By Stephane Wuttunee

          Like wildfires in the Australian outback, rumors of an upcoming mass televised UFO sighting over American skies are taking the Internet by storm. Blossom Goodchild, an Aussie actress and author, has the international ufology community on its ear with channeled information concerning the eminent appearance of a massive extraterrestrial spacecraft for Oct. 14, 2008. Calling themselves ‘The Federation of Light,’ these Beings from another world have stated to Goodchild that they intend not only to make themselves known, but also to remain more or less in place for a full 72-hour period, thereby providing the media with ample opportunity to once and for all capture on film evidence that will silence the skeptics and debunkers forever. The predicted rendezvous point? Alabama.
Whoa.
         And here’s the kicker; she isn’t the only one making the prediction. Unbeknownst perhaps even to themselves, statements made by other individuals in the past corroborate her findings, one of these being immortalized on paper by Dannion Brinkley. In his latest book (Secrets of the Light, published in 2004) on page 222 Brinkley says:
         “By the year 2008, the fact that we are not alone in the universe will be made undeniably clear to everyone on the planet. With millions of planets and billions of stars, I cannot fathom how we could ever (have) thought in any other terms. However, for those who have doubted, the extraterrestrials will make themselves known. I believe they feel they have no choice but to show themselves as we verge on self-annihilation, genocide and toxic poisoning. The truth of our intergalactic lineage will become common knowledge. If I am to believe the vision, the truth of our intergalactic lineage will cause humanity to take one wild ride.”
         A few things stand out in all this. For one, it is rather unusual for channels and mediums to give exact dates and places for events to occur — let alone the appearance of an alien spacecraft. Some leeway and margin of error is usually provided to allow for interpretation (and for people with less than honorable intentions, room to squiggle out from). Not in this case. Goodchild is adamant and steadfast on the date.
Another point to keep in mind is that from reading the materials on her Web site (http://blossomgoodchild.com), Goodchild herself seems at odds with the information — almost as if she thinks herself unfit for the task of bringing this information to the world. This again is quite unusual for channels and mediums. If anything, such people rarely exhibit doubt or disbelief in their own predictions.
         Naysayers will immediately dismiss Goodchild’s statements as ludicrous. However, if Goodchild was consciously perpetrating a hoax and simply wanted to make money with all this (after all, she is an author and actress), she is definitely going about it in the wrong manner. Any skilled marketing representative would tell her to do two things:
         1) Be less specific of the date on which the craft is supposed to appear (actually, they would most likely tell her to put it off by at least nine months)
         2) Flood the market with products and services (books, videos, seminar appearances and lectures, etc.) so the money can start pouring in. She’s done neither.
         Actually, her prediction was made on Aug. 22 of this year, with “showtime” being less than three months away — far too soon a timeline for the reaping of financial rewards or fame.
Speaking of which...
         There is also the inevitable credibility factor to consider. If Goodchild proves to be wrong with this information, it is obvious that whoever enjoyed reading her materials before will begin to shun and avoid her in the future (much like our beloved and elusive Bigfoot hunters from Georgia). So on a personal level, quite a bit is at stake for Goodchild. And she would know this.
         To stir the waters even further, consider that the Canadian Prime Minister Mr. Stephen Harper in the last week has called for surprise federal elections to occur on (you guessed it) … Oct. 14, 2008. According to Mr. Alfred Webre from Exopolitics.com, world officials are taking the announcement of the arrival of an extraterrestrial spacecraft in our skies seriously, and plans may already be under way to pull public focus away from such a seminal event and place it on more domestic and political issues instead. In this case, the controversy generated by surprise federal elections would tie up Canadian airwaves quite nicely. If extraterrestrials wish for their presence to be known to the world on that day, they would need to account for this type of potential interference, along with one million other variables.
         Of course, being highly evolved Beings, they (hopefully) would.
In any case, the heat on the forums is palpable. YouTube videos on Goodchild’s predictions are everywhere. And as one forum member on Unexplained_Mysteries remarked, the date itself is unique because Oct. 14, 2008 translates to 10-14-2008, which becomes (if you subtract each number from the next) …minus 2012. Coincidence? Perhaps.
         Even if Blossom turns out to be wrong and nothing occurs on or around Oct. 14 this year, it is clear by humanity’s current state of affairs that something of this nature needs to occur anyhow — and sooner rather than later. Full-on contact and (to a degree) interference within human affairs cannot occur prior to a series of events such as these that will undeniably make the entire world acknowledge once and for all that Extraterrestrials are real. Whomever is watching over us needs to make themselves known, and any medium is viable, whether they are electronic, or human.
         I say Bring it on, Baby!

         Stephane Wuttunee was first published at 17. Plains Cree and French Canadian author and storyteller Stephane Wuttunee’s writing credits include two and one-half years as a columnist for a national Native newspaper (The Windspeaker) and a book of short stories, First Flight — Tales of The Nomad. Besides penning articles for Environment Canada and regional periodicals and newspapers such as The Nation and Alberta Sweetgrass News, he has also spent the better part of 15 years toiling to create Dreaming the Pyramid. His Web site is at: www.dreamingthepyramid.net. An experienced public speaker, Stephane has presented in schools and at conferences throughout Canada and the high Arctic, as well as in parts of New Zealand and Australia.
         E-mail Stephane at swuttune@hotmail.com.