Ten Years Since Christopher Dorner's Killing Spree

Ten years ago yesterday, former Navy reservist and LAPD officer Christopher Dorner died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head after committing a series of killings across Southern California that began on February 3 and ended on February 12.

What follows is a brief excerpt from Melissa Mecija's 2-4-23 10News.com report entitled "Meeting a Murderer: One Man's Encounter with Former Cop Christopher Dorner":

[San Diego fisherman Mike] Flynn met Dorner in early February in Pt. Loma. “He came down… maybe about two in the afternoon. He was just kind of walking around the docks,” Flynn said. “I guess he was trying to find a boat.”

At that point, Flynn knew nothing of the murders or the search to find Dorner in a nearby hotel at the [Pt. Loma] Navy base.

To read the entire article, click HERE.

Meeting a Murderer: One Man's Encounter with Chris Dorner

 

Here's an excerpt from Kyla Calvert's 2-7-13 KPBS report entitled "Mountain Manhunt For Ex-Cop Accused Of Killing 3 Continues":

In San Diego, where police say Dorner tied up an elderly man and unsuccessfully tried to steal his boat Wednesday night, Naval Base Point Loma was locked down Thursday [Feb. 7] after a Navy worker reported seeing someone who resembled Dorner.

Navy spokesman Kevin Dixon said a Navy person reported someone matching Dorner's description in the area. Dozens of local police, sheriff's deputies and federal agents were at the base.

The Navy reports Dorner checked into the Navy Gateway Inn on the [Point Loma] naval base on Tuesday, Feb. 5 and was supposed to check out the next day, but never did. [According to Wikipedia, Dorner "skipped checkout procedures when leaving."] Brad Fagan, another Navy spokesman, said Dorner was honorably discharged from the Navy Reserve on Friday, Feb. 1.

To read the entire article, click HERE.

Déjà Vu: Flying Saucers on the Attack

What follows is an excerpt from Ryan Lizza, Rachael Bade, and Eugene Daniels' 2-12-23 POLITICO article entitled "Playbook: UFO Fever Grips Washington":

— On Friday, President JOE BIDEN ordered a balloon with a car-sized payload destroyed after it violated U.S. airspace over Alaska. It was flying at just 40,000 feet, roughly the altitude of civilian airliners, and was destroyed by an F-22 over a frozen portion of the Arctic Ocean near Alaska. The Pentagon noted that the UFO “does not resemble in any way the Chinese surveillance balloon shot down off the coast of South Carolina earlier this week.”

BUT they don’t know what it is — or at least they’re not saying.

“We have no further details about the object at this time, including any description of its capabilities, purpose or origin,” said the Pentagon spokesman, Air Force Brig. Gen. PAT RYDER.

— Later that same night, NORAD detected another object over Alaska and two American F-22s began tracking it. On Saturday, the UFO drifted into Canadian airspace and the F-22s were joined by two Canadian aircraft.

Biden’s national security advisers saw the UFO as a serious enough issue that the president was “continually briefed by his national security team since the object was detected,” according to the White House. The “high-altitude airborne object” soon merited a phone call between Biden and Canadian Prime Minister JUSTIN TRUDEAU, and the two leaders agreed to take it out.

A U.S. F-22 shot down the object over the Canadian Yukon using an AIM 9X Sidewinder air-to-air missile around 3:41 p.m. ET. As with the Friday night UFO, we still don’t know what it was we shot on Saturday. Biden and Trudeau “discussed the importance of recovering the object in order to determine more details on its purpose or origin,” according to the White House.

Canadian Minister of Defense ANITA ANAND said the object was similar to the Chinese surveillance balloon shot down off the coast of South Carolina on Feb. 4, “though smaller in size and cylindrical in nature.”

— Perhaps because everyone is a little on edge with all the UFOs, a few hours later on Saturday the FAA temporarily shut down airspace in central Montana after the military saw something unusual on radar. There was little explanation about what it was. “NORAD detected a radar anomaly and sent fighter aircraft to investigate,” NORAD said in a statement. “Those aircraft did not identify any object to correlate to the radar hits. NORAD will continue to monitor the situation.”

Click HERE to read the entire article.

As 1950s-style "UFO fever" grips the nation, I recommend taking this opportunity to acquaint (or reacquaint) yourself with Harold T. Wilkins' classic 1954 book, Flying Saucers on the Attack, particularly Chapter Six ("Colossal Death Ray Aeroform"), in which the author attempts to blame various unsolved air disasters on the hostile actions of UFOs. Almost seventy years after its initial publication, Wilkins' eccentric reportage still commands the reader's attention. Delving into Wilkins' entire book (which can be purchased HERE) would not be a waste of anyone's time. You can also find the entire text at Archive.org right HERE.

Weatherboy on UFOs

From WEATHERBOY'S 2-12-23 report entitled "Chinese Military Preparing to Shoot-Down Mysterious UFO in Eastern China":

State media in China is reporting a mysterious unidentified flying object (UFO) flying over eastern China’s Shandong Province and is warning people in the area to “stay safe” as officials prepare to shoot it down. According to The Global Times, an English media outlet run by China, local maritime authorities on Sunday said that they had spotted an unidentified flying object in waters near the coastal city of Rizhao in the province and were preparing to shoot it down, reminding fishermen to be safe via messages. Outside of this Chinese government report, there is no other third party confirmation of this incident and/or if it is ongoing.

There has been an abundance of UFO chatter in recent days as the United States took to the skies to shoot-down foreign aircraft over its airspace for the first time since the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on December 7, 1941. As of press time, the United States shot down three suspicious aircraft around North America over the last week....

To read the entire report, click HERE.

Into the Fringe: Christopher O'Brien and David Perkins

Recommended Viewing: This past Thursday night, Christopher O'Brien (author of STALKING THE HERD) and writer/journalist David Perkins appeared on INTO THE FRINGE to discuss cattle mutilations, UFOS, mystery drones, and all manner of High Strangeness:

Into The Fringe #96: Christopher O'Brien & David Perkins 

The Daily Show: Jordan Klepper Crashes Trump's First 2024 Campaign "Rally"

I recommend watching Jordan Klepper of THE DAILY SHOW as he interacts with some of the brightest bulbs of the Trump batch (posted on 1-31-23)....

Jordan Klepper Crashes Trump's First 2024 Campaign "Rally" | The Daily Show:

The Samuel Alito’s Mom’s Satanic Abortion Clinic

What follow are brief excerpts from Jessica A. Botelho's 2-2-23 ABC News report entitled "Satanic Temple Launches Abortion Clinic Named After Catholic Supreme Court Justice":

The Satanic Temple announced the launch of a telehealth abortion clinic [...] named “The Samuel Alito’s Mom’s Satanic Abortion Clinic.” [Alito is a Catholic judge who serves on the U.S. Supreme Court.]

In 1950, Samuel Alito’s mother did not have options, and look what happened,” Malcolm Jarry, who is the cofounder of the Satanic Temple, said in a news release on Wednesday. “Prior to 1973, doctors who performed abortions could lose their licenses and go to jail. The clinic’s name serves to remind people just how important it is to have the right to control one’s body and the potential ramifications of losing that right.”

In June, Justice Alito, along with the rest of the Supreme Court, overturned Roe v. Wade [...].

The Satanic Temple's website includes a cartoon image of a woman — presumably Alito's mother — saying, "If only abortion was legal when I was pregnant."

To read the entire article, click HERE.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JAMES JOYCE!

On what would have been James Joyce's 141st birthday, I recommend checking out Terence McKenna's lecture entitled Surfing Finnegans Wake (delivered to The Esalen Institute in 1995)....