Jenny Randles

Which perfectly transitions into something paranormal researchers call the Oz factor.

Coined by British researcher Jenny Randles in the 1980s, it's this uncanny, profound silence people report right before a strange or anomalous event.

It's a very specific feeling.

They step into a clearing and suddenly the birds stop singing, the wind dies, distant traffic goes completely silent, and time just feels like it pauses.

There's, from a perceptions perspective, you could...

It's, uh, Jenny Randles is a U- uh, a, a British re- uf- ufologist researcher who's...

She kind of, she, she, she l- learned about, considered, um, after being really, um, following the e- the, assuming there were spaceships for a long time, she fol- uh, discovered the c- geological connection and ended up writing it all off as basically delusions through, through, um, pursing his geological vex.

And she sees it's entirely neu- neurological.

The first case I could find in the Isle of Wight occurred in January of 1952

and was investigated by UK researcher Jenny Randles.

She reports that she spoke to a man who reported an incredible encounter some 30 years after he experienced it.

As she says, I received a call from a man... who said he was an RAF radar operator on the Isle of Wight in 1952.

So, you know, my sense is that the UFO, I guess like Robert Monroe's Hemi-Sync technology, has the ability to, to influence or create this altered state of consciousness.

Yeah, it's what Jenny Randles called the Oz factor.

Exactly.

Exactly.

Whatever it was, the camera had caught it too.

Not long afterwards, the man made contact with two of the most respected investigators of unexplained phenomena in Britain, Jenny Randles and Peter Ho.

It is worth understanding who they were because the credibility of this case rests in no small part on the fact that it was these two who examined it.

Jenny was and is one of the most prolific and most level-headed writers on unexplained aerial phenomena in Britain, a researcher with a long-standing reputation for caution and for a willingness to explain away a mystery when an ordinary explanation can be found.

When Lynn asked in his best holiday French if they had two rooms for the night, the woman nodded with a quiet, unsmiling politeness that seemed almost practiced.

In his later testimony, recorded by respected British investigator Jenny Randles, Lynn Gisby described the odd, striped-back simplicity of the place.

Quote, There was no electricity anywhere that we could see.

No light switches on the walls, no telephone at the desk, no radio playing.

No light exposure, no image, nothing.

It was as if the camera shutter had opened on a place that simply wasn't there to be recorded.

So, haunted by their experience, the couples eventually took their story to Jenny Randles and researchers from the Society for Psychical Research, who began digging through French regional police and hospitality records for the region.

What the historians uncovered will make your hair stand on end, my friend.

She said, they were doing something to my eyes.

and not hurting them, something else, like they were looking inside, but also turning something off." Three years later, in 1984, a retired school teacher named Harold Burroughs from Bury Street, Edmonds, England, reported a nearly identical experience to UFO researcher Jenny Randles.

Under hypnosis, Burroughs described the final moments of his encounter, an encounter he had initially dismissed as a dream for nearly a decade.

And in almost identical language, he said, Quote, one of them put his hands near my face, both hands, just held them there.

Um...

Well, it's, it's one of those things, like, you know, Jenny Randles, when she came up with it, um, she was absolutely right.

Oh, yeah.

Because you'll read, like, older texts before when she even coined this idea, and it's there.

It's this, this sort of unnatural stillness or silence.

You see it across cultures, you see it just everywhere.

I, I, I feel like Jenny Randles is one of the most underrated ufologists or Fortians out there.

Oh, absolutely one of the most important living ufologists-

And he had his mind changed.

Conversely, you have ufologists like Jenny Randles, who I adore, and she said, I went in to ufology talking about Adamski scout ships and nuts and bolts craft.

Now I've come out, you know, 30 years later thinking this is not an et phenomena it's something which masquerades as an et phenomena and i think it's an interdimensional phenomena which has existed since our inception and has molded itself based on where we are in our evolution so that's quite a jump from from from nuts and bolts scout ships isn't it and it's also where i am as well actually

That's a bit of a Jacques Vallée perspective.