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A Deeper Shade Of Black by Katharina Wilson
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Introduction to Linda Murphy Linda decided to share her abduction encounter experiences with me after reading my latest book. She, like many abductees who have written to me over the years, was relieved to know that she was not alone in remembering what I call the 'less-reported' alien beings as well as seeing what appear to be humans wearing military uniforms during some of her abduction experiences. In early February of 2008 Linda sent me part of her journal, which I found fascinating to read. I immediately realized that Linda was excellent at describing and illustrating what she remembered during her abduction experiences. Linda has been married for 25 years and is currently working on her Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering (Systems Engineering). Previously, Linda spent several years training volunteers to become MUFON investigators and remains active in the overall field of Ufology. Like a lot of abductees I've met over the last two decades, Linda has several pets in her family and has a great appreciation and sensitivity toward all animals and nature. In our communications with one another, Linda strikes me as a very intelligent, aware, sensitive and honest person. After reading Linda's journal I was inspired to write this article, which is based on one of her experiences that appears to have been a military abduction or MILAB. Linda appears to have remembered and illustrated one of the most detailed uniform patches I have ever come across from any abductee. I wanted to believe that these military men she recalled from this experience were really aliens or alien-human hybrids and that this was all simply a screen memory, but my research led me to another conclusion. The following is Linda's account from her journal of an abduction experience she had in 1995: "I was being escorted through a large room by a person I can't see who is next to me. This large room is filled with tables or desks and men in military uniforms. They are all wearing khaki uniforms and there are two men to a table. They are all facing the same direction in the room seated at their tables. As I am walking through this room with this other person I can't see, not one of these men looks at me. They don't even glance in my direction."
"I am
walking down the center of the room. There are tables on both sides
of me. I don't see any windows in the room anywhere. The walls have
vertical lines. I can't say what the material is." "I get the sense that they were told not to look at me since no one in this large room is even giving me a glance. The room has a sense of seriousness in it. I don't know what these guys are doing or what they are working on. I drew one table with two guys I remember seeing on my right as I was walking by. The one man had glasses on. I do remember that. They all wore arm patches."
"I remember
the arm patch they wore. Something happened after I was escorted
through the room and I remember being around several men in khaki
uniforms, which had this patch. They were doing something, but I
can't remember what. I remember seeing movement, but nothing in
detail. I do remember seeing this patch very close up to my face." "I can't remember if anything was depicted within the circle itself. I didn't indicate color, but I remember the rope or braid part was gold in color. I do remember clearly that this rope didn't go all the way across the main circle in the patch. I thought that was odd. There were two rows of rope and the top rope didn't start at the same place as the other rope. I thought that was odd when I was looking at it. Maybe that helped me remember it. I can't remember the other colors. I didn't write them down at the time. I wish I did. I guess I thought no one would believe it so I didn't write anything more down about it." In the first paragraph of her journal entry, Linda describes terrestrial surroundings. She sees human men wearing khaki military uniforms. Still, it's possible these could be hybrids who look very human or just like us. She goes on to notice that ‘The walls have vertical lines…" but very telling is her following statement, "I can't say what the material is." Linda assumed she was seeing walls, but perhaps what she was really seeing was a fabric of some sort. These ‘walls' without windows appear to me to be partitions of some kind or possibly even vertical blinds. It's possible there were in fact windows in this room, but they were covered or blocked. You can even see the vertical lines in her drawing of the walls of the room. Her descriptions in this encounter are very terrestrial. However, having experienced the telepathic and 'screen memory' abilities of certain aliens, there was more I needed to discover about this event, and I believe the patch with the emblem on it is the key to who abducted Linda. Analyzing the Patch and Emblem My research required me to view over 1000 patches, emblems and medals related to the various branches of the military and government. I studied many of them over and over again to make sure I wasn't missing anything. I visited more Web sites than I can remember. I learned quickly that anyone can have a 'military' patch made to say or represent almost anything. I had to be certain that the patches and emblems I was viewing weren't just made up for fun or for 'morale boosting' for members of flight squadrons or other military groups. A break came when a Lister on Errol Bruce-Knapp's UFO Updates list e-mailed me and told me about The United States Army's Institute of Heraldry. After visiting the Web site, I realized that I had seen many of the patches and emblems before, but this was by far the most complete and clearest representation of military patches I had come across to date. After two months of searching, I was able to decipher most of the symbolism depicted in the patch that Linda saw in 1995 during her abduction encounter. The following is my analysis of the patch/emblem that Linda saw "very close up to [her] face." Shield The shape of a shield represents defense or being a defender, a champion or a guardian. Eagle The eagle represents the United States, strength, vigilance and tenacity. The most prominent colors for eagles when used on patches and emblems are golden, followed by yellow-brown, followed by brown, followed by white or no color, with various colors surrounding each depiction of an eagle. The wings of the Eagle (or sometimes a Crow or Hawk) represent an airborne mission; loftiness, ‘advantage of clear observation' or aviation in general. Globe-Sphere-Planet The circle, sphere or globe represents the world, including worldwide service as well as a ‘worldwide scope of a particular battalion's research activities.' Grid-lined spheres are somewhat common on patches and emblems and represent worldwide capabilities as well. I also found references to grid-lined spheres representing the orbital paths of our satellites. Linda did not say that she saw grid-lines on the middle or circular portion of the patch she saw, but I thought including this additional information might be of interest. During my research, I also found that the most popular color for the sphere is blue: oriental blue, teal blue or navy blue. The two patches below are military intelligence patches. The patch on the left shows the globe-sphere-planet in an oriental blue and the patch on the right shows it in a teal blue. 
 I found very few spheres or globes colored black, which represents nighttime and/or stealth operations. I also discovered that when the background of a patch is represented in black, this represents space, as in 'outer' space. Notice that the globe-sphere-planet is represented below in navy blue with grid-lines and the backgrounds on these two First Space Brigade patches are black.   Lightning Bolts If the two pointed areas or protrusions coming off of the globe or sphere in the middle of Linda's patch are lightning bolts, this generally represents electronic capabilities, often specified as electronic warfare capabilities. Lightning bolts also symbolize accuracy, readiness, and attack capabilities in general. If Linda's patch depicts lightning bolts, then we see that one is pointing upward and the other is pointing downward. I believe this may be interpreted to indicate that specialized electronic capabilities would extend from an airborne mission or object to the globe-sphere-planet as well as from the globe-sphere-planet upward, ostensibly to an airborne mission or object. Below are two examples of military intelligence patches depicting lightning bolts.   Delta Flight Symbol The delta flight symbol may be extracted from Linda's patch by removing the lightning bolts from the globe-sphere-planet and viewing them separately. If viewed this way, they become Delta symbols. The Delta flight symbol represents an association with space as well as ‘a mission to exploit space-based assets.' The triangular shape also suggests communication between satellites in space and with military and intelligence personnel on the planet. Note the gray (left) and red (right) Delta flight symbols in the patches below.
I
looked carefully at the circle with the two Delta shapes coming off
of Linda's globe-sphere-planet and tried to determine what this
might signify. I was unable to locate anything like this on any
patches or emblems during my search, but I was able to find a
portion of it during a symbol search. I found the following: This symbol represents "a sign for the sun and for gold in pre-Christian Greece. The sun and gold were also drawn in many other ways."
Gold Cord or Gold Chain I have not found a meaning for this yet. During my search I found that cords and chains are used as borders on patches and emblems and are defined as such and not elaborated on. However, I believe Linda's may represent much more since it is not used as a border. Linda clearly saw a doubled chain or cord draped on the right shoulder of the eagle and above the right side of the globe-sphere-planet. This is what actually helped her to remember the patch so well. She is also 100% certain that it was a golden color. During follow-up questioning, I asked Linda about the colors again, hoping she might have remembered more about this patch she saw. She stated: "I wish I could say with certainty what the colors where. I can't remember any of the other colors. I remember that patch being moved in front of me and I remember the shapes. The only color I can remember now is the gold cord…I know there were darker colors in the patch because the gold color stood out on the patch, so the background had to be darker. If I were to throw a color out there, I would say a dark blue somewhere in the background. I just can't be positive. If I were to talk in terms of hue, I would say the circle was lighter in color, the bolt or triangles were light to medium in color, a dark background, and the eagle, a medium color." Significance of Colors Certain colors are used in patches and emblems to represent specific military groups. A broad spectrum of colors are used in military patches and emblems so to keep this succinct I will focus on the colors I found to be associated most often with the designs that Linda saw on the patch. Oriental blue is used commonly when referring to a sphere, but what I found interesting was that the colors oriental blue and silver gray are traditionally used by military intelligence units. Black, when used to represent Earth, means the patch is associated with night and/or stealth operations. When used as a background, the color black represents operations in space or space itself. Lightning bolts are almost always depicted in yellow. I came across some that were red, white, black and gray while I was viewing psyops or psychological operations patches. In general, the meaning of these colors is as follows: White represents Truth, gray represents Half-truth and black represents Untruth. These colors also designate different types of propaganda.
Even without color added, it is clear to me that this patch and the emblem it depicts looks very terrestrial. Using the contrasts Linda described between the objects depicted in the patch and the most frequent colors I found depicting these particular objects during my search of over 1000 military and government related patches and emblems, I came up with the following possible color combinations:
Questions (1) What is the likelihood that ETs have birds on their planets? (2) If ETs have birds on their planets, would they revere and admire certain birds the same way humans revere birds such as the American Bald Eagle, and use them on emblems and patches? (3) If ETs do have birds on their planets, then why would the birds on their emblems be depicted the same way we depict our national symbol with the eagle looking to its right and usually with out-stretched wings? In my opinion, it is too 'coincidental' that some of the aliens who are here abducting humans have American Bald Eagles and other eagles on their planet and depict these birds on their uniform patches as well as positioning the birds in the same manner as humans do. Covert Operation Patches Would a covert operations organization even have a patch designating their group and its objectives? I think this is highly probable. Every detail on nearly every patch I viewed on The Institute of Heraldry's Web site had a specific meaning. Every color, every shape, every object and the placement of each of these on the patch have a special meaning: It is a complete language in and of itself. For a covert operation as controversial as abducting fellow human beings - alien abductees - a glance at a patch would speak volumes to those on the inside who speak the same language. You would not want members of a covert operation team to wear a particular military branch insignia or a name badge or rank insignia. A simple patch with the correct emblem or symbols on it could translate all of the information, at a glance, that the other members of the team would need to know. Therefore, it makes sense that they might design and use patches to designate a covert operation. How long this patch has been in use is another matter. We are all familiar with the reports of the 'circle-triangle' and the simple triangle seen on alien uniforms and capes, but remember, Linda saw this patch in 1995, over 10 years ago. And, as far as I know, no other abductee or researcher has gone public with such a detailed description of a military or extraterrestrial patch. I believe what Linda saw and illustrated is of great importance even if this patch is no longer in use today. I also believe that someone else out there - whether they be an abductee, abduction researcher or current or former covert ops personnel - has seen this patch. If you have, I urge you to contact me. Comfort Zone Conclusions Wouldn't it be nice and much more comfortable to assume that what Linda saw and experienced was nothing more than an alien screen memory? Many people, including some ufologists and abduction researchers, will feel more comfortable believing this was all an alien screen. I, however, reject this explanation. If this were an alien screen memory and these were aliens, why didn't they use a known military patch? That would have been much more convincing if they were trying to deceive Linda into thinking the military was abducting her. Also, when she saw the military personnel sitting at their desks, they could have deliberately shown her the soldiers' rank insignia to further the idea that these were humans and not aliens, but they did not do this. Military Abduction or MILAB I think it's quite possible that 'some' military group involved in a covert operation abducted Linda, and this is where things get really tricky. Linda does not remember the actual act of being abducted, but she does remember whose presence she was in. From what I've learned over the past two decades, for some of these military abductions to occur the way the abductee remembers them, one of two things has to be happening: They would either have to be using ‘borrowed’ alien technology or the military would have to be working with certain aliens, perhaps alien-human hybrids. Some of these beings have been described as looking very similar to humans, but they are not completely human. And, it is also quite possible that the military personnel Linda saw during this experience were under some sort of alien control, either telepathic or at the very least, a structured command control with the aliens in command.In other words, Linda may not have been abducted solely by military personnel, but by a joint command group that consists of human military and intelligence personnel as well as aliens or alien hybrids. The use of alien technology would aid in the actual physical abduction while the use of a terrestrial base would aid in having a location to take the abductee. For all we know, there may in fact be aliens working and living on 'super secret' military bases. Why else would security be the way it is at bases like Area 51, for example? The Chinese steal our technology without ever setting foot on our military bases. Think about it: What is the military and the government really hiding? Special Thanks I want to thank Linda for trusting me, for sharing her journal and illustrations with me and for answering my many questions about this and her other experiences. She is a very strong and courageous lady and I commend her for going public with what she knows. My thanks also goes to Randel Smith who was kind enough to inform me about The Institute of Heraldry where I was able to locate much of the information related to the significance of the military patches and emblems included in this article. http://www.tioh.hqda.pentagon.mil, http://www.atomicmuseum.com/store/ProductItem.cfm?Category=157 Check their Web site frequently since they are still in the process of scanning and updating pages referencing military and government related patches, emblems and medals. I look forward to continuing my research on Linda's patch/emblem. Please Contact Me if you have seen Linda's patch/emblem or have any meaningful information related to it. I will keep your name in confidence if you desire, and I will share your information with the public via this Web site with your permission and if the information can be validated. K_Wilson@alienjigsaw.com, Copyright 2008 Katharina Wilson ADDENDUM by Linda Murphy I have reviewed the emails Katharina forwarded to me regarding this article, and here are my thoughts on them: I don't think the bird was a phoenix, dove, raven, or anything like that. The bird had a very military feel to it like you see in some other military patches. I remember seeing the feathers in an upward formation. The idea of the 'ball with wings' was interesting and was not something I would have thought of. Maybe something to put into the 'gray basket'? It is an interesting idea that the circle and the bolts or triangles may be alien in nature. I guess it is good to keep that in mind. The fact that Katharina has been able to find these objects in many other patches with their meaning indicates the evidence is pointing more toward a military explanation, at least currently. As far as the meaning of the exact placement of the braid or rope, I don't know if I would attach too much significance to that. My main focus when I drew the patch was to show that the top length of rope or braid started in a different location than the other one. There probably is a significance in the asymmetric placement of these things, but it may be coincidence that I drew the top braid right were the eagle's shoulder is. I would place more significance in the asymmetry of the braid rather than the exact placement of it in regards to the objects in the patch. That is my feeling anyway. I remember when I drew it, it was asymmetrical. -- Linda NOTES Illustration #1: Military Men Sitting at Desk: Linda Murphy’s Journal Illustration © 1995-2008 Illustration #2: Shield with Bird, Rope, Globe and Lightning/Delta Shapes: Linda Murphy’s Journal Illustration. © 1995-2008
"Sentinels Of The Warfighter"
"Strength Thru Intelligence"
Space
Patch with Red Delta and Eagle
1ST
SPACE BRIGADE
Crest
with Globe, Torch, Lightning Bolt & Sword
Shield
with Sword and Two Lightning Bolts
"Beyond All Boundaries"
Space
Patch with Red Delta and Eagle
Symbol
Representing "a sign for the sun and for gold in pre-Christian
Greece…" Eye-Shaped Symbol extracted from Linda’s patch, by Katharina Wilson Illustration #2 Repeated: Shield with Bird, Rope, Globe and Lightning/Delta Shapes: Linda Murphy’s Journal Illustration. © 1995-2008 Three Versions of Shield with Bird, Rope, Globe and Lightning-Delta shapes: Linda Murphy’s Journal Illustration. © 1995-2008 (Colored versions by Katharina Wilson, 2008) |
