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High Strangeness and Familiar Faces with Familiar Claims at the Ozark Mountain UFO Conference

4/14/2016

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Last weekend was the twenty-eighth annual Ozark Mountain UFO Conference, held at the Best Western Inn in Eureka Springs, Arkansas. This year’s speakers were the usual who’s who of Ancient Aliens, including series regulars Linda Moulton Howe, Jim Marrs, Nick Pope, and Richard Dolan. Whitley Strieber, the abductee who has profited handsomely from popularizing alien anal probes, was also a speaker. However, the biggest name on the list was also one of two keynote speakers for the event, Swiss author Erich von Däniken, whose speech was the only one important enough to garner local media coverage in Arkansas. 
Conspiracy theorist Jim Marrs gave a presentation on how the U.S. military used psychics to spy on aliens from another world, while Nick Pope presented yet another version of his standard assertion that the U.K. military was engaged in covering up UFOs. By contrast, Richard Dolan seems to be casting about for a new angle to keep audiences interested in the UFO phenomenon. Similar to Nick Redfern and Micah Hanks, Dolan is growing disenchanted with the extraterrestrial hypothesis to explain UFOs and says that he is interested in approaches that incorporate more “high strangeness.” To that end, like Redfern and Hanks, Dolan has begun to advocate an ultra-terrestrial hypothesis that would locate the otherworldly beings in realms “far beyond the reality we are accustomed to thinking about.” He wants to have it both ways, though, maintaining that UFOs may well be extraterrestrial spacecraft, just that the beings involved may be weirder than traditional aliens.
 
While there is nothing terribly interesting in Dolan’s new(ish) revised view of UFOs, being a sort of splitting of the differences between extraterrestrial and ultra-terrestrial beliefs, I was intrigued by his use of the term “high strangeness,” which is a bit odd, particularly given its current usage among New Agers and fringe believers as almost a folkloric category. The term stuck out for me because the conference’s second keynote speaker, Howe, also used “high strangeness” in her presentation, titled “Symbols and Binary Code in High Strangeness Phenomena,” in which she claims that otherworldly beings have been using binary code to communicate their will to humans since the 1800s.
 
I was curious to find out where this phrase came from, and I confess to being surprised that it does not appear to be as old as I imagined. The phrase, evocative of elder terms like High Gothic, High German, and the High Middle Ages, made me think that it was one of Charles Fort’s odd turns of phrase intended to suggest more than it says. Sadly, this wasn’t the case, and I was bringing to the words an artistry they did not possess. They were meant literally.
 
As best I can tell, the phrase first appears in print in descriptions of the strangeness property of particles in experiments where some materials exhibited “high strangeness.” I wonder if that is unconsciously why J. Allen Hynek decided to apply “strangeness” as a category of investigation in his book The UFO Experience (1972), which seems to be the earliest usage I can find of the term in conjunction with UFOs.
 
In The UFO Experience, Hynek proposes two scales for measuring encounters with the unexplained, Probability and Strangeness. “The Strangeness Rating is, to express it loosely, a measure of how ‘odd-ball’ a report is within its particular broad classification.” Thus, for Hynek, most UFO reports have low strangeness because the only odd thing about them is, for example, the motion of a light in the sky. Reports that involve a large number of odd occurrences, such as seeing a craft land and occupants emerge while shooting lasers at cows would have a high Strangeness Rating because it involves multiple odd events. Later in the book, Hynek occasionally drops the word “rating” from his discussion and instead refers to events of “high strangeness.”
 
I must admit that this was disappointing. I had expected the term to have some kind of origin in the occult or in folklore, not in an abbreviation of a term from a semi-scientific 1970s-era UFO classification scale.
 
Having followed that diversion to a disappointing end, we can now turn to the keynote address given by Erich von Däniken. Technically, this was a two-part speech delivered at two conferences in the same place. The first half of the address was given at the Ozark Mountain Transformation Conference, a New Age spirituality event, a few days earlier. The first half of the address contained many of von Däniken’s usual claims, mostly repeated from his 1996 book Eyes of the Sphinx, including questions about what was found in the large sarcophaguses of the Apis bull and whether the creatures within were multi-headed genetic hybrids, a claim he derived from a mistaken reading of an old report about bones from different animals found in one sarcophagus.
 
Most of what he spoke about was material he reviewed in his radio appearance a few days before the conference, particularly his revived interest in the medieval Arabic pyramid myth, and his belief that Enoch built the Great Pyramid. As in the radio interview, he now believes that “lost books of Enoch” will be found in hidden chambers within the Great Pyramid. He also repeated material about whether aliens pretended to be the Virgin Mary in Fatima and the old chestnut from the 1960s about Ezekiel seeing a spaceship. According to a local news account, von Däniken devoted most of his second keynote address to the Great Pyramid, which appears to be his current hot topic.
 
The reporter, who credulously described von Däniken’s claims as “logical” and confused Enoch and Ezekiel, noted that von Däniken told the largely southern audience that he was a deep believer in God. “The gods are not gods,” von Däniken reportedly said. “There is only one God, creator of the universe.”
33 Comments
spookyparadigm
4/14/2016 11:10:32 am

The general sense of the term isn't much older than your suggestion for the specific term. While one could subsequently identify reams of Fort's stuff as "high strangeness" retrospectively, his absurdist take strikes me more as a philosophical challenge to the structure of allegedly rational inquiry than an actual description of experiences/events.

I can't think of too many people before Vallee who simultaneously used the language of scientific inquiry and willingly accepted the disjointedly bizarre. Maybe Evans-Wentz and his quiet defense of fairy lore as a potentially psychical reality might be one of the ur-texts for the style that would become High Strangeness.

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Clint Knapp
4/14/2016 06:40:08 pm

Honestly, I'd figured the term was just a Linda Moulton Howe quirk. She's used it in pretty much every semi-coherent Coast to Coast (and/or Dark Matter, Midnight in the Desert, etc...) appearance she's given. Typically, as often as she can fit it in.

Howe doesn't really apply a scale to her use of "high strangeness", though. It's more a catch-all for everything she reports on, or even a branding strategy.

Got a half-eaten cat? High Strangeness!
Alien pyramids under Alaska? High Strangeness!
Totally legitimate archaeological site you don't understand, but traipse around anyway? HIGH STRANGENESS!

She could make a mint selling T-shirts. Surely more than her site membership garners.

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Kathleen
4/14/2016 06:46:56 pm

Oh! Oh! I want a T-shirt! (Autobiographical)

DaveR
4/15/2016 08:36:01 am

That could be the title for a monthly Fringe publications.

In this amazing issue of "High Strangeness!"

UFO abductees relate the pleasure and pain of alien anal probing.

"It hurt a little at first, but then they added more lube and...well...you know...it kind of felt nice. That alien space lube is awesome, I tried to get a tube to bring home for the wife, but they said it contains advanced alien technology and was too powerful for mere humans." Stated H. Pondergrass of Pancake, West Virginia.

Giorgio explains how Mayans were genetically unable to construct pyramids.

"Seriously, if you look at their hands and feet, do you believe they could move all those rocks? I'm not saying it was aliens, but the only legitimate explanation that links all of the available evidence is some sort of alien intervention."

Micah Hanks tells us how the Egyptian Sphynx was actually a drive through window for an alien burger joint.

"Flying saucers would fly up to the head, and that's where you placed you order, you know, for the Super Nova burger and a side of Black Hole fries with an extra large Galaxy shake. After you placed your order, you flew around to the tail, the, um, butt, and that's where your food was...delivered to you."

My disclaimer: These are all my own quotes made up completely and quickly and do not reflect any input from any of the afore mentioned people. This is meant to be a joke. Except the guy from Pancake, he did enjoy the alien anal probe.

spookyparadigm
4/15/2016 11:16:51 am

Clint, it's the sort of thing you see in John Keel's writings and IIRC he uses the term (and it is routinely used to describe his material, Vallee's and a host of also rans). Weird synchronicity, presumably unrelated things becoming related (seeing a Bigfoot and then it goes to a UFO), jarring elements that don't make logical sense, etc..

It's basically what you get when you start asking for stories and begin and end with those evidence for events rather than look at them as folklore and stories.

Jonathan Feinstein
4/15/2016 09:49:21 am

Re "High Strangeness"

I think we need to keep in mind that it is far easier to invent new jargon and catch phrases than to invent whole fake hypotheses that are supposedly self-consistent (although I give no points for self-consistency to that particular crowd).

Also a new catch phrase helps to obscure the fact you are still just spouting off the same old BS.

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The 555 clue
4/15/2016 11:39:32 am

"In The Beginning Was The Word" is a great catchphrase.

KING AND PRIEST LOL
4/16/2016 11:39:53 am

Yeah, it's your favorite! But it's boring us, start ranting about the French Revolution and how "Throne and Altar" were laid low.

POPE FRANCIS
4/16/2016 02:33:15 pm

You have my blessings, King and Priest LOL
I will pray for you

Clete
4/14/2016 11:11:27 am

You would think that any conference addressing "High Strangeness" would have to include Graham Hancock, both because he developed his theories while high and is truly strange.

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Shane Sullivan
4/14/2016 01:00:53 pm

I thought that was going to be the subject matter when I read the headline!

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Only Me
4/14/2016 11:21:01 am

Third paragraph, first sentence: "these" should be "there"
Ninth paragraph, first sentence: "believe" should be "belief"

(God, I feel like such a grammar Nazi!)

Anyway, I get the impression nothing was really missed. Same shit, different conference.

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Jason Colavito link
4/14/2016 11:43:20 am

Thanks. I fixed it. I've never been an accurate typist, but I feel like autocorrect makes it worse. In the past, when I mistyped, Word would flag it as misspelled, but now that it corrects words silently but guesses my intention wrongly, I often don't see the mistakes as easily! That said, I don't want to turn it off since it fixes more typos than it screws up.

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Not the Comte de Saint Germain
4/15/2016 02:44:22 pm

I prefer the spell-check systems that just give a word a red underline when they see a word they don't recognize. They catch a lot of typos without turning them into malapropisms.

Not the Comte de Saint Germain
4/15/2016 02:51:34 pm

Oh, Word always does autocorrect now, instead of underlining? Ugh.

Bruce
5/1/2016 05:03:59 pm

I believe there is an option to choose between auto-correct and just flagging it for your review.

DaveR
4/14/2016 12:00:37 pm

None of them are saying anything new. It's the same stuff told in a slightly different way, or they affix new terms like "high strangeness" to make it appear they're actually accomplishing something other than getting people to pay money to watch them talk. I can get that for free from You Tube. Honestly, I gain just as much information regarding UFOs, the pyramids, and the other fringe theories watching cut girls dancing in their panties, or cats falling of tables. At least the last two are mildly entertaining.

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Kathleen
4/14/2016 05:16:24 pm

Jason has the Book of Enoch in this site's library. What are the "lost books" that EVD hopes to find in the Great Pyramid?

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Jason Colavito link
4/14/2016 05:54:36 pm

In Jewish legend (and taken over in Christian and Islamic lore), Enoch is given special access to the secrets of heaven, which he wrote down in books (or tablets, or on pillars). In Jubilees 4:17 he is described as the author of a book of astrology (or astronomy), and several times in 1 Enoch he is said to have written various books of secrets. Thus, in the Targum Pseudo-Jonathan he is the Safra rabba, or Great Scribe. In Islam, Enoch (as Idris) is said to have collected all of the pages of wisdom brought from heaven, and to have hidden away the Book of the Secret.

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Kathleen
4/14/2016 06:27:44 pm

Cool, thanks. I will get some studying done so I can better understand the sources of the various claims.

Charles Gaulke
4/15/2016 08:40:49 am

It took me until about halfway through the article to remember that the SubGenius phrase is "High Weirdness" rather than "high strangeness", and I was a bit disappointed when I realized. It seemed like such a plausible connection; if people will adopt Lovecraft into nonfiction, why not Ivan Stang?

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titus pullo
4/15/2016 08:43:51 am

I'm amazed that one can make a living doing these things. And I'm betting a pretty good one at that. Sort of reminds me of all the pastors when I lived down south who had mega churches...and drove BMWs. People need emotional food I guess to deal with the fact the world is pretty random and bad things happen. As for Nick Pope...I did read on a long flight his latest book on the Rendelsheim forest UFO...really not that good as he dismissed or didn't even cover the obvious rational explanations and the holes in some of the supposed evidence. Nice meal tickets though for those that can do this sort of thing. I wonder how much money Scot Wolter made for AE?

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Not another kook author
4/15/2016 10:53:31 am

As far as making money on these 'valuable theories,' I have found you have to understand that this is entertainment to them, not real science, although many of them try to pass it off as that in their 'on-screen' persona. I have spoken with at least one person previously mentioned on this blog for his antics and his suggestion to me was, "it does not have to be true, you are just selling the possibility that it is true." So, I guess under these circumstances (lying, obfuscating, etc.) you may make some money to say outrageous things and maybe even get an appearance as one of their experts on Ancient Aliens or Coast-To-Coast. Then book sales increase, you are invited to say more silly things on other programs and eventually you can retire to write even more nonsense to sell more books.

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The 555 clue
4/15/2016 11:28:43 am

That's just how Christianity originated. Here lies the connection between the Bible and the fringe historians.

Scotty Roberts' Doppleganger
4/15/2016 11:34:21 am

That sounds like a comment I would make.

The 555 clue
4/15/2016 11:37:18 am

That reply sounds like a response from a churchgoer.

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KING AND PRIEST LOL
4/16/2016 11:32:49 am

All hail GIGO! I know we all missed your insightful and thought-provoking comments.

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POPE FRANCIS
4/16/2016 02:34:44 pm

I will pray for you, KING AND PRIEST LOL
You have my blessings !!

Bob Jase
4/15/2016 12:04:55 pm

"To that end, like Redfern and Hanks, Dolan has begun to advocate an ultra-terrestrial hypothesis that would locate the otherworldly beings in realms “far beyond the reality we are accustomed to thinking about.”

Well heck, that's what happened to the gods (including Yahweh) - when there is no proof of actual physical existence, go supernatural.

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Kathleen
4/15/2016 12:53:41 pm

Bob, I pulled out my old catechism because I thought I could find something pertinent and they had this quote from Hebrews. "Faith is the realization of what is hoped for and the evidence of things not seen" (11:1) The use of the word "evidence" stood out to me.

And before someone gets distracted by my sources, I consider the Bible as a great work of literature.

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The Code 555
4/15/2016 01:05:13 pm

Do you believe in Flying Saucers and Ancient Astronauts?

No, it's a load of rubbish

Do you believe in the existence of the Devil and the resurrection of Jesus Christ?

Yes, of course.

Kathleen
4/15/2016 01:37:56 pm

I guess what I'm saying is the approach to these assertions is "If isn't true, I wouldn't believe it".

terry the censor link
4/17/2016 09:55:54 pm

> The UFO Experience (1972), which seems to be the earliest usage I can find of the term in conjunction with UFOs.

The Condon report, released in 1969, uses -- but does not define -- "strangeness" as a quality of elements in UFO cases. Both "low strangeness" and "high strangeness" also appear.

"The inconclusiveness of these investigations is felt to be a result of lack of information with which to work, rather than of a strangeness which survived careful scrutiny of adequate information."

"The very point that is emphasized by case after case is the incredible variety of circumstances that may cause one to perceive an apparition of high strangeness and conceive of it as an UFO, or even more specifically as a 'flying saucer.'"

Etc.

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