Sammy Hagar: Alien Abductee?

Welcome to Weird News Wednesday. This week's topic of speculation is Sammy Hagar's announcement that he was abducted by aliens--the details can be found in his new book:

For a link to check it out on Amazon, click here.

Let me inform those of you who are not well-versed in classic rock, Sammy Hagar is mostly well-known for being the 2nd lead singer of the group Van Halen. He's a Rock and Roll Hall-of-Famer, and he also has the nickname "The Red Rocker." Right now he's making music with the supergroup Chickenfoot.

But back to the alien thing...

In his new book, Hagar discusses how when he was only four years old, he saw what he thought to be "a car with no wheels...floating across a field." He now believes it was really a UFO.

Later experiences of his include being "plugged in" to actual aliens from other planets, as well as seeing another ship and two creatures (though he couldn't see their faces).

"They were connected to me," he says, "tapped into my mind through some kind of mysterious wireless connection...They were tapped into my brain and the knowledge was transferred back and forth."

To those of you who may have your doubts, he insists it "friggin' happened."

For a full interview from The Guardian on the subject, click here.

The book was ironically released on March 20, which I just learned is "Alien Abduction Day." Coincidence? Naaaah. Hagar knew what he was doing.

What do you think?

Think he's crazy?

Think he's telling the truth?

Do you believe in alien abductions?

As always, the comments section is open for you to share your views, and your weird news. Thanks for stopping by today!

The Final Countdown

Hey All! How's February going for everyone? Or 2011 for that matter? Following any new blogs? Have any new interests?

As many of you know, one of my growing interests of the past couple of years is UFOs. I came across a blog some months ago, UFO Disclosure Countdown Clock, and have since been following it religiously. If you're mildly interested in UFOs as entertainment or if you're somewhat of an obsessed nut (like myself), who believes we have been/are being visited you will really dig Rick's blog. To my delight, he posts regularly, and he is THE source for up-to-date UFO/Strange Phenomena news. I can't get enough of the blog, frankly.

One of the things I really like about Rick's style is that he takes everything with a grain of salt. Although he blogs about all the best UFO-related news, he doesn't necessarily believe in every YouTube video he finds. He welcomes all opinions, and if you can debunk something, do it! He gives his frank point of view on his topics, but his commentary is always filled with educated arguments (and that definitely appeals to my former debate teacher side). Ultimately, he is just searching for the truth, which entitles him to a lot of respect in my opinion.

I, too, want the truth. Growing up, I didn't give too much thought to UFOs. I figured there could be such a thing, but I was of the mind that most pictures and videos out there were pranks. Or I just didn't think about it at all. Then, a couple years ago, my father started getting interested in UFOs when he saw a strange craft on his morning drive to work one day. He called and told me about it, and about how he started doing some research online, and that the information found on the good ol' Net was mind-boggling. He has since joined MUFON and is an official field investigator for the area.

I began my own search, and that same day, my mother called to tell me about an acquaintance in Stephenville, TX, who told her an interesting story about some relative of hers. The woman's relative had seen a pretty major UFO there in the Stephenville area (which, for those of you who don't know, is notorious for sightings of this kind). The woman informed my mother that her relative (who if I'm not mistaken, is a rather prominent man in government) had been threatened by men in dark suits not to say anything of his discovery.

I found these two stories in one day quite the coincidence. Several days and many late-night-YouTubings later, I was stargazing in my back yard, when I saw what I believe to have been a UFO. It seemed waaay far up, so it had to be huge. But it was triangular in shape, and its coloring resembled that of the stars around it, almost as if it were camouflaged. I just happened to catch it moving from one side of the sky to the next in about 4 seconds of silent (fast!) travel, and I was floored. It wasn't a satellite, wasn't a plane, wasn't a comet. I think I really saw something.

So I'm a believer. Or as the famous poster says, "I want to believe." But most importantly, I want to get at the truth. For all of you who also would like to delve into the mysterious universe of secrets that is UFO news and lore, visit Rick's blog, UFO Disclosure Countdown Clock! At the very least, you'll find well-researched posts by a guy who is awesomely passionate about this topic.


In other news, I've finally started in on my New Year's Resolution to mediate more. I'm reading through Bhante Henepola Gunaratana's Mindfulness In Plain English and starting to get the hang of it. In the near future, I'll be posting about my experiences entering into that practice.

Also, no updates as of right now on Vengeful Bounty. Still waiting to get my first set of edits to work on, and I am frothing at the bit to get started!

Taa-taa for now!

UFOs over NYC!

All right, so I've been wanting to do a UFO post for a while now, and today seemed like a good time since like a dozen of them were spotted over the New York skyline. I'm talking NYC, the Big Apple, baby.

Don't believe me? Well, click on this news link:

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/world-news/video-ufo-brings-new-york-streets-to-standstill-14976771.html

I think the biggest problem with people and UFOs is the programmed response of, "That's hogwash!" Even though thousands of people continue to see sightings, and even get them on video, people all over immediately say, "NOPE! That's fake!" Yet they'll believe in other things they've never seen with their eyes. Why?

Well, I'll tell you why. If you took an alien non-believer and then started to get them to believe a little bit, you'd see a certain emotion emerge: Fear.

A lot of people don't want to believe in UFOs and aliens because it scares the living crap out of them. They think of movies like War of the Worlds or Alien and imagine being wiped out or harvested or operated on.

Well, what if it isn't like that?

What if it's unlike anything Hollywood has ever depicted?

Then again, what if they are NOT nice folk? What if they are just indifferent, doing their little experiments, trying to figure out what makes us tick, showing up in their craft specifically at night so they can watch the little humans as they drive their cars down country roads.

People don't want to know because they're afraid, pure and simple.

But I think it's better to know what's out there. If we didn't ask questions and delve deeper into the truth of who we were, we'd never come up with certain medicines that keep people alive. We'd have no chemo for cancer, we wouldn't know what foods were good to eat, or the importance of exercise. We'd all be living in the Middle Ages, with a life expectancy half of what it is now, blaming everything on evil spirits.

If you start thinking of how far we've come from then, imagine what we have yet to find out! Imagine if these UFOs (which ARE real) carry in them beings with knowledge that far surpasses ours, and are willing to teach us something?

Would that not just beat all?

I like thinking about it because it makes my financial situation seem not so important. But I also like thinking about it because I'd rather be AWARE of the things going on around me so that I'm not surprised. I'd rather be cognizant of it than be a non-believer who says that aliens and UFOs are no more real than Santa, and then one day have them fly over New York City and stop 2 blocks of pedestrian traffic and find myself pissing my pants in shock...

Then again, that has already happened...and people still deny the truth...