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Talking about deception and illusions and other random shyte. https://www.patreon.com/posts/illusions-156974889?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link

Donald Keyhoe was getting letters about UFO cases to talk about... but from whom? Former director of Project Blue Book, might be involved... This and other shit.

Talking about missing scientist, lost cold war tech, hanger doors in the side of a mountain, 46g forces on a human body and some other nonsense from the Weird Desk. SHOW NOTES & SOURCES https://www.patreon.com/posts/weird-desk-ep-1-156095697?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link

Christopher Bartel, a 10-year U.S. Air Force veteran with an extraordinary background in high-security operations across some of the most secretive and mysterious sites in the world.Chris served with the Air Force Security Forces, including time at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada. He later took on critical security roles with the Department of Energy at the Nevada Test Site and provided security at the legendary Area 51 test range. In 2010, he was hired by Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies (BAASS) as a security officer and investigator, where he spent the next eight years — six of them living and working full-time at the infamous Skinwalker Ranch in Utah. During that time, he patrolled the property (often alone), documented its remote landscape through photography, and witnessed events that continue to fuel discussions about the unexplained.Chris is also an accomplished photographer whose work from the ranch, known as The Skinwalker Ranch Portfolio, has been exhibited in art galleries and serves as a unique visual record of his years there. His perspective offers rare, firsthand insight into these restricted worlds, blending professional security experience with personal encounters at the edges of the known. https://artgallery.umd.edu/news/washington-post-review-christopher-bartel-skinwalker-ranch-portfolio  Patreon - https://patreon.com/strangerecon?utm_medium=unknown&utm_source=join_link&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=copyLink

The Westall UFO incident began on the morning of Wednesday, April 6, 1966, in the suburb of Clayton South, located in the southeastern region of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. At approximately 11:00 AM, during the morning recess, more than 200 students and staff members from Westall High School and Westall State Primary School observed a silver, disc-shaped object approximately the size of two family cars. Witnesses, including science teacher Andrew Greenwood, described the craft as a metallic grey or slightly greenish saucer that moved silently and performed erratic, high-speed maneuvers. The object eventually descended into a nearby paddock of wild grass known as The Grange, where it reportedly hovered or landed briefly before tilting on its side and accelerating away toward the south. Shortly after the departure, students who rushed to the site found a large, circular area of flattened, swirled grass, commonly referred to as a "nest." Within hours, unidentified "men in suits" and military personnel arrived at the school, allegedly ordering students and staff into silence and later burning the grass at the landing site to remove physical evidence.The Westall event is frequently cited as "Australia’s Roswell," not only because of the mass sightings of a craft and physical debris but because of the strikingly similar narrative of government suppression that has persisted for decades. Much like the Roswell incident of 1947, where the story survived through the persistent testimony of townspeople and witnesses to strange metallic fragments, Westall relies heavily on the consistency of the original observers who refuse to recant their stories despite official dismissals of weather balloons. However, the most profound parallel lies in the emergence of a "second generation" of voices—children of alleged insiders who are now stepping forward to break the silence their parents were forced to keep. Just as children of Roswell-era military officers have claimed their fathers spoke of recovered bodies or alien technology on their deathbeds, the Westall legacy has been revitalized by the descendants of a high-ranking Australian official JOIN PATREON CLICK HERE TO SEE THE PHOTOS & SHOW NOTES

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Today, viral claims on the internet hailed a supposed genuine UFO resembling a spiky 3D cross or old-fashioned "jacks" toy. Enthusiasts linked it to the famous 1561 Nuremberg celestial phenomenon—a historical woodcut depicting an aerial "battle" of spheres, blood-red crosses, cylinders, and rods over the German city. Others tied it to a alleged 1960s sighting by two English police officers, claiming investigative journalist Jeremy Corbell released a still image of it in 2024. In reality, all these connections proved fake: the modern image was debunked as a hoax or misidentified object, with no credible evidence linking it to the centuries-old Nuremberg event or the purported British police encounter. PATREON - We could use your ideas. Join the Recon Team https://www.patreon.com/cw/strangerecon