Three events involving Dr. Julie Beischel and Mark Boccuzzi are scheduled to take place over the next few weeks. If you aren’t familiar with the two, Beischel and Boccuzzi are married researchers who manage to juggle home life between individual and joint research projects, conferences and interviews.

The pair met in 2005 at the Summer Study Program in Parapsychology, presented by the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) and the Rhine Research Center. They were paired together in a controlled experiment where Boccuzzi was assigned to send telepathic messages to Beischel. She picked up on those messages. They were married in 2008.

Due to their unusual meeting and their passion for the paranormal, they are often referred to as “soul mates”.

They both work in paranormal research, on both separate and common research projects. Boccuzzi’s research interests include survival of consciousness, intuition, applied psychokinesis, and distant mental interactions on living systems (DMILS). Dr. Beischel was the first recipient of the William James Post-doctoral Fellowship in Mediumship and Survival Research at the University of Arizona, where she served as Co-Director of the VERITAS Research Program.

When the VERITAS project closed in 2007, Boccuzzi and Beichel co-founded The Windbridge Institute for Applied Research in Human Potential.

“The Windbridge Institute for Applied Research in Human Potential is concerned with asking, “What can we do with the potential that exists within our bodies, minds, and spirits?” Can we heal each other? Ourselves? Can we affect events and physical reality with our thoughts? Can we know things before they happen? Are we connected to each other? To the planet? Can we communicate with our loved ones who have passed?”

The two will be separately featured on upcoming internet radio spots, with Beischel talking about mediums (today) and Boccuzzi will focus on ghosts (two weeks from today). Additionally, both will participate in a conference designed for the general public in Fort Myers, Florida.  If you can catch any or all, it will be well worth the time for paranormal investigators and enthusiasts alike.

Details below:

Julie Beischel, PhD, The Windbridge Institute

Dr. Julie Beischel

on Signs of Life Radio

Radio Show Topic – Mediums: “Many people do not realize the fact that well-credentialed scientists have been doing research with mediums for more than a century. After all, how does one study a medium in a laboratory? Dr. Julie Beischel, co-founder of The Windbridge Institute, will tell us the methods by which mediumship is investigated and what the results mean to the substantiation of an afterlife.”

When: 10/14.10 (Tonight), 4:00 pm PT/ 7:00 pm ET

Where: BBS Radio, Online

About Julie: Julie Beischel, PhD, Co-Founder and Director of Research at Windbridge, received her doctorate in Pharmacology and Toxicology with a minor in Microbiology and Immunology from the University of Arizona in 2003. [Read more about Julie.]

Mark Boccuzzi, The Windbridge Institute

Mark Boccuzzi

on Signs of Life Radio

Radio Show Topic – Ghost Phenomena: “Mark Boccuzzi, co-founder of the Windbridge Institute, will discuss present day research of the paranormal. Also an expert in field investigations, Mark will take us through the process of identifying and recording ghost phenomena. He will also be talking about the mind’s affect on matter, a well as the power of intention.”

When: October 28, 2010,  4:00 pm PT/ 7:00 pm ET

Where: BBS Radio, Online

About Mark: Mark Boccuzzi, Co-Founder of Windbridge, holds a BS in computer science with a minor in broadcast communications. Mark spent six years in survival of consciousness research investigating spontaneous cases of apparitions and related haunting phenomena in the San Francisco Bay Area. [Read more about Mark.]

Upcoming Conference in Fort Meyers, FL:

Forever Family Foundation (FFF) Annual Conference

Is There An Afterlife?
An Exploration of The Unseen World
November 12-14, 2010
Fort Myers, Florida, USA
http://www.foreverfamilyfoundation.org

Windbridge researchers Julie Beischel and Mark Boccuzzi as well as Windbridge Certified Research mediums Joanne Gerber, Doreen Molloy, and Debra Martin will be participating in FFF’s fourth annual conference designed for the general public.

Other presenters include physicist Claude Swanson; Monroe Institute Director Paul Rademacher; and mediums Janet Mayer and Suzane Northrop.

Scientists and researchers will be joined by certified mediums who will give demonstrations of Spirit Communication and share their insights gleaned from another dimension. Attendees will have the opportunity to join in an interactive workshop that seeks to provide access to other realms of consciousness.

To register or for more information about conference schedules,presenters, pricing, hotel, etc., call (631)425-7707 (US) or click here.

On the night of September 23rd, residents of Tucson saw strange lights in the sky. Various eyewitnesses reported 3 -5 lights in a line, while others reported an object with a triangular shape.

Reports of malfunctions started at the same time as the object flew overhead in a northwesterly path. Reports of interrupted satellite television transmissions were reported as the object flew over homes. Traffic lights were seen flickering at an intersection near Star Pass Blvd as the object passed overhead. A report of an elevator malfunction was reported.

All just a coincidence? Maybe.

One eyewitness tried to document the object on video camera, only to realize that his batteries were dead.

Calls began to flood the newsroom about the strange sight, which witnesses insist was not a plane. This is a city that sees planes and helicopters so many times a day that the residents are immune to them, barring the noise they make. The Tucson airspace is shared between the busy Tucson International Airport and the active Davis-Monthan Air Force Base. Law enforcement takes to the air, as well as medical personnel on life saving flights to and from local hospitals. Tucson residents are all too familiar with the sight of planes, helicopters and military flares.

News anchor Dan Marries was quick to begin collecting eyewitness accounts. He used Twitter to spread the news, as well as his Facebook page and the KOLD Facebook page, to document real-time eyewitness accounts. Calls about the object kept pouring in to the newsroom at the same time. KOLD staffers began to call everyone from Davis-Monthan to the Department of Public Safety to get answers, which no one seemed to have.

At the same time, Tucsonan Sheila Martin was immune to the news of the UFO, as she sat outside of her apartment to document any objects in the night sky. This is a long-time nightly hobby for Martin, who knows what planes, helicopters and flares look like, as well.

By 10:00 pm, Dan Marries and meteorologist “Chief” Chuck George discussed the incident, which Chief Chuck said was not a weather anomaly.

With the exception of Sheila Martin’s video, no other videos have publicly surfaced at this time to document the object witnessed by so many. Martin’s video of the night sky indicates an object, which many eyewitnesses say does not match what they saw. However, some of the witnesses looked beyond the object. They noticed an orange light or two in the background that do seem to match.

It should be noted that Martin did not submit the video to local news agencies. Instead, the link was taken from her YouTube page, as the time of her video was shot matched the time of the event.

A photo circulating around the UFO community as the UFO should be discounted. While checking on the original photo on a local woman’s Facebook page, it was noted in the comment section that the photo uploaded on September 23rd was a shot of the moon. Only later was there a light-hearted note in the comment section that the photo was taken on the same night of the Tucson UFO sighting. Somehow, the photo began to circulate as a photo of the UFO.

Ironically, the event occurred a week after posting my helpful article about what to do if you see a UFO. My readership is largely non-Tucson based.

With a lack of submitted photo and video evidence at this time, there are only the eyewitness accounts to go on. There are many full eyewitness accounts, which have been pieced together on my computer to create a detailed time line of events.

I have, for now, pieced together a brief synopsis of the evening’s events, as new accounts are still coming in:

The object was spotted early in the evening, with the earliest eyewitness account coming from the Green Valley area. If others saw it south of there, they haven’t come forward yet. It was seen in southwest Tucson with most of the reports coming from that region (Pima College West, Starr Pass, the intersection of Ajo and Kinney), before it continued north toward rural Marana.  Accounts varied between either a line of 3 to 8 lights, or triangular-shaped craft, depending on the vantage point and proximity. By the time it reached rural Marana, there were reports of military planes in the vicinity of the lights, as if the military were involved an exercise, or perhaps they were investigating the lights. The military has not verified these accounts and also denied flights in the area. The air traffic eventually cleared from the area with two military helicopters circling the lights in the sky.

Perhaps a military exercise is all that it was.

It should be noted, at this point, that not one eyewitness has made the correlation between the object and extraterrestrials. A UFO is a flying object that is viewed by a witness or witnesses, who cannot positively identify the object as something like a plane, kite, flare, planet, helicopter, etc.

Witnesses stated that it was not identifiable as any of those things. If it was one of those things, no one has come forward yet with proof that it was one of those things. It is a UFO until it can be identified as something concrete.

It’s probably one of those things that will remain a mystery.

Did you see the object in the sky on the evening of September 23rd? Comment below, email me, or make a detailed report with any evidence to MUFON.

The Tucson Psychic Fair is coming this Sunday, September 26th from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm, at the centrally-located Four Points Sheraton.

The fair features respected psychics, healers and metaphysicians with a $5.00 admission to the fair. The low admission fee allows the fair organizers to off-set costs, in order to continue to bring the monthly event to Tucson. Psychic readings are offered at a separate cost, with prices set by individual readers. Credit cards ARE accepted.

Ghost Lecture

The fair also offers free lectures. A particularly interesting lecture is scheduled to take place at 2:00 pm on Sunday. The lecture, presented by Nancy Matz, is called “Are you living with a ghost?”. Matz will explain the differences between ghosts, spirits, poltergeists and elementals. The lecture will interest ghost enthusiasts, as well as those who are unsure if they are living with a ghost.

LIVE Radio Broadcast, The JOLT

A special treat at the fair will be a special remote radio broadcast by 1330 AM The JOLT, hosted by Tucson favorite Heather Woodward. Heather is the host of a weekly radio show called “The Psychic Connection” that explores psychic development, astrology, witchcraft and all things supernatural. Her radio show airs each Friday from 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm (PST), which is also available as streaming live Internet radio, for listeners outside of Tucson.

Woodward is also a well-known clairvoyant, psychometrist, paranormal investigator, and author. Her book, “Ghosts of Central Arizona“, was released earlier this year. It is a book that not only details some of the most haunted locales of the region, but it also includes a couple of educational chapters for amateur ghost hunters.

Location

Four Points Sheraton University Plaza, 1900 East Speedway Blvd., Tucson, AZ 85719. The monthly event is held in the conference center behind the main hotel. There is plenty of free parking. Doors open at 10:00 am this Sunday, September 26, 2010.