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Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Kentucky in Space


It was almost exactly one year ago when I wrote about KySat-1, a picosatellite that marks a major entry for Kentucky into the Aerospace industry. Although I thought it was supposed to have launched back in November, apparently it has not yet - the launch is now slated for February.

I just stumbled upon this new YouTube video from the folks at Kentucky Space giving us the lowdown on what's going on and going up. Pretty exciting stuff. You can also follow Kentucky Space on Twitter.

KySat-1 will be equipped with a camera and a 2.4-GHz industrial/scientific/medical band radio, which will be used to test high-bandwidth communications in the license-free portion of the S-band.

Also spotted on YouTube: this video of the sunrise over Morehead State University's amazing 21 meter radio telescope.

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Lizards for Liquor


From News of the Weird:

In Morehead, Ky., in December, two men, ages 44 and 18, were charged with theft for allegedly swiping an 18-inch-long bearded dragon lizard from the Eagles Landing Pet Hospital and trying, in two beverage stores, to exchange it for liquor.


The full story, found on WHAS-TV, gets even kookier: they also took it a gun shop and tried unsuccessfully to pawn it.

Stupider still, when they entered the pet hospital to steal the lizard, they signed in at the front desk with real name, address, and phone number.

Monday, January 12, 2009

Weird Artists: J. Todd Dockery



J. Todd Dockery is a rural artist from Gray Hawk, KY, best known for his intensely crosshatched pen and ink drawings and comics. His work has shown at the Kentucky Museum of Arts + Design, the Deatrick Gallery in Louisville, and the Walker Gallery in England. His sketchily surreal creations recall the obsessive and wiggly line work
of underground greats like Basil Wolverton, Joe Coleman, and Robert Crumb.


Born and raised in the woods of Jackson County, Dockery remains rooted to his native soil, straying sometimes to outlying areas like Lexington, Morehead and Conway but never far from the ground zero that is his ancestral home. He's one of the most genuine Southern-eccentric personalities Kentucky has to offer.

Although beset with sometimes-agonizing arthritis, Dockery manages to ignore the pain without the use of major pain relievers - and not only continues the intensive work on his drawings but also plays drums in a number of local garage-punk bands, most notably The Smacks!, Mickey and the Wild Bunch, Kitty Twister and her Hot Dogs and Cheeseburger and Fries, a street-busking duo with yours truly on guitar and he on drums, percussion, kazoo and harmonica.

Monday, June 16, 2008

Drone UFO near Morehead?


The newest craze among UFO buffs is the concept of the "Drone UFO", a very specific type of alleged spacecraft that's supposedly being sighted with increasing regularity. Now Kentucky may have its own Drone sighting, and captured on video to boot.

On August 28, 2007, Jeromy Staggs of Wallingford, KY was filming the lunar eclipse and ended up accidentally capturing some sort of man-made object hovering in front of the partially obscured moon. He took the videotape to the Morehead Space Science Center and the professors there were intrigued. Click here for details, and click here to see Staggs' video on YouTube.

Thursday, May 1, 2008

Kentucky Contactees

It's difficult to assess the impact of the alien abduction phenomena in any given area because people are so reticent to talk about their experiences. I've met with many people who are absolutely convinced they have been abducted by aliens, but are unwilling to tell their whole story, much less submit to hypnosis, testing, etc. They seek no fame or glory or attention, and are in fact often too embarrassed by it to go into much detail. Therefore, they don't turn up in the casefiles of most online armchair UFO enthusiasts. But they are indeed out there.

Abduction counselor Donald Worley writes of his encounters with abductees from Kentucky and Indiana who display a demonstrable ability to disrupt "electron flows" in any given electronic devices nearby. Driving or walking under street lights may cause them to go on or off. Radios, computers, all manner of electronic equipment can be affected by whatever is happening to these people. The energy coming from these abductees, Worley says, is undetectable yet obviously causing an effect, and seems to be intermittent.

An organization called SOAAR, (Southern Ohio Alien Abduction Research) also deals with cases from nearby Kentucky, which they publish on their website. One such case, "Mark" (name changed), tells of alien encounters throughout his life, from a childhood UFO encounter in Nicholasville to visitations in his dorm room in Morehead, to a visitation with missing time somewhere between Lexington and Mt. Sterling. Another SOAAR casefile, Louisville subject "Danny" (also not his real name), underwent regressive hypnosis to recall his abduction experiences in which he and his mother are captured by aliens in a triangular craft, stripped naked, and held prisoner together in a strange room aboard the vessel.