Okay so family and aliens don’t really go together.  Except that my family probably think I am an alien.   This journey has been more about family connections then anything else.  I had my time between events and visits to put my feet in the sand and listen to the ocean waves.  Then headed to visit my parents for a few days.  It was a nice visit.  I enjoyed my time there in the Portland area.

I left on a Thursday morning and headed to the ECETI Ranch at the foot of Mt. Adams in Washington State.  It is a beautiful ranch where I had the opportunity to camp, connect with others, visit the labyrinth and the medicine wheel and sky gaze in the evening.

Although we were at the tail end of a meteor shower and saw a few meteors, we were actually looking for UFO activity.  James Gilliland, who owns the ranch, has had many sightings at the ranch and has some stories to tell.  Curious seekers come to see if they are lucky enough to get a glimpse of something “out of this world.”

We are never disappointed as there is always something interesting going on.  I visited ten years ago and learned about what to look for in the sky.  I’ve been seeing unusual activity ever since.  What was really mind blowing was to see the orbs in real time, through infra red goggles.  Orbs are these round bubble like energies that are thought by many to be “beings.”  They often show up in photographs and tend to show up more when there is music, or some kind of spiritual ceremony.  You can’t see them with the naked eye, but can see them in the photographs and sometimes in videos.

I was writing a new song a couple years ago and wanted to record it so I could remember it.  I set up my video camera on my phone, because the sound was best this way.  I had the camera pointing out into the room and when I played it back, there were several colored orbs dancing around the room.  they always make me laugh.  They are such a playful, beautiful energy.

I believe our Universe is way to big to think we are the only one’s here.  And we can’t begin to understand the world that is beyond our comprehension.  We learn to see things a certain way, and we can be very attached to our beliefs.  I’ve seen so much in my life, I am open minded.  Anything is possible.

One thing we saw the first evening I was at the ranch was a flash of colored light in front of the mountain.  It was almost electrical, but not any kind of storm.  It was a clear night and there was just a big flash of light in the sky, that had blue, green and pink hues.  We all gasped when we saw it and found it quite exciting.  We saw some flashes in the sky as well.  Very high up, above where a plane would fly.  We also would see something flying along and then flash very bright and sometimes disappear altogether.

There were flashes of light on the side of Mt. Adams that were going on both nights I was there.  James explained that there is no trail on this side of the mountain.  It is a solid rock wall that could not be climbed or hiked.  People hike up one side of the Mountain but James also explained that the likely hood of seeing someone’s head-lamp from 14 miles away at the brightness we were seeing was slim to none.  He had tested it with friends.

James had his explanation for what we were seeing and he believed it was ship activity.  Many people who were watching wanted a more “human” explanation.  James knew where the satellites and space stations were and when they tended to come by.  He even pointed them out.  “That’s a satellite,” he would say, or “that’s the space station.”  Then he would point his laser at the sky and say “this is a ship.”  We all looked up and watched the unusual activity in the sky as if we were star gazing.  It was fun and interesting, but nothing landed in the field and nothing came to take me away.

After two days at the ranch I headed out and checked in with myself to see where I was going next.  I felt it was time to go home.  The tenant renting my house and taking care of it while I was gone, moved out because she was having some issues, so my house was left empty and the yard unattended to.  I decided it was time to make the long journey back to Arizona.

The next two days were wheels rolling on hot pavement, music blaring on my speakers and mind zoning out.  Everywhere I went was hot.  Driving through Idaho the temperatures were nearing 100 degrees and it remained pretty hot all the way home.  Normally the trek from the Southwest to the Northwest is two and a half days.  This time I did the journey in two days.  It was too hot to stop anywhere.  I slept a bit at a rest stop and a bit parked at a city park in Nephi, Utah.  The temperatures dropped into the seventies in the evening and rapidly climbed back up in the morning.

I pulled into my driveway early Sunday evening and even though it was 99 degrees when I arrived home, I was happy to be there.  I pulled all my necessities out of the van and settle into my place.  It felt good to stretch out, giving the mini-van a break.  As much as I love the van, I’m thinking eventually I will get something I can stand up in.

Towards the end of the month, I may take another journey to Colorado.  But for now I am settling in and getting some work done.

Sightings at ECETI Ranch