Where is the Mothman?
And other spooky flying objects. February 13, 2023
After eighty-some years of abject secrecy and relative silence about UFOs, now suddenly, all kinds of UFOs are being ‘shot down’ from US airspace, starting with a kitschy Chinese weather balloon. When something this fantastical happens, it causes me to wonder, “What don’t ‘they’ want us to look at? What are ‘they’ distracting us from?”
It turns out, there is a lot they don’t want us to notice. First on my list this week is the Chernobyl-esque train derailment/environmental crime in East Palestine, Ohio. Prior to this morning, you probably hadn’t heard much … because reporters legitimately doing their jobs were being arrested, as captured in the video below:
The Wall Street Journal stopped reporting on it three days ago, and national mainstream media treats it like a nothing burger. Because UFOs!
But it’s not a nothing burger because of the serious potential negative impact to agriculture, air, and water. Just the Ohio counties that border with the Ohio River, the agricultural impact is over 700,000,000 cropland acreage1. The potential economic impact is almost a quarter of a billion dollars.2
And this doesn’t include the counties in Kentucky, West Virginia, or Pennsylvania on the other side of the Ohio River, or the billions of acreage and impact to the agriculture in states along the Mississippi River, which the Ohio River is a tributary of. But, look, shiny objects in the sky!
Be not mistaken, this environmental crime is disastrous. 48 hours after the derailment, there was documented a large-scale fish die-off in Leslie Run, part of the Ohio River watershed, 5 miles from the derailment.
It’s important to note that he fish die-off occurred before the “controlled-burn-to-avoid-an-explosion”, (which was the government's solution to mitigation), so within 48 hours, delicate ecosystems already were destroyed, because if it’s already killing fish, then it’s killing everything else in the water, too, including micro-organisms, crustaceans, turtles, frogs, snakes, and salamanders, like the federally endangered Hellbender salamander3.4
And it’s not just cropland agriculture, and dead fish, what about dead bees? Our pollinators. The insects that both terrify us on sight, but leave us totally at their mercy for survival. We know what will happen if the bees die off. We will die off. If there are no bees to pollinate the crops, there are no crops. I could not find information about the pesticidal potential of the chemicals spilled/burned in East Palestine, OH, but it’s probably safe to assume that if the primary spilled chemical, vinyl chloride, is a Class 1 carcinogen for humans, and there being a mysterious large-scale fish die-off near the derailment site, as well as anecdotal reports of dead pets, and farm animals, (yes, more dead chickens!), that these substances are universally toxic to living things. But there’s a shiny octagon, (maybe a hologram?), in the sky!!
I live about 60 miles southeast of East Palestine, Ohio, and I have dear family that lives a mere 30 miles downstream from the disaster site. (Their town switched to an alternate water source, ‘out of an abundance of caution’, though I’ve heard that it is still ‘recommended’ not to drink the water for the time being.). I was mysteriously ill for about a day, roughly 48 hours, after the “controlled-burn-to-avoid-an-explosion”. It makes me wonder if it connected. But look! Target practice in the sky!
And this is why I have been referring to it as an environmental crime instead of an accident, in December, 2022, the railroad unions threatened to strike over paid sick leave. President Biden stepped in with an Executive Order, avoiding a strike and the screeching halt American commerce would have become, but the EO fell short of guaranteeing paid sick leave for railroaders. As/of four days ago, Norfolk Southern, the sponsor of this ecological crime in East Palestine, OH/entire rust belt, was still one of two of the remaining railroads that refused to provide paid sick leave to their unionized employees.5
Is this what happens when you don’t give railroaders their paid sick days? We get a deliberate environmental crime?
And I’ll bet you’re still wondering what the Mothman has to do with any of this? If you aren’t familiar with the story, the Mothman is a legend of Ohio Valley folklore. The Mothman was seemingly first encountered in the late 1960’s in Point Pleasant, West Virginia, described as a 6-foot tall winged/flying humanoid with glowing red eyes. It kind of looked like a satanic moth from hell maybe?67
Local legend has it that the appearance of the Mothman portended the Silver Bridge collapse, which occurred about a year after the initial, and continued, Mothman sightings.
So late last evening, while pondering the environmental crime in East Palestine, OH, I heard an unfamiliar noise outside my window, an animal no doubt, but I wasn’t familiar with that particular sound from the usual late night creatures. And that’s what made me think, “Did anyone see the Mothman in East Palestine, Ohio?” Because if they did, we could at least, perhaps, reclassify an environmental crime as an accidental mechanical disaster, something that the Mothman might have been forewarning about, but without the Mothman8 piece of the puzzle, I guess we’ll never know. Unless the U.S. Government shot down the Mothman in its zealous pursuit and disclosure of all things UFO now.
Norfolk Southern, give your railroaders paid sick leave, they are definitely going to need it now.
Take Care for today.
#WTF
Figures weren’t available for Jefferson County, Ohio.
My Dad was a unionized railroader for almost 40 years. It astonishes me to learn now that he didn’t have paid sick leave, though it does explain why he would still go to work when he was sick. I just thought he was a dedicated widower providing a future for his motherless children. I’ll continue to keep that image, now realizing the greater sacrifice he was making.
There is a real insect named the “Satan Moth”, but it is not the Mothman of legend.
Source of artist’s rendering of the Mothman, https://www.cultofweird.com/cryptozoology/mothman-documentary-on-amazon/
There have been several sightings of the Mothman in the Metro Chicago, IL, area since 2017.