There's nothing like July 4 at Coney Island where I lived until age 11. It's like a Mini Disney World with rides, games, entertainment, interesting food, sports, an iceskating rink, and a boardwalk and beach running alongside the Atlantic coastline in Brooklyn, New York. It sometimes remind me of the "Carny (Carnival) Experience" in Steven Spielberg's Taken which I also experienced in Nevada after I was taken at age 11.

The two pics below have unexplained backstories - both taken on July 4, 1946 exactly one year before the Roswell Incident and connected to my journey to find myself in the world of extraterrestrials.

The Backstory

In June 1989 I joined MUFON and from there it was full steam ahead as the synchronicities flowed.

On July 4, 1989 I attended the famous MUFON conference in Las Vegas, which changed my destiny forever and that of countless others.

In June I had also joined A.R.E. (Edgar Cayce Society) that published a monthly newsletter. They requested readers to write in (real letters) about their interests and if you were lucky you would be one of the few people chosen to have their information published in their next issue.

I had no intention of writing in, but Z insisted so I hurriedly described my interests as UFOs and Pyramids then headed out to Vegas. I never expected my name to be picked out of the hundreds or perhaps thousands of letters they received monthly. I should have known it was a "set-up" as Z was so adamant about the whole situation.

Vegas on the July 4 weekend of 1989 was like nothing anyone had seen before. It was as if an explosion had happened in the world of UFOlogy. This was my destiny. I met many psychics while I was there several of them able to see Z with me - all of the telling me how I was connected to extraterrestrials. As this was all new to me, I couldn't get enough.

The conference also attracted thousands of researchers from around the world and marked the 20th anniversary of MUFON. It was as if a giant door had opened, a new insert in the simulation set in place for those with questions and experiences to share. People were opening up about their abduction experiences, government conspiracies, and more. Support groups were forming and everywhere the media was looking to expose the truth, the conspiracies and the conspirators. This conference was a turning point in my life in many ways.

I arrived in Vegas two days early to explore the mountains and surrounding areas with Z. Though no rental cars were available when I inquired at the hotel's front desk, as I stood there, they had a cancellation, giving me the needed means of transportation. The journey along the winding roads further enhanced my understanding of who I am, why I am here, and what lay ahead. It was here that I would find another part of my destiny linked to UFO's and alien research.

When I returned home from Vegas, much to my surprise there were lots of letters waiting in my mailbox. Two of them seemed more important than the others so I answered them first.

One was from a psychic and artist in Rhode Island - who went by the name Deja Allison - real name Cheryl. The other was from a man in Hawaii named Paul. We all became friends in the weeks that followed through regular mail communications. When I think back at that time, and I reference it against how we communicate today, I'm so grateful for the upgrades.

One day, Deja asked if I would we could exchange childhood photos. She had become somewhat of a mentor to me in this new world of psychic development, where everything she showed me I picked up at lightning speed - my favorite - remote viewing. Best of all both Deja and Paul were both able to talk to Z.

Deja and I each placed several childhood photos in a paper priority mailer envelope and sent them off. That's how it was done in the good old days.

After we received each other's photos, we talked about what we saw as psychics. One thing was clear ... Deja immediately knew that I had been 'taken' by aliens - perhaps before age 11.

About a week later, we prepared new mailer envelopes to return our photos. Deja received her photos from me a few days later, but my pictures never showed up.

We both went to our local post offices to see what happened but no one had an answer asking us to fill out forms.

Another week or two passed then suddenly there were my photos returned along with Deja's envelope and a message that it had gotten ripped in one of the post office machines after which they had assembled its contents and put it in a big plastic mailer envelope and send it to me.

Alas, we thought all was well until I opened the package and started to put my pictures back into the slots of one of those old fashion photo albums. Each picture had a slot or so I thought.

As it turned out, I received the photo of me on the tricycle taken at the same time as the one with my mom - only the edges had never been trimmed to fit into one of the slots in the photo album, and I had never seen it before.

Perplexed, I call Deja and asked her if she had ever seen the picture as I described it.

Deja reported that has never received it because in truth, I had never sent it to her. So where did it come from?

To this day, Deja believes that Z sent the photo in 1989 - and that on July 4, 1946 I was taken by extraterrestrials for the first time.

I really have no memory of it so I'm not sure but then there's all the strange things in the photo with my mom. There's a strange light over my head. Twirling lights around mom's legs which always speak to me of time travel. Then there's the glittering light on mom's jacket sleeve, others behind me, and more in the photo.

I suppose I will never have the answer to how the photo got there but I think Deja may have been right. It was another one of those unexplained synchronicity's that make our journeys exciting and define our destinies.

Post note: 1989 was the year I wrote the first draft of Sarah and Alexander as a computer came into my life through a client - right (write) on time - and a boy (spirit) named Alexander came into my life and started to tell me a story that I was to write.

July 4 - with its link to the Roswell Incident - brings to mind the 1996 film Independence Day written by Roland Emmerich and the film's producer Dean Devlin who also co-wrote Stargate. Other films about aliens have also been released on and around the July 4 date.

Steven Spielberg produced a miniseries linked to the Roswell Incident called Taken or Steven Spielberg Presents Taken. Watch the 10-part miniseries here

World UFO Day commemorates the July 1947 Roswell UFO Incident one of many crashes across the world since WWII that were not by accident but as a means of reverse engineering technology we use today.

Thousands of people have claimed abduction experiences, myself included. Endless witnesses have come forward to report UFO sightings. We have conspiracy theorists, whistleblowers, authors, researchers, and more.

Some believe extraterrestrials are connected to a New World Order and walk among us.

Gray aliens are AI with the ability to either shape shift or project their images as human. Makes sense in light of today's technology and politics.

UFO sightings today are drones monitoring the planet until the simulation ends. It's all rapidly going somewhere - disappearing into the void - in the blink of an 'eye'..

Thoughts and prayers go out to the missing, the deceased, and to their families.

From July 4 to 5, 2025, a large and devastating flood took place in and downstream from the Texas Hill Country, in the U.S. state of Texas. During the flood, water levels along the Guadalupe River rose quickly and significantly when 5-11 inches (130-280 mm) of rain fell in just a few hours. As a result, at least 52 people died, with 37 reported missing. Read more ...

Search and rescue teams raced to find 27 children missing from Camp Mystic, a girls' summer camp near the Guadalupe River, which surged over its banks after torrential rain fell across Texas Hill Country. Kerrville, has been known as 'flash flood alley' for years. Areas around the Guadalupe River have long been hazardous for flash flooding owing to the rugged terrain and the river's non-absorbent limestone bed.

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Recent research found this imbalance has more than doubled over the last 20 years. Other researchers have come to the same conclusions. This imbalance is now substantially more than climate models have suggested.

Crystalinks: Flood Stories

The Human Experiment is ending. With that - an insert in the simulation of reality creates a flood story - (symbolic flow of the collective unconsciousness as all is virtual) - moving to another insert of experience. The current insert is the finale in the multi-faceted Human Experiment in Time.

A flood or deluge myth is a symbolic narrative in which a great flood is sent by a deity, or deities, to destroy civilization in an act of divine retribution. Parallels are often drawn between the flood waters of these myths and the primeval waters found in certain creation myths, as the flood waters are described as a measure for the cleansing of humanity, in preparation for rebirth.

Parallels are often drawn between the flood waters of these myths and the primeval waters found in some creation myths since the flood waters are seen to cleanse humanity in preparation for rebirth. Most flood myths also contain a culture hero who strives to ensure this rebirth.

Could Noah's Ark and other 'ships' that allegedly saved specific bio-genetically encoded humans, have been UFO's? This implies aliens, or a consciousness force, create program after program - based on the same algorithm in its various iterations - or consciousness holograms of different races of humans through which they study, monitor, and learn.

There are many flood myths. It is a theme widespread among most cultures, though it is perhaps best known in modern times through the biblical and Quranic account of Noah's Ark, the Hindu Puranic story of Manu, through Deucalion in Greek mythology, or Utnapishtim in The Story of Gilgamesh which takes us to the beginning - the Anunnaki.

When a ship (UFO) is more than a ship (large boat)

When an Ark (large ship) is an Arc (curved line in a circle, creation algorithm)

Was Noah's Ark a UFO? Ancient Alien Theory.