Enchanted Lands, Orbs, and Imaginings

PHOENIX – NASA officials say it wasn't an alien spacecraft people in Arizona and New Mexico spotted floating far above them in the clear blue sky, just a giant research balloon.

Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Ian Gregor says he got calls about the object all afternoon Monday.

Bill Stepp of NASA's Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility in Palestine, Texas, says the mysterious flying orb was a 4,000-pound NASA research balloon used to measure gamma ray emissions.

Stepp says the balloon usually floats at 130,000 feet and can be seen for about 170 miles on a clear day.

Jennifer McCoy, who runs a UFO-themed Store in Sedona with her husband, says it "looked like the gigantic bubble from the Wizard of Oz."




[caught on film by Ye Olde UFO Store]









[caught on film by Dakota Snider, outside Kingman, AZ]

(looking near the base of the balloon, just above the "neck" portion, I see a face. Look!]





Get a load of the below excerpt from "Flying Foozle Femonema" on the Spin Busters website. "Flying Foozle" documents the experience of two gentlemen who witnessed a "bubble" of a a different sort, in the Land of Enchantment. It happened in the 1920s. The part of the story quoted ends with the words ".... then wandered off like Glinda’s globe from Munchkinland." I believe this telling was written at least 10 years ago, and the incident occurred some 70 years prior to the documentation.

Here goes:

".....Seems that during his late teens the old man and his brother were traveling by train in south-central New Mexico, during the 1920s. The train stopped in the middle of the night and nowhere, so folks could get out, stretch, take a leak. The old man was returning with his brother from a trip into the northwestern New Mexican mountains – trapping or mining, I don’t recall which.

He and his bro wandered out a tad into the Sonoran, gazing out into the starry night, and drained their lizards. Gradually from the darkness a ball of flame appeared, and began to flit about. It was followed by a number of other fiery globes – something like what science-types call “bolides.” The balls floated and zipped around in a strange kind of pattern. The old man said the globes moved about “playfully.”

The train hooted and the stars winked. The boys stared. Then a few of the globes approached the boys, flitting up close and retreating. Now I was with the old man up to there – I’d seen worse personally. But directly the Weird turned Pro.

Turns out that the balls of fire were transparent, and whenever they came near enough, the boys could clearly see inside them. And inside each of the globes was – and here I quote the old man himself – a “brown woman.” That’s right. Not grey aliens, not Sasquatch, not Captain James T. Kirk of the Starship Enterprise, and not Tick, his long-lost coon hound. " A Brown woman.”

Oh-kee-doh-kee.

The boys watched in amaze as the senorita-filled fire bubbles capered a few more moments amongst the cholla, then wandered off like Glinda’s globe from Munchkinland.

Flying Foozle Femonema, I’m calling it. Stickin’ to it, too."

"by Foozler “Sage” Obi wan Aboinker" (<------- whole story here)




From Great Mysteries:
Writes Cody Johnson, The Great ReThinking:

"...Throughout history and in all cultures we have stories of all sorts of entities such as fairies, power animals, ghosts, gnomes, angels, and a myriad of strange lights. Now we have orbs showing up everywhere. Taken for granted in all times and places, these entities have appeared in a wide variety of often elaborate forms. This large array of life forms and peculiar creatures tells us of a fundamental belief system that is part of our human experience.

Because of the limited reductionist view of science about these beings, most often designating them as pathological figments of our ego imagination, we are lead to believe the entities are only dependent upon our conception; they are created mentally by us and have no independent existence. These phenomena are creating a lot of trouble for modern reductionist scientific humanism, because the entities are non-physical and have an existence apart from being perceived by humans. This is where science falls apart because it can’t explain what’s going on and simply discounts the great many people who experience these beings as disconnected from reality and nuts.

Dr. Rupert Sheldrake, another of our faculty members, points out:"
“Entities exist in many realms. There are the realms of the dead, the realms of dreams, and the realms of the imagination. There are also the spirits of animals, the spirits of the Earth and solar system and stars, and the angelic stellar intelligences. There are spirits of each species of plant or mushroom, each with its own way of being, its own way of seeing and experiencing the world, of participating in the whole.

“All of these things are part of the shamanic fauna: the wolf spirits, crow spirits, other animal spirits, plant spirits, tree spirits, and so on. If you become like a hawk, you fly like a hawk, you see like a hawk, and you take on a hawk-like quality of being. These sort of spirits are biologically grounded. The angelic spirits are rooted in actual stars and planetary systems and galaxies. The whole realm is a system of intelligence that in some sense or another have a bodily aspect or were at one time in bodies, like the departed.”

I have to say that I LOVE this stuff. The idea of spirits floating in orbs is really enchanting. When camping in New Mexico back in 1996, I have to say it was certainly well named as the Land of Enchantment. Not only for its absolute, astonishing natural beauty, but for its paranormal/ethereal phenomena. When I feel brave enough, I'll write about some things witnessed out there (some of it would sound WAY too koo-koo.) I'll also have to find some other links when I have the time, especially to one William Henry (self-proclaimed mythologist.) I swear that he had written some article claiming that Jesus/others had been spotted floating or descending/ascending? in a blue orb at some point in history.