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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...
18-06-2014
NSA geeft topgeheim rapport over UFO's vrij
NSA geeft topgeheim rapport over UFO’s vrij
De Amerikaanse spionagedienst NSA heeft een topgeheim rapport over UFO-waarnemingen vrijgegeven. In 1980 spande de groep Citizens Against Unidentified Flying Objects Secrecy een rechtszaak aan tegen de NSA. Sindsdien heeft de dienst vele waarnemingen van onbekende vliegende objecten openbaar gemaakt.
In het document zijn veel woorden met viltstift zwart gemaakt waardoor het moeilijk is om alle details te achterhalen. De NSA concludeert in veel gevallen dat de UFO’s propagandaballonnen of satellieten kunnen zijn. We kijken naar drie incidenten.
Meerdere UFO’s op de radar
De eerste melding heeft betrekking op meerdere UFO’s die tussen 19.00 uur en 21.30 uur tegen de wind in vlogen. In één geval werden acht onbekende objecten op een hoogte van 15.000 meter gezien op de radar. De objecten hadden een gele of groene kleur.
Legerexperts moesten de voorvallen samen met een meteoroloog en een wetenschapper onderzoeken. Eén persoon dacht dat de UFO’s ‘geavanceerde apparaten’ konden zijn. Een ander dacht dat het reflecties waren of propagandaballonnen. Weer een ander zei dat het mogelijk ging om satellieten of ruimtepuin. De UFO’s werden door vier betrouwbare Amerikanen gezien, aldus het rapport.
33 Gele of groene UFO’s
Een andere waarneming spreekt van gele of groene UFO’s die over een bepaald gebied leken te drijven. Er werden in totaal 33 onbekende objecten gezien. De meest voor de hand liggende verklaring voor UFO’s is dat ze [zwart gemaakt] of [zwart gemaakt] propagandaballonnen zijn.
Lichtbol splitst zich in drieën
Mensen zien geregeld één grote UFO, waar vervolgens diverse kleinere UFO’s uit komen. In het rapport van de NSA valt te lezen dat het oorspronkelijke object verdwijnt en daarna verandert in drie afzonderlijke objecten.
[Zwart gemaakt] zag een vuurbal [zwart gemaakt] hoge snelheid. Na enige tijd splitste het object zich in drie vuurballen. Opnieuw worden propagandaballonnen en satellieten genoemd als verklaringen.
Arizona witness frightened as rectangle UFO moves over home
Arizona witness frightened as rectangle UFO moves over home
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An Arizona witness near Show Low became frightened while watching a rectangular-shaped UFO “about 30 feet across” with white pulsating lights that moved low over his home about 7:30 p.m. on June 13, 2014, according to testimony in Case 57093 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
The sound of a small engine first triggered the witness looking up to see the slow moving object. Pictured: A view of Show Low, Arizona. (Credit: Wikimedia Commons)
The witness was outside feeding farm animals near the front of his home when he first heard the sound of a small engine that seemed to be coming from the back of the house. He moved to that area and immediately became frightened when he spotted the low flying object.
“It was flying so low and was so strange looking,” the witness stated. “It looked like a large rectangle about 30 feet across and I’m not sure – maybe four or five feet wide.”
The witness described the lighting on the craft.
“It had two huge white, pulsating lights about the size of the old car headlights – and they were round. The lights were centered about one third up from the ends of the rectangle.”
The witness saw the slow moving object as it passed over his home and was headed into Show Low, Arizona. Pictured: Show Low, AZ. (Credit: Google)
The witness did move inside briefly to get a camera, but said that the lighting was not right to photograph the object.
“The strange thing was that the back of the UFO also had the same huge white, pulsating lights on the back side of it as it was flying away. Well I am very used to seeing planes of all types out here in the mountains. An airport is 15 miles from here and it wasn’t an airplane. It wasn’t a passenger anything. I am 68 years old and have seen a lot of flying machines and pictures and videos of drones, but this was one of those.”
The witness remained frightened during the event.
“I was so scared because it was flying so low and was unfamiliar. It just was on a flight path over my house coming from Snowflake, AZ, across Concho, and on the way to Show Low. I started shaking and really didn’t know what to do. I was afraid it would land and I was home alone at the time.”
The witness again attempted to get a photograph of the object and could not. He continued to study the object.
“The lights, all four of them, two in front and the two in back, were pulsating rather than the rapid flashing plane’s lights flash, and the four lights were really bright.”
The witness called a friend in Show Low who also observed the object, but also could not get a photograph of it.
The witness was afraid because he was home alone at the time and thought that the craft might land. Pictured: Show Low, AZ. (Credit: Google)
Show Low is a city in Navajo County, AZ, population 10,724. Arizona MUFON is investigating. Arizona has a current UFO Alert Rating of 3 with a high number of recent reports nationally. Arizona had 27 UFO reports in May 2014 – the 5th highest reporting state – while California had 102 reports as the highest reporting state. The above quotes were edited for clarity. Please report UFO activity to MUFON.com.
The UFO Alert Rating System is based on five levels – 1 through 5 – where states with 150 or more reports for the month are rated an Alert 1; states with 100 or more reports are rated an Alert 2; 25 reports or more for the month are rated an Alert 3; 13 or more reports are rated an Alert 4; and those states with less than 13 reports for the month are an Alert 5.
Pat Eudy was driving home in March 1979 when he noticed a bright light in the sky, after which his memory went blank…”missing time” of about three hours. A session with a psychologist allowed Eudy to reconstruct what happened. “[I remember being on] board (a UFO) and seeing an astronaut in a suit,” Eudy said. The being stood about 5 feet tall…” Eudy asked a lot of questions about how the craft worked, and he was strapped to a chair where possible tests were performed. – MUFON UFO Journal – May 1982
Monroe, NC Man Abducted / Meets With Occupant of Craft
“I couldn’t get it off my mind, I wanted to make sure…’
A two-hour session with Winston-Salem psychologist Richard Pinneau early this past summer unlocked a mystery that had troubled Pat Eudy for more than two years.
Eudy had been unable to account for approximately three hours of a night in March 1979. He thought he might have had a close encounter of the third kind – a face-to-face meeting, Inside a UFO, with a being not from this planet.
But Eudy, 46, a salesman for Callaway Cadillac-Oldsmobile Inc. In Monroe, wasn’t sure. “I just couldn’t get it off of my mind,” he gaid. “It just kept coming back. I wanted to make sure…’
More than two years passed before Eudy wrote to a civilian UFO research center in Ohio, which referred Wadesboro UFO investigator Henry Morton to him. Morton interviewed Eudy and suggested he speak with Pinneau, who allowed Eudy to become relaxed and recall the rest of his memories of that night.
HERE’S WHAT Eudy remembered before and after the three-hour gap in his recollections:
After visiting a friend in Locust, with whom he drank two beers, Eudy headed for the home he shares with his mother, Gay Eudy, on U.S. 601 South.
“I left at 3 a.m. and started down that back road heading toward the Rocky River steel bridge,” he said. “I’ve always looked at the stars and I saw a bright light in the sky..,”
Eudy’s memory went blank at this point. The next thing he remembered, without Pinneau’s aid, was driving south on Morgan Mill Road, at G. B. Helms’ store, en route home.
He didn’t recall how he’d traveled from the bridge, which connects Sikes Mill Road with Stanly County, to the store, a distance of about eight miles. Eudy arrived home about 6:20 a.m. “My eyes were just burning like anything,” he said. “My skin had a sensation of stinging and itching.”
The pain went away after several days. Eudy said he didn’t seek medical aid, but treated his fingers and ankles with rubbing alcohol and lotion. He also put drops in his eyes to ease the discomfort.
His session with Pinneau has allowed Eudy to reconstruct some of what happened to him early that morning.
“The only thing I remember is being on board (a UFO) and seeing an astronaut in a suit,” Eudy said. The being stood about 5 feet tall, and had two arms and two legs. Eudy said the being’s face was covered by a dark-colored visor. “The person never spoke a word,” he said.
He remembers he was first in a well-lit room. Both the room and the being’s suit were a light, metallic color, Eudy said. He believes the craft was oval-shaped.
“The inside was designed like a cockpit of a plane,” he said. “I wanted to know how it operated.” Eudy now remembers asking a lot of questions about how the craft worked.
After a few minutes in the first room, Eudy was taken into a second room, which was darker than the first. “I was scared,” he said. “I was put in a chair like a doctor’s chair and strapped down. I think (he was) running tests on me.”
Pain in his fingers afterward made Eudy speculate the being took a blood sample from him for analysis.
In retrospect, Eudy believes the craft was propelled by some form of magnetism, and that it was able to pick up his car and move it. He said he still doesn’t remember crossing the bridge over the Rocky River or entering or leaving the UFO.
He feels the relaxation process he underwent was a beneficial experience. “It brought back things I thought were true, and it eased my mind because I knew that I wasn’t just dreaming up stuff.” Eudy hasn’t told many people about the experience or about his session with Pinneau.
Part of the reason for his relative silence has been his job as a salesman. “You don’t want to put youself in a position where people are skeptical of you,” he said.
EUDY SAID he Initially believed he should not become involved in the debate as to whether UFOs exist. Although he believed in them before that night, he acknowledged that many people still don’t believe in them.
“Some people just don’t believe they’re other (beings) out there,” he said.
But a concern that people who have seen UFOs might be inhibited from speaking up led Eudy to change his mind and agree to talk to The Enquirer-Journal about his experience.
“They’re other people who’ve seen things and maybe now they’ll step forward and tell it like it is,” he said. – Henry Welles – Monroe Enquirer-Journal (Monroe, North Carolina), 9/27/81
Cloud formations might be a way UFO intelligence communicates with us. Joseph Burkes MD 2014
One sunny afternoon in August of 2009 I was driving south through the spectacular Sonoma County wine country on Highway 101. The four-lane roadway was practically empty. There was not a cloud in the sky. I was moving in the kind of “hypnotic state” that long car trips can bring on.
Not surprising given what was about to ensue, I was driving to what I imagined was an important UFO meeting. It was to be held at the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) located near Petaluma California. IONS was co-founded in 1973 by former astronaut Dr. Edgar Mitchell, one of six men who walked on the moon.
Noetics is the branch of philosophy that explores human consciousness. Thus my destination seemed to be part of a “message” that I was about to receive from an unseen, non-human intelligence.
The temperature outside my car was over ninety. With the windows rolled up and the AC on, I was in a kind of bubble flying down the highway. Perhaps the monotonous drone of the engine and the bright sunlight reflecting off the glistening grape vines brought me to a timeless moment without thought. It is an altered state of consciousness that I believe can serve as a kind of “meditation equivalent” and facilitates contact with UFO intelligence.
As the car rolled around a hillside I saw two small rectangular shaped clouds in the sky. They were directly in front of me. This strange visual display was located at about thirty degrees up from a horizon that was formed by rolling hills covered with purple fruit.
The two rectangular clouds were lying lengthwise, floated motionlessly, and were so close that one sharp right angle corner of one cloud was touching the other. This weird configuration of two “cloud rectangles” covered only a small section of the sky. I estimated this distance to be about two palms’ width when the arms were fully extended.
They looked like a pair of children’s toy blocks painted white and displayed lengthwise. The road, straight as an arrow, was heading directly under the weird formation.
I am aware of the unusual ways in which UFO Intelligence can mentally interact with the consciousness of recurrent UFO experiencers. Not taking myself very seriously, I “sent out to the universe” the thought message,
“OK whoever you are, you’ve got my attention now. Yeah I can see the funny looking clouds right in front of me.
And then I added, “But if you really want to get my attention show me a flying disc.”
My car picked up speed as I went downhill. I gazed at the beautiful scenery moving by. For a minute or two I lost sight of the white rectangular clouds that were the only clouds visible in the broad expense of sky.
When I looked up to my chagrin, those strange clouds had merged to create an image of a flying disc. It was pointing upwards to the right as if it were taking off. The left side of the disc looked as if a small piece of white cloud had been broken off and had formed tiny tufts of white in a straight line that trailed out from the back of the “saucer.” It was as if a child had drawn a saucer in take off mode with puffs of white cloud forming the “exhaust” trail.
Could it be merely a coincidence that the clouds formed a disc shape just after my unusual request? Perhaps my interpretation that this represents genuine communication is just another case of contactee wishful thinking. There is of course no way I can prove this is another example of the consciousness connection that in my judgment is central to the UFO contact experience.
My impression that this strange cloud formation represented a kind of communication with UFO intelligence filled me with both excitement and disappointment. Excitement in that I hungered for contact and the anomalous clouds seemed to confirm a mental link with what I believe is an unseen intelligence associated with flying saucers. I was disappointed because after nearly twenty years of contact work, in what I imagined was a grand crusade promoting “interspecies’ communication,” I was left with such equivocal results. Was this experience evidence of a consciousness link or simply a silly mind game?
After all my efforts, writing scores of articles, conducting dozens of fieldwork sessions, and many public lectures about what I call the “Contact Underground,” all that I had earned was the “privilege” of viewing a fleeting image in the sky that looked like a child’s drawing of a flying saucer.
UFO intelligence in my judgment has an extraordinary psi capability that allows it to communicate with humans in a multitude of unconventional ways most importantly via consciousness. They offer experiencers opportunities to test the mental connection in ways that are often highly ambiguous and sometimes quite playful. This unseen intelligence repeatedly challenges us to distinguish wishful thinking from genuine interaction.
This high strangeness event reinforced the notion that perhaps UFO intelligence isn’t here to “visit” our planet, but rather is to interact with and transform human consciousness.
For the time being cloud formations that seem to communicate a message are relatively rare and restricted to a select group of UFO aficionados. I sometimes wonder what might be the reaction of the Earth’s peoples if this phenomenon became increasingly common. What a creative and relatively non-threatening way this could be to alert us to their presence.
What might be the reaction of the establishment to such a radical occurrence of meaningful cloud formations appearing in the sky all over the planet? Would the control groups who imagine that their job is to keep a lid on the situation hire an army of ultra-light pilots to hoax “cloud formations?” Something similar was rumored to have occurred in the crop circle region of England where contests occur to decide who can “hoax” the best crop circle.
At this time hoaxing cloud formations might be a technologically challenging and expensive way of preventing “the natives from becoming restless.” Perhaps UFO intelligence is waiting for such human capabilities to arise before employing clouds to communicate their presence. In that way our “masters” will not be excessively alarmed and the contact drama will continue to unfold in its usual fashion of high strangeness mixed with a heavy dose of vexing ambiguity. Till then I suppose we will simply have to wait and keep watching the skies.
Early in the 1952 UFO sighting wave two discs approached and paced a B-36 bomber in the vicinity of Davis-Monthan AFB, Tucson, Arizona. On May 1, 1952, Major Rudy Pestalozzi, a base intelligence officer, along with an airman, looked up as a B-36 flew overhead and saw two shiny discs overtake the bomber, slow to its speed and position themselves alongside. The bomber crew, startled by the experience, made an unscheduled landing at the base and were interrogated at length by Major Pestalozzi, who happened to be the base UFO officer. Members of the flight crew had crowded into the starboard blister aft of the wing and looked down at a slight angle to see the closest disc, which was lens- or double-disc-shaped and about 20-25 feet in diameter. After about 20 seconds, the objects peeled off at an angle of 70-80 degrees from the flight path of the B-36 and sped away. Major Pestalozzi sent a comprehensive report of the incident to Project Blue Book. Within the next two months the summer 1952 UFO sighting wave reached a crescendo, generating national headlines and stirring up major Government interest, as radar repeatedly detected UFOs, and jet interceptors engaged in cat-and-mouse pursuits. NOTE: The above image is a rendering.
DAVIS-MONTHAM AIR FORCE BASE…
The base was named in honor of World War I pilots Lieutenants Samuel H. Davis (1896–1921) and Oscar Monthan (1885–1924), both Tucson natives. Davis, who attended the University of Arizona prior to enlisting in the Army in 1917, died in a Florida aircraft accident in 1921. Monthan enlisted in the Army as a private in 1917, was commissioned as a ground officer in 1918, and later became a pilot; he was killed in the crash of a Martin bomber in Hawaii in 1924.
Giant Moths Have Descended on Malaysia, And No One Knows Why
The moths, Lyssa Zampa, are startlingly large. Their wingspans can grow up to six inches. They aren’t poisonous, and they aren’t known to carry diseases. But, in Malaysia and Singapore, there are a lot of them—an unusually heavy presence. There are so many giant moths swarming parts of these countries that thousands of them managed to disrupt a soccer match.
For the most part, they’ve been welcomed as curiosities by people living in the region. But there are superstitions about the moths, as Malaysian newspaper The Star reports:
“Old people say someone is visiting,” said Olivia Airine Sue, alluding to the myth that moths were physical manifestations of departed loved ones.
“Not a good omen,” said user Tom Said, while Vivien Wong wrote that it “must be a sign that bad things are going to happen soon”.
The moths usually appear in the summer, but rarely in such large numbers. They haven’t been active en masse like this for almost a decade now, since 2005.
It’s clear that the moths are attracted to the lights of the city, and but the reason for this year’s influx is still a mystery. Some experts think that the large numbers this year are due to a lack of predators and parasites. Others say that weather conditions this year might have been particularly good for caterpillars. – SmithsonianMag
3 UFO Sightings Recorded in Declassified NSA Document
The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) recorded several sightings of unidentified flying objects [UFOs] in a top secret report. In 1980, a civil action suit was brought against the NSA by a group called Citizens Against Unidentified Flying Objects Secrecy.
Since that time, the NSA has declassified many reports on UFOs.
Here’s a look at four of the incidents in one of the declassified documents. Information has been redacted, making it difficult at times to piece together the findings. The reports often conclude the objects could be propaganda balloons or satellites.
1. Radar Detects Multiple UFOs Same Time Daily
NSA UFO Report
Multiple UFOs were detected on radar usually between the time of 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. traveling against the wind, according to the NSA report. The largest number observed at one time was eight, and they were estimated to be flying at a height of 50,000 feet. The objects were described as yellow or green and as drifting over the area (the location is not given).
Military electronics experts were sent to investigate, along with a civilian meteorologist and a civilian scientist.
It seems one person thought the UFOs could be sophisticated devices of some sort, though it is unclear who held this opinion or what specific kind of devices they could be. The report states: “Possibility that UFO’s some kind of sophisticated [redacted] device appears remote though this is what [redacted] suspects.”
“Possibly these are reflections of [word redacted] and/or [word redacted] propaganda balloons, depending on wind direction at UFO’s altitude.”
The report states that four reliable Americans spotted them and said they may be satellites or space debris. One of the observers had spent years professionally observing satellites. Though the sentence specifically describing this observer’s opinion is partially redacted or illegible, it seems to indicate he thought the object he saw was similar to a satellite: “He indicated this observation, made from [redacted] outside [redacted] was of [illegible] nature, a yellowish object on a steady course.”
2. 33 Yellow or Green UFOs Spotted
NSA UFO Report
As in the previous report, another report states that UFOs described as yellow or green seem to drift over an area (again unspecified). A total of 33 were sighted in the area.
The chances that the UFOs are “some kind of sophisticated [redacted] device appears remote,” the report states. “Unless amplifying [illegible] received, most plausible explanation of UFOs is that they are either [redacted] or [redacted] propaganda balloons.”
3. A Ball of Light Splits Into 3
NSA UFO Report
It is common for people who report seeing UFOs to describe multiple, smaller UFOs coming out of one large one.
In one of the NSA reports, it seems the original object disappeared, however, becoming three separate objects.
“[Redacted] saw an elongated ball of fire moving … [redacted] … high rate of speed. After covering some distance, it split into three balls of fire,” the heavily redacted report states.
Again propaganda balloons or satellites are posited as explanations. Read more at EpochTimes
After confusing a porcupine with an opossum, Antonio Rodrigues Mororó, 50, from Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, was left with almost 400 porcupine quills stuck in his hand.
During a party at Mr Mororó’s home, one of his son’s said that his pregnant wife was afraid to enter the house because the animal was sitting on a wall by the entrance stairs.
So, in a bid to remove it, Mr Mororó slapped the animal, resulting in him receiving a handful of quills. He was taken to the Emergency Unit of the local hospital and despite three shots of anaesthetic, the pain continued.
Following a tetnus jab and a course of antibiotics, Mr Mororó is recovering, albeit with a hand full of holes. Neighbours have reported that the porcupine is still living in the neighbourhood.
Babirusa (hog-deer) is a member of the pig family mostly found in Wallacea. It is unique in the way that if it doesn’t grind its tusks, they will eventually grow so much that they will penetrate the animal’s own skull
The powerful new model can help detect life on extrasolar planets more effectively than ever before.
Developed by researchers from the University College London, the technique works by analyzing the absorption of different colored light by an extrasolar planet’s atmosphere and then comparing it to a predetermined spectrum to find out which molecules may be present there.
The new model will focus primarily on finding methane, the simplest organic molecule that is often used as an indicator for the presence of life.
“Current models of methane are incomplete, leading to a severe underestimation of methane levels on planets,” said Professor Jonathan Tennyson. “We anticipate our new model will have a big impact on the future study of planets and ‘cool’ stars external to our solar system, potentially helping scientists identify signs of extraterrestrial life.”
If all goes well then the new technique could soon be used to analyze the atmospheres of planets discovered around distant stars in an effort to determine whether life may have developed there. NDTV
Several weeks ago, commentator Sean Forker announced he would be leaving Beyond The Edge Radio. Eric and I are pleased to announce that Amy Perry will now become the new commentator on the show. Welcome aboard, Amy!
It seems reality TV shows love the idea of including UFO enthusiast among their casts. We have received yet another request to send out to our readers.
This time the production company is Bunim/Murray Productions (the same production I worked with when I was on Keeping Up with the Kardashians). They are developing a show about activists, and according to their representative, they want to include UFO activists.
They are looking for people preferably younger than 35. Yeah, I know, that counts me out too. Ugh. Although, my advice is people over 35 should still apply anyway. It is worth a shot.
They are also looking for people who have had their relationships with their family or friends affected by their passion for UFOs and or aliens. That really isn’t hard, because most of us into this topic have faced that issue. My cousin once told me I would never have a girlfriend as long as my full time job had to do with UFOs. Fortunately, he was wrong. However, there have been a couple times when my dates were clearly not impressed when they found out what I do.
If you are interested, they are eager to hear from you ASAP, so send them an email pronto! Here is some information they sent us on how to contact them, and more information about the show.
Bunim/Murray Productions is seeking passionate activists who are dedicated to changing the world to participate in a new documentary series. Our series will highlight the ways that activism impacts the lives of those fighting every day to change the world.
We’d love to hear your story and find out more about what you do. If interested please email us at activistcasting@bunim-murray.com.
Please include your NAME and PHONE NUMBER and briefly tell us about yourself and your story, including how your activism impacts your personal life. Please also attach a few recent photos of yourself.
Good luck, and god speed! I hope to see you on TV. I just ask that you leave the tin foil hats and alien antennae at home. Try to represent UFO activism in a serious manner, and do the UFO research community proud!
I love this video below from an airplane’s view – you may want to MUTE the video and just feel the vibes of the photo in silence – you will then feel the great vibrations of the pattern in a sacred way – let the art energy go through you – as a sensitive – you will feel the presence.
NASA Reports on Credible UFO Sightings in Ancient Times
NASA Reports on Credible UFO Sightings in Ancient Times
View of a lintel at the ancient Egyptian temple to Osiris at Abydos, Egypt. Carvings to the right of the mosquito are said to represent a helicopter, motorboat, spaceship, and airplane. (Shutterstock*)
The universe is full of mysteries that challenge our current knowledge. In “Beyond Science” Epoch Times collects stories about these strange phenomena to stimulate the imagination and open up previously undreamed of possibilities. Are they true? You decide.
The description of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) has remained fairly consistent throughout history, stretching back into antiquity. While many could be attributed to natural phenomena, an in-depth study by NASA’s Richard Stothers found “There nonetheless remains a small residue of puzzling accounts, and regardless of what interpretation one places on them, these constitute a phenomenon that spans centuries of time and widely different cultures.”
Stothers (1939–2009) received a degree in mathematics at Princeton University, earned his Ph.D. at Harvard, and was a permanent member of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies.
Here’s a look at 5 UFO sightings Stothers deemed puzzling in a 2007 report.
1. Chariots in the Sky Witnessed by Many
Historian Josephus wrote around 65 A.D. about a fantastical sighting over Judea: “On the 21st of the month Artemisium, there appeared a miraculous phenomenon, passing belief. Indeed, what I am about to relate would, I imagine, have been deemed a fable, were it not for the narratives of eyewitnesses and the subsequent calamities which deserved to be so signalized. For, before sunset throughout all parts of the country, chariots were seen in the air and armed battalions hurtling through the clouds and encompassing the cities.”
Josephus likely witnessed this event himself, said Stothers, though he bolstered his credibility by appealing to eyewitness accounts. The description does not seem to correspond to any natural phenomena, Strothers wrote.
2. Thousands of Roman Soldiers Witness UFO?
Plutarch wrote of a sighting witnessed by thousands. In 74 B.C., the Roman army was moving to engage the forces of King Mithridates VI in the area of modern-day Turkey.
“With no apparent change of weather, but all on a sudden, the sky burst asunder, and a huge, flame-like body was seen to fall between the two armies,” he wrote. “In shape, it was most like a wine-jar (pithoi), and in color, like molten silver. Both sides were astonished at the sight, and separated. This marvel, as they say, occurred in Phrygia, at a place called Otryae.”
Stothers pointed out that freshly fallen meteorites are black, not “molten silver” color, which suggests it was not a meteorite. Plutarch also made no mention of the impact.
Stothers wrote: “The object must have measured much more than a meter across, since it was easily resolved at a distance greater than half the range of a bowshot. If it had remained on the ground, a meteorite of such size would doubtless have become a cult object in Phrygia, with its long tradition of meteorite worship, yet later historical records referring to Phrygian meteorites are silent about it.”
Nonetheless, there is a chance the UFO was a bolide, a bright meteor that often explodes.
3. Sightings During the Second Punic War in Rome
Hannibal crossing the Alps during the Second Punic War (218-202 BC). Engraved by J.Cousen, published 1862. (Shutterstock)
Many sightings were recorded during and following the Second Punic War (218–201 B.C.) in Livy’s prodigy lists. The lists were derived from the Annales Maximi, published by the Pontifex Maximus of Rome. This source is considered trustworthy and accurate, explained Stothers, because of the time-consuming and thorough procedure required by Roman authorities to investigate claims before they would be recorded.
In Rome, in the winter of 218 B.C., “A spectacle of ships (navium) gleamed in the sky.”
In 217 B.C., “at Arpi, round shields (parmas) were seen in the sky.”
In 173 B.C., “at Lanuvium a spectacle of a great fleet was said to have been seen in the sky.”
It is not likely that suggestive cloud formations would have been mistaken for UFOs, Strother said, since these formations had long been understood and were familiar features. These sightings are also not likely a mock sun, because mock suns are routinely described as “double suns” or “triple suns.”
4. ‘Angel Hair’ Glassy Fibers
Image of a cobweb, perhaps similar to the gossamer substance said to be left in the wake of UFOs. (Shutterstock)
In modern UFO reports, it is common to hear about either glassy fibers or a chalky substance left behind by the UFO, known as angel hair. Ancient reports also include angel hair.
In 196 A.D., the historian Cassius Dio wrote: “A fine rain resembling silver descended froma clear sky upon the Forum of Augustus. I did not, it is true, see it as it was falling, but noticed it after it had fallen, and by means of it I plated some bronze coins with silver; they retained the same appearance for three days, but by the fourth day all the substance rubbed on them had disappeared.”
Two other “rains of chalk” were reported in Cales 214 B.C. and in Rome 98 B.C.
5.UFO Inhabited Pope Pius I’s brother was probably the only witness of this UFO sighting near Via Campana, Italy, around 150 A.D.: “On a sunny day, a ‘beast’ like a piece of pottery (ceramos) about 100 feet in size, multicolored on top and shooting out fiery rays, landed in a dust cloud accompanied by a ‘maiden’ clad in white.”
Stothers concluded “This collection of what might be termed ancient UFO reports has been culled from a much larger number of reports of aerial objects, most of whose identifications with known phenomena are either certain or at least probable. Embedded in the mass of relatively explicable ancient reports, however, is a small set of unexplained (or at least not wholly explained) reports from presumably credible witnesses.”
“Any viable theory must reckon with the extraordinary persistence and consistency of the phenomena discussed here over many centuries.”
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Zoektocht MH370: ‘Niet gezocht op meest voor de hand liggende plaats’
Zoektocht MH370: ‘Niet gezocht op meest voor de hand liggende plaats’
Van de Boeing die in maart verdween, is nog altijd geen spoor. Foto: EPA
De zoektocht naar het vermiste vliegtuig van Malaysia Airlines gaat nog steeds door, maar er is nog niet gezocht op de meest voor de hand liggende plaats. Dat zegt althans het Britse satellietbedrijf Inmarsat.
Het toestel dat op weg was naar Peking met 239 mensen aan boord, verdween op 8 maart, ongeveer een uur nadat het was opgestegen van op Kuala Lumpur International Airport.
Volgens Inmarsat crashte de MH370 meer dan waarschijnlijk in de zuidelijke Indische Oceaan. Het bedrijf baseert zich daarvoor op de korte contacten die het vliegtuig om het uur maakte met een van de satellieten van Inmarsat. Maar het Australische schip dat de zoektocht naar het toestel voerde, stopte net voor die bewuste locatie om op onderzoek te gaan naar een signaal (‘ping’) vanuit een andere locatie.
Maleisië heeft afgelopen zondag, 100 dagen na het verdwijnen van het vliegtuig, beloofd dat de zoektocht naar het toestel onverminderd voortgaat. ‘We kunnen en we zullen niet rusten voor het toestel is gevonden’, zei minister van Transport Hishammuddin Hussein.
Among the thousands of UFO-related cases that have been reported over the years, the Falcon Lake UFO encounter occupies a unique place in paranormal history. While a large majority of UFO incidents are reported as strictly aerial sightings, the Falcon Lake encounter is one of a relatively small amount of cases that document actual physical injuries as the result of a UFO-related experience.
The incident was reported to have taken place on May 20th, 1967 at Falcon Lake in southeastern Manitoba, Canada. Stephen Michalak, a mechanic living in Winnipeg, Manitoba, had decided to spend his Victoria Day weekend prospecting for silver at Whiteshell Provincial Park near Falcon Lake. He was well acquainted with the area, having tried his hand at prospecting several times before in various parts of Whiteshell, but he had recently been told about some promising veins of quartz near Falcon Lake that carried potential silver deposits. Equipped with a game plan, Michalak traveled to Falcon Lake on May 19th and checked into a motel on the Trans-Canada Highway that evening, eager to begin prospecting the next morning.
At roughly 5:30 a.m. on the 20th, Michalak left the motel and headed into the northern area of the park to begin digging. By 9:00 a.m. he had located a vein of quartz near a small stream, and continued digging until roughly around 12 noon, at which time he took a lunch break. The peace and quiet of his surroundings was soon interrupted by the sound of several cackling geese that were evidently responding to some type of disturbance nearby. Michalak looked up in the sky and observed two cigar-shaped objects descending slowly into the woods. Both objects appeared to be glowing with a reddish hue, and as they continued to get closer, they took on more of a disc-like shape instead of oval or elongated.
As Michalak continued to observe from a distance, one of the two crafts began to hover in mid-flight, while the other one landed on a massive flat rock roughly 160 feet away from Michalak’s vantage point. The craft that had been hovering in the air abruptly departed westward, disappearing behind a cover of clouds. Michalak observed that the craft seemed to change in color from red to grey before it faded from view. As Michalak redirected his attention to the craft that had landed just a small distance away, he noticed that its color had also changed from a glowing red to what appeared to be a greyish color, recounted by Michalak as looking somewhat like “hot stainless steel.” Michalak had been wearing protective goggles to shield his eyes from rock fragments while digging, and they also proved to be instrumental in protecting his eyes from the intense light that emanated from various openings in the craft.
Michalak estimated the object to be roughly 40 feet in diameter, with a domed top and several apertures through which a brilliant purple light emanated. The craft had no external markings to indicate that it was the property of any particular commercial or military entity. Michalak also noticed waves of warm air accompanied by a sulfur-like smell coming from the craft. He was able to sketch the object from his position, and after roughly 15 minutes, he noticed that a doorway or portal on the side of the craft had been opened. Taking in as many details of the scene as possible, Michalak anxiously waited to see if anyone would emerge from the craft.
After waiting in vain for about half an hour, Michalak decided to carefully approach the object. Guessing that the craft may be an experimental U.S. military vehicle, he slowly approached the open doorway and heard a couple of humanlike voices speaking in an indistinguishable language. He attempted to address them in English first, giving a warm greeting, and while the voices inside the craft stopped speaking, they gave no direct response to him. He then cautiously addressed them in Russian, asking “Do you speak Russian?” This was also met with no response. Michalak then tried some basic greetings in German, French, Ukranian, and Italian, all to no avail. During this time he was able to get a glimpse of some of the interior of the craft through the doorway, and he noticed that the walls were roughly 18 to 20 inches thick, and featured a honeycomb-like construction. He also noticed what appeared to be some type of control panel, upon which was a maze-like pattern of several different beams of light, arranged in horizontal and diagonal configurations.
After Michalak had attempted the greetings in various languages, the door of the craft abruptly slammed shut, with a type of motion similar to a camera shutter. He then touched the craft with his gloved hand and noticed that it did not feature any type of joints or welding, but seemed rather to have a perfectly smooth, polished and highly reflective surface. Michalak then noticed that his glove had burned and subsequently melted, although he had barely brushed the craft with his hand. In what seemed like only a split second, the craft suddenly changed position, which put Michalak directly in front of some type of exhaust vent that had a grid-like appearance. Suddenly, a blast of extremely hot air shot from this vent, setting Michalak’s shirt and undershirt on fire. he frantically removed his shirts, but did not escape having his skin burned by the blast. The craft then abruptly ascended and took off into the clouds, and Michalak felt a rush of air as it accelerated. He later discovered burn marks on his chest in the exact same grid-like shape of the exhaust vent.
Once the incident had passed, Michalak returned to the spot where he had left his belongings and attempted to gather his senses. The air carried a heavy smell similar to burnt electric wire, along with the sulfur-like smell. He looked down at his compass and noticed that the needle was spinning erratically, but after a few minutes had passed, it eventually became still again. Michalak started feeling very nauseous, and also began to suffer from a severe headache. He headed back to the site where the craft had landed and noticed a completely smooth, circular patch of land (no stones or twigs), but on the perimeter of the circle was a pile of accumulated debris such as dirt, leaves and pine needles. He broke out in a cold sweat and became increasingly nauseous, to the point where he vomited. Michalak decided to gather his things and head back to the motel, vomiting several times more on the way.
Michalak sought help from a constable of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police who happened to be driving by, but was ultimately unsuccessful, as the officer refused to help Michalak after suspecting that he had been intoxicated. After returning to the hotel, Michalak took a bus back to Winnipeg, where his son met him and took him to the hospital. Michalak was tested for radiation poisoning, but all tests came back well within normal range. Over the next 7 days, Michalak continued to battle nausea and headaches, and lost a total of 22 pounds over the course of the week. He eventually regained his weight and slowly came back to decent health, but was determined to investigate the site of the encounter to see if he could find out more details about what he had experienced.
Michalak enlisted the help of the Canadian military, who assembled a team of investigators that accompanied him to the site on July 2nd, 1967. The investigators took several samples of the soil around the area, and after laboratory analysis the samples were found to contain high levels of radium, posing a “possible serious health hazard” to the area. Investigators also found a round-shaped clearing roughly 15 feet in diameter on the surface of the rock where the craft had allegedly landed. Moss and dirt that had formerly covered the rock had been “blasted” to the perimeter of the clearing by what appeared to have been a strong rush of air. While some of the team’s findings seemed to challenge Michalak’s account–e.g., the surrounding trees and flora showed little to no signs of disturbances or heat damage–there has been an ongoing suspicion that some of the evidence from the site has been obscured or tampered with in order to quell suspicions of paranormal phenomena. Michalak’s case had even been brought before the Canadian House of Commons in November of 1967, but the cabinet members that raised questions regarding the Falcon Lake incident were basically stonewalled by the Department of National Defence.
In 1999, Michalak passed away at the age of 83. The Falcon Lake UFO incident has been widely accepted as one of the most genuine accounts of a close encounter resulting in physical after-effects. While the investigations into the details of Michalak’s account have raised skepticism due to their paranormal claims, nothing has been discovered that completely discredits his story either.
The Socorro UFO Encounter was considered by Dr. J. Allen Hynek, Blue Book’s scientific adviser, to be the Rosetta Stone of UFO cases. This UFO event was characterized by a close-encounter sighting of Lonnie Zamora, a Socorro policeman, and physical evidence left behind, comprising ground tracks and freshly burned vegetation. The perplexing nature of the event led to investigations by the FBI, the US Army, and the US Air Force, with the latter admitting that a real craft was, in fact, involved in the incident, and they had no idea what it was.
The now famous Socorro UFO Encounter took place in Socorro; a small town situated about 80 miles from Albuquerque, in the US state of New Mexico. The event occurred early Friday evening, on April 24, 1964. According to multiple reports of the original story recorded in 1964, city policeman Lonnie Zamora was patrolling Pack Street, just south of the town, when he was passed by a car that was over the speed limit at around 5:45 pm. When pursuing the vehicle, he heard a “roar” and noticed a bluish-orange flame in the southwest sky, about 0.5 – 1 mile away. Policeman Zamora claimed that he could not focus on the ascending flame because his attention was on the road, plus the sun was in that direction, and he was wearing sunglasses.
His initial thought was that a local dynamite shack at the vicinity had blown, so he broke off the chase to investigate the source of the noise. A section of the dirt road was extremely rocky, and he had trouble going through it. Driving very slowly, he got through the rough area, up the road leading to the top of the mesa overlooking the gully where the noise had come from.
Zamora claimed that he first saw the object through his window while driving towards the top of the mesa. What he saw looked like an overturned car, at a distance of about 150 yards. Zamora also noticed two “child-like” persons (small), dressed in white coveralls, standing beside the UFO. The two persons had their backs to him, though one of them turned his head and looked directly at him. He stopped his car at the top of the mesa and proceeded towards the gully on foot.
When he was about 50 feet from the UFO, he noticed that the object was oval-shaped and placed on “girder-like” legs, and the two persons were no longer outside the object. At that instant, he heard a loud roar and a bluish flame shot out from beneath the object, causing it to rise. Zamora immediately ducked and lay on the ground, since he thought that the object would explode. When it failed to explode, he got up and ran further away to view the object from a distance. According to Zamora, there was a whirring noise as the object rose to a height of about 20 feet above the bottom of the gulley – to about the same level as where the patrol car was parked – and its legs were no longer visible. The noise suddenly stopped and the flame was no longer visible. With 20-25 feet clearance from the ground, the object started to move parallel to the terrain, accelerating for about two miles to the perlite mill. It then rapidly gained altitude before disappearing in the sky.
As soon as the object had taken off, Zamora radioed the sheriff’s office and asked the radio dispatcher on duty, Nep Lopez, to look out the window to see if he could see the object, but the dispatcher did not see anything. The first person to respond was State Police Sam Chavez, followed closely by State Policeman ted Jordan and under Sheriff James Luckie. All three individuals arrived within ten minutes of the incident, allowing them to witness the smoldering bushes and fresh landing depressions.
By Saturday, the incident had been reported to Kirtland Air Force Base and White Sands Missile Range in Albuquerque, catching the attention of the military and Project Blue book personnel. At the same time, about half the town of Socorro had received word of the sighting, with many reporters and residents going to search for the landing site.
Investigators of the incidence reported that Zamora was a credible city policeman, and the physical evidence seemed to be genuine. The investigators analyzed a burnt branch from the bush, as well as a soil sample from the site of the impression, though nothing unusual was found. Radiation tests also revealed normal levels. Some burnt weathered cardboard was also found on the site, which Dr. Allen Hynek, Blue Book’s scientific adviser believed had nothing to do with the case. Surrounding bushes also had cardboard or paper believed to have been deposited there by winds. Something else that the investigators noted was that there were no tracks, suggesting that no vehicles had been in the area recently. This was a vital factor in proving that the incident was not a hoax.
Investigations by Blue Book left them with uncertainty, since they could not identify what exactly Zamora saw, but believed that it was not extraterrestrial. This is because the object seemed to demonstrate technology at the same level as that of the US space program. They even proposed that it could have been a Lunar Excursion Module (LEM), similar to those found in the Apollo program, or an experiment by the White Sands Missile Range, though none of these possibilities yielded positive results.
Blue Book also took into consideration the credibility of Lonnie Zamora, being regarded as a serious policeman, a pillar member of his church, and a man who is well capable of identifying airborne vehicles in his region. Sam Chavez, who arrived about two minutes after the object had taken off, claimed that Zamora was genuinely in a state of panic and bewilderment when he arrived, and Blue Book is also puzzled. In fact, Chavez has stated in other reports that he may have seen a flying object disappearing at a distance, though he has not mentioned this on the record.
After the incident, various witnesses sprang up, claiming to have seen the UFO that evening. One tourist, in particular, claimed that the object had flown over his car and landed at the gulley, and even mentioned it to the manager of Whiting Brother’s Service station located on 85 north.
Early skeptics of the Socorro UFO encounter argued that it was a massive gimmick to boost tourism. If this is true, then it was successful, since the incident became a chapter in the history of New Mexico, drawing numerous visitors to Socorro every year, though there is not much to see at the site, except desert. Nevertheless, the Lonnie Zamora UFO incident has continued to be vital in UFO research, and every now and then, finds itself back in the media.
People continue to refute the incident, some claiming knowledge of the identities of the hoaxers but nothing other than indirect have yet to be produced. It this was a prank by hoaxers one can only hope they got jobs in the aerospace industry. SpaceX in particular could make good use of their talents.
The sighting was memorialized in 2012 by a mural placed a few hundred yards from the supposed landing spot. If you would like to read the complete Lonnie Zamora Police Report you may do so by clicking Here.
The Solway Firth Spaceman is one of the most salient and enduring mysteries of photographic imagery. The enigmatic photograph, captured by Jim Templeton in 1964, appears to show an astronaut or spaceman standing behind Templeton’s young daughter. As with most Fortean phenomena skeptics and believers alike have put forward theories to explain the image. These theories have ran the gamut from plausible to ridiculous but to date none have offered a conclusive explanation. This inconclusive status has given the mystery a life of its own and though Templeton passed away in relative obscurity in November of 2011 the mysterious image that he captured by accident while photographing his daughter continues to confound skeptics and believers alike.
A Carlisle fireman by occupation, Templeton was strongly interested in photography, and on May 24th, 1964 he took a photograph of his oldest daughter while they were out on the Solway Marshes, a narrow strip of land that separates England from Scotland. After he took the film to a local shop for processing, the attendant complimented Templeton on his picture, but then asked him who the “big fellow” was. Jim was puzzled by this question until he examined the photographs for himself. One of the exposures showed a large figure standing in the background behind his daughter, possibly only a few feet away from where she was sitting. The figure appeared to be dressed in a light-colored spacesuit similar to what astronauts of that time would wear. According to Templeton, nobody else was around at the time the photograph was taken. He quickly submitted the photograph for testing by the local police department as well as by Kodak (the film manufacturer). Both stated that the image had not been forged or tampered with in any kind of way. The image was eventually submitted to a local newspaper known as the Cumberland News, and it quickly gained popularity, spawning the descriptive moniker “The Solway Spaceman”.
The photograph soon became a widespread sensation, and within days Templeton and his daughter became unintentional celebrities as the news of the strange image began to travel around the world. Unfortunately, the onslaught of media attention took its toll on Templeton, and especially on his daughter. She began to be bullied and taunted at school, and suffered to the point of having to be withdrawn from school due to anxiety and stress.
The Ministry of Defence was somewhat benign regarding the situation until they were contacted by the Cumberland News for their opinion. They showed a definite interest in analyzing the photograph, but once Templeton found out that he would have to hand over the original camera and film for testing, he chose not to comply with their request. No official record exists indicating that the matter was pursued any further by the MoD. Many analysts have speculated that Jim may have had a more personal reason for not handing his camera and film over to the MoD, but there are also skeptics that hold the view that Templeton was being unjustifiably cautious in his refusal to cooperate with the agency. The events that immediately followed have convinced several ufologists that the Ministry of Defence may have taken a much more earnest interest in the matter, to the point of dispatching two secret agents to examine and investigate the mysterious photograph more closely.
Later in the summer of that same year, a brand new black Jaguar arrived at Templeton’s workplace. Out stepped two men dressed in all black, a particularly unusual sight for that day and time. The two men asked Templeton to accompany them and direct them to the location where the photograph had been taken. When Templeton asked for some identification, one of the agents presented a card that featured a crest insignia and the word “Security”. According to Templeton’s account, the men stated that they were from the Ministry of Defence, and that they did not go by names, only by numbers. Templeton took note of the fact that they only referred to each other as “Eleven” and “Nine”. According to Templeton, they asked certain questions that gave away the fact that they were not from the local area, including garbling some commonly known place names and being seemingly unfamiliar with the local geography.
Once they arrived at the Solway Marshes, Templeton stated that he showed the men the exact location where the photograph was taken. One of the agents asked Templeton to confirm if the location was the spot where he “saw the alien”, to which Templeton replied that he didn’t see anyone the entire time he was with his daughter that day. Once Templeton made this statement, the two men simply said “Thank you very much” and promptly drove off, leaving Jim stranded at the location and forcing him to hitch a ride back to the Carlisle fire station. From that point on, Templeton never encountered the “Men in Black” again.
The Solway Firth Spaceman case gained popularity in the ufology community after a possible link to another incident was discovered, a mysterious event that took place at a missile test range in Woomera, South Australia. The Blue Streak missiles that were utilized at the Woomera firing range were developed at the RAF Spadeadam base in Cumbria, and were intended for use as part of a British missile system for launching satellites. A planned Blue Streak missile test at Woomera was aborted only one day after the Solway Firth Spaceman photo was taken due to reports of two “large men” being present on the firing range. The technicians that were responsible for the missile test at Woomera were astounded when they discovered a picture of the Solway Spaceman on the first page of an Australian newspaper, because the anomalous figure in the Solway picture looked the same as the figures they had seen on the test range. Up until they saw the paper, they had not been aware of the Solway Spaceman sighting at all.
No known retraction from Templeton has been uncovered regarding the authenticity of the Solway Spaceman photograph, and to this day even the most critical skeptics have not been able to fully prove or explain how the photograph could have been faked. Although the photograph does not feature an image of a UFO, it has been inextricably connected with UFO-related phenomena due in part to the interest that the larger UFO community has taken in its possible link to the mysterious Woomera sightings. Without a doubt, the finer details of the Solway Firth Spaceman case have been clouded by sensationalism and government cover-up conjectures, but the photograph continues to stand for itself
One of the most baffling paranormal experiences ever reported was the Val Johnson UFO incident that took place in Minnesota in the early hours of the morning on August 27, 1979, between 1:00-2:00 am. What makes this particular UFO incident so puzzling is the strange physical evidence it left behind and the dependability of the only eye witness, a reputable deputy sheriff with the Marshall County Sheriff’s Department.
The incident started when Deputy Johnson noticed an extremely bright light coming through the side window of his patrol car. He reported that the light was much stronger than any light a motor vehicle on the road could produce. His first thought was that it could potentially be an airplane smuggling in drugs from Canada. He surmised the plane may have crashed or was about to crash. He turned on the road to move in close and head toward the light to investigate. The last thing he remembered was that the light came barreling toward him and reached the patrol car so fast it seemed like it happened in a mere instant. He heard glass breaking and then he went unconscious.
From the analysis of the accident, it was estimated that Deputy Johnson was unconscious for 39 minutes. When he awoke, he radioed headquarters for help and in a weak voice stated something had hit his patrol car but he did not know what. When a second deputy arrived on the scene, he immediately called an ambulance and Deputy Johnson was taken to the nearby Warren Hospital. Deputy Johnson’s eyes were reported to be red and puffy. The medical doctor who examined Deputy Johnson said the injuries to his eyes looked like they had been inflicted by a welder’s torch. He also said Deputy Johnson was in a state of shock.
The Marshall County Sheriff’s Department investigated the Val Johnson UFO incident extensively but experts were also brought in because the physical evidence left behind was so baffling. The windshield of the patrol car was badly cracked from top to the bottom. However, the patterns in which it was broken defied normal analysis. It did not seem to be the result of outside forces or inside forces. It was almost seemed as if there were both inside and outside forces working simultaneously to create a fracture pattern that the investigators had never seen before or could explain with ordinary techniques. They concluded that there seemed to be four separate areas of impact but could not even hazard a guess as to what caused the pattern they saw.
On the left side of the front hood of the patrol car, there was a strange one-half inch circular dent. The headlights were broken on one side on both the inside and the outside of the patrol car. However, the headlights on the other side of the patrol car were left untouched. The main antenna was inexplicably bent at a sixty degree angle starting at six inches from the base of the antenna. The antenna in the truck was also damaged.
One of the strangest things the investigators found was that the patrol car clock was behind 14 minutes and Deputy Johnson’s wristwatch was also behind the exact same amount of time! Before the incident, both the patrol car clock and Deputy Johnson’s wristwatch had been synchronized with the clock at headquarters. No logical explanation has ever been given for why the patrol car clock and the wristwatch were both affected in exactly the same way.
While there were many experts involved in analyzing the damaged patrol car and other physical evidence, one is particularly noteworthy. This was J. Allen Hynek who started the Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS) dedicated to UFO research. Dr. Hynek was also a tenured well-respected professor at Illinois’s Northwestern University Department of Astronomy. He was often hired to consult with the United States Air Force on UFO sightings. As a scientist, he started this consulting work being highly skeptical of there being any truth to UFOs, but over time, he decided that the UFO events he was investigating represented something truly extraordinary.
As Dr. Hynek and his team investigated the Val Johnson UFO incident, he concluded that it was not a hoax. Further, nothing in Deputy Johnson’s statement seemed untruthful. Dr. Hynek proposed that the cracked windshield had been damaged by rocks being carried in a the wake of a very large object moving at extraordinary speeds. Further, he proposed that the antenna had been bent for the sheer velocity of the air that rushed past the patrol car that night.
The patrol car is now on permanent display at the Marshall County Historical Society Museum. It is always one of the top attractions during the annual Minnesota County Fair. When the incident occurred in 1979, there were only about 60,000 miles on the patrol car so the Marshall County officials wanted the car repaired and put back into commission. However, Sheriff Dennis Brekke convinced them to decommission the car and put it on public display. The patrol car has achieved legendary status among those who believe in paranormal phenomenon. In fact, the Val Johnson UFO incident is so famous, there have been two documentary style television programs devoted to it, one on the History Channel and the other on the Travel Channel.
Val Johnson received much attention for the incident, so much in fact that he told the press that the incident had caused a great deal of emotional strain on himself and his family. While he did appear on the Good Morning America show on September 11, 1979, he began to withdraw from other press appearances. However, this UFO encounter will live in the history books forever as one of the most fascinating. Still to this day, this incident serves as one of the very best cases where physical evidence was left behind by a UFO.
It should also be noted that because the Val Johnson UFO incident took place so close to Warren Minnesota, it is sometimes referred to as the Warren UFO encounter or the Warren UFO incident. Every year since the incident, Warren Minnesota has received a great many visitors wishing to see for themselves the patrol car with its peculiar damage and the area where the incident occurred.
“This UFO was seen on Russia TV this week and has some incredible detail. However the buildings below have been covered up and this concerns me a lot. There should not be any reason to cover up the buildings and I am seeking more info on this sightings. I will let you know as soon as I hear something. It looks like it was covered up to hide the faces of the people, but that makes it look fake. Hopefully they will release a better unedited version soon to convince us 100%,” says Scott Waring, author of UFO Sightings Daily.
It was in 1947 that the CIA, successor to OSS (Office of Strategic Services), was established.
The passing of the National Security Act in 1947 led to the establishment of NSA.
The Department of the Air Force was officially established in 1947….
In 1947, E.G. & G. was established. (E.G. & G. became the initial contractor at Groom Lake – Area 51 in 1955).
Edwards Air Force Base in California, one of the most significant air bases in the U.S., was established in 1947. Edwards AFB became the home of Air Force Flight Test Center (AFFTC) and its Detachment 3 (AFFTC DET3), operators of Area 51 in Nevada.
Sandia Laboratories, one of the largest defense conglomerate research laboratories was established within Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Kirtland became an Air Force Base in 1947. (former Kirtland Army Air Base).
The Manzano Underground Storage Facility and Base began its construction in 1947 in the northeastern portion of Kirtland Air Force Base.
1947, also was the year when something strange was going on in the desert of the American Southwest. In fact, from Oregon to Texas, a wave of “flying saucer” sightings began to mystify the public.
And something important was developing in the Middle East.
In Novemberof 1947 the United Nations ordered the partition of Palestine into a Jewish State and an Arab State, preparing the way for the establishment of the State of Israel in the following year, 1948, which led to the First Middle East War. 1947 also, by the way, was the year of the discovery of the Dead Sea scrolls.
IN ANY CASE, IN 1947 THERE WAS A WHOLE LOT OF SHAKING GOING ON!!
“Today, June 13, 2014 marks the 38th anniversary of the first livestock mutilation we experienced on our ranch in and around Dulce, New Mexico. This is the day that changed not only my life, but my family’s as well. In the subsequent years from 1976 to 1985, dad and I lost 20 lactating beef cows, their calves, two yearling bulls and a yearling filly to these mutilators. In add…ition, we lost 19 two-year old pregnant heifers that suddenly just died over a two week period after the local tribal police spotted an unidentified (military?) aircraft hovering over our herd on April 8, 1982. Over the years, many law enforcement personnel as well as self-proclaimed animal mutilation experts have claimed to have solved the case. To date, not one has moved forward with a criminal investigation case to prosecute the domestic terrorists that have plagued our family and the many other ranchers and farmers in the US. Many of these individuals, who have taken the oath “to protect and defend” have only profited from our misfortune and have downplayed the severe financial losses and emotional strain we have endured over these past 38 years, as well as our civil rights being violated in unspeakable ways. We have become victims of domestic terrorism! Throughout these years, we have also been infiltrated by “investigators” who we thought were honest and sincere, but later turned out to be again, self-interested, for one reason or another, and in my opinion, several were and have been placed by “unknown” entities to gather information or provide disinformation. Based on our trust in humanity and our humble upbringing, we invited many of these individuals into our homes and shared our thoughts to later find that we had been used and abused. What I have learned over the years is to trust no one and be extremely cautious of those that show an uncanny personal interest in you and Dulce. Some day, you may also discover your “case file evidence” being sold on the internet for profit and fictitious stories written about you and your family.
The UFO community has been familiar with Richard C. Doty, self-proclaimed “disinformant agent” who used to work as an AFOSI officer in Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Most folks seem to agree that he indeed had a deep impact on the life of businessman Paul Bennewitz, owner of defense contractor Thunder Scientific Laboratories in Albuquerque located right next to… Kirtland Air Force Base. Richard C. Doty allegedly fed a lot of misinformation to Bennewitz which eventually caused his mental deterioation and paranoia, to the point of hospitalization.
He passed away in 2003.
Bennewitz’s sons today operate the business but refuse to talk about his late father, since they are still doing business with the Air Force.
In his excellent book “DULCE BASE:The Truth And Evidence From The Case Files of Gabe Valdez”, Greg Valdez, middle son of the late Gabe Valdez (New Mexico State Patrol Officer in charge of Dulce, New Mexico for many years) brings out some significant points.
He writes: “The transfers of Maj. Earnest Edwards (Kirtland Security Police) and Richard C. Doty (of AFOSI) to Germany coincided with the involvement of Senator Domenici in the mystery.
As his office began inquiries into the activities in Dulce to the Air Force, Richard C. Doty and Maj. Earnest Edwards ended up in Germany.
It was also at this time that Doty ‘retired’ from the Air Force, and it appears from other evidence that he was forced out of the Air Force.
Senator Domenici was very influential with the Los Alamos and Sandia Labs, and his inquiries were more than likely what ended Richard C. Doty’s Air Force career.
What is also important to remember is that the NSA or CIA never obtained a search warrant to place the listening devices in the homes.
Under the guise of “National Security”, they placed these warrantless bugs in Gabe Valdez’s and Manuel Gomez’s homes in Dulce, New Mexico.
That type of covert activity is usually conducted by the NSA or CIA, and usually outside the general working proceedings of the AFOSI.
It’s also something the CIA typically gets involved in, especially if the mystery aircraft (that allegedly crashed on Mount Archuleta, northwest of Dulce, New Mexico in 1983) was a CIA aircraft. Richard C. Doty is currently employed as a State policeman in Grants, New Mexico.
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Ik ben Pieter, en gebruik soms ook wel de schuilnaam Peter2011.
Ik ben een man en woon in Linter (België) en mijn beroep is Ik ben op rust..
Ik ben geboren op 18/10/1950 en ben nu dus 74 jaar jong.
Mijn hobby's zijn: Ufologie en andere esoterische onderwerpen.
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