April 25th, 2008 at 11:49 pm
(UFOs, Twin Peaks, Symbolism, Blue Rose, David Lynch)
UFOs & The Black Lodge: Blue Rose Report Part 2.1 - CryptoUFOlogy
“My Dream is a Code Waiting to Be Broken. Break the Code, Solve the Crime.” - FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper
In the small idyllic border town of Twin Peaks, Washington, tucked away in the forested mountains, a murder mystery unfolds involving the killing of the local high school prom queen, Laura Palmer. When a second high schooler, and potential victim of the same killer, crosses the State’s border, the FBI sends Special Agent Dale Cooper to investigate what we later find out, in the prequel, is one of FBI Bureau Chief Gordon Cole’s (played by David Lynch) “Blue Rose Cases.” And so begins the strange tale of mysterious communications and fantastic encounters that engulfs the town of Twin Peaks and the lives of all its quirky inhabitants, including its newest arrival, Special Agent Cooper.
The initial storyline would seem to be far removed from the world of UFOlogical secrets, but for the occasional paranormal manifestations, mysterious visions, and precognitive dreams of Cooper and certain townsfolk. In fact the acronym U.F.O. is only uttered once in 
the series and not at all in its subsequent prequel, Fire Walk With Me. It’s only in the second season, upon the return of Major Garland Briggs (after his abduction by a mysterious anomalous light accompanied by owls and a cloaked figure) and his mentioning of the Air Force’s Project Blue Book, that Dale Cooper says the words, “Unidentified Flying Objects.” (And also when Sheriff Truman asks in a subsequent episode, “What was Wyndham Earle doing investigating UFOs?”) But besides these two overt references to UFOs there are many subtle, covert themes threaded into the fabric of the Twin Peaks story that can be used to inform the more casual viewer about the truly strange nature of UFOs and related paranormal (and even parapolitical) phenomena. It is these covert references and allusions upon which we will focus our explication of the series and its prequel in upcoming installments of this column. While an average TV watcher viewing Twin Peaks might be aware of the classic modern UFO myths of military retrieval of crashed flying saucers, governmental cover-up of recovered aliens and supposed underground bases, bedroom visitation abductions, and the human / alien hybridization stories, they are not likely to be aware of the deeper connections in the Twin Peaks milieu which speak to the nature of the UFO’s darker CryptoUfological reality; the secret coded side of UFOs and the paranormal.
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December 5th, 2007 at 6:20 pm
(Dreams, UFOs, Twin Peaks, Symbolism, Blue Rose, News, David Lynch)
“We shall pick up an existence by its frogs. Wise men have tried other ways. They have tried to understand our state of being, by grasping at its stars, or its arts, or its economics. But, if there is an underlying oneness of all things, it does not matter where we begin, whether with stars, or laws of supply and demand, or frogs, or Napoleon Bonaparte. One measures a circle, beginning anywhere.” ~Charles Fort, Lo!
UFOlogists don’t like to talk about bigfoot. Cryptozoologists looking for sasquatch don’t like talking about ghosts. Ghost hunters won’t talk about UFOs. And conspiracy researchers are constantly lamenting, and rightfully so, being linked to all of the above by the media as a discrediting tactic. It’s a fair criticism (for those not wishing to taint there own activist chocolate with those other fringers’ peanut butter.)
A corollary criticism often follows that television shows and movies with wacky paranormal conspiracy subjects generally condition the public to associate those topics and issues with so much silly entertainment. And again, I generally agree with that sentiment.
But some TV shows and movies can make excellent touchstones for educating that same neophyte public about both the paranormal and parapolitical. And while our myth-making media do condition the public to pigeon-hole conspiracy claims and UFO sightings research into the molds sculpted in the image of X-Files “True Believers,” some examples from these pop-culture continuums can be turned back on themselves as vast repositories of referential material and launchpads for further exploration. These exemplary cult-classics can serve to educate instead of obfuscate. For there are many True Believers and they each have their own cliques, but there are also those watching all the various cliques - and those watchers aren’t all working for the NSA.
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October 23rd, 2007 at 9:23 am
(UFOs, Guests, Podcast)
Blue Rose Report w/guest Brent Raynes of Alternate Perceptions magazine:
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Brent Raynes is the editor of Alternate Perceptions magazine online. He has researched the strange realms of UFOs and the Paranormal for years and is the author of Visitors from Hidden Realms - The Origins and Destiny of Humanity as Told by Star Elders, Shamans and UFO Visitors.
www.Mysterious-America.net
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June 11th, 2007 at 9:40 am
(Dreams, UFOs, Roswell, Twin Peaks)
Not Nick Redfern
“Since Nick beat me to the punch on the “Best Evidence” review (I just received my copy today) I wanted to report a strange dream I had a couple of nights ago.”
Read entire post at www.UFOmystic.com here: A Strange UFO-Related Dream
We hope to have Greg and Nick back on the Blue Rose Report very soon!
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October 4th, 2006 at 8:00 pm
(UFOs, Podcast)
Blue Rose Report 061004 w/Greg Bishop:
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Your host, SMiles Lewis, is travelling to Eureka Springs, Arkansas on family business next Wednesday so we’ve pushed the show back a week.
We hope you will join us Wednesday, October 4th at 8pm CST when we are joined by author Greg Bishop to discuss his incredible book PROJECT BETA: The Story of Paul Bennewitz, National Security, and the Creation of a Modern UFO Myth.
For more background on Greg please visit his website www.ExcludedMiddle.com
Greg Bishop - Founder and Editor of The Excluded Middle 
magazine (back issues republished as the anthology WAKE UP DOWN THERE) and radioshow host of Radio Misterioso on Kill Radio in Los Angeles.
His latest writing and research includes PROJECT BETA - The Story of Paul Bennewitz, National Security, and the Creation of a Modern UFO Myth.
Tune In To Radio Misterioso Live Every Sunday Night from 10 - Midnight, Central Standard Time via www.KillRadio.org
Subscribe to Greg Bishop’s Radio Misterioso Podcast! 
- Greg Bishop makes FATE’s ‘100 Most Influential People in Ufology Today’
- Grey Lodge Occult Review 2003
- Austin Para Times newspaper - Issue #3
- Steamshovel Press magazine 2002
- “Whither Ufology” - Issue #19
- Project Censored Award Winner 2001
- Anomalist Book of the Year Award Winner - Best Anthology 2001
- You Are Being Lied To - Edited by Russ Kick of Disinfo.com
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