HaLeBoT CoMpAnIoN PaGe

My Press Release Following the Cult Suicide - it got real scary at my house with Ted Koppel and Larry King calling and hate mail coming in! Now I know how Richard Jewell felt.

Houston Chronicle News Story (following my press conference)

My newest picture from April 9th

Hard to believe, but true. The national media actually initially blamed me, the Internet and talk-radio for the cult suicide! This is not surprising. Both the Internet and talk-radio are a threat to the media's old monopoly on the "truth" as they see it. I'm not surprised they tried to get me either. For a long time I've spoken out on the radio about government lies and cover-ups and a media that refuses to dig up real facts on things like the TWA 800 disaster or Vince Foster's "suicide." Blaming the Internet or talk-radio for the actions of crazy people is like blaming the U.S. Postal Service for the Unabomber.

Note: Since the cult suicide, I have deleted no information from these web pages. Even though some media have quoted some of my less serious stuff to make me sound nuts, I have left these pages up. It's important to keep them all here so that anyone can see I had no connection to what some strange adults decide to do in California. I have nothing to hide or take back. When I put this web together, I didn't think the world would be watching it, just some of my friends. If I had known it would be so watched, I would have at least spell checked this stuff. Chuck Shramek

The Great Comet of 1997

What the Hale is really going on???

Here is the picture that caused such a commotion after I posted it on the Internet and talked about it on the Art Bell radio program...It's that "Saturn" like thing to the right and above the comet that all the talk is about.

November14, 1996

The widespread distribution of this picture caused a major debunking campaign to spring up within hours. NASA, JPL and other "respectable" astronomers were quick to make false assumptions in order to explain this picture. They are wrong.

Something else to ponder:

• If I had claimed I took a picture of giant green rabbits on Neptune, would anyone have bothered to debunk me? I must have come close to revealing some truth that the powers that be wanted to be kept a secret or nobody would have cared!
• AND... months before I took this picture I knew there was a strong effort underway to keep good pictures of the comet away from the public. This cover-up was the real reason I started my comet page ---the anomalous picture I took was just a bonus!!!
• AND... I have not made a penny off any of this work. In fact it's cost me several thousand dollars - but that's OK because I learned lots of things. The biggest thing I learned is that many scientists are extremely threatened by new information that doesn't fit into their boxes. It was a far stronger reaction than I would have gotten from let's say a religious leader confronted with some discovery that might have shed doubt on their religious beliefs.

A couple of undeniable truths about the comet...

From its initial "discovery" July 23, 1995 this comet was anomalous. It was discovered 20 months out from its closest approach. Cometsare usually discovered 1 or 2 months out from their closest approach to the sun. Comets found 3 or 4 months out are very rare. Prior to Hale-Bopp's discovery the record distance out for comet discovery was 7 months out (Kohoutek in 1973 - which is why they expected it would be huge - it fizzled). I put "discovery" in quotes above because the comet has since been located on an Australian observatory survey picture taken in 1993 (40 months out!) Some believe that our government may have "discovered" the comet sooner than its official discovery date. Something very strange was making this comet visible at a distance from the sun so great that the sun is little more than a bright star - where comets are far too cold to emit their gases and become visible.

The other fact that I am sure of regarding this comet is that there has been a widespread cover-up of reliable pictures and information about it. I followed the comet on the web intensely since its discovery. Initially, there were weekly new pictures of it from the biggest telescopes in the world. The Hubble people took pictures in October of 1995 and had them on the web in a few days. Then about May 1996, the good pictures ceased to be posted. The Hubble pictures ceased even sooner. There were recent pictures from smaller and smaller scopes, or they were heavily processed or done in false color. I knew they were hiding something. When the qualityof the pictures fell below what I could get for myself with my 10"telescope and CCD imagers, I knew I had to act. This is when I decided to check out the comet for myself.

From the October-November 1995 NEXUS magazine. NEXUS recieved some e-mail from wmtim@aol.com (WmTm) on the 7 August which read:

"I work at an institution that studies data gathered from a number of 'outward looking' satellites. We first saw Hale-Bopp on July 3rd. We have determined that it has made a number of course correctionssince that time. Once we confirmed the data that suggested these corrections, government 'spooks' from some unidentified agency seized the data, and our satellites links were shut down 'for maintennance". Never beforehave we lost all our links at once. Our name for the 'comet' was 'Contact070795B'. Use that name when asking questions and see the result you get."

(Source: Stan Deyo's WATT's News, no.2, Sep 1995)"

Other Anomalous Comet Pictures - I'm not the first to see strange things with this comet!

Why Would the Vatican Build a Huge Telescope?- Do they really need a "Pope-Scope?"

Ancient Mysteries, the Space Program and Roswell Too! - Something very big and strange is going on...

My Latest Comet Pictures - these show odd waves coming from the comet!!!

Anomalies That Can Be Explained!- Acouple of odd pictures I took - and explained.

A List of HB anomalies - Are we getting messages from comets?

Debunkingthe Debunkers - I won't even get nasty like some of them did with me.

Debunking the Debunkers II - Part II with close up pictures and different exposure times.

The Faked NASA Moon Pictures! - Interesting research from a photographic expert.

NASA Speaks Out! - I quote them as accurately as they quoted me - it's only fair!!! (This one is a joke - mostly, I am starting to think that NASA does indeed stand for "Never A Straight Answer!)

Comet Prophecy- Are various prophecies converging?

Alien Abduction - Is Louis Farrakhan aware of the comet's "companion?"

Comedian Aliens - These guys area laugh riot!! - Now including 'historic' faxes about Ross Perot being an alien and perpetual motion for the masses!!!

Image of Virgin Mary on Clearwater Building -Heres a couple extra quick pics.