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CRITICAL GORILLA Runs Deeper Than the Surface

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Critical Gorilla runs because standing still has become suspicious. He comes pounding down the trail like some forgotten evolutionary branch discovered hydration packs, psychedelia, and an unhealthy interest in unanswered questions. Sunglasses reflect a landscape that may or may not exist. Behind him, mountains burn electric magenta. A UFO quietly abducts somebody from a distant peak. Nobody stops running. This is not exercise. This is field research. The trail begins near civilization—Hollywood lurks ridiculously in the distance—but quickly abandons conventional geography. Mushrooms become enormous. A frog appears to know considerably more than it should. A skull beside the trail offers practical advice: BE CURIOUS. STAY WEIRD. Critical Gorilla keeps moving. His shirt supplies the operating instructions: QUESTION. EXPLORE. REPEAT. That's the philosophy of the entire image. The trail isn't leading toward an answer. Every discovery creates another intersecti...

A 1926 FILM FROM THE MAN WHO MADE HÄXAN SURVIVED WHEN MOST OF HIS AMERICAN MOVIES DIDN’T

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The Los Angeles Silent Film Festival screened The Devil’s Circus last night at the Los Feliz 3 with a live score. That title becomes considerably more interesting when you notice the director: Benjamin Christensen. The Danish filmmaker had already made the astonishing 1922 witchcraft/documentary/horror hybrid Häxan before Hollywood brought him to America. The Devil’s Circus, released by MGM in 1926 and starring Norma Shearer, was Christensen's first American feature. It is also one of only four of his seven U.S. films known to survive. � Screenline Films +1 The movie concerns a young trapeze performer, a pickpocket and a lurid circus world—exactly the kind of melodrama silent cinema could turn into nightmare architecture. Last night's presentation paired it with the 1920 short Cinderella Cinders and included live musical accompaniment. � Screenline Films +1 Documented: director, survival status, screening and festival. Interpretation: Christensen's American work...

200,000 UFO REPORTS — AND THE GOVERNMENT STILL DOESN’T WANT YOURS

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The most interesting UAP development of the past 24 hours isn’t another blurry Pentagon blob. It’s a number: 200,000. VERIFIED: On September 7, the National UFO Reporting Center announced that it logged its 200,000th UFO/UAP report in August, marking a milestone in the organization’s 52-year history. NUFORC says its archive now spans every U.S. state and most countries, and that nearly 2,000 reports submitted during the last four years qualify for its highest-interest “Tier 1” category. � NUFORC +1 The announcement began circulating through Reddit’s UFO community this morning, where NUFORC framed its archive as “disclosure built from the bottom up.” � Reddit That phrase becomes considerably more interesting when placed beside Washington. VERIFIED: AARO currently accepts UAP-program information from government employees, military personnel and contractors. Military sightings follow official reporting channels; civilian pilots can report through air-traffic control. But AARO’...

THE MOST IMPORTANT THING A UFO WITNESS CAN SAY MAY BE: “I DON’T KNOW.”

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Tonight Alex Dietrich returns to one of modern ufology’s most famous mysteries: the Tic Tac. Dietrich was one of four Navy aircrew involved in the November 14, 2004 encounter associated with the USS Nimitz Carrier Strike Group. She and David Fravor described seeing a small, white, wingless object maneuvering above disturbed ocean water after their aircraft were redirected toward an unidentified contact. Twenty-two years later, Dietrich still says she doesn't know what it was. That may be the most valuable part of her testimony. No interdimensional species chart. No imminent disclosure date. No $799 consciousness seminar. Just: I saw something. I don't know what it was. Her new interview adds another important wrinkle. Dietrich says her aircrew did not know that operators aboard USS Princeton had reportedly detected unusual radar returns beforehand. She says she learned about those reports years later during Pentagon debriefings. That shifts the investigati...

THE VICE PRESIDENT THINKS THE UFO MAY HAVE HORNS

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  The fastest-growing UAP story in the current cycle is not a Pentagon video, MUFON sighting or congressional subpoena. It is Vice President JD Vance revisiting his theory that UFOs might be demons. VERIFIED: In a newly circulating interview with Christian podcaster Bryce Crawford, Vance returned to comments he first made in March, when he told Benny Johnson that he did not think UFOs were aliens but “demons.” This time Vance added an important qualifier: he possesses no classified file establishing that explanation. He framed it instead as a theological possibility—if extraterrestrial intelligence is conceivable, he asked, why dismiss angels or demons automatically? The timing is interesting. Vance made the new remarks while promoting Communion , his book about Catholic faith, and during a broader interview involving the Antichrist, providence, AI and spiritual darkness. Meanwhile, there has been no comparable new evidentiary bombshell from AARO or the Pentagon over the last ...

SANDRA BULLOCK SAW FIVE UFOs — RIGHT BEFORE A MOVIE CALLED PRACTICAL MAGIC 2

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The fastest-growing UFO/UAP story in the last 24 hours is not coming from AARO, Congress, MUFON or a retired intelligence officer. It is coming from Sandra Bullock. VERIFIED: Bullock said on Kylie Kelce’s Not Gonna Lie podcast that while filming in Saint Martin years ago, she and others watched five lights move through the sky, converge, stop and then rapidly depart. She said she initially thought one was a satellite and acknowledged that the group had been drinking beer. She also said later U.S. government UAP disclosures made her feel “vindicated” because pilots had reported formations she believed resembled what she saw. � EW.com +1 Bullock went farther and said she believes extraterrestrials may already be here, perhaps watching humanity invisibly. That is her opinion—not verified evidence. � 2oceansvibe +1 Meanwhile, AARO has issued no comparable new bombshell in the past day. Its public imagery catalog still contains a mixture of unresolved cases, balloons, migratory ...

CRITICAL GORILLA — THE FILTER WAS THE TRIP

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  Creative rationale: Today’s standout psychedelic story is a striking mescaline finding: researchers report that mescaline, LSD and psilocybin can produce substantially different brain-wide patterns yet converge on unusual connectivity involving the cerebellum , raising the possibility that altered sensory filtering—not simply their shared serotonin receptor—is central to the psychedelic experience. The work was conducted in awake rats, so the hypothesis remains provocative rather than settled.