” is not only renewable but also carbon negative – it emits less carbon than is sucked from the atmosphere by the raw materials from which it is made. Oh, and the raw materials? Not going to be corn (so no more tortilla riots in Mexico City) nor palm oil (no more deforestation in the Amazon) – it eats wheat straw from California and woodchips from the timber industry in the South.

Well, how about everyone’s car having to be modified to burn the new stuff? Y’know, like hybrid and electric cars? Gee, um, nope. It’s completely interchangeable with fossil fuel oils we now suck out of the ground and refine. You wouldn’t even notice a change-over at the pumps… except for maybe the price once decoupled from OPEC.

How about cost? Hmm.

“Five to seven years ago, that process would have taken months and cost hundreds of thousands of dollars,” Greg Pal, senior director of LS9, the company making this stuff, says. “Now it can take weeks and cost maybe $20,000.”

What about… what about…? Genetic modification? Right, let’s not forget, GM is BAAAAD. Isn’t it? Hell, there’s gotta be something Big Oil can use to scare us into rejecting Oil 2.0…

We have the technology. We have the opportunities. We have the skills and the inventiveness. All we need is the will. And the politicians to listen to us instead of entrenched corporate interests…

On Friday, May 6, 2008, I sat at the corner of 276 and 549 in Rockwall, Texas eating a sandwich. It was a normal sandwich, meatless, but that’s beside the point. It was hardly a normal day. Said sandwich was consumed less than one sixteenth of a mile from L3 Communications, and smack dab on top of the Southeast corner of the mysterious Rock Wall, for which the town is named. Below is a rough approximation of the location of the wall. It should be noted that this is a composite of the map from the article published in 2000 in the Eclectic Viewpoint, and at the request of John Lindsey on behalf of property owners who wouldn’t like random Stolen Skies readers sneaking through their backyard with a shovel, is not exact. It’s damn close tho.

Lindsey showed us here at Stolen Skies an original map, along with artifacts, wall samples, samples of the mortar material, documented geological tests on the stones in the wall, and hundreds of emails and correspondents between universities, geologists, archaeologists, and historians. Amid Peruvian artifacts depicting ancient astronauts, photographs of Lindsey with major alternative historians Zecharia Sitchen and Erik Von Daniken, both of whom (along with Jim Marrs) have endorsed Lindsey’s arguments, my spine certainly did a bit of crawling. When he showed us documentation by geologist Bud Shelton on the structural makeup of the Wall, my brain popped a synapse. Here I will attempt to illuminate the strongest arguments in the first half of Shelton’s paper, with another post to follow. It’s a dense read, so bare with me.

I: New Construction Material

Shelton’s paper states, “Several structural and construction materials engineers that have been invited to view the stone works, consider the stone to be an ancient example of a cast material.” He refutes the “clastic sandstone dike” argument made by James Cunliffe on several counts:

a) Absence of diapirs, or shoots of material caused by volcanic activity. “Shallow clay diapirs are normally associated with high clastic sedimentation rates where clays have not had time to dewater or de-gas prior to burial. The area’s Cretaceous dispositional environment was not of this type. Except for a few sparse schistose shale clasts within the stone itself there is no diapiric shale present.”

b) Regular patterns in stone placement, alternately stacked, indicating masonry: “Most earthquake fissures display irregular and jagged edges whereas the wall joints do not.”

c) Beveled stone edges: “Each course of stones displays beveled edges that appear to have resulted from the action of rapidly flowing fluid or gas in turbulent spiral motion under a considerable pressure. Honeycomb flow channels are common on the base of stones. When a stone is broken open transverse to its long axis, one often notes shale clasts and small hollow bubble structures in a pattern that resembles bread dough rolled up from a sheet, and other features denoting activity prior to hardening.”

II. Mineralogy and Magnetism of the Wall

The most fascinating aspect of the wall, personally, is the fact that it’s not sandstone material. On two independent wall material tests, the first conducted in 1933 by Kelsey and Denton, and the latter conducted by Shelton, the content of the actual stones (and yes, they are stones, I touched one at Lindsey’s house, photos to come) is thus:

55% Zircon
17% Garnet
13% Tourmaline
2% Rutile
2% Staurolite
10% Titanite
1% Brookite

If you notice, those are all crystals.

More to come.

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Former weapons inspector Scott Ritter talks about the new nuclear posture, Iran and “usable nukes”.

Yes, even in the stomping grounds of us here at StolenSkies.net. Check it:

1. Several geological authorities have determined the walls are “clastic sand dikes,” formed near fault lines. Such reports were given when it was assumed the Balcones Fault extended through Rockwall County. Later studies show there are no fault lines in Rockwall County.

2. Natural stone formations like clastic sand dikes sometimes crack into apparent blocks due to earth movement. If so, the cracks are uniform as is the grain of the stone. Stones found in the wall are both at different grain directions, and they are laid overlapping just as a mason lays bricks.

3. The stones have beveled edges, space and a mortar like material between them.

4. The top of the wall at all outcropping found to date has a uniform elevation of 550 ft. above mean sea level. The ground elevation in the area is far from uniform. It is hills and valleys.

5. The wall is an almost perfect rectangle about 4 miles by 7 miles. The exact dimensions of short to long have a mathematical relation known as “The Golden Section,” about 1:1.6. This relationship has been found in other ancient cities. A small rectangle in the southwest corner is formed by intersecting walls. These dimensions also have that same ratio.

6. As depth increases, the stones are larger.

7. The stone itself is found nowhere else but in the wall, has not yet been identified by geologists, and is considerably denser than granite. The stone weighs 200 lbs./cu.ft — granite weighs 175 lbs./cu.ft.

8. Ancient writing has been found engraved on a large slab.

During the flood at the end of the last Ice Age 12,000 years ago, the coast line of the Gulf of Mexico extended beyond Dallas. Almost all of Rockwall County was under water. Over a period of many years a layer of blue shale sediment formed on the ocean floor, creating a strata of rock approximately thirty feet thick.

Extensive geological knowledge of the area places the bedrock fifty feet below the top, and thus the height of the wall is estimated. The blue shale layer has been found about ten feet below the top of the wall. This means that 12,000 years ago this structure was already ancient.

We’ve decided to launch an investigation. Fortunately, much research has already been procured via Project Quivera and a very kind man named John Lindsey, with whom we will be speaking with on Thursday. We’ll be recording/videotaping the interview, so you faithful can check it out.

Stay tuned…this is nuts.