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Per the title, woke up this morning and found my kbin.social magazine subscriptions gone from my Lemmy account. I searched magazine names to resubscribe with no luck. Has Kbin been fully defederated from Lemmy.world? Note that these were smaller magazines not caught up in the spam issues from the other week, and had been working fine until yesterday.

A mysterious triangle of land in sparsely-populated Alaska offers more sightings of paranormal phenomena than almost any similarly-sized area on Earth.

As well as supposed sightings of triangle UFOs, ghosts and “aggressive” Bigfoot-type creatures, the "Alaska Triangle" is also known for a remarkable number of unexplained disappearances.

In fact, the History Channel says there are more unsolved missing persons cases in the region than anywhere else on Earth. A new Discovery Channel documentary interviews eyewitnesses of some of the most mysterious and compelling UFO sightings. One, Wes Smith, says the “very strange” triangular objects he saw didn’t move like any known aircraft.

The low-flying mystery craft were totally silent and did not even emitting the tell-tale hum of a drone. “It’s like everything you’ve ever been taught has gone out of the window, because how is that possible?” he asked.

Just over 11 miles from where Wes made his amazing sighting, another Alaska resident, Michael Dillon, caught his own mystery aircraft on camera. A light suddenly popped into existence in the night sky, moving from west to east, before shooting straight up – like the so called Nimitz UFOs – at incredible speed.

“It was very obvious to me that we were not witnessing a natural phenomenon,” Michael added. “For something to change direction at that speed… a human body would be liquified.”

But the mysteries of the Alaska Triangle are not confined to the skies. Since 1970, over 20,000 unexplained disappearances have been recorded in the sparsely-populated patch of land between Anchorage and Juneau in the south to Utqiagvik on the northern coast.

Considering the rugged area’s low population, that figure comes out at well over twice the national average for the US. The disappearances have been blamed on everything from UFO abductions, a flesh-eating Bigfoot-type creature called the Wendigo, and magnetic anomalies that interfere with hikers’ compasses.

Experienced rescue workers sent out to investigate the state’s numerous missing-person incidents have reported hearing phantom sounds, and becoming disorientated and light-headed due to some unknown feature of the desolate Alaskan wilderness.

Whether some unknown physical phenomenon is responsible for the lights in Alaska's night sky remains a mystery. UFO expert Debbie Ziegelmeyer believes that Alaska is ”attractive” to alien visitors because it’s so sparsely populated.

A mysterious triangle of land in sparsely-populated Alaska offers more sightings of paranormal phenomena than almost any similarly-sized area on Earth. And as well as sightings of UFOs, ghosts and“aggressive” Bigfoot-type creatures , the Alaska triangle is also known for a remarkable number of unexplained disappearances.

“They can pretty much go where they want,” said Debbie, who is the Star Team Investigator for UFO research organisation MUFON. “That’s the attraction of Alaska.”

Rance Lentz, 41, took an interest in UFO research after an eerie alien experience when he was still a schoolboy. But a later career in the US military gave him a fresh insight into the phenomenon.

“There are definitely more sightings when there’s heavy, heavy testing,” he said. “Folks on the tests see different lights… and different things off on the horizon.”

There are claims someone – or something – is attracted by the cutting-edge military technology on show. Some believe that US military officials might know all about the UFO presence on their test ranges.

Hypnotherapist and paranormal researcher Jonny Enoch said there’s “clearly” something strange going on in the "Alaska Triangle". He speculates that senior figures within the US military are secretly in contact with whoever – or whatever – is piloting the mystery craft.

While aliens have been blamed for the disproportionate number of missing persons reports in the Alaska Triangle, some paranormal experts think there could be a quite different explanation.

Cryptozoologist Cliff Barackman says “anything, of any size,” could be hiding in the Alaskan wilderness. “With so much fantastic habitat and so few people to compete with, Sasquatches basically have the run of Alaska”.

Attacks by the huge prehistoric man-beast have been offered as another reason why so many people go missing in Alaska. Of course, the inhospitable terrain, and the unpredictable weather, could be the simplest explanation.

But with so many of those people missing, never to be seen again, it’s undeniable that there is a mystery to be solved in the Alaska Triangle.

A NASA bombshell confirming alien existence would leave us all 'questioning reality', an expert in psychology of belief claims.

Dr Malcolm Schofield, a psychology lecturer at Derby University, was speaking exclusively to the Daily Star in the wake of NASA's report into UFO /UAP sightings. The report, which Dr Schofield admitted was “a bit dry”, didn't really provide the juicy “we've found aliens” detail that many were hoping for.

In fact, it only said that aliens controlling mysterious objects in the sky was “plausible”, but failed to rule it either in or out. However, that might not be the worst thing in the world.

Dr Schofield explained: “There is a body of research, at the moment, looking at a term called ontological shock, as in ontology, the nature of reality. So if something this big comes out it's going to make a lot of people question that concept of reality, and it is going to make them question their beliefs and society at large.

“It's going to be quite a big deal. So I think as psychologists it will be very very important for us to take a role in that and kind of try and lessen that blow and just be very mindful of people's well being.”

The 33 page report, created by 16 experts, doesn't go as far as confirming that aliens exists, but it does now open to door to the possibility that there could be something else out there. Buried deep at the end of the report is the one thing alien lovers were waiting for.

It states: "At this point there is no reason to conclude that existing UAP reports have an extraterrestrial source. However, if we acknowledge that as one possibility, then those objects must have travelled through our solar system to get here . . . if we recognize the plausibility of any of these, then we should recognize that all are at least plausible.”

One of NASA's key points during a press conference after the report was released, was about calling on the general public to help with more potential sightings. NASA officials also went as far as stating that they wanted to try to remove any stigma associated with admitting to seeing aliens (or possible aliens).

This, Dr Schofield points out, the world has been moving towards acceptance for decades.

“If you're talking about life on other planets, that is generally accepted,” he said.

“When you get down to intelligent life on other planets, that's a different thing, but we're gradually moving in a particular way. And if you thought in the 1970s, that there would actually be a Senate hearing and that NASA would actually be commissioning reports on this kind of stuff, most people would not have believed you.

“I would hope that we would be able to do more research into this area, and look more into what people believe, and also if these things did turn out that there was something to them, working out what kind of effect that has on us as humans would be very, very interesting.”

Taking his doctor hat off, Malcolm admitted that he thinks there is “something out there, but wasn't sure if it was” intelligent or not”.

We've been observing your earth for awhile now.

In the desolate Martian frontier of Victoriaville, a brave community of settlers faces relentless threats from mercenary bandits working for a powerful Earth.

It always cracks me up that the moment you humans get into space, you start squabbling amongst yourselves....

cross-posted from @inkican@kbin.social's OC on: https://kbin.social/m/13thFloor/t/487547

Jackson Allen's website

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/5697346

Mork : I'm trying to fit in here on Earth because these are a very violent, violent people.

Orson : You mean they have wars?

Mork : Oh no, worse than that. Violence is part of their everyday lives. First of all, they slash prices, they drown their sorrows, they punch buttons and they kill time. I'm not even gonna tell you what they do to eggs.

Orson : I had no idea they were so vicious.

Mork : Oh, not only that, they blow up photographs, they hang plants, and I heard one guy telling another guy, "Hey man, you can crash at my place." And even when they're finished having a fight and they want to make up, they threaten to bury the hatchet!

Orson : What makes them so violent?

Mork : I don't know. I think it starts when a baby is born. The first thing a doctor does is hit it. They don't stand a chance, your immenseness.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/4897991

When the 'shrooms do you.

With all of the recent supposed UFO/UAP disclosure, I found the story of the mass sightings of both UFOs and UFO crash sights in Mage' Brazil in May of 2020 fascinating, because there was a massive cover up.

Today we're talking about the Mage' Encounter and going over all the video evidence and testimony that was recovered from the wayback machine or archived at the time.