Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.
This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.
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UFO'S of UAP'S, ASTRONOMIE, RUIMTEVAART, ARCHEOLOGIE, OUDHEIDKUNDE, SF-SNUFJES EN ANDERE ESOTERISCHE WETENSCHAPPEN - DE ALLERLAATSTE NIEUWTJES
UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
MUFON of het Mutual UFO Network Inc is een Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in alle USA-staten en diverse landen.
MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com.
Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7gWSgV8I_o (Daniel Michau, test pilot on helicopters. Sight flight brigade chief and instrument flight. UFO witness onAlouettein 1973. 3D animation)
1979...ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT UFO SIGHTING IN ITALY TOOK PLACE OVER TREVISO AIRPORT: A MILITARY PILOT, GIANCARLO CECCONI, WAS PRESENT WITH HIS AIRCRAFT'S CAMERA IN FRONT A CIGAR SHAPED UFO!!! MILITARIES AIRPORTS OF TREVISO
SUPER EARTH: Scientists discover life-supporting planet 'right at Earth's front door'
Gilese 581 has "churchly weather" similar to what we experience in Australia and could support human life. Picture: AP
ASTRONOMERS have discovered a planet that may be capable of supporting human life, and it's right at Earth's front door.
"It's not just in our backyard, it's right in our face," lead researcher Professor Steven Vogt said. The planet is 22 light years away, previously thought to be 20 light years, and is formally known as Gliese 581g, but Professor Vogt told news.com.au that he has since named it after his wife. "I called it 'Zarmina's world'," Professor Vogt said. While his claims have been previously reported, a new study, released to News.com.au this week, dismisses calls of balderdash by the international science community. The study - by astronomers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and the Carnegie Institution of Washington - shows the planet is twice the size of Earth. It is known as a "super Earth" due to its ability to hold on to its gassy atmosphere, which increases its chances of retaining liquid. Whether this liquid is frozen and stored under the surface or flowing freely across the planet, the researchers can't say. The scientist from the University of California said that the planet has "churchly weather". "From the energy bounds and brightness of the star we can tell that the temperatures would be just about right to stand on the surface and feel the warmth of the alien star on your face, like standing in the park in Sydney." However the researchers were unable to determine what the surface of the planet is like, Professor Vogt said. The planet exists in a band of perpetual twilight near its orbiting star known as the "Goldilocks zone" - an area near earth that isn't too hot, or cold but is just right for sustaining life. Prof Vogt said scientists will eventually be able to send out probes in search for advanced civilisations "If you get lucky and find civilisations, you'd be able to have a two-way conversation within a human life-time," he said. "You don't want to have to spend 1000 years waiting to hear 'wazzup', and then another 1000 years before they get to hear not much, and you?'." The researcher said after making first contact, scientists may receive an answer within 44 years. "Within a few hundred years you could be able to receive picture postcards from an iPhone or Android and be able to listen to what they sound like, and sample their way of life from a spacecraft," he said. "There is something out there." These findings are not without controversy, however. This isn't the first time Professor Vogt has claimed the existence of a habitable planet. His findings back in 2010 sparked a scientific cat fight between the US researchers and a rival team of Swiss astronomers, known as "HARPS" (High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet). HARPS published research saying it had found four planets that orbited the same star as Gliese 581g (which at the time had not yet been confirmed). Prof Vogt's team questioned the team's data and suggested two more planets existed in the Goldilock's Zone and published its findings in the USs Astrophysical Journal. HARPS claimed that Vogt's research was nonsense, creating waves in the scientific community. The international media then seized on HARPS and Vogt's data, reporting problems with both team's research. A year later the HARPS team released expanded data on its findings confirming the existence of four planets but not Vogt's extra two. Vogt's team then analysed HARPS data and tried unsuccessfully to replicate the findings. Prof Vogt told news.com.au that they discovered that the Swiss team omitted five points of data which related to the radial velocity of the planets because it didn't fit their data model or modes of thinking. Such setting of eccentricities introduces biases and personal choices into the model that inappropriately affect the resulting solution, Prof Vogt wrote in the study, which was provided to News.com.au. "You're basically deliberately deleting information in your data that's telling you there's more in the system than you're telling people about. You're hiding that stuff, he told News.com.au. Prof Vogt's study will be published in European astrophysics journal, Astronomisch Naschrischten tomorrow (AEST).
The Return of The Incredible Green Fireballs: New Films of a UFO Mystery
By Anthony Bragalia The Bragalia Files 7-17-12
Nature provides man with wondrous atmospheric displays from comets to the Northern Lights. As awe-inspiring and infrequent as these phenomena are, they all have prosaic origins as explained by science. Much less understood (and far more rare) are the enigmatic Green Fireballs. The Green Fireball is often associated with historical sightings that occurred in areas like the State of New Mexico and near our National Laboratories, such as Sandia and Los Alamos. These unusually-behaved luminous balls of ethereal green were very different from conventional meteors and were seen to perform extraordinary aerial feats during the late 1940s and early 1950s. Military and intelligence authorities at that time even had a top-secret project called Twinkle whose objective was to trace the mysterious green fireballs plaguing Southwest skies in particular. Then for some inexplicable reason, appearances of the green balls of fire tapered down and winked out. Or did they?
Revealed here are remarkable images (recently found buried within NASA space footage archives) of a Green Fireball that seems to follow our astronauts.
Striking and exceeding rare film has been located, also taken from space, where one can vividly see the strange Green Fireballs doing the impossible: exiting the earths atmosphere rather than entering it.
High definition, non-hoaxed film taken this past Spring (with link below) clearly depicts a slow, watchful Green Fireball passing above excited witnesses for several minutes- not seconds. The object is comprised of matter but displays a luminous halo of energy and seems to change shape into a diamond.
Documented recent reports referenced here that have been filed of Green Fireballs that wildly morph their appearance and pace their observers.
The glowing green balls are now exhibiting behavior so distinctly unnatural and never-before-seen that the conclusion draws near: Some of this phenomenon is intelligent and it is evolving in its revealed capability. It is able to mimic nature while traversing at will above us with a purpose unknown.
Green Fireballs: Natural and Artificial
Of course astronomers recognize the term Green Fireballs in conventional terms as naturally-occurring atmospheric events. Infrequently, shooting meteors of sufficient mass and velocity can create a shockwave hot enough to produce a Green Fireball. It is a cosmic phenomena associated with the color green that is caused in part by ionized oxygen (and is similar in color to that of a green aurora.) Recent research at Queensland University points to a possible connection to ball lightning electrical phenomenon as well. Sightings of most all such Green Fireballs can be accounted for in these (largely) understood, prosaic ways.
Only very occasionally ever filmed clearly, here we see a conventional shooting Green Fireball over Ocean Shores in 2008, towards the very end of this 44 second clip (incorrectly titled UFO Green Fireball- as it is indeed a green meteor):
A conventional Green Fireball is very simply a mass of stony or metallic matter that has fallen to earth from outer space. As can be seen in the above clip, it appears as a transient, fiery streak, otherwise known as a falling star.
But there are a core of sightings of Green Fireball-like phenomena that are distinctly different than conventional fireballs or green meteors - and that elude conventional explanation. It is this phenomenon that does not appear to find its origin with the realm of known atmospheric or celestial events. This unknown phenomenon was first noted officially and scientifically in 1948. Such illustrious scientists as astronomer Dr. Lincoln LaPaz (who was also involved in the Roswell crash investigation in 1947 according to multiple credible sources) initiated Green Fireball investigations utilizing expensive monitoring equipment (including an installation placed only 30 miles from the Roswell crash-involved Foster Ranch.) So concerned was the military that such sightings were occurring near rocketry and nuclear sites that a top secret conference was organized about the issue and attended by luminaries including Dr. Edward Teller. Opinions were divergent and studies, inconclusive.
In 1965 LaPaz privately confided to the Air Forces Dr. J. Allen Hynek of Project Blue Book his last known word on the flying green balls: LaPaz was sure that certain fireballs anomalous characteristics were never really understood by himself or by officials- and that they did not behave like normal meteorites- and were most probably artificial in their origin. Despite best efforts, a certain class of Green Fireballs resisted all attempts at sustained filming and at determining trajectory- or in ever recovering any expected celestial debris. We have learned that this class of artificial Green Fireball phenomenon displays essential differences from conventional green meteors:
- They favor and cluster in specific geographic areas and sometimes near highly-sensitive locations.
- They appear episodically and even seem to leave us all together, only to reveal themselves again years later.
- They do not emit smoke trails (but sometimes have unusual tails).
- They change direction and angle of travel (sometimes sharply and abruptly, unlike conventional shooting meteoric phenomena).
- They have no impact sites and have never left any evidence of any type of their descent to earth.
- They do not always shoot or dart quickly, as they can also change their speed- and can sometimes maneuver far more slowly than meteors and other entering cosmic debris.
- They can possess lime green colorations that are not consistent with known celestial phenomena.
These anomalous characteristics left LaPaz and others forever perplexed. One can only wonder what they might think of their even more incredible aerial behavior today, documented on film.
- They travel impossibly upward and outward through our atmosphere and into space.
- They follow and track our astronauts.
- They can hover silently and with precision and even appear to even watch their observers.
- They can morph their shape.
The Green fireball That left The Earth To Follow The Astronauts - On Film
In scouring the deepest recesses of official NASA archived images online, located were photos and film of the Green Fireball taken from space that to my eyes are nothing short of astounding. And I was equally astounded that at least one other has also found the same thing.
In May of this year researcher Wilbur Allen spoke at a small conference which featured a call-in from his friend, Moon-walker Dr. Edgar Mitchell. Mr. Allen (who has professional interest in photography and was once employed as a White House engineer) delivered a presentation that included a brief segment of film that somehow made its way passed NASA censors. The film, taken by Apollo 7 in 1968, has been discovered to include clear moving images of a Green Fire Ball that is exiting not entering- the Earths atmosphere. Further, it careens into space and is photographed by the astronauts! Allen notes yet another astronaut-filmed image of a Green Fireball in space which has received very little notice involving Buzz Aldrin- a man whose comments on ET have been both full of hints and contradictions. Allen also provides a striking comparative analysis of green fireballs using a solarization imaging technique.
You can see this very-little-viewed film here now, with the relevant portion beginning at about 1:58 of this 8 minute clip. It is best seen in a darkened room, full-screen at a minimally 480p quality resolution:
Below is a clear, still image of the Green Ball. (Excuse the crude box used to highlight the object. The NASA original is a much larger image not suitable to show here due to space constraints):
Green Fireball That Hovers, Follows Observers, and was Filmed!
For several minutes on October 9th, 2011, an excited Chicagoan and friends filmed a Green Fireball (that also morphed into a diamond-shape.) Shot clearly in 300X zoom, the resulting footage shows in astounding detail a flying Green Ball which possesses some kind of defined structure and which appears comprised of matter as well as a sort of high-state energy. The luminous aerial wonder changes shape and appears in ethereal green colors, encircled by a halo which is the hue of an electric violet. The flight pattern is intentional and slow enough to be filmed for minutes- not seconds. See it yourself here in a little-mentioned 8-minute film, best viewed full-screen at minimally 480p quality resolution. You may wish to turn down the accompanying distracting ambient music:
The Green Balls of Fire Continue To Fly
A review of Green Fireball UFOs reported to the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) shows that sightings of such phenomenon are on the rise and that their performance capabilities are evolving. Two notable, documented examples:
- In January of 2012 (MUFON Case # 34457) in New Mexico (a state long favored by the Green Fireballs) witnesses sighted one descending toward them. Then remarkably, its position suddenly changed to one of flying level. It then morphed its shape from a fireball into a slightly shiny V-shaped object and out of view! This is reminiscent of the filmed October 2011 episode above, where the ball becomes a diamond shape.
- In March of 2010 (MUFON Case # 22579) we learn of a report filed by a married couple in Florida who are described as astronomy fans who have seen many meteors. This green one however, was markedly different. They were surprised at how utterly slow the object moved as it passed closely by them (at about the speed of a single engine prop airplane) and that its brightness never wavered.
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In special reports, this weeks files cover: Universe is full of Earth size Planets,
Unidentified Object Hovering in a Lunar Cater? Newly Released UK National Archives Files, Italy Marshal Giancarlo Cecconi Film-Radar-Visual Case, New Race of Super Earthlings, and Power Grid Vulnerable.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over: Arkansas, California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, Oklahoma, Oregon, and Texas.
Sightings of UFOs were also reported in Australia, Canada, Columbia, Germany, Mexico, South Korea, England and Wales 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.
I'm writing a new "straight talk" blog about exopolitics, ET technology, contact and culture, and the choices we need to make to evolve (or not) past our current condition.
Dear Readers, if you are sending emails to me I spent several days reading them but I have over 24,808 left to read in multiple languages. If I do not answer your query I apologize, but I feel it is more important to write these files.
Special Reports
Universe is full of Earth size Planets
Just a few of the Galaxies in the Universe each with millions of planets.
Unidentified Object Hovering in a Lunar Cater?
The object in crater is definitely swirling in a clockwise motion on January 10, 2011.
It might be dust or a water vapor cloud formation.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Newly Released UK National Archives Files (U.S. plays dumb, still).
The National Archives has been released on 12 July 2012.
Its files, contain over 6,700 pages of UFO policy, parliamentary questions, public correspondence and UFO sighting reports.
The files reveal the role of the UFO Desk Officers for the first time, including what they really thought about the possibility of alien visits, their ideas to harness alien technology as a weapon, and their briefings to Tony Blair on UFO policy.
One of the strangest jobs in Whitehall; Dr David Clarke, author of the book 'The UFO files' and Senior Lecturer in Journalism from Sheffield Hallam University, said: 'These records allow us to look behind the scenes of what must have been one of the strangest jobs in Whitehall. We now have a fascinating insight into some of the extraordinary reports and briefings which passed over the UFO Desk on a daily basis and how its officers used logic and science in their attempts to explain the unexplained".
The 'daily mechanics' of the UFO Desk Officer job included providing briefings on the Ministry of Defence's position on UFOs and extraterrestrial life, undertaking UFO investigations, handling hundreds of Freedom of Information (FOI) requests, and managing UFO 'experts' and press enquiries.
Among the files is a 1995 briefing by a UFO Intelligence Officer which states that although there is no hard evidence for alien craft, if sightings were indeed alien visitors there was a number of possible reasons for their visit, including 'a) military reconnaissance b) scientific c) tourism'.
The briefing paper also states that if the reports were to be believed, alien technology was far superior to ours and goes on to suggest that the Ministry of Defence could use the UFO technology, if it existed.
Further highlights
A lengthy briefing on UFO policy to Prime Minister Tony Blair's office at the time the government had just begun the implementation of the FOI Act
Findings of an Unexplained Aerial Phenomena study suggested that some UFOs were rare atmospheric plasmas that could be used by the military as 'novel weapon technology'
A 1982 memo notes a fall in numbers of UFO sightings since the beginning of the Falklands War but 'large numbers of UFOs have been seen in the vicinity of the Task Force - presumably Little Green Men in ponchos'
A late night visit by three 'men in black' to a person who reported having a UFO encounter in Spalding, Lincolnshire. The UFO witness later had no recollection of either the men or the UFO encounter
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Prime Minister Tony Blair was briefed on the UK's files about UFO sightings in 1998, newly declassified MoD documents have revealed.
Writer Nick Redfern urged him to "consider making available for public scrutiny all of the many and varied UFO reports compiled by the government".
The request came as the government began to implement Freedom of Information (FOI requests).
Some 6,700 pages of UFO documents have been released by the National Archives.
Chelsea FC sighting
The documents also include details of a briefing made before a House of Lords debate on UFOs in 1979, and reveal that former Prime Minister John Major had been asked by a fellow MP in 1996 whether the government would set up a national inquiry into UFO sightings.
The declassified documents - from the MoD unit which investigated UFO claims from 1950 until it was shut down in 2009 - also include several sightings and investigations.
Dr David Clarke, author of the book The UFO files and senior lecturer in journalism from Sheffield Hallam University pushed to have these files released.
He said: "These records allow us to look behind the scenes of what must have been one of the strangest jobs in Whitehall".
A spate of sightings in west Wales in 1977 which included a hotel owner seeing two tall silver-suited "faceless humanoids" which began making measurements.
A UFO sighting in Spalding, Lincolnshire, which led to the witness being visited by three tall men in black suits who seemed to move silently.
A mounted police officer seeing a "square/diamond shaped object moving across the sky and changing shape" whilst on duty at Chelsea FC ground in 1999.
An RAF Air Commodore describing in a memo to Defence Intelligence Staff that he had seen a UFO flying above him when he was flying at 40,000 feet.
A memo noting claims the naval task force sailing to liberate the Falklands in 1982 had been shadowed by UFOs.
'X Files' fiction
Files relating to the unit have been transferred to the National Archive since 2007.
The documents also include an email from an intelligence officer working on the desk who described the daily mechanics of the role.
The officer says it is not the MoD's role to confirm or deny the possibility of extraterrestrials, but to gauge whether unidentified objects are a threat to the UK's security.
In an email he says discussion of the unit "tends to suggest to the public that there are Top Secret teams of specialist scientists scurrying around the country in a real life version of the X-Files [But] this is total fiction."
Italy Marshal Giancarlo Cecconi Film-Radar-Visual Case
Pilot Giancarlo Cecconi, in his G-91R fighter is attached to the 14 Group 2nd' Air Force Fighter Wing is returning to Treviso Air Base, Italy after having carried out a reconnaissance mission on June 18, 1979, at 11:30 AM. The Istrana radar center (TV), registers the presence of an intruder on its radar screens, and gives Cecconi directions to approach the unidentified craft that has penetrated a prohibited area. Having unused film in his aircraft cameras, the pilot activates them and approaches the UFO up to a distance of 70-80 meters and at speeds estimated at 300 knots (450-500 km. The airport ground staff follows the scene with binoculars. The Treviso Control Tower personnel call Cecconi to warn him that the object is discharging a strange "blue trail." He is in close pursuit at 7,000 feet altitude but does not know its wake. When the Pilot closes on the object it makes up and down movements a 1,000 feet at a time, climbing up to 13,000 feet. Cecconi makes seven to eight passes close to the object and each time takes gun camera film of the UFO resulting in a total of 82 frames depicting the intruder. The apparent UFO is stationary relative to the G-91, but the radar center confirms Cecconi it is moving, course and speed defined. The pilot tries to pass (and resume) just next door, but it does not succeed because the object "appears to operate" in order to get over him in the front angled or otherwise, without the side completely set before him [3].
The witness recalls a "gas tank" of matte black and the presence of a small white or clear "dome" located on the upper side, of the slightly flattened object. The "dome" is like a kind of shaping or fairing like those found on sports cars. While Cecconi is making yet another tack to get back to doing another round of photographs, Istrana radar calls to report the object suddenly disappeared from theirs and other radars. After a few seconds, the Treviso control tower confirms the UFO has visually disappeared.
A few minutes later, the plane lands and the films are removed and quickly developed. The pilot is very curious to see the pictures that came out well, including the white.""dome" The object is a cylindrical tank at least eight meters long (26 feet) with a maximum three in diameter suspended in the sky at thirteen thousand feet high."
VANDENBERG --CNN reports The U.S. Air Force's robotic X-37B space plane finally returned to Earth Saturday (June 16), wrapping up a mysterious mission that lasted more than year in orbit.
The unmanned X-37B spacecraft, also known as Orbital Test Vehicle-2 (OTV-2), glided back to Earth on autopilot, touching down at California's Vandenberg Air Force Base at 5:48 a.m. The mission lasted more than 15 months with objectives that remain shrouded in secrecy.
This same craft is due to launch again in the fall 2012. Air Force officials announced the X-37B space plane's successful landing in a brief statement posted on the Vandenberg website.
The X-37B stayed in orbit for 469 days this time. Thanks to USAF.
New Race of Super Earthlings
Scientists have made an unexpected and unsettling discovery - a large number of new and previously unseen mutations have been detected among humans. There are those who suggest that there will soon be fantastic X-men. This unexpected discovery is a result of a study conducted by scientists from Cornell University and University of California.
When they examined genes of several thousands of people from around the world, it turned out that mankind has acquired over the past few years new, previously unseen mutations. Is a new human race being born? The scientist studied 202 genes in 14,002 people. The human genome contains some 3 billion base pairs; the scientists studied 864,000 of these pairs. While this is only a small part of the genome, the sample size of 14,002 people is one of the largest ever in a sequencing study in humans.
This project led by John Novembre of the University of California Los Angeles and Vincent Mooser of UK-based drug company GlaxoSmithKline, reports that more than 95% of variants found by sequencing 202 genes in 14,002 people were rare, and that 74% of the variants were carried by only one or two people in the study.
WASHINGTON - After recent storms knocked out power for more than 3 million people in the middle of a record heat wave former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich decided to talk about Americas vulnerable power grid. In an opinion piece posted on The Washington Post Gingrich writes: "Without power, the comforts of home become worthless. You sit in the sweltering heat, realizing you are living in a box that, without electricity, is a trap. You pray for the "juice" to return before your groceries go bad. You either make do in the heat or find refuge with friends who have electricity." Newt claims that the power grid is created in such a ways that doomsday-level damage could be caused if the United States were to be hit with an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) strike or even a major solar storm. The former speaker is worried that a nuclear weapon detonated over the atmosphere of the continental United States could cause an EMP that would knock power out for months, perhaps even years. Gingrich also points to the Carrington Event of 1859, a solar storm that since that time has caused geomagnetic disturbances every 75 years. While we make think the possibility of a solar storm causing major issues is not possible in 1989 a space storm knocked out power to millions of people in Quebec for several hours. "Suppose that, rather than being a temporary disruption in our lives, the power outage lasted weeks or months, or even years. Consider what state all of us, from the richest to the poorest, would be in if we were still literally in the dark. Millions could be trapped in houses or apartments that were never designed for this climate without air conditioning. No cool air; months with no food shipments and every pharmacy shut down no refills for life-sustaining medications." Consider making preparations just in case.
Sightings in the United States
Arkansas Triangle
Camden I saw lights just over the tree tops flashing different colors that caught my attention at 7:45 pm. A black triangle craft was moving slowly at about two miles per hour in a straight line path headed south about 200 feet altitude on September 19, 2011. The UFO had numerous little red, green, and blue colored lights and two rectangular yellowish pulsating light panels to bright white pulsations.
I could see the craft in great detail has it crossed over Highway 167 on a diagonal between the newly built Sheriffs complex and a business called Steel Deals.
I was the only one stopped and rolled the window down and heard no sound... I was awe stricken as I watched it float silently and pass directly overhead lit up like a Christmas tree. I could see the roundness of each little colored light which were grouped in sections all along the underbelly of the Triangle UFO.
The panels went from steady bright/dim pulses to getting real bright; like it was powering up. It then took off at breakneck speed headed south, where it was seen by another witness 15 miles from where I saw it in a community called Frenchport, AR. Thanks to MUFON CMS
California Orbs
Oakland -- The witness saw five to six red balls of light floating around the sky at 8:30 PM for half an hour on
July 8, 2012.
The lights would then abruptly shoot up and disappear.
HOLLYWOOD -- You folks need to watch Pt 2 of the original video taken on July 8, 2012. How do you suppose the "lanterns" are unaffected by the draft of the helicopter's rotors? Whatever the objects are, they are maintaining their own position and are stronger than the helicopter. This is most noticeable when the chopper moves to within a few yards of the orb and it doesn't move. Also must mention the fact that an experienced police pilot is taking a tremendous interest in this object. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAKzpakhIms&feature=youtu.beOpen your eyes people....
Colorado Disc
Colorado Springs --There have been way too many "sightings" in and around Colorado Springs for this to be missed by the news. This disc sighting was published on June 28, 2012 by Ko3k10 News 13TV.
If you look behind the helicopter on the far right you'll see a disc shaped object following the fire fighting helicopter. It is NOT another helicopter (size) and is NOT an airplane (speed).
LEWES -- I was going fishing at the pier in Cape Henlopen State Park on the night of June 28, 2012, at a little after 10 PM. Also present was my father, brother, and two nephews and other people who were on the pier. As we walked out on the pier a triangular shaped object appeared that seemed black with lights at each corner. The lights had a red-orange flicker as the object flew silently and slowly 200 feet overhead. It rotated slowly climbing steadily and then flew over the Atlantic Ocean. It was being followed by three other objects with a single light the same color as the triangles. I took a cell phone picture and video of the triangle. NOTE: The above image is a rendering. Thanks to MUFON CMS and Ken Pfeifer MUFON NJ www.worldufophotos.org
Florida Orbs
St. Augustine Beach -- My son and I were driving over the bridge to the beach when we noticed a rainbow. It was very odd because there was only one small cloud. I snapped pictures and noticed two objects that appeared to be flying in tandem. I cleaned the lens and all three photos showed the two bright discs of light flying closer to the cloud in each photo. They flew straight, then appeared to arc up over the cloud. Both left a distinct trail. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Georgia Lights
ROME On July 10, 2012, the flying object looked like car head lights.
I enlarged the picture and you can see one light.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Indiana UFOs
BLANFORD Richard Bondira has been photographing UFOs on clear nights since January 2012.
He sent me dozens of photographs of UFO that he has filmed over the last six months. As many as ten or more UFOs can be seen on some nights. They mostly hover but can be seen maneuvering, spin around, or go straight up. They usually come from the southeast heading northwest. They stretch across the night sky from east to west. Thanks to Richard Bondira
Maine Encounter
CHINA -- In September of 2000 my cousin and I were sitting in my car which was parked with all power off watching the flashing lights of planes move along the eastern horizon. One was by itself and approached much closer moving at about 25 miles per hour with a bright fixed headlight like a searchlight. It made no sound, had no blinking indicator lights and had no visible outline even as it approached.
When the object was directly in front at no more than 200 feet, I flashed my headlights and the object which had no visible lights except the spotlight suddenly illuminated us with a staggered row of colored lights. After five seconds the lights completely turned off and the object which was hovering changed course and moved slowly and silently away.
Additionally my friend who had stayed in a cabin on the opposite side of the hill years before had been awakened one night by lights outside the cabin with tremendous shaking of the structure. He who was a brave and courageous individual whom I never saw afraid said he was mortally terrified as he hid in a ball from the object and event taking place. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Massachusetts Cylinder
BOSTON --I was filming a documentary in Boston on July 17, 2012, and I shot a church, when reviewing the footage later I noticed a quick flying object at top left shooting past the screen at 0:03. Very strange and it does not seem to be a camera error.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Michigan Dozen Lights
WATERFORD On June 26, 2012, at 10:50 PM, I and my fianc walked outside to his car before he left for work. We noticed strange lights in the southeast sky. They were formed in a triangle, and moving slowly in formation to the east.
The red lights were pulsating and flickering and only visible for a few minutes. My fianc snapped a quick picture, and the lights disappeared one after another. Ken Pfeifer MUFON NJ www.worldufophotos.org
Lake Leelanau -- On July 3, 2012, I was on my boat preparing to watch the fireworks display at 10:45 PM. I am a 47-year-old Navy veteran and private pilot that observed an orangish-red glow moving from left to right from my position along the 45th parallel, travelling north. The object was below the clouds at 5, 000 feet AGL and moved silently. The orangish-red orb was followed by 14 objects that followed the exact same flight path as the previous one.
I observed two of the objects go black, but I could see their outline and thought they looked like a quarter. I have seen many craft from both ships at sea, on vantages at land and from aircraft that I myself have piloted. No strobes, navigation lights or noise were present. Thanks to Peter Davenport, Director National UFO Reporting Center http://www.UFOcenter.com
Minnesota Lights
I had been taking pictures of storm clouds, on July 4, 2012.
I did not see anything until I downloaded these pictures on my computer.
Does anyone know what this is?
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Missouri Sightings
Kansas City Margie Kay reports we had quite a few UFO sightings on July 4, 2012, including my own sighting with 16 other witnesses. I filmed this and am putting it up on You Tube this weekend. We thought it was just a red pulsing light at first but the video shows a larger object with multiple lights --- just goes to show that you can't trust the naked eye. http://www.facebook.com/groups/131384760265948/permalink/356
Union -- The witness, who was an Assistant Fire Chief at the time, was prompted to contact MUFON after seeing a TV program on the Illinois sightings in they hear 2000. He stated that he was returning from a house fire in St. Clair, Missouri at 3:00 AM and was on I-44 Highway approaching Union when he heard law enforcement on the county police band radio discussing an unidentified object. The dispatcher said "Oh its this Roswell stuff again." and that police were chasing the object.
As the witness approached Highways 50 and 47, he saw a large triangular craft traveling at 25 MPH, about 500 feet altitude. The witness said that very bright lights on the triangle pointed down, but did not light up the ground, seeming to stop 100 feet up. The witness joined up with a Union officer and a County officer, and the three of them followed the object in their separate cars for an hour as the object headed towards Washington, Missouri, north of the original position. The object was always in front or above them. At one point, the county officer attempted to tilt his dash cam up to get pictures, but it would not raise high enough.
The object stopped and hovered several times and moved very slowly. They were unable to use the radio for communication while the craft was above them. After an hour, the officers needed to turn back to get back to other calls, so this witness left as well. By this time, the object had moved into an area SE of Washington, MO over farmland where there were no roads, and it was impossible to follow. The witness surmises that the object from Illinois continued into Missouri and officers picked up its trail after it crossed the state line. Filed by Assistant State Director for the witness, who wishes to remain anonymous: Thanks to MUFON CMS.
New Jersey Light, Alien Abduction and Triangle
EAST BRUNSWICK Kevin Hodapp sent a video of the night sky with flashes of light probably caused by lighting in the distance. A fairly bright light moves from right to left that does not flash strobe lights or navigation lights like a normal aircraft. Thanks to Kevin Hodapp
Abducted
ATLANTIC COUNTY -- First, I never remember seeing a UFO. I didn't even know I was being abducted until July 6, 2012, when I read some reviews of the book "Taken" and some red flags went up for me. My abductions usually begin at night but it has happened during the day. I am in bed and feel a presence in the room and feel like a heavy weight is on me. I can't move my body but can move my eyes and control my breathing. Then I fall asleep or at times it seems like nothing happened. I only remember bits and pieces like a dream things like being in water but I can breathe. One afternoon, I remember lying face down and hearing someone say, "The device resides at the base of the spine". I felt little tingled at the small of my back, no pain.
On another night years later, a presence came into my room and said "You have no idea whats in store for you tonight" then it left. During the night I awoke to the worst pain on the left side of my face. The worst part about this is I know when this is going to happen before they come. But when I get in bed I dont care and it's ok to be taken. I know I do not want this to happen and I feel like a prisoner and know there is nothing I can do, and I must go. They have taken me since the 6th grade, I'm 30 now. Being a psychic I thought it was a spirit or demon messing with me. I always felt I could handle whatever came my way. As a very small child I would follow "clear people" around the house. NOTE: The above image is a rendering. This case is under investigation by Ken Pfeifer and Jack Nicholias of MUFON New Jersey. Thanks to MUFON CMS
ATLANTIC CITY I saw a triangle on July 14, 2012, with perimeter lights sitting in Bader Field moving slowly south about 10 PM. It was moving very slow and stopped behind a translucent cloud and the lights went out and I couldnt see it anymore.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
New York Orb
ALBANY On July 15, 2012, I saw a large reddish orange object that I perceived to be burning or glowing. It was headed north towards Albany flying faster than an average plane at low altitude. It made no noise and disappeared out of sight. I have video over a minute long. Thanks to William Puckett, Director http://www.UFOsnw.com
Oklahoma Triangle
Owasso -- The witness was "star gazing" July 4, 2012, at 11:30 PM, when he noticed five very bright and large orange lights moving northeast in a triangular (wedge) formation. The object emitted no sound and the witnesss brother also saw the object. The witness was convinced that the object was not a conventional aircraft. Thanks to William Puckett, Director http://www.UFOsnw.com
Oregon Orb
LACONNER -- Sitting in living room I saw an orange colored orb behind the trees headed north about two miles out on July 16, 2012. It did not look like a normal aircraft since Im by a Navy Air Base. I ran in and got my camera and the object was hovering in the same position, and then started moving towards the east, I got one picture. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Texas UFO Hovers Over Harbor Bridge
Corpus Christi I was at work on July 4, 2012 at 10:30 AM, on a cloudy morning and first noticed what I thought was a plane hovering low over the harbor bridge. I then realized it was a black star shaped craft in a slow circular path hovering over our bridge. After 20 minutes, it zoomed quickly sideways and upward simply vanishing. When it did that we were able to see it was a star shape almost like a sheriffs badge. It was so huge and frightening. Thanks to Peter Davenport, Director National UFO Reporting Center http://www.UFOcenter.com
Milano -- Richard West reports at 05:20 AM Saturday, 14 July, 2012, I was riding in the front seat as a passenger coming back from a gig in Brazoria, Texas. We were traveling west on State Highway 36 just out of Milano. Steve, the driver, and I saw though we saw lights on a tower but as we got closer, we realized the lights were shaped like a pentagon suspended over the road. The center of the underside of the object had the brightest light of five. The five other lights were located close to the end of each corner of the underside of the pentagon-shaped object. All the lights were white and pulsated about once a second. We could see that the dull black object had shape and a surface with seams or vents. It hovered over the road silently about 30 feet in altitude as we passed underneath going 60 mph. The object was 20 to 30 feet across. We saw it fade in the rear view mirror as we drove farther away. Thanks to Richard West
Worldwide Sightings
Australia Lights
Sydney I had a truly mind blowing experience while on vacation in Australia on January 9, 2012, at 11:30 PM. I am a UK resident that arrived at Erskineville Station to meet with a friend. As I approached the station I noticed a light in the sky that acted strangely. It flew in formation at high speed from behind a tall building; shrinking and growing in size above Erskineville. The object changed from a small triangle to a much larger one. I was in shock and fright! Thanks to MUFON CMS
PETERBOROUGH -- We saw three or more anomalies on July 10, 2012. They came in on the angle of a plane but we realized it was not blinking like a plane. It flew straight up into the sky and veered off to the northwest before it disappeared. Five minutes later a big orange oblong object climbed south. It was the size of a hot dog bun held at arms length. Five minutes later a moon like object came out of the water rising slowly at 12:45 AM. It changed to a bright orangish red too. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Niagara Falls -- Just before turning in on July 1, 2012, I went outside to look around as I will often do. I spotted a small pinkish light heading my way from the northwest flying straight about 150 mph? It looked to be only a few hundred feet above my house as it passed over. The light was brighter pink by now and appeared to pulsate slightly almost like it was a burning ball. I think I could see a missile or cigar shape with no wings or rotors visible. The light on the underside more or less obscured the actual craft. I strained to hear any sound and I may have heard a very faint hissing sound as it passed over. It continued southeast and eventually disappeared in the night sky. I've never see anything like this. Thanks to Peter Davenport, Director National UFO Reporting Center http://www.UFOcenter.com
Colombia Cylinder
MANIZALES -- My friend Daniel Gonzlez of Spain's GEIFO group is currently in Colombia, where he heads the organization's local chapter. He has sent us interesting photographs of a greenish "flying spindle" that appeared after a lightning storm in the town of Manizales. He is currently trying to locate the photographer for an interview. Thanks to Scott Corrales, Editor, Inexplicata]
CIUDAD JUAREZ Residents claim having photographed an UFO minutes before last Fridays sandstorm, whose winds approached 90 kilometers an hour and created widespread chaos throughout the region.
Through Facebook, a photograph shot by Raquel Vargas was shared by Juan Carlos Len, showing a sort of ring suspended in the sky with at least a dozen lights.
The image was taken in Calzada del Rio, to the north of the city. "I was running an errand at a neighboring development and we heard something like a lightning bolt, but when we turned around, we saw that thing in the sky," she said.
The phenomenon was seen by several local residents. "When we left our home, in a matter of minutes, it was still in the sky and I managed to take a picture of it. Others did as well."
"There was a lot of wind and flying dirt after that, and we went away because the storm had already started," she noted.
Last Friday, the wind gusts recorded achieved speeds of up to 85 kilometers per hour, prompting a mobilization by various rescue forces. (Translation (c) 2012, Scott Corrales, Institute of Hispanic Ufology. Special thanks to Guillermo Gimenez, Planeta UFO) www.ojinagahoy.com.mx
South Korea Disc
Seoul -- UFO was caught in Jamsil- Seoul on May 31, 2012.
The object is a flying disc with dome.
Thanks to Gio Kim, in South Korea
United Kingdom England Sighting
LIVERPOOL -- On July 10, 2012, four bright footballs were seen in the sky. Two were flying close to each other with an airplane flying just in front of the two flying in formation. It was scary. Ten minutes later a helicopter was in the sky, God bless and good luck to the human race. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Earlestown -- I have filmed several UFOs lately. I reviewed an excellent film I made on 12 December 2011.
At 6-30 pm, I had just dressed and noticed an orange light flashing at 300 feet altitude a mile to west over slack heaps flying at10 mph going north. Another orange light was in sky 1000 yardsgoing SW slowly. I filmed a ufo, and noticed a very bright ''star'' to NE 3-400 yards, alt.300 feet stationary and I filmed and it began to move west slowly. It appeared to cam-cord as large orange sphere and 5-600yds.it turned on sixpence and went N 5mph.and as it went over 70-80ft. trees in woods it had dropped to 100ft.alt.and a broad beam of light emanates down onto tree tops. A minute later an airliner came directly over going south at 1200 feet altitude. Though I did not see as I filmed on my film can be seen a shiny silver sphere between me and the other alien craft, low down over fields so maybe the airplane saw both. Thanks Robert Newton, near Liverpool, UK...
Moffat I first noticed the object opposite my house, a mile away maybe, which would be just to the north-west of the town in Dumfriesshire. It was 2 am, on July17, 2012, and I had gone for a walk before going to bed. The sky was clear so this object stood out as it was moving around erratically and was a flashing. There was a green light on the object and it looked as if a beam was reflecting off the sky around it. It cannot have been a plane, due to the abrupt movements it was making.
I took a photograph of it with a telephoto lens, and downloaded to my computer and magnified some more; it looked like a wide silver object with "windows" around the edge. After half an hour, it was still there but having had a busy day I was so tired I just had to go to bed!
The last time I saw a UFO, was in 1979 near power lines. It was about 100 feet above me and about 200 feet in diameter. It completely lit the ground around me as if it were daylight. It was about 12:15 am and I lost about an hour of time. The last things I remember was seeing the object move slowly to my left for about 200 yards, and then accelerate forward so fast that it disappeared. Thanks to MUFON CMS
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Steven Has Already Made A CE III & ET Buck!
Aliens? We'll probably have a close encounter this century says leading physicist who warns governments to be ready
Interesting: It's a scientific prediction that will get dollar signs pinging in Steven Spielberg's eyes: We could make contact with aliens in less than 100 years
Its a scientific prediction that will get dollar signs pinging in Steven Spielbergs eyes: We could make contact with aliens in less than 100 years.
But according to one of our leading physicists, it is a matter for governments rather than Hollywood who should start preparing for our first extra-terrestrial encounter now.
Speaking at the Euroscience Open Forum conference in Dublin, Jocelyn Bell Burnell said: I do suspect we are going to get signs of life elsewhere, maybe even intelligent life, within the next century.
How well prepared are we? Have we thought of how we approach them? Should we put them in a zoo, eat them, send in GIs to bring them democracy?
She said we are most likely to find alien life where we find rocky planets with carbon dioxide and ozone in the atmospheres. The Oxford University professor said: If we do suspect there is intelligent life out there, are we going to make ourselves known to them or not?
There are interesting questions about who you would tell first the Press, the Prime Minister, the Pope? We should start thinking now.
However, she said that even if we do find signs of alien life, it is likely to take decades to talk to them from Earth via radio or lasers.
Professor Bell Burnell said: Nothing can travel faster than the speed of light. So you are probably talking of conversations that could take 50 or 100 years, just one way.
Previous research has found almost half of Britons believe in little green men.
The poll of more than 2,000 men and women for the Royal Society found that 44 per cent are of the opinion extra-terrestrial life exists and more than a third of those questioned said we should be actively searching and trying to make contact with ET.
Worrying: Stephen Hawking has warned that aliens may plunder Earth for its resources
Scientists are divided about whether we should be advertising our presence to inhabitants of other planets.
Some say that if we alert hostile aliens to our existence we risk an invasion that could lead to the end of life on Earth.
They argue that if ET has the technology to cross space to reach us any defences we have will be all but useless.
And Stephen Hawking has warned that aliens may plunder Earth for its resources.
Advocating that we do everything we can to avoid contact, he said: We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldnt want to meet.
If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didnt turn out well for the Native Americans.
Sorry, Drake, It's Interesting But Not Very "Beautiful" [Your Dartboard Physics]!
"My greatest disappointment was the essay A Mirror in the Sky by Oliver Morton, a science writer for Wired magazine. The equation discussed is the Drake Equation, an equation that supposedly estimates the number of radio-emitting civilizations in our galaxy, N. Radio astronomer Frank Drake wrote the equation in 1961 for a scientific meeting. The equation contains products of fractions (actually, probabilities) that have to be guessed to yield N. The value of N is important in the ongoing Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) program, for if N is large radio telescopes could focus on smaller regions of the sky and have hope of hearing another civilization. If N is small, the better program would be to sweep the entire sky. Morton does a good job of discussing the fractions in the equation as well as the history of SETI, which is very interesting. But I dont feel that the Drake Equation merits a place in the book. The equation is not particularly beautiful in that it makes no predictions, possesses no solutions, and has parameters that must be simply guessed. (By the way, Morton makes one small error, placing the Arecibo radio telescope in Costa Rica. It is actually located in Puerto Rico.)"
I was once a dedicated biology student, planning to leave high school for college and, hopefully, a career as a surgeon. But a wise guidance counselor put me in physics and there I discovered equations. I fondly recall using an equation to predict where a small marble would leave a table top and land on the floor. I placed a cup on the floor at the calculated spot, released my marble and plunk! Into the cup it went! I was hooked. Mathematics was useful! Equations were beautiful! Off I went to college anxious to major in physics. Over time I acquired a new goal of conveying the beauty of mathematical physics to students. I had come to realize that the equations of science were indeed beautiful.
So the title alone, It Must be Beautiful: Great Equations of Modern Science, was sufficient to require that I buy the book. How could I go wrong? I was not disappointed in my purchase.
This small volume contains eleven essays by experts in their fields covering topics in biology, chemistry, communications, physics, and even searching for extraterrestrials. Owing to my physics nature I was most blessed by the physics offerings, of which there are six. All of the essays cover equations developed during the era of modern science- that is, since the year 1900. A fine Forward by the editor, Graham Farmelo, a physicist at Northeastern University, begins the volume. The book concludes with a short Afterword by Steven Weinberg.
Perhaps the greatest value of the book for the general public is to find out that mathematics plays an important role in many fields. A good example is an essay on the Logistic Map entitled The Best Possible Time to be Alive, by Robert May, a Zoology professor at Oxford. Professor May is a theoretical biologist who first obtained a PhD in physics. He then migrated to biology when he became fascinated with applying mathematics to populations. The Logistic Map he discusses is an amazingly simple equation that fascinates mathematicians and biologists alike. Professor May explains this equation and goes on to illustrate its usefulness in biological communities. The essay is quite informative, lively and entertaining. Chaos Theory, Meteorology, and Biology are all addressed in this essay.
Communications Engineering is the focus in the essay Understanding Information Bit by Bit by Igor Aleksander, an Engineering Professor at Imperial College, London. This essay discusses the pioneering work of Claude Shannon in the late 1940s. Shannon was the first to quantify information content with an equation. Shannons equation is discussed. I found portions of this essay to require re-reading, due in part to my poor familiarity with the bits and bytes of todays digital world. Shannons work has led to a larger field called Information Theory, a branch of communications theory that has proven to be applicable even to statistical physics.
My greatest disappointment was the essay A Mirror in the Sky by Oliver Morton, a science writer for Wired magazine. The equation discussed is the Drake Equation, an equation that supposedly estimates the number of radio-emitting civilizations in our galaxy, N. Radio astronomer Frank Drake wrote the equation in 1961 for a scientific meeting. The equation contains products of fractions (actually, probabilities) that have to be guessed to yield N. The value of N is important in the ongoing Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) program, for if N is large radio telescopes could focus on smaller regions of the sky and have hope of hearing another civilization. If N is small, the better program would be to sweep the entire sky. Morton does a good job of discussing the fractions in the equation as well as the history of SETI, which is very interesting. But I dont feel that the Drake Equation merits a place in the book. The equation is not particularly beautiful in that it makes no predictions, possesses no solutions, and has parameters that must be simply guessed. (By the way, Morton makes one small error, placing the Arecibo radio telescope in Costa Rica. It is actually located in Puerto Rico.)
Moving to Physics the most fascinating essays cover three of the most basic equations of modern physics: E=hf , E=mc2, and the Schroedinger Equation. E=mc2 is perhaps the most well-known equation of all time, and it is the equation that ushered in the atomic age. This is part of the beauty- a compact yet far-reaching relationship between physical variables. E=hf was the revolutionary equation for the energy of light quanta that ultimately resulted in the field known today as Quantum Mechanics. The essay covering the Schroedinger Equation (the foundational differential equation of Quantum Mechanics) has the most interesting history in the book, detailing the feuds between Schroedinger and Heisenberg. Along the way we learn of Schroedingers numerous infidelities and his disdain for formality in behavior and dress. We further learn that part of the Heisenberg-Schroedinger debate centered around aesthetics more than physics. These essays alone are worth the price of the book.
The reader certainly learns that beautiful equations are sometimes composed after tremendous labor and sometimes written down after a flash of insight. The equation composer sometimes insists on the properties of the equation based on aesthetic considerations. Also, as is made clear by Weinbergs Afterword, all beautiful equations are approximations to physical reality. After all, theoretical science is an imperfect model-building process. That is, equations are a man-made approximation to a deeper reality.
We then wonder- is it even possible to ever construct an equation, or a set of them, that perfectly describes physical reality? Are all equations constructed or are some of them discovered? Just what is it that makes an equation beautiful, anyway? Why is it that mathematics even works at all in describing nature? I would have liked to see some of these questions discussed in depth, but they were barely touched on. (Certainly, some of the answers to these questions are related to the nature of God and mans creation in His image.)
Nonetheless, the volume is a valuable addition to the library of anyone interested in science and mathematics. Whether you are math-phobic or a math geek, a trip through these pages should result in bringing mathematics more alive to you. You will learn that equations have a rich history and that they each possess their own unique individuality. You will find equations that may be appreciated just as much as a great painting, a precisely constructed sonnet, or an imposing cathedral. Perhaps you might even become intrigued enough to pursue a science or math degree!
Does anyone know if Stan's "equations" have ever been seriously examined by mathematical physicists? If so, what were their findings? To me, despite not knowing this Stan Romanek case very well, it smells rather fishy at first glance! Is it worthwhile to "fallow"? ;)
Does anyone know if Stan's "equations" have ever been seriously examined by mathematical physicists? If so, what were their findings? To me, despite not knowing this Stan Romanek case very well, it smells rather fishy at first glance! Is it worthwhile to "fallow"? ;)
New witness surfaces in Illinois UFO case from January 2000
The story behind a well known Illinois UFO case from early January 2000 involving witnesses from multiple police departments may be rewritten as one new witness came forward July 16, 2012, to offer additional testimony from a vantage point in southern Missouri, according to testimony from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
The witness was an assistant fire chief at the time who watched the case being played out on a network television reenactment and called the UFO Examiner to disclose case details that had never before been revealed publicly. After speaking with the witness, both Missouri and Illinois MUFON were immediately contacted to begin an investigation. The witness officially filed a MUFON report with Assistant Missouri State Director Margie Kay today.
Kay provided details in MUFON Case 40861.
"He stated that he was returning from a house fire in St. Clair, MO, at approximately 3 a.m. and was on I-44 Highway approaching Union, MO, when he heard law enforcement on the county police band radio discussing an unidentified object.The dispatcher said, 'Oh it's this Roswell stuff again' and that police were chasing the object."
As detailed by Illinois witnesses at the time, the object was very low to the ground.
"As the witness approached 50 Highway and 47 Highway he saw a large, triangular craft with lights pointing down over the Wal-Mart that was traveling at approximately 25-30 mph. The witness said that the very bright lights on the object pointed downward, but did not light up the ground, seeming to stop approximately 100 feet up.The craft was approximately 500 above the ground."
The witness then met up with two police officers.
"The witness joined up with an officer from Union, MO, and an officer from the county, and the three of them followed the object in their separate cars for approximately one hour as the object headed towards Washington, MO, north of the original position.The object was always in front of them or above them."
They were unable to photogrph the object and their radios would not provide communications while the object was near them.
"At one point, the county officer attempted to tilt his dash cam up in order to get pictures, but it would not move into the needed position. None of the men had a camera with them. The object stopped and hovered several times and moved very slowly.They were unable to use the radio for communication while the craft was above them."
All three witnesses eventually gave up the chase.
"After an hour, the officers needed to turn back to get back to other calls, so this witness left as well. By this time, the object had moved into an area southeast of Washington, MO, over farmland where there were no roads, and it was impossible to follow."
The original Illinois case from January 4 -5, 2000, involved multiple police departments chasing a triangle-shaped object that was flying low through the area. The story has been told on network television shows, including the Bill Birnes' History Channel series, "UFO Hunters". Episode 202 aired on November 5, 2008, and used CGI animation to show how the low flying craft looked as officers chased it from town to town.
The witness said he heard about the Illinois sightings at that time and assumed that what he saw was the same object. He and the officers did not report their sighting at the time.
Illinois State Director Sam Maranto said he will also be conducting an interview with the witness to see how the events tied into the Illinois events.
No images or videos were included with the MUFON report, which was filed on July 16, 2012. The events occurred on January 4, 2000. The above quotes were edited for clarity.
Missouri is a current UFO ALERT 4 rating, with a higher than average number of UFO sightings nationally. Missouri had 21 reports in June 2012 - the 11th highest reporting state while California had 84 reports - the highest reporting state in the nation.
You can read more details about other recently reported cases at the UFO Examiner home page.
The following is the unedited and as yet uninvestigated report filed with MUFON. Please keep in mind that most UFO reports can be explained as something natural or manmade. If Missouri MUFON State Director Debbie Ziegelmeyer investigates and reports back on this case, I will release an update. Please report UFO activity to MUFON.com.
MO, January 4, 2000 - Triagular Craft January 2000 may be part of mass sightings in Illinois. MUFON Case 40861.
FILED BY ASD for the witness, who wishes to remain anonymous:
The witness, who was an Assistant Fire Chief at the time, was prompted to contact MUFON after seeing a TV program on the Illinois sightings in theyhear 2000. He stated that he was returning from a house fire in St. Clair, Missouri at approximately 3:00 AM and was on I-44 Highway approaching Union, Missouri when he heard law enforcement on the county police band radio discussing an unidentified object. The dispatcher said Oh its this Roswell stuff again. and that police were chasing the object.
As the witness approached 50 hwy and 47 hwy he saw a large triangular craft with lights pointing down over the Wal-Mart that was traveling at approximately 25-30 MPH. The witness said that the very bright lights on the object pointed downward, but did not light up the ground, seeming to stop approximately 100 feet up. The craft was approximately 500 above the ground.
The witness joined up with an officer from Union, Missouri and an officer from the County, and the three of them followed the object in their separate cars for approximately one hour as the object headed towards Washington, Missouri, north of the original position. The object was always in front of them or above them. At one point, the county officer attempted to tilt his dash cam up in order to get pictures, but it would not move into the needed position.
None of the men had a camera with them. The object stopped and hovered several times and moved very slowly. They were unable to use the radio for communication while the craft was above them. After an hour, the officers needed to turn back to get back to other calls, so this witness left as well. By this time, the object had moved into an area SE of Washington, MO over farmland where there were no roads, and it was impossible to follow. __________________________________
The witness surmises that the object from Illinois continued into Missouri and officers picked up its trail after it crossed the state line.
.Over the four decades the photo has been in the public domain, I have had many thousands of letters from all over the world with various ideas or possibilities most of which make little sense to me! Jim Templeton 2002
Jim Templetons place in the history of Ufology is well assured, having his name attached to the famous Solway/Cumberland Spaceman photo, which he took on Burgh Marsh with his daughter Elizabeth, in May 1964.
However behind this, is the story of a remarkably well travelled man who was held in some high regard, especially in the county of Cumbria where he was something of a local celebrity.
Jim, who lived in Carlisle, was just as well known as a keen photographer, author and collector of photos. The News And Star newspaper regularly used Jims extensive collection of local historic photos in their pieces and Jim had released a number of books, on local history.
Jim was born at Belmont Terrace in the former village of Belle Vue, Carlisle in 1920. The village then was completely separate to Carlisle but was subsequently swallowed up by the spread of the city, in later years.
Jims father Daniel Templeton worked at Solric Fabrics Textile Factory in Shaddongate, Carlisle (beside Dixons chimney). His mother, Mary, was a stay at home mother (as was the norm in those days) and kept many animals, including dogs, hens and otters.
Jim attended Newtown school, Carlisle and then moved to Ashley Street Boys School also in Carlisle, where he showed early promise as a footballer.
Jim was taken into gainful employment in 1934 at the age of 14, quite by accident with Solric Fabrics, where his father worked, after popping round to drop his dads sandwiches off one morning.
To accept the job, Jim had to leave school early, something he later stated he was glad of as he loved working at the Textiles factory and later after working at a few different locations, qualified as a textile designer/engineer and became an Associate of the Textile Institute.
In September 1937, Jim joined the St Johns Ambulance service and qualified for a First Aid Certificate, a St John Medallion and a Nursing Certificate.
In May 1940, Jim received call up papers to help the war effort. He was sent to Newbattle Abbey for military training and then onto the Royal Army Medical Corp (RAMC) at Edinburgh Castle.
Jim was then dispatched to Liverpool on December 8 1941 to board the Andes, a brand new ship which was part of a convoy of 37 ships that were headed to the Azores.
Jim eventually hopped ships to the Mauretania and sailed onto the Suez Canal and disembarked before sailing onto Tripoli where the crew received battle orders. The crew then filled landing craft and made for Salerno, Italy, where the Germans were waiting for them.
It was during leave from the Army back in Carlisle that Jim met his wife, a young girl Jim had had his eye on for a while called Annie Rutherford, he vowed to pickup his aquaintence with Annie in the future as he returned to the Army.
Further tours took Jim all over the world and he was finally demobbed in 1946, having attained the rank of Sergeant.
Jim returned to Carlisle where he reapplied to the Carlisle Fire & Ambulance Service and got the job despite reservations about his then young age.
Jim then joined the Fire Service, where he worked for 25 years until his eventual retirement in 1973.
He also picked up where he had left off with Annie and they were married in 1953, after a years engagement.
The couple gave birth to first daughter Frances, in 1955. Followed by Elizabeth in 1958 and third daughter Anne, who was born in 1968.
Jim was a keen painter and had amassed a huge collection of photographs, having took many of the photos himself over 70 years. He wrote many books some with his good friend Charlie Emmett, mainly about the history of Carlisle, putting using his extensive collection of photographs to good use. He also had many local exhibitions of his photographic work at the local art venue; Tullie House.
He photographed and met many Royals in his time, more recently he met Prince Charles during his visit to the city after the 2005 floods.
Jims wife Annie sadly died in 2003, after 51 years of marriage.
Despite being in failing health, Jim was still going strong into his 90′s, more recently in 2007 releasing his autobiography which he wrote himself, followed up by a personal appearance to sign books in the local Waterstones Bookstore.
Jim received and many letters from all round the world regarding the Spaceman Incident and he used to reply to as many correspondence personally, as he could.
Below is a letter Jim wrote to the Daily Mail in 2002, in somewhat of a reply to questions over the Spaceman incident :
Photographer Comments On Cumberland Spaceman Picture
by James Templeton Daily Mail, London / England Dec 13.02
As an amateur photographer on a day-trip with my family, I took the photograph on Burgh Marsh on May 23, 1964, using an SLR camera loaded with the new Kodacolor film which was processed by Kodak.
I took three pictures of my daughter Elizabeth in a similar pose and was shocked when the middle picture came back from Kodak displaying what looks like a spaceman in the background.
I took the picture to the police in Carlisle who, after many doubts, examined it and stated there was nothing suspicious about it.
The local newspaper, the Cumberland News, picked up the story and within hours it was all over the world.
The picture is certainly not a fake, and I am as bemused as anyone else as to how this image appeared in the background.
Over the four decades the photo has been in the public domain, I have had many thousands of letters from all over the world with various ideas or possibilities most of which make little sense to me.
It should also be noted that I have received no payment for taking this picture.
The only suggestion that struck a chord with me was a letter from Woomera in Australia which came a month after the picture was shown around the world.
The people there were keen to see a good colour copy of the photo, as they had stopped a countdown of the Blue Streak rocket within hours of my photo being taken.
Apparently, two similar looking spacemen had been seen close to the rocket.
Only later did I find out that part of the Blue Streak rocket was made and tested within sight of Burgh Marsh.
In special reports, this weeks files cover: Castro Saw Alien Craft and Bodies, "Alien language" presented by CIA and Disney, Mars Mickey Mouse, C-130 Crash, Electrical Equipments Stops Working near Baltic Sea UFO and Sightings Increase.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over: Arizona, California, Colorado, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, and Washington.
Sightings of UFOs were also reported in Canada, Chili, Denmark, Germany, Pakistan, Papua/New Guinea, Puerto Rico, South Africa, 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.
I'm writing a new "straight talk" blog about exopolitics, ET technology, contact and culture, and the choices we need to make to evolve (or not) past our current condition.
Lets face it, most of us dont know for sure what is going on, but don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice and most important, have the courage to follow your heart and instincts
Castro Saw Alien Craft and Bodies
Jorge Martin, Puerto Rican ufologist reports that on March 29, 2012, former President of Cuba, Fidel Castro issued historical document of Reflections, entitled "The need to Enrich our Knowledge." The letter discussed several issues related to the dangers for the survival of humankind posed by the current warmongering race that some of the world powers are enforcing; and how the bearers of these actions tend to suffer from characters that lack culture and special knowledge. Interjected is the possibility of extraterrestrial life in the universe around us.
Castro stated, "When Pope John Paul II visited Cuba in 1998, I sat down to dinner with a spokesman of the Pope. I said, "I think there is a 99.9 percent chance there is intelligent life on other planets'. A European article reads, "There could be thousands of millions of planets not much larger than Earth orbiting stars in our galaxy. "Our new observations show that about 40% of the 160.000 million red dwarf stars have a 'super-Earth" orbiting in their living zone, and there may be liquid water on the surface of the planet. "
Jorge Martin, states, "In 2002, the renowned Cuban filmmaker Octavio Cortzar visited Puerto Rico and asked to meet with us at our magazine ENIGMAS Goals.
He gave me a copy of the first documentary ever made in Cuba entitled "UFOs in Cuba." Octavio Cortzar further stated since President Fidel Castro opened the door with his letter about extraterrestrial life, he would reveal more of Castros statements.
John Paul II told Castro in 1998, "The probability of life beyond Earth was a fact and discussed the observations of UFOs!"
Castro saw the reality of extraterrestrial life visiting us, when he visited the Soviet Union. Perhaps, as a result we would deviate from the path of self destruction in which we currently are on.
Fidel Castro also gave Juan Mari Bras, a pro-Puerto Rico Independence leader information about the UFO matter? What did Castro say to Attorney Juan Mari Bras, I asked Mrs. Trabal? Well-she-said, "On one occasion we were talking about the UFO subject. Fidel Castro told us,before the fall of the Soviet Union, he had traveled to the USSR and the Soviet Authorities had taken him to a military base in which there was a special laboratory, and had showed him an alien spaceship, a disk they had captured. He also saw the body of a tall extraterrestrial being they kept preserved in a special box-like machine or cryogenic freezer."
Above: Photographic simulation of Fidel Castro's visit to the Soviet secret
Lab in which he was shown both the alien craft and the corpse of its pilot.
Juan Mari Bras had not spoken about this before because Castro had told him confidence. Juan is a person of great integrity, and would not say something like this if it not was true. Castro also told us, "The Soviets to him they knew Americans had a similar lab and research center with crafts and alien bodies."
It is likely Castro was taken to the Plesetsk Cosmodrome where the Soyuz Rocket Cosmos=3M, and Tsykon are launched and is under persistent surveillance by alien crafts. This photo was taken by security officer Ghenady Korniev Vassili Zaitsev on January 5, 1992, at the Plesetsk missile center.
The other possible missile center where the alien craft could be stored is the base of Kapushtin Yar, in Astrakhan, Volgograd. Here there are several large hangars and an underground facility with several floors, in which Russian scientists could study alien technology of captured and crashed alien spacecrafts...
Under these lines we are showing a sketch with data on some of the extraterrestrial spacecrafts that the Russian Government keeps at this research center, made by a confidential Russian source, which was delivered to Italian journalist and UFO researcher Constantino Paglialunga in 1997.
It is very possible that Fidel Castro saw the alien spaceship and the alien corpse at Kapustin Yar.
Robbie Graham a doctoral candidate at the University of Bristol for a PhD writes, "One of the most eyebrow-raising cases of government involvement in a Hollywood UFO movie in recent years is that of Race to Witch Mountain (2009), which apparently received extensive support from the CIA albeit in an off the books capacity despite its plot drawing extensively from UFO mythology (with references both to Area 51 and Roswell) and its presentation of a sinister government UFO cover-up."
In 2010, the film's director, Andy Fickman a self-described "UFO enthusiast" born and raised in Roswell, New Mexico told me that, although he personally shaped the majority of the films UFO-related content, at least some of it was the result of CIA input." The director claims that, in a highly unusual production arrangement, he and his crew were closely assisted by an active employee of the CIA whose advice extended to designing the alien writing seen in the flying saucer during the films climactic scenes.
Despite my best efforts, Fickman has been unwilling to reveal to me the identity of his CIA advisor, but claims hes a former Air Force Technical Intelligence Officer, that he had been "very active in Hollywood," and "had a lot of connections in the computer world.
Race to Witch Mountain: inside the flying saucer
All of the on-camera alien language in terms of their spaceship and everything that was all designed by him in the sense [of what] the mathematics of communication would be, so you know...there would be a similar mathematical equation that the government probably has if they were to ever come across an alien race. So a lot of the things we ended up using were things he was bringing to me...and the next thing you know, thats what I had on screen.
The alien "language" to which Fickman refers appears onscreen inRace to Witch Mountain in the form of holographic symbols aboard the Nordic aliens flying saucer. Here are three of the most frequently recurring symbols that appear in the climactic scenes of the movie...
The question, of course, is what do these symbols mean? Besides them bearing a passing resemblance to certain crop formations (the authenticity of which is debatable), it is difficult to ascribe any significance to them beyond the fact that they were designed by an alleged CIA operative.
Has the CIA, in cooperation with Disney, presented us with real alien symbols language? If so, to what conceivable end? These symbols were frequently used in antiquity. More information on CIA involvement in Race to Witch Mountain can be found in the article UFOs and Disney: Behind the Magic Kingdom.
Disney has overseen the production and/or distribution of numerous UFO and alien-themed movies in recent times, with the best known examples including Flight of the Navigator(1986) Signs (2002), Lilo and Stitch(2002), Chicken Little(2005), Lifted(2007), I am Number Four(2011), Mars Needs Moms(2011) and the forthcoming John Carter (2012)
The Disney/UFO connection can be traced back to 1953 when the CIA-sponsored Robertson Panel recommended that the US government make efforts to strip UFOs of their "aura of mystery" through the exploitation of mass media. In this context, the panel highlighted Walt Disney Productions specifically as a potential conduit for its propaganda. The panels singling-out of Disney made sense given the animation giants then firmly established working relationship with the US government: during World War II Disney made numerous propaganda shorts for the US military, and in the 1950s corporate and government sponsors helped the company produce films promoting President Eisenhower's "Atoms for Peace" policy.
Oscar-winning Disney animator Ward Kimball Best known for creating iconic Disney characters such as Jiminy Cricket and The Mad Hatter, Kimball also worked as Directing Animator on Disney classics including Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs(1938) and Pinocchio(1940).
While at a MUFON symposium in 1979, Kimball claimed that the United States Air Force (USAF) had approached Walt Disney himself in the mid-1950s to request his cooperation on a documentary about UFOs that would help acclimate the American public to the reality of extraterrestrials According to Kimball, in exchange for Disneys cooperation, the USAF offered to furnish the production with genuine UFO footage Kimball claimed that Disney accepted the deal and ever faithful to Uncle Sam began work immediately on the USAF project It wasnt long, however, before the USAF reneged on its offer of UFO footage When Kimball challenged the USAF Colonel overseeing the project he was told that "there was indeed plenty of UFO footage, but that neither Kimball, nor anyone else was going to get access to it." A Disney UFO video was actually produced and shown in the South.
The Kimball case, though, seems to be at odds with the Robertson Panels recommendations, which were to debunk UFO reality through media channels, not promoting it but perhaps another faction within the military-intelligence community one with a UFO acclimation agenda had similarly recognized Disneys propagandist potential?
Doug Depue writes, "I thought you might get a chuckle out of this. It is another "face on Mars," this time that of none other than Mickey Mouse." Regards, Doug Depue Lockheed's Skunk Works Confirms It's Their Bird
Plant 42 at Lockheed Martin Skunk Works
There's this website called Open Source Geoint and it has published a satellite image of one of the most secret defense plants in the country, the Air Force's Plant 42, where a handful of the top defense companies build some of the country's most highly classified aircraft and sensors.
Plant 42 houses highly classified facilities where a number of contractors, including, most famously, Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works, where the U-2 spy plane and the F-117 were built.
Dave Majundar who writes Flight Global's the Dew Line, speculates that this aircraft "looks a lot like a RQ-170, but bigger..."He postulates that it may be a P.420, a larger plane than the so-called Beast of Kandahar," It was able to provide important help to the team that killed Osama Bin Laden.
The company states, "Lockheed Martin Skunk Works often experiments with different shapes and materials for both manned and unmanned vehicles What you see in the satellite image is one of those projects." Thanks to AOL Defense newsletter
C-130 Crash
Four members of the North Carolina Air National Guard's 145th Airlift Wing in Charlotte died when their Modular Airborne Firefighting System-equipped C-130 crashed on July 1 while fighting a woodland fire in southwestern South Dakota. Two other crewmembers were injured in the crash and hospitalized, after a one-day stand down on July 2, the Air Force's small fleet of firefighting C-130s resumed flight operations to help battle wildfires. As of early morning on July 4, these airplanes, which began operating on June 25, had conducted a total of 105 airdrops and discharged more than 270,000 gallons of fire retardant on the flames in parts of Colorado, Montana, South Dakota, and Wyoming.
Electrical Equipments Stops Working Near Baltic Sea UFO
The OceanX team exploring a UFO-shaped object at the bottom of the Baltic Sea has claimed that their electrical equipments stop working when they approach within 200 meters. Professional diver Stefan Hogerborn, who is part of the Ocean X team which is exploring the anomaly, said some of the teams cameras and the teams satellite phone would refuse to work when directly above the object, and would only work once they had sailed away.
"Anything electric out there - and the satellite phone as well - stopped working when we were above the object," the Daily Mail quoted him as saying. "And then we got away about 200 meters and it turned on again, and when we got back over the object it didnt work," he said. Diver Peter Lindberg admitted, "We have experienced things that I really couldnt imagine and I have been the team's biggest skeptic regarding these different kind of theories, I was kind of prepared just to find a cliff or outcrop or pile of mud but it was nothing like that, so for me it has been a missing experience I must say," he said "I am one hundred percent convinced and confident that we have found something in May of last year that is very, very, very unique," member Dennis Asberg said.
There are perfectly straight lines and angles embedded into the smooth structure and a diver is photographed at lower right.
The lines can be made by natural causes, but they look very man made.The grooves are about 1-1.5 meter wide and 0.5-1.5 meters deep. The disc has a completely circular plate-like exterior, 180 meters in circumference. Object is 200 foot across mushroom shaped comprising a thick pillar rising eight meters out of the seabed with a four meter thick dome on top rising a total of 12 meters (approx 40 feet) high above the surrounding seabed
There are visible formations on top of the object, which are set at a 90 degree angle and look like passageways or walls, as well as something that looks like it could be a staircase. There are visible formations on top of the object, which are set at a 90 degree angle and look like passageways or walls, as well as something that looks like it could be a staircase.
There are stone circles, like "fireplaces" of hard black "almost petrified" burnt looking stone each a few inches in diameter, like 4 or 5 pearls in a necklace in various arrangements on top of the dome. It might be a meteorite, or the base from a U-boat, - or a UFO?
"The Ocean X team did get some pictures, such as these soot-covered rocks that encircled an egg-shaped hole which went into the object at its centre, and have no idea what any of it means. There is a long 985-foot runway, skid marks, or a downhill path that is flattened at the seabed with the object at the end of it.
A SECOND Anomaly saw found.....
The second anomaly
Some 200 meters away is yet to be explored! The initial side scan sonar images show something shaped like a "gothic church window." It is similar to the larger object and also has a disturbed seafloor area leading up to it, or what could be a ridge. The divers were so amazed by the main anomaly that they simply didnt have time to dive on the second one. The return trip in two weeks time should present an opportunity for this to finally be explored. The sonar picture of the unidentified object resembles the famed Star Wars ship the Millennium Falcon. They have no way of telling what is inside the object whether it is filled with gold and riches or simply aged sediment particles.
MUFON CMS continues to amass sighting reports from around the globe. In June 2012 there were 721 sightings reported to MUFON through CMS from the following countries; US 625, Canada 44, UK 10, Australia 6, and Mexico 5.
The National UFO Reporting Center reports 672 sightings in June compared to 472 in May mostly in the US. Frequent of red, orange, or yellow "fireballs or cluster of Fireballs Continue.
Sightings in the United States
Arizona Disc
Phoenix -- Sam Maranto MUFON Illinois State Director walks us through some amazing footage shot by Rob Kritkausky northwest of AZ.
Santa Clarita On July 1, 2012, we each saw directly ahead between the trees four extremely bright lights.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Sylmar On July 8, 2012, we were sitting outside when my sister looked up and saw a rotating object in the sky that seemed to be falling. She said "Look, is that a plane falling?" I became a bit nervous as it seemed to be falling. I ran inside to get my husband who came out with his camera and we saw a second similar object. The first one began to go higher towards the mountains. The second object followed the same pattern like the first one, stopping, rotating, and then ascending in the same direction. A third object much longer looking zoomed in the same direction as the first object. It was too fast to be captured on camera. After 15 to 20 minutes, the two objects came closer to each other. The objects just disappeared.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Colorado Bluish-White Lights
Sylmar -- I took this on the night of June 30, 2012 hovering just west of the Central Colorado Rockies. It resembled two hovering field lights in a row Sylmar and Santa Clarita over Interstate 5 in the New Hall Pass.
The bright white is a star is Spica, but I do not know what the dots are nor the blue object that morphs into different shapes, Thanks for your updates one of the best out there!
Robert
COLORADO SPRINGS -- I just opened your last file and wondered if you saw/heard of this sighting.
ValdostaOn July 7, 2012, I was outside taking still shots of a rainbow with my Cyber shot camera. I never noticed the object with the naked eye, but saw it when I uploaded to my computer. The object was just in one frame of the shots that I took.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Acworth -- My Mom and daughter reported seeing three objects moving at a slow pace a UFO on July 4, 2012.
Theobjects appeared to shoot up in the sky and took a photo before it disappeared.
Note: It is difficult to tell from the photo what are unknowns. The largest light could be a street light or a reflection. Thanks to William Puckett, Director http://www.UFOsnw.com
Indiana Three Lights
Portage On July 4, 2012, at 10:30 PM, in the first video I was just pulling over and I dont know if my camera was focused correctly. The first two pictures were a little blurry. In the rest of the videos the objects are a white. In the video they were fiery pulsating and amber balls plus they looked a little bigger heading northwest. The video was on the Fox News, Thanks to William Puckett, Director http://www.UFOsnw.com
Iowa Lights
WATERLOO -- My husband and I went outside after 9 pm, on July 3, 2012, when I heard him say, "Something above us looks odd." I looked up and right overhead was a silently flying vehicle heading northwest. It had four perfectly spaced lights that were larger than those of higher flying planes. The lights were perfectly spaced apart and flashing slowly. This "square object" was about the size of a quarter while planes were the size of a small felt-tipped marker. The strange craft had lights the size of pencil eraser heads and definitely larger and not as bright or strobe- We live a few miles from a small engine aircraft airport. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Massachusetts Orange Fireballs Over Cape Cod Bay
Yarmouthport -- One bright orange sphere was seen over Cape Cod Bay on July 2, 2012, moving south up Wharf Lane heading towards Lewis Bay at a fast steady speed. Two bright orange spheres rose above Sandy Neck about 15 minutes apart. Each sphere rose into the air above Cape Cod Bay, and lasted less than a minute, and then went out. Thanks to Peter Davenport, Director National UFO Reporting Center http://www.UFOcenter.com
Michigan Sun Dog
Howell -- Doug Parrish writes, "The sighting along I-94 near Kalamazoo is suspect, the "second sun" to the left of the real sun is most likely situated at 22.5 that is normally called a "sun dog," i.e. a refraction of the sunlight through a high-level of ice crystals in the upper atmosphere. In perfect viewing conditions, there would also be one on the right at the same degree of separation. I see them often in my part of SE Lower Michigan. They are a natural occurrence.
Thanks Doug Parrish
Missouri Lights
INDEPENDENCE -- We were celebrating with fireworks when my 10 year old Aaron said, "Whats that?" I saw what I now have to say was a UFO. We saw two of the exact same objects flying in formation at a steady speed. By the time I got my video camera it was traveling away from us. I got some pretty good video of them with me zooming in and out and trying to keep them both in picture. They stayed in formation as they traveled east out of sight I live about a mile from the old airport. Strangest unexplainable thing we have ever seen.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
ST. LOUIS -- I have attached a couple of my over 1,000 pictures of what started my fascination with this phenomenon that I never believed in until last October.
Thanks to Brian
Montana Mutilated Cow
Polson -- A strangely mutilated cow found dead southwest of Polson has launched an investigation by the Lake County Sheriffs Department on June 27, 2012. Deputies were notified of the killing Saturday, but from the level of decomposition, the adult cow was likely killed Wednesday, said Dan Yonkin, Lake County undersheriff.
What is being described as a non-natural death occurred in the Valley View area, which is an area that is home to many cattle ranches in Lake County? Some of the meat from the animal had been cut off and some of the organs removed. A local veterinarian responded to the ranch to perform a necropsy on the animal, and samples collected from the necropsy were sent to a Colorado lab for further investigation.
Yonkin said, "Its an odd thing, and we initially suspected animal predation, but weve ruled that out and it appears it is human caused." The cow was among a herd when the unusual killing took place.
Yonkin said, the Sheriffs Department is methodically going through the details of the incident and will continue to investigate until the answers to the mystery are found.
"Our concern is we dont want to see more of these," Yonkin said, "I wouldnt want ranchers to be concerned every night when they go to bed that when they wake up their cows will have been killed in their pasture."
Anyone with information about the cow death is encouraged to contact Crime stoppers at (406) 883-7309Ranchers experiencing any similar situations should contact the sheriffs office.
Note: Anyone with information about this mutilation is urged to send a comment. A few weeks ago a rancher in the Polson area reported to me that someone had killed one of his cows and had mutilated it. It is rare for authorities to investigation cattle mutilations. Thanks to William Puckett, Director http://www.UFOsnw.com
New Jersey Flying Object
BRIGATINE -- On June 16, 2012, at 9:45 pm, while sitting on a balcony at the Jersey shore I observed coming from the north what I thought was a plane. Soon I realized that what I saw was quickly changing directions, and moving faster than a plane. I observed the object going to the northeast near the Big Dipper Constellation. I watched for 55 seconds, and know my eyes were not playing tricks on me. I stared at this thing move out into space and get smaller. Others must have seen it. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Cherry Hill -- My daughter and I witnessed a stationary daylight object in the sky on July 6, 2012, at 6:30 PM. I was driving on Route 38 past the Cherry Hill Mall when my daughter pointed out a hovering object. As we drove, it was periodically obscured by trees. My daughter thought it was rectangular, but I saw a dull gray triangle. It was difficult for me to keep my eyes on it since I was driving. When we stopped at a red light, a driver in the next lane had to slam on their brakes, which made me wonder if the driver was watching it too. When we turned around the jug handle on Route 38, the object was no longer in site. It was not a blimp, balloon, nor aircraft. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Princeton--While out shopping on July 10, 2012, I was observing the beautiful clouds in the sky. I snapped two photos with my cell phone camera: one at 3:04 pm and another at 3:06 PM both facing north. After downloading the photos to my computer, I noticed a strangely-shaped, dark object in front of one of the puffy white clouds on the first photo. The object is not on the second photo. I have no idea what the object was. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Oregon Lights
MEDFORD On July 6, 2012, I had my first UFO sighting while lying on my bed. Out my window I saw an orange orb moving slowly and silently. I got out my phone and to get a shot of the object. It was an orange orb about 200 feet away from my window.
Note: The orange orb appears to have four lights in the extracted still image. The object appears to be rotating in the video Thanks to William Puckett, Director http://www.UFOsnw.com
Washington Light
SeattleOn July 4, 2012, during fireworks a very reddish orange light flew higher and higher then faded out as it headed south. It kept going and many people saw it near the fireworks and even in other states. It was nothing from this world. At first I thought it was a firework that exploded, but then it flew higher and north fast for about three minutes until it faded and went out. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Worldwide Sightings
Canada Orb
Orillia, Ontario-- On July 1st, 2012, after watching the concert at Burls Creek Family Campground we set up overnight camp. It was about 11:45 PM, on July 1, 2012, when I witnessed three brilliant round orange UFOs. Two were much more distant moving south very slow. Then a third one came across much closer above moving east. Within five seconds, I immediately pulled out my camera to capture the moment on video mode. There was pulsation of brightness coming from this brilliant orange round swirling object. It had a fluid-like movement. It was really an extraordinary show in the sky for five minutes. The next morning I talked with a Parks Ground keeper and he also witnessed the three objects. Thanks to William Puckett, Director http://www.UFOsnw.com
Chile Research
Region IV, Regional Research has devised a method to capture flying objects that the human eye cannot see, because they do not reflect the light. For many years there has been talk that the Elqui Valley is a prime location for the sighting of UFOs. There are dozens of stories and many mysterious pictures, not to mention the case of an alleged flying saucer that crashed into a Paihuano hill. There are also many more UFOs flying over the hills, that are invisible to the naked eye? This was discovered by regional researcher Patricio Diaz, who years ago noticed that the photos you took to elquinos landscapes, strange forms appeared after daylight, of which no one realized at the time.
Patricio Diaz thought quickly to take photos with two cameras; one a standard camera and an infrared camera. Infrared is a type of light you cannot see. Our eyes can only see what we call visible light. Infrared light gives us special information that we cannot get from visible light. It shows how much heat something has and gives information about the temperature of an object. Everything has some heat and radiates infrared light. Even those we think are very cool. Patricio Diaz says, "My profession is an electronic technician and I worked to change the camera, the software, shutter speed, and I use a polarizing filter." It was a long process and managed to save these objects," said Diaz. He was shooting in places like Pisco Elqui, El Molle, Vicua and Paihuano. "We achieved very interesting and good results. I used the second camera to have a comparison of what I was recording in infrared. If it appeared as a bird or an insect we can discern if the object is passing fast and blurred.
In contrast, the other objects were in the focal plane of the hill, shot 4 or 5 miles and the object looked sharp and movements that did were very interesting. They stopped in the air so it cannot be a meteorite. Diaz has spent 25 years devoted to UFO research and these strange aerial phenomena were captured in the Elqui Valley in broad daylight.
Case Paihuano was forever on the map of world ufology on October 7, 1998, when a dozen people witnessed the crash of a reddish fireball UFO against the Cerro Las Mollacas. The case is still under investigation and has been dubbed the "Chilean Roswell." Thanks to Institute of Hispanic Ufology for the photo andPatricio Diaz.
Denmark Light
Copenhagen-- I was sitting on my balcony on July 1, 2012, when I saw two red lights flying north faster than planes, side by side. They disappeared, and then two other lights passed in the sky. I tried to take pictures and shoot a video but they were blurred due to the speed of the moving objects. Two light couples passed by in few minutes. The last light couple disbanded: one going straight, the other vanishing. The speed was far faster than a plane; and there was no noise. Thanks to Peter Davenport, Director National UFO Reporting Center http://www.UFOcenter.com
Germany Orb
BERLIN -- A friend and I were trying to make some photos from the Berlin television tower of a golden object. I saw an object at very high altitude on February 15, 2012, it moved slowly to the right and then to the left, but most of the time it seemed to be stationary. I zoomed in on this object and took some photos of it. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Pakistan Lights
Faisalabad On July 1, 2012, I saw flashing lights in the sky. We used to sleep on the roof and frequently saw flashing lights in the sky not caused by lightning. The flashing lights come up while the stars are in the sky. Ive seen over 500 lights and this happened daily. I was able to get friends to take photos of the lights.
The lights are high sharp lights which enlightened the whole surrounding area like daylight for 1 to 2 seconds. We have assumed some ufos are studying our family and taking snaps with their own cameras. Most of the people of the city have also seen these objects as well. We couldn't open our eyes because there was too much sparkling in our eyes. Thanks to Peter Davenport, Director National UFO Reporting Center http://www.UFOcenter.com
Papua/New Guinea Fireball
Simberi IslandI sighted a white/bluish object falling vertically into ocean on July 1, 2012, for three seconds. Thanks to Peter Davenport, Director National UFO Reporting Center http://www.UFOcenter.com
Puerto Rico Thin Line
Camuy-- This morning on July 1, 2012, around 4:30 AM, I went to the kitchen and looked at a real big bright star that caught my attention. I went outside and saw this thin straight white line going northwest across the sky in a horizontal position. There was no sound at it passed by, so I kept looking at it until it disappeared. This straight white line was traveling without stopping or changing its shape. Thanks to Peter Davenport, Director National UFO Reporting Center http://www.UFOcenter.com
South Africa Fast Moving Light
Heidelberg -- I am a South African and was on my way to the coast for vacation on July 1, 2012, at 6:25 AM. I saw the light approaching a toll gate 80 km south of Heidelberg. My Dad said that it was a shooting star but it did not have the streak or tail you usually see and was unusually close to the ground. I have been to a lot of air shows so it was no jet. Thanks to Hay H and Peter Davenport, Director National UFO Reporting Center http://www.UFOcenter.com
UK England Disc
SOUTH HAMPSHIRE -- I am going to tell you now about a UK case that is the best of its kind anywhere in the world ever that occurred in August 2011. Everything has also been thoroughly examined by the editor of the Flying Saucer Review, Britains oldest UFO journal to which our Royal Family even subscribes and has done since it started the late 50's. I have tried to tell the media but they arent interested.
It's enough to make one think that smoking gun evidence about aliens and UFO's is somehow taboo. The witness was bathed in colored light as he filmed this object. There were two of these originally, until its companion flew off, leaving this one to put on its fabulous display..
All the photos have been enlarged for ease of viewing and are not objects close to the lens and have been professionally examined and are original images. I know the people involved who are senior in age, really nice, humble, simple folk and good family friends of me and my partner. They know little about computers but are definitely in contact with an alien race. There is no doubt about it. I would wager the entire contents of my home on it. They seek to remain anonymous and do not seek money.
The contacts have included numerous detailed UFO photo opportunities, a face-to-face meeting with Nordic-type aliens in a highly remote woodland clearing, and various abductions by small fawn-colored beings. These contactees have been keen ufologists, active in the field for more than 40 years, out sky watching several times a week in all weathers
One of the witnesses was abducted on Dragon Hill, Wiltshire and taken while holding his camera. Whilst on board he was allowed to obtain images of the alien beings, and other shots, and was returned together with his camera. The other witness even has shots of an unidentified planet, and many space shots showing nebula's, galaxies etc, that even one of the UK's top astronomers was left stunned and in his 21 years of studying the sky, he said had never come across anything like it. The images even rival those taken by the Hubble Space telescope.
I wrote to NASA of course about this. They refused to answer me. The downside to all of this is the witnesss burns and scars left from over exposure to the craft and their environments, together with what are believed to be medical experiments performed on them. The witness claims that he has also fathered children on board the alien craft which he is occasionally invited to go and see. Special thanks to Ken Parsons Researcher and Ufologist. Ken Pfeifer MUFON NJ www.worldufophotos.org
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Government officials believe aliens may visit Earth and suggest harnessing UFO technology for UK defences, files say. By Hannah Furness12:01AM BST 12 Jul 2012
In a 1995 briefing now published by the National Archives, a desk officer said the purpose of reported alien craft sightings needs to be established as a matter of priority, adding there did not appear to be hostile intent.
If the sightings are of devices not of the earth then their purpose needs to be established as a matter of priority. There has been no apparent hostile intent and other possibilities are: 1) Military reconnaissance; 2) Scientific; 3) Tourism.
He added that if reports are taken at face value they showed extraterrestrial vehicles had a very wide range of speeds and are stealthy.
Thus, he suggested, we could use this technology, if it exists.
His briefing document lists possible reasons for UFO sightings, including mass hallucinations, US aircraft, atmospheric events and hoaxes, but indicated none provide a fully convincing explanation.
It adds there are some indications that the reported incidents are only the tip of an iceberg and many people do not wish to risk embarrassment and so do not report sightings.
He also noted that the number of reports of strange objects in the skies increased dramatically after the Second World War, with most sightings coming from farmers, policemen, doctors and lovers.
Most people think that UFOs are a recent phenomena (sic) but they are not, he said. There are reasonably reliable reports of strange objects in the skies dating back hundreds of years.
In 1979, an official briefing written by the MoD in preparation for a House of Lords debate on UFOs questioned why aliens would want to visit the Earth.
An unnamed intelligence officer said it would be prudent to consider the number of stars in the universe, the number which might have inhabitable planets and a list of interesting places in the universe that an intelligent community might wish to visit".
He said: A visit to an insignificant planet (the earth) of an uninteresting star (the sun) would probably not occur more than once in a thousand years or so, even if one assumes that every intelligent community made say 10 launches a year.
Thus, he concluded, claims of thousands of visits in the last decade or so are far too large to be credible.
Papers also show the existence of a "Flying Saucer Working Party" within government during 1950-52.
In 1998, one worried member of staff annotated the file to say: Oh dear! This makes our 'no interest' in [flying saucers] look suspect. I know not now but maybe then."
Dr David Clarke, UFO consultant at the National Archives and university lecturer, said: These files also detail the background to the MoDs decision to release these files to the public in the first place, something I had been campaigning for over several years under the Freedom of Information Act.
"Now they have been released at The National Archives they will provide future generations with a fascinating snapshot of an unexplored aspect of contemporary social history.
I know how disappointed all of you are. I am too. Its not the show that was sold to both myself and scientist Ben [It] does get a bit better further down the road but not a lot. James Fox
James and I both had expectations and (for our own reasons) hopes of an ultimately serious product. We both saw the project heading in a different direction as time went on and were powerless to influence it. Dr. Ben McGee
My last article on this website, Nat Geos Chasing UFOs: Investigation as Farce, roundly criticized the format and content of the new reality series currently being aired on the National Geographic channel. Having meticulously investigated UFO activity at nuclear weapons sites for 39 yearsutilizing declassified U.S. government documents and the testimony of more than 130 military veteransI was appalled by the ridiculous thrashing around in the dark and superficial-to-non-existent analysis by the trio of investigators offered up in the programs first three episodes.
I was/am concerned that public and scientific perceptions about the UFO phenomenon, and those who actually research it, will be very negatively impacted as a result of Chasing UFOs pretend-investigation approach to the subject. God knows there already exists a pervasive perception, at least in some quarters, that there is no there there. Therefore, this crap was the last thing that I, or anyone who wishes to learn the facts about UFOs, needed to see on their TV screens.
Out of a sense of fair play, upon posting the article I emailed one of the shows stars, filmmaker James Foxwhose previous two UFO documentaries I lovedand notified him that I had just publicly trashed him and his current project. To his credit, he took my very harsh but accurate criticism in stride and, in response, subsequently offered some mostly-apologetic commentary on UFO researcher, journalist, and best-selling author Leslie Keans Facebook site:
Shortly thereafter, a second member of the Chasing UFOs trio, Dr. Ben McGee, added his own input. Both comments appear below and, as of this moment, over 40 other individuals have been added their views to the very influential blog.
James Fox said: I know how disappointed all of you are. I am too. It's not the show that was sold to both myself and scientist Ben. Two months into it, we were off to a great start; good locations, solid witnesses and some opportunities for Ben to apply his field research as a geologist at some crash sites. Very exciting stuff. Unfortunately, when we actually got out in the field we began to realize that they were more interested in poking around a night than allocating the time necessary during the day as apparently (so we were told) Americans love watching others sneak around at night from the comfort of their couches. Ben and I reluctantly played along...and it wasn't always bad. We really set up field maps and surveillance at the Roswell crash site (with a slew of high tech gear) and ran out of daylight. As it was in the middle of nowhere we all decided to work through the night and did find something...there were other cases in the show where when witnesses claimed to see strange lights appear in certain areas and that too made some sense for us to go out at night...but for the most part it was gratuitous night time boloney. As far as the title, it was UFO Investigations until they switched it to Chasing UFOs after it was all shot and edited. So with a lack of control in the field and zero in post the show is what it is. Having said that, all my previous works are circulating Nat Geo headquarters and I've been influencing and establishing contacts in the mainstream (middle america mainstream) and will continue to do so and I will only return if I'm on as a producer all the way through to the end. Will it ever be I Know What I Saw or Leslie's great work...? No, but I'll do my best to make is a credible while entertaining as possible (as that's most important to Nat Geo). I promise I'll either quit or change my position within the show because at least I can make it all make some sense. The show does get a bit better further down the road but not a lot. Please bare with me a bit longer as I've jumped into the lions den to see what I could do from the inside. My credibility and reputation has, deservedly, taken a serious hit but know that I'm hoping to come out with an opportunity that otherwise wouldn't have presented itself. Fingers crossed. James
Ben McGee said: Greetings, all - James asked me to chime in as well. When we were brought onboard, the project certainly had a much harder inclination than its final realization, and as a career scientist I was excited that NatGeo was at the helm (unaware of their desire for a major shift in programming flavor). Our intentions were very sincere, and the project working title was even more serious than James remembers: Sightings Investigated. For my own part, while personally unconvinced of any extraterrestrial visitation, I had plans to provide insightful context that I thought viewers of all stripes would appreciate and find engaging - examples of spaceflight technology, astronomy, planetary science - helping anchor the show and explain why the scientific establishment supports the possibility of extraterrestrial life yet is unconvinced of extraterrestrial visitation either now or in the distant past. We filmed much of this content, but as you no doubt noticed, the great majority was ultimately not included. Apparently, such is television. James and I both had expectations and (for our own reasons) hopes of an ultimately serious product. We both saw the project heading in a different direction as time went on and were powerless to influence it. Injecting science into mainstream media is also problematic, and I am suffering heat in my own circles for the lack thereof on the show. I will personally vouch that James's motives were true, and if anyone is interested in the science that we did perform, Im keeping a blog on the NatGeo website (linked below).
My own opinion, expressed in great detail in my first a article on this subject, is that the fix was in from the get-go and neither Fox, McGee nor Erin Ryder (the trios third member) had any real chance of influencing or altering the ridiculous outcome.
Indeed, the Nat Geo networks track record on UFO documenataries speaks for itself. As I wrote in the other article, Over the years I had told several people, only half-jokingly, that if the Nat Geo scripts were not actually written at CIA headquarters, the network was at least making the agency very happy by broadcasting its poorly researched, extremely biased, essentially propagandistic shows on the UFO subject.
Those comments were specifically directed toward Nat Geos other new UFO program, The Truth Behind UFOs: Popped, a true-to-form debunking exerciseonly the latest of manywhich aired the night before the premier of Chasing UFOs. Given the absurd ambiance offered by latter, I suppose I can now add, Not to mention making otherwise serious people who sincerely wish to investigate the phenomenon look like fools.
Newly discovered documents reveal that in the months immediately following the purported 1947 UFO crash at Roswell, secret government studies began on a material that was previously unknown to science. The "memory metal" that was studied precisely matches some of the debris material reported by several witnesses to the crash. Evidence shows that -under military direction- these unique metal studies were undertaken by a contracted laboratory that possessed advanced technical capabilities that the U.S. government itself did not have at the time. A former high-level scientist employed by the involved laboratory has offered a confession that he was tasked to study the crashed UFO material. Information provided by two U.S. Air Force Generals also offers direct support for this discovery.
The documents suggest that after the crash, the US government attempted to develop a unique material that is today referred to as memory metal. This shape-recovery alloy was reported by several witnesses to the Roswell crash in the summer of 1947. The lightweight "morphing" material was able to be crumpled or deformed and then return itself instantly and seamlessly to its original state. The metallurgical discoveries that resulted from these studies were then "seeded" for further technology development to other government agencies (including NASA) and through a series of military contracts to universities and industry.
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The laboratory contracted by Wright Patterson Air Force Base to perform these studies was Battelle Memorial Institute in Columbus, OH. It has been credibly reported that Wright Patterson Air Force Base was the very base where the Roswell UFO debris was flown after the crash.
Recently obtained documents reveal that these studies for Wright Patterson were conducted at Battelle under the direction of Dr. Howard C. Cross. In the late 1940's, H.C Cross was Battelle's expert scientist in exotic metallurgy and Titanium alloy research.
Curiously although he was a research metallurgist- Cross was also Battelles "point person" in later studies on UFOs that Battelle conducted in the early 1950's for the U.S. Air Force's official UFO study, Project Bluebook. Cross is likely an author of Project Bluebook's still-missing Report Number 13. He is also the author of a strange letter from Battelle to Wright Patterson known as "The Pentacle" memo. Dr. Cross' historic role will be detailed in a forthcoming article.
Founded in 1929, Battelle is engaged in research, development and commercialization of technological innovation. They specialize in materials science and engineering, life sciences, energy science and national security. Battelle contract operates many of our country's National Laboratories. This includes some of the U.S.'s most sensitive installations such as Oak Ridge, Lawrence Livermore and Brookhaven laboratories. Battelle is headquartered in proximity to Wright Patterson- and remains one of the nation's leading defense contractors. Their metallurgical capabilities and technical talent continue to be recognized as world-class.
Captivating and credible testimony recently obtained from the elderly widow of a highly-placed U.S. Air Force General reveals that the Roswell crash of 1947 was in fact an extraterrestrial event. Her confession affirms that the true nature of the wreck has been shrouded in secrecy for decades- even from those at the highest levels of government.
Her husband, General Harry Nations Cordes, who possessed Top Secret/SCI clearance, was uniquely positioned to be "in the know" on such matters. Perhaps no other military man in history can lay claim to having been stationed at Roswell Army Air Field in July of 1947; later with Wright Patterson Air Force Base; to have worked at Area 51; been employed by the CIA; to have acted as Deputy Chief of Staff at Intelligence Headquarters for the Strategic Air Command (SAC) and still later to have led many intelligence functions at the Pentagon.
The Cordes story is a telling one- and leaves little doubt that what fell from the skies to the desert floor in New Mexico six decades ago was not from Earth.
The General
Harry Cordes graduated from Emory University in Atlanta, GA and received an MBA from the George Washington University in Washington, DC. Shortly after the outbreak of WWII, duty called and Harry enlisted in the Army Air Force, graduating first in his class at navigation school. There, his love of flying developed and he was accepted for flight training as a pilot. Spanning over four decades, Cordes' career involved him in many historical events. He flew over 25 types of different planes. He flew combat and reconnaissaince missions in Europe, the Pacific, and Vietnam. Gary Powers, who gained global attention during the height of the Cold War, served under Cordes.Cordes was a U-2 pilot and was the first human to fly in a space suit. Cordes saw action in the Bay of Pigs, the Cuban Missille Crisis and the A-Bomb tests at Bikini Atoll. He served at the highest level of decision-making for many of the nation's most confidential matters, including "Star Wars" - the Strategic Defense Initiative.
Time at Roswell
In 1947 Cordes was stationed at Roswell (RAAF) as a Radar Operator. It was there that he met he met Rogene, his future wife. Rogene's father's cattle and sheep ranch was adjacent to the Roswell crash site. It is Rogene Cordes with whom this author has had extensive dialogue over several months. It is Rogene Cordes -the General's widow- who felt compelled in the winter of her life to now tell all about what she and her husband knew about the Roswell crash and its history-making implications.
Their Roswell Story
Both Rogene and Harry were well aware of the crash of a "flying disk" at the time of its occurence in the summer of 1947. As Roswell residents at the time, they read the papers and they personally knew many of the involved principals. But it was not until the 1980s when the Roswell story was brought back into the public eye that they began to discuss the meaning of the event and the truth of what has crashed there. Rogene recounts that she knew her husband knew much about the incident. She too wanted to know what really had happened.
Rogene told me that she used every tool she could to get him to talk. This included what she called "beauty" and "pillow talk" to coax him to reveal more about what he knew about the crash. Harry told her that he was not physically at the base the week of the crash and that he was on travel during that time period. She hints that she did not believe that he told her all that he knew. When she pressed him further he told her, "many of the guys there knew what had really happened. But it was a matter of duty to country to never talk." Finally, after repeated attempts, Harry told her, "I was a radar operator at RAAF as you know. The object was flying and it was unidentified. The machine was tracked by White Sands radar and those folks didn't know what the hell was happening." She pressed further. She said, "Just tell me, was it a balloon?" Harry replied, "It was no balloon. Jesse Marcel told the truth. But if I tell you the details you will never view life the same." He beseeched her to ask no more. But she did. Harry blurted out, "Rogene, if I tell you...I will have to kill you." She thought he was joking. But Harry was not laughing.
Much later Rogene much decided to approach her by-then retired husband on the Roswell matter more assumptively. She asked him directly, "Where do they keep the craft honey, at Area 51?" She knew of course that he had worked at the Nevada Test Site for some time. He told her that it was not stored there. "Maybe at one time it was at Wright Patt, in off-limits area."
Still later Rogene brought up the issue with her husband, remembering that he was in the CIA at one time. She asked him, "What did you learn about the crash when you were at the CIA?" The last thing he would utter on the matter to her was, "When I went to work for the CIA one of the first things that I did was to look for the Roswell file. I know it exists, but it was missing. Either that or they were hiding it from me."
Rogene told me that "I know that he wondered his whole life why there was a coverup- why they would not tell the people."
Though Harry Cordes was sparse in details about Roswell, he would tell her more general stories about UFOs that were encountered during his time in service. He told his family (including both of his daughters) that at one time when he was flying at 70,000 feet (the highest anyone has ever flown up to that time) he had personally witnessed what he said, "could only have been an alien craft."
Rogene's Roswell Secrets
Rogene, born and raised outside Roswell, NM, grew up on a ranch. She was employed at a Roswell bank in the summer of 1947. Rogene knew many of the people in the community whose names today are well-known in relation to the Roswell crash. She spoke cryptically of Butch Blanchard, who was Commander of RAAF at the time of crash, "Butch was a believer." She states that she knew he had told "all the guys involved at the base" (many of whom she and her husband entertained at their home with dinners, card games and BBQ's) to say nothing of the crash event. Whenever she brought up the subject with the "military fellows" she was met with stoney silence. She said to me, "Anyone who wanted to stay in the military simply didn't talk about it! It was their patriotic duty to not say much and to not ask too many questions." She also knew Blanchard's wife at the time, Ethel. She believes that Ethel was emotionally distressed over her husband Butch's involvement in the retrieval- and that it may well have contributed to their eventual divorce.
Rogene lived just a few doors down from Roswell Sheriff George Wilcox and his wife, Inez. Rogene even today does not like to talk about the Wilcox involvement, "George Wilcox and Inez were threatened and were afraid for their own reasons. They really did not want to ever discuss it, not even to talk about it with their friends. George changed after all of that."
Though Rogene is unsure about the totality of the truth of embalmer and undertaker Glenn Dennis' Roswell tales, she said that she went to high school with Glenn. She knew him to be "on the straight and narrow." But one story he told she knows was true. The day after the Roswell crash Rogene was trying to get ice for the soda and beer for the holiday weekend. She made the "usual rounds" for ice, including at Clardy's- the general store in town. She was told that Roswell base personnel had already been in and that "they cleared out all the ice, they bought it all." She then went to the train station, where dry ice could be purchased. To her amazement, she was told that the Roswell base personnel had already been there too and "had bought it all out." Rogene felt that the entire town had it's entire supply of ice and dry ice depleted. This had never happened before or since the crash weekend. Later, when Glenn told about the need for ice to help preserve the bodies from the crash, she "put two and two together."
Most interestingly, Rogene confirms that there were military cordons around surrounding ranch lands to the crash site. With her own eyes she saw "military men with guns at their sides" who would not let people pass. Their paths were diverted away from the area. Later she also overheard talk at the bank "from early-rising ranchers" about long trucks covered in canvas going to the base.
Finally, she explained that she knew Walter Haut well. Haut was the public information officer at the Roswell Army Air Field who issued the story of a "flying disk" that had fallen near Roswell. Rogene believed that the original story issued was the true story. The news story was recanted the following day. She said, "I know Walter finally confessed that it was not from Earth at the end of his life. Walter finally told the truth."
The woman from Roswell -the General's widow- had cleared her conscious. She concluded her conversations with me, "Harry died in 2004. He didn't want to say everything he could have. But I feel better telling what I know. People should know. And now they will. Roswell really happened."
Despite countless claims to the contrary by debunkers, there really is persuasive evidenceboth empirical and anecdotalto confirm the anomalous nature of the UFO phenomenon. Admittedly, one would never know that by watching the Nat Geo networks new reality series Chasing UFOs,whose entertainment-based formula may best be described as Blair Witch Project meets Inspector Clouseau. If the shows producers are not secretly in cahoots with some intelligence agency to make legitimate UFO research look bad, by association, they have certainly achieved that goal inadvertently.
This episode suggests that some alleged alien encounters and UFO sightings may be of beings from Earth's future traveling in time machines, and that these same beings could have posed as ancient aliens in the distant past.
Is it possible that sightings of alien beings or UFOs may actually be evidence of time travelers from the future? And might ancient astronauts actually be time travelers from our future? Scientists explore the theoretical possibility of time travel. How can it be achieved? And what might people from 10,000 years in the future look like?
Roswell UFO Was Not Of This Earth And There Were ET Cadavers: Ex-CIA Agent Says
Happy anniversary, Roswell, N.M. It was 65 years ago today that the Roswell Daily Record blasted an infamous headline claiming local military officials had captured a flying saucer on a nearby ranch. And now, a former CIA agent says it really happened.
"It was not a damn weather balloon -- it was what it was billed when people first reported it," said Chase Brandon, a 35-year CIA veteran. "It was a craft that clearly did not come from this planet, it crashed and I don't doubt for a second that the use of the word 'remains' and 'cadavers' was exactly what people were talking about."
Brandon served as an undercover, covert operations officer in the agency's Clandestine Service for 25 years, where he was assigned missions in international terrorism, counterinsurgency, global narcotics trafficking and weapons smuggling. He spent his final 10 years of CIA service on the director's staff as the agency's first official liaison to the entertainment and publication industries. It was during this time, in the mid-1990s, that he walked into a special section of CIA headquarters in Langley, Va., called the Historical Intelligence Collection.
"It was a vaulted area and not everybody could get in it," Brandon told The Huffington Post. "One day, I was looking around in there and reading some of the titles that were mostly hand-scribbled summations of what was in the boxes. And there was one box that really caught my eye. It had one word on it: Roswell.
"I took the box down, lifted the lid up, rummaged around inside it, put the box back on the shelf and said, 'My god, it really happened!'"
What exactly did the box contain that had such a powerful impact on Brandon?
"Some written material and some photographs, and that's all I will ever say to anybody about the contents of that box," he said. "But it absolutely, for me, was the single validating moment that everything I had believed, and knew that so many other people believed had happened, truly was what occurred,"
None of this comes as a surprise to Stanton T. Friedman, a nuclear-physicist-turned-UFOlogist, who was the original civilian investigator of the Roswell UFO incident.
In the late 1970s, Friedman began to uncover former military eyewitnesses who had been involved with the original events that took place at Roswell in 1947.
Despite the fact that the military changed its story overnight, saying on July 8, 1947 that a flying disk had been captured but claiming on July 9 that a weather balloon had been recovered, Friedman's early investigative efforts prompted many Roswell witnesses to come forward and tell their stories. Numerous researchers have dug up more facts in the years since.
"It's been 65 years since things took place at Roswell," Friedman told HuffPost. "How much more widely known could it be -- everywhere I've spoken in the world, they ask about Roswell."
"What we really need now is the Woodward-Bernstein of the UFO world to bring out the disclosure," said Friedman. "Maybe Chase Brandon is a foresight of something going on.
"It's time for the retirement of the mythical part -- where we don't have all the pieces -- to be replaced by the true story of what happened, all the details, and we certainly don't have them."
Watch this video from a 1989 episode of 'Unsolved Mysteries UFO Files: Roswell.'
Brandon is currently promoting his book, "The Cryptos Conundrum," a science fiction story about the history of Earth, contact with extraterrestrials and imagined cataclysmic events on our planet.
He remains steadfast about the pieces of the Roswell puzzle he's willing to share, and he emphasizes there's no internal CIA policy that prevents him from revealing any details of what he saw in that box at the agency headquarters.
"Nobody tells any of us that we can't say anything about sources, methods, classified information having to do with working for the Central Intelligence Agency," Brandon said. "We all sign a secrecy agreement that says we understand we are forbidden to do that by law, and that is an inherent part of keeping and safeguarding what we do, how we do it, why we do it, out of national security concerns.
"I'm not reluctant to talk about it -- I won't talk about it. I'm telling you there was a box that had stuff in there having to do with Roswell, and I looked through it, and it validated everything I believed in, and that's all I have to say about it. I will go to my grave being mindful of the two hats that I wear: My personal one and the one that will forever reside on my head as a former CIA officer."
"The Columbia Broadcasting System -- CBS was unquestionably the CIA's most valuable broadcasting asset. CBS president William Paley and Allen Dulles enjoyed an easy working and social relationship. Over the years, the network provided cover for CIA employees, including at least one well-known foreign correspondent and several stringers; it supplied outtakes of newsfilm to the CIA; established a formal channel of communication between the Washington bureau chief and the Agency; gave the Agency access to the CBS newsfilm library; and allowed reports by CBS correspondents to the Washington and New York newsrooms to be routinely monitored by the CIA. Once a year during the 1950s and early 1960s, CBS correspondents joined the CIA hierarchy for private dinners and briefings."
The sighting from ALVIN,TX back in 2008 was selected among a few others by NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC'S CHASING UFO as a real sighting and among the best clear daylight shots ever taken.
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