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Joshua P. Warren
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Joshua's Bio
Born in Asheville, North Carolina, Joshua P. Warren has lived in the Blue Ridge Mountains his entire life. His ancestors arrived in the area in the 1600s.

At the age of 13, he wrote his first published book. Since then, he has had eight more books published, including the regional best-seller, Haunted Asheville, and How to Hunt Ghosts  (released by Simon and Schuster), and is the president of his multimedia productions company, Shadowbox Enterprises, LLC. His articles have been published internationally, and he has been covered by such mainstream periodicals as  Southern Living, Delta Sky, FATE, New Woman, The New York Times, FHM  and  Something About the Author ; and made the cover of the science journal,  Electric Space Craft . A winner of the University of North Carolina Thomas Wolfe Award for Fiction, he wrote columns for the Asheville Citizen-Times from 1992 to 1995. His novel,  The Evil in Asheville , was released in 2000.

An internationally-recognized expert on paranormal research, Warren was hired by the famous Grove Park Inn Resort to be the first person to officially investigate the Pink Lady apparition in 1995 (the same year he founded L.E.M.U.R. paranormal investigations, of which he is president). Warren also led the expedition that captured the first known footage of the elusive Brown Mountain Lights, eventually resulting in scientific breakthroughs, via experiments Warren led in the lab, that help explain most of the lights and many mysterious, natural plasmas (such as ball lightning) that occur around the world. He also led a formal paranormal investigation of the North Carolina capitol building, personally authorized by Governor Michael Easley, and the first official investigation of the infamous Old City Jail in Charleston, South Carolina.  

His work has been praised by the Rhine Research Center, The North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching (or NCCAT, for which he gives annual presentations) and numerous scholars such as  New York Times  best-selling author Dr. William R. Forstchen, Dr. William Roll, Dr. Andrew Nichols, and legendary researchers such as NASA engineer Charles A. Yost, Oak Ridge National Laboratory engineer David Hackett, and authors/researchers Loren Coleman and Patrick Huyghe.

Warren has appeared on the History Channel, Discovery Channel, Travel Channel, TLC, and numerous networks and/or affiliates of NPR, CNN, ABC, NBC, and CBS. He is frequently asked to be a guest on radio shows around the world, especially  Coast to Coast AM  with George Noory/Art Bell. Warren is also an international award-winning filmmaker (including Hollywood.com's Top Underground Filmmaker of 1998), having worked on many sets, such as Warner Brother's  My Fellow Americans , Universal's  Patch Adams ,  Paradise Falls, Inbred Rednecks, Songcatcher , and  Sinkhole . He also co-produced/directed the talk radio documentary  Talking Tall.
As a radio host, Warren primarily discusses politics as a Guest Host on  Take A Stand with Matt Mittan , the #1 talk show in the region. And since January, 2005, he has hosted his own weekly paranormal program, Speaking of Strange , airing Saturday nights on News Radio 570 WWNC. It's rated no. 1 in the region Saturday nights, reaching numerous states and streaming live worldwide on the internet.
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The Current UFO Flap
Saturday 03-10-2007 1:43pm ET
by Joshua P. Warren

March 10, 2007


It's inescapable--we're in the midst of a weird flap right now. Though UFO reports circulate the world every day, I can't remember getting so many emails each week. Even stranger is that just before it all started, November of 2006, several friends and colleagues mentioned having an unusual feeling that "something" outstanding was about to happen in the UFO world. It seems some people are more sensitive to whatever forces accompany those brilliant lights in the sky. Though it's easier to spot illuminated anomalies at night, plenty are seen in the day, as well. Though I've mentioned it many times on the air, here's my opinion of what may be happening right now.


In 1993, the U.S. Air Force, Navy, and University of Alaska began a project called HAARP (the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Project). It basically consists of an Alaskan field packed with a grid of broadcasting antennas. These antennas produce an enormous amount of energy. A huge radio station pumps around 100,000 watts. Imagine putting 100 of those together, and focusing all the energy on a spot a few inches in diameter. HAARP is apparently capable of doing this (and more), pinpointing sections of the earth's ionosphere. Why? There are lots of reasons. The official literature is vague, but the government states they are "studying the properties and behavior of the ionosphere, with particular emphasis on being able to understand and use it to enhance communications and surveillance systems for both civilian and defense purposes."


To see the array, you can visit the official government HAARP site: http://www.HAARP.alaska.edu


The awesome weapons potential is clear. Imagine the earth as a big battery. The ground is negative and the ionosphere (sort of force field around it) is positive. If you short-circuit the system temporarily, by piling too much charge on one terminal, unimaginable bolts of electricity will join the two, probably capable of vaporizing entire cities in-between. Jerry E. Smith writes about such weaponization of the environment in his books like Weather Warfare and HAARP: The Ultimate Weapon of the Conspiracy. Regardless of such sensational scenarios, manipulation of weather is almost inescapable when playing around with the earth's electric field. After all, variations of only a few degrees can have immense global repercussions. Katrina devastated the American south in 2005. In 2006, HAARP was finally completed.


In 2006, most experts predicted a terrible hurricane season. However, everyone was surprised. Not only was the hurricane season mild, but other U.S. weather patterns were unexpected. Snows in New Mexico and California were unusual. More snow than usual fell on places like Colorado. And weather in parts of the American southeast was so poorly predicted that forecasts became even more useless. Yet simultaneously, strange lights began to appear in the skies.


The official start of the new UFO flap may have been the daylight saucer seen over the O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, November 2006. But afterward, the sighting intensity aligned from the northwest down through the southeast--prominently over North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. In those areas, green lights were seen zipping through the night sky, especially on Wednesday, January 24, 2007. The 24th sightings made national news (such as Fox & Friends) and garnered major coverage in The Charlotte Observer. While most people were joking about "little green men," I was recalling a HAARP experiment done, with results publicly released, on March 10, 2005 (I just realized that was exactly two years ago to this day). They created green speckles in the night sky. You can find the official report, with pics, on the Live Science site: click HERE.


Furthermore, the Feb. 22-28 edition of The Weaverville Tribune (North Carolina, Vol. 5, No. 8) had a front page photo of more "mysterious lights" over Western North Carolina. I immediately identified them as appearing like the Northern Lights, or aurora borealis. Once in a blue moon, aspects of the Northern Lights drop low enough to be seen in North Carolina as vertical, reddish-purple streaks in the sky. As a lifelong resident of Asheville, I've only seen it twice, and most residents have never seen it. Though I know this happens naturally sometimes, I was intrigued to see it occurring now, in the midst of these other anomalies.


So let's put all this in order based on my conspiratorial mindset:


1) Terrible hurricane hits U.S. in 2005


2) HAARP is completed in 2006, according to expert Jerry E. Smith


3) 2006 is predicted to be a bad hurricane season, but is actually very mild


4) If HAARP was attempting to diffuse the 2006 hurricane season, the system would presumably broadcast from Alaska, southeast across the U.S., and right through the skies of TN, NC, SC, GA, toward spots in the Atlantic where storms are spawned.


5) We know HAARP can produce green lights in the sky, and green lights are seen shooting across the sky in this pathway


6) The Northern Lights are an attribute of the earth's electrical field, and they also make a rare appearance in the area where green lights have recently been seen


I don't mean to suggest that all the extraordinary lights have been the product of HAARP. Some are described as physical craft, and may be ETs coming here to check out the HAARP activity. And the Chinese shot a satellite from orbit in early January of 2007, so some may have seen falling debris. But most of these reports detail abstract, green or greenish-blue blobs in the sky, usually shooting across like a meteor. Some may say we're simply seeing an increase in meteors. But green?


Whatever's happening, I suspect there's more to come. For the latest, stay tuned to Speaking of Strange Saturday nights. And be sure to sign up for our free, and spam-free, e-newsletter for personal emails from me once in a while. You can do that, and find breaking weird news, at: http://www.SpeakingOfStrange.com


To read more about recent UFO sightings, or report your own, see: http://www.UFOcenter.com


* Read the official report about our 2007 investigation of the haunted dungeon and jail in Charleston, South Carolina! Click HERE.