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30-10-2014
Filer’s Files #44 -2014 – UFOs and Aliens are Real - PART II
Filer’s Files #44 -2014 – UFOs and Aliens are Real - PART II
UFO Sightings in the United States
California Disc
Bellflower— My husband was taking photos of the Solar Eclipse on October 23, 2014, with his 8inch reflector with a solar filter and a 25 millimeter plossl lens.
While sorting through his photos – the one attached stood out. While examining the photo and comparing it to others taken at the same time, the object is not a solar flare. A solar flare was actually caught on another photo but this object is much larger and closer to the earth.
The object was not visible to the naked eye. Thanks to MUFON CMS
San Francisco – I was the watching the Blue Angels acrobatic team with 100’s of people on October 11, 2014 at 3:27 PM. I used my iPhone 6 to shoot several slow-mo videos. Five days later, I watched the videos and saw the object in slo-mo that was pretty incredible.
There must be 100’s of videos like that as 10,000+ people were watching. I did not see anything in real time. But since I was shooting slow-mo at 240 FPS, the object moving across the sky made a loop to “look” at the flying planes. While they look almost still and taking off at 10-100x the speed of the jet planes is clearly visible. The Local TV station also shot at high speed! Thanks to MUFON CMS
Colorado Orbs
Breckenridge– UFO sightings touched off investigations by local police, NORAD, and local news stations on October 3, 2014. There were multiple sightings by numerous people, including one investigative reporter Matt Renoux of KUSA TV Denver. He feels the odd-acting UFOs were not drones.
Renoux stated the luminous “dots” appeared stationary for up to 15 minutes at a time and witnesses had spotted the triangular shapes along the horizon.” After 15 minutes, there would appear a flash of light and the “objects would take off across the mountain ridge.” Calls to the FAA, and NORAD are not tracking any anomalies in that location. NOTE: The above image is a rendering. Ken Pfeifer MUFON NJ www.worldufophotos.org
Golden — I was told about things in the sky that my son and his friend see all the time. He called several nights later and I drove to Golden and my son’s friend Dalton points up at an object moving 35 mph that was a cluster or “stack” of translucent objects in a group. This silent object was 500-1000 feet over my head flying east and making a slow turn to the north. It looks like a stack of 10-15 clear plastic same size square cups laid them on their sides. The stack moves forward and back as separate parts. I saw them between 7:30 and 9:30 PM. Some formations are large consisting of 30 + small objects. They travel through the air in a slight partial curve as the single parts move forward and back from the formation. There is light emitting from these objects. At one time two of these objects passed right over with one above the other in opposite directions. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Indiana Ball
Nagpur — I was at my childhood school with my friends during our reunion and I was taking their photos on October 24, 2014. Looking through the view finder of my camera I saw an object to the left and captured it. I first thought it was the moon, but there was no moon there. I again captured at the same position, but I couldn’t find anything.
It appeared and then disappeared after my flash of camera. I took multiple shots instantly but couldn’t find it again. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Missouri Streak
Joplin – My wife, son and I noticed an unusual amount of contrails in the sky above our house and all around the area as far as we could see on October 4, 2014. We were outside talking about it and decided to go around to the back yard which faces the west to see if we could get a better view. During this time we noticed several jets in the sky. They were easily recognizable. Suddenly a craft appeared from the west headed east and its path was directly over our house, flying much lower than the jets. It had no wings and was unlike any aircraft we had ever seen before.
As it was above our house I was able to take a cell phone picture. The shape is very hard to describe because of the orange lights around it. I can only describe it as almost round or triangular. As soon as it was out of our view it was immediately followed by a fast moving jet. The image was filtered and zoomed in. Thanks to MUFON CMS
New Hampshire Lights
Boscawen — I was just taking pictures of the nature like I+ do every fall, and noticed these random lights. I zoomed in and knew it was a UFO. I only saw it when I took the picture. I didn’t even see it when I took the actual picture.
A picture taken right after this one shows the UFO was gone. I know it wasn’t a reflection of some sort. Thanks to MUFON CMS
New Jersey Cross
Wall Township— I was on my way to work on October 12, 2014, the Parkway South at exit 98, I noticed a weird dark gray shape that looked like something out of a movie. I called my wife and tell her about it. I was trying to stop but there was no shoulder and once I took the ramp I lost sight of the thing.
I got very nervous and confused thinking over and over if wherever I just saw was real. Finally today I saw your show reverse engineering and saw the pictures of the thing in California that the guy named Isaac claims to know about it.
I didn’t see any symbols but was dark gray no noise no lights was just there like it was looking at something.
Marlton – My cousin who was formerly in the Navy and I watched nine large orange red objects fly from south to north about 9:25 PM on August 9, 2014. I captured two on video. They made no sound and sky was clear. We saw two at first following each other, then a third, then 4, 5, 6, then a lull for a minute, then number 7, then a lull for a minute, then number 8 and 9. None were side by side, all followed behind each other. My cousin estimated the speed at between 600-700mph. I only have a YouTube version of video. I can send link if you want. Thanks to MUFON CMS
New York Orbs
Saratoga Springs — I had a sighting on October 25, 2014, about 9 pm, when we saw three orbs coming from the south. They lined up and then one at a time headed off towards the east. They moved very quickly, not like a plane. The last one didn’t totally go away; it just kept getting dimmer, until it disappeared. Thanks to Lisa
North Carolina Cylinder
Bahama — I went outside taking video of GeoEngineered clouds containing iridescence and a UFO on October 24, 2014. I and many others have witnessed this before. Upon doing so I was fortunate to observe a UFO and was able to catch it for a few seconds on video.
When viewed closely, it changes from, going from one to two spheres then zooms away northwest at high velocity. I have seen other videos over the last few years showing similar events. Note, this appears 57 seconds into the video for only 5 seconds, is very high up. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Ohio Lights
Brunswick– I was driving near home on October 22, 2014, and noticed a large glowing object in the sky. I got home and woke my kids up to see it. They were both spooked and we all looked at it through binoculars and it was domed on the bottom and looked like a sub or ship with rivets in it.
The top looked like the top of an oil lamp lid with a stub of a wick coming out of it. I thought the object was a hot air balloon, but it was way too windy, and it didn’t move with the exception of lowering itself a little. Other than a very eerie, uneasy feeling we watched the object for 25 to 30 minutes before it disappeared. I am 46 y/o and I have only seen one other UFO that I couldn’t explain.
North Central Ohio – I was watching a solar eclipse on October 23, 2014, and took pictures. This object was first captured above the sun as a dot and as it descended closer it turned red orange and sunk into the horizon.
It was very weird and I’m looking for explanations and feeling like I need answers.
Sight was lost when it sunk into horizon. What is it? Thanks to MUFON CMS
Tennessee Lights
Nashville – My son saw the first set of lights from our back door. He went out to investigate on October 24, 2014. He called me outside; very excited.
I went out and observed four lights and I used my phone to record them. I came inside to tell my mom. My son calls me back out as a lone orb from a different direction has appeared. I also recorded this on my phone.
Latitude 35 degrees 55′ 22.60 longitude 85 degrees 10′ 52.65 — My son and I were walking along in a field and noticed a rectangular shaped object to the southeast only 350 yards from us. It hovered for about two minutes before descending below the tree line. It made no sound and we walked to the area near it and noticed a herd of cattle that appeared spooked by it. It was at about 100 feet above the ground before descending below the tree line. Weather was clear. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Texas Orb
Huntsville – My sighting occurred at my home on September 21, 2014. I was the only witness to this event which was recorded on my camera in 1080p: I observed a dark colored square or rectangle shaped UFO traveling at a very high rate of speed and emitting very bright white propulsion as it moved. I am pretty sure that it must have been larger than a typical airplane using the cloud it goes under as a size reference.
One is the original footage which shows a bright flash as the UFO is traveling extremely fast. I am including a few photos taken from screen captures. Thanks to William Puckett, Director http://www.UFOsnw.com
BTW, I have taken a photo of a Jet plane taken above our house and probably at least flying at an altitude of 25,000 feet as a comparison. My photo is no airplane. Thanks to Dan
West Virginia Cylinder
Charleston — On October 15, 2014 at 5:30 PM, while driving east bound on I-64 I observed a cylinder shaped object hovering 500 feet above the city west valley area. The interstate at this point is elevated, so my view of the object was straight on. At first, I thought it was a small airplane from nearby Yeager Airport. It was silver-metallic and was reflecting the bright sun. The cigar was hovering and after having served in the U.S. Navy aboard an aircraft carrier, I am aware that planes can appear to being stationary, despite actually moving. I drove east to approach the object that didn’t have wings, engines, or a propeller. The entire sighting lasted about 1.5 minutes and I was looking at the rear of the object that had a large chevron at the very front tip of the object, and one at the very rear. I glanced for a very split second at the road, and it was gone when I looked again. It hovered low to the ground. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Worldwide UFO Sightings
Argentina Lights
Inexplicata states: “Martín was strolling down Avenida Independencia, taking in his surroundings. When he reached Rawson, he stopped to look at a sign posted to a wall, because in the background, the steady glow of a set of lights illuminated it.” This occurred at around 20:00 hours on Sept 19, 2014.
Oranjestad – A friend and I always sit and watch the stars in the evening and we noticed a star like object moving in the sky on February 28, 2014. I had my Galaxy 2 phone with me and started to record it. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Canada Lights
Toronto — I was flying to Toronto on July 31, 2014, and sat by the window and noticed a massive triangle, large enough for me to see from the airplane. The triangle was in an area surrounded by trees and mountains. There was nothing but untouched and uninhabited nature for miles. The triangle was impossible to miss and was a perfectly shaped.
All I could think is how could something of that size be cut so perfect, why is there a giant triangle cut out in the trees in the absolute middle of nowhere. If it were for foresting they would cut a whole section, not a triangle. Nothing made sense as to why the triangle was there. I took out my phone and snapped a couple pictures. What could be? Thanks to MUFON CMS
Germany Triangle
Kriegsfeld Army Depot – On November 25, 1982, (Thanksgiving Day) while on duty in Guard tower #5, I observed a very dark triangular shaped craft fly from the southwest over Gerbach and the valley to my watch tower. I observed the craft for over ten minutes. I was quite familiar with all military aircraft of the era and this dark aircraft got my attention because it was flying very slowly and steady like it was on rails.
I first saw the aircraft at least 15 km distant and it took 7 to 10 minutes to reach me. I could not identify it as any aircraft I had ever seen. As it passed over the craft rotated 360 degrees nose down, but did not lose its forward momentum. The craft flew north and out of sight.
Because of my security clearance and status under the personal reliability program I didn’t report it to anyone. NOTE: The image is a rendering. Ken Pfeifer mufon nj www.worldufophotos.org
Ireland Light
Kildare – Allot of people in the past few weeks have noticed things in the sky, includin
g me. My friends and Facebook have reported the sightings. It was September 3, 2014, at 2.15 am, when I took pictures from supermarket car park because these craft were silent. I took the first above the sign as it flew a straight across, but then suddenly dropped as if a rock. It stopped in mid air and then disappeared from my view. The light or three white lights were very bright.
I was shocked at the falling object and its sudden stop and hovering. Thankfully I got the pictures. My name is Gavin Higgins but I can’t say what it was but I’d bet my life it’s not an Irish plane or helicopter. Note: This is a possible lens reflection. Ken Pfeifer mufon nj www.worldufophotos.org
Holland Flying Objects
Amsterdam –On October 12, 2014, a UFO was caught examining the contrail of a jet over Amsterdam. The UFO enters the trail and stops there for a few moments before moving on. As most have heard, aliens are interested in everything that flies, especially those things that cause pollution. This is one such case. Thanks to ufosightingsdaily.com
Mexico City Volcano Popocatepetl Volcano – This UFO was caught several times on live cam on October 15, 2014. This cam only takes still photos ever few seconds. The UFO is seen moving from one side of the mouth of the volcano to the other. This volcano has been watched for years on live cam, with a new UFO sighting reported every week. The Mexican government must know about the alien base below this volcano. There is too much activity there for them not to notice. Thanks to ufosightingsdaily.com
Halden — I saw a light-formation, disc-shaped in the background sky in the upper left in Torla, Aragon on June 2014.
Light is on a hill above the church. Are there any explanations for their light sources? Thanks to Per Braarud
Russia Green Light
Petropavlovsk – Being a pilot on the 747-8 Freighter, I flew a regular flight between Hong Kong and Anchorage on August 24th, 2014. After about 5 hours in flight we left Japan behind us and were cruising at 34.000 feet with about 4, 5 hours to go towards Alaska. We heard via the radio about earthquakes in Iceland, Chile, and San Francisco. There were no active volcanoes on our route.
Then, very far in the distance ahead of us, an intense light flash shot up from the ground. It looked like a lightning bolt, but way more intense and directed vertically up in the air. Since there were no thunderstorms on our route or weather on radar, I decided to try and take some pictures of the night sky and the strange green glow like Northern Lights. It was probably a typical green ‘earth glow’, due to the electromagnetic field around the earth being influenced by a solar storm.
About 20 minutes later I noticed a deep red/orange glow appearing ahead of us in an endless ocean. The closer we got, the more intense the glow became, illuminating the clouds and sky below us in a scary orange glow. It was a highly dangerous and invisible ash-plume in the middle of the night over the vast Pacific Ocean. We saw a very creepy unexplainable deep red/orange glow from the ocean’s surface. We reported our observations to Air Traffic Control but we were the only ones who saw the lights that night. Lightning-observing agencies have confirmed that there was no lightning within 200 miles of us. It is unknown what we saw.
NOTE: The above image is a rendering. Thanks to MUFON CMS
UK/England Disc
Newton Abbot Devon— The flying disc Photo was taken 22 September 2014 at 4:00 PM GMT and a second flying disc in steep dive was taken on23 September 2014, 1.00 PM GMT. Both of these photographs were taken at Newton Abbot Devon, UK. I am still seeing UFOs all of the time around here. What on earth are they doing up there? Note: The second photo discussed in the report is not shown. We have received several reports and photos from this same witness. Thanks to William Puckett, Director Http://www.UFOsnw.com
New Jersey UFO Conference Fall Lecture Series
Saturday, November 1st at the Hamilton Gardens Hilton Hotel. Speakers are: Jaime Maussan – is the host of Mexico’s 60 Minutes and is recognized internationally for his UFO videos and research. Doug Hamp – he graduated from the Hebrew University. According to Genesis 3:15, the serpent will one day mix his seed with humanity.
Christopher O’Brien -His new book Stalking the Herd is the most comprehensive book on “cattle mutilations.”
Wilbur Allen – is given mental cues to take photographs at certain locations. Thanks to Dave Stinnett Director.
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THERE FRIENDS CLOSE ENCOUNTER IN KANSAS JULY 11, 1971 ….. MOUNT HOPE KANSAS
Three of us had recently graduated from High School, the year was 1971 and we had a summer job together working at harvesting alfalfa hay during a 12 hour night shift. We worked 7 days a week, starting at 6 in the evening and ending 6 in the morning. Driving an open tractor (no cab, no windows) every night, we had complete vision of the night sky every night for 3 months in the summer. I had seen many things I could not explain, lots of green lights coming from the ground into the night sky like exploding electrical transformers, but they would come and go and not think much about them, sometimes we would see light rays like search lights, but again, unexplainable but no big deal, we also saw many, many meteorties but this night was a real freak out deal. I was staning on top of a large piece of machinery (tall covered hay trailer) scooping off the hay that had blown onto the lid of this covered hay trailer, and as I was pitching the hay off the top onto the ground below and swinging the pitch fork up in the air, my eyes caught a bright large shimmering metallic object off to the north, maybe 25 degrees off the horizon from my viewpoint.
It wasn’t very high off the ground, maybe 1,000′ I watched it momentarily then hollered at my 2 friends down on the ground. I was elevated on top of the trailer about 15′ high. As I pointed at the object and hollered at them to “LOOK AT THAT”, we all watched this cigar shaped shimmering object maybe only 1-2 miles away. Judging from the size of it, it was close enough to hear propulsion noise if it was a conventional manmade aircraft, but it made none. The sun was starting to light the sky from the east and the stars were growing dimmer and we could see the surface was shimmering like an aluminum jet airliner reflecting the early light of day, the object was so illuminated it seemed like it was 3 times as large as a jetliner fuselage with no wings or tail. It had blinking lights and darker areas that would seem like windows. The entire fuselage would change colors from greens to blues to silver. The spectacular thing was that it hovered for some time, but then when it started to move, it darted, then stopped, then changed direction in a completely different direction as if it was drawing the number “4” in the dark sky about as fast as Zorro would swipe his sword, then it sped off into the distance directly away from us at a speed so fast it merely vanished out of sight. We vowed nobody would believe us, and we weren’t going to talk about it, but the next day the local newspaper was alive with headlines of stories of people seeing this exact same thing across the state across a distance of 200-300 miles.
We know it was UFO, nothing else this large can move eradically across the sky, and speed away so fast. I have shared this story with all my believing friends. It burned a visual in my mind that will never be erased. Too unbelievable, but seeing is believing.
UFO DIGEST NEWSLETTER HALLOWEEN EDITION! This week’s newsletter begins with two articles by Brad Steiger where he writes about monsters, halloween and vampires! Then, Latin correspondent Scott Corrales reports on strange rights over Peru and Argentina. Next, Cheryl Costa tells of a family that heard a loud buzzing sound and then sees a UFO. A. J. Gevaerd, publisher of the Brazilian UFO Magazine, reports on the reoccurrence of crop circles in Brazil. Then, Chris Holly writes about why she loves Halloween. Next, Nick Redfern states that werewolves are not transformed humans. Steve Erdmann writes about JFK, curious synchronisms and the book “Me & Lee.” Pat Regan updates UFO Digest readers on the Lancashire ghost.Mike Orrell explains the lost alien code he discovered. Reporter Jon Kelly wonders if the CIA is affecting Canada’s political infrastructure. Finally, Theresa J. Morris reports on the cosmos connection. Enjoy Dirk
We are featuring full-length movies in the center column of UFO Digest, including ”And Did They Listen”, “Mirage Men”, “Cloud Atlas” and “Sirius.” Why not check them out. All previews are free! Only available in the United States and Canada. Thanks Dirk
MONSTERS ARE ALWAYS WELCOME ON HALLOWEENby Brad Steiger.
The novel Frankenstein: A Modern Prometheus (1818) with its story of the iconoclastic scientist Dr. Victor Frankenstein and the monster that he stitched together of human parts and brought to life is one of the most famous works of fiction in the world. The eerie tale has inspired over 100 motion pictures, and the character of the lumbering monster has appeared in dozens more stage plays, television shows, and even video games. The cinematic interpretations began with the 15-minute version filmed by Thomas Edison and J. Searle Dawley in 1910, and the most notable adaptations have been Frankenstein (1931) with Boris Karloff as the monster and Colin Clive as Dr. Frankenstein and The Curse of Frankenstein (1957) with Christopher Lee as the monster and Peter Cushing as the obsessed scientist.More… Also read: THE ET VAMPIRES ARE OUT TONIGHT Also read: THE ET VAMPIRES ARE OUT TONIGHT – PART II
UNRELEASED RECORDINGS OF STRANGE LIGHTS OVER AREQUIPA, PERUby Scott Corrales.
According to Peruvian ufologist Anthony Choy, Peru is among the world's top five countries when it comes to the most UFO sightings recorded in the past decade. To Rafael Mercado, a ufologist from Arequipa, who visited the location and was able to access videos, take photos and hold conversations with the area's inhabitants, the sighting would have gone unnoticed had it not been for some locals who claimed seeing strange objects flying over great Mount Ubinas, leading to the subsequent follow-up and capture of imagery. More.. Also read: BIZARRE ‘CROP IMPRINTS’ BEFUDDLE LOCAL RESIDENTS, ARGENTINA Also read: ALLEGED UFO PHOTOGRAPHED AT ROSARIO DEL TALA, ARGENTINA
FAMILY HEARS LOUD BUZZING THEN OBSERVES DISK SHAPED OBJECTby Cheryl Costa.
It was just an ordinary evening when a Hudson Valley family witnessed a disk shaped object in the night. It was early April 1994 in Cortland Manor, NY. It was about 10 p.m., Emily, her mother and five siblings were watching television. “All of a sudden there was a loud humming sound, the house started vibrate.” Emily recalls, “Fearlessly my older sister Louise went outside to see what it was.” More..
“THE ANDREASSON AFFAIR” – A CLASSIC OF ABDUCTION LITERATURE REISSUEDby Sean Casteel.
One of the perks of being a UFO journalist is that publishers are sometimes eager to send me free review copies of their latest releases. Recently, I was very pleasantly surprised to receive an unsolicited – but much appreciated – copy of the recent reissue of Raymond Fowler’s classic work on alien abduction, “The Andreasson Affair.” More..
CROP CIRCLES IN BRAZILIAN OF STATE OF SANTA CATARINA AGAINby A. J. Gevaerd.
They have appeared again, in pair and at their usual period in Brazil –between the last few days of October and first few days of November. The location the two first crop circles of 2014 season were found this Sunday morning, October 26, around 7:30 AM, is a slope in Mr. Angelo Alessio’s property. His farm has already been target for crop circles in previous years. This time, it was one of the few which had not had its wheat reaped, like most other properties in the vicinity. More….
WHY I LOVE HALLOWEENby Chris Holly.
My love for Halloween does not stem from any affiliation with or connection to anything other than my childhood and the memories of running around my little town dressed from head to toe in costume trick or treating with all the other kids in town. I grew up in a small town along a sleepy river on the coast of Long Island New York. My town was and still does look like a typical New England town. It is in the country and in appearance seems much more like Connecticut or New Hampshire or upstate New York. It was not and still is a sparsely populated hamlet where kids ran free and life was simply wonderful for a kid who loves Halloween. More…
WEREWOLVES ARE NOT TRANSFORMED HUMANS! by Nick Redfern. While I was at the Original Texas Bigfoot Conference this past weekend, a couple of people came up to me and asked what I really think about werewolves. Clearly, the questions were prompted by the fact that it’s no secret I have written extensively on this particularly controversial subject. I replied by saying that, to answer the question, it’s important to have an understanding of what werewolves are not. More..
JFK, CURIOUS SYNCHRONISMS, AND “ME & LEE”by Steve Erdmann.
If you enjoyed this issue of the UFO Digest Newsletter please send a copy to a friend and recommend us. I would really appreciate it. Dirk
A LANCASHIRE GHOST TALE FROM THE RIVERBANK – UPDATEby Pat Regan.
Around about the time of Halloween towards the old festival of Yuletide, people like to scare each other with spooky tales of spectres, haunting and ghosts. What I will share with you here is nevertheless honest fact. The subsequent tale that I shall relate to you is true and taken from a work I have been writing in connection with my passion of fly fishing on wild, northern English spate streams. More….
LOST ALIEN CODE REDISCOVEREDby Mike Orrell.
Here is my little contribution that proves that we are not alone and in fact never have been. My discovery of a lost alien code in San Diego may one day soon lead to interplanetary contact and trade, which will mean the end to disease, starvation, homelessness and much more. My 12 minute youtube video link at the bottom of this page may show the key to mankind's future. It really is time to “Separate Sense From Nonsense”…enjoy Mike Orrell More…
DID THE CIA TARGET CANADA’S POLITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE IN OTTAWA SHOOTING?by Jon Kelly.
An exclusive new video posted to YouTube on October 23, 2014, offers analysis demonstrating involvement of at least one United States Navy SEAL in what is reportedly the CIA-backed contract killing of a Canadian Forces member at the National War Memorial in Ottawa on October 22, 2014. Speaking at a news conference held later that day RCMP Assistant Commissioner Gilles Michaud and one other official are said to have involuntarily disclosed suspicions concerning American involvement in the death of Cpl. Nathan Cirillo. More…
COSMOS CONNECTIONby Theresa J Morris.
A vessel is a container. What information is sent for a humanoid being of the sentient intelligent being species can be beneficial. Especially to those who desire to learn to survive. To those who prepare to save earth heed this call to save them all. Now we are going to make war with those who will use aliens from another planet the target. We must be right about who knows who from this day forward. Now the “SPIN ON HUMANITY” is being hi-jacked by those who will have the majority believe that we are allowing people with no conscience for humanity, antiquities, and earth’s culture to enter through the ascension grid in space and in our time where gravity holds us all to this planet. Clean up humanity first and follow the money to the source of the wars. Corruption breeds contempt for leadership on planet earth when there is no fairness. More..
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A fragment of Amelia Earhart’s lost aircraft has been identified to a high degree of certainty for the first time ever since her plane vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July 2, 1937, in a record attempt to fly around the world at the equator.
New research strongly suggests that a piece of aluminum aircraft debris recovered in 1991 from Nikumaroro, an uninhabited atoll in the southwestern Pacific republic of Kiribati, does belong to Earhart’s twin-engined Lockheed Electra. The search for Amelia Earhart is about to continue in the pristine waters of a tiny uninhabited island, Nikumaroro, between Hawaii and Australia.
According to researchers at The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR), which has long been investigating the last, fateful flight taken by Earhart 77 years ago, the aluminum sheet is a patch of metal installed on the Electra during the aviator’s eight-day stay in Miami, which was the fourth stop on her attempt to circumnavigate the globe.
The patch replaced a navigational window: A Miami Herald photo shows the Electra departing for San Juan, Puerto Rico on the morning of Tuesday, June 1, 1937 with a shiny patch of metal where the window had been. Continue reading at Discovery
Another teenager in the southern city of Montpellier was sentenced to four months in prison for hitting a passer-by 30 times with an iron bar overnight Saturday. The teen was also kitted out as a clown.
Complaints have poured in recently over “armed clowns” wreaking havoc in various parts of the country — some carrying pistols, knives or baseball bats — and police have detained several people over the violent trend.
The phenomenon has even prompted anti-clown vigilantism, forcing police to step in to try and quell the hysteria by saying there have only been a few sightings of the grotesque pranksters.
On Monday, a woman who had just got out of her car in Chelles near Paris called the police, saying two clowns — one of whom was armed with a fake axe — had attacked her, a source said.
They escaped when a passer-by armed with a baseball bat tried to stop them, and one of the pranksters was subsequently detained when police spotted him, white make-up still all over his face.
In a separate incident just half an hour afterwards, a dozen people wearing the smiling, white masks associated with the Anonymous hacktivist collective attacked three youths at a station in Melun, also in the Paris suburbs, stealing their mobile phones, the police source added.
Trend seen in the US and Britain
The phenomenon of dressing up as an evil clown and terrifying passers-by — a trend which has also been seen in the United States and Britain — cropped up in the north of France in early October.
In the town of Bethune, a 19-year-old received a six-month suspended jail term last week for threatening passers-by while dressed as a clown.
These “clowns” have been “mostly spotted outside schools, but also on public roads, in bushes, in a square. Their targets are often young children or teenagers, but also adults,” a police source in northern France told AFP.
And the phenomenon has spread to the south of the country.
Police on Saturday night arrested 14 teenagers dressed as clowns and carrying weapons in the Mediterranean port town of Agde.
In Montpellier, meanwhile, the victim of the fake clown told the court that the costumed assailant had chased him, yelling “give me everything, your telephone, your money, your briefcase,” and added he had trouble sleeping and had nightmares since the assault.
The attacker, meanwhile, admitted he was drunk.
Theories abound as to the origin of this trend of violence in a country where Halloween has barely made any inroads.
The suggestions include a challenge launched on social networks, popular videos on YouTube showing a terrifying clown pranking people, or even a recent episode of the popular TV series American Horror Story featuring Twisty the killer clown. – The Local FR
Time travel will be a thing in the year 2100, apparently
Well this is exciting mid-week news if ever we heard it: time travel is going to be an actual thing by the year 2100 (maybe). That’s if a bunch of UK scientists are to be believed, anyway.
A number of physicists from Imperial College London and the University of Glasgow have predicted that time machines could actually be a legitimately possible thing within about 85 years, and that teleportation could be just another mode of transport by the year 2080. So we can all look forward to telling Ryanair to do one in 70 years time, then.
And in the most exciting part of the research, which comes from The Big Bang UK Young Scientists & Engineers Fair – or maybe just the part that tells us this might all be a great big elaborate joke *checks calendar to make sure it’s not April 1st* – an invisibility cloak a la the wonderful Harry Potter himself could be ready and available to use within 15 years. FIFTEEN YEARS. Which is basically nothing.
But – and this’ll shut the doubting Thomas’ amongst us RIGHT up – apparently prototypes of invisibility cloaks are already in existence, with the science behind them seeming to be pretty sorted.
Imperial College physicist, Professor Chris Phillips, explained. “One way to create an ‘invisibility cloak’ is to use adaptive camouflage, which involves taking a film of the background of an object or person and projecting it onto the front to give the illusion of vanishing,” he said. Which is basically what we would have said if someone asked us how we thought it would work, too. Ahem.
Excitingly, he revealed: “We’re actually not that far away from this becoming a reality – rudimentary technology versions of this have already been created. It’s entirely feasible that we could see a ‘Harry Potter’-like invisibility cloak within the next 10 to 20 years.”
Well butter my beer and call me a mudblood, this is TOO MUCH excitement for one evening.
And Dr. Mary Jacquiline Romero, from the University of Glasgow’s School of Physics and Astronomy also had the presence of mind to explain how teleportation would work for those of us who aren’t quite of the same scientific brain-power that she is.
“Teleporting a person, atom by atom, will be very difficult and is of course a physicist’s way, but perhaps developments in chemistry or molecular biology will allow us to do it more quickly,” she said. But promisingly, she added: “The good thing about teleportation is that there is no fundamental law telling us that it cannot be done.”
It’s just time travel that’ll be the real tough cookie to crack, but according to Colin Stuart, author of The Big Questions in Science, it’s already been achieved. “But only in tiny amounts,” he hastened to add. “I would say we are looking at 2100 as a very optimistic timescale for travelling weeks into the future.”
Well that’s as good a word to take as any. Now we’ve just got to work out a way to stay alive and make sure we see it. – Cosmopolitan
NUNICA, MI — A Muskegon man was hospitalized late Saturday night after being struck by a hit-and-run driver while he was walking away from a party to smoke.
Ottawa County Sgt. Matt Wilfong said Jeffrey Alan Stiles, 45, of Muskegon suffered non-life threatening injuries after being struck by a car on Main Street near Cass Street in Nunica about 8:30 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 25.
Stiles was walking in the traffic lane of Main Street smoking a cigarette when he was struck. The driver fled north in an unknown vehicle.
Wilfong said Stiles, who had been at a party, was in costume at the time.
“While he was outside, he decided to walk along the roadway to scare cars, as he was dressed like a zombie for the Halloween party,” he said.
Stiles was listed in good condition at Hackley Hospital on Sunday morning.
It was just an ordinary evening when a Hudson Valley family witnessed a disk shaped object in the night.
It was early April 1994 in Cortland Manor, NY. It was about 10 p.m., Emily, her mother and five siblings were watching television. “All of a sudden there was a loud humming sound, the house started vibrate.” Emily recalls, “Fearlessly my older sister Louise went outside to see what it was.”
What Louise saw was a disk shaped object hovering just about the tree tops. After a quick glance Louise called her mom and the rest of the family to come outside.
“All you could see was the outline of the object over the night sky. Then suddenly the disk shaped object began emitting green and red colors.”
Excited, mom ran inside to get the video camera but couldn’t quickly put her hands on it so she returned outside for fear she’d miss the amazing event.
The family just watched the object put on a colorful light show for another five of ten minutes. Then the disc began moving slowly at first then faster and faster upward and away from them. Moments later three fighter jets in a “V” formation streaked overhead toward the object. With the object gone, the family went inside. Emily’s mom called the police to report what she had seen.
“Before my mom could finish her description of what happened the officer on the line said, that the lines were flooding, but everything’s alright, the Air Force called and said that they were doing a test.”
At the time Emily’s mom and the family accepted what the police officer had told them.
Many years later Emily began remembering the event and talked to her sisters about it. What bothered Emily was the fact that all of them had accepted without question what the police and the Air Force had told them that night in 1994, about the event just being a “test.”
What troubled Emily, was the fact that all of them never gave a thought to the idea that that normal aircraft don’t hover and they’re not circular.
“Now I really wonder what it really was we all saw that night.”
National Geographic (Nat Geo), like most cable networks, has repeatedly featured UFO-related programming. And, based on one of their upcoming shows, it doesn’t appear that the network plans to get out of the UFO business anytime soon.
(Credit: Pioneer Productions)
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Invasion Earth is Nat Geo’s latest stab at UFO programming. The network’s description of the series states:
Have humans really seen crafts and beings from other planets? Or is there a perfectly reasonable explanation for these sightings? Invasion Earth investigates the world’s most intriguing UFO sightings to answer the age old question – are we alone? With the help of scientists, aviation and military experts, all the evidence is thoroughly examined and tested.
This series is airing under a few different names in different parts of the world. Its title in the UK is UFO: Alien Invasion, its U.S. title is UFO Conspiracies, and it is in other locations, including Australia, where the series is being broadcast with its native titled Invasion Earth. The show is produced by London-based Pioneer Productions for National Geographic.
This series explores several UFO cases familiar to UFO researchers including the 1980 Cash-Landrum UFO encounter and the 1965 Kecksburg UFO incident. Nat Geo’s Australia website has a full episode list detailing what will be explored in each episode of the series.
(Credit: Pioneer Productions)
Nick Pope, former head of the UK Ministry of Defence’s UFO desk, is a featured talking head in this series.
According to Blue Blurry Lines, UFO: Alien Invasion and Invasion Earth premiere on Friday, October 31, while UFO Conspiracies doesn’t premiere in the U.S. until Wednesday, December 14 on the Science channel.
According to Peruvian ufologist Anthony Choy, Peru is among the world's top five countries when it comes to the most UFO sightings recorded in the past decade.
To Rafael Mercado, a ufologist from Arequipa, who visited the location and was able to access videos, take photos and hold conversations with the area's inhabitants, the sighting would have gone unnoticed had it not been for some locals who claimed seeing strange objects flying over great Mount Ubinas, leading to the subsequent follow-up and capture of imagery.
What are these lights? Several experts explain the subject in the following reports.
VIDEO (in Spanish) at:
Publisher's Note: A few years ago I was fortunate to visit the city of Arequipa. It is on the road to the highlands. The night sky there is alive with lights.
Source: Planeta UFO and Nuevo Mundo OVNI
[Translation (c) S. Corrales, IHU with thanks to Guillermo Giménez, Planeta UFO and Karina Paola Armas, Nuevo Mundo OVNI]
Kleine UFO's waargenomen nabij Moederschip Friesland...
Kleine UFO's waargenomen nabij Moederschip Friesland...
Naar aanleiding van de gebeurtenissen aldaar eerder in de week, loopt de spanning op in Friesland.
Naast het verschijnen van een moederschip uit een wolk blijkt dat er in de nabijheid ook meerdere kleinere UFO's zijn vastgelegd.
We schreven in het eerdere artikel deze week over een groot moederschip boven Friesland, dat je vaak ziet dat er kleine UFO's, ook wel orbs genoemd, uit verschijnen.
Om duidelijk te maken wat wij bedoelen, navolgend een video die wij eerder dit jaar geplaatst hebben waarbij je een dergelijke gebeurtenis ziet.
Het vond plaats in Chili, afgelopen juli.
Nu weer terug naar Friesland.
Daar zien we deze week een zelfde soort moederschip verschijnen in een paarse wolk.
Via een lezer kregen wij een aantal foto's opgestuurd, gemaakt diezelfde avond en op ongeveer dezelfde plaats.
Daarop is de nu bekende paarse wolk te zien, maar daarnaast, iets links van het midden, ook een witte UFO.
Het lijkt te gaan om één UFO, maar als je de foto wat uitvergroot dan zie je dat het gaat om twee witte UFO's/orbs. Sterker nog, als je goed kijkt, dan zie je achter die twee er nog meer verschijnen uit de wolk.
Het volgende is wat de lezer schrijft:
Ik las met belangstelling het bericht van de paarse wolk in Dronrijp, deze is door mij en meerdere ook waargenomen en ik heb foto's gemaakt. Nu ik dit bericht gelezen heb heb ik mijn foto's ook eens beter bekeken en op twee van de drie foto's die ik heb gemaakt zijn witte lichten te zien.
Ik heb dus in totaal 3 foto's gemaakt en op twee zijn de bollen te zien en op een niet!
Hier volgt de tweede foto waarop de UFO's/orbs te zien zijn:
Volgens de lezer is er op de derde en laatste foto niets te zien. Het gaat om deze foto:
Maar wanneer je ook deze wat uitvergroot dan zie je de UFO's/orbs wel degelijk. Helemaal aan de linkerkant van de foto zie je dat de ze wegvliegen.
Ook op Facebook zijn door mensen foto's geplaatst van deze vreemde wolk, zoals deze:
Al met al schijnt het dat er een bijzondere gebeurtenis heeft plaatsgevonden in Friesland. Wordt wellicht nog vervolgd.
Minister Sri Lanka: "Westers ruimte-instituut probeerde bewijs voor buitenaards leven te stelen"
Minister Sri Lanka: “Westers ruimte-instituut probeerde bewijs voor buitenaards leven te stelen”
Een groep westerse mannen heeft in Sri Lanka geprobeerd meteorietfragmenten te stelen die bewijzen dat buitenaards leven bestaat. Dat heeft de Sri Lankaanse minister van Huisvesting Wimal Weerawansa gezegd, meldt de lokale Daily Mirror.
De minister voegde toe dat de ‘creationisten’ cruciale informatie over buitenaards leven wilden stelen om hun eigen agenda erdoor te drukken en de boeddhistische leerstellingen over het heelal te ondermijnen.
Wimal Weeranwansa (Menaka Aravinda)
Tijdens een religieuze bijeenkomst in een tempel in de stad Hanwella stelde Weerawansa dat een team ‘blanke mannen’ van een internationaal ruimte-instituut had geprobeerd ruwe data over meteorietfragmenten te stelen. Het ging om een meteoriet die in een weiland bij de stad Anuradhapura was neergekomen.
Lokale wetenschappers hadden eencellige organismen gevonden in de ruimterots, wat erop wijst dat buitenaards leven bestaat, aldus de krant. “Het team probeerde dit kostbare bewijs vrijwel direct na de belangrijke ontdekking te ontvreemden,” aldus de leider van de politieke partij Jathika Nidahas Peramuna.
“Waarom deden ze dit?” vroeg hij. “Ze willen niet dat de wereld tot de ontdekking komt dat het creationisme een grote leugen is. Als bewezen wordt dat er leven buiten de aarde is, moet men toegeven dat het creationisme een leugen is.”
Published: 08:23 GMT, 27 October 2014 | Updated: 12:41 GMT, 27 October 2014
The biological process which lead to intelligent life on earth was a fluke that is unlikely to have been repeated anywhere else in the universe, claims Professor Brian Cox.
The presenter and scientist blames a series of 'evolutionary bottlenecks' for the lack of extraterrestrial life on other planets, despite there being a mind-bogglingly vast number of them in the galaxy.
Humanity miraculously overcame them in a chance binding of two single cells merging somewhere in the mists of time, he said.
'There is only one advanced technological civilisation in this galaxy and there has only ever been one - and that's us. We are unique.
'It's a dizzying thought. There are billions of planets out there, surely there must have been a second genesis?'
But we must be careful because the story of life on this planet shows that the transition from single-celled life to complex life may not have been inevitable.'
He made the claims in an episode of BBC's Human Universe, adding that yet another freak occurrence - the meteor which wiped out the dinosaurs - allowed mammals and ultimately humanity to dominate the planet.
On the subject of the genesis of complex life, he added: 'We still struggle to understand how this happened. It's incredibly unusual.'We're confident this only happened once in the oceans of the primordial earth.Life here did squeeze through.'
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Last month scientists claimed that our best chance of finding alien life is not looking for living animal organisms but rather plant life.
Two astrophysicists have said we should be looking at exoplanets for signatures of chlorophyll, which plants use to convert sunlight into energy.
And they say this could be done by a future telescope planned by Nasa to study habitable exoplanets.
If there are no aliens, humanity will never have to face the nightmarish xenomorphs of Alien (left), nor the benevolent E.T. from Speilberg's hit film
Sir Attenborough and Prof Brian Cox switch off analogue (archive)
Princeton University astrophysicists Dr Timothy Brandt and Dr David Spiegel made the suggestions in a paper called 'Prospects for detecting oxygen, water and chlorophyll on an exo-Earth.'
They say that it might be possible to detect signatures of water, oxygen and chlorophyll on an alien planet.
One hundred million worlds in our galaxy are able to host alien life, according to a 'conservative' prediction by Nasa.
And the space agency claims that we will be able to find that life within the next 20 years, with a high chance it will be outside our solar system.
During a public talk in July in Washington, the space agency outlined a roadmap to search for life in the universe using a number of current and future telescopes.
'Do we believe there is life beyond Earth?' said former astronaut and Nasa Administrator Charles Bolden during a talk in Washington.
'I would venture to say that most of my colleagues here today say it is improbable that in the limitless vastness of the universe we humans stand alone.'
The latter would be the most difficult of the three but, if found, would be a pretty clear indicator that a distant world has plant life.
24 October 2014 Last updated at 00:31 GMTBy Richard Padula BBC World Service Sport
Sixty years ago a football match ground to a halt when unidentified flying objects were spotted above a stadium in Florence. Did aliens come to earth? If not, what were they?
It was 27 October 1954, a typically crisp autumn day in Tuscany. The mighty Fiorentina club was playing against its local rival Pistoiese.
Ten-thousand fans were watching in the concrete bowl of the Stadio Artemi Franchi. But just after half-time the stadium fell eerily silent - then a roar went up from the crowd. The spectators were no longer watching the match, but were looking up at the sky, fingers pointing. The players stopped playing, the ball rolled to a stand-still.
One of the footballers on the pitch was Ardico Magnini - he was something of a legend at the club and had played for Italy at the 1954 World Cup.
"I remember everything from A to Z," he says. "It was something that looked like an egg that was moving slowly, slowly, slowly. Everyone was looking up and also there was some glitter coming down from the sky, silver glitter.
"We were astonished we had never seen anything like it before. We were absolutely shocked."
Play was suspended because spectators saw something in the sky, according to the referee's match report.
Among the crowd was Gigi Boni, a lifelong Fiorentina fan. "I remember clearly seeing this incredible sight," he says. His description of multiple objects differs slightly from Magnini's.
"They were moving very fast and then they just stopped. It all lasted a couple of minutes. I would like to describe them as being like Cuban cigars. They just reminded me of Cuban cigars, in the way they looked."
La Nazione's headline reads: Glass fibres fall on Tuscan cities after globes and flying saucers pass by. Lower headline: The sighting over Florence (with a photograph, now lost, of the UFO).
Boni has spent many years reliving that day in his mind. "I think they were extra-terrestrial. That's what I believe, and there's no other explanation I can give myself."
Another of the players, Romolo Tuci, still sprightly in his 70s, agrees. "In those years everybody was talking about aliens, everybody was talking UFOs and we had the experience, we saw them, we saw them directly, for real."
The incident at the stadium cannot simply be interpreted as mass hysteria - there were numerous UFO sightings in many towns across Tuscany that day and over the days that followed. According to some eyewitness accounts a ray of white light was seen in the sky coming from Prato, north of Florence.
Another man who relishes the chance to speak about that day is Roberto Pinotti, the president of Italy's National UFO Centre. He has written many books about UFOs and his home in the centre of Florence is stuffed full of alien memorabilia, posters of old Italian B-movies, framed newspaper articles and black-and-white photographs of blurry flying saucers.
"The players and the public were stunned seeing these objects above the stadium," Pinotti says.
"At the time the newspapers spoke of aliens from Mars. Of course now we know that is not so - but we may conclude that it was an intelligent phenomenon, a technological phenomenon and a phenomenon that cannot be linked withanything we know on Earth."
He's also intrigued by the material that fell from the sky - what Magnini describes as silver glitter.
"A wave of flying saucers over Italy," reported the Domenica del Corriere three years later. With thanks to the Fondazione Corriere della Sera for the use of material from their historic archives.
A sketch of UFOs over the stadium by Silvio Neri
"It is a fact that at the same time the UFOs were seen over Florence there was a strange, sticky substance falling from above. In English we call this 'angel hair'," says Pinotti.
"The only problem is after a short period of time it disintegrates." As a 10-year-old-boy he witnessed this phenomenon himself. "I remember, in broad daylight, seeing the roofs of the houses in Florence covered in this white substance for one hour and, like snow, it just evaporated.
"No-one knows what this strange substance has to do with UFOs."
Variously described by witnesses as similar to cotton wool or cobwebs, the substance was hard to collect because it disintegrated on contact - but some people were determined to find out what it was.
One of them was a journalist at the Florentine newspaper La Nazione, the late Giorgio Batini. In 2003 he told an Italian television programme, Voyager, how on that day he received hundreds of phone calls about the sightings. From the offices of La Nazione in the centre of town his own view of the sky was blocked by the Cathedral, so he went up to the top of the newspaper's building to see what everyone was talking about. The 81-year-old recalled seeing "shiny balls" moving fast towards the dome of the Cathedral.
Batini ventured out to investigate. He came across a wood outside the city that was covered in the white fluff. He gathered several samples by rolling them up on a matchstick, and took them to the Institute of Chemical Analysis at the University of Florence. When he got there he found that others had done the same.
The lab, led by respected scientist Prof Giovanni Canneri, subjected the material to spectrographic analysis and concluded that it contained the elements boron, silicon, calcium and magnesium, and that it was not radioactive. Unfortunately this did not provide any conclusive answers - and the material was destroyed in the process.
A sample of the mysterious "angel hair" was photographed for the newspapers
Could it have come from a UFO? "It's an absolutely silly idea. Science totally rejects this idea," says US Air Force pilot-turned-astronomer James McGaha. From the Grasslands Observatory in South Eastern Arizona he has spent more than 40,000 hours staring at the night sky. Not to mention the additional hours he's spent in the cockpit of US fighter jets.
"You know the whole UFO phenomenon is nothing but myth, magic and superstition, wrapped up in this idea that somehow aliens are coming here either to save us or destroy us," he says.
In McGaha's view, the whole spectacle, "angel hair" and all, was nothing more than migrating spiders.
"When I looked at this case originally I thought perhaps it was a fireball, a very bright meteor breaking up in the atmosphere. They can be cigar-shaped with pieces breaking off. But it became fairly apparent that this was actually caused by young spiders spinning webs, very, very thin webs.
"The spiders use these webs as sails and they link together and you get a big glob of this stuff in the sky and the spiders ride on this to move between locations. They just fly on the wind and these things have been recorded at 14,000 feet above the ground. So, when the sunlight glistens off this, you get all kinds of visual effects.
"As some of this stuff breaks off and falls to the ground, this all seems magical of course," says McGaha. "But I'm fairly confident that's what happened that day."
This theory is backed up by the fact that September and October are the months when spiders in the northern hemisphere migrate - and spectacular spider migrations still make headlines today. But it hasn't convinced everyone.
"Of course I know about the migrating spiders hypothesis - it's pure nonsense. It's an old story and also a stupid story," says Pinotti.
He disputes the spider theory because of the chemical analysis of the "angel hair" samples. Spider silk is a protein - an organic compound containing nitrogen, calcium, hydrogen and oxygen - not the elements reportedly found in the samples Batini and others brought to the university.
Players Ardico Magnini, Ronaldo Lomi and Romolo Tuci with their fan Gigi Boni (second left), at the ground
Sixty years on, the chances of determining the cause of the incident are slim. "I wouldn't trust any reports of an old and strange event like this unless I'd seen the data," says science writer Philip Ball. He agrees that the elements said to have been observed in the "angel hair" don't seem to tally with the spider theory.
"Magnesium and calcium are fairly common elements in living bodies, boron and silicon much less so - but if these were the main elements that the white fluff contained, it doesn't sound to me as though they'd come from spiders," he says.
So it all remains a mystery. No matter what the scientists say, those who were there are convinced that what they saw was unlike anything on earth.
Romolo Tuci just feels lucky to have been there. His eyes dance excitedly as he remembers that curious day. "I was spell-bound and I was also so, so happy."
Video of spiders ballooning courtesy of Rob Ferber, Little Grove Farm Additional research by Vibeke Venema
A unique view of the Moon and distant Earth from China’s Chang’e-5 T1 lunar test flight. Credit: Xinhua News and UnmannedSpaceflight.com
The Chinese lunar test mission Chang'e 5T1 has sent back some amazing and unique views of the Moon's far side, with the Earth joining in for a cameo in the image above. According to the crew at UnmannedSpaceflight.com the images were taken with the spacecraft's solar array monitoring camera.
Add this marvelous shot to previous views of the Earth and Moon together.
The mission launched on October 23 and is taking an eight-day roundtrip flight around the Moon and is now journeying back to Earth. The mission is a test run for Chang'e-5, China's fourth lunar probe that aims to gather samples from the Moon's surface, currently set for 2017. Chang'e 5T1 will return to Earth on October 31.
The test flight orbit had a perigee of 209 kilometers and reached an apogee of about 380,000 kilometers, swinging halfway around the Moon, but did not enter lunar orbit.
UFO ACTIVITY NEAR MOUNT RAINIER IN WASHINGTON JUNE 1976 ……. SEATTLE WASHINGTON
In June 1976 my sister and I were living in Seattle, WA in an apartment on Beacon Hill. Our apartment faced east (front door) and south (kitchen/living room) and I was doing dishes with a view of Mount Rainier (slightly southeast) with the bay to the right. As I stood there washing dishes, talking to my sister, I looked out and saw something flying toward our location. I yelled to my sister, “Come here and tell me what I’m seeing!” She stood next to me looking out the window and said, “I don’t know what that is!” A large disc-shaped object silently approached, when it got near it began to hover over the neighbors house (a three story Victorian, the bottom story was the garage area) and began to signal using light panels underneath the elliptical edge of the saucer. Then a light shined down on the house, it was then I noticed two jets coming from the military base at full throttle, suddenly all the lights on the saucer were lit up (underneath) and a low level humming began (which was mixed with the roar of the jets by then), it began to move so fast the jets swung out and around (before the turn was executed the ship was over Mount Rainier), the object was shooting straight up into the air and the jets lost it. At the same time this was going on the radio announcer said, “Please don’t call in about a flying saucer, we know it’s a plane that’s been flying around with advertisements.” Then the plane was flying just to the west of us near the bay at the same time my sister and I were watching these events unfold. NOTE: Thanks to Butch Witkowski, Director of the UFO Reseach Center of Pennsylvania. JUNE 1, 1976 …… FEDERAL WAY WASHINGTON STATE I am now 43 and I was 11 at the time this happened. I will never forget the event and wish to this day I could draw because I can remember it like it was yesterday. My parents and I were sitting in our living room in Federal Way, Washington on Star Lake Road. We had a house that had two huge windows. When out of the blue a very large round object appeared right in front of our windows. It was about the size of 1/2 of football field. There were rectangular lights that flashed in a circular motion. There were to windshields that were the same size as the lights. It was grey in color and made no noise what so ever. My dad said” Must be some new boeing project” It just sat there for at least a minute. My mom said ya right, I have never seen anything that that. In a instant it shot straight up into the air and took off heading South towards Portland. We called my aunt and she was like, I see nothing. The strangest thing of all is the next day at breakfast my parents remembered seeing something but they both said it was a dream. Then said, how can we all have the same dream. I try now to talk to my parents about it, my mom is eager to tell it but my dad is dead silent and wont say a word. I wish I could see it again. P.S. After we saw this event a car pulled up directly across the street (black sedan) and four individuals, three male and one female, went into the house that the craft hovered over. The next day they came to our building and knocked on our door, my sister (who was 17 years old at the time) didn’t answer the door. She came to me and whispered that strange looking people were at the door, should she answer it? I whispered let me look and I saw it was the same group from across the street the day before. I motioned to my sister to back up into the kitchen and I followed her there and mouthed “be quiet”. The group was interrupted by our upstairs neighbor who asked, “What the *bleep* are you doing here?” They got into a heated discussion and then left. I felt someone thinking to me that I shouldn’t talk to anyone about this and for almost 40 years I haven’t. Thanks to http://www.nuforc.org/webreports/067/S67707.html NOTE:Mt. Rainier is an active volcano…in fact, Mt. Rainier is considered one of the most dangerous volcanoes in the world. I have reported previously on UFO activity around active volcanoes. Even though this report is from 1976, there have been continued sightings of UFOs and other odd phenomena around the mountain for over a century.
A Virginia witness at Richmond reported watching and photographing a “small, glowing, rod-shaped UFO hovering silently in a neighbor’s tree,” according to testimony in Case 61042 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
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The witness was outside walking when the object was first noticed about 11:33 p.m. on August 24, 2014.
“I was prompted to notice a small, glowing, weird rod-shaped object hovering approximately 30 feet above the ground in the flimsy, leafy, outer branches of a large tree behind a house in my tranquil, heavily-wooded suburban neighborhood of Stratford Hills in Richmond, Virginia,” the witness stated.
The area is part of the witnesses’ regular walking route.
Witness image. (Credit: MUFON)
“I’m 54 years old and I’ve been walking this route nearly every day for 10 years and what I beheld at 11:33 p.m. on a very quiet Sunday night was abnormal and totally out-of-place! Most of my neighbors probably were in bed.”
Something odd caught the witnesses’ attention.
“I was fortunate to view the mysterious glowing object that seemed to be hiding up in the tree and I partially attribute my good fortune to the fact that it was a new moon – the darkest night of the month!”
The witness described the object.
“The silent UFO first was rod-shaped with a glowing blue light on the left end and a pinkish-violet light on the right end. It was hovering horizontally in a place where a human could not be. It was not a new-fangled bug zapper and there are no cable-TV or electric lines running near the tree and definitely not at that height. No logic for the uncanny faintly-glowing lights in the tree.”
The witness used an iPhone 4S with no zoom to shoot video of the object and then switched to shooting still images in order to zoom in. Thirty images were shot over a 10-minute period.
“During this time the small, anomalous, cylindrical UFO/entity morphed into an orb which sometimes appeared cobalt-blue and other times violet with a freaky purplish core. Then it morphed back into a rod that was more white-colored and appeared to be segmented, reminiscent of a bacterial rod under a microscope.”
Upon reviewing the images, the witness cannot identify the object and was later intrigued that the object appeared to emit a sound.
The witness uploaded five still images with the report, which was filed on October 29, 2014: Image 1, Image 2, Image 3, Image 4 and Image 5.
“This flying object ain’t one of ours – NOT a drone, stealth bomber, planet Venus, or swamp gas. I did not hear any sounds coming from the object that night but later when I downloaded the video I was surprised to discover that my iPhone had picked up some intriguing clicking noises and when I showed the video to my neighbor S– she said, ‘It sounds like Morse code.’”
The witness decided not to share what he saw with the neighbor, but did notice that after that night they began leaving a porch light on.
“I did, however, tell one of their male neighbors and B—– agreed with me that maybe his neighbors who live in the house in question saw the object too and it spooked them?”
The witness is still out walking in the same area at night and has not noticed the object again – but did discover other nearby sightings were reported.
“My sighting in Richmond was at 11:33 p.m. on August 24, 2014, and just four hours later at 3:30 a.m. on August 25, 2014, a motorist on I-295 N near the Hopewell exit, which is only 22 miles south of Richmond, was followed up the road by a bright UFO orb that was moving a lot faster than manmade highway traffic. Then the orb targeted another car in the southbound lanes and when the sphere made contact with the other vehicle both the orb and car vanished into thin air! Then the driver of the first car saw the orb reappear, and when it started following their car up the highway again they became ‘terrified,’ put the pedal to the metal, and made a hasty retreat off the next exit in sight. I learned of this at the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC). 2.”
“Then a few hours later around 9 a.m. on August 25, 2014 a seasoned colonel in the U.S. Air Force Reserve was killed when his F-15 fighter jet crashed under “mysterious circumstances” in the Blue Ridge Mountains west of Richmond near Deerfield, VA. Coincidentally enough, this was in an area where lots of residents have reported UFOs in the sky and orbs near the ground. They say it took two days to recover the colonel’s body and the official Air Force story was that he was from Massachusetts on a “routine training mission.””
The witness also discovered that a Canadian couple had a similar encounter to his just four days earlier and they posted a YouTube video.
“I’m not going to speculate or draw conclusions, but it seems like an awful lot of weirdness for such a small region in ten hours! Last but not least, a couple of weeks after my ‘close encounter’ in Richmond, Virginia, USA, I was prompted to discover a seemingly-credible YouTube video of a small, blue-pinkish-violet, rod-shaped UFO that a man and woman in Ontario Canada videoed while sitting around a campground fire pit and the anomalous silent hovering object looks uncannily similar to the UFO that I photographed in Richmond, VA, when it was in ‘rod mode.’ The Ontario sighting was on August 20, 2014, only four days before my sighting in Virginia, and the Canadian couple was prompted to upload their video to YouTube on August 24 which synchronistically was the same day as my sighting!”
Virginia MUFON is investigating. Please keep in mind that most UFO sightings can be explained as something natural or man-made. Virginia has a current UFO Alert Rating of 5 with a low number of recent reports nationally. Virginia had 5 UFO reports that occurred during September 2014 – calculated at .61 sightings per million population.
The UFO Alert Rating System is based on five levels – 1 through 5 – where states with 4.01 or higher reports per million residents are rated an Alert 1; 3.01 – 4.0 reports are an Alert 2; 2.51 – 3.0 are an Alert 3; 2.01 – 2.5 are an Alert 4; and those states with 2.0 or lower are rated an Alert 5.
The above quotes were edited for clarity. Please report UFO activity to MUFON.com.
Yesterday I posted information in reference to the Hinsdale House haunting. Over the past few days, and for unknown reasons, my attention has been directed to this location. Honestly, I did not have much knowledge of the circumstances, other than what I was told by Rev. Tim Shaw...who has investigated the property on several occasions. But during this past weekend, I received constant references to the events surrounding the hauntings. There is no doubt, in my mind, that I'm acquiring celestial & ethereal directives.
So...what's this mean? Well, I suppose I'm going to make an effort to examine the activity...through research, intuitive investigation and astral perception. Stay tuned...Lon
The Houston Zoo has a rich and colorful past, and most native Houstonians have their own anecdote of growing up visiting the elephants, chimps, and lions.
Most Houstonians though probably aren't aware that the Houston Zoo could still be haunted by its former first zookeeper and lion tamer who was shot and killed on premises under questionable circumstances. This week as Halloween festivities hit a fever pitch, we look back at one of the city's most popular hauntings.
Hans Nagel was a German who was employed by the city of Houston in 1922 to work at the zoo and act as the face of the park, wowing visitors young and old with his ability to tame wild beasts on site. These days his animal training style, which was more circus than respectful, can be seen as off-putting to animal lovers.
"He was of Dutch ancestry and born in Germany although he allegedly reported to immigration authorities in 1932 that his birthplace was Tobin, Texas. He trained at the Hagenbeck Animal Company in Germany," according to the Houston Public Library's archives.
He was a media sensation, the Houston Zoo's official blog notes, and was popular fodder for newsreels. His weekly lion taming shows were recommended entertainment. Nagel also saddled and rode and a zebra, winning a bet amongst friends.
His exploits earned him permanent citizenship even while his entry into the United States was disputed.
Nagel carried a pistol at his side at all times and was known to have to use it to scare off intruders from the zoo.
According to the Texas Archive of the Moving Image, by 1925 the zoo would house some 400 animals, and Nagel would be named its director soon after.
"Nagel was awarded a gold medal by the city of Houston for his heroics in saving a visitor from being mauled by the zoo's Bengal Tiger," according to the archive. It's still not clear if it was a zoo visitor or an employee that was saved from the tiger's jaws by a shot from Nagel's trusty pistol.
Given his stature in the community and role at park, he was given a commission as a "special police officer" by the Houston Police Department, according to the zoo.
It was taken from him in 1929 after a dispute with officials and what some called several abuses of power.
As the Houston Zoo’s former press agent Brian Hill wrote in October 2012, the story of how Nagel met his end is shady at best, but par the course for Houston over 70 years ago.
"Whether the revocation of the commission was the source of his conflict with the park patrol officers, the dispute festered for years and finally boiled over on a quiet Monday afternoon in November 1941 when Nagel confronted a park police officer who had spotted him behind a hedge in the park observing three teenagers in a parked car.
According to witness statements, the officer asked the teens if they knew they were being watched. As Nagel emerged from the bushes, the officer directed Nagel to his patrol car for a trip downtown to discuss "whose business it was policing the park."
When he attempted to handcuff the zoo manager, Nagel resisted and reached for his holstered side arm, a 9mm Luger. But the officer drew first and Nagel was felled by six shots. A grand jury later acquitted the officer, citing self-defense.
At the time it was called a "jurisdictional dispute," though the concept of a grown man peeking in on teens possibly necking in the park is creepy enough.
"These days we are much more conscious of the animals' well-being, and Nagel's style is obviously not how things are at the zoo now," says zoo spokesperson Jackie Wallace. You also won't find zoo staff carrying a 9mm Luger at their side either.
If you are one to believe in ghosts, it would make sense that his restless spirit was doomed to roam his earthly stomping grounds. Some say that at night the ghost of Nagel haunts the Houston Zoo's commissary where employees have reported eerie happenings and strange shadows.
Houstonians that visit the zoo's upcoming Zoo Lights holiday exhibit should probably keep an eye out for the zoo's ghostly keeper too. That creaky door could be Hans saying hello. - Chron
They said they’ve seen blood running down the walls and heard pounding on the walls and mysterious footsteps in the hallways. Family members have awakened with mysterious scratches on their legs or said they’ve been tripped or pushed by the demon.
The book has become popular with people of faith — who see it as a testament to Mr. Cranmer’s devotion to Christianity — and those who are intrigued by the paranormal, boosted by a 2011 Discovery Channel documentary detailing the exorcism.
The publisher Berkley Books, part of the multinational Penguin Group, says the book is a “true and accurate report of the events.” Mr. Cranmer said it has sold out of its first printing of 10,000 copies, and he has done dozens of television and radio interviews across the country, and his book signings at local libraries and bookstores have drawn droves of people.
But is it true? Members of two families who owned the house prior to the Cranmers, and a third family whose ancestor Mr. Cranmer says fueled the evil in the home, say the events involving their families are not true or accurate.
“I can imagine they would be” upset by the negative depiction of their relatives in the book, Mr. Cranmer, 58, said in an interview. “But the last thing I want is to get into a he-said-she-said with people who weren’t there when I heard what I wrote.”
The families who lived in the house at 3406 Brownsville Road before him point out that much of what Mr. Cranmer says he knows about their experiences there came from conversations he had with their parents, who are now all deceased.
Members of the families, who lived in the home for a combined 47 years before Mr. Cranmer bought it in 1988, have a common objection to the book: The author asserts that they had paranormal experiences similar to what he and his family experienced there.
“Other than squirrels in the walls, I never experienced anything there,” said Karen Dwyer, 59, who lived in the house for seven years in the 1950s and 1960s, after her mother, Barbara Paisley, got divorced and moved in with her parents. Ms. Paisley’s parents, Walter and Margaret Wagner, owned the home from 1941 to 1979. “My mother never said anything about the house being haunted. My grandmother never said anything about the house being haunted. And my grandfather never said anything about the house being haunted.”
“If he wants to go and write it from 1988 and go forward, do it; I don’t care,” said Ms. Dwyer, who still lives in Brentwood. “But if you want to lie about other people and things that happened before that, well no, that’s not right.”
Her brother, Ken Wilock, 58, and their uncle, Walter Wagner Jr., 79, both said they never had any experiences either.
Mr. Cranmer writes at one point that Ms. Dwyer and Mr. Wilock’s mother, Mrs. Paisley — whom he never names directly — told him before she died in 2009 that the Wagners had a family dog that seemed “to sense the presence of a ‘spirit’ and would go from room to room apparently looking for it.”
“That’s interesting,” said Mr. Wagner, who was 6 when his parents bought the home in 1941, and visited regularly as an adult, “because we never had a dog, and my parents didn’t like to have pets.”
As for the family who bought the home from the Wagners in 1979, “We have no evidence of anything like [Mr. Cranmer describes in his book] ever happening in the house,” said Michael Joyce, 40, who lives in Baldwin now and lived in the Brentwood home from age 5 to 14 until his parents sold the home to the Cranmers. Both his parents died in the past 13 months.
Mr. Cranmer, who still lives in the home, said he knew the families would not be happy with the book: “I was waiting for this [reaction from the families] to happen. But I thought after the Joyces died, it might not.”
Mr. Cranmer asserts that the house has had this demonic infestation since it was built in 1910. He writes that the Wagners — who bought the home from the original owners, the Malicks — and the Joyces knew about the evil there. Despite that, Mr. Cranmer maintains that the Wagners sold the home to the Joyces without telling them about what they experienced, and the Joyces — whom Mr. Cranmer renames the “McHenrys” in the book — then sold it to the Cranmers without telling them.
The result, Mr. Cranmer writes, is that he, his wife, Lesa, and their three sons and one daughter, unwittingly moved into a home filled with an evil presence that physically and emotionally attacked them, nearly destroying the family.
He writes that the land itself was cursed after some settlers were murdered there by Native Americans in the 1700s, and that evil grew when one of the workmen building the house in 1909 and 1910 put a curse on the home.
That evil was then inflamed, he writes, in the 1920s and 1930s when a local doctor, James C. Mahan Sr. — whom Mr. Cranmer names only as “Dr. M” — began renting out space in the home from the Malicks to perform illegal abortions that killed “a lot” of children, and at least one of the mothers.
As a child, Mr. Cranmer, who grew up in Brentwood, always had an interest in the stately house. He was told in 2012 by a Catholic “intuitive,” Connie Valenti of Aspinwall, that the reason he was long “drawn” to the home was so that he would be the one to fight the evil.
In 2005 and 2006, when Mr. Cranmer says the demonic infestation reached its peak, Ms. Valenti worked with the Rev. Ronald Lengwin, spokesman for the Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh, in trying to find the source of evil.
Father Lengwin had been assigned to work with Mr. Cranmer then, he says, after a friend — former Pittsburgh Mayor Tom Murphy — asked then-Pittsburgh Bishop Donald Wuerl to help.
In the book’s epilogue, Mr. Cranmer says Ms. Valenti told him he was chosen to fight the evil because she believed from her visions that he was a reincarnated child who died in the home after an illegal abortion, a procedure that also ended in the death of his mother.
“I’m still puzzled by it, can’t say that I fully believe it,” he writes, “but it is intriguing.”
Most of the allegations against Dr. Mahan Sr. are based on Ms. Valenti’s visions, which were passed on to Mr. Cranmer by Father Lengwin. He describes those visions as well as a series of rumors and old stories Mr. Cranmer says he was told by Brentwood residents over the years that Dr. Mahan Sr. was a limping, profane drunk who was also not a very good doctor, and his wife was often drunk, too.
Neither Ms. Valenti, nor Father Lengwin, nor Mr. Cranmer said they had any documentation to these claims against Dr. Mahan Sr., or the claim of the worker putting a curse on the house.
“I don’t need to verify it in order to tell the story,” Father Lengwin said in an interview.
Ms. Valenti said in an interview that what is in the book “is all true” and “I can only tell you what I saw” in her visions.
Father Lengwin said he had no problem with those stories being printed in the book because Dr. Mahan Sr. is never directly named and “we didn’t accuse anyone of anything.”
Though he concedes “Dr. M” is Dr. Mahan Sr., when initially asked about him, Mr. Cranmer said: “Well, I didn’t identify him in the book, so I’m not going to discuss him.”
Two of Dr. Mahan Sr.’s grandchildren were upset by the description of their grandparents.
“Wow. Wow,” said Anita Mucha, 60, when told by a reporter what the book says, since she hadn’t read it. “I’ve never heard anything about” such allegations.
Ms. Mucha, who lived in Brentwood for much of her life before moving to Upper St. Clair, is the daughter of the late James C. Mahan Jr., one of Dr. Mahan Sr.’s two sons. She was 4 when Dr. Mahan Sr. died in 1958, and has few memories of her grandfather.
Her brother Dean Mahan, 58, said he knew enough of his family’s history to know that part of the allegation against his grandfather — that he performed illegal abortions in the 1920s and 1930s in the home — did not fit the timeline.
“My grandfather wasn’t even there on Brownsville Road [in Brentwood] then,” he said in an interview.
Dr. Mahan Sr. did not move into a home down the street from Mr. Cranmer’s home until sometime in the 1940s after he filed for divorce with his wife.
The local press covered a weeklong hearing in the divorce case in 1942 because of some scandalous allegations the doctor lodged against his wife and the prominence of the family. The doctor later retracted the allegations and they never divorced.
Dean Mahan said the general description in the book of when and where Dr. Mahan Sr. practiced “is definitely correct.”
“But part of that, about the character he’s describing, he’s writing his character to enhance his book or to entice his audience,” he said. “It’s just not true.” - Post-Gazette
The truth about ghosts, ‘Annabelle’ and Ouija boards
“People just instinctually feel that there are other beings around them during this time.” Psychic Cari Roy says this is the time of year when the veil between the living and dead is the thinnest. “If you are usually having a busy signal throughout the rest of the year, this is the time when your call is going to go through.”
If you think you’ve encountered a spirit or form of paranormal activity, Roy says the best tools aren’t ghost-hunting gadgets, they’re your own instincts and rationality.
“If there’s a knock on the door, hey, it might just be the postman, it’s not necessarily going to be some ghoul trying to work their way into your life. So you eliminate those things that could possibly be the explanations and if there are no other explanations, then chances are there is something paranormal,” says Roy.
But separating reality from fantasy can be tricky. Is there any truth behind the Hollywood horror stories?
“Annabelle, it’s a doll, it’s innocent… By infusing that with something nefarious, something evil, it makes us all scared because if a doll isn’t sacred and just the sign of childhood innocence then it feels like no place is safe. I’ve never experienced that, although, in New Orleans we have our tradition with voodoo dolls and in that respect sometimes dolls can be used for bad purposes.”
“ Ouija boards, spirit boards of themselves are just a piece of particle board. That by itself, it’s an inanimate object it’s not evil, but what happens I think is that people unprepared go in and mess around and you don’t want to open doors that you don’t know how to close. The departed, really ghosts, hauntings all of those things, those are human beings that just don’t have bodies anymore. There are going to be a certain amount of people in the spirit population that are up to no good the way the same way there are a sector of people in the living world up to no good,” says Roy.
Given New Orleans history, if it’s spirits that you seek, you’re in the right place.
“New Orleans is without question, America’s most haunted city. There’s drinking, there’s drama and those are the ingredients to a haunting.” - WGNO
They have appeared again, in pair and at their usual period in Brazil –between the last few days of October and first few days of November. The location the two first crop circles of 2014 season were found this Sunday morning, October 26, around 7:30 AM, is a slope in Mr. Angelo Alessio’s property. His farm has already been target for crop circles in previous years. This time, it was one of the few which had not had its wheat reaped, like most other properties in the vicinity.
One of the two glyphs was visible from the dirt road SCT-451. It was an immense harmonic figure, with approximately 500 to 650 feet (150 – 200 meters), as estimated by the local police department from Santa Catarina. It had internal and external circles in geometric formations. Unfortunately, very few were able to actually see the crop circle or even photograph it since it was destroyed that same morning by order of the farm owner, which demanded his foreman to run the crop tractor over it.
ONLY VISIBLE FROM ABOVE
The second circle was no farther than 650 feet due east of the first and about 1.2 miles from the road that connects Bom Jesus to Ipuaçu, and about 2 miles from the city. Regardless of the proximity, however, it was no possible to see the crop circle neither from the road nor from closer – via rural roads that go through the property, about 1.000 feet from the circle. In fact, even being inside the circle and walking within its elements and “hallways” did not yield a complete view of its shape, since it was very large. It became necessary to use the Brazilian UFO Magazine’s drone, a
Phantom 2 Vision Plus model with stabilizing 14 megapixel camera, that also records in high definition (full HD).
The frustration from arriving in Ipuaçu, some short few hours after the discovery of the crop circle, and after traveling close to 270 miles in only 5 hours, only to find one of them destroyed, gave place to amazement and surprise as soon as the drone was activated and began photographing in various altitudes. From above, about 1.600 feet, was possible to contemplate the extensive second crop circle still intact. Its shape even appalled the two police officers assigned by their commander to clarify the facts. Both drill sergeants, Leandro de Oliveira and Evandro de Oliveira, have 20 and 18 years of service.
COMPLEX AND ELEGANT PATTERN
From the photos and high definition video recordings made by the Brazilian UFO Magazine it was possible to observe the second crop circle still intact (photo). It is possible to describe them as joining two sets of elements. From one side, a ring of about 260 feet in diameter of folded plants in clockwise direction with a central circle of about 40 feet, also of folded plants in clockwise direction. From the other side, a set of two circles and two semi-circles of different thickness, some thin, others thicker, totaling about 200 feet in diameter. The intersection of the two sets created a
semi-circle in the interior of the second set.
After completely recording all data from the intact crop circle, which had my focus since the other was already lost, I also measured its electromagnetic condition, finding it normal and identical to the external crop circle field. Subsequently visited the first crop circle and, even though destroyed, was evaluated, photographed from the ground and above, and video recorded from various angles with the drone. It was only possible to ascertained, from above, the external ring, of approximate size estimated between 500 to 650 feet in diameter. The internal elements irreversibly destroyed.
NEW DESTRUCTION
While filming the deteriorated crop circle with the drone, the group of spectators gathered at the site, including the Police Officers, heard the crop machine operating again. Sadly, at 5.00 PM, Mr. Angelo Aléssio decided and ordered his foreman to terminate the crop circle that was still intact. Nothing remained. To my luck, and counting the time as a significant factorof extreme importance, I was able to arrive in time to record the images of the circle. At that point, and regardless of the complaints from the citizens of Ipuaçu, both crop circles were destroyed. In cases of crop circle researches, examining the facts ‘in locu’ as quickly as possible ensures the quality of the work.
The farm owner’s decision to reap the internal and external elements of the circles is due to his fear that the curious individuals that come to visit the location could cause even more damage to his crops. Mr. Aléssio did not want to make any statements, but according to his foreman, it was clear that he does not tolerate any destruction of his crops, not by the crop circles, but by curious spectators. Unfortunately, other local farmers have acted the same way. Several times, I have attempted to speak with the city mayor, Denilso Casal, to request the circles to be isolated. None were addressed.
FIELD INVESTIGATION
For the seventh consecutive year, always around the same time, always at the same geo-location, the crop circles have manifested. This time more gallant than in previous years, though rivaling the beauty of 2013’s season, but not in size. To this day, no explanation has been found for such designs to appear so suddenly at such location and always around the same time of year. What is known for certain, without a doubt, that the images were constructed by some sort of non-human intelligent life. What they mean is also to be discovered. The answer will only come after diligent research, which is exactly what the UFO Magazine has been doing for seven years, and counting.
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Translated by Carlos Casalicchio, from the Brazilian UFO Magazine Team. (www.ufo.com.br)
(N.Morgan) When I see these videos with the military involved,the first thought is that we are witnessing a training exercise of some sort. These crafts we see could very well be our own military toys, posed to be used against us in some creepy way. The images are amazing, if not a bit fuzzy, as usual.
There are no traces, dogs did not bark, there was no noise – but marks have appeared in a Cordoba field that have left local residents disconcerted. Are we witnessing a paranormal phenomenon?
There is no explanation. The fact is that in the middle of a field located in Villa María, a locality in Cordoba province, large marks appeared which left local growers astonished.
According to comments by local residents, no strange noises were heard, no dogs barked, no alarms were tripped, but the strange marks were suddenly found in the fields.
In fact, they stated: “We have meter-tall wheat, green, ready to be harvested in December. It was very healthy, but then this happened on Saturday morning.”
According to this local (Susana Montero), “There are no traces that something got there by land,” to which she added: “We can't find an explanation for it.”
Persons living in the area called several agronomers, but remarked that no one was able to find an answer to this strange event.
Source: Diario Registrado (Argentina)
(Translation (c) 2014 S. Corrales, IHU with thanks to Guillermo Giménez, Planeta UFO)
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Ik ben Pieter, en gebruik soms ook wel de schuilnaam Peter2011.
Ik ben een man en woon in Linter (België) en mijn beroep is Ik ben op rust..
Ik ben geboren op 18/10/1950 en ben nu dus 74 jaar jong.
Mijn hobby's zijn: Ufologie en andere esoterische onderwerpen.
Op deze blog vind je onder artikels, werk van mezelf. Mijn dank gaat ook naar André, Ingrid, Oliver, Paul, Vincent, Georges Filer en MUFON voor de bijdragen voor de verschillende categorieën...
Veel leesplezier en geef je mening over deze blog.
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