No saucers in this Hoover: J. Edgar biopic will side-step UFO issue

A historical epic based on the life of FBI director J. Edgar Hoover is headed for the big screen this November. Directed by Oscar winner Clint Eastwood and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, the movie will chronicle the rise to power and time in office of the legendary lawman and will also explore his closeted homosexuality.

What the movie - entitled J. Edgar - will surely not explore, however, is Hoover’s longstanding and well-documented interest in the UFO phenomenon. Documents released through the Freedom of Information Act show that the flying saucer fever that swept America during the summer of 1947 also reached as far as the Bureau’s headquarters and had Hoover himself in a sweat. He was particularly frustrated at his inability to get straight answers on the subject from the US Air Force, which he was convinced was keeping crucial UFO-related information from him.

In an FBI document dated 10 July, 1947, in response to a request from the Air Force that the Bureau assist in its flying saucer investigations, a hand-written note from Hoover reads:

“I would do it but before agreeing to it we must insist upon full access to discs recovered. For instance in the la. case the Army grabbed it and would not let us have it for cursory examination.”

A remarkable statement indeed in its unambiguous acknowledgement that – in the opinion of the FBI director at least – the US Army was already in possession of a flying disc.

Debate has raged for years in the UFO research community about the meaning of Hoover’s “la.” reference. The Roswell incident had occurred just days earlier in New Mexico – could this be what he was referring to? If so, why say “la.”? Some speculate that “la.” might be short for Los Alamos – as in Los Alamos laboratories – where wreckage from the Roswell crash(es) allegedly was sent for testing. It is also possible that Hoover was referring to an older and less well-known UFO incident: the 1942 ‘Battle of Los Angeles,’ in which one or more saucer-shaped objects hovered silently over LA for several hours, drawing heavy artillery fire from the US Army. Witnesses described the objects as being impervious to the Army’s shelling, but perhaps they were not quite so impervious as they appeared.

Whatever the precise meaning of Hoover’s note, his interest in the UFO issue was clear. A wealth of UFO documentation from the FBI’s own files is now freely available for the public to examine; it shows that the Bureau’s monitoring of the UFO phenomenon continued throughout Hoover’s four-decade reign as FBI head honcho. The full complexity of the FBI/UFO interplay is crisply elucidated by Nick Redfern in his book The FBI Files.

History may come to regard the aforementioned ‘flying disc’ document as one of the most significant Hoover ever signed. But will this – or any reference whatsoever to the UFO phenomenon – feature in Eastwood’s forthcoming movie? I wouldn’t hold your breath. Why? Because the UFO subject is missing from the pages of history as officially written. UFOs have been excised entirely from our official historical meta-narrative. It follows, then, that UFOs are also absent from Hollywood’s historical dramas. For the cinema-going UFOlogist, this absence is noticeable no more so than in movies dealing with heavyweight political figures, such as John F. Kennedy (JFK), Richard Nixon (Nixon), George W. Bush (W.), James Jesus Angleton (The Good Shepherd) – even Howard Hughes (The Aviator).

This December will see the release of the Margaret Thatcher biopic The Iron Lady, which also will undoubtedly give the UFO topic a wide berth. Thatcher, of course, was in office at the time of the famous Bentwaters UFO incidents, which involved the apparent landing on British soil of a structured craft of unknown origin and resulted in a large-scale cover-up involving the UK and US governments. On May 21, 1997, Thatcher told British researcher Georgina Bruni that, when it comes to UFOs, “You can’t tell the people.” She might have added: “And certainly not in an Oscar-worthy drama.”

To add the UFO element to fact-based political biopics in a pre-disclosure world would be to turn historical drama into sci-fi. But in a post-disclosure world, the inclusion of UFOlogical detail will seem only natural to filmmakers. Right now, the most significant chapter in modern history has yet to be explored by Hollywood creatives outside of the generic trappings of science-fiction. When disclosure finally comes, Tinseltown will have a field day.

26-09-2011 om 19:42 geschreven door peter  

Grant Cameron on Radio Mysterioso

Written by Paul Robinson

Friday, 23 September 2011 17:41

Grant Cameron will appear on Radio Mysterioso with Greg Bishop to discuss the new Clinton Library archive FOIA documents along with Area 51. Catch the interview here... Sunday 6-8pm Pacific Time (3-5pm Eastern Time). Greg Bishop's website can be found here... http://www.excludedmiddle.com/ And the live radio link is here... http://www.killradio.org/

Last Updated on Friday, 23 September 2011 17:58

New Clinton Library Documents Written by Paul Robinson Thursday, 22 September 2011 13:56 Now available for download are the latest FOIA releases from the Clinton Library Archive. Currently weighing in at a somewhat hefty 349.47 MB, you can get Grant's photographs of FOIA 2006-0474-F. This includes Dr. Steven Greer's CSETI / Project Starlight Executive Briefing Document. Click here to go to the download page. Also available are the OSTP files also known as The Rockefeller

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Ontdekking CERN kan aardverschuiving in natuurkunde betekenen

Als er deeltjes bestaan die sneller dan het licht reizen dan heeft dat immense implicaties

Zat Einstein fout? Wetenschappers komen vandaag met details over het verbazingwekkende nieuws dat in er een deeltje is gevonden dat zich beweegt aan een snelheid die groter is dan die van het licht. Iets wat tot nu onmogelijk werd geacht. Als hun metingen kloppen, dan zijn de gevolgen immens. In principe zou dat betekenen dat we informatie terug in de tijd kunnen sturen, dat de lijn tussen het verleden en het heden vervaagt en maakt de ontdekking brandhout met het (tot nu dus) fundamentele principe van oorzakelijkheid. In 2007 werd in Chicago al eens dezelfde vaststelling gedaan, maar omdat de metingen toen vielen binnen de foutmarge, en het experiment nog niet herhaald kon worden, werd ervan uitgegaan dat dat een missing was. Tot nu?

Als de ontdekking van de wetenschappers van het CERN klopt, ondermijnt dat de relativiteitstheorie van Albert Einstein. Die ging ervan uit dat niets sneller kan reizen dan het licht. Daarop is heel ons begrip van tijd en ruimte en oorzakelijkheid gestoeld. Zo is het voor ons een evidentie dat dat gebeurtenissen plaatsvinden als gevolg van bepaalde andere gebeurtenissen die daaraan vooraf gegaan zijn (een oorzaak gaat vooraf aan een gevolg). De ontdekking van het CERN en de wetenschappers in Gran Sasso zou daar komaf mee maken. 

Opera
Een internationaal team van wetenschappers maakte de onwaarschijnlijke vondst gisteren bekend en komt straks met details. De ontdekking is gedaan door wetenschappers van het Oscillation Project with Emulsion-tRacking Apparatus (kortweg Opera) in het Italiaanse Gran Sasso. Daar krijgen ze neutrinos aan die verstuurd worden 730 kilometer verder, in het CERN.

Daar wordt met een deeltjesversneller onderzoek gedaan naar de kleinste bouwstenen van het heelal. Het zou een aardverschuiving in de natuurkunde betekenen. "Het gevoel dat de meeste mensen hebben is dat dit niet kan kloppen, dat dit niet waar kan zijn", zei James Gillies, woordvoerder van het CERN. De verblufte wetenschappers hebben collega's gevraagd hun metingen onafhankelijk te verifiëren of theorieën aan te dragen die de gemeten snelheden kunnen verklaren.

De snelheden werden waargenomen in een neutronenstraal die vanuit een deeltjesversneller in Genève op een laboratorium in Italië, 730 kilometer verderop, werd afgevuurd. De neutroninos zouden hierbij zestig nanoseconden sneller zijn gegaan dan de lichtsnelheid van ongeveer driehonderdduizend kilometer per seconde.

60 miljardste van een seconde
Voor de trip tussen het CERN en Gran Sasso zou een lichtstraal 2,4 milliseconden nodig hebben. Drie jaar lang maten de wetenschappers hoe lang 15.000 neutrinos er over deden en ze stelden vast dat de neutrinos 60 nanoseconden te snel aankwamen. De "error margin" is 10 nanoseconden. Of: 20 op één miljoen neutrinos reizen niet aan 299.792.458 meter per seconde maar aan 299.798.454 meter per seconde.

De onderzoekers stelden de foutenmarge op tien nanoseconden, waardoor de afwijking op zijn minst opmerkelijk is. Vanwege de omvang van de eventuele ontdekking zijn ze maandenlang bezig geweest met het controleren en hercontroleren van de resultaten om er zeker van te zijn dat er geen fouten zijn gemaakt.

Chicago
In een laboratorium in Chicago kan de test worden nagedaan, zei Stavros Katsanevas, onderdirecteur van het Franse Nationale Instituut voor Nucleair en Deeltjesfysica-onderzoek. In 2007 werden daar ook snelheden hoger dan de lichtsnelheid gemeten, maar die vielen binnen de foutmarge, waardoor het wetenschappelijke belang werd ondermijnd.

Ook in Japan kan de test worden nagedaan, hoewel met vertraging, omdat het land nog steeds kampt met de naweeën van de ramp met een kerncentrale in maart.

"Massive, massive event"
Subir Sarkar, hoofd Particle Theory aan Oxford University noemt de ontdekking een "massive, massive event. Something nobody was expecting". 

Dat er neutrinos zouden bestaan die sneller dan het licht reizen werd in 1985 al voorspeld door Alan Kostelecky van de Indiana University. Volgens de regeltjes kunnen de wetenschappers wel degelijk van een ontdekking spreken. Statistisch zitten ze aan zes standaardafwijkingen, terwijl er maar vijf deviaties nodig zijn. Het is trouwens iets wat nogal wat wetenschappers opmerken: het ziet er naar uit dat het team statistisch sterke cijfers kan voorleggen. (mvl)

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Opm Peter - Ik heb dit en het vorige artikel uit Het Laatste Nieuws integraal op deze blog gezet, gezien het belangvan dit resultaat. De wetenschap dacht altijd dat sneller reizen dan het licht onmogelijk was, maar blijkbaar bestaan er "deeltjes", die dat wsel kunnen! Kan het theoretisch mogelijk zijn dat een buitenaardse intelligente beschaving, die honderden, duuizenden, ... jaren verder geëvolueerd zijn dan wij, nog andere dingen ontdenkt hebben om sneller dna het licht te reizen? Hebben zij een manier ontdekt om de voor ons "onoverbrugbare" afstanden in het heelal toch te verkleinen?

24-09-2011 om 18:53 geschreven door peter  

Fysici meten elementaire deeltjes sneller dan licht

Er zijn neutrino's gemeten aan een snelheid net boven die van het licht. De lichtsnelheid werd nochtans gezien als "een niet te overschrijden limiet", melden fysici van het CNRS (Centre Nationale de la recherche scientifique).

Neutrino's zijn ongeladen elementaire deeltjes. Volgens de wetenschappers leverden hun experiment, dat zes maanden lang door specialisten werd geverifieerd, een "totaal onverwacht" resultaat op. Andere tests moeten het resultaat definitief bekrachtigen. (belga/vsv)

24-09-2011 om 18:47 geschreven door peter  

Brokstukken satelliet boven Hawaii gespot

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HLN UPDATE   Er zijn brokstukken van de Amerikaanse satelliet UARS op aarde gevallen zegt Nasa. Maar waar die neerkwamen is niet duidelijk. Inwoners van Hawaii zeggen dat ze twee rookpluimen door de lucht zagen trekken. Vermoedelijk zijn de brokstukken dus in de Stille Oceaan terechtgekomen.

Rond het verwachte tijdstip van ondergang vloog de UARS boven Afrika, Australië en Noord-Amerika. De satelliet is grotendeels verbrand in de dampkring, maar enkele grote onderdelen, een stuk of 26, zouden als brokstukken neerkomen. Die wegen bij elkaar meer dan 500 kilo.

De UARS (Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite) is een afgedankte Amerikaanse onderzoekssatelliet. Ze werd in september 1991 in een baan rond de aarde gebracht en sinds 2005 buiten gebruik. De ondergang van de UARS wordt de grootste satellietcrash sinds 1979.

Toen stortten onderdelen van het ruimtestation Skylab neer in het westen van Australië. Daarbij raakte niemand gewond. In 2001 werd het Russische ruimtestation Mir gecontroleerd teruggebracht in de dampkring. (mvl)

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24-09-2011 om 18:46 geschreven door peter  

UFO NEWS | UPDATE: Petit-Rechain UFO Photo - Belgium UFO Flap (1989-90)

By Leslie Kean
Coalition for Freedom of Information
September 2011

Petit-Rechain UFO Photo - The Current Situation

The photographer Patrick Marechal (PM) says he hoaxed it by making a Styrofoam model. One friend of his from the factory has been interviewed by one investigator, who stated that he helped make the model. He was not present when the picture was taken. This corroborating witness is the only evidence PM has produced to back up his claim of a hoax.

Working against him are the following points:

• He refuses to give investigators the name and contact info of his girlfriend, now his ex-wife, who was there when he took the photo.

• PM is trying to get money from the person he sold the copyright to, and is taking him to court to claim it. That person, Guy Mossay, a well-known journalist who worked for a leading Belgian press agency, states they had a written agreement giving him ownership of the photo, as was standard; PM claims there was no agreement. There are other contradictions in interviews with both of them. Mossay, who since moved to France, is trying to find the agreement. This battle could give PM a motive for claiming the photo is a hoax – to get back at Mossay – but this is pure speculation.

• PM says he has 12 photos of the original model hanging from a wire, and that he would look for them, but he hasn’t produced them.

• PM said he would recreate the model and the photo. When he presented his recreated photo to investigator Patrick Ferryn, it did not look like the Petit Rechain photo. PM says it’s because they no longer make the same bulbs he used at the time.

• How was the ‘halo effect” as documented by Prof. Marion created by a Styrofoam model? Marion died a year ago, but this question needs to be posed to other scientists. Also, could the unique characteristics of the corner lights and their rotations, with a very different central light, have been created with light bulbs? If PM can’t recreate it, can someone else? The other scientists who analyzed the Petit Rechain photo need to be approached for a new look at the picture. And other analysts who have never seen it before could provide additional insights.

For now, we have to operate under the assumption that the photo was faked.

However, this is not a simple situation, and there are still unanswered questions. Greater proof is needed.

Patrick Marechal is a liar – either then or now – so his evidence must be discarded. But this does not impact all the hundreds of sightings that were reported during the Belgian wave, and this possible hoax must not be used to undermine the strength of the Belgian wave as an historic, well-documented event.

Labels: 1989-90, Belgium, By Leslie Kean, Flap, Hoax, Patrick Marechal, Petit-Rechain, Photo, Photograph, UFO

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22 September 2011 Last updated at 17:28 GMT By Jason Palmer Science and technology reporter, BBC News

The neutrinos are fired deep under the Italian Alps at Gran Sasso

Puzzling results from Cern, home of the LHC, have confounded physicists - because it appears subatomic particles have exceeded the speed of light.

Neutrinos sent through the ground from Cern toward the Gran Sasso laboratory 732km away seemed to show up a tiny fraction of a second early.

The result - which threatens to upend a century of physics - will be put online for scrutiny by other scientists.

In the meantime, the group says it is being very cautious about its claims.

"We tried to find all possible explanations for this," said report author Antonio Ereditato of the Opera collaboration.

"We wanted to find a mistake - trivial mistakes, more complicated mistakes, or nasty effects - and we didn't," he told BBC News.

"When you don't find anything, then you say 'Well, now I'm forced to go out and ask the community to scrutinise this.'"

Caught speeding?

The speed of light is the Universe's ultimate speed limit, and much of modern physics - as laid out in part by Albert Einstein in his special theory of relativity - depends on the idea that nothing can exceed it.

Thousands of experiments have been undertaken to measure it ever more precisely, and no result has ever spotted a particle breaking the limit.

But Dr Ereditato and his colleagues have been carrying out an experiment for the last three years that seems to suggest neutrinos have done just that.

Neutrinos come in a number of types, and have recently been seen to switch spontaneously from one type to another.

The team prepares a beam of just one type, muon neutrinos, sending them from Cern to an underground laboratory at Gran Sasso in Italy to see how many show up as a different type, tau neutrinos.

In the course of doing the experiments, the researchers noticed that the particles showed up a few billionths of a second sooner than light would over the same distance.

The team measured the travel times of neutrino bunches some 15,000 times, and have reached a level of statistical significance that in scientific circles would count as a formal discovery.

But the group understands that what are known as "systematic errors" could easily make an erroneous result look like a breaking of the ultimate speed limit, and that has motivated them to publish their measurements.

"My dream would be that another, independent experiment finds the same thing - then I would be relieved," Dr Ereditato said.

But for now, he explained, "we are not claiming things, we want just to be helped by the community in understanding our crazy result - because it is crazy".

"And of course the consequences can be very serious."

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Sightings of UFOs were also reported in Argentina, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Greece, Spain, England and Scotland in the United Kingdom.

The purpose of these files is to report the UFO eyewitness and photo/video evidence that occurs on a daily basis around the world and in space. These Files assume that extraterrestrial intelligent life not only exists, but my hypothesis is that the over a thousand UFOs reported each month represent technologically advanced spacecraft conducting surveillance of Earth. I personally became interested in UFOs when London Control ordered me to intercept one over England while flying for the US Air Force. Under Project Blue Book, the US Air Force investigated UFOs for more than twenty years; and we continue this research. I believe the God of the universe has spread life throughout the cosmos and UFO's are visiting us in ever-increasing numbers. "For we are not fighting against people made of flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Ephesians 6

Special Reports

Sightings Increase

UFO reports during August increased across the country for MUFON with over a thousand sightings. The National UFO Reporting Center, the National UFO Center, and UFOs Northwest, etc also had increased sightings. The rise in UFO reports may be the result of summer weather or an increased interest of the public in reporting sightings. Each week I send out 8,500 emails containing Filer's Files. Since August 1^st, five hundred new subscribers have requested these files. A big, warm welcome to all our new readers! Much of the increase is due to the excellent MUFON Conference in Irvine, California, and the MUFON website and greater interest by the public. I welcome our new readers who will start to understand the real truth and worldwide intelligence situation.

Debris of US satellite to fall down on Earth Friday

The debris of a defunct US satellite will fall down on earth earlier than was originally expected. The Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) is an orbital observatory whose mission was to study the Earth's atmosphere, particularly the protective ozone layer. The fragments of the UARS spacecraft will reach the surface of our planet this Friday.

Scientists are still uncertain about the place where the debris may fall. It goes about 26 components weighing 532 kg in total. The designated territory, where the pieces of the spacecraft may fall, currently exceeds 800 km in diameter.

Specialists say that there is no reason for panic. The fall of the debris is highly unlikely to cause injuries among civilians in the USA. Most likely, the debris will fall into the ocean, Rosbalt reports. It was previously thought the fragments might fall on Russia. The 5,900 kg (13,000 lb) satellite was deployed in 1991 from Space Shuttle Discovery mission STS-48. Thanks to NASA

Colonel Ed Black Writes about Deltas?

Colonel Black sent this unconfirmed report, "During the 1920's and 1930's astronomers all over the world were reporting strange flashes and blinking lights on the surface of the Moon, that was dismissed as being impacts of meteorites. An alien race known as "The Delta" has exploited our Moon for hundreds of years, they have conducted mining operations on a massive scale and there is not a 50 mile square area on the surface of the Moon that does not show evidence of this. As you know, we only see the near side of the Moon while the far is always facing away and is the current focus of Delta mining activity. During the 1920's, and 30's Delta knew that we were well into our scientific age and that it would be but a matter of years before we would be intensely studying the Moon, and thus they greatly expanded their operations on the visible side, and got all they could get out of it before having to withdraw to the hidden side.

The Delta are not full of good will towards us, they consider us to be slightly more important than a nuisance, but they do have a strong moral code and have often shown a great deal of restraint where it concerns us. By and large they respect that the Earth is our planet, our rightful place, they come and go from Earth as they please, whenever they have a need to do so, for example, we do know that they have removed water from our oceans and taken it to the Moon, they have conducted mining on Earth as well but in a much more conservative manner. They have a much different point of view when it concerns the Moon; they do not view it as being ours. They have blasted huge craters into the Moon's crust in order to expedite mining and have robbed the Moon of millions of tons of precious crystals that one day we might very well need ourselves.

There was an extensive initial meeting in Cuba between The Delta and The Project Utopia Committee, Codename Crown, in the early spring of 1943. A measured amount of scientific technology was provided by The Delta in return for a solemn agreement that The Delta would remain unknown by the general population, that they had exclusive rights to the Moon and would not be interfered with at any time in the future and that Army Project Echo, that bounced radio signals off the Moon, would be canceled. Among the technology that was provided by the Delta was transistor technology and aerodynamic technology that eventually led to jet propulsion.

Spacecraft Sees Solar Storm Engulf Earth

August 18, 2011: For the first time, a spacecraft far from Earth has turned and watched a solar storm engulf our planet. The movie, released today during a NASA press conference, has galvanized solar physicists, who say it could lead to important advances in space weather forecasting.

"The movie sent chills down my spine, says Craig DeForest of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado. "It shows a CME swelling into an enormous wall of plasma and then washing over the tiny blue speck of Earth where we live at far left. I felt very small. NASA is warning the solar storms in 2012 may be quite severe and effect satellites and electrical distribution on Earth. NASA image.

Editor's Note: The Sun's solar increasing solar activity affects the Earth's magnetic field causing a dramatic affect on the Earth's weather, floods, hurricanes; earthquakes, volcanoes, so does this wave of electrical currents affect the human body's magnetic field. My dermatologist warned me to stay out of the sun; skin cancer is growing among the population at an alarming rate.

Not just science fiction: Planet orbits two Suns

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) -- Astronomers say a bit of science fiction is now reality. They've spotted a planet orbiting two suns. The discovery was made by NASA's planet-hunting telescope Kepler. Scientists describe the find in Friday's issue of the journal Science. They are calling the new planet Tatooine (tah-too-WEEN') after the fictional body in the "Star Wars" films that boasts a double sunset.

The alien world, about the size of Saturn, is frigid and inhospitable. It orbits two stars 200 light-years from Earth. This image provided by NASA shows an artist's depiction. (AP photo/NASA)

Abductee Charles Hickson Dies

(Reuters) - Pascagoula -- Charles Hickson, the Mississippi man who claimed he was abducted and probed by aliens while he was fishing with a friend and never backed off the story despite the ridicule he endured, has died. Hickson, 80, died last Friday of a heart attack. Hickson, then 42, was fishing with 19-year-old Calvin Parker Jr. on a pier near Pascagoula, Mississippi in October 1973 when they said, "A cigar-shaped UFO with flashing blue lights suddenly appeared above us and its door opened up and we were pulled into the craft by aliens, who paralyzed us examined us and then let us go.

Although Hickson was reluctant to share the story -- he said all he and Parker wanted to do "was go fishing" and he feared people would "laugh me out of Jackson County" -- he and Parker eventually went to local police and reported the incident. "They weren't lying," the chief investigator for the Jackson County Sheriff's Department told reporters at the time. "Whatever it was, it was real to them."As word of their claims leaked out, Hickson and Parker became minor celebrities, celebrated by believers in extraterrestrial life.

In 1974, after wire services picked up the story, Hickson appeared on a number of national TV programs, including The Dick Cavett Show. In 1983, Hickson wrote a book about the incident called "UFO Contact at Pascagoula" with William Mendez. On the night of October 10, 1973, there was a UFO sighting by fifteen different witnesses who saw a strange, unknown object fly over a housing project in New Orleans, Louisiana. Two of the witnesses were policeman. This sighting would only be the beginning of what was to occur the next night on the nearby Pascagoula River. Two fishermen, nineteen-year-old Calvin Parker, and forty-two-year-old Charles Hickson were about to have an experience that would forever change their lives. Hickson and Calvin Parker (shown here) were good friends, and often fished together in the waters of the Pascagoula River. When they heard a strange buzzing sound, they turned to see an egg-shaped object with bluish front lighting. The object was only a few feet above the water, and about ten yards from the two frightened fishermen.

While they sat stunned, looking at the weird flying machine, a door opened in the UFO, and to their utter amazement, three beings of unknown origin began to float toward the two. The beings were"... about five feet tall, had bullet-shaped heads without necks, slits for mouths, and where their noses or ears would be, they had thin, conical objects sticking out, like carrots from a snowman's head."

Suddenly, two of the odd-looking beings grabbed Hickson, while the third being snatched Parker, who immediately fainted from fear. The beings supported Hickson by literally holding up his body. As they did, he felt numbness over his entire body. By some power he could not see, he was floated into the bowels of the waiting object to a brightly-lit room. The room had no gravity. He floated with a strange eye-like device. This device would go over his entire body as if it was scanning him. After the eye-like device was finished with Hickson, he was left floating in the room alone. The beings had probably left to examine Parker. Twenty minutes after the ordeal had begun, it was over. Hickson was now floated back out of the craft. Back on the river bank, he could see Parker, who was crying and praying on the ground. Shortly, the strange flying object rose straight into the night sky, and flew away.

After some time to regain their senses and strength, they began to talk about what action they should take. At first they were afraid to report their experience, but they felt obligated to tell someone. What if these beings were taking other people in the area? Fighting fears of public ridicule, they called Kessler Air Force Base in Biloxi. They were instructed to report their incident to the local sheriff's department.

They decided instead to go to their local newspaper office, but it was closed. Their only one recourse was the sheriff, who thought their story was a hoax or trick. Trying to get to the bottom of their story, the two fishermen were placed in a room wired for sound. It was thought that they would discuss the joke between themselves, and their story would be found out. This was not to be. Soon law enforcement personnel knew that something had certainly frightened Hickson and Parker, and that this was no joke.

It would be no time until details of the alleged abduction began to leak out to the public. First, the account of the incident was published in local newspapers, soon followed by the wire services. In a matter of a couple of days, the Pascagoula, Mississippi, abduction was a big news item over the entire United States. Aerial Phenomena Research Organization (APRO) sent University of California professor James Harder to investigate the story. Dr. J. Allen Hynek, who represented the U.S. Air Force, also, would research the case.

Harder and Hynek interviewed the two fishermen together. Harder tried to do regressive hypnosis on Hickson, but the abductee was so frightened, that the hypnosis was stopped. To get things off on solid ground, both of the witnesses took polygraph tests, and both passed without a problem. They both believed that the two tormented men were telling the truth.

Esteemed UFO researcher J. Allen Hynek would proclaim that "... there was definitely something here that was not terrestrial."Even after thirty-plus years, both Calvin Parker and Charles Hickson still testify to the same story, and have never wavered in their account of what happened that October night on the Pascagoula River.

There have been many articles, magazine reports, and television documentaries done on the case, and the two men have given numerous interviews about their experience. Their account, although bizarre, is one of the best researched and documented alien abduction cases in UFO history. http://aliens-ufo-site.blogspot.com/

Mars New Evidence of Tubes

Joseph Skipper writes: As in the previous Report The Real Tubes on Mars, you can see in the image of additional evidence drawn from MOC strip E 12-03186, in this new image from a different location is additional giant tube evidence. The top or northern most tube is again the most fully formed. All these images demonstrate that the northern most fully formed tubes border on natural adjacent terrain to the immediate north. You can more clearly see the sunlight reflections gleaming off of the top surface of the main top tube system.

Notice the clear at least semi-translucent equality of the main tube and that the cohesive mass to the immediate south of the tube has many parallel wrinkles in it. The light gleam and reflection reveals the edges of a narrow band of depression indentation that runs the entire longitudinal length axis of the main tube top surface and note it is fairly uniform in its width. This looks very much like something due to fairly recent expansion stress. To exist in such a massive elevated rounded unsupported form, the most obvious explanation is that they are lighter and less massive because they are hollow and their dome like semi-translucent quality and rounded dome like shape and very glassy smooth outer surface clearly supports such a conclusion.

The tubes probably carry water. The most obvious conclusion is that the fully blown tubes are artificial constructs of some higher intelligent life form based on a super elongated dome principle forming a protective shielded habitat of some kind.

Read more at: http://www.marsanomalyresearch.com/evidence-reports/2002/046/realtubesII.htm

Thanks to Joseph Skipper

Astrophysicist Claims Giant Spaceships are Orbiting Mars

Dirk Vander Ploeg writes, " Astrophysicist Dr. Iosif Samuilovich Shklovsky calculated the orbital motion of Martian satellite Phobos and came to the jaw-dropping conclusion that the moon is artificial, hollow, and basically a titanic spaceship.

Phobos is spaceship says famous scientist Dr. Iosif Samuilovich Shklovsky

The scientist is world-renown for penning the classic science book, "Intelligent Life in the Universe with famous Cornell University professor, the late Carl Sagan of PBS and Voyager space probe fame.

Mars' two moons, Phobos and Deimos, translate into "fear and "horror, as Mars is named after the god of war. Both satellites were discovered in 1877 by U.S. astronomer Asaph Hall.

Both moons are extremely odd, especially the tumbling moon of fear: Phobos. Two facts deeply troubled Shklovsky. First, both moons are too small. No other planet in the solar system has moons as tiny as the Martian moons. Second, their origin bothered him. Were they captured asteroids as others assumed? No, they could not be! Their orbital plane was all wrong. And they're much too close to Mars. Even more amazing"Phobos changes its speed from time to time.

Phobos is shaped like interstellar spaceship. Russian astronomer Dr. Cherman Struve spent months calculating the Martian moons' orbits with extreme accuracy early in the 20th Century. Yet, Shklovsky astutely noted, as the years progressed into decades the mystery moon's orbital velocity and position no longer matched its mathematically predicted position.

After lengthy study of the tidal, gravitic, and magnetic forces, Shklovsky came to the inescapable conclusion that no natural causes could account for the origins of the two odd moons or their bizarre behavior, particularly that exhibited by Phobos.

The orbit of that fantastic moon was so peculiar, so bizarre, that Phobos had to be a gigantic spaceship. Every other possible cause was carefully considered and resignedly rejected. Either alternate explanations had no supporting proof or the math was wildly off.

Phobos had to be accelerating as it lost altitude, yet could the outer fringes of the thin Martian atmosphere cause a braking action? During an interview about the peculiarities surrounding Phobos, Shklovsky said, "In order to make this braking action so significant, and taking into account the extremely rarefied Martian atmosphere at this altitude, Phobos should have very small mass, that is, very low average density, approximately one thousand times smaller than the density of water.

A density that low, less than an Earth cloud, would have dispersed Phobos eons ago. That could not be the solution. "But can a continuous solid have such low density, probably smaller than that of air? Of course not! There's only one way in which the requirements of coherence, constancy of shape of Phobos, and it's extremely small average density can be reconciled. We must assume that Phobos is a hollow, empty body, resembling an empty tin can.

Like a spaceship is a tin can in the cosmos. For all intents and purposes, the Apollo Lunar Excursion Module was a tin can exceedingly smaller than Phobos, of course."Well, can a natural celestial body be hollow? Never! Therefore, Phobos must have an artificial origin and be an artificial Martian satellite. The peculiar properties of Deimos, though less pronounced than those of Phobos, also point toward an artificial origin.

Are alien spaceships the size of small moons orbiting Mars? That makes the so-called "Face on Mars look ridiculously feeble by comparison! Yet, no less than the United States Naval Observatory stated: "Dr. Shklovsky quite correctly calculated that if the acceleration of Phobos is true, the Martian moon must be hollow, since it cannot have the weight of a natural body and behave in the prescribed manner.

Thus, even that august American institution conceded that mysterious alien ships might be orbiting Mars

Strange monolith on surface of Phobos

Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin revealed during an interview on CSPAN's Washington Journal, "We should go boldly where man has not gone before. Fly by the comets, visit asteroids, visit the moon of Mars. There's a monolith there. A very unusual structure on this potato shaped object that goes around Mars once in seven hours. When people find out about that they're going to say who put that there?' The universe put it there. If you choose, God put it there Speculations over what the giant artificial spaceships might be have ranged from massive Martian space observatories, to half-completed generational interstellar spaceships. NASA/JPL image. Thanks to http://www.ufocasebook.com/

UFO Sightings in the United States

Alabama Orb

Cherokee County-- My wife and I were on our deck when I took these photos around 8:29 PM, on August 13, 2011. The object moved across the sky within one minute moving east slowly and then quickly disappeared. It made different shapes in each photo. Thanks to William Puckett Director UFOs Northwest http://ufosnw.com

Arizona Double Objects and Five V' Shaped Crafts

PHOENIX -- ABC15 TV reports dozens of sightings of horizontal moving lights in the sky over the city and surrounding states on September 14, 2011 about 8 PM. Many amateur photographers and the TV station captured video of two different flying objects. Calls to government authorities did not identify the objects. But an expert told the Los Angeles Times there was a more natural explanation: It was a likely "near-Earth asteroid," no bigger than a basketball.

Thousands of people from Phoenix to Los Angeles reported seeing the bright streak of light.

"It's sort of Mother Nature's shot across the bow," said Don Yeomans, a Jet Propulsion Laboratory Fellow who manages NASA's Near Earth Object Program. "It's an impressive light show, one of Mother Nature's best."Yeoman's said any object smaller than 30 meters isn't going to cause damage on the ground."No one should be concerned," he said. "We basically ran it over." Thanks to MUFON CMS

Bullhead City -- About 7:15 PM, on September 13, 2011, I was returning home on Highway 95, I was just passing the entrance to Home Depot when I noticed five V' shaped crafts flying in formation coming down the Colorado River from the north. They were flying very slow and only 50 feet from the river as they approached. I stopped the car and watched them stop in mid air and hover. Then they started moving again in the same direction. They continued for another 200 yards then all of a sudden a blue white light flashed and they flew out of sight so fast I couldn't believe it. Thanks to MUFON CMS

California Four Saucers

La Jolla -- My then girlfriend (wife now) were walking along the edge of the beach only a block from our apartment on October 17, 1965, at 7: 15 PM, when we saw four flying saucers going south at less than 1/2 mile in height. I am an engineer having worked for companies involved in the design of aircraft, missiles, and outer space vehicles. They were flying in a diagonal line formation, and were definitely piloted. They were moving and separately undulating up and down as though slightly buffeted by the wind. They emitted no lights and made not a single perceptible sound. No engine sound was perceptible. These vehicles were not birds, not airplanes, not anything but saucer shaped vehicles and close to us.

I concentrated on the dark brown under rim of the saucers of perhaps two feet in width. The vehicles were the color of aluminum with three hemispheric undercarriages spaced circularly at 120 degrees apart. My girlfriend's viewed the top most portions with yellow light in the portholes. They flew past us at 350 miles per hour, less than 1/2 mile from us at the closest point. They were about 150 feet in diameter each and 20 feet in height. They flew in the direction of San Diego. I phoned the San Diego Airport, the Miramar Naval Station and police who told me they had not received any calls.

Note: This witness should know the difference between a conventional aircraft and a UFO. I believe him. The sighting must be "thoroughly etched" in his memory given that he remembers the date of an event that occurred nearly 46 years ago. Thanks to William Puckett Director UFOs Northwest http://ufosnw.com

Colorado Orbs

Denver -- This is a direct response to the posting of a UFO on September 12, 2011 at 8 PM! I too witnessed this event and I must say I was awestruck, however upon further examination it is my conclusion that the UFO's or orbs were not out of the world visitors. Instead they were four F-16's doing a flyover from the Buckley Air National Guard for the opening Monday Night Football game of the Denver Broncos shortly after 8 pm. There was 7000 feet cloud coverage and the F-16's were flying formation with their navigation lights on, which may have given the illusion of bright white yellow orbs. I wish this was a true UFO sighting, but I am sorry to say it was a natural man made event! Thanks to MUFON CMS

Florida Sightings

Lake Harris -- I decided to file this report

of a September 16, 2011, as this particular sighting was one of many sightings of erratic overhead lights moving at very high altitude, as if the overhead lights and lights on the lake were working together. The extremely bright star like objects appear on the western shore near Yalaha where development is very scarce. Sightings occur mostly after 10 Pm, almost every night. The objects pulsate like a strobe light, hovering, and then maneuvering. The object hummed like electricity. During a late August sighting the light instantly deadened into laser-like, non directional bright red light and disappeared for the night.

When the light gets excited, the nearby dock lights and street lights on the mainland began to pulse and flicker, as if a magnetic field is being disturbed. The luminosity of the light is too dammed bright sharp and clear, changing many colors and mesmerizing. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Michigan Light

Canton -- I was at my apartment and walked out to my car with my girlfriend to go to the store at 9 pm, on September 17, 2011. We noticed an object that also looked like a moving star that was directly over top of us moving southeast when it became an extremely bright pulsating light. It was like a meteor when it skips off the atmosphere, and flew on its way and dimmed down to its original light intensity. It continued southeast towards the Metro Airport where it suddenly disappeared. CMS

New Jersey Large Hovering Triangle and Disc

Hoboken --After seeing an all white jumbo jet without any markings pass above me on September 18, 2011, I noticed high above a small white object sitting motionless. It did not move for at least four minutes and I ran inside and returned with my Canon Camera and took about ten shots. I called my neighbor Mike to witness the object. He could not figure out what it could be as it flew slowly west. I took 24 in all. Then it stopped and started moving backward. When I downloaded the images, I was surprised to find it changing shape in every shot. Thanks to MUFON CMS

New Mexico Very Bright Light

Las Cruces -- On September 18, 2011, while taking a walk at sunset I noticed a very bright star like object in the northern sky, far enough away that it was obscured by the few clouds. I returned home and got my binoculars and viewed the object which was clearly the shape of a hot air balloon or triangle. I then looked at it through a telescope and affirmed that it was reflecting the sunlight as it slowly changed from bright silver to orange to deep red and moved very slowly west. My husband and I think it was some sort of weather balloon, but it was puzzling nevertheless, so I thought I would report it. CMS

New York Cylindrical Objects

Montauk -- My wife and I were spending the weekend at a motel in Montauk on September 9, 2011, my wife called me to see something in the sky as she had no idea as to what it could be. I stepped onto the terrace to see a cylindrical or disc shaped object with a bright yellow to orange color radiating above below the full length of the object at 8:15 PM, above the Atlantic Ocean. It was travelling east at a speed greater than a passenger jet and disappeared.

To our amazement fifteen minutes later another identical object appeared from the northwest sky, continuing south and then turning towards the east. It was travelling at the same rate of speed and again disappeared in the eastern sky. At 8:50 PM, for the third time I observed another object travelling from the northern sky heading south and turning east. When it was almost directly in front of me this object made a sudden stop, or right turn to the south, and flew upward in steep climb, at a tremendous rate of speed. Thanks to MUFON CMS

South Carolina Triangle

33.836081N 81.1637245 W --Got up to use the bathroom which like most guys do outside look up and see five lights on September18, 2011. It had a triangle shape and was moving fast toward the north. It kind of spooked me. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Pennsylvania Flying Object Cylinder

Hellertown -- At 11:15 PM on September 15th, 2011, my wife and I pulled over on I-78 spotting an odd plane whose lighting did not match anything we have seen. It had strange yellow-gold oscillating lights mounted on its metallic hull. We observed the object for ten minutes that glided effortlessly over the top of us proceeding past the nearby tree line. The object seemed to be metallic in nature, with three couplings to house three large yellow-gold lights. It flew on making movements overtop of the city of Allentown close by. We witnessed several more of the same type of yellow gold lights in the distance making oscillating light patterns. The included Microsoft paint doodle is a rendition of the craft. Thanks to MUFON CMS

MORISVILLE -- I was taking photos of clouds, and when I viewed the images I noticed a strange object in the second of a series of three on August 15, 2011. These were taken one after another, seconds apart. This is how I know it is not a cloud formation or conventional craft.

There was not enough time between photos for it to have been either. The first photo was taken at 3:02 pm the 2nd at 3:03 pm and the 3rd at 3:03 pm. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Texas UFO near Contrails

Austin -- I caught one of those balls of light up in the clouds/contrails on video moving right to left. It is next to middle contrails. I saw one so I went and grabbed my camera. The contrails were very visible and they were not that far away. Maybe this one was just too close following the clouds/ contrails. I see these things every so often. Where I am at is not that far from the Austin Bergstrom Airport. What are they? I can tell you for sure that it was not a plane.

I used a Sony DCR-SR68 video camera. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Utah Dot

WENDOVER -- My friend and I were driving west on I-80 through Utah between 4 to 4:30 pm. I saw a small black dot against the sky cover and thought it might be a blimp or a hot air balloon. I took a picture of it as a joke saying we found a UFO on our way out to California. After a few minutes driving it was no longer black and was white, almost as if it was reflecting the sunlight. My friend thought it appeared to be in the shape of a fish, and I thought it had looked like a space shuttle. There was wind blowing so we found it bizarre that this object didn't seem to sway back and forth or indicate some sort of movement. Thanks to MUFON Thanks to MUFON CMS

Washington 50 Witnesses Watch Flying Orbs

Seattle -- Over 50 witnesses watched as seven flying orange orbs or fireballs flew in formation over South Seattle, on September 10, 2011 at around 1030 PM. The witnesses described possibly Chinese lanterns flying in formation as the red orange fireball like orbs fly south for over two minutes and then disappear

Note: It is not clear if the witness knows that the orbs were Chinese Lanterns or if he is comparing them to Chinese Lanterns. Questions have been posed to the witness. Updates will be posted. Thanks to William Puckett Director UFOs Northwest http://ufosnw.com

Snohomish -- The witness was taking sequential photos automatically every five seconds of hot air balloons on September 4, 2011; at 7:25 PM. Suddenly a white object appears that is flying in the opposite direction of the balloons. The witness thought that the object could have been a satellite until it turned around (reversing direction) and then vanished!

The witness produced a nice video documenting his sighting and photos. This documentary can be viewed on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WendoverxQj1U_O08UY

Note: The witness has made a strong case that this light is unexplained and unidentified. I agree. Thanks to William Puckett Director UFOs Northwest http://ufosnw.com

Wisconsin Lights and V Shaped Object

New Berlin -- My wife pulled into driveway and noticed four bright red/orange lights in sky in close formation. She called me to come outside and I saw two ufos. One was V' shaped with four red/orange lights; the other object was a single red/orange light. The V' shaped one's four lights hovered then shifted and moved and became one red light. It was rather large, quite spectacular really. They eventually flew off beyond sight. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Worldwide UFO Reports

Argentina Sphere

Bah-a Blanca -- There was static sphere lighting all over the place and I can watch as the UFOs structures form. We could see them without flashing in our eyes. It was very clear with the surface changing like the sun. I went for my binoculars, and I watched with my neighbor for ten minutes.

The sphere flew fast into the sky in one second without any noise. The sphere appeared static over the street, and cars did not move in the street for those ten minutes in June 1992.

Thanks to MUFON CMS

Australia Flashing Light

ADELAIDE -- Benz writes, "I looked up to the clear sky on September 19, 2011, when I saw a flashing light that was making maneuvers so I raced inside to get my camera. In the first clip you can see a passenger plane and see the UFO that mainly flashes white and blue, flickering rapidly then blinking on and off. There was several times when I could see a flash of red and a strange reflection as if the light was glowing against a cloud, but there were no clouds. I had trouble focusing on the object and pulled over on a quiet street and continued to film. Eventually it shot out of sight. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqrFLnsl1zM, - Thanks to Benz1980I

Bulgaria Red Lights

Bourgas -- We saw two red stationary lights close together in a diamond or rectangle shape flashing together in fluttery ways on July 31, 2011. Then they separated into small white lights moving across the sky in opposite directions miles apart until fading into nothing. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Canada Pulsating Colors

HAMILTON, ONTARIO -- My friend and I were on her balcony on the 12th floor, having a cigarette on September 17, 2011, when she noticed an object hovering over the city much higher than the rest of the skyscrapers. It was large and looked far away. It pulsated many colors quickly. I tried to take photos of the object, but it did not show up. I think this is because it was pulsating so quickly. It was round and not well defined and its edges were blurry. It was hard to keep track of the colors because of the fast pulsating. I believe it was blue, yellow and red. It was hovering in the same spot for over an hour. Thanks to MUFON CMS

China TV

Chinese TV captured this object that might be a kite or a UFO. Several possible UFOs were shown.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mT-_X0PO8xo

Greece Triangle

51 29 N' 14 80 E. -- We saw a bluish grey V' shaped craft, with a bit of a haze surrounding it on September 3, 2011. It seemed large in size. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Spain Orange Light

Barcelona -- I saw an orange light on June 23, 2011, that at first I thought was a plane but it grew larger and flew faster than a plane. I thought it was going to crash but it leveled off at 200 meters high shining in red and orange. It flew parallel, slowly, and then started a steady climbed into the sky like a rocket. Thanks to MUFON CMS

UK/ England

Scotland 55.37805 N 3.435973 W -- On September 20, 2011, I was out walking my dog and heard a buzzing sound and looked to see what it was. I thought it was a cloud that sort of hovered then glided forward. It was there one second then it blended with the clouds and came back and looked reflective. The longest it was clearly visible was about ten seconds which is the time I got the photo. It gave me goose bumps and made the hair go static as it blended and never reappeared. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Honiton in Devon -- What can I say I was out taking photos on March 7, 2011, didn't see it at the time I got the film developed.

You can see in the top right is what I seem to have captured on film, any ideas? Imaged scanned in.

Thanks to MUFON CMS

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Let’s go to the movies — again

Hate to keep banging this tired old drum, but what is it about UFO discussions that prompt so-called skeptics to resort to sci-fi movie analogies? There’s something a little constipated going on here, and there has to be a clinical name for it. To quote my favorite guru, James Brown, “SOMEbody HE’P me!”

Mainstream science can handle UFO debates, so long as they're confined to big-screen metaphors/CREDIT: scootershoptalk.blogspot.com

I’m thinking specifically of SETI astronomer Seth Shostak’s podcast interview last year with UFOs On the Record author Leslie Kean. Shostak devoted a whopping nine minutes to the debate without mentioning the strongest cases in her book. Time is an issue, fine, no problem, understood. But whoa — at the end of the show, he and podcast producer Molly Bentley managed to find eight minutes to speculate on the imaginary warp-drive properties of Hollywood spaceships in “District 9,” “Close Encounters,” “Independence Day,” etc. No discussion of real-life radar records of the Japan Air Lines UFO incident off Alaska in 1986, mind you, but plenty of time for gabbing about cinematic fantasy.

Well, it happened again, in the latest edition of Quest: The History of Spaceflight Quarterly. In yet another curious review of UFOs On the Record, Roger Launius of the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum produces a conflicted analysis that reveals more about him than it does the book, which he characterizes as “less sensationalistic than you might think.” He certainly knows his audience.

Launius, senior curator of the Museum’s human spaceflight collection, is clearly impressed with Kean’s research. He says the author “uses solid, accepted, and not spurious documentation from official military and government UFO investigations,” and “in every case their veracity is unquestionable.” That’s a major concession, coming from a man so deeply embedded in structural groupthink.

But once again, rather than discuss the specifics of any case that puncture the limits of knowledge, Launius devolves into stale cliches of humanity’s eternal fascination with fairies, devils, elves, Zeus, the Virgin Mary and all other manner of lore that never left behind a single radar track or burned-soil sample. Then he makes his predictable tack into the Hollywood thing, about how we accommodate our insecurities and aspirations symbolically through films as divergent as “The Day the Earth Stood Still” and “War of the Worlds.”

Rather than acknowledge the apparent intelligence and high technology driving the incidents in Kean’s book, Launius falls back on his contention that “there is not a scintilla of evidence” to support the ET hypothesis behind UFOs. Which is true — none of these incidents leave roadmaps behind. And that leads him to conclude “Despite her best intentions to do so, Leslie Kean does not convince me [of extraterrestrial visitation].”

Launius, of course, missed the whole point. Kean isn’t trying to convince him or anyone else of ET visitation — the default hypothesis — but merely to confront the available evidence with some integrity. What’s a more plausible alternative for the data he himself credits for its unquestionable veracity? Launius knows better than to go there. He’d find himself on trial inside a dunk-the-clown booth, alongside all the other Midway barkers.

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