Friday, August 12, 2016

Thomas Sheridan: Author, Scholar of Psychopaths, Mythologist, Artist

 "I bring satire and comedy into my work to off-set the dark forces which are behind most of the misery we are subjected to. I am not interested in being in anguish all the time or doing fear porn. I have a special pair of glasses I observe the world with: One lens is set to Carl Jung and the other lens is set to Spike Milligan. I want to inform people, but also make them laugh...so feck em, if they can't take a joke" (Thomas Sheridan, Thomas Sheridan Arts )
Thomas Sheridan was last night's guest and Coast to Coast. A great interview! The mind reels. I am off to order a book or two ...

Tuesday, August 9, 2016

Owls, Dreams, Orbs, Brodhrans, and Spirit Photos

Working with Diane and others on psychic play, activating energy and accessing "them" -- and so, after meditation and protective prayers I had a dream that was pretty incredible:

Jim at the Eugene Masonic Cemetery, in front of grave where I took the two spirit photos shown below
My husband and I were about to leave the Masonic (!) cemetery. It's night. The feeling here is very negative, scary, creepy. Unusual because we enjoy going to this cemetery and have had only pleasant experiences. But at night now, and it's very cold, frost and some snow here. We look for the grave site where we had a previous encounter with spirit -- caught on camera -- but no matter how hard we try to remember the name and location, we just keep getting turned around. I get the distinct feeling, almost hear a voice, scolding me for being greedy. "You were blessed once with this experience and now you're taking advantage. Go away."

Sudden surge of energy felt when we were discussing the married couple buried here; we were talking about the positive loving emotions we were picking up, when this happened on my camera as I was taking a photo of the grave site. This has never happened before, or, since.

I hear a woman's voice singing/chanting out on the sidewalk. As negative as the cemetery is I tell Jim that I don't want to meet up with a "crazy person." So we go back to the cemetery. Still creepy but it's between this or the "crazy" woman who is singing and chanting and playing a brodhran. (hand held Celtic drum.)

Second spirit photo

Jim and I look up in the sky -- the night sky is so beautiful!!!! We see all kinds of moving, zipping lights, mainly orbs, in the sky that are clearly UFOs. They are not stars or anything that can be explained naturally -- UFOs for sure. We are so excited. Then we start to see orbs -- of a different kind, these are spirit orbs -- right here with us, in the cemetery. Fairy, spirit, energy, -- all orbs dancing around us. It is wonderful.
Suddenly it's daylight. We have no idea how it got to be daylight so fast -- missing time? Anyway, I decide it's safe to go out now; the crazy woman is gone.
But I still hear her, and she's ahead of us a bit. She's aware of us but doesn't acknowledge us. She is not crazy. She has some people following her, mostly men. It's clear she is a shaman. About five foot three, long thick dark hair, squat or plump, a pleasant expression and vibe. She continues to sing and drum as we go along.

I had the feeling this woman was Celtic and/or Lapp or Sami as well. So I was looking up Celtic goddesses/shamans, etc. and went to images. One of the first images that popped up was this:


Owl Mother Winter Snow Triple Goddess Hands Shaman
Artwork by SigiDawn on ETSY
This is significant because five minutes earlier I was reading Mike Clelland's fantastic book The Messengers: Owls, Synchronicity and the UFO Abductee 
In that book, Mike writes about the often mystical and spiritual synchronicities between witnesses, UFOs, and owls. Usually the encounters he writes about are in "real time" -- waking time. In my case, this all takes place in the dream realm. Still, I find the relationships in my dream of UFOs, spirit, shaman/guide and the finding of the image very interesting. (By the way, Mike Clelland cites me as a brief mention in his book referring to me a a "maybe" person. Meaning, someone who may have been abducted, but for many reasons, do not give myself that label.)




Monday, August 8, 2016

Menopause and the Abductors

Is it just a meme, a false bit of UFO lore, that women in or past menopause are of no interest to aliens? (As always, I'm using the word "alien" to mean "other." Non-human, ET, spirit, earth elemental, fairy, ghost, demon…)

I've been having this conversation with "Diane," a friend of mine who has had on-going contact with the grays since childhood. Now in her sixties, "they" are still visiting her, leaving her with temporary scars, among other things. What do they want from her? Are other women of this age, and stage in their lives, still of interest to aliens? Or is it truly true -- that aliens find no use for women who are past child bearing age?

Just how statistically true is this in UFO lore?

One theory we have, Diane and I, is that maybe, aliens are still interested in women in or past menopause if those women have strong psychic skills. Which, both Diane and I have, and have had, since childhood.

Is it some sort of unconscious sexism that has us believe the grays are no longer interested in women once they've outlived their childbearing usefulness? Or is it a true thing?

Could there be other reasons for their interest, such as the afore mentioned psychic strengths? Maybe there is something to be said about the "crone stage" of life: women's wisdom, magick and power. Does this scare or piss off the little spindly things? Intrigue them?



Diane and I both had a similar experience years ago. Mine:

I was in a semi-trance meditative state. Awake, but very much in a light trance. I like to work with crystals and stones -- on this night, I was using a copper wand with a purple fluorite crystal at one end. Suddenly, I was aware of three grays that had come through the bedroom window. They were there, all right, but, like much of this weird realm of aliens and UFOs, if someone had walked into the room, they would not have seen the grays. I had an immediate negative reaction against them -- I did not want them here! I focused my energy and intent into the wand, and they were kept from going further into the room. They were "stuck" and very, very angry. They did not like this at all. Finally, the left, extremely pissed.

Diane told me a similar story:
 She had her altar in the middle of her room; it was laden with crystals and stones. She tried to enter her bedroom but there were three (three, again!) grays, standing around her altar. She said they seemed upset about the altar, and the stones. They tried to keep her from entering but she focused her intent and concentration on the altar. The energy she "beamed" at them forced them to leave, and, as she told me, they were very upset at her use of this energy.

Speculation, but something to wonder about and explore further.

From Jack Brewer's The UFO Trail: Ufology Indicted (Stan Romanek)

Jack Brewer: "The UFO Trail: Ufology Indicted"

This time, the indictment is for Stan Romanek :The UFO Trail: Ufology Indicted.

Off the rails, did Mr. Romanek, with the whole aliens-are-here scenario, and, sadly, the child pornography charges against him. What is it that makes some UFO participants* so goddamn unethical and sad in the highly inappropriate/illegal/immoral/abusive context? (Yes, think David Jacobs.)

Jack Brewer, at his UFO Trail blog, has a piece on this very thing.

Not to mention paranoia. As with Jacobs, who believed aliens were interfering with email communications, Brewer describes Romanek's paranoia about aliens. (Italics mine.):

In one of his more infamous episodes, Stan clearly attempted to discreetly throw objects around a room while implying something paranormal was taking place during a 2014 video interview with Peter Maxwell Slattery. He would later tell Slattery that he intentionally discredited himself because he was instructed to do so during an anonymous phone call else face consequences to himself and loved ones. Basically, he went with the "I made a fool out of myself on purpose or they'd kill me" strategy. Did I mention leading with the chin where angels fear to tread? (Jack Brewer, UFO Trail)

Monday, August 1, 2016

MORE Missing 411 High Strangeness: "Predator Saran-Wrap" Synchronicity

I had a strange dream the other night, which I posted here and on my Frame 352 Sasquatch blog. That dream had to do with David Paulides Missing 411 books and what I called a "predator" type being:

Out of nowhere, I am grabbed by invisible hands. I sense their presence, I know that they are here, but I can’t see who -- or what -- they are. I get a glimpse of these things. They shimmer in and out, sort of like the Predator. These things look human like in some ways. They have two arms and legs like humans, etc. But they are about seven feet tall and muscle bound, like The Hulk. They grab me by the arms and feet and drag me up the hill. My friends are completely unaware of what’s going on. I scream with everything I have but they can’t hear me. (Regan Lee, Orange Orb)


A few odd coincidences followed that post, which I also wrote about here.



Last night, David Paulides was the guest on Coast to Coast. George Knapp was the host. Great interview. Paulides was on to discuss his new book Missing 411: Hunters. During that interview, Knapp and Paulides discussed the strange experience of Jan Maccabee. She is married to UFO researcher Dr. Bruce Macabee. In that interview, Paulides describes a shimmering, predator like being Ms. Macabee saw -- and photographed -- while out in the woods in his article, complete with images, “Predator in the Forest” or Jan's Weird Experience. The following is from Maccabee's article:


Suddenly the woods went quiet.  Noise stopped. The silence was “weird.”  It so surprised and unnerved her that she wrote a text message to her friend (thereby documenting this event): Something is wrong.  The woods just went to a dead silence. No squirrels, no birds, no crickets.  Is odd!  (6:23 PM EDT) She thought a coyote or maybe a black panther or some predator animal caused the quiet as she knows (as hunters know) that when a predator such as a bear, for example, enters an area the other animals tend to become quiet.  Then she became aware that a weird visual “effect” was moving rightward across her field of view at an apparent distance of maybe fifteen to twenty feet.  She described it as if looking through "saran wrap."  Perhaps a more apt comparison would be like looking at a mirage above a hot road.  She compared this distortion of the scene as being somewhat like the effect of the invisible creature in the PREDATOR movie!  This distortion was at a higher altitude than her 15 ft above the ground, perhaps about 25 ft above the ground..  She took her glasses off and rubbed her right eye thinking at first she had a floater (a mote in the eye).  But after rubbing it was still there and not a floater. (Bruce Maccabee) 
When I heard Paulides describe the predator, sara-wrap type image, I almost fell out of the chair! While there are differences between the dream and the shimmering, predator like effect Jan Macabee saw, (desert/woods, dream/reality) the specific similarity of the predator image is certainly startling.




Friday, July 29, 2016

More Strangeness...

Regarding the post below --  which is cross-posted at my Orange Orb blog -- more strangeness.

My friend "Diane" told me the other day that whenever "they" come, she finds that her tablet is turned on in the morning. She insists she has turned it off. Her husband verifies this. (Wakes up with strange marks, etc.)

After she read my blog post, she called me to tell me her computer was on again this morning. Also, she had entered my phone number into the tablet, but this morning, it was gone. She couldn't find my name or number anywhere.

I also notice that this Sunday, Coast to Coast has the  "The Dark Side of Bigfoot" with guests Tim Baker, Jim King and Brenda Harvey. And the next night, the guest will be David Paulides, author of the Missing 411 books, to talk about his new book Missing Hunters.

Missing 411: Dream, See -Through Rock People, Psychic Play, and Sasquatch



I’m deeply intrigued with David Paulides work in his Missing 411 series. While I’ve read one of his books (so far, plan on reading them all) and follow his work on-line, I haven’t recently been giving any particular attention to any of the missing 411 cases, or the phenomena. So I am curious about this very vivid and slightly disturbing dream I had last night:

I live in a semi-rural area, on the edges of the suburbs. The location has a southern California feel to it, or southwest. Desert like, but not completely. Surrounding the dozen or so houses out here are soft, rolling hills, probably sandstone. Layers and layers among the hills, and large gray boulders.

manipulated sepia version

My friends and I go out for a small hike. We can see our house from where we are. We aren’t far, less than a half mile from the house.  I’m climbing up the side of a hill, my friends are maybe fifty feet away. 
Out of nowhere, I am grabbed by invisible hands. I sense their presence, I know that they are here, but I can’t see who -- or what -- they are. I get a glimpse of these things. They shimmer in and out, sort of like the Predator. These things look human like in some ways. They have two arms and legs like humans, etc. But they are about seven feet tall and muscle bound, like The Hulk. They grab me by the arms and feet and drag me up the hill. My friends are completely unaware of what’s going on. I scream with everything I have but they can’t hear me. 
I know, without a doubt, that this has something to do with what Paulides researches. I beg these beings, plead, cry, to let me go. I tell them I don’t want to end up dead and found in the middle of a lake or the top of a mountain.  I get the feeling that the more I beg and talk to them instead of giving up they might agree to keep me alive.  They tell me that they’ll me go when they’re ready.
A few days later, I find myself near the same spot where I was taken. Two men have brought me down here. They are also very tall, around seven or eight feet, but stocky. The men have long shiny black hair, like a Native person, but their features are not Native Amercian at all. They have flattened, pushed in faces. They are human, but more than that -- or, less than that. They are not quite all human, in other words. At the same time, I don’t get the sense they are ETs. I do get the sense some of this is related to Sasquatch, but how, I don’t know. It’s all very confusing and muddled. While I feel there is a Sasquatch aspect to this, the Sasquatch have nothing to do with any of this, not directly anyway, if at all. 

Another Southwest, Regan Lee
manipulated sepia version

 They communicate with me telepathically; that I am never to tell anyone anything about any of this. While I have no memory of what happened while I was missing, I do remember being taken by the weird near invisible beings, and these guys. They tell me over and over that they are now in my head, at all times, and will know if I’m even thinking of telling someone. If I say anything, they tell me, not only will I be killed, but many in my family.
I go back to the house, naturally everyone is happy to see me and are full of questions. I just keep saying over and over that I don’t remember anything. I tell everyone I must have fallen and that caused amnesia of some kind. 

I wake up, feeling very strange. Then I hear a loud clattering, scrambling sound that goes on for about five seconds. Things falling, like dishes or pots, among other things. My first thought is the cat tried to climb on the bookshelves beneath the window where I have some plants. The cats start meowing and running around, wanting to go out. At five-thirty in the morning! Unusual for them.  I get up to check, I don’t see anything out of place. I check the whole house -- nothing. I look out the window in our bedroom, thinking maybe an animal knocked over plants and rocks by the little garden pond, but nothing is out of place. All very strange.

As I’m in bed, thinking about all this strangeness, I get a sense this dream, the clattering, the cat’s odd behavior, has something to with my visit yesterday with friends who have had several UFO experiences, as well as paranormal experiences in general. Lately we’ve been involved in doing exercises to activate psychic skills. Energy play, “sending and receiving” imagery, oracle and tarot work, etc. And, of course, intense discussions about our experiences, including questions about those experiences. One more thing: I mention large gray rocks in the dream. A week or so ago, I was "receiving" from one of the people in our discussion group. One of the images that came to me was a gray boulder, about twelve feet tall, in a desert like spot. The rest of the area was semi-rural with green and trees, but the rock was off by itself in barren land.

I think it's one thing to talk about these experiences, but the questioning, as well as the agreement to participate in actively finding out, seems to have triggered something.

Note: Here the originals of the images shown above:




Another Southwest, Regan Lee



Tuesday, July 12, 2016

White Balloon Headed Alien

Not too long ago, I posted a sketch that I sort of channeled, of tall white beings  (though I just noticed that one of the beings is small, child-sized) surrounding my bed. This was a memory -- sort of -- of what I call my "invisible aliens."


Image by Regan Lee


Last night, I was meditating/going through a remote viewing type exercise (amidst this I was attempting to communicate with someone else) and my mind kept going back to when I was a child, surrounded by "aliens." Why can't I see them?! I asked. To my surprise, I got not quite the grey triangle headed being (whether real or not, the image has definitely become its own reality -- a type of collective alien tulpa) but an almost comical round headed white alien. Still with the big eyes and small in height --  maybe about three to five inched taller than me.


White Balloon -Headed Alien, Regan Lee

What's interesting about this is that, as a child, these beings were never negative. They were friendly. So, another thing I was asking about: why the fear now? (And do not give me any new age crap about being on the right vibration in order to access the positive Space Brother Love Vibe.) Maybe the other UFO experiences -- mainly the orange orb -- are different entities entirely.

My mind kept going to those childhood beings, this time in their new representation of bleached white round-headed aliens, and the person I was attempting to "send" to -- her story of a UFO sighting and missing time. I asked this too: "Why am I going back to her event?"


Thursday, July 7, 2016

Alien Get Togethers -- Are They Trying to Stop Us?





I have this friend -- friends, her and her spouse -- known each other for decades. I'll call her "Diane." Diane, as well as others in her family, have had life long experiences with "aliens," strange energies, hauntings, UFOs. Diane's spouse -- I'll call him Harold -- has published on the subject of UFOs. They are both very into the topic, know a lot, and are not messing around. They are serious about what's happened to them as well as what's happening in general in regards to UFOs.

Diane and I are about the same age, give or take a couple of years. (Both in our early sixties.) We keep trying to meet, to get together, and, even though we don't live far from each other at all (I could walk to her house, on a good day) we never seem to quite get there. We end up meeting just a few times a year. You'd think that, given both our life long experiences with UFOs and related weirdness, and the closeness of our homes, it'd be easy to get together.

Diane's theory is that "they" (aliens, Djinn, what have you) are vibing us and keeping us apart. Her health isn't good on the day we planned, or mine isn't. I mean to call, say I'll call, but forget. Today, we had planned for two weeks to get together today. (We had also invited another couple who said they'd come, but then cancelled yesterday.)  Yesterday I bought all the organic makings for a killer salad. Yet my husband, who has also had his own life long experiences of UFO high strangeness, was having a bad day health wise. (Ah, the joys of being in your sixties.) So we had to cancel.

Diane called me today and we set up to meet -- just her and I -- Sunday. So now I have a note in case the aliens decide to put an amnesia hex on my brain.

The thing is, Diane told me today on the phone that she was having dreams the past few nights that "they" were keeping us away, and that, while disappointed we weren't coming, wasn't too surprised we weren't.

By the way, it was at Diane and Harold's home that I had one of my "they're listing" experiences. A group of us at their home, years ago, talking about UFOs and our encounters. I feel a very strong sense of an unseen, yet very much present, energy in the room. Not energy, exactly, but people. No, not people, exactly, but .. . while highly intelligent, and somewhat "people" like, not human. Alien? Djinn? Sure. Anyway, I was sitting there, feeling stranger and stranger, thinking that if I say anything, everyone will think I'm making it up, or being impressionable. Diane turns to me, grinning, and says "You know they're here, don't you?"

There is much more to her experiences, as well as the rest of us, which I'll write about here soon.

Friday, July 1, 2016

From The Superplex: "Rh Negative Folkore"




Sue Entity at The Superplex isn't shy about sharing her opinions on the UFO lore regarding Rh Negative blood. She begins:

The Superplex: Rh Negative Folkore: We all know the UFO field is intellectually crippled (present company excepted of course), and the rain of inanities that continues to fall from the lips of UFO pundits about the Rh negative blood factor as being somehow linked to manifestations of the phenomena is just more proof of this. I admit to getting exercised about this issue; the whole Rh neg thing gets my panties so twisted that I doubt even Dr. Jacobs could straighten them out into one of his books. It’s a sad statement about the intellectual desert that UFO/phenomena studies finds itself in that even the people I hold to be the most informed and interesting thinkers in the area make themselves sound like idiots when talking about the Rh blood factor. (Sue Entity; The Superplex)
It is true UFO Land is full of the Rh factor motif: that those with Rh negative blood are in someway tied even more so to aliens than the rest of humanity. Sue Entity thinks not. I'm not arguing for or against that but I would have liked to have known more on why she thinks the lore is bunk.



She makes interesting points about culture and racism and how, in putting ourselves into categories of specialness, we also put ourselves above others. Better. More deserving of whatever gifts the gods/aliens have to share. (Personally, I don't think they're sharing much of what I want; the world seems worse off than ever.) I see her point but it is one that annoys me in context of the UFO (and other paranormal realms) -- that those of us with these experiences want to set ourselves up as special, different, separate.  Hell no, I don't put myself in those categories.  But I'm not going to keep quiet either. It is what it is -- I put it out there. I am what I yam.

So if the Rh negative factor has anything to do with the phenomena, well, there you go. If it doesn't, fine. For whatever reason it's become a part of the lore, and needs to truly explored.

By the way, folklore as a term doesn't mean, (just as with the word myth) true, or, not true. Another one of my Sisyphean activities: trying to change the perceptions of the words lore, folklore, and myth, just as I am with UFO. Which should really be U.F.O. as in the vintage years. Unidentified Flying Object.

Sisyphus, (Titian 1548-1549) oil on canvas


I am, myself, Rh negative. Also Cherokee, an educator, red hair (okay, that part comes from a box) and an artist. I fit into many of the UFO lore indicators for big time alien contact. Not to mention the life long sightings and encounters.


The question is, do these bits of data have anything solid to do with the phenomena, or not?




Monday, June 27, 2016

The Angry UFOlogist:"Positive Proof That Dr. Steven Greer Is A Fraud, Liar and Psychopath"

The Angry UFOlogist really doesn't like Steven Greer:

Positive Proof That Dr. Steven Greer Is A Fraud, Liar and Psychopath - The Angry Ufologist: Funny now he now charges thousands of dollars for his minions to follow him into the woods with flash lights and lasers to “vector” one in on his midnight UFO vectoring sessions. Whatever that means. He makes ALL of his minions sign super strict non-disclosure agreements so they can not talk about any aspect of their experiences with Greer and his jolly band of fraudsters. This threat of legal action against his paying followers is why you have not heard wide spread screams of “This guy is full of crap”.
I attended a UFO presentation by Greer years ago in Eugene. Standing room only, surprised yet glad to see so many in the area interested in the subject. He lost me though when he said, with such certainty, that there are over 500 alien types.



The point is, even while Greer interviews and documents those who have had UFO encounters, he also seems slick and full of it.



This kind of thing: the Jacobs, the Greers, the Imbrognos, are the embarrassments to UFOlogy, not the high strangeness narratives of UFO witnesses that some find too fantastic to explore.

Thursday, June 23, 2016

READ THIS! "The Magical Swimming Pool of Ufology's Future "|



I want to sing and dance from the rooftops about this article by Joshua Cutchin. (See post below where I've posted the quote he opens his piece with.) I would quote from the article, but then I'd have to quote some more, then comment, then some more, and say more and …

So just go over there and read it:

The Magical Swimming Pool of Ufology's Future | Joshua Cutchin: Weird Words & Brass Beats


I will say that Cutchin writes about the materialist view, and much of UFOlogy's need to, still, cling to a materialism/Big Science frame work around the Big Answer to What UFOs Are. Which is silly.

Plus, he quotes from chaos magician Gordon White. So there.

Favorite Quote of the Day

From Joshua Cuthin's  The Magical Swimming Pool of Ufology's Future  at Weird Words & Brass Beats, this great quote from Gordon White:
To abandon interpretation to scientism is to shirk natural philosophy’s most sacred duty. Your tribe deserves better. And if you feel some residual squeamishness over who has legitimacy of interpretation in our culture, consider this. We are wholly justified in turning the question on its head and asking the scientists what it is they think they are doing swimming in our pool in the first place.– Gordon White, Star.Ships 

Wednesday, June 22, 2016

Exploring the Orb: Missing Time, Memories and MILABS



Last night's Coast to Coast was excellent (what Coast to Coast is all about, to my mind) with guests Robert Davis, Rey Hernadez, Mary Rodwell, and Rosemary Ellen Guiley from the FREE Project. Such a simple idea! Gathering data from witnesses from around the world, and not dismissing any of it. Just letting the information speak for itself. Of course, as the guests acknowledged, whatever "they" are -- reptilians, aliens, ETs, others, Djinn, inter-dimensional, MILABS, or combinations of some -- we don't know. Maybe we'll never know.

Some of the thoughts gained from this research were very interesting. For example, the evidence points to positive experiences of "abductions" and interactions with these aliens. Host George Knapp asked about those witnesses who have had unpleasant and frightening encounters. Those experiences involved MILABS, or humans involved in the abduction event. If that is the case, then the case for human manipulated "alien abductions" is strong, as well as insidious. One idea: humans manipulating known and actual alien technology for their own severely negative purposes.

As regards to missing time, still a mystery of course. But I was inspired to revisit my own reactions concerning missing time. I remain angry at the fact missing time happened at all and more than once. Something, or someone, messed with my memory. Who, and why? And, how dare they? But what if the missing time was due to my own physiological responses to trauma, and not "their" fault at all? Or what if missing time is an unintentional side effect of whatever "they" do? Aliens don't intentionally cause missing time; it's just something that happens and can't be helped. Or, were those missing time events not alien at all, but human engineered? (MILABS.) The problem is, I have no conscious memory of either...

I have memories of something very not-quite-right going on, seeing craft, strange and frightening dreams and events in the after-math, and, missing time. No memory of "aliens" or being aboard ships (though in one case I had dreams of being paralyzed under a beam coming down from a craft) --- yet UFO connected nonetheless. Does this mean these later events (for I've had interactions with beings since childhood) were artificially induced? MILAB type events?  No memories of humans in these cases either.

Adding to my own UFO mystery, is the fact that I've had interactions with UFOs and "aliens" since early childhood. So it seems to be possible that there are absolutely "others" out there --- no doubt many types of "others" -- and sometimes, some humans manipulate these things. Watchers watching Watchers.

It's truly weird out there and there is a carnival aspect to all of this but we have to not only acknowledge this fact but find a way to positively incorporate the weird with the rest. We'll never get anywhere if we don't.








Saturday, June 18, 2016

Chupacabra Found in Eugene, Oregon!

A Chupacabra has been found in Eugene, Oregon; my home town.  All right, not really. What was found roaming the streets of Eugene recently was a Patagonian mara, a large rodent native to Argentina. Obviously the animal was an "exotic pet" of someone's. How it got loose, I don't know, though the Register Guard article does say the owner was found. Whoever found the animal brought it to the local animal shelter.


Image: Public Domain


The rodent is now at the Oregon Zoo, where it is now an ambassador for the zoo. It's new name: Chupacabra.

The Patagonian mara looks like a cross between a capybara and a giant jackrabbit, Paul said. It is a rodent, and while it’s an herbivore, the quarantine period at the zoo’s veterinary medical center will require Chupacabra to be housed in the carnivore ward to prevent him from chewing through the enclosure. 
The enclosure has natural light and a retractable roof, so he can have some fresh air and sun when the weather is good, Paul said. After 30 days, he is expected to become one of the zoo’s ambassadors, meaning he will not be in an exhibit but will be used in the zoo’s educational demonstrations, most likely because of his familiarity with human contact. (Register Guard, June 18, 2016)
The article noted that maras are easy to get in Oregon -- it is not illegal to own one in this state. Personally I don't think anyone should own "exotic" animals as pets. Glad to know "Chupacabra" will have a good home.