{"id":228,"date":"2005-05-24T07:28:26","date_gmt":"2005-05-24T15:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/wordpress\/?p=228"},"modified":"2005-05-24T07:28:26","modified_gmt":"2005-05-24T15:28:26","slug":"moonrise-alien-photo-the-pearce-orb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/24\/moonrise-alien-photo-the-pearce-orb\/","title":{"rendered":"Moonrise.  Alien Photo: the Pearce Orb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src = \"images\/moonrise.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>There was a lovely moonrise over the El Sombroso hill east of Los Gatos last night.  Perched on the ridge, the moon looked almost like a big ball the size of a baseball stadium that could roll down.  Look out!  Actually, it would be kind of bouncy, I imagine, resilient enough so that if it rolled over you, it wouldn&#039;t be a disaster.  But you&#039;d never get over that the first-hand glow.  They used to say that if you slept where the full moon could shine into your face, you&#039;d wake up a <i>lunatic<\/i>.  I had moon on my face all night in Big Sur, though screened off by mosquito mesh.  Hope the &#8220;orbs&#8221; didn&#039;t get to me.<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>Mac Tonnies alerted me to the existence of so-called &#8220;orbs&#8221; which are regarded by some as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orbsbybeans.com\/photogallery.html\" target=\"_blank\"> alien craft<\/a> captured in digital photos &#8212; which happen to be more prone to light flares than old-school film photos.<\/p>\n<p><img src = \"images\/alienpearce.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>And that is indeed a fine specimen spotted next to the seething brain of Professor Pearce.  A bit of zoom and image enhancement reveals an alien face riding within the orb, evidently peering in at us through the mouth of an Einstein-Rosen Bridge.  Perhaps its even seeing out through the screen of your computer!  &#8220;Haaah, gaaahs.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a lovely moonrise over the El Sombroso hill east of Los Gatos last night. Perched on the ridge, the moon looked almost like a big ball the size of a baseball stadium that could roll down. Look out! Actually, it would be kind of bouncy, I imagine, resilient enough so that if it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}