Hello from Bucharest, where I am going to be giving a public talk on Thursday night about The Benedict Option, which was published earlier this year in Romanian:

I don’t know any details about the talk, but I bet if you check the Facebook page of Contra Mundum, the publisher, you’ll find what you need.

I don’t have any time tonight for further blogging, but I wanted to throw something fun out there. The British tabloid The Sun got results from a Freedom of Information Act request of the US Defense Intelligence Agency, which released 1,500 pages of documents about UFOs to them. Excerpt:

The document features a “useful database” which listed the biological effects of UFO sightings on humans and their frequency, compiled US-based civilian research agency MUFON.

This includes bizarre occurrences such as “apparent abduction”, “unaccounted for pregnancy”, sexual encounters, experience of telepathy and perceived teleportation.

There have five reported sexual encounters between UFOs and humans, says the study.

The report – prepared for the DIA – goes on to say UFO sightings can leave witnesses injured suffering radiation burns, brain problems and damaged nerves.

It warns that such objects may be a “threat to United States interests”.

Humans have been found to have been injured from “exposures to anomalous vehicles, especially airborne and when in close proximity”, it reads.

The report noted that often these injuries are related to electromagnetic radiation – and links them to “energy related propulsion systems”.

It lists injuries such as heating and burn injuries from radiation, damage to brain, and the able to impact people’s nerves.

It doesn’t appear that the paper got anything that spectacular from the document haul (aside from further confirmation that the intelligence agencies have been taking UFOs very seriously for some time). Still, I like the question in this tweet:

Have you ever had a paranormal experience or a UFO experience/sighting or both ?. Myself have had both, paranormal incidents in my younger years and now in later life I’m having UFO sightings and some other strange occurrences.

— Adam read (@Adamrea23499297) April 4, 2022

I’ve had a few paranormal experiences — ghosts, mystical occurrences — all of which will be familiar to regular readers, so I won’t go into them again. The only UFO thing that ever happened to me was once in the summer of 1997, I was visiting my mom and dad in rural south Louisiana, and outside at night on the phone talking to my fiancée. I glanced up at the sky and saw a configuration of lights stationery in the sky, at a strange height. It’s hard for me to estimate altitude, but it seemed to be at about the lowest altitude that jetliners usually take when they are cruising. I assumed it must be an airplane of some sort, though the configuration of lights didn’t look like a plane. But it remained stationery for a few minutes. It simply did not move. It hovered. It was far too high and bright to have been a helicopter. It gave me the creeps, and scared my fiancée, who asked me to please go back inside. Which I did.

So, no big whoop — but I still have no idea what that thing was. I have not been able to come up with a satisfactory explanation.

How about you? Any UFO encounters, or paranormal experiences? Let’s start a thread. Be as detailed as you can. Did these things change you in any way — that is, your way of seeing the world?

(Please somebody have a Bigfoot story!)