SGRA’s Weekly Weird August 24, 2012 In This Issue: · Field Team Makes More Use of Twitter & Facebook · Superstition Presentation & ParaChat Next Week · Online Classes Coming For Fall · Data From UFO Sightings Is Useful Even Long After |
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|  Field Team Makes More Use of Twitter & Facebook
With so many followers of SGRA using Twitter and Facebook we have decided to make more use of the social networking sites to increase the information coming from our Field Team. Throughout the rest of the Summer and Fall our team is going to be busy with investigation trips, lectures, and community events, and we’ll now be adding more updates for our followers of these services. If you are using Twitter you can follow the SGRA Team at @TeamSmokingGun, and you can even respond to postings and ask questions by using the hashtag #SGRATeam. Our Facebook is tied in with the SGRA Twitter feed, so updated on one will appear on the other to make it easier for everyone. Throughout some of our upcoming programs, especially the investigation trips and community events, we will also be posting some special quiz questions or other ways that you can snag yourself some cool SGRA prizes! You’ll have to pay attention to the feeds to learn how to submit your answers! | Superstition Presentation & ParaChat Next Week Next Thursday, August 30th, will be our next presentation at the Torrington Library, and this time we’re exploring the subject of Superstitions. We’ll discuss the origins of superstitions, from ancient times to modern day, and how these seemily small things manage to grow to garnish worldwide attention. After a little superstitious history we’ll countdown the top 13 (naturally) superstitions that can be found around the world. One thing’s for sure, it may surprise you how many people say “oh, that’s just silly superstition” and yet go to great lengths to avoid making the mistake of not following up on it. Can’t make the library program? That’s ok! You can jump on to the SGRA ParaChat on Friday, August 31st. We’ll be discussing all-things superstition, and even posting some fun superstition triva questions during the chat! To join in, all you have to do is log on to the SGRA website at www.sgra.org and then click the button that says “Enter The Chat” which will appear on the top-center of the screen. Please note, this button does not appear until the night of a scheduled ParaChat. | Online Classes Coming For Fall After a lot of feedback from members we decided to look into how we can offer some of these classes online, and we’re happy to announce that a plan is in place and in September we will premier our new “ParaLearning” section featuring special online versions of our most popular classes, as well as some new ones being developed just for online participation. The classes being offered will range from explorations of the history, theories, and methods of investigating popular paranormal subjects, to meditation courses, to totem animals and animal guide classes, and many others. The web section will premier with a limited number of classes to begin, but throughout the Fall and Winter, as well as into the future, additional classes will be added as they are developed for online offering. Classes will also be open to anyone – whether an SGRA Member or not – and most classes will range from $10.00 – $20.00 in cost. More information on all these classes and registration information will be posted soon so keep an eye out. If you’ve never taken an online class there will also be a free class offered to help get people up to speed on how to use the online class section! | Data From UFO Sightings Is Useful Even Long After  You might think that if you had a UFO sighting which occurred weeks, months, or even years ago, that no one would be interested or could gain any data from reporting it… but you’d be surprised! What is very interesting is that sightings we have recorded date back to the 1950s, and more often than not, someone will get around to reporting something they observed and we find that it matches up with another sighting already in our database!
Since we began imputing sighting data into our database, we have had several (12 in total) instances where years after the sightings took place we found multiple eyewitnesses to the events. In those cases, we were able to actually go back and have our investigators interview witnesses, visit sighting locations, and in some cases even bring witnesses together who had never realized other people observed the same objects. So, whether past or present, if you’ve seen something unusual in the sky we invite you to report it to us. The more details that can be provided, that greater amount of data we can collect. And you never know, you may be the witness to a sighting that we have been looking for the missing piece to! Read more on this story on our website here. |
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