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A Spectacular and Extraordinary Thing: Six Exceptionally Strange Close Encounters of the Second Kind.

by Preston Dennett

Sometimes when UFOs appear, strange things happen. The presence of an extraterrestrial craft can affect people and the environment around them in weird and unusual ways. We call these close encounters of the second kind. These cases don’t receive much attention, but they have volumes to tell us about the extraterrestrial presence on our planet. This video presents six exceptionally strange and unusual extraterrestrial encounters that just might change the way you think about UFOs.

THE DEAFENING UFO. One afternoon in July 1944, two 11-year-old twin girls played in a field outside their home in Vandy, Quebec, Canada, when they saw a golden, disc-shaped craft in the sky. It slowly approached until it was 40 feet over their heads. It emitted a deafening whistling sound and a strange forcefield came out of it, pressing the girls onto the ground. The girls remained glued to the ground for three minutes when the craft darted away. Running home, the girls discovered that they were both profoundly deaf. Thankfully, their hearing returned after a few weeks. Investigators learned that other people in the area saw UFOs around the same time. Perhaps related to the encounter, the twins’ father began to get very sick.

THE GREATEST SHOCK OF MY LIFE. On October 2, 1956, security guard Harry Sturdevant was patrolling a construction company in Trenton, New Jersey, when he saw a brilliant red glowing object approach. In seconds, it was so close that he could hear a hissing noise and smell a noxious odor. It quickly darted away. The encounter affected Harry badly. He collapsed in pain, choking and vomiting from the odor. He soon learned that he had lost his sense of smell and taste, and his hearing deteriorated. He lost work because of the incident. As it was a work-related injury, Harry applied for workers' compensation. In support of his case, there were 2 other sightings on the same night in the same area.

I WAS VISITED. On December 20, 1968, a 5-year-old boy was awakened when a blue-white light filled the bedroom of his home in Juneau, Alaska. He went to the window and was shocked to see a UFO hovering outside his window. He found himself unable to move for 15 minutes as the UFO hung there. Finally, the craft left and the boy found himself with a very strange effect; his hearing became abnormally acute.

THE UFO IN THE COTTON FIELD. One night in August 1973, seven men worked in a cotton field in Gerena, Spain when a brilliant light approached. As it got closer, they saw it was a disc-shaped craft. To their horror, it approached and swooped down mere feet above their heads, causing them to lie flat on the ground to protect themselves. Then the UFO returned and buzzed the men again. For the next few minutes, the UFO repeatedly buzzed the dive-bombed the men before finally flying away. A few days later, one of the men had another encounter.

THEY WANT TO TAKE ME WITH THEM. One night in Autumn of 1977, Denise was waiting at a bus-station in Sussex, England when a dark oval-shaped UFO hovered overhead. She mentally called out to the UFO occupants, to come closer and to her amazement, they did. Denise found herself entranced and felt like the UFO occupants were watching her. Suddenly the bus arrived. Denise later realized she had 20 minutes of missing time. She was physically affected by the encounter and later began having dreams where the alleged ETs had a personal message for her.

A SPECTACULAR AND EXTRAORDINARY THING. On the morning of June 5, 1983, Mario Claretta saw a UFO sitting in the fields by his farm in Varzi, Italy. He alerted his wife and neighbor, both who saw the craft. To their shock, a man raced up to the UFO, disappeared briefly, then darted away. Shortly later, the craft took off, leaving behind weird landing traces in the field. The next day, hundreds of people across Italy reported UFOs.

Close encounters of the second kind are an important category because these cases contain evidence beyond just anecdotal eyewitness testimony. Those who say there is no evidence for simply have not done their homework. Of course there is, and a lot of it. The existence of UFOs has been proven beyond reasonable doubt. The day is coming when all humanity will not only believe in the extraterrestrial presence on our planet but will KNOW it is true.

LINK TO VIDEO: A Spectacular and Extraordinary Thing: Six Exceptionally Strange Close Encounters of the Second Kind.

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everyone who comes to this sub(and any alien/UFO sub) is prob familiar with the mantis beings by now. this thing seems to be everywhere in NHI encounter lore from spontaneous OBE to DMT trips to good old abductions. common theory I see these days is that they're the real people and the greys are just bio drones.

Summary of last night press conference by Filippo Biondi, a remote sensing specialist from La Sapienza University in Rome, presentation on the topic: https://youtu.be/Omk1CSdWaU8?si=j-BLgrIHdEk3mPLY

Let’s get the those beech shovels 

In the early morning light, dust from hooves creates a fog at Silvies Valley Ranch in remote eastern Oregon. Cowboys whistle and talk low to their eager herding dogs. They're moving the cattle from one vast, sage-studded range to another.

Five young purebred bulls mysteriously showed up dead on the ranch this past summer, drained of blood and with body parts precisely removed.

The ranch's vice president, Colby Marshall, drives his truck down a U.S. Forest Service road.

Coming upon one of the dead bulls is an eerie scene. The forest is hot and still, apart from a raven's repeating caw. The bull looks like a giant, deflated plush toy. It smells. Weirdly, there are no signs of buzzards, coyotes or other scavengers. His red coat is as shiny as if he were going to the fair, but he's bloodless and his tongue and genitals have been surgically cut out.

Finding these young Herefords in this remote country can sometimes take the ranch's experienced cowboys days. Ranch staff members are now required to ride in pairs and are encouraged to carry arms.

"It's rugged," Marshall says. "I mean this is the frontier. If some person, or persons, has the ability to take down a 2,000-pound range bull, you know, it's not inconceivable that they wouldn't have a lot of problems dealing with a 180-pound cowboy."

Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell made a series of extraordinary claims about extraterrestrial visitation, recovered craft and a clandestine group that he believed had concealed the information from both the public and senior government officials.

Mitchell was the sixth person to walk on the Moon and served as the lunar module pilot of Apollo 14.

In this interview, he said that military, intelligence, government and contractor personnel with direct experience had been prevented from speaking publicly by strict security classifications.

He suggested that although the original events had occurred many years earlier, some witnesses still believed they remained bound by security restrictions.

Mitchell then stated:

“There have been ET visitations. There have been crashed craft. There have been material and bodies recovered.”

He did not present these claims as something he personally witnessed during his NASA missions.

His conclusions were based primarily on information he said he had received from military, intelligence, government and contractor sources whom he considered credible and directly involved.

Mitchell claimed that knowledge of the alleged recoveries was controlled by a group whose exact identity and present relationship with the government were unclear.

According to him, the people involved may no longer have been formally associated with the government, although he believed they had been connected to it in the past.

He said the group had attempted to conceal the information or prevent it from being widely distributed.

When asked who controlled the knowledge, Mitchell replied that he could not identify the individuals.

However, he said the available information pointed toward what he called a “clandestine group.”

Mitchell described this alleged organization as having a quasi governmental affiliation and access to certain government facilities.

At the same time, he claimed it operated secretly and did not appear to be subject to ordinary high level government control.

He concluded the segment by repeating his belief that extraterrestrial visitation had occurred and might still be continuing.

The distinction between direct and indirect testimony is important.

Mitchell was not claiming that he personally saw recovered bodies or inspected a crashed extraterrestrial vehicle.

He was publicly endorsing information that he said had been provided by people with military, intelligence and government connections.

No physical material, authenticated recovery documentation or publicly available chain of custody was presented in this interview.

The significance of the statement comes from Mitchell’s background and the certainty with which he expressed his conclusions.

A decorated military pilot and Apollo astronaut was publicly asserting that extraterrestrial vehicles had crashed, material and bodies had been recovered and the information was controlled by a clandestine organization operating beyond normal government oversight.

The central unresolved questions are who Mitchell’s sources were, what direct access they possessed and whether any recoverable records or physical evidence exist to substantiate the claims.

Click below to access the sources and related material:

1. Watch the full Edgar Mitchell testimony:
2. Atlas of Mystery post on X:

Historical mysteries usually talk about lost cities or Roanoke-style colonies, but the Mali Empire has one of the wildest mass disappearances ever recorded. We're talking about a literal emperor and his entire fleet of 2,000 ships sailing into the open ocean, completely vanishing from history.

Before Mansa Musa became famous as the richest guy to ever live, his predecessor, Mansa Abu Bakr II, ruled Mali at the absolute peak of its power. But instead of just hoarding gold, Abu Bakr got obsessively fixated on finding what lay beyond the Atlantic Ocean. According to the only contemporary account we have, he first sent out a scouting fleet of 200 ships with strict orders: don't come back until you find the edge of the sea. Months went by, and only a single ship returned. The captain claimed they hit a massive "river with a violent current" right in the middle of the open ocean. He said the other ships sailed straight into a giant whirlpool and got swallowed up, and he only survived because he noped out of there immediately.

Instead of backing down, this just made the Emperor even more obsessed. In 1312, he decided to command the next expedition himself. He literally gave up his throne, left the empire to his brother Mansa Musa, and built a massive fleet of 2,000 ships—half for his army, half just for supplies. He boarded the flagship, sailed out into the deep Atlantic, and they were never heard from again.

What makes this a classic rabbit hole is the massive divide between alternative history and mainstream science. In the 70s, revisionist writers like Ivan Van Sertima argued that the fleet actually caught the Canary Current and made it to Brazil or the Caribbean. They always bring up Christopher Columbus's own logs, which mention that indigenous people were trading gold-tipped spears called "guanin" that chemically matched West African gold alloys. On the flip side, mainstream archaeologists totally reject this, pointing out there is zero physical evidence—no African artifacts, tools, or structures—predating the Spanish in South America.

The craziest part of all is that this entire story hinges on a single source. Everything we know about this lost fleet comes from a conversation Mansa Musa had with an Egyptian official in Cairo during his legendary pilgrimage to Mecca in 1324, which was written down by the historian Al-Umari. Either the ocean swallowed the richest fleet on Earth, or history's biggest maritime discovery was completely lost to time.

This is something strongly taught in Buddhism, to detach from the physical. Physicality is an illusion, we are constantly switching dimensions.

Nothing is permanent. There is no solidarity. Keeping your vibration high, and also spiritual is reaching your fullest potential.

No solidarity, so if you kind of think of this experience like Alice in Wonderland; you will start to understand.

It's mystical in nature. I just talked to my dad and he said, "Wherever we go, just spread beauty." This is why when you focus on yourself and love yourself, you essentially become God.

Everyone here, in this universe, we are meant to manifest. You are really magical. Names that you have attached to, things that you have attached to; people have already moved on. It's been just you, to have a strong purpose to change things.

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You are your own person. When you tap into self-love focus; You have the capability to become God of your own reality. When you reach a God Frequency, you will be able to create anything you want or need on this planet. I have reached it, simply by loving/focusing on myself and maintaining my purity. Be sure to always keep your energy protected, especially from vampires. It's important to manifest of behalf of their void.

What you focus on grows is true, because it enhances it's frequency and therefore manifestation. In your reality. 👁

Think of quantum metaphysics such as quantum jumping, quantum immortality, and quantum superposition (time travel); that kind of explain reality's attachlessness. Be more confident about this truth, than anxious. You truth begins in the astral, once that energy decides what it wants to do with you based of your frequency (keep it grateful and happy), and then solidifies in this reality (the physical illusion).

You can ditch dimensions on all frequencies too, so what somebody thinks has happened, didn't really happen. Vice Versa. We are all living in our own reality. Explaining glitches in the matrix, and people being really famous in other realities besides here. Some realities don't have to exist for anyone, so it would only be you there. Some realities, everyone would want to be there.

Manifest what you want, and love. We constantly split off into realities by being our own person.

It really makes you wonder, if you've been manifesting this whole time; where is everyone else? Truly. It depends how much they understand manifestation, but that's between them and spirit. The dimension someone else is on, and their God frequency isn't really of your concern. It makes me think that what you see, somebody else sees differently. There are so many different versions of reality.

In my dreams that I woke up from just now, a Buddhist monk told me; the will you have in manifestation, is the will you have towards yourself no matter where you manifest.

I was told; Manifesting in the here and now is caring for other people, in the here and now; and you all meet at a high reality in your group consciousness. Your self-love journey is your own personal journey at your own frequency. A Buddhist Monk just told me this, in my dreams, lol. Manifestation is also to care about people in the here and now, to meet at higher frequencies. To be an oasis of love, instead of seeking. Spiritually caring for others so we can alchemize. In a self-love manifestation, it is an enlightenment journey. I just wanted to include this as well.

I just woke up from another dream where spirit told me, manifestation is a way of saying they love me. They told me to look in a mirror, I am this pure creature and they WANT me to feel my best. Regardless of what happens to me, I am deserving of a beautiful life. I was pushed in a room, when spirit told me this; and I could leave out the room into any world I wanted. This is what they have been trying to show me.

You have the power of harmonious flow. Tap into the trajectory of your empowerment, and see. The less unconventional you are, the more you will manifest a reality that is like that. The more esoteric flow, so be free.

Enhance yourself; your deity; through self-focus and self-love. Be your highest self. Manifest abundance.

Be spiritual. It's quantum out here! Focus on yourself.

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Redditors dealing with issues they do not speak on found answers and relief, in seemingly meaningless dreams.

Many of us are secretly losing uphill battles piecing back a broken heart.  Confusing signals coming from both our lost loves/assailants, and from within ourselves, greatly diminish the possibility of healing and moving on.

But for these individuals who posted a dream they knew was connected to their trauma, an extraction method called "coherence" detected a subliminal message that transformed their turmoil into a healthy perspective, and once inaccessible relief:

This young lady does not suffer in isolation, as so many of us are dealing with similar issues that have broken our living compass.

Here, a single dream did what years of PTSD therapy could not. The individual successfully defragmented what plagued her soul, and was able to continue on in the business of living.

In another example, a young man who misses how good life was when he had his ex submits his dream for examination:

This young man is dreaming of exactly what he needs to defragment his soul. After the dream was translated through coherence, the possibility of getting on with the business of living is open to him, and anticipated.

We as human beings are currently in an age of overall Defragmenting, compared to the rest of life in the Universe.

According to the wide samples of dreams that have undergone coherence, our dreams showcase we are still unpacking the basics as a species. With time and acceptance, we will be on the brink of unlocking what lies in the blackbox of men's souls.

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Was watching a podcast and a very interesting point came up… most mantis encounters began springing up in the 70s and 80s with the rise of hippies and earth conscious movements, a time when we were becoming more conscious about how we treated animals and the environment, so in the midst of such a shift in consciousness its interesting that reports began to shift as well.
The idea more or less revolved around this;
In a time when we used to see ourselves as superior to insects (and more or less still do), perhaps this was the phenomenons way of showing us what it was like if an insect were superior to us? What if an insect treated us the same way we treated them? Were so used to seeing ourselves on the top and everything else on the bottom, how would it feel to see these roles reversed on us? How would we react?

Now, evolutionarily speaking, these beings most likely do not actually come from another place, in this form at least. The evolutionary tree of mantids is very distinct and identifiable, and unique to earth, and probably would not have evolved on another planet. Sure convergent evolution is possible, but highly unlikely on a planet to planet scale considering how specific earths evolutionary pressures are.
So whatever these beings are, this is likely just a form they are inhabiting anyways (why mantises specifically i have no idea), so im wondering if this claim has any merit, if sightings really only became prominent in this time.
Any thoughts?