CLOSE ENCOUNTER: MY INTERVIEW WITH CHARLES HICKSON - PART I

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Description: Charles Hickson with artist’s rendering of UFO craft [image: Pat Sullivan, The Mississippi Press

 

Published in the Mississippi Press, October 1983
(10th anniversary of event)
Copyright 1983-2014 by Richard Harkness

[This exclusive interview has not appeared elsewhere until now.]

 

As the story goes, on the evening of October 11, 1973, Charles Hickson and buddy Calvin Parker were fishing on the banks of the Pascagoula River in Mississippi when a buzzing sound behind them turned their attention to an egg-shaped UFO hovering above the ground. Three creatures with gray, wrinkled skin and claw-like hands emerged and floated toward them. The two men were taken aboard the craft and examined by a “mechanical eye.” They were released apparently unharmed and the craft departed. [Mr. Hickson died at the age of 80 on September 9, 2011.]

 

In the interview, I don’t dwell much on the events of the riverbank abduction. These details have been recounted many times in the local and global news media. My aim is to probe a little deeper inside the man and perhaps dig a bit more out of him than he’s divulged before. This is not easy–he’s given to speaking in generalities and becomes a stone wall when he feels you are probing too far (he attempts to explain why in the interview). Still, he discusses in same detail his belief in universes other than ours, reincarnation, his compulsion to spread the word, the telepathic messages from the other-worldlings, the 12 chosen harbingers of what’s coming; and he gives a definite time frame for when we’ll all realize what’s happening.

 

Charles Hickson and his wife Blanche and daughter Tisha live in a modest home at the end of a cul-de-sac fringed on two sides by woods. Blanche’s touch is evident all around inside. Charlie and I settle in at a kitchen counter. The sound of wind chimes drifts in from the front porch. As I set up my tape recording equipment, I wonder if I’ll ask him a question he’s never heard before. Probably not. He’s given hundreds of interviews since that fateful night (the tenth anniversary of the riverbank abduction was October 11). No matter–my primary concern is getting some new answers.

 

Charlie is fifty-two now. He puffs on a cigarette and drinks coffee while we talk, occasionally stroking his beard or clicking his cigarette lighter and gazing broodingly through a window toward the patch of woods out back where a train rambles by later and interrupts us briefly. Blanche sits in the den with the TV volume turned low. When Charlie’s coffee cup is empty, she’s there to refill it. About halfway through the interview, I’ll ask him to be thinking about anything special he might want to mention for his final comment.

 

I begin by asking him about his recently published book, UFO Contact at Pascagoula .

 

WAS THIS THE BOOK YOU WANTED WRITTEN?

 

HICKSON: Yeah. That’s the book I wanted published now, but there’s going to be another one. It’s kind of a long story. This book should help a lot of people understand or believe that this did happen to me. Many strange things have happened to me while we were writing this book, and I think those things should be revealed to the people. I’m not sure yet just the way it should be revealed to them, because there’s many things that’s happened to me that are very strange for some people to understand and I wonder now how is the best way for me to explain these things that I didn’t put in that book for many reasons, and when I finally make my mind up as to how they should be explained, then I think there will be another book.

 

THERE ARE THINGS YOU KNEW THAT YOU DELIBERATELY DID NOT PUT IN THIS BOOK?

 

HICKSON: Right. That’s right.

 

HAVE YOU HAD ENCOUNTERS AFTER THE FOUR DETAILED IN THE BOOK? (HICKSON’S FOUR DOCUMENTED ENCOUNTERS ARE THE ORIGINAL RIVERBANK ABDUCTION ON OCTOBER 11, 1973; THE TREE FARM ENCOUNTER IN JANUARY, 1974; THE TELEPATHIC MESSAGE RECEIVED OUTSIDE HIS APARTMENT IN FEBRUARY, 1974; AND THE MOTHER’S DAY NIGHT ENCOUNTER IN MAY, 1974, ON HIGHWAY 67 INVOLVING SEVERAL OTHER FAMILY MEMBERS.)

 

Left: Artist’s sketch of alien [image: Jim Flynt; UFO Contact at Pascagoula]

 

HICKSON: A lot of others. Yeah. It’s something right now that would be very hard for me to try to explain where someone could partially understand. A lot of the things I’m only beginning to understand now myself, and it’s hard a lot of times to even keep my mind together and take care of my family and our private life and to realize those things have happened to me and will continue to happen to me. For some reason, I’ve got something I have to do.

 

HAVE THE ENCOUNTERS BEEN WITH A CRAFT OR MORE OF A TELEPATHIC NATURE? (EACH OF THE THREE ENCOUNTERS AFTER THE RIVERBANK ABDUCTION WAS ACCOMPANIED BY A TELEPATHIC MESSAGE–SUCH AS, ‘WE MEAN YOU NO HARM. . .YOU HAVE BEEN CHOSEN. . .YOUR WORLD NEEDS HELP…WE WILL HELP IN THE FUTURE BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE.’)

 

HICKSON: Most of it has been telepathic. it’s very, very hard to explain. In fact, I’m only beginning to understand it myself. It almost drove me batty for a while. But I’m beginning to understand it myself and once I can understand it, then I can relay it to the people where they can understand it.

 

IS IT POSSIBLE FOR YOU TO RELATE EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU RECEIVE A TELEPATHIC MESSAGE?

 

HICKSON: Oh, yes. It’s just like someone is talking with you, only it seems to be happening inside your mind (In the book he describes it as a ‘radio’ being turned on and off). I can’t identify it with any experience I’ve ever had in in my life.

 

YOU CAN’T EXPLAIN IT, YET IT’S THERE WITHOUT A DOUBT?

 

HICKSON: It’s there. It’s there.

 

IN YOUR LAST INTERVIEW YOU WERE PRETTY SPECIFIC AS TO THE TIME OF THESE CHANGES WE’RE GOING TO BE EXPERIENCING.

 

HICKSON: What I stated in the last press conference was that we would be beginning to see a change, and I can see it. Most people are in a hurry in their everyday life. They don’t look at things the way I do. But I can see a change being made in our society, for instance, now, very slowly. I can see other things that’s beginning to happen. B

 

Article continues tomorrow Sunday, October 5, 2014!

 

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CLOSE ENCOUNTER: MY INTERVIEW WITH CHARLES HICKSON - PART II

  By Richard Harkness -

AND THAT’S WHEN YOU WILL FEEL COMFORTABLE ABOUT DIVULGING…

 

Top photo description: Hickson (1998) at site of riverbank encounter [image: AP Photo/William Colgin, Mississippi Press]

 

HICKSON: That’s right.

 

DO YOU STILL MEET ANYBODY THAT JUST FLATLY DOESN’T BELIEVE YOU?

 

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HICKSON: Maybe a very few people…but I’ve never met anyone that has tried to criticize me or my family or anything like that, and that’s kind of hard to understand too, you know.

HAVE YOU MET MANY PEOPLE WHO’VE HAD SIMILAR EXPERIENCES WHO JUST HAVEN’T SAID ANYTHING ABOUT IT?

 

HICKSON: I have, yes I have.

 

MANY?

 

HICKSON: A good many, yeah. They’ll call me on the telephone or they’ll write me a letter with a dozen pages or more and send me pictures of things where spacecraft have landed. You’d be surprised at a lot of pictures I have, but they’re confidential, they’re from people that’ve put their trust in me. I’ve quite a collection of those things. But I’ve got letters by the thousands. Have them put away.

 

BUT YOU DON’T THINK YOU’LL EVER SHOW THOSE?

 

HICKSON: Maybe someday, when the time comes.

 

DO YOU RELATE YOUR CLOSE ENCOUNTER TO A RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE AT ALL?

 

HICKSON: I can’t say that I directly relate it to a religious experience. I’m a Christian. I believe in God. I was reared as a Baptist. I don’t know whether I call myself a Baptist now or not, because a lot of the things the Baptists believe in, I don’t believe in now. But I think this experience here has caused me to be closer to God if that’s possible, and to have a better understanding of a supreme being, than I’ve had before.

 

DO YOU BELIEVE THERE’S ANY CONNECTION BETWEEN THESE BEINGS AND A HIGHER POWER? (HE UNDERSTANDS I MEAN IN THE RELIGIOUS SENSE.)

 

HICKSON: I don’t know. The only thing I can say, just as surely as God created life here on this earth, he created the life where this came from. So I can’t discuss that because I don’t know. But I fully believe in a supreme being which is God. Not only of this universe, but the other two universes that’s been discovered and the ones beyond that.

 

WHAT OTHER UNIVERSE IS THERE BESIDES THIS ONE?

 

HICKSON: There’s going to be another one discovered very soon.

 

CAN YOU ELABORATE?

 

HICKSON: No.

 

DID YOU SAY THIS UNIVERSE AND TWO OTHERS OR TWO IN ALL?

 

HICKSON: This universe and two more. There’s no end out there. There’s no end to time.

 

(I COMMENT THAT PERHAPS THE HUMAN MIND IS INCAPABLE OF COMPREHENDING THE BEGINNING OR END OF THE UNIVERSE.)

 

HICKSON: There’s no human mind, like you say, that can comprehend a beginning or an end. Only the supreme being that created that mind can do that, until that mind reaches the perfection. Now what the perfection is, I don’t know. You know, we only use about four or five percent of our mind. There’s a hundred percent, and someday in time–well, I might explain, too, I believe in reincarnation. I don’t want to get into that right now. But that soul and that mind will live forever. And same day in time that mind will reach that perfection which has to be a hundred percent. I don’t know what that perfection will be, but when it reaches that perfection, then we can understand the things that He intended for us to understand.

 

WILL IT BE IN A PHYSICAL BODY?

 

Part III of this article continues tomorrow Monday, October 6, 2014! http://ufodigest.com/article/close-encounter-1006

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CLOSE ENCOUNTER: MY INTERVIEW WITH CHARLES HICKSON - PART III

 By Richard Harkness -

HICKSON: I don’t know. But we’ve lived many times before and we’ll live many times after this life. I believe the human body has a soul, a spirit, and that’s what lives forever. The flesh decays away, but to be born again in another body.

 

Photo description: Cover page of Keesler Air Force Base interrogation of Hickson and Parker [Image: Huneeus Collection]

 

WHAT ABOUT ANIMAL LIFE?

 

HICKSON: I don’t know about animal life. That’s also possible, I’m not saying it’s impossible. But I do know that my soul’s lived forever and it’ll live forever. There’s no question in my mind about that. I’m contented about that.

 

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IS THAT BELIEF IN ANY WAY CONNECTED WITH WHAT YOU’VE LEARNED FROM THE ENCOUNTERS?

 

HICKSON: It has to be connected–it’s something I believe since this happened to me. (Charlie discusses his religious upbringing, which, he says, included the usual Heaven and Hell dogma.) But a lot of things that our religion, not our faith–there’s only one faith–taught us at that time was not all the facts to it. And the only thing I did learn was that there’s a supreme being, which is God.

 

DID YOU LEARN ANYTHING ABOUT A SUPREME BEING OR SOUL FROM THE OTHER WORLD CREATURES?

 

HICKSON: No. But I know that the beings themselves, they must have a soul, because they’re close to what the beings are on this earth, and in my belief that God is the supreme being over this universe and the one beyond, then they must have a soul, just as we do.

 

DO THESE OTHER-WORLDLINGS COME FROM ANOTHER UNIVERSE?

 

HICKSON: I don't know what universe they come from. But I think I will be able to know someday. I don't know when. I'm eager to learn, I live from day to day waiting till I can gain more knowledge, but it's given to me, I know or I suppose, well, I know–as they think I should have it.

 

AS THEY THINK–THE CREATURES?

 

HICKSON: As they think I should have it. Yeah.

 

HAVE YOU SEEN THE BEINGS OR ROBOTS AGAIN SINCE THE LAST ENCOUNTER MENTIONED IN THE BOOK–MOTHER’S DAY NIGHT, 1974?

 

HICKSON: Well, the reason I’m a little hesitant on that answer is that (he pauses for a long moment as if mentally debating)–let’s just wait awhile about me answering that question–maybe a little bit later on.

 

SINCE THAT FIRST TIME, HOW MANY TIMES HAVE YOU BEEN OUT TO THE RIVERBANK ALONE?

 

HICKSON: Several different times. Before Hudship built the shipyard there, some nights I’d go down late at night alone. I don’t know, I just felt like I wanted to go down there and be alone, and maybe spend an hour or two there. I’ve done that quite a few times.

 

HAVE YOU EVER HAD ANY TELEPATHIC CONTACT DURING THESE VISITS?

 

HICKSON: No. Now, for a long time–until the shipyard was built there–I’d go there on every anniversary of the time this happened, and a few of those times, Mendez (the book’s co-author) would come down here and go over there with me, from Michigan. He’d spend a few days, but he’d be down for the anniversary. We’d spend quite a while over there on that river talking.

 

THIS SEEMS LIKE IT HAS BECOME A VERY LARGE PART OF HIS LIFE.

 

HICKSON: It has. I think he’s become possessed with it now, it’s become so interesting to him.

 

HAS MENDEZ EVER HAD A CLOSE ENCOUNTER?

 

HICKSON: No.

 

DO YOU FEEL LIKE YOU HAVE ANY CHOICE IN RECEIVING THESE MESSAGES?

 

HICKSON: I don’t have any choice. I don’t have any choice in what I’m destined to do, and I can’t change it. If I get off track, I get put right back on it again. Some things I do is beyond my control.

 

DO YOU MEAN GET OFF TRACK IN THE SENSE THAT YOU STOP DOING WHAT THE MISSION IS?

  

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CLOSE ENCOUNTER: MY INTERVIEW WITH CHARLES HICKSON - PART IV

    By Richard Harkness    

HICKSON: Right, and when I try to forget, I can’t do it, you know, I'm compelled to do something and I do it.

 

WHAT PUTS YOU BACK ON TRACK?

 

HICKSON: Well, it’s just…I just get on pins and needles…I get upset, I won’t eat, I can’t sleep. It’s just something that compels me to get back on what I’m doing.

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GIVE ME A SPECIFIC EXAMPLE OF WHAT YOU DO TO GET OFF TRACK AND THEN WHAT YOU DO TO GET RID OF THOSE FEELINGS?

 

HICKSON: Well, when I get a feeling like that, that I’m not doing right, that I’m wrong, I’ll just go off by myself somewhere. If nothing else, I’ll go over on the tree farm, back to the woods and sit down, and I’ll just begin to realize that I have a mission to do, that I have to do it. I get at peace with myself again. And I come on back and get back to doing these things again.

 

DOING WHAT THINGS?

 

HICKSON: This is why I know that it’s meant for me to tell people and to go and talk to people. A lot of times I’ll maybe get telephone calls, they want me to come to a college or university somewhere and lecture. Well, maybe I don’t want to go, maybe I just say I can’t go, you know, I’ve got this to do, I just can’t take the time, I don’t have the finances. I’ll put them off, well then it just–it bugs me–it’s on me until I just have to call them up and tell them I’ll do it. Then I’m at peace then. That’s an example, see.

 

YOU’VE MENTIONED THAT YOU’VE HAD A CHANCE TO SELL THE RIGHTS FOR A BOOK OR TO THE MOVIES AND PROBABLY MAKE SOME PRETTY GOOD MONEY, BUT YOU DECIDED NOT TO DO THAT.

 

HICKSON: Yeah. See, you know, anybody needs finances to live on. Well, I had my health, and I’ve always been able to make a livelihood for my family, you know, we’ve had hard times like everybody else on different occasions. I can’t see something like this–now I couldn’t have done it, I guess if I wanted to I’d been compelled not to by a stronger force, I think. But if you believe in something as strongly as I do, to throw it out there to people or the public, something that’s going to affect their lives, not only yours, in time to come, and throw something out there that’ll make me rich, you know, I don’t believe in that…I could have made a lot of money, thrown something out there that would have been partly fiction, with the big buildup and everything else, but what purpose has that done? I mean, it just can’t happen that way…The knowledge that I’m beginning to learn now and to understand now, I wouldn’t have gained that knowledge, something would have been wrong, I think that knowledge wouldn’t have been coming to me, It would have been taken away from me.

 

YOU’D HAVE BEEN UNCHOSEN.

 

HICKSON: That’s right. It was a hard decision for a human being to make, but I want to see it through to the end.

 

YOU’VE MADE A REFERENCE—ALMOST LIKE A BIBLICAL REFERENCE–TO 12 CHOSEN PEOPLE.

 

HICKSON: I think the world will begin to see at the end of this year, you’ll see 12 people emerging that’ll carry on a crusade and let the world know what’s going to happen.

 

ANY SPECIFIC REASON WHY IT’S THE NUMBER 12?

 

HICKSON: I don’t know.

 

HOW DO YOU KNOW IT’S 12?

 

HICKSON: This has been–this has been told to me. I won’t elaborate any further on it right now…when the time comes, I will. I’m gaining knowledge now that I can’t fully understand myself yet…I don’t know where I’m going, I don’t know.

 

HAVE YOU MET ALL 12 OF THESE OTHER PEOPLE OR DO ALL OF THEM EVEN EXIST RIGHT NOW?

 

HICKSON: I don’t know. I do know I will, though.

 

HAVE YOU MET ANY OF THEM?

 

HICKSON: I don’t know. I probably have, but I don’t know. It’s a lot for a man to have to live with and keep his sanity and try to live a normal life. It’s a lot for a man to have to do.

 

YOU KNOW THAT YOU ARE ONE OF THEM.

 

HICKSON: I know that to be a fact.

 

SINCE YOU MADE THAT REVELATION, IT WOULD SEEM LIKE, IF THERE WERE ANOTHER ONE, THAT HE (OR SHE) MIGHT HAVE WANTED TO TELL YOU, OR YOU MIGHT WANT TO TELL HIM–

 

HICKSON: Well, I think when the time comes, you know, we’ll be aware of it then. There’s a lot of things going to happen this year, a lot of strange things are going to happen this year.

 

CAN YOU GIVE ME AN EXAMPLE I CAN CATEGORIZE–SOMETHING STRANGE WITH THE WEATHER, THE WORLD POLITICAL SITUATION?

 

HICKSON: (He ponders for a long moment.) Well, let’s wait till another time.

 

HOW DO YOU KNOW YOU’RE NOT SUPPOSED TO TALK ABOUT CERTAIN THINGS? IS IT A FEELING?

 

HICKSON: Well, it’s a feeling, it’s a terrible feeling, it’s very hard to explain. I’ve even tried to even get started talking about it, and I just can’t do it. It’s just a feeling that I’m not supposed to talk about it. I can’t compel myself to do it. And I need to find out why, I need to know about these things. Maybe it’s not time. Evidently, it’s not time for me to talk about it.

 

BUT YOU HAVE A FEELING WHEN IT IS, YOU’LL KNOW?

 

HICKSON: Yes. Oh yes.

 

(THE DISCUSSION TURNS TO THE RIVERBANK ABDUCTION.)

 

HICKSON: Inside of there (the craft) there was so much light in there, It seemed to me it was glowing from the walls, the overhead, and the floor and I was just in the center of it. Made me feel like I was in an electric light bulb or something, you know. There was three or four days that my eyes was something like I’d had a bad welding flash. They were that way for a few days, and I believe the light done that, I don’t know.

 

YOU COULD NOT CLOSE YOUR EYES DURING THE TIME INSIDE THE CRAFT? YOU COULDN’T BLINK?

 

HICKSON: I couldn’t dose my eyes. I couldn’t blink. I could move them but I couldn’t blink. If I could’ve closed them, I’d have closed them against that light. I have a feeling for some reason they wanted me to see, you know, the inside of there.

 

YOU COULD HAVE SEEN IT EVEN IF YOU COULD BLINK, BUT THEN YOU COULD HAVE KEPT YOUR EYES SHUT ON PURPOSE.

 

HICKSON: Right. Cause the light, it was terrible.

 

COULD YOU SPEAK?

 

HICKSON: No, I could not. You know, when you’re talking you can hear your own self, and I was trying to talk and I couldn’t hear myself talk, so I wasn’t talking. I was trying to get some words out, I wanted to see what they were going to do with me, you know. Because, you know, I was thinking ‘this is it, nobody will see me again.’ And Charlie was scared, I’ll be frank with you, no need for me to lie about it, you know, cause I didn’t know what to expect.

 

DO YOU THINK MAYBE YOU WERE TALKING, BUT THAT YOU JUST COULDN’T HEAR?

 

HICKSON: No, I don’t. I don’t know. You know, if I was talking, I didn’t hear myself talking.

 

DID YOU KNOW YOUR MOUTH WAS MOVING?

 

HICKSON: Well, I guess my mouth wasn’t moving, cause I couldn’t move anything else (he says he was completely paralyzed except for eye movement). It was a strange feeling that I haven’t been able to even explain it to myself, and I know I can’t explain it to anyone else, you know. Maybe someday I’ll understand it, you know, what happened to me, what state I was put in or what state I become in…and why I couldn’t move and why I couldn’t talk. Maybe that’ll be explained to me…it worries me to death sometime.

 

ONE DISCREPANCY IN THE BOOK CONCERNS THE TIME OF THE RIVERBANK ABDUCTION. IN MENDEZ’S RECONSTRUCTION OF THE TIME FRAME BASED ON WHEN YOU CALLED THE SHERIFF, HE PLACES THE TIME AT ABOUT 9:30 OR 10PM. YET, YOU WRITE THAT IT OCCURRED AROUND DUSK. HOW DO YOU EXPLAIN THIS?

 

HICKSON: I don’t know. (He says the encounter happened around dusk and that the other time was probably incorrect.)

 

HOW LONG DID IT TAKE THE ROBOTS TO GET FROM THE CRAFT TO YOU?

 

HICKSON: (He has trouble answering this question, but finally says about half a minute or so, and agrees with me that this would be an unhurried pace.)

 

WHEN DID YOU GET BACK TO NORMAL AFTER THEY LET YOU OUT OF THE CRAFT?

 

HICKSON: When they brought me back outside, they just let me down to the ground, they didn’t throw me down. And of course I fell on the ground. I was real weak, my knees felt weak. I saw Calvin then, and he looked terrible, and I was trying to get where he was. My legs got strong enough I could get up, and I was getting toward him. I heard that hissing sound and I looked back and that thing was gone. I made my way on toward him, I was really concerned about him at that time. And I was trying to get him where I could talk to him, and it took us both a while before we could, you know, get to where we could kind of figure things out.

 

THAT ABOUT WRAPS IT UP. I ASKED YOU TO THINK ABOUT A CLOSING COMMENT YOU MIGHT WANT TO MAKE TO THE PUBLIC.

 

HICKSON: I’ll say again, you know, that before the end of the year, that everyone will be aware that we’re not alone, that a lot of things are going to be revealed to us, that there won’t be any doubt in anyone’s mind, and a lot of things are going to happen this year that’s going to seem strange at first to the people, till they begin to realize. And that’s about the only thing I’d like to say now. But I will be saying a lot before the year is over. END

 

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NASA funding stimulates the search for extraterrestrial life

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Artist's conception of Kepler-22b (Credit: NASA/Ames/JPL-Caltech)

New funding announced by NASA will aid astrobiologists in the search for extraterrestrial life.

NASA announced on Monday, October 6 that it has awarded nearly $50 million to seven research teams “to study the origins, evolution, distribution and future of life in the universe.”

These new research teams will become members of the NASA Astrobiology Institute (NAI), which is headquartered at NASA’s Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, California.

The seven teams receiving new funding are:

• NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory
• NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
• NASA’s Ames Research Center
• The SETI Institute
• The University of Colorado at Boulder
• The University of California, Riverside
• The University of Montana in Missoula.

Each team will reportedly receive approximately $8 million in grant money for five years of astrobiology research.

Artist concept of an early Earth. (Credit: NASA)

“The intellectual scope of astrobiology is vast, from understanding how our planet went from lifeless to living, to understanding how life has adapted to Earth’s harshest environments, to exploring other worlds with the most advanced technologies to search for signs of life,” explains Mary Voytek, director of the astrobiology program at NASA Headquarters. She continues, “The new teams cover that breadth of astrobiology, and by coming together in the NAI, they will make the connections between disciplines and organizations that stimulate fundamental scientific advances.”

Ian O’Neill from Discovery News details:

The multidisciplinary teams will tackle everything from evaluating environments on Earth and using them as analogs for extraterrestrial locations, to unraveling the organic chemistry that was likely delivered to early Earth via comet and asteroid impacts. In preparation for NASA’s 2020 Mars rover mission, one of the projects will also involve grasping a better understanding as to how to look for, and even recognize, life on the red planet. Projects delving into extremophiles on Earth and how our planet acquired its oxygen also feature.

These seven new research teams join the ranks of five other teams working with NASA to explore extraterrestrial life. Those teams are from the University of Washington, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Wisconsin, the University of Illinois, and University of Southern California, Los Angeles.

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LOST LORE AND THE UFO RAPTURE – PART II

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Daily UFO Headlines 10/8/14

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• ‘Rocket launcher’ is the latest object discovered on Mars – Metro
• UFO spotted over Clwydian range – News North Wales
• Couple’s shock at spotting UFO hovering near their home – Daily Mail
• Is Bigfoot an alien? UFO conference to consider various possibilities – Greenfield Daily Reporter
• UFO Spotted Outside Meeting Of UFO Research Group In Australia – International Business Times AU

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Two UFOs Hover In Front Of Helicopter In NYC  (Incredible Video and Photos)

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(N.Morgan)  In the video presentation below, looknowtv was able to capture 2 UFOs flying around a helicopter. In the video you can see a helicopter hovering in one position observing two UFOs in the middle of New York City. The UFOs appear to be shining and they hover as well before veering off at a very high rate of speed. These couldn’t be birds or drones because drones and birds could never fly off that fast. They appear to be to orb shaped UFOs with a light source.

The question has been posed to me as to why people who film these events always seem to be using mediocre cameras or cameras of poor quality. My answer is that maybe the UFOs use the same cloaking technology that we can use to cloak a license plate or that the military uses on some of their more secretive aircraft, so that getting a good photographic image becomes impossible.

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08-10-2014 om 18:24 geschreven door peter  

ET: Ruimtemensen waarschuwen voor sociale kloof

De cover van het oorspronkelijke Nederlandse boek uit 1969 van Stefan Denaerde, alias zakenman Ad Beers. Het gezicht van de man van de planeet ‘Iarga’. Zie hieronder o.a.  het verhaal rondom dit boek.

Gerard Aartsen bestudeert al ruim 30 jaar de leringen van de Oude Wijsheid en zijn onderzoek op dat gebied heeft geresulteerd in een uitgebreide online catalogus van leringen. Hij schrijft regelmatig over de buitenaardse aanwezigheid op Aarde en heeft over dit onderwerp 2 boeken gepubliceerd, die allebei in 4 talen verschenen zijn, waaronder het Nederlands. Sinds 2011 is hij lid van de ‘Advisory Board for Research and Education’ van het Exopolitics Institute en een veelgevraagd gast in internationale radioprogramma’s over UFO’s en aanverwante onderwerpen. Hij heeft lezingen gegeven in Amerika, Europa en Azië. Gerard Aartsen (1957) heeft de Master of Education graad en is sinds 2001 docent in het hoger onderwijs.x

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Ruimtemensen waarschuwen voor gevaren sociale kloof

 2014 © Gerard Aartsen

 Auteur van dit artikel, Gerard Aartsenx

“Zet het nieuws aan en je ziet massale demonstraties, historische opstanden en rellen in ooit rustige straten – er is geen twijfel dat de groeiende inkomensongelijkheid een kwestie van cruciaal belang is.” Dit is geen citaat uit een recent artikel in een tijdschrift over sociale verandering, maar de openingszin van hoofdstuk 2 uit Visie op de Mondiale Agenda 2014, het recente rapport van het World Economic Forum (WEF), dat jaarlijks een exclusieve bijeenkomst voor de mondiale elite in Davos houdt.

Wereldleiders lijken zich eindelijk bewust te worden van de gevaren van de groeiende kloof tussen rijk en arm, en dat deze ontwikkeling niet ongehinderd verder kan gaan kwam ook naar voren in de ‘State of the Union’-toespraak van president Obama in januari dit jaar: “De ondernemingswinsten en aandelenkoersen zijn, na vier jaar economische groei, nog nooit zo hoog geweest en degenen die aan de top staan hebben het nog nooit zo goed gehad. Maar de middeninkomens zijn nauwelijks gegroeid. De ongelijkheid is toegenomen… De koude, harde werkelijkheid is dat zelfs te midden van het herstel er nog te veel Amerikanen zijn die harder moeten werken dan ooit om rond te komen, laat staan vooruit te komen.”

Hij vervolgde met het aankondigen van beleid om de gevaren waarmee de groeiende ongelijkheid in inkomen en kansen gepaard gaat, aan te pakken. Dat dit geen overbodige luxe is bleek pas geleden opnieuw toen personeel van fastfoodketens overal in de VS een dag staakten voor verhoging van het minimumloon.

Mensen met een hart en enig gezond verstand geven vaak uitdrukking aan hun ongeloof over de dysfunctionele manier waarop de mensheid zich tot zichzelf of de planeet verhoudt door de positie van een buitenstaander in te nemen: “Als een Marsmannetje onze planeet zou bezoeken…”, gevolgd door een beschrijving van de manier waarop mensen het leven voor zichzelf of voor andere schepsels gecompliceerd maken op een wijze die, behalve winst maken, nergens op slaat.

Maar misschien is het toch niet zo verwonderlijk dat de wereldleiders pas nu de risico’s beginnen te zien die het gevolg van zulke grote sociale ongelijkheid zijn. Want hoewel de meeste lezers wel weten dat we door mensen van andere planeten werden en worden bezocht, is het velen wellicht niet bekend dat zij herhaaldelijk hun bezorgdheid hebben geuit over de manier waarop wij ervoor gekozen hebben de samenleving te structureren rond de noodzaak om geld te verdienen om in onze dagelijkse behoeften te voorzien en de “droom” van onbeperkte rijkdom, ongeacht of het de planeet verwoest.

Artists impression van de ontmoeting van George Adamski met ‘buitenaardsen’.

Zo kreeg George Adamski, een van de eerste mensen die zijn contacten met ufo’s openbaar maakte tijdens een verblijf op een moederschip in 1954 van zijn buitenaardse gastheren te horen: “Wil de mens zonder rampspoed leven, dan moet hij zijn medemens beschouwen als zichzelf, de één een weerspiegeling van de ander.” Na jaren van voortdurende contacten met mensen van andere planeten, voegde Adamski daar in december 1964 aan toe: “[V]oor een gezonde en welvarende samenleving moet dat wat de grootste problemen veroorzaakt, verwijderd worden. Zoals we allen weten is dat de schandvlek van armoede te midden van overvloed. Het is de oorzaak van ziekte, misdaad en de vele kwaden die we kennen…”

Ontmoetingen met mensen uit de ruimte
Als burgeradviseur in het Amerikaansse leger eind jaren 40 had Daniel Fry op 4 juli 1949 een ervaring met de piloot van een vliegende schotel die vlak voor zijn ogen in de woestijn landde, nadat Fry zijn bus naar huis had gemist. Op een bepaald moment tijdens zijn ervaring, waarin hij zei in een ruimteschip van Californië naar New York en terug te zijn gevlogen, werd hem verteld: “Bij vrijheid van gebrek volgt vrijheid van angst en zou jullie beschaving veilig het kritieke punt in haar ontwikkeling gepasseerd zijn.”

Truman Bethurum, een wegwerker uit Californië, had eind juli 1952 een soortgelijke ervaring. Hierbij ging het weliswaar niet om een reisje in de ‘schouw’, zoals hij de verkenningsschip noemde, maar werd hij bij zeven of acht gelegenheden aan boord uitgenodigd voor gesprekken met de kapitein van het schip.

Hierover zegt Bethurum: “Ik kreeg de indruk dat samenwerking tussen al hun mensen een vast onderdeel van het leven vormt en dat armoede hun onbekend is. En wat wij rijkdom of welvaart noemen, is bij hen beslist gelijker verdeeld dan bij ons op Aarde.” Als gevolg daarvan, zo vertelde de kapitein hem, zijn er geen misdadigers of oplichters op hun planeet (die zij ‘Clarion’ noemde). “Zelfs geen speculanten… Als we die op Clarion hadden, zou het van weinig waarde zijn; dan zouden we landhuizen en krotten hebben, net als jullie.”

Stefan Denaerde (alias Ad Beers; links) met de Amerikaanse UFO-onderzoeker Wendelle C. Stevens, die zijn verhaal onderzocht. (Foto: Brit Elders)

Buck Nelson, een boer en zaagmolenaar uit Denver die in juli 1954 zijn eerste ervaring had, schreef na zijn bezoek aan enkele van de andere planeten in ons stelsel: “Sommige van onze veelgebruikte manieren om geld te verdienen zouden voor hen absoluut onacceptabel zijn. Een hiervan is onze gewoonte om op allerlei manieren geld met geld te verdienen.” 

En de Braziliaanse ooggetuige Dino Kraspedon (pseudoniem voor Aladino Félix) tenslotte, wiens ervaring rond dezelfde tijd plaatsvond als George Adamski’s welbekende ontmoeting in de Californische woestijn in november 1952, kreeg onomwonden te horen:
“…oorlogen worden gevoerd tegen de wil van de meeste mensen, want de armen vechten niet zo snel. Bloedvergieten is het voorrecht geworden van de rijken en machtigen… Overvloed heeft hen verblind, gulzigheid heeft hun blik vertroebeld. Conflict is het product van egoïsme.”

Zoals bekend is het regeringen en militairen gelukt om de ervaringen en informatie die deze mensen te midden van de Koude Oorlog gevraagd werd met de wereld te delen, in diskrediet te brengen. Echter, in de jaren 60 ontving één ufo-ooggetuige ongeëvenaarde kennis over het sociale systeem op de planeet van degenen die contact met hem zochten.

Het verhaal van een zakenman
De Nederlandse zakenman Ad (Adriaan) Beers en zijn gezin voeren op een zomeravond circa 1965 met hun tjalk op de Oosterschelde, toen het kompas van het jacht kapot leek te zijn. Terwijl ze naar de haven terugvoeren, staarde Beers plotseling in een krachtig blauw-wit zoeklicht. Hij zette de motor onmiddellijk volle kracht achteruit, maar dat kon niet voorkomen dat de boot ergens tegenaan stootte. Bij nadere inspectie leek het dat het jacht van de heer Beers de romp van een gekapseisd schip had geraakt en vlakbij in het water zag hij een lichaam in het water drijven.

Toen hij overboord sprong met een reddingslijn, landde hij op een hard oppervlak dat zich maar één meter onder het wateropperlak bevond. Kort nadat hij de reddingslijn om het drijvende lichaam had bevestigd, kwam er iemand door het water aangelopen om hem te helpen bij zijn reddingspoging. Deze persoon droeg dezelfde kleding als de drenkeling, wat er uitzag als een ruimtepak. Geschokt ontwaarde hij een ‘dierlijk gezicht’ waarvan de ‘ogen met grote ruitvormige pupillen hypnotisch en zelfbewust’ waren.

Op dat moment besefte hij dat het bezoekers van een andere planeet waren die hem vervolgens, uit dank voor zijn reddingspogingen, uitgebreide informatie over hun wereld gingen verstrekken. Gedurende twee dagen kreeg hij levendige beelden te zien die vergezeld gingen van gedetailleerde beschrijvingen – in de vorm van directe informatieoverdracht – van de filosofie achter de manier waarop het leven op Iarga, zoals zij hun planeet noemden, georganiseerd was.

Ad Beers was directeur van de Nederlandse importeur van Zweedse vrachtwagenfabrikant Scania en publiceerde zijn verhaal in 1969, op aanwijzen van de ruimtebezoekers als science fiction, onder het pseudoniem Stefan Denaerde (‘Steef van de Aarde’) in het bijzonder succesvolle boek Buitenaardse beschaving (waarvan in 2011 een nieuwe Nederlandse uitgave verscheen). In 1977 verscheen de eerste Engelse editie als Operation Survival Earth (‘Operatie Voortbestaan Aarde’). Een uitgebreide Engelstalige uitgave werd vijf jaar later door UFO-onderzoeker Wendelle C. Stevens gepubliceerd als ‘Contact from Planet Iarga’.

Stefan Denaerde kreeg levendige beelden te zien van het leven op de planeet ‘Iarga’, en de bekende tekenaar Rudolf Das maakte gedetailleerde tekeningen van enkele taferelen die Denaerde te zien kreeg: “De ringvormige wooncomplexen, die er uitzien als enorme glazen silo’s, zijn ongeveer 300 meter in diameter bij 120 meter hoog en huisvesten elk ongeveer 10.000 Iarganen. De centrale kern wordt als enkelvoudige unit opgebouwd en de apartementen worden aan de buitenkant daarvan gemonteerd, waardoor het lijkt alsof de pui van glas is. De apartementen zijn 20 bij 20 meter en 6 meter hoog. Ze worden compleet geleverd met beglazing, meubels, huishoudelijke apparatuur, communicatiesystemen, enz., over twee verdiepingen. De ‘levensduur’ van deze constructies is ongeveer 1000 jaar.”

Met zijn eigen achtergrond als zakenman was Ad Beers enorm onder de indruk van wat hij zag als de schrikwekkende doelmatigheid van het sociale stelsel op ‘Iarga’: “Dit moet wel een universeel bestuurde planeet zijn, maar kennelijk zó strikt bestuurd dat alles gestroomlijnd en gestandaardiseerd is. Wat een afgrijselijke gedachte!”

Maar terwijl hij betreurt dat de planeetbewoners zo weinig blijk geven van de hoedanigheid die de kern vormt van de plagen die onze huidige samenleving treffen, getuigt hij tegelijkertijd van een min of meer volmaakte uitdrukking van wat de deelnemers aan de Italiaanse Amicizia-zaak door hun vrienden uit de ruimte werd onderricht, en van wat tevens het doel lijkt te zijn voor de mensheid naarmate we steeds meer reageren op de energieën van eenheid en synthese van het Waterman -tijdperk: “Hun zwakte is de ontwikkeling van individualiteit. Ze doen bijna alles in groepen, ze denken collectief en gehoorzamen de wetten van hun samenleving letterlijk. Ze leven voor en door de vriendschap en de liefde binnen de groep.”

Sociale stelsels op andere planeten
Over het niveau dat zijn gastheren van ‘Iarga’ bereikt hebben, zegt de schrijver: “Hun definitie van het woord ‘beschaving’ of ‘cultuur’ heeft niets te maken met het niveau van hun wetenschap of technologie, maar met de manier waarop de gemeenschap voor de gehandicapten of de zwakkeren zorgt. Het woord ‘supercultuur’ definieert de toestand die ontstaat wanneer uit individuele inspanningen een groepsstructuur tot stand is gekomen die elke vorm van discriminatie tegen wie dan ook uitbant.”

George Adamski in de begintijd van zijn ontdekkingen. Hij kreeg al snel minder aandacht toen een anti-Adamski-campagne tegen hem werd gelanceerd. Inmiddels is er bijna niemand meer die met een open blik naar zijn ontdekkingen kan kijken..!

Net zoals de Commissie-Brandt al in 1980 in haar rapport Noord-Zuid: een overlevingsprogramma adviseerde dat de enige oplossing voor onze problemen op Aarde een systeem is dat gebaseerd is op een mengeling van markteconomie en overheidssturing, lichten de ruimtemensen toe: “Ons kosmische universele economische systeem kan zowel met het communisme als met de kapitalistische Westerse economie vergeleken worden. Je zou ook kunnen zeggen dat onze kosmische economie met geen van beide te vergelijken is… Alleen door dit systeem kan een mensenras een cultureel niveau van sociaal evenwicht bereiken.”

Terwijl de mensen op Aarde momenteel gevangen zitten in een systeem dat ernstig uit balans is en hen reduceert tot dienaren van ‘de economie’ en waar bezuinigingen die steeds dieper snijden in sociale voorzieningen door politici verdedigd worden als “noodzakelijk om de economie te stimuleren”, dient het strikt gereguleerde economische stelsel op ‘Iarga’ uitsluitend de noden van het volk en helpt de auteur zelfs in te zien hoe een op rechtvaardigheid gebaseerd systeem tevens bijdraagt aan de bloei van vrijheid: “Het universele economische systeem blijkt in de praktijk een efficiënt productiesysteem van goederen en diensten, waarbij de prioriteit op de sectoren huisvesting, voeding en transport ligt… Het doel van dit systeem is om het individu zoveel mogelijk van niet-creatieve, slaafse arbeid te bevrijden.”

Het universele economische systeem “dat onder heel veel intelligente rassen bestaat, bekommert zich niet om geld, bezit of beloning. Het doel van dit systeem is de mensen te bevrijden van materiële invloeden en drijfveren.” In reactie op vragen over de ruilmiddelen en regeringssystemen op andere planeten schreef George Adamski in oktober 1957 het volgende:

“Hun ruilstelsel bestaat uit een uitwisseling van producten en diensten zonder tussenkomst van geld. Alle productie komt aan iedereen ten goede en iedereen ontvangt daaruit naar behoefte. En aangezien er geen ruilmiddel aan te pas komt, zijn er geen ‘rijken’; er zijn geen ‘armen’. Maar allen delen gelijkelijk en werken voor het algemeen welzijn… De behoeften van het volk worden onpartijdig vastgesteld door [een orgaan van vertegenwoordigers die uit elk district en uit elke maatschappelijke rang worden gekozen], en problemen worden opgelost voor het algemeen welzijn van allen.”

Dit klinkt als het geavanceerde ruilhandelsysteem dat esotericus en futuroloog Benjamin Creme heeft voorspeld als middel voor de distributie van hulpbronnen na de mondiale economische ineenstorting die de mensheid nu elk moment kan treffen. Ook in de verslagen van verscheidene anderen die contact hadden met ruimtemensen wordt naar dit systeem verwezen. Evenzo wordt Ad Beers verteld: “…wij kennen geen geld, maar iedereen die dat wil kan op vakantie gaan.” En: “Op ‘Iarga’ wordt niets betaald, uitsluitend geregistreerd. Wat een consument gebruikt wordt in het computercentrum geregistreerd … en dat mag niet meer zijn dan waar hij recht op heeft.”

Zijn contactpersonen uit de ruimte leggen uit dat er op ‘Iarga’ twee wereldwijde consumentenorganisaties zijn die “de productiekartels aanzetten tot de productie van de benodigde goederen. Het is de kartels niet toegestaan te adverteren of de consument op enige manier te beïnvloeden, aangezien dit nooit objectief kan zijn, want “in een sociaal stabiele samenleving heb je niet alleen vrijheid van meningsuiting, maar, nog belangrijker, vrijheid van denken. Propaganda, herhaalde eenzijdige informatie, ondermijnt vrijheid van denken…”

Marssondes en de honger in de wereld..
Toen de heer Beers de bezoekers uit de ruimte naar specifieke technologische kennis vroeg, had het antwoord niet duidelijker kunnen zijn: “Het laatste wat jullie nodig hebben is technologische informatie waardoor de kloof tussen jullie intellectuele ontwikkeling en jullie vrijwel niet-bestaande sociale ontwikkeling nog groter wordt. Speel nu maar met jullie Marssondes, terwijl de helft van de wereldbevolking honger lijdt en in armoede leeft. De enige informatie die jullie nodig hebben is op het gebied van sociale normen.”

Op basis van de beschrijving die Ad Beers geeft van de informatie die hem gegeven werd, speculeert deze schrijver – wiens eerdere research erop wijst dat de buitenaardse aanwezigheid op Aarde afkomstig is van planeten in ons eigen zonnestelsel – dat de bemanning van het ruimteschip waar de heer Beers tegen op voer, eigenlijk afkomstig was van de planeet Mars, die door Truman Bethurum beschreven is als “een belangrijke productieplaneet”.

Dat het heelal wemelt van leven is geen vraag meer, maar een zekerheid. Foto’s als deze, van UFO’s op Mars, genomen op 28 april 2014 door de Mars-verkenner ‘Curiosity’, zijn eerder regelmaat dan uitzondering.

Benjamin Creme heeft verklaard dat Mars evolutionair op hetzelfde niveau staat als de Aarde, maar: “Mars heeft niet zoveel vergissingen gemaakt als wij, en dat is de reden waarom hun technologie ongelooflijk ver vooruit loopt op die van ons. Zij zijn meesters van de ruimte, meesters van energie. Ze maken de meeste van de ruimteschepen die wij zien en ufo’s noemen, van kleine verkenners tot aan de gigantische moederschepen. Zelfs sommige van de ruimteschepen van Venus zijn op Mars gemaakt, naar Venusiaanse specificaties.”

Lezers die nog altijd in de illusie verkeren dat Leven alleen op koolstof gebaseerd kan zijn en zich uitsluitend in vast-stoffelijke vorm kan uitdrukken worden verwezen naar hoofstuk 5 in mijn boek ‘UFO’s en de ruimtemensen: Hier om te helpen’, voor een uitleg over het denkbeeld van leven op de etherische (fijn-)stoffelijke niveaus van materie, waar de wetenschap naar op zoek is in de vorm van ‘donkere materie’ en ‘donkere energie’. Begin juli 2014 werd over een interessante nieuwe aanwijzing van de realiteit van deze etherische gebieden van bestaan bericht toen astrofysici bekendmaakten dat onderzoek uitwees dat er 400% meer licht in de intergalactische ruimte bestaat dan aan bekende bronnen kan worden toegeschreven.

Een nieuwe definitie van ‘exopolitiek’
Ofschoon het verhaal van Beers zich meer richtte op de alledaagse aspecten van het leven op ‘Iarga’, omvatte zijn uitwisseling met de ruimtemensen ook wat filosofischer kwesties die lezers die op de hoogte zijn van de leringen over onthechting van bijvoorbeeld J. Krishnamurti bekend in de oren zullen klinken: “Geluk is vrede hebben met jezelf en je omgeving. Dat wordt voor een groot deel bepaald door je succes in het bereiken van zelf geformuleerde doelen, met andere woorden een meedogenloze beoordeling van jezelf. Dat individuele streven om een zelfgekozen doel te bereiken [in plaats van met anderen te wedijveren; GA] is de creativiteit in de mens.”

En: “Het lichaam met al zijn zelfzuchtige eisen is slechts een omhulsel. Het gaat ons slechts om de creatieve intelligentie, de ziel die in staat is tot onzelfzuchtig denken. Hoe onderrichten we kinderen voor vrede en geluk? Vrijheid is de afwezigheid van de gevolgen van dwang op het gedrag van het individu. Vrijheid kan niet worden verkregen met een wapen in de hand. Die kan alleen worden verkregen door de zorgvuldige mentale vorming door ouders van hun kinderen, door een juist begrip van goed en kwaad.”

Terwijl de wereld gereed is, al is het wellicht onbewust, voor het laatste bedrijf in het planetaire drama dat zich ontvouwt en de ineenstorting van onze falende structuren zelfs de schijn van democratie wegvaagt, wordt de mensheid gedwongen om de spirituele feiten van het leven opnieuw onder ogen te zien en de handen ineen te slaan om rechtvaardigheid en vrijheid voor allen te eisen.

Het is aldus interessant om op te merken dat niet alleen het Leven en het mensenrijk universele verschijnselen in de hele Kosmos zijn, zoals ik elders heb gedocumenteerd, maar de Wetten die de uitdrukking daarvan in juiste menselijke verhoudingen regeren kennelijk ook, als basis voor een verstandig sociaal systeem dat het voortbestaan van het mensenras en de veilige vooruitgang van haar beschaving waarborgt.

Het web-magazine Exopolitics waar auteur Gerard Aartsen ook bijdragen aan levert. (klik voor lead naar site)

Met nog veel meer informatie langs dezelfde lijnen van andere mensen die contact hadden met de ruimtemensen, die ik in een nieuw boek zal presenteren, dringt zich een nieuwe definitie van ‘exopolitiek’ op. De eenvoudigste definitie luidt momenteel ongeveer als volgt: “Het onderzoek naar de politieke actoren, processen en instellingen met betrekking tot buitenaards leven.” Voor sommigen vooronderstelt dit het bestaan van buitenaards leven, voor anderen slechts de mogelijkheid daarvan.

Mensen die bekend zijn met mijn boeken zullen weten dat ik de buitenaardse aanwezigheid op Aarde als onbetwistbaar feit zie, op basis van een ‘driehoeksmeting’ van overeenkomsten tussen de informatie afkomstig van de oorspronkelijke contactees van de jaren 50, de gezamenlijke wijsheidsleringen van de mensheid en de ervaringen van hoogwaardigheidsbekleders en functionarissen in de afgelopen decennia, tegen de achtergrond van de veranderingen die onze wereld momenteel overspoelen.

Gebaseerd op de informatie in dit artikel en de relevantie ervan voor de huidige toestand van de wereld – waar ook Paul Hellyer op wees in zijn boek Light at the End of the Tunnel: A Survival Plan for the Human Species uit 2010 – lijkt een praktischer definitie van het woord ‘exopolitiek’ terecht, waarvan de betekenis teruggrijpt op de oorspronkelijke betekenis van de samenstellende delen. Als ‘exo’ staat voor “(van) buiten” en ‘politiek’ voor “kwesties die de staat of zijn burgers betreffen, kunnen we ‘exopolitiek’ nu als volgt definiëren:

Exopolitiek [ontelbaar zelfstandig naamwoord]:

Mensen van andere planeten die de mensheid alternatieve, verstandiger manieren laten zien om de samenleving in te richten, zonder hun zienswijzen op te leggen.

Hiermee wordt ‘exopolitiek’ in een klap een veel urgenter begrip, aangezien het de buitenaardse aanwezigheid op Aarde stevig in de context plaatst van de crises die de mensheid momenteel treffen: politiek, economisch, financieel, sociaal en ecologisch.

Bronnen:

Gerard Aartsen (2012), UFO’s en de ruimtemensen: Hier om te helpen

George Adamski (1964), Cosmic Bulletin

George Adamski (1957-58), Cosmic Science for the Promotion of Cosmic Principles and Truths

George Adamski (1955), Inside the Space Ships

Truman Bethurum (1954), Aboard a Flying Saucer

Benjamin Creme (2010), De bundeling van de Krachten van Licht – De geestelijke missie van de UFO’s

Stefan Denaerde (1977), Operation Survival Earth (NL: Buitenaardse beschaving, 1969)

Michael Franco (2014), ‘Universe’s missing photon sources baffle scientists’

Daniel Fry (1954), The White Sands Incident

Paul Hellyer (2010), Light at the End of the Tunnel: A Survival Plan for the Human Species

Dino Kraspedon (1957), My Contact With Flying Saucers

Buck Nelson (1956), My Trip to Mars, the Moon and Venus

08-10-2014 om 18:17 geschreven door peter  

Verbazingwekkende Tv reportage over UFO's boven Colorado (USA) - (Video)

Afgelopen zaterdag werd er in Breckenridge in de Amerikaanse staat Colorado over niets anders gepraat dan UFO’s.

Er werd ook verslag gedaan door een lokale televisiezender en één van de ooggetuigen die de UFO’s zagen, was de verslaggever.

Hieronder volgt een verslag van de lokale nieuwszender 9News uit de Amerikaanse staat Colorado.

De verslaggever die zich op dat moment in Breckenbridge bevindt doet voor de camera verslag van de gebeurtenissen. Het mooie van deze uitzending is dat deze verslaggever, Matt Renoux, er heilig van overtuigd is dat wat hij gezien heeft UFO’s waren en geen weerballonnen of iets dergelijks.

Na de vraag uit de studio of het misschien drones waren, legt Matt uitvoerig uit waarom dit niet het geval kan zijn. De witte ronde objecten die afzonderlijk werden gezien of in een lijn of in een driehoeksvorm bleven soms wel een kwartier lang op één bepaalde plek hangen. Plotseling verscheen er dan een lichtflits en verplaatste het zich snel.

Ook interessant is dat Matt verklaart dat ze het best zichtbaar waren wanneer het zonlicht reflecteert op het oppervlak van het object. Een aanwijzing dat we hier met een metaalachtige constructie te maken zouden kunnen hebben.

Je hoort het enthousiasme in de stem van Matt Renoux die duidelijk onder de indruk is van wat hij heeft gezien. Ook vertelt hij dat een collega televisiekanaal uit Utah de dag daarvoor ongeveer identieke opnames heeft gemaakt.

Uiteraard om het enthousiasme van Matt Renoux enigszins te temperen, moet de studio uiteindelijk aan het eind komen met de bijna standaard grap: “Als jij straks verdwenen bent, hebben wij wel een idee wat er gebeurd is”.

Dit laatste doet niets af aan dat we hier te maken hebben met een toch wel unieke tv reportage. Meestal zijn de televisiemensen niet aanwezig op het moment van waarneming zelf en blijft het geheel beperkt tot een verklaring van getuigen.

Omdat de verslaggever in dit geval met eigen ogen de objecten heeft gezien, ontstaat er een ander soort reportage. Waar normaal gesproken de verslaggevers zelf komen met allerlei suggesties zoals weerballonnen of drones, is het hier andersom en legt de verslaggever uit waarom dit niet het geval is.

Zo maken we hier een fenomeen mee wat we in de praktijk regelmatig tegenkomen. Mensen zijn vaak sceptisch tot het moment dat ze zelf een UFO zien, waarna hun visie helemaal verandert.



Dit is niet de eerste keer dat de stad Breckenbrigde in het nieuws komt voor wat betreft UFO-activiteiten.

Ook in maart 2010 was het er raak: Volgens een Mufon-rapport waren er op 31 maart 2010 enkele getuigen die rond half negen in de avond een aantal vreemde lichten waarnamen boven Breckenridge.

Ze beschrijven hoe ze meerdere objecten waarnamen die wit van kleur waren, maar soms veranderden naar oranje:

Naast de getuigenissen van het echtpaar uit Texas, was er ook die van de man uit Illinois die met vakantie was in Breckendrigde. Dit voorval vond enkele maanden later plaats, op 1 oktober van dat jaar. 

Weer enkele maanden later is het winter in Breckenridge en in december ziet iemand die in de bergen aan het snowboarden is een ufo met fenomenale snelheid langsschieten. Je ziet de UFO op de volgende foto, net onder de wolkenrand.

Hoe snel deze was kun je zien in de volgende hele korte video. Daar zie je dezelfde UFO van de foto na ongeveer twee seconden als een lichtflits wegschieten.

Na 2012 wordt het wat rustiger in Breckenbridge, maar nu zijn de UFO’s klaarblijkelijk terug. Het plaatsje dat op iets meer dan 3.000 meter hoogte in de Rocky Mountains ligt, telt ongeveer 4.000 inwoners en is ’s winters een populaire skibestemming.

Bergen lijken ook ideale plaatsen om een buitenaardse basis te vestigen. Dus, wie weet, horen we binnenkort weer meer UFO-nieuws uit Breckenridge.

Een dag voor de meest recente waarneming in Breckenbridge, op vrijdag 3 oktober 2014, werd de volgende opname gemaakt in het ongeveer 160 kilometer verderop gelegen Crestone, eveneens in Colorado.

Zo te zien betreft het dezelfde of in ieder geval hetzelfde soort UFO’s, als degene die in Breckenbridge werden waargenomen.

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08-10-2014 om 18:02 geschreven door peter  

Sigaarvormige UFO ontdekt op de maan ( VIDEO)

Op een oude foto, genomen door de Lunar Orbiter van NASA in 1968, is in de Manilius krater op Mars duidelijk een UFO waar te nemen. 

Een grote sigaarvormige met een lengte van tenminste 15 kilometer.

De UFO is te zien op deze originele foto van NASA en iets uitvergroot ziet hij er zo uit.

Wanneer we de UFO wat inkleuren, wordt het een stuk duidelijker.

Een jaar nadat deze foto is genomen landden de eerste astronauten op de Maan met de Apollo 11 missie.

Er doen hardnekkige berichten de ronde dat zowel Neil Armstrong als Buzz Aldrin tijdens hun verblijf op de maan UFO’s zagen.

Volgens een voormalig NASA werknemer, Otto Binder, waren radioamateurs met hun VHF apparatuur erin geslaagd om buiten NASA om boodschappen op te vangen van Armstrong aan Mission Control waarin deze melding maakt van het feit ze worden geobserveerd door buitenaardse ufo’s.

“These babies are huge, sir . . . enormous . . . Oh God, you wouldn’t believe it! I’m telling you there are other spacecraft out there . . . lined up on the far side of the crater edge . . . they’re on the moon watching us . . .”

De volgende foto zou gemaakt zijn door Armstrong en deze vertoont een opvallende gelijkenis met de ontdekte UFO in de Manilius krater.

Zo zijn er steeds meer aanwijzingen waaruit blijkt dat er zich wel degelijk een (buitenaardse) basis op de maan bevindt.

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08-10-2014 om 18:02 geschreven door peter  

AUTHORITIES AND NORAD INVESTIGATE UFO SIGHTING IN COLORADO

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AUTHORITIES AND NORAD INVESTIGATE UFO SIGHTING IN COLORADO
OCTOBER 3, 2014   ……..     BRECKENRIDGE COLORADO

It was no isolated UFO sighting in Colorado that touched off investigations by local police, NORAD, and local news stations; it was multiple sightings by individuals and groups of people, including one investigative reporter on assignment to see what all the commotion was about, that saw a singular luminous dot or a grouping of three glowing orbs above Breckenridge, Colorado, that prompted all the investigating. And, according to KUSA (Denver) reporter Matt Renoux, the odd-acting unidentified flying objects weren’t drones, either. 

Reporting live from Breckenridge on Oct. 3, the excited Renoux explained to anchors back at the station, that he seemed to be the only person who wanted to actually show his face while talking about the mysterious UFO sightings. But he noted that several witnesses had spotted the objects, describing them as forming straight lines or triangular shapes along the horizon.  Renoux stated he did not believe the objects were drones or even weather balloons, because the luminous “dots” appeared stationary for up to 15 minutes at a time. “They would just sit there,” he said, “… without moving an inch on our viewscreen in the camera.” After roughly 15 minutes, there would appear a flash of light and the “objects would take off across the mountain ridge.” 

A report filed at the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC) noted that the objects held a triangular pattern for up to 1.5 hours. There was also speculation that the unidentified flying objects might have been high-altitude, helium-filled balloons. However, it was also noted that such a situation, where multiples of such balloons were in the air at the same time.  Breckenridge Police fielded numerous calls on Friday and are investigating the sightings. Calls to the Federal Aviation Administration yielded no results as the federal agency said they knew nothing of the sightings and had had no calls from the public. 

A call to NORAD (North American Aerospace Defense Command) yielded little as well. However, the defense agency said they would investigate the matter.  NORAD spokesperson Army Major Beth Smith told KUSA, “NORAD is not tracking any anomalies in that location. We are investigating.”  KUSA reported that a similar sighting incident occurred in Utah on Thursday. UFO Stalker posted one report of “3 bright white lights in diagnol line” on Oct. 2 from Taylorsville.

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08-10-2014 om 18:02 geschreven door peter  

De Orion samenzwering

08-10-2014 om 13:21 geschreven door peter  

Hacked NASA Photos! Hollow Earth Images! Mind Blowing!

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IMPORTANT UPDATE!

The Kingdom Of God Is Now Coming In! The ‘biblical signs’ Jesus said would appear prior to His return are now being seen over many nations. Click on the photos for more captures and some extraordinary revelations from the Lord about these signs and the Marriage Supper Of The Lamb which is no doubt, very imminent! Read the prophetic ‘wedding invitation’ Jesus spoke about in the Matthew 22 parable. Link…

Over Australia                                    Over California 

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NASA Photos

UFO Submerged on Right?

The Hollow Earth Is No Longer A Conspiracy Theory!

The centrifugal force of the ‘inner earth crust’ pushing outward against the gravitational force

of the ‘outer earth crust’ pushing inward, may be the energy that heats the magma.

Clouds Swirling Round The Entrance, The Magnetic Field At North Pole Is Counter Clockwise

At The South Pole The Magnetic Field Is Clockwise.

Here Is The Opening Admiral Byrd Found On His Expedition To The North Pole

“Admiral Byrd’s two flights over both Poles prove that there is a `strangeness’ about the shape of the Earth in both polar areas. Byrd flew to the North Pole, but did not stop there and turn back, but went for 1, 700 miles beyond it, and then retraced his course to his Arctic base (due to his gasoline supply running low). As progress was made beyond the Pole point, iceless land and lakes, mountains covered with trees, and even a monstrous animal, resembling the mammoth of antiquity, was seen moving through the underbrush; and all this was reported via radio by the plane occupants. For almost all of the 1,700 miles, the plane flew over land, mountains, trees, lakes and rivers.”

The following excerpts are from here..

Such an important discovery, which Byrd called “the most important” in the history of the world, should have been known to everyone, if information about it was not suppressed to such an extent that it was almost completely forgotten until Giannini mentioned it in his book “Worlds Beyond the Poles,” published in New York in 1959. Similarly, Giannini’s book, for some strange reason, was not advertised by the publisher and remained unknown.

At the end of the same year, 1959, Ray Palmer, editor of “Flying Saucers” magazine, gave publicity to Admiral Byrd’s discovery, about which he learned in a copy of Giannini’s book he read. He was so much impressed that in December of that year he published this information in his magazine, which was for sale on newsstands throughout the United States. Then followed a series of strange incidents, indicating that secret forces were at work to prevent the information contained in the December issue of “Flying Saucers” magazine, derived from Giannini’s book, from reaching the public.

Palmer’s announcement of Byrd’s discoveries in the Arctic and Antarctic was the first large scale publicity since the time they were made and briefly announced, and so much more significant than Giannini’s quotations and statements in his book that was not properly advertised and enjoyed a limited sale. For this reason, soon after the December, 1959 issue of “Flying Saucers” was ready to mail to subscribers and placed on newsstands, it was mysteriously removed from circulation – evidently by the same secret forces that suppressed the public release of this information since 1947. When the truck arrived to deliver the magazines from the printer to the publisher, no magazines were found in the truck! A phone call by the publisher (Mr. Palmer) to the printer resulted in his not finding any shipping receipt proving shipment to have been made. The magazines having been paid for, the publisher asked that the printer return the plates to the press and run off the copies due. But, strangely, the plates were not available, and were so badly damaged that no re-printing could be made.

As a result, 5000 subscribers did not get the magazine. One distributor who received 750 copies to sell on his newsstand was reported missing, and 750 magazines disappeared with him. These magazines were sent to him with the request that they be returned if not delivered. They did not come back. Since the magazine disappeared completely, several months later it was republished and sent to subscribers.

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08-10-2014 om 13:12 geschreven door peter  

UFO sighting over San Diego on 10th September 2014

New amazing video footage of a huge UFO sighting recorded in the daytime sky above San Diego on 10th September 2014.

Witness said:
This is the raw footage lasting about 12 min. Its what I saw, take it or leave it.

08-10-2014 om 11:43 geschreven door peter  

UFO sighting over Peru on 5th October 2014

New amazing video footage of a green UFO sighting recorded in the sky above Peru on 5th October 2014.

08-10-2014 om 11:38 geschreven door peter  

UFO sighting over Breckenridge, Denver on 3rd October 2014

New amazing video footage of a big green UFO sighting over Breckenridge, Denver on 3rd October 2014.

News said:
Breckenridge Police say they are investigating reports of three “shiny” objects in the sky Friday morning. “NORAD is not tracking any anomalies in that location. We are investigating,” said Army Major Beth Smith, NORAD spokesperson. Multiple people have called in to report the objects floating in the sky. The Summit County Sheriff’s Office is also investigating. Police have called the FAA. The FAA says they have not had any calls from the public regarding the sighting. Witnesses say the objects would sometimes form triangles or straight lines across the horizon. 9NEWS reporter Matt Renoux said he doesn’t believe the objects were drones or weather balloons, because the objects appeared stationary for as long as 15 minutes at times. “They would just sit there… without moving an inch on our viewscreen in the camera,” Renoux said during a 5 p.m. live report. After about 15 minutes, a flash of light would appear and the “objects would take off across the mountain ridge,” Renoux said. A Utah television station reported Thursday about a similar incident happening in the Salt Lake City area.

08-10-2014 om 11:33 geschreven door peter  

SPACE PEOPLE WARN OF DANGERS OF SOCIAL DIVIDE - PART I

     By Gerard Aartsen

The state of the world: Switch on the news and you see record-breaking protests, historic uprisings and riots on once-calm streets – there’s no doubt that growing income inequality is an issue of central importance.”

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This is not a quote from a recent article in a magazine for social change, but the opening statement of chapter 2 in the recent Outlook on the Global Agenda 2014 report from the World Economic Forum, best known for its annual meeting of the global elite in Davos. World leaders are finally becoming more aware of the dangers of the enormous, and widening, gap between rich and poor, and that this trend cannot be allowed to continue unchecked was also reflected in President Obama’s State of the Union speech of January 2014: “Today, after four years of economic growth, corporate profits and stock prices have rarely been higher, and those at the top have never done better. But average wages have barely budged. Inequality has deepened. (…) The cold, hard fact is that even in the midst of recovery, too many Americans are working more than ever just to get by – let alone get ahead.” He then went on to outline policies meant to address the dangers inherent in the growing disparity in income and opportunity.

Photo left: George Adamski with,Venusian Orthon

One way that people with a heart and some common sense often express their disbelief about humanity’s dysfunctional ways of relating to itself and the planet is by taking the perspective of an outsider: “If a Martian were to visit our planet…” followed by an observation of the way humans have complicated life for themselves or other creatures that makes no sense on any level beyond a profit motive.

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TRUE EXOPOLITICS: SPACE PEOPLE WARN OF DANGERS OF SOCIAL DIVIDE

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Perhaps it is not surprising, in this context, that it has taken world leaders so long to recognize the dangers engendered by these social inequalities. While many readers of these pages will be aware that we have been visited and are being visited by people from other planets, many might not know that these same visitors have repeatedly voiced their concerns about the way we have chosen to organise society around the need to earn money for daily living and pursuing the “dream” of limitless wealth, no matter if it kills the planet. For instance, in 1954, during his sojourn on a mothership, George Adamski was told by his hosts from space: “If man is to live without catastrophe, he must look upon his fellow being as himself, the one a reflection of the other.” After many years of sustained contact with the people from other planets Adamski added in December 1964: “[T]o have a healthy and prosperous society, that which causes the most trouble must be removed. As we all know, this stigma is poverty in the midst of plenty. It is the cause of sickness, crime, and the many evils that we know…”

Photo right: Daniel Fry

A civilian consultant with the military in the late 1940s, Daniel Fry was contacted July 4, 1949 by a saucer pilot who landed in front of him in the desert after Mr Fry had missed his bus home. At some point during his contact, which he claims included a ride in the saucer from California to New York and back, Mr Fry was told, “With freedom from want comes freedom of fear and your civilization would be safely past the critical point in its development.”

Likewise, Truman Bethurum, a road worker from California, was contacted late July 1952. His contact did not involve a trip in the ‘scow’, as he called the saucer, but he was invited aboard for discussions with its captain on seven or eight occasions. Of these, he said he “got the impression that cooperation among all of their people is an inherent feature of their lives, and that poverty is unknown. Also, that what we call riches or wealth is certainly more evenly distributed than on our earth.” As a result, the captain tells him, there are no criminals or conmen on their planet (identified as ‘Clarion’). “Not even speculators. (…) If we had them on Clarion it would soon be of small worth; we’d have mansions and slums, as you do.”

Buck Nelson, a farmer and saw mill owner from Denver who was first contacted late July 1954, wrote after having visited some of the planets in our system: “Some of our commonly used methods of making a living would be absolutely unacceptable to them. One of these methods is our practice of making money from money in so many different ways.”

Finally, Brazilian contactee Dino Kraspedon (pseudonym for Aladino Félix), who had his experience around the same time that George Adamski had his famous encounter in the California desert in November 1952, was told quite unequivocally even then: “…wars take place against the wishes of most people, because poor people do not fight easily. Carnage has become the perquisite of the rich and powerful… Abundance blinded them, gluttony clouded their vision. Strife is the product of egoism.”

In the event, governments and the military managed to discredit the experiences and information that these men were asked to share with the world in the midst of the Cold War. Yet, in the 1960s one contactee was given unprecedented insights into the social organisation of the home planet of his contactors.

The story of a businessman

Photo: Stefan Denaerde (left) Wendelle Stevens (right)

Dutch businessman Ad (short for Adrian) Beers and his family were sailing the Oosterscheldt, a large estuary in the south west of Holland, one summer evening, when his yacht’s compass seemed broken. While sailing back to the harbour, he was suddenly staring into a strong blue-white searchlight. Switching the engine into reverse, full power, could not prevent the boat hitting something solid. Upon closer inspection it seemed as if Mr Beers’ boat had hit the hull of an overturned ship and he saw a body floating in the water nearby. As he jumped overboard with a lifeline, he landed on a hard surface at a depth of just three feet. Shortly after he had secured the lifeline to the floating body someone in a similar outfit as the drowning person, which looked like a space suit, came wading through the water to assist him in his rescue efforts. He then describes how the sight of an “animal-like face, with large square pupils in the eyes, which were both hypnotic and self-assured” struck him like a thunderbolt.

It was only then that he realised they were visitors from another planet who, out of gratitude for his rescue efforts, went on to offer him detailed information about their world. Over the course of two days he was shown vivid images of the way society on ‘Iarga’, as they called their planet, was organised accompanied by detailed explanations of the underlying philosophy.

Being the director-general of the Dutch importer for Swedish lorry manufacturer Scania, Mr Beers presented his story as science fiction under the pseudonym of Stefan Denaerde (‘Steve of Earth’), in the hugely successful book Buitenaardse beschaving (‘Extraterrestrial Civilization’) in 1969. In 1977 the first English edition was published as Operation Survival Earth, while an expanded edition was published five years later by the late Wendelle Stevens as Contact from Planet Iarga.

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With his own background as a business executive Mr Beers was immensely impressed by the, what he considered terrifying, efficiency of the planet’s social organisation: “This must be a universally governed planet, but seemingly so strictly governed that everything was streamlined and standardized. What a terrible thought!” Yet, in deploring what he perceives as a lack of the characteristic that lies at the core of the ills of present-day society, at the same time he witnesses to some degree of perfection what the participants in the Italian Friendship Case were taught by their contacts from space, and which seems to be the aim for humanity as we respond more and more to the Aquarian energies of unity and synthesis: “Their weak point is the development of their individuality. They do almost everything in groups, they think collectively and they obey the laws of their society to the letter. They live for and through the friendship and love within the group.”

Planetary governments and social systems
About the level of attainment of his hosts the writer says: “Their definition of the word civilization or culture has nothing to do with the scientific or technological development level, but with the manner in which the community takes care of the handicapped or weaker beings. The word superculture defines the situation that arises when through individual effort, a group structure has arisen which abolishes any discrimination against any individual.”

Reminiscent of the findings in the Brandt Commission’s 1980 report North-South: A Programme For Survival, that the only way out of our problems on Earth is a recognition of our mutual interdependence and the need for global policies to ensure the basic needs of every human being, Mr Beers’ contacts from space tell him: “Our cosmic universal economic system can be compared to both communism and the capitalist Western economy. One can also say that our cosmic economics can’t be compared to either. (…) It is only through this system that a race can achieve a cultural level of social stability.”

Part II of this article continues tomorrow Monday, October 6, 2014!http://ufodigest.com/article/space-people-1006

07-10-2014 om 23:33 geschreven door peter  

SPACE PEOPLE WARN OF DANGERS OF SOCIAL DIVIDE - PART II

 By Gerard Aartsen -       

07-10-2014 om 23:31 geschreven door peter  

From Proceedings of the 1976 CUFOS Conference

Santa Catalina Channel "Cloud Cigars"

by Ann Druffel

ABSTRACT:  Since 1962 there  have been recurring sightings of so-called cloud-cigars over the Catalina  Channel in Southern California.  These  hovering, seemingly energized clouds are reported both day and night, and  are accompanied by sightings of smaller, disc-like objects miles inland, while  the larger objects remain high above the Pacific Ocean between the mainland and  Catalina Island,  twenty (20) miles off  the coast.  Available facts indicate the  possibility that the  small craft  "materialize" within the developing cloud.  Ways are suggested in which CUFOS can obtain cooperation  from civilian and military authorities in monitoring these phenomena.
                                                    
SANTA CATALINA ISLAND'S CLOUD CIGARS:   The transitory nature of UFOs dismays  researchers. The objects appear unexpectedly to startled witnesses and in most cases  are gone before any permanent record of their passage can be obtained.

In  rare instances, however, the appearance of UFOs can be predicted by reason of  their repeated occurrence in some particular region. One of these regions is  over the Pacific Ocean between the coast of Southern California and the off-shore  islands, notably Santa Catalina Island, which lies about twenty miles (20) west  of the mainland.

We  are concerned specifically here with a rectangular area between thirty-three (33)  degrees and thirty-four (34) degrees latitude north and between  one-hundred-nineteen (119) degrees and one-hundred-seventeen point five  (11.7.5) degrees longitude west. Other "channel" and  "basin" areas, named for the cities and islands associated with them,  are involved here in question, is more meaningful. In most cases, the objects were  viewed between the mainland and the large off-shore island of Santa Catalina  Ref. 1) (Also see  Figure A)

Figure A

The  complex sea floor off southern California is becoming one of the best-known  submarine areas in the world.  Data on the  topography, sediments, rock formations and seismic character have been  published in several sources (Ref. 2).

There  has typically always been poor navigational control in this area, but it is  difficult to correlate this fact with the numerous magnetic anomalies existing  here
(Ref. 3).  

The  following material has never been published or, indeed, never collected  together before in cogent form.  It is  necessarily incomplete and speculative. When viewed as a whole however, it  might afford the UFO research field an opportunity to study long-lived UFO  phenomena with scientific instrumentation. Hopefully, readers of this paper  will offer ideas on how such instrumentation can be obtained, set up and  maintained.

THE 1962 MYSTERY: The first hint that the skies above the Santa  Catalina Channel held more than seagulls occurred, to the best of our  knowledge, in August 1962. Two women witnesses, of which this author (Druffel)  was one, had brought their six small           children, ages eight to one year,  for a leisurely day at the Long Beach, California seashore. About 2:00 p.m. one  of the women (author) noticed a small, white rectangular cloud, which looked exactly  like a newly-formed section of vapor trail. It seemed to be neatly sliced off  at each end and transplanted in the blue, smogless sky. Its apparent diameter  was about four millimeters at arm's length, and its width was one-half its          length.

It  was positioned at about forty (40) degrees elevation, approximately one hundred  ninety-five (195) degrees azimuth (magnetic) high in the sky. It seemed about  midway between the shore and the island of Santa Catalina, which was clearly visible  to the south and southwest. 

There  was no evidence of high-flying jets and no other vapor trails or clouds in that  quadrant of sky. After about fifteen minutes, the witness became aware that it  was not a normal vapor trail. It was too short, too isolated and did not change  shape or size in the slightest. Neither did it move in any direction [in spite  of a brisk wind blowing on the seashore.) The witness called her friend, Mrs.  James (Aileen) Cummings's, attention to it, and the two women continued to  observe the small white rectangle. For about thirty more minutes it remained  motionless, unchanged in size and shape.

Then  something began to occur within the tiny cloud. Its white vapor began to  "churn", presenting an impression of internal activity. It enlarged  two or three times; the time was now about 3:15 p.m.

During  the next half hour, it slowly changed into an oval, twenty to thirty (20-30) times  its original size. It still hovered at forty (40) degrees elevation at the  original azimuth, but now its apparent diameter had blossomed to four (4) centimeters  in length and about two (2) centimeters in width at arm's length. It was  solid-appearing, unlike a normal cloud. Its vaporous, oval shape was definite,  and at no time did the edges          dissipate beyond the perimeter.  There was a constant churning motion all over the visible surface, somewhat  like water boiling in slow motion. The object seemed angled at approximately twenty-five  to thirty (25-30) degrees, its longest diameter being
          positioned to the witnesses'  right (See  Figure B).

Figure B

The mysterious sight kept the witnesses'  attention, mainly because it seemed that "something" was inside its  vaporous exterior. At times it seemed as though the object were about to  "open up" to reveal whatever might be lurking within.  About forty-five (45) minutes after the  formation of the oval, the witnesses saw flashes of light coming from the  object. The flashes were bright white and momentary. They extended about a  diameter's length out from the surface. They gave the impression of strong  reflections from the bright sun off some metal surface within the cloud, or of  electric discharges. At          no time was any sound heard. The  flashes were periodic, separated by minutes, with no regular rhythm.

During  the time the flashes were observed, numerous military jet trails were seen in  the south, evidently over and beyond Catalina Island. These trails were  observed from four to ten (4-10) degrees above the island, which rises about  three (3) degrees above the horizon from that viewing position. None of the jet  trails appeared within thirty (30) degrees of the churning, flashing cloud.  However, these trails indicated the presence of a number of highly active, military  jets.

After  watching the flashes in the cloud for about fifteen minutes, the witnesses  approached a nearby lifeguard, hoping he could lend them binoculars so they  could get a closer view of the activity within the cloud. He denied having  binoculars, and when the witnesses tried to explain to him about the strange cloud  he showed no interest.

About  5:00 p.m. the witnesses collected their small children, preparatory to making  the long thirty-five mile drive back to their Pasadena homes. They left  reluctantly, pausing several times during the quarter-mile walk to their cars  to stare at          the object. It still hung motionless  high in the sky. They discussed reporting the incident to the Long Beach Press-Telegram but  rationalized that the object must have been seen and reported by many others.  It had been in view more than three hours.   However, there was never any media coverage of the event, to the  witnesses' surprise (Ref. 4).

As  awed as the witnesses felt over the cloud's strange exterior, the activity  within it was so inexplicable that both felt inadequate to even verbalize it.  Consequently, it went unreported until this date. They remained totally unaware  of the possible significance of the occurrence until years later.  More on the possible significance of this  sighting, after further correlative material had surfaced, has been presented  below.

THE 1968 "CLOUD-CIGAR":   The second instance of a "vaporous cloud" over the Catalina  Channel occurred on July 9th, 1968.  By  this time, the Los Angeles NICAP Subcommittee [to which the author belonged] had  established SKYNET, a tracking-and-filter center designed to collect and investigate  public UFO reports.

On  that summer evening, the phones rang off their hooks at the Project  Coordinator's [Druffel's] home in Pasadena.   Thirty air miles south in Long Beach and surrounding communities,  citizens began reporting a large, glowing mass positioned high over the  Catalina Channel. Accompanying the silent, hovering cloud were several glowing,  smaller globes which maneuvered in the same area of sky (See  Figure C).

Figure C

The  first call came from a group of five teenagers gathered at the home of Kevin  Allgreen, three miles north of the shore line. At 9:35 p.m. they had noticed a  gray-white, diamond-shaped haze under the full moon in the south-southeast. At 10:05  it began moving fifty-five (55) degrees in a horizontal line toward the west.  By 10:15 it had returned, intact, to its original position near the moon.  Maneuvering near the large
          object were five smaller cloud-like  objects, oval-shaped with clearcut edges. Two of these were grayish and three  "kind of white." 

The  boys, aged thirteen to eighteen years, viewed the objects through binoculars  and determined that all of the unknown masses looked "solid". They  kept their shape and precise edges through subsequent maneuvers. Although the  edges of the larger object were "fuzzy," it did not seem to be a  normal cloud because it moved too fast during its brief journey westward and  back again, traveling fifty-five (55) degrees in three (3) minutes. It was many  times the size of the smaller balls, an estimated five to six (5-6) times the  diameter of the full moon.  The end  facing west was long and narrow, and the part facing east was shaped "like  a diamond."

The  boys were convinced that they were viewing something highly unusual. They  estimated the main mass was about ten (10) miles high. About 11:00 p.m. the  large object turned reddish-orange in color and began traveling upward at an  approximate          angle of thirty (30) degrees. By  11:30 it "just faded away," taking five (5) minutes to dissipate out  of sight.

Following  hard on the teenagers' first call, the family of Mr. I. Castano of Compton also  called SKYNET. From their home seven miles north of the Long Beach witnesses,  his family had viewed a group of four oval, cloud-like objects the size of          pinheads at arm's length, or about  one-eighth the size of the full moon. First seen at 9:30 p.m. and disappearing  at 10:00 p.m. they were glowing white with precise edges. They were gathered around  the moon when first seen, and then started departing  "right and left." They  seemed to be far out in space. The objects spread out and then dashed toward  one another," Castano related. '"It looked like some kind of a  war." To Mr. Castano, who had never believed in the existence of UFOs  before, the event was completely mystifying (Ref. 5).

The  Castanos did not describe the large cloud, but this is probably because he was  much further north than the Long Beach witnesses. Was he seeing the smaller  related objects on a mission inward from the Channel (Ref. 6)?

Another  report which seems to validate the above speculation comes from the files of  Paul Wilson, another local UFO researcher. He was informed by his neighbors,  Michael and Leslie G. that they had seen a glowing UFO about 9:30 or 10:00 p.m.  on the same night. It traveled toward their home in Hawthorne (fifteen air miles  northwest of Long Beach), approaching from the east.  It was oval and slightly smaller than the  full moon. It was shiny white with clearcut edges, seemed to be several miles  away, and traveled toward the south away from the moon and back again. It was  soundless, spun in an apparent circle "around the moon" and  afterwards let off streams of smoke or vapor from its side. Duration of  sighting was twenty (20) minutes (Ref. 7).

From  the similarities in description from the Castano and G. families, it might be  assumed that they were viewing the smaller objects during a foray inland. The  Castanos saw four objects, the G's a single one. We might speculate that the  five small obJects associated with the main cloud-mass had spilt up into two  groups, while the parent object or "cloud cigar" hovered high over  the Pacific.

While  all this activity was going on, SKYNET was making frantic efforts to obtain  additional witnesses and documentation. The only SKYNET member residing near  the coast, Jim Griebel, was contacted. His home was three miles north of the  Long Beach          witnesses.  Through binoculars he could see a cloud-like  conglomeration low on the southerly horizon. Whether composed of one or two masses  he was not sure, but the mass(es) seemed diamond-shaped on one end and rounded  on the other. The bright light from the moon dissipated Griebel's view, but  there seems little doubt that he was seeing the primary cloud-object which was  being viewed from Long Beach.  Including  Griebel, twelve (12) witnesses in all, from four (4) independent groups,  reported the July 9th, 1968 event.

Nothing  about the above cases seemed to click into place at the time of their  occurrence. The 1962 case remained an enigma for thirteen years, shoved back  into the inner recesses of the two witnesses' minds.  That "something" could appear from          almost "nothing" and  retain shapes, position, and activity for over three hours was inexplicable.  The 1968 case, which tasted at least an hour and one-half, was considered a  possible "cloud-cigar."  This  UFO-type is described by Aime Michel in his classic book, Flying Saucers and the Straight-Line Mystery  (Ref. 8).

THE ENIGMA OF 1973: On December 20, 1973, another mystery occurred  over the Pacific Ocean between the mainland and Catalina Island. This sighting  was as bizarre and long-lived as the two which had gone before. Although at  first glance it appeared unassociated with the vaporous masses in the first two  events, further study has convinced this author that all three phenomena have  many factors in common. Therefore, the three cases are being presented together  in order that opinions can
          be sought from other researchers.

About  2:15 a.m. on December 20, 1973 Michael Wagner of Pacific Palisades noticed a yellow  glowing "blob" hovering in the south-southeast at an elevation of  approximately twenty (20) degrees. He called it to the attention of Robert B.  Klinn,          known in UFO circles as a skilled  researcher. Their viewing position was about twenty miles northwest of Long  Beach.

The two witnesses took turns studying the  light through a 16-power Navy spyglass, which they were able to steady on a ledge  at Klinn's residence. As seen through the telescope, the "blob"  resolved into a precise arrangement of round, yellow-gold lights. Though the  entire mass appeared larger than Venus with the naked eye, through the 'scope  the lights encompassed an area of approximately three (3) millimeters. They  were arranged in a vertical column bisecting a horizontal column of equal  length. Additional columns of light appeared and arranged themselves into a  nearly perfect light-studded triangle.  The  witnesses adjusted the telescope, and when Klinn again          looked through it about three  minutes later, the complex of lights had assumed the shape of a huge,  cigar-shaped "machine."   Its  edges were clearcut against the sky. Along its side was a horizontal row of  about five huge, fiery round lights along the          length of the object. These lights  were very much larger and brighter than the ones observed earlier; in fact, the  entire  object had expanded in size at  least twenty times. (See  Figure D).

Figure D

Each  light held tremendous activity within it, "as if looking  inside a boiling steel furnace, and even more  so". Their primary color was yellow, but many other colors were visible in  their teeming mass. As the witnesses watched astounded, the first light  ballooned up "like a critical explosion" and smashed through the  light directly to its right. That one in turn seemed to flare up, as did each  in the entire row, as the first   fireball  traversed the entire row. At the extreme right, the fiery,explosive light  paused and pulsated about twice per second; then the smashing reaction returned  along the row of lights from right to left. The entire trip back and forth took  an estimated          thirteen (13) seconds.

As  this was happening, a fin-shaped appendage with a vertical  row of smaller yellow lights was moving back  and forth along the top of the cigar-shaped object "in a very mechanical  way."  Meantime, the entire object,  which now covered more than one and one-half (I 1/2) centimeters in the  'scope's field of view, was moving slowly westward at an estimated five (5)  degrees per hour.  Toward the end of the sighting,  which lasted about one and one-half hours, the object changed shape once more.  The appendage on top widened, the lights flickered out, and the object became a  darkened cone-shape with a rounded bottom. One faint red light blinked with  regular rhythm on the top. Then the object faded from view at 3:37 a.m. (Ref.  9).

ATTEMPTS AT CORRELATION: The July 1968 manifestation at least seemed  to fit into a recognized UFO class, that of the so-called cloud cigar, widely  assumed to be a conglomerate of smaller discs, alternate names being  "carrier craft" or "mother ship." But the 1962 and 1973  sightings cannot so easily be categorized.   Both of these objects changed shape, grew larger and more complex, and  demonstrated intense internal activity reminiscent of electrical discharges of  high intensity. Is it possible that the 1962 sighting, and the 1973 sighting as  well, were incidents of "materialization" into our space-time?

In  trying to determine with witness Bob Klinn the possibility that what he had  seen was related in some way with the 1962   and 1968 objects, Klinn pointed out that there was no cloud or vapor  associated with it. He felt that the 1973 object was a metallic structure and  that he was viewing the clashing spheres through "holes" of some kind  in its side.

To  the author's mind, however, in order for the 1973 witnesses to view the  activity within in its entirety, the side of the object might have been transparent  or otherwise open to view.  Is it  possible that the object was not metallic, but some sort of solid, though  transparent, material? Could they have been viewing a similar type of cigar-shaped  solid structure which had been surrounded by thick haze during the summer  sightings of 1962 and 1968?

SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER STUDY: The purpose of this paper has been  to alert researchers to the fact of recurring, long-lived phenomena in the  Catalina Channel area. It would be of much value to UFO research if this region  could be placed under surveillance with scientific instrumentation.

This  paper would not be complete unless it was pointed out that the Channel area has  for the past thirty years abounded in UFO reports of all types. Many  surface-type and underwater UFOs have been reported, but compared to the  long-lasting "cloud cigars" they have been unclear and short-lived.  Nevertheless, the sightings exist in sufficient numbers to alert us that this  area is, for some reason, of constant concern to someone, or something,  unknown.

Space  does not permit here to discuss these surface sightings in detail.  Suffice it to say that they are reportedly continuing  up to the present.  They could most  probably be perceived by the same type of surveillance net used to detect the high-altitude  "cloud cigars."  It is  important to reiterate five points concerning the latter type:

Consider  the value to UFO research if, within the next few years, one of these  long-lived UFO phenomena can be detected and studied.  Consider, too, the possible spinoff from a  surveillance system— the detection of frequent UFO surface phenomena in the same  area.

REFERENCES

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          (1)  "Reconnaissance Airborne Magnetometer  Survey of Southern California," (map) I960, by R. W. Bromery, K. 0. Emery,  and J. R. Balsey, Jr.  Published by Dept.  of the Interior, U.S. Survey, Washington, D.C.— Geophysical Investigations Map  GP-211.

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          (2)  "Seismic Activity and Oceanography of  the Sea Floor Off Southern California," by Clements, Thomas and Emery,  K.O. 1947, Seismology Soc. America Bull. V. 37, No. 1, pp. 307-13

Also:  "Seismic Studies of the Pacific Ocean  Floor Off California," by Raitt, R. W., 1950, Geophysics, V. 15, No. 1, p. 156

Also"  "General Geology of the Offshore Area,  Southern California," by Emery, K. 0., 1954, California Div. Mines Bull. 170, pp. l07-11

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          (3)  "Introduction," accompanying Map  described in Reference #1.

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          (4)  Documentation in private files  (Druffel).  Full report to be sent soon  to MUFON and CUFOS.
   
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          (5)  "SKYNET:   Making Sense from Confusion," by Druffel, SKYLOOK,
          December 1973,  No. 73

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          (6)  In private files (Paul Wilson), copy in  Druffel files with identifying information.

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          (7)  In private files (Druffel).  Full report to be sent soon to MUFON and CUFOS

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          (8)  Flying  Saucers and the Straight-Line Mystery, by Aime Michel, Criterion Books, New  York 1958

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          (9)  "The Continuing UFO," column by Robert  B. Klinn and David Branch, in Santa Ana  Register, Santa Ana, California December 26, 1973.  [Newspaper now named The Orange County Register.]

           Also "Object Changes," SKYLOOK, February 1973, and in private files  (Druffel) and (Klinn)

BIO/RESUME [1976]:
Ann Druffel is an Associate Editor of the MUFON UFO JOURNAL and writes  a monthly column, "California Report," for that publication.  She received her B.A. in Sociology at  Immaculate Heart College in Hollywood, California and acquired one years'  graduate credit toward a M.A.in Social Case Work at the Catholic University,  Washington, D.C. She is a licensed R.S.W. (Registered Social Worker) in the State  of  California and worked for five years in  Family and Child Welfare case work before marriage.  Ann and her husband, Charles K. Druffel, are  the proud parents of five daughters. Her professional skills of interviewing,  recording, and  objective value-judging  were transferred to UFO research and free-lance writing on various earth  mysteries, especially in the fields of Ufology and psychic research. Her more  recent works include THE TUJUNGA CANYON CONTACTS, co-authored with  parapsychologist D. Scott Rogo.  Her  forthcoming book, THE DETECTIVE AND THE PSYCHIC, is authored with renowned  psychic Armand Marcotte.

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