Planetary Stations and UFO Encounters
Planetary Stations and UFO Encounters
Why just then is a question frequently raised in ufo circles. In other words, what makes ufo encounters occur at some times but not at others? A variation of this question comes in the form when will I see a ufo, or another ufo? Both versions of the question center on the notion of happenings in time and the ever present conundrum - what makes events take place at one point in time, but not at another.
The science of astrology is uniquely positioned to respond to that musing. Since its inception in the ancient Mediterranean world, astrology has been a science of timing. It arose for the express purpose of keeping time via celestial observation. It then evolved into a method for predicting celestial events and identifying the specific points in future time at which dramatic celestial events (such as eclipses of the Moon and Sun) would take place. Throughout the more than four thousand years during which some type of western astrology has existed, a central objective within its practice has been the effort to pinpoint times when specific developments would materialize as a result of astrological activations.
The astrological tool kit includes numerous methods of measurement for that purpose. Among them is a consideration of the points in time at which the planetary bodies of the solar system appear to stand still. These points are called stations. Yes, that’s the word: stations – like radio stations, tv stations, fire stations, battle stations, changing stations, and service stations, except in this case, it's planetary stations, which are actually nothing like the other earthly versions just mentioned. Instead, planetary stations are a feature of celestial observation. Planetary stations occur when a celestial body stops either its normal forward motion in the zodiac, or its apparent backward motion in the zodiac. The appearance of forward and retrograde motion is a normal occurrence. Stopping one direction of apparent motion and going to the other constitutes the all-powerful stationary moment.
Apparent forward motion in the zodiac is caused by the normal progress of a planetary body around the solar system. Apparent retrograde motion in the zodiac is caused by the concentric arrangement of the planetary orbits in the solar system, which inevitably allows for perspectives (or lines of sight) which make it appear from the position of one body that another body has ceased its normal forward orbital motion and has taken on reverse or retrograde motion.
In between those two phases are the planetary stations. The retrograde station happens when a celestial body appears to cease its normal forward motion. The direct station happens when a celestial body appears to stop its apparent backward motion and resume forward motion. Planetary stations are a regular feature of motion in the heavens tracked by both astrology and astronomy. Hence, it isn’t just astrologers who remark upon the stations of the planets, for astronomers do so as well. It’s because the planetary stations are a normal fact of life in the solar system.
As viewed from planet Earth, the outer planets Pluto, Neptune, Uranus, Saturn, and Jupiter all experience one retrograde station and one direct station per Earth year. Mars experiences one retrograde station and one direct station approximately every two Earth years. Venus experiences one retrograde station and one direct station once every eighteen Earth months. Mercury experiences three retrograde and three direct stations in most calendar years (though sometimes there is a fourth). The Sun and the Moon are never seen in retrograde motion from Earth and so do not ever have any stationary moments in the zodiac, which is to say, as perceived from Earth.
Some astrologers feel that the planetary stations are the strongest and most refined applications of planetary energy possible. This means that at a planetary station, the energies and issues of that particular planetary archetype are amplified, magnified, and projected with great force into the affairs of planet Earth. Interestingly, a number of well-known historical ufo encounters have occurred within a few hours or days of planetary stations.
Three Stations of Mercury
Three historical ufo encounters demonstrate the power of Mercury stations.
First, consider an encounter which occurred in the Middle East. Starting from November 9 and running through December 14, 1978, oil field equipment in the country of Kuwait suffered continual electronic disturbance and disruption by the presence of multiple ufos during eight major and distinguishable events.[1] Throughout most of the period operations were interrupted, Mercury was retrograde. Mercury made a station and turned direct on December 15, 1978, at 5 degrees of travel-oriented Sagittarius, just as the extended ufo episode ended.
Second, Mercury made a station and turned direct on May 5, 1984, the very day on which an Aerojet Satellite high in Earth’s atmosphere detected and captured on nine minutes of video a UFO as it came from deep outer space, entered the Earth’s atmosphere, slowed down considerably, turned around, and then went back to outer space. The whole sequence was also detected by a second deep space platform, significantly reducing any doubt the event actually transpired.[2] All of this occurred on the very day the planet Mercury made a station and then resumed apparent direct motion.
Third, Mercury made a station and turned direct within a few hours of one of the most dramatic and compelling of U.S. sightings in recent times. In the late afternoon of October 18, 2021, in Springfield, Missouri, a baffling spinning cube-shaped UFO was seen and videotaped as it hung high in the still daylight sky, and then turned to move toward the local airport. (Jupiter had also made a station and turned direct that day, bringing two planetary stations to bear on the moment.) As for Mercury, it made a station and turned direct around 10 am Central Time that day, about six hours in advance of this striking encounter.
A Station of Venus
February 25, 1942 saw a confused event called The Battle of Los Angeles, characterized by governmental authority figures as a hair-trigger response to a suspected invasion by Japanese war planes but described by others as a ufo visitation meant to uplift the sights of humanity and deter the subsequent horrific events of World War II. Peace-maker Venus had made a station and turned direct just two days before on February 23, 1942, doing so in Aquarius, the sign of universal community and the fellowship of humanity.
A Station of Mars
Mars made a station and resumed normal forward motion in the zodiac on January 20, 1976, a mere few hours before two ufos, each about 25 yards in diameter, hovered over Cannon Air Force Base in New Mexico on January 21, 1976.
Two Jupiter Stations
Jupiter made a station and turned retrograde the day following a ufo encounter near Holloman Air Force Base in Alamogordo, NM. Over the night between August 12 – 13, 1975, a U.S. military officer driving in the desert observed as an unknown flying object some 50 feet in diameter came down from the sky, hovered close to the ground only 300 feet away, appeared to contain beings visible behind windows, and emitted a buzzing hum.[3] The officer’s car went dead as the encounter began. Later, he arrived home much later than had been expected. Jupiter made a station and turned retrograde just hours after the ufo encounter in the New Mexico desert.
As mentioned above under the stations of Mercury, Jupiter also made a station and turned direct on the very day of a dramatic sighting. On October 18, 2021, a ufo in the shape of a spinning cube was sighted in the sky over Springfield, MO, only hours after Jupiter had made a station and turned direct.
Two Stations of Saturn
Long before the Himalayan country of Tibet was overtaken by the Communist Chinese Party, a European spiritual seeker and humanitarian artist named Nicholas Roerich led a cultural expedition through the highlands of Tibet to learn of its arts and cultures. On August 5, 1927, Roerich and his entourage sighted a huge oval object hurtling through the rarefied Tibetan skies, a sighting which the European travelers took to be a classic Tibetan Buddhist omen of some type, but which also may have been a ufo.[4] The planet Saturn made a station at 1 degree of the travel and adventure-oriented sign, Sagittarius, that very day, returning to direct motion in the zodiac.
On October 18, 1973, over Mansfield, OH, witnesses in a helicopter saw a gray cigar-shaped ufo with a dome on top and experienced a strange effect as the ufo seemed to take the helicopter under control, knock out its electronic systems, and cause it to rise uncontrollably. Saturn had made a station the day before, on October 17, 1973, turning retrograde thereafter.
Three Stations of Uranus
Uranus made a station and turned retrograde on March 14, 1983. This was just three days before a dramatic mass sighting of a boomerang shaped craft which occurred on March 17, 1983, over an interstate highway in the Hudson Valley area of New York state.[5]
On March 25, 1984 on the Taconic Parkway in New Jersey, again a mass sighting of a ufo occurred when numerous motorists stopped and parked their cars to watch 300 foot-long boomerang shaped craft with bright white lights as it hovered over the highway. Uranus had made a station on March 17, 1984, a bit more than a week before the mass sighting occurred.
A Uranus station was also associated with the historic Nimitz Event of November 14, 2004, when numerous military pilots and radar technicians participating in training exercises off the coast of Southern California detected multiple unknown vehicles traveling at mind-numbing air speeds and apparently able to do the same under water. Uranus had made a station and returned to direct motion three days prior, on November 11, 2004.
A Neptune Station
On October 5, 1996, in Loncolnshire, England, a ufo sighting incident initiated a flap. Neptune made a station and returned to forward zodiacal motion within hours of the event.
What Does It Mean?
What does it mean that planets make stations shortly before and after ufo encounters? It could mean many things. First to bear in mind is the fact that planetary stations are relatively rare. As mentioned above, the outer planets make stations twice a year, while Mars stations twice every two years, Venus twice every year and half, and Mercury six times every calendar year. Plainly, stations do not occur just every day. And yet many ufo sightings have occurred close in time to such astrological and astronomical events.
It is possible that stations of the planets create vortices of energies, portals, or other energy structures which allow for higher dimensional and otherworldly craft to manifest. At the very least, the close correlation of ufo sightings with planetary stations demonstrates the fact that happenings in our world are connected to happenings in the greater environment of the solar system. The solar system itself and the arrangements of its parts surely must be of interest to those who study our system from afar. Quite possibly these happenings and arrangements in the solar system are visible or somehow discernible to the intelligences behind ufo phenomena.
Additionally, it would appear that the archetypal nature of the individual planets plays into the type of event which occurs.
For example, communication and travel-oriented sightings have occurred coincident with stations of Mercury, the planet associated with communication and travel within astrological lore.
A sighting possibly connected with efforts at world diplomacy may have occurred coincident with a station of Venus, the planet and archetype associated with the capacity for establishing harmonious human relationships in the astrological lore.
A sighting at a war and weaponry-oriented installation occurred coincident with a station of Mars, God of War and Weaponry in ancient Greek myth.
Two grandiose and impressive sightings occurred coincident with stations of giant Jupiter, archetype of grandiosity.
A station of Saturn, planet of self-control, occurred coincident with a sighting in which a ufo appeared to have taken control over a helicopter, while another sighting coincident with a station of Saturn occurred in a land in which meditative self-discipline was once prized above all.
Uranus, planet of anomalies and modern technology, made stations coincident with sightings featuring boomerang and tic-tac styled craft which far transcend the conventional flying saucer design.
And finally, the island nation of England saw the beginning of a ufo flap coincident with station made by Neptune, ancient God of the Oceans.
Conclusion
The relationship of planetary stations to the occurrence of ufo encounters bears much more research, but it would appear that the astrological and astronomical phenomena of the planetary station does indeed figure meaningfully into the timing of at least some ufo encounters, suggesting that astrological timing considerations may figure into the reason why certain ufo encounters happen when they do.
[1] Richard Dolan, UFOs for the Twenty-First Century Mind, 227.
[2] Richard Dolan, UFOs for the Twenty-First Century Mind, 236.
[3] Richard Dolan, UFOs for the Twenty-First Century Mind, 300 – 301.
[4] Richard Dolan, UFOs for the Twenty-First Century Mind, 77 – 78.
[5] Richard Dolan, UFOs for the Twenty-First Century Mind, 233.