Mysterious Holes & Craters

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The recent discovery of unexplained craters in the Russian tundra has create speculation worldwide. But this phenomena is not new. Similar events have occurred before…some within the past few years. Another incident took place in eastern Washington in 1984…then later in Norway:

Reindeer herders in Russia’s Far North have discovered yet another mysterious giant hole about 30 kilometers away from a similar one found days earlier.

Located in the permafrost of the subarctic Siberian region of Yamal, which means “end of the earth” in the local Nenets language, both craters appear to have been formed in recent years and have icy lakes at their bases.

Scientists who examined the first hole theorized that it could have been created when a mixture of water, salt and gas exploded underground, the Siberian Times news site reported.

The area, which has one of Russia’s richest deposits of natural gas, was covered by sea about 10,000 years ago, and vast salt deposits were left behind.

“Global warming, causing an alarming melt in the ice under the soil, released gas causing an effect like the popping of a Champagne cork,” the news report said, citing an expert at the Subarctic Scientific Research Center.

The first hole is estimated to be about 50 meters wide and 70 meters deep, with water from melting permafrost cascading down its sides into the icy deposit below.

The second hole is “exactly” like the first one, but “much smaller,” local lawmaker Mikhail Lapsui told the Interfax-Ural news agency. “Inside the crater itself, snow can be seen.” – The Moscow Times

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One leading theory says that a pingo—an uplift of frozen ground linked to ancient Arctic lakes—may be at work here. This unique type of landform appears only in permafrost regions.

In this case, the holes could have been caused by an unusually large pingo, which have been known to explode, thanks to melting permafrost. This theory was put forth by an Australian polar scientist before the Russian team arrived at the first hole. – Slate.com

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I came across the following article from Pravda in March 2004 while researching sources on ultraterrestrial underground habitation. This may be related to the ‘cookie cutter’ phenomena that is occasionally reported even though this situation doesn’t quite match those other discoveries. There have been other terra firma related anomalies as well. I have posted different scenarios for you to compare and make your own conclusions:

Ufologists suppose, aliens land on Earth to take ground samples

One morning shepherd Pyotr Malinkin took his cows out to the pasture as usual. Having gone five kilometers into the field the man was shocked to find a huge hole in the ground six meters in diameter. The pit was not on the spot the day before, it appeared overnight. The shepherd said the animals were scared to approach the hole, they did not eat the grass nearby. Specialists of the Labyrinth public group to study anomalous phenomena went to examine the wonder in the field.

Local elderly women confirmed the large hole had appeared in the field indeed. They said the hole had a perfect round shape, as if someone took a huge lump of ground with a cup. Local townsfolk built a fence around the hole not to let curious people and cows fall down in it. The hole became a local place of interest: people come to see it and picnic nearby, others take photographs against its background.

As it turned out, the pit was not round, but oval. It does not look like an excavator pit: there are no bucket tracks on its walls, nothing is seen on the meadow around either – the ground is even. The pit is smooth and vertical inside. There is some water on the bottom of the 4,5-meter deep pit.

Specialists of the above-mentioned Labyrinth group believe the hole probably appeared as a result of UFO’s activities: aliens landed their spaceship on the meadow to take ground samples. However, ufologists failed to find any evidence to prove the landing of an extraterrestrial spacecraft. Ufologists also proposed the ground hole appeared as a result of a rare inexplicable natural phenomenon. An identical phenomenon occurred ten years ago in the Ryazan region, when a huge crater reminiscent of a shell-hole appeared in the ground near the Sasovo village. Nobody was able to explain the appearance of the pit. Such hole appeared before in the Rostov and Tula regions of Russia.

Local townsfolk told Labyrinth ufologists there was a larger ground hole two kilometers far. It appeared decades ago. Elderly people say village residents used to sacrifice sacks of grain throwing them in the hole to pacify ‘something’ under the ground. During the Soviet years they used to throw branches and stones in the hole, but they never managed to cover it. Ufologists tried to find the pit, but they could not find the mysterious pit – numerous trees and bushes have grown in the field.

Local people said there was another mysterious object in their countryside. They said there is an ‘angry spring’ on the stream nearby. When a person comes to the spring to take some water, it starts ‘boiling.’ If one starts talking near the spring, the water in it boils harder and harder. There used to be a church on the spot where the spring appeared. Legends say the church went under the ground when Napoleon’s army was advancing in the region in 1812.

The Kaluga region is located on limestone soil. Ground waters can dissolve such soil, creating limestone caves, the vaults of which may tumble down at times. This can be an explanation how the village church went under the ground. It is not ruled out mysterious holes appear for the same reason – the ground was probably sucked in a limestone cave. These holes, ufologists believe, are of the terrestrial origin, although it is hard to explain why the walls of the pits are perfectly smooth and even. – Pravda

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Weird news report from 1984 near Grand Coulee Dam in Eastern Washington:

No one can figure out how, but a chunk of earth weighing tons was plucked out of a wheat field, as though someone used “a giant cookie cutter,” and put down, right side up, 73 feet away. “All we know for sure is that this puzzle piece of earth is 73 feet away from the hole it came out of,” said Greg W. Behrens, a geologist with the Bureau of Reclamation at Grand Coulee Dam.

Scientists now believe that the “Cookie Cutter Phenomenon” is caused by two seismic events intersecting, creating constructive interference, and ejecting out a small chunk of earth.

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Strange Happening – Scientists are baffled by big ‘mystery hole’

Two articles on the Washington state 1984 event:

No one can figure out how, but a chunk of earth weighing tons was plucked out of a wheat field, as though someone used “a giant cookie cutter,” and put down, right side up, 73 feet away. “All we know for sure is that this puzzle piece of earth is 73 feet away from the hole it came out of,” said Greg W. Behrens, a geologist with the Bureau of Reclamation at Grand Coulee Dam. The displaced slab, mostly soil held together by roots, is about 10 feet long and 7 feet wide. Its thickness varies from 2 feet at one end to about 18 inches at the other. The shape and thickness of the piece exactly match the hole that was left behind, just like a piece in a jigsaw puzzle, though it was rotated about 20 degrees. There are no marks to indicate machines were used, the Seattle Times reported Friday, and the land is fairly flat. “You’d think that, whatever the cause, the chunk would have traveled in a straight line,” said Don Aubertin, director of mining for the Colville Indians, whose reservation is near the site. However, a scientist “found where pieces had dribbled from the chunk as it moved. The dribblings traced an arc from the hole to where the chunk was found.” The site is on a farm in north-central Washington operated by Fred Timm and his sons. Two of the sons, Rick and Pete, discovered the displaced earth Oct. 18 while rounding up cattle in an area known as “haystack rocks,” where huge boulders were left by a glacier that covered the area thousands of years ago. The Timms believe the chunk was moved sometime after mid-September, when they harvested wheat in that field. There was a small earthquake in the area during that one-month period, at 8:24 p.m. Oct. 9. It measured 3.0 on the Richter scale of ground movement, and its epicenter was about 20 miles southwest of the displaced earth. However, University of Washington scientists ruled out the possibility that the quake somehow could have moved the chunk. The work of a meteorite also has been ruled out. “There was no sign of impact,” Aubertin said. “The hole was not a crater. It had vertical walls and a fairly flat bottom. It was almost as if it had been cut out with a giant cookie cutter.” But even that couldn’t have left such a hole, he added, because roots from plants in the piece that was moved still dangled from the walls of the hole, indicating they were torn apart rather than cut. Behrens wondered if bedrock could have focused the earthquake’s seismic waves on the displaced chunk.Focusing can occur, said UW geologist Stephen Malone, but it could not provide enough energy.

Washington State’s Mystery Hole

Fred Timm owns a farm on the Colville Indian Reservation in northeastern Washington. Nothing notable had happened on the farm for a month during the wheat harvest which had begun in mid-September of 1984. However, a small earthquake, 3.0 on the Richter scale did occur on October 9, 1984, at 8:24 p.m. But that event was far away, 20 miles to the southwest of the Timm farm.

So what was the explanation for the mysterious hole that Fred Timm’s sons, Rick and Pete, found on October 18, 1984? Rick and Pete were on horseback that day rounding up cattle for their father. They were next to a wheat field on the Colville Indian Reservation north of the Columbia River when they spotted something. Approaching closer, they saw a hole in the ground. The hole was 10 feet long and 7 feet wide and roughly pear-shaped. The north end of the hole was about one-and-a-half feet deep; the south end was two feet deep. Curious, the men dismounted and studied the hole and then looked around on foot. Seventy-three feet northwest of the hole was a huge chunk of earth shaped like the hole. The chunk of earth had been deposited largely intact with a counterclockwise rotation of about 20 degrees in relation to the hole. There was a scattering of fingernail-size soil particles, like “dribblings,” occasionally found on the ground across the 73-foot distance.

The Timm family contacted Don Aubertin, director of mining for the Colville Indian Tribe. Aubertin, thinking the hole had been caused by a meteorite strike, contacted Bill Utterbach. A geologist retained by the Colville Indians, Utterbach examined the area and said about the hole: “It had vertical walls and a fairly flat bottom. It was almost as though it had been cut out with a giant cookie cutter.” The estimated weight of the chunk of topsoil was 3 tons! But the massive “divot” of soil did not appear to have been cut out of the ground. There was no sign of shearing of the soil. Dangling from the walls of the cavity were roots of vegetation, not cut, but torn. The block of earth did not appear to have been dragged or rolled. Something manmade would have been needed to lift the chunk and transport it, but there were no machinery marks on the ground. Greg Behrens stepped forward. A geologist with the United States Bureau of Reclamation at Grand Coulee Dam, he examined the block of earth and the local geology. He noted that the site of the hole was over a glacial basin about 100 feet by 150 feet formed by strata that had sagged during the melting of an ancient ice pack.

Behrens wondered if the earthquake of October 9 had triggered concentric surface waves, which converging, could have ejected the soil. Stephen Malone of the University of Washington, chuckled. The 3.0 quake, 20 miles southwest of the hole, had been four miles below the surface of the earth. Malone said that if the quake displaced the earth, ” it would be the most dramatic and obvious thing ever reported that I’m aware of.” It was “very, very unlikely” that an earthquake was the culprit. Behrens admitted that his idea was stretching it. Although focusing of seismic waves does occur, “nothing this large has been documented.” He felt most geophysicists would reject his idea. So he looked for other explanations: A freak tornado ripping out the block. No, no swirling of vegetation evident. A complex freezing action causing the block to be lifted up and moved by strong winds. No, the temperature was warm at the time. A gas explosion, like methane. No, no methane in the area. A meteorite ripping the block out. No, the hole did not resemble a crater, and the block was not shattered. Clever people using a large crane excavating the block out; or people freezing the ground, excavating the block out, and sliding it 73 feet; or a helicopter to lift the mass out. H’hhmm; no, extremely expensive with no profits. As Behrens said, “Mr. Timm is quite reserved and wishes no notoriety from all of this. The area is so remote that it would never become a tourist trap.”

Perhaps not unexpected was the UFO theory. Behrens came across stories of UFO sightings from local residents. One person talked of a farmer who found a circular burned area, 30 feet in diameter, near his combine as if something had set down and scorched the ground. The Aerial Phenomena Research Organization had a report of “a meteor” in the vicinity of the hole on October 13. Local residents told Behrens that at the time of the earthquake they had felt an extreme air shock with it, much more than a sonic blast. The residents had felt ground motion after the air blast. A roar described as an approaching freight train preceded the blast with the doppler effect afterwards. Curiously, in 1979 Bruce Kaliser, Utah state engineering geologist, while doing a routine field check following a 3.5 earthquake near the Utah-Idaho border, was alerted by farmers to a mysterious hole outside Portage, Idaho. The hole was shaped like a cross and entirely undisturbed. It was about 14 feet in diameter. Each arm had two furrows, and each arm had cracks parallel to the furrows, radiating out from the center of the cross. The Idaho slab, unlike the Washington slab, was broken into pieces. To date, no one has explained the “mystery hole” of Washington. Some type of rare earthquake-related phenomenon, or ?

The Cookie-Cutter Phenomenon seems to be the ultimate fortean anomaly, it cries out for some kind of simple, rational explanation, but on further consideration it’s baffling in a very thorough way.

THE COOKIE CUTTER STRIKES AGAIN…FOUR TIMES…IN NORWAY

The divot from an Andøva moor Yes, the cookie-cutter phenomenon has left its mark again: more mysterious divots and holes in the ground. T. Jo nassen has sent us a study of the phenomenon published in Ottar, a publication of the Tromse Museum, in Norway. Even better, he has provided a translation, from which we quote a few paragraphs: “About 1 km SE of Skogvollvatnet (a lake), at Skogvollmyra (a moor), a slab of turf 5.2 m long and 1.8 m wide, has, in an apparently inexplicable manner, torn itself loose from its ‘mother turf’ and placed itself 4-5 m away. The slab of turf is completely undamaged and is placed with the right side up. The piece of turf has rotated 20-30 degrees compared to the original hole. The hole in the moor is absolutely even at the bottom, and the angle between the bottom and its walls is 90 degrees. The hole is 30-35 cm deep, and its edges are nicely cut. “From the hole there is a crack running westwards for about 6 m. Close to the hole this crack is somewhat widened, and one side of the crack twists itself 25-30 cm above the other. This twisting decreases as one gets further from the hole. The crack gradually subsides, and it is hard to tell exactly where it ends. “About 12 m NW of the hole there is an arched crack of about 15 m lying with its concave side towards the hole. It is plainest in the middle. Here the side closest to the hole has been twisted upwards about 15 cm. Here also the crack gradually disappears at both ends. There is an open hollow beneath the part which has been twisted upwards, about 30 cm below the surface. One theory has lightning creating a steam explosion from underground water. If this were the case, one would expect to find some fusion of the earth and more havoc wrought to the divot. “The slab of turf has an area of about 5 m2 and this should give a weight of between 1500-1700 kg.”

Top image: The divot from an Andøva moor. Above image: One theory has lightning creating a steam explosion from underground water. If this were the case, one would expect to find some fusion of the earth and more havoc wrought to the divot

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Strange Holes Discovered in Krasnoyarsk Region

Residents of Novoselovo district in the Krasnoyarsk region have come across a mysterious phenomenon in the field. They discovered several tunnels of unknown origin in an area located some 100 meters away from the highway connecting the cities of Krasnoyarsk and Abakan, in the vicinity of the village of Kurgany, Siberian News Agency reports.

There are about 10 holes in the field. Each hole has an entrance to a cave-like hollow place in the earth. Some of the tunnels are big enough for a person of medium height to stand up straight. According to one of the suppositions, all the underground passages are interconnected in a network. A few daredevils equipped with flashlights attempted walking across the tunnels.

Local residents have a number of theories to explain the origin of the tunnels. Some people believe the tunnels are the work of unidentified pranksters, others blame mysterious animals which reportedly dig holes in the ground. According to yet another theory, the tunnels may somehow be related to an earthquake that occurred in the area 3 years ago.

Krasnoyarsk scientists have not yet made any official statements as to the explanation of the phenomenon.

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Strange Hole Phenomenon

In Siberia, human groans heard from a super deep hole drilled on a plateau between the Aral and Caspian seas were recorded and sent to the Soviet Academy of Sciences for further studies. But researchers did not take the mystical phenomena seriously, and the record was lost.

Almost all religions of the planet say that there is some underground realm. At that, each religion has its peculiar description of the realm. Some elements of the description however are typical of all religions. First of all, the population of the underground realm consists of ‘masters’ and people who get there after their death. Second, people get under the surface in the form of shadows, souls and others known today as clots of information and energy fields. Third, the ‘masters’ and sometimes the souls posses unique information about the past and even about the future. To obtain this information one has either to send his soul to the underground realm like Siberian shamans do, or help the shadows become visible and audible for some time. In ancient Greece there were special rituals involving obligatory blood shed.

Esoteric experts state that the bloody rituals were first of all connected with the unique energetic and informational saturation of blood. Attempts to obtain the information possessed by the ‘masters’ of the underground world were taken in all epochs and even in the modern time.

Russian researcher Nikolay Rerich was the first to organize an expedition to the legendary area of Shambala inhabited by wise ‘teachers’ and concealed from people’s eyes under the Himalayan Mountains. He successfully conducted the expedition and brought a message from the ‘teachers’ especially for the Soviet Government. Gleb Bokiy from the People’s Commissariat of Internal Affairs (earlier the All-Russian Extraordinary Commission) also planned an expedition to the mysterious Shambala. The preparation was controlled by the Commissariat Head Felix Dzerzhinsky. When the latter died financing of the project was stopped. It is known that Germany’s Waffen SS of the Third Reich also organized expeditions to Shambala. The structure and objectives of the organization resembled so much those of the mystical orders that existed in Germany before WWII. The organization, as well as the orders, wanted to keep it secret that creatures with superhuman power existed deep under the surface.

The creatures employed meditation and self-discipline to gain power over the natural phenomena and attain the level of Gods. When Adolph Hitler, who as some researchers believe possessed extrasensory capabilities, came to power he supported the idea of a Hollow Earth and even made it official. Russian researcher of the occult magic of fascist Germany Sergey Zubkov states that race clearing in the Third Reich and organization of secret societies were meant to help the mysterious ‘masters’ out from under the surface for active participation in reorganization of the world.

SS even had a special structure for collecting mystical information of the secret societies that at that time existed in Germany and employed the information for researches aimed to create a mystical weapon for solution of war problems. The organization sent expeditions to Tibet and the Himalayas.

The first expedition searching for Shambala started in 1931. The expedition failed to discover the way to the underground world but it brought lots of Tibetan manuscripts to Germany which proved that the ‘mysterious’ masters actually existed under the surface. Later, the organization sent even more expeditions to the area. Who are the mysterious creatures living under the surface and where could they come from? President of the Association of Engineer Biolocation Vladimir Khlopkov is absolutely sure that some sentient beings live under the surface. Ten years ago, he conducted some kind of a brain storm of the planet’s interior.

The most experienced operators of the Association used biolocation frames to find the traces of intellect under the surface. The researchers said that they found out intellect at the depth of 200 kilometers under the surface. Khlopkov explained it was a strong intellect but alien to humans. It is clear that albuminous bodies cannot survive under the huge pressure of rocks and terribly high temperatures under the surface. It is highly likely that the discovered intellect is concentrated in some informational and energy clusters. Later, Vladimir Khlopkov discovered several places on the planet’s surface where the intellect probably got out on the surface.

One of the areas was in the town of Zelenograd very close to Moscow. Biolocation operators came across strange formations there during ground tests and at first called them “traces of UFO landing”. When studied closer the traces revealed coincidence with a deep break that geophysics also discovered there. Every evening operators observed a strange biological field creep out from the break and move at a speed of 90 cm per second towards Zelenograd. Little by little the field filled up the whole of the town. In some time, the field began to withdraw at the same speed back to the deep break. The entire of the cycle took about 3.5 hours. Khlopkov said that the field was reading the information in people’s memory.

In the Russian republic of Khakassia, there is the Kashkulakskaya Cave, the name means ‘the cave of a black devil’, in the Mountains of Kuznetsky Alatau. For many years, researchers from the Novosibirsk Institute of Clinical and Experimental Medicine of the Academy of Medical Sciences regularly came to the place to study the strange phenomena that occurred to people staying in the cave for a long period of time. Visitors of the cave were at regular intervals gripped with horror that made them rush to the exit. At that, those people had optical hallucinations that were the same with all people: they saw an elderly man wearing a shaggy horned cap and with his eyes sparkling.

Researchers fixed high-precision magnetometers and other appliances outside and inside of the cave; they compared the indications of the devices with the emotions experienced by people in the cave. It turned out that bursts of a higher magnetic field fixed with the devices coincided with the moments when people felt nervous. At that, devices fixed outside the cave precisely on its outline registered no changes at the time when there was a magnetic storm inside of the cave.

Some researchers participating in the experiment supposed that they came across some kind of a radio-range beacon complying with a strange program and sending signals vertically up, right into the cosmos. May it be so that the mysterious creatures living under the surface came from the space and used the signals for communication with other beings that stayed there in their home? – bdtips.com

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science-frontiers.com
Dybwik, Dagfinn, and Møller, Jakob J.; “Phenomenon in an Andøya Moor – An Insoluble Mystery?”
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Daily 2 Cents: Flying Ring Over St.Paul, MN — Hartland Hairy Thing Update — Mountain Man

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Flying Ring Over St.Paul, MN

St.Paul, MN – 7/29/2014: I was looking up into the sky, like I usually do when I’m outside. I saw what at first I thought was a plane moving pretty fast way in the hell up there but something looked off about the shape. I went inside and grabbed my Nikon D3100 with a 55-200 MM zoom lens to get a better look.

It was moving pretty fast, think cruising speed, made no sound and was pretty high up there so it had to be a decent size.

It was moving in a straight line so is was not a drifting balloon – besides it moved too fast for that though I understand that wind speeds up there are not the same at ground level. – MUFON CMS

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Hartland Hairy Thing Update

More mulch churned up by deer and by whatever made those 4-5 inch tracks, a strange “paw” print on the house siding, and a family even more perplexed about what’s lurking literally in their back yard–these were what fellow investigator Jay Bachochin and I found on a return to the residential site in Hartland where a woman saw a six-foot tall, upright wolf-like creature cross her back yard at 1:30 a.m. the night of July 17-18, 2014.

I invited Bachochin, founder of the WPI (Wisconsin Paranormal Investigators) to help conduct a more thorough search of the grounds. The owners also graciously invited us to use their deck for a late night stakeout. We were able to sit quietly in the dark with a perfect view of the yard, cameras at the ready, and confirmed that the eyewitness would indeed have been able to see and identify a large creature from that position. We also spent some time viewing the neighborhood by foot and by car to see just how much cover there was for a large predator — and found a surprising amount of wooded ground that would allow it to make its rounds and then escape to a freeway corridor (US Hwy 16) when ready to return to the lake-and-park-rich surrounding area. Read more at Linda Godfrey

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My bosses want me fired because I believe in ghosts

A Department of Veterans Affairs cop, convinced his former New Jersey workplace is haunted by evil spirits, says the feds are using his belief in ghosts as an excuse to fire him, The Post has learned.

The spooky story pits Valdo Vaher, 48, a retired Army sergeant and former lieutenant in the New York Guard, against the VA, where he began working in 2006.
Vaher, who lives in Rockland County, defiantly insists otherworldly phenomena are real.

“This seems strange to some people, but for religious Catholics like myself, many feel as I do about this — that there are spirits in the world and they sometimes show themselves and are more likely to be doing this in and around hospitals, where people suffer and die,” he told The Post.

The VA initiated a long and bitter legal battle to permanently exorcise Vaher because, it charges, he’s basically too crazy to be a cop.

At one point he actually was fired. But in 2013, a judge for the Merit Systems Protection Board in Washington ordered he be re-hired.

As part of a settlement, he was reassigned from the Manhattan VA Hospital to a facility in East Orange, NJ.

In February, he was stripped of his gun, placed on modified duty and reassigned to another New Jersey facility for “making bizarre statements and displaying unusual behaviors,” according to a letter from VA Deputy Police Chief Bernais McNeil.

Vaher was chided for giving a hair-raising talk to a rookie colleague about how their East Orange command was haunted by “evil spirits” — comments the agency suggested posed a safety risk to his co-workers and warranted his dismissal.

“You should stay away from certain areas here because there are evil spirits. I will give you some holy salts to ward off these evil spirits,” Vaher is quoted as having told the rookie.

Vaher is also alleged to have said, “Watch out for certain trees because they have faces and I just have a bad vibe with them” and “People around this area are animals.”

Vaher, who holds dual US-Estonian citizenship and who served in that country’s military, was an MP at West Point for nearly a decade and worked as a civilian observer in Kosovo for the State Department in 1998, a position that required him to brief the White House on a daily basis.

Vaher’s lawyer, Alan Wolin, accused the VA of “using psychology as a weapon, just like in the old Soviet Union” and insists the agency doesn’t stand a ghost of a chance of winning its case against him.

“They’ve been targeting him since Day One,” he said. “The bottom line is that they tried and failed to fire him twice before and we’re extremely confident we’ll win again.”

The VA formally notified Vaher this month of its latest plan to cast him out.

But Vaher still won’t back away from his claims that the VA’s East Orange site is haunted by ghostly apparitions.

“There are many people who work there who would tell you privately that there are spirits in that place and lots of them,” he said.

“There’s a lot of paranormal activity there. The police know it. The janitors know it. And the nursing people know it. They all know it — especially the people who work the night shift,” he said.

A VA spokesman declined to comment. – NYPost

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Mountain Man

I like hiking. It’s a relaxing activity for me. I just walk over rugged terrain and think about what’s happened, what’s happening and most importantly, what’s going to happen. I’d been an avid hiker all my life, but, we moved to Kansas, my family and I. Not much opportunity for a good hike. So I always leap at the offer of going to see my cousins because they lived in Colorado and it had mountains and whatnot. I never carry a walking stick when I hike, I’m young and agile and don’t really need one.

Going on these hikes I always expected to meet at least one person, but I usually met a lot more. So you can see why I was concerned when I didn’t see a soul on the mountain. Well, I say I didn’t see anyone, but almost right when I started I saw a shoe. A size 8 women’s shoe. One shoe.

I had heard of the Vancouver feet so I hesitated to look inside for the shoe size. No severed foot. Just a shoe. But I did notice rustling leaves as I neared the shoe, shrugging it off thinking it was a bird or something. I took the shoe because I like to return things to their rightful owner. Like when I see someone drop their keys on the way out of a busy place I rush to get them to the person. I’m a nice guy. But once I picked up the shoe, I heard above me some twigs snapping and they fell to the ground. I looked up only to see the sunlight peaking through the trees. So whatever was up there was hidden by sunlight. Today was a clear day not a cloud in the sky. Beautiful. I continued on with the shoe. It’s probably good to mention I only had a pack of about 4 water bottles and a couple granola bars. So in short, not much stuff. About, 15 minutes later (I can’t measure distance with time), I found a water bottle, empty. I hate litter so I picked it up and didn’t think anything of it. Again I heard birds in the trees, they seemed to be following me.

I had gone a while and was thinking about my girlfriend and how I could tell her for the first time that I loved her, because I did and I knew she did, me. But I saw another empty shoe, a men’s size 11. I picked it up and that’s when I noticed the sun went dim. I looked up expecting clouds but that didn’t make sense it was a clear day. Instead I saw a man. In the trees. He wasn’t sitting on a branch but he was like a cat upside down as the tree would go up, clinging to it with abnormally large nails. He had a big scraggly beard, a full head of hair and a thin almost starved body. He was naked but I didn’t see anything extra, if you know what I mean. It was bare. Like a doll.

He wasn’t a doll though he was very human(ish). He didn’t act like it though. He was licking his lips as though he hadn’t eaten in weeks. He looked the part, too. Although I couldn’t see his face, I could hear him smacking his lips. I decided it wasn’t a good idea to talk to him. But he had made an effort to be noticed. I wasn’t scared for my life I was frightened at the pose he took as he landed on the ground. His arms were outstretched until his elbows bent 90 degrees to support himself with his hands. His legs were the exact same, they were abnormally positioned for legs.

He (I don’t know how else to say this) skittered towards me. His hair had always been in his face ever since the tree. But he looked up at me. His eyes were dark green all over. His nose was misshapen as if broken. His smile was big but not inhumanly big. The thing that made me fear for my life was his teeth. They were inhuman. They were pointed like a wild animal and stained red in some places and yellow in others. I dropped the shoes and booked it.

I didn’t look back, I didn’t have to, he dropped from the trees right in front of me. I did my darnedest not to run into him for fear that he’d take a chunk out of me. I slid to a stop. He let out a blood curdling howl as a coyote would once it had caught it’s prey. I assumed that wasn’t in his best interest because after that I heard shouting and the thing skittered off down the mountain then up a tree. Gone from sight. I was petrified there until the shouting came from off the trail and in front of me. The forest rangers, there were two, were barking questions at me. “Did you touch him?” “Did you talk to him?” “Did he talk to you?” All these sort of things. I said shakily, “n-no” the forest ranger had a shotgun with him and his buddy, probably his partner, had some kind handgun. I’m no expert in guns. The mountain man had made his appearance to me and from what I understand from the rangers, he won’t stop hunting. I’m not going hiking by myself again. – Reddit.com

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Source: http://www.phantomsandmonsters.com/2014/07/daily-2-cents-flying-ring-over-stpaul.html

31-07-2014 om 00:59 geschreven door peter  

THE LITTLE GREEN MEN OF LA PLATA – THE VILLA MONTORO CASE – PART II

(Before It's News)

Source: http://ufodigest.com/article/little-green-men-0730

31-07-2014 om 00:51 geschreven door peter  

UFO hovers over Hearst Castle in tourist photo

(Before It's News)

A California witness at San Simeon reported photographing an unexplained object while touring the famous Hearst Castle, according to July 30, 2014, testimony in Case 58513 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.

Witness photograph. (Credit: MUFON)

The witness was touring the property designed by architect Julia Morgan for newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst and was taking photographs about 11:15 a.m. on July 25, 2014. Two days later while reviewing images on a computer, the witness noticed an anomaly in one photograph.

“One picture of the towers on the front of the Hearst mansion had a bird flying in it so I zoomed in to look at the bird and noticed an unidentifiable object towards the top of the picture,” the witness stated. “It does not have wings and appears to be a ‘typical’ flying saucer type object. I did not notice this object when I was actually taking the pictures and no one in my family noticed it that day which leads me to believe it was not making any sound or was too high to be heard.”

Photograph provided by the witness with the UFO circled. (Credit: MUFON)

Close-up of the object. (Credit: MUFON)

The witness included two images with the MUFON report: Image 1 and Image 2.

Hearst Castle swimming pool. (Credit: Stan Shebs/Wikimedia Commons)

The witness is curious if the object in the photo can be identified. California MUFON is investigating. California has a current UFO Alert Rating of 2 with a high number of recent reports nationally. California had 107 June reports and was 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.

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Source: http://www.openminds.tv/ufo-hovers-hearst-castle-tourist-photo/29246

31-07-2014 om 00:45 geschreven door peter  

Daily UFO Headlines 7/30/14

(Before It's News)

• Can you help to identify UFO seen over Grimsby this morning? – The Grimsby Telegraph
• Americans Aren’t Sure If Trying To Contact Aliens Is Such A Great Idea – Huffington Post
• UFO Sighting: Giant triangular shaped object spotted hovering over Germany – International Business Times
• What happens to the unprotected human body in space? – CNET
• Video: Unidentified flying object over North Devon – can you tell us what it is? – North Devon Journal

The post Daily UFO Headlines 7/30/14 appeared first on Openminds.tv.

Source: http://www.openminds.tv/daily-ufo-headlines-73014/29242

31-07-2014 om 00:35 geschreven door peter  

CATTLE MUTILATION REPORTED TO MUFON MISSOURI

(Before It's News)

Source: http://ufodigest.com/article/cattle-mutilation-reported-mufon-missouri

31-07-2014 om 00:31 geschreven door peter  

An Improved Copy Of Condon ...

30-07-2014 om 22:52 geschreven door peter  

Could Earth Defend Against an Alien invasion?

by Paul Schroeder

30-07-2014 om 22:46 geschreven door peter  

Jacques to the Rescue ...

30-07-2014 om 21:49 geschreven door peter  

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30-07-2014 om 20:46 geschreven door peter  

Krijgt Schotland een ruimtehaven?

De Schotse satelliet UKube-1. © Flickr/Charles Small .

Schotland maakt een grote kans om tegen 2018 de eerste Britse basis voor ruimteveren te huisvesten. Dat schrijft de BBC. Het Britse ministerie weerhield acht potentiële locaties voor haar ruimtehaven - de eerste in zijn soort buiten de VS - en zes daarvan liggen in Schotland.

30-07-2014 om 12:46 geschreven door peter  

Elon Musk: "Mogelijk om van Mars planeet als aarde te maken" . HLN.be

SpaceX-oprichter en visionair Elon Musk. © photo news.

Elon Musk, de oprichter en directeur van het Amerikaanse ruimtevaartbedrijf SpaceX, wil in de toekomst de planeet Mars koloniseren. Dat vertelde de zakenman in 'The Colbert Report', de talkshow van Stephen Colbert.

30-07-2014 om 12:43 geschreven door peter  

Mogelijk aardse fossielen te vinden op het maanoppervlak . HLN.be

© ap.

Het is goed mogelijk dat er oude fossielen afkomstig van de aarde op het maanoppervlak liggen te wachten op hun ontdekking. Dat beweren alvast wetenschappers van de Britse University of Kent.

30-07-2014 om 12:30 geschreven door peter  

Gekko's cirkelen rond Aarde in onbestuurbare satelliet - HLN.be

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De volgende keer dat u naar de hemel kijkt en een satelliet ziet passeren, bedenk dan dat het om een onbestuurbaar Russisch ruimtetuig gevuld met seksueel actieve gekko's kan gaan.

Bron: The Huffington Post

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30-07-2014 om 12:25 geschreven door peter  

Wat gebeurt er als de bliksem inslaat in zee? - HLN.be

© epa.

Het voorbije weekend kwam een badgast om het leven toen hij door de bliksem getroffen werd op het strand van Venice Beach, vlakbij Los Angeles. Maar wat gebeurt er nu precies wanneer de bliksem inslaat op zee? Op die vraag zocht de Britse openbare omroep BBC een antwoord.

Bron: bbc

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30-07-2014 om 12:17 geschreven door peter  

Mysterie wordt groter: twee nieuwe megakraters ontdekt - HLN.be

Een luchtfoto van het gat dat enkele weken geleden ontdekt werd, met een diameter van tachtig meter. © ap.

In Siberië zijn opnieuw twee mysterieuze megakraters ontdekt. De gaten zijn kleiner dan de krater die wetenschappers twee weken geleden met verstomming sloeg, maar vertonen dezelfde structuur. Naar de oorsprong van deze formaties is het nog steeds gissen, schrijft Time Magazine.

De omgeving is bezaaid met grond. © ap.

© ap.

Medewerkers van een gasbedrijf ontdekten twee weken geleden een gigantische put met een doorsnede van tachtig meter op het schiereiland Yamal in Siberië. Enkele honderden meters verderop is nu een tweede gat gevonden. Met een diameter van 15 meter is het aanzienlijk kleiner dan de eerste krater, maar ook hier is de omgeving bezaaid met grond. Volgens een afgevaardigde van het regionale parlement, die het gebied per helikopter bezocht, lijkt het of het zand door een ondergrondse explosie uit het gat werd gespuwd.

Bewoners van het dorp Antipayuta melden dat het gat zich gevormd heeft op 27 september vorig jaar, maar over de manier waarop dat gebeurde zijn de meningen verdeeld. Volgens sommigen was er eerst rookontwikkeling en daarna een felle flits; anderen spreken over de inslag van een hemellichaam.

Meer naar het oosten, in het dorp Nosok op het schiereiland Taymyr vonden herders een derde put. Deze krater heeft een diameter van 4 meter en is naar schatting 60 tot 100 meter diep.

Gasexplosies?
Wetenschappers tasten nog in het duister over de oorzaak van het vreemde verschijnsel. Volgens experts zijn de kraters niet het werk van mensen, maar zien ze er ook niet uit als natuurlijke formaties. Sommigen denken dat ze het restultaat zijn van een meteorietinslag, terwijl anderen vermoeden dat gasexplosies onder het aardoppervlak mogelijk een rol spelen.

Volgens Marina Leibman van het Earth Cryosphere Institute is het noodzakelijk dat alle kraters bestudeerd worden om de verschijning van eventuele bijkomende gaten te kunnen voorspellen. Ze is hoopvol dat elk nieuw gat de wetenschappers nieuwe informatie verschaft.

Lees ook

• Wat veroorzaakte gigantische krater die onderzoekers met verstomming slaat?

30-07-2014 om 12:11 geschreven door peter  

I WAS ABDUCTED

     by Paul Schroeder

30-07-2014 om 11:55 geschreven door peter  

Spiral in sky. Oaxaca, Mexico. March of 2014...

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Spiral in sky. Oaxaca, México. March of 2014

30-07-2014 om 11:29 geschreven door peter