Monthly Statistical MUFON Report - for April 2013: DEEL 1

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

State	Number of Reports
California	47
Texas	40
Florida	28
Arizona	26
Pennsylvania	26
Michigan	26
Ohio	25
New York	18
Illinois	16
North Carolina	16
Alabama	15
Washington	15
Kentucky	14
Missouri	12
Oregon	11
New Jersey	10
Georgia	9
Utah	8
Oklahoma	7
Maine	6
Maryland	6
New Hampshire	6
Indiana	6
Colorado	6
Virginia	5
Massachusetts	5
South Carolina	5
Wisconsin	5
New Mexico	5
Tennessee	5
Minnesota	4
Mississippi	4
Idaho	3
Iowa	3
Connecticut	3
Louisiana	3
Nebraska	2
Nevada	2
West Virginia	2
Montana	2
Arkansas	1
South Dakota	1
Wyoming	1
Kansas	1
Delaware	1

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

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

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

Other interesting data points in CMS during April 2013 are the shape of the UFOs reported which were as follows;

Shape of Object	Number of Reports
Sphere	144
Star-like	97
Circle	85
Triangle	67
Other	65
Disc	64
Unknown	61
Fireball	53
Oval	47
Cylinder	28
Boomerang	20
Flash	19
Cigar	18
Diamond	14
Teardrop	14
Chevron	12
Bullet/Missile	8
Blimp	7
Saturn-like	5
Cross	5
Cone	4
Egg	4

as well as the distance from the observer;

Distance from Witness	Number of Reports
< 100 ft	73
101-500 ft	77
501 ft - 1 Mile	115
Over 1 Mile	134
Unknown	181
NO VALUE	13

Most impressively there were 16 Landings, Hovering, or Takeoffs reported and 1 Entities observed.

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

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

Thank you!

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Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2317156/Airbus-pilot-moment-passenger-plane-came-close-crashing-UFO-flying-Glasgow.html#ixzz2RyAdq6Q1

 Pilot describes moment an Airbus with up to 220 people on board came dangerously close to crashing into 'UFO' as it came in to land

• Plane narrowly avoided the 'blue and yellow' object at 3,500ft
• Drama happened 13 miles outside Glasgow Airport
• Nothing else was noticed on the radar at the time
• Object passed beneath the plane before crew could avoid it

By Rob Cooper

PUBLISHED: 14:19 GMT, 30 April 2013 | UPDATED: 15:15 GMT, 30 April 2013

A passenger plane came within 300 feet of crashing into a 'UFO' flying over Glasgow, an official investigation has found.

The plane was less than 10 seconds away from hitting the object as it flew over Baillieston on the outskirts of Glasgow at 3,500ft and prepared to land.

Despite an extensive investigation, the UK Airprox Board - which investigates reports of near misses - was unable to identify the 'blue and yellow' object which passed below the Airbus 320.

Near miss: The Airbus A320 was under 10 seconds away from hitting the unidentified flying object as it approached Glasgow Airport = foto 1

The pilot was clearly shocked and reported that there had been a 'high' risk of collision following the incident on December 2 last year.

He told his control tower: 'We just had something pass underneath us quite close. Have you got anything on in our area.'

They replied: 'Negative. We’ve got nothing on radar and we’re not talking to any traffic either'

The unidentified flying object passed directly beneath the plane before either of the crew had a chance to take action to avoid it.

Both pilots described the object as 'blue and yellow (or silver) in colour with a small frontal area but that it was "bigger than a balloon".'

The airline involved has not been identified by the report authors.

Several companies fly in Airbus 320 planes from the airport and they can seat up to 220 people - although the number of seats varies.

Approach: The plane was 13 miles away from Glasgow Airport (pictured) when it came within seconds of colliding with the unidentified object = foto2

The report authors said they had not been able to work out what the object was.

They wrote: 'The controller stated that he was not talking to anyone else in that area and that nothing was seen on radar. Search action was taken with no result and the A320 pilot stated his intention to file an Airprox.

'Additionally, a further detailed review of individual radar sources did not yield any conclusive radar data that matched the A320 pilot's description of the encounter.

Near miss: A diagram in the report which shows the pilot's direction of travel and the unidentified object which is marked as 'CPA 1246' = foto 3

PILOT REPORTS 'UFO' AS HE LANDS AT GLASGOW AIRPORT

This is a transcript of what the A320 pilot told the control tower.

A320: 'Glasgow Approach [A320 C/S]'

Air Traffic Control: '[A320 C/S] pass your message'

A320: 'Er yeah we just had something pass underneath us quite close and nothing on TCAS have you got anything on in our area'

Control: 'Er negative er we’ve got nothing on er radar and we’re n-not talking to any traffic either'

A320: 'Er not quite sure what it was but it definitely er quite large and it’s blue and yellow'

Control: 'OK that’s understood er do you have a an estimate for the height'

A320: 'Maybe er yeah we were probably about erm four hundred to five hundred feet above it so it’s probably about three and a half thousand feet.

'…we seemed to only miss it by a couple of hundred feet it went directly beneath us … wherever we were when we called it in it was within about ten seconds

'… couldn’t tell what direction it was going but it went right underneath us”'

Control: 'do you suspect it might have been a glider or something like that'

A320: 'well maybe a microlight … it just looked too big for a balloon.”

'The Air Traffic Control unit's own radar replay also showed no surveillance traces in the immediate vicinity of the A320 at the time.'

Once on the ground the A320 pilot gave a further description of the event to the Glasgow Aerodrome Controller.

The pilot said: 'We seemed to only miss it by a couple of hundred feet it went directly beneath us - wherever we were when we called it in it was within about ten seconds; couldn't tell what direction it was going but it went right underneath us.'

Asked if he thought it was a glider, the pilot replied: 'well maybe a microlight - it just looked too big for a balloon.'

But the board ruled out any such aircraft and were baffled.

'The board initially considered likely candidates for the untraced aircraft. The A320 crew had not been able to assimilate any information regarding the form of the untraced aircraft in the fleeting glimpse they had, reporting only a likely colour,' it said.

'Members were of the opinion that, in the absence of a primary radar return, it was unlikely that the untraced aircraft was a fixed-wing or rotary-wing aircraft or man-carrying balloon.

'It was considered that a meteorological balloon would be radar significant and unlikely to be released in the area of the Airprox.

'A glider could not be discounted but it was felt unlikely that one would be operating in that area, both due to the constrained airspace and the lack of thermal activity due to the low temperature.

'Similarly, The board considered that a hang-glider or para-motor would be radar significant and that conditions precluded them, as they did para-gliders or parascenders.

'Members were unable to reach a conclusion as to a likely candidate for the conflicting aircraft and it was therefore felt that the Board had insufficient information to determine a cause or risk.'

giuliano.marinkovic@yahoo.co.uk

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Special Reports

Two Earth-like Exoplanets Found

Astronomers Anticipate 100 Billion Earth-Like Planets

NASA’s Kepler mission has discovered a 5-planet system that includes a hot Mars and four super-Earths, two of which might host liquid water. These aren’t quite the Earth-like exoplanets Kepler’s been looking for, but they’re close.

An artist imagines what the Kepler-62 system might look like. The small shining object seen to the right of Kepler-62f is Kepler-62e. Orbiting on the inner edge of the habitable zone, Kepler-62e is roughly 60 percent larger than Earth.

NASA Ames / JPL-Caltech

In a system 1,200 light-years away, five small planets whizz around an orange star about two-thirds the size of our Sun. One of them is a hot Mars, a planet half the size of Earth that whips around the star every 12.4 days. Another two are hot super-Earths, completing orbits every 5.7 days and 18.2 days. But the final two are the ones that capture the imagination: half again the size of Earth and orbiting in the star’s habitable zone, these worlds could be the pale blue dots we’ve been looking for.

Eric Agol, a University of Washington associate professor of astronomy, has identified Kepler 62f, a small, probably rocky planet orbiting a sun like star in the Lyra constellation. The planet is about 1.4 times the size of Earth, receives about half as much heat and radiation, as Earth and circles its star in 267.3 (Earth) days. It’s one of two “super Earth planets discovered in the star Kepler 62′s habitable zone, that swath of space the right distance from the star to potentially allow liquid water to exist on a planet’s surface, thus giving life a chance. A super-Earth is a planet greater in mass than our own but still smaller than gas giants such as Neptune.

Kepler 62′s other super-Earth, nearby 62e, is 1.61 times Earth’s size, circles the star in 122.4 days and gets about 20 percent more stellar flux than the Earth. The two are the smallest exoplanets — planets outside the solar system — yet found in a host star’s habitable zone.

Eric Agol says, “The planets this small that we have found until now have been very close to their stars and much too hot to be possibly habitable. This is the first one Kepler has found in the habitable zone that satisfies this small size.”  “Kepler 62f is the smallest size and the most promising distance from its star, which by these measures makes it the most similar exoplanet to Earth that has been found by Kepler.” Agol said,

While the sizes of Kepler 62e and 62f are known, Agol said, their mass and densities are not — but every planet found in their size range so far has been rocky, like Earth.

Thanks to NASA http://www.washington.edu/news/2013/04/18/

"We Now Have the Technology to Take ET Home"

Jan Harzan the California assistant state director for the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) recounts his attending a1993, Ben Rich Lecture of the former president of the Lockheed-Martin “Skunkworks” in Palmdale, California.

During the UCLA Alumni association lecture Ben Rich who is known as the "Father of Stealth," and is recognized as one of the world’s best aircraft engineers led development of the heralded F-117 stealth stated, “Lockheed-Martin then had the technology to travel to the stars — using an entirely new technology not dependent on rockets and chemical propellants.” He stated that, “It would not take years to travel to other planets, some UFOs, are theirs and that some of them are ours.”

Ben showed slides and went through the history of the Skunkworks, the U2, and SR-71 and showed a black disk headed for space stating, "We now have the technology to take ET home".  During a Q&A, he stated, “It was now possible to travel to the stars.  There was an error in the
equations which was corrected.  The time of travel is fast, but he didn't say how fast.
http://www.renseradioarchives.com/ Filer and Harzan

Alien Spaceship in Russia

Anfalov Anton, PhD writes an open letter in Russian and this translation may not be completely accurate.

To Coordinator "Kosmopoisk", Chairman of the Union of Russian UFO-BA Shurinovu,

To all ufologists:”There is a multi-year cover-up of alien spaceships in the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation (one) and United States of America (three)”

Dear Vadim!

“Back in the 1990s there was a little known, a military base near the town of Odintsovo in the Moscow region where the military and intelligence agencies have covered-up the investigation of the captured alien spacecraft. Odincovo let slip this data in a telephone conversation with me in the mid-to late 1990s. You and your colleagues have taken virtually no tangible and concrete actions or a detailed study and the final publication of this important data for the whole of Russia and the world of ufology.”

KGB released photo of possible alien craft

My colleagues and I will put an end to your cynical criminal silence and inaction after years of hiding the truth about the alien ship. We are also aware of the three alien disks seized in the United States (two-discs in Arizona in May 1953 and another one in California in the summer 1967) and stored since the 1970s and still in the underground base at Area 12, Rainier Mesa, a Nuclear test site in Nevada.

With regard to the current Russian cover-up since the mid-1980s, an alien disk-UAV is in an underground bunker base at SRF-10-Odincovo that is now closed. This is the only extraterrestrial aircraft in storage and under study in the former Soviet Union and now Russia. Information about other alleged crashes is false. I’m fully aware of the fact that after the publication of this information on the alien disk will likely cause it to be transported to a more distant place in the Urals. Concealment continues in secret from most of the leading Russian aerospace industry professionals who have the right to know about it!

They are hiding and exploring the unmanned extraterrestrial reconnaissance machine which was discovered and captured in Zagorsk region of Moscow, near the village of Nikulskoe and the arsenal at the landfill by engineering troops back in 1979, after falling into the gorge near power lines, for the "Blue" zone defense of Moscow.

Contrary to popular belief, this craft was NOT hit by a missile, and the disc did not shoot anybody, he fell himself as a result of a domestic accidents. The above is confirmed by numerous witnesses. In particular, corporal Krupin Viktor, who served with the MAS technician in the protection of Zhukovsky in the period 1981-1983. In 1982, I personally talked to the officer, who secretly photographed the rescue disk at the crash site on his personal camera. A cordon of soldiers stood near the 1263rd Engineering Corps arsenal Arsaki. KGB and Soviet Interior Ministry personnel cordoned off the crash site for a rescue disk. The disc was studied in the workshop of NIICHIMMASH (Research Institute of Chemical Engineering) http://readings.gmik.ru/lecture/2002-NIIHIMMASH

It passed the preliminary examination by experts in various fields at TSNIIMV (Central Research Institute of Materials), now-NPO "Composite." http://www.roscosmos.ru/main.php?id=37&pid=36

 In the mid-1980s, after the full range of research and the weight of failed attempts to open the drive enclosure at the time of equipment in the USSR - the disc was hidden in a much more secure and isolated place. The alien disk was placed inside a new bunker underground room in 1986 or 1987 connected to the main building thru a tunnel in the southeastern part of the military base Odincovo of Vlasikha.

Scientists from different research institutions, including and from the NGO "Composite were brought to the bunker periodically mainly materials science.

The diameter of the disc is a small, 6-7 (max -8) meters, unmanned. Dome top and bottom - a small projection and 3 supports. Unfortunately the disc has not opened, and researchers do not have access to the interior and the equipment inside the drone has not been removed. Numerous methods were tried and extreme means were rejected in order to avoid the danger of destruction of the disc. Therefore, there has not been a special introduction of alien technology. The Americans with those things are better, because they have access to the inside of the two captured alien discs.

The U.S. has three alien-discs tucked away at the underground base at Area 12 near Rainier Mesa, Nevada Test Site. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainier_Mesa/ In the summer disc was seized in the summer of 1967 just north of Edwards Air Force Base where it was originally, and hid in a hangar.

In Area 51 (Groom Lake) there are no aliens at all. The base-12 in the area is in the foothills - spur of Rainier Mesa and is much better equipped with the latest technology and well-financed from the "Black Budget" of the U.S. with the direct participation of the Lockheed corporation, CIA, U.S. Department of Energy, and NSA and other secret government military and the U.S. intelligence community. There is a super-secret lab there with an alien spaceship. Rainier Mesa is one of four major nuclear test regions within the Nevada National Security Site (NNSS) shown here.

To sum up, I note the reality of the extraterrestrial civilizations with conclusive tangible evidence - not just at Area 12 in the Nevada nuclear test site in the United States, but some specialists now SIC RKT , TSNIIMV (now NPO "Composite"), some soldiers and members of the Strategic Missile Forces Base Odintsovo-10 (Vlasikha). Employees of the former KGB and current FSB, hiding and studying for many years captured alien disc.

The US has three alien discs with participation of corporations "Lockheed", "Monsanto", "North American", "Konv"yr", "Boeing Phantom Works" and many others. The list of companies and organizations involved in the United States is very long (Indian Head Division-Navy DOD Center for Energetics, Maryland; North American Air Force Plant No. 85 - Columbus, Ohio - Naval facility); and more, Etc.

America has eight bodies of aliens while the Russians have only one disk-drone.

I propose on behalf of the "Kosmopoisk" and UFO-Russia Union with a proposal to the higher authorities of the Russian Federation - to address a proposal to the leadership of the United States of America - the joint and simultaneous removal of declassification and on a review of the world community in the Russian Federation and the United States. SNIP

Thanks to Professor Anfalov Anton, PhD,  ARIANA coordinator of the association (Association of research and development in the field of anomalous artifacts and Unidentified)

helek05@mail.ru

Ancient Maps Hint at Aerial Surveys

There are a series of ancient maps that have turned up at various places around the world such as in China and Turkey that suggest the Earth once held an advanced civilization or that we had been visited by extraterrestrials. Scholars have been able to dismiss most of the evidence has mere myth, but some evidence cannot be dismissed and should be examined with an open mind.

For example, The Piri Re’ Map dated from 1513 Turkey was only rediscovered in 1929, but its authenticity, has been established. The pre-modern world map compiled in 1513 from military intelligence by the Ottoman admiral and cartographer Piri Reis. It shows the coasts of Africa and South America as well as an essentially mountainous Antarctica without the layer of ice that now exists. We also know that Navy personnel who also make maps realized the map these ancient maps had to have been compiled by their kind of people dedicated people.

Navy experts believe the ancient maps were the result of aerial surveys. It's unlikely they had satellite style surveillance, but may have used something along the lines of operations conducted from prehistoric aircraft carriers! They also recognized ancient space travelers might have been responsible. Knowing the correct shape of Antarctica without an ice covering suggests time travel, or penetrating radar and aerial reconnaissance in the ancient past.

UK’s Monuments to Space Ships

Throughout England there are archeological structures carved in the soil that have a similar cylinder shape to UFOs and size and are known as a cursus. They are called cursus because they thought they were race tracks. Cursus was a name given by early British archaeologists to the large parallel lengths of banks with external ditches which they thought were early Roman athletic courses, hence the Latin name cursus, meaning "course". Cursus monuments are now understood to be Neolithic structures and represent some of the oldest prehistoric monumental structures of the British Isles http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cursus - cite_note-0 some 3500 years old and built before the circular Stonehenge. Many are over a mile long and the distance between the dug parallel earthworks (shown here) can be up to 100 meters that consists of a bank with an external ditch. They are often aligned next to pre-existing long barrows or prehistoric earth mounds used to bury the dead.

The Cursus monuments are often built over rough terrain crossing streams or valleys. Cursuses became a subject of study when many of them were discovered through aerial photography, and curiosity was piqued as to what their purpose might be. Finds of arrowheads at the terminal ends suggest archery and hunting were important to the builders. It has been conjectured that Cursus were used in rituals connected with ancestor worship, and that they follow astronomical alignments.

It is my theory the Cursus were built over rough terrain as to mark the position of the huge alien Motherships like the one I chased while in the US Air Force. The Cursus may outline the craft’s landing field. The cylinder shape and size match the monuments on the ground as well as the long burrows. Thousands of man hours of work were needed to build the outline to imitate the Motherships who often launch disc shaped craft. Stonehenge which was built later and hundreds of other stone and timber circles could imitate the discs. 

NASA satellite photo of cylinder Mothership from space over the Atlantic Ocean.

http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=1490

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Filer's Files #17 2013 - Citizen Hearing on Disclosure (Apr 29 to May 3rd), Alien Spaceship in Russia - DEEL 2

Sightings in the United States

 Arizona Lights

  Yavapai desert -- I live within 15 miles SW of Seligman, Arizona and heard a noise under my trailer on September 10, 2011 at 7:45 PM. I thought it was an animal, so I grabbed my rifle and walked to the front of my trailer. I held my rifle in a position to shoot and saw a large flying object that appeared to be on fire.  I lowered my rifle and watched this object fly by in slow motion. It was disc shaped with blue, green, orange, and yellow flames on the top with a tail.

I thought if it crashed it would be a very bad explosion but I didn’t hear anything. This object was very quiet and low, so I grabbed my camera and started taking photos.

The next morning my friend called me and said, “A ufo had been seen in Arizona, Nevada, and California.” I noticed little red spots in the photos and so enlarged them; to my surprise I captured many lights that looked like the uss Enterprise. It flew over the mountains going toward Seligman. Thanks to MUFON CMS

California Disc

 Santa Rosa -- I was just pulling into my driveway, when I noticed this bright light to my left. I took my cell phone and snapped these photos on December 10, 2010. The light was traveling pretty fast and heading northwest. I got out of my car and walked to the right side of my garage (see photo) to my walkway and I looked up to see if I could see it and it was gone. I would say all in a matter of a few minutes it flew across the sky.  Please let me know when you get these photos and what you think?

Note: The moon was not visible at the time of the sighting. I also don’t believe it was the Space Station because of the direction of travel (northwest) and the size. Thanks to William Puckett, Director http://www.UFOsnw.com

la grange -- While approaching the entrance to Fleming Meadows recreation entrance at Bond’s Flat Road for a typical day of work I saw two large window panels reflecting sunlight from the rear of it on September 12, 2013. I could not take my eyes off of it as it was so blinding me. It was so bright it made me pull my truck off the road. The reflections giving off the light were reflecting the sun that was just coming up to the east over lake Don Pedro. It like a flying submarine and shaped like a bottle rather than any winged plane. It was panning left to right, moving up then down, slightly panning left to right so slowly it was bizarre to see its movement unlike any aircraft I have ever seen.  I knew I was finally witnessing my first UFO and I was excited and trying to get my cell phone to turn on to snap shots. My iPhone was acting up and would not function. I could not even get my Ford Flex system to turn on the Bluetooth to make an emergency call. So I just anxiously continued to watch, I even started to cry a little and asked it to not go away. Please come back, but it did not listen to me.

I was able to make out what was described as a dark coal-colored wine bottle shaped cylindrical object moving slowly before disappearing to the southwest quickly. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Florida Beam

BUNNEL -- This slanted beam of light is on our Moultrie m880 tree cam on April 20, 2013. It was 4 am, and there is nothing that could have reflected light around there.

You can see the times on the cam. Something had to trigger the cam also to start taking photos on our private camp off any highway with nothing but pine trees around.

Thanks to MUFON CMS

Illinois Plane

My nephew’s wife saw a large military plane hover for about three minutes making no sound on April 22, 2013.

She had her cell phone and took a picture. She said it looked big and had six engines.... two pointing down.

Again it was silent. She went inside for a minute came out and it had gone. Thanks to MUFON CMS

New Jersey Lights

MILLVILLE -- My husband saw something in the sky in the backyard on April 5, 2013. He saw orange red lights above the neighbor’s shed.

 It passed over our house and looked like a wing when it passed over and covered the stars in the background behind it. I’m not sure what we saw, but by the time we got to the front of the house it was in the distance and disappeared. During the whole time we saw the flying object there was NO sound. Thanks to MUFON CMS

 Edison -- The picture was snapped on April 6, 2013, of a contrail above the area. Of course one could only speculate as to whether the contrail was caused by a stealth aircraft involved in some sort of covert encounter with the UFO.

I am only happy that I could actually take this photograph, and thus provide some sort of proof that this really happened.
Encouraged by friends, I decided to share this with websites such as your own. In case you have some explanation to share, I’ll be glad to hear your opinion.

Note: The anomalous lights in the photo are quite likely a lens flare and are not real objects.

Thanks to William Puckett, Director http://www.UFOsnw.com

Mississippi Golf Ball

I walked out my front door around 10 PM, on April 15, 2013, and walked down the driveway and turned around at the house and witnessed a golf ball shape very bright gold glowing orb over my house. It slowly rose up about 25 feet from the ground and paused for about two minutes and flew west very slowly. I thought it was some kind of bug but I knew it wasn’t.

I was about 30 feet from the orb that about 40 feet northwest, blinked three and then disappeared. I saw the same situation happen when I was a child. But the orb was only 10 feet above the ground. It sat there for a few minutes then shot off upwards into the sky really fast. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Ohio Disc

DAYTON – While watching my 5 PM news program, one of our reporters was outside reporting about our Fertilizer Storage Plants. In the background there was a UFO the kind that is round with the little tip sticking out on top and a little round silver ball looking thing that was real weird like heat was on the street around it. This was on our Channel 7 CBS, Dayton, Ohio.

Note: Anyone who knows if the TV footage of the April 18, 2013, 5 PM News Program of Channel 7 CBS TV station is available, please file a report. Thanks to William Puckett, Director http://www.UFOsnw.com

CLEVELAND – I saw a massive glowing orb through my night vision camera on April 21, 2013.

I was able to video record and watched as it picked up speed - accelerated and vanished into space.

I recorded from my backyard about 9:59 PM.

Thanks to MUFON CMS

Oregon Figure

Cannon Beach -- My boys and I were staying at the Schooner Inn on April 13, 2013, enjoying a bonfire on the beach. About 10:30 PM my oldest boy (13 years) noticed, and pointed out there was a figure illuminated and glowing that was traveling either along the shoreline in front of our hotel or out in the water. I caught site of it as it traveled past us and continued on down the beach. It made a sharp right angle turn onto the beach and continued on until it disappeared in the line of houses.

It appeared as a glowing human in form. Also remarkable was that it was traveling at perhaps 25 MPH and not bobbing up and down as you would expect a runner to be. There were others in our hotel standing on their decks and pointing. Another couple came out and said they had seen it as well. We saw no indication that it was a beam of light. It was going too fast and too steady with its whole form a glowing white light. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Texas Disc

 Llano -- I took a picture two years ago and it keeps haunting me because of what turned up in when I reviewed the picture days later on September 18, 2011. First off, I completely believe we are not alone in this universe.

I was out hunting with my friends and because there was no action that day we decided to go out by the pond and do some skeet shooting. I take lots of pictures so this event was something I wanted to capture for my memory book. When I reviewed the pictures after I got home one caught my eye and I could have sworn there is a huge flying disk in the sky and it freaked me out because it looks so real. I did not see it in the sky at the time I took the picture and it does not appear in any of the other pictures I took at that location. I have not tampered with it in anyway. I wanted to submit the picture to you guys for review. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Virginia White Lights on Unique Object

Richmond – I dropped my husband off at the Richmond Airport and I was returning home on March 1, 2013. I just left the airport and was driving on Richmond Airport Connector Road when I saw what I thought was airplane light. It was too early in the morning for a plane to be flying.

As I continued to watch the plane I figured it was a private jet servicing one of the companies in the area. As I watched the object it stopped, and a bright light was shining down. So now I figured that the object must be police and they were looking for something.

As I came up on the object, now on my right side, I noticed that it was an object that I had never seen. It was hovering over the trees, but there was no sound and the trees did not move. The object was a round cylinder; the inside was hollow except for two cylinders that went thru the middle. Half way thru these two cylinders split and made a "V" shape. I was near the object for about a minute, and then the object took off to the northeast.

((NUFORC Note: We spoke to the witness who was quite sincere. Her description of the object was so precise and objective; we suspect that she is a very good witness. PD)) Thanks to Peter Davenport, Director National UFO Reporting Center http://www.UFOcenter.com

Washington Hovering Object

Graham 1 -- I was driving from the store and I remember seeing the lights a week ago on April 16, 2013. A couple nights ago it wasn’t there.

I thought it was an airplane, but it was NOT moving when I drove past it. The UFO was hovering about 150 feet in the air over trees that are at least 100 feet high. The thing had two or three lights making it impossible to miss. It looked like a future helicopter from a war movie with two engines making it hover.

When I noticed it wasn’t a plane, I couldn’t stop staring at it. My grandma was also freaking out so it wasn’t just me. I drove down my road to my house with the trees covering the sight of it. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Worldwide UFO Sightings

 Argentina Orb

Photographing the sky I saw this foreign object that would seem to be an unknown vessel above northwest Argentina.

I saw it from 12 noon until 16:00 hours in the south on April 18, 2013. Maybe there were two-still in the sky.

Nobody else seems to see them? Thanks to MUFON CMS

Australia Oval

Logan – A black object was seen near a flock of birds looking like floating paper but was too big and then proceeded to move straight and fast on April 9, 2013, at 4:14 PM. This strange shape was around a flock of birds and I noticed it was bigger than the birds. The object seemed to move left to right as if it were a big plastic bag moving through the sky. But then it moved in a straight line and moved quicker.

It was oval in shape but had an indent on the side. The object was about three times the size of one of the birds in the flock nearby. The object was black as seen under a blue afternoon sky. The object headed east from the sighting area. Thanks to Peter Davenport, Director National UFO Reporting Center http://www.UFOcenter.com

Canada Disc

BRITISH COLUMBIA -- I was walking home with a friend and the bright orange light caught our attention on April 20, 2013. I was curious at first then quickly realized this was not normal. It moved vary slow laterally then picked up speed moving up and then down then disappeared. It lasted about a minute and a half. The light was larger than any light that would have been on a plane or helicopter, and the wrong color. We are past Chinese New Year, so I don't think it was a lantern since it was too big and too high. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Hungary Light

Kecskemét – On April 16, 2013, my girlfriend and I watched out the roof-window while the light lit up very brightly on the evening deep blue faded sky. We thought it was a meteorite of some kind, because the light was like a strong welder from a distance. It traveled exceptionally slowly to the southeast without blinking, but the shape of the light was oval. Since the roof top window is inset the observation lasted only for seconds just before the light moved out of our eye sight.

I instantly ran to the other window but I was unable to find the lightning anymore, however by looking at the speed and trajectory, it should be visible for a long while, but it was gone.

I pointed to the sky showing my girlfriend an airplane crossing this trajectory, even higher it was so faded and the blinking lights, and also the long trail was visible quite clearly. I believe we saw a UFO here. Some years ago I saw one, but nobody except me watched the sky. I was unable to show the others. Strange thing is that it happens and much of the people around us never saw them. It’s almost like most of the people are simply blinded or what. Thanks to MUFON CMS

UK/England Orbs

CROYDON -- I have seen a round object with white blaze coming out taking off from a distance of about three miles on April 8, 2013. Initially I thought it was fireworks, and then realized it’s something unusual. It was taking off and going above me at a 40 degree angle.

I realized it wasn’t fireworks and took my phone out and was able to capture a video of only 21 seconds as my mobile battery got dead. But I saw it go up for further 10-15seconds. I know there is no airport near so it can't be an airplane taking off. It can't be firework as it was going up with relatively less speed and lasted really long.

I did not see it taking off from ground, when I saw it was already 30 to 40 feet above ground and it looked like it was taking off like a flight. I am not sure it was a UFO or not but it was not an airplane, not a toy, not a firework but something unusual. Thanks to MUFON CMS

United Arab Emirates Strange objects above Dubai

Palm Uumeirah – Is an island in Dubai where I live. I was by the beach with a friend and I saw something like 100 small planes moving together in a formation on April 8, 2013, at 11:35 PM. They were flying very close to each other at very high speed. They were green, red, and yellow colors that are planes, but the number was too large, and they were too close to each other. The planes where flying lower than them. They were flying very close to each other and sometimes they go above each other or under.

They were going up but split in different directions till they formed something like a very long irregular line. The security guard also ran to us and saw the whole thing. I tried to film with my insight phone but they were too far away for phone camera to capture them. However, I have a video for the incident. I work as a banker and my friend she is also a banker. The security guard is Egyptian, and my friend is Greek. They then disappeared in the sky, but it lasted for five minutes until they all disappeared. Thanks to Peter Davenport, Director National UFO Reporting Center http://www.UFOcenter.com

Special Events

I’ll be speaking at:

Citizen Hearing on Disclosure

"IF THE CONGRESS WON'T DO ITS JOB, THE PEOPLE WILL."

Citizen Hearing on Disclosure – April 29 to May 3, 2013 – Washington, DC

Stephen Bassett Political Activist

"The Citizen Hearing on Disclosure will attempt to accomplish what the U. S. Congress has failed to do for forty-five years."

Eugene Cernan
Apollo 17 Astronaut Last man on the moon

"I've been asked about UFOs and I've said publicly, I thought they were somebody else, some other civilization."

 Lord Dowding UK Air Chief Marshal
"Of course UFOs are real - and they are interplanetary  ...The cumulative evidence for the existence of UFOs is quite overwhelming and I accept the fact of their existence."

Admiral Lord-Hill Norton UK Chief of Defence

"There is a serious possibility that we are being visited by people from outer space. It behooves us to find out who they are, where they come from, and what they want.”

Vice Admiral  Roscoe Hillenkoetter CIA Director

"It is time for the truth to be brought out... Behind the scenes high-ranking Air Force officers are soberly concerned about the UFOs. But through official secrecy and ridicule, many citizens are led to believe the unknown flying objects are nonsense.... I urge immediate Congressional action to reduce the dangers from secrecy about unidentified flying objects."
 

An event with historical implications will be held at the National Press Club in Washington, DC from April 29 to May 3, 2013.  At that time as many as forty researchers and military/agency witnesses will testify for thirty hours over five days before former members of the United States Congress.

The Hearing Committee is presently composed of Senator Mike Gravel (Dem/Lib, AK), Congresswomen Darlene Hooley (Dem, OR), Carolyn Kilpatrick, (Dem, MI), Lynn Woolsey (Dem, CA) and Congressman Merrill Cook (Rep, UT). One Additional Committee members may be added.

The Citizen Hearing on Disclosure of an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race will attempt to accomplish what the Congress has failed to do for forty-five years - seek out the facts surrounding the most important issue of this or any other time. For this reason the motto for the Citizen Hearing on Disclosure is "If the Congress will not do its job, the people will."

Reflecting the global implications of the issue, the entire CHD will be live streamed worldwide in English, Spanish, Arabic, Hindi, Japanese and Mandarin.  This represents half of the world's population. The live webcast will also include side press conferences with witnesses as well as interviews by former CNN News Anchor Cheryl Jones. Access to these webcasts is available via subscription here.

The Citizen Hearing on Disclosure will be filmed as the basis for a forthcoming documentary- Truth Embargo - by Just Cause Entertainment.

This video, which provides a conceptual frame for the Citizen Hearing on Disclosure, is available in the following languages: Japanese,  Chinese, French, German, Spanish.

Time lapse footage provided by "Earth Time lapse, Amazon HD"   www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkfZUtnWVyA and NASA.

See more videos relating to the Citizen Hearing on Disclosure at the  CHD YouTube Channel

John Podesta Clinton Presidential Advisor and Chief of Staff
"It's time to open the books on questions that have remained in the dark, questions of government investigations of UFOs.  We ought to do it because the American people quite frankly CAN handle the truth.  And we ought to do it because it's the law."

"UFO's are as real as the airplanes flying overhead." Paul Hellyer
Canadian Defence Minister

"It is now time to put away this embargo of truth about the alien presence."
Dr. Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 Astronaut

www.MUFONsymposium.com

Screening of Sirius Documentary
May 9, 2013
The Paramount Theater
215 East Main (Downtown Mall)
Charlottesville VA
Information: http://siriusdisclosure.com/

CONTACT in the DESERT
9-11 August 2013
Joshua Tree Retreat Center
Information: http://contactinthedesert.net/

Gary Heseltine UFO Truth Magazine

I have retired from the police and I am launching a new online 84 page color bi-monthly magazine called UFO Truth Magazine. 

The first issue is due out at the end of June. I've attached some promotional material.

I've attached my mission statement which basically states that this magazine is for all those people who believe that ET is engaging the Earth now. Clear and simple.

I've got a great line up of international and UK researchers to act as regular columnists. 

The magazine website is now up and running and a free 9 page sample can be downloaded from there.

www.ufotruthmagazine.com

Jeff Rense Radio

 George Filer appears on the Jeff Rense Radio Program on the first Tuesday of each month at 10 PM Eastern, http://www.renseradio.com/scheduleA.htm

UFO Conferences

Support Earth Changing Research

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

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

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

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This week A.J. Gevaerd reports on the Brazilian Ministry of Defense sitting down with UFO researchers to discuss UFOs! Then, Diane Tessman writes about Jupiter's moon Io the volcanic caldron of life. Next, Pat Regan discusses saint George's Day and slaying dragons. According to Scott Corrales Puerto Rico is overrun with chupacabrias. Roger Marsh reports on MUFON cases near Cape Fear River, plus ET visits and massive vortexes. Alfred Lambremont Webre asks how obama fulfills the 'deceiver' archetype? Philip Mantle announces a new magazine - UFO Today. Lori Carter writes more about the strangeness of Bates County. Alexandra Holzer is back and writing about Mary Magdalene and UFOs. Next, Ed Komarek reports on Reuben Langdon and Steve Bassett concerning upcoming Citizens Hearing and documentary. Doc Verga writes about UFOs in 1947. Dr. Steven Greer's movie Sirius opened on April 22. Finally, Edward Crabtree wonder s if our dreams can jump the events queue? Enjoy Dirk

Brazilian Ministry of Defense establishes communications with UFO researchers by A.J. Gevaerd. For the first time in history a Ministry of Defense of a country has officially invited UFO researchers to discuss the UFO Phenomena, how to handle its investigation and the information it may come from it. The meeting happened last April 18 at the Brazilian Ministry of Defense building, in Brasilia, the Federal Capital, and over 20 people took part of it. More... Also read: Brazilian MoD Discusses UFOs With Ufologists!

Jupiter’s Moon Io: Volcanic Caldron of Life by Diane Tessman. Io, moon of Jupiter, has hundreds of volcanoes; its volcanic activity is 25 times that of Earth. However, there is a huge mystery: Concentrations of Io’s volcanic activity are not where they are supposed to be based on models which scientifically predict how Io’s interior is heated. NASA and the European Space Agency admit there is something about Io they do not know, something which makes absolutely no sense in the framework of information they have. More...

Saint George's Day: Slaying dragons or killing the truth? by Pat Regan. Any truly unbiased analysis of historical fact indicates that Saint George's Day is nothing more than a bogus Christian celebration, based on much earlier indigenous Pagan tradition. Shrewd early Church promoters of the foreign eastern Christ cult soon misled the English Nation into believing that the George tradition was theirs alone. Nothing in fact could be further from the truth! More... Also read: April fish and April fools…

Chupacabras - Sudden Impact by Scott Corrales. On Saturday, 20 April 2013, a team of researchers consisting of this author, José Pérez, his wife Ilbis Dominguez, Mr. Luissepi Quiñones, Mr. José A. Martinez, Mr. Anibal Martínez and Mr. Richard Flores reported to the residence of Mr. Fernando Díaz to interview him about the impressive and highly important case which we will endeavor to narrate briefly in this article as follows… More... Also read: The "Ribbon of Holes" in Peru Also read: A New Spree of Chupacabras Attacks in Guayama, Puerto Rico

Cape Fear River Case Featured In MUFON UFO Journal by Roger Marsh. The May MUFON UFO Journal ships to readers worldwide April 25, 2013, with the curious Cape Fear River case from 2008 describing aliens on the ground and the kickoff of the MUFON Radio Show the first Friday in April as Chief of Investigations Steve Hudgeons hosts as the cover stories. More... Also read: Swirling Mass Vortex Opens in Bedroom! Also read: Witness Awakes to find 15 entities in room!

How Does Obama fulfill the "deceiver" archetype? by Alfred Lambremont Webre. IBy the "deceiver" archetype, I refer to inter-personal, social, spiritual and exopolitical archetypes, not to any specific individual. The "deceiver" archetype refers to an archetypal social, spiritual, and exopolitical role that an individual may play in society. Some archetypes such as “Antichrist” and “False Prophet” are archetypes that have been set out in prophetic texts. Hermeneutics is the art of interpreting prophetic texts and hermeneuticists in the recent historical era have attempted to interpret to Revelations to frame Napoleon Bonaparte and Adolph Hitler, respectively, as fulfilling the prophesized archetype of the "Deceiver". More...

UFO Today - The New Digital Magazine by Philip Mantle.As we enjoyed the beauty, I suddenly felt something strange nearby and I turned around to face the east. I couldn’t see anything but I could feel a presence approaching us. I felt very uncomfortable with this and anxious to be somewhere else. I turned to my wife and told her we needed to leave quickly. One look at her face told me she was feeling apprehensive too. More...

The Strangeness Continues in Bates County by Lori Carter.We created this site, not for attention, but we felt we had to let our friends, neighbors, family members and residents of our small town, our county know that there were strange things going on. More...

After-life, Holy Grail, UFOs (VIDEO) by Alexandra Holzer. Mary Magdalene has been associated with the Holy Grail of which many paintings and pictures over centuries have been done with her holding a sacred cup. “He who drinks much, will see God. More...

Avatar's Reuben Is Citizens Hearing Production Partner by Ed Komarek. Reuben Langdon, actor http://www.citizenhearing.org/– director – producer – stuntman http://www.reubenlangdon.com/ is Steve Bassett’s partner for the upcoming Citizens Hearing and documentary. On Reuben’s web page it states. “Although you may not recognize him, you have recently more than likely seen Reuben Langdon in one of the most talked about films of the decade; James Cameron’s Avatar. In addition to stunt doubling the main character, “Jake Sully”, Reuben performed a variety of stunts for various CG and live action characters in the film. While most of his performances used motion capture technology, an art form based on CGI-assisted acting, his face remained unseen, but his tal ent more than evident.” More...

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The Year of 1947 a pivotal time in UFO history by Doc Vega. On a recent meeting with well known researcher, Norio Hayakawa, I was pleased to have shared hours of interesting facts, stories, and evidence that sheds light on perhaps the most provocative subject known to man. The possibility that we have been visited by entities from somewhere else in the universe, or at the very least, not from earth, seems very well assured in reviewing the rich history that New Mexico has in aerial sightings, verification by qualified military observers, and the covert involvement of the US government in numerous secret programs that compel us to accept that there is an alternate reality that defies the official version of the truth! More...

Sirius Premieres Today - Ustream - VOD - DVD by Dirk Vander Ploeg. Today is the long awaited Premier for Sirius. Sirius is a feature length documentary that follows Dr. Steven Greer – an emergency room doctor turned UFO researcher – as he struggles to disclose top secret information about classified energy & propulsion techniques. More... Also read: Mississippi Witness Claims UFO was the size of a golf ball!

Unbidden Preview: Can Our Dreams Jump the Events Queue? by Edward Crabtree. It was a surprise to see John Major, the then Prime Minister of Great Britain, in a shopping mall in Leicester. It was even more of an eyebrow raiser to see that he was there to sign copies of his memoirs which were on sale. This could only mean that he had left office! More...

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Two Promising Places to Live, 1,200 Light-Years From Earth

Astronomers said Thursday that they had found the most Earth-like worlds yet known in the outer cosmos, a pair of planets that appear capable of supporting life and that orbit a star 1,200 light-years from here, in the northern constellation Lyra.

They are the two outermost of five worlds circling a yellowish star slightly smaller and dimmer than our Sun, heretofore anonymous and now destined to be known in the cosmic history books as Kepler 62, after NASA’s Kepler spacecraft, which discovered them. These planets are roughly half again as large as Earth and are presumably balls of rock, perhaps covered by oceans with humid, cloudy skies, although that is at best a highly educated guess.

Nobody will probably ever know if anything lives on these planets, and the odds are that humans will travel there only in their faster-than-light dreams, but the news has sent astronomers into heavenly raptures. William Borucki of NASA’s Ames Research Center, head of the Kepler project, described one of the new worlds as the best site for Life Out There yet found in Kepler’s four-years-and-counting search for other Earths. He treated his team to pizza and beer on his own dime to celebrate the find (this being the age of sequestration). “It’s a big deal,” he said.

Looming brightly in each other’s skies, the two planets circle their star at distances of 37 million and 65 million miles, about as far apart as Mercury and Venus in our solar system. Most significantly, their orbits place them both in the “Goldilocks” zone of lukewarm temperatures suitable for liquid water, the crucial ingredient for Life as We Know It.

Goldilocks would be so jealous.

Previous claims of Goldilocks planets with “just so” orbits snuggled up to red dwarf stars much dimmer and cooler than the Sun have had uncertainties in the size and mass and even the existence of these worlds, said David Charbonneau of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, an exoplanet hunter and member of the Kepler team.

“This is the first planet that ticks both boxes,” Dr. Charbonneau said, speaking of the outermost planet, Kepler 62f. “It’s the right size and the right temperature.” Kepler 62f is 40 percent bigger than Earth and smack in the middle of the habitable zone, with a 267-day year. In an interview, Mr. Borucki called it the best planet Kepler has found.

Its mate, known as Kepler 62e, is slightly larger — 60 percent bigger than Earth — and has a 122-day orbit, placing it on the inner edge of the Goldilocks zone. It is warmer but also probably habitable, astronomers said.

The Kepler 62 system resembles our own solar system, which also has two planets in the habitable zone: Earth — and Mars, which once had water and would still be habitable today if it were more massive and had been able to hang onto its primordial atmosphere.

The Kepler 62 planets continue a string of breakthroughs in the last two decades in which astronomers have gone from detecting the first known planets belonging to other stars, or exoplanets, broiling globs of gas bigger than Jupiter, to being able to discern smaller and smaller more moderate orbs — iceballs like Neptune and, now, bodies only a few times the mass of Earth, known technically as super-Earths. Size matters in planetary affairs because we can’t live under the crushing pressure of gas clouds on a world like Jupiter. Life as We Know It requires solid ground and liquid water — a gentle terrestrial environment, in other words.

Kepler 62’s newfound worlds are not quite small enough to be considered strict replicas of Earth, but the results have strengthened the already strong conviction among astronomers that the galaxy is littered with billions of Earth-size planets, perhaps as many as one per star, and that astronomers will soon find Earth 2.0, as they call it — our lost twin bathing in the rays of an alien sun.

“Kepler and other experiments are finding planets that remind us more and more of home,” said Geoffrey Marcy, a longtime exoplanet hunter at the University of California, Berkeley, and Kepler team member. “It’s an amazing moment in science. We haven’t found Earth 2.0 yet, but we can taste it, smell it, right there on our technological fingertips.”

A team of 60 authors, led by Mr. Borucki, reported the discovery of the Kepler 62 planets on Thursday in an article published online in the journal Science and at a news conference at Ames.

As if that weren’t enough, a group led by Thomas Barclay of Ames and the Bay Area Environmental Research Institute also reported the discovery of a planet 1.7 times as big as Earth hovering on the inner, warmer edge of the Goldilocks zone of Kepler 69, a star almost identical to the Sun, 2,700 light-years distant. At the news conference, Dr. Barclay described the planet as perhaps a “Super-Venus.” The group’s paper was published on Thursday in The Astrophysical Journal.

And in another paper submitted to The Astrophysical Journal, a group led by Lisa Kaltenegger of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, in Heidelberg, Germany, took the first stab at trying to model conditions on the Kepler 62 planets. That is a tough job because the system is too far away for astronomers to measure the masses of these planets, which would allow the densities and compositions of the planets to be pinned down, or to inspect and analyze their atmospheres with telescopes.

Scaling up from the properties of the Earth, Dr. Kaltenegger and her colleagues concluded that both of them were probably ocean worlds with humid, cloudy skies. Any life on them would probably be aquatic, she said, but “it might even be cooler life than we have here. Looking at the oceans, we find a lot of interesting life-forms there.”

Dr. Kaltenegger said she envisioned the pair as a kind of Darwinian test tube and wondered in an e-mail if life would evolve on both worlds and, if so, “Would life evolve ‘the same’ way or would there be very different life?”

“This is huge for the overall life-elsewhere question,” said Sara Seager, a planetary expert at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who was not part of the work.

Alan Boss, a planetary expert at the Carnegie Institution of Washington and a member of the Kepler team, called the new results the capstone of the Kepler mission. “I would argue,” he said in an e-mail, “that if this was all that we learned from Kepler, that the cost of this mission was justified.”

Kepler, launched in March 2009, hunts planets by staring at 150,000 stars in a patch of Milky Way sky, monitoring their brightnesses and looking for blips caused when planets pass in front of their home stars. To date the spacecraft has identified 115 planets and has a list of 2,740 other candidates. (Over all, the world’s astronomers now know of almost 1,000 exoplanets.)

But Kepler, which had its mission extended for four years last spring, is only now coming into its prime. A minimum of three blips is required to register a planet, and so planets like the Earth that take a year to make an orbit are only now coming into view in the Kepler data. Indeed, the new Kepler 62 planets each registered just three transits, as they are called.

But there is a hitch, Dr. Seager and others cautioned. Because the Kepler stars are all so far away — hundreds or thousands of light-years — and the planets we want to find are so small, astronomers will never be quite completely sure what any particular planet is made of or whether anything can or does live there.

In the case of Kepler 62, said Natalie Batalha of San Jose State University, a Kepler scientist, the astronomers had determined the composition of the new planets by comparison to three earlier objects that had similar sizes and turned out to be rocky.

“Mass by association,” Dr. Batalha called it in an e-mail.

Which is fine if all you want is the statistics of the cosmos. As Dr. Seager pointed out, “Kepler was not designed to tell us which planet to go live on, only how common Earth-like planets are.”

This article has been revised to reflect the following correction:

Correction: April 18, 2013

A headline on an earlier version of this article misstated the distance of the newly discovered planets from earth. They are 1,200 light-years away, not 12,000 light-years away.

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