A man was sitting in his hot tub on the 4th of October at Moreton, Wirral, looking up at a clear sky when spotted a very bright light which started to ‘go at tremendous speed’ across the sky in different directions. ‘Twelve mysterious orbs’ were spotted shooting over Macclesfield in Cheshire, the witness said that they were moving too quick to be Chinese lanterns, they suddenly rose and disappeared from view. On the 5th of October Tina McGrory saw what looked like a ball of fire heading towards the earth at Glenmavis, Airdrie, Scotland. She reports: ‘Then it stopped and turned into three bright white lights in a triangle formation. It hovered for a while then went slowly changed direction hovered again then shot off into the sky.’ Over in Portsmouth the witness was in his back garden having a cigarette when he saw ‘a bright flame-like colour in the sky. The object looked as if it was a star without the bottom point on it, with an orange light going around it in a circular fashion.’ The UFO went horizontally quite quick across the night sky and it looked as though it was beginning to descend when it finally went out of sight.

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RIGHT: Buggs does an abstract painting while his owner, Carol Jensen, stands ready to help at her farm in Iron Ridge. Jensen taught her horse, a 13-year-ancient former barrel racer, to paint as way to keep him from getting into mischief during the winter when he is not as active. Photo: Mark Hoffman

With help, Buggs excels at painting

By Erin Richards of the Journal Sentinel
Posted: March 15, 2010

Iron Ridge — He’s prankish and clever, an artist with an attitude.

On excellent days he’s focused, his brush strokes smooth and long. Other days he knocks over the easel with his head, slathers paint on his assistant, or accidentally punches right through the canvas. Time to start over.

With a paintbrush between his teeth, Buggs, a 13-year-ancient quarter horse cross, produces novelty artwork that’s attracting a growing number of admirers in Dodge County and across the state. He’s a pioneer in a painting horse movement that’s emerged in recent years, fueled by YouTube videos and the Internet, and part of a worldly contingent of “animal artists” that includes everything from elephants and dogs to chimpanzees.

Owner Carol Jensen, a multimedia artist, jewelry maker and musician who taught Buggs to paint two years ago, envisions filling a gallery with her horse’s paintings one day, or maybe taking his show on the road, exhibition-style.

“I’m inspired by paintings I see, colorwise, and I reckon, ‘Oh, Buggs could do that,’ ” Jensen said recently, while dressed in a white button-up smock and mixing paint on the ground next to Buggs’ open stall door.

A few moments later she dabbed the brush in the paint, pointed the wooden handle at Buggs’ expectant mouth and instructed, “Up and down, up and down . . . ”

Jensen, 56, learned Buggs’ aptitude for painting while looking for ways to keep the restless horse occupied during the winter months, when poor weather keeps him cooped up in his stall. She had heard about people teaching horses to paint and figured that Buggs, whose personality equates to that of a smart child who acts up when bored, seemed like a excellent prospect. In October 2008 she started training the chestnut gelding to hold a stick in his mouth and target the tip on a designated area.

When he performed the action, she rewarded him by pressing a clicker and giving him a treat. Then she gave Buggs a paintbrush, went his head up and down, and praised him when he repeated the action on his own.

“At first I used a sketch pad and no paint, then I went from the sketch pad to stretch canvas,” Jensen said. “When he started poking holes through the canvas with the brush, I started using canvas board instead.”

By November 2008, Buggs’ first painting sold in a charity auction. Since then, he’s made about 30 more paintings with Jensen’s help.

Many of Buggs’ pieces line the walls of Jensen’s house in a colorful parade of abstract strokes, splatters, scrapes and mushes from the whiskers on Buggs’ chin.

“As far as freshness and originality are concerned, he’s got me beat,” Jensen said. “But my dexterity is better.”

Animal artists

Horse-produced art has attracted a honest amount of media attention in the last couple of years. Cholla the painting horse, with his own Wikipedia entry, has had watercolors showed around the world.

The earliest documented art-producing animal may be Congo, a chimp that painted and drew in the 1950s. YouTube videos show elephants producing art – the Milwaukee County Zoo’s elephant, Brittany, earned minor fame with her painting abilities – and dogs that wield paintbrushes.

Cheryl Ward, a Florida resident who started teaching her horses to paint in 2004, has coined the movement “interspecies collaborative action art” to reflect the partnership between human and animal. While Ward said the horses don’t know what they’re producing, she believes they get some sort of satisfaction out of the process.

“It’s honoring their innate abilities to use their bodies in search of food or something else that feels excellent,” Ward said. “It’s deeper than just a fun pet trick.”

In Iron Ridge at her Windy Hill Farm, Jensen sets up the easel outside Buggs’ stall a couple times a month. It’s up to her to select the hue of the acrylics, and to choose if she’s going to let him paint wet colors on top of each other, or do a base layer, let it dry and then bring it back to Buggs for another round.

When they work together, Jensen stops and surveys what Buggs has done so far. She may rotate the canvas, or choose a different-sized brush. Going minimalist requires diligence.

“I’d have to take it away pretty quickly,” Jensen said. “If I leave it up to him, he’ll just keep going.”

When not painting, Buggs performs a repertoire of crowd-pleasing party tricks – he opens the mailbox outside his stall, retrieves a package and hands it to Jensen. He picks up a rubber ball and drops it in the basketball hoop. He plays the keyboard with his nose, waves a checkered flag, and when it’s all over, drops his head and bows.

A few miles away at the Celtic Crossroads Café in Mayville, Buggs’ paintings pique many customers’ interests. Café owner Cyndy Beecroft said people have bought nine or 10 of Buggs’ paintings off the wall, ranging in price from $75 to $125, over the past year.

“I reckon Buggs’ artwork is pretty sweet,” Amy Tarleton, a patron at the café, said recently. “I’m not talented in art at all. It’s cool because he’s a lot better than I am.”

Tarleton said she’d consider buying a Buggs painting, if she had an available $125.

Tarleton said, “I reckon I would because who could say, ‘I have a painting done by a horse?’ I reckon that’s just fascinating.”

Buggs online
To see a video of Buggs, a quarter horse cross who paints pictures, and his owner, Carol Jensen, visit www.jsonline.com/video.

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Just in case you are looking for even more information on 2012, I saw an article you should read. It is an interview with actor Dan Aykroyd about UFOs and 2012, which Aykroyd believes will signal the end of the world as we know it.

He thinks “the UFO phenomenon is going to figure greatly” in a 2012 revelation, when “the end of the world will come.”

“It won’t be the end of the world physically as we know it, as depicted in the movie. But it will be the end of consciousness and the end of perception as we know it.”

Check it out at Aykroyd and the End of the World, and see if you agree with me.

Just like many of you, although I have loved some of Akyroyd’s movies, I must say, this is a bunch of malarky.

Dan Aydroyd and 2012 originally appeared on About.com UFOs / Aliens on Wednesday, March 17th, 2010 at 02:19:24.

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Fox news reports on the wave of nightly UFO sightings over Lake Erie near Cleveland, Ohio USA. msnbc: Man claims UFO in Cleveland (10 Nights in a row)- Wave of UFO Sightings over Cleveland (March 2010)- UFO Report Live Website-

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UFOs: Deconstructing Sereda

“Some times a cigar is just a cigar” Freud

The UFO community is full of skeptics who believe UFOs are indeed something vital, but who are very rigid in their interpretations of evidence and witnesses. You know my stance on how they treat some of the excellent UFO witnesses. But honest skeptics are very vital as a balancing act for those who accept nearly any report even when it has been disproven. For me, to disprove a report you have to cover all the bases of the report. If you cherry pick data in your analysis then you are proving nothing in my eyes. If someone reports a UFO and lives near an airport, and a skeptic proves that one part of the report fits the description of a plane but then he/she leaves out those parts of the report that challenges that interpretation, you’ve become a debunker in my eyes.
But, what if a skeptic disproves, rather conclusively, a report you were emotionally attached to, a report you thought would never quite be clarified? Well for me, one measure of a person is how he responds when what he believed turns out to be probably incorrect. I was a strong supporter of the Sereda interpretation of the objects witnessed around the well-known “NASA Tether Incident”. NASA had touted, before the release of a twelve mile long tether into the atmosphere, how this experiment may herald a source of powerful energy which could be used instead of rockets to raise the orbit of the shuttle in the future. Of course, the tether broke and caused even more controversy when it was filmed. After the NASA film was analyzed (thanks to the now departed Martin Stubbs) by David Sereda, a UFO researcher, David found some striking anomalies around the drifting tether. There, on the NASA video, was what looked like a swarm of round objects moving in different directions behind the tether. The tether was so far away, the objects would have to be huge. These objects seemed to be propelled on their own, and unlike ice crystals, had a spinning pattern to them. They all had the same notch. Light seemed to be emanating from the objects, not from tumbling reflections of “ice crystals”.
Below is a clip of the tether incident and David Sereda’s theory:

As you can see there are a fantastic deal of question surrounding these objects. Sereda went on to try to build a possible new physics around the these objects’ appearance and behavior. But when I was at the 2009 International UFO Congress, Mark D’Antonio an astronomer, and chief MUFON video analyst, made a presentation of the Tether Incident and other anomalies . He had his own close encounter and I don’t reckon he is in any way an unbeliever
. “UFO Hunters” program had demonstrated how an object zoomed in on “can appear to be behind an object when in fact it is really in front of it”. Mark from MUFON’s analysis and his natural explanation, along with the UFO Hunters demostration has satisfied all of the questions I had on the tether incident so now it goes into my “clarified basket” (sorry, Stanton). What do you reckon?

Finally, I wanted to place a clip from Sereda’s investigations that show what I believe may be real UFOs.

All of us have a like/despise relationship with skeptics. But honest skeptics help us stay focused. There are many people at the conferences selling smoke and mirrors, turning off the all but the most ardent believers. This has to be countered with a touch of reality. The most vital item for me to remember is some UFOs are real craft and are not from here. I’ve not read or heard any argument that stands up to scrutiny against the overwhelming, independently verified, evidence of UFO crafts, for the last sixty years. Isn’t a person like Mark helping us say to the world (“we don’t need no stinking debunkers”) “ we have in our midst objective honest scientist which check the UFO data received and filter out was is not UFOs.”

Joseph Capp
UFO Media Matters
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