What Happened to the Sunken City of Cuba?

Just over a decade ago, a team of explorers were working on an exploration and survey mission off the western coast of Cuba when their sonar equipment picked up a perplexing series of stone structures lying some 650 metres below the surface.  The structures appeared completely analogous against the barren ‘desert’ of the ocean floor and seemed to show symmetrically organized stones reminiscent of an urban development. A media flurry soon ensued with news sites sporting headlines such as ‘Atlantis Discovered in Cuba’ and ‘Lost City of the Caribbean Found’. However, the finding also attracted the attention of the government, national museum, and national geographic, who all made promises to investigate the strange sonar images. Now, ten years on, the story has disappeared into obscurity. What ever happened to the sunken ‘ruins’ of Cuba? Were they ever fully investigated? And why has the media fallen silent on this unusual discovery?

The discovery was first made in 2001 when Pauline Zalitzki, a marine engineer, and her husband Paul Weinzweig, owners of a Canadian company called Advanced Digital Communications (ADC), were working on a survey mission in conjunction with the Cuban government off the tip of the Guanahacabibes Peninsula in the Pinar del Río Province of Cuba. ADC was one of four firms working in a joint venture with President Fidel Castro's government to explore Cuban waters, which hold hundreds of treasure-laden ships from the Spanish colonial era. The team was using advanced sonar equipment to scan a 2 square kilometre area of the sea floor when they noticed a series of symmetrical and geometric stone structures resembling an urban complex.

Map showing location of supposed ancient city discovered by Paul Weinzweig and Pauline Zalitzki. Image source.

Upon studying the sonar images, Zalitzki observed what appeared to be unusual formations of smooth blocks, crests, and geometric shapes. Some of the blocks looked like they were built in pyramid shapes, others were circular. 

In July 2001, they returned to the site with geologist Manuel Iturralde, senior researcher of Cuba's Natural History Museum, this time equipped with a Remotely Operated Vehicle to examine and film the structures. The images revealed large blocks of stone resembling hewn granite, measuring about 8 feet by 10 feet. Some blocks appeared deliberately stacked atop one another, others appeared isolated from the rest. Zalitzki said that the images appeared to reflect the ruins of a submerged city but was reluctant to draw any conclusions without further evidence.

“These are extremely peculiar structures, and they have captured our imagination,” said Iturralde, who has studied countless underwater formations. “But if I had to explain this geologically, I would have a hard time.”

Estimating that it would have taken 50,000 years for such structures to have sunken to the depth at which they were said to be found, Iturralde added "50,000 years ago there wasn't the architectural capacity in any of the cultures we know of to build complex buildings." A specialist in underwater archaeology at Florida State University added "It would be cool if they were right, but it would be real advanced for anything we would see in the New World for that time frame. The structures are out of time and out of place."

In the media storm that followed the announcement of the discovery, news sites were quick to draw parallels with the fabled lost city of Atlantis. However, Zelitsky and Weinzweig were unwilling to make such comparisons.  The story is myth, said Zelitsky. "What we have found is more likely remnants of a local culture," once located on a 100-mile "land bridge" that joined Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula with Cuba.  Iturralde added that there are local legends of the Maya and native Yucatecos that tell of an island inhabited by their ancestors that vanished beneath the waves. Nevertheless, Iturralde does not discount the possibility that the rock formations are merely the result of the wonders of Mother Nature. “Nature is able to create some really unimaginable structures,” he said.

Despite hundreds of media outlets reporting on sunken cities, advanced civilizations, the lost city of Atlantis, and submerged ruins, there are others who are not so willing to accept this point of view.  Keith Fitzpatrick-Matthews from the debunking website Bad Archaeology, claimed that the depth of the alleged remains are the biggest problem for the sunken city proponents. During the Pleistocene, which was characterised by a series of ice ages, sea levels dropped significantly, but the maximum drop was around 100 metres.

“At no point during the Ice Age would it have been above sea level unless, of course, the land on which they stand has sunk. This is the claim made for Atlantis: according to Plato’s account, it was destroyed “by violent earthquakes and floods”. However, if we take Plato at his word – as we must if we assume Atlantis to have been an historical place – the violence of its sinking makes it improbable that an entire city could have survived plunging more than 600 m into an abyss,” writes Fitzpatrick-Matthews.

If we assume that he is right and that these stone structures do not reflect an ancient submerged city but are simply products of nature, then surely geologists and other scientists would be quick to jump on the finding and investigate what freakish event of nature caused such peculiar formations.  Strangely, however, there have been no reported follow-up investigations and news outlets have gone deathly silent on the matter. What happened to all the promises from the government, national museum, National Geographic, and other scientists to carry out further surveys?

The quick dismissal of the story has led some to question whether there has been a suppression of information regarding the finding. However, Fitzpatrick-Matthews claims the story simply went cold and that in the end experts were not convinced that Zelitsky had really discovered a sunken city.

Featured image: Reconstructed Image taken from the sonar scan of the sea floor off the coast of Cuba.

References:

Bauza, Vanessa (Oct 27, 2002). "Submerged Cuban Ruins May Be Manmade, Experts Say". Daily News, Bowling Green, Kentucky. Retrieved 3 October 2012.

Evans, Marcel (2012). ‘Lost city’ found beneath Cuban waters. Costa Rica Star

Fitzpatrick-Matthews, Keith. (2012) An underwater city west of Cuba, Bad Archaeology

Handwerk, Brian., New Underwater Finds Raise Questions About Flood Myths, National Geographic News, May 28, 2002.

Lost city' found beneath Cuban waters, BBC News, 7 December 2001.

By April Holloway

- See more at: http://www.ancient-origins.net/ancient-places-americas/what-happened-sunken-city-cuba-001883#sthash.XQJJWiVF.dpuf

21-09-2014 om 23:46 geschreven door peter  

UFO Sightings nuclear physicist Blows Cover On UFOs! New Update! May 3 2014

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21-09-2014 om 23:34 geschreven door peter  

De Melkweg in kaart: 219 miljoen sterren - HLN

Bron: ANP

UPDATE Een internationaal team van sterrenkundigen heeft 219 miljoen sterren in de Melkweg in kaart gebracht, de meest uitgebreide catalogus tot nu toe.

21-09-2014 om 01:45 geschreven door peter  

Nasa heeft bedenkingen bij meteorietinslag in Nicaruaga - HLN

Bron: Belga 

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De Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie Nasa betwijfelt of de krater in Nicaragua het gevolg is van een meteorietinslag dit weekend. Er was geen vuurbal te zien, aldus Bill Cooke, hoofd van de Nasa-afdeling voor meteorieten, maandag. Dit houdt dus de mogelijkheid open dat iets anders de krater in de buurt van de hoofdstad heeft veroorzaakt.

21-09-2014 om 01:39 geschreven door peter  

Monsterlijk zwart gat ontdekt - HLN

Bron: time.com 

© NASA, ESA, STScI-RCC14-41a.

Astronomen hebben met de Hubble-telescoop een monsterlijk groot zwart gat ontdekt in een van de kleinste bekende sterrenstelsels. Dat meldt de Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie NASA vandaag.

21-09-2014 om 01:32 geschreven door peter  

Passagier filmt UFO vanuit vliegtuig - HLN

Bron: The Post Online 

video Een Welshman die even door het raam gluurde tijdens zijn terugvlucht van Griekenland merkte een vreemd voorwerp op. Hij zag sterke lichten en legde het verschijnsel vast met zijn smartphone. De man die anoniem wil blijven, zag naar eigen zeggen, nooit eerder in zijn leven zo'n felle lichten.

21-09-2014 om 01:27 geschreven door peter  

Dit heeft de zoektocht naar de MH370 wél al opgeleverd - HLN

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MH370 Eerst het slechte nieuws: van de op 8 maart verdwenen Boeing van vlucht MH370 van Malaysia Airlines is er nog steeds geen spoor. Maar de sonar-, radar- en satellietgegevens die het voorbije halfjaar zijn verzameld, hebben wetenschappers wel een berg nieuwe kennis van de Indische Oceaan bezorgd.

Driedimensionaal model van de zuidelijke Indische Oceaanbodem. © epa.

Op 22 september zal de zoektocht naar de verdwenen Boeing hervatten. 60.000 tot 70.000 vierkante kilometer bodem van het zuidelijke deel van de Indische Oceaan zal meter per meter onderzocht worden met geavanceerde apparatuur. Dat zal een enorme bijdrage betekenen voor de gegevens waarover de onderzoekers nu al beschikken.

"Het is zeer uitzonderlijk dat zo'n groot gebied onderzocht wordt, en zeker omdat het zo ver van de Australische kust ligt", vertelde dr Stuart Minchin van Geoscience Australia aan Discovery News.

Zoektochten met vliegtuigen, schepen en een geavanceerde onderwaterrobot leverden tot nu toe nog geen fysieke sporen van het verdwenen vliegtuig op. "Maar we vonden wel al zeebergen en vulkanen die nooit eerder in kaart gebracht zijn", zegt Minchin.

Tsunami's
En dat is meer dan een louter wetenschappelijke meevaller. Die nieuwe kennis kan van groot belang zijn bij het voorspellen van zeestromen en tsunami's. Bovendien kan ze een beter begrip opleveren van het ontstaan van de continenten.

"Wetenschappers over de hele wereld zullen bijzonder geïnteresseerd zijn in deze informatie over een vrij onbekend deel van de oceaan", voorspelt Minchin. Geoscience Australia belooft dan ook alle gegevens wereldkundig te maken na afloop van de zoektocht naar de MH370.

Of die zoektocht ook nog een spoor van het vliegtuig zal opleveren, is heel onzeker. Verwacht wordt dat de operatie nog een jaar kan duren, mogelijk zonder resultaat.

Lees ook

• Zoektocht naar MH370 straks hervat
• Indonesische politiechef: "Ik weet wat er met vlucht MH370 is gebeurd"

Bron: news.discovery.com 

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21-09-2014 om 01:23 geschreven door peter  

"Vuurbal boven VS was geen meteoriet maar Russische spionagesatelliet" - HLN

Bron: AP  Vanuit vijf Amerikaanse staten werd deze maand een 'vuurbal' in de lucht gezien.  © epa.

Een heldere vuurbal die eerder deze maand in de hemel boven de Verenigde Staten voorbij 'flitste', was "zeer waarschijnlijk" een onderdeel van een Russische spionagesatelliet. Dat melden experts aan persbureau AP.

21-09-2014 om 01:07 geschreven door peter  

Strange Beings of Light Chasing Trains in Russia?

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This spectacular video, was recorded in Russia a few months ago, concerns the sighting of a mysterious ball of light chasing a train along the way between Nizhniy Novgorod, Izhevsk.

21-09-2014 om 00:59 geschreven door peter  

Daily 2 Cents: Visual Recreation Of Moon Landing Shows It Wasn’t A Hoax — Hotel Bethlehem — Ghost Stewardess Seen At Air Crash

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Meticulous Visual Recreation Of Moon Landing Shows It Wasn’t A Hoax

Graphics giant Nvidia has used its latest GPU to debunk several common Apollo hoax arguments.

Well known for its range of high performance computer graphics cards, Nvidia has demonstrated its latest dynamic lighting technology by recreating the site of the famous Apollo 11 moon landing in an effort to prove that the event really happened.

In particular the company has focused on producing an accurate recreation of a well known photograph taken by Neil Armstrong showing Buzz Aldrin descending the steps of the lander while the area around him is engulfed in shadow.

Conspiracy theorists have long argued that this particular image is evidence that the landings were hoaxed because Aldrin, despite being within the shadowed area, is somehow brightly lit, indicating that there must have been some other light source situated nearby.

“We talked to a lot of experts in the field to re-create what happened on the moon that day,” said GeForce general manager Scott Herkelman. “We re-created perfectly what they made and how the reflection would look off the suits, duct tape [and] aluminum foil.”

By recreating the scene the team was able to demonstrate that Aldrin was actually being lit by sunlight that was bouncing off the surrounding lunar surface. “The sun is hitting the dust, and it’s illuminating the backside of the Apollo module and astronaut,” said Herkelman. Read more at io9

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The Lioness Of Winchmore Hill

On Tuesday 22nd April 2008 I appeared on BBC London Radio with JoAnne Goode and Paul Ross to discuss mystery big cats around London, so what better way to celebrate reaching the fiftieth Saturday Strangeness installment than with another ‘big cat’ tale from the capital…

In the March of 1994 there were reports that a lioness was on the loose in North London and had been sighted by a Linda Bostock in broad daylight, who described the felid as having, “…short golden hair and big padded paws.” Of course, the elusive cat never showed up despite calls flooding in to the local police switchboard – echoing reports from 20th January in the same year around the Northolt area of West London, where sightings of a puma-like cat took place near the station. A Robert Delane claimed the animal, “…was three-feet tall and four-feet long with a velvety biscuit-coloured coat.”

Back at Winchmore Hill, residents jammed the police board with several sightings of the giant cat, which matched the same description of the Northolt prowler. More than thirty police officers swarmed upon the area and created more panic than what it was worth, as they paraded through the streets with megaphones warning parents to keep their children inside. Pets were also deemed at risk and pupils at the local schools were not allowed home until the matter was cleared up.

Of course, no lioness, or even a puma turned up. Despite a helicopter whirring in the skies over Palmers Green and marksmen from London Zoo lurking in the bushes with tranquiliser guns, the only thing that reared its head was the occasional domestic cat and a bull mastiff. There never was a lioness on the roam, but there most likely had been a puma, in fact there had been one for more than forty years, or certainly generations spawned from the original Surrey ‘puma’ which made its name in the ’50s and ’60s.

All the beast of Winchmore Hill did was prove how inadequte police investigations continue to be with regards to cat-flaps concerning mystery felids, and leaves us asking the question – who is the bigger threat, the puma or the police? – Londonist

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Hotel Bethlehem

The 1st house built in Bethlehem, PA was constructed on this site in 1741, to be later replaced by the Eagle Hotel in 1823. In 1922, Charles Schwab, president of Bethlehem Steel, decided he wanted more modern digs to live in and the Hotel Bethlehem was born. It even had running water!

But it came with more than hot and cold water. Over the years, people have reported being tapped on the shoulder by the unseen, bodiless voices have called out employee’s names, there are reported cold spots, and even sightings of unplugged vacuum cleaners gliding across the rugs (we wish we had one of those haunting our carpets!)

The Bethlehem was built over the site of the old Eagle Hotel, which was demolished to clear land. The bricks and mortar may be gone, but the Eagle’s legacy lingers; the guests and staff seem to have found a permanent home in its replacement building.

The oldest spook is Mrs. Brong, the wife of an innkeeper dating back to the Eagle Hotel days. She’s been spotted in the kitchen and the restaurant. They know it’s her because she’s barefoot, just as she liked to be in her flesh and blood days.

One famous spook that never checked out is that of actress and songbird of the 1890s, May Yohe. She grew up in the hotel that her grandfather once owned, and has been reported on the third floor gazing out a window, singing, playing the piano in the lobby, and in the exercise room reliving her childhood.

Francis “Daddy” Thomas, who lived in the hotel during colonial times, is another ghost that likes to play pranks on the staff in the boiler room. In fact, one engineer refuses to work in the area.But he’s a friendly guy who used to be early Bethlehem’s welcome wagon to visitors.

There’s also a woman dressed in Victorian garb that appears in the kitchen and floats out to the dining room, only to disappear. Ghosts of children have been reported playing throughout the Hotel, and another has been seen on the mezzanine – maybe a young May Yohe?

Some guests have requested room transfers because of the spectral shenanigans in the building. In room 932, for example, a couple saw a spook standing by the bed in his boxer shorts and undershirt. Another time, guests saw a man at their bed, and he wanted to know what they were doing in his room. EVPs recorded the voice of a spirit named Mary. Paranormal phenomena is commonplace; we particularly like the wallpaper changing color.

One set of potential spirits they won’t discuss is that of the five elderly guests who died in a fire there in 1989, caused by a faulty iron cord. – Reader Submission

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Ghost Stewardess Seen At Suvarnabhumi Air Crash

Amid the search for technical explanations for the Thai Airways International (THAI) landing mishap at Suvarnabhumi airport, public curiosity has been stoked by a passenger’ s account suggesting divine intervention aided the emergency operation

A passenger claimed to the host of a radio programme to have spotted a woman thought to be a cabin crew member in a traditional outfit helping evacuate people from the A330-300 aircraft, which veered off the runway on Sunday night after arriving from China.

A traditional outfit is worn by female cabin crew during flight, but they typically switch to the airline’s skirt and blouse uniform before landing A THAI source said the passenger’ s story has bewildered airline executives and crew particularly those on board Flight 679.

The crew insisted none among them were wearing the traditional outfit when the accident took place The source said the passenger may have seen a guardian angel who “stepped in” to help.

An Airports of Thailand (AoT) source said some airport fire brigade and emergency response personnel claimed to have seen a woman in traditional spirit house dress shuffling into and out of their office, causing crackling in their radio transmissions.

The AoT source said Suvarnabhumi has seven spirit houses at the airport to ward off ill fortune

The first one is Sarn Thepparak, erected before the airport was inaugurated in 2006.

AoT former president Chotesak Artpawiriya said technical glitches and accidents at the airport persisted despite the presence of the spirit house He later ordered six more to be constructed

He recalled an incident in which a bomb disposal expert at the airport exhibited signs of being possessed by a deity The man said he was a wandering spirit called Phor Kae Ming who needed a home.

The last spirit house was constructed to be a dwelling place for the wandering spirit – Hungzai

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21-09-2014 om 00:56 geschreven door peter  

WHAT IS ALIEN CONTACT?

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21-09-2014 om 00:47 geschreven door peter  

CONFIRMATION OF THE BELLOCQ, ARGENTINA UFO PHOTO

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21-09-2014 om 00:42 geschreven door peter  

Could UFOs Be Secret SS Aircrafts? Nazi Conspiracy? (Video)

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(N.Morgan) It is well known that Adolf Hitler loved to experiment in all sorts of technologies, from the medical experiments to war weaponry. Could it be possible in all of that research that the Nazi’s made UFOs? Did Hitler’s mad scientists figure out an alternative way to travel and cause fear? Over the years investigations have revealed that Nazi engineers were working on disc shaped craft, vertical take off and advanced propulsion systems.

After World War 2, the U.S. military secretly took the designs back to the states along with thousands of German scientists and engineers. Two years later in 1947 the first wave of UFO sightings occurs across the United States and then around the world. Could UFO’s be secret U.S. aircraft developed from captured German designs?

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20-09-2014 om 23:38 geschreven door peter  

Brent Raynes – UFO Paranormal Shamanism Plethora

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This is a radio show appearance from Friday. Listen for free on our archives always at The Church of Mabus.

http://churchofmabusradio.com/church-of-mabus/brent-raynes-paranormal-shamanism-plethora/

September 19th at 7pm Eastern

With hosts Jeffery Pritchett and WHAM!

Brent Raynes has been investigating and researching UFOs since 1967. He is the author of Visitors from Hidden Realms and the editor of Alternate Perceptions magazine. Brent has traveled extensively across the US and into Canada interviewing numerous witnesses and researchers. He has taken a comprehensive global and historical perspective on the Ufological landscape. He has also participated in Native American rituals and ceremonies, gaining valuable insights and information from his interactions with these wisdom keepers. Brent is able to make revealing comparisons between the interrelated experiences and disciplines of parapsychology, shamanism, Jungian archetypes and ufology.

20-09-2014 om 13:46 geschreven door peter  

UFO ’5 miles wide’ caught hovering above the ocean in NASA photo (Video)

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Brace yourselves for inanity.

Someone has found a five-mile-wide black disc hovering over the ocean in a NASA photograph.

 A blog somehow able to deliver ‘MIND BLOWING!’ content on the greatest conspiracies in human history once every 24 hours, published news of the find on Thursday.

The disc was discovered in a picture taken November 2013, the original (much darker) version of which is still available on NASA’s website.

The website says that while the UFO appears to be above the ocean, it’s actually hiding underneath it – though not very well, clearly.

And the pic of interest itself:

“This shows a massive stealth black disk over the ocean. The dimensions are almost perfect. Streetcap1 of Youtube found this one and I have to say its beyond words. This UFO looks to be more than 5-7 miles across. Since it is over the ocean area, the only place that it could hide without being noticed is below the ocean.”

They also published the video analysis of the image, which we’ve embedded above.

Needless to say there are numerous other possibilities here, including camera glitches, gaps missed by the process of stitching together smaller images to make a large enough one to publish, and interference.

Either way there is no evidence of five-mile-wide stuff hiding under the ocean. Unless you include Atlantis. Which is also not true.

Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/09/18/nasa-ufo-ocean-photo_n_5840972.html

20-09-2014 om 13:42 geschreven door peter  

shocking…ufo

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shocking…ufo 

20-09-2014 om 13:39 geschreven door peter  

Walter Cronkite’s UFO Encounter…Did It Happen?

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Walter Cronkite, the premier TV anchorman of the U.S. networks’ golden age who reported a tumultuous time with reassuring authority and came to be called “the most trusted man in America.”

Cronkite was the face of CBS News from 1962 to 1981, when stories ranged from the John F. Kennedy assassination to the Iranian hostage crisis.

According to UFO researcher Bill Knell (more on him below), in the 1950s Cronkite was part of a pool of news reporters brought out to a small South Pacific island to watch the test of a new Air Force missile…a large disc-type UFO appeared on the scene. Cronkite guessed that the object was about 50-60 feet in diameter, a dull grey color and had no visible means of propulsion. As Air Force guards ran toward the UFO with their dogs, the disc hovered about 30 feet off of the ground.

Bill Knell’s claim: In the 1950s Cronkite was part of a pool of News Reporters brought out to a small South Pacific island to watch the test of a new Air Force missile. After a short inspection of the new system by the reporters, they were lead to an area that was a safe distance from the launch site. The missile was mounted on a specially-built launcher that was attached to a cement base. It was obvious that the area had been quickly built just for the test. The details about the missile were going to be given to the reporters in he form of hand-out sheets and press releases after the test.

Cronkite mentioned that he and the other reporters had been warned that photography of the missile test and any audio transmissions or recordings by the press were forbidden. They would have to give a written account of the event. Just as the test was ready to proceed, everyone was writing as fast as they could. As Air Force Security personnel walked around the perimeter of the test area with guard dogs and the news reporters watched, the missile was fired-up and about to be released. Just then, a large disc-type UFO appeared on the scene.

Cronkite guessed that the object was about 50-60 feet in diameter, a dull grey color and had no visible means of propulsion. Because the noise of activity around him and the missile engine was so loud, he couldn’t tell whether the disc made any noise. He did not notice any coming directly from the object.

As Air Force guards ran toward the UFO with their dogs, the disc hovered about 30 feet off of the ground. It suddenly sent out a blue beam of light which struck the missile, a guard and a dog all at the same time. The missile was frozen in mid-air about 70 feet from the launcher as it had taken off. A guard was frozen in mid-step and a dog frozen in mid-air as it had jumped at the disc. Cronkite reminded me that this all happened within the space of about five minutes or less.

Suddenly, the missile exploded! After that, the disc vanished. The guard and dog looked alright, but were quickly taken away by medical personnel always present at tests in case anyone became injured. At the same time, guards rapidly ushered the reporters into a concrete observation bunker. After about thirty minutes of sitting in that hot box, they were brought out into the air again and addressed by an Air Force Colonel.

The officer told them, “It was all part of the test.” Obviously making it up as he went along, the Colonel said that the event was “staged” to test media reaction to UFOs. He reinforced the usual line to the reporters that Flying Saucers were probably not extra-terrestrial, but what people were actually seeing was secret planes being tested by the Air Force. This test was designed to show the media how “shocking” it could be to suddenly view a new technology. Well, Cronkite was certain that what he viewed was a new technology, but he was also sure it was not an Earthly one! He didn’t believe the Air Force explanation then, and he still didn’t believe it at the time when he told me the story.

After the event, reporters were told that since it was a test of media reaction to new technology, they could not report on it! But, they would be compensated later with exclusive stories on new Air Force projects (a promise that was never kept). Being as private as he was, Cronkite never did share with me his own beliefs about UFOs beyond the story he told me. I was so happy to have heard the story that I was afraid to ask anything further!

The CBS UFO Special was filmed shortly after my meeting with Cronkite and I was included in it for just a few minutes. During the filming, I became aware that Cronkite had not shared his story with most of the other UFO investigators or witnesses. After the special aired I called one of Cronkite’s staff members and asked him if he had ever heard the UFO story. He told me he had. Cronkite had only shared it with a few key people and it was NOT covered or even mentioned in the Special.

I wondered why Cronkite had chosen to tell me the story without telling everyone? The staff members told me that most of the others were so busy telling him about themselves that he just never bothered. I guess that the greatest lesson the legendary newsman taught me that day was the art of conversation, knowing when to talk and when to listen! – Bill Knell – 4/6/2006

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FOLLOW-UP to Walter Cronkite’s UFO Encounter

I originally wrote the Cronkite article in 1998 for my website, but I thought readers at Paranormal News might enjoy it as well. I met Cronkite in 1973 (as the article indicates) and that’s when he told me the story.

I have repeated the story ever since during many of my seminars and found that a few others had heard the story too. Most of them had heard it second hand or said that they had read it somewhere. At the time it happened, some of his staff knew about it, so I assumed it wasn’t really a big secret. He didn’t tell it to me in confidence, so I felt no obligation to keep it a secret. Since publications come and go and people have short memories for news, it’s possible that Cronkite had once shared it in some long-forgotten interview. But I have never seen it in print.

I feel that Cronkite’s account of what happened is very credible. He seemed to be telling me the story from an honest memory of the event. When we conversed, he was very interested in the Air Force cover-up. I suspect that if he had more control over the 1973 documentary, he would have angled it in that direction. Instead, it was pretty much a neutral piece designed for ratings (from my memory). Although I have contacted CBS many times, they finally told me that any tape or film the UFO Special was on no longer exists and was probably lost in the shuffle of the news craziness surrounding Watergate (which broke big around that time).

Like many important stories, this one has been around awhile, but I think alot of people in the UFO and Paranormal research community probably were too busy chasing false starts created by government disinformation to cover it. I recall that when everyone was running to Gulf Breeze in the late 80′s and early 90′s, I revealed a story regarding a trip by former general Doolittle (the leader of the famous bombing raid on Japan during the early part of WWII) to Spitzbergen and his possible connection to the recovery of a UFO. He was there in 1946 and may have obtained a UFO that crashed on the island during the war. I had met some sailors from the USS Alabama in the late 80′s who said the object was brought back to the USA on the battleship Alabama. I started telling this story in my seminars as early as 1990, but noticed that the ABOUT.com UFO page attributes it to some 1950s or 60′s article by someone I had never heard of?

I also noticed that some of the MUFON people credited my original recording of the first radio interview given by Kenneth Arnold less then 12 hours after his 1947 sighting to some guy named Mike. I received that recording from a radio guy who had the original interview in the 70′s and have been playing it in my seminars ever since. I assume that Mike lifted it off one of my audio or video sets and sent it to whoever at MUFON. No problem, just an illustration of how stuff is out there is you take some time to look at some of us little guys who aren’t Richard, Budd or Whitley.

Here’s one more. In 1987 I met a guy that had worked with Jesse Marcel. He told me that some of the material shown in texas that was supposed to be from the weather balloon wreckage was actually from the real object. It was some of the lighter colored, small pieces laying on top of the balloon wreckage at the bottom of the press conference photos. I told that story to Friedman and others who laughed at it. Now I see that photo examination has revealed it to be true. But that didn’t surprise me. I was amused to find out that most people in the UFO community didn’t know that when THE ROSWELL INCIDENT was first published, Bill Moore still had never actually visited or set foot in Roswell! He wrote the book from all of Friedman’s notes and by witness interviews over the phone. Moore finally went to the place later.

Finally, I doubt that Cronkite kept the story a secret. Some of his staff knew about it and a few others I’ve met through the years. When he told it to me, he did it as calmly as someone reporting the weather. I think he just likes being in the driver’s seat when it comes to his own life and experiences and might have even been a bit embarrassed by it all. Maybe he was just caught up in the moment and felt like getting it off his chest.

Actually, I was the only UFO researcher there who didn’t have anything to promote. I was a teen with a mimeographed UFO newsletter who got invited to speak at local libraries and Kiwanis Clubs. I think he might have told the story to the others as well, but most of them were very busy blowing their own horns and promoting their stuff. Look at the depths to which I’ve sunk since then. Now I’m blowing MY own horn!

In case you’re wondering about it, I tried getting a few more details out of Cronkite regarding the actual location of the test, but he told me that the reporters were brought to the location without being told exactly where it was. Secrecy regarding the actual location was a part of the conditions for being able to witness the test. I decided not to push the point or question him further. – Bill Knell – UFO Researcher

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Walter Cronkite Biography Reveals His Dark Side

A new biography of Walter Cronkite reveals the less trustworthy side of the most trusted man in America.

The CBS anchor is remembered as a media giant who gruffly championed hard-hitting journalism. This is a mostly justifiable assessment. But some unscrupulous actions outlined in the book muddy his otherwise almost spotless reputation, and make clear how much the media has changed.

For starters, he had no problem accepting freebies. These weren’t occasional drinks, but flights to remote and luxurious vacation spots around he world for him and his friends and family, courtesy of now-defunct airline Pan Am.

News organizations today place heavy restrictions on the amount of gifts their journalists can receive, if any. This is done in order to protect the organizations’ neutrality. For example, The New York Times’ company policy states:

Staff members and those on assignment for us may not accept anything that could be construed as a payment for favorable coverage or for avoiding unfavorable coverage. They may not accept gifts, tickets, discounts, reimbursements or other benefits from individuals or organizations covered (or likely to be covered) by their newsroom.

An article in The Daily Beast relates Cronkite’s other shenanigans, which included dining with a go-go dancer and bugging a committee room at a GOP convention. The piece questions how Cronkite’s more private affairs would have been perceived in the era of Internet tabloids:

Looking back, Cronkite’s virtual immunity as a public figure is troubling. But I see an upside as well: he wielded his enormous clout on behalf of muscular journalism. As Vietnam and Watergate eroded public confidence in government, Cronkite emerged as a new kind of authority figure, his public image unsullied by the grime of politics. What a stunning contrast to the corrosive distrust of the news business today. – THP

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Source: http://www.phantomsandmonsters.com/2014/09/walter-cronkites-ufo-encounterdid-it.html

20-09-2014 om 13:34 geschreven door peter  

Daily 2 Cents: Yeti in Moscow Region? — Implants Give Humans Self-Healing Superpowers — The Thing That Came In The Night!

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Yeti in Moscow Region?

A group of Russian enthusiasts says they have new evidence of the existence of a Russian bigfoot — and it was found just outside of Moscow.

On a table inside the capital’s illustrious State Darwin Museum last month, surrounded by glass cases containing beetles and moths, lies the purported proof: a fragment of tree bark that appears to have been marked by a large primate.

The bark sample was taken by Andrei Stroganov, a biophysical technologist at Moscow’s Agricultural Academy, from an uprooted two-meter-long tree trunk that he says had been planted in the earth and marked with horizontal scratches. Stroganov found the curiosity in July in a forested area near a railway line in the Solnechnogorsk district — just five kilometers from the Moscow satellite town of Zelenograd — while scouring the forests for signs of the Almas, as the Russian bigfoot is known, after hearing reports that such a creature had been spotted in the area.

“The Almas is cosmopolitan,” jokes Stroganov in response to an expression of alarm at its apparent proximity to the capital.

“I am not worried: They are benevolent and need our protection.”

Igor Burtsev, an athletic septuagenarian who has become Russia’s most vocal publicist for Almas research and is also present in the Darwin Museum, concurs. He calls the as yet mythical creatures “Forest People” and sees them as a hybrid species, half-human and half-something unknown.

Stroganov has placed the tree bark behind Perspex glass, over which he has drawn measurements. He thinks the marks resemble a paw print measuring nine inches across. There are no thumb marks, nor are there the claw marks of a bear.

Stroganov takes swabs of the bark prints and, with Burtsev videoing the proceedings, secures them in small plastic folders. They will air-mail these to Alabama in the U.S., where the Russian-born researcher Vladimir Yamschekov will do a morphological study of the traces and check out any DNA.

Burtsev heads a closed online Russian-speaking community of researchers and investigators that includes members in Ukraine and Kazakhstan. They all share the belief that the Almas announces its presence with stick structures.

Burtsev has just returned from a 1,730-kilometer journey to the city of Miass in the Urals region of Chelyabinsk, where he stayed with someone who claimed to have seen a Almas and be able to show just such signs of the creature’s habitats.

He was reluctant to discuss the details, saying only that he had seen “confirmation” of the Almas’ presence there.

“There is more information on this than when I started 50 years ago,” he said. “Then again, people have less time now and travel is more expensive. The bigfoot scene in America is bigger.”

Indeed, the quest for definitive proof of bigfoot, the towering man-like ape that reportedly walks on two legs and terrorizes loggers and campers in North America, has been well documented for decades. The search for his Russian counterpart is less well known.

The Soviet government set up a “Almas Commission” in 1958 to conduct field work on the matter after Everest mountaineers returned with tales of the yeti. The commission was short-lived, but areas like the Urals, Siberia’s Kemerovo region and the Caucasus became known as the stomping ground of the real-life Almas.

Burtsev, who lives with his daughter in a Moscow suburb, is waiting on a visa to visit America. There he will reconnect with bigfoot advocates such as Thom Cantrall and Randy Bisson, and hopes to generate interest in an English-language book he has written on the Kemerovo Almas.

Science joins the quest

Russia’s yeti-hunters have not only allies abroad, but also those who argue against the Almas’ existence.

Professor Bryan Sykes, a 67-year-old geneticist and fellow of Wolford College, Oxford, has written his own book debunking some purported evidence of the creature’s existence. Sykes previously helped identify the bones of the last of the Romanovs, Russia’s royal family murdered by the Bolsheviks in 1918. Now, in “The Yeti Enigma,” due out in September, he draws on the same expertise to look at alleged yeti evidence. He claims that all the 39 supposed yeti hairs and teeth samples that he tested came from ordinary animals. Sykes has also suggested that the Himalayan yeti is a species of polar bear.

Last October, Burtsev took on his nemesis in a TV series called “The Bigfoot Files” broadcast by the U.K.’s Channel 4.

The two men also clashed over a skull in Burtsev’s possession believed to have belonged to the son of a “wild woman” who had been held in captivity in Mongolia 150 years ago. After testing some samples, Sykes hypothesised that she might have been a black African slave, or a descendant of a group of people who migrated to Mongolia from Africa thousands of years ago. Burtsev insists that the skull’s shape is not that of an ordinary human.

Michael Trachtengerts, a colleague of Burtsev who also featured in the program, remains unswayed by Sykes’ arguments against the existence of the yeti.

“The samples he tested were doubtful,” he says over a recent lunch in a Moscow cafe. “Hairs from Siberia were identified as belonging to a North American brown bear! How is that possible?”

Trachtengerts, who has his own dual-language website on the Almas, remains optimistic that proof will soon be found. He is nearly 80.

Mission to America

While Burtsev waits for his U.S. visa, his collection of footprint casts — as well as the contentious skull — remain stashed away in a Moscow garage. Burtsev hopes to transfer them to a sanctuary in the form of the State Darwin Museum.

The museum has provided a haven for the Almas hunters since 1960. They gather there every month. This does not necessarily mean, however, that the museum officially believes in their cause.

“I specialize in birds, and haven’t looked into this problem,” says Vitaly Kontorshchikov, a staff member of the museum’s ecology department who was present at the bark examination.

“However, we can say nothing until we have some real bone samples. No bones — no science,” he said.

This leaves the usually garrulous Bourtsev silent. He merely offers a sphinx-like smile. – The Moscow Times

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Tiny Implants Could Give Humans Self-Healing Superpowers

A new device developed by the Pentagon could give humans the ability to heal more rapidly.

A common trait among comic book superheroes is the ability to heal even the most grievous of wounds incredibly quickly, something that would seem to be completely impossible in real life.

A new military-sponsored research project however may be set to change all that through the development of a remarkable new device that can be implanted in to the body where it can both monitor and heal damage to internal organs.

“The technology DARPA plans to develop through the ElectRx program could fundamentally change the manner in which doctors diagnose, monitor and treat injury and illness,” said Doug Weber of DARPA’s biological technologies office.

The concept is based on the process known as neuromodulation which sees the body’s nervous system monitor internal organs and regulate the response to infection and disease. Sometimes when a person is injured this process can be thrown off, exacerbating their condition.

The new device would work by intervening in such an instance so that neuromodulation can be kept under control and the healing process can proceed as rapidly and efficiently as possible. Read more at Live Science

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The Thing That Came In The Night!

In folklore, the incubus and succubus are male and female demons said to prey on sleeping victim’s. Such beliefs have often been perceived as nothing more than vivid nightmares, or ‘night terrors’, usually involving a person who, whilst sleeping on their backs, appear to awake, but are unable to move. They sense a presence in the room, and often a shadowy entity, sometimes resembling a hag-like figure, is said to enter the room. This apparition is often said to sit on the chest of the victim, who in their dream-state, is unable to breathe. The event only dissipates once the witness is able to break from the nightmare and the crushing sensation subsides.

These kind of attacks are reasonably common, but sexual phantoms have been known to apply more severe attacks to victims. On the night 9th August 1980 a South London woman became the target for a predatory wraith. At first, as she undressed for bed, the unseen spectre would call her name, and then on occasion caress her through her clothes, and then her naked flesh. Bizarrely, the woman felt stimulated by the presence and unable to act any other way towards the invisible form.

However, the randy spook became more violent, pulling at the woman, ripping her clothes, taunting her and terrifying her. On one occasion the victim was unable to move, and felt several tongues all over her body, and a taunting voice and feeling of being held down. The next morning she found bruises and scratches over her body and although she visited the doctor he simply passed the incident off as hysteria. When the attacks persisted, the woman called in a priest who stated that an incubus had been present in the room. Whatever had visited the woman, it was not put off by the crucifix around her neck.

After several more night time attacks, the woman felt no longer afraid and gradually over time the assaults dissipated.

Author Peter Haining stated that the case, which was investigated by researcher Lee Allane, and published in Forum: The International Journal Of Human Relations, was “… probably the most authentic of spectral rape on record.”

Such disturbing aspects of the supernatural were brought to the big screen several decades ago in the American movie The Entity in which a female was regularly raped by a spectral assailant.

Although the realm of the supernatural has provided great entertainment over the years, from its classic origins of hauntings pertaining to eerie houses, clanking spirits, and headless phantoms, there has always been a more serious ingredient. Cases such as the above prove that there is an even darker corner of the unknown to which there is no explanation. – Londonist.com

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Serbia Real Vampire Homeland

An American journalist has revealed the homeland of vampires is Serbia, not Romania.

David Ono took a trip to Serbia and did a story that was widely accepted in Serbia this week.

The journalist based the story on locals in Serbia telling him that the first vampire was buried near the cemetery in the central village of Kisiljevo.

According to the same story, one of first official vampires was Petar Blagojevic. The journalist claims there was a document from 1725 saying Petar Blagojevic will stand up from the dead and chase people.

The journo concludes Romania is getting fame from vampires, but the homeland of vampires should be Serbia. – Romanian Times

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20-09-2014 om 13:26 geschreven door peter