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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UFO'S of UAP'S, ASTRONOMIE, RUIMTEVAART, ARCHEOLOGIE, OUDHEIDKUNDE, SF-SNUFJES EN ANDERE ESOTERISCHE WETENSCHAPPEN - DE ALLERLAATSTE NIEUWTJES
UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
MUFON of het Mutual UFO Network Inc is een Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in alle USA-staten en diverse landen.
MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com.
Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
As I was pulling into the driveway this particular evening, I noticed a very slow and low flying aircraft just above the trees and roofs two houses down from mine. It seemed unusual so I stayed in the truck and watched as it slowly turned and flew over the neighbors houses and also noticed the irregular light blinking pattern which seemed atypical to that of other planes and helicopters. During this time I searched for my cell phone to take a picture and then it was over my house and I stepped out of the vehicle and realized that there was absolutely no noise or emissions coming from this craft either. I was able to obtain some kind of video, but by the time I was able to gather myself, the video I captured did not show all of the lights and their distinct pattern. As the craft flew over, I noticed it was the clear shape of a triangle and was a combination of black as well as a grey, with somewhat of a pattern or what seemed like lines which met in the center of craft out to the corners, and within each of those triangles had lines connecting the edge of the craft to the lines coming from corners to meet in the center. As mentioned earlier, I did obtain some video, but it unclear of the shape and all three of the lights blinking pattern, but as soon as I got back into the vehicle, it was higher in the sky and it seemed to by flying at a faster rate that before when going over the houses. I then got back into the vehicle to try and follow the craft. I was able to for about two or three miles, turned onto an upcoming street, and then it just disappeared and could not find it anywhere, in any direction nearby or off in the distance. I then went back to the house and kept watching out the window every so often to check if it would happen to be out and nearby again, but that was the last I saw of the craft. NOTE: The above image is a rendering.
JANUARY 14, 2014 …. COQUITLAM BRITISH COLUMBIA CANADA
I was walking to store to do some grocery shopping when I witnessed the craft. I was alone and had my headphones on so I cannot say whether it made sound before I noticed it but when I did see the object I quickly removed my headphones and had enough time to take one picture before it zoomed off. It was a rainy day with a lot of cloud cover, there was no birds or planes in the area. I did not see any blinking lights and the object didn’t appear to have any identifiable markings. It appeared to be smooth and windowless. It was round/oval with a “tail”. I am not sure what it was. It didn’t look like a plane I have seen. It was roundish with a tail, that is all I can say to explain it. The object didn’t move as I viewed it for about 3 minutes before it left my line of sight. It flew in a straight path after it hovered for about 30-60 seconds. Time went by really fast and afterwards my heart was pounding. I showed a few friends and they told I my have something but they have no idea what it is either. Maybe I can get some answers here. (Loaction Coquitlam BC, Canada. Lougheed Hwy.)
Few cases of allegedalien abduction have garnered as much public interest as the Travis Walton case of 1975. In an event witnessed by six friends and co-workers, Walton was abducted into a saucer-shaped craft and deposited back outside of his hometown five days later. Despite the efforts of police and journalists to discredit the bizarre narrative, neither Walton nor any of his co-workers have ever admitted to having perpetrated a hoax. The case remains one of the most credible and fascinating abduction accounts on record, and one of the few to involve consciously recalled memories of the witnesses’ terrifying experience aboard the mysterious craft.
Daylight UFO cluster recorded over Sydney, Australia on 9th February 2014
Daylight UFO cluster recorded over Sydney, Australia on 9th February 2014
New amazing video footage of UFO cluster recorded in the daytime sky above Sydney, Australia on 9th February 2014.
Witness said: I was this time in my swimming pool When I saw this shiny object high altitude I grab my camera took it off the I R filter off and I am was lucky to captured this large Cluster object on the camera.
Amazing UFO sighting over Eiffel Tower, Paris, France in beginning of February 2014
Amazing UFO sighting over Eiffel Tower, Paris, France in beginning of February 2014
New amazing video footage of multiple UFOs recorded in the daytime sky above Eiffel Tower, Paris, France in beginning of February 2014.
Witness said: Multiple Ufos were taped from the top of the Eiffel Tower. The person recording the this video, a tourist, manages to capture multiple Ufos from the POV from the top of the Eiffel Tower. She stated she thought they were planes at first and just followed along. The witness added that there was no evidence of plane engine sounds. She mentioned that this tape is several years old, the tape has ever been released publicly anywhere before. The witness taped this Ufo sighting in “2005″ on a dated cellphone camera. The person recording this video added, there were multiple witnesses including small children present at the time of the recording. At the start of the video you can see what seems to be 3 Ufos hovering and moving camera left alongside the Paris skyline. As the camera follows, you can see a few more Ufos flying around. One of the Ufos seemingly separates itself from a much bigger Ufo. The tourist who gave us this tape wants to remain anonymous. She recently found out about our channel after talking to a close friend, she decided to submit this fantastic Ufo sighting to LookNowTV. We thank you for letting us introduce this tape to the public first. As always, you decide.
This film explores the connection between Ancient Secret Societies and Extraterrestrial Influences Engaging the Planet earth. Does “the great work of the ages” pursued by contemporary secret societies involve a covert plan to fully restore an ancient lost culture that flourished on this planet long before recorded history? Could it be that there is nothing “New” at all about the ‘new world order’, and that it is in fact, an occult scheme to resurrect an ancient totalitarian order designed to covertly serve extra-terrestrials? Explore these ideas and more in this shocking fact filled documentary.
Humanity should start thinking about how to interact with an alien species, long before coming into contact with extraterrestrial life, experts say.
Coming up with a strict set of guidelines that govern the way people on future interstellar space missions study and interact with aliens is imperative before anyone blasts off to a distant world, according to attendees at Starship Congress in August.
While a “prime directive” the rule that prevented Star Fleet officers from interfering with the business of alien life-forms on TV’s “Star Trek” — might be a little extreme, such a rule could help govern interactions between aliens and humans.
“In the event that we discover evidence of intelligent life on another world, that will be a social, cultural and technologically influential event to human affairs which will need to be managed with great care and to ensure our culture and their culture remains intact and not disrupted by this new knowledge,” Kelvin Long, the founder of Project Icarus, said during a panel on Aug. 16.
People traveling to distant stars will be carrying tangible and intangible aspects of human culture with them, so it should be curated responsibly before being sent to an alien planet, one expert said.
I think it comes down to how we’re going,” Armen Papazian, the CEO of the International Space Development Hub, said. “Do we trust that this is a beautiful universe, an incredible cosmos.”
Do we really believe that it’s an amazing landscape, it’s a bed of stars?
What do we think we’re going out there to find and are we going to embrace it or are we going to utilize?
Are we trying to export our scarcity economics or are we trying to enjoy the abundant cosmos?
“Whatever we are here, we’re going to export wherever we go.”
It’s possible that humans in the future will have no desire to land on exoplanets after free-roaming in space for years at a time, Icarus Interstellar president Richard Obousy said.
“I’m not convinced that when we have the capabilities to build starships … that we’ll want to go from one gravitational abyss to another gravitational abyss,” Obousy said.
“I’m not convinced that settling on planets or even moons is going to be necessary.”
Humans can’t help but explore and interact with the world around them, Icarus Interstellar’s James Benford said during the panel.
“We won’t leave them alone,” Benford said. “We would like to explore alien ecology extensively to understand if there are any interactions leading to incompatibilities. We would need to establish human research stations to do that because it’s a complex problem.
It seems unlikely that there would be interference between separately evolved ecologies, especially if we minimize contamination and wear the appropriate suits.”
Les Johnson, of the Tennessee Valley Interstellar Workshop, takes Benford’s ideas a little further. Johnson and his group have developed three moral principles that he hopes will serve as a guide for any interactions with all kinds of extraterrestrial life:
1: Learn all you can learn before risking any kind of direct interaction.
2: If it seems to be alive, leave it alone.
3: Avoid bringing samples to the home world because it might not be totally incompatible with our ecosystem.
When developing a strategy for first contact, it might also be important to think about the mental and physical well-being of the aliens with whom humans could come into contact, panel members stated.
Finding out that a more advanced civilization exists somewhere in the universe could be as jarring for humans around the globe as it was for native peoples when the conquistadors came to North America for the first time, Benford said.
“It wasn’t just guns, disease and steel, it was the shock of finding out that you’re not even No. 1, you’re not even No. 3,” Benford said.
“That is a thing to really worry about.”
In spite of all of these rules, it will be up to the people on the starship to ultimately enforce or do away with whatever rules were in place before they left the planet.
“A vibrant interstellar civilization will be essentially ungovernable, and that observing such guidelines will be strictly left up to each and every first contact team to obey or not obey at their discretion,” Johnson said.
“When someone is several light-years from home and they’ve encountered something they never encountered before, they’re going to be making the decisions regardless of what the guiding moral principles might have been when they left home.”
(Via, space.com-youtube-yahoo)
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Technology From Extraterrestrials
Technology From Extraterrestrials
Don Phillips was in the Air Force at Las Vegas Air Force Base during an event when UFOs were seen moving at enormous speeds near Mt. Charleston, northwest of Las Vegas.
In addition, he worked with Kelly Johnson at the Lockheed Skunkworks, on design and construction of the U-2 and SR-71 Blackbird.
He testifies that we not only have these extraterrestrial devices, but have also achieved tremendous technological advances from their study. He states that in the 1950′s and 1960′s, NATO did research into the origin of ET races, and disseminated reports to the leaders of various countries.
He lists a few of the technologies we were able to develop because of ETs: computer chips, lasers, night vision, and bulletproof vests.
Mr. Phillips now develops technologies that can help eliminate environmental pollutants and reduce the need for fossil fuels.
Re-Engineering an ET Craft
Bill Uhouse served 10 years in the Marine Corps as a fighter pilot, and four years with the Air Force at Wright-Patterson AFB as a civilian doing flight testing of exotic experimental aircraft.
Later, for the next 30 years, he worked for defense contractors as an engineer of antigravity propulsion systems: on flight simulators for exotic aircraft — and on actual flying discs.
He testifies that the first disc they tested was a re-engineered ET craft that crashed in Kingman, Arizona in 1958.
He further testifies that the ET’s presented a craft to the US government; this craft was taken to Area 51, which was just being constructed at the time, and the four ET’s that accompanied the craft were taken to Los Alamos.
Mr. Uhouse’s specialty was the flight deck and the instruments on the flight deck, he understood the gravitational field and what it took to get people trained to experience antigravity.
He actually met several times with an ET that helped the physicists and engineers with the engineering of the craft.
The Interplanetary Phenomena Research Unit
Sergeant Stone tells an amazing story about the history of UFO’s and extraterrestrials dating back to the early 40′s and probably before.
General Douglas MacArthur organized a group called the Interplanetary Phenomena Research Unit back in 1943 to study this issue and it continues to this day.
Their purpose is to recover objects of unknown origin particularly those that are of non-Earthly origin.
They obtain field intelligence information and pass it on to those who are the “keepers of this information.”
This unit was thought to be working in conjunction with Bluebook but in fact was not.
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Chris Hadfield: All Astronauts Believe In Aliens
Chris Hadfield: All Astronauts Believe In Aliens
Astronaut Chris Hadfield is a reasonable man, a former commander of the International Space Station, and a social media superstar.
He recently went on WNYC’s Brian Lehrer show to discuss his life and career when a caller asked him about the existence of alien life.
“I don’t know of any astronauts who think we’re alone in the universe,” Hadfield replied. Listen Below
And in that belief, he’s in the mainstream of astrobiological thought, as Lane Wallace explained this week.
“There are just so many galaxies, which are filled with so many stars, which are circled by so many planets, how could there not be life, even if we haven’t found it.”
How Astronomers Came to Think We Are Probably Not Alone
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Living Crater In Russia Still A Mystery
Living Crater In Russia Still A Mystery
This amazing place was found by one geologist from Irkutsk in summer 1949. It was a huge convex truncated cone with an upper horizontal section.
Inside it had a funnel-shaped recess with a dome-shaped hill right in the middle.
The cone was rather big. Its height was about 10-15 meters from the upper side and 70-80 meters from the bottom side. The average diameter of the cone was about 130-150 meters.
The depth of the inner circular ditch was about 8-10 meters. It was clear the geologist found a unique natural formation which didn’t resemble any others. It was called the Patomsky crater after the river in the watershed of which it was located.
What could scientists suppose? From afar the object resembled a giant slagheap but there were no people so deeply in the taiga who could make it. And there were never labor NKVD camps in the area.
Archaeological artifact? But local Evenks and Yakuts had never been like ancient Egyptians and they had never been able to build something like this.
Scientists were close to thinking about mysterious Hyperboreans who allegedly created an ancient powerful civilization in the ancient times…
The geologist Vadim Kolpakov, who found the crater, was trying to arrange an expedition to the place of the object but it was never financed, because all money was spent for searching of uranium – the country needed a nuclear bomb.
The first expedition took place only last year. One of its members mysteriously died of a heart attack when came close to the crater… Did the Eagle’s Nest choose its victim or what?
When the first color photos of the crater were presented to the public it created a furore in the world of science. There appeared numerous versions: from secret Gulag’s mines to a spontaneous nuclear explosion of uranium ore.
The crater has always been surrounded with dark legends but it was not hard to find another team who would participate in another expedition.
They accumulated half a ton of samples and different equipment but could not carry it on their shoulders so they hired an old Mi-8T helicopter.
Strangely enough – pilots of the helicopter who had always been living in the region were rather surprised – they had always been flying there but never seen the crater…
However in the fair weather the crater is perfectly seen from the height. It really resembles a huge eagle’s nest with an egg inside. The diameter of that egg is almost 40 meters.
Soon scientists refused the version of a uranium explosion – the background radiation was low there and no uranium was found nearby.
Two main versions remained: volcanic and meteoritic ones. But the problem is that no meteoritic material has been found yet on the crater, and the area is considered to be fully non-volcanic – there are no volcanoes around for thousands of kilometers, even old and extinct ones.
The crater seems to be “new”. Its rock has is not even overgrown with moss. Scientists believe the crater could be 100-500 years old.
But there’s another, more logical version. Tunguska meteorite is considered to fall in the Krasnoyarsk region but its crater has never been found.
Maybe it fell in the Irkutsk region and this Eagle’s nest is that very crater?
The distance from the supposed place of its falling to the Patomsky crater is only 700 km. For bolides flying with speed up to 70km/sec it’s only 10-15 seconds of flight. The age coincides too. The incident of the Tunguska happened in 1908.
According to the research there is something 100-150 meters deep under the crater.
This “something” has abnormally high content of iron and other ferromagnetic materials. Besides there is much water under the crater.
If the crater was formed by a meteorite, that meteorite was no so simple… Probably it could be a superdense quark meteorite. Or some other superdense object.
The crater is still “alive”, its shape is slowly changing – rising and falling.
It was experimentally proved that some cylindrical object lies under the Patomsky crater and the length of this object is about ten meters.
This story becomes even more confusing because of the trees which grow around the crater abnormally fast.
Something like this was happening in Chernobyl, for example. But here the radiation background is low.
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The NASA Conspiracy
Donna Hare had a secret clearance while working for NASA contractor, Philco Ford.
She states that UFOs were routinely airbrushed out of high altitude photos of the Earth before being released to the public.
“We always airbrush them out before we release them to the public,” one technician told her.
Curious, she began asking around the agency.
“A guard told me he was asked to burn some photographs and not to look at them,” she said.
“And there was another guard guarding him, watching him burn the photographs. He looked at one and it was a picture of a UFO and he immediately was hit in the head and had a big gash in his forehead.”
Apollo astronauts, she said, had spotted UFOs, but they “are told to keep this quiet and not to talk about it.”
In the video segment Donna mentions NASA’s code-word for Aliens, listen to the segment below to hear Astronaut James Lovell say the words “Please be Informed that their is a Santa Clause” during the Apollo 8 moon mission.
Karl Wolf:
Karl Wolfe was in the Air Force for 4 and a half years beginning in January 1964. He had a top secret crypto clearance and worked with the tactical air command at Langley AFB in Virginia.
While working at a NSA facility he was shown photographs taken by the Lunar Orbiter of the moon that showed detailed artificial structures. These photos were taken prior to the Apollo landing in 1969.
Edgar Dean Mitchell, Sc.D.
Mitchell is an American pilot, retired Captain in the United States Navy and NASA astronaut.
As the lunar module pilot of Apollo 14, he spent nine hours working on the lunar surface in the Fra Mauro Highlands region, making him the sixth person to walk on the Moon.
Here he explains the UFO Cover-Up in less than five minutes. Item used is an extract from the documentary film “The Phoenix Lights, We Are Not Alone.”
Gordon Cooper:
Cooper was one of the original Mercury Seven astronauts and the last American to fly into space alone.
In his testimony he recounts how he observed UFOs flying in the same formation as his fighter group over the skies of Germany. These UFOs made maneuvers that could not be done by conventional fighters.
At another time, while filming conventional aircraft performing precision landings, a saucer flew directly overhead and landed ahead of them on a dry lakebed. The entire event was filmed including detailed close-ups. The film was sent back to Washington and was never returned.
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Alien Life Already Here Claims Scientist
Alien Life Already Here Claims Scientist
Aliens are living above the clouds, a team of British scientists says.
University of Sheffield researchers launched a balloon 27km into the stratosphere on July 31, using microscopic studs to act as a kind of “fly paper” to harvest samples from the edge of space.
When the balloon landed, it had carried back small biological organisms.
Professor Milton Wainwright said he was “95 per cent convinced” they originated from space.
There is no known mechanism by which these life forms can achieve that height.”
“As far as we can tell from known physics, they must be incoming,” he said.
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13 Mile Long Crop Circle In The Desert?
13 Mile Long Crop Circle In The Desert?
Everybody has heard of crop circles, amazing geometrical designs that usually only appear in farmers fields, but this intricate design was discovered in the desert.
Many people believe crop circles are the work of extra-terrestrials who want to communicate with us, while others claim they are nothing more than elaborate hoaxes.
Sri Yantra, which means “holy instrument”, is an ancient symbol of Hindu tantra, which is based on the Hindu philosophy of Kashmir Shaivism. The Sri Yantra is the object of devotion in Sri Vidya.
The interesting thing about this “crop circle” is that nothing was discovered on the site: no foot-prints, no tire tracks, and no tool marks.
The lines in total equate to 13.3 miles, and are 10 inches wide by 3 inches deep.
They were carved into extremely hard, compact dirt, and no signs of the removed dirt can be found.
The Sri Yantra formation appeared on August 10, 1990, and was first seen by Air National Guard pilots.
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A Wellsville, NY, witness reported watching a “sphere of light” at the tree top level that moved close and then quickly gained altitude and disappeared from view, according to February 10, 2014, testimony in Case 53999 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
The witness was outside walking dogs about 4:10 p.m. on December 4, 2013, when the object was first seen “over the trees above us.”
The witness described the light.
“The object was a luminous ball of light that moved slowly to watch us and came toward me,” the witness stated. “It was a beautiful light but, it did not seem natural and frightened me.”
The witness moved away from the object.
“I walked back to the house and the dogs barked at it sending it rapidly up to space.”
The witness is unsure what the object was.
“I do not know what it was or if it is some military spy technology being tested. This thing has returned since that date and it has been seen by another neighbor, too. It seems to want to communicate or get a closer look at us. Just hope it belongs to our government.”
The witness included four images with the report: Image 1, Image 2, Image 3 and Image 4. It is unclear whether these images were shot during or after the event.
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Wellsville is a town in Allegany County, NY, population 7,397. New York has a UFO Alert Rating of 4 with a higher than average number of recent reports. New York was the 7th highest reporting state with 24 reports in January 2014 - while California had 102 reports - the highest reporting state in the nation.
Recent reports of low flying UFOs from around the country include:
You can read more details about other recently reported cases at the UFO Examiner home page.
The above quotes were edited for clarity. Please keep in mind that most UFO reports can be explained as something natural or man-made. If New York MUFON investigates and reports back on this case, I will release an update. Please report UFO activity to MUFON.com.
My younger brother and I called him ‘the old lizard’ (on account of his reptilian resemblance — and to irk our mother, his partner at the time). To his enemies, he was a crackpot, fraud, and a cheat. And to his patients, and many of his friends, he was a source of support, an open listener, a sage and protector.
Dr John E Mack was many things to many people. A Harvard-trained psychiatrist, tenured professor, and one of the founders of the Cambridge Hospital Department of Psychiatry (a teaching hospital affiliated with Harvard University), John held an impressive command and was respected in his field. After an early career spent working on issues of child development and identity formation, he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1977 for his psychoanalytic biography of Lawrence of Arabia, entitled A Prince of Our Disorder (1976). Then, in the late 1980s, John put his reputation on the line when he started investigating the phenomenon of alien abduction.
It all started innocently enough. He began holding sessions with patients or ‘experiencers’ (as they’re called) who believed they’d been abducted. He ran hypnotic regressions from our home, and he gradually came to furnish enough evidence for a book, Abduction: Human Encounters with Aliens (1994). This was followed in 1999 by Passport to the Cosmos: Human Transformation and Alien Encounters. His standard line with the outside world was (as given to the BBC): ‘I would never say, yes, there are aliens taking people. [But] I would say there is a compelling powerful phenomenon here that I can’t account for in any other way, that’s mysterious… I can’t know what it is but it seems to me that it invites a deeper, further inquiry.’
In the privacy of our home, where he was a regular presence, John was bolder in his claims. Aliens were real — it was just that their existence threatened the dominant logic of our worldview. John attributed society’s failure to account for the abduction experience as a cultural failing. Alien abductees weren’t deranged or mentally ill — we just didn’t have a way of interpreting and understanding what they’d been through. Rather than label these peoples’ experiences as a new disorder or syndrome, John argued that we had to probe into and change our perception of reality to account for this phenomena. The subtext: we had to allow for the existence of aliens.
For more than a decade, from the time I was eight until I was of legal age, I was witness to these debates and to the politics surrounding John’s ‘coming out’ in support of abduction phenomena. My mother, an anthropologist by training, was John’s primary research assistant. They bought a house together in Cambridge, Massachusetts and my brother and I visited them once a month and during school holidays. The rest of the time we lived with my father and stepmother in Arlington, Virginia.
Like many of his colleagues, I viewed John with a mixture of scepticism and intrigue. Part of my scepticism can be put down to the fact that he was dating my mom; but a good fraction of it owed to my sense of reality being overturned by the postulation of ‘greys’ — a particular manifestation of extraterrestrials, known for their large heads, huge almond eyes, and shortened, pretty much featureless bodies.
At eight, and still learning to distinguish between fantasy and reality, the imposition of adults who believed in aliens was confusing and anxiety-provoking, but adventurous and thrilling too. I was fairly sure that Santa Claus wasn’t real. But I wouldn’t have bet my life on it. My stuffed animals and toys had only just lost that animistic quality — becoming mere playthings, instruments of the imagination, as opposed to real creatures with essences all their own. As for aliens, I couldn’t be sure. Flying on airplanes between my parents’ houses I’d sometimes be on the lookout for a hovering metallic orb.
It was 1992 when John entered our lives. Bill Clinton was president, and Kurt Cobain dominated the airwaves. It was the end of the Cold War stand-off, and the political scientist Francis Fukuyama had just published his book The End of History and the Last Man, where he wishfully predicted that human evolution had come to an end with the triumph of Western liberal democracy. Everything was smooth sailing. We no longer had the threat of communists, but we didn’t yet have the threat of terrorists. In need of a symbolic enemy, aliens personified an important ‘other’ — a dystopian warning to our Western culture’s all too eager triumphalism.
On television, the paranormal soon paraded around on shows such as Roswell and The X-Files, which explored extraterrestrial phenomena in the shadow of government cover-ups and conspiracy. Flip channels and you might have caught Arthur C Clarke’s equally other-worldly 26-part series Mysterious Universe . It’s no wonder that the 1990s saw a rush of alien appearances in the popular imagination. The impending millennium brought with it the arrival of a future that had always been distant. As the political scientist Jodi Dean, author of Aliens in America (1998), articulated at the time, the appearance of aliens corresponds to our ‘anxieties over technological development and our growing consciousness of ourselves as a planet and our fears for the future at the millennium’.
There is some truth here. When I asked my mom and John growing up what the aliens intended (subtext: ‘Do they come in peace or should I be really scared?’), they said that many experience’s felt that aliens communicated an environmental message about the urgency of saving the planet.
At the same time, many of the abductees that John interviewed attested to the technological superiority of the alien race. I was told stories about patients who experienced aliens that could pass through walls, were able to communicate with extrasensory perception (ESP) and mind-reading, and perform medical experiments on humans without invasive surgery. In this light, aliens provided an outlet for all our fears of technological domination. To have an experience of aliens was to realise that the human race might not represent the pinnacle of evolution, that we were perhaps inferior to extraterrestrial life.
In daylight, I was sceptical (the good little rationalist), but night-time brought with it a tide of magical thinking
But as a kid largely ignorant of grander sociological forces, aliens were only one thing: scary. They had large black eyes and androgynous forms. And they were real — like ghosts and witches and monsters. In daylight, I was sceptical (the good little rationalist), but night-time brought with it a tide of magical thinking. I used to lie in bed and worry that maybe I would be abducted. I would even make supplicating promises of better behaviour in the hope of bartering with these outsiders — ‘I’ll be good, just leave me alone.’ In my secular progressive household, aliens offered a moral disciplining authority, an invisible spectator to police my actions.
After many years elapsed without any sign of extraterrestrial visitation, I began to feel ignored. My fears turned to pangs of dejection: ‘Wasn’t I special?’ ‘Shouldn’t I be a chosen ambassador for the human race?’ Or even: ‘If the aliens were really out to create a master race (as I overheard), didn’t they want my DNA?’
John had many of the same laments. They weren’t the ego bruises of a child in pursuit of some fantastical ambassadorial calling, but they were in the same genre. He felt passed over. He longed for an encounter. He was the public face of this movement and yet he had only secondary experience of the abduction phenomena. Having spent more than 15 years listening to other people’s encounters with these mythical beings, he wanted some evidence beyond the testimonials he gathered from his patients. He wanted to be visited. We all did.
Just as important, a visitation would have answered the growing chorus of critics lining up on the ‘respectable’ side of John’s working life. Many of his colleagues thought he’d gone crazy. He, in turn, felt betrayed by those academic collaborators who failed to support his work. John’s biggest critics called into question his use of hypnosis. In keeping with Freud’s theory of ‘repression’ — which held that the mind can banish traumatic memories to prevent us from experiencing anxiety — much of John’s research invoked the idea of recovered memory, whereby, through hypnosis, you could get a patient to go back into repressed traumas and recall their abduction experiences.
I remember one summer evening in a beach house on Martha’s Vineyard when I was about 11, we all watched as John regressed my aunt back into a past life. She lay on the couch recalling an incident in which she was a forest ranger who witnessed the death of a few people during some kind of avalanche. My aunt later told me that she was fully conscious of the experience, but couldn’t control what she was saying. It was like she was watching herself tell a story. John later tried to hypnotise my brother so that he wouldn’t be afraid of spiders.
Ultimately, the question that plagued memory excavators like John was whether these repressed memories, divulged under hypnosis, were mere ‘artefacts’ of the mind, or else legitimately true recollections. John’s tendency towards a more literal interpretation of his patients’ experiences with aliens was controversial.
John described the investigation as ‘Kafkaesque’. He never quite knew the status of it or the nature of the committee’s complaints
In 1994, the dean of Harvard Medical School called a committee of peers to investigate John’s scholarship. This was the first time a tenured professor had ever been subject to an investigation. It was, effectively, an inquisition that some likened to a ‘witch hunt’, and it left John feeling persecuted and misunderstood. John described the investigation as ‘Kafkaesque’. He never quite knew the status of it or the nature of the committee’s complaints. Unable to accuse John of any ethical violation or professional misconduct, its aim was to ask, as Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz put it, ‘whether a Harvard Medical School professor ought to be lending his credibility to stories of space alien abductions’. To Dershowitz, this was a dubious goal. ‘No great university should be in the business of investigating the ideas of its faculty,’ he wrote in the university magazine, in 1995. In the end, the dean reaffirmed John’s academic freedom to study what he wished and to state his opinions without impediment. But the damage had already been done.
As his professional credibility faltered, John’s anxiety and anger began to rise. John cared about his reputation. It was not easy to become persona non grata in the very institutions he had helped to build. He was used to working within established professional systems, and when those very institutions called his integrity into question, he sought out allies in other like-minded people. He grew an entourage of support among shamans, experiencers, and celebrities.
Our household became a living altar to an esoteric band of misfits who were regular houseguests and interlopers. One morning, when I went to get some orange juice from the kitchen, the actor Woody Harrelson was there, drinking coffee with John at the table. It was normal. Normal was also being offered a peace pipe by Sequoia, a Native American shaman who blew tobacco in our youthful faces and challenged us to seek out greater visionary experience.
By 13, however, I was ready to move on. John and my mother were headed to the Australian outback for a year to speak with Aboriginal people about their experiences with aliens. My brother and I were invited to go along: our formal education would be satisfied by distance learning packets, while our real education, as I understood it at the time, was to be some combination of didgeridoo and Aboriginal creation myths. But something inside me desired stability and order. I longed to be absorbed into an antiseptic American culture where lacrosse, school dances and flared blue jeans were ends in themselves; where ordinary reality wasn’t usurped by the fantastical.
My brother and I ultimately opted to stay behind. We stayed living with my father and stepmother, and succumbed to a deliciously comfortable white picket-fence existence (literally, the fence was painted white). We became absorbed in teenage politics and concerns. And the only flying saucers we encountered were Frisbees.
Later on, at college at Brown University, I gave myself licence once again to explore the magical thoughts of my youth, not least the idea that reality was merely a construction. As an adult, it was a less threatening prospect. Rather than induce existential panic, it furnished reputational accolades. I ended up writing a thesis about 17th-century astrology and the fashioning of scientific boundaries. It was an ode to John in some ways. I wanted to understand how ‘science’ became ‘science’. Many of the astrologers of the time were booted out of the emerging scientific establishment — some were even put on trial for instigating civil disorder. It was not unlike John’s own experience, when his psychiatric methods were called into question by the scientific establishment.
Before my thesis was published, John was hit by a drunk driver and killed, in London. It was 2004. Immediately after his death, my mother began receiving phone calls from clairvoyants who claimed to have communicated with John, ‘on the other side’. Before he died, John had begun outlining a manuscript on the power of love, based on the stories of those who had been able to communicate with loved ones after death. It was a surreal experience for my mother to be experiencing such intense grief, while at the same time receiving phone calls from people who had reportedly been in conversation with John after the accident.
After John died, aliens seemed to vanish from household discussion almost entirely. It felt like the public’s interest had also waned. When I asked my mother why the phenomenon had seemed to die down, I was told that the aliens were placing less emphasis on the Western world; that they were more interested in China. And that’s where we left it.
But if I reflect on the impact of my childhood experience, I think it left me with a profound openness, and a generous ear. John taught me the power of listening; really hearing people out and having the courage and resilience to question established orthodoxies. I still remain entirely agnostic about the existence of aliens. I have a commitment to preserving unknowns, and I thrive on ambiguity and complexity in my work and my relationships. John’s legacy has also left me with a certain reverence for misfits, for outliers and challengers of the status quo: for the type of person who walks the line between delusion and insight.
John, too, remains immortalised in my mind as someone with great courage and empathy. I associate him with a period of my childhood wrought with big questions. Bearing witness to the craziness that surrounded those ten years of cosmological exploration left me with a shaky groundwork in which reality was never quite what it seemed, but it also furnished me with a profound sense of awe and wonder about the world.
I feel incredibly grateful for the experience. To be exposed at such a young age to a zeitgeisty obsession with deprogramming, where Western culture was perceived as an enemy of consciousness and truth, was an education that left me with a residual feeling of always being on the outside of mainstream culture. There is a part of me that also looks back with nostalgia for a time when the primary conversation was a probing of the cosmological – when we weren’t all busy on our laptops, stressed about finances, or waiting with bated breath for the next season of Homeland; but were concerned, rather, with ancient and meta-questions about our role in the universe and the existence of life elsewhere.
“We are well aware that the word humanoid is not in the dictionary;” wrote Charles Bowen, editor of the United Kingdom’s world-renowned Flying Saucer Review, “that it was coined somewhere along the line by a writer or researcher. Nevertheless it seems to suit our purpose far more than those other words of anthropology like hominid, which means kin of man (Neanderthal man was one of these) and hominoid, which means man-like ape.” These were the words that formed part of his foreword to Gordon Creighton’s anthology of cases from around the world entitled – what else? – The Humanoids (Chicago: Henry Regnery, 1969). This far-reaching book, published only a few years after it became acceptable to speak openly about the possibility of UFOs having occupants. Bowen also drops the hint that Dr. Edward Condon and his committee had access not only to The Humanoids and issues of FSR in assisting with their evaluation of the phenomenon.
The cases contained in the book are of another age and are widely known to the audiences interested in the field, but its perhaps hard for modern readers, particularly those who are newly arrived to the field, to imagine a time when even believers in “flying saucers” preferred not to deal with the possibility of beings stepping out of these lights or craft or projections. Two years before FSR’s book on the project, Coral and Jim Lorenzen published Flying Saucer Occupants, covering the best-known cases of the time on all continents and making an effort at interpreting and evaluating them (including a psychological interpretation of cases by Dr. R. Leo Sprinkle). One of these conclusions stands out nearly fifty years later: “In rare instances we may examine a report of UFO occupants which involves an observer who is sound of mind, has a stable emotional structure, an artist’s eye for observation and whose experience takes place under ideal lighting conditions.”
Sharp-Dressed Spacemen
“It was impossible to tell whether they were military or not, but they were all dressed alike in sealed astronaut-type one piece plastic suits with bubble helmets and tanks strapped to their backs.
Neary thought they looked like a cooking-foil commercial.”
–Steven Spielberg, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, p.177
As has been exhaustively documented in many other places, UFO research – or more specifically, UFO culture – owes a great deal to science fiction, particularly when it comes to the conceptualization of vehicles and occupants. The notion of the “silver-spacesuited alien” so common to early occupant reports and contactee chronicles may owe a lot to the iconic vision of Michael Rennie’s Klaatu descending from his spaceship in The Day The Earth Stood Still, or at a later date, the widely circulated promo photos of the Robinson family in CBS’s Lost in Space, coolly posed in silver one-piece outfits with red piping and boots to match.
In real life, the vision of the silver-suited astronaut was turned iconic by the Friendship 7 astronauts, wearing their Mylar-covered spacesuits developed from the pressure suits used by pilots on stratospheric flights. Changes would later be made to the silver spacesuit by the time the Gemini Project rolled around, allowing for greater mobility under pressurization than the Mercury Project original. The need to perform extra-vehicular activities (EVA) and eventual lunar landings caused new suits to be developed and the striking silver outfit to be relegated to museums.
It appears, however, that ufonauts did not receive the memo. Reports of humanoid occupants in silver suits remained unabated, even up to quite recent times.
Dr. Anthony Choy, one of Peru’s best known researchers, looked into one of these cases as recently as 2002, this time in the community of San Bartolomé in the Peruvian highlands, specifically in the province of Huarochirí, several hours to the north of Lima, the capital city. The picturesque town is known for its variety of fruit trees and otherwise excellent weather, boasting nearly year-round sunshine, filled with forests (Bosque de Zarate being the best known) and abundant wildlife. Not a grim or ominous location in the least.
The case involved two witnesses, the main one being Luis “Lucho” Rojas Povis, 51, a toll booth operator who happened to be outdoors at two o’clock in the morning with his best friend when both men became aware of “two figures” making their way down the slopes of Cerro de la Pascua, clad in silvery outfits. Initially, the onlookers did not find anything unusual about them, believing them to be mountain climbers or official personnel in outlandish protective gear. As the figures approached there was the awful realization that things were not quite as normal as expected.
The entities were described as having “an athletic build, slender and tall” with form fitting silver outfits. Their faces looked human, but their eyes were described as “shining”, and they didn’t walk as much as float above the ground. They did not utter a single word.
Astonished beyond belief, Rojas and his friend walked up to the strange new arrivals; the friend even reached out to touch the face of one the entities to see if it was “real”. One of the entities slapped the probing hand away, shocking the human.
“Hey, why are you messing with my buddy?” the toll booth operator challenged the creature, according to Dr. Choy’s interview. But what could have become the first mano-a-mano between humans and non-humans (since the 1954 case involving José Ponce and Gustavo González in Venezuela) was interrupted by the unexpected arrival on the scene of a taxicab whose passenger and driver were about to become the next set of witnesses to the mind-bending situation.
Beatriz García, 34, had just taken a taxicab back to San Bartolomé at that late hour from the town of Ochocica, where a fair had been held that day. Agreeing to pay the driver a rather high fee for the journey home, Ms. García was startled to see “a man made of pure tin, or dressed in aluminum” standing at the edge of the road. She was only able to see one figure, but could not say if it was the entity that slapped away the man’s effort to touch its visage. The driver became very agitated by the unearthly sight, and his nervousness caused her not to look very closely at the being, while having noticed its “brilliant” eyes. During the interview with Anthony Choy, she estimated that a distance of ten meters separated her from the entity, which appeared to be “walking back and forth, two steps forward, two steps back, but actually floating in the air.” She coincided with Rojas’s description of the creature’s dress, the form fitting nature of the outfit, its helmet and general build.
Some will dismiss this incident as another “colorful” Latin American case (the dictionary definition of the word is “full of interest; lively and exciting”, but tends to be interpreted as “patently untrue” on the lips of a skeptic!) but the strange motion of the single helmeted being witnessed by Beatriz García has been mentioned in many case histories. Dr. Frank B. Salisbury also noted this in his foreword to the Lorenzens’ Flying Saucer Occupants mentioned above: “These beings may sometimes walk like normal people, but they may also move with “sliding motions” or a tottering gait.”
A silvery-suited “humanoid child” is at the center of a highly complex “Julio” case of 1934, re-opened by Magdalena del Amo-Freixedo in the late 1990s.”…the girl had a pinkish complexion and wore a silvery suit. She was small, like one of our six year-old girls, with platinum blonde hair. I don't remember the color of her eyes,” said the experiencer. More ominous is the tall figure with empty eye-sockets that played a role in the 1973 case involving a Puerto Rican housewife. The entity – humanoid in shape, towering and wearing a tight silver outfit – projected the words “cerakia ovnit” into the terrified experiencer's mind, words whose meaning remains a mystery forty years later.
Another entity seen in the Spanish province of Zamora in 1974 was described by the percipient as being over six feet tall, with arms held closely to the sides of its body, and having an overall “military” bearing. It was also noted that the creature appeared to have been “made of silver” and glided away into a hill when the witness pressed his hunting dogs to attack it. Guillermo Giménez of Argentina's Planeta UFO looked into a case that occurred in Necochea, Argentina in February 1988, involving entities wearing tight-fitting costumes. “The fact is that they'd go completely unnoticed among us if they wore normal clothes and not those silver coveralls,” noted the interviewee.
Regarding the “slap” with which one of the San Bartolomé humanoids responded to the human's urge to touch its features, it is worth remembering what Argentinean researcher Roberto Banchs noted in his own monograph, La fenomenología humanoide en Argentina (Servicio de Investigaciones Ufologicas, August 1977): “Social behavior is sometimes misinterpreted, leading matters to such a state of confusion that any action on part [of the intruders] is deemed hostile. It is imperative to analyze all physical and psychological factors before a conclusion can be reached.”
A Skywatch Interrupted
Three summers before the incident involving the San Bartolomé humanoids, a skywatcher in neighboring Chile had his own brush with the unknown. Enrique Bermúdez had driven to the outskirts of Punta Arenas, which aside from boasting the privilege of being Chile’s southernmost community, the city on the Brunswick Peninsula is also one of the largest one in the Patagonian Region. The clear skies above beckon to skywatchers and amateur astronomers, or simply anyone wanting to enjoy the unspoiled night air. It had also become famous in flying saucer circles for a famous “radar confirmation” case involving a warning issued by an air traffic controller to a passenger plane, advising it to be aware of unknown traffic in the area.
Bermudez had no idea that he was about to enter the pages of UFO lore on September 22, 1997. The man were startled to hear a strange sound outside, and upon turning off the headlights to eliminate the glare, he could see short humanoid figures running around the vehicle. According to the description given to researchers, the entities were “small, standing around one meter tall, with long arms and oversized heads,” but their facial features were could not be clearly seen in the darkness.
A total of eight short beings now surrounded his car, besieging him behind the wheel for an estimated 40 minutes. When they finally ran off into the forest, the witness started the car and drove away.
He would return – bravely – a week later with a researcher from Chile’s AION group, Dr. Carlos Muñoz, who had joined the organization in 1996 and become one of its most active field investigators. Both men descended from the vehicle and were startled to see a truly unusual sight: a source of light resembling a red neon tube was hovering in the darkness some twenty meters away from them, pulsating as it did so. Muñoz lifted his camcorder to shoot footage of the uncanny phenomenon, but to his surprise, the light source did not appear in the viewfinder.
Bermudez and Dr. Munoz found their nerve beginning to fail them. They re-entered the car and drove away from the forest.
Soccer-Field Humanoids
On June 4, 1978, two brothers – Juan and Héctor Juárez , ages 10 and 8 respectively– were walking back home from school to their humble home in the El Corito neighborhood of Ciudad Cárdenas in the Mexican state of San Luis Potosí. As the boys walked past Zaragoza Street, they saw activity in the empty field that served as a makeshift soccer pitch. Other children of around their age seemed to be engaged in frantic activity, and not wanting to be left out, Juan and Hector walked down the street and on to the empty field. While separated by a distance, the boys were suddenly realized that the figures were not their neighbors or classmates having a post-school day game of futbol, but something they’d never seen before.
The figures were not children, although their height was comparable to boys their age. The two brothers found themselves facing between fifteen and twenty creatures darting around the field. Far from fleeing in terror, Juan and Héctor approached, curiosity getting the better of them, and making an uncanny discovery: the kid-sized figures’ feet did not touch the ground. They darted on air, moving as if on roller-skates. Some of the creatures – with devices on their backs that the two brothers could not recognize – interrupted their play to look at the humans. Something, in retrospect, the Juarez Brothers wished they had not done.
Part II of this series continues tomorrow Wednesday February 12, 2014!
Location. Near Remedios, Santa Clara, Cuba Date: September 14 1952 Time: afternoon
At a local farm called “Dolores” a farm worker, Caridad Martinez reported seeing a strange winged humanoid descend from the sky and land on a plot a land near where she was working. The strange winged figure approached Martinez and communicated with her in a strange language, which she could not understand, according to her the only word she was able to make out was “Tierra” (Earth). The strange humanoid was carrying on both hands a luminous object which apparently emitted a strange gaseous substance that made Martinez very dizzy and almost semi-conscious. She further described the stranger as having yellowish skin a round face, very tall in stature (over 7ft). The humanoid had a silvery disc-shaped plate which appeared to be attached to the stomach area. The most bizarre fact of the encounter was the huge pair of wings which the humanoid had attached to its shoulders that hung down to the waist area. Using these same wings the strange creature rose back up into the sky and disappeared from sight.
HC addendum Source: Orestes Girbau Collado, Cuba Type: E Translation by Albert S Rosales
Sent to me by Randall Scott Clemons The Hopkinsville Goblins
Ever heard then term ” little green men” ? Most don’t know this term actually came from an event that happened in Kentucky. 1955 in Hopkinsville , Ky a strange incident happened. The first time I ever heard of it, I was reading-one of those TimeLife ” Mysteries of the Unknown” books. One of the reasons I find it so interesting (aside from being so close to home) is that the people that reported it never connected it to aliens. Most of what i type here will be purely from memory. There are a few different story’s that vary from one to another, that can be chalked up to time , different people telling their version, and different writers putting their own marks on the story. I will do the best I can to try to get it right, but don’t be surprised if you read something different somewhere else. I urge everyone to do their own research and check it out,, even if you are a skeptic I say, (lighten up and enjoy the story ).
In the fall of 1955 in Hopkinsville ,Ky the Sutton family was settling down to a night like any other. A man named Billy Ray taylor of Pennsylvania was visiting the Sutton’s. He reportedly went out to the well to get some water and saw a light in the sky. Some version of this story say he saw a flying saucer, but he never said that. they just said they saw some lights in the sky and really never thought anything of it because of nearby Fort Campbell , Ky. they just assumed it was something to do with the military base as it was fairly common to see things in the sky. there were no telephones at the farmhouse and it was kind of out to itself. There were quite a few people in the house including children. The guys were outside when they said they saw this little creature come out of the woods and towards the house. Some versions say they were in the house when they saw a face in the window. No matter the version what happened next was truly awesome, they went in the house and got their guns. The creature kept walking toward the house.When it got close the creature reportedly raised its arms and hands in the air.they described it as being three to four feet high with bat like ears and two large glowing eyes. At the end of its fingers it had long claws.Even though in pop culture they were called “little green men” they were actually white. in an interview I saw with a living witness who as a child when the event happened said ” the family described their skin as being nickel plated” When it raised its hands Billy Ray let off the first shot and he didn’t miss. That part of the story always cracks me up.Only in Kentucky. lol. The creature reportedly did a flip flop from the impact of the bullet then got back up and started walking toward the house again.At this point it was reported that more creatures then came out if the woods from the direction Billy ray said he saw the light he saw earlier go in the direction of. The whole family then raised their guns and fired away, they retreated into the house and the creatures supposedly were looking through the windows. The Suttons shot through the windows, walls , and doors until they didn’t have any ammunition left. They whole family then made for the truck and left the farm house in haste and went straight for the sheriffs department. Sheriff Russel Greenwell took some duties and went out to the farm house expecting not to see anything. He thought it was just an episode brought on by drinking. He later said that he checked the suttons and could find no evidence of drinking. He went to the house and surveyed the damage from the volley of bullets fired from inside the home. What is interesting is that sheriff Russell Greenwell found a trail and spots of a strange glowing substance going from the house to the trees , and on a fence.
How I wish someone would have taken a sample of this glowing substance. If the story is to be believed then one can only assume it was blood or something from these creatures.I am of the opinion they may not have been creatures at all , but maybe some kind of mechanical/biological surrogate used for space travel. Its just a thought and an opinion. It doesn’t mean much , but it is an interesting thought and would take away the mortality problem of long distances and time spent in space exploration. The most interesting part of the story for me is what sheriff Greenwell reported as lends some credibility to the event actually happening.
They recently did a story on it on a show called “monsters and mysteries in America” . When the Suttons reported the event they never said aliens came out of the sky and attacked their farm house. They thought they were goblins and from earth. Only in later years after the descriptions of aliens and ufos were a little more common was it put together as a possible contact event. It is interesting to think ..what if it was real…what if it did happen..and what if Billy Ray had not opened fire. No matter what your opinion is of the story it is still an interesting and fun story. Anyone interested in learning more can find all kinds of info , interviews, and articles on “The Hopkinsville Goblins” .Wikipedia even has an entry on it . I apologize for any mistakes or errors in my story and writing . I hope you enjoyed it
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Ik ben Pieter, en gebruik soms ook wel de schuilnaam Peter2011.
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