MUFON's Margie Kay on Kansas City's "UFO Flap" ... and a reporter's liver!
By Alan Scherstuhl in Reporter's Notebook
Thu., Aug. 13 2009 @ 10:07AM
Right now, Kansas City's deep in a UFO Flap.
That term comes from Margie Kay, the metro's go-to resource on all things paranormal. She's the section director of Kansas City for the Kansas City chapter of MUFON, the Mutual UFO Network. She also heads up the non-profit Quest Investigation Group, which, among other things, investigates missing persons cases using what Kay describes as her psychic abilities. (Kay reports having helped locate more than 30 missing persons in the past.)
I met Kay as I reported on Stan Romanek for this week's cover story. All I kept asking about is UFOs.
"Normally we get one sighting report a month, and most of those can be explained by natural phenomena such as a planet, plane or satellite," Kay says. "Many of the recent reports are of large objects, and some are close encounters. I'm getting one or two reports per day now!"
Kay dates the sightings back to December 31, 2008, when a photographer spotted a fiery ball near Warrensburg. One late July sighting that especially excites Kay.
"I received a call about a huge 60 feet or larger diameter glowing sphere or craft that hoovered 100 feet or less above a policeman's house in Gladstone.
"He said he was mesmerized, and couldn't move even though he wanted to go for his gun. The man had an hour of missing time. Three days later, a professor saw the same type of object very close above his car in a different part of the state."
The metro's UFO of choice: orange spheres. Kay priovided The Pitch with illustrations made by witnesses.
When I met her at July's Mysteries of the Universe Conference, which she directed, I felt belief. Not a fervent belief, or a doctrinaire one, but a strong, certain and personal belief, one much like I've seen in my grandfather, who heard a voice telling him to run down the creek just in time to save my mother from drowning, or a friend who saw his uncle in his bedroom the morning that uncle passed several states away.
It might be her charisma. She's a soft-spoken woman who speaks with casual certainty about presences she's felt, manifestations she's witnessed and abilities she's acquired.
Chatting with me during the conference, she mentioned that following a UFO encounter a while back, she found herself able to "P-Scan" a body. She says it's like a psychic MRI, CT and X-ray, and that she's sometimes spotted cancer. I had recently noticed a small growth on the back of my head -- a cyst or a skin-tag -- and asked if she'd take a look.
She agreed. She stepped back, closed her eyes, then lifted and clenched her right hand. Then, she opened her eyes and looked me up and down, slowly investing every bit of her formidable concentration into me.
Fifteen seconds passed. Thirty. My skin seemed to tingle -- not with power, necessarily, but with self-consciousness. My mind wandered: I thought, inexplicably, of Coke Zero, and how I fear the Aspartame is going to kill me.
Kay snapped out of it, and I did, too.
"I see nothing dangerous," she said. "But your liver -- that's where all the impurities of the body are filtered. They've built up. You need to cleanse your liver."
I believe that people see orange spheres in the night. I believe that Kay believes her tales of insect-sized UFOs and our inevitable ascension to the fifth dimension sometime in 2012. I don't believe all that myself, but I will give her this: I've Googled the name she gave me for a liver cleanse, and I just might get around to trying it.
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| Photo by Angela C. Bond |
| Margie Kay |
I met Kay as I reported on Stan Romanek for this week's cover story. All I kept asking about is UFOs.
"Normally we get one sighting report a month, and most of those can be explained by natural phenomena such as a planet, plane or satellite," Kay says. "Many of the recent reports are of large objects, and some are close encounters. I'm getting one or two reports per day now!"
Kay dates the sightings back to December 31, 2008, when a photographer spotted a fiery ball near Warrensburg. One late July sighting that especially excites Kay.
"I received a call about a huge 60 feet or larger diameter glowing sphere or craft that hoovered 100 feet or less above a policeman's house in Gladstone.
"He said he was mesmerized, and couldn't move even though he wanted to go for his gun. The man had an hour of missing time. Three days later, a professor saw the same type of object very close above his car in a different part of the state."
The metro's UFO of choice: orange spheres. Kay priovided The Pitch with illustrations made by witnesses.
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When I met her at July's Mysteries of the Universe Conference, which she directed, I felt belief. Not a fervent belief, or a doctrinaire one, but a strong, certain and personal belief, one much like I've seen in my grandfather, who heard a voice telling him to run down the creek just in time to save my mother from drowning, or a friend who saw his uncle in his bedroom the morning that uncle passed several states away.
It might be her charisma. She's a soft-spoken woman who speaks with casual certainty about presences she's felt, manifestations she's witnessed and abilities she's acquired.
Chatting with me during the conference, she mentioned that following a UFO encounter a while back, she found herself able to "P-Scan" a body. She says it's like a psychic MRI, CT and X-ray, and that she's sometimes spotted cancer. I had recently noticed a small growth on the back of my head -- a cyst or a skin-tag -- and asked if she'd take a look.
She agreed. She stepped back, closed her eyes, then lifted and clenched her right hand. Then, she opened her eyes and looked me up and down, slowly investing every bit of her formidable concentration into me.
Fifteen seconds passed. Thirty. My skin seemed to tingle -- not with power, necessarily, but with self-consciousness. My mind wandered: I thought, inexplicably, of Coke Zero, and how I fear the Aspartame is going to kill me.
Kay snapped out of it, and I did, too.
"I see nothing dangerous," she said. "But your liver -- that's where all the impurities of the body are filtered. They've built up. You need to cleanse your liver."
I believe that people see orange spheres in the night. I believe that Kay believes her tales of insect-sized UFOs and our inevitable ascension to the fifth dimension sometime in 2012. I don't believe all that myself, but I will give her this: I've Googled the name she gave me for a liver cleanse, and I just might get around to trying it.
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