Debunker Tim Printy -- reaction of Stanton Friedman

In early February, 2012, Andre Skondras, who distributes a lot of UFO related interesting articles on the internet, carried a  15 page  2008 article by Tim Printy entitled “The UFO Disclosure Myth” I am a primary target of the last portion of the article. I also did a quick internet search and found his paper “My Skeptical Opinion about UFOs”. Clearly he is a debunker not a skeptic. Equally true is the simple fact that he seems to know very little though he has strong opinions. In the opinion paper he starts with the following quote from a great physicist, Richard Feynman “I think that it is much more likely that the reports of flying saucers are the result of the known irrational characteristics of terrestrial intelligence than the unknown rational efforts of extraterrestrial Intelligence”. The comment can be seen on U-Tube to much laughter. I greatly respect Feynman’s contribution to physics, his Nobel Prize, etc.I even heard a lecture he gave 40  years ago, but, as with many well educated intellectuals, he feels perfectly free to make a proclamation without providing any substantiation or any evidence he knows anything at all about the subject of flying saucers. The Genius has spoken.. no data required. This appeal to authority is common to many debunkers not just Printy. How can one comment about likelihood if one doesn’t know the possibilities? Yes, one can say when rolling normal dice that it is much more likely to roll a 7 than a 2... It may well be that aliens are all over the galaxy and that the likelihood of them visiting Earth may be 100%.

Printy starts the long piece with this comment  “Man is a credulous animal and must believe something:

In the absence of good grounds for belief he will be satisfied with bad ones.” Bertrand Russell. This is a fine description of the debunking of people like Printy and Feynman They have no good grounds to support their negativity, so bad ones will do. In his opinion piece he claims even the most hardened UFOlogist who believes that there is something behind these reports will admit that at least nine out of ten cases are misperceptions and hoaxes. The values usually turn out to be more like 3-10% of the reports remaining unexplained”. No source is given for this ridiculous proclamations. In Blue Book Special Report 14 it was found that 21.5% of 3201 sightings investigated for the USAF by scientists at Battelle Memorial Institute could not be explained.. completely separate from the 9.3% listed as insufficient information. Furthermore, the better the quality of the sighting the more likely to be unexplained. A cross comparison of the Unknowns and Knowns  showed that, based on six different characteristics, the probability the Unknowns were just missed Knowns was less than 1%. In Richard Hall’s “The UFO Evidence” it was found that 746 of the 4500 cases examined could not be explained. According to a special UFO subcommittee of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics ,30% of the 117 cases investigated by the University of Colorado could not be explained. The one book of mine he lists has a 9 page bibliography which lists all these sources and many more.

I have quoted these numbers before. The point is that neither Printy nor Feynman has a leg to stand on. Better they should throw a dart at a dartboard with numbers on it.

Printy notes that he has been an amateur astronomer for 30 years and never seen a UFO.. Of course he doesn’t explain why that means they aren’t real. He doesn’t mention that fact that the great majority of amateur astronomers spend little time looking around for flying saucers. They spend most of their time looking through a telescope with a very narrow field of view at interesting astronomical objects like the planets, the moon, interesting comets and other things they know will be present when they are out gazing. Would they say there have been no fatal automobile or airplane crashes or gang rapes because they haven’t seen one? That there are no isotopes that are fissionable because all the ones they deal with are not?? Printy goes on to say the least likely explanation is that of little green men in spaceships.. again the stupid comment about liklihood. Of course no evidence is provided. He finishes us believers off with this comment “Despite over 50 years of “research”, UFO organizations have yet to provide us with any significant data that can back up the claim that UFOs are caused by aliens piloting space ships”. One wonders why the word SOME is not inserted before UFOs. The question isn’t whether all UFOs are spaceships, but whether any are. Because most people are not 7’ tall doesn’t mean nobody is. He obviously is unaware of thousands of physical trace cases, the many radar visual cases, the best abduction cases. It is perfectly logical to conclude that some UFOs are alien spacecraft when they are observed for many minutes and  to be obviously manufactured objects able to literally fly circles around our aircraft as observed visually and by radar

In his big article he talks about Major Donald Keyhoe and his books and conclusions about a government cover-up. He talks about Project Blue Book through never mentioning BB Special Report No. 14. He mentions Congressional  hearings in 1968 but doesn’t name the presenters or give a reference for the report.It would appear that he hadn’t read it. He does give a strong quote from Hector Quintanilla who had been BB director “The list of speakers reads like a who’s who of extraterrestrial proponents.I’ve never seen such a stacked deck in all of my life”. What a strange comment.Two of the 12 presenters were Donald Menzel and Carl Sagan  neither a public proponent for the ETH. Furthermore he didn’t mention such powerful presentations as Jim McDonald’s 71 page effort which covers more than 40 cases and demolishes the objections of people like Printy.

Even though he focuses on me after Keyhoe, he of course doesn’t mention my contribution to the Proceedings though it has several tables and many  references. He notes I have “been around Ufology since the 1960s likes to present himself as a scientist, who studies UFOs. He does have a master’s degree in Nuclear physics never earned his PhD.” Tis true after working my way through 5 years of university I immediately went to work as  a nuclear physicist for such companies as General Electric, Westinghouse, General Motors, Aerojet General, McDonnell  Douglas .Yes after many cancelled programs I finally went full time into ufology after 14 years.. I am certainly not ashamed. I wrote reports, presented scientific papers and am still a member of the American Physical Society, American Nuclear Society, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.” Despite his claims he has never really practiced science when it comes to UFOs”. What a remarkably idiotic claim. Obviously he hasn’t seen my articles in Physics Today or Aeronautics and Astronautics nor the aforementioned Congressional Symposium. He does list my book TOP SECRET MAJIC (1997) though obviously the 2005 version and my other books and papers  have escaped his attention. He neglects to mention that loads of my 700 lectures were to professional groups such as sections of the AIAA, IEEE, ANS various engineering and scientific groups.

Printy provides a splendid example of taking a quote out of context by saying “Friedman says in one of his books ‘As I gave more lectures, I found that I enjoyed speaking and that people believed me NO MATTER WHAT I SAID.(the  emphasis was his).”Apparently, Friedman realized that he could say anything within reason and the UFO faithful would accept it”. Wow, no mention of the fact that the great majority of my lectures were to colleges and universities and also to many sections of the AIAA,, IEEE, ANS, management clubs of companies like McDonnell Douglas, Lockheed, North American Rockwell, and many other Fortune 500 groups..These hardly qualify as UFO faithful. These are all mentioned in the book along with the highly classified nuclear research and development projects on which I worked for 14 years.I guess he feared that if he gave some facts, people might think I was a professional scientist rather than an amateur astronomer

Naturally Printy misrepresents my views about ”the infamous MJ-12 documents.” Friedman endorsed the documents as authentic until proven otherwise, has hitched his name to the documents in several books.”

Funny for many years I have endorsed three MJ-12 Documents of the more than 100.But I provided detailed factual reasons for those three and have dealt with all the objections to those three and detailed reasons why a number of the phonies are not legitimate. I used the old fashioned scientific approach. I have visited 20 archives, some many times.I talked to family member of all but one of the 12.

Printy Says “ Even in 2008, over 20 years after the MJ-12 papers were released Friedman and others declare them authentic.” Funny Printy apparently has the1997 version of Top Secret/MAJIC. I was saying then that there were 3 genuine ones. And loads of phonies. But why bother the reader with the facts?

Here is the above STF quote in context (p.9 TSM) “As I gave more lectures I found that I enjoyed speaking and that people believed me no matter what I said. After all I was a nuclear physicist for Westinghouse, which in Pittsburgh, with its numerous nuclear divisions and research facilities, were gold plated credentials. The blind acceptance frightened me—now I knew how the demagogues of the twentieth century had such success. I wanted people to think, to explore, to look at the data and make up their own minds. I decided that I would try to reach more technical groups, who presumably wouldn’t accept everything I said as gospel”.  I also said that “my lecture “Flying Saucers ARE Real” was designed to raise the objections of the skeptics and then demolish them with facts.”. This should give any rational person an entirely different take on my motivation and Printy’s willingness to deceive.

Printy claims ”Because of his association with Roswell and MJ-12, Friedman was one of the principle investigators who was publicly proclaiming that there was a flying saucer cover-up and the Congress should investigate the matter”. More poppy cock. I showed that there was a cover-up by pointing to the blacked out Top Secret UMBRA CIA UFO documents and the whited out TOP SECRET UMBRA NSA UFO documents. I quote from General Carroll Bolender’s  statement that” Reports of UFOs which could effect national Security are not part of the Blue Book system”. I note many lies in a long paper (Government UFO Lies on my website. I have not pushed for congressional hearings because I don’t think they would be useful. I have been to 20 document archives. Of course he doesn’t mention that Phil Klass paid me $1000. for proving him wrong about the Type face on the Cutler Twining memo. Of course Klass hadn’t been to any archives, but obtained 9 of 250,000 NSC documents by mail.. When finally more or less released, one could read several words per page in the CIA stuff with the rest being blacked out and about one sentence per page on the 156 NSA UFO documents with the rest being whited out. Then he tries to show by echoing Phil Klass’s false claims that I never tell people the reason the redactions appear is because they deal with classified sources and methods information. Here is another irrational lie. Could 98% of the CIA and NSA UFO documents actually deal with sources and methods? That is hardly likely since they were filed under UFO.I saw no indication in his paper that he had a clearance or understands about need to know. Of course he quotes Klass’s false claim  that I never tell people about sources and methods. I even mention it in my papers. Printy has more nonsense about Roswell. Of course he does not refer to the paper on my website “UFOs: Earth’s Cosmic Watergate” (or any of my many papers about MJ-12, Roswell, etc) He really finishes me off “UFOlogy is not about real scientific investigation of UFOs.It is about personalities who have found a niche in society that allows them to satisfy their egos and appear important to those who want to believe these stories”. Sounds like an excellent description of Phil Klass, Robert Shaeffer, Michael Shermer and Tim Printy and other anti-ufology specialists projected on to serious investigators such as myself, Dr. Bruce Maccabee, Dr. David Rudiak, Kathleen Marden, etc.

My purpose is to expose his noisy negativism as irrational uninformed and ignorant as is that of most debunkers. I would be delighted to debate him anywhere, but don’t think he has the courage to take me on. Stanton Friedman fsphys@rogers.com   www.stantonfriedman.com.

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Klass act, no principles

A blast from the past animated the blogosphere earlier this month when a buddy of famed “Fire in the Sky” UFO abductee Travis Walton accused a dead debunker of attempted bribery. Steve Pierce said he — Pierce — had been offered $10k to say Walton had hoaxed the whole thing back in 1975.

Debunker Phil Klass' relentless ad hominem attacks on UFO eyewitnesses begs the question: What was he so afraid of?/CREDIT: gpposner.com

De Void has no insight into this moot and meaningless kerfuffle. But De Void knew Phil Klass, the target of the allegation. Or rather, De Void talked to Klass on a number of occasions, because Klass was always the go-to guy journos contacted whenever they drew the short straw and had to write about UFOs. He seemed the logical choice. As senior editor for Aviation Week & Space Technology, Klass was Mr. Insider, the establishment’s sensible “reality check” authority you could always count on for “balance.” Klass never met a UFO he couldn’t explain, and he made it his life’s calling to reassure the Fourth Estate they were wasting their time, that they’d be better served chasing rocs and griffins.

Klass was a prolific writer who dismissed the Walton controversy as confabulation in his 1983 book UFOs: The Public Deceived. De Void was just beginning this forlorn and dreary journey back then. No reason for a newbie to doubt him. Except for, well, maybe this one case in Klass’ book concerning three people who suffered acute UFO radiation burns in Texas in 1980. Klass’ take on what became known as the Cash-Landrum incident stopped me cold. Because I’d actually done my homework on that one. And that’s when I got that first queasy feeling that the American press was routinely quoting a man who had a pathological disregard for truth.

I’d gone to Texas and interviewed the victims — Betty Cash, Vicki and Colby Landrum — as well as other witnesses who’d seen the military helicopters that were either escorting or pursuing the UFO. Cash and the Landrums authorized MUFON investigator John Schuessler to share their medical records with me, which he did. The story was complex and gruesome.

For years, Klass had badgered the victims, and Schuessler, for access to their hospital records. Aware of his proclivities, they refused to comply. “I said, look Phil, why don’t you come up with what you think happened, publish it, and after you do that, we’ll be happy to supply you with the records,” recalls Schuessler from his home in Colorado.

Klass condensed Cash-Landrum into a single page. Rather than posit an alternative scenario, he simply ascribed the whole thing to a hoax founded upon pre-existing medical conditions. Even the Army’s own Inspector General investigation specifically cited a lack of evidence for a hoax.

“Klass was a low-life and a bully who used his Aviation Week credentials to hold himself up as an expert,” says Schuessler, retired project manager for space shuttle flight operations at Johnson Space Center. “He just made up stories any way he saw fit.”

De Void had one face-to-face encounter with Klass in 1987, during a MUFON symposium at American University. Whitley Strieber’s first-person abduction epic, Communion, had just rolled and was making bestseller lists in the nonfiction category. Klass, who attended Strieber’s keynote speech, had written that Strieber was probably suffering from brain damage.

The next day, I met Klass at a deli for lunch. He repeated his assertion that Strieber was plagued with frontal lobe epilepsy. Then he lowered his voice, drawing yet another reporter into his sage confidence, and said he wanted to go off the record. “Whitley Strieber is a troubled man,” he said. He produced a sad smile, like some wise old avuncular Yoda. “Unfortunately, I wouldn’t be surprised if he tries to take his own life.” Goosebumps.

We know the rest of the story. Klass died in 2005. Whitley Strieber is alive, well and continues to write. But one thing we’ll never know is the full extent of the damage Phil Klass did to American journalism’s tepid inquiry into The Great Taboo. The first word that comes to mind: Irreparable.

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In special reports, this week’s files cover: Project Blue Book- Radar Visual UFO Reports Most Convincing, Brazil, Chili, Peru, Uruguay Government’s Research UFOs, Paul Hill's Interstellar Travel in "Unconventional Flying Objects”, Possible Alien Moon Base Captured By Chang'e-2 Orbit, German Scientists Support UFOs as Interplanetary Craft, Black Holes Used to Increase Speed and Energy, Mar’s Inca City and Possible Life, Three Craft Instead of One, and 60 Years of Neglected UFO Evidence.

Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over: Alabama, Arizona, California, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and Washington.

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.

Special Reports

Project Blue Book- Radar Visual UFO Reports Most Convincing

Generals Ramey and Stanford sitting Captain Ruppelt standing

The Director of UFO Research for the US Air Force’s “Project Blue Book” Captain Ruppelt states, "Of these UFO reports, the radar/visual reports are the most convincing. When a ground radar picks up a UFO target and a ground observer sees a light where the radar target is located, then a jet interceptor is scrambled to intercept the UFO and the pilot also sees the lights and gets a radar lock only to have the UFO almost impudently outdistance him, there is no simple answer."
Edward J Ruppelt USAF Captain decorated with two Distinguished Flying Crosses 1956

Brazil, Chili, Peru, Uruguay Government’s Research UFOs

A. J. Gevaerd writes, "One of the smallest countries in South America, Uruguay is also the place where the military are more open-minded towards the UFO Phenomenon. UFO occurrences are investigated by the Uruguayan Air Force (FAU) as part of their routine activities.

Few people know that a small country in South America has an official office for flying saucer research as part of its Air Force. The office is continuously operating since 1979, when it was established by the president of the Republic himself. It has been more than three decades since the Committee for the Reception and Investigation of UFO Reports (Cridovni) operates in Uruguay. Three other similar institutions exist in the continent. These are the Center for the Study of Anomalous Aerial Phenomena (CEFAA), established in Chile in 1997 and working within the country’s General Civil Aviation Office; the Office for the Investigation of Anomalous Aerial Phenomena (OIFAA), in the Peruvian Air Force (FAP); and an Argentine committee created last year but still under development. Next we interview Colonel Ariel Sanchez, chairman of the Commission for the Reception and Investigation of UFO Reports. Thanks to A. J. Gevaerd, Brazilian UFO Magazine www.ufo.com.br

Possible Alien Moon Base Captured By Chang'e-2 Orbit

Ken Phiefer writes, “I was sent some pictures by a source who claims China will be releasing Hi Res images taken by the Chang'e-2 moon orbiter, which clearly show buildings and structures on the moon’s surface. He also claims NASA has deliberately bombed important areas of the Moon in an effort to destroy ancient artifacts and facilities.

Paul Hill's Interstellar Travel in "Unconventional Flying Objects”

Many Scientists claim their biggest stumbling block to ET visiting Earth is the tremendous distances between our Earth and other solar systems!” I attempted to explain NASA engineer Paul Hill's findings regarding the time requirements for interstellar travel. Einstein pointed time and distance in space is shortened by speed

Most writers and physicists too, in estimating the time for interstellar travel, neglect the effect of the accelerating portions of the trip on the trip time, making the simplifying assumption that the vehicle makes the entire trip at constant velocity. This is probably done because the requisite equations are scarce items in the literature...

It is possible for an interstellar trip to be very short. The trip from our nearest neighbor, Alpha Centuri, a triple star system 4.3 light years away made by acceleration at 140 g to a v/c of 0.9999 is accomplished from a standing start to a standing finish in 6 weeks.

At the highest speeds considered, the travel time is not at all proportional to the distance. For example at 20 g and v/c=0.9999 we read a distance of 25 light years takes 0.6 years on board, while a distance of 100 light years is covered in almost a year. The reason is easy to visualize. Once the vehicle is up to speed, vast amounts of additional distance may be covered during the coast period with but little increase in time and, obviously, with no increase in additional light year covered while coasting.

CONCLUSION: I hope I have made it clear that there is an important distinction to be made between the time experienced by the space traveler and the time which passes meanwhile on the home planet and on the planetary destination. The tremendous acceleration, speed, and energy capability displayed by UFOs make them well suited to capitalize on this distinction by the attainment of greatly reduced on board times realizable by approaching the speed of light. Even an approach to 90 percent of light gets the job done for the nearer stars. Higher fractions of light speed give attractive time reductions for longer trips. Don't be misled by the countless statements in the literature that interstellar distances and the speed of light constitute some kind of barrier to space travel. There are only two paths to this conclusion: Nobody in the universe has the technology to approach light speed. Observer time is significant, and on board time is to be ignored. Both paths are false ones. The confused second view is the more common. Its proponents are using the observed time for light to travel as the shortest possible time for passage;"Totally false.” Thanks to Paul Hill, "Unconventional Flying Objects”, Pages 268-279.

Editor's Note: The sailors who crossed the ocean a couple hundred years ago and those settlers who crossed the country in wagon trains to California would find the trip aboard a fast space ship to another star system a reasonable time period. The biggest problem would be that their friends and relatives would be unlikely to be alive when they returned, so they might decide to bring them along.

Black Holes Used to Increase Speed and Energy

This was described in 1964 by Russian astronomer Nikolai Kardashev who hypothesized that a so-called Type III civilization would control the entire energy output of a galaxy. (We don't even reach Type I status because we have failed to harness nuclear fusion or build a constellation of solar power satellites.)

But why should a super-civilization be so energy voracious? And how in the heavens do they tap the energy of an entire galaxy? First, a far-advanced society would need a lot of energy to support a rapidly growing wave of colonization, ambitious astroengineering projects, and burgeoning populations. Green technology can only go so far.

Secondly, super-smart extraterrestrials have far more than the total stellar energy output of the entire Milky Way at their fingertips. They could tap into the mother of all storage batteries: the super massive black hole in the core of our galaxy. This gravitational engine is vastly more efficient at converting matter to energy than stellar nuclear fusion.

ANALYSIS: Super-Civilizations Might Live Off Black Holes

A huge amount of radiation is generated by the million degree accretion disk of trapped gas whirling around the 4 billion solar mass black hole at our galaxy’s heart.

Makoto Inoue of the Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics in Taipei, and Hiromitsu Yokoo of Chiba University are proposing that advanced civilizations might pool their resources to construct a ring of "power stations" at the galaxy's core. They would orbit the central black hole just beyond its solar system-sized accretion disk. Some fraction of the radiation seething from the disk would be reflected and focused onto the power plants. Each power plant would transmit collected energy as a collimated microwave beam from a 100-mile diameter antenna.

Or, aliens might use molecular interstellar clouds to fashion an efficient transmission system, by means of a maser. A maser (an acronym for Microwave Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation), creates an intense coherent beam of radiation when atoms or molecules in a gas, liquid or solid medium, force an incoming mix of wavelengths to work in phase, or, at the same wavelength. This would amplify radiation from the accretion disk and make a sharp collimated beam. Nature has already fashioned mega-masers in clouds near galactic black holes, and therefore radiation pumping by artificial means may not be so difficult to set up, say the authors.

A consortium of super-civilizations might pool resources to build a chain of power stations encircling the black hole. It would be the heart of a robust and fault-tolerant energy grid connecting numerous worlds like a fantasy scene out of the film "Tron." However, I think it is more likely that a federation of expanding space colonies, spawned from a single mother civilization, would work together to maintain their viability. This wouldn't run into the thorny question of how two or more independent but similarly co-evolved species manage to contact each other and work out a practical energy infrastructure. But could we detect evidence of such a mega-engineering project?

Probably not say the authors, because the energy would be highly beamed and therefore only be visible if you were along the line-of-sight. Chances for detection increase slightly if many power plants use a very large antenna or use a multi-beam system. ANALYSIS: Our Galaxy's Black Hole Has the 'Munchies'

Curiously, the mechanism behind natural mega-masers is not fully understood. For example, it's mysterious that all the maser components in front of the black hole are all aligned almost on the same orbit.

The mirror system designed to reflect and transmit the energy could be detected as a shadow against the bright accretion disk. But it would be tough trying to explain these transits as anything other than natural bodies drifting through space.

These beams would be so powerful that they could be detected in neighboring galaxies that are tilted edge-on to our view. So if the Milky Way is lacking a Galactic Empire, maybe a super-civilization commands another nearby island universe. Image credit: Philip Armitage/Kees Dullemond, Makoto Inoue/Hiromitsu Yokoo, NASA Thanks to Discovery News Daily

Mar’s Inca City and Possible Life

The area known as the Inca City on Mars at first look seems similar to known geological formations. Under close inspection in the Mars Global Surveyor images there are much smaller objects visible near the sides of the ribbed-landscape. There are many smaller interesting formations located in the recesses of the squared-off areas. Kind regards, Norman Bryden

Scientists are claiming there has been no life on Mars for millions of years. I happen to feel they are wrong based on NASA/JPL photographs and Viking tests that found micro-organisms in 1976. Microbe oasis discovered under desert could advance Mars research

The Atacama Desert

The driest desert on earth — the Atacama Desert of Peru — is considered a great stand in for what the geology of Mars is like. Scientists are excited to find what they term an "oasis" of micro-organisms living under the surface of the desert. Such a find could mean that similar microbes could exist under the surface of Mars. Researchers used a device called a Signs of Life Detector (SOLID) containing a biochip that includes up to 450 antibodies to identify biological material. After taking samples from a depth of five meters, they found the presence of archaea (single celled micro-organisms) and bacteria.

The micro-organisms were photographed under an electron microscope, and brought to life when given water. The desert is rich in halite (rock salt) and other water absorbing compounds — is so similar to Mars. It stands to reason if samples were taken from the Martian subsoil, they could potentially reveal the same kind of life forms. Trial of the SOLID was part a joint research team from the Center of Astrobiology of INTA-CSIC in Spain and the Catholic University of the North in Chile. The results have been published in a paper in the journal Astrobiology. Thanks to via Sci-News

Three Craft Instead of One

Engineer John E. Combest writes, “In the attached analysis of the two photographs from Filer's Files #5 supplied through Peter Davenport, I show that the image appears to be three similar non-airfoil type craft instead of only one object, and that they are moving at about 5 times the speed of the Grumman airplane from which the photos were reportedly made. Filer's Files are always a high class presentation.”

Three instead of one: This photograph shows three vehicles - not just one taken over Sisters, Oregon on September 16, 2011. The dashed lines have been drawn through the visual centerline of each of the three objects. These vehicles are not "airfoil" type craft which must travel in the general direction of the leading edge of the airfoil, but are held aloft and propelled by some force which does not depend upon vehicle interaction with the atmosphere. Therefore, the vehicle attitude (orientation, pitch) is generally independent of the specific direction of travel - as is evident above. Vehicle #1 has coloration similar to #2, but does not have the same shape as #2 or #3. Vehicle #3 has a shape similar to #2, but does not have the same coloration as #2 or #1. Vehicle #1 is farther away, or smaller than vehicles #2 and #3. The nose of #2 slightly overlaps the tail of #1. Thanks to John E. Combest

60 Years of Neglected Evidence

/Country, Number of Encounters, Percentage Mean/Year

Editor’s Note: I have left out countries with less than 20 encounters

60 Years of Neglected Reports

The United States of America had the highest number of humanoid encounter reports. The average number of reports per year was 52.16. This high figure is possibly attributed to the following: 1. The reports came from a very wide geographical area.2. Public awareness and interest to report has been more.3. There have been better documentation facilities available (news media and private organizations).

Russia, China, or the African Continent, though large in size, had very few reports when compared with those from the United States. The socio-political conditions in these countries are not very conducive to make reports of anomalous nature. The same is true of the other Third-World countries. It is interesting to note, however, that the United States is the largest contributor to the humanoid encounter reports, with 37 per cent. If the other developed nations are taken into account as well, the percentage would be almost 71 per cent of the total global reports. If this phenomenon is attributed to hallucinations or other forms of mental aberrations due to social, political, and psychological traumas, it can logically allude to the Third-World nations, which have below average living standards and socio-political unrest, to report encounters of a ‘disturbing kind’. Reporting encounters with alien humanoids would be a kind of psychological escapism from their everyday problems. This does not seem to be so.

UFO Sightings in the United States

Alabama Hovering Red Lights

Adamsville -- I let my dogs out on February 7, 2012, and a few seconds after I stepped out onto the porch, I noticed a bright light in the shape of a sphere hovering through the trees at 8:55 PM. At first I thought nothing of it, but I noticed where tree limbs covered it up, it would suddenly not be so hidden by the trees. I purposely moved several times to where the tree limbs covered the light, only to see it a second later as the object moved toward Birmingham. It moved slightly faster than I’ve seen planes fly. I waited for the light to emerge and noticed a few red lights moving in a circular direction. I’m not sure if it was even a UFO. I’ve never seen an aircraft do that before. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Arizona Long Cylindrical Shape.

Prescott Valley -- I was looking out my bedroom window on February 4, 2012, at Glassford Hill Mountains ten miles away to the west around 6:15 PM. I saw a cylindrical shape object with a bump in the middle. I called my brother to look, and he saw it too. The object appeared from my perspective to be moving downward, at an angle, until it disappeared from view behind the mountain. It was dark in color, and no lights were visible on it. Thanks to Peter Davenport, Director National UFO Reporting Center http://www.UFOcenter.com/

California Formation of Lights

Delaware Possible Close Encounter

BEAR –My friend and I were returning from a date traveling north on Bear-Christiana Road in the summer of 1981 As I looked ahead, I noticed search lights over the Department of Transportation vehicle yard about 350 meters away. Kimberly asked me what I thought the lights were and. I responded that it looked like a police helicopter searching for something. When we were 50 meters away, I pulled off the road but there was no sound. I asked Kimberly if she could see anything. She was visibly shaken and replied, “I want to leave, please let’s go.” I got out of the car and looked up at the search lights that were emitting three distinct lights shining down and moving slowly in a circular motion. All three lights were fanning out in conical fashion lighting up the yard vehicles. I noticed that the tops of the trees were swaying as if in a wind. I saw only lights and dark neon blue light 30 feet long and a foot high. It was suddenly chased away by a dark redline. Then the search lights began to move away to the west slowly. NOTE: The above image is a rendering. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Florida Massive Object

HOMESTEAD -- On February 16, 2012, Thursday at 4:40 AM, I observed through my security camera system a massive star-like object that descended from a 45 degree angle in the night sky’ As it did it divided itself into eight other smaller oval shaped star-like objects glowing with the same intensity and pulsating as they descended so low due east that were no longer in my security camera system line of sight.

I have been in the military and in the civilian law enforcement for over 10 years combined and I have never seen a drop of flares that would perform as these lights did. If it was a night-op from the nearby Air Force Base performing a drop on some experimental flares, can anyone inform of such event? Thanks to MUFON CMS

Marco Island -- The witness called right after he experienced his sighting on February 14, 2011. He was very excited said that a black triangular object flew low over his home as light colored sparks fell from the object. He said that he took photos and promised to send them. As of yet no photos have been received.

As oddly as it sounds, I had the strongest urge to go outside around 7 PM and made a regular scan of the sky. I immediately noticed several extremely crisp electric big lights so I told my kids to come out and look at it with me. We grabbed cameras and could only pick up round balls that twisted, turned, and zigzagged in very quick motions in all directions. So I kept filming and describing each thing I was looking at. My girls were in amazement. There was something that was extremely dense, directly under Orion. At some points you could clearly see triangles that were very solid objects. Thanks to William Puckett UFOs Northwest http://ufosnw.com

MARATHON – Walking enjoying a clear sky on February 19, 2012, I saw an ember (yellow, orange -- glowing) in the sky. Thought it was a meteor but it wasn’t. Then thought perhaps it was a small plane on fire so we watched. As it came closer it was definitely not a plane --- no noise, plus it hovered over us for about 30 seconds then sped up in a direct northern path. My other two friends had walked further down the street and talked to a lady walking a dog---she had also seen it. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Editor’s Note: I’m in Marathon Keys watching the sky, but missed it.

Georgia Chase

Jesup -- On February 7, 2012 my son and I heard jets from inside our home around 2:00 PM. We are 20 miles from Ft. Stewart military base and assumed the loud and unusually low jets were from there. My son and I went outside to see the jets and observed them flying in a circular pattern within three miles of our home. We continued to watch them for an hour and seventeen minutes. We took pictures and didn’t realize until later I had captured an object near the jet. It is blurry compared to the F-16 but definitely there. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Illinois Orange Light

JOLIET – On February 14, 2012, while coming home I saw a very bright orange light in the sky. I pulled into driveway and took picture with my iPhone. There were no blinking strobes like an aircraft would have and no sound as it flew over my house, I ran inside to the back deck but could no longer observe. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Indiana Sightings

Blanford -- Richard Bondira writes, “Since January 6, 2012, the ufos have been in the night sky and I have taken many photos. I have done more filming and have some very interesting footage. I told some friends about the UFOs who went out and also saw them over Clinton and Plainfield, Indiana.

Last night, I was talking by phone with a friend in South Dakota and I told him to go outside with binoculars and look around. He came back and told me there was one UFO that he could see. What he described matched what I've been seeing in Blanford. While he was watching the one in South Dakota I went out and saw several at the same time. One was directly over my house, but, rather high up. Look for human like shapes around the ufos. Every clear night they are here. Thanks to Richard Bondira

Kentucky Red Lights

Campbellsville -- At 4:30 AM, on February 2, 2012, I let my dog outside saw four or five solid red lights in a row with a flashing white light on the rear. It was traveling faster than I have ever seen an airplane travel over my house and appeared a lot closer. It was traveling from the northwest to the southeast. I watched it until it was no longer visible. a. I printed a copy of the radar image and the flight number of the closest aircraft. The weather was 33 degrees F. with clear skies. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Massachusetts

East Hampton is a few miles from a C-5A base in Chicopee/Westover Air Base. We do see the same craft and when it is at an angle it is hard to identify. They are stealth bombers and once in a while they stop at the base, but to see them seemingly hang in the sky is awesome. Those landing lights are the brightest on any craft and it is majestic to see them turn, like they are standing still. I feel confident that is what this witness saw.

The only question I have is did we make a dummy that was filled with gas to float about, or do we have more than one kind of stealth bomber that was developed? One that was built with dreamland technology to float overhead and then zoom off silently. I always wanted an answer to that question? Thanks to Zeus

Missouri Orange Lights Form Triangle

Arnold -- I was at a neighbor’s backyard on February 1, 2012, we notices what appeared to be three small orange lights in the sky that were formed into a triangular shape. It was off in the northwest and fairly high up for 1 1/2 hours. Thanks to Peter Davenport, http://www.UFOcenter.com/

Mississippi Cigar

Marshall County -- A woman is the fifth Eastern U.S. witness over the last three-days to report a cigar-shaped object flying right above the trees about 9:45 PM, on January 14, 2012. The woman was watching the sky as her husband drove and two children were asleep in the back seat. "Suddenly a large white/grayish, cigar-disc shaped object with windows appeared right above the trees," the witness stated. "It was as big as an airplane and was very close as if it was heading for our car, flying right above the trees." The woman's husband did not get a good view of the object while he was driving stating, "It was moving so fast I only caught the tail end of something bright and white.” Thanks to MUFON CMS

New Jersey Triangle Crosses Moon

WALL -- On February 3, 2012, I looked up and noticed the moon behind the clouds with a giant puncture hole through the clouds perfectly shaped as a triangle. Soon after there was another hole made in the clouds about the same size with no defined shape. My opinion is that something either traveled up or down through the clouds leaving a defined shape. The only light visible through the clouds was the light of the moon, except when I looked through the triangle, I could see the stars clearly. I saw this for 15 minutes as the clouds went by slowly and the triangle maintained its shape throughout the sighting.

ATLANTIC COUNTY -- I was standing in a parking lot on February 6, 2012, as the sun set. When I looked up I noticed three distinct lights moving in a triangular pattern at a constant speed. I pointed and said to my three friends, "Dude, what is that?!” They looked but none of them saw it. The object was about 700 feet above me.

My first thought it was a craft with regular wings with a set of small wings on the nose. I realized that it was not this plane. The lights were in a triangular formation and the "craft" between the lights was barley a shade darker than the sky above it like a cloaking camouflage? My friend saw the same thing the night before. We are outdoorsmen but both us were scared. It is an extremely large craft that moves silently and in almost complete camouflage. NOTE: The above image is a rendering. This case is under investigation by Ken Pfeifer of MUFON New Jersey www.worldufophotos.com. Thanks to MUFON CMS

New York Images

Thanks to William Puckett Director UFOs Northwest http://ufosnw.com

Pennsylvania Orange Light

RED LION -- My buddy and I were standing around a fire at 1:30 am, on January 7, 2012, enjoying the beautiful weather. I looked over to the west and seen an aspirin sized yellow/orange colored object low in the sky. I got out my smart phone and opened up the Google Sky map app to see if it was a rising planet or something. According to the Sky map app there wasn’t anything there but a few minor stars. I got my binoculars and saw a beautiful pale white color. Inside of the glow was a perfectly round sphere with a patterned or textured surface. After hovering about six minutes the object slowly descended below the trees. NOTE: The image is a rendering. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Pennsylvania Disc

New Galilee – I was taking pictures of clouds near sunset--facing southwest on June 20, 2009. I was unsure of shape/size of object until I enlarged on my PC. The object appears to be a domed saucer shape when slightly enlarged. The left side is either entering or exiting the cloud. A second picture was taken directly after and the UFO is gone. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Tennessee Photos

Greeneville -- Pauline E. Petsel writes, “I have hundreds of photos taken from the same area in my front yard over the past three years. Some months it may be only once or twice...other times it's every week and as in October and November last year and this year it was every night. I have photos similar to those taken all over the country and more. Here is one you might like to post. Like I said I have (actually thousands) of pictures. These were taken within the past month. I have many more 'different ones like these are very strange. I have some like what you have been getting.” Thanks to Pauline E. Petsel

Washington Disc

Eatonville – On February 8, 2012, she was out for a routine walk and heard a strange sound; louder than the sound coming from her headphones at 9:30 PM... Her three dogs also became alarmed and they all immediately looked up and saw an object shaped “like an air filter” pass directly overhead rotating and fly towards the west in the direction of McChord Air Force Base and Ft. Lewis. She was familiar with the military aircraft that frequently pass over her house and this was much different. She felt that she had some memory loss because she thought that she called her father (in Texas) at 9:30 PM, but her father stated that it was 11:30 PM her time. She added that the air filter type object had an amber “liquid light” in the middle. She could see through this light. The object was about the size of a “bread plate” held at arm’s length.

Note: William Puckett interviewed this witness and she seemed quite credible. Thanks to William Puckett Director UFOs Northwest http://ufosnw.com

Vancouver – I just got on Highway 14 outside of downtown at about 10:45 PM, on February 10, 2012, and I just north of Mount Hood an orange glowing orb which at the time looked like a comet with an a arced tail. I turned into Beaches Restaurant and ran out to the path on the Columbia River. Two minutes later when I saw it again I could now only see the bottom third of the orb as it was rapidly ascending into the sky. From that point it was only 30 seconds before the whole thing disappeared. I was able to snap two pictures of the orb that are a semi circle. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Worldwide UFO Sightings

Australia Changing Colors

On February 17, 2012, I saw an incoming UFO four times. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Brazil Irregular Trajectory Speed

Ourinhos -- I was in the garage of my house on February 2, 2012, when I saw the first object that had a spherical shape with a reddish blue opaque color at 9:10 PM. At first thought it was a satellite, but it jumped up with speed and disappeared. The second UFO had a strong and intense glare with dark center and it caught my attention because of its trajectory. It moved slowly, stopped, turned, and followed a little later on. It stopped again and disappeared in the distant trees. Thanks to Peter Davenport, Director National UFO Reporting Center http://www.UFOcenter.com/

Canada Fireball

Winnipeg -- My uncle and I are reporting a red fireball with no tail at 8:59 PM, traveling east northeast over downtown on February 5, 2012. This object showed no signs of a man made operated craft as it had no flashing lights. A jumbo jet was traveling northwest at the same time at a lower altitude. The Object was moving 20 times faster than a jet. Within one and a half minutes it faded away. Thanks to Peter Davenport, Director National UFO Reporting Center http://www.UFOcenter.com/

Toronto – On February 14, 2012, near 3 pm there was a very loud sound over my work, so I ran outside to watch a very loud all ‘orange’ large helicopter come out of the clouds just a couple of hundred yards from where I stood. It hooked over behind my workplace as if to land. I have no idea in reasoning by its maneuvers and very low attitude. Thanks to Paul Shishis

France Lights

PARIS -- It was near Christmas last year, on December 21, 2011, my last night in Paris. I was invited by a girlfriend to an artist's party at the Palais de Tokyo. I saw through the balcony window the Eiffel Tower’s flashing lights show and took a photo with my Blackberry. I did not notice these seven lights to the right of my photo until my Greek friend contacted me the day after saying the photos were significant due to the Mayan Calendar, they were here to check up on us. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Greece Triangle

Thessalian valley -- I was in the Thessalian Valley at about 5 AM, on September 12, 2002, when I saw a light moving and glowing in the sky. Initially I thought that it was an airplane from the nearby military base at Larisa, but I could not hear an engine sound. As the object approached I saw a black triangular flying object. There was only one light in the belly of the object, moving in a circular motion. I saw many of these kinds of objects for about an hour. It was a very strong experience. I would like to know if anyone else saw these kinds of objects. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Mexico Sphere

Puerto Escondido -- A sphere, changing from orange to white, passed over my home at around 7:35 PM, on February 9, 2012. There was no sound, but it was traveling at an extraordinary altitude. I've looked for, and have seen low-orbit satellites here, but the speed and altitude were not the same. It traveled from E to W, and appeared to leave Earth's space as it passed over the ocean. Thanks to MUFON CMS

New Zealand

Rick Pinfold writes, “Greetings from New Zealand, Major Filer....So... I think we have made some progress this week. I have identified the unmistakable models pictured this week...much like being able to tell the difference between a Chevy and a Ford. The "Offset disc" with fuzzy emissions/media around the edges...picture on January 25th 2012, from Argentina, was also seen in California. This is the same "Observer" we discovered later on camera watching vintage aircraft in New Zealand... Remember the picture we sent you a few weeks ago? Kindest regards, Rick Pinfold.

Thailand Photo

Note: The dots could be birds or insects. Thanks to William Puckett Director UFOs Northwest http://ufosnw.com

UK/England Cigar Shape Goes Past Eight Times.

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In special reports, this week's files cover Scientific World Views, Dr. Peter A. Sturrock, Stanford University,Wilbert Smiths' Top Secret Canadian UFO Memo, Mormon prophet Joseph Smith, Mars Inca City, Green Fireballs, "The Roswell Legacy by Jessie and Linda Marcel, Tiwanaku Bolivia, May be the Oldest City, Yahweh (God) and His Flying Machines, U.S. Naval Commander: We'll Stop Iran from Mining Hormuz Strait, Argentina and California UFOs Similar, and Invitation to Seth Shostak of Seti is Turned Down

Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over: Alabama, Alaskan, Arizona, California, Florida, Indiana, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Tennessee, and Texas.

Sightings of UFOs were also reported in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Mexico, and England 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.

Special Reports

Milky Way

Scientific World Views .. Earth is Center of Universe.

For several thousand years scientific thought believed the Earth was stationary and the center of the universe with five planets, the sun, and stars revolving around our Earth. Aristotle was the chief component of this thinking and anyone observing the world around them could agree with  this philosophy including the church from 300 BC to 1600 AD. The belief was based on sound reasoning and observation. The earth did not appear to moving as the sun, planets and stars rotated around it, though this scientific fact turned out to be wrong. Along came the invention of the telescope and Newton's scientific principles that the Earth revolved around the sun, and our sun was just one of many suns.

The Newtonian world view is what we are operating under today, although science is changing with some new findings. Just take a minute and observe the world around us. We are told the Earth is moving around the sun at thousands of miles an hour. I'm seated here looking at the sunset in the Florida Keys, and there is a slight breeze. I have no real evidence our Earth is moving and what I'm told is true. Science is just starting to accept there may be intellect life outside Earth.

Our search for the truth concerning UFOs is difficult because the world view for most people does not include the large UFOs that I have observed. Ufology has a difficult task in gaining acceptance of its evidence for the existence of UFOs simply due to the average scientist's worldview that cannot accept the concept of extraterrestrial visitors or UFOs. Our world view does not really allow for alien space visitors because scientific thought simply believes the distances between planets are too vast for any visitors to reach Earth. The internet, mass media, letters to the editor, better evidence, and our testifying will hopefully change people's world view that we are not alone.

Dr. Peter A. Sturrock, Stanford University

"The definitive resolution of the UFO enigma will not come about unless and until the problem is subjected to open and extensive scientific study by the normal procedures of established science.

In their public statements (but not necessarily in their private statements), scientists express a generally negative attitude towards the UFO problem, and it is interesting to try to understand this attitude. Most scientists have never had the occasion to confront evidence concerning the UFO phenomenon.
Emeritus Professor of Space Science and Astrophysics and Deputy Director of the Center for Space Sciences and Astrophysics at Stanford University

Wilbert Smiths' Top Secret Canadian UFO Memo Now Public

Through the diligent research efforts of researcher Nick Balaskas, a draft of the original "Project Magnet" Top Secret Memo by Director Wilbert Smith, Senior Radio Engineer in the Canadian Department of Transport to his superiors in November 1952. The memo has been recovered from the Archives at the University of Ottawa and represents a different World View.

The memo was the beginning of the Canadian government official program (Project Magnet) to investigate flying saucers that Wilbert Smith headed up from December 1950 to August 1954.

Wilbert Smith had Canadian proof in the reality of flying saucers visiting Earth. In the memo, Smith outlined five key items about flying saucers that he had discovered while in discussions with top U.S. officials working on the flying saucer problem. These were:  

Thanks to www.presidentialufo.com...

Mormon prophet Joseph Smith

Kenneth Larson writes that Joseph Smith (1805-1844) worldview changed when he met extraterrestrial visitors. As a 14-year-old boy he had been praying in a wooded glen near Palmyra, New York, on about September 26, 1820. Smith said, he looked up and saw a bright object in the clear sky that grew in magnitude, slowly descended, lit tree branches in bright color, and landed on the ground. Two brilliant Personages appeared standing in the air looking exactly alike and made clear by voice that they were the glorious Father God and His Son Jesus Christ.

Also, the visiting angel or space visitor Moroni visited Joseph Smith about eight times between September 21-22, 1823 to 1827 and gave Joseph advanced information of a religious nature and that Joseph had been chosen by the Lord God to receive religious information that would enlighten the human race on earth. So the Snowflake UFO of November 5, 1975, could have had a basis in religion or possibly related to the possible UFO with occupants that visited Mormon Joseph Smith in 1820. Out of this came the two books The Book of Mormon and Pearl of Great Price and information about ancient Egypt and the planet Kolob near the chief planet where God resided and stars and astronomy, gold plates, Hill Cumorah, Urim and Thummim, and the religious themes of Joseph Smith and his dedicating on August 3, 1831 of Independence, Jackson County, Missouri, as the site of the glorious New Jerusalem. So seem to involve religious matters as well as historical records, astronomy, science, ancient Egypt and Israel, astrophysics, and the recent discovery by scientists of over 33 exoplanets similar in shape and temperature to our planet Earth and the exploration of space and other worlds, etc. Thanks to Kenneth Larson

Gary Mansfield writes, "I have seen, documented, and analyzed more investigative sightings and digital footage than I wish I had ever become aware. I repeatedly find myself at odds end with people that are professionally dismissive, not to say the least obnoxious in their classical scientific disregard for any acknowledgement in what is obvious and true observational and objective field data. What I have repeatedly been confronted with in our extensive research are representations of biologic and highly intelligent objects, as exhibited by their responsive and interactive behaviors, not to disregard their strange morphing and often audible recorded signatures. Sounds too real to be true? Yes, that is exactly where I to first began this journey. But they do exist, and they are constantly in transit above our heads, and thru our skies in a seemingly curious and observational attitude. Open your eyes people! The truth is just beyond your fears of seeing and truly believing! Thanks to Gary Mansfield, Field Investigator.

Mars Inca City

Norman Bryden writes, "With the damage being done to our world don't people think being honest about civilization on Mars would be the smart thing to do? The Martian landscape is quite revealing and says many things about the integrity of the scientific community. Being dishonest about life beyond Earth erodes the public's trust. There's no shame in correcting the error. This area of Mars named Inca City by NASA appears to show intelligent life. Perhaps it's time to put away the anti-science and get on with the science of Mars and extraterrestrial life for it seems so far no damage to our world is enough for many alleged scientists to admit the facts. If they had the courage and ability they could be open and honest about the data as other worthy scientists have been in the past. The reason science is in such big trouble is due to the dishonesty in the scientific community. Earth has the need to know.
Thanks to Norman Bryden. Photo is at Latitude 81.50 S Longitude 2 06 W, by NASA/JPL

Editor's Note: NASA plans to drop nearly $310 million from the budget for its Planetary Science division in 2013, a 20 percent cut that affects future missions to Mars. The administration is cutting the budget making it less likely of any announcement of life on Mars,

Green Fireballs

George, How much have you investigated green fireballs? I am working with investigators about my sighting back in 2002... I saw a green fireball up close and personal... What I saw was not any space junk or meteor entering or skipping off the earth's atmosphere... What I saw was exactly what looked like a giant chrome ball bearing only made out of liquid.. The leading edge was rippling...It was bigger than a Volkswagen...long neon green tail and was dropping sparks on the neighbor's trees and made a hissing sound like a tire losing air. Thanks to Ben Garfield

Note: It is my opinion these are alien probes and not asteroids. The craft appear to use nanotechnology and miniaturize until they choose to expand to full size. Regards, George Filer

"The Roswell Legacy" by Jessie and Linda Marcel.

Photo of Jesse Marcel Jr. & William Puckett

Jesse Marcel Jr. was interviewed by William Puckett on February. 13, 2012 at 9 PM Eastern.

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Questions were asked regarding Jesse and Linda Marcel's book
"The Roswell Legacy

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The Bible and Torah Exhorts Yahweh (God) and His Flying Machines

Bill Bean writes the Bible tells of UFOs and the glory of God's craft. In Hebrew chariots, the glory of the Lord and clouds refer to anything that flies like UFOs.

The Hovering Vehicles in Glory and Light

Psalms 68:17-18

Thousands of Flying Vehicles

Clouds as Chariots

Argentina and California UFOs Similar

Aquasol -- On January 25, 2012, Mr. Moreno was testing a Motorola cellular MB525. His companion warned about the presence of an UFO so he swung around and took this photo.

Paradise -- Doug Depue writes, "The Argentine photo in last week's Filer's Files resembles the type of UFO I encountered on November 13, 1959, Friday the Thirteenth, at the Big Oak Flat area of Paradise Ranch in California. I am adding scans of my article in British UFO magazine concerning this sighting plus a slide scan of the Big Oak Flat. Regards, Doug Depue

U.S. Naval Commander: "We'll Stop Iran from Mining Hormuz Strait

Vice Admiral Mark Fox, commander of the U.S. 5th Fleet reports, "Iran has increased the number of small, fast patrol craft in the Strait of Hormuz, some of which have been outfitted with a large warhead for a suicide run at U.S. vessels. It also has boosted the number of mobile coastal-defense cruise missiles. They have a capability, and we take that capability very seriously and are prepared for it. The U.S. Navy would move to stop any Iranian attempt to lay mines in the Strait of Hormuz as an "act of war the international community wouldn't tolerate. Iran's inventory of thousands of mines "represents an indiscriminate and very difficult maritime problem, comparable to the improvised roadside bombs used in Iraq and Afghanistan to kill U.S. troops.' Fox told reporters at his Bahrain headquarters.

Threats by Iranian officials that Iran could close the Persian Gulf by blocking the Strait of Hormuz is a sign that international isolation and sanctions are taking a toll on Iranian leaders, but probably do not indicate Tehran's intention to launch such an attack except under extreme circumstances, such as an Israeli or US airstrike on its nuclear facilities. The threat is probably part of a larger Iranian strategy to deter attacks on its nuclear program by threatening to stop oil shipments. A growing discontented Iranian population needs someone to blame for their declining economic conditions upon. Riots and the killings of key nuclear scientists may be part of a growing anti-government trend. Thanks to Newsmax.com

Tiwanaku Bolivia, South America May be the Oldest City

Tiwanaku or Tiahuanaco is a mystery because of its age estimated to be 17,000 years old and its spectacular stone technology. Today there is little doubt that Tiwanaku was a major sacred ceremonial centre and focal point of a culture that spread across much of the region. Tiwanaku is an important Pre-Columbian archaeological site in western Bolivia. Tiwanaku is recognized by Andean scholars as one of the oldest and most important precursors to the Inca Empire.

The ruins of the ancient city state are near the south-eastern shore of Lake Titicaca, located 45 miles west of La Paz.

Gateway of the Sun, Tiwanaku

Tiwanaku is thought to have been a moral and cosmological center to which many people made pilgrimages. The ideas of cosmological prestige are the precursors to Tiwanaku powerful empire.^.. In 1945, Arthur Posnansky an engineer who spent years studying the ruins estimated that Tiwanaku dated to 15,000 BC using archaeo-astronomical techniques. The blocks, many of them weighing upwards of 200 tons, are in some cases held together by large metallic, I-shaped couplers.

Others were held together by silver rivets. The system used here is reminiscent of that used in the Egyptian ruins on Elephantine Island on the Nile. Most researchers believe that the metal was actually poured into I-shaped slots carved into the rock using melted metal.

Some of the docks and piers in this area are so large that hundreds of ocean going ships could dock comfortably; yet there is only a Lake Titicaca. Nothing oceanic' is near these docks except a prehistoric coastline indicated by chalky deposits of ancient salt water fossils. Lake Titicaca, languishing miles away, is nearly 100 feet lower than the ruined docks. A tremendous geological upheaval occurred several thousand years ago raising the entire region ten thousand feet above its former coastline and tumbling these huge stones. But could a sudden, violent tilt of the axis of the earth occurring some 12,000 years ago have been responsible? Geologist will not admit to such an occurrence in spite of the evidence as outlined in Geology

Tiwanaku location between the lake and dry highlands provide key resources of fish, wild birds, plants, and herding grounds for animals particularly llamas. The Titicaca Basin is the most productive environment in the area with predictable and abundant rainfall, which the Tiwanaku culture learned to harness and use in their farming.

In the earliest farming known in America, the high altitude required the development of artificially raised planting mounds separated by shallow canals filled with water. The canals supply moisture for growing crops, but they also absorb heat from solar radiation during the day. This heat is gradually emitted during the bitterly cold nights that often produce frost, providing thermal insulation. Significantly, the experimental fields recreated by University of Chicago's Alan Kolata suffered only a 10% decrease in production following a 1988 freeze that killed 70-90% of the rest of the region's production.

Large buildings with 20 ton stones fit perfectly together as shown when a needle cannot even penetrate between the stones.

The elites of Tiwanaku lived inside four walls that were surrounded by a moat. This moat, some believe, was to create the image of a sacred island. Inside the walls there were many images of human origin that only the elites were privileged to visit, despite the fact that images represent the beginning of all humans not only the elite.

 Arthur Posnansky estimated that Tiwanaku dated to 15,000 BC, the ruins matching astronomical alignments 17,000 years old. The ancient people built a stone pyramid known as the Akapana that is cross-shaped pyramidal structure that is 257 m wide, 197 m broad at its maximum, and 16.5 m tall. At its center, there is what appears to have been a sunken court.

Looters excavation has damaged the pyramid. The exact identity of the ancient builders is unknown. The largest stone block within the Akapana, which consists of andesite, is estimated to weigh 65.70 metric tons. Tahuanaco is another ancient civilization whose timeline came and went, leaving behind megalithic monuments that are without explanation as to their mathematical design and construction. Considered by some as the oldest city in the world, much of Tiwanaku's creation defies the laws of physics and mathematics even by today's standards. Many monuments bear close resemblance to those created by other ancient cultures. According to anthropologists dark unsophisticated cavemen and hunters roamed the Earth at this time. Yet we can visit the ruins of once majestic cities and pyramids with stones weighing thousands of tons.

As with many other sacred sites throughout the planet Tiwanaku remains an enigma indicating visitors from other planets or the very least ancient civilizations left behind by unknown beings and carvings of unknown or ancient animals...

Invitation to Seth Shostak of SETI is Turned Down

Dr. Harry Willnus writes, "I've been following the UFO phenomenon for over 55 years. I heard Hynek speak and I recall he noted that Seth Shostak who is associated with the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) had limited knowledge of the UFO field. I'll be attending the 21st Annual International UFO Congress Convention in Scottsdale, AZ from Feb. 22-26. I have offered pay for a full ride for Seth Shostak to attend.

Dr. Seth Shostak Senior Astronomer, SETI Institute wrote, " Thanks, Harry, but I think I'll pass on this.

Listen to our radio show: radio.seti.org

Read the book: Confessions of an Alien Hunter (National Geographic) www.seti.org Thanks to Dr. Seth Shostak

Sightings in the United States

Alabama UFO

HUNTSVILLE -- On February 9, 2012, at work a couple saw something floating in the sky and a slow movement they know it was a UFO. It was very low and no sound, of the craft early to night, thanks to Carol & Leo LaPlante

Alaska Red lights

Anchorage -- Robert Mackey writes, "Finally the snow has been cleared, on the highway to Seward, for the first time in months, and I was totally amazed about a new fault line down the highway for miles on end. There was a large crack in the highway about two inches wide going on for miles. It was crazy because the highway had just been repaved in the last five years. The earth is moving underneath creating huge cracks, and in some places the highway has been lifted as I drove down it. There were five wrecks on the way to Anchorage today/ Police and emergency crews had their hands full. Water was pooling all over the highway making travel very dangerous on a newly redesigned highway thanks to Robert Mackey. On January 23, 2012, red lights came over the mountains in line formation.

Arizona Light

PARKER -- My wife called me outside at 7:15 PM on February 8, 2012 to observe a light that was moving south across the eastern sky. I grabbed my camera and got a few photos before it disappeared. The best of the group is included. It is the bright light in the center of the photo. It stopped and then ascended, headed east, and disappeared. It was at least 1/2 mile distant and of a similar height. Thanks to MUFON CMS

California Disc and Rectangle

SAN FRANCISCO -- I was with my mom and son at Pier 39 and decided to take a picture of Alcatraz Island to post on Face- book from my Droid Bionic on full zoom. I never noticed the object in the sky until I looked at the picture.

It is to the left of the picture. Thanks looking into this matter. I thought it was quite significant. Regards, John M. Poulson

CHINA LAKE -- J.S. writes, "On February 8, 2012, I saw this thing again circling the town and base. Its lights were flashing like a police light bar and there was a blue halo around the red ventral light. It flew with what looked like a wing at a 30 degree offset to its direction and would occasionally crab' and move diagonally to its direction. I waved at it as it stopped dead in its tracks, for as long as I kept waving. Then it started to creep slowly forward in spurts as I stopped waving and continued on its journey moving counter clockwise across the town. It had a blue halo around its red ventral light and stayed in the area for an hour. Thanks to J.S.

Florida Lights

FORT LAUDERDALE -- I went out to put a letter in the mail box on February 7, 2012, when I saw a bright white light above my neighbor's house in the distance. It changed to a bright orange color and started to pulsate. I went inside to get my Mom, and her boyfriend and they both saw it for at least five minutes. I continued to look at the object taking several pictures on my cell phone. It wouldn't stay in one spot, but flew around, ascending and descending for at least 30 minutes. A few times it completely flickered off and back on again. After about 45 minutes it went below my field of vision behind my neighbor's house. When I looked at my pictures and noticed another green light higher up that showed up in the pictures. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Indiana UFOs

ROSSVILLE -- I got home from work around 11:45 PM, and noticed a blinking human craft in sky. I saw another ufo two nights ago but did not report it. I stepped out of my car and stood outside freezing for an hour observing three ufos in separate parts of the sky. They had very bright green lights with some kind of orange flashing lights. I used binoculars but I could only make out two lights. There was a stealth bomber shaped craft with regular flashy lights low to ground circling the area. The most prominent ufo just hovered and veered from left to right and up and down and glowed blue green. I was alarmed by the howling of every animal in my neighborhood every couple of minutes. The way the brightest ufo seemed to maneuver like it was evading some type of attack, perhaps from the obvious human aircraft circling around the sky. I had to go inside because I was freezing to death. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Massachusetts Huge Craft

Easthampton -- Driving north on Route 5 in Holyoke, at 8:15 PM, on February 2, 2012, I noticed lights obscured by trees to the east. Initially I thought it was a large military aircraft; a C-5A flying very low. Once it cleared the trees on a southwest path, it crossed over my car. It was dark so I could only see lights and a bit of a wing. It was extremely large, bigger than a C-5 and it was a swept wing with no distinguishable tail.

There were three very large white lights, one on each wing and one on the front that were not blinking. There was one smaller red light on the belly that was blinking steadily. As it passed over my car it was completely silent. There was no sound of an engine or distinguishable power source. It continued southwest and I lost sight of it. Thanks to http://www.ufocasebook.com/

New Jersey Lights

MINOTOLA -- I was working in my shop in my back yard on January 27, 2012, and heard a low flying jet plane flying over. I went out to take a look at the aircraft but could not see but noticed a bright white light moving to the southeast. The light was as bright as the sun but very small, silent, and about four miles away moving towards clouds to the south. I ran to get my camera and just caught it before it moved into the clouds fully. I tried to get a second shot but it moved into the thick of the clouds.

I then looked at the picture and barely saw the object on the LCD screen, but when I zoomed into the object I expected to see a plane, but I saw three points of light! This case is under investigation by Ken Pfeifer of MUFON New Jersey.

New York Orbs

LONG ISLAND -- Martha Nassauer writes, "I already reported seeing these white orbs every night when it is clear. These lights do amazing things, intercepting each other, and maneuvering, putting on a new show every time I watch. My family and friends have also witnessed these orbs. When I see an orb shooting across the sky it always seems to be accompanying a "shooting star. Thanks to your links I was able to find plasma beams, and that we are witnessing a war of sorts, between our technology and "theirs.

My only issue is why our government being so quiet about it? If I am able to see these EVERY night, than surely I am not the only person. I was very concerned about one recent incident where a round orb that was dark in the center came directly over my head. I felt it was able to detect I was monitoring it that evening with my telescope. I would like to know if these objects are dangerous. I have numerous stories to report. I would gladly invite you, or anyone from your organization to visit us here on the eastern end of Long Island, New York, so you can see them for yourself. Thanks to Martha Nassauer

North Carolina Bright Object

HICKORY -- On the night of February 7th 2012 I went outside to look at the full moon and noticed a very bright object to the northwest that seemed to hover and flicker as if spinning. After watching for about five minutes all of a sudden a fire ball shot from this object. I went inside to get a camera to try to photograph this object. I used my Sony Sure Shot 8 Meg. to try to get a picture. I took several as I tried to zoom in closer to this bright light. To my surprise when I downloaded the pictures to my computer I was amazed to see that one of the pictures looked like some type of craft, round in shape with a bulging center, the color of the center was green. This object hovered as if hanging around for several hours and just disappeared. I wasn't scared as I have met several people in this field and I just wanted to document this object. I am told that I live in a Hot Bed for anomalous activity, so I am always looking up when time permits. I do know it is not a plane, remote toy, hot air balloon, etc. I really don't think we are alone in this world as I have witnessed many strange anomalies in my area for the past several years. Thanks to MUFON CMS and Thanks to Ken Pfeifer www.worldufophotos.com

Tennessee Moving Orange Light

Orange Light is moving from left to right. This is just a few of the photos.

Pauline writes, "Moving image to the Mountain? It is a series of other orange blimp like' images. You can follow the progression of it as it heads toward the Viking Mountain Range and then to the right. This thing was an orange star looking thing in the same place and position for several months but because of its twinkling colors I would take a picture of it now and then. One night it started to move! I couldn't believe it as I had gotten myself thinking it was just a star... It moved ever so slowly...just like the recent image of what I labeled 'blimp'!

The TWO incidents were basically visually the same. The difference was, one stayed as I saw and pictured it, the recent one the camera picked up the weird changes as BOTH headed 'toward' the lighted area tower on the mountain, but the one that had been a star for so long also had another light above the mountain. The recent one moved 'along the top ' of the Mountain and it too headed toward the tower. There also was another lighted image that in the pictures was blue. When the 'blimp' got closer, toward the light is when it made changes and flew past the lighted area and straightened out again. Thanks to Pauline Petsel [morningsunshine354@msn.com]

Texas Triangle

EL PASO -- Unknown object caught on traffic camera on February 1, 2012.

Those who witnessed the incident haven't come forward.
http://m.elpasotimes.com/elpasotimes/db_31939/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=BBGEFGFx

Thanks to MUFON CMS

4 reddish lights

LUBBOCK -- I saw 4 reddish lights on February 5, 2012. One went straight up and the other three traveled west at high rate of speed.

Thanks to William Puckett Director UFOs Northwest http://ufosnw.com

Worldwide UFO Reports

Australia Moving Bright Stars

Warnbro -- Dr Phillip Arena writes, "On February 6, 2012, at exactly 2AM, I stepped outside to let the dog out and cast my eyes up to the Southern Cross, and saw a bright star with a faint golden tinge to it. It occurred to me that there are no stars that bright in that location (much brighter than Sirius). I therefore looked back and the star was gone. However, as I continued to look at that area, there were now three small stars, clearly moving. Two stars moved slowly towards each other and the third moved in an arc around the lower of the two stars (at a faster pace). They literally appeared as stars and therefore must have been moving incredibly fast. I watched them for 30 seconds and went back into my house and grabbed binoculars and camera, but the stars vanished. Thanks to Dr Phillip Arena

phil@ecoarena.com.au

kristin_wall@yahoo.com

Brazil Triangle

I noticed this YouTube video from Brazil did not mention the two ufo's in the sequence. It may be missed because the speed of transit is so fast, but frame by frame, the second UFO a wedge or triangular shaped unit transits before the explosion' and after it occurs. Three frames at 1:02 and three frames at 1:15.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg6mIAzeUGk

Is this a US attack craft? Anyone with some calculating ability could determine the speed and distance based on the vehicle ground traffic on the highway. The 2^nd ufo vector changes in 1/30 of a second Thanks to Michael in Burnaby BC Canada

Germany Disc

In August 13, 2011, I flew from Budapest to London when I made this photo. Another airplane flew near us, so I did not look at the object near the high cloud.

I just focused on the clouds and the wing. A few days later I noticed what is on the photo.

Thanks to MUFON CMS

Mexico Separate Videos

Tijuana -- Residents witnessed a spectacular multicolored UFO-OVNI on February 7, 2012. After a little while the camera stops moving and the object is moving erratically. Also the people in the video seem pretty genuine with their comments and reactions.

A new UFO-OVNI video filmed in Tijuana is flat out amazing; it was larger than a jet with bright multicolored flashing lights that put on a spectacular show. A second video of the same object was posted by another witness and the video is pretty impressive and other people' in Tijuana witnessed the UFO. Thanks to http://www.ufocasebook.com/

Spain Jet Fighters Chase UFO

Mediterranean Sea -- In a video, two Spanish military jet fighters are videoed chasing a UFO over the Mediterranean Sea in Western Europe. This video was published on 27 January 2012, and was recorded by fishermen.

UK/England

TOTON, NOTTINGHAM -- I saw an orb-like light/craft on February 4, 2012 and on three other occasions in the same location. My partner has seen it too. It is very slow moving and has even been hovering. It seems to change shape or pulsate into other shapes. It is low and a couple of miles away.

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IRN Presents: The 2012 UFO ‘Cover-Up’ Debate

2012 UFO 'Cover-Up' Debate

The UFO ‘Cover-Up’!   True or False?  Join us on Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012 at 7pm EST – 10:30pm EST for a special IRN presentation of the “2012 UFO ‘Cover-Up’ Debate”.  This debate will be moderated by the esteemed journalist Leslie Kean and contested by the respected researchers and authors, Dr. John Alexander and Richard Dolan.  Listeners will have a chance to listen in, call-in, participate, and decide which side made a better case for the widely discussed argument of whether the government plays a role in UFO investigations…..

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THE TOPIC: UFOs & THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

THE ARGUMENT: DOES THE UNITED STATES GOV’T COVER-UP KNOWLEDGE OF UFOS WITH THE USE OF DEEP BLACK UFO RESEARCH PROGRAMS BURIED SOMEWHERE WITHIN GOVERNMENT OR WITHIN GOVERNMENT-LINKED STRUCTURES?

THE MODERATOR: LESLIE KEAN is an independent investigative journalist with a background in freelance writing and radio broadcasting. She has contributed articles to dozens of publications including the Boston Globe, Philadelphia Inquirer, Atlanta-Journal Constitution, Providence Journal, and several more. She is also the author of “UFOs: Generals, Pilots and Government Officials Go On the Record“.

THE INSTIGATOR: RICHARD DOLAN is among the world’s most prominent UFO researchers, and is considered by many to be the world’s pre-eminent historian of the subject. He is the author of two volumes of history, “UFOs and the National Security State“, as well as an analysis of the future, “A.D. After Disclosure: The People’s Guide to Life After Contact“.

THE CONTENDER: DR. JOHN B. ALEXANDER has been a leading advocate for the development of non-lethal weapons since he created renewed interest in the field starting in 1989. In 2003 he served as a mentor to Afghan Ministry of Defense senior officials through the Office of Military Cooperation – Afghanistan, (Coalition Forces) Kabul.  Dr. Alexander is also the author of “UFOs: Myths, Conspiracies, and Realities“.

DEBATE COMMENTATORS: TRUTH THEOREM RADIO’S JASON & WARREN along with PROJECT WHITE PAPER’S CHASE KLOETZKE & MICHAEL RAMBACHER

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JAN DE CEUSTER 

Jan is a senior research engineer with a degree in  electronics and telecommunications.

He has now 75 years and is retired since 2000.

He ended his career in function as head of the research laboratories of the Company Pauwels Trafo in Mechelen.

He is married with Betje ,his wife and has two children ,a son Eric and a daughter Diane .

Before his laboratory–managing job ,he was responsible for the design and realization of  test facilities for high voltage ,high power transformers and functioned as test specialist in co-operative research projects with the Electricity Department of the University of Leuven (KUL).

Jan is known for his open mind and therefore he became very soon co-founder of  the Belgian UFO Network BUFON.

His special attention goes to the physical aspect of the UFO phenomenon and he is responsible for the activities in the BUFON Workgroup: Metrology.

He is member of UBA , the Belgian Radio-amateurs Association and his interest goes to designing and testing of antennas for DX work.

His college studies gives him the opportunity of speaking different languages as German, French , And English beside of his home language Dutch

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                 Magnetometer measures abnormal high value of local magnetic field  during simultaneous observation of an unidentified flying object

            In 2008  the 9^th of October, around 22h00 local time , a registration took place of an  

            extreme high value of the local geomagnetic field

            The Bx component was measured by means of a ringcore fluxgate magnetometer in

            our local, private observation station in Sint Katelijne Waver , Belgium

            The total duration of the magnetic anomaly was 7 minutes.

            After the event, recalibration of the magnetometer by means of a Helmholz coil

            system took place confirming the correct measurement value .

            Raising the magnetic field to a total value of 60 microTesla , 40 microTesla above

            the normal value of the Bx component was real.

            Comparing the registration of Dourbes indicates clearly that the anomaly was very

            local. In Dourbes ,on a distance of more than 100Km ,there was no effect .

            On the right moment of the event ,there was no explanation for it at all.

             A week later there was an e-mail from Caelestia , Antwerp questioning

            if  it was possible for looking at some possible disturbance in the magnetic

            field without saying anything more.  Indeed it was!

            A lady and her daughter had reported a visual observation of an unidentified

            flying object to the “ melding point “ of there organization.

            The visual observation took place at approximately 1Km away from our

            magnetic station.

            Big surprise was that the time window for the visual observation was exactly the

            same as for the magnetic anomaly.

            Interrogation of the witnesses resulted in the explicitly denying that it was a

            classic airplane, no wings, no tail , no pulsating navigation lights at all.

            She described it as an oval object with quite a lot of bright lights on its

            perimeter and  making no noise .  It was so strange  that she and also her 

           daughter  became very frightened .

            This is the story that gave start to the following investigation report.

            Initially it was the purpose of proving it was possible to an amateur to build a

magnetometer instrument with limited means and with a  minimal knowledge

            of the necessary physics of electronics and magnetism.

            After some time of fighting instability problems it became possible making

            registrations with the same accuracy as those of our official station in Dourbes.

            In 2004 , November 9^th  came the confirmation during the magnetic storm due to

            a sun-eruption a few day’s before.

            Comparing point by point it showed the same picture between our registration and

            that of Dourbes: thereby proving the possibility of  building an accurate home made

            instrument.

            After November 9^th  the equipment stayed in service with reduced sensitivity

            Registrations were made each day until in 2008 on October 9^th a very big anomaly

            took place. It happened after approximately 10 year of operation .

           Report of a geomagnetic anomaly 

                                 Place : Sint Katelijne Waver    --   Belgium

                                 Time:  October  9^th   2008

                                             21h50  Local Time

                                  Measurements:  executed with ringcore –fluxgate

                                                              magnetometer

                                  Calibration : with Helmholz  coil configuration

                               Registration of Bx component of geomagnetic field

                               Coordinates:  51 degrees 4 minutes  7 seconds   North

                                                       4 degrees 31 minutes   East

                                                                                    2010  October 23th

                                                                                         J. De Ceuster

                                                                       BUFON Workgroup Metrology

                                BUFON  Workgroup Metrology   :  Magnetic Events    

1.     Introduction: magnetometry  : measuring discipline for studying physico-magnetic

                                                       events.

                            geomagnetism:  study of earth-magnetic field behaviour

                             magnetometer : measuring equipment for determination and

                                                      quantization of magnetic events.

2.     Magnetometer

Among different kinds of magnetic measurement devices , those of the type

“fluxgate ‘is chosen in our research .

3.     Earth magnetic field:

The earth magnetic field is a quasi stationary vector field during low sun

activity periods.  The slow varying flux results in practical no induced voltage

in a simple coil detector . So a special solution has to be used, namely a flux-

gate magnetometer .

4.     Ringcore- fluxgate magnetometer:

This type is usable for the job

The sensor is made of a set of 2 windings over a fully closed magnetic core:

one winding for excitation purpose and the second one as detection coil.

The excitation winding is supplied with a symmetrical rectangular waveform

driving the core alternatively in saturation for both polarities of the voltage.

Returning out of the saturation pulses are produced in the detection winding

equally in amplitude with no external magnetic flux present

Any external field e.g. a magnetic field component Bx (= 20microTesla) ,will influence the produced pulses in a way that for one polarity there is an adding effect and for the other one a diminishing  effect .This asymmetry in the detection winding, due to the external field ,will create a net value proportional to the external field component. Integration and amplification act give an exact image of this external field , in our case the Bx component of the geomagnetic field .Digitizing and amplifying by a 10bit AD converter and Compaq Laptop results in a final print out

5.     Detection station at Sint Katelijne Waver

A visit to the Geophysical Station of the KMI  ( Royal Institute of Meteology) in Dourbes  represents the beginning idea of  building a home-made station

It was clear that is should be possible to build one if the minimum knowledge of

magnetism and electronics is present.

The choice of a location in Sint Katelijne Waver was not an obstacle due to the rural character of the region . There is no heavy industry and other disturbing activity is not present at the moment. In the beginning results were compared with those of Dourbes on a daily base as well with other amateur stations from the SAM group in the Netherlands and Germany .

In 2004 there was a serious magnetic storm on November the 9^th. This was THE opportunity to compare in detail our own registrations point by point  with those of Dourbes .The result of this analysis affirmed correctness of our measurements and affirms the possibility of running a home-made station with good result.

6.     Technical evaluation

The frequency of the pulses injected in the excitation coil is 1200c/s

The Nyquist criterion indicates then that de usable bandwidth for analog content in the signal is 600c/s. After this first sampling follows an integration of the pulses to determine the slowly varying component in the signal.

Very fast sampling with an AD converter is executed on this slowly varying signal and the mean values between two successive minutes stored over a period of 24 hours. The print-out shows the slowly varying component plotted each minute.

Our installation possesses only 1 measurement channel that means that there are only data for 1 component of the field namely the Bx component  (20microTesla).

Dourbes measure not only the Bx component  but also the two other By and Bz.

The amplitude of those three components from the geomagnetic field are practical the identical from place tot place at the same latitude that means on a global base.

A local disturbance will not be detected as such when the distance to the station is to great  ( due to the cubicle attenuation by the distance).

 
7.     The station in SKW (Sint Katelijne Waver) as possible UFO Detector

In studying reports of UFO phenomena the lack of measured data took my attention. Some characteristics are luckily well known for the disc like UFO as the very strong dipole magnetic field (100Tesla) and also the magnitude of it in the near proximity of the object where the Faraday effect reveals this high value.

The Sint Katelijne Waver event on 2008 October shows clearly very high peak

at 21h50 local time lasting for a total 7 minutes : in detail 2 peaks 4 minutes separated from each other .

          The local measured value has an amplitude of 60microTesla that is 40microTesla above

           the normal quiet value of the Bx component (20microTesla ).

           Some calculations ,supposing a source value of 100 Tesla on a distance of 2.5Km gives , a raising of 40 microTesla above the normal 20 microTesla is exactly the measured value!

That was the second surprise!

After  detection of the anomaly we  made a recalibration between the Helmholz coils

At that moment there was no explanation for the high values: airplanes and helicopters gave absolutely no disturbing signals at all. At that moment there was no explanation for the high values: airplanes and helicopters gave absolutely no disturbing signals at all.

The local field component was strongly interfered by an extreme high disturbing field

Because no other natural local source can be indicate seems it logic to look for something very special :  possibly the magnetic field of a nearby UFO ?

Knowing from the early UFO literature about the possible MHD driving system of a disc UFO creating a dipole field of 100 Tesla we may calculate the expected magnetic field in function of the distance taking into account that de attenuation behaviour over the distance represents a cubicle law .This calculation gives us results of approximately 40 microTesla !

The limit values for our apparatus are on maximum the sensitivity side 1 microTesla and on the saturation side 85 microTesla .The measured value of 60microTesla is comfortable between those two limits

              8.     The calibration  Helmholz configuration

           A Helmholz calibration system is setup by two coils placed on a distance from each other equal to     
           the radius of the coil. The coils are electrically connected in series .

The system gives the possibility to create a homogeneous magnetic field between the coils in the axis line. This field is direct proportional to the current through to coil configuration .It was possible to recreate the field of 40 microTesla raise in the sensor part of the magnetometer by putting it in the axis of coil set. This field gave together with  the always  present Bx field a reading of the total field of 60microTesla on the output of the magnetomer. 

          9.     Some remarks and conclusion

We had no notion of the visual observation at the moment of the registration of  the magnetic anomaly .

It is during the recalibration of the magnetometer that I realized that the registered values were so high and so out of  proportion .

Such high value were ,to my knowledge, never measured

The anomaly was very local and undetectable in Dourbes due to the big distance .

Calibration with the Helmholz equipment approved the correctness of the results.

Taking onto account :

1.     Both phenomena happened during the same narrow time window of

a few minutes.

2.  It was a flying object ,could not identified as known and looked as                                

                an oval or disc under a certain angle, with bright lights on  its

                 circumference ,no noise at all.

3.  Calculations shows there is a good agreement between the idea

     of  an unnatural source as an UFO and the measured and estimated     

     values .

                        The conclusion can be ‘a flying object of unknown type  creating big magnetic

                        field disturbances around it and in its environment”

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