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Kiss Guitarist Ace Frehley Talks UFOs and Ghost Encounters

June 20, 2020
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Article by Aaron Sagers June 11, 2020 (denofgeek.com)

• Ace Frehley, the former lead guitarist in the glam rock band, KISS, was interviewed in 2009 with the release of his latest solo album, Anomaly. Wearing the ‘spaceman’ make-up and costume for KISS, it was natural to ask Frehley whether he believed in UFOs or the paranormal. Turns out, he had a lot to say.

• “Well, I’ve seen spaceships and you know, I’ve seen it all,” Frehley said. While he’s always been interested topics such as ancient aliens, and the mysteries of Ancient Egypt, he first saw a ‘cigar-shaped’ UFO from a plane while on tour with KISS. “I see something going across the sky, like super fast, and I’m watching, and it’s going just like this, really fast,” he said. “It stops dead and goes straight up. Now, if you know a plane that can maneuver at that speed and do a tactical maneuver like that, you let me know because I don’t think there’s one made on Earth that can do that.”

• Now, Frehley says he often sees UFOs from his backyard in Westchester, New York. In fact, he believes one landed on his property, and knocked him unconscious. “I woke up the next morning, and I’m laying in my doorway, halfway in the house and halfway out of the house, and then there was like this circular burn on the grass,” said Frehley. “I don’t know, you tell me.”

• Frehley puts the odds at 50:50 that he was abducted because alien beings from another world can wipe one’s memory. Considering the vastness of the universe, Frehley says that people who don’t believe in extraterrestrials are “idiots.”

• “I’ve seen ghosts. I believe in spirits. I believe in past lives…” says Frehley. “I was punched in the face by a ghost.” In 2008, as Frehley was unpacking a suitcase, a ‘force’ struck him. Then he was hit by a book that came from the top of a water cooler. Then he experienced the strange sensation of his hand shaking inexplicably while making tea. “My hand never shakes; I have a steady hand.”

• In 2000, when he first purchased the Westchester home, his daughter and a friend were watching him setting up security cameras on the camera monitor. Suddenly there were strange lights that coincided with his own physical discomfort. His daughter described what she saw to him: “She said, all of a sudden, from the bottom of my feet, it started to glow, and it was coming up my whole body. And by the time it got up to my waist, I don’t know, I didn’t feel right, and I just said I’m out of here. And when I went back in the house, her and her friend, their faces were kind of white.”

• Frehley also claims to receive “downloads” from other ‘forces’ when he writes a song. The notion that information is transmitted into a human has been used to explain the impressive construction of the Egyptian pyramids, and Nikola Tesla who supposedly received his own transmissions. “Sometimes I write songs, and I don’t know where they’re coming from,” said Frehley. “It’s almost like they are being beamed into my head; I’ve had nights where I can’t write the lyrics down as fast as I get them, and it’s like I’m not writing them, and somebody else is giving them to me.”

• Frehley says that it is all interconnected. He believes it even explains his nickname of ‘The Spaceman’ of KISS. “Any person who closes their mind to new ideas is just limiting their view on the world around us.”

• [Editor’s Note] See below a surprisingly disarming 13-minute video interview of Ace Frehley discussing humans colonizing underground population centers on Mars saying “we have the technology”; his UFO sightings; having alien or supernatural assistance when writing songs; spiritual duality; reincarnation; and the planet ‘Jendell’.

For some people, a single incident of seeing a UFO—or Unidentified Aerial Phenomena as the Air Force would now like us to say—can be a paradigm shifting moment. Or simply one experience witnessing something move on its own can lead to a quest to determine one’s belief, or lack thereof, in ghosts.

But when you’re Ace Frehley, The Spaceman formerly of KISS, once is not enough for potentially paranormal phenomena.

Rather, Space Ace claims that not only has he seen multiple objects performing odd maneuvers flying in the sky above his home, but also that a craft of some sort landed in his backyard in Westchester, New York—and that the chances of him encountering an extraterrestrial face-to-face is around “50/50.” Moreover, he said that a ghost punched him in the face, and that another potentially caused his body to shake (and was captured on camera).

And he believes he receives downloads of unknown origins when writing songs.

These are all things Frehley told me in a long interview we connected nearly 11 years ago, in Fall 2009, when I was interviewing him about Anomaly. It was his first studio record in 20 years, since 1989’s Trouble Walkin‘.

As I recall, the interview took place in a recording studio at the Gibson Guitar offices in New York City. The room was dimly-lit, but the lead guitarist was lounging in a couch, wearing shades and some Egyptian-inspired jewelry—and owning the place in the way you’d hope from a rockstar.

The conversation was a good one as we spoke about his comeback. And while Anomaly marked his return to the studio, it was still an early outing for my work surrounding “paranormal pop culture.” Even though I had been working professionally as a journalist for five years or so, I was still reticent asking celebrities about their paranormal experiences.

So when I tested it out on The Spaceman, I did not expect him to deliver. But boy, did he ever. Before I even got the question out of my mouth about what seemed to me like a connection between alien life and his album, he jumped in: “I’m the kind of guy that says nothing’s impossible, you know? Well, I’ve seen spaceships and you know, I’ve seen it all.”

12:56 video of Ace Frehley discussing Mars colonies, UFOs, and spirituality (‘Little Punk People’ YouTube)

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Gallup Polled Americans About UFOs For the First Time in Decades

March 9, 2020
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Article by Anna Merlan February 25, 2020 (vice.com)

• U.S. Social Research for Gallup, commonly known as the “Gallup poll”, is an organization that has been conducting public opinion survey polls on various topics since it was created in 1935. Ever since then, Gallup has asked the public about their beliefs in fringe topics including the paranormal, aliens and UFOs. Just three years after its creation, Gallup found that 70% of the public were aware that Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds broadcast was a radio play, while 30% thought that they were listening to a real alien invasion.

• In 1965, Gallup polled Americans about “flying saucers”. 91% of the people they polled said they’d never seen one. 5% said that they had seen one. And 4% didn’t know what a flying saucer was. In 1996, Gallup asked the American public the same thing. This time, 87% said they had never seen a UFO, 12% said they had seen one, and 1% were oblivious.

• In 2019, Gallup once again asked Americans about UFOs, seeing that so much UFO news had hit the mainstream press with the ‘Tic Tac UFO’ in 2017/18 and ‘Storm Area 51’ in the summer of 2019. 60% of the public believe that these so-called ‘UFO’ sightings can be explained by human activity or natural phenomena. But 33% attribute UFO sightings to alien visitation. “This group is potentially sympathetic to those who want to uncover what the government knows about alien landings, once and for all,” wrote Gallup director Lydia Saad, though she is not a believer herself.

• In a geographic breakdown, the Gallup poll revealed that the percentage of people who believed in alien UFOs was 40% on the West Coast of the US, while 32% of Americans in the East and South believe, and 27% of people in the Midwest thought that aliens were buzzing us. People in the West were also more likely to say they’ve seen a UFO themselves. Saad suggests that, since the West is home for ‘Area 51’, “perhaps there’s more talk and awareness.” Saad also notes that “They have better visibility in some of those Western states than we have out East. It’s hard to see the stars out here in Connecticut.”

• Gallup also surveys Americans’ paranormal beliefs. In 2005, Gallup asked people about ghosts and ESP. Their responses have shown that the American public is receptive to the unknown. “A certain percent of people believe in a lot of things,” says Saad. “People aren’t straitlaced or very literal. There’s quite a lot of openness out there to things that we cannot see.” Over the past thirty years, Gallup has periodically surveyed Americans on the JFK assassination. A majority believe there was more than one shooter. As Saad put it, “the fact [is] that people don’t trust the government to tell the truth. That’s been an ongoing dimension of public opinion.”

In 2019, the public opinion polling company Gallup decided to directly ask the American public about their experiences with UFOs again, for one simple reason: semi-credible evidence of their existence was back in the news.

“Between the ‘Storm Area 51’ phenomenon and the New York Times articles about the Navy changing its protocols for pilots reporting unidentified things in the air—there was news of pilots seeing bizarre planes traveling at hyperspeed—maybe we’re at the point where some of this is getting more credence,” Lydia Saad told VICE, recalling what she was thinking at the time.

Saad is the director of U.S. Social Research for Gallup, and she oversees polls about a lot of things that don’t involve aliens. But in 2019, she advocated for asking about them again, reasoning that the amount of UFO news flooding the atmosphere might have changed people’s opinions. (She’s not a believer herself, she said: “I’m boring.”) The company conducted two surveys, in June and August of that year. They found that a majority of Americans—60 percent—think UFO sightings can be explained by human activity or natural phenomena. But a full 33 percent think otherwise, saying they believe some UFO sightings can be attributed to alien visitation.

“This group is potentially sympathetic to those who want to uncover what the government knows about alien landings, once and for all,” Saad wrote at the time.

Those numbers were particularly high in the West, where 40 percent of residents believed some UFOs can be attributed to aliens, compared to 32 percent of residents in the East and South, and 27 percent in the Midwest. People in the West were also slightly more likely—20 percent—to say they’d seen UFO themselves, versus 12 percent in the East and 15-16 percent elsewhere.

Saad hesitates to say precisely why that regional difference exists, but she does have some theories. “The home of Area 51 conspiracy is the West, so perhaps there’s more talk and awareness,” she said. She also proposed another theory, laughing: “They have better visibility in some of those Western states than we have out East. It’s hard to see the stars out here in Connecticut.”

“I wouldn’t want to say conclusively,” she added.

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