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Monthly Statistical MUFON Report - for April 2012: deel 1

Within the United States the distribution by State was as follows;

State	Number of Reports
California	77
Texas	44
Pennsylvania	40
Florida	36
Michigan	21
Ohio	19
Arizona	18
New York	18
Tennessee	17
New Jersey	15
Colorado	15
North Carolina	15
Georgia	14
Missouri	13
Oklahoma	12
Maryland	11
Indiana	11
Illinois	10
Louisiana	8
Washington	8
Kentucky	7
Nevada	7
Virginia	7
Massachusetts	7
West Virginia	7
South Carolina	7
Minnesota	7
Mississippi	7
Alabama	6
Oregon	6
Connecticut	6
Iowa	5
New Hampshire	4
Wisconsin	4
Wyoming	4
Alaska	3
Montana	3
Utah	3
Hawaii	3
Idaho	3
New Mexico	3
Maine	2
Arkansas	2
South Dakota	2
Kansas	2
North Dakota	1
Delaware	1
District of Columbia	1

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Monthly Statistical MUFON Report - for April 2012: deel 2

If you are getting more sighting reports than listed here, please be sure to enter them manually into CMS. To make this happen automatically, make sure your local MUFON Website is pointing to the CMS Reporting form on www.mufon.com and direct all calls you get to the MUFON website so that witnesses can enter their own report directly into CMS.

ALL sighting reports received by CMS are already filled in by the witness, saving you and your investigators time. Each report is automatically sent to YOU, the State Director and Assistant State Director, for you to assign someone to follow-up and complete the report.

If a UFO sighting comes in over the phone, or by e-mail, and you want to enter it yourself, simply go to CMS at http://mufoncms.com (once logged in) and click on "ADD CASE" in the upper right hand corner of the screen. This gives you a blank sighting reporting form that you can fill out while the witness is on the phone. Once the report is filled out be sure to click "SAVE" and you will have easily added your NEW report to CMS.

Other interesting data points in CMS during April 2012 are the shape of the UFOs reported which were as follows;

Shape of Object	Number of Reports
Sphere	164
Star-like	121
Circle	104
Disc	81
Other	65
Unknown	61
Oval	59
Triangle	55
Fireball	50
Square/Rectagular	33
Flash	28
Cylinder	24
Cigar	19
Boomerang	17
Bullet/Missile	15
Diamond	13
Blimp	10
Cone	7
Egg	7
Saturn-like	6
Chevron	5
Teardrop	4
Cross	1

as well as the distance from the observer;

Distance from Witness	Number of Reports
< 100 ft	53
101-500 ft	69
501 ft - 1 Mile	160
Over 1 Mile	147
Unknown	205
NO VALUE	12

Most impressively there were 14 Landings, Hovering, or Takeoffs reported and 0 Entities observed.

To review the CMS data yourself go to www.mufon.com and click on "UFO Case Files" to 1.) Easily look at the Last 20 Sightings, or 2.) Do a customized search of the CMS database by date and/or location, or 3.) Logon to CMS for even more detailed UFO sighting information about your State and the World.

I hope you are enjoying our new internet based Sighting and Reporting System. For questions regarding its use please refer to the User Guide available on your CMS main menu screen. Please send your questions and/or suggestions to Jan Harzan at janharzan@hotmail.com.

Thank you!

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Majestic 12, Again

I am sick and tired of having to defend my research on the Majestic 12 documents against false charges . I have had a strong interest since first hearing about 2 of the 3 (of more than 100 that have been trotted out )that I consider genuine way back at the end of 1984. The two were the Eisenhower Briefing Document of November 18, 1952, and page 8 of that document “The Truman Forrestal Memo” of Sept. 24,1947. The third genuine one is the Cutler- Twining memo of June 14, 1954,which wasn’t discovered until July 1985 at the National Archives. I believe after considerable effort that all the other so called MJ-12 documents are phony.  We must distinguish between research by investigation and research by proclamation the standard technique used by MJ-12 debunkers.

I am particularly concerned by the comments over the years by Dr. Kevin D. Randle. Dr. Randle is a very prolific author, having published at least 100 books (mostly fiction)and many articles .  He has said a lot about Roswell and is convinced  a flying saucer crashed in the New Mexico desert in July 1947.  Much of his writing about MJ-12  relies more heavily on the tools of fiction. Theoretical scenarios  are required to advance the action . Questions of facts and data and evidence don’t come into play.

I am especially peeved that in his book “Case MJ-12”, Dr. Randle misrepresents my findings and views about Dr. Donald Menzel’s appropriateness for a place on MJ-12 . When people have asked what surprised me the most in my MJ-12 research, I note I was truly shocked that UFO debunker Menzel (a few books and many articles) actually was well qualified. Here is what KDR says in his book “Case MJ-12 ”Friedman writes of Menzel’s”double Life”, that Menzel spoke Japanese for example, was a Navy cryptologist during the second world war, knew John F. Kennedy well enough to call him by his first name was a consultant to the NSA,and that he was nearly chased from government work during a McCarthy challenge to his loyalty”..This is a grossly misleading picture of what I have written. Dr. Randle refers to my ”Final Report on Operation Majestic 12” and my article “The Secret Life of Donald H. Menzel”. In neither nor in my TOP SECRET/MAJIC do I say anything about Menzel speaking Japanese or about knowing Kennedy well enough to call him Jack. I do quote from 1960 letters to Kennedy addressing him as Jack but providing statements to the effect that when they are properly cleared to each other he can tell him more. I  Especially focused on his post world war 2 highly classified work that isn’t even mentioned in two special issues of Sky and Telescope honoring Menzel .. after he died ( and on the 100^th anniversary of his birth).

About Japanese (6^th paragraph of 9  denoting why I thought he belonged on MJ-12 “Menzel had learned Japanese during his work on cryptography. He had even taught cryptography before the war and continued as head of Communications Unit No. 1 of the US Naval Reserve in Cambridge after being mustered out.He would have been an ideal person to show the symbols found at Roswell, since he already had the high level security clearance to go with his cryptographic skills and an understanding of an entirely different  symbolic language”.In short the notion that I mentioned his calling Kennedy by his first name and Menzel speaking Japanese is  entirely fictional. Not noted by Dr. Randle was my emphasis on all the statements made by people like Dr. Bush about Menzel being entirely discreet and trustworthy with regard to classified information. Bush was known as the father of compartmentalization   and was well aware of Menzel’s wartime and post war classified activities.

More misrepresentation  from Dr. Randle includes this statement “..nowhere did he (Friedman)find any mention of MJ-12. There are no marginal notes ,no oblique references, no highly placed correspondence that suggests, mention, identifies or confirms the existence of MJ-12, or Menzel’s connection to it”. This is frankly absurd. There was all kinds of testimony from people as highly placed as Dr. Vannevar Bush that Menzel was extremely discreet about classified matters, and Dr. Randle thinks he would have left classified information lying around? I talked to his secretary and some colleagues.There were no classified items left  in his files at Harvard . . Absence of evidence is not evidence for absence. Of course a number of other  MJ-12 debunkers have tried the same ploy. Karl Pflock, for example, says he couldn’t find any mention of MJ-12 in other documents. If it was as classified as claimed to be, it would have been amazing if there had been.

I wrote two final reports for a project I did for Aerojet General  Nucleonics under contract to the  USAF. One was unclassified. The other was highly classified.. It is not mentioned in the unclassified report.

Dr. Randle also makes another fictional  claim “For me, however the “smoking gun” that proved the Eisenhower briefing is a hoax was Roscoe Hillenkoetter’s rank.” After all he was only a rear admiral and would not have called himself Admiral”. Kevin even once asked me to show him some other document on which he signed himself as admiral. There is of course no signature on the EBD! Several military officers including General Exxon)told me they had no trouble with the use of generic ranks (for all the military guys not just Hillenkoetter). Brian Parks a Californian provided me with an example. so my next trip to the Eisenhower Library (The critics seem generally to avoid going to Archives so they can do their research by proclamation rather than investigation)  I found a bunch of mem coms (memorandum of Conversation) written by Ike’s Staff secretary Brigadier General Andrew Goodpaster. He always used generic ranks to list the meeting attendees, including himself as General Andrew Goodpaster. But he signed them Brigadier General. Two different archivists said that was standard practice. .

Dr. Randle is particularly deceptive when he talks about Questioned Document Examiner Peter Tytell’s findings about the EBD. I had located Tytell years earlier and sent him a copy.Randle say PT said ”And it was just perfect because the whole thing of the 12 pages or however many pages it was. Most of the pages were just blank pages with just five words on them like Top Secret Memo or Appendix A or something like that. ”. Randle unfortunately some how leaves out pages 6 and 7 of the 8 page(not 12) memo. (Only 7 has just  a few words) . Tytel casually noted he thought the typewriter on the TF memo was much later than 1947. Dr. Robert Wood hired Dr. Black a Questioned document examiner who stated the typewriter was a 1940 Underwood. He agreed that the signature had been lifted. I had early on in a trip to the National Archives found a letter from Truman to Bush dated October 1947 which had a very similar signature (I don’t get credit for finding it. Phil Klass is given credit.) The real question that nobody wants to answer is where would a signed copy of the memo have been? Forrestal would have received one, but he died in 1949. Bush and Director of CIA are both mentioned. Probably would have had copies..unsigned. Ike was being briefed on High security matters by the then CIA director Walter Bedell Smith who was now on MJ-12 and probably would have had the briefing typed at CIA. I asked former CIA agent Karl Pflock if the CIA would not have lifted the signature to put it on the TF memo.. Of course.

I had asked the Truman library if anybody from the  Truman White House was still around. They noted George Elsey who was there all during Truman’s term. I called him and sent him a copy of the documents and called back to ask questions purposely avoiding asking any questions he couldn’t have answered if he had known about MJ-12. He was very helpful. He saw no reason to say the documents were fraudulent, that any of the members would not have been picked by Truman, He said  most things signed by a president are prepared elsewhere, that HST trusted Forrestal and Bush, that the slanted portion of the 24 September date probably meant being in a typewriter twice so that the final date would be appropriate. No quarrel with my notion that because of the period at the end of the date line, that it could have been Bush’s office. It always ended  dates with a period. He told me that James Lay the NSC Exec Sec. worked very closely with Robert Cutler. They sat next to each other at meetings and got copies of all the paperwork from the other. I suggested that Lay wrote the CT memo because he had met with Ike earlier that day at 2:30 and had a phone conversation at 4:30. I had a copy of instructions to Lay from Cutler to keep things moving out of his inbox while Cutler  was in Europe. It took me 2 years to get a copy of a formerly classified note from Lay to Cutler while Cutler was gone indicating he was keeping things moving. Elsey said of course Lay would have prepared a simple memo to Twining. It isn’t signed and there is no /s/ indicating original signed by. This is one of many items I have noted to which the debunkers have not responded. How did a hoaxer know when we didn’t find this out, until years later.. Randle spends little time on the CT memo saying the TOP SECRET Restricted notation on it had to be a fraud because the Ike Library and the Nat. Archives said it wasn’t in use at the time. The GAO in its 400+ page report noted that they had found a number of instances of it in use despite being told that it had not been. They had also been mistaken about the use of Dictation onionskin.I have listed many items which nobody knew.

Randle even claimed psychically that Ike wouldn’t have needed a briefing  because as Army chief of Staff in 1947 he would have known about Roswell. True ,but he was out of the loop thereafter as President of Columbia University and then in Europe as head of Allied forces trying to work with former enemy Germany to provide a bulwark against the Russians. He had his hands full with matters of great importance. Of course Randle says nothing about Phil Klass paying me 1000$ for providing 10 documents with the same pica type as used on the CT memo Klass had insisted they should have been in elite type.. A copy of his check is of course in my Final Report on Operation Majestic 12 and TOP SECRET/MAJIC which KDR had and references .I would be happy to take on any MJ-12 debunker who has done his homework and some real research instead of proclamations.

Stanton Friedman www.stantonfriedman.com  fsphys@rogers.com

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In special reports, this weeks files cover: Air Force's Chief Public Relations Officer Says UFOs are Real, Fukushima Nuclear Plant, India Fires China Killer Missile, Underwater Pyramid near Japan, Contactee Flown to Saturn, and United States Department of Agriculture Allegedly Kills Millions of Birds.

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.

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Air Force's Chief Public Relations Officer Says UFOs are Real

Colonel William T. Coleman is a retired Air Force bomber pilot, former Public Information Officer for Project Blue Book, and Air Force's Chief Public Relations Officer during the early 1970s. He was also the Producer of a series called "Project UFO" that ran on NBC for two seasons. (1978-79)

In June of 1978, while promoting his new TV show on the Merv Griffin show, Coleman spoke about a UFO sighting he had experienced while a bomber pilot in the fifties. I spoke several times to Colonel Coleman who knew a great deal about UFOs and had chased one over Georgia.

Colman states, "We were cruising at 10,000 feet when we spotted a target somewhere around 20,000 to 25,000 feet. It was about seven miles in front of us to our right, and we were overtaking it. It then started descending across our flight path, and I decided to check it out. So I advanced power and began closing a little faster and descending. We kept getting closer and closer and pretty soon we were within a mile of the object, flying over trees at 345 MPH."

(The plane closed to within an eighth of a mile of the disc-shaped object.) "It was about 60 feet in diameter and 10 or 11 feet thick through the center," he said. "It had what looked like a titanium-type finish (silver gray). I pulled up and made a hard turn that put it out of sight for roughly for four seconds. We whipped back to pull up alongside of it and it wasnt there. I zoomed up to 1500 feet. `There it is!' I said. It was about 2 miles in front of us going across a field leaving a red dusty trail behind it. I guessed its speed at about 170 MPH." After another dive, the crew lost sight of the object. "We never saw it again." http://www.presidentialufo.com/

Fukushima Nuclear Plant

I have been contacted by numerous readers and visitors who are very concerned about our environment and especially the radioactive contamination levels from Japan's stricken Fukushima nuclear plant. A French watchdog expert warns the radiation will be 'chronic and lasting' for years, a French nuclear said. " Didier Champion, crisis manager at the Institute for Radiological Protection and Nuclear Safety (IRSN), told reporters a year after the disaster. The initial contamination linked to the accident has greatly has declined." "That doesn't mean that there won't be any more, far from it. Today, and for many years to come, we will have a situation of chronic and lasting contamination of the environment."

It is essential for Japan to maintain vigilant monitoring of fruit, milk, mushrooms, game and fish, Champion warned , "There are risks of chronic exposure at low dosage, and without care this can build up over time." Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) w orkers warned they're facing a 100-year battle to make fuel rods safe. Fuel Rods need to be kept 15 feet under water to prevent radiation leakage. Evacuation zone refugees won't be able to go home for years, admits Japanese minister.

The March 11, 2011, catastrophe saw the plant swamped by a quake-generated tsunami that knocked out coolant pumps, triggered hydrogen explosions and caused three of its six reactors to suffer meltdowns of nuclear fuel. Radioactive elements were spewed into the air by the blast and into the sea by cooling water that was pumped into +in a desperate attempt to keep the overheated reactors under control. The IRSN said the main radioactivity leaks occurred between March 12 and 25 in about 15 incidents." It gave a provisional estimate that 408 peta-becquerels, or 408 million billion Becquerels, of radioactive iodine had been emitted into the air. This was 10 times lower than in the 1986 Chernobyl disaster in Ukraine, the world's worst nuclear accident.

The iodine releases posed a sharp but temporary hazard as the element quickly decays. A bigger problem, the IRSN said, was Caesium-137, a long-lasting element which takes around 30 years to decay to half its level of radioactivity. Caesium of all kinds released at Fukushima was estimated by the agency at 58 peta-becquerels, or three times less than Chernobyl. Caesium 137 accounted for 21 peta-becquerels.

Of around 24,000 square kilometers (9,200 square miles) of land contaminated by Caesium 137, only 600 sq. kms (230 sq. miles) breached a safety threshold of 600,000 Becquerels per square meter, the IRSN said.

So far, no death or cases of sickness have been directly linked to the disaster, IRSN said, stressing however that the impact on the civilian population over the long term, and on emergency workers and plant employees, remained unclear. Many people have taken Potassium iodine to counteracts the buildup of radioactive iodine in the thyroid.

In comparison two Chernobyl plant workers died on the night of the accident, and a further 28 fireman died within a few weeks as a result of acute radiation poisoning. UNSCEAR says that apart from increased thyroid cancers, "there is no evidence of a major public health impact attributable to radiation exposure 20 years after the accident."

A probe finds that an inadequate response exacerbated Fukushima crisis. Poor preparation and communication after the disaster struck were among shortcomings that turned a nuclear accident at Japans Fukushima plant into the worst atomic crisis in 25 years, a panel probing the disaster said on Monday.

In 2008, Tepco simulated a tsunami exceeding 15 meters reaching Daiichi but did not take action, dismissing the likelihood of such a wave, the panel added. The report also noted that Tepco did not have enough expertise on the ground after the disaster struck, saying it made mistakes like misunderstanding the functioning status of the No.1 reactors cooling system and mishandling the No. 3 reactors cooling system. The government said it may take another seven years before the inside of the reactors can be checked due to high levels of radiation and technological constraints. T epco has so far said the tsunami that followed the quake caused most of the damage. Hundreds of minor earthquakes are recorded each month.

The fuel rods are essential to running an effective plant, but if they are not surrounded by 15 feet of water they spew out radiation that can kill a person in less than a minute. The fuel rods were left uncovered by cooling water long enough to crack and some radioactive material was released into the fuel and a meltdown occurred. Fireman put their lives on the line from radiation to pour water onto the nuclear plant shortly after the Tsunami.

The 1979 Three Mile Island nuclear accident involved a partial core meltdown and is ranked as a 5 on the International Nuclear Events Scale, as is the Chalk River, Ontario, incident in 1952 — the worlds first nuclear accident. Additional major earthquakes are predicted for Japan and the US West Coast so there is a good chance for further contamination.

In a far more serious full meltdown, the cladding covering the fuel rods melts away under temperatures above 1,200 degrees Celsius and releases radioactive isotopes into the atmosphere and circles the world. The reported spike was 313 millirem before dropping back down. The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commissions radiation dose limit for the public is 100 millirem per year.

At Unit 2, the fuel rods were fully exposed at least twice as the levels of sea water being poured into the building dropped. In the first case, Kyodo said, a fire pump used to deliver seawater malfunctioned. The second time, a steam vent of the pressure container of the reactor closed.

In the first instance, TEPCO said water levels recovered to cover 30 centimeters in the lower parts of the fuel rods, Kyodo reported.

The Japanese reactors, made by General Electric and built in the 1970s, have thousands of thin, 12-foot-long fuel rods stacked like straws inside a pressure vessel made of steel up to 15 centimeters thick according to the New York Times. The rods actually tubes made of a zirconium alloy contain ceramic pellets of uranium oxide that are about the size of a fingertip. Ordinarily, this fuel core is kept submerged in water that circulates to remove the heat of nuclear fission, making steam that is used to turn turbines to generate electricity.

Even when the plants are shut down, there is still heat in the reactors. Unless a lot of water is pumped in constantly, the water can boil away and leave the fuel rods exposed. If the rods are completely exposed long enough to allow them to spill thousands of fuel pellets to the bottom of the reactor, the heat becomes intense and the reactor is in full meltdown. The NEI, the policy arm of the U.S. nuclear industry, pointed out that the walls of the containment buildings are steel and concrete 15 to 25 meters thick. The previous explosions in the secondary containment buildings had not damaged the primary containment buildings or the reactor cores at Units 1 and 3, TEPCO said. "Pumping corrosive sea water laced with boric acid into the reactors is a last-ditch measure to keep everything cooled and contained; it is an admission that the reactors have been given up as lost, experts say. Getting them to function normally would require the pumps to be running normally, which requires electricity."

The Atomic Power Review reports as of April 2012, the seawater purification system, acting on that body of water contained inside the silt fence which surrounds the water inlets of Nos. 1 through 4 nuclear plants, is now in operation. Will Davis writes, "As to the reactor cores, No. 1 through No. 3 plants... Injection rates are down a little, at 4.5 and 4.9 cubic meters per hour for No. 1 and No. 2 respectively while No. 3 remains at 11.2 or so where it's been for days now. All plants are stable in temperature, with No. 3's the highest (feed nozzle 150C and lower head 140C.)"

TEPCO continues to install support beams, below the spent fuel pool of No. 4 plant to improve the plants ability to withstand further earthquakes. Fresh water and hydrazine corrosion inhibitor continue to be injected to the spent fuel pools as is needed. Banri Kaeda, the Minister of Economy and Industry has requested that the local authorities all around Japan restart the nuclear plants in their jurisdictions, having ensured them that the added inspections and quake / tsunami provisions required by the government have been met. Japan will be seriously short of energy if all of the shut down plants remain shut down.

People who work in the nuclear industry have warned that governments and companies frequently under report the worst data in attempt to not upset the public. Radioactive material from the Fukushima nuclear disaster has been found in tiny sea creatures and ocean water some 186 miles (300 kilometers) off the coast of Japan, revealing the extent of the release and the direction pollutants might take in a future environmental disaster.

In some places, the researchers from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) discovered cesium radiation hundreds to thousands of times higher than would be expected naturally, with ocean eddies and larger currents both guiding the "radioactive debris" and concentrating it. The debris is floating across the Pacific and some have already reached Alaska.

Rep. Ed Markey (D MA-7): states, After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the NRC determined that some nuclear security upgrades were required to be implemented for the "adequate protection" of all U.S. nuclear reactors". In other words, the last Congresss move was regulatory kabuki. By failing to use the strictest language for fuel pools, plant operators will be allowed to delay compliance for years, if not completely excuse themselves from it, based on the argument that the safety upgrade is too costly." Thanks to the Atomic Power Review and New York Times.

India Fires China Killer Missile

This seems to be an exclusive club.  Only Russia, the United States, India and China are currently known to possess land-based ICBMs.  What affect does this new capability for India mean? They even named it the "China Killer," which doesn't make China happy but nor would it have if the North Koreans had successfully launched their ICBM and titled it, "US Killer."  There is an arms race going on in this part of the world and who knows where it is leading.  http://worldnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/04/18/11275632-india-test-fires-china-killer-missile-capable-of-reaching-beijing-europe?lite

Strange Underwater Pyramid near Japan

These strange underwater pyramid structures at a depth of two thousand meters were identified with the help of a sonar according to oceanographer Dr. Verlag Meyer. Studies of other structures like Yonaguni in modern day Japan have allowed scientists to determine that the two giant pyramids, apparently made of something like a thick glass, are really impressive each of them is larger than the pyramid of Cheops in Egypt. Thanks to BeforeItsNews

Dickson City -- Mark Krawczyk writes, "I wish to report when my uncle was in the Navy and we were visiting him in Norfolk, VA something happened to me in 1964, when I was 7 years old." It might have occurred where we lived in Dickson City, Pa. at the time, and I still live here.

I remember without any hypnotism the following story things are crystal clear. First, I remember seeing a flying saucer that was in a grove. Then the next thing I remember was a military man saying to me look out the window at Saturn's Rings. The planet was huge; I would say about 18" in diameter looking out the window of the saucer. The saucer looked close to the Lazar saucer, sport model.

But underneath it had primitive type of jet engines all around the bottom to lift it off the ground first until it got into orbit, then it went into some other type of mode that got us to the outer planets in minutes. Then the next thing I remember we were on a moon of Saturn or Jupiter. I remember there was oxygen on it with a lot of rock like structures like in a desert. Then the military man took me to a place where there was a clearing in the stones, and there was something like a turnstile that you would go though in a stadium. Well when we got to that narrow spot in the rocks, there was a being that looked like grasshopper or a praying mantis type being. It didn't speak, but it put into my mind that that I had to go over to a statue that looked like them, and I was to eat what was inside its neck. When I looked at the statue another being lifted off its head to expose the stuff inside its neck, then I looked at the military man and said,

"Do I have to eat this?" And he said. Yes, so I went over to the statue that looked like them, and I stuck my finger into its neck and tasted it on the tip of my tongue. I remember it tasted like butterscotch pudding." Then after that I was taken to a large base on the Moon. I remember him showing me an ORB that was on a pedestal that was about four times my height. He told me to touch the orb, so I did, and there were creatures in the orb that came to the surface when I touched it. Then I remember two men fighting, and one of them pushed the other and his head went in between a high voltage arcing current between two antenna looking structures and I think he died. Then the Orb somehow let us know it would heal the man. It shot a beam of light at the man and he was healed.

The next thing I remember was I was walking with the Military man through tubes that connected the buildings, they looked like metal Slinky's that had a clear plastic covering all over them. Then I remember the Military man had some sort of radio on his belt, and someone radioed him and said a Gigantic Orb was destroying their base, and it said they will destroy all the buildings on the moon if they don't turn over the smaller orb. So they asked the Military man what should they do? Then the Military man said to tell the gigantic orb that we will hand over the smaller Orb over to them. It then stopped destroying the base. They put the smaller orb into a valley on the moon, and watched from a TV screen the large orb hovering over the smaller orb, and it shot a beam of light at it and it exploded.

Then I was flown back home to the grove and watched as the saucer took off with its flames burning my face. Then I remember that same day telling my dad in our Kitchen, "Dad, I think it is so neat that our government has flying saucers" and I'll never forget what he said to me, he said, " Our government doesn't have flying saucers!" And I said, " We don't?"

Now later in life, I noticed that they have made a show on the Outer Limits, called "Moonstone' which also came out in 1964, and was similar to my memories. Now just a few years back, I looked up who made and wrote the show, "Moonstone' and found out it was a man named, Joseph Stefano.

Now when I investigated him, he had a friend named, Leslie Clark Stevens Jr. who was an Admiral in the US Navy. And he created the show, "Outer Limits!"  He also gave Stefano the story of what was to become "Moonstone."Now thinking about things, the Navy is in charge of Space travel as if were at sea. And just like in the so called "Alien Interview Smuggled Tapes" It's the Naval Intelligence footage who was in charge of Area 51, and S-4. Like on Star Trek, it seems we have a fleet in space. Well, I had to tell this to someone, whether you believe this or not, it happened to me! Well, if you want to ever contact me, my info is below: Thanks to Mark Krawczyk

United States Department of Agriculture Allegedly Kills Millions of Birds

The USDA has been under fire recently for its admitted assault against nature, after multiple investigations have uncovered its deliberate tampering with both plants and animals alike. One such investigation has put an end to the mystery surrounding the death of millions of birds, with USDA documents revealing the organizations role in the massive slaughter. In addition to the mass bird killings, it turns out the USDA was fully aware that a highly-popular herbicide chemical was a known bee-killer, which may have aided the bee decline. The USDA has also threatened the genetic integrity of the nations crops. Information has surfaced regarding the USDAs illegal approval of Monsantos biotech crop, sugar beets. These crimes are simply an excerpt from the long list of USDA crimes that are continually being exposed.

In December of 2010, mystery struck the world. Reports of mass fish and bird die-offs were coming in from Texas to Sweden. The first occurrence in the series of strange events started in Arkansas, where 3,000 birds fell from the sky. In the following days and weeks, similar incidents were reported with no solid explanation. The reason has now been found, thanks to documents found on the USDAs website. Claiming to be protecting farmers from predators, the birds were victims of a little-known government program. Like millions of other animals since the Bye Bye Blackbird program was created in the 1960′s, the birds were poisoned and killed for being considered a nuisance to farmers. It is important to take note that many of these animals dont pose any immediate threat to farmers.

In the 1960′s the USDA established a program referred to as the Bye Bye Blackbird program. This program is solely responsible for the mass killings of what could ultimately be millions of birds across the nation. In 2009 alone the USDA poisoned and killed over 4 million birds. The documents state whether or not the deaths were intentional or unintentional on the government website. You can find extremely large numbers, such as 22,276 blackbirds marked as intentionally euthanized. Here is some data from the USDA itself:

Brown-headed cowbirds: 1,046,109, European Starlings: 1,259,714, Red-winged blackbirds: 965,889, Canadian Geese: 24,519, Pigeons: 96,297, Grackles: 93,210, and Starlings European: 1,259,714

These numbers are simply from 2009, and let us not forget about all the other years animals have been killed since the 1960′s when the program was first created. http://worldtruth.tv/usda-admits-exterminating-bir.

In recent years the world honey bee population has plummeted in North America. This is important because bee pollination is crucial for the fertilization of many crops. Recently, a document was leaked revealing that a bee-killing pesticide put in use by the EPA may be to blame. Adding to the controversy, more records have emerged showing that the USDA was fully aware of the pesticides threat to not only bees, but humans. The two-month-old report released by the USDA itself unveiled that the toxic insecticide used on plants are not only a threat to insects central nervous systems, but are also a threat to the internal systems of humans.

Imidacloprid, one of the neonicotinoid family of pesticides introduced over the past 15 years, is likely to be responsible for Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), the recently observed phenomenon in which bees abandon their hives en masse, according to the study by scientists from the Harvard School of Public Health. The study, to appear in the June issue of The Bulletin of Insectology, provides "convincing evidence" of the link between imidacloprid and CCD, claim the authors, led by Alex Lu, associate professor of environmental exposure biology in the schools Department of Environmental Health. It follows two other widely publicized studies, from Britain and France, published last week in the journal Science, which strongly suggested that neonicotinoids were linked to the declines in bees and other pollinating insects seen in Europe and the US.

Neonicotinoids, which attack the central nervous system of insects, are considered by some scientists as dangerous to species which are not the compounds principal targets, because they are "systemic" meaning they do not just sit on the surface of a plant but are taken up into every part of it, including the pollen and nectar, where they can be ingested repeatedly by bees and other pollinating insects.

Sightings in the United States

Arizona Orbs

FLAGSTAFF -- As a commercialpilot, I take many photos of interesting and beautiful scenery as my work load/duties permit. I took the attached photo about March 22, 2012, while flying over a portion of the Grand Canyon at approx 39,000 feet. The lights in the upper right of the photo were not noticed until sometime later after I had time to look over all the photos that I had taken during that tour. I do not claim that the lights are UFOs, but I have used my BlackBerry cell phone's camera for years and I know that the lights are not a reflection from within the cockpit.

JAMUL I have pictures the UFO is in a triangle pattern observed on April 18, 2012. Please blow up the photo.

Thanks to MUFON CMS

Florida Green Light

Sarasota I am a college student and saw a UFO on April 15, 2012, similar to some of the other ones witnessed in other parts of Florida. It was a maneuvering greenish orb. I am an art student, and I made an animation that closely resembles what I saw. Around 3 AM, Sunday morning, I was driving from school to my apartment on a dark road, when a bright light caught my attention. It was circular and neon green orb-like bright light with a bright white center, but I could see cyan blue towards the bottom right of the light. The orb descended towards the ground in a smooth curved falling path obscured by tall dark trees.

Note: The witness has presented a good argument that the object is difficult to explain and is unidentified. Thanks to William Puckett, Director http://www.UFOsnw.com

Pompano Beach -- Traveling west on Atlantic Boulevard from work to home I observed an airborne object near intersection of Dixie Highway on April 17, 2012, at 10:50 PM. I pulled over as I thought it was an aircraft about to make an emergency landing on roadway and got out of my vehicle to observe. I then saw it was about 20 times larger than an airplane and was shaped like a flat top straw hat and looked to be metallic. It was 50 times the size of a full moon. The upper portion or cabin had windows all around with light on inside which reflected out giving me an excellent view. It was low and slow flying only 300 to 400 feet high. 

I watched it travel slowly until it went out of sight. I returned to my vehicle and drove a few blocks and saw it flying in the same direction until I lost sight! Thanks to Peter Davenport, Director National UFO Reporting Center http://www.UFOcenter.com

Several discs and cylinder shaped UFO s were reported over the Orlando, Florida area.

Hawaii Light

Kihei -- The image appears on the right center of the photo taken on April 15, 2011, we have a few photos showing the object of varying coverage by clouds - no airplanes or helicopters were in the area at time of picture... 

Please help us identify the object! The moon was not full yesterday as well...

Thanks to MUFON CMS

  Massachusetts Photo

DANVERS -- I watched this thing move from the southwest to where I took the pictures of it, in the western sky on April 13, 2012.

It was late afternoon, about 6 PM. when I saw it moving. It did not have flashing lights or any smoke trail behind it. Now it is 9:10 PM, and I do not see it in the sky any longer.

Note: Venus and Jupiter were in the area of the sky photographed by witness. The object in the photo is quite likely Venus. Venus can be visible in the daytime. The apparent movement from the southwest to west is also consistent with the position of a planet as the Earth rotates. Skies were clear at the time of photos. Thanks to William Puckett, Director http://www.UFOsnw.com

Nevada Orbs and Bolide

LAS VEGAS -- I was going to take a photo of the city on April 21, 2012. I got out of my car and it was directly in front of me halfway up Frenchman Mountain. Then a second one appeared and began to do the same- then the first one changed direction and headed south and changed to a solid grey. I scrambled to change the lens on my camera, which took five seconds. When I looked back up- the 1st orb had disappeared. The second one- was still orange and appeared to be following the same path, so I managed to take a single photo of it as it changed to a solid dark grey with a red light orbiting around the lower half. My wife said it was three red lights orbiting around the bottom.  It is exactly as it appears on the camera. Thanks to MUFON Thanks to MUFON CMS

New Jersey Gray Object near Airport

Newark -- On April 18, 2012, I was driving home from work, on the usual route down the NJ Turnpike pass Newark Airport to Route 78. Each day I drive under scads of planes coming in and out of Newark. I was merging onto Route 78 west and notice a large gray object west of Newark Airport. I quickly realized that this was strange because plane traffic at Newark typically flows north-south. It was about two miles west of the airport. I was talking to a friend on the phone so I looked at my cell phone at 5:32 PM. I noticed it for about two minutes, it really didn't seem to move, and I didn't see any lights. Then my view became blocked by an underpass and then by some trees. When the objects in my view cleared, I no longer saw this object in the sky. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Note: A series of strange objects have been seen in this area through the years and have been picked up on radar.

New York Cigar

New York City (Queens; Bayside ) It looked like a lot of light; one of them moved and disappeared. They were too long to look like very close stars. Thanks to Peter Davenport, Director National UFO Reporting Center http://www.UFOcenter.com

  Ohio Triangle

STOW On April 19, 2012, I saw a black triangle shape, with white lights in corners, with red pulsating light in the underside center. It had a humming, low rumble sound. It was first seen higher, under cloud deck flying slowly NE. I saw it again later in evening flying a few hundred feet over the tree tops going very slow slowly spinning counter clockwise.

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West Jordan -- I noticed these objects after the fact in photograph on September 15, 2012.

Im sending two photographs 15 to 20 seconds apart, one with the objects one without to compare. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Vermont Triangle

Bennington -- I was riding my bike when a big flash happened and three triangle shaped objects appeared on April 1, 2012, at 5 PM. I looked down at my phone and when I looked up they were gone.
((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides little contact information. PD))

Wisconsin Orb

I saw an object passing from east to west above the clouds at about 20,000 to 30,000 feet.

I think it was an Asteroid.

Thanks to MUFON CMS

Worldwide UFO Sightings

Argentina: Vision OVNI Looks into Strange Ground Traces

Pujato, Santa Fe Province -- A cornfield that appeared to display strange marks caused astonishment to many citizens in the town on April 5, 2012. The event prompted a visit from Vision Ovni, the Victoria-based group devoted to the study of UFOs. Cornstalks standing two meters tall were found flattened in the same direction in the middle of a lot. Rubn Marelli, the owner found the markings.

Visin Ovnis science team studied the phenomenon during a field survey and found a trail measuring 2.10 meters wide and nearly 600 meters long, which presents side trails that, open and mark a sort of figure eight, doubling back on themselves. The ground print begins the moment that the rural gate is traversed, and ends 10 meters from the rural gate on the opposite side of the field.

"We were able to find strange prints within the field, presenting a sort of "drag-mark" measuring 10 centimeters by 40 long, ending abruptly in a sort of nest made of sticks, with some very interesting perforations on the ground," noted the research team. (Translation (c) 2012, S. Corrales, IHU.

La Rural --I took photos outside an event on April 7, 2012, and when I downloaded the photos in my computer I noticed a strange object in one of the photos. I did not hear o see anything the day of the event. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Australia Cylinder

Cranbourne North -- I have seen an orange colored pulsating silent and fast flying object fly through sky at 7.40 PM on April 12, 2012. It was three times bigger than an airplane and around two times faster. I've made pictures with iPhone, and called outside my wife to see. It was amazing and I posted some of the pictures on my Facebook page. Later I saw another one from the same direction flying a little bit higher. I took images with my Nikon SLR. One strange thing has happen. The plane switched off the position lights except the red one. Thanks to MUFON CMS

LLOYDMINSTER, SK -- I saw this bright light with a tail in the sky moving south slowly on April 2, 2012, when it was still light outside. I knew it wasn't an airplane because airplanes don't glow during the day. I phoned my mother to tell her to check it out, and my brother and father were all watching this weird object fly around in the sky. It went out of my sight behind the apartment building but they could still see it. They used binoculars to spot the white colored glowing disk. It had a black line through it and dots on it like lights. It was moving all over the sky slowly, for almost four hours until they decided to go to bed.

It changed a few times, to almost resemble a spider with legs, and then a weird ball of light or an "orb" flew beneath it and past it. It was a foreign object that none of us have ever seen before, and really creeped us out! Thanks to Peter Davenport, Director National UFO Reporting Center http://www.UFOcenter.com

Elora, Ontario -- I attached for you one UFO picture I took April 6, 2012. I didnt see it until I downloaded the picture. It has an interesting shape as it is, but also if you rotate it.

Note: Perhaps this object is a bird? It was only noticed by witness after the photo was viewed. Thanks to William Puckett, Director Http://www.UFOsnw.com*

China Discs Formation

Urumchi On March 29, 2012, I glanced out our 6^th floor window into the night sky and noticed several strange, colorful objects in a formation in the eastern sky and informed my girlfriend. We watched for 50 minutes a UFO formation descending near Tianshan. Each of the five individual objects in the formation emitted random red, violet, blue, green and yellow blinking lights. They maintained a staggered, stair-step "staircase-like" an Ariel formation of one object after another. Each object was disc was tilted at a 45 degree angle and equally spaced within the formation. 

I also noticed a single solid red light above them. These five objects were slowly descending behind a high-rise building or into the mountains in the distance. As the last object descended, out of view the red light moved off into the distance into the Tianshan mountains. We tried several times to take pictures and record the event onto digital devices including a Blackberry, iPhone and an Nikon digital camera, but the objects could not be seen in the view finders. Each object was about of one thumb nail in size. They all eventually descended the distance, 50 minutes later. 

((NUFORC Note: We spoke via telephone (Skype) with this witness, and he sounded to us to be quite sincere and credible. We asked whether he thought that the objects might be so-called "Chinese lanterns," and he unambiguously stated that his impression was that they were not lanterns. PD))

UK England Silhouettes

Littleborough Lancashire -- Walking around Hollingworth Lake on April 22, 2012, I heard a loud bang which alerted my attention. I looked across the lake and saw fireworks and to the left were two silhouettes flying in formation. One stopped and the other kept flying and came down in the trees. I looked back and the ground was a red fire. They were both silhouetted with a red light going across in a line then back again. I have never seen anything like this and cannot explain what it was. I felt quite nervous and a little scared. I went home and got my camera and we drove past where it all happened but almost everything had gone. I took this mobile phone picture of the fire object. Two shapes were flying together when an explosion split up and one landed on the lake. Thanks to MUFON CMS

UFO Conferences

I was sitting at my desk, pondering how I could get people interested in getting my work of the last thirteen years. I have put together a DVD of Filer's Files with hundreds of great photographs and UFO sightings.

Additionally, I have decided to include my book within the DVD that includes George Ritter's exciting abduction story by Linda Moulton Howe. Broadcaster David E. Twichell has also included much of his excellent dialog for a donation of only $50.

We also include a year's subscription. Please include your e-mail address and mailing address.

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I've Been Abducted by Aliens! / Topher Grace

UFO sightings have skyrocketed in 2012. Do you believe in aliens? Believers and skeptics face-off on Anderson's stage.

Meet a woman who says she has witnessed a UFO in her backyard on multiple occasions. She even sent a branch from her yard to be examined by a lab when she claimed a UFO sprayed her tree with "glitter." Also, meet two women who claim to have followed a UFO down a rural highway. Are these sightings real or are these women prone to fantasy? Join the conversation now. Are you a believer?

Then, "Spider-Man 3" actor Topher Grace joins Anderson to discuss his off-Broadway debut and his new movie with Jenna Fischer, "The Giant Mechanical Man." Find out what happened when Topher, along with Robert De Niro, confronted a childhood bully.

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To The Black Vault supporters,

It is with great pleasure I send you the below press release. I hope everyone can help me share the word, by posting this on your Facebook page, Twitter feeds, mailing lists, etc.

The direct link to an online version is at:

http://www.theblackvault.com/m/news/view/The-Reality-Checked-Memorial-Weekend-Nation-Wide-Sky-Watch

To listen to the current episodes of Reality, Checked, visit:

http://www.theblackvault.com/page/BVRN

Sincerely,

John Greenewald, Jr.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

The “Reality, Checked” Memorial Weekend Nation-Wide Sky Watch

This 2012 Memorial Day Weekend, join the hosts of The Black Vault Radio Network’s, Reality, Checked, in a weekend nation-wide UFO sky watch.  If there is something meant for us to see – let’s find it!

NORTH HOLLYWOOD, CA. (BlackVault) – April 25^th, 2012 – For centuries, the human race has asked itself the greatest question, “Are we alone?”  As theoreticians, prophets, researchers, investigators, and curious minds offer up thought-provoking answers to that question – there is only one way to find out.  We need to look for ourselves!

Join TheBlackVault.com’s John Greenewald, Jr., and Trevor Lowder, hosts of “Reality, Checked,” as they launch a 72-hour, nation-wide, project to get everyone to simply… look up. Nearly everyone walking on this planet is armed with videos phones and cameras, so the hosts propose that as most of us likely will have an outside BBQ with our families honoring our nation’s heroes that weekend, that we should also take a moment to peer up into the sky – looking to find evidence that may prove we are not alone.

With a nation-wide alliance of curious sky watchers, armed with an army of cameras, certainly someone, somewhere, could find something.  All too often we look forward or down; but never up where the answers may lie. They propose we change that.

And if you do happen to catch a shred of evidence, TheBlackVault.com offers an amazing new way to catalogue the event, and share it with the world.

Located in The Black Vault’s Case File Database (http://www.theblackvault.com/m/events/home/), users have the opportunity to share their sighting (from any time and date) and upload videos, photos, word documents, sketches, and whatever else they want to share.  It will then be tagged on a global map, and be preserved for others to view and investigate for years to come. 

To date, it is arguably the most powerful tool to catalogue your sighting, and it isn’t limited to this year’s Memorial Weekend UFO sky watch. You can catalogue, from any date, UFO sightings, ghost encounters, abduction experiences, military exercises, and anything else of interest.

Help pass the word, and join in the fun as we all take part in this sky watch and the weekend of May 26^th, 2012 – May 28^th, 2012 (Memorial Day) as we all take a couple minutes out of our lives – and simply look up to find an answer. 

(Note: Not in the U.S. but want to take part? You can!  Not only do we invite the globe to take part, The Black Vault Case File Database welcomes cases from around the world – so make sure you join us in America for this historic event!)

Contact Details:

John Greenewald, Jr.  (TheBlackVault.com) – john@greenewald.com
Trevor Lowder (Eldensword.Blogspot.com) – eldensword@gmail.com   

Media Enquiries, please contact John or Trevor

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The American version of my book on the Alien Autopsy Film is launched today:

Roswell Alien Autopsy: The Truth Behind the Film That Shocked the World

Philip Mantle

In 1995, an amazing film surfaced that seemed to show an autopsy in progress on extraterrestrial beings recovered from a UFO crash near Roswell, New Mexico. Broadcast worldwide, the film became an instant sensation, and many people believed the lid had finally been blown on UFO secrecy! In this book, veteran UFO researcher Philip Mantle reveals the truth behind the alien autopsy film that shocked the world. Praise for this important book has been staggering:

 "A searching, insightful and much needed examination of the truths and lies behind the famous alien autopsy film. It shines light into the shadows surrounding this world-famous piece of film. Is it a fake or not? This engaging mystery story takes the reader in some very surprising directions. A most interesting and provocative book.” Whitley Strieber, bestselling author of "Communion" and "The Grays."

This is the book on the film that the whole UFO community and the general public alike have been waiting for. It is incisive, evenly balanced, factual and highly informative. It is the definitive book on this most controversial and enigmatic piece of film. At long last the whole story of the alien autopsy film is laid open for all to see with expert commentary from an extraordinary variety of specialists outside of the crazy world of the UFO community. Added to this, the book is extremely well illustrated and contains an enormous amount of new and fascinating material. “Odd-Gunnar Roed, UFO Researcher.

 "The alien autopsy film is either proof of an extraterrestrial presence on Earth and an associated government cover-up, or the greatest hoax of all time. Philip Mantle's book is a fascinating and comprehensive investigation into the greatest and most controversial mystery of our time."  Nick Pope, British UFO Researcher.

Available now via Amazon at:

http://www.amazon.com/Roswell-Alien-Autopsy-Behind-Shocked/dp/1475167156

REVIEW COPY REQUESTS:

Noe Torres, Editor & Publisher: noetorres@gmail.com

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Science and UFOs: Part 3—Deep Denial Disguised as Rational Skepticism

By Robert Hastings www.ufohastings.com 4-18-12

     As noted in Part 1, the late Dr. James E. McDonald—who held the title “Senior Physicist, Institute of Atmospheric Physics” at the University of Arizona—also holds the distinction of being one of the very few scientists to actually study the UFO phenomenon. In a prepared statement before the U.S. Congress’ House Committee on Science and Astronautics, delivered on July 29, 1968, McDonald said this:

“From time to time in the history of science, situations have arisen in which a problem of ultimately enormous importance went begging for adequate attention simply because that problem appeared to involve phenomena so far outside the current bounds of scientific knowledge that it was not even regarded as a legitimate subject of serious scientific concern. That is precisely the situation in which the UFO problem now lies. One of the principal results of my own recent intensive study of the UFO enigma is this: I have become convinced that the scientific community, not only in this country but throughout the world, has been casually ignoring as nonsense a matter of extraordinary scientific importance.”¹

Scientists universally profess allegiance to the lofty principles comprising the Scientific Method, both in the pursuit of their own research, as well as when reviewing the work of their peers. Therefore, one might predict that they will indignantly dismiss the suggestion that, on occasion, they have temporarily abandoned those cherished principles. Nevertheless, as regards the subject of UFOs, very few scientists actually practice what they preach.

In essence, to engage in science is to search for knowledge. This exploration is conducted through the systematic collection and objective analysis of facts. If one aspires to understand the nature of an unexplained phenomenon, one must first assemble and evaluate data—or, at least, impartially examine the data gathered by others—before drawing conclusions.

Unfortunately, most scientists reject outright the validity of UFO research, refuse to engage in it, and deliberately ignore the intriguing data compiled by a handful of their more inquisitive, less-biased peers. If this were not enough, despite their profound unfamiliarity with the subject, many of these same intransigent individuals pontificate about UFOs in the most shameless and presumptuous manner. If they were to apply this same “methodology” to their own research, their colleagues might justifiably consider their conduct incompetent, if not fraudulent. Nevertheless, it is rare to hear a scientist speak knowledgeably about the UFO phenomenon and rarer still to find one who has actually studied it.

Accuse a scientist of being closed-minded about UFOs and he or she will recoil: “I’m not closed-minded, but I am skeptical!” Because the former term implies inflexible prejudice and the latter one prudent caution, it is understandable that these UFO “skeptics” would prefer to view themselves in a more flattering light.

One scientist who has advocated a comprehensive, unbiased investigation the UFO phenomenon, astronomer Dr. Bernard Haisch, defines a Skeptic as, “One who practices the method of suspended judgment, engages in rational and dispassionate reasoning as exemplified by the scientific method, shows willingness to consider alternative explanations without prejudice based on prior beliefs, and who seeks out evidence and carefully scrutinizes its validity.”²

By Haisch’s definition, very few scientists are true skeptics on the subject of UFOs. On the contrary, over the years, most have behaved as self-appointed experts, having all the answers, without first investigating any of the facts. Although scientists profess a deep curiosity about little understood or unknown phenomena, when it comes to UFOs, this assertion rings hollow. At the moment, the UFO phenomenon is a blind spot in most scientists’ field of vision. There is definitely something there to be seen, but they can not, or will not, bring themselves to take a look.

As noted earlier, the late Dr. James McDonald—one of the few scientists to have actually studied the UFO phenomenon before holding forth on the subject—once pointedly criticized the thoroughly unprofessional posture toward UFOs he observed among his colleagues and the scientific community at large.

Sad to say, some 40 years after Dr. McDonald’s lament, the same smug, dismissive attitude toward the phenomenon remains firmly entrenched in scientific circles, resulting in a pervasive, self-imposed ignorance about UFOs among those who supposedly seek the truth. At the beginning of the 21st century, it remains true that the overwhelming majority of scientists, if they consider UFOs at all, consider them to be beneath their dignity, and worthy of outright derision. With this self-righteous stance, they have effectively abdicated their collective professional responsibility in the most unscientific manner. This is not so much an accusation as it is an objective statement of fact.

Fortunately, despite the collective disinterest in UFOs exhibited by the scientific community as a whole, there have been a few brave pioneers. In the mid-1960s, Jim McDonald was well ahead of the curve, with his repeated, plaintive calls for a legitimate investigation of the UFO phenomenon. Seeking to review the available data for himself, he persistently demanded access to the Air Force’s UFO files—at least those held by Project Blue Book—and was ultimately granted repeated access to the ones that were not classified.

Following those reviews McDonald had written, “…There are hundreds of good cases in the Air Force files that should have led to top-level scientific scrutiny of [UFOs] years ago, yet these cases have been swept under the rug in a most disturbing way by Project Blue Book investigators and their consultants.”³

Despite, or perhaps because of, the Air Force’s ongoing attempts to suppress the frequently high-quality data on UFOs it collected, McDonald began to investigate the phenomenon on his own time and at his own expense, while ignoring the very real risk to his scientific reputation. This diligence paid off and, by 1968, McDonald was widely regarded—although not among his still-dubious peers—as one of the world’s leading scientific experts on UFOs. Consequently, he was invited to address the United States Congress on the subject, during hearings held that year. McDonald’s full statement before the House Committee on Science and Astronautics, presented on July 29th, may be found in the U.S. Congressional Record, as well as on the Internet.

While acknowledging that the overwhelming majority of UFO sightings undoubtedly had prosaic explanations, and that a great many questions about the phenomenon remained unanswered, McDonald succinctly summarized his conclusions regarding the most credible of the unexplained cases: “My own present opinion, based on two years of careful study, is that UFOs are probably extraterrestrial devices engaged in something that might very tentatively be termed ‘surveillance.’”⁴

Although this was merely an opinion, it was after all an informed opinion on UFOs, something very few other scientists could offer, then or now. Many of McDonald’s published papers, private research notes, and personal letters relating to his investigations of the UFO phenomenon are now accessible online, providing insight into the cautious, rational reasoning underlying his dramatic conclusions.

There is an old joke about the intellectual who sniffs, “Well, it may work in fact, but it will never work in theory.” While most UFO skeptics are quick to dismiss as impossible the idea that UFOs are alien spacecraft, very few of them will ever make the effort to learn whether any evidence exists to suggest otherwise. Instead, they merely continue to assert that, as an idea, it simply does not work. However, as the joke implies, the real question to be asked is whether it works in fact. That is, is there evidence in the real world which lends credence to the validity of the ET hypothesis of UFOs?

Granted, the proposal that UFOs are alien spaceships is decidedly counter-intuitive. For most scientific professionals, the notion just doesn’t make sense and almost certainly has no basis in reality. However, as is often the case in science, many ideas which initially seem impossible, or at least highly unlikely, eventually turn out to be true. As a noted cosmologist once observed, “The greatest obstacle to the advancement of science is the illusion of knowledge—the notion that one already knows the answers.”

Precisely. At the end of the day, practicing science still involves asking questions and seeking answers, whatever those answers turn out to be. However, a scientist must actually adhere to, not just reflexively espouse, these fundamental principles. Pontificating about UFOs from the comfort of the armchair contributes nothing to the solution to the problem. To honestly attempt an understanding of UFOs, one must actually investigate the UFO phenomenon, however pointless or distasteful this proposal might seem to some.

A thousand-mile journey begins with a single step. To those curious but still-uninformed scientists who wish to learn the facts, I respectfully recommend reading Dr. McDonald’s Prepared Statement to Congress as that first step.

References:

1. McDonald, Dr. James E. “Prepared Statement before the House Committee on Science and Astronautics”, July 29, 1968
2. UFOskeptic.org
3. [Tucson] Daily Citizen, March 1, 1967
4. McDonald, Dr. James E. “Prepared Statement before the House Committee on Science and Astronautics”, July 29, 1968

~~BOOK SALE~~

Labels: Bernard Haisch, By Robert Hastings, Congress, Dr. James McDonald, Part III, Project Blue Book, Science

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http://www.openminds.tv/video-travis-walton-and-witnesses-to-his-alien-abduction-speak-about-the-event-921/

Video: Travis Walton and witnesses to his alien abduction speak about the event

Michael Cline | Apr 13, 2012

Travis Walton (Credit: Open Minds/Peter Beste)

For more than 36 years, the Travis Walton abduction story has been told countless times through film, print and presentations. His story has captivated an entire community of researchers and UFO enthusiasts. Now two eyewitnesses who were present the night of the abduction, are stepping forward to tell their side of the story.

For the first time since the incident, more than 36 years ago, Travis Walton, John Goulette, and Steve Pierce were reunited at the 2012 International UFO Congress. Producer Lori Wagner of Digital Films in San Diego and Regression Therapist Yvonne Smith sat down and interviewed all three. They have shared their interviews with Open Minds, and during the conference, in these interviews Goulette and Pierce reveal much of what they personally went through directly after that night, and what their lives have entailed since. That night, they observed the blinding light, sensed the beating pulse, and felt the fear that comes from seeing your friend and co-worker disappear before your eyes. What followed was a stream of disbelief and accusations from law enforcement and the local community. Even after passing lie detector tests, these men’s lives have continually been harassed. John Goulette eventually moved out of town, put the memory aside, and went on with his life. Steve Pierce was pressured repeatedly by UFO skeptic Phil Klass to take a bribe and say the whole incident was a hoax. After showing the film made about the event to his daughter, she encouraged him to come forward with his story.

The Travis Walton story has stayed consistent and exact for more than 36 years. Now, with additional eyewitness testimony to back up his claim, his amazing ordeal will hopefully be seen with less skepticism, and his journey for the truth appreciated.

Filed Under: UFO News

Tags: alien abduction, arizona, iufoc, travis walton, Video

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A new view of Stephenville

Mutual UFO Network’s radar analysis of the watershed Stephenville incident has been languishing in obscurity for nearly four years. But recently, a British computer programmer’s animated reconstruction of that data has brought the mystery into sharper visual focus.

Where were the military pickets when an unidentified intruder without a transponder beacon set a course for President Bush's western White House in 2008?/CREDIT: abacuspub.com

Applying a program that duplicates conversions used by air accident investigators, Rob Jeffs has bundled the 2.8 million radar returns MUFON acquired from five FAA and National Weather Service sites, and recreated moving images of the air traffic over central Texas from 4-8 p.m. on Jan. 8, 2008.

Jeffs compressed the four-hour window into just under three minutes. The first version shows transient individual blips as they appeared on radar in real time, which makes the UFO’s path more difficult to follow. The second version is more dramatic because it imprints each radar track and plots the UFO’s course as it beelines from Stephenville southeast towards President Bush’s ranch in Crawford. The most compelling activity doesn’t kick in until around 6:55 p.m., or 18:55 according to the time counter at the top of the frame.

The second version is presented below, and to understand everything that’s going on, read the MUFON report. You may need to enlarge your screen, but keep an eye on the color coding. The green (and, rarely, blue) objects have activated their transponders; the white blips have not. Carswell Air Force Base sits to the northeast. Its F-16s are flying in pairs or groups of four, but only half the planes are employing transponders. They conduct maneuvers long before the UFO lights the scope.

MUFON investigator Robert Powell, who analyzed the original radar data from FOIA records with Glen Schulze, notes the planes that cross the UFO’s path as it nears Crawford are likely at high altitudes of maybe 30,000 feet and says they’re non-military craft. Which raises the question (again): Where the hell is security when a bogey without a transponder sets a head-on course for restricted air space over the former Western White House? Recent history indicates the law doesn’t necessarily wait ‘til an intruder violates the no-fly zone to pounce.

“As far as I can tell, we’ve pushed the limits of what can be known with the available data,” Powell says from Austin, Tex. “To me, if a person is trying to visualize an event, it’s a lot more meaningful to see it actually unfold, as opposed to Excel charts or power point slides. I think Rob’s done a pretty good job.”

Jeffs calls his application RADARplot. He hopes to get governments now conducting UFO research to run their own data through his program. Directing technical questions at De Void is a fool’s errand. Contact Jeffs at freeman69@gmx.com.

19-04-2012 om 19:32 geschreven door peter