Biased Documentaries by the Media

By Dennis G. Balthaser
2-14-07

     Over the years I have enjoyed having the opportunity to share my UFO research with the public through various venues, such as being involved with many film documentary productions, various TV and radio interviews, writing editorials and doing lectures.

Doing lectures, writing editorials and live radio interviews rank as some of my favorites, because the information being presented can be presented in a manner that doesn’t require editing in most cases, since it’s what I like to call “off the cuff” and live. Radio interviews in particular fall in to this category. Agreed there may be some lively discussion from those that don’t agree with my comments during a live radio broadcast but the results of those discussions can usually be quickly resolved. Editorials sometimes initiate responses in both agreement and disagreement, but usually are also resolvable through communication and correspondence. The best part about doing lectures for me has always been the question and answer session following the lecture, wherein I can judge my lecture by the questions that are asked and the dialog that takes place between the audience and myself. Television interviews particularly if for a news service, can go either way. If it’s a live television broadcast, editing will not be needed and the information as presented is “out there” subject to review later if desired.

Television documentaries being filmed for airing at a later date do not fall into the above categories and have become a real problem over the years due to the editing that takes place after the filming is complete, with no in-put for the final version from those that have been interviewed. This is happening much too frequently. I guess one could assume that any coverage is good, but that is not the case in many documentaries I’ve been involved with. Perhaps I don’t know enough about TV show ratings and bottom line profits to fully understand why this is happening all too often. There appears to be an agenda and motive to deliberately produce shows that are biased, on the edge of propaganda and misinformation, for a reason other than disclosing the truth or at least showing respect for those of us that have dedicated our lives and financial resources to finding that truth. Debunkers and critics are an essential part of this research to help us all find the answers, unfortunately the debunkers very seldom come up with new information and many times are given credit in these documentaries for having all the answers. The people responsible for editing documentaries as well as the film crews themselves, many times have no knowledge of the information their preparing for consumption by the general public. They haven’t done their homework and lead you to believe that they’re after the facts and the truth only to find out the story line and conclusion when a show is aired is far from either. The multi-million dollar networks want our years of research for free, consuming many hours of our time to misrepresent us in their final product. That has to stop. I can honestly say that of the several hundred interviews I have done over the years, only a handful were factual and presented the information in a balanced way that the public deserves.

The ABC-TV special with Peter Jennings in 2005 was a good example. The show was heavily promoted as being the truth, which it was for the first few minutes and then went “south” like many other shows and documentaries have, with assumptions and claims that were totally false, allowing too much air time for the debunkers which didn’t permit the information to be shown in a fair and balanced manner.

Sometimes you expect these type results from certain national media networks, because you know their track record from previous documentaries they produced. There are other networks that you expect a more balanced view from, and those can disappoint you also as the National Geographic channel did recently in a show about “The Real Roswell”, which first aired in January 2007.

Last summer I filmed with them here in Roswell for about 6 hours and not once during that time was I told by the film crew that the National Geographic special would obviously have an agenda that would be extremely biased by the time the one hour show ended after the editing was completed. I was also contacted several times by email and telephone requesting additional factual information about the Roswell Incident while the documentary was being prepared. I had a lot of airtime on the show and those that responded to me after viewing the show indicated that I came across honestly and sincerely in my comments that were used. I was thankful for that, but very disappointed with the overall show and factual information unfairly presented.

As examples, at one point in the show they referred to General Roger Ramey, the head of 8th Air Force in Ft Worth as the base commander at Roswell Army Airfield in 1947, when in fact the base commander was Col Blanchard. The Mogul balloon theory, particularly Flight 4, which researcher David Rudiak has proven could not have possibly landed on the ranch was the final word for the documentary, totally ignoring the fact that Russia did no nuclear testing until 1949 (2 years after the Roswell Incident), which was what the Mogul balloon was supposed to detect from high altitude. Major Jesse Marcel’s recollection of the event was linked to Sci-Fi books and movies, not based on his work as the top Intelligence Officer in the military in 1947. Finally most of the witnesses’ testimony shown was taken completely out of context.

The National Geographic channel in the preparation of this documentary did obviously very little homework. Some of the witnesses like Walter Haut, Frank Joyce, George Newling, Major Marcel and his son Jesse Marcel Jr., deserved better than National Geographic afforded them. The same is true for researchers Stanton Friedman, Don Schmitt and myself who gave freely and openly to what we thought would be a non-biased documentary about Roswell, only to be disappointed again.

The debunkers on the show added nothing new and in fact in the case of Michael Shermer, his responses are now predictable, since it’s always the same ---that it’s all a myth. Perhaps he’s the myth with help from the National Geographic channel and other UFO documentary producers. The narrator in fact ended the show with the statement that, “Science now sees Roswell as little more than myth making”.

Of course no Roswell documentary would be complete without the comments from Dr. Seth Shostak of SETI, who continues to live in the stone age hoping to get a “radio signal” from out there, and B.D Glidenberg, both of whom I would question as to their credentials on actually doing research on the subject of UFOs.

I suggest in the future, documentary film producers omit the words like the “Real” Roswell or the “Truth” about Roswell, unless they intend to present it as real or true.

National Geographic---your credibility is at stake and you have a lot of room for improvement. You owe it to your audience to be fair and unbiased.

03-06-2013 om 00:44 geschreven door peter  

Congressman Ridicules 'UFO Related' National Security Concerns of Six Former Air Force Officers

Congressman Peter King (R) NY

The Face of Ridicule

By Robert Salas The UFO Chronicles 5-31-13

     When I spoke at the Citizen’s Hearing on Disclosure on April 30, 2013, I intentionally revealed the fact that I, and others, had been in contact with the office of Congressman Peter King regarding my UFO incident that occurred while serving in the U.S. Air Force as a nuclear missile launch officer. On May 2, the New York Daily News published an article by Daniel Friedman, quoting King’s response; “I have no idea what the guy is talking about. We are always getting crazy stuff in the mail by people whose brain has been taken over by aliens or something.”

In fact, King should have had ‘an idea’ of what I was talking about because we have been sending him documents and inquiries on this matter for over two years! We have the records to prove these documents were sent, received and seen by King, according to responses we received from his staff.

It appears that Congressman King simply used this opportunity to ridicule the whole idea of UFOs. In those two sentences, King summarized the method by which our government has maintained secrecy on this phenomenon. First, the idea that extraterrestrial craft have been visiting earth is the belief of crazy people and second, that this is a subject worthy only of ridicule. These are the usual ways uncomfortable truths are avoided.

For the record, the documents that were sent to King’s office while he was Chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security were the signed and notarized affidavits of six ex-USAF military officers and an ex-Navy non-commissioned officer. The incidents described in the affidavits were directly related to interference with the operational readiness of our nuclear weapons. They were, by any standard, related to our national security interests and they have continued to re-occur. Another important aspect of these incidents is government excess in secrecy that has prolonged hiding the truth of this phenomenon. Obviously, these incidents have enormous implications worldwide and specifically to the government of the U.S. and public access to vital information.

I concede that this subject is phenomenal. The performance characteristics of these objects, as described by many witnesses defies (current) scientific explanation. However, there is a massive amount of evidence, over decades, in the form of documents and testimony from very credible sources that this phenomenon deserves serious recognition.

The evidence provided to King is direct testimony from multiple ex-USAF witnesses who experienced encounters with these unidentified objects, resulting in interference with our nuclear weapons capability. The fact this information was rudely dismissed so glibly by King is symptomatic of the current lack of responsiveness from our elected officials.

Currently, the U.S. Congress has rightly earned a very low public approval rating. We live in a world where there is little confidence that our governmental institutions will protect or respond to the interests of its people. We all need a change in direction. In order to work toward the ideals of government for and by the people, we must continue to press our elected officials to listen and act on this matter of vital importance to us all.

In my letter of July 22, 2012 to Congressman King, I reminded him of his oath to the U.S. Constitution. Our Constitution establishes a republic with representative government. King is one of those representatives responsible for listening to the grievances of the people. By his failure to consider the evidence on a matter of our national security, he is guilty of dereliction of duty and does not deserve to hold office.

~~BOOK SALE~~

03-06-2013 om 00:42 geschreven door peter  

http://www.ufosightingsdaily.com/2013/05/alien-creature-caught-in-nasa-photo-by.html

01-06-2013 om 14:47 geschreven door peter  

Monthly Statistical MUFON Report - for May 2013:  deel 1

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

State	Number of Reports
California	67
Texas	39
Florida	39
Arizona	33
New York	31
Ohio	29
Pennsylvania	27
Michigan	18
Illinois	16
Missouri	16
Washington	15
Colorado	14
Indiana	14
Minnesota	14
Virginia	12
New Jersey	12
North Carolina	12
Maryland	10
West Virginia	8
Kansas	8
Oklahoma	7
Oregon	7
Massachusetts	7
New Mexico	7
Kentucky	7
Georgia	6
Wisconsin	6
Connecticut	6
Mississippi	6
Alabama	5
Louisiana	5
Nevada	5
Tennessee	5
Iowa	4
North Dakota	4
Utah	4
Vermont	3
Maine	3
Arkansas	3
Hawaii	2
New Hampshire	2
Idaho	2
Rhode Island	2
Wyoming	2
Delaware	2
South Dakota	1

01-06-2013 om 14:43 geschreven door peter  

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 May 2013 are the shape of the UFOs reported which were as follows;

Shape of Object	Number of Reports
Sphere	187
Circle	117
Triangle	92
Star-like	90
Other	88
Unknown	81
Disc	77
Fireball	72
Oval	59
Flash	37
Cylinder	34
Boomerang	22
Diamond	21
Cigar	20
Chevron	16
Bullet/Missile	13
Blimp	11
Egg	8
Cone	7
Teardrop	7
Cross	3
Saturn-like	2

as well as the distance from the observer;

Distance from Witness	Number of Reports
< 100 ft	100
101-500 ft	88
501 ft - 1 Mile	148
Over 1 Mile	166
Unknown	232
NO VALUE	25

Most impressively there were 19 Landings, Hovering, or Takeoffs reported and 0 Entities observed.

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

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

Thank you!

01-06-2013 om 14:27 geschreven door peter  

01-06-2013 om 14:20 geschreven door peter  

Pareidolia: Why we see faces in hills, the Moon and toasties

31 May 2013 Last updated at 09:59 GMT

Faces in the landscape of eastern Russia's Magadan Oblast region

People have long seen faces in the Moon, in oddly-shaped vegetables and even burnt toast, but a Berlin-based group is scouring the planet via satellite imagery for human-like features. What's behind our desire to see faces in our surroundings, asks Lauren Everitt.

Most people have never heard of pareidolia. But nearly everyone has experienced it.

Anyone who has looked at the Moon and spotted two eyes, a nose and a mouth has felt the pull of pareidolia.

It's "the imagined perception of a pattern or meaning where it does not actually exist", according to the World English Dictionary. It's picking a face out of a knotted tree trunk or finding zoo animals in the clouds.

German design studio Onformative is undertaking perhaps the world's largest and most systematic search for pareidolia. Their Google Faces programme will spend the next few months sniffing out face-like shapes in Google Maps.

Mother Teresa took exception to a Nashville diner selling "nun bun" merchandise

Google Faces will scan the entire globe several times over from different angles. So far the programme has pinpointed an eerie profile in Russia's remote Magadan Oblast region, a fellow with hairy nostrils next to Priory Road in Ashford, Kent, and a mangy creature in the mountains of Alaska, among others.

It's certainly not the first to uncover faces where they don't actually exist.

This week, US department store JC Penney sold out of a kettle thought to look like the leader of the Third Reich after the resemblance was noted on social news site Reddit.

A chicken nugget shaped like US President George Washington earned more than £5,000 ($8,100) on eBay last year.

A decade earlier, some 20,000 Christians travelled to Bangalore to pay homage to a chapatti with the image of Christ burnt on it. Some visitors even offered prayers to the glass-encased flatbread.

In 2011 a Tumblr site that specialises in finding things that look like Hitler posted a photo of a modest terraced house in Swansea. Its angled roof resembles a comb-over, and the moulding over the house's door is said to evoke the dictator's trademark moustache.

In 2009 the Allen family of Ystrad, Rhondda, spotted the face of Jesus on the underside of a Marmite lid. Instead of the usual mundane brown smears, they found a "comforting" image and saved the top after finishing off the jar.

And American Diana Duyser took a bite out of a cheese toastie in 1994 only to find herself face-to-face with what looked to her like the Virgin Mary. She noticed the Madonna's burnt image on the bread after the first bite and saved the rest of the sandwich for over a decade.

Diana Duyser and her holy toastie

Duyser put it up for auction on eBay where it drew 1.7 million hits and eventually sold for about $28,000 (£18,500).

Google Faces designers Cedric Kiefer and Julia Laub were also inspired by pareidolia.

After seeing the famous "Face in Mars" snapped by the Viking 1 Orbiter in 1976 and playing around with facial recognition technology, they became curious about "how the psychological phenomenon of pareidolia could be generated by a machine", Kiefer says.

The Face in Mars photo from 1976, and a more recent close-up

They didn't expect their project to be a big deal, but soon their photos of faces in the Russian tundra and rural Britain were spreading across the web.

"It seems like there is something fascinating about pareidolia," Kiefer says.

While some countenances resemble cartoon characters and abstract art, other images appear almost "too real to believe it's just coincidence", he adds.

But why do people see faces in what is quite literally nothing more than a stain, a splotch or a strange rock formation?

Some of that is our evolutionary heritage, says Dr Nouchine Hadjikhani of Harvard University. Humans are "prewired" to detect faces from birth, she says.

"If you take a baby just after a few minutes of life, he will direct his attention toward something that has the general features of a face versus something that has the same elements but in a random order," she says.

Mona Lisa or Virgin Mary on a leaf; and the Madonna in chocolate

And the tendency to pick out familiar figures goes back to the first humans, says Christopher French of the British Psychological Society.

"We've evolved brains that think in these quick, dirty ways that are usually right, but at times can lead us to systematically be biased," he explains.

"A classic example is the Stone Age guy standing there, scratching his beard, wondering whether that rustling in the bushes really is a sabre-toothed tiger. You're much more likely to survive if you assume it's a sabre-toothed tiger and get the hell out of there - otherwise you may end up as lunch."

Other experts say pareidolia is a consequence of the brain's information processing systems. The brain is constantly sifting through random lines, shapes, surfaces and colours, says Joel Voss, a neuroscientist at Northwestern University.

It makes sense of these images by assigning meaning to them - usually by matching them to something stored in long-term knowledge. But sometimes things that are slightly "ambiguous" get matched up with things we can name more easily - resulting in pareidolia, he says.

Guadalupe Rodriguez saw the Virgin on a cafeteria baking tray in Texas

Pareidolia can also be a product of people's expectations, says neuroscientist Sophie Scott, of University College London.

"Being able to see Jesus's face in toast is telling you more about what's happening with your expectations, and how you're interpreting the world based on your expectations, rather than anything that's necessarily in the toast," she says.

And once the Virgin's face or George Washington's profile are spotted, it's virtually impossible to unsee them, says Bruce Hood, author of The Self Illusion: How the Social Brain Creates Identity.

"That's one of the things about illusions, they have this remarkable tendency to formulate in your mind, and it's very difficult to unthink them," he says.

But simply spotting a face in a morsel of food or a fence doesn't explain why some people spend thousands of pounds to buy it or make a pilgrimage to see it.

Pareidolia can be extremely evocative - especially if a person believes in miracles, Scott says.

"It's an incredibly strong demonstration of how powerful these perceptual effects are. We really want to see things like faces, we really want to hear things like voices, and our perceptual system will set out to do that," she adds.

For some, pareidolia stands as evidence of the supernatural, Hood says. "People will seek out these sorts of things for some sort of intervention."

The object itself can also take on special significance, says French. People assume that if it has been divinely produced, then it has been "touched by God" and "will bring good fortune", he says.

But you don't have to be particularly religious to appreciate pareidolia.

"I don't for one minute think there's any kind of religious significance or anything else in them," French says. "But hey, they're pretty neat, aren't they?"

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31-05-2013 om 23:40 geschreven door peter  

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“I feel the scientific study of UFOs is for the benefit of humankind and is an important endeavor. The weekly intelligence report provides you with information on the latest sightings and UFO news that you need to understand the world situation.”

In special reports, this week’s files cover: EVICT Tornadoes Weather Modification, Citizen Hearings to Approach United Nations,Eisenhower Met with Aliens? Strange Objects Follow an Air Force Rocket after Florida Launch, Mars Life, and Flying Saucer Project 1794.

Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over: Arizona, California, Florida, Illinois, Kansas, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Virginia, and Wyoming.

Sightings of UFOs were also reported in: Australia, Canada, India, Philippines, Puerto Rico, South Africa, Sweden, Turkey, 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 and Prince Phillip told me of his personal interest in UFOs. The US Air Force investigated UFOs for more than twenty years under Project Blue Book; and I continue this advanced research. I believe the God of the universe has spread life throughout the cosmos and UFO’s are visiting us in ever-increasing numbers.

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Special Reports

New Jersey Communication with Beings

Pleasantville -- I've always been a skeptic of UFOs, up until two nights ago, and I feel lost and confused. Three weeks ago I saw an UFO fireball in the sky, and since then I have felt like I am being watched. Two nights ago as I was about to go to sleep I saw something in my room through my peripheral vision. I remember waking up in a metal room and I was lying on a metal bed and I was restrained. I struggled to turn my head and I saw many people lying in these metal beds just like mine and I focused on my sister. It seemed that everyone was in some state of unconsciousness. I realized that something was very wrong and I was conscious of the scary situation I was in. I started to panic and tried to free myself but I was surrounded by short beings that were grayish in color and seemed oblivious to the fact that I was trying to fight my way out of the restraints.

Suddenly a bright light shown and a taller tan being with a more oval shaped head with indentations in it. It communicated with me telepathically and I asked it what it was doing to us and it said "We are looking at your DNA." I asked it why it was doing this to us and it replied "All humans have alien DNA, but not all humans have the same alien DNA" I asked it where they were from and it said "We come from Sirius" and it also told me that they have been coming to me for a long time. At that point it disappeared and my fear returned and I started screaming from the top of my lungs, the next thing I remember is jumping up from my bed screaming waking up everyone in the house. I haven't slept for two nights now. Thanks to MUFON CMS

EVICT Tornadoes Weather Modification

Several UFOs were spotted during the 17 minute time the Moore, Oklahoma tornado created havoc killing 24 people and destroying some 1300 homes.

The deadly tornado that ripped through Moore, Okla., last week "completely destroyed" the homes of 140 airmen stationed at nearby Tinker Air Force Base and "at least partially damaged" the homes of 196 other airmen, said Chief of Staff General Mark Welsh. Further, two airmen lost family members in the violent windstorm, Welsh told reporters during a May 24 Pentagon briefing. "There are just no words that can erase that suffering," he said.

The Chinese, in August of 2008, used 37,000 people to seed clouds aiming for a dry Olympics. Hundreds of teams used anti-aircraft guns to shoot shells of silver iodide into approaching cloud masses and kept Beijing dry.

Surplus Harvard T-6 aircraft were fitted with racks under each wing containing 32 railroad fuses that were impregnated with silver iodide were ignited individually or all at once, depending upon the threat. In coordination with ground units, the aircraft would lay a plume of silver iodide in front of approaching cumulonimbus clouds (CBs) with noticeable effect. Large, active CBs were reduced to nothing. Heavy hail storms were reduced in intensity. A C-5 Galaxy aircraft can carry a standard: payload of 240,000 pounds of dry ice or chemicals that could serious effect a mesocyclone. Maximum payload capacity of the C-17 is 170,900 pounds with a service ceiling of 45,000 feet.

The National Severe Storms Laboratory NSSL Site Information -  NOAA's reports, “The most destructive and deadly tornadoes occur from supercells, which are rotating thunderstorms with a well-defined radar circulation called a mesocyclone. (Supercells can also produce damaging hail, severe non-tornadic winds, unusually frequent lightning, and flash floods.) Tornado formation is believed to be dictated mainly by things which happen on the storm scale, in and around the mesocyclone.”

When I was in Vietnam, the Air Force extended the Monsoon season by over a month by cloud-seeding with silver iodide crystals using two C-130s and two F-4s on the Ho Chi Menh trail. I encourage the Air Force to evict the Tornadoes.

Below is radar readout of the May 20, 2013, tornado. The actual tornado early in its track is located in the southern reddest hook near the bottom of the image.

Recent theories and results from the VORTEX 2 program suggest that once a mesocyclone is underway, tornado development is related to the temperature differences across the edge of downdraft air wrapping around the mesocyclone. Studies of tornado formation also indicate that it can happen with very little temperature variation was observed near some of the most destructive tornadoes in history on 3 May 1999.

Storm spotters look for low bands of ragged bands of low cumulus clouds extending from the main storm tower usually to the southeast or south. The presence of inflow bands suggests that the storm is gathering low-level air from several miles away. If the inflow bands have a spiraling nature to them, it suggests the presence of rotation.

The beaver's tail is a smooth, flat cloud band extending from the eastern edge of the rain-free base to the east or northeast. It usually skirts around the southern edge of the precipitation area. It also suggests the presence of rotation.

A wall cloud is an isolated cloud lowering attached to the rain-free base of the thunderstorm. The wall cloud is usually to the rear of the visible precipitation area. A wall cloud that may produce a tornado usually exists for 10–20 minutes before a tornado appears. A wall cloud may also persistently rotate (often visibly), have strong surface winds flowing into it, and may have rapid vertical motion indicated by small cloud elements quickly rising into the rain-free base.

As the storm intensifies, the updraft draws in low-level air from several miles around. Some low-level air is pulled into the updraft from the rain area. This rain-cooled air is very humid; the moisture in the rain-cooled air quickly condenses below the rain-free base to form the wall cloud.

The rear flank downdraft (RFD) is a downward rush of air on the back side of the storm that descends along with the tornado. The RFD looks like a “clear slot” or “bright slot” just to the rear (southwest) of the wall cloud. It can also look like curtains of rain wrapping around the cloud base circulation. The RFD causes gusty surface winds that occasionally have embedded downbursts. The rear flank downdraft is the motion in the storm that causes the hook echo feature on radar.

A condensation funnel is made up of water droplets and extends downward from the base of the thunderstorm. If it is In contact with the ground it is a tornado; otherwise it is a funnel cloud. Dust and debris beneath the condensation funnel confirm a tornado's presence.
Coordination between radar, ground observers, and airborne aircraft equipped with suitable chemicals such as dry ice have the potential to disrupt the tornados, excellent comprehensive list of questions and answers about tornadoes can be found here: http://www.spc.noaa.gov/faq/tornado/

NSSL is working to simulate storms that produce tornadoes in computer models to better understand how they form and behave. The Air Force could gain tremendous support from the American people if they could Evict Tornadoes. Thanks to NSSL..

Request you visit my website at www.nationalufocenter.com to donate for Moore, Oklahoma Tornado relief. 

Citizen Hearings to Approach UN

The Citizen Hearing Foundation (CHD) Committee met on May 2, 2013, to discuss an approach to the United Nations. The result was the Washington Communique that states the following:

Whereas: given the unfolding scientific understanding of the number of potentially life supporting planets within Earth's home galaxy, it would be the height of arrogance to assert that humans are the only sentient beings within that galaxy;

Whereas: given that credible witnesses have brought forth overwhelming scientific evidence documenting the current presence of unidentified and unexplained aerial craft that many believe to reflect an extraterrestrial intelligence;

And Whereas: given the enormous global implications if these craft are, indeed, of extraterrestrial origin, such an issue is a matter for the General Assembly of the United Nations;

Therefore, we the undersigned request the Citizen Hearing Foundation use its offices to organize interested parties and raise the funds necessary to pursue a global campaign to convince one or more nations to propose a resolution within the General Assembly calling for United Nations sponsorship of a world conference addressing the possible evidence for an extraterrestrial presence engaging this planet.

The Citizen Hearing Foundation will begin raising funds immediately to implement this mandate to seek a world conference sponsored by the United Nations.

Note: Only one nation may bring the study of UFOs to the General Assembly. If you happen to have contact with high ranking members of various countries please bring it to their attention.

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Eisenhower Met with Aliens? Yes or No

Lt. Colonel Don Ware USAF (Ret); Fighter pilot, and teacher reports, Ronald Fleming a 66-year-old retired USAF officer living in the Veteran Administration home in Truth-or-Consequences, NM. Says when on active duty he worked on Top Secret projects with the National Security Agency. The information below, that he wanted me to share with people who are ready, came to him, telepathically, from an unseen source at 9:30 AM on 28 May 2012. That source claimed to be "John the Baptist."  On 30 March 2013, Fleming told me that his name and location could be used. The first of Fleming's two papers said:

"President Eisenhower had the unique experience of actually meeting and talking with aliens.  In 1954 five spaceships landed at Edwards AFB, CA [new name] and the aliens asked to meet with the President, who was golfing at Palm Springs.  They looked very human and spoke English. They were our friends, the Pleiadians.

"President Eisenhower was rushed to the base where he met and talked to the Pleiadians.  They demonstrated the maneuverability of their UFOs and instantly made themselves invisible, which they do easily by transferring their bodies to their normal vibrational frequency. President Eisenhower and his companion, Robert Saunders, were invited on board the UFO. They were given an introduction to the technology of the spacecraft and then taken on a flight into space and on an exploration of the Earth, through alien eyes, so to speak. 

"Eisenhower, Saunders, and other officials who experienced this alien encounter have since passed away; but, there are members of their families who are well aware of this incident.  Perhaps it is now safe for them to speak out.

"The Pleiadians said they wanted to begin an education  program for the people of Earth, to make mankind aware of the universe and its ET existence.  Eisenhower was not one to make impulsive choices or decisions, so he asked for a great deal of information. Extensive discussions were held with the Pleiadians. For the next three days Eisenhower had virtually disappeared from sight while he and his top aides discussed what their response would be. The biggest threat from their decision was the economy. The economists warned that the alien intrusion would put an unknown factor in reality as a whole. Having just recovered from the Great Depression and WW II, the economy was a major consideration. Having alien technology show up would probably put the US economy in a tail spin. Additionally, there would be a strong negative reaction from religious leaders.

"Eisenhower warned that this would cause panic on Earth.  He pleaded, 'We are not ready for that yet.'"  The Pleiadians understood, and left the bewildered President and his entourage standing on the tarmac, awestruck and silent." Thanks to Don Ware

General Goodpaster Says No Aliens

On June 10, 1998, I interviewed General Andrew J. Goodpaster at the Eisenhower Institute, in Washington DC. He was the former Strategic and Policy Staff Secretary for President Eisenhower from 1954-61. Later he was Commander in-Chief of NATO forces in Europe from 1969-74. He was summoned from retirement to lead the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.

General Goodpaster was in charge of the day to day coordination on all military and intelligence matters for the White House. We talked extensively about the U-2 over-flights. I asked the General, if he knew Lt. Col. Corso? He indicated he had heard of him in regards to the Korean prisoners of war. I showed him Corso’s book, “The Day After Roswell,” and he laughed as he read the cover. He claimed he had no knowledge of the book, UFOs, aliens, or crashes.

I asked him if President Eisenhower had met with aliens? He laughed, and assured me, “I would have known if that happened and it did not.” He affirmed forcefully that President Eisenhower had no such meeting with aliens; it had never taken place. He seemed amused by Corso’s book, but did not seem to take it seriously. He indicated the only other groups who might have knowledge of UFOs would have been the National Security Council or the Research and Development Group under Dr. Killian. See www.nationalufocenter.com for interview.

Strange Objects Follow an Air Force Rocket after Florida Launch 

SAINT PETERSBURG. -- We were watching the May 24, 2013, USAF Satcom rocket launch. The rocket was clearly visible with no visual aid for two minutes. However, we used binoculars and initially spotted the four lights, pulsating, hovering, and keeping a distance relationship (after spotting with the binoculars, we could barely make the lights with the naked eye). Best guess is that the lights were over or to the east of Orlando (but appeared miles from the rocket) and that based on the relationship to the rocket; the lights were spaced 1 - 3 miles apart. The lights then followed the rocket down range, and then disappeared. At a time when it appears the rocket booster separated, at least that's what we initially thought, we then saw only two of the lights continue to follow the rocket until we lost visual of the rocket. No doubt whatsoever that whatever was following the rocket was not conventional aircraft, although we could not define a structure, other that the lights maintaining a perfect diamond, or cross, relationship. Also, no doubt the "lights" followed the rocket down-range. Been searching on-line if anyone else saw the lights, and found that there were other witnesses. IT HAPPENED! We witnessed it for approximately 1.5 - 2 minutes.  NOTE: The above image is a rendering. Ken Pfeifer MUFON NJ www.worldufophotos.org

 Mars Life

A report posted on UFO Sightings Daily claims that life has been discovered on Mars. The report talks about finding a rodent like creature in one of the photos posted in official NASA website. The photo was taken by the Mars Rover. The website,

. http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/multimedia/pia16204.html

NASA’s 'Rocknest' From Sol 52 Location

This patch of windblown sand and dust downhill from a cluster of dark rocks is the NASA named "Rocknest site."  This site is expected for use by NASA's Mars rover Curiosity to scoop up dirt samples. This view is a mosaic of images taken by the telephoto right-eye camera of the Mast Camera (Mastcam) during the 52nd Martian day, or sol, of the mission (Sept. 28, 2012), four sols before the rover arrived at Rocknest. The Rocknest patch is about 8 feet by 16 feet.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS  http://www.ufosightingsdaily.com/

Flying Saucer

 In truth, the Air Force’s effort to create a flying saucer has not been a secret for years now. The result of the program—a hovercraft named the Avrocar—is on display at the U.S. Air Force Museum in Ohio. Like any good government program, the scientists produced designs of aircraft sporting creepy names like Silverbug, Weapon System 606A, VZ-9, and Project Y2—and information about them has been available under these monikers. But since this "dark" program operated in secrecy, many documents surrounding the saucer project are just now reaching the light of day.

In 2001, U.S. Air Force personnel vetted the Project 1794 cache and found the information viable for public release. But it took more than a decade for the NDC staff to crack open the boxes and glimpse the saucer secrets within. "During the Cold War, in the 1950s and 1960s, the Army, Air Force, and Navy were experimenting with all sorts of weapons and flying platforms," Carmichael says. "And I think some of the odder stuff is going to come out that, maybe people knew about, but the records are just going to tell the rest of the story."

The government is nearing the end of a laborious process, started by the administration of Bill Clinton and codified by executive orders from the Bush and Obama administrations, of declassifying nearly 2 billion pages of government documents. Carmichael says.

“The rate model did not show dynamic stability but could easily be controlled with the additional pitch damping provided by the jets." This kind of language shows us that potential problems with its instability were ignored. The report’s confidence that jet engines and other mechanisms could stabilize the saucer proved ill-founded. Everything the engineers tried (even adding a tail) did not make this saucer fly right, and in 1961 the program was scrapped.
Read more: Government Releases More Declassified Flying Saucer Docs - Popular Mechanics

I Phone 4 Will Make a Sunspot

Annette Garkowski writes, I just want to let you know to check with you readers and submitters that if they take sky pictures with the IPhone 4 or 4s... They will very likely pick up a sun spot.

Usually only one which really makes you question it. Totally common with this model on sunny days... Almost looks like another moon or an orb....much more like a moon with a haze around it.

Thanks to Annette Sent from my iPad

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Sightings in the United States

Arizona Light

CAVE CREEK -- We have seen this object before but tonight observed it at 10 pm, on May 23, 2013. A street light is on the right, and the object was above the tree line and pulsating and hovered, but then would change direction N, S, W, and E. Sometimes it would change direction slowly, other times rapidly. I tried to take pictures and video but did not do it justice. I observed the object pulsate, change colors randomly (white, blue, red, and green), hover and move in different directions for almost 45 minutes. It made random movements north of me, then headed west and began to hover again. Later, it began to descend below the tree line. Thanks to MUFON CMS

LAVEEN -- I set-up cam in stable position on my wall looking south after noticing lights and trails in southern sky before sunrise on May 24, 2012. I took five minutes of video showing light trails and objects above horizon. I re-set cam in same location and position shortly after sunrise shooting another five minute clip.

I re-set cam in same position at 9:30 AM, for contrasting shot of earlier sightings, shooting for three minutes twice changing the sharpness of the video.

In the videos are lights and shapes rising from the horizon between the buildings. Lights and objects were visible with the naked eye, moving up, circling, and then departing at high speed to the west for the most part. Note: Video shows object moving at tree top level left to right and suddenly climbing up and out of site. Thanks to MUFON CMS

California Disc

SAN DIEGO – Nina Golgowdki -- Daily Mail reports on 24 May 2013, “Historian photographs UFO hovering over a Southern California historic barn that's better known for its ghosts. A metallic flying saucer appearing no different from any Sci-Fi movie was allegedly photographed. Santee Historical Society researcher Ellen Henry says she was outside taking pictures of the Edgemoor Barn near San Diego when she unknowingly caught the perfectly clear cigar-shaped object hovering in the sky. 'I was looking up but did not see anything in the sky. Close up photo at top of these files. Photographer says her camera stopped working after taking the picture. Local airport and Marine Corps Air Station nearby both couldn't explain.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2330526/Edgemore-Barn-Historian-photographs-UFO-hovering-barn-better-known-ghost-sightings.html#ixzz2UKeTsQg4 

Long Beach -- I took this on April 19, 2013, at the time the photo was taken I didn’t see anything in the sky. What do you suppose it could be? The only reason I am sending it to you is because I read of other sightings on your website for the same day in California.

Response of Investigator to Witness Question: I am not sure what you captured on your photo. It is not an aircraft contrail and doesn’t appear to be a bird or insect. Thanks for sending.

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

Florida Lights

Miami –-This photo were taken by my husband on a trip to Miami in November.

Yesterday, I just edited the photo and see something in the sky. –Thanks to Maqui Q

MiamI -- This photo was taken on May 7, 2013 at approximately 6:30 PM. I was driving home from work. It was the white object in the sky that caught my attention because it kept disappearing from the sky and then moving at such fast speeds and you can see them in both the pictures and how fast they moved locations.

Note: The witness saw a white object. She believes that she photographed the object, but it appeared green in the photos. I believe that the green object could be a lens flare due to the fact that the photos were taken in the direction of the Sun. Thanks to William Puckett, Director http://www.UFOsnw.com

Illinois Cylinder

beach park -- While visiting my family’s house a light caught my eye as I was on the phone with my girl friend. The object was moving then started to hover and then drifted back over. It started to change colors, dip down, and fly up and all over. At this point knew I was seeing something extra ordinary and started shouting for everyone to look. Once we were outside we witnessed the object change color, dip down, fly up and all around.

It was amazing and flew in such a fluid way and an interest in a certain little area. At one point I ran inside to grab a flash light and then started to shine the light at it in a Morris code fashion and right away I took notice and flew towards us. My heart was pounding as this was awesome. After a while it lost interest and went back to its little area. We decided to go chase it in a car because I had the impression it was up to something as it mostly stayed in a defined area. The film was shot on a canon Power Shot a720. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Urbana -- Attached is the sketch my husband helped me to make of the UFO I saw over the University of Illinois at Urbana, in January of 2002.

It was very large and was accompanied by the five smaller vessels I told you about. This picture shows the bottom, which is the angle from which I remember the most detail. God Bless, Alyssa

Kansas Objects

 Olathe – I looked out the window at midnight, on May 15, 2013, and saw a giant light.
The object seemed to change shape, I thought I was filming same objecting but not certain.

I grabbed my camera and went outside. It was something different then I had ever observed before. It was beautiful to see so I watched until it disappeared. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Nevada Orbs

 LAS VEGAS -- At about 1 PM, I was sitting on our patio on May 11, 2013. I looked between the two palm trees and saw three white objects, in a V formation, flying north. They were flying at a very slow pace. I sat there for a moment, trying to figure out what I was seeing. These were not planes, not birds, not kites. Drones?

. They were totally silent as they flew toward me but the lead object had gone quite a ways beyond the two bringing up the rear. I called for my husband to come outside. We both stood there, trying to figure out what we were seeing. My husband thought he could see wings toward the rear of the objects. I ran back into the house and grabbed my camera, and dashed out to snap a picture. By then, the objects had stopped coming in our direction and seemed to be separating. Two of them continued flying in formation, and the third took off in another direction. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Chatham -- I was walking home from a friend’s house around 11:30 pm, on May 18, 2013, at Fern and Minton Avenue. I saw a large transparent rectangle slowly floating form south to north in the sky very far from where I was standing. I tend to look at the sky when I'm walking at night but this night was very overcast. I quickly noticed the object. There was no solid feature, but the rectangle outline was visible against the grey sky. The outline was consistent with the moving transparent object. A car came down my street, so I walked away but I wish I stayed and continued to watch. My coworker told me to report it. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Ohio Lights

 New Albany -- I was walking my dog on a dark street, Sunday evening May 19, 2013, near Columbus. A bright orange/yellow object caught my eye, and then five more orange/yellow objects appeared, moving west. I heard nothing.

They seemed pretty low in the sky as well as the appearance was larger than most planes I see fly overhead. In another 30 seconds my gaze had followed the six objects west. I looked east again and saw four more objects, same size, same color, and same flight pattern as the first six moving across the sky.

I snapped a few high def pictures and video with my iPhone and the first group ascends, swiftly, and then completely disappear. I was conscience about light shining on myself and briefly thought, "I should get inside". And I did. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Oklahoma Cylinder

 Muskogee -- Was testing my camera at various zoom levels and focusing 60 feet above ground at 20x optical zoom level on May 22, 2013. I noticed something in the frame to the left of the subject matter after shooting the image. The location was a VA Hospital in Oklahoma. Sky was cloudless as seen in photo. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Virginia Cylinder

Roanoke -- A flying object was seen following along the Blue Ridge Parkway crossing 220S. A 55 year old couple while smoking outside they saw a shiny silver perfect tube with flat ends, no wings or lights silently glide over our house below very few low clouds on August 3, 2011.

They flew south going too slow for an airplane. Using binoculars I only saw small black slits that might be windows near the front end. Path and speed constant until out of sight over ridge. Very low, slow, close, silent. Two adult sober witnesses were amazed by their first UFO but had no camera. Thanks to Deborah

Wyoming Three Lights

Cheyenne -- I left work at 9 pm on May 26, 2013, while driving north past the I-80 overpass on Greeley Highway, and noticed three bright star-like lights toward Warren Air Force Base. It was too bright out for these three lights to be stars and their elevation was too low. Also they were clearly visible to be in our atmosphere. They stayed stationary as I continued to drive. My father and mother also witnessed this event.

As I chased the three lights they remained in a triangle formation but moved very slow but lowering in elevation. I got out of my vehicle on Round Top Road which is west of the air force base to try to capture the lights. This triangle of lights flew lower as the lowest kept brightening and dimming, and flickered red, white, and blue rapidly. I observed for 40 minutes until the lights disappeared. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Worldwide Sightings

Australia Sunset

Mary Rodwell writes, “I thought this was spectacular, as you know I have taken many anomalous lights in Agnes Water but this was taken last night by a local resident who lives just down the hill from my home.”

Mary Rodwell www.acern.com.au 

Giles reports, “I just had an urge to take a couple of snaps outside of the sky, I didn’t see anything. I have zoomed in a little and adjusted the brightness as it was very bright. Photo taken at 6-15pm on Monday 13th May 2013 with a Nikon D3100 with a UV filter (no idea why I left the filter on).Here you go Mary I have included the original and the adjusted image.”

Thanks to Mary Rodwell and Giles Campbell

 Yanchep -- The sunsets in WA Australia are spectacular so I usually try to capture a gem with my iPhone 4G on my daily walk/jog along the beach and sand dunes 60 km north of Perth city.

I ran down a steep 100 meter sand dune to get to the beach for a clear view of the setting sun. I stopped momentarily to take a quick shot before I lost it below the horizon. I couldn't make out with clarity the nature of a dark, 'glowing' object at the top right of the sun (see photo). A few seconds later, the object was gone! I spoke to some fishermen about the disc being tilted towards them and they exhibited signs of anxiety. Thanks to MUFON CMS

 Canada Sightings

B.C. -- I sent you this a while back, and the UFO on the left is quite clear, but after playing with the contrast, I noticed the circle on the right side, in the top of a 200 foot tree in B.C., has what looks like buildings inside, and when the contrast is boosted, there are other circles that appear, which have geometrical designs.

Could these be inter dimensional portals or something? There's definitely something inside the circle in the tree when you zoom in, and I'm sure it was a building with windows.

This scenario was at 1 am, and totally silent. The circle in the right hand tree is really weird, especially when you zoom in and begin to make out structure that has rectangular and precise windows...very strange. Dana Fitzgerald

Fort Providence, Northwest Territories -- I saw a bright yellowish light that just appeared in the sky. It was going in one straight direction, and then it slowed down and then faded away.

It was Saturday May 18th, 2013, and I took a short clip of it in the dark.

It was in space or closer. Thanks to William Puckett, Director http://www.UFOsnw.com

India Sighting of a Weird Aircraft.

Thane – A craft passed over my head unlike any of the airplanes having a single non-blinking light on May 2, 2013, at 10 PM. It went off after some time as if a stealth mode was activated. Thanks to Peter Davenport, Director National UFO Reporting Center http://www.UFOcenter.com

Philippines Rainbow Colored Meteorite

gungab, albuera, leyte -- I was watching a basketball game at our small town when suddenly a rainbow colored meteorite or something quickly passed above me and disappeared on April 28, 2013. I can't remember if this happened two or three times. Thanks to Peter Davenport, Director National UFO Reporting Center http://www.UFOcenter.com

Puerto Rico Red Orbs in Formation

Vega Baja – Two to three dozen glowing red objects were seen by three witnesses in the skies on May 2, 2013, flying in close formation. This happened about 10 PM, and lasted a good 25 to 30 minutes. There were clear skies for a 20 mile radius. The objects seem to be flying along the coast heading inland. There was a red formation of pulsating orbs. Thanks to Peter Davenport, Director National UFO Reporting Center http://www.UFOcenter.com

South Africa Sighting in Africa Skies

JOHANNESBURG – There were clear night skies with plenty of visible stars in the sky on May 15, 2013. I went out to see if smoke was coming out of my chimney when a saw a bright orange light (almost like a meteor) light pass from east to west in about 2 to 3 seconds
I told my family but they weren’t interested. 

I came outside again to see if it will happen again. Moments later I saw a bright white light just appear far in the sky from the south moving towards the north but the light become faint and just disappeared after about a minute. Thanks to Peter Davenport, Director National UFO Reporting Center http://www.UFOcenter.com
Sweden Star

Bromölla -- I was home in my small town sitting outside talking about UFOs and aliens on May 10, 2013, and at this moment both of us noticed a bright moving star-like object flying straight south. Then another bright star-like object appeared at the line the first one was flying but flying the other direction. When the second one appeared the first one slowly disappeared and faded away. The second one did hold that line and traveled as far I could see. Not sure if this really was an ufo or something else. The event is worth telling and had feelings of awesomeness! :) Thanks to MUFON CMS

Turkey Bright Star

ISTANBUL -- I was telling my friend that I photographed Jupiter on May 12, 2013, and saw a bright star. I showed it to her and thought this one could be a planet or space station, because it was so bright. Then I stopped walking to check if it was stationary or not. Then the "bright star" just drew a path like a check sign and disappeared behind the buildings. The change of path was like it hit some wall and bounced. Thanks to MUFON CMS

UK England Multiple 'Balls of Light'

Southend on sea, essex -- I was looking out my window at the moon on very clear night on April 28, 2013, and noted just up above me was a big high glowing orange and yellow orb. I got my phone and started to film as I did I watched with my eyes on and off camera as it seemed to go straight into the moon pulsing.

Then it comes from what looked like from behind the moon traveling to my right getting brighter. Then it seemed to start going away from me Over Sea to Kent and then lost sight over some roofs. I was very surprised to see such a thing and took a video that lasted for about two minutes. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Kirton/Boston, Lincolnshire -- I observed a 'swarm' of 15-20 blue/purple lights moving southwest on April 13, 2013, at 9:05 PM. Initially I thought the colorful cluster was a collection of balloons, but I observed a cluster of 15-20 blue/purple lights moving against the wind. Thanks to Peter Davenport, Director National UFO Reporting Center http://www.UFOcenter.com

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Last weekend Doc Vega submitted a 3-part article on Memorial Day and those pilots that have died chasing UFOs. Good read! Chris Holly wonders if UFO sightings are increasing or decreasing. Next Diane Tessman asks do UFO occupants welcome fake videos and pictures. Then Pat Regan wonders about the connection between earthquakes and UFOs and reports a UFO keeping pace with RAF helicopters. Latin correspondent Scott Corrales releases the "Humanoid Conspiracy". Next, Jon Kelly interviews a Silicon Valley consultant describing ET contact. Mary Alice Bennett retells the details of a child's UFO sighing in Tucson. Paul Shishis spots another unknown object near the Toronto CN Tower. Then, I report on a group of residents from Herbrandston that claim mysterious noises are making their village a living hell. French correspondent Christian Macé has found a curious animal on Mars. Next, Edward Crabtree takes a look at NDEs. Ron Murdock writes about lack of privacy and falsely portraying God. Finally, Louis Hart writes about the ancient tree spirit. Enjoy Dirk

A Memorial Day salute to those who died in connection with UFOs Part III by Doc Vega. Much has been written about the incredible year of 1952 when several well documented UFO flaps eclipsed the news headlines and sent hysterical US citizens to the phones calling in sightings from all over the country. It was a year that saw the famous Washington National Sightings where in the month of July for several weeks US Air Force pilots chased flying saucers over Capitol Hill without success. President Truman demanded answers from the Joint Chiefs of Staff while General John A. Samford held the most important military press conference since World War II to explain just how UFO’s had been sighted over several nights above the nation’s capital. More... Also read: A Memorial Day Salute to those who died in connection with UFOs Part II And read: Also read: A Memorial Day salute to those who died in connection with UFOs

Do you believe the number of UFO sightings has increased or decreased over the past year? by Chris Holly. I have received emails lately asking if I thought the amount of UFO sightings being reported over the last year have increased or decreased? Of course I have no answer to this question as I do not have any place to search for the answer. More...

Do UFO Occupants Welcome Fake Videos and Pictures? by Diane Tessman. What if UFO occupants knew years ago that in 2013, humans would be obsessed with smart phones which have apps for placing fake UFOs in pictures? More...

Welsh earthquake and more UFO sightings once again by Pat Regan. I have written at great length in articles and books about the fascinating relationship between seismic activity and UFO sightings. Like it or not UFOs do in fact sometimes appear around about the same time as earth tremors in many places and on an impressive international scale. More... Also read: UFO kept pace with helicopter crews over RAF Woodvale airspace in UK

The Humanoid Conspiracy - Latest addition to the INEXPLICATA library by Scott Corrales. The Humanoid Conspiracy is the latest addition to the INEXPLICATA library at Scribd.com - a compilation of all the humanoid / CE3K writings we have published over the years in a more readily accessible format - and a conmemoration of the 40-year gulf which separates us from 1973, "The Year of the Humanoids". More...

Silicon Valley Consultant describes ET contact and hope for universal peace by Jon Kelly. “Once you’ve made that contact in various different ways and you’ve satisfied yourself that it is genuine, then nobody can take that away from you,” explains ETLetsTalk.org co-founder Kosta Makreas. More...

UFO Tucson - A Childhood Sighting from the Late 1960s by Mary Alice Bennett. This childhood close encounter with a large UFO was described to me by my old friend Russell at the local market. He`d heard that I`d had a sighting out there which prompted him to tell me about this experience that he`d had with his family while riding in the back of a pick-up truck west of town. More...

Another Strange Image Caught on Film! by Paul Shishis. This was taken today May 27th 2013 while photographing the CN Tower. During break time at work In Scarborough. I thought to take a few pictures of the CN Tower. More...

Village Residents Claim Mysterious Noise is Living Hell by Dirk Vander Ploeg. A group of Herbrandston residents have reached breaking point after a 'torturous' mystery noise made life in the village a 'living hell'. Jane and Steve Ingram said life at their quiet Herbrandston home became unbearable when a low, drowning noise started keeping them awake at night. More...

Curious animal as photographed by Curiosity on Mars May 11, 2013 by Christian Macé. Land under the control of Visitors. Here the original photo. And I circled in red the "Thing", and I enlarged. See the photo taken by the robot on the ground on Mars "Curiosity" on May 11, 2013. More...

BEING THERE WHEN IT HAPPENS: Looking again at Near Death Experiences by Edward Crabtree. When Proof of Heaven by Doctor Eben Alexander appeared in the bookstores last year we could all see its future. It would fly off the shelves in the same way that other testimonies in this American genre have done. It sells reassurance. It answers the big question at the back of all our minds: if all the world is a stage, what happens when the players Exit? More...

Lack Of Privacy by Ron Murdock . If you're gettng that feeling of being watched you probably are. How much interest "The Watchers" take in you is a moot point. I doubt if most of us are doing anything of significance to be kept track of by those in the shadows. But the point here is that there is so many survelliance cameras in public areas and it's a case of who is watching and who is being watched. The theme song here could very well be "Every Breath You Take" by The Police. More... Also read: Falsely Portraying God

Ancient Tree Spirit by Louis Hart . Down in the foothills there is a place I visit often. It is a beautiful spot where I can enjoy the natural world and connect with the various Nature Spirits of the area. It’s really quite an extraordinary place. On a footpath that follows the clear, cold river for awhile and then plunges into the nearby forest I walk quietly, stopping often to watch and listen to the birds. Occasionally a squirrel fusses at me or a big ant comes near and looks me over. More...

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Charles Halt, Former Air Force Colonel, Accuses U.S. Of UFO Cover-Up

LAS VEGAS -- Former Air Force Col. Charles Halt accused the federal government of a UFO cover-up that involves a secret agency to deal with what might be extraterrestrial visitations.

"I'm firmly convinced there's an agency, and there is an effort to suppress," Halt told an audience of 200 people Saturday night at the Smithsonian-affiliated National Atomic Testing Museum.

Two former Air Force officers who were part of the infamous Project Blue Book -- the military's official UFO investigation in the 1950s and '60s -- and a former investigator with Britain's Ministry of Defense were among the panel of speakers for a program entitled "Military UFOs: Secrets Revealed."

Halt, pictured below, was the deputy base commander of the RAF Bentwaters military base in England and one of numerous eyewitnesses to several UFO-related events at Rendlesham Forest in December 1980. He believes the observed UFOs were either extraterrestrial or extradimensional in origin.

"I've heard many people say that it's time for the government to appoint an agency to investigate," Halt said.

"Folks, there is an agency, a very close-held, compartmentalized agency that's been investigating this for years, and there's a very active role played by many of our intelligence agencies that probably don't even know the details of what happens once they collect the data and forward it. It's kind of scary, isn't it?

"In the last couple of years, the British have released a ton of information, but has anybody ever seen what their conclusions were or heard anything about Bentwaters officially? When the documents were released, the timeframe when I was involved in the incident is missing -- it's gone missing. Nothing else is missing," he said.

Halt added that he's never been harassed over the reports he made about the Bentwaters UFO incidents.

"Probably for a couple of good reasons. Number one, my rank and some of the jobs I've held, but also very early on, I sat down and made a very detailed tape and made several copies of everything I know about it and they're secluded away. Maybe I'm paranoid. I don't know, but I think it was time well spent when I made the tapes."

While the lecture panel members didn't always see eye-to-eye on the details of specific UFO cases, one common thread ran through them.

"We share a couple of very important things: We've all been dedicated to serving our country and been very serious about it," said museum CEO and executive director Allan Palmer, who had a distinguished career as a decorated jet fighter pilot for both the Air Force and Navy.

"These are not flaky people, who've all held very responsible positions with high-level security clearances. They're not the kind of people who tend to imagine things or go off on a wild tangent on something. They're very professional, very business-like," Palmer told The Huffington Post.

Making a rare public appearance was retired Air Force Col. Bill Coleman, the former chief spokesman for Project Blue Book between 1961 and 1963.

The controversial study ended in 1969, concluding that there was nothing about UFOs which represented "technological developments or principles beyond the range of present-day scientific knowledge."

Coleman, at left, recounted his own riveting encounter with a UFO while he piloted a B-25 bomber in 1955. The unknown circular object descended from an estimated height of 20,000 feet, heading to the ground, when Coleman attempted to pursue it.

"We were moving at maximum continuous power for the B-25, about 300 miles an hour, and we got right down to the treetops and I closed in on it very rapidly. I said I was going to overtake it -- 'Hang on and put your seat belts on' -- and I made a hard 90-degree bank to try and pull up alongside of [the UFO] and it wasn't there.

"I zoomed up about 1,500 feet, and then I could see the object right on the deck over a freshly plowed field moving at a pretty good speed, and it [was trailing] two vortexes." When Coleman dove behind the trees to try and "head him off at the pass," the UFO was gone. He said it was a typically reported flying saucer.

Coleman concluded his part of the lecture by offering a possible reason why ETs may be hesitant to visit Earth:

"If an alien were to land here, our common cold could kill him. His common cold could wipe out the population of planet Earth. If they're smart enough to build a vehicle that could travel light-years of time, they'd be smart enough to know that our diseases could wipe out people."

During the time that Coleman was the Project Blue Book spokesman, the director of the Air Force study was Col. Bob Friend. He disagreed with the Air Force's negative conclusions about UFOs in 1969.

"My primary explanation for these things is that, yes, they're real, and I think it would be much better if the government or some other agency was to take on these things and to pursue the scientific aspects of it," Friend said.

At Saturday's lecture, Friend, at right, offered an olive branch to the many people who claim to have seen UFOs but have been reluctant to report them out of fear of not being taken seriously.

"UFO sightings are real, and you will not be ridiculed by any honest organization that investigates it. Just come forward, quote your case and allow people to investigate what they can to make some determination about what it is that you've seen. In the future, just remember that we're on your side."

Nick Pope, the civilian member of the UFO panel, acknowledged that many in the audience came to the lecture anticipating the revelation of mind-blowing UFO evidence.

"While I apologize to those people who might be expecting or hoping for a 'spaceship in a hangar' smoking gun, what you are getting is the real deal: an insight from people who have looked at this mysterious and infuriating subject for the government," said Pope, a former UFO investigator for the UK Ministry of Defense.

"The UFO subject is a field which does have its fair share of crackpots and charlatans and cultists. What you have this evening in a field like that is a panel of people who indisputably and genuinely have done this for the government and the military."

Pope recounted how the UK's former official committee, known as the Flying Saucer Working Party, concluded in 1951 that UFOs were just misidentifications, hoaxes and delusions, and that no further time or effort should be wasted on the subject.

"Unfortunately for them, in 1952, there was a wave of sightings throughout the UK, where most of the witnesses were Royal Air Force pilots, some of whom chased these things, and many radar operatives tracked them," Pope said.

As the Ministry of Defense continued investigating UFOs, Pope noted, they kept a close watch on the UFO "community." "We anonymously subscribed to their magazines: Subscription, please send to John Smith, P.O. Box 007, London -- that was us. And I even covertly slipped into the back of UFO conferences."

Pope concluded by saying that the Ministry of Defense always had one thing on its mind about UFOs: "Whatever the nonsense you see about this subject sometimes in the field, we never lost sight of the fact that, in all of these hundreds of thousands of sightings, the believers only had to be right once, and everything changes."

Watch this 1958 program of reporter Mike Wallace interviewing Marine Maj. Donald Keyhoe about UFOs. (Story continues below)

 

Another UFO lecture panelist, retired Army Col. John Alexander, was a former military insider who convened a special group in the 1980s called the Advanced Theoretical Physics Group, whose members were culled from the military services and the aerospace and intelligence communities. They concluded that while there had been numerous cases of credible UFO encounters, the group couldn't find any evidence of any actual government cover-up.

Alexander cited a variety of intriguing UFO cases involving pilots and told the audience that UFOs are "real and is a global phenomenon -- not something that just happens in the U.S.

"We need to make it permissible for scientists to discuss and research these topics. ... There are no simple answers, and not only do we not have the answers, we're not at the point of asking the right questions yet, and that's what we need to do."

The lecture included a spirited question-and-answer session in which the audience engaged the panel on a variety of UFO-related topics, trying to draw out more detailed revelations.

While no ET body or piece of alien spaceship was brought forward and presented to the audience, those who attended the presentation seemed to appreciate the participants' candor.

Still, the audience probably left with more questions than answers.

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Courtesy of David Hastings

29-05-2013 om 14:50 geschreven door peter  

Ata -- The So-Called '6-Inch Alien' -- May Have An Earthling Cousin, And Ripley's Wants To Find Him

When a new documentary promised to unveil DNA tests on a 6-inch-tall humanoid found 10 years ago in Chile, everyone weighed in with an opinion.

UFO researchers hoped this might finally be proof of alien visitations. Skeptics were sure it was nothing more than shameless movie promotion.

The latest ripple in this controversy might be the most bizarre turn yet.

And by "ripple," I mean Ripley -- as in "Believe It or Not!"

The tiny mummified figure -- better known as Ata (pictured at right in the above image) -- was found in Chile's Atacama Desert in 2003. It is featured in the recent documentary "Sirius." Even after detailed X-rays, CAT scans and DNA analysis, questions are still being asked about Ata's origin.

Genetic testing -- while not totally conclusive yet -- strongly suggests Ata is 91 percent human. But it's the other 9 percent of unknown properties that still have experts scratching their heads. Further DNA analysis might help unravel the mystery.

Part of the controversy involves some scientists claiming Ata was a human who lived six to eight years, while others insist Ata was a mummified aborted human fetus. You can't have it both ways.

And now, meet Atta Boy (pictured at left in above image). Yes, Atta Boy, also around 6-inches tall, also from the Atacama Desert area as Ata, but reportedly from Bolivia or Peru.

Check out these rarely seen images of Atta Boy shared with HuffPost by Ripley's Believe It or Not!

Ata From Chile, Meet Bolivia's Atta Boy

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A new book, "A Curious Man: The Strange and Brilliant Life of Robert 'Believe It or Not!' Ripley," has emerged about the life of the globehopping millionaire of the 1930s. His passion for weird and strange things resulted in an international empire of books, cartoons, radio shows and museums dedicated to the strangest oddities of the world.

The book includes a little image from 1933 showing a 6-and-a-half-inch-tall figure standing on Ripley's outstretched hand (see below). The caption refers to the diminutive human as Atta Boy, with a reference to the Peruvian Jivaro Indians (also known as the Shuar), known for their expertise in creating shrunken heads.

"I came across Atta Boy a few times in my research, Neal Thompson, author of "A Curious Man," told The Huffington Post. "One thing Ripley was fascinated by was the miniaturization of the human form, for example, in the cultures where they practiced the shrinking of heads.

"As far as I know, regarding Atta Boy, Ripley didn't leave behind any specific notes about where he obtained it or the background of the body of the boy -- it's a bit of a mystery. I know that Ripley portrayed Atta Boy as a real human as opposed to an alien. He believed that it was an actual miniature mummified human."

Part of the mystery of Atta Boy is whether or not he was a shrunken human or a mummified fetus. The origins of this artifact are not known and after the 1930s, he vanished into obscurity -- or into someone's private collection.

"It appears to me to be a mummified fetus as opposed to a shrunken body," said Edward Meyer, Ripley's vice president of exhibits and archives. "Having seen actual shrunken bodies, it looks very, very different."

But what about the coincidences piling up between Ata and Atta Boy? Both are about 6 inches tall, both from reportedly neighboring South American countries, both from the Atacama Desert area, and both with their own mysteries as to their origins. Are there other coincidences that have yet to emerge?

"I wouldn't even call it coincidence. I just think it's the same story 70 or 80 years later," Meyer told HuffPost. "I don't think that there's just one. I personally believe [Atta Boy] is more likely a Bolivian mummy than a Jivaro shrunken body."

Meyer adds that there were only three known cases where an entire body was shrunk.

"The key thing with the three full bodies is that they're all believed to have been done by a German doctor in Peru. Someone showed him how to do a shrunken head, and he may have wanted to go one step further by trying the whole body.

"To shrink the body, you've got to get all of the bones out. Your skin is like leather, it'll boil, but your bones will not shrink. That's one of the things with shrunken heads that people don't understand," Meyer explained.

"The Jivaro Indians were keeping the head because that is where the soul is supposed to be -- the whole purpose of the shrunken head is to capture your enemy's soul."

Could Ata and Atta Boy be somehow related? It would certainly help if we knew where Atta Boy currently resides -- if anywhere.

Atta Boy is Meyer's personal Holy Grail and he doesn't think HuffPost is crazy for suggesting there might be both a geographical and personal relationship between Ata and Atta Boy.

"If anybody knows where the original Atta Boy is, write to me at meyer@ripleys.com. I have to think that there's a story that's better than the modern Ata if we could find where this thing is or where it's been."

And Ripley's wants to sweeten the deal a little bit. The first person who supplies Ripley's with information that leads to the whereabouts of Atta Boy will receive a lifetime pass to any of the 32 worldwide Ripley's Odditoriums as well as a single-visit pass to each of the Ripley's Aquariums.

If Atta Boy can be found and DNA samples from him could be compared with little Ata, who knows how this could all evolve.

Watch the following video images of Chile's Ata humanoid:

28-05-2013 om 01:00 geschreven door peter  

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