Chris OBrien の講演：San Luis Valley での UFO/怪奇事件を語る

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サンルイス・バレーの異常現象

この資料は、‌‌クリス・オブライエン‌‌氏がMUFONロサンゼルス支部で行った講演の文字起こしからの抜粋で構成されています。

オブライエン氏は、‌‌サンルイス・バレー‌‌という地域に焦点を当て、その地域で頻発する‌‌UFO目撃情報‌‌や‌‌家畜の異常な死亡現象‌‌、地下基地の噂、ネイティブアメリカンの古代の伝承など、‌‌超常現象‌‌について広範な調査結果を共有しています。

講演は、この「‌‌ホットスポット‌‌」がなぜ特殊な場所であるかを説明することから始まり、‌‌地球物理学的特性‌‌や、‌‌政府の関与‌‌の可能性、そしてこれらの現象に関する独自の‌‌理論‌‌へと論点を進めています。

彼は、家畜の異常死を単なる「切断」ではなく‌‌実験‌‌として捉えるべきだと主張し、その現象の背後にある‌‌地球外生命体‌‌ではなく、‌‌政府や生物兵器実験‌‌との関連性を強調しています。

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要旨
ユークリス・オブライエンのミステリアス・ヴァレー講演：主要テーマと洞察に関するブリーフィング
クリス・オブライエン講演録：サンルイス・バレーの謎ーエグゼクティブ・サマリー
中心テーマ : サンルイス・ヴァレー
異常現象の主要テーマ
サンルイス・バレーにおける異常現象の相互関連性：クリス・オブライエンの講演に基づくテーマ別分析
高度な異常性 : 文化と伝統
著名な研究者
理論と提言
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ユークリス・オブライエンのミステリアス・ヴァレー講演：主要テーマと洞察に関するブリーフィング

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本ブリーフィングは、作家であり超常現象研究者であるクリス・オブライエンがMUFONロサンゼルスで行った講演「The Mysterious Valley」の主要なテーマ、証拠、および結論を統合したものである。オブライエンの中心的な主張は、コロラド州南中部に位置するサンルイス・バレー（SLV）が、アメリカで最も異常な地域であり、強烈で多様な超常現象が集中する特異な「ホットスポット」または「ポータルエリア」であるという点にある。

彼の12年以上にわたる現地調査に基づき、講演では以下の主要な調査領域が網羅されている：

地理的・地球物理学的特異性: SLVがレーダーに映らず、地球の磁場に特異な「継ぎ目」を持つことが、異常現象の多発と関連している可能性。
ネイティブアメリカンの伝承: ブランカ・ピークを「思考が生まれる場所」とするナバホ族の神話や、異次元の存在が出入りするとされる「ポータル」の伝承。
動物の異常死（家畜ミュティレーション）: 従来の地球外仮説を退け、政府がウラン汚染やプリオン病（狂牛病など）の拡散を監視するために行っている極秘の生物学的サンプリングであるという独自の理論を提唱。
政府の関与と地下基地: 未確認の軍用機、消える貨物機、そしてダルシー、クレストーン、ブランカ・ピークなどを結び、最終的にNORADに至る地下トンネルネットワークの存在を示唆。
UFO学への批判: 一般的な地球外仮説（ETH）を「車輪が外れて久しい」と批判し、現象は異星からの来訪者によるものではなく、むしろ地球に古くから存在する超次元的なものであると主張。

オブライエンは、UFO、動物の異常死、地域の民間伝承、政府の秘密活動といった一見無関係に見える事象の間に存在するパターンと関連性を指摘し、これらの謎を解明するためには、分野横断的で創造的な思考が不可欠であると結論付けている。

1. サンルイス・バレー：異常現象のホットスポット

オブライエンは、サンルイス・バレー（SLV）を、異常現象の多様性と頻度の両面において「アメリカで最も異常な地域」と位置付けている。彼はこの地域を、現象を調査するための「完璧なペトリ皿」と表現した。

1.1. 「ポータルエリア」の定義と地理的・地球物理学的特性

オブライエンは、SLVのような現象が集中する地域を「ホットスポット」または「ポータルエリア」と定義し、その共通の特徴を挙げている。

ホットスポット地域の共通点:
- 古代の先住民（ネイティブアメリカン）の聖地が存在する。
- 特異な地球物理学的特性を持つ。
- 異常現象の波が絶えず報告される。
- 現象を説明しようとする独自の地域文化が生まれる。
- 政府（税金）が強い関心を示し、プレゼンスを維持または拡大しようとする。
磁場の特異性:
- オブライエンは、コロラド州とニューメキシコ州の航空磁気図を提示し、自身の調査で最も重要な発見の一つを明らかにした。
- UFOの目撃情報の大半は、地球磁場の強度が最大（赤色で示される）の領域と最小（青色で示される）の領域が近接する「継ぎ目」で発生している。
- 彼はこの現象を、地形図で等高線が密集し「崖」を形成するのに似ていると説明し、磁場の「崖」が目撃多発地帯と一致すると主張した。

1.2. 完璧な「ペトリ皿」

SLVは、その地理的・環境的条件から、異常現象を調査するための理想的な環境であるとされる。

特性	詳細
地理的隔離	長さ約170マイル、幅約70マイルの谷で、完全に山々に囲まれている。
レーダー不可視性	高度18,000フィート以下ではレーダーに映らない。
人口密度	非常に低い（1人あたり約7平方マイル）。住民は環境音に精通しており、異常な音や光を識別しやすい。
環境	世界最大の高山盆地（谷底の標高7,500フィート）。大気、水、土地の汚染がないアメリカ本土で唯一の場所であり、現象研究における「対照群」としての価値を持つ。
グレートサンドデューンズ	世界で最も標高の高い砂丘（高さ700フィート超）。公式説明（風による堆積）は地質学的に不合理であり、オブライエンは「地下のエイリアンが洞窟を掘り、粉砕した石英を排出した」という知人の奇抜な説を紹介した。

2. 古代の伝統と現代の民間伝承

SLVの異常性は、古代ネイティブアメリカンの神話から、スペイン統治時代を経て形成された現代のユニークな民間伝承に至るまで、深く文化に根ざしている。

2.1. ネイティブアメリカンの神話と聖地

SLVは、南西部の複数の部族にとって極めて重要な聖地であり、その神話はUFO現象と直接的に関連している。

ブランカ・ピーク (Cisnagini): ナバホ（ディネ）族の4つの聖なる山の東の山であり、「すべての思考が生まれる場所」とされる最も重要な聖地。
ポータルとクラウドピープル: ネイティブアメリカンの伝承では、ブランカ・ピーク周辺には「ドアウェイ」や「ポータル」が存在し、「クラウドピープル」や「空飛ぶ種のさや」がそこから出入りすると信じられている。
出現の地 (Zapapu): 多くのプエブロ族は、人類がこの第四の世界に出現した場所がSLVにあると信じている。その場所は、波があり、地面の穴に消える不思議なメダノ・クリークの近くにあるとされる。
文化の交差点: SLVは、グレートプレーンズ、グレートベースン、南西部の3つの異なるネイティブアメリカン文化圏が平和的に共存した北米で唯一の地域である。

2.2. スペイン統治時代の記録と文化的融合

ヨーロッパ人の到来後も、この地域の異常性は記録され続けている。

青い服の貴婦人: 1600年代、スペインのアグレダのマリアという修道女が、青い光に包まれて新世界へ「バイロケーション（遠隔臨在）」し、ネイティブアメリカンのキリスト教改宗を助けたという伝説。彼女の遺体は腐敗せず、現在もほぼ生前の姿を保っている。
デ・アンサ遠征 (1777年): SLVでヨーロッパ人によって記録された最初の異常航空現象。ニューメキシコ総督デ・アンサの日記には、山頂を飛び回る「奇妙な光」と、山から聞こえる「絶え間ない、耳障りな低いうなり声」が記されており、これは現代の「タオス・ハム」と関連付けられている。

2.3. 地域の超常現象と伝承

孤立した環境は、ネイティブアメリカンのシャーマニズムとカトリシズムが融合した独自の信仰や民間伝承を生み出した。

ビッグフット: タオス・プエブロ族が「創造主が住む」と信じるサンアントニオ山の周辺で、ビッグフットの目撃情報が集中している。SLVのビッグフットは、ヘラジカの群れを追う肉食動物として報告されている。
スキンウォーカー: 人の体を乗っ取ったり、動物に変身したりできるとされる魔術師（ブルホ）。急いで移動する際には「火の玉」に姿を変えるという伝承があり、UFOのような航空現象の地域的な解釈となっている。
その他の現象:
- ラ・ヨローナ: 子供を失い、運河沿いで泣き叫ぶ女性の幽霊。
- ポホアケ・デビル: 四旬節の最後の数日間に現れ、酒場で最も美しい女性を誘惑する悪魔。ヤギの足や角を持つと報告されている。
- 悪魔の女性: 1993年の聖金曜日の夜、警察署長の叔父が、ヤギの足を持つ女性を車に乗せたところ、彼女が助手席から忽然と消えたという公式な警察記録が存在する。この事件は、50件以上に及ぶ大規模な家畜ミュティレーションの波が始まる直前に、その発生現場で起きた。
- UFOと財宝: UFOがホバリングした場所の下を掘ると財宝が見つかるという地域の言い伝えがある。

3. 動物の異常死現象（家畜ミュティレーション）の分析

オブライエンは、この現象を「家畜ミュティレーション」ではなく「動物の異常死（Unusual Animal Deaths）」と呼ぶことを提唱し、それが無秩序な暴力ではなく、綿密な実験であると主張している。この現象は、数千ポンドもの物理的証拠を残す唯一の超常現象分野であるため、極めて重要であると彼は考えている。

3.1. スニッピー事件（1967年）：すべての始まり

SLVで最も有名な超常現象事件であり、全米の家畜ミュティレーション現象の始まりとされる。

事件概要: 1967年9月8日、アパルーサ種の馬「スニッピー」が、肩から鼻先までの肉、組織、血管、体毛がすべてきれいに除去された状態で発見された。
関連事象:
- 事件前日、飼い主の母親が牧場の上空に浮かぶ巨大な銀色の物体を目撃していた。
- 謎の病理学者は、後にUFO研究家となるジョン・アルトシューラー医師であり、彼は事件の前夜に砂丘でエイリアンに誘拐されたと主張していた。
- 同じ週末、隣の牧場で2頭のバッファローが同様の状態で発見された。馬とバッファローはネイティブアメリカンにとって最も神聖な動物である。
- この事件から数日以内に、コロラド州で自然界初となる慢性消耗病（CWD）、すなわちプリオン病が発生した。

オブライエンは、この一連の出来事を、未定義の捕食者による「警告」または「サイン」と解釈している。

3.2. 現象の概要と特徴

オブライエン自身の調査を含む多くの事例から、この現象には一貫した特徴が見られる。

外科的精度: レーザーのような道具で切断されたような、極めて精密な切開。
特定の部位の除去: 主に生殖器、直腸、下顎の肉、舌（喉の奥から）などが除去される。
血液の欠如: 現場や死骸には血液がほとんど、あるいは全く見られない。
痕跡の欠如: 犯人や車両の足跡、タイヤ痕などの物理的証拠が一切ない。
異常な状況: 動物が木の上で発見されたり、数百フィートの高さから落とされたかのように地面にめり込んでいたりする。
腐敗の異常: 死骸が腐敗しない、あるいは異常な速さで腐敗する。
ヘリコプターの目撃: 400件以上の事例で、現場周辺でマーキングのない、あるいは珍しい色のヘリコプターが目撃されている。

3.3. オブライエンの仮説：地球外仮説への反論

オブライエンは、リンダ・ハウなどが提唱する「エイリアンが遺伝子情報を収集している」という地球外仮説（ETH）に強く反対し、より現実的な説明を提唱している。

政府による極秘サンプリング: この現象の背後には政府機関が存在し、特定の目的のために牛を生物学的モニターとして利用している。
汚染監視: ミュティレーションが多発する地域は、ウランの採掘・処理施設、兵器工場などの風下や下流に位置する傾向がある（デビッド・パーキンスの説）。
プリオン病の追跡: オブライエンの核心的な理論は、政府がプリオン病（狂牛病、CWD、人間のクロイツフェルト・ヤコブ病）の拡散を秘密裏に監視しているというもの。
- スニッピー事件とCWDの最初の発生が時間的・地理的に一致している。
- 1999年にアメリカでのミュティレーションが突如終息し、直後に世界の主要な牛の群れが存在する南米で3,000件以上の事例が発生した。
- これは、病気の拡散を追跡するサンプリング活動が地理的に移動したことを示唆している。
SLVの役割: SLVは汚染がないため、この監視プログラムにおける「対照群」として機能している。

4. 政府の関与と地下基地の可能性

動物の異常死だけでなく、UFO目撃やその他の異常現象にも政府の関与が深く疑われるとオブライエンは指摘する。

4.1. 軍事活動と未確認飛行物体

SLV上空では、通常の軍事演習とは考えにくい不可解な活動が多数報告されている。

ラ・ビータ軍事作戦区域 (MOA): この区域のゴルフコース上空で、全長150フィートの巨大な飛行翼が目撃された。目撃者によれば、それは「クリンゴンの遮蔽装置が壊れたように」明滅し、池から水を吸い上げていたという。
ブランカ・ピーク上空の消える飛行機: オブライエン自身が、ブランカ・ピーク上空を飛行していた銀色の貨物機が閃光と共に消え、エンジン音も途絶えるのを目撃した。ネイティブアメリカンが「ポータル」があると信じる場所での出来事であり、政府がそのポータルを認識し、利用している可能性を示唆している。

4.2. 地下施設のネットワーク

オブライエンは、複数の情報源から得た報告を基に、SLVとその周辺地域に広範な地下基地とトンネルのネットワークが存在する可能性を提示した。

報告された地下基地の場所:
- ニューメキシコ州ダルシー
- コロラド州クレストーン
- コロラド州ブランカ山
- コロラド州グリーニー山
- ニューメキシコ州タオス近郊のリオグランデ峡谷
NORADへの接続: これらの報告地点を地図上で結ぶと、ほぼ一直線上に並び、その延長線上にはコロラドスプリングスの‌‌NORAD（北米航空宇宙防衛司令部）‌‌が存在する。
トンネル掘削技術: 1日に7～30マイルを掘削できる核動力の地下トンネル掘削機の特許が70年代に認可されており、広大な地下ネットワークの構築は技術的に可能である。
最近の活動: ニューメキシコ州境近くのボスケ国立野生生物保護区で、ハリバートン社などの活動と関連が疑われる原因不明の群発地震が続いている。

5. UFO学への提言と結論

オブライエンは講演の最後に、UFO研究（Ufology）の現状を厳しく批判し、現象を理解するための新しいパラダイムを提唱した。

5.1. 地球外仮説（ETH）の限界

彼は、UFO現象を「他の惑星から来た宇宙人」と単純に結論付けるETHに根本的な疑問を投げかけている。

UFO学の停滞: 「UFO学の車輪は壊れただけでなく、ずっと前に車から脱落した」と述べ、50年以上にわたり同じ議論が繰り返されている現状を批判した。
現象の性質: 報告されるエイリアンの行動（中世レベルの医療技術、意味不明な質問など）は、高度な星間文明のそれとは考えにくい。
超次元仮説: 現象は地球外からではなく、M理論（膜理論）が示唆する11次元のような、我々が認識できない別の次元から来ている可能性が高い。これらの存在は「我々と同じくらい、あるいはそれ以上に長くここにいる」。

5.2. 創造的思考と分野横断的アプローチの必要性

現象の背後にある真実を理解するためには、既存の枠組みを超えた思考が必要であるとオブライエンは強調する。

パターンの認識: 彼は、一見無関係に見える事象間の関連性を見出すことを奨励する。
- 例1: 1997年にコロラド州で発生した大規模な森林倒壊（ブローダウン）イベントと、その直後に同地域で発生したCWDの関連性。
- 例2: イギリスで単純な円だったクロップサークルに「リング」という新しい要素が加わった時期が、狂牛病の発生時期と一致していること。

5.3. 結論：閉鎖系としての地球

オブライエンの最終的な結論は、我々が目撃している現象は、遠い宇宙からの来訪者によるものではなく、地球（あるいはそれに隣接する次元）という「閉鎖系」の内部で起こっている複雑な相互作用の一部であるというものである。彼は、この複雑な現実を解明するためには、UFO、民間伝承、動物の異常死、政府の秘密活動といったすべての点を結びつけ、より大きな全体像を描く努力が必要だと訴えている。

クリス・オブライエン講演録：サンルイス・バレーの謎ーエグゼクティブ・サマリー

1. 序論：超常現象のホットスポットとしてのサンルイス・バレー

調査ジャーナリストであるクリス・オブライエン氏の研究において、コロラド州南中部に位置するサンルイス・バレー（SLV）は、超常現象調査における比類なき中心地として位置づけられています。この地域は単なるUFO目撃の多発地帯ではなく、地球物理学的特異性、古代からの先住民の伝承、そして政府の秘密活動疑惑といった、複雑で多岐にわたる現象が絡み合う特異な場所です。オブライエン氏は、SLVがアメリカで最も異常な地域である可能性を提示しており、その主張は、コンピュータUFOネットワークの統計で、人口あたりのUFO目撃件数において米国トップ10のうち5つの郡がSLV内に含まれるという事実によって裏付けられています。

オブライエン氏は、SLVのような「ホットスポット」地域を定義する上で、以下の共通した特徴を挙げています。

古代先住民の聖地: 長年にわたり、精神的に重要な場所として崇められてきた歴史がある。
特異な地球物理学的特性: 磁気異常など、科学的に説明が困難な物理的特徴を持つ。
異常現象の頻発: UFO目撃やその他の超常現象が継続的に報告される。
現象を説明しようとする地域独自の文化の存在: 地域社会が現象を解釈するための独自の神話や民間伝承を育んでいる。
政府機関の存在: しばしば、軍事施設や政府関連の研究機関が近隣に存在する。

本稿では、SLVをこれほどまでに特異な場所たらしめている地球物理学的特性と、この地に深く根ざした神聖な地理についての議論から、その謎を解き明かしていきます。

2. 谷の特異な環境：地球物理学と神聖地理学

サンルイス・バレーで報告される数々の現象の背景を理解するためには、その物理的景観と精神的景観の両方を分析することが不可欠です。オブライエン氏の研究は、この二つの側面が相互に影響し合い、異常現象の発生基盤を形成している可能性を示唆しています。

2.1. 地球物理学的異常

SLVは、長さ約170マイル、幅約70マイルに及ぶ世界最大の高山地帯の谷であり、その谷床は標高7,500フィートに位置します。山々に完全に囲まれた地形のため、高度18,000フィート以下ではレーダーに映らないという特徴があります。

オブライエン氏の調査における中心的な仮説の一つは、航空磁気図に基づいています。この地図は地球の磁場の強度を色で示しており、UFO目撃のほとんどは、磁場の‌‌最大強度（赤）と最小強度（青）が近接する「境界線（seams）」‌‌で発生する傾向があります。オブライエン氏は、これを地形図における「磁気的な崖」に例えています。等高線が密集する崖の部分で何かが起こりやすいように、これらの磁力線の崖でも異常現象が集中するのだと彼は推測しています。

2.2. 先住民の神聖な伝統

SLVは、南西部の多くの部族にとって精神的な中心地です。彼らの伝統には4つの神聖な山が存在しますが、その中でもSLVにそびえるブランカ・ピークは、「すべての思考が生まれる場所」として最も重要な聖地とされています。

ポータルと雲の人々: 先住民の伝承によれば、ブランカ・ピーク周辺には「雲の人々」と呼ばれる存在が出入りする‌‌「戸口」または「ポータル」‌‌が存在すると信じられています。これは、超常的な存在が我々の次元と行き来する場所である可能性を示唆しています。
ザパプ（Zapapu）：多くのプエブロ族は、人類が現在の世界に出現した「出現の地」がSLVにあると考えており、この場所を「ザパプ」と呼んでいます。この信仰は、この土地が生命の起源と深く結びついていることを物語っています。

これらの古代からの伝承は、この特異な環境で育まれた現代の民間伝承へと自然につながっていきます。

3. 文化のるつぼ：歴史、民間伝承、そして現代の現象

サンルイス・バレーの地理的な隔離は、歴史的事件、宗教的信念、そして現代の民間伝承が融合したユニークな文化を育んできました。この文化的背景は、この地域で発生する異常現象の解釈に深い影響を与えています。

3.1. 歴史的先例と信仰

デ・アンサ遠征隊の記録: 記録上、この地域における最初の航空現象の報告は、1777年のデ・アンサ遠征隊によるものです。彼らは日記の中で、山頂を飛び交う奇妙な光と、後に「タオス・ハム」として知られることになる、山から聞こえる奇妙で持続的なハミング音について記述しています。
「青い服の貴婦人」の伝説: 1600年代、スペインの修道女マリア・ヘスス・デ・アグレダが、瞑想中に青い光に包まれ、新世界へ「バイロケーション（遠隔地出現）」していたという伝説があります。彼女は先住民にキリスト教の教えを説き、後のスペインによる円滑な植民地化を助けたとされています。
ペニテンテ兄弟団: カトリックとシャーマニズムの伝統が融合した、苦行を重んじる秘密結社「ペニテンテ兄弟団」もこの地域で活動しており、谷の独特な精神文化を形成しています。

3.2. 地域の伝説と存在

オブライエン氏が記録した、この地域特有の民間伝承に登場する存在は、谷の「奇妙さ」をさらに際立たせています。

ビッグフット: この地域のビッグフットは、一般的な草食性のイメージとは異なり、ヘラジカの群れを狩る肉食性であると報告されています。タオス・プエブロ族にとっては、創造主のような存在と見なされています。
スキンウォーカー: 人に憑依したり、動物の姿に変身したりする能力を持つとされる妖術師です。急いで移動する際には火の玉に姿を変えると信じられており、オブライエン氏は、これが一部の飛行現象に対する地域独自の解釈を生んでいると指摘します。目撃者の中にはUFOではなく「移動中の魔女」を報告する者もいるといいます。
ラ・ヨローナ: 子供を失った悲しみから川沿いをさまよい、不気味なすすり泣きが聞こえるという女性の幽霊の伝説です。
プレーリー・ドラゴン: 特定の道路で目撃される、蛇のようにうねりながら移動する半透明の物体です。目撃者の多くは、主に周辺視野で捉えることが多いと報告しています。

これらの信念体系は、より具体的で物理的な証拠を残す「動物の異常死」といった現象を考察する上での文化的背景を形成しており、次のセクションへの議論へとつながっていきます。

4. 未解決の謎：動物の異常死

動物の異常死現象は、サンルイス・バレーで起こる出来事の中で最も物理的証拠が残り、かつ不穏な側面を持つものです。オブライエン氏は、この現象を指す一般的な用語「アニマル・ミューティレーション（動物の切断）」を意図的に避けています。彼は、この言葉が扇情的で不正確であり、実際には細心の注意を払って行われる準科学的な処置のように見えると主張し、代わりに「動物の異常死（unusual animal deaths）」という、より分析的な呼称を提唱しています。

4.1. 「スニッピー事件」：転換点

1967年9月、馬の「スニッピー」が遺体で発見された事件は、この現象が世界的に注目されるきっかけとなりました。スニッピーは、肩から鼻先までの肉、組織、血管、そして脳が、外科手術のようにきれいに除去されていました。オブライエン氏が指摘する重要な関連事項は以下の通りです。

同じ週末に、隣接する牧場で2頭のバッファローが同様の状態で発見されたこと。
その数日後、コロラド州で初となる慢性消耗病（CWD）、すなわち「狂鹿病」が発生したこと。

彼は、ネイティブ・アメリカンにとって最も神聖とされる2つの動物（馬とバッファロー）が狙われたことと、プリオン病の発生時期が重なることから、この一連の事件が何らかの象徴的な「警告」であった可能性を示唆しています。

4.2. 特徴と対立する仮説

「動物の異常死」現象には、以下のような典型的な特徴があります。

レーザーのような精密な切開
特定の臓器（舌、乳房、直腸など）の欠損
現場に血痕がほとんど、あるいは全くない
現場周辺での謎のヘリコプターの目撃

この現象の解釈をめぐっては、大きく分けて二つの仮説が対立しています。

地球外仮説（リンダ・ハウ氏）: 地球外生命体が、人間との遺伝的類似性を持つ牛から遺伝子物質を収集しているとする説。
政府秘密プログラム説（オブライエン氏）: オブライエン氏は、これを地球外生命体の仕業とする説に疑問を呈し、より現実的な代替仮説を提唱しています。彼の説によれば、これは政府関連組織が、狂牛病やCWDといったプリオン病の蔓延を監視するために、牛を対象として秘密裏に行っているサンプリング・プログラムである可能性が高いというものです。その根拠として、ウランの採掘・処理施設の下流や風下地域と、動物の異常死が多発する地域との地理的相関、そして環境保護庁（EPA）が同様の手法で動物実験を行っていた事実を挙げています。

動物の死への政府関与疑惑は、谷における秘密の政府・軍事プレゼンスに関する、より広範な証拠へと我々の目を向けさせます。

5. 影の存在：政府と軍の関与疑惑

しばしば地球外生命体の仕業とされる現象に対し、地球上の存在、特に政府や軍による秘密活動という説明を提供する調査は、オブライエン氏の研究において戦略的に重要な位置を占めています。

5.1. ラ・ビタ軍事作戦区域と先進航空機

SLVの東側には、ラ・ビタ軍事作戦区域が存在します。この地域では、従来の航空機とは一線を画す先進的な機体の目撃が報告されています。

クローキング機能を持つ全翼機: 2000年、ゴルフコース上空で全長150フィートに及ぶ半透明の全翼機が目撃されました。目撃者の一人は、まるで『スタートレック』に登場する‌‌「クリンゴンバード・オブ・プレイの故障したクローキング装置」‌‌のようだったと証言しており、機体は点滅するように姿を現したり消えたりを繰り返したといいます。
消える輸送機: オブライエン氏自身も、ブランカ・ピーク上空を飛行していた銀色の輸送機が、一瞬閃光を発して完全に姿を消すのを双眼鏡で目撃しています。

これらの目撃例は、一般には知られていない高度な航空技術がこの地域で運用されている可能性を示唆しています。

5.2. 地下施設

オブライエン氏は、数々の目撃証言や状況証拠に基づき、SLV周辺に広範な地下基地ネットワークが存在するという仮説を提唱しています。このネットワークは、ニューメキシコ州のダルシー、ブランカ・ピーク、そしてコロラドスプリングスのNORAD（北アメリカ航空宇宙防衛司令部）などを結んでいる可能性があります。

トンネル掘削機: リチャード・ソウダー氏の研究によれば、1日に数マイルから数十マイルのトンネルを掘削できる核動力のトンネルボーリングマシンの特許が存在します。
目撃証言: 地元の保安官代理やハンターが、山中で巨大な鋼鉄製の扉や隠された入り口を目撃したという報告が複数寄せられています。

政府の秘密活動は一つの有力な仮説ですが、オブライエン氏は最終的に、UFO研究の既存パラダイムそのものに挑戦し、より複雑なモデルを提案することで講演を締めくくります。

6. オブライエン氏の結論：新たなパラダイムへの呼びかけ

オブライエン氏の講演の結論は、個々の事件の調査報告を超え、UFO研究分野全体に対する批判と、新たな研究の方向性の提案という包括的なテーゼとなっています。彼は、単純な地球外仮説（ETH）に固執することの限界を指摘し、より洗練されたアプローチの必要性を訴えています。

地球外仮説への反論: 彼は「彼らは我々と同じくらい、あるいはそれ以上に長くここにいる」と主張し、これらの存在が遠い惑星から来訪しているのではなく、我々の現実と並行して存在する超次元的な存在である可能性が高いと論じます。オブライエン氏は、現在のUFO研究は根本的に破綻していると断じ、「UFO学の車輪は壊れただけでなく、とっくの昔に車から脱落してしまった」という痛烈な比喩を用いて現状を批判します。
「創造的思考」の重要性: オブライエン氏は、一見無関係に見える事象を結びつける「創造的思考」を呼びかけます。その一例として、イギリスで複雑なクロップサークルが出現し始めた時期と、狂牛病が初めて発生した時期が一致することを指摘し、両者の間に未知の相関関係がある可能性を示唆しました。
今後の進むべき道: 彼は、憶測や神話に頼るのではなく、レイ・スタンフォードのような研究者が実践してきた科学的な‌‌「ハードデータの監視」‌‌に立ち返ることの重要性を強調します。客観的なデータ収集と分野横断的な分析こそが、この謎を解き明かす鍵であると主張します。

最終的に、クリス・オブライエン氏が提示するサンルイス・バレーの姿は、単なる超常現象のホットスポットではありません。それは、地質学的、歴史的、文化的、そして潜在的には超次元的な力が複雑に絡み合う壮大な縮図であり、この謎に挑む我々には、従来の枠組みを超えた、より統合的で洗練された調査アプローチが求められているのです。

中心テーマ : サンルイス・ヴァレー

サンルイス・ヴァレー（San Luis Valley: SLV）は、クリス・オブライエン氏の講演の‌‌中心的なテーマ‌‌であり、彼はこの地域を「‌‌アメリカで最も異常な地域‌‌ (America's most anomalous region)」であると見なしています。講演のより大きな文脈において、これらの資料はSLVが「‌‌ハイ・ストレンジネス‌‌ (high strangeness)」に満ちた「ホットスポット地域」であり、古代の伝統、地球物理学的な特異性、そして現代の未確認現象が複雑に絡み合った場所であることを伝えようとしています。

オブライエン氏は、12年間にわたる個人的な調査、逸話的な報告、および法執行機関の記録を通じて、SLVで発生している「驚くべき量の活動」を解明しようとしています。

SLVという中央テーマに関して、資料が強調している主要な要素は以下の通りです。

1. UFO活動とポータル現象

SLVは、夜間にロッキー山脈の空を横切って脈打つ「夜間のライトショー」や、「UFO活動の熱狂のピーク」によって特徴づけられます。

‌‌異常な目撃情報:‌‌ 米国内の1人当たりの目撃情報に基づくトップ10のホットスポット地域のうち、5つがSLVにあり、中でもセワッチ郡は第1位にランクされています。
‌‌古代からの伝統:‌‌ ネイティブアメリカンの神話や伝説では、この地は「‌‌雲の民‌‌（cloud people）」や「空飛ぶ種子の鞘（flying seed pods）」が行き来する「‌‌扉やポータルが開く場所‌‌」だと信じられています。
‌‌地理的な相関関係:‌‌ オブライエン氏は、UFOの目撃情報が地球の磁場強度の最小値と最大値が近接する「‌‌縫い目‌‌ (seams)」の領域で発生する傾向があることを指摘しており、これは他の研究者があまり議論していない地球物理学的特性です。
‌‌ヨーロッパ人による最初の記録:‌‌ スペイン人によるデ・アンザ遠征（1777年）の日記には、山頂付近を飛び交う奇妙な光と、「タオス・ハム (Taos Hum)」として知られる低く耳障りな唸り音が記録されており、これはヨーロッパ人によるSLVでの異常な空中現象の最初の記録です。
‌‌現地の民間信仰:‌‌ 現地ヒスパニック系の人々の間には、UFOがホバリングした場所に宝が埋まっているというユニークなサブカルチャー的な信念があります。

2. 動物の異常死現象（家畜損傷）

SLVは、家畜が「血を抜かれ、奇妙な方法で切断された」状態で見つかる現象の最初の公開事例が発生した場所として知られています。

‌‌最初の公開事例:‌‌ 1967年9月に発生した「スニッピー（Snippy）という馬の事件」は、多くの人に最初の家畜損傷事件と見なされています。
‌‌実験としての見解:‌‌ オブライエン氏は、これらの事件を「家畜切断（mutilations）」ではなく、意図的で細心の注意を払った「‌‌実験‌‌（experimentations）」と見なしています。彼は、この現象が「何らかの未定義の捕食者」による「警告」である可能性を示唆しています。
‌‌地球外生命体説への異論:‌‌ 彼は、家畜異常死現象が地球外生命体によるものだという仮説（ET仮説）には「非常に深刻な問題がある」とし、その代わりに、ウランの採掘・処理施設や、クロイツフェルト・ヤコブ病（人間版の狂牛病）の原因となる‌‌プリオン‌‌ の拡散との関連性を指摘しています。彼は、政府がこの地域で生物兵器実験を行っている可能性も示唆しています。

3. 地理的・文化的背景

SLVは、異常現象の発生に寄与する独自の地理的・文化的特性を持っています。

‌‌地理的特異点:‌‌ 渓谷全体が山々に囲まれており、高度18,000フィート以下ではレーダーに映りません。また、北米最大の帯水層の上に位置しています。
‌‌大砂丘の謎:‌‌ 世界で最も高い砂丘であるグレート・サンド・デューンズ（Great Sand Dunes）の形成は、公式な地質学的な説明では困難であり、オブライエン氏はエイリアンが地下の洞窟を掘った結果という説でさえ、「西風が吹き付けたという説よりも優れている」と述べています。
‌‌文化的な融合:‌‌ SLVは、北米で唯一、グレートプレーンズ・インディアン、グレートベイスン・インディアン、サウスウェスタン・インディアンの3つの地域グループが平和的に共存した地域です。また、スペインの影響により、土着のシャーマニズムの伝統とカトリックが融合した興味深い宗教的信仰（ロス・エルマノス・デ・ペニテンテスなど）が生まれました。
‌‌ビッグフットとスキンウォーカー:‌‌ タオス・プエブロ・インディアンは、創造主がサン・アントニオ・ピークに住んでおり、毛に覆われた巨大な姿で現れると信じています。コロラド州のビッグフットの報告のほとんどはこの地域に集中しており、SLVのビッグフットは肉食であるという報告もあります。さらに、魔術師（brujos/brujas）である‌‌スキンウォーカー‌‌が動物の形に変身したり、急いで移動する際に火の玉（UFO現象の一種として報告される）に変わったりするという信念もあります。

4. 政府の関与と地下基地の噂

オブライエン氏は、SLVの謎に対する「政府の関与」を深く掘り下げています。

‌‌秘密の活動:‌‌ SLVでは、地下基地や秘密の政府活動の噂が絶えません。
‌‌軍事利用:‌‌ 軍がこの地域を定期的に飛行しており、オブライエン氏は、ブラカ山脈などの領域にあるネイティブアメリカンが主張する「扉」（ポータル）の存在を政府が知っており、それを活用していると考えています。
‌‌トンネルとNORAD:‌‌ 複数の報告を照合した結果、オブライエン氏は、SLVの各所にある地下施設が、シャイアン・マウンテンのNORAD施設へとつながるトンネルで結ばれている可能性があるという理論を提示しています。
‌‌環境と実験:‌‌ SLVが「‌‌空気、水、土地の汚染がない‌‌」唯一の地域であることから、オブライエン氏は、この地域が何らかの目的（汚染がない環境での動物を用いた重金属汚染の調査など）のための「‌‌対照群‌‌（control group）」として利用されている可能性があると推測しています。

これらの要素を総合すると、資料はSLVが単なるUFOの目撃地ではなく、地球物理学的な異常、古代の精神性、軍事・政府の関与、そして生物学的謎が交差する、地球上で最も不可解で重要な地域の1つであるというメッセージを聴衆に伝えています。オブライエン氏は、この「小宇宙」であるSLVの謎を解明することが、より大きな「大宇宙」の現象を理解する鍵になると考えています。

異常現象の主要テーマ

サンルイス・ヴァレー（San Luis Valley: SLV）に関するクリス・オブライエン氏の講演は、この地域で発生する多サンルイス・ヴァレー（San Luis Valley: SLV）に関するクリス・オブライエン氏の講演は、この地域で発生する多種多様な「‌‌ハイ・ストレンジネス‌‌ (high strangeness)」現象の包括的なレビューであり、単なるUFOの目撃地としてではなく、地球上で最も異常な現象が集中する「‌‌ホットスポット地域‌‌」としてSLVを位置づけています。

講演のより大きな文脈において、これらのソースが異常現象の主要テーマについて伝えようとしている中心的なメッセージは、‌‌異常現象が相互に関連しており‌‌、古代の信念、地球物理学的特性、政府の活動と密接に結びついているということです。

以下に、ソースが強調している異常現象の主要テーマを詳述します。

1. UFO/航空現象（夜間のライトショーとポータル）

SLVの中心的な異常現象として、UFOの目撃が最も頻繁に、そして熱狂的に報告されています。

‌‌目撃の頻度と場所:‌‌ SLVは「‌‌アメリカで最も異常な地域‌‌ (America's most anomalous region)」であるとオブライエン氏は信じており、特にセワッチ郡（Sewatch County）は、人口当たりの目撃数において米国のトップ10ホットスポット地域の第1位にランクされています。夜間には、ロッキー山脈の空を横切って点滅し、光るUFOの「‌‌夜間のライトショー‌‌」が発生しています。
‌‌地理的相関性（磁場）:‌‌ オブライエン氏は、UFOの目撃が地球の磁場強度の‌‌最小値と最大値が近接する「縫い目」のような領域‌‌で多発する傾向があるという、独自の地球物理学的特性を指摘しています。
‌‌古代のポータル:‌‌ ネイティブアメリカンの伝統では、ブランカ・ピーク（Blanca Peak）周辺には「‌‌出入り口やポータル‌‌」が開く場所があり、そこから「雲の民」や「空飛ぶ種子の鞘」がやって来ると信じられています。オブライエン氏は、政府（軍）がこのポータル、または「扉」の存在を知り、それを活用している可能性があると示唆しています。
‌‌軍事活動との関連:‌‌ 軍はSLV上空を定期的に飛行しており、地下基地や秘密の政府活動の噂とともに、これらの現象との関連が疑問視されています。軍の関与は、未確認飛行物体が閃光とともに消える現象や、軍用ヘリコプターの頻繁な目撃と関連付けられています。
‌‌文化的な解釈:‌‌ 現地のヒスパニック系のコミュニティには、UFOがホバリングした場所の下を掘ると宝物（スペイン時代のコインなど）が見つかるという独特のサブカルチャー的な信念が存在します。また、魔術師（brujos/brujas）であるスキンウォーカーが急いで移動する際に「火の玉」に変化し、それがUFO現象の一種として報告されるという信念もあります。

2. 動物の異常死現象（家畜の実験）

SLVは、家畜が「血を抜かれ、奇妙な方法で切断された (left bloodless and mutilated in high, strange fashion)」状態で見つかる現象の最初の公開事例が起こった場所として、異常現象の歴史において重要な位置を占めています。

‌‌「スニッピー（Snippy）事件」:‌‌ 1967年9月8日に発生した馬のスニッピーの事件は、「最初の家畜損傷事件」と見なされています。この事件は、馬とバッファローというネイティブアメリカンが最も尊崇する2種類の動物を対象としたものであり、オブライエン氏はこれを「‌‌何らかの未定義の捕食者による警告‌‌」であった可能性があると示唆しています。
‌‌「損傷」ではなく「実験」:‌‌ オブライエン氏は、これらの事例を「家畜切断（mutilations）」ではなく、意図的で細心の注意を払った「‌‌実験‌‌（experimentations）」と捉えるべきだと主張しており、この調査分野が不当にセンセーショナルに扱われることを避けるため、「異常な動物の死 (unusual animal deaths)」という言葉を好んでいます。
‌‌政府・生物兵器仮説:‌‌ 彼は、これらの現象が地球外生命体によるものだという仮説（ET仮説）に「深刻な問題がある」とし、むしろ政府の関与、特に‌‌ウラン採掘地の下流・風下‌‌での発生や、牛と人間のヘモグロビンの一致、そして‌‌プリオン病（狂牛病など）‌‌の調査に関連する生物兵器実験の可能性を強く示唆しています。SLVは「空気、水、土地の汚染がない」米国本土で唯一の地域であるため、政府が何らかの目的（重金属汚染の調査など）のための「‌‌対照群‌‌（control group）」として利用している可能性を推測しています。

3. 未確認の生物現象（ビッグフットとスキンウォーカー）

SLVの異常性は、UFOや動物の異常死だけでなく、未確認の生物現象にも及びます。

‌‌ビッグフットの集中:‌‌ コロラド州におけるビッグフットの報告のほとんどはSLVのサン・アントニオ・ピーク周辺に集中しており、トーマス・プエブロ・インディアンは創造主がこの山に住み、「‌‌非常に大きく、悪臭を放ち、毛で覆われた姿‌‌」で現れると信じています。さらに、SLVのビッグフットは草食ではなく、‌‌肉食である‌‌という報告があるという点で、異常な側面が付加されています。
‌‌スキンウォーカーと魔術:‌‌ ネイティブアメリカンやヒスパニック系住民の間では、‌‌スキンウォーカー‌‌（sorcerers, brujos/brujas）の伝説が根付いており、彼らは動物の形に変身したり、急いで移動する際に火の玉（UFO）に変わったりすると信じられています。

4. 地球物理学的・歴史的異常

異常現象が集中するSLVの特性は、地理的・歴史的要因によって裏付けられています。

‌‌地下の特異性:‌‌ SLVは北米最大の帯水層の上に位置しており、その地下水は15,000フィートから30,000フィートまで達する可能性があります。また、渓谷全体が山に囲まれており、高度18,000フィート以下ではレーダーで捉えられないという特徴も持ちます。
‌‌大砂丘の謎:‌‌ 世界で最も高い砂丘であるグレート・サンド・デューンズの存在も異常現象の一つと見なされています。公式な地質学的説明（偏西風による砂の堆積）は説得力がなく、オブライエン氏は、地下の洞窟を掘るエイリアンが粉状の石英を排出した結果という説でさえ、公式説より優れているとジョークを交えて述べています。
‌‌歴史的な記録:‌‌ ヨーロッパ人によるSLVでの異常な空中現象の最初の記録は、デ・アンザ遠征（1777年）の日記にあり、山頂付近を飛び交う奇妙な光と、後に「‌‌タオス・ハム (Taos Hum)‌‌」として知られる低く耳障りな唸り音が記録されています。

これらの主要テーマを通じて、オブライエン氏は聴衆に対し、SLVが古代の神話、特異な地理、そして現代の未確認現象が融合した「‌‌経験の小宇宙‌‌ (microcosm of experience)」であると伝えています。この地域の謎を解明することが、より大きな現象（マクロコスモス）を理解するための鍵となると考えているのです。

サンルイス・バレーにおける異常現象の相互関連性：クリス・オブライエンの講演に基づくテーマ別分析

1.0 序論：謎に満ちた谷への招待

本レポートは、研究者クリス・オブライエンの講演内容に基づき、コロラド州サンルイス・バレーで報告されている多様な異常現象の背後に潜む、隠されたパターンとテーマ的な関連性を分析することを目的としています。UFO目撃情報、奇妙な動物の死、先住民の神話、地球物理学的異常といった現象は、一見すると無関係に見えるかもしれません。しかし、オブライエンの長年にわたる調査は、これらの事象を孤立した謎としてではなく、相互に作用し合う一つの複雑なシステムの一部として捉えようとする試みです。彼の研究哲学の中心には、「もしこの場所で何が起きているかを解明できれば、そのミクロな理解はマクロな全体像にも当てはまるはずだ」という信念があります。本稿では、オブライエンが提示した証拠と洞察を整理・分析し、サンルイス・バレーという特異な土地が織りなす深遠な謎のタペストリーを解き明かすことを目指します。

2.0 「完璧なペトリ皿」としてのサンルイス・バレー：異常現象の温床

サンルイス・バレーで発生する現象を理解するためには、まず、この地域がなぜ異常現象の研究にとってユニークで理想的な環境、すなわち「完璧なペトリ皿」であるのかを明らかにすることが不可欠です。オブライエンの分析によれば、その地理的・物理的特異性が、多様な現象が集中して発生する土壌を形成しているのです。

オブライエンは、作家ルー・テリーがかつて提示した定義を引用し、現象多発地帯を「ホットスポット」または「ポータルエリア」と定義し、その共通の特徴を以下のようにまとめています。

古代先住民の聖地：その土地にまつわる神話や伝承が存在する。
特異な地球物理学的特性：磁場異常など、科学的に測定可能な特異点を持つ。
異常活動の波状発生：現象の目撃情報が継続的かつ周期的に報告される。
現象を説明しようとする地域文化の存在：地域の民間伝承や文化が、謎を解釈する独自の枠組みを発展させている。
政府・軍の存在：政府や軍が、公然または非公然にその地域に関与している。

オブライエンが提示した地球物理学的証拠の中でも特に注目すべきは、航空磁気図です。この地図は地球の磁場の強度を色で示しており、赤色が高強度域、青色が低強度域を表します。オブライエンは、UFOの目撃が多発する地域が、磁場の最大強度域と最小強度域が隣接する「継ぎ目」のような場所と顕著に相関していることを発見しました。彼はこれを地形図にたとえ、「地形図において、標高の急激な上昇や下降がある場所では等高線が密集する。それと同じように、この磁場地図においても磁力の『崖』とでも言うべき場所があり、まさにそこで目撃が多発している」と説明しています。この不安定な領域が、何らかの形で現象の発生に関与している可能性を示唆しています。

さらに、バレーの地理的隔離性も重要な要素です。四方を山脈に囲まれたこの谷は、高度18,000フィート以下ではレーダーに映らない「レーダーの死角」となっています。この物理的な遮蔽が、外部からの干渉を受けずに現象を観察・研究するための「完璧なペトリ皿」としての条件を整えていると、オブライエンは論じています。

このような物理的・地理的基盤の上に、この土地の持つ深遠な精神的・神話的側面が重なり合っています。

3.0 神話の基盤：不可解さを読み解く古代の伝承

オブライエンの視点では、先住民の神話や伝承は単なる古い物語ではなく、サンルイス・バレーで発生する現代の異常現象を理解するための重要なレンズとして機能します。これらの古代の物語は、この土地とそこに現れる現象に対する文化的な解釈の枠組みを提供しているのです。

特に、ディネ（ナバホ）族の伝承において四大聖なる山の一つとされるブランカ・ピークは、この地域の精神的中心地です。彼らの言葉で「シスナギニ」と呼ばれるこの山は、「すべての思考が生まれる場所」として崇められています。オブライエンが複数の情報源から確認した伝承によれば、ブランカ・ピーク周辺には‌‌「出入り口」や「ポータル」が存在し、「雲の人々」と呼ばれる存在がそこを行き来する‌‌と信じられています。

また、多くのプエブロの部族に共通する「出現の地（ザパプ）」に関する神話も、この地域に深く根付いています。これは、人類が地下世界から現在の世界へ現れたとされる場所であり、その具体的な場所としてグレート・サンド・デューンズ国立公園近くのメダノ・クリークなどが挙げられています。このクリーク自体が特異であり、「世界で唯一、波のある川」で、最後には「穴の中に消えていく」という特徴は、地下世界への入り口を信じるマヤの神話（シバルバー）とも興味深い類似性を示しています。

オブライエンは、これらの伝承を裏付ける可能性のある物証として、地域の岩絵（ロックアート）を提示しています。

ある岩絵は、ホピ族の‌‌「雲のカチーナ（雲の精霊）」‌‌の姿と酷似しており、古代の人々が空から来る存在を認識していた可能性を示しています。
別の岩絵には、ヘルメットやゴーグル、アンテナのようなものを身に着けた、‌‌「異星人のような姿」‌‌と解釈できる人型が描かれています。

これらの古代の伝承や芸術は、未知の存在との遭遇がこの土地の歴史の一部であったことを示唆しており、現代の地域文化や民間伝承に色濃い影響を与え続けています。

4.0 怪異のスペクトル：民間伝承から現代の超常現象へ

サンルイス・バレーでは、古代の伝承と現代の異常体験とが切れ目なく連続しています。この地域の孤立したユニークな文化は、多様な超常現象の報告が生まれる豊かな土壌となっており、神話的存在から現代的な怪異まで、幅広いスペクトルの現象が目撃されています。

オブライエンが報告した、この地域特有の民間伝承と超常的存在には以下のようなものがあります。

ビッグフット：主にサンアントニオ・ピーク周辺で目撃されています。特筆すべきは、この地域のビッグフットがヘラジカの群れをストーキングする姿が報告されており、一般的な草食性のイメージとは異なる肉食性であるという点です。
スキンウォーカー（ブルホ）：先住民の伝承に登場する魔術師で、動物への変身能力や他人の身体を乗っ取る憑依能力を持つとされています。特に、急いで移動する際には火の玉に姿を変えるという伝承は、オブライエンが「UFO型飛行物体に対する地域文化的な解釈」と見ており、実際に「移動中の魔女」を目撃したという報告も受けています。
ラ・ヨローナとポホアケの悪魔：「嘆き女」ラ・ヨローナの不気味な泣き声や、カジノに現れるという「ポホアケの悪魔」など、地域の文化に深く根付いた超常的存在が現代でも語り継がれています。

これらの多様な現象の中で、オブライエンが特に重要視しているのが、異なる種類の現象間の直接的な関連性を示す事例です。1993年の聖金曜日の夜、ある男性が‌‌「ヤギの足を持つ悪魔の女」‌‌を車に乗せ、彼女が忽然と姿を消すという事件を警察に正式に報告しました。驚くべきことに、その事件が起きた同じ週末、同じ場所の牧場で、大規模な動物惨殺事件の第一例が発生したのです。この時間的・場所的な一致は、民間伝承上の存在と物理的な異常現象が、単なる偶然ではなく、何らかの形で結びついている可能性を強く示唆する重要な証拠であるとオブライエンは指摘しています。

この不可解なつながりは、より具体的で物理的な証拠を伴う謎、すなわち「動物の奇妙な死」へと我々の分析を導きます。

5.0 「動物の奇妙な死」の謎：法医学的・環境的視点からの分析

サンルイス・バレーで報告される数々の異常現象の中で、「動物の奇妙な死」は物理的な証拠が残るという点で一線を画しており、オブライエンの調査において中心的な位置を占めています。写真や目撃証言とは異なり、ここには検証可能な「物体」が存在するからです。

この現象が世界的に注目されるきっかけとなったのは、1967年にサンルイス・バレーで発生した馬の「スニッピー事件」です。この事件以降、同様の事例が数多く報告されていますが、オブライエンは扇情的な「ミューティレーション（惨殺）」という言葉を避け、より客観的な「Unusual Animal Deaths（奇妙な動物の死）」という用語を用いています。彼によれば、「ミューティレーション」という言葉は「無償で、扇情的で、恐ろしい」ものであり、彼が目の当たりにしてきた事象は、無差別な殺戮ではなく「非常に綿密で、慎重な実験」であると見なしているためです。

オブライエンが提示する最も重要な洞察は、スニッピー事件が単なる奇怪な出来事ではなかったとする仮説です。彼は、事件の犠牲となったのが馬であったこと、そして同じ週末に隣の牧場で2頭のバッファローも同様の状態で発見されたという事実に着目します。馬とバッファローは、共に先住民に最も神聖視される動物です。さらに、この事件とほぼ同時期に、コロラド州で初めてプリオン病の一種である慢性消耗病（CWD）の発生が確認されたのです。彼は、この一連の出来事が、何者かによる象徴的な「警告」であった可能性を提起しています。

オブライエンはこの仮説に基づき、一般的な異星人仮説を否定し、政府関連機関によるプリオン病の秘密監視プログラムの可能性を示唆する、以下の証拠を提示しています。

対照群としてのサンルイス・バレー：この地域は、アメリカ本土で唯一、大気、水、土地の汚染がない場所です。このため、病気の蔓延や環境汚染の影響を研究するための理想的な‌‌「対照群（コントロール・グループ）」‌‌として機能している可能性があります。
EPAの実験との相関： 1990年代後半、環境保護庁（EPA）が汚染されたアラモサ川流域で動物を使った秘密の実験を行っていました。オブライエンの調査では、このEPAの実験期間と場所が、同地域で発生した動物惨殺事件の多発時期・場所と完全に一致することが判明しました。
世界的なパターン：アメリカ国内での動物惨殺事件の報告は1999年に激減し、2000年からは南米で3,000件以上の事件が発生し始めました。これは、世界の主要な牛の牧畜地帯やプリオン病の拡大と一致しており、世界規模での監視活動を示唆しています。
ヘリコプターの目撃情報：事件現場周辺では、所属不明のヘリコプターが頻繁に目撃されています。オブライエン自身をこの調査に「釘付けにした」のは、1980年の事件で目撃された旧式のUH-1ベルヘリコプターについて生存者から聞き取り調査を行ったまさにその翌日、13年の時を経て、全く同じタイプのヘリコプターが自宅上空を飛行するのを目撃したという個人的な体験でした。

この政府関与の可能性というテーマは、空で見られるUFO現象と、地上および地下で噂される軍事活動との関連性を探る次の議論へと自然に移行します。

6.0 空の監視者たち：UFO、軍事活動、そして地下基地の噂

オブライエンの分析において、サンルイス・バレーの空で目撃されるUFO現象は、地上および地下で観測される軍や政府の活動と密接に交差しています。彼は、これらを別個の現象としてではなく、同じコインの裏表として捉えようと試みています。

この地域におけるUFO目撃の歴史は古く、最初の公式記録は1777年のデ・アンサ遠征隊によるものです。彼らは日記に、山頂を飛び交う奇妙な光と、山から聞こえる‌‌低く絶え間ないハム音（現代の「タオスのハム音」）‌‌を記録しました。現代においても目撃情報は絶えず、特にレンズ状雲の出現とUFO目撃が関連付けられることが多いです。オブライエン自身も、チベットの伝承で「ティグレ」と呼ばれる光球を撮影しており、これらの現象が継続していることを示しています。

オブライエンは、これらの空の現象と軍の存在との間に強い関連性を見出しています。バレーの東側には広大なラ・ビータ軍事作戦区域が存在し、NORAD（北米航空宇宙防衛司令部）も近隣に位置しています。彼は、ブランカ・ピーク上空を飛行していた銀色の輸送機が、閃光と共に忽然と姿を消したという自身の目撃談を語ります。これは、先住民が語る「ポータル」の存在を裏付けるものであり、政府がこのポータルの存在を認識し、それを利用している可能性があるという彼の推測につながります。

さらに、オブライエンは秘密地下施設に関する長年の調査結果を統合しています。

バレー内の複数の地点（ダルシー、ブランカ山、クレストーンなど）で、地下基地に関する目撃証言や噂が絶えません。
オブライエンがこれらの地点を地図上にプロットしたところ、すべての拠点がNORADに向かって一直線に並ぶという驚くべきパターンを発見しました。
近年では、ハリバートン社が関与するとされる地域で、原因不明の群発地震が報告されており、現在も何らかの地下活動が続いている可能性を示唆しています。

これらの断片的な情報は、空のUFO、公然の軍事演習、そして秘密の地下活動が、サンルイス・バレーという一つの舞台で展開される、相互に関連した巨大な謎の一部であることを示唆しています。

7.0 総合的結論：テーマの糸を紡ぐ

これまで分析してきたように、クリス・オブライエンが提示したサンルイス・バレーにおける様々な異常現象は、それぞれが独立した点ではなく、相互に結びつき、一つの壮大なタペストリーを織りなす糸であることが明らかになりました。彼の調査は、これらの点と点を結びつけ、現象の背後にある包括的な構造を明らかにしようとするものです。

オブライエンが特定した、相互に関連する主要なテーマは以下の通りです。

地球物理学的特異性：磁場の異常などが存在する「継ぎ目」が、現象が発生するための物理的な舞台を提供している。
古代の神話：先住民の伝承が、現代の現象を解釈し、理解するための文化的なフレームワークとなっている。
動物の奇妙な死：プリオン病の蔓延と関連した、政府による秘密監視活動の物理的証拠である可能性が極めて高い。
UFOと軍事活動：空で目撃される現象と、それに対する政府の公にされていない関与や利用が、同じ現象の異なる側面として現れている。

オブライエンの最終的な見解は、サンルイス・バレーの現象は、単純な地球外生命体仮説では到底説明できないというものです。彼は、「これらはゼータ・レティクル星雲から来た宇宙人などではない」と断言し、これらの現象が地球に古くから存在する、おそらくは多次元的な、複雑で相互作用し合うシステムの一部であると結論付けています。

この複雑な現実を前に、彼は「UFO研究の車輪は壊れただけでなく、とっくの昔に車から外れてしまった」と述べ、既存の枠組みがいかに限界に達しているかを指摘します。その一つの例として、イギリスで最初の複雑な（円の周りに輪がある）クロップサークルが出現したのが、狂牛病の発生と全く同じ時期であったという驚くべき同期性を挙げます。停滞した思考から脱却するため、彼はこのような分野横断的な「創造的思考」の必要性を強く訴えています。サンルイス・バレーの謎は、私たちに未知の現象に対する新たな視点と、より柔軟で統合的なアプローチを求めているのです。

高度な異常性 : 文化と伝統

サンルイス・ヴァレー（San Luis Valley: SLV）の謎に関するクリス・オブライエン氏の講演において、これらの資料は、この地域の‌‌古代からの文化と伝統‌‌が、そこで発生している「‌‌ハイ・ストレンジネス‌‌ (high strangeness)」現象の性質、頻度、および‌‌古代からの文化と伝統‌‌が、そこで発生している「‌‌ハイ・ストレンジネス‌‌ (high strangeness)」現象の性質、頻度、および解釈に‌‌不可欠な文脈‌‌を与えているということを強く示唆しています。

オブライエン氏は、ホットスポット地域（ポータル領域）を定義する要素として、「‌‌ネイティブアメリカンの伝統と神話‌‌」の存在を挙げており、SLVの現代の異常現象の報告は、古くからの文化的信念と複雑に絡み合っています。

SLVの文化と伝統（ハイ・ストレンジネス）についてソースが伝えようとしている主要なテーマは以下の通りです。

1. ネイティブアメリカンの古代の伝統と神話

SLVは、異常現象の発生と密接に関連する、歴史的および精神的に重要な場所として描かれています。

‌‌聖地と起源の場所:‌‌ SLVは、ネイティブアメリカンの神話において「‌‌聖なる谷‌‌ (sacred valley of Native American myth)」として古くから注目されてきました。特にブランカ・ピーク（Blanca Peak）周辺は、ディネ族（ナバホ族）の伝統において「‌‌シスナギニ‌‌ (Cisnagini)」、すなわち「‌‌すべての思考が生まれる場所‌‌」とされています。
‌‌ポータルと「雲の民」:‌‌ ネイティブアメリカンは、ブランカ・ピーク周辺に「‌‌出入り口やポータル‌‌」のようなものが開く場所があり、そこから「‌‌雲の民‌‌ (cloud people)」「‌‌雲の踊り手‌‌ (cloud dancers)」「‌‌空飛ぶ種子の鞘‌‌ (flying seed pods)」が現れたり消えたりすると信じています。オブライエン氏は、これは「古代の伝統」であると強調しています。
‌‌出現の場所（ザパプ）:‌‌ リオ・グランデ川沿いのプエブロ族のほとんどは、SLVのこの地域を「‌‌出現の場所‌‌ (place of emergence)」と見なしています。ある伝統では、彼らは地球の変化の際に「‌‌アリ人間‌‌ (ant people)」によって地下で保護された後、「‌‌ザパプ‌‌ (Zapapu)」から出現して地上に移住したと信じられています。
‌‌ビッグフットの起源:‌‌ サン・アントニオ・ピーク（San Antonio Peak）は北米最大の自立した山であり、タオス・プエブロ・インディアンは「‌‌創造主がその山に住んでいる‌‌」と信じています。創造主は現れるとき、「‌‌非常に大きく、悪臭を放ち、毛で覆われた姿‌‌」をしているとされ、これはコロラド州のビッグフットの報告がこの地域に集中していることと関連付けられています。
‌‌文化的な平和共存:‌‌ SLVは、温暖な時期には‌‌グレートプレーンズ・インディアン‌‌、‌‌グレートベイスン・インディアン‌‌、‌‌サウスウェスタン・インディアン‌‌の3つの地域グループが平和的に共存した、北米で唯一の地域であるという文化的特異性も持っています。

2. スペインの入植と伝統の融合

ヨーロッパ人の侵入と、それに続く文化的な融合も、現代のハイ・ストレンジネスの解釈に影響を与えています。

‌‌初期の異常現象の記録:‌‌ 1777年のデ・アンザ遠征隊の日記には、山頂付近を飛び交う‌‌奇妙な光‌‌と、後に「‌‌タオス・ハム‌‌ (Taos Hum)」として知られる低く耳障りな‌‌唸り音‌‌が記録されており、これはヨーロッパ人によるSLVでの異常な空中現象の最初の記録です。
‌‌カトリックとシャーマニズムの融合:‌‌ スペイン人入植者がリモートな谷に定住した結果、土着のシャーマニズム的な伝統とカトリックが融合した興味深い宗教的信仰が生まれ、今日まで続いています。
- ‌‌ペニテンテスの兄弟会:‌‌ 最もよく知られた例の一つが、「‌‌ロス・エルマノス・デ・ペニテンテス‌‌ (Los Hermanos de Penitentes)」、すなわち「懺悔の兄弟会」であり、彼らは裸足でサボテンの上を歩いたり、十字架にかけられる儀式を行ったりするなど、厳しい儀式を実践しています。
- ‌‌魔術師（スキンウォーカーと火の玉）:‌‌ ネイティブアメリカンやヒスパニック系コミュニティの間では、魔術師（brujos や brujas）である‌‌スキンウォーカー‌‌の信念が存在します。彼らは動物の姿に‌‌変身‌‌でき、急いで移動したいときには‌‌火の玉‌‌に変わると信じられています。オブライエン氏は、人々が「移動中の魔女」として電話で報告する現象は、UFO型の空中現象に対する「‌‌興味深いサブカルチャー的なひねり‌‌」であると述べています。
- ‌‌宝探しとUFO:‌‌ 谷の南端（ニューメキシコ側）のヒスパニック系住民の間には、「‌‌UFOがホバリングしたら、その下を掘って宝を探す‌‌」という独特のサブカルチャー的な信念があります。

3. 現代の異常現象の解釈

古代と現代の信念は、住民がハイ・ストレンジネスの出来事をどのように理解し、報告するかに影響を与えています。

‌‌ラ・ヨローナ（泣く女の幽霊）:‌‌ 谷で最も広く報告される現象の一つが、運河で子供を溺死させたとされる嘆きの幽霊「‌‌ラ・ヨローナ‌‌ (La Llorona)」の目撃です。人口密度の低いSLVの住民は、環境内のすべての音を知っているため、彼らが「ラ・ヨローナが戻ってきた」と恐れることは、この現象が通常の動物の叫びや風の音ではないことを示唆しています。
‌‌ポワッキーの悪魔:‌‌ クエスタ（Cuesta）周辺では、特に四旬節の最後の週末（木、金、土）に、酒場で罪深く飲んでいる人々の前に現れる「‌‌ポワッキーの悪魔‌‌ (Powacky Devil)」の報告があります。彼は山羊の脚や割れたひづめを持ち、接触した場所で異常な出来事（例えば、カジノの閉鎖や、その後の家畜異常死事件）が発生しています。

結論として、オブライエン氏の講演は、SLVの異常現象は単なるランダムな目撃情報ではなく、‌‌数千年にわたる文化的・精神的基盤‌‌の上に成り立っていることを示唆しています。古代の「ポータル」の信念から現代の「スキンウォーカー」や「幽霊」の報告に至るまで、文化と伝統は、SLVが「‌‌経験の小宇宙‌‌ (microcosm of experience)」であるというオブライエン氏の中心的な主張を裏付けています。

著名な研究者

クリス・オブライエン氏の講演は、彼自身の12年間にわたる調査を主軸としつつも、サンルイス・ヴァレー（SLV）の「ハイ・ストレンジネス」の全体像を把握するために、‌‌多くの著名な研究者たちの調査方法、理論、および結論‌‌に言及しています。オブライエン氏が自身の調査方法と結論を提示する大きな文脈において、彼は先人たちへの敬意を示しつつも、特に家畜異常死現象（動物の異常な死）やUFO現象の解釈において、彼らとは異なる見解を持っていることを強調しています。

オブライエン氏自身は、「私以前にそこにいた、非常に、非常に大きな巨人の肩の上に立っている」と述べています。

異常現象の調査方法と結論の文脈で言及された著名な研究者とその貢献、そしてオブライエン氏の評価は以下の通りです。

1. 家畜異常死現象（Mutilation）に関する研究者

SLVは、1967年のスニッピー（Snippy）という馬の事件によって、最初の公開された家畜損傷（mutilation）の事例が発生した場所として知られています。オブライエン氏は、この現象の解釈において、他の著名な研究者と異なる結論を持っています。

‌‌リンダ・ハウ（Linda Howe）とピーター・ジョーダン（Peter Jordan）：‌‌
- ‌‌役割と結論:‌‌ オブライエン氏は、自身の家畜異常死に関する理論が「リンダ・ハウやピーター・ジョーダンなどの他の研究者とは多くの点で‌‌正反対‌‌である」と述べています。彼は、ハウ氏が「異常な動物の死の神話に一般の注意を向けさせるために、他の誰よりも多くのことを成し遂げた」と評価しています。
- ‌‌ハウ氏の結論:‌‌ ハウ氏は、動物の臓器（特に人間と遺伝的にほぼ一致するヘモグロビンを持つ牛の血液）が、エイリアンの食物源または遺伝物質（ハイブリッド化のため）として収集されているという仮説を立てています。
- ‌‌オブライエン氏の対立点:‌‌ オブライエン氏は、家畜の死を「損傷（mutilations）」ではなく、「非常に細心の注意を払った‌‌実験‌‌（experimentations）」と見なすべきだと主張しており、ハウ氏の結論（ET仮説）には「非常に深刻な問題がある」と異議を唱えています。
‌‌トマス・アダムス（Tom Adams）：「マトロジーの父」:‌‌
- ‌‌役割と方法:‌‌ アダムス氏は「マトロジーの父（father of mutology）」と呼ばれており、オブライエン氏に調査方法を教えた人物の一人です。
- ‌‌貢献:‌‌ 彼は『The Choppers and the Choppers』という本で、損傷現場と関連する400件以上のヘリコプター目撃情報のうち、250〜300件を緻密に文書化しました。
‌‌ジョン・アルトシュラー博士（Dr. John Altshuler）：‌‌
- ‌‌役割と方法:‌‌ 彼は血液学者（hematologist）であり、損傷牛の検体から病理学的検査を行い、切断がレーザーの使用によって行われていることを突き止めました。
- ‌‌SLVとの関連:‌‌ アルトシュラー博士は、スニッピー事件の前夜に砂丘地帯で誘拐されたと主張しており、後にスニッピーの死体に対する検死（post-mortem examination）を行った謎の病理学者でした。

2. UFOロジーとデータ収集の擁護者

オブライエン氏は、ハードデータと科学的分析の重要性を強調する研究者を高く評価し、感覚的な主張に対しては懐疑的です。

‌‌レイ・スタンフォード（Ray Stanford）：‌‌
- ‌‌方法と結論:‌‌ オブライエン氏が提唱する「ハードデータの監視（hard data monitoring）」の模範として挙げられています。スタンフォード氏は、1956年以降に撮影された59本のUFOフィルムを持つ「アメリカで最も知られていない超能力者」であり、超能力を持つ古生物学者でもあります。
- ‌‌科学的厳密さ:‌‌ 彼の映像は、米国陸軍士官学校のビデオアナリストや、プラズマ物理学と光学物理学のPhDを持つ専門家による査読済みの科学論文として発表される予定であり、UFOロジーを一変させるとオブライエン氏は述べています。
- ‌‌歴史的役割:‌‌ スタンフォード氏は、1950年代のジョージ・アダムスキーや他のコンタクティーの主張を‌‌暴いた‌‌人物でもあります。
‌‌ジャック・ヴァレ（Jacques Vallée）：‌‌
- ‌‌方法と結論:‌‌ ヴァレ氏は、UFOロジーにおいて「新しい視点」で現象を捉えようとしており、オブライエン氏はその努力を評価しています。ヴァレ氏の著書『Confrontations』は、UFOが人間に害を及ぼした事例（アマゾンのチュパ事件など）を記録しており、従来の「慈悲深い宇宙の兄弟」説に反論しています。
‌‌ジョン・キール（John Keel）：‌‌
- ‌‌貢献:‌‌ 『モスマンの予言（Mothman Prophecies）』の著者として、オハイオ川流域の異常現象の波をカバーした研究者として言及されています。
‌‌アン・ドラッフェル（Ann Druffel）：‌‌
- ‌‌貢献:‌‌ カリフォルニアにおける活動の地域レベルを文書化する同様の調査を行った研究者として、オブライエン氏に敬意を持って言及されています。

3. 地理的・政府の関与に関する理論家

‌‌デビッド・パーキンス（David Perkins）：‌‌
- ‌‌結論:‌‌ オブライエン氏の著書の両方に序文を書き、ジョージ・W・ブッシュのイェール大学時代のルームメイトであった人物です。パーキンス氏は、「進化の必須条件（evolutionary imperative）」と呼ばれる、‌‌全ての超常現象を結びつける‌‌理論を考案した「非常に聡明な思想家」であると称賛されています。
- ‌‌調査方法:‌‌ 彼は、家畜異常死の発生が、ウランの採掘・処理施設から‌‌風下および下流‌‌の地域と相関していることを最初に発見しました。
‌‌リチャード・サウター（Richard Sauter）：‌‌
- ‌‌貢献:‌‌ 『Underground Tunnels and Bases』の著者であり、核地下掘削技術（1日あたり7マイルから30マイルを掘削可能）が存在するという情報を提示し、オブライエン氏のSLV地下トンネルネットワークの理論を補強しています。

4. 懐疑的な評価の対象となった研究者

オブライエン氏は、特に目撃情報の確実性や解釈において、批判的な見解を示しています。

‌‌スティーブン・グリア（Stephen Greer）：‌‌
- ‌‌役割と結論:‌‌ C-SETI（宇宙への大使）トレーニングをSLVで行っている人物であり、「慈悲深い宇宙の兄弟」説の提唱者の一人です。
- ‌‌オブライエン氏の評価:‌‌ グリア氏がブランカ・ピークで12体のエイリアンに囲まれたと主張した件について、オブライエン氏は30人の目撃者のうち18人にインタビューし、12人が光を見たことには同意したものの、‌‌グリア氏が主張するエイリアンを見た者はいなかった‌‌と結論付けています。また、グリア氏は地元住民（LEDライト付きのヘリウム風船など）によって‌‌意図的に騙されている‌‌（hoaxed）事例があったと指摘し、彼のUFOロジーへのアプローチに同意しないと述べています。
‌‌ウェンデル（Wendell）：‌‌
- ‌‌評価:‌‌ オブライエン氏は、ウェンデル氏が「本当に信じたい」と思っている（I want to believe）タイプであるとし、彼が広範囲のUFO現象を調査していることを認めつつも、彼が提示したクレストンの町の写真に写っていたUFOが‌‌偽物である可能性が高い‌‌と個人的な懐疑心を表明しています。

全体として、オブライエン氏の講演は、SLVの調査が、長年にわたる‌‌先駆的な調査‌‌（ローレンツェン夫妻、スプリンクル博士）の上に築かれていることを示しながら、特に‌‌ET仮説に対する独自の視点‌‌（パーキンス、ハウ、グリア）を展開し、‌‌厳密な科学的データ収集‌‌（スタンフォード）の必要性を訴えるという構造を持っています。

理論と提言

サンルイス・ヴァレー（SLV）の謎に関するクリス・オブライエン氏の講演は、彼自身が12年間行った個人的な調査、逸話的な報告、および法執行機関の記録に基づいています。この「調査方法と結論」のより大きな文脈において、ソースは、SLVで発生している異常現象の‌‌原因と性質‌‌について、オブライエン氏および他の著名な研究者が提示した‌‌独自の理論（仮説）と、今後の調査に対する具体的な提言‌‌を提示しています。

オブライエン氏の理論と提言は、従来の‌‌地球外生命体（ET）仮説‌‌に対する批判的な視点と、‌‌地球物理学的および政府の関与‌‌を重視する独自のアプローチに焦点を当てています。

1. 異常現象（ハイ・ストレンジネス）の性質に関する理論

オブライエン氏は、SLVが異常現象の「‌‌マイクロコスモス（小宇宙）‌‌」であり、ここで何が起こっているかを理解できれば、「‌‌マクロコスモス（大宇宙）‌‌」で起こっている現象全体も解明できるという考えを根本的な理論として持っています。

A. 地球物理学的ポータル理論

オブライエン氏は、UFOの目撃情報が特定の地理的特性と相関しているという理論を提示しています。

‌‌磁場と「縫い目」:‌‌ UFOの目撃が最も多い地域は、地球の磁場強度の‌‌最小値と最大値が近接する「縫い目」‌‌のような領域である傾向があると述べています。彼は、他の研究者がこの地球物理学的特性について議論しているのを見たことがないとしており、これはSLVの「ホットスポット」性を裏付ける重要な要素と見なしています。
‌‌古代のポータルの利用:‌‌ ネイティブアメリカンがブランカ・ピーク周辺に「‌‌扉やポータル‌‌」が開く場所があると信じているのに対し、オブライエン氏は、軍（政府）がこの「扉」の存在を知っており、‌‌それを活性化または利用する方法を知っている‌‌と考えています。これは、特定の未確認航空現象（銀色の貨物機が閃光とともに消えるなど）の目撃と、軍の関与を結びつける理論です。

B. 地下基地とトンネルの理論

彼は、政府がSLVの地下で秘密裏に活動しているという理論を提言しています。

‌‌地下トンネルネットワーク:‌‌ SLV内の様々な場所（ドゥルセ、クレストン、ブランカ山、リオグランデ峡谷、グリーニー山など）にある地下施設に関する長年の報告を総合した結果、オブライエン氏は、これらがシャイアン・マウンテンのNORAD施設につながる‌‌地下トンネルで結ばれている‌‌可能性があるという理論を提示しています。
‌‌核地下掘削技術:‌‌ リチャード・サウターの研究を参照し、1970年代に、1日あたり7マイルから30マイルを掘削でき、トンネルの周囲に厚いガラスの壁を作る核地下掘削技術の特許が存在することを指摘し、地下で「多くの活動」が行われている可能性を補強しています。

2. 動物の異常死現象（家畜損傷）に関する理論と提言

オブライエン氏は、家畜異常死現象の原因について、従来のET仮説を否定し、‌‌政府の関与と生物学的実験‌‌を指摘する独自の理論を提唱しています。

A. 実験としての解釈

‌‌「損傷」から「実験」へ:‌‌ 彼は、これらの事例をメディアや他の研究者が使う「家畜切断（mutilations）」ではなく、意図的で細心の注意を払った「‌‌実験‌‌（experimentations）」として捉えるべきだと提言しています。彼はこの現象が「‌‌何らかの未定義の捕食者による警告‌‌」であった可能性があると示唆しています。

B. 政府・生物兵器実験仮説

‌‌汚染の対照群:‌‌ SLVは、米本土48州の中で「‌‌空気、水、土地の汚染がない‌‌」唯一の地域であるという事実に基づき、この地域が何らかの政府の目的（例えば、重金属汚染の調査）のための「‌‌対照群‌‌（control group）」として利用されている可能性があると推測しています。
‌‌ウランとプリオン病の相関:‌‌ デビッド・パーキンスの研究を参照し、家畜異常死の発生が、‌‌ウランの採掘・処理施設から風下および下流‌‌の地域と相関しているという理論を提示しています。
‌‌プリオン病調査の可能性:‌‌ 彼は、家畜異常死の波が、自然界で初めて慢性消耗性疾患（プリオン病の一種）が検出された時期と近接していること、および政府がアラバマ州で牛を試験台とした生物兵器実験を行っているという報告を関連付け、政府がプリオン病の拡散を監視するために家畜異常死現象を利用している可能性を強く示唆しています。

3. UFOロジーと調査方法に関する提言

オブライエン氏は、超常現象の研究全体が、より厳密で批判的なアプローチを取るべきだと提言しています。

‌‌ハードデータの監視:‌‌ 彼は、レイ・スタンフォード氏の例を挙げ、UFOロジーには「‌‌ハードデータの監視‌‌ (hard data monitoring)」と科学的厳密さが必要であると提言しています。スタンフォード氏の映像記録は、プラズマ物理学と光学物理学の専門家による査読済みの科学論文として発表される予定であり、UFOロジーを変える可能性があると述べています。
‌‌創造的思考の奨励:‌‌ オブライエン氏は、UFOロジーの分野が「‌‌創造的思考‌‌ (creative thinking)」を実践し、従来の古いパラダイム（例：「慈悲深い宇宙の兄弟」や「邪悪な爬虫類人」）から脱却する必要があると述べています。
‌‌ET仮説への異議:‌‌ 彼は、エイリアンが「何光年も旅をして地球に来て、まるで初めて見るかのように石を拾い、花を見ている」というET仮説に疑問を呈しています。彼は、UFOの存在を否定せず、むしろそれらが他の次元（‌‌エクストラ・ディメンショナル‌‌）から来た存在である可能性、またはM-理論（膜理論）で提唱される11次元の存在である可能性を示唆しています。
‌‌現象の関連付け:‌‌ 彼は、クロップサークル（特に新しい要素が導入された時期と狂牛病の発生時期の関連）、動物の異常死、そしてUFO現象を単独で研究するのではなく、‌‌すべての異常現象の間に存在する接続‌‌を見つけ出す必要があると提言しています。

オブライエン氏の調査方法と結論は、単なる目撃情報の収集に留まらず、SLVの異常性を解明するために、地球物理学、生物学、軍事史、そして古代の信念といった多岐にわたる分野を横断して理論を構築し、今後の調査への提言を行っているのが特徴です。

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Chris OBrien (11-17-05) The Mysterious Valley

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（以下は "Chris OBrien (11-17-05) The Mysterious Valley" と題された講演動画の文字起こしです。冒頭 2.5分間の司会者紹介があり、それ以降は Chris O'brien が講演しています。）

[host]: Good evening, welcome to MUFON Los Angeles. My name is Steve Murillo. I am the State Section Director for MUFON LA. We've got a great presentation tonight. It's my pleasure to introduce to you Chris O'Brien. And Chris makes his home in Sedona, Arizona, but he has had experiences his entire life. He's written several books. The Mysterious Valley is one. I highly recommend it. And Enter the Valley is another one. Author and paranormal researcher Chris O'Brien was drawn to the sacred valley of Native American myth. (00:01:17)

He was soon compelled to document in disturbing detail the inexplicable events unfolding around him and the questions they raised. What is the truth behind the nightly light shows of your foes, pulsing and glowing across the Rocky Mountain sky? What is the truth behind rumors of underground bases and secret government activity? And why does the military regularly fly there? What is the truth behind ancient myths and legends of the Indians and the mysterious crystal skull found in the Mysterious Valley? And who is responsible for the scores of cattle left bloodless and mutilated in high, strange fashion? (00:01:56)

And why did the first publicized case of this occur there in the San Luis Valley? In his presentation to MUFON LA, Chris O'Brien reveals fascinating and sometimes frightening evidence and firsthand accounts by residents of the area about one of the most bizarre regions of the earth. From a fever pitch of UFO activity to rumors of underground bases, O'Brien discusses both the history of this region, steeped in ancient Native American traditions, and what his high strangeness might indicate for the country as a whole. (00:02:29)

If you guys would please welcome, put your hands together, Chris O'Brien.

[Chris Obrien] : Alright. Hey, it's good to be back. It's been, geez, eight years, I think, since I was last here. And since then, a lot of things have happened. What I'm going to try to do tonight, first of all, I want to, before I continue, I want to thank Sandra and Steve and LA MUFON for having me here. (00:03:04)

And this is my third talk in a whirlwind little mini tour here in California. The first night I was able to get it done in under four hours. Last night I was able to do it in about three hours, 20 minutes. Hopefully tonight I'll be able to cover all the material in a little less time. I'm going to be trying to cover tonight just an amazing amount of activity that I have personally investigated. (00:03:29)

And obviously there's been activity going on in the area of South Central Colorado that I'm going to be talking about tonight, the San Luis Valley. There's been a lot of stuff that has been documented over the years, and I stand on the shoulders of some mighty, mighty large giants who have been there before me. And as I go through the presentation, I will give you examples of some of the research that has been done prior to my arriving there. (00:03:56)

And I'm going to be covering a lot of ground tonight, so I'm going to ask you to hold your questions until later. That was part of the reason why it took four hours the first night. So I'm going to get right to it here. First of all, I'm going to try to define for you what I believe to be a perfect definition of what a hotspot region is, or an area, some people would call it a portal area. And usually these areas have Native American traditions and myths attached to them, so obviously we're going to cover briefly some of those traditions. (00:04:34)

And as a result of Native American ancient traditions, the modern culture has, in the San Luis Valley because it's so remote, has come up with its own unique take on some of these wonderful mysteries that we're going to be discussing. And I'm going to go into what exactly some of the portal area phenomena are that we documented there scientifically and through anecdotal reports and law enforcement reports. (00:05:04)

We're going to give a quick historical overview of the European influence and incursion into the South Central Colorado, North Central New Mexico region. And again, I'm going to be covering as, hopefully, get some of the various theories out and try to give you an idea of what some of the other researchers think is going on there. Oh, thank you. Also, the animal death phenomenon, unfortunately, the unusual animal death phenomenon has reared its ugly head in the San Luis Valley for quite a number of years. (00:05:35)

My last talk here eight years ago, I think I dove into that subject matter exclusively. I'm going to briefly give you some ideas of some of the theories that over the years I've postulated, which runs contrary to, in many ways, to some other researchers such as Linda Howe and Peter Jordan and others. And hopefully with the cameras rolling, I won't get into too much trouble on that. Obviously, because this is an area rich in phenomenal occurrences, your tax dollars is also very interested in what's going on there. (00:06:14)

And I am going to stick my neck out a little bit and talk about what I have uncovered and others have uncovered, including law enforcement, in terms of the government's involvement in many of these mysteries. Obviously, this is a move on, so at some point we've got to talk about UFOs. I've got some pretty interesting visual documentation and I will show you some examples of some of the reports that we've had visually. (00:06:46)

And if we have time, I'm going to dive into some of my own conclusions that I've arrived at over a 12-year period of investigating unusual phenomena there. Okay, let's move right into it. First of all, I think we can all agree that there are some areas all over the world, really. But in North America, there are some very special areas that tend to be hardest hit and have more of a variety and intensity of unusual phenomena than other areas. And here's a list of them. I'll get my handy little pointer here. (00:07:19)

The San Luis Valley, I believe, is probably America's most anomalous region. I know everybody who investigates as a regional investigator thinks that their area is the best or the hardest hit. But if you go online and look at the computer UFO network listing of hotspot regions, five of the top ten regions in the United States in terms of per capita sightings are in the San Luis Valley, including the number one county, which is Sewatch. And I think it's pretty interesting that they should come up with all that data, because I can back it up with this sighting log right here. And I know I'm very honored. (00:07:55)

I just met Ann Druffel here tonight. And I know she has done similar work here in California, documenting regional levels of activity. And I can't wait to talk to her a little bit too, later on. Anyway, other areas, for instance, are my current home in Sedona, Arizona. The Mogollon Rim area, and actually from the area now north of Phoenix, has been having quite an interesting potential sighting wave. I do believe some of these sightings you're seeing online are hoaxes. (00:08:34)

And there's some guys down there getting really good with their digital video effects and other things. I don't want to point fingers or name names, but the area around Sedona has a rich history of phenomenal events. Tom Dongo, I believe, was here and spoke. And if you were here, you heard about some of those. Here in California, obviously the Death Valley area and the Mojave Desert, just for decades, has had a very interesting tradition of phenomenal events. (00:09:02)

The Ohio River Valley, John Keel's book, Mothman Prophecies, covered one wave that happened in that area. It's another special area. Portions of the Black Hills around the Lakota and Dakota Reservation areas. The Mount Shasta area and Mount Adams, some of the power points, power spots in the Cascade area here on the Pacific Coast. And how many here have heard of the Sherman Ranch case in Utah? That probably gets my vote as a strange single case featuring UFO type activity and the types of things I'm going to be discussing tonight. (00:09:43)

I was, I'm not sure if I can say fortunate, but I was probably the first nationally recognized investigator on the ground there at Terry Sherman's Ranch. And I could give you a whole two hour lecture just on that single case. That's the only case that I investigated actively outside of the San Luis Valley because it was so compelling. And generally, I think we can say that anywhere you have a Native American reservation, the larger ones, you're going to find that those areas tend to be focus areas for unusual activity. (00:10:10)

Moving right along. Hello? There we go. Okay. I'll get the hang of this here. It's, you know, technology. Sometimes I'm all thumbs. What is a hotspot region? Well, Lou Terry wrote a very interesting book years ago and he listed out these bullet points, which you can read there. Generally, these areas have ancient indigenous sacred sites, such as I just mentioned. They have unusual geophysical properties, too. Waves of anomalous activity tend to be constantly reported there, the ebb and flow. (00:10:47)

But generally, if there's going to be a series of sightings, it tends to be more intense in these areas where the veil possibly is thin. There's also that culture, as I mentioned in my opening remarks, there's a culture of explanations that rises up in the community trying to explain these events. And the ubiquitous tax dollar presence of your government. They tend to either have a presence or are trying to expand their presence to encompass more of these portal areas. (00:11:16)

And I will talk about that a lot more. Come on, there we go. Just to give you guys a quick geographic idea for those of you not familiar with the area, this is the border of Colorado and New Mexico. The San Luis Valley officially goes down to the border in this upper northern part, which is mostly inhabited by Anglos. It goes down to here, and then this lower portion down to Talas in northern New Mexico is not really officially the San Luis Valley, but geographically, this is what I've delineated out as my petri dish to investigate. (00:11:56)

And I've tried to keep blinders on over the years and only address this particular area here and really try to focus in on what I would consider to be a microcosm of experience. My rationale for that basically is that if I can figure out what is going on here, any aspect of what is going on here, as above, so below, it should overlay onto the macrocosm. And I'm going to show you some slides here that's going to give you a quick idea of why I think this area is special and some of the things that I've come up with that sort of bolster that idea. First of all, what you're looking at here is an aeromagnetic map. (00:12:40)

It's a composite map over a ten year period of the Earth's magnetic field in the state of Colorado. The next slide will show you the state of New Mexico. What you're seeing here basically is a colorized representation of field strength. The redder the color into purple is maximum intensity of field strength in the Earth's magnetic field. Going down into blue is minimum intensity. And the first thing that I noticed when I got my aeromagnetic maps was that the areas that tend to have most sightings, I've kind of outlined them here. (00:13:13)

This is the San Luis Valley down here, the northern portion of it. And if you look carefully you can see where I've outlined in Photoshop these areas that are circles in black here. You see these here areas? What is unusual about this is these areas tend to be the seams where minimum and maximum magnetic field strength are in close proximity to one another. And I really haven't seen anybody talk about this in all the research that I've done into the actual geophysical properties of a potential hotspot area. (00:13:49)

Very early on I noticed that wherever these maximum intensity areas of magnetic strength were in close proximity with minimum areas, there's like a seam. And that tends to be where we have most of our sightings. Now, is this important? I think so. Okay, this is the map of New Mexico. Again, this would be the lower portion of the geographic valley. And again, you'll notice where this is Taos, around the Taos area. This is around Cuesta here and Ute Mountain. The Rio Grande Gorge comes right down here. (00:14:22)

And again, you have that interesting... it's like looking at a topographical map and when you get to a real serious elevation rise or drop, you know how the lines tend to get real close together. If you equate that sort of idea to this particular mapping of the Earth's magnetic field, you get the same idea. Basically where there's cliffs on a topo map, where there's cliffs in these magnetic areas, that's where our sightings are. So I'm going to move quickly on here. (00:14:58)

This is a more stylized view of the valley, just to give you an idea of why I consider this to be a perfect petri dish of experience and of investigation. The San Luis Valley is about 165, 170 miles long. At its widest point, it's about 70 miles wide. It's completely ringed with mountains. It is radar invisible below 18,000 feet. There are only a few ways to get into the valley. This is Wolf Creek Pass, this is La Vida Pass, Poncha Pass, and then the Rio Grande Gorge that goes down and empties out the south end of the valley down towards Santa Fe, and then of course down into the Gulf of Mexico. Some of the areas that really figure prominently in my investigative work are the Greeny Mountain area on the western side. This is where the NORAD event occurred. (00:15:42)

How many people here read my books? Okay, good. So, well, some of you haven't. I really do suggest that if you are intrigued enough by what I'm going to be talking about tonight, that you do read my books, because I'm licking the tip of the iceberg here. This siding log, I think, is a good testament to that. Anyway, this is Taos, New Mexico down here. This is Blanco Peak here. This area figures very prominently in my talk here and in my investigative work. (00:16:12)

The Great Sand Dunes area is another very intriguing anomalous area. They don't know how it got there. It's the world's highest sand dune desert. It's 49 square miles of sand. It's almost a pure pile of quartz, powdered quartz. It goes to the height of over 700 feet. And the scientists, when they drilled down to try to find out how old it was, they hit an ancient forest, so they were able to date it. It's only 11,000 years old. (00:16:40)

Now, their official explanation of how that sand dune field got there is that prevailing westerly winds piled up the sand in a crook in the mountain chain. And, yeah, in 11,000 years, I was a geology minor in school. Sorry, it doesn't work. After I got to know the geologists and the rangers and the park officials out there, they agreed. They kind of said, well, Chris, yeah, you're right. That is kind of strange. And it's probably not how it really got there, but we've got to tell people something. Anyway, just a quick tour. (00:17:14)

We're going to start on the eastern side of the San Luis Valley. I'll give you a quick visual tour real quick. This is the central portion of the Sangres. The Sangres de Cristo Mountains are the longest continuously running mountain range in North America. There's seven peaks above 14,000 feet, and they are quite remote. This would be an aerial shot from about 30,000 feet. This is the eastern side of the Sangres here. Salida would be up here. (00:17:45)

The town I lived in, Crestone, is right here. This area here is the La Vida Military Operations Area. This whole area over here. And if you look carefully, right down here, you see these two little mountains? We'll get to those later. Here's the Great Sand Dunes. This is a wonderful shot from the official Department of Interior website. These dunes here are 700 feet high. And again, notice that the color is totally different from everything around them. (00:18:18)

I had a scientist friend of mine suggest to me, all excited, he said, well Chris, you say the Indians refer to ant people that live under the dune field there. Well, these mountains, Chris, are filled with quartz, so there must be lots of negative spaces. I figured out how these sand dunes got there. It's the aliens. They're underground, making room in these caverns, powdering up the quartz and kicking it out the back door. Hey, it sounds better than prevailing westerly winds. So anyway, I'm going to get to this in a second here to explain. (00:18:50)

Now if you're in Alamosa, which is in the geographic center of the valley, and you're headed east towards La Vida Pass, this is Highway 160. This is the view that you have. These are four 14,000 foot peaks here. The valley floor itself sits at 7,500 feet. It's the world's largest alpine valley. Okay, this is the Rio Grande Gorge as it runs from the border about here down into New Mexico. And this is a very enigmatic place, I must say. (00:19:20)

Later on I'm going to be giving you examples of why I say that. But when I found this picture online, I noticed that this object was hanging up here in the sky. And I did some Photoshop on it and kind of looked at it closely and I don't know, maybe it's just an artifact. The oldest continuously inhabited dwellings in North America are at the Taos Pueblo. And although the Acoma Pueblo and the Isleta Pueblo all claim that they're older, you're looking at probably the longest lived in buildings in North America. And it's funny, this is about as far north as the Spanish got until the 1777 expedition up into the valley. (00:20:02)

And I'll cover some of the Spanish information here in a second. This is a very interesting place that I just have been researching and investigating this past spring. A friend of mine who's a bass player in a band, and I've known her for years, is a fourth generation rancher. And she lives down at the bottom of the Rock Creek Canyon area, which is over by Greeny Mountain that I pointed out in the stylized view of the valley. (00:20:32)

And she sits right here, once a week, twice a week during the warmer months, and kind of watches her cows as they're grazing around up here. And recently she was up there and she closed her eyes and did her 20 minute meditation or half hour meditation. And when she awoke, she was a quarter mile up the creek. Go figure. Now, anybody here heard of psilocybin mushrooms? You don't want to do them here. This is a very spooky place. You see the guy down here? (00:21:03)

He's looking at it going, boy, that sure looks like Cubensis to me. This is just an example of some of the wonderful geology that we have there. And this area is rife with reports. This is in the western part of the valley over into the San Juan Mountains. Okay, we're going to go into some real quickly. I'm really buzzing through this material because we don't have enough time to cover it all, so pardon me if I talk too fast and move too quick. (00:21:32)

This is the Four Corners region of the Southwest. This is obviously Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah. Now, the Native Americans in the Southwest have a tradition of the Four Cardinal Mountains or the Four Sacred Mountains. The most important of these is in the San Luis Valley, and it's that Blanca Peak area here. And this is called, in the Diné or Navajo tradition, Cisnagini, which is the place where all thought originates. (00:22:00)

And it's taken me a lot of years as a white boy that used to wear a black cowboy hat to get the Native Americans to open up and start to tell me some of their more secret knowledge. And one thing that I have corroborated by means of talking and getting the information from three sources is that the Native Americans believe in the Blanca area that there are some sort of doorways or portals that open up. (00:22:27)

And that's where the cloud people, the cloud dancers, the flying seed pods, are seen coming and going. Now this is an ancient tradition. Again, I'm a nosy white boy. It's very difficult to get a lot of information from Native Americans. But man, I'm persistent. And I've been making friends and influencing folks, hopefully. And they have opened up and told me a few things and I'm going to share them with you. Now, the Sacred Mountain of the South is Mount Taylor. This would be about Albuquerque here on the Rio Grande. This is the San Dias. The San Francisco Peak are the holiest mountains to the Hopi who inhabit these mesas right here. (00:23:01)

And that's the Sacred Mountain of the West. The Sacred Mountain of the North is the Hesperus area, which incidentally is near Montrose. And they have a lot of very interesting activity over there, too, on the western slope of Colorado. Now the yellow words there, you see the Hopi like to be different from the other southwestern tribes. And again, I'm generalizing here. I do get specific in my books about these traditions. But the Hopi feel that they emerged into this current and soon-to-end fourth world in the Grand Canyon. Most of your pueblos that are along the Rio Grande here consider this area in the San Luis Valley to be the place of emergence. (00:23:45)

Now, if we move forward here, this is an example right by the Zapapu, which is the Dene word for the place of emergence. Now, they believe that they were protected underground during earth changes by ant people in one tradition. And that once it's safe to come back out and go above ground, then they emerge out of the Zapapu and then they populate the earth. Now, the Zapapu is very near a very strange feature in the valley, and that's Medno Creek. It's the only river in the world that has waves in it. (00:24:15)

And it's very interesting because it disappears down a hole. Now, if you know anything about the Maya and Xiboba and the Weetz Monster and the underworld, they believe that this is a hole in the ground where we go when we die and our ancestors go back and forth between the celestial realms and the Xiboba in the Mayan tradition. And we have a very interesting correlation in some of the Southwestern tribes' traditions. This is a very interesting... these are waves, folks. These are three-foot waves. (00:24:45)

And this creek disappears, and this is right next to the Great Sand Dunes. Now, if we move out from the dune field about five miles, six miles, then we get into the San Luis Lake State Park. And if you go out about eight miles, you have this big lake here, and then a smaller wetland area, and then this little lake here is called Head Lake. And right next, on the north side of Head Lake, is Dollar Lake. And I have found that this is one of the places considered to be the actual place of emergence. (00:25:19)

There's another little brackish pond here that has also been attributed to be the Zapapu. And if you go up a little creek here to the edge of the dune field, which is right about here, you have some of the oldest remains of man in North America. It's called the Cattle Guard Site. It's quite famous in archaeology. And we have wonderful Clovis points in conjunction with Mastodon bones there. So this area has been populated since before the sand dunes were there, if you can believe it, or around the same period that the sand dunes supposedly formed. (00:25:52)

Now, 13 Indian tribes peacefully coexisted in the San Luis Valley during the warmer months. If I was dressed in moccasins and lived in a teepee, I would not want to be there in the winter when it's 40 below. It can get down around 30 to 40 below. So during the warmer months, three regional groups of Indians overlapped in the San Luis Valley. It's the only area in North America where three regional groups of Indians overlapped. (00:26:19)

The Great Plains Indians, the Great Basin Indians, and the Southwestern Indians all peacefully coexisted during the warmer months in this area. And this is an example of some of the rock art that you can find. This particular rock art is from further north in Colorado. But I find it very intriguing that we have what many people have called alien-type images. This particular image, I think, is very compelling because it matches what the Hopi considered to be one of the cloud forms, or the cloud kachinas, this cloud dancer. (00:26:55)

So if you look at that stylized kachina doll, and then look at this picture here, you have a very interesting correlation. And we have other forms. These three little guys I would not want to meet up with in a dark alley. They're pretty spooky looking with these helmets and these goggles and these antenna-looking devices, the things here. Now, of course, I'm not an anthropologist. I'm not an archaeologist. I can't look at that and say what the name of the carver was or what he was thinking when he carved it. (00:27:21)

But these are the types of images that are popularly referred to as alien images when people are trying to investigate the Native American connection to ufology and UFOs. This is a very important glyph. It's sort of off-topic, but it's very important to the Hopi. This is an illustration of the time period that we are in right now, which is the end of the fourth world. And this has a wonderful legend behind it and a story that was told to Naya and I by this wonderful gentleman, Grandfather Martin Gashiosomo, who is the last traditional living Hopi elder. (00:28:03)

And I'll tell you, Grandfather Martin says, you guys, you better be making plans for the big one. He's also the holder of the Hopi fire clan tablets. His tradition is thousands of years old. The Hopi consider themselves to be the primordial culture in this side of the world. They believe the Maya were Hopi that were sent south and never made it all the way back. They feel that they're related to the shamans and the Altai. So instead of a land bridge with the Siberians coming over 10,000 years ago in waves when the ice flows were ebbing and flowing and the land bridge was there in the Bering Sea, the Hopi say, oh no, they didn't come from over there. They arrived from over here. (00:28:46)

So they have a tradition, however, that they were going to meet their fire clan brothers from the other side of the world. And just to give you an idea of the wonderful place that I live in, this prophecy is also shared by the Tibetan fire clan has a similar, if not exact, prophecy of meeting their fire clan brethren from the other side of the world. And a good friend of Naya's and ours said, huh, well let's make prophecy real. So he brought Kusumlingpa together with Martin Goswiosmo. And the two of them met in 1994 in Crestone, the town that I lived in. Well, here is Crestone. What a wonderful little place. (00:29:26)

The first day I arrived, there was 155 people there. The second night I was there, half of them showed up at my house for a party. They heard I was a musician, so all of a sudden all these people started driving up my cul-de-sac and that's how I met some of my very best friends from the Crestone area. If you'll notice, this big old monster mountain right here is Crestone Peak. Challenger Point is right there. (00:29:50)

These are two of the seven 14,000 foot mountains in the valley area. This little place right here is my house. This is where I lived for seven years. And I must say, many are called to this place, few are chosen. It's pretty tough to live there. Crestone is located in Sewatch County, which is a size a bit larger than the state of Connecticut. When I arrived, the average income was below $8,000 a year. And I was lucky. I had people mad at me because I got one of the only jobs in the area. (00:30:21)

And it was the hardest job I ever had in my life and it was six bucks an hour on the books, if you can believe it. So I went through my paces the first two or three years I was in the valley. Out from the Crestone area, Crestone is actually the northeastern corner of one of the five Baca land grants. There are five huge parcels of land that were given the Baca family to repay them for the U.S. appropriating land from Mexico in the 1820s. The Baca Ranch is 300,000 acres. It is the center of much of the activity that I documented. (00:30:57)

And those of you who have read my book constantly are hearing the Baca Grande and the Baca Ranch mentioned. Well, Crestone is subdivided into 5,000. The land, actually Crestone is a little mining town. The Baca Grande development is right next to it and there's 5,500 lots that are subdivided there. Well, way out on the Baca Ranch, I'm just going to digress and tell you a really interesting little story here. There's a little ghost town called Liberty. This is a picture from when the miners were there. (00:31:29)

All the creeks that run down out of the mountains into the valley drain into the largest aquifer in North America. It goes down 15,000 feet and then possibly even down as far as 30,000 feet. And this whole valley is filled with trillions of gallons of water underneath it. Billions of acre feet of water. And Liberty is one of the many creeks that empty into the aquifer. And all those creeks had little mining towns 130, 140 years ago. And Liberty is one of them. (00:32:00)

And this gentleman, you may have heard of, is the Undersecretary General of the U.N., Maurice Strong. I've heard he's one of the guys that ruled the world. Him and his cadre of trilateralists and Aspen Institute types are supposedly running the world. Well, Maurice and his wife, back in the late 70s, created a wonderful sanctuary for a lot of the world's great unbroken spiritual traditions. Five sects of Tibetan Buddhism, we had a Karmalite monastery, a Zen monastery, Shimmy Shimakai's there, Subut. All these wonderful groups from ancient unbroken lineages are all represented in this little tiny town. (00:32:43)

Well, Maurice wanted to bless this whole project so he got the head of the Hopi Wolf Clan, Thomas Bunyaka, who was famous for addressing the U.N. and spanking the delegates for not paying attention to traditional ways and honoring the earth. So Maurice had Thomas Bunyaka and Bill Moyers come out to Liberty and walk the land and Thomas was going to bless the land. Well, as he began to bless the land, a large bush burst into flames in front of them. (00:33:14)

And I don't think Bill Moyers has ever been back to the Valley, to my knowledge. Here's a picture of him with... is that Steve Ambassador or is it my imagination? Okay, just checking. Anyway, this is Hannah Strong, Maurice's wife. Hannah is shown here with one of our wonderful architectural features in the Baca Grande with a various assortment of the monks and sannyasins that live in Crestone where I live. (00:33:43)

This is the largest stupa outside of Tibet or India, it's in Crestone. It's very similar to the stupas that are found near Mount Kailash. This is the mountain that the Tibetans circumambulate, prostrating themselves every step of the way around the mountain. I just thought it was an interesting slide so I put it in there. Here's another interesting thing. It's called the Beehives. It features... there's five of them. They've been there since the 1870s. Nobody knows who built them. (00:34:07)

Archaeologists still are scratching their heads. They're perfectly smooth on the inside and only about three and a half feet high on the inside. And they feature a unique architectural design that the Native Americans supposedly didn't use and that is a keystone where you have a rock and you put your door lintels up against the rock to hold the doorway firm and to support the doorway. They've been there since before the pioneers got there. (00:34:37)

And the guy that has them on his lot has to deal with the tree... well I jokingly refer to them as the crystal licking tree huggers. They come and do the medicine wheels and do little ceremonies and stuff on his land and he's had to learn to deal with it. Let's go into some history real quick. Of course we all know why the Spanish first arrived in the New World. They had a disease that only one thing could cure and that was gold. (00:35:04)

I think the disease was greed but we won't get into that today. One of the first people of course conquistadores was Coronado. Here he's shown in a painting with the Turk who led him out into the middle of Kansas to supposedly a city of gold. Well it turned out to be mud bricks so they strangled him. The first real incursion into northern New Mexico was Onate who brought an expedition up there in the early to mid 1600s. And when they arrived up there they found the Indians ready to be Christianized. They knew about Jesus somehow. They had fashion crude crosses. (00:35:40)

And the Spanish were able to establish 22 missions in New Mexico in just under two years time. It was the easiest conquest of any of the new areas that they opened up for Europeans. And people have wondered well why is this? Well I heard a very intriguing theory that there was a nun in the 1600s who was seen by her sisters in the convent in the Great of Spain. She claimed she was by locating to the new world. She would meditate surrounded by a blue glow. (00:36:10)

Was even seen levitating off the ground on a number of occasions. And Sister Greta came back from these hours and hours of trance saying she was over where the conquistadores are helping them Christianize the Indians. Well this really didn't sit well with the Grand Inquisitor. He said yeah Sister Marie Jesus you're coming with us. And she was in the middle of her trial for witchcraft when the conquistadores returned. And lo and behold she was vindicated because they told stories of the Indians talking about this woman dressed in blue who was white skinned who was coming on a cloud, a bluish cloud, and telling them about Jesus. And that's according to historians and her book, The Mystical City of God. This is why it was so easy for the Spanish to subjugate the Indians in the Rio Grande River Valley. Well we've all heard about the Catholic saints that are incorruptible. (00:37:08)

There are 12 of them. But only one looks like this. And that's Sister Marie Jesus Greta. Two complete scientific investigations of her remains have been done. One was done in 1891. The other was done in 1991. This is the only known photograph that I found of that has been published of her remains. And this is her 330 some odd years after her death. It was taken by a very resourceful Spanish journalist who it took me three months to find him and track down this picture and get his permission to use it. (00:37:50)

She looks exactly the same as she did when they did the first scientific investigation of her in 1891. The first document and report of unusual aerial phenomenon in the San Luis Valley occurred on the De Anza expedition in 1777. De Anza was the first Spanish governor of the New Mexican territory. And when he was chasing Cuernaverde or Greenhorn, a Comanche chief who was raiding down into the Taos area and burning crops and killing some of the Spanish settlers, he chased him up into the valley. (00:38:33)

And I find it very intriguing that for 150 years the Spanish never went north of Taos. They were told that you don't go up there. That's where the skinwalkers are. That's where Del Norte, you don't go up there. Well, he had to go up to chase Greenhorn. And so as he was traveling up into the center of the valley, the valley at that time was a huge maze of marshlands because the water would rise and fall from the aquifer. (00:38:59)

And he reports in his diary that they saw these strange lights that were flying around in the mountain peaks. And they heard this strange, constant, irritating, low, rumbling humming sound coming out of the mountains. Well, nowadays, back in the mid-90s, that hum was dubbed the Taos Hum. It has been heard for decades in the area. And it seems to be extending northward. They're hearing it up in the Paonia area, which is in central Colorado now. And so we have our first documented case of unusual aerial phenomenon documented by Europeans in the San Luis Valley. Well, because the Spanish were able to get up into the area and left settlers, it's very interesting, six, seven generations later, what kinds of communities have sprung up and been sustained in these remote valleys, totally cut off pretty much from the outside world. (00:40:04)

And some very interesting religious beliefs that have been a melding of shamanic traditions, Native American traditions, and Catholicism have emerged and still exist today. One of the most well-known is Los Hermanos de Penitentes, the Brotherhood of Blood or the Penitent Brothers. These guys are really serious. You think that the Arabs in some of their Ramadan marches and stuff, flogging themselves is impressive. These guys will scare you. And I've met a couple of them. They're still around. One of their things is they march barefoot through the desert and they pick out this prickly pear patches and they walk over them. (00:40:49)

And this is one of just a number, about a handful of photographs ever taken of a Penitente ritual. The gentleman that took this and two other shots was spotted by the Penitentes and they tracked him down and shot him and left him for dead. Fortunately, he survived and was able to get the film processed. This particular cross here was getting prepared for one of these gentlemen, probably this one here, to be crucified on. Every Good Friday back then, they used to crucify one of their brothers and it was an honor. (00:41:19)

Now, you see these guys flogging themselves. Now, is this a Christian thing or is there something else going on here? They're still around. They're still practicing their marathas, their places of worship. And I have met, like I said, a couple of them. Up in Del Norte, north up into the valley, there's some very special areas. This is one that I'm going to talk about a little later that has a very interesting story with Stephen Greer involved. But basically, there's some really interesting belief systems that exist up there. (00:41:52)

One of the more interesting ones that I can relate to you is this is the largest freestanding mountain in North America. It's called San Antonio Peak by the locals. It's San Antonio Peak. It straddles a border between New Mexico and Colorado on the eastern, western side of the valley. And the Taos Pueblo Indians believe that the creator lives in that mountain. And that when he comes out, he doesn't look like a regular human. He's really big, he smells bad, and he's all covered with hair. (00:42:23)

And I find it very interesting that the only Bigfoot reports, with one or two exceptions, in Colorado, a place where you'd think the Bigfoot would be living if there are such a thing, all are right from this area right here. And this area to Fox Creek, which is about over here, if I had a larger slide, is where we've had a number of very compelling Bigfoot reports. So one of the things too about the Bigfoot in the San Luis Valley is that they've been seen and reported as stalking herds of elk. (00:43:02)

Now I always thought Bigfoot was an herbivore that just ate plants and flora, basically. Well, Bigfoot in the San Luis Valley are meat eaters as well, so that's another little twist for you. Here's some tracks that have been photographed. That's a glove. You can tell this guy either was really big or, man, the NBA could use him. Okay, how would you like to meet up with this guy at a singles bar? Who does your toes? You need a pedicure, pal. (00:43:37)

This is what the natives in the southwest refer to, it's a stylized image of course, of a skinwalker. Skinwalkers are very interesting sorcerers, brujos, brujas, there's various terms in Spanish and in the native tongues to describe them or define them. But one of the things that they're able to do, allegedly, is enter your body and take over all your motor functions with you being perfectly conscious. Make you do things and say things and go places. This is a still from a movie that featured a skinwalker in it and I think it captures the mood pretty well. (00:44:23)

The skinwalkers are a very interesting phenomenon and they also, the brujos and the sorcerers are supposedly able to shapeshift and turn themselves into a variety of animal forms. One of the areas in my third book of the Mysterious Valley Trilogy that I'm going to be getting into very deeply is the Native American tradition of sorcery and the unfortunate offshoot of that in the law enforcement community of ritual occult crime. There's some really hair-raising stories that have been kept out of the public eye that have been divulged to me by local law enforcement and referring back to years of this type of activity. (00:45:06)

I won't bore you tonight with the details, but one of the things that I have found is the belief in the southern end of the valley in the New Mexico portion, which is predominantly Hispanic, there is a belief that these shapeshifting, skinwalking brujos or brujas can turn themselves into animal forms, but if they want to go somewhere in a hurry, they turn themselves into fireballs. And I have had people call up and report witches on the move. So that's an interesting little subcultural twist to descriptions of UFO-type aerial phenomenon. (00:45:51)

One of the most prevalent reports that I've gotten over the years is La Llorona, the wailing ghost woman who supposedly lost her kids. They were drowned in one of the canals in the middle of the valley. And she, on certain nights, can be heard, this unearthly wailing sound that wafts over the desert there, along the rivers. Now, we're talking about a place that is 170 miles long by 70 miles wide that has a population of less than 70,000 people. If you do the math, that's about one person for every seven square miles. (00:46:33)

These folks know all the sounds in their environment. They know what a cougar, a mountain lion scream sounds like. They know what the wind sounds like. They know all the sounds of the animals and of the natural occurring phenomena in the area. So, I find it interesting when they call me up and are terrified that La Llorona is back. Go figure. Okay, moving right along. La Llorona may have its roots in Iberian Spain. There's even a Mayan legend of a wailing woman who lost her kids. I won't bore you with the details on that one. (00:47:14)

This one, though, is really a killer. I call him the Powacky Devil. He normally appears around the Powacky area in the Española Valley exclusively Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, the last days of Lent, the three days before Easter. He generally is reported as appearing in a cantina where they're drinking and partying sinfully during Lent. He woos the prettiest girl and either his hat pops off, he's dressed in a suit generally, an off-white or pink suit. His hat will pop off and he'll have horns. A tail will pop out of his pants. (00:47:54)

He's been reported as having goat's feet and hairy feet, cloven hooves. They even had reports in the mid to late 90s when the Isleta Pueblo opened up and some of the other pueblos on the Rio Grande that he was giving people single quarters and they were hitting the jackpot. And when the people would try to thank him and repay him, he'd either have demon eyes. One lady reported finding him out in his car in the parking lot and he had a red tail laying on the seat next to him. Well, you would think, yeah, okay, newspaper article, slow news day. (00:48:28)

If that's the case, then why did they close the casino down and have it exercised during the best weekend of the year for making money? So, I won't, again, I've really got to zip through this stuff, but this is the one report that I personally investigated and boy, I believe it. The uncle of the chief of police of Cuesta, New Mexico was driving late at night on Good Friday night in 1993, was driving home late at 2 in the morning on Highway 522, found a woman walking along side of the road all dressed in red. She had her shoes in her hand. (00:49:04)

He stopped to pick her up and asked her why, you know, did she need help. She got in without a word into the front seat of his truck. He looked down at her legs. He's a guy, right? He looked down at her legs and she had goat legs and cloven feet. As soon as he saw that, she instantly dematerialized from his front seat. This is a non-drinking deacon of his church, pillar of his community. (00:49:32)

He raced into Cuesta, woke up the dispatcher, insisted that his nephew, the chief of police, be called down to the station house and filed an official report of a demon woman who disappeared from the front seat of his truck after he noticed she had goat's feet. Now, there is an official police report on file and the chief of police is the one that told me the story. Now, I find it very interesting that right where he picked her up is a ranch called the Trace Meadows Ranch. That weekend they had the first of a series of 50 cattle mutilations over the next four and a half years. (00:50:13)

And they are the first cases in a spate of a whole cycle of cases. And they featured ritual occult sign around the animals. Now, oh geez, special effects. I just pulled this image off the net. I don't have an actual photograph of the ritual sign. The ranch manager does and he has an exhaustive log of every case that they experience in the unusual animal death realm. Now, I'm not sure what to make of that, but I do have a feeling there's a connection and we'll get to that hopefully too later if I have time. (00:50:55)

Another thing that's reported often in the Valley are these wonderful lenticular cloud formations. Many of you who go online and visit the Jeff Wren site and other sites might recall two years ago, last July, this cool photograph of a lenticular cloud hovering over Cuesta. Well, what wasn't reported on the Wren site was that the people at the Llama Foundation outside of Cuesta were watching UFOs going in and out of the cloud and occasionally they would see the glimmer of what looked like a huge silver shape being shrouded, excuse me, by the cloud. (00:51:35)

They watched these things go back and forth. They estimated over 400 objects or at least appeared to be 400 objects either exiting or leaving the cloud over the space of an afternoon. This is the beginning of the second week of July, two and a half years ago. One of the things that I've noticed very early on was that when lenticular clouds were around, number one, the people around this think that if there's those clouds, those saucer clouds around, there's going to be UFO sightings. (00:52:10)

There's an interesting just knee-jerk, you know, I don't know what to call it, I guess just a correlation between these clouds and sightings. And I had a really interesting sighting with my brother who took this picture of a seven-mile-long cloud hovering over the sand dunes here over the Baca Ranch. We noticed it because it was just a perfect saucer cloud and Brendan goes, wow, if we take a picture of it, maybe we can like hoax people. And I said, no, Brendan, we're not going to do that. But take a picture of it. So he did. (00:52:36)

It was just a little box camera that we had, one of those disposable cameras. I couldn't afford to have a good camera at that point. So we get back into the truck and we're driving along and about a minute and a half, two minutes later, we look over and the thing was gone. I mean, a seven-mile cloud, two minutes? I don't know. Anyway, moving right along here, come on. Oh, there we go, saucer cloud. Okay, this is one of my favorite correlations. (00:53:07)

When the Hispanics in the south end of the valley, again, I'm generalizing, but I've heard this time and time again, when they see a UFO, they hope it hovers. Why? Bink, come on. If a UFO hovers, dig for treasure underneath. Now, I love that one. I have seen a Spanish coin with my own eyes that supposedly was part of a bunch of coins that were found underneath where a UFO hovered. What do you make of that? I don't know. (00:53:41)

Interesting subcultural beliefs in the San Luis Valley, I suppose. Here's another one. The guy was one of the heads of the Menzies Society in Kansas, lived in Cuesta. He claims, he called me up and said, you know, I wasn't going to tell you this, but I got to. I was abducted, I was taken up into a ship, I looked around, saw this wonderful technology, and the first thing that came into my mind is, I wonder if it can show me where the gold is. (00:54:09)

Zip, he was shown the 1888 lost robbery hoard. Zip, he was shown an undiscovered vein of gold in what he thinks is Coyote Canyon. Zip, he was shown another Spanish treasure that he didn't know what the name of it was. Zip, he was shown another vein of gold. He has spent the last five years on the ground trying to figure out exactly where he was a thousand feet in the air when he was shown these things. This guy has a photographic memory. (00:54:42)

He is beyond believable, at least in my mind, now that I've gotten to know him. And he's on track. He thinks he's identified one of these four areas and is now getting the treasure rights and trying to buy the land and get the treasure rights to dig there. Believe it or not. More special effects. Okay. Chris, where are you going with all this stuff? Here's me back when I was several pounds lighter and a lot more wet behind the ears in the shaman's day. Wonderful little spot. I used to go up there and commune with nature, meditate. (00:55:23)

This is a digital representation of what it feels like sometimes up there. Well, as I said very early on, I think we need to target our investigative focus. And we need to focus on these wonderful hot spot areas, the San Luis Valley being one of them. We need to identify them, the local areas where these types of, you know, continuous waves of activity occur. We need to fully train local investigators. I think the MUFON model for investigation and documentation is a perfect starting point for that. (00:56:02)

But we need to have triangulation, corroboration, and investigation. Now I'm getting off my soapbox. Okay, this is my attempt to do that. This is a log of unusual events that I have researched and or investigated in the San Luis Valley. It contains sightings that have the following information and information only. You need to have this stuff to be in this log. The date, the time, the location, the county. I use a valley classification system. (00:56:38)

The type of report, who investigated it, whether there was media coverage, whether there were other relative sightings to this one, and I put my own subjective highlights in it. If I logged every story that I heard that didn't have a name or a date attached to it, I'd have a stack of paper as tall as this podium. I thought I was off my soapbox. Okay, I have been able, through patient work and cross-referencing reports, looking for patterns, and working my tail off, basically, to identify what I believe are very location-specific places where the veil is thin. (00:57:24)

Like Stretch and Taffy, holes appear. The San Luis Valley has places like this, and I can take you to an exact location. This gentleman came to Crestone because he heard of my work. He is a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He has 40 patents, or 17 patents, rather, on monitoring equipment, scientific monitoring gear, including some really wild stuff that he whipped out in this whole big old array of gear that he had, and he said, take me to a spot. (00:57:58)

Well, I took him to the following spot, where this photograph was taken in December 1997 at 5 degrees temperature. Look at that. That's me. That's Brian Williams, who's a portal area photographer. His wife took this shot with a digital camera. This is an unretouched photo that I saw five seconds after it was taken. The object, when it was first seen by Carol, appeared right between us, and she said, quick, take a shot, and it moved this far by the time she clicked the shutter. (00:58:29)

This is a close-up. Now, I did increase, boost up the contrast just a hair, just to show you a little bit more detail, but what the heck is that? This is a portal area, and they have disco dance parties or something. It's like a disco ball. Tom Dongo, I know very well, who's in Sedona, has some really riveting shots, but I've never seen one with all these different colors in it like that. (00:58:58)

Maybe there are some shots like that out there, but moving right along. This, we could barely make out, but everybody was watching this little guy zipping around. He was like this worm about this long. It was wiggling all around, and it was quite bright. We could see this. This, we could just barely make out. I'm asking Carol, why is there a flying martini olive in front of us? And here's a close-up of it. It's like a flying martini olive. The green one had zipped away. (00:59:26)

This one appeared, along with the squiggly thing. And here's a close-up of the squiggly thing. This is it over here. It squiggled up like this and then went over to here. The martini olive decided to head towards the mountain, so it was taken off that direction. The Tibetans call these light forms Tigles, and they're quite well-known in Tibet. And they have a whole litany of information that they've, over the thousand years or so, have amassed quite an interesting subcultural belief system around these objects. (01:00:02)

Folks, these aren't insects out of focus close to the camera. Not at five degrees. It was cold that night. Here's another one that kind of puzzles me. We have these things that people report that undulate. They're about this long. They're shaped like this. They seem to be kind of opaque in the middle and they get translucent towards the end. They move like this, about this high off the ground. Animals react to them. People see them. They don't leave any tracks. (01:00:31)

I've personally seen one. I was looking right at it. Most of the time you see them out of your peripheral vision. But there's a place on the road going into Crestone, right before the first S-turn as you're going out of town, where people constantly are reporting what the Navajo have told me they call prairie dragons. Now that's obviously a contemporary term, but it sounds kind of cool so I use it. At this corner we also have reports of a phantom buckboard, of a guy in an old-fashioned buckboard riding it into town. (01:01:07)

And people come around the corner and they go right through him and freak out because they think they just killed somebody. And then of course they realize, oh my god, I just went right through it. There's also a herd of ghost horses that are seen right on this stretch here. They gallop along the car, alongside the car. People look out and they can see through them. One report had the house that was supposed to be there gone and totally different vegetation and no fence line there. (01:01:38)

Well, one of my favorite prairie dragon sightings was by a world-famous musician who played keyboards in all the golden age of television shows. Lived here in L.A. a long time. Was the guy that played the theme on Star Trek, the Untouchables, the Donna Reed Show, did the dee-dee-dee-dee on the Twilight Zone theme. He invented the electronic guitar. His name is Jack Cookely. Wonderful guy. He's in his 70s and still can knock a heavy bag off a hook. Black belt in karate. (01:02:08)

He was driving here, slowing down to go around the turn. And he claims he ran through 60 of these things that were all crossing the road in a giant group. Well, I stopped. There was a group of people that came down visiting. They asked me to take them around the area and show them some sights. So I stopped and was telling them about the prairie dragons. This woman took five photographs standing in the same spot. (01:02:35)

And how come these things down here appeared in one shot and they didn't appear in the other ones? Now, I don't know what it is. I've had an analyst look at it and say it's not a reflection, an over-the-shoulder aberration. If we have any photo analysts in here, I'd love to talk to you about this shot. Anyway, moving right along, I have brought with me some wonderful Mayan art. (01:02:56)

One of the things that I've been doing the past two years is working with Cholmaya carvers down in Guatemala. I have been studying this particular piece, which is very famous in ufology, as Pakal riding a rocket ship. Well, Von Donegan almost got it right. He's not riding a rocket ship. He's falling down the world tree into the Shibo Ba, or the weeds monster, the underworld. When Von Donegan interpreted this image, we only knew 5% of the language. (01:03:28)

We now know almost 90%. The only part we don't know is how to pronounce some of the god forms' names, because they're too long with too many T's, Z's, P's, and L's. I have some wonderful Mayan art over there that's helping pay for my trip. If you are interested in looking at some of it and taking some home, it's very affordable. And one of the things that I've been studying is how to activate the most recent repository of ancient knowledge that we have. (01:03:52)

This is a Stargate, folks. The original, the whole pyramid was built around it. Unfortunately, all five of the ones that I had brought with me, I sold the first night down in San Diego. So all of these are gone. But please do see me if you're interested in the Maya. The Maya have a lot of wisdom to share with us. And believe me when I tell you, there are some really interesting times coming up for us in the next four or five years at maximum. This is a true portal. (01:04:25)

Now I'll get off my sales pitch. One of the most intriguing areas in the San Luis Valley is the Zapata Falls Grotto. How many people know about the story of Stephen Greer claiming he was surrounded by 12 aliens in a golden light, him and his second-in-command, Sherry Adamek, on a C-SETI, Ambassador to the Universe, training up on Blanca Peak. Anybody hear about that story? Any C-SETI members in here? Okay, there were 30 witnesses to it. I've interviewed 18 of them. (01:05:00)

12 of them all agree that something indeed did... the light was around Greer and Sherry. Nobody saw aliens that Greer claimed. He claimed 12 different alien types surrounded them and told him and Sherry that they were under attack by the government inside the spaceport in Blanca. But this is exactly where it happened, right here. And everybody else was a little further downstream when it occurred. Well, this is a really special place. And this is the one place people say, Chris, I'm coming to the valley. I want to see something. (01:05:30)

Where would you tell me to go? Right in the parking lot of where you park to walk up the 8th of a mile to this grotto. You will see one of our most common unusual, unexplained, phenomenal type lighting effects. And if you'll turn around, this is the view that you have down to the sand dunes. Crestone is over here where I live. Stephen and Sherry were introduced to the valley very early on in Seasetti. And that's where they do their primary trainings. And unfortunately for Stephen, he's been hoaxed by some of the locals. (01:06:11)

Don't look at me. I wasn't involved. I found out about it later. But they were throwing up helium balloons with LED lights flashing. One guy had an industrial strength laser and was painting trees around him and freaking him out. I had one guy last night at the talk down at OC tell me how he was going to hoax people with a radio controlled blimp or something. Stephen does have some things that I disagree with in terms of his approach to ufology. We're going to talk about some of those a little later on. (01:06:47)

But this is a very special area. And it's not by accident that that's where he trains his ambassadors to the universe. I'm going to go back in history a little bit here now and talk about the most celebrated event in the San Luis Valley in terms of the paranormal of the unknown. In September 1967, we had a wonderful upwelling of cultural change in this country. Timothy Leary had convinced everybody to tune in, turn on, and drop out. (01:07:22)

We had a mass awakening of consciousness. And when I say that, I mean that there were, this is an Alex Gray painting, there were tens of thousands of young people blasting open their consciousness with psychedelics during the summer of love, especially in September. The first two weeks of September 1967. Well, this is when a very unusual event occurred. Now, I don't know if all of you were as much into partying and expanding your consciousnesses as I was when I was younger. (01:07:59)

But I've always been intrigued why the only life form on the planet that can survive in space, that can blow your consciousness wide open, can only grow in nature in one place. Anybody know where that is? Cow dung. Yep. Dependable psilocybin mushrooms. Well, these are the only pictures of a rear end of a cow I could find online. So I wanted to put together this little montage for you. What is the only life form on the planet that can survive in space? (01:08:37)

A mushroom spore. There's another little thing for you. Francis Crick and his idea of transpermia. How come mushrooms are so unlike every other life form on the planet? That's a mycological wonder. During the end of the first week of September 1967, the following event occurred. The snippy the horse case. How many people here have heard of snippy the horse? Not many. Okay, interesting. This is where I first became aware of the San Luis Valley. The snippy case occurred, like I said, on September 8, 1967. I was standing in line at Safeway and I saw the National Enquirer, the World News, one of those magazines, and it had this picture on the cover. (01:09:32)

I tell you, I badgered my mother. I said, you have got to give me 10 cents or however much it cost at the time. I have got to get this magazine article. And so I got it and I held on to it for years. And that's where I first learned about the San Luis Valley. This poor Appaloosa was found missing the flesh, every bit of tissue, all the connective tissue, the hair, all the veins, the meat, the mane, from the withers, from the shoulder, all the way to the tip of its nose. (01:10:01)

And what most people don't know is the day before, the owner, Nellie Lewis here, her mother was washing the dishes without her glasses on and saw this huge silver shape hover over their corral and knock, lop off the top of a couple of their corral fence posts. Well, the following day, Snippy didn't come in to eat. And I could do a whole lecture just on this one case. It is phenomenal. But what has always really puzzled me is why is Snippy the horse, which no other case has ever occurred that's been like it, why is it considered the first cattle mutilation? (01:10:42)

Okay? Well, I have a theory. Dr. John Altshuler, does that name ring a bell? He's the hematologist that did hematological and gross pathology lab work on mutilated cattle and found out that many of them are being lazed when they are cut up. They're being cut up with the use of lasers. Well, he claims he was in the dune field the night of September 7th, the day before the Snippy case, or the night, rather, of the Snippy case. (01:11:23)

And when he stumbled out of the dunes, he realized that he had been abducted the night before by these aliens that had these real deep wrinkles in their foreheads. He doesn't remember much about the experience, but he never came back to the valley after that. Well, when he stumbled out of the dune field, he was, you know, he had already talked to the rangers there. They knew about him. They knew that he was a doctor in training. And they had just heard about the Snippy case, and they asked him to go look at it. (01:11:54)

And he was the mystery pathologist that did the actual on-site pathological, the examination, the post-mortem examination of Snippy the horse. Unfortunately, John was killed on his bike, I think, a couple years ago. This gentleman in the back was also just recently killed in Manila on the trail of a very interesting story that I will not get into tonight. Anybody interested in buying Snippy? The guy that owned him had him articulated. He was in the chamber, the horse was in the chamber of commerce for years, and now the owner of the bones passed away, and the estate wants to sell Snippy. So, if you want the ultimate lawn jockey, or, I mean, heck, make a great paperweight, contact me after class, and we'll see if we can get a bid in for you. (01:12:48)

I don't know how much they want for it, but Snippy's bones are for sale. Now, you see these bones, how white they are? That's what the horse looked like when they found it, and it had been alive less than 10 hours before. There's a lot of elements about the case that I really can't go into right now because we don't have time, but it is absolutely fascinating, this whole scenario, and the incredible uproar that's welled up in the Valley after this case. (01:13:18)

It was an international news story, and what also you don't see in my sighting log, unfortunately, is the hundreds of UFO sightings that were reported from the end of 66 through the end of 69. There was a three-year period there where amazing, hundreds and hundreds of sightings occurred that were documented by the local newspaper reporter, Pearl Nicholas. Now, one thing about the Snippy case, it's the first cattle mutilation, okay? Right. Okay, well, what most people don't know is that there were two buffalo mutilated on the ranch next door the same weekend as the Snippy case. (01:13:54)

Now, when I found that out, a light went off over my head, and I'm thinking to myself, well, the Indians stopped really doing their blessings of the Cardinal Mountains. They've been slowly drifting away from their traditional ways. And I find it very interesting that the Snippy case occurred to the two animals that are most revered by Native Americans, the horse and the buffalo, or the bison. And another very interesting fact that most people don't know is the very first outbreak of prion disease in nature, beyond the outbreak of Kuru in New Guinea, the very first outbreak of chronic wasting disease, or mad deer disease, mad elk disease, occurred within days of the Snippy case in Colorado. The first time it was actually detected in nature. I'm going to talk about that a little later in the theorizing portion of my talk. (01:14:52)

So, I have a feeling that this was a sign, this was some sort of warning that was given by some as-yet-undefined predator that came down and took this horrific action on these animals, starting a wave of possibly over 100,000 of these unusual animal deaths since then. This is the first publicized case. There have been some in the past. We're going to talk about the animal death thing in detail here a little later, but I just find it very intriguing that the buffalo and the horse were the first targets. (01:15:35)

Now I mentioned some of the investigators who have come to the Valley. Jim and Carl Lorenzen were the founders of APRO. Probably some of you remember them. I know Ann does. They were one of the early investigators. Leo Sprinkle, who I'm sure many of you are aware of, also came and did some work in the late 60s, early 70s. He regressed the owners of the horse and found out some very amazing information about possible contact experiences. Leo was one of the early investigators. (01:16:04)

Good old Wendell. I love Wendell. And I can always tell what he had for dinner by looking at his tie. Wendell, unfortunately, really wants to believe. He's like that Fox Mulder poster. I want to believe. Well, unfortunately, I saw a slideshow of Wendell and one of the pictures was the only intersection in Crestone, in the middle of town. And I recognized the owners of two of the cars in the picture. And hanging right above them in broad daylight is this huge metallic UFO. And I thought to myself, Wendell? I don't know who the guy is that gave you that shot. (01:16:40)

But don't believe him. I'm sorry. Wendell was one of the early investigators. This gentleman here, this is the only picture that I have found of him, because I had it taken. This is the father of mutology. How would you like to be known as that? I'm the father of mutology. Well, he's the guy that taught me how to research, along with this gentleman who wrote the foreword to both of my books, David Perkins. He was also George W. Bush's roommate at Yale for two years. (01:17:14)

Yeah, good old Izzy. You want to hear some stories? Oh God, don't get me going. I will tell you one. They're all sitting around in the dorm in 66. And they're all drinking beer in the hallway. It's a group of them. David is a brilliant metaphysician and had a full scholarship to Yale. Actually, his family was not really well off, but all the other guys hanging out in that hallway drinking beer were the sons of the rich and powerful. (01:17:46)

And one of them looked around and said, gosh, you know what, guys? Isn't it amazing? We are so lucky. And maybe, even maybe, one of us is actually going to graduate and grow up to be President of the United States. Except for you, George. I could go on and on, but I won't. Oh God, Linda. Lovely Linda. She taught me how to be a field investigator, and she probably has regretted it ever since. I don't agree with Linda's conclusions 100%. So I have to be careful around her. She starts to yell at me. (01:18:27)

Linda Howe, I think, has done more than any other single individual to bring public attention to the unusual animal death myth. And she was also one of the early investigators in the San Luis Valley. Although, she did come in and Beryl Lewis, who was one of the first people I talked to when I started out, told me that I should go talk to that TV lady if I wanted to know about the cattle mutilations. Okay, we are going to really zip through the unusual animal death thing. (01:18:58)

I did give an entire lecture when I was here eight years ago. Gosh, time flies, let me tell you. It's great to be back, but I do need to talk about this for one reason only. And that is, it's one thing to have photographs of squiggly lights in the sky or blurry, discoidal objects in daylight. If we're lucky, occasionally we get some good video. There are some good films that have been taken, included by Ray Stanford, who I'm going to mention here in a little while. But the one paranormal subject area that leaves behind thousands of pounds of physical evidence is the unusual animal death phenomenon. (01:19:46)

Now, Linda Howe and others and the media would like to call these cases animal mutilations. Well, I'm sorry, that doesn't wash. These are not mutilations. They are very meticulous, careful experimentations that are going on. And I really do like to shy away from the word mutilation. I feel it is gratuitous, sensationalistic, and scary. And one of the reasons why this realm of investigation does not get the amount of exposure, attention, and funding is because of the very term that is lassoed onto it. I prefer to call these unusual animal deaths. (01:20:31)

Now, these are the areas that I'm going to cover. I'm not going to go through them. I'll let you read. I trust you all can read. Man's relationship with cattle is ancient. Cattle are the first domesticated form of livestock. We have been in an incestuous relationship with our cattle for over 10,000 years. This is a representation from the famous cave paintings in France. You notice the obvious form. (01:21:03)

This is a prehistoric form of cattle called the arrow rock. The last one died in the 1640s in a zoo in Spain. One thing that I can tell you that is very important is that we have been eating cattle for so long that we have a virtual genetic match with cattle hemoglobin. Humans have a genetic similarity and match to cattle hemoglobin 99.9 to 7 places. Pigs, I think, are to 4 or 5. I would need to check my notes on the actual figure, but that's pretty close. (01:21:41)

So, the old axiom, you are what you eat. Folks, we are cattle. Cattle are us. This is a very important fact. Animal sacrifice has been going on for thousands of years. It stands to reason that ancient man would sacrifice selected animals that he selected so the gods wouldn't come down and take the ones that they wanted. This is another important fact. Animal sacrifice goes on worldwide every day. I have been told by law enforcement that quasi-military groups are involved in some of the animal mutilations. (01:22:33)

Cattle are the primary targets. 95% of unusual animal deaths are cattle, but humans are preferred. How many thousands of people, tens of thousands of people, hundreds of thousands of people disappear in this country every year? This is an example of a stylized view, ancient view, of the cattle god Hathor in the Egyptian pantheon. This is the human version of it. Notice the celestial globe. This is a representation of athletic prowess in the Minoan culture which worshipped the cow. They used to run at the cow and vault over its horns. (01:23:32)

Now, I'd like to see one of our bull riding cowboys try that one. Those clowns barely get away with it. This is an animal sacrifice about ready to take place, although they're probably just cutting its throat for dinner. The debunkers have had their way with this whole supposed mystery. It's wily coyote, magpies, crows, and other predatory and scavenging animals. Even insects have been fingered as the culprit behind these cases. When the media gets involved and every animal that's out there dead in a pasture is seen by an amateur eye, if you don't know what you're looking at, it does look like a mutilation. (01:24:21)

I have been sent countless videotapes, photographs of just naturally dead cows that have been scavenged. I have seen magpies carve perfect holes in the rear end of a cow. You could take a compass and draw a perfect circle. So there are cases that are misidentified. Generally, they only occur after the media has become involved in spreading information about real cases. I'm going to try to zip through here. The Kenneth Rommel report was one of the early whitewash attempts by an ex-FBI agent. (01:25:00)

The results of this operation, animal mutilation, have been thoroughly... the debunker has been debunked. Let's put it that way. I will give you a quick story about my first case. When I first got involved in my investigations in the San Luis Valley, honestly, I was just going to write a 500-word article about UFO sightings that half the town saw in November 1992. I quickly, in two weeks, found out that I had stumbled on a gold mine of information. I knew instantly, within two weeks, that I had enough material for several books. (01:25:37)

And when I started digging, I could write many books on this whole wonderful area of North America. But the first thing that I did was I went to the local sheriff. And I must tell you that I have had a close personal relationship with several county sheriffs in the San Luis Valley to the point where I almost, at one point in time, I was almost considered an unofficial deputy of weirdness. They were my best source of reports. (01:26:07)

Oftentimes, people, when they see something that they can't explain, the first thing they do is call the sheriff. Well, the sheriff knew that they didn't really want to deal with it, so they gave me the contact information. A lot of these sightings in here are from law enforcement sources. I should have said that early on. Anyway, the first thing I did was call my local sheriff. I said, were there any animal mutilations that occurred in Sewatch County? Officially, according to all the researchers, none occurred in the 70s, when over 10,000 cattle were reported mutilated in 32 states in the United States, including over 130 in the San Luis Valley. Sewatch County, where I lived, officially had no reports. (01:26:47)

He said, Chris, I'll look, but we don't even have files on murders back then. You know, there you go. Small county, big county, small-time sheriff. Anyway, he found 24 photographs for me. He happened to have some. Told me the names of the deputies that actually investigated the cases. They were old and retired, but they still remembered all the cases. The 24 photographs I was able to match with the ranchers. The first one I matched was this case that was in the town next to mine. (01:27:17)

I went out there, interviewed the woman. Her name is Virginia Sutherland. She wrote a famous book called The Last Ranch, which is a New York Times bestseller about ranching in the San Luis Valley. She remembered the case vividly, said, yes, I'll go ahead and meet with you. I went out the following day. She told me they were sitting around dinner in the first week of June, 1980, and they heard a helicopter fly right over the top of their house. (01:27:42)

They didn't think anything of it, but then 20 minutes later, as they were finishing dinner, they heard the helicopter coming back. They went outside and saw it rising out of their field, but it was an ancient UH-1 Bell helicopter. Now, what is that type of helicopter in 1980 flying in the San Luis Valley? Especially one that was a mustard yellow color. Now, these helicopters only have a range of 90 miles. And when they went out the following day, I mean, it flew just over their heads. (01:28:17)

They got a really good look at it. No identifying numbers other than the color and the obvious superstructure of a whirly bird, like in MASH, an early 50s helicopter. Well, they called every airport, every aircraft mechanic, every flight school, anybody that would have any information about this particular type of helicopter. And they were told they were crazy. They couldn't have seen one. Nobody operates them anymore. They're too expensive. And there's no mechanics that can maintain them. (01:28:46)

Well, they went out into the pasture where the helicopter had landed, and they found their bull mutilated. That's what, pardon the expression, pissed them off enough to make them call all around two states to find out where that chopper came from. Well, I went out there, and I said, well, Virginia, why don't you take me out to where they found the cow, where you found your cow? She goes, you know, I haven't been out there in years, to that part of the pasture. Let's go. (01:29:10)

Sure enough, there was a skeleton laying on its back, just like in that picture, melted into the desert, and I asked her if I could have the skull. It's on my wall in my office. I painted it. I have a collection of mutilated cow skulls, I guess. I'm weird, I know. Anyway, I'm at home the following day after I interview her, 13 years after the case. I'm sitting with my first cup of coffee in the morning, typing up my notes, and what do I hear? (01:29:41)

I look out my window, and it's a UH-1 yellow bell helicopter. Flew right over my house. The ancient mariner had an albatross on his neck. I have a tar baby stuck to my face. I kissed the tar baby. That hooked me. Hooked me. Hook, line, and sinker. I'm a changed man. Literally. I've been hell-bent for leather ever since. Did you know that horses can climb trees? This is a 1,300 pound Morgan draft horse, found in a tree. (01:30:20)

Did you know pigs could fly? Mutilated pigs could fly? Especially a javelina, which don't exist in the San Luis Valley, to my knowledge. I've never seen one. This was found seven, eight feet up in a tree. How about this deer was found in a tree, and the hunters thought that they had a free one. They dragged it out, and they noticed that there was a hole drilled from one tear duct through its septum to the other tear duct, and the whole rear end had been carved out. (01:30:52)

Still warm. They didn't need it. Took a picture of it, but unfortunately they dragged it out of the tree. I'd show you the other shot, but it's a little graphic. How about this one? Actually, psych. I got you. This was hit by a train and knocked up on top of that power pole. Seriously. I have had numerous reports of animals found in trees. I have found animals that look like they have been dropped from hundreds of feet in the air. (01:31:27)

Horns snapped off all the ribs on the lower side, snapped right next to the spine, clean fractured, compound fractures all the way through, animals driven into the ground like they've been dropped from hundreds of feet in the air. Whatever is doing this is coming in from the air. They're not leaving tire tracks. There's no clues. Oftentimes, a combination of the following organs are found missing, in case you don't know what an animal mutilation is. Generally, it's an udder, the rear end. (01:31:57)

The mandible flesh is removed perfectly. The tongue is gone from deep in the throat. We've had animals found with major organs missing with no break in the hide. We had an animal in Weld County found with its udder perfectly smooth and filled with sand. We've had animals that have had ketamine in them. Animals with barbiturates in them. Animals that have had fluorescent materials splashed on their back. Animals with deep bruises like giant claws that come down and grab their backs and lifted them off the ground. (01:32:32)

I could go on and on and on about some of the things that scientists, law enforcement, and investigators have found on these cases. The media doesn't tell you this stuff. Linda Howe mentions it, but only if it has to do with UFO sightings and aliens. Over 400 helicopter sightings have been associated with mutilation sites. There's a book called The Choppers and the Choppers by Mr. Tom Adams, the father of mutology. (01:33:00)

Meticulously documented 250 to 300 helicopter sightings. Since then, we've had quite a number more. I'm going to go ahead and zip through here. It's a tough job, folks. Somebody's got to do it. I don't like the smell of cadaverine. That's what makes a dead body stink. I really have an aversion to dead animals, but somebody's got to look into this. I've had big old burly ranchers lean on my shoulder and cry these big alligator tears and ask me, they could have taken any of my herd. (01:33:33)

Why did they take this one? Why did they take my Bessie? Or why did they take number 444? I don't know. It's a tough job, but somebody's got to do it. Here's some photographs from the 70s in the San Luis Valley. Notice the bleached mandible. This is highly unusual. John Altshuler has tried to duplicate this effect by boiling the jawbone in a lye solution on his stove. (01:34:02)

And he can't duplicate this scoured bone look. This one was the freakiest one I investigated. The animal's spine was snapped out in an upwards motion. It was missing its entire spine. The brain was gone, the heart and the cranium. All the organs were gone except the two most loved by scavengers, the heart and the liver. There was not one drop of blood except for one on the rear left hoof in a pristine 5 inch field of snow. (01:34:36)

The animal was dragged inside a heated garage, put on plastic and would not rot. I've had cases that were still warm. The rancher tried to drag the animal, load it onto a truck and he pulled it apart because it was already so rotten. There's something very strange going on here folks. This one was found missing the heart. And look at the hair. First thing I do when I am in the field and somebody reports a case is I look to see if the hair has been cut. (01:35:12)

Animals don't carry shears or scissors. Humans do. This was the last mutilation reported in San Luis Valley until this recent case that happened in April that I have a picture of coming up. Linda Howe thinks that these animals are being gathered these parts are being gathered because of the hemoglobin scenario and the match to human hemoglobin and that either A, these parts are being used as a food source where they lather this protein on their skins and then suck it in through their skins is one theory. (01:35:49)

Another theory is that they are gathering genetic materials for some sort of unknown reason to possibly hybridize human-alien hybrids. I really have a serious problem with the extraterrestrial hypothesis as it relates to the animal death phenomenon. A very serious problem. There is a lot of pop culture misunderstanding and disinformation out there, folks. Here is a classic example of reverse psychology. I thought the aliens were coming down, killing the cattle and taking the cattle parts. (01:36:22)

Now what the heck is Sony showing them returning them intact? Hi8 brings clarity to this situation. Yeah. If you look at a map of where we process and enrich uranium and plutonium, mine, process and enrich, put it into weapons and then you go downstream and downwind of these sites, that's where you are going to find the areas where these cases most often occur. This gentleman, George W. Bush's roommate at Yale, David Perkins, who wrote the foreword to both of my books, was the first one to see the correlation between the use of uranium and the downwind downstream scenario. (01:37:11)

You should have him here to talk because he's come up with a theory that ties all paranormal phenomenon together. He calls the evolutionary imperative. This is a very brilliant thinker that deserves a lot more attention and some time behind more podiums. Now, one of the things that I noticed, yeah, and then you get to ask him about W. God, some stories. Now, one thing about the San Luis Valley is that there is no pollution there. (01:37:42)

It's the only spot in the lower contiguous 48 states that has no air, water or land pollution. Now, my amateur brain hearing that immediately thinks one thing and that is the San Luis Valley is a control group. There is one source of pollution close to the valley. It's 40 miles away. It's up in the San Juan Mountains and it's the Somerville Superfund site where they messed up with cyanide leaching for a gold mine. It polluted the top 17 miles of the Alamosa River. In the late 90s, mid to late 90s, the EPA was raising animals on the Alamosa River right here for 90 days to see what? (01:38:31)

If the pollution from the heavy metals was coming down and getting into the water supply. They found that it was higher up in the river. But you know how they found that out? They took the animals on rented pasture and they took them and mutilated them and did gross tissue analysis. Now when they came up with the results that were scary to the scientist who came up with it he blew the whistle when they tried to cover the results up and blew the whistle and came out publicly and fingered the EPA as covering up crucial health information from the residents of the San Luis Valley. During the two year period the EPA was doing these experiments guess where all my mutilations were occurring down here? (01:39:14)

The light bulb bling! Ted Oliphant was the chief police in Fife, Alabama. He investigated 100 cases down there. He is convinced that the government is conducting bioweapons experiments in Alabama using cattle as test subjects. He wrote a very good article called Mad Cows I Have Known. It's on the web, I suggest you read it. What happened in England in 1996? Every head of cattle was slaughtered and burnt because of the rampant spread of transmissible spongiform encephalopathy known in cows as mad cow disease known in deer and wild animals as chronic wasting disease. (01:40:14)

Known in humans as Kutzfeld-Jacobs disease or variant Kutzfeld-Jacobs disease. Well, prior to 1996, or to 1998 rather, they didn't know what was causing mad cow disease. The Nobel Prize for Medicine was awarded in 1998 to Stanley Pusner who was the first one to discover the prion or the prion. That is the smallest life form yet discovered by man, thousand times smaller than the smallest virus. It only is a life form because it can replicate. (01:40:46)

The other criteria that you can kill it, because if it's alive you can kill it, is not quite so because it takes 3000 degrees to kill a prion. What did they do to all 6 million cattle that they slaughtered in England? They burnt them, but they only used heat up to about 1200 degrees. Guess where all the prions are? In bone ash that was sold to 70 countries. Ouch. Here's a very graphic picture of one of the slaughter sites. (01:41:26)

Are these animals worth it? Did you know that if you went to McDonald's and got a hamburger, which I'm sure some of you have been known to do, you stand the chance of possibly having up to a thousand different animals represented in that one burger? Did you know that? Did you know that the largest source of water pollution on the planet is cows? Did you know that the largest warm blooded source of methane, which is a ozone depleting gas, is cattle flatulence? (01:41:57)

Did you know a cow burps or farts once every minute? Dang. That's a lot of gas, folks. Do you know what the number one cause of desert forming, desertification is? Cattle. Do you know why they're burning down the lungs of the planet in the rainforest? To make more room for what? Cattle. Do you know if you added up the weight of all the cattle on the planet they would vastly outweigh humans? Where does anthrax come from? (01:42:30)

Cattle. You want me to continue? Are these sacred cows or are they hooved locusts? How come you never hear about sacred cows being mutilated? There's not one case on the record of a Brahman cow being mutilated. Did you know that? So if you go to India where they have nursing homes for cows and you have to allow a cow to wander into your house if it wants to and if you impede its travel, it's a crime. (01:43:12)

Did you know that? Did you know there's never been a mutilation report in India? Yet in the United States we know of at least 10,000 official reports. Did you know that cattle are not indigenous to America? Okay, I could really get going on this stuff folks. How come all the mutilations in the United States stopped cold? The official reports of mutilation stopped cold in 1999 and in 2000 we had the first of over 3,000 cases in South America. Where? Where the world's great cattle herds are. (01:43:47)

Well, you know what they're up to folks? They're looking for prion disease and they're seeing how quickly it's spreading and these ain't aliens from Zeta Reticuli. Okay, moving right along. This is the most recent case in the San Luis Valley. The government is involved in this folks. Big time. Here's some chopper photographs. Here's a good shot I took in Sedona. I see this big old jolly green giant special ops chopper coming in to land at the airport. Snap a picture. (01:44:20)

Guess what was flying by? Just thought I'd throw that one in there for you. Here's an orb that I photographed in 94 underneath a C-131 cargo plane. Here's a very interesting story. I'm waiting to interview a guy who lives at the base of Blanca. A silver unpainted cargo plane is flying over the mountain. I get my binoculars out. I'm looking at it and it disappeared. It flashed and was gone. Not a cloud in the sky. (01:44:46)

Took about five seconds for the sound to stop but it sounded like somebody turned off the CD. I go to the guy who I was going to interview. I can't believe I just saw that. He goes, oh, I moved here three months ago. I've seen it a bunch of times already. What? Okay, the Indians say there's doorways that open up in the Blanca region. Well, I think the government knows about it and I think that they know how to activate it and or utilize it. (01:45:12)

I could go along. I wish I had more time. Okay, here's the Levita military operations area. Wonderful story. The town of Levita, which if you look is Red Wing Garden, the town of Levita is right here. Had a wonderful sighting of a 150 foot flying wing that was hovering over the Levita golf course. Witnesses went out and they saw it. At first they thought it was a 747 that was going to crash land on the 18th fairway. (01:45:46)

They realized that it wasn't going to crash land because it was hovering over the water hazard and extended a beam of light into the water and appeared to be sucking water out of the water hazard. The two little red lights on the tips of the wings decided just before the big object flew away to detach and fly off in different directions. Very interesting that that should happen over the namesake town of the Levita military operations area. Seven witnesses. (01:46:12)

One of the witnesses asked me if I watched Star Trek and I said why. She goes, this thing had a Klingon bird of prey cloaking device but it was broken. It would flicker in and be there and then boop it would go away and then flicker back in. Go figure. Here's an F-16 almost shook me off four stages of scaffolding. Flew right by me. I could hear the wind ripping off the hull and if that guy didn't have a helmet on I could have picked him out of a lineup. (01:46:43)

Flow flying cargo plane. What's wrong with this picture? I thought the Air Force was in the business of flying airplanes. That's the darndest looking airplane I've ever seen. That's a tunnel boring machine folks. Too bad the camera is rolling. I'm not going to get into some of the information but I'll leave you with this little gem. I have been hearing stories since 89 when I moved to the San Luis Valley until I left in 2002 of underground bases. (01:47:27)

First thing I heard about was the alien bases like the one just over the San Juans in Dulce which is right over here. Then I heard about the secret base in Crestone that people saw these trucks that would go and then the ground would sink down, the trucks would disappear. And it was like a fake prairie that was there to hide the fact that there was an elevator there. Then I heard about this underground alien base in Mount Blanca. Then I heard about this base here which I've got some pictures of coming up. (01:48:02)

Of course we all know about this one. This is the Cheyenne NORAD facility 1500 feet inside Cheyenne Mountain. Then I had a Hollow Earth investigator tell me he was investigating reports of unusual helicopter activity in the Taos, north of Taos in the Rio Grande Gorge. And he watched the doors open up of the side of the canyon. A big concrete pad come out with a helicopter on it. The helicopter fired up its rotor, flew off, pad pulled back in, doors closed. (01:48:35)

Then I interviewed some deputy sheriff and some other guys that were hunting up here and they found these big huge giant steel doors up on Greeny Mountain. Now this could be some sort of Nike missile base facility as inner perimeter anti-aircraft or anti-ballistic missile ring around NORAD. But interesting, I've had all these reports and then over the years I've had more and more reports alleging underground type facilities or activity of course the famous Dulcy one, in all these different areas. Well, do you notice anything? (01:49:15)

Oh, look at that. My goodness, they all line up. And they all go to NORAD. Well, Richard Sauter wrote a book called Underground Tunnels and Bases. I recommend you read it if you're interested in this subject matter. Richard says that there is a nuclear subterranean patent that was awarded in the 70's that could dig from 7 to 30 miles a day. It vitrifies the dirt, creates a thick glass wall around the perimeter inside of the tunnel. Well, let's see. (01:49:54)

30 years, 30 miles a day. How many days is that? How many miles is that? We could have a lot of stuff going on underground folks. The only time, you know, people always ask me, Chris, have you ever been interviewed by the government? Have they ever done this or that or followed you, broke into your house? No, they haven't except when I was investigating this subject matter. And with the cameras going, I won't go into details. (01:50:23)

Very interesting. I should probably reverse and show you what this stuff is over here. This is our most recent anomaly. It's in the Bosque National Wildlife Refuge just above the border with New Mexico. And we've had a series of unusual earthquakes over there. A mile deep. Nobody knows why they're occurring. There's no reason for Halliburton to be digging over here. One of the top geologists in New Mexico is a good friend of ours and says there's no reason to be digging there. (01:51:00)

There's no gas, there's no oil, there's no coal. Yet we keep having these earthquakes. When I was preparing this slide, the day I was working on it, the latest one occurred right here and it was over four point on the rector scale. Well, here's your little you know, your earthquake monitor site. The EMSC site on the web. And there's the earthquakes just below Weston here. There's now these big four lane dirt roads down there that never used to be there. And lots of Halliburton trucks. (01:51:35)

Well, we all know when you say Halliburton, what you're talking about, it's this old guy. Hey Dickie, how are you? Hey. You ever wonder where this guy is? I think he was a mole in a past life. All his neighbors around the naval observatory residence of the vice president have been complaining about the blasting going on underground. This guy has got some serious issues with the deep. Anyway, without getting too out of line here, I support my president. (01:52:11)

I don't know about my vice president though. Okay. Rio Grande Gorge, I told you that one. Tal Lofask. Remember that name? Tal. He was the one tramping around in there and saw the helicopter. And here's another one. The ARCO plant. I had a great time. A friend of mine broke down in his truck so I had to bring a trailer over. Well, I always stayed away from here because it's way too spooky to go around. (01:52:42)

There's another mountain just like this right here out of the picture. But these are three story buildings. It's the biggest tax revenue source in Huerfano County just over the eastern side of the valley. Over the sand dunes area. And if you go over into the wet mountain valley in the La Vida military operations area. There's this wonderful facility here that's supposedly a CO2 mining operation. They pull carbon dioxide out of the ground. (01:53:09)

They pump it through this pipeline, which I've never been able to find, that supposedly goes all the way down to Dalhart, Texas. They use the CO2 to clear out the last oil in a soon to dry up oil well. Well, I wanted to find out what's going on up there so I had to bring a trailer over to the other side to pick up a friend's broken down truck and I went up there. I went up there. There was no cars. (01:53:33)

There was no guards or nothing. I walked into the door yelling, hello, just need some directions how to find this county road. Had on my jeans, you know, chewing on a hay seed. There was an inch of dust on everything. It looked like a movie set. All these gears and tools and stuff that obviously hadn't been touched in years. Yet, that's the biggest tax revenue source in Huerfano County and all kinds of people work there but you can never find them. (01:54:04)

Of course, when I went outside, my brother and my friend were sitting there with their hands up in the air and all these trucks were around with blinking yellow lights going, son, what are you doing here? I said, looking for a way on the county road. Son, you ain't supposed to be here so I suggest you get in your little truck, you turn around, and you drive out the way you came. (01:54:27)

But I wanted, son, did you hear me? Yes, sir. This is another interesting site where the Rio Grande Gorge is. There is some really interesting underground stuff going on in the San Luis Valley. I am not going to bore you with any more details. What does the government know about UFOs? Not much more than we do. That's why they're way more confused. Okay, again, touting my log. It's on that CD over there. (01:54:57)

Don't forget, both my books, my log, all these wonderful pictures. Only $15. Okay, here's a nice shot. Rancho goes out to check out his cattle to make sure they weren't mutilated this morning. Guess what flies by? Here's a nice little close-up of it. Just another blurry picture of UFOs, right? Whoa, what is that? Go away. Thank you. How about that one? This is actually a Xerox copy. I don't have the original. (01:55:26)

This is called the Lobo Light. It's been seen for decades. It's seen in the same spot. It goes up. Sometimes it flies off, but usually it just goes up, hovers for a while, and then goes back down. No, it's not the moon. Ooh, notice the difference? A little plasma action going on there. Yeah, that's a UFO, right? There's actually, if you look closely, there's a crack on this ball right here. (01:55:54)

Anyway, moving right along. Anybody ever see this slide of footage? Show of hands. Six and a half minutes of the most wonderful daylight footage ever taken in the San Luis Valley area. 70,000 feet in the air, half a mile long. It was the first case ever not debunked by John Dutero, the head video analyst for the U.S. Military Academy. Also passed muster with every other video analyst except for Jeff Sano. I wonder why. (01:56:27)

Oh, here's another one. This is a problem in the San Luis Valley. You try to get these things on film and it's like, you know... Oh, there it is! Moving right along. What role does the media play in all this? Well, I'll tell you. In 1992 all of a sudden all hell seemed to break loose in the San Luis Valley. Why? The X-Files. Everybody saw this wonderful show and it kind of jazzed them up and so when they went outside instead of looking like this, they looked like this. And they started seeing things. (01:57:06)

Isn't that wonderful? So did I. Although I actually really didn't like the show. I thought it was a very crafty form of disinformation. Well, in the 50's they were evil reptoids, right? They were coming to get us. The Earth stood still and Klaatu, Nariktu, Labumtu, whatever the heck it was. And, oh man, how'd you like to meet up with that guy? And then there's the other side of the coin. It's the Benevolent Space Brothers. Well, he better be around Benevolent Space Brothers because one karate chop and that neck has had it. (01:57:41)

George Adamski is probably the first one, one of the first ones in Daniel Frye in the 50's to come up with this whole theory of Benevolent Space Brothers. He hoaxed shots by painting them with radioactive paint, by the way. And people wonder why he died young, right? Stephen Greer is one of the proponents for the Benevolent Space Brothers. There is no documented example of UFOs ever harming anybody. Oh yeah? (01:58:12)

Tell it to this woman who got hit by a particle beam weapon from a chupa in the Amazon rainforest. Her and 30 other people were killed by UFOs in the late 70's, early 80's. She died three days after this photograph was taken. Something else is going on. She dried out into a husk and her hair turned gray and it fell out. A complete accounting of these series of events is in the Jacques Fillet book, Confrontations. I suggest you read it. What do we need to do, folks? (01:58:40)

We need to do hard data monitoring and we need to take the lead of a wonderful investigator named Ray Stanford. I could do a whole 5, 6, 7 hour lecture just on this gentleman. I have a completed book called And My Dog Sing Chopin that is the life story in his own words of this wonderful gentleman who has 59 films of UFOs that he has taken since 1956. He is America's least well known psychic. (01:59:13)

He is a psychic paleontologist, has discovered four distinct species of dinosaurs, more dinosaur tracks than any other person, has the largest private collection of dinosaur tracks, is the only person to have a baby sauropod track, all within walking distance of his house in Maryland. This guy found the only articulated dinosaur skeleton in the state of Maryland, has named four species after two of his kids. Believe it or not. Ray is an amazing guy. I wish I could get him out here, but he thinks I'm crazy to even travel out here. (01:59:52)

He's very psychic, I guess. I don't know. Is there somebody back there that maybe I should... I'm looking at you. I know you're there. He says, Chris, don't tell him too much. Anyway, Ray is an amazing guy. I'm very pleased to announce that you ever seen the In Search of show? Leonard Nimoy. You know that opening shot of the UFO in the clouds? Ray Stanford. He has taken four movie films of UFOs out airliner windows, including one in 1978 of a grandmother ship with mother ships docking underneath it, shooting out little scout ships, including one that came right up to the window and the magnetic field of the craft optically flattens the horizon. (02:00:44)

When he releases these films, UFOlogy is going to be different. He is going to be releasing two peer-reviewed scientific papers with two PhDs, one in plasma physics and the other in optical physics. As soon as the papers are released, he thinks his name will be remembered and he's going to allow me to release his life story. The Edgar Cayce family called him the next Edgar Cayce. This man is absolutely beyond amazing. (02:01:14)

I've met a lot of people in my life. Nobody can hold a candle to this man. He was the one that debunked Adamski, George Hunt Williamson, Daniel Fry, George Van Tassel, all those wonderful names from the 50s. You will be hearing about Ray very soon if he continues his work. I met him because, and talked to him and convinced him to get his life story written down because he almost died from a heart attack two years ago. (02:01:44)

There he is. And that guy next to him is me. It's very difficult being around someone that can tell you who you've been hanging out with because of the aura, the effect of their aura on your aura. And he sniffs you. That's Naya. Folks, the aliens... Maybe they're here, but the extraterrestrial hypothesis is running roughshod in ufology. Folks, I hate to be raining on your Mufon parade, but they've been here as long, if not longer, than we have. (02:02:25)

I doubt that they're from another planet. They're probably extra-dimensional. If you know anything about quantum physics, you know about string theory. Hopefully, if you know about string theory, you know about superstring theory. And hopefully, if you know about superstring theory, you know a little bit about M-theory or membrane theory. We now know there's 11 dimensions, and I've got an audience in this room that you can't see. This kind of stuff makes me itch in places I do not know where to scratch. (02:02:59)

Roswell is like a virus. The closer you get, the more the alien images come out. I have seen Western clothing stores with alien mannequins dressed up as cowboys. You've got to draw the line somewhere, people. Please, get over it. The wheel is not only broken in ufology, it fell off the car a long time ago. We need to be practicing creative thinking. This guy will not have anything to do with you or I because we are not opening up our creative thought processes. (02:03:52)

I don't buy into everything that Jacques Vallée says. Neither does Ray Stanford. At least he's trying to look at the same old freaking wheel with a new perspective. Here's an example of some creative thinking. Stop it. Come on, Jacques. Give me a break. Here we go. Look at that. How would you like to have a haircut like that? And didn't your mom tell you about protein powder? God, Jacques. Here's some connections for you. I don't have much time so I'm going to zip through this real quick. (02:04:36)

On October 17, 1997, 13,000 acres of virgin forest on the Continental Divide in Colorado were flattened in less than five minutes. If you fly over it, you can see patterning. I have aerial footage that is scarily patterned. 20 miles long by 2 miles wide. They called it a series of macrobursts. Well, a macroburst is a series of microbursts. So it must have been a parliament or a conclave of microbursts that did this. (02:05:17)

There's videotape of it happening. Now, isn't it interesting that within several days, chronic wasting disease broke out in the deer herds in this area. It has now spread all the way as far as Vermont. Where's that little light bulb? Bing! Well, here's some interesting shots of it. It happened right here and then chronic wasting disease spread to the east and it spread and it spread and it's all the way almost to Maine now. This has bothered me. (02:06:02)

But I'll tell you, it sure jazzed this particular, well, the Rocky Mountain biophysics lab where they probably weaponized Kuru in the 60's is right in Fort Collins. So, maybe there's some sort of connection there. I could get into it. I don't have time. Here's some more tree circles. These happened in the San Luis Valley. These are 100 foot trees, folks. In Colorado, we don't have crop circles, although we did have some in 1970 in the San Luis Valley. We have tree circles. (02:06:38)

Things are big out west. Okay, here's an 8 foot root ball. Here's what we should be studying. Random blowdown events. I talked to this gentleman. I was very fortunate to meet him. And I said, Lawrence, did you know that chronic wasting disease broke out in the deer herds around this blowdown area? And that I had mutilations downstream from blowdown events here in the San Luis Valley. And he said, I want to hear more. (02:07:10)

I got to spend the entire day with him and he funded me for two years. I have not allowed this knowledge to be public because people will think I work for the guy or that I'm beholden to him. Well, now that he's passed away, I can tell you that he gifted me two years with enough money to do my research and write my second book and he has an absolute fascination, or he had a fascination with craft circles. (02:07:37)

Why? Because they've always been occurring. Look at this. This is the mowing devil from the 1650s in Herefordshire. Well, one of the things that Lawrence was very intrigued with and why he wanted to spend an entire day with me, it's not very often you get to spend a whole day with a billionaire. And so I told him, well, Lawrence, you know, it's always bothered me that crop circles have been around for a long time, but they've always been just simple circles. (02:08:03)

You know, like Doug and Dave style. And isn't it interesting that the first time a new element was introduced to a crop circle was a ring around it. And it happened the same time that mad cow disease broke out in England. Where's that little bing thing again? Bing! Creative thinking, folks. We've got to start making connections here. We've got to do this not only in the crop circle realm, not only in the animal mutilation realm, but we have to start doing this in the ufological realm as well. (02:08:35)

Well, I think that the whole crop circle thing is quite enigmatic. Rockefeller's right hand man says, oh, Chris, come on. Most crop circles are done from space by some sort of plasma weapon platform. He insinuated that. He said they're done from space. Well, why the heck would they do it from space? They couldn't do this. They couldn't weave three feet off the ground, weave these patterns. (02:09:04)

There's no way. This is a real circle, folks. Oh, there's my ding. Here's another one that's probably hoaxed. Colin Andrews thinks up to 80% of crop circles are probably hoaxed. I've wondered, well, why in England? Why are they so good there? Because they've been doing it longer. They have more practice. Team Satan is amazing. You ever seen the Nissan minivan they did for television in New Zealand? Jeez, they're really good. This is a cool one. (02:09:34)

Whoa, watch out, it might bite you. Okay, there we go. Are we alone or is this a closed system, folks? You know, is this a closed system? Are we alone? Or are little aliens coming light years to visit this rock and pick up rocks and look at flowers for the last 50 years like they've never seen them before? There's something not right about that. Why are they using medieval medical technology that doesn't even come up, rise to the level that we already have now? (02:10:08)

What's wrong with that picture? There's something else going on. You could stick something the size of this around the planet in orbit and get as much information as you wanted to know about this planet. Why send down big steam engine clanking machines that look like airships in the 1890s and then have the pilots go, you know, do you know what time it is? And then when you tell them the time, he says, you're lying. Why would an alien come down and ask a question and tell you you're lying when you gave him a truthful answer? (02:10:41)

You know? There's just something else going on here. And I wish I had more time to really go through a lot of my theories and stuff. But you're just going to have to have me back out. And maybe the next time we'll just talk about UFOs. Or we'll just talk about theories about cattle. Or theories about the paranormal. And all the rest of these things. I'm going to do a question and answer session. But I'm not sure how long we're going to be able to get away with staying here. So, thank you very much. (02:11:12)

I really tried to get through the material. And I really appreciate your time. (02:11:16)

(2025-10-20)

前置き​

要旨​

目次​

ユークリス・オブライエンのミステリアス・ヴァレー講演：主要テーマと洞察に関するブリーフィング​

エグゼクティブ・サマリー​

1. サンルイス・バレー：異常現象のホットスポット​

1.1. 「ポータルエリア」の定義と地理的・地球物理学的特性​

1.2. 完璧な「ペトリ皿」​

2. 古代の伝統と現代の民間伝承​

2.1. ネイティブアメリカンの神話と聖地​

2.2. スペイン統治時代の記録と文化的融合​

2.3. 地域の超常現象と伝承​

3. 動物の異常死現象（家畜ミュティレーション）の分析​

3.1. スニッピー事件（1967年）：すべての始まり​

3.2. 現象の概要と特徴​

3.3. オブライエンの仮説：地球外仮説への反論​

4. 政府の関与と地下基地の可能性​

4.1. 軍事活動と未確認飛行物体​

4.2. 地下施設のネットワーク​

5. UFO学への提言と結論​

5.1. 地球外仮説（ETH）の限界​

5.2. 創造的思考と分野横断的アプローチの必要性​

5.3. 結論：閉鎖系としての地球​

クリス・オブライエン講演録：サンルイス・バレーの謎ーエグゼクティブ・サマリー​

1. 序論：超常現象のホットスポットとしてのサンルイス・バレー​

2. 谷の特異な環境：地球物理学と神聖地理学​

2.1. 地球物理学的異常​

2.2. 先住民の神聖な伝統​

3. 文化のるつぼ：歴史、民間伝承、そして現代の現象​

3.1. 歴史的先例と信仰​

3.2. 地域の伝説と存在​

4. 未解決の謎：動物の異常死​

4.1. 「スニッピー事件」：転換点​

4.2. 特徴と対立する仮説​

5. 影の存在：政府と軍の関与疑惑​

5.1. ラ・ビタ軍事作戦区域と先進航空機​

5.2. 地下施設​

6. オブライエン氏の結論：新たなパラダイムへの呼びかけ​

中心テーマ : サンルイス・ヴァレー​

1. UFO活動とポータル現象​

2. 動物の異常死現象（家畜損傷）​

3. 地理的・文化的背景​

4. 政府の関与と地下基地の噂​

異常現象の主要テーマ​

1. UFO/航空現象（夜間のライトショーとポータル）​

2. 動物の異常死現象（家畜の実験）​

3. 未確認の生物現象（ビッグフットとスキンウォーカー）​

4. 地球物理学的・歴史的異常​

サンルイス・バレーにおける異常現象の相互関連性：クリス・オブライエンの講演に基づくテーマ別分析​

1.0 序論：謎に満ちた谷への招待​

2.0 「完璧なペトリ皿」としてのサンルイス・バレー：異常現象の温床​

3.0 神話の基盤：不可解さを読み解く古代の伝承​

4.0 怪異のスペクトル：民間伝承から現代の超常現象へ​

5.0 「動物の奇妙な死」の謎：法医学的・環境的視点からの分析​

6.0 空の監視者たち：UFO、軍事活動、そして地下基地の噂​

7.0 総合的結論：テーマの糸を紡ぐ​

高度な異常性 : 文化と伝統​

1. ネイティブアメリカンの古代の伝統と神話​

2. スペインの入植と伝統の融合​

3. 現代の異常現象の解釈​

著名な研究者​

1. 家畜異常死現象（Mutilation）に関する研究者​

2. UFOロジーとデータ収集の擁護者​

3. 地理的・政府の関与に関する理論家​

4. 懐疑的な評価の対象となった研究者​

理論と提言​

1. 異常現象（ハイ・ストレンジネス）の性質に関する理論​

A. 地球物理学的ポータル理論​

B. 地下基地とトンネルの理論​

2. 動物の異常死現象（家畜損傷）に関する理論と提言​

A. 実験としての解釈​

B. 政府・生物兵器実験仮説​

3. UFOロジーと調査方法に関する提言​

情報源​

文字起こし​

前置き

要旨

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