Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.
This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.
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The purpose of this blog is the creation of an open, international, independent and free forum, where every UFO-researcher can publish the results of his/her research. The languagues, used for this blog, are Dutch, English and French.You can find the articles of a collegue by selecting his category. Each author stays resposable for the continue of his articles. As blogmaster I have the right to refuse an addition or an article, when it attacks other collegues or UFO-groupes.
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Deze blog is opgedragen aan mijn overleden echtgenote Lucienne.
In 2012 verloor ze haar moedige strijd tegen kanker!
In 2011 startte ik deze blog, omdat ik niet mocht stoppen met mijn UFO-onderzoek.
BEDANKT!!!
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UFO'S of UAP'S, ASTRONOMIE, RUIMTEVAART, ARCHEOLOGIE, OUDHEIDKUNDE, SF-SNUFJES EN ANDERE ESOTERISCHE WETENSCHAPPEN - DE ALLERLAATSTE NIEUWTJES
UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
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MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com.
Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
01-09-2013
Monthly Statistical MUFON Report - for August 2013 - DEEL 2
Monthly Statistical MUFON Report - for August 2013 - DEEL 2
If you are getting more sighting reports than listed here, please be sure to
enter them manually into CMS. To make this happen automatically, make sure your
local MUFON Website is pointing to the CMS Reporting form on www.mufon.com and
direct all calls you get to the MUFON website so that witnesses can enter their
own report directly into CMS.
ALL sighting reports received by CMS are already filled in by the witness,
saving you and your investigators time. Each report is automatically sent to
YOU, the State Director and Assistant State Director, for you to assign someone
to follow-up and complete the report.
If a UFO sighting comes in over the phone, or by e-mail, and you want to
enter it yourself, simply go to CMS at http://mufoncms.com (once logged in) and click on
"ADD CASE" in the upper right hand corner of the screen. This gives you a blank
sighting reporting form that you can fill out while the witness is on the phone.
Once the report is filled out be sure to click "SAVE" and you will have easily
added your NEW report to CMS.
Other interesting data points in CMS during August 2013 are the shape of the
UFOs reported which were as follows;
Shape of Object
Number of Reports
Sphere
282
Star-like
193
Circle
181
Unknown
111
Fireball
103
Other
93
Oval
91
Triangle
91
Disc
90
Flash
45
Cylinder
38
Diamond
33
Cigar
25
Egg
23
Boomerang
21
Bullet/Missile
18
Blimp
12
Teardrop
12
Cone
9
Saturn-like
9
Chevron
7
Cross
5
as well as the distance from the observer;
Distance from Witness
Number of Reports
< 100 ft
92
101-500 ft
101
501 ft - 1 Mile
221
Over 1 Mile
264
Unknown
348
NO VALUE
20
Most impressively there were 25 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.
Best of UFO sightings of 2013 up To September,and Best UFOS This
week. "A mind is like a parachute. ...
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Hi all:
It is my opinion as a close observer that these
students are most likely seeing things too much in black and white and are
speaking from total ignorance, probably as a consequence of continued inaccurate
media reporting over the years. Not every NSA guy is evil or a liar. Most of
them just do their delicate jobs as best as they can. Because of the highly
sensitive nature of their jobs they are bound by secrecy laws to prevent them
from disclosing classified information, so they have to be damned careful what
they say and how they paraphrase it when talking to outsiders which are
strangers to them and hence potential adversaries. One never knows what the
intentions of any of these students might be. I
assume the NSA by its very nature is usually forced to misdirect by deliberate
disinformation and fabrication to conceal very sensitive (operational) secrets
and to protect the effectiveness of their secret operations. However, the
question is how far they are allowed to go. Are they (or any other government
agency/government contractors) e.g. allowed to intentionally misdirect the
public, the media and science in matters of utmost importance to all of
humanity, viz. the possible visitation of non-human intelligences to Earth in
the event that they have been aware that this is the case? Maybe they are
allowed to do so because of global security issues we are unaware of? Maybe the
expression the pot calling the kettle black also applies to the students: How
accurate are these taped conversations? Maybe they have been distorted in such a
way to inflict harm for whatever reason or to add fuel to the existing
conspiracy debates re the NSA. There is of course no way of
knowing.
I
hope I have been clear in expressing my personal opinion in English. As always,
my personal analyses could be wrong. So be it!
When NSA recruiters went to the University of Wisconsin
earlier this week to pitch language students on working for the agency, they got
more than they bargained for.
The informed students turned the
question-and-answer session into a hearing. On trial were the NSA's lies, their
legality, and how they define "adversary".
The students recorded audio of
the exchange on an iPhone proving that the language-analyst NSA recruiters were
left tongue-tied.
"I'm surprised that for language analysts you're
incredibly imprecise with your language," grad student Madiha Tahir charged when they failed to define what
constitutes an adversary.
"What you're selling us is untrue" she added.
"We also know that the NSA took down brochures and fact sheets after the Snowden
revelations because those fact sheets had severe inaccuracies and untruths in
them -- so how are we supposed to believe what you're saying?"
Another student directly challenged the NSA's morality
for using the "globe as their playground" and then partying at the office with
co-workers. She then challenges them to become whistleblowers because the truth
will ultimately prevail.
"Given the fact that we have been lied to as Americans, given the
fact that fact sheets have been pulled down because they clearly had untruths in
them, given the fact that Clapper and Alexander lied to Congress...Is being a
good liar a qualification to work for the NSA?" Tahir asks.
These young
students forced the NSA recruiters to claim, in a seemingly desperate defense,
that they were not actually there "representing the NSA as an
agency."
Clearly the people have questions that aren't being addressed by
their representatives, and a much larger debate is needed. However, it'd be
much more productive if these kids get to question the NSA leadership instead of
our blackmailed politicians. Listen to the whole exchange
below: Read other articles by Activist Post
Here
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Valentich
- In one of the great unexplained mysteries of aviation, pilot Fred Valentich
and his light aircraft disappeared without a trace from the skies above southern
Australia in 1978. His final words, describing his terrifying encounter: its
above me and its not an aircraft; then a mysterious metallic sound. After this
moment Valentich and his plane were never seen again. Is this evidence of UFO
contact? In a TV first we hear the actual audio of Valentichs final moments
(at
about 20:36: Dr. Richard Haines from Narcap)
In
1942 Nikola Tesla, director of the Philadelphia Experiment since 1934,
deliberately sabotaged a Navy project for invisibility for use on warships
because he couldn't bear the burden of the loss of life it would bring. They
proved by 1940 they could produce invisibility. He really did care about
humanity more than himself. I love studying the life of Tesla. I learn something
new every day. Project Rainbow and others.. Not myth. Here is a man who was
there speaking about it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aA_FEyxekOc&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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In special reports, this weeks files cover: Colonel Jesse Marcel
Jr.s Life on Earth Has Ended,Lord Hill Norton says-
ETs Are Visiting Earth, Explanations of Crop Formations,
New Jersey Suns Flames, Astronaut Chris Cassidy Saw UFO, Orb
Sighted in Home,
Fukushima Hot Spots, US Response to
Syrias Chemical Attack, and US Response to Syrias Chemical Attack, and Search
for Asteroids.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over: Arizona,
California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Michigan, New Jersey, New
Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Tennessee, Virginia and
Washington.
Sightings of UFOs were also reported in: Bolivia, Canada, France, Mumbai,
Puerto Rico, Spain, and England in the United Kingdom.
The purpose of these
files is to report the UFO eyewitness and photo/video evidence that occurs on a
daily basis around the world and in space. These Files assume that
extraterrestrial intelligent life not only exists, but my hypothesis is that the
over a thousand UFOs reported each month represent technologically advanced
spacecraft conducting surveillance of Earth. I personally became interested in
UFOs when London Control ordered me to intercept one over England while flying
for the US Air Force. Under Project Blue Book, the US Air Force investigated
UFOs for more than twenty years; and we continue this research.
I believe the God of the universe has spread life
throughout the cosmos and UFO's are visiting us in ever-increasing
numbers.
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Special
Reports
Doctor and Colonel Jesse Marcel Jr.s Life on Earth Has
Ended
It is with a sad heart that I have to break this bad news to the
world. At the age of 76 my Dad, Dr. Jesse Marcel Jr.s life on earth has
ended on August 25, 2013. He was alone and apparently
had a heart attack. Although it is a very sad time for our entire family I am
happy to know that he lived an eventful life. I am so proud to be his daughter.
He had taught me so many things in life and one of the more important things I
learned from my Dad was to never back down in the face of
adversity. Thanks to Michael
Reiche writes, Jesse was a giant to many of us, a modest man
whose father, Major Jesse Marcel, Sr., was the Roswell Army Air Field base
Intelligence officer, the first to reach and examine the Roswell crash debris
field. Jesse never once backed down in his all-too-credible account of his
father's showing him debris from the crash, and always honored and defended his
father's honor, credibility and memory. Thanks to Peter
Robbins
Editors Note: My wife and I had lunch with Jesse at the
Citizens Hearing on Disclosure in Washington DC at the National Press Club on
May 2, 2013. He told me he was very proud of his father who was an exceptionally
honorable man and had brought home extraterrestrial debris from a crashed UFO in
July of 1947, for his Mother and him to see. He had held the metal pieces in his
hand and they all knew the material was not from Earth based on the
hieroglyphics, light weight, and strength of the metal.
He told me about his serving in 18 months Iraq as an Army Colonel as a
medical doctor flight surgeon, and his frequent flights in the 189th Attack
Helicopter Battalion flying 225 hours of combat. He seemed full of life and
proud of his accomplishments and was positive the government had chosen to keep
alien visitation a secret.
Jesse Marcel Jr. is a retired, full-bird Colonel, who spent 38 years serving
his country with honor and loyalty but assured me he personally held part of an
alien UFO. Marcel attended the Louisiana State University School of Medicine at
New Orleans, graduating in July of 1961, earning a degree in medicine. He became
a specialist in ear, nose and throat medicine. During his career in the National
Guard, he was appointed State Surgeon of the State of Montana and retired from
the military a second time in August of 1996 on his 60th birthday. The Iraqi war
required him to be called back to active duty in October of 2004 shortly after
his 68th birthday for an 18 month tour in Iraq.
He is survived by his wife Linda, his children Jesse Jr., Michael, John,
Marissa, Mackenzie, Aimee, Ashley and Mark and all of his grandchildren.
Although Jessie and his father are no longer with us, the Roswell Legacy will
live on FOREVER and I will always miss him!
Lord Hill Norton says- Extraterrestrial Vehicles and Their Crews
Are Visiting Earth
Chief of Defense Staff, Ministry of Defense, Great Britain,
1973; Chairman, Military Committee of NATO, 1974-77;
I believe that these extraterrestrial vehicles and their crews
are visiting this planet from other planets which obviously are a little more
technically advanced than we are here on Earth. I feel that we need to have a
top level, coordinated program to scientifically collect and analyze data from
all over the earth concerning any type of encounter, and to determine how best
to interface with these visitors in a friendly fashion.... For many years I have
lived with a secret, in a secrecy imposed on all specialists and astronauts. I
can now reveal that every day, in the USA, our radar instruments capture objects
of form and composition unknown to us. And there are thousands of witness
reports and a quantity of documents to prove this, but nobody wants to make them
public. Quoted from his foreword of one of my favorite books;
Above Top Secret by Timothy Good, Morrow & Co's
Quill Books, 1988.
Tom Sutter writes,
Microwaves are created within a device we call a magnetron. Don't
let that complicated sounding name intimidate you. A magnitron is a simple,
straightforward device. It forces electrons to go from a negative terminal to a
positive terminal whilst passing through a magnetic field. When
electrons encounter magnetic line of force, they rotate (spin) around that line
of force before proceeding toward the positive terminal that they are traveling
to. That electron/magnetic interaction results in the creation of microwave
energies.
WHY would advanced societies bother to show us how a magnetron works since we
already know about it? I'll tell you why. It is because of an overlooked-by-us
usage of microwave energies. At a specific frequency at about 27 GHZ -
Microwaves 'shake-up' a water molecule to the point where that molecule splits
into its constituent parts. Namely, hydrogen and oxygen.
Whereupon, at that high rate of agitation, they promptly rejoin once again to
form the water molecule that was just split. And guess what? - the process
repeats! Because the 3.3 volts of electrical energy emitted when the hydrogen
and oxygen atoms combine is raised via the incorporation of a circuitry
consisting of huge capacitors and diodes and then fed back into the magnetron's
central mesh of high temperature, non magnetic, insulated wires, where the
hydrogen/oxygen are combining/splitting.
Bluntly, they are telling us that our primary means of creating needed
energies namely oil, isnt quite the way Thanks to Tom Sutterhttp://www.informantnews.com/crop/
New Jersey Suns Flames
Burlington-- The photo
was taken August 20, 2013, at sunset. A quiet evening was broken by banging on
Barbs
door. Dona yelled, "Come out, come out. The suns on
firebring your camera." And there it
was. The most amazing sight I have ever seen. It appeared as if "flames" were
jumping off the sun. Barb took photo with her Olympus camera. The neighborhood
knows of that smoke stack but has never seen this effect before.
Engineers at Verizon have told me they expect to lose more satellites due to
severe solar storms over the next 16 months. They've already lost two satellites
so far this year. A meeting a year and half ago in Brussels reported that tidal
waves are expected to migrate inland for some five miles from current levels!
Thanks to Frank Chille.
Note: A large solar eruption, known as a coronal mass ejection (CME),
occurred at 4:24 a.m. EDT October 20, and blasted billions of tons of solar
particles toward Earth at 2 million mph that may have been captured. Perhaps the
chimney released heat that caused the sun to shimmer.
Astronaut Chris Cassidy Saw UFO
"On Monday morning, on August 19, 2013, some
220 miles above the Earth, NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy looked out the window to
see a mysterious object drifting by.
Cassidy reached out to Mission Control about the strange item,
which was drifting lazily in the emptiness of space." Astronaut
Chris Cassidy looked out the window of the International Space Station and saw a
mysterious object drifting by. Cassidy immediately reached out to Mission
Control: Houston, we`ve got a UFO!
The UFO has been identified by Russian flight controllers as an antenna cover
from the Zvezda service module. Yep, even solid citizens see UFO`s, but there`s
always a rational and sometimes mundane explanation. Snip
Houston -- Charlette writes, I read your emails
and I decided to share a story about something that happened to me, which is
different than most UFO reports. At 9:30 pm, two days after hurricane Ike hit
Texas in 08. I think Ike hit on Sept 12th and this happened on
the14th. Well, to the story, I went to my daughters house a day
after the storm when we lost power. At 9 pm everyone went to bed and I slept on
an air mattress on the floor. She had just had her first baby in August and this
would be the first time my granddaughter and I were under the same roof at the
same time. By 9:30 everyone was asleep and out of thin air this round black
rubix cube appeared, divided like how the ley lines are laid out over the Earth.
It was about 6 to 8 inches round and was about 6 feet off the ground,
illuminating an inch around it. There was a very dim light in the center of each
of 4 or 5 sections. I was excited about seeing it, but truly blown away that
something like that would appear in front of me. My intensions were to get up
and go to it and look more for another light source that could be creating it.
It did not look holographic, it looked solid, like it could have been a toy.
I lay down on the sofa and woke up the next morning. Now, I can just fathom
the thought of something that could break down the molecular structure of matter
in such a way that it could reconstruct it's self inside ones home. I actually
saw it, plain as day. That morning I jerked myself up off the sofa just to
realize what had happened. I finally told my daughter later that day when she
came home from work due to the fact I had to reassure myself I did not imagine
it...it was what I saw. Now you have to understand that I have raised my 2
children (now 36 and 42) to know about thing like ufo's and other anomalies and
to believe that things like this are real.
I told my daughter about the sighting, and we had a UFO sighting when she was
4 years old BUT she did not accept .Mom, I believe that you believe what you saw
was real. Then in my search for answers I came across you and your site and read
and research some of the things you report. I guess what I'm asking is, if you
have ever heard of such a thing in all your reports? Thanks to Charlette.
Note: The sightings of small flying objects inside peoples homes are often
reported. Some abductees feel they are reconnaissance vehicles and some claim
they even transform into entities.
Fukushima Hot Spots
Fukushima nuclear plant said on Thursday new spots of high
radiation had been found near storage tanks holding highly contaminated water
that has been pumped through the reactors to keep fuel in the melted cores from
overheating. There are 350 bolted-style tanks in place and another 710 welded
tanks.
The bolted tanks were sealed with resin but some are leaking. Tokyo Electric
Power Co said, Some bolted tanks have failed, leaking 300 tons of
highly radioactive water each day that may have seeped into the Pacific
Ocean.
A tsunami crashed into the Fukushima Daiichi power plant north of Tokyo on
March 11, 2011, causing fuel-rod meltdowns at three reactors, radioactive
contamination triggering the evacuation of 160,000 people. It was the world's
worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl in 1986 and no one seems to know how to
bring the crisis to an end. Japan is calling for help.
US Response to Syrias Chemical Attack
The Obama administration tried to bolster its case for
possible military action against Syria within days, with intelligence agencies
preparing to release intercepted communications aimed at proving President Assad
perpetrated a large-scale chemical weapons attack on its civilians near
Damascus.
There is a strong possibility that Al Qaeda actually used the chemical
weapons in an effort to get the West to help in the fight against Assad, who has
strongly denied the attack. Al Qaeda has the most to gain and has shown a
willingness to kill innocent people to further their goal of taking over the
Syrian government and to rule the Sunni religious majority.
The US Navy is setting up off the coast. Red areas are Government controlled
while blue is held by the rebels. Syrian air bases would likely be attacked.
NASA Telescope will Search for Asteroids
CAPE
CANAVERAL -- NASA
will reactivate a mothballed infrared space telescope for a three-year mission
to search for potentially dangerous asteroids on a collision course with Earth
starting in October. The Wide-field
Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, telescope also will hunt for targets for
a future mission to send a spacecraft to rendezvous with an asteroid.
Launched in December 2009, the WISE telescope spent 13 months scouting for
telltale infrared signs of asteroids, stars, and distant galaxies. WISE observed
more than 34,000 asteroids in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter
and another 135 asteroids in orbits that come close to Earth. Overall,
scientists cataloged more than 560 million objects with WISE. The telescopes
instruments were turned off when its primary mission was completed in February
2011.
NASAs Jet
Propulsion Laboratory already has found about 95 percent of the near-Earth
asteroids that are .62 miles (1 km) or larger in diameter. The agency is
about halfway through a 15-year effort to find 90 percent of all near-Earth
objects that are as small as about 459 feet (140 meters) in diameter.
The search took on a note of urgency after a small asteroid blasted through
the skies above Chelyabinsk,
Russia, in February 2013 and exploded with 20- to 30 times the force of the
Hiroshima atomic bomb. More than 1,500 people were injured. The events prompted
Congressional hearings to step up asteroid detection initiatives and to double
NASAs $20 million Near-Earth Objects detection programs.
About 66 million years ago, an object 6 miles (10 km) in diameter smashed
into what is now the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico, leading to the demise of the
dinosaurs, as well as most plant and animal life on Earth.
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UFO Sightings in the United
States
ArizonaSpherical UFO
El Mirage -- I was driving to work at 5:19
AM, to central Phoenix on August 14, 2013; I stopped at a stop sign on the
access road to Grand Avenue and saw there was a nice cloud formation backed by a
colorful sunrise. I decided to snap a photo and took the shot facing east at the
sunrise. I took two shots and reviewed them a few days later when I noticed the
glowing lights in the sky.
I used my phones screen to zoom in and was in awe looking at six orbs of
light in a circular or oval shape. I live near Luke Air Force Base and see
fighter jets all the time but this was definitely NOT one of them. Thanks to
MUFON CMS
California Objects
Clovis -- At 6:51 AM, I was taking pictures of the sunrise
and the clouds of a thunderstorm which was traveling down the San Joaquin
valleys east side along that was dissipating on August 18, 2013. When I
downloaded the pictures to the computer I noticed I had caught three objects in
the sky. My first thought was I had captured three UFOs moving south and I took
a second picture seconds later, and noticed four faint black dots in the second
picture. I contacted and showed the picture to a Sanger California paranormal
radio talk show host Jeffery Gonzales, and he didnt know what they were? I was
really excited that I might have captured real UFOs but without the proper photo
enhancing equipment I cant say what they are. The camera I used is a digital
Olympus fe-230 7.1. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Colorado Triangle UFO
Lakewood-- This is the
third time in the past six months that I've seen this large object/aircraft in
the night skies over the Metro Denver area. At roughly 4:15 AM on August 14,
2013. I was driving by Wal-Mart near 1st and Wadsworth- roughly when I saw a
slow object moving east. What struck me was how this craft resembled the
previous two sightings I witnessed this year.
The aircraft seems to be larger than a commercial airliner, with three bright
white 'LED' lights on the front forward facing underside and a smaller flashing
white 'LED' on the wingtip. It was flying about 90 mph as drove south onto
Wadsworth Avenue and I could see the underside of the aircraft. The underside of
is honeycombed flat patterned triangle shaped layout with yellow lights. From
this angle, looking directly at the back of the aircraft I could see two
flashing 'LED' lights on the wingtips. No sound could be heard. It is awesome
and possibly a military aircraft. If youre awake around 3AM-4:30AM and you live
in Denver area keep an eye on the night skies! Each time I saw this craft it was
flying towards Fitzsimmons/CU Medical University area. Thanks to MUFON CMS
SALIDA --My friend and I were up at Mt. Antero, gold panning
when I decided to
take some pictures of the area on August 18, 2013. I took pictures of the Mt
Antero and the meadow and pictures of a beautiful stream.
When I got home to Colorado Springs I noticed a dark dull object in the
picture. Neither I nor my friend saw or heard anything. According to the GPS, we
were at 12 thousand feet and it was a thousand feet above us. Ive never seen
anything I couldnt explain. When we try to blow up the photo, it looks like
there is a glow around it and its oblong. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Florida UFO over MoonAlien Abduction
MIAMI -- This is a star-like object, a
very bright point of light captured on August 16, 2013. I have seen this object
before and it has a certain regularity. I used a Sony HD camcorder and you can
see clearly that is a point of light, like a star, but it does not move in a
straight line, so it is not an astronomical object or a satellite. I first
spotted the object around 7:30 pm, still in daylight that appeared lower in the
north horizon. It usually moves around the same point, but on August 16, it
moves up all the way to the zenith, and then it fades away on the west direction
around 8:24 pm.
That day also I noticed a silent drone flying around and
took many hours of video recording it. Be aware that this object appears to be
in the top levels of the atmosphere. Thanks to MUFON CMS
MIAMI -- On August 2, 2005, the Thomas witness called,
saying that he had just awakened and was very; very thirsty even after drinking
several bottles of water and wanted to tell me about what happened to him. He
said, At 1:10 AM, I had an overwhelming urge to go out back when I
saw an orange light above the retention pond in my yard. He said,
I saw the same one that I saw over the Gulf, but it was straight
across, pointed at the end about 200 to 300 feet in the airthatmay have been a disk.
The surface was orange, pulsating, and there were three squares, then a space
and then three more squares. He saw it for about 45 seconds and then it
completely vanished. He found it hard to get back inside but did not awaken the
others in his house.
He called me at 3:52 AM, stating, I had two hours and forty-two
minutes of missing time that was likely an abduction. Thomas
became very thirsty after this, drinking five 16 oz. bottles of water at once.
He later suffered from vomiting, diarrhea and inability to urinate. On August 4,
he noticed a slight burning sensation on his chest and discovered a small red
triangle just below the skin. His doctor didnt know what it was, but didnt
think it was anything to worry about. The doctor did find that his Triglycerides
were dangerously high, 410, (normal 40 to 200) and said that he could be at risk
for a stroke or heart attack. The doctor also found that his Electrolytes were
extremely low, and advised him to drink PediaLite and to eat only fruit and
vegetables. The family had gone to Cape Canaveral to see the space shuttle
return and had lunch with the astronauts, Thomas niece asked about drinking
Tang. The astronaut said, We no longer drank that and use a
different formula because they had found that weightlessness caused a decrease
of electrolytes in the human body. This may be significant to
Thomas because his electrolytes were very low after an apparent abduction. The
witness was fearful of a little girl with dark eyes in the doctors waiting
room, as did people who wore sun glasses. Thanks to MM Zimmer and MUFON CMS. Ken
Pfeifer MUFON NJ www.worldufophotos.org
Georgia Lights
CUMMING -- Sitting on the front porch and
noticed two bright lights in the sky to the south on August 21, 2013. They
hovered and changed directions going back and forth. Then they would change from green to red and drop like a rock
behind the treeline. This was about 2 weeks before I made this report. I was
told they may have been Helios helicopters. I didnt notice them again until
last night; they were in the same location and doing the same thing as before,
changing color and dropping out of sight and back up again. Tonight they
appeared at the same time around 9:15 pm. I drove to a better location to
observe them and a couple of more people were watching them. A lady said that it
flew right over them just before I arrived and was in the shape of an asterisk
with a spinning motion in the center, she said it made a slight humming noise
like an air conditioning unit. We watched the lights hover; float around make
hairpin turns and come to a complete stop. One of the objects changed colors
from a green and white light to a brilliant red and dropped like a rock behind
the treeline. The other one floated around then hovered. A few minutes passed
and the object that dropped behind the treeline reappeared rising back up in a
brilliant red light, turning to a blinding white light.
We watched the objects and we had a really freaky feeling watching them. Then
both objects turned red and dropped behind the treeline and we didnt see them
again. The other couple said they saw the objects drop behind the trees. One
goes down while the other stays up and hovers and floats nearby then both
objects dropped below the tree line.Thanks to MUFON CMS
Illinois UFO near Sears Tower
ChicagoI was on the Amtrak train, the
train had just entered so being the tourist I am I took a photo of the Willis
(or Sears) tower. I had not seen anything at the time it took the picture. I was
still on the train at the time; I took the picture through the window. The
window had a smear on it, if you look at the picture the UFO looks like its
emitting smoke, its not, its the smear. When I noticed it on my picture the
first thing that came to mind was "I actually caught a legit UFO, and Im only
12". Thanks to MUFON CMS
Michigan
GRAND RAPIDS -- On August 24,
2013, at 2:45 AM, I witnessed an orange pulsating orb in the north sky as I
stepped outside to smoke a cigarette. I quickly turned on the video on my Galaxy
Exhibit 4G. I am a US Air Force veteran and aware of what aircraft look like at
night.
I have never seen anything that fits the description of the craft that I saw.
This is the second strange encounter Ive had in the last two years. My
brother also had a strange encounter.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
New Jersey UFOs
Marlton -- My kids and their mother were
driving down Route 70 east when they saw a UFO hovering over farm land on August
25, 2013. It began to move slowly, and was as high as a 10 story building. They
immediately knew it was an UFO because it had three white lights shining below
the craft that descended 20 feet. The lights were a continuous bright light for
the full 20 feet. After several minutes, a second UFO with red outside lights
appeared and hovered next to the first UFO. They were very frightened and went
to the nearest store where there were other observers who they said did not know
what it was. After 15 minutes, they left the store and once again saw the two
UFOs. As they drove down Route 70 a third UFO joined the other two and formed a
triangle and slowly climbed upwards. They lost the UFOs and were too scared to
try to follow them. This image was taken on my sons cell phone of a white light
that is green in the picture. A UFO is below. Thanks to MUFON CMS
New Mexico Disc UFO
Corona -- My brother and
I were checking out the area near the Corona UFO crash site of 1947. We took
some photos with our iPhone on August 19, 2013, and when we got back home, we
noticed something in our photo.
When the photo was taken, no A/C, birds, or debris was visible in the air. We
heard no sound. I do not know what the object is... Ive tried to analyze the
pictures but no great results.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
North Carolina Discs
Fayetteville -- Travelling north
in my car after work on August 24, 2013, we took a picture of a cloud formation.
The sun was behind the car.
Our photo captured an object we noticed in the photo later that evening.
Object was moving at incredible speed and we used a Stop f/2.4 exposure at
1/3717 second at ISO Speed of 100 Focal length 5mm.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Ohio Orbs
SANDUSKY -- On August 9, 2013, about 10:20 PM, we were
talking about seeing UFOs, when we saw something that looked liked Japanese
Lanterns in the sky.
I took a picture of them but what I saw wasnt what I got in the picture.
Mustang -- We were at the Mustang City
Park with family and friends to watch the fireworks on July 4, 2013 that were
exploding around us. My sister-in-law said, Jeff look a
UFO. I looked where she pointed above the building in front of
us. I pulled out my Samsung Digital Camera and took several pictures. My
sister-in-law also recorded pictures on her phone. At first I thought it was
fireworks but it was moving too fast, and a firework went off near it. It looked
like it jumped away from the explosion. You can see it jump between the first
and second picture. It was my first good sighting and it just faded away. Thanks
to MUFON CMS
Oregon Cylinder
UNION -- On August 11, 2013, I was in my
front yard looking at the stars and saw to the west a bright white orb sphere
appear. It was real bright thats why I noticed it. No noise came from it when
it moved through the sky about the speed of a plane and was definitely lower in
altitude than a plane. I took my camera on my phone and captured two pictures
before it flew out of sight. I dont know what it is but I do know I have seen
similar things for the past two years off and on. I was super excited and when I
got inside much later and looked at my pictures I was in shock in what was in
both photos. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Tennessee Cylinder UFO
I was on the first leg of a flight from Denver, CO to
Charleston, SC and was staring out the window, as I do on long boring flights
and I noticed a long black cylinder like object directly off the left side of
the 737 aircraft. I took images with my iPhone around noon before we landed in
Nashville, TN. on March 14, 2011. I fly often and know what other aircraft looks
like outside of a plane window. This object was odd because it had no trail and
it kept up with our plane. Before changing direction completely and speeding up
the object was almost vertical. I pointed it out to my friend who also saw it
but could not explain it either. It changed direction and sped away.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Virginia Cylinder
HAMPTON -- I was outside
taking pictures on August 20, 2013, of the full blue moon with my new Samsung 16
megapixel camera. After downloading the pictures to my computer a noticed a
contrail next to the moon of three contrails merging into one. I could not see
the aircraft that were making the contrails. I could see there were round
objects following behind in the contrail. One of the objects stayed with the
flight until the last picture. The objects may have been illuminated by the sun
as it was 8:30 pm as the sun set. I am 65 years old and have lived my entire
life near Langley Air Force base on the east coast water front. I would judge
these objects to be in the 35000 to 40000 foot of altitude. The speed seemed to
be somewhat faster than other aircraft I have recorded at that altitude. Thanks
to MUFON CMS
Washington Crystal Type Object
Leavenworth -- I saw a crystal type light, mid day around 2 PM, on
August 18, 2013,and didnt think much of it until a minute or
so later so I took a picture. I thought it weird to see because there were
absolutely no clouds in the sky. The picture is looking west-southwest. The
shiny object was there for twenty minutes. It could be a cloud, but it would be
the first I have seen that looked like that. And there were absolutely no other
clouds in the sky. It looked the same as the photo and was clearer to the naked
eye than the camera could capture. I just thought it odd for a cloud to shine
like a crystal or diamond would when light reflects.
Note: The photo appears to be a small cloud. However, the witness doesnt
believe that he saw nor photographed a cloud. Thanks to William Puckett,
Director http://www.UFOsnw.com
World
Wide UFO Sightings
Bolivia Green Orb
LAKE TITICACA -- We were crossing the
border between Peru into Bolivia near the shore of Lake Titicaca on May 20,
2013. I took pictures of the view with my iPad, and when I saw the pictures
later I realized there was a green orb.
In the second picture the green orb seems to have dashed 100 meters away in
or more in less than 7 seconds.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Canada Five Lights
Sorel-Tracy I saw five lights following each other in
line, the last one was higher and closer to the one in front. Going north then
one by one turned to the east, dimmed and disappeared. One minute later a
chopper with his lights on came from the east and turned south and took the same
path. No sound was heard and the sky was clear. Thanks to MUFON CMS
France Disc UFO
My name is Archie Saga,
37-yrs-old. I am a Filipino living in South of France about 16 years or so.
I would like to report a UFO sighting that I have captured using my cell
phone (iPhone5) camera.
What amazed me after 3 shots that I took is that I didn't notice the object
at the time. It was a terrible weather on June 13, 2013 at Cap Dail; we were
expecting a powerful thunderstorm so I took a photo of the clouds forming just
above a super yacht. Powerful lightning was experienced that day cutting
electricity four times.
I tried to zoom in the image but could not figure out exactly the shape of
the object. There was a dark shade coming from below the object like a heat
source. I believe I just took a genuine UFO photo.
Taj Mahal -- UFO was allegedly spotted by the Indian Army near Taj
Mahal in mid August. A video posted online appeared to show a UFO close to India's
popular white marbled monument, Taj Mahal. A misleading news headline has led to
confusing reports of the UFO sighting.
A report from The Inquisitr said it was true that the Indian army has
reported UFO sightings, but they were nowhere near the Taj Mahal. The Army UFO
sightings were part of a continuous wave of UFOs seen on the Indo-Tibetan/China
Border.
Jason McClellan from Open Minds said after watching the video that it wasn't
a bug since the object near Taj Mahal was not moving. The video appeared to be
part of UFOPrimeTube's collection of UFO videos.
Comments under the video suggest the UFO sighting was not actually a UFO.
Kharghar Navi During the past two or three months I have
been noticing these really extraordinary objects that I believe is a UFO. It is
a typical oval shaped light that is mostly visible between 10 PM and 10:20 PM.
The August 19, 2013, light does not blink like those of planes so I am 110% sure
it is a UFO! Yesterday it was visible for some ten minutes and disappeared
two minutes before a plane came!
CANÓVANAS -- My son and I arrived from work and l looked at
the moon and noticed the smoke or cloud line left below the moon which started
from north to south which looked like something came into the atmosphere on
August 18, 2013. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Spain Triangle UFO
GERENA -- Mr. Antonio Márquez, a resident of Gerena, member
of the National Police on duty at a commissariat in Seville, kindly visited
ufologist Joaquín Mateos Nogales to report the following:
While travelling in my car to Seville to join
the ranks, I witnessed something unusual at Kilometer 9 of the Gerena Road, at
the crossing with the road to Extremadura. The time was 20:45 hours on the night
of 6 February 1990. A brilliant, triangular-shaped object was some 40 meters to
the right of the road, at an altitude of approximately 100
meters.
According to the witness, it measured 12 to 14 meters long, and within the
triangle he could see several hexagons of mostly green, yellow and blue, which
differentiated the hexagons. At the time, the witness was afraid to stop,
uncertain of how the object would react, as he explained. Two cars crossed his
own vehicle at the time, but did not stop, and neither did he. When he reached
the crossing with the road to Extremadura, he went into a brick factory,
somewhat nervously, and explained what he had seen to the person in charge.
Source: Grupo GERENA (Spain) and José Manuel García Bautista.
UK/England Lights
Fareham -- Seen five
lights following each other in line, the last one was higher and closer to the
one in front. Going north then one by one turned to the east, dimmed and
disappeared. 1 minute latter a chopper whit his lights on came from the east and
turned south (took about the same path in mid August.
No sound was heard. The sky was clear. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Filers Files are now being emailed to 20,000 + addresses each week
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Dulce, New Mexico, Underground Base - Fact or Fiction?
Aimez Dulce, New Mexico,
Underground Base - Fact or Fiction? sur Facebook
Senate Years of Service: 1959-1983 Party: Democrat
CANNON, Howard Walter, a Senator from
Nevada; born in St. George, Washington County, Utah, January 26, 1912; graduated
from Arizona State Teachers College in 1933, and University of Arizona Law
School in 1937; admitted to the bar in Arizona in 1937, Utah in 1938, and Nevada
in 1946; reference attorney, Utah State senate in 1939; elected county attorney
of Washington County, Utah, in 1940; during the Second World War served in the
United States Army in 1941 and the United States Army Air Corps 1942-1946,
attaining the rank of lieutenant colonel; served in the Air Force Reserve and
retired as a major general; elected city attorney of Las Vegas, Nev., in 1949
and served for four consecutive terms; elected as a Democrat to the United
States Senate in 1958; reelected in 1964, 1970 and 1976 and served from January
3, 1959, to January 3, 1983; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1982;
chairman, Joint Committee on Inaugural Arrangements (Ninety-second Congress),
Select Committee on Standards and Conduct (Ninety-third and Ninety-fourth
Congresses), Committee on Rules and Administration (Ninety-third through
Ninety-fifth Congresses) , Joint Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies (Ninety-fourth
Congress), Joint Committee on Library (Ninety-fifth Congress), Joint Committee
on Printing (Ninety-fifth Congress), Committee on Commerce, Science, and
Transportation (Ninety-fifth and Ninety-sixth Congresses); died in Las Vegas,
Nevada, on March 5, 2002; interment in Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington,
Va.
Bibliography
Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives; Gilbertson, John. Plane
Politics: Lyndon Johnson, Howard Cannon, and Nevadas 1964 Senatorial Election.
Nevada Historical Society Quarterly 46 (Winter 2003): 257-85; Titus, A.
Costandina. Howard Cannon, the Senate and Civil-Rights Legislation, 1959-1968.
Nevada Historical Society Quarterly 33 (Winter 1990): 13-29; Venetti,
Michael. Senator Howard Canon of Nevada: A Biography. Reno: University of
Nevada Press, 2008.
Encore du nouveau aux Rencontres Ufologiques - MUFON FRANCE
Encore et toujours du nouveau, l'ouverture à Valencia (Espagne) d'un
nouveau Café Ufologiques, dans la lignée directe de ce qu'a initié Ruben Morales
en Argentine. Le premier Café ou on parlera OVNI en Espagne......
Puis d'autres informations, du Mufon France, enfin en bref, ce que vous
nous avez comuniqué afin de contribuer à la vie du site fédératif et
communautaire des Rencontres Ufologiques.
Bonne lecture de cette dernière lettre, ( en version Pdf, une version word
est possible pour celles ou ceux qui le souhaitent.)
Scientist asserts that Earth life was seeded by MarsPosted by:
Jason McClellan August 29, 2013011 Vi...
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Alien spacecraft travels to Sun - Not a Comet
Alien spacecraft travels to Sun - Not a Comet
Look at how a simple view of the Comet Ison is seen and yet when darkened its true nature shines through. It's really a giant alien ship that flys past our sun. This is comet C/2012 S1 o Ison, which NASA is trying to misrepresent as a comet.
It seems that since the suns magnetic field is going to flip or reverse and this mothership is approaching our sun, it would be safe to assume the UFO either is going to cause the flip or wants to harvest some kind of magnetic energy when it happens.
C/2012 S1 will come to perihelion (closest approach to the Sun) on 28 November 2013 at a distance of 0.012 AU (1,800,000 km; 1,100,000 mi) from the centre point of the Sun.
Date of UFO Discovery: August 2013 Location of UFO Discovery: Heading toward Earth Sun!
UFO BATTLES OVER EARTH .ex- govt whistleblower tells truth
over alien ufo threat
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Videos, gefilmd door de NASA...
Tellement de preuve maintenant que
les extra terrestres existent je comprend pas le monde qui ne veule tout
simplement pas y croire parce que ils sont trop simple d'esprit...c'est
malheureux de constater que la majorité des humains sont en plus
bornés...
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Physician who told of handling Roswell UFO debris dies
Physician who told of handling Roswell UFO debris dies
AP Photo: Marcel Family Photo
Dr. Jesse Marcel Jr. was found dead at his home in Helena, Mont., on Saturday.
Amy Beth Hanson of Associated Press -
"He was credible. He wasn't lying," Jesse Marcel Jr.'s wife said about his Roswell claims. Marcel, who said he handled debris from the 1947 Roswell UFO, was found dead Saturday.
HELENA, Mont. Dr. Jesse Marcel Jr., who said he handled debris from the 1947 crash of an unidentified flying object near Roswell, N.M., has died at the age of 76.
Denice Marcel said her father was found dead at his home in Helena on Saturday, less than two months after making his last trip to Roswell. He had been reading a book about UFOs.
Over the past 35 years, Marcel appeared on TV shows, documentaries and radio shows; was interviewed for magazine articles and books; and traveled the world lecturing about his experiences in Roswell.
"He was credible. He wasn't lying. He never embellished only told what he saw," his wife Linda said.
Marcel's father was an Air Force intelligence officer and reportedly the first military officer to investigate the wreckage in early July 1947. Marcel said he was 10 when his father brought home some of the debris, woke him up in the middle of the night and said the boy needed to look at it because it was something he would never see again.
His father maintained the debris "was not of this Earth," Linda Marcel said. "They looked through the pieces, tried to make sense of it."
The item that Marcel said fascinated him the most was a small beam with some sort of purple-hued hieroglyphics on it, she said.
After an initial report that a flying saucer had been recovered on a ranch near Roswell, the military issued a statement saying the debris was from a weather balloon.
"They were told to keep it quiet and they did for years and years and years," Linda Marcel said. Interest in the case was revived, however, when physicist and UFO researcher Stanton Friedman spoke with Jesse Marcel Sr. in the late 1970s.
Friedman wrote the foreword to Marcel's 2007 book "The Roswell Legacy," and described him as a courageous man who "set a standard for honesty and decency and telling the truth."
"His legacy is that he had the courage to speak out when he didn't have to about handling wreckage that his dad brought home," Friedman said Tuesday. "He worked with artists to come up with what the symbols on the wreckage looked like. He didn't have to do that. He could have kept his mouth shut. A lot of people did."
On his last trip to Roswell in early July, UFO researcher and Earth science professor Frank Kimbler arranged for Marcel to visit his childhood home and the debris site.
"I remember my dad did say that he loved the ride up to the site that day because he was able to discuss science with Frank," Denice Marcel said in an email to The Associated Press. "One thing about my Dad, he was always reading something on astronomy or some kind of scientific journal. He loved astronomy with a passion."
Marcel graduated from medical school at Louisiana State University School of Medicine in 1961 and joined the U.S. Navy in 1962. He retired after nine years and later joined the Montana Army National Guard and became a flight surgeon in 1981. He was called back to active duty in October 2004 and served as a flight surgeon in Iraq for just over a year. He reached the rank of colonel.
He worked as an ear, nose and throat doctor and retired from the Veterans Administration Hospital at Fort Harrison, west of Helena, all of which lent credibility to his story.
"I know that one of the things that Dad would love to say is, 'If we are the only ones here then there is an awful lot of wasted space out there,'" Denice Marcel said. "He wasn't the first one to say this, but he did believe it. He also believed that everyone needed to know the truth, and that the Roswell Incident was a real event and that it was time for the cover-up to stop."
He is survived by his wife and eight children. Funeral services are pending.
A few months back, a British anomaly investigation organization announced
the
possible death of UFOlogy. They admitted that failure to provide proof that
UFOs were extraterrestrial craft and a decline in the number of UFO reports
suggests that aliens do not exist after all. Was this the end of UFOlogythe
study of UFOs? No way! It's alive and well here, said the U.S. UFOlogists. So
it is. But what is the real status of the study of UFOs?
The UFO research field is having a bit of a crisis these days. Reports come
in by the hundreds. There are not enough people to investigate them. Yet,
decades of UFO research by private and military organizations have resulted in
disappointment for those who surely thought there was something out there to
reveal. Many of the historic figures of UFOlogy are aging or have passed away.
Who is doing the work now? And what exactly are they doing?
The major organization remaining in the U.S. for investigating UFO sightings
is MUFON, the Mutual
UFO Network. MUFON is not in good shape. Their stated mission is to conduct
scientific investigation of UFO reports for the benefit of mankind. But there is
dispute about their ability to actually do that. The current version of MUFON,
according to those observing the situation, is focused on everything
except proper UFO investigation and is nowhere near scientific.
Membership in the organization has fallen off and some local MUFON groups are
disgruntled. Leadership upheavals over the past few years may have been
distracting and overall, they are experiencing a serious case of mission creep.
MUFON consists of chapters covering each state across the country who operate
somewhat independently with members paying dues to the main headquarters. They
promote a scientific method. But do they actually accomplish that goal? Recent
commentators say no, they do not. The focus in local MUFON chapters meetings
these days is decidedly unscientific with talks on alien abduction, conspiracy
theories, human-ET hybrids, hypnotic regression, and repressed memories. That's
a wide range of pseudoscience in one place. It's dragging down the credibility
of the entire subject as well as missing the point of improving actual UFO
investigations.
A comprehensive
two-part piece recently appeared online describing the changing of the guard
at MUFON that is installing its fourth director since 2009. The UFO
Trail blog critiques the current status the field and takes note of the
rising voices in the community, some of whom wish to elevate the investigations
and methods out of the realm of pseudoscience. Author of The UFO Trail, Jack
Brewer, is critical of the current methodology, characterized it as sham
inquirya label I used to describe amateur paranormal investigation and one he
thought also applied in this case.
The newly named director of MUFON, Jan Harzon, states that UFOlogy is a
science and intends to put a scientific face back on UFO
investigations. Their latest symposium, held in Las Vegas this past July had
the theme Science, UFOs, and the Search for ET. The conference featured
presentations from several science professionals (current and former) but did
not provide any blockbuster information or do much to promote science.
"We hope to bridge the gap between science and UFOlogy," said Jan Harzan,
state director of network's Orange County bureau. "They're one in the
same." - Las
Vegas Sun (19 July 2013).
Many skeptical critics would dispute the claim that UFOlogy is a science but
that depends on how you wish to define science. A general definition such as a
systematically collected body of knowledge is not very descriptive of a
subject area that contains a lot of data but few constructive hypotheses to
provide a framework. The UFO sighting data is mostly witness reports and much of
it is of questionable veracity or too old to be of much value any longer. The National UFO
Reporting Center has a database of reported sightings but I havent found
any compelling reports about flaps or trends to make sense of the data. It could
be that Im not reading cutting-edge UFO research but if there really was a good
report that solidly concluded that there was a pattern and subsequent
explanation for UFO flaps, I would be interested. I would hope Id have heard of
it, at least from those who have a more in-depth knowledge. But, as with claims
of proof of psychics or hauntings, we only have popular, often biased reports
about particular events from individuals that have a belief to promote. Those
case studies in addition to being problematic in their accuracy (since its hard
to confirm many of the events via witnesses), are not robust enough to aid in
explaining the phenomenon.
The discussion coming from a small group of today's modern UFO researchers
suggests that UFOlogy is on the wrong track these days. With a focus on
abductions, conspiracies, and exopolitics/disclosure, the core of the field is
no longer about investigating and identifying what people are reporting to have
seen in the sky.
Antonio Paris runs the API Aerial Phenomenon Investigation
Team, which has a somewhat different focus than MUFON. He wishes to return
to the nuts and bolts idea of UFO investigation and get away from the
conspiracy and fringe topics that so often dominate the symposiums and local
MUFON talks.
I asked Antonio what sorts of tools his organization uses to do
investigations. He noted that Internet sites can help identify some of the
man-made objects like aircraft and satellite. MUFON also mentions these tools on
their sites along with astronomical sites to identify bright celestial objects
that are sometimes confusing to people viewing them on the ground. Paris is also
familiar with the shape of many military aircraft and says he can typically
identify them in association with military bases nearby. API has tackled about
300 or so cases but does not pursue those that look like jokes, hoaxes, or give
them nothing to go on. There is no lack of UFO reports. An initial screening to
determine viable cases is necessary to remove those cases not worthy of
investigation or they would be overwhelmed.
MUFON trains their investigators through a manual and an exam. Paris noted to
me that the test requires no specialized skills and many people could
potentially pass it without even looking at the manual. The certification as a
field investigator is a worthwhile effort by MUFON to standardize their methods
and provide a framework for consistency of methods but it's only internal to
MUFON. When each MUFON chapter operates pretty much on its own, inconsistency
and regional differences creep in. Paris told me he is frustrated by the lack of
sharing of information both internally and externally of MUFON noting that an
object of interest can fly over a wide area. Coordination of reports that may be
of the same object would be a worthwhile effort. Science is dependent on sharing
information either through collaboration or peer review of findings. UFOlogy
appears weak in that area having no established journal or even an online
location for filing results.
Even more fundamental to UFOlogy than answering Is it a science? is Can it
ever be scientific?
UFOs are uniquely difficult to investigate for several reasons. The
observation is fleeting. It may not repeat. It is difficult to reproduce. If it
remains airborne, it leaves no physical evidence behind, only the story of the
witness. The observation is often made in the dark under conditions in which it
is difficult (or impossible) to accurately judge size and distance.
If by scientific we mean methodical, objective observations in
consideration of natural laws, logic and reason, then, yes. I think UFO
investigation can be scientific but the sea change that is needed would be
pretty huge for the field and I dont know if they can pull it off. As with
paranormal investigators, UFO researchers tend to lean towards the believer
side. Thats what keeps them passionate. But it's also their undoing. A bias
towards belief in a mystery or in alien craft is the first giant misstep in
UFOlogy. The first step for a rejuvenated field to gain credibility is to drop
the default belief that ETs are visiting earth and back up to the very basic
question, What, if anything, did this witness see? Begin looking for real
world answers instead of proof to support a belief in alien life.
I found a great example of one such sound UFO investigation. Andrew Hansford
recently gave an excellent talk at the 2013 Amazing Meeting about how he
examined a UFO case from Marblehead, MA. You can see his report here.
He was able to glean the best answer and make a solid conclusion from rather few
bits of initial information. He used the tools available to him to seek a
down-to-earth explanation.
I asked CFI fellow and Skeptical Inquirer UFO columnist Robert
Sheaffer his thoughts about scientific investigation of UFOs. It's a bit tricky.
Many have assumed it's possible, he says, but it turns out to be more difficult
than it seems. Sheaffer has documented the several times rapid response teams
have been attempted by UFO organizations. It was hoped that by gathering
reliable witness reports, and implementing a rapid response team to capture
the UFO with professional filming techniques, better evidence could be put forth
for the claim that something worth paying attention to was really occurring.
Rapid response teams turned out to be disappointing, says Sheaffer. Antonio
Paris was part of one such team, the STAR Team for MUFON. Millionaire
Robert Bigelow funded the project. MUFON has been somewhat tight-lipped
about the results, Sheaffer tells me, but they are generally conceded to be
hugely disappointing. It did not give them the results they hoped for.
Sheafffer has written about other rapid response efforts prior to the STAR
Team in his Psychic
Vibrations column of July/Aug, 2009 of Skeptical Inquirer. In
1967, J. Allen Hynek proposed and later implemented a national toll-free UFO
Hotline. Experienced screeners manned the lines twenty-four hours a day. They
contacted local police and/or other investigators who would rush to the scene.
Hynek expected this method would yield excellent evidence. Even with the
cooperation of the FBI, years later, it did not produce the expected results.
In 1977, the French government created an agency called GEPAN to
investigation UFO reports. After producing nothing convincing, official UFO
investigations in France ended in 2004. The British UFO desk was closed in
2009 despite a surge of sighting reports. Nothing was distillable from the
reports.
In the late 1990s, the Los Vigilantes of Mexico City was organized
to respond to a flap of UFO sightings in the area. Cameras were at the ready to
respond to UFO reports on short notice. Sheaffer says, as far as he was aware,
they never obtained anything of significance.
MUFON still gets hundreds of cases a month and there is considerable backlog
of investigations. Thats a hefty work load for volunteers. There is a need to
sort the wheat from the utter chaff but there still are valid means to find out
what people probably saw in the sky. Most reports will have a satisfying answer
if diligently investigated. But that may not happen or the eyewitness may not
accept it.
Pariss API group is in contact with the new leadership at MUFON and is
encouraged that a more sound approach to the field is on the horizon. This may
be a new dawn for UFOlogy as the old guard dies away and the new, more centered,
serious thinkers take over. UFOlogy is undergoing a transformation once again.
For now, UFOlogy attempts to sound sciencey, but it is not nearly up to the
standards to be called science. Can it be science? Only with a wholesale
change in assumptions and approach. Drop the fascination with conspiracies and
abductionsgo back to nuts and bolts.
Sharon will be participating in UFOCon14 in Baltimore,
Maryland in 2014.
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