Newsflash: Sun Ra Predicts Saturn Radio Emissions

Astral Jazz Pioneer, Sun Ra, claims he was born on the planet Saturn, which is a dope little piece of science fiction that I’ve always found comforting when listening to anything from the Ra cannon. I have always believed it to be fiction however. Now I’m not so sure. Early this morning, while I was laying on the couch in a half comatose state waiting for the coffee to brew, I was listening to MPR’s report on Cassini’s first days in contact with the planet Saturn. Sure there were amazing photographs but what was really making the scientist shit flowers this morning was a strange joyful noise being broadcast from the large ringed planet. They played the audio. I was speechless. It sounded like they had just lifted a 12 second audio clip from any number of Sun Ra’s compositions. Like this little snippet (mp3) from ‘Journey Through the Outer Darkness”.

I think this is more than just coincidence.

Sun Ra is the original Afronaut and I think we all should have paid a bit more attention when Sun Ra delivered his Concert for the Comet Kohoutek back in 1973. Scientist then were baffled by the comet’s anomalous tail and continually changing form – far from the norm of usual comet behavior. Could it be that Sun Ra was in direct communication with the comet through his compositions? Perhaps, it’s entirely possible that had Sun Ra not played the infamous concert for the comet – a sort of astral lullaby – that the comet would have smashed into the planet and caused all kinds of problems. There are many mysteries to be solved in deep space but there are even greater one’s amongst the people who walk the earth.