Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.
This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.
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The purpose of this blog is the creation of an open, international, independent and free forum, where every UFO-researcher can publish the results of his/her research. The languagues, used for this blog, are Dutch, English and French.You can find the articles of a collegue by selecting his category. Each author stays resposable for the continue of his articles. As blogmaster I have the right to refuse an addition or an article, when it attacks other collegues or UFO-groupes.
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In 2012 verloor ze haar moedige strijd tegen kanker!
In 2011 startte ik deze blog, omdat ik niet mocht stoppen met mijn UFO-onderzoek.
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UFO'S of UAP'S, ASTRONOMIE, RUIMTEVAART, ARCHEOLOGIE, OUDHEIDKUNDE, SF-SNUFJES EN ANDERE ESOTERISCHE WETENSCHAPPEN - DE ALLERLAATSTE NIEUWTJES
UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
MUFON of het Mutual UFO Network Inc is een Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in alle USA-staten en diverse landen.
MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com.
Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
07-12-2014
Mysterious Sailing Saucer And A Woman Identified In Japanese Folk Tale
Mysterious Sailing Saucer And A Woman Identified In Japanese Folk Tale
According to Japanese folk tale, extraterrestrials visited planet Earth in the 19th century. Many stories and theories have been telling that aliens have been visiting Earth secretly for many centuries now. However, this particular folktale from Japan, which believed to happen in the early 1800s, continues to inspire many UFO enthusiasts and believers.
Reportedly written in 1825, the story starts with the discovery of a very unusual vessel floating in the ocean by Japanese sailors. Described by the sailors as a circular object, it appeared to have a lid covering the top of the ship with glass windows. When the very strange vessel got to shore, a gorgeous woman came out with bright red hair, holding an unknown box.
The woman would not allow anyone to touch it. Furthermore, the Japanese sailors can’t talk about it because the woman did not speak any known language. Also, unknown to them were the materials of the ship, clothes of a woman, and her box.
Because of fear, the villagers pushed the woman and her vessel into the sea again.
This story has been one of the most favorites among UFOlogists. The possibility of a flying saucer crashed in the sea that eventually washed up on land has given Ufologists the reason to believe the story.
Some speculates that aliens were attempting to blend in by matching technology on Earth, sending spacecraft when mankind could fly, and foreign vessels when all humans could do was sail. When skeptics argue, the UFO believers will point to the strange substances of the woman’s clothes and ship.
UFO believers claim that people during that time were not naïve or dumb not to recognize materials or vessels normally found on Earth. They believe that the foreign woman might have crashed or have been on a scouting ship.
Alhoewel het mooiste bewijs van leven op Mars door NASA wordt geleverd, blijven ze in alle toonaarden zwijgen.
De vraag is alleen hoelang ze dit vol kunnen houden, nu er langzamerhand een groeiende stroom aan bewijsmateriaal zichtbaar wordt.
We zijn gewend dat er foto's van het Mars oppervlak door de Spirit Rover van NASA naar de aarde worden gestuurd.
Die Rover doet ook nog wat anders en dat is het doen opgravingen met een speciaal werktuig dat heet de Rock Abrasion Tool.
Tijdens één van die opgravingen kwamen er een aantal zo te zien oude munten tevoorschijn.
Eén van de gevonden munten zag er als volgt uit:
Een tweede gevonden munt is zo mogelijk nog interessanter omdat hier duidelijk een reliëf op te zien is met iets wat lijkt op een gezicht.
Wanneer er een aantal filters worden toegepast, wordt het duidelijker.
De munt heeft veel weg van die zoals ze in vroegere tijden op aarde voorkwamen.
Ufoloog Scott Waring deed nóg een interessante ontdekking.
Hij is gaan werken met wat verschillende kleuren en volgens hem is er niet één, maar zijn er twee gezichten zichtbaar op de munt.
Aan de linkerkant zie je een gezicht wat een beetje menselijk is en rechts duidelijk dat van een Gray Alien.
Hoe dan ook, duidelijk is weer dat we hier niet te maken hebben met door de natuur gevormde objecten, wat nog maar eens bevestigt dat er ooit leven is geweest op Mars en waarschijnlijk nu nog is.
"Alles in het universum is gevormd volgens de verhouding van de gulden snede"
“Alles in het universum is gevormd volgens de verhouding van de gulden snede”
De kosmologische constante die bekendstaat als de ‘gulden snede’ zien we terug in de vorm van orkanen, olifantenslagtanden en sterrenstelsels. Deze speciale verhouding is nu ook ontdekt in de ruimtetijd. De gulden snede beïnvloedt het universum als geheel.
Onderzoekers zeggen dat dit gulden getal alles in het universum aan elkaar linkt, van de ruimtetijd tot de scheikunde en biologie. Het onderzoek is uitgevoerd door dr. Jan Boeyens van de Universiteit van Pretoria en dr. Francis Thackeray van de Universiteit van de Witwatersrand in Zuid-Afrika.
Zij zeggen dat de gulden snede – 1,618 – mogelijk bepaalt hoe dingen in het universum hun vorm krijgen. De gulden snede, aangeduid met de Griekse letter phi, is de verdeling van een lijnstuk in twee delen in een speciale verhouding.
De Duitser Adolf Zeising publiceerde in 1854 het boek ‘Neue Lehre von den Proportionen des menslichen Körpers’, waarin hij de opvatting verdedigt dat het ideale menselijke lichaam volledig volgens de verhouding van de gulden snede is opgebouwd. Volgens sommigen bezit de gulden snede een intrinsieke schoonheid, waardoor de verhouding veel voorkomt in de klassieke architectuur, schilderkunst en in de levende natuur.
Voorbeelden van logaritmische spiralen in de natuur. V.l.n.r. de Draaikolknevel, een nautilusschelp, orkaan Katrina en een ammoniet (NASA/NOAA)
Ook spiralen lijken de verhouding van de gulden snede te volgen. Dit wijst erop dat geometrische vormen in het universum uiteindelijk zullen zwichten voor deze wiskundige constante. “Spectaculaire voorbeelden van logaritmische spiralen zijn de Draaikolknevel (M51), ammonieten, de vorm van nautilusschelpen (inktvis), orkaan Katrina en de verdeling van planeten, manen, asteroïden en ringen in het zonnestelsel,” schrijven de onderzoekers.
Volgens de wetenschappers is de gulden snede zo alomtegenwoordig omdat hij in feite een eigenschap is van de ruimtetijd. “De tijd is aangebroken om relativiteit en kwantumtheorieën te integreren en te linken aan de waarde van een wiskundige constante,” schrijven ze.
De onderzoekers weten niet precies waarom het universum gebruikmaakt van de gulden snede. De studie is gepubliceerd in het South African Journal of Science.
A New Petition Hopes To Add New Light On The Mysterious UFO Incident In UK
A New Petition Hopes To Add New Light On The Mysterious UFO Incident In UK
Rendlesham Forest Incident in 1980 is one of the most mysterious UFO incidents in the United Kingdom. Now, a new petition hopes to give new light of this famous event where various soldiers had witnessed lights, hovering vehicles and unusual marks, which many believed were from extra-terrestrial craft that made a landing.
One of the drawings produced by soldiers after the Rendlesham incident
Also often described as Britain’s Roswell, the Rendlesham Forest Incident have been the subject of several UFO conspiracy theories. Several UFO enthusiasts have believed that there is still information being hidden despite the release of a big file about the incident by the Ministry of Defence. In this connection, a new petition demands that all information and staff be declassified from the Official Secrets Act.
Retired Colonel Charles Halt says that their security team saw a light that appeared like a big red eye, travelling throughout the trees. This object started dripping something after a few minutes that looked like molten metal, according to Halt’s report.
The object produced blue and red light, wrote Staff Sergeant Jim Penniston. He explained that the blue light steadily projecting under the object. He believed it was mechanical in nature.
Others reported strange howling noises like screams of women, mysterious light, and losing time periods.
Meanwhile, sceptics believe that the UFO landing marks were rabbit holes.
The craft resembles like classic flying saucers based on drawings and descriptions of several soldiers.
The demand of the new petition is to declassify all witnesses, and military personnel involve with the famous UFO incident in Rendlesham Forrest from the Official Secrets Act.
It has been believed by many that government retrieval teams whisked off all the remains of crashed flying saucers and their pilots.
Alleged classified UFO video released by fake news channel
Alleged classified UFO video released by fake news channel
A news channel released an allegedly classified UFO video. The problem is that this news channel is fake. Also, another video has emerged that shows a UFO in the vicinity of Popocatepetl in Mexico. That and other UFO news on this episode of Spacing Out!
With a snapping sound the machine broke loose from the six quarter inch bolts that connected it to the ground, and then, with a soft wining sound, it took off with a blue glowing fog emerging from the machine ...
Imagine that we could control that force ....
Among Viktor Schaubergers machines there is no one like the Repulsin or the flying saucer that has created such myths and stories. The basic designs are from the mid thirties when he tried to finish the Climator. Often mysterious material acting as catalysts are used in the devices. Different light and sound phenomena are also reported from people that claim that they had been eye witnesses to these flying devices. A most peculiar thing is that they seem to be very difficult to control, as they have a habit of smashing into the ceiling, and after that, being irreparable. Viktor himself claimed that powerful diamagnetic forces were responsible for the enormous effect. However, in the literature and in Viktor's own notebooks there is no evidence, if and if so how these devices worked. The question is, are all these rumours true ? Do these devices really work ?
Well, what we can see from the few pictures that exist is that there seems to be some kind of turbine, shaped as a double flat membrane with concentric rills on it. If you compare to the wave pattern you get when you throw a stone into a small pond you will comprehend better what I mean. However, the wave pattern on the upper membrane had a small difference in the phase compared to the lower membrane. On the edge rim, turbine vanes are mounted, probably acting as a source of power for both self rotation and even for the generation of power. The double membrane was probably co-rotating as four bolts that fix them together, can be observed.
In the pictures we can also see that there is some kind of body, a bowl shaped plate that is bend over the membrane whose outlet can be found inside the rim foil. Together, the rim foil (the metal band around the lower rim) and the outlet form a Venturi "tube". An air intake can be seen on the top of the device. Unfortunately, one important component is missing on the top. This component should "pre-form" the air so it starts to twist before it enters the double membrane. This component had a similar shape as a sea shell. Viktor said that this device was never built as it is very difficult to produce a thing with such a complex geometry. In the book Living Water (by Olof Alexandersson) a colloid solution of very fine grained quartz crystal and water is mentioned as a catalyst for the process.
So, if we start to think for a while. Let's say that this device really worked, it really did take off! How would it work ? Consider what probably happens in the machine:
- The air is sucked through the intake where it is pre-formed into a vortice containing vortices within vortices shaped as long threads rotating around their axis.In my opinion the double membrane was not co-rotating. If they where not counter rotating, one of the was fixed, probably the upper membrane and the lower rotating on the driving axis. A description on what happens is given on the wind mill page.
- Briefly the air threads start to spin faster and faster around their axis driven by the difference in speed between the membranes. As the air reaches longer out on the membrane, the peripherical speed increases along with the radius and so does the angular speed of the air threads.
- During the passage between the double membrane the air has to pass cavities where the volume sometimes is bigger and sometimes is smaller due to the difference in phase between the upper and the lower membrane. When the air passes a narrow cavity it gets extra energy input and when it passes a larger cavity it is allowed to expand.
- The "air threads" are twisted along their axis in a smaller and smaller radius leading to an increase of the angular speed. As the air reaches further out, closer to the rim, the threads start to bend due to the increasing peripherical speed. When the air passes the different cavities it starts to pulsate in a rhythm that is depending on the angular speed of the disc. Huge forces are generated when all these degrees of freedom are harmonised into a symphony.
However, it is not necessary to use unknown theories as the diamagnetic forces to explain how the powerful lift is generated. Of course this can be the explanation, the future will show us if this is the case. As for the colloid solution of fine grained quartz and water, one can imagine that huge amounts of piezo electricity is produced between the membranes, where the pulsating and twisting air containing small amounts of the solution is passing. At a certain rotation speed we have reached the level where we have "harmony" and the air is "self pulsating" and generating electricity that "pumps" up the energy level. What actually happens in this process in certainly unknown! But, high levels of static electricity have been reported in similar devices connected to the ZPE-area. ZPE stands for zero point energy or vacuum energy which is the idea of an unknown field of energy existing in vacuum. Read more about this phenomena! In several proposals of propulsion devices, for flying saucers high electric energy levels are also used. As an example we have David Hamels flying disk. You can read about it here. It could be that the diamagnetism that Viktor Schauberger mentioned, is the same phenomena or physical principle that is proposed in these propulsion devices. In Viktor's lessons he always talked about two important things: "You shall always remember two things. First, remember how the rivers are meandering. Second, remember the electrophorus (or Kelvin's thunderstorm ) experiments!"
As I mentioned before there is one (at least…) more explanation on why Viktor Schaubergers machine took off with such power. It might be explained by "normal" aerodynamics and a phenomena named ‘the Coanda effect'. Very brief the Coanda effect is the phenomena when a flowing media tends to "stick" to a curved surface, You can read a biography of Henri Coanda here . If we take a closer look on the bowl shaped plate, we realise that it is a circular wing. When the air is rushing out inside the foil or the metal band that can be seen on the lower rim of the device it creates a sub pressure just over the foil.
The surrounding air is sucked inside the foil and with the air from the membranes. This generates a sub pressure over the device and the device is "hanging" in it. You could say that it is an inverted hovercraft. But instead of creating a pressure under the craft You create a sub pressure over it. Basically it is the same, it is only a matter of pressure differences. The sub pressure is modest but as we have a large area we also get a huge lifting force. There is one more way to create the sub pressure over the craft. You can let the air blow out on the top instead.
When the twisted air follows the Coanda surface it sweeps down the surrounding air and we get the sub pressure this way. If You want to read more about the Coanda effect follow this link . On this page You can read a lot about different applications and a very interesting new type of fan, the Jet Fan.
The principle of the "flats and angles" (type 1) is demonstrated in picture 1, where I have built a small (250 mm diameter, 80 mm high) prototype of the Jet Fan type (type1). I have also "rebuilt" my vacuum cleaner so it is blowing instead (my wife demanded a new one … ). The air blows out through a special nozzle so it forms a "disk" of blowing air.
Picture 2: When the nozzle with the "air disk" is placed close to the top, we can simulate what is happening on type 1. As You can see in the picture, the silk threads follow the air flow shoving the path.
Picture 3: Oh Yes, It works !
The Malmögroup will continue their work during 1998 with further testing of these ideas. We proposed a model of the membrane turbine and will continue to shape the moulds so we can multiply the membranes. A section of the body will also be designed as a test rig where it will be possible to test different profiles of the body and different types of nozzles and other things related to the device. We will also present the results on this page, please continue to check the site. I will write in the "what's new section" when there is more info.
UFO Sighting? 'White-Colored' UFO Witnessed Hovering Near Mexico’s Volcano, A Hotspot For Multiple Sightings (WATCH)
UFO Sighting? 'White-Colored' UFO Witnessed Hovering Near Mexico’s Volcano, A Hotspot For Multiple Sightings (WATCH)
The white and blurry object was filmed hovering near Popocatepetl Volcano located in Central Mexico. (Photo : YouTube screen shot/MIGUEL ANGEL HERNANDEZ)
A "white and blurry object" was filmed hovering near a volcano in Mexico on Nov. 23,Epoch Times reported.
The UFO was spotted near Popocatépetl volcano located in Central Mexico, according to an unidentified witness, who uploaded the footage on YouTube.
"The orb itself appears as a cloud and moves extremely fast. Its size is about that of a motorcycle, judging from the birds and the buildings," according to UFO Sightings Daily. "It looks like a fluffy white orb."
In the viral video, the camera can be seen following the blurry mysterious object as it flies across the sky. Although the fuzzy footage makes it difficult to figure out any of the UFO's physical appearance details, the object's behavior and flight path appear to be straight and smooth as it appears to gradually descend.
It's also unclear how close the unknown object is to the volcano and its neighboring mountain range.
The volcano's location, surrounded by several airports, makes it plausible for any sort of rare activity to be visible and filmed on video.
However according to OpenMinds, this could also mean that the object in the latest video is likely an airplane since its behavior resembles that of a conventional landing approach.
Popocatépetl, an active volcano that erupted as recently as 2013, has recently become known as a frequent hotspot for UFO sightings. With many witnesses recording mysterious aerial objects and posting them for UFO enthusiasts to examine, some allegedly even appear to show UFOs entering the volcano.
In June 2013, a UFO was photographed entering Popocatépetl volcano. Marc Dantonio, the chief photo and video analyst of the Mutual UFO Network, had told The Huffington Post that he believes "this is not a likely fake. I think, for the moment, this is a genuine image capture."
On Nov. 21, an object was reportedly spotted after Volcano De Fuego erupted in Mexico. Shortly after being uploaded, the video went viral.
"You have to watch carefully (pausing the video every second) or you will miss it. From its length compared to the diameter of the mouth of the volcano, we can determine the UFOs length is 100+ meters long. That explains the massive explosion and clouds that lasted for hours," UFO Sightings Daily reported.
About a month ago, a "cigar-shaped" UFO was also spotted flying into a volcano, according to witnesses.
Meanwhile, a number of conspiracy theories have asserted that alien bases are located miles inside or below the volcano.
Do ancient giants exist? Is science suppressing the findings of huge human skeletons? This documentary takes a look at why we aren’t seeing giant skeletons on display at museums.
(N.Morgan) Over the last several months, there has been unusual activity near or around the sun. The activity included UFOs appearing around the surface of the sun. Do these crafts somehow get energy from the sun? or are these science missions and they are merely observing the activities of the sun.
In the video presentation below, myunhauzen74 reviews the activity for the last couple of months and includes pictures and the types of UFOs we are seeing.
Er zijn steeds meer aanwijzingen dat er eigenlijk permanent UFO's om ons heen zijn, maar veelal verkerend in een andere dimensie.
Dat dit ook de reden is dat sommige mensen veel vaker een UFO zien dan anderen.
Iets minder dan een maand geleden schreven wij een artikel met de vraag hoe het kan dat de één met grote regelmaat UFO's waarneemt en een ander, hoe goed die ook naar de lucht kijkt, niets.
Wij schreven toen onder andere het volgende:
Waarschijnlijk moet het verschil in waarnemen worden gezocht in dimensies en frequenties; los van trefkans uiteraard. Het waarnemingsvermogen van de één heeft wellicht een iets breder frequentiespectrum dan de ander en is daardoor in staat beter en sneller “ongewone” dingen in het luchtruim waar te nemen.
Zo kan het dat iemand die op een avond buiten in de tuin staat helemaal niets ziet, terwijl een ander een lucht vol met vreemde vliegende objecten waarneemt.
Objecten die door de tegenwoordige camera's feilloos worden vastgelegd. Ook dus als je helemaal niets ziet, kun je een foto maken en later worden verrast door wat er op staat.
Iemand die wel het geluk heeft ongeveer permanent dingen in de lucht te zien, is één van onze lezers (dank voor je bijdrage!):
Hallo ik heb meerdere ufo ervaringen al vanaf jongs af aan. Ik zie ook regelmatig objecten in de lucht omdat ik ook vaak naar boven kijk wat de meeste mensen overigens niet vaak doen.
Ik kan het uitgebreid hebben over mijn ervaringen en waarnemingen maar dat is misschien voor een andere keer.
Nu heb ik in een tijdsbestek van 2 weken foto's kunnen maken die ik dan ook mee zal sturen. Mochten jullie(redactie)meer willen weten dan kan ik daar evt. later op terug komen maar dan moeten jullie maar even contact opnemen.
De foto's zijn genomen tussen Hoogwoud en Benningbroek in de afgelopen 2 weken. Je moet ze even uitvergroten !het zijn geen satellieten, helicopters,vliegtuigen en het is geen swamp gas.
Ze zijn geluidloos en maken onmogelijke bewegingen
Er zat geen sluitertijd op althans zodra je op het knopje druk dan neemt hij gelijk een foto en het was op mijn mobiel 5mp camera.
Ik heb ook bewust geprobeerd om bomen of huizen op de achtergrond te krijgen i.v.m. Verhoudingen.
Hier een eerste foto zonder uitvergroting waarbij je linksonder huizen ziet en een aantal verlichte stippen in de lucht.
En dan hier een aantal foto's met uitvergrotingen:
Ik beloof dat ik binnenkort met nog meer spectaculaire foto's zal komen aangezien ze zich regelmatig aan mij vertonen.
Ik heb al van jongs af aan contact met ze. Ik ben niet gek, vanaf 2007 ben ik echt ongelofelijke UFO's gaan zien. Maar ik denk dat een heleboel ook gewoon van hier zijn, geheime antizwaartekracht vliegtuigen.
Ik maak ook foto's van geesten en andere dingen die in een ander spectrum of dimensie zitten eerlijk gezegd ben ik paranormaal mijn ogen zijn ook wat gevoeliger dan gemiddeld ik kan bepaalde lichtspectrums zien.
Ik zie orbs met het blote oog zonder camera, entiteiten, schaduwmensen, UFO's en aliens. Ik ben ook gevoelig voor energie ik heb zoveel ervaringen teveel om op te noemen.
J. Prieto received a video of his uncle who had filmed an extraordinary UFO over the forest in Medellin, Colombia on November 16, 2014.
The footage shows a saucer-shaped UFO seen in several locations in South America. The UFO is similar to the saucer-shaped UFO filmed in South Wales, UK on November 30, 2014.
On his YouTube account were only 7 videos posted in 6 years time and not related to UFO events, so we may wonder if someone has forced him to remove the video and to close the account.
A meteorite from Mars has shown that Martian life is more probable than previously thought.
Did Mars ever have life? Does it still? A meteorite from Mars has reignited the old debate. An international team that includes scientists from EPFL has published a paper in the scientific journal Meteoritics and Planetary Sciences, showing that Martian life is more probable than previously thought. This is not the first time scientists have claimed to have found biological material on a meteorite. In fact, researchers at the Centre for Astrobiology at the University of Buckingham say they have several examples of extraterrestrial microorganisms found in meteorites. However, the debate ensues around the issue of whether the biological material was present before the meteorite entered Earth’s atmosphere or not.
Ejected from Mars during an explosion caused by an asteroid collision around 700,000 years ago. It is a small grey rock with a black, jagged, glassy surface. It has many small fissure in which water could enter and deposit material. It fell to Earth in Moroccan desert on July 18, 2011, in view of several eyewitnesses. Several research teams have already shown that this component is organic in nature. But they are still debating where the carbon came from.
According to Universe Today, the international team of researchers who made the analysis published their findings in a paper that appeared in the scientific journal Meteoritics and Planetary Sciences. The team included scientists from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), along with others from China, Japan and Germany. They are confident the rock is from Mars and the material within it is biological in origin.
There are several reasons that the scientist have come to their conclusions. One is that there was relatively very little time between when the meteorite landed and when it was collected. This allows little time for contamination.
These conclusions are supported by several intrinsic properties of the meteorite’s carbon, e.g. its ratio of carbon-13 to carbon-12. This was found to be significantly lower than the ratio of carbon-13 in the CO2 of Mars’s atmosphere, previously measured by the Phoenix and Curiosity rovers. Moreover, the difference between these ratios corresponds perfectly with what is observed on Earth between a piece of coal – which is biological in origin – and the carbon in the atmosphere. The researchers note that this organic matter could also have been brought to Mars when very primitive meteorites – carbonated chondrites – fell on it. However, they consider this scenario unlikely because such meteorites contain very low concentrations of organic matter.
Finally, they note “some of the carbon grains inside Tissint had hardened into diamond. There are no known conditions under which this could have occurred on the surface of the Moroccan desert — and certainly not in the time it took between the meteorite’s fall and discovery.”
Although they feel their evidence is strong, the scientists expect heavy scrutiny on their findings, as other findings of this nature have received, and they are open to other possibilities. Philippe Gillet, director of EPFL’s Earth and Planetary Sciences Laboratory and co-author of the study, told Universe Today, “Insisting on certainty is unwise, particularly on such a sensitive topic.”
We must keep an open mind and embrace the sweeping changes in understanding of our place in the Universe if this evidence is proven valid. We must pull ourselves out of the darkness and ignorance and pursuit the truth. The truth being that humans and all life on Earth is not unique in the Universe. Life abounds around the cosmos, we must claim our rightful spot in the pantheon of conscious minds that make up our Universe. If that means that we must throw out our old text books and religious text in favor of the truth, so be it. If this evidence is proven false makes no difference, it is just a matter of time before we hold the truth for what it is … self-evident.
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Astrobiologists say proof of extraterrestrial life abundant -
Astrobiologists say proof of extraterrestrial life abundant -
A team of astrobiologists say they have amassed enough evidence to prove life exists outside of planet Earth. This isn’t the first time the group has made such claims. However, on the tail of the alleged discovery of plankton on the International Space Station (ISS), they are now saying their evidence supports the possibility of this claim, and that their research continues to produce more evidence to support the existence of life in space.
The UK newspaper the Daily Express recently interviewed Professor Milton Wainwright, who is part of a team of scientists from the University of Sheffield and the University of Buckingham Centre for Astrobiology. He shared an image with the Daily Express that he says is proof of alien life.
The “Dragon Particle.” Scientists say this is an image of a space-borne biological entity. (Credit: University of Buckingham)
Professor Milton Wainwright. (Credit: University of Sheffield)
The image is of a “biological entity” that was retrieved from the stratosphere. Wainwright says, “The photo shows a structure colloquially called ‘the dragon particle’ which scientific analysis shows is made of carbon and oxygen and is therefore not a piece of cosmic or volcanic dust.”
He continued, “This is clearly a biology entity (about 10micron in size), although it is unclear whether it is part of a single organism or is made up of smaller, individual microbes.”
The samples were collected last year via a balloon that was sent into the stratosphere during the Perseid meteor shower. Once in the stratosphere, sterile slides were exposed capturing small biological organisms that the scientists believe could have only come from space.
Last year, after the team working with Wainwright presented some of their findings at an astrobiology conference in San Diego, his colleague, Professor Chandra Wickramasinghe of the University of Sheffield, told the Daily Mail, “Biological entities of this nature have not previously been reported occurring in the stratosphere.”
Skeptics say that the biological samples could have somehow made their way from Earth’s surface into the stratosphere. At the time of their discovery, Wickramasinghe argued that this was physically impossible. However, Wainwright gave the Daily Express other reasons why this is not likely.
“What is amazing is that these organisms appear on the sampling stubs in an absolutely pristine condition,” says Wainwright. He continued, “There is no pollen, grass or pollution particles found with them, or for that matter soil or volcanic dust.”
Given these findings, Wainwright argues, “Unless a means of lifting them from Earth exists which selectively sieves them out from other Earth-derived debris then they must be incoming from space.”
Furthermore, Wainwright says, “[The dragon particle] is certainly unusual and seems to be like nothing found on Earth.”
Russian cosmonauts Alexander Skvortsov (right) and Oleg Artemyev, both Expedition 40 flight engineers, participate in a session of extravehicular activity (EVA). (Credit: NASA/STSCI)
When Russian scientists announced the discovery of plankton on the ISS, there were similar suspicions that it could have been Earth based bacteria. However, Wainwright says, “The ISS is more than 200 miles from Earth, there is no way that anything of this size can get to that height from Earth.”
He says, “It is an amazing discovery and the evidence is overwhelming that these organisms have originated from outer space.”
According to Wainwright, “The only explanation is that they have come from elsewhere in space, and this supports long-held theories that plankton, and therefore all life on Earth including humans, originated from organisms in space.”
Professor Chandra Wickramasinghe (Credit: Davidnoy/Wikipedia)
Wickramasinghe is credited as being one of the co-developers of the theory of panspermia. This is the idea that life is abundant throughout the universe and is spread from planet to planet by meteors, comets, and asteroids. Wainwright agrees, and says, “The evidence points towards theories that complex living organisms are falling from the skies to Earth.”
Although many in the scientific community have been wary of the work done by the astrobioligists at the University of Sheffield and the University of Buckingham, Wainwright says, “There is growing evidence that says this DNA comes from space and it is carried into our atmosphere on micro-meteorites before dissipating.”
Earlier this year, astrobiologist Richard Hoover, who spent more than forty six years working with NASA, established the Astrobiology Research Group at the NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center, and was a visiting research professor with the Centre for Astrobiology at the University of Buckingham, told audiences at the International UFO Congress he also feels evidence of extraterrestrial life is abundant.
In an Open Minds interview conducted by Huffington Post writer Lee Speigel, he said “I am absolutely convinced that life is not restricted to the planet Earth because I have found the remains of lifeforms that are absolutely, conclusively extraterrestrial.”
As the evidence grows, perhaps we are on the cusp of proving that life is abundant in space and panspermia is how life is distributed thought the universe. Wainwright says, “If our findings are true they will forever alter our view of life and particularly evolution on Earth and we will need to rewrite our biology textbooks.”
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Space agency attempted to steal evidence of extraterrestrial life, claims Sri Lankan politician
Space agency attempted to steal evidence of extraterrestrial life, claims Sri Lankan politician
Wimal Weerawansa (Credit: Sri Lanka Government)
A politician in Sri Lanka says a team of “white gentlemen” from an international space agency tried to steal meteor fragments that prove alien life exists in order to hide from the world that “creationism is a blatant lie.”
According to the Sri Lanka’s Daily Mirror newspaper, Minister Wimal Weerawansa, the leader Sri Lanka’s Jathika Nidahas Peramuna political party, told a crowd at a temple that the attempted theft was part of western creationists’ attempt to undermine Buddhist teachings of the universe.
He says, ” This team attempted to take hold of this valuable evidence almost immediately after local scientists had made this vital discovery.”
“Why did they do this?” he asked. “It’s because they don’t want the world to know that creationism is a blatant lie. When it is proven that life outside planet earth exists, creationism would turn into a lie. This was a fact that was initially declared and proven by the Buddha and his teachings on the universe,” he said.
The alleged attempt to steal the meteor fragments has apparently not made it into western news as of yet. However, the claims that the meteor fragments hold evidence for extraterrestrial life have.
Sample of Anuradhapura meteorites. (Credit: Journal of Cosmology)
According to a paper in the Journal of Cosmology, published in February, 2014, the meteor fragments were found in a paddy field in the Sri Lankan district of Anuradhapura in December, 2013. In this paper, scientists from the Sri Lanka Institute of Nanotechnology, the Buckingham Center for Astrobiology at the University of Buckingham, and the Medical Research Institute in Colombo, Sir Lanka, claim they found what they believe to be “complex biological structures” inside the fragments, which are not of terrestrial origins.
In other words, these scientists claim they discovered extraterrestrial life, and as one would imagine, their claims have made headlines. In fact, their repeated claims of the discovery of extraterrestrial life have made headlines. The last time being earlier this month, when Professor Milton Wainwright, also from the Buckingham Center for Astrobiology, shared images of something he calls a “Dragon Particle.”
Milton and his colleagues believe that the Dragon Particle is a space-borne biological entity they retrieved using balloons they floated into the stratosphere.
The “Dragon Particle.” Scientists say this is an image of a space-borne biological entity. (Credit: University of Buckingham)
Besides these two cases, the scientists at the Buckingham Center for Astrobiology have made other announcements over the years of other discoveries of micro-organism they believe have come from space. In fact, members of their group have been credited with developing the theory of panspermia. This is the idea that life is abundant throughout the universe and is spread via asteroids and meteoroids.
So, if indeed these white gentlemen tried to steal the meteor fragments, their attempts to hide the truth from the world were thwarted. However, the belief in creationism does not seem to have suffered much from the announcements of these scientists. Their discoveries have largely been disputed. Many scientist believe the micro-organisms they have found were the result of contamination from the Earth.
Creationists do not seem to be the Buckingham Center for Astrobiology’s biggest adversaries, other scientists are. But rest assured that Milton and his buddies are working hard to prove extraterrestrial life exists, and their evidence seems to be growing.
I could find no details about an attempted theft of the meteor fragments. The director of the Buckingham Center for Astrobiology is Professor Chandra Wickramasinghe, who was born in Sri Lanka. Perhaps, it was some of his colleagues that Weerawansa mistook for meddling creationists? Or perhaps Weerawansa was partaking in some political rhetoric. Sometimes politicians do that sort of thing.
Either way, if there is a creationist conspiracy afoot, Weerawansa just called them out on it. I am sure they will think twice about attempting anymore shenanigans in Sri Lanka.
The year 2014 is at its end and our New Year of 2015 sits in front of us filled with endless unknowns. Those who are interested in the subject of UFO’s remain exactly as they started this ending year of 2014 with only confusion and that which is unexplained and unknown remaining that way. We continue by the millions across the world to see UFO’s, report UFO’s and some of us even have close encounters with UFO’s and those who pilot them.
The one fact that remains standard is that we continue to have no ideas who or what the strange objects we see are or who or what pilot or send them to visit us or why they visit. Those questions remain the same as they have for many years and look like they will remain unanswered for a the unseeable future.In my opinion the subject of UFO’s despite the fact that they are witnessed daily around this planet is locked in secrecy with ease by way of years of brainwashing , intimidation , confusion as well as many other forms of control that is used to keep society deaf dumb and blind to what goes on around them each and every day. We are easily kept in check by way of our social devices, computers, televisions, media, social media, plus many other methods that are used to keep the mass population living in false concepts of fake reality that form bubbles around the little earthlings by way of hand held gadgets, large screen TVs and lock step needs to be a cool or part of what’s in and easily yield to what we should follow or think.
The days of free thinking curious intelligence seems to be pretty much trash canned as we become a society that seems to be extremely content following along in fantasy built bubbles living silly lives that are produced by rings in our noses that technology easily uses to keep us all in line and frankly very dumb and controlled.I know that the UFO issue will continue and many people all over this planet will continue to see them, some will deal with them up close and sadly others will not only deal with them but never be seen again as I am sure the occupants of these unknown vehicles, ships whatever they are- take and keep a number of us each and every year.Besides a few useless organizations without training and a few private good people who are trying to keep the reports listed the subject of UFOs are left without interest or any type of agency or help for those who view them, deal with them or end up taken by these strange unexplained objects. I think this fact is as strange as the UFO issue. How can we be so nonchalant about something so amazing and interesting as alien life flying over our heads yet we (human beings) simply do not give a damn. We do not care who they are, where they come from or what they want. We are just too damn busy looking at our stupid phones. I have given up with society but I do continue to want to know what, who and why these things seem to be everywhere.For me to keep up with what is going on out there concerning the UFO issue I have been lucky to have a group of good people who like me want answers. I have had the pleasure of finding and relying on these good people who are giving their hard work and time in the hope that one day we will begin to find answers to the question of all these unexplained unknowns. One of my favorite people to follow for good information is my friend Ken Pfeifer . Ken operates two sites one called KEN PFEIFER WORLD UFO PHOTOS AND NEWSWWW.WORLDUFOPHOTOSANDNEWS.ORG and the other WWW.WORLDUFOPHOTOS.ORG Ken also has a Facebook page he keeps updated to try to bring the information that he finds about the UFO issue to those who really want to know what is happening and what people are seeing.I find amazing reports daily by way of Kens work and found that this past year of 2014 was active and full of strange crafts flying freely across our skies all throughout the year. I understand this will continue to be ongoing and anticipate that our new year of 2015 will be jam packed with new sightings and reports from all over the world.On December 11 @ 9:30 PM Eastern time Host Colin Knight and I will be interviewing Ken Pfeifer on Knight Talk Radio to find out what Ken thinks will be ahead for the New Year concerning the alien UFO issue and also what he feels were the highlights concerning these topics in 2014.Below I have included a few of the reports Ken has collected from this past year as well as the information to hear Ken on Knight Talk Radio
The Knight Talk team continues their quest for information. Host Colin Knight & Co-Host Chris Holly examine the sightings and contact with UFO’S past and present with renowed expert Ken Pfeifer. We invite you to tune in Thursday December 11th at 21:30hrs East to listen to the show…remember Phone lines shall be open for questions and statements. 347 324 3287 click below to be taken there http://www.blogtalkradio.com/terrachatnet/2014/12/12/ufo-discussion-with-ken-pfeifer–world-ufo-photos-and-newsorg
Long Island New York has been a known hot spot for the strange and unknown for at least 150 years. I can recall family stores of the unexplained being told going back to events that took place over 150 years ago. True to the nature of this strange long island sticking out in to the Atlantic Ocean continues to have odd things take place. The fall has always been an active time on Long Island for the strange to come alive and take hold of this island. This fall season is keeping true to this rule and I have been busy with emails and phone calls from those on Long Island reporting what they are seeing and finding.On November 18th and 19th I received reports from people living in Deer Park and West Babylon. The two towns are only a few miles apart and are located about 5 miles from the south shore coast of Long Island. The people who called from both towns told me the exact same thing. They all witnessed a bright light in the night sky that would stand still in the sky above the normal air traffic lanes shinning mostly a very bright white until suddenly it would start to move quickly to the left and right or shoot up in the sky or straight down much lower to the land while it changed colors to a neon pink, red or yellow and back to white. It would become standard again for a few minutes and suddenly once again move into action making long huge letter S shapes leaving a comet like tail behind it as it moved at incredible speeds. The object was seen and watched from dark and throughout the night on both nights. I asked if anyone reported it to the police or any type of agency. The response was sad to hear as I was told they did not know of any responsible source to report it to, did not want the ridicule of the police or media and instead looked up a fellow New Yorker on the inter net and called or emailed me. They were trying to take photos or video with their cell phones but to date I have not had anything sent to me. The people were watching this display by this object using binoculars, telescopes and rifle scopes. Using these items they say the maneuvers and speed of this object were amazing and unlike anything they had seen before.I had a call from another older gentleman last week who reported another UFO sighting also in that area of Long Island in the town of Lindenhurst which is also located on the south shore about three miles from the coast. This man was standing at the end of his driveway putting out the trash for pick up the next day when something in the sky caught his eye. There at about the level of normal air traffic coming from the east at incredible speed came a perfectly round orb that was a neon blue color he had never seen before. He told me the closest thing he could relate the color to would be the new bright L E D lights used at Christmas that shine especially bright and in colors not usually seen.The object flew from the far east end of Long Island across his town and headed towards New York City at an incredible speed. The man worked for years at a Long Island airport and told me he was certain without question it was not like anything or any color he had ever seen before and traveled at a speed that would not be possible for today’s aircraft’s. The man also reported it was silent and perfectly round without any break in its form or color.
The last Unidentified Flying Object report occurred also on Long Island in the town of Huntington and came from my own husband. He was working outside in front of our garage last week. It had just become dark and he was standing in the middle of our very long driveway that has a clear view of the night sky. He was standing there thinking about how he was going to go about the project he was working on and glanced up to look at the stars. He realized that among the stars and normal night sights stood two very bright very round lights that looked like headlights only spread out a bit too far. As he looked at them he realized they were moving in formation but would stop and simply hover before once again in perfect alignment start moving again. They would move right and left until they seemed to pick a direction they liked and move along across the sky in that manner. My husband noticed immediately that the only light was solid and white. There were no flashing or colored lights of any type on the two objects moving across the sky. He watched for about 60 seconds and looked away to blink as his eyes started to bother him from the bright lights. He only looked away for a second however when he reopened his eyes to focus once again on the two objects they were gone. They were nowhere at all in the sky to be found.
The October / November time of year has always been a very active time on Long Island for sightings of unknown objects being seen in our skies. So far it appears this fall season is following the past with reports being seen once again of crafts, orbs and lights we cannot explain
Large Triangle with Loud Rumbling Sound Moving Northwest in Baton Rouge. I was on my front porch looking at my phone when I suddenly heard a low rumbling noise that began to slowly get louder. At first being near Baton Rouge with our chemical plants, I thought the noise was the plant kicking up their flame stacks to burn more chemicals. Sometimes at night they do this and you can hear it for about 30 minutes to an hour. I walked out to get a better idea of which direction it was coming from and immediately noticed a group of flashing lights in the sky. I knew this couldn’t be airplanes flashing in the distance because the lights were in a triangle shape and they were all the same distance from me. Also the lights were flashing in sequential order from left to right in perfect timing. I watched as the sound got louder and then noticed they were all moving together towards northwest from original location I spotted it in. The lights lead me to believe instead of 5 different objects, this was one very large object; as large as my town and half of my town of Zachary, Louisiana. This would make it roughly 4 miles across. As it moved away I ran and woke my mother to have a second witness. My mom does not believe in UFOs and she was also convinced it was one large triangle. As it got further away the rumbling stopped and also the front light became solid and stayed on until no lights were visible. I would LOVE to know if anything was reported on Radar being I live near Baton Rouge airport. This also means I am used to flashing lights from planes and also study passing satellites and orbiting rocket bodies using a sky monitoring app for satellites in the sky. Lots of cloud cover tonight but clouds were very high. I did not see any single planes tonight though. These were the only lights. I always see strange objects because I watch the skies. I have seen more than one anomaly in the same direction from my front yard. But this was the first ever hearing anything and first triangle craft or at least formation.
During a period spanning just over two weeks in early to mid-August of 2014, three UFO sightings were reported from Jasper County and adjoining areas of its neighbor to the south, Newton County. In this column and in the near future, my intention is to inform my readers on all three of them. (My personal investigation into one incident of the trio is still in progress, and additional information on the other two may also be obtained.) The first occurred at 5:12 a.m. on the morning of Aug. 2, and the lone witness was a Missouri State Trooper driving north on Rangeline Road in the course of routine patrol. (Margie Kay, the Mutual UFO Network assistant state director, who had interviewed him, provided a transcript which was then posted on the UFO Casebook website, one of the best.) The officer first observed an unusual light in the northeastern sky, not far above the horizon. His first thought was that he was seeing a helicopter, since it was obviously too low to be a fixed wing aircraft. Then as it got closer, he was able to make out a triangular or teardrop-shaped craft with illuminated windows in the upper portion, through which he could see indistinct movement that he assumed to be passengers or crew members. The craft was estimated to be in excess of 100-feet in width and perhaps a fourth of that in height. At its nearest point to the witness, a distance of approximately 50 feet, red and yellow lights of various sizes were noted on the underside and a low hum could be heard emanating from the UFO. There was also evidence of a minor electromagnetic effect occurring at the moment the odd craft abruptly pivoted to fly off back to the east (at an undetermined speed) until it was no longer visible. At the moment the UFO performed its 180-degree rotation there was an approximate 15 second burst of static from the car’s radio. Adding to the mystery was the fact that the patrol car was stationary in the roadway after the object departed, although he did not remember stopping or even intending to do so, and the encounter had not seemed to last for 15 minutes as the vehicle’s clock indicated. (Before we take off into any wild speculation based on these seeming discrepancies, it should be noted that the excitement of the encounter at such close range could have easily been the culprit.) Finally, in an element that is often reported in such cases, the trooper watched a jet come from the east, making a wide looping curve to the north before returning to the east. If it was not searching for the unknown craft, its presence and maneuvers were quite a coincidence. The investigation into this potentially important encounter is ongoing. MUFON is still delving into it, and I have put out “feelers” to some of my own reliable sources in the area in an effort to not only learn more about the trooper’s experience but to possibly locate other possible corroborating witnesses. Less than two weeks after this undoubtedly unnerving encounter, a more typical event took place in the community of Sarcoxie, a relatively short distance southwest of the earlier sighting. The lone witness (gender not specified) had brought their dog outside and noticed a bright white light in the east-southeastern sky. It continued to grow in size until it reached the point of appearing as a luminous white sphere approximately one quarter the angular size of a full moon. (The witness’ wording seemed to indicate uncertainty as to whether the orb actually increased in physical size or simply appeared to from the object coming closer.) After moving a short distance to the south, the UFO reversed the process and became smaller and smaller until it was no longer visible. The entire incident had transpired in about one minute.
A disc-shaped UFO was reported by an Alabama witness at Huguley. The mysterious object had two bright, tubular-shaped lights, according to the testimony filed at witness reporting database of Mutual UFO Network (MUFON). The report, which is lodged under Case 61372, states that the classic-shaped UFO hovered over nearby treetops. The witness first saw the object when he was eastbound on the street near Huguley around 3 a.m. on 2 November 2014. He saw the mysterious object going down at slow speed from the west. The object hovered above treetops along the side of the road for a few seconds. He said that during the strange event, he was on the straight part of the highway and no other traffic, so he clearly saw the object without distractions. The report says that the witness saw the white lights very clearly, which were side-by-side on the bottom of the UFO and appeared to extend its whole length. However, the witness admitted that he did not saw the outline of the craft because it blended with the dark sky. The witness described the temperature as cool and mild with 45 or 50-degree range and it was only partly cloudy during that time. The object hovered for perhaps 5 seconds before it went up into the southeast sky with tremendous speed and quickly disappeared, the report says. The witness explained that the disappearance was very quick like it swoop upwards without changing direction and disappeared.
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LARGE BLACK UFO OBJECT WITNESSED OVER AUSTRALIA NOVEMBER 4, 2014 ….. BROADMEADOW AUSTRALIA
The event took place in District Park, next to Energy Australia Stadium in Broadmeadow NSW at 19:40 AEST. While I was jogging in the park, I looked up at a 70 degree angle in a NE direction where a moving yellowish light shone at me and caught my attention. I stopped jogging, removed my earphones and stood there to observe this strange light. The stars were yet to be visible and the moon was large and bright. I was more aware of the sky that night because I knew the space station was going to be visible at approximately 20:10 AEST. I have previously observed satellites and the space station; this was neither. At first I thought it was a helicopter as the Westpac Rescue Helipad is right next to the park. When I realized there was no sound, I became more concerned. The light was rotating from left to right in sporadic motion while moving up and down as though searching or observing. When the light was directly above me I could see the light positioned on the side of a matte-black disc object approximately 40 meters in diameter and at a height of approximately 250 meters. I became terrified and fearful for my safety. The object continued on a general path of approximately 60 km/h towards SE direction, although moving in a jolted and intermittent motion. At 20:10 AEST the space station rolled across the sky as expected.
HUGH TRIANGLE BLOCKS OUT THE STARS IN INDIANA 10-8-14 …… NEWBURGH INDIANA
Shape: Triangle – Duration: less than 1 minute. Very large triangle shaped craft over southern Indiana. My wife and I watch for shooting stars several times a week. Tonight we saw an orange light coming quickly from east to west. As it got closer it shifted into three lights. It appeared to be 200-300 feet long and maybe 100 feet wide. It made some sound, but was not loud like a jet. It looked similar to jets flying in formation, but when it was directly overhead we could see it was solid and blocked out stars as it passed in front of them. It was maybe half the altitude that the planes fly above our home. It was maybe half the altitude that the planes fly above our home. When it was roughly 1/2 mile past us it made a 90 degree turn and went northeast quickly. My 14 year old son also saw it. His take was it looked like a star destroyer from Star Wars. The two lights in the rear were rectangular and were taller than they were wide. The light on the front was thin and horizontal. This all happened with a very bright full moon so we could easily see the shape. Needless to say we are all freaked a little. We got on Google to see if anyone else saw anything and found this site.
STRANGE CLOSE ENCOUNTER WITH PHOTOS IN VIRGINIAAUGUST 24, 2014 …….. RICHMOND VIRGINIA
During a later-than-normal exercise walk I noticed a small, glowing, weird rod-shaped object hovering approximately 30 feet above the ground in th leafy, outer branches of a large tree behind a house in my tranquil, heavily-wooded suburban neighborhood of Stratford Hills in Richmond, Virginia. I’m 54 years old and I’ve been walking this route nearly every day for ten 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. 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 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. So I stopped and shot video with my iPhone 4S but with no zoom in vid mode I switched to still-shot so I could peer closer. I took 30 pics spanning about ten minutes and 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. 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.” So far, I have not shared this with the people who live in the house where the sighting took place because I did not want to run the risk of freaking them out, but coincidentally enough, they started leaving their back-porch floodlights on immediately in the wake of me seeing the UFO in their backyard. 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? I’ve been watching for the UFO/entity ever since during my exercise walks but no encore yet, and I wasn’t even going to submit a report because I didn’t know whether this clicking, glowing, morphing rod/orb was an “alien/UFO” or spiritual entity, but then some other odd “occurrences” came to my attention that made me change my college-educated mind:
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 man made 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).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.” 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 was the same day as my sighting!
SAME DAY UFO SIGHTINGS OVER FLORIDA OCTOBER 5, 2014 4 PM …….. JACKSONVILLE FLORIDADisc shaped object seen in the middle of the afternoon.
Driving north on highway 17 (Roosevelt blvd) at about 4pm just past NAS Jax towards my left (East) I would say maybe 2 or 3 miles away was a large probably disk shaped object (about the size of my Galaxy s4 held at arms length. I was traveling at about 60 mph and could not tell if this object was stationary or moving but I think stationary. I saw it a few times through the tree line until I reached San Juan ave. then it was just gone. When I first saw it it was level and the last time I saw it it was at about a 15 degree incline (no idea if it was facing down or up as the shape was very uniform). I was not the only driver to see it as I noticed other drivers trying to get a picture of it (I tried but was unable to get it without stopping and there was too much traffic to just stop). I honestly have no idea what this thing could have been. This just happened 25 minutes ago and I fine with you contacting me if you need to.
OCTOBER 5, 2014 10 AM …….. JACKSONVILLE FLORIDA White Disc In the Sky: Viewed From Riverside Avenue
So I had a terribly weird morning. I woke up with strep throat, which had started kicking in last night. I tried all types of medicines and finally gave up and went to the hospital. After being diagnosed and given my prescription for antibiotics and pain meds, I went to a diner and had breakfast while I waited for the pharmacy to open. At the diner I check my Facebook page and I read a message from my sister; Dad has cancer and is not going to do chemo. Then crying. Then pharmacy to pick up meds, call dad, he is too sick to talk, and eventually drive back home. I am one block from my house though and see this disc in the sky. It is a white disc, oval shaped. At first I just thought, “what a weird shaped cloud”, but then I realized it was moving. I passed my house and continued down the street to catch a better glimpse of this thing. I quickly reach for my phone to take a picture and it quickly flies away. I park at Memorial Park on the river and try to look for it , but it is no where to be seen. This is the second alien sighting I’ve seen in the last 6 months, and last time I was with two other friends (all of us sober!) who saw it as well. Last time it also happened that when we brought out our cameras it disappeared, but last time it was flashing different colors and it was also night time instead of daylight .
OCTOBER 5, 2014 ……… SAINT PETERSBURG FLORIDA We saw 2 large UFOs ‘docking’ in the sky at a 30 degree angle for a long time.
Driving home through downtown St. Petersburg, Fl. Sunday night, we spotted an oval ship, UFO high in the sky NW of the area. It most probably was over the Gulf of Mexico, near Maderia beach or Treasure Island. It just hung in the sky, about 10,000 feet or more up, was a beautiful pinkish color, slanted on a 30 degree angle. After our car moved slowly up the street going west, we spotted another UFO near it. Same way. It was not exhaust, nor a cloud or a weather balloon. Husband got it on video. If it were closer to the ground, it would be quite large, perhaps 3-4 miles large, estimating. They remained stationery and seemed like they were just docked there for the night.
ASTRONAUT REPORTS ALIEN CRAFT IN ORBIT WITH GEMINI 4 JUNE 7, 1965 ……… EARTH ORBIT
In June 1965, Major James McDivitt saw, filmed, and photographed an object, which approached the Gemini IV (3rd June – 7th June 1965) capsule in which they were orbiting the Earth, passing over Hawaii. The UFO had a long arm sticking out of it.Here is what Major James McDivitt repeated many times:
“I was flying with Ed White. He was sleeping at the time so I don’t have anybody to verify my story. We were drifting in space with the control engines shut down and all the instrumentation off (when) suddenly (an object) appeared in the window. It had a very definite shape – a cylindrical object – it was white – it had a long arm that stuck out on the side. I don’t know whether it was a very small object up close or a very large object a long ways away. There was nothing to judge by. I really don’t know how big it was. We had two cameras that were just floating in the spacecraft at the time, so I grabbed one and took a picture of (the object) and grabbed the other and took a picture. Then I turned on the rocket control systems because I was afraid we might hit it. At the time we were drifting – without checking I have no idea which way we were going – but as we drifted up a little farther the sun shone on the window of the spacecraft. The windshield was dirty – just like in an automobile, you can’t see through it. So I had the rocket control engines going again and moved the spacecraft so that the window was in darkness again – the object was gone. I called down later and told them what had happened and they went back and checked their records of other space debris that was flying around but we were never able to identify what it could have been. The film was sent back to NASA and reviewed by some NASA film technicians. One of them selected what he thought was what we talked about, at least before I had a chance to review it. It was not the picture – it was a picture of a sun reflection on the window.” The “Condon Report” is considered by almost all ufologists and by several scientists who participated to it as a deliberate attempt to debunk the UFO phenomenon, did validate the McDivitt UFO sighting and several other astronaut sightings: “There are three visual sightings made by the astronauts while in orbit which, in the judgment of the writer, have not been adequately explained. These are: 1. Gemini 4, astronaut McDivitt. Observation of a cylindrical object with a protuberance. 2. Gemini 4, astronaut McDivitt. Observation of a moving bright light at a higher level than the Gemini spacecraft. 3. Gemini 7, astronaut Borman saw what he described as a ‘bogey’ flying in formation with the spacecraft.” And later: “visual sightings made by the astronauts while in orbit which, in the judgment of the writer, have not been adequately explained…. Unexplained sightings which have been gleaned from a great mass of reports are a challenge to the analyst. Especially puzzling is Especially puzzling is the first one [The one presented here] of an object showing details such as arms protruding from a body having a noticeable angular extension. If the NORAD listing of objects near the GT-4 spacecraft at the time of the sighting is complete as it presumably is, we shall have to find a rational explanation or, alternatively, keep it on our list of unidentifieds.” In 1975, McDivitt adds: “I never made a big deal out of it. It was something I definitely couldn’t identify. I reported it to the ground … Ed was asleep and we were rotating at a pretty high rate in drifting flight. The windows were dirty, I recall … All of a sudden there was this white object out there. It looked like a beer can with a pencil sticking out of it at an angle. It had a definite cylinder shape, about three times as long as its diameter.” Maloney adds that the astronaut estimated that he got a 30-second look at the object. Furthermore, McDivitt said, the space agency made no attempt to prevent his telling his UFO story. A NORAD officer later handed to the well known debunker Klass a print of the Titan-II second stage. This, he told Klass, was what McDivitt had seen but was unable to identify: the Titan booster. Klass obtained a copy of the photo from NORAD and sent it to McDivitt, asking if it did not closely correspond to his verbal description of the UFO he had seen. McDivitt replied: “Thank you for sending me the slide of the Gemini-IV photograph. I very quickly identified the object in the photograph as the second stage of the Titan rocket which launched us … I am sure that this is not a photograph of the object which I described many times and which many people refer to as the Gemini IV UFO….”
A man seemingly photographed three UFOs in the sky recently over the Lincolnshire city of Lincoln in England.
Paul Howard, a retired airline captain, reportedly snapped the photo because the sunset was particularly beautiful that day. He took the photo, but did not notice the three unusual objects that appear in the photo until he reviewed it later.
He explains to the Lincolnshire Echo, “I hadn’t noticed anything strange when I took the photo but I was quite surprised to see three very interesting saucer-like shapes in the sky when I looked at the picture on my computer.”
The photo showing the three UFOs. (Credit: Lincolnshire Echo/Paul Howard)
Having spent thirty-three years as an airline captain, Howard says he never saw anything in the sky that he couldn’t explain. “So I was quite chuffed to have captured three UFOs on my camera,” he states.
The three objects that appear in his photo strongly resemble objects that appear in many other UFO photos–simple reflections from ceiling lights behind the photographer. Sure enough, it dawned on Howard that he had been inside when he snapped the photo, and he unintentionally “caught the reflection of the kitchen lights in the window.”
Although most UFOs, like the ones in Howard’s photo, can eventually be identified, there are still many mysterious physical aerial objects that cannot be identified. It is important to bring attention to instances like this photo to help people become better educated observers. By better familiarizing observers with the mundane, fewer of these objects will be reported as UFOs, and more attention can be placed on those truly mysterious aerial objects.
[Some of our readers may recall Inexplicata's presence as a column called "Orbis Tertius" in the UK's defunct UFO Matrix magazine. The following article was featured in an issue, and we reprint it here as a useful - and hopefully interesting - summary of classic cases for our newer readers. Some of the material can also be found in earlier Inexplicata entries -- SC]
Top ten lists are an unavoidable fact in the modern age, and “top ten” lists of ufology are no exception. But most UFO events elude simple lists, due to the complex nature of the cases themselves. So we shall endeavor to present some of the most intriguing cases emerging from the corner of the world that falls under this column’s purview.
Perhaps the first serious investigation of cases outside the United States was given by Jim and Coral Lorenzen of the now-defunct APRO (Aerial Phenomenon Research Organization). Much of their data was the result of collaboration with Brazilian Dr. Olavo Fontes, who had gained most of it firsthand from actual visits with participants in the events. Among these events were the aforementioned Villas Boas abduction, the Saturn-shaped craft photographed over the island of Trinidade, the saucer that exploded over Ubatuba and other cases with which the reader is probably familiar.
Truckers and Aliens
The strange abduction case of Argentinean truck driver Dionisio Llanca was overshadowed by the more immediate kidnapping of two fishermen in Pascagoula, Mississippi. Though they occurred within weeks of each other, the former case is just another of thousands of bizarre accounts. Or is it?
On Saturday, October 27, 1973, Llanca, a resident of the town of Bahia Blanca (well-known for its UFO-related incidents), had left on his truck to make a routine run. Just barely out of the city limits, in pitch darkness, he found the truck had developed a flat tire. Not having a dispatcher whom he could radio for help, Llanca got on with the business of changing the flat. A light in the distance "like car headlights" appeared to be heading his way. He felt relieved. Perhaps he could take a ride back into the town for help.
But the light was on the horizon rather than on the road. It changed from actinic white to brilliant blue, bathing the darkened countryside in azure light. Llanca was transfixed, and thought of getting closer to the light to find out what it was--until he realized he could not move.
The light emanated from a domed, saucer-shaped craft that came to hover meters away from his vehicle. To his horror he realized that there were beings standing beneath the glowing machine. They stood there, observing his futile shouting.
Next thing Dionisio knew, he was lying face down on wet grass, the sound of passing traffic filling his ears. In a state of total amnesia, Llanca stumbled around until a passing motorist offered him a lift. Seeing that he was visibly unwell, the driver took him to the Bahia Blanca hospital. Llanca recoiled at a doctor trying to examine him, and the services of a hypnotist were called to find out exactly what had happened to him.
Over a period of days, two physicians, Dr. Eladio Santos and Dr. Eduardo Mata, tried to reconstruct the man's memory and pry from him the mind-bending story. Resorting to Pentothal to break past the blockage, Llanca revealed his harrowing story:
After being held motionless by the occupants of the strange craft, he was approached by one of them, a female, who placed a small black device upon his index finger. The device took a sample of his blood and appeared to have a sedative effect, but did not diminish his fear in the least. The beings were described as longhaired, oval-eyed humanoids clad in silver coveralls with gloves and boots. Next, he was taken into the glowing craft on a beam of light. The entities continued performing their tests upon him, conversing with him in perfect Spanish, advising him: "they wished to see if humans could withstand living in their world."
Doctors Santos and Mata proceeded carefully with their sessions, realizing that Llanca was terrified to death of reliving his experience. Probing too deeply could cause the patient to snap.
But it was Llanca who surprised them.
After revealing detailed descriptions of the craft's interior, lighting, texture of the walls and other details, Llanca fell silent. The physicians realized they had struck another--possibly impenetrable--barrier. Then, like an automaton, Llanca recited:" I have a message from the beings in the craft, but I cannot say what it is. No matter what you or other Earth scientists do, there will remain the memory lapse while I was on the ship. I was there for 45 minutes."
The stunned doctors realized that it would not be possible to "unblock" the post-hypnotic command without placing Llanca's mind in jeopardy. They directed their efforts instead to help the man recover from the traumatic ordeal. In the wake of the equally dramatic events at Pascagoula, most investigators ignored Llanca’s case. Pedro Romaniuk, the Argentinean Ufologist, gathered a wealth of data on the case, as did Kevin Randle from APRO.
In the long run, the physicians’ fears came true. In 1976, Llanca was reportedly in Buenos Aires, claiming yet another contact with the “saucermen”, who had come for him in the town of Monte Grande. Little else is known of this event, but the truck driver was reported in various parts of the country after that. It is believed that he was eventually committed to a psychiatric hospital in the Patagonian city of Rawson.
Benign Radiation
Recent developments in the study of electromagnetic radiation have given us new insights on the effect of the various kinds of "rays" emitted from UFOs. Low frequency microwaves can cause irreparable damage to the human nervous system, and other wavelengths can actually be proven beneficial to humans in moderate amounts. Normally, 10 to 30 milligauss of exposure is considered to be acceptable, and it is what we receive from computer terminals, television sets, microwave ovens, and etcetera.
The "benign" rays issued from unidentified flying objects are few and far between when compared to the lethal ones that have been the topic of a dozen studies. The deaths of witnesses on account of exposure to unknown radiation are the discussed in a recent book by Jacques Vallée, in which he recounts alarming unprovoked attacks upon humans in northern Brazil. At the book's core are the attacks by machine-like devices referred to as "chupas" by the natives. Vallée leads us through nightmarish accounts in which the protagonists--who have no exposure to a "space minded" culture--give frank descriptions of injuries inflicted by beam and gas weapons, the deaths of friends and relatives in such attacks, and the aftereffects of such experiences.
V. Maceira, a 73-year-old man living on the outskirts of a rural town in Argentina, was calmly sipping tea one evening when a brilliantly illuminated object appeared out of nowhere in a nearby clearing. He could make out the forms of two beings clearly within the glowing object, and with the rustic courtesy of the gaucho, Maceira proffered his cup of "mate" tea to the new arrivals. His cat, which had just had a litter of kittens, bolted into the darkness away from the unnatural light, forsaking her young.
Events following the apparition of the alien craft proceeded quickly. Maceira saw the beings depart in a flash of light, and immediately began to feel ill, with slight vomiting and incontinence. Strange tendrils of fine, thread-like material streamed from his eyes and his blood cell count dropped. Investigators discovered that fish in an adjacent pond had died of unknown causes. Maceira's cat returned to its kittens, but displaying patches of burnt fur as if from extreme heat. But a totally unforeseen event began to transpire: Maceira began to acquire thoughts foreign to his experience and meager education. He was able to discuss the finer points of history, philosophy, medicine and astronomy with experts come from the capital to see him. To the amazement of his attending physicians, Maceira was growing a new set of teeth!
In the end, Maceira was taken to an undisclosed location to keep him from dying of exhaustion. Investigators, scholars and mere curiosity seekers were bombarding the old man incessantly in hopes of finding out what made him tick.
An Ecuadoran Incident with Ufonauts
The Azogues case is another of close observation of ufonaut activity by humans. On a night in the summer of 1965, an Ecuadoran civil engineer, Hector Crespo, his son Urgenio and a laborer, Francisco López, were approaching the town of Zullengo, halfway between the county seats of Cuenca and Azogues. They saw two shafts of light pointing vertically into the sky behind the bend of the road they were on. Believing it was an accident, the three turned back to offer assistance.
Instead of an overturned car they were faced by a disk-shaped machine projecting two shafts of light into the night sky from a transparent dome at its top. The three men cautiously approached the clearly not manmade device, crawling behind a raised levee to within 30 meters of the disk.
Mr. Crespo was able to notice that a compartment to the interior appeared to be open. A crimson glow poured out from within the craft, and complex instrumentation could be seen within. THe vehicle itself rested on telescoping legs with plate-like landing pads (like the Lunar Excursion Module from the Apollo missions) and gave the impression of tremendous weight.
Most impressive was the fact that they could see the device’s "crew". Three silent humanoid shapes stood ouside the craft, one of them appearing to work on the light beam projector. The other two looked on, and at one point handed their compatriot a tool. The scene riveted the witnesses, scared to death though they were.
The two beings standing idly by turned their attention toward the levee, as if aware of the presence of the humans, but unconcerned. An amber hued light that revolved around the edge of the craft was considered dangerous by the humans and at one point Urgenio Crespo became sick. Returning to the car, fearful of having been exposed to some form of radiation, Mr. Crespo was able to observe the departure of the UFO, which took off "in a flash" after wobbling up to a height. Crespo, with a good knowledge of drafting, produced renderings of what they had witnessed that evening. The creatures had been clad in resplendent silver coveralls with white belts at the waist. The helmets on their heads betrayed no breathing accessories. The headaches and fatigue experienced by the younger Crespo were attributed to fear more than any sort of exposure to harmful radiation.
Their sighting was corroborated by others who had seen a particularly bright object in the dark sky that very same night. One couple reported the object as having landed near their house, providing enough light to see the trees, rocks, creeks and trails of the terrain in astonishing detail.
The Venezuelan Experience
South America's largest producer of crude oil played a prominent part in UFO sightings during the 1960's, although spectacular cases--investigated by distinguished ufologist Francisco D'Amico, founder of the Extraterrestrial Phenomena Investigative Group (GIFE)-- also took place during the years that followed.
In October 1976, a giant UFO with pulsating multicolored lights moved slowly over the community of Plan de Manzano, pausing its immense bulk silently over a drum farm containing highly inflammable liquids. To terrified onlookers, it appeared as if the alien monstrosity was about to land on top of the depot, but it headed off into the night sky at a prodigious speed.
On New Years Day, January 1977, a UFO moved silently across the skies of Barquisimeto, on Venezuela's Caribbean coast, beginning a significant wave of sightings. Two weeks later, on January 23, a circular UFO giving off intense flashes of blue, green, yellow, and red landed in the community of Santa Rosa, in the state of Lara. Witnesses reported seeing the silhouettes of two diminutive humanoid occupants who moved in a robotic, controlled manner. The unknown craft emitted tremendous waves of heat, leaving a twelve-foot wide burn mark on the grass and singeing nearby shrubs and trees. Seven witnesses interviewed by GIFE agreed that the landed vehicle made a slight noise, but closer investigation was impossible due to the intense heat. Armando Loyo, one of the witnesses, declared having taken a flashlight to take a look at the UFO's interior. Before he could come any closer, the vehicle took off once more, nearly blinding him with its intense light. Venezuelan scientists visited the area but refused to issue a statement as to what had transpired that evening.
The summer months of 1977 were punctuated by repeated sightings of UFOs over the village of Duaca, 15 miles south of Barquisimeto. The townspeople mounted their own nocturnal skywatch, setting up "observation posts" on a number of rooftops scattered throughout the village. The number of observation posts enabled seeing UFOs from different angles, thus allowing for comparisons later on. At 9:50 p.m. on August 22, an orange-red vehicle calculated at being some fifty feet in diameter and flying at an altitude of 4000 feet, was sighted over the community and recorded by the members of the GIFE research team. Two more vehicles were seen that same evening.
As dramatic as these skywatches might have been, Venezuela would soon face a less pleasant aspect of the UFO phenomenon: the sudden appearance of unknown craft causing widespread failures of the power grid. Caracas, the nation's capital, and dozens of outlying cities were plunged into darkness on the night of December 31, 1978--almost two years to the day of the initial sighting. The blackout occurred shortly after midnight, prompting the cancellation of all official New Years celebrations. Radio stations had alerted the city to a flurry of UFO sightings which had taken place shortly before the blackout, and the Caracas Power Utility found itself at a loss to explain the probable cause of the power failure, which extended as far as the city of Maracay, fifty miles away from Caracas.
The Central American Power Station
Honduras is a land whose UFO sightings have been picked up by the world's wire services and then forgotten. There can be no doubt, however, that this small country--wedged between Guatemala and Nicaragua--sustained its highest level of UFO activity during the month of October 1978, when it fell prey to the same kind of blackout-producing vehicles that would affect Venezuela later the same year.
On October 14, at 6:10 p.m., a nationwide blackout left communities helpless for twenty minutes as reports of strange objects in the twilit skies flooded radio stations and the newsrooms of Honduran dailies. The advertising manager of one of the latter, Rogelio Bercián, happened to be among the witnesses to the unusual phenomena. At precisely 6:06 p.m., he declared in an article for Tegucigalpa's La Tribuna, he was working on his car on the vantage point of El Picacho hill, when he became aware of a strange object moving from south to north at considerable speed. Fearing it was a conventional airplane, he paid close attention to its maneuvers due to its velocity and the fact that it was headed for a populated area. The object suddenly executed a suicidal figure-eight maneuver, and Bercián then realized he was a looking at a colossal boomerang-shaped object with a brilliant light at its center. As it flew over Tocontin Airport, electrical current died over the city. The newspaper manager saw the streetlights grow dim before blacking out altogether. Other witnesses directly under the flight path of the triangular UFO were able to confirm Bercián's statement.
City officials preferred to find a more down-to-earth explanation for the blackout, and sought an answer from the power utility, the state-owned agency ENEE (National Electric Energy Company). Reports of "unexplained anomalies" at El Cañaveral, a power station quite far from Tegucigalpa, stated that this installation crashed after "a mysterious glow had been seen in the sky."
A hundred miles away from the Honduran capital, other power stations reported similar collapses of the energy grid. Engineers were at a loss to explain how localized blackouts in their areas could have affected the distant capital city. Martin Baide, Public Relations Officer for ENEE, was bold enough to suggest: "I do not personally discard the possibility that technologies greater than man's could be the cause of these anomalies, since we have been unable to offer a satisfactory explanation as to the true reason for the blackouts."
The massive power failure that occurred on October 27, 1978 involved an even greater UFO component. Aida Zúñiga, a secretarial school director in the town of Choluteca, to the south of Tegucigalpa, observed that shortly after six o'clock in the evening on that day, her students became aware of a light-emitting object concealed behind the clouds of a recent rainstorm. The cloud-swathed vehicle was described by one student as being reminiscent of the Mothership from Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Ms. Zúñiga declared that the object remained stationary, giving off lightning-like flashes just as the lights began to brown out and then disappear entirely throughout Choluteca. The UFO changed color from a yellowish red to a pale shade of pink before disappearing. After it had gone, it was noticed that the drizzle came to an end, and the power came back on line.
Two hours after the uncanny events over Choluteca, a strange vehicle was sighted over Tegucigalpa's La Leona substation. Miguel Herrero, a technician on duty at the substation, was watching television when an explosion among the transformers followed a sudden blue glow. He witnessed a blinding light rising up and away from the transformers. Witnesses on the streets reported seeing a circular red light more or less hovering over the substation. Roberto Aguiar, a cab driver, described the disk as having tendrils that moved around it in a circular motion.
The events of October 1978 may be considered unspectacular in the light of later developments in ufology, such as the rise in encounters with UFO occupants and the abduction epidemic, but it showcased the control that these objects have over our cities, and indeed over our way of life.
Uruguay’s UFO Situation
Sandwiched between Brazil and Argentina, Uruguay boasts a modest UFO history of its own, and a number of noted investigators of the phenomenon brought cases to the attention of ufology worldwide during the Sixties and Seventies. However, a major UFO flap may have taken place as recently as 1994, according to some anonymous documentation forwarded to Mexican ufologist Dr. Rafael Lara Palmeros. These papers provided information (largely from journalistic sources) on a mind-bending cross-section of ufologica, ranging from mere lights in the sky to interaction between humans and UFO occupants.
On March 3, 1994. A considerable number of residents in the town of Rivera, Uruguay confirmed that a UFO had flown over this locality during the early hours of the morning. The witnesses were workers at a refrigeration plant who were on their way to work. The object was moving at a moderate, constant speed and at a height of 500 meters (1600 feet), making circular movements.
The manager of a local radio station saw the object in the sky: According to Ernesto Fagúndez, he was able to distinguish several portholes through which crewmembers could be seen. "They were beings with enormous heads," he said. Later, the object was seen executing an odd maneuver. It allowed itself to dive over a bus that carried passengers on their way to work. Terrified at the imminent collision, the passengers leaped out of the bus and ran for their lives. The object did not collide with the bus and rose skyward, disappearing later. (As an additional detail we can add that Rivera is located on the border between Brazil and Uruguay, some 600 km. (37 mi.) from Montevideo (Note: it was later discovered that this story had originally transpired in 1978 and had been reported in the UFO press of the time).
A giant cigar-shaped UFO was allegedly seen in April 1994 in Rivera, on the Brazilian border. According to witnesses, the object had a length of 50 meters (160 ft.) and emitted bright orange flashes as it flew in a straight line toward the northeast. Suddenly, the intensity of the light diminished, and the object became invisible. Several witnesses claimed having seen 3 subdivisions in the cigar-shaped objects that may have escorted a larger one. According to the witnesses, a total of 4 compartments could be seen in these objects, leading many to believe it could be a "Mothership"
Residents of Florida, Uruguay, reported seeing a UFO flying across the sky during 18 minutes on the night of May 21, 1994. While the object was still visible in the sky, a surprise blackout plunged the city into darkness. According to one witness, journalist Luis del Castillo, it was a spherical object with white, red, and green lights on its sides, which moved off to the west. The official story on the power failure was "a sudden overload of the supply system which overrode safety systems." The manager of the Miguel Castro Ferreira Power Station was unable to come up with an explanation and dismissed it as "a coincidence." In the city of Artigas, some 700 km. from Montevideo, a family claimed having seen small allegedly extraterrestrial beings on at least 3 occasions. That morning, Wilson Eli Da Costa, 17, was in his garden when he noticed small footprints that appeared to have been made by a child. The following day he noticed more footprints. This news was shared with the rest of the family, who decided to keep it a secret. On the following day, Wilson's sister, Marta Elena Ari Da Costa, 16, saw a little man "with a very white complexion" looking into the house.
Later in the summer, five adults and a 10-year-old child in the city of Maldonado, 140 km from Montevideo, had a terrifying experience as they returned from Laguna del Sauce. At the 115 km. mark of the road leading to Punta del Este, the people travelling in the rear of the vehicle noticed "an enormous fireball" rise from a nearby field and head for their bus. They warned the driver, who saw the fiery object, thus initiating an impressive chase for over 5 kilometers. The witnesses stated that the fireball was so bright that it illuminated the entire area as if it were daylight. It moved in an east-west trajectory, following the same route as the bus. It finally broke off its pursuit and disappeared close to a naval base.
Villa Cebollati, a town in Rocha Province located some 250 km. from Montevideo, became the unwilling locale for contact with nonhumans. According to Julio César Cabrera, 45, two beings that were "very beautiful and green in color," appeared on his doorstep.
Cabrera, who was asleep in the early morning hours, was awakened by the sound of a loud horn, which he took to be that of his own car. Upon opening the car's door, a powerful electric discharge riveted him to the ground as a strange, white-faced, green skinned being, with slanted eyes and blonde hair, appeared out of thin air, accompanied by a beautiful female. According to Cabrera, both creatures began measuring his body while he remained paralyzed. Within minutes, the creatures had disappeared amid whitish smoke. No physical harm was inflicted upon the witness, and it appears he enjoyed the green creatures' visit.
On September 13, 1994. Five residents of Paso de las Velas, Florida Department, some 150 km. from Montevideo, claimed to have witnessed the collision of a UFO against the ground. The event took place after a lengthy storm, when the witnesses became aware of a solid rectangular object crossing the sky noiselessly. The orange rectangle suddenly plummeted to the ground, setting off an explosion that was heard for many kilometers around. Large plumes of smoke filled the air, but not traces of the object were found where the explosion took place.
Faced with all this information, the Uruguayan Air Force decided to accept all UFO-related information and investigate each case directly. This initiative was undertaken by the Receiving and Investigating Commission, affiliated to the Uruguayan Air Force, which first created a special file destined to collect all known cases occurring in the country. The new commission is to be headed by Lt.Col. Eduardo Aguirre, who requested the national media to forward any UFO information to his attention.
Colombia’s Andean Saucers
This major Andean republic has certainly provided its share of sightings. The problem -- echoed by many researchers both in the U.S. and in the rest of Latin America -- is that the vast majority of UFO reports come from disreputable journalistic sources that present bogus UFO stories to boost circulations. Such tales are dubbed noticias de verano ("summer tales", nearly identical to the English "junebugs") and are quickly forgotten.
Perhaps the most dramatic case involved a highly unusual "firefighting" UFO, a considerable break from the case histories involving fire-starting saucers. This particular case transpired in 1976 and was researched by Spanish investigator Salvador Freixedo, who was told of the incident by one of the protagonists involved.
Inés de Montaña, a well-known journalist for Bogotá's El Espectador described how an unidentified flying object had saved the hacienda that had been in her family for generations. The country estate, located in Tolima, a valley deep in the Andean range, was besieged by the flames of a nocturnal forest fire that illuminated the night sky with its angry flames, devouring vegetation and croplands. Farmhands ran in search of axes and sand with which to create a firebreak, since there was no water that could be used to extinguish the blaze. Their valiant efforts were in vain, for the dryness of the foliage only made the flames burn with greater intensity.
While the journalist looked on at the advancing line of fire from her bedroom window, a effulgent blue light in the smoke-filled sky caught her attention: it moved slowly and deliberately at a low altitude toward the imperiled area. De Montaña described it as "a helicopter of light".
The strange object appeared to be coming in for a landing, but upon reaching the height of the tallest palm trees, it rose again and departed with the same deliberate slowness which characterized its approach, leaving in its wake a luminous, comet-like tail -- a wave of such intense coldness that it extinguished the forest fire almost immediately, and caused the bemused onlookers to find warmer clothing. The UFO paused for a few seconds, and immediately began to move very slowly across the flames. As it moved, the fire died down as if doused with tons of water." The farmhands who had been doing their best to contain the spreading blaze were awestruck by the miraculous event.
In January 1977, a Boeing 727 airliner belonging to Colombia's Avianca airline, piloted by Gustavo Ferreira, was approaching Ibagué, a community west of Bogotá, when the crew suddenly became aware of a strong white light. Believing that another airliner had strayed into their path, Captain Ferreira promptly radioed the air traffic controllers at Bogota International Airport. They assured him that they had picked up the intruder on their radar and were tracking it.
There was little that the Avianca crew could do as the intense light source made a beeline toward their jet. In a matter of seconds, the mysterious light had stopped in mid-air. Passengers and crew were treated to the sight of an unidentified flying object three times the size of the airliner they were in. Captain Ferreira flashed his landing lights at the vehicle, which responded by changing color from white to red. A second flash of the landing lights prompted the UFO to turn green. Three minutes later, the strange object sped off out of sight. The airport traffic controllers estimated the UFO's speed to be some 20,000 miles an hour at a 99-degree angle before vanishing off their screens.
A flurry of UFO sightings filled the summer months of 1977: on July 6 of that year, residents of the community of El Socorro witnessed the flight of a six UFO "squadron" across the night skies over their town. The UFOs flew fast and low over El Socorro amid heavy rainfall, giving off bursts of red and white light. On July 20, shortly after 4 p.m., attorney Carlos Rangel, who was looking out the window of a doctors' office in downtown Bogotá, saw five UFOs engaging in maneuvers over the city. He promptly drew the attention of the nurses in the office as well as that of people walking on the street. The number of onlookers staring skyward, including those who got out of their cars to take a better look, caused a traffic jam that lasted well over an hour. Bogotá's El Liberal newspaper ran a photo taken by a staff photographer, depicting one of the UFOs in question. The photograph was accompanied by eyewitness testimony.
UFO activity over Colombia hasn't been significant over the past few years, but it could start up again at any given moment.
Chile’s Abduction Scenario
No chronicle of UFO activity in South America would be complete without the ample and dramatic case histories that have emerged from Chile. The clear nights of its vast northern salt deserts have provided an array of memorable sightings, causing some Latin American investigators to vote it "the country most visited by UFOs" during the 1970's.
The all-time Chilean classic case is the hair-raising (and beard growing) experience suffered by army corporal Armando Valdés Garrido. In the bitterly cold early morning hours of April 25, 1977, a military patrol of the Rancagua regiment led by Corporal Valdés and composed of soldiers Julio Rosas, Ivan Rojas, Pedro Rosales, Humberto Rojas, Germán Valle and Raúl Salinas, had decided to camp in a rocky, desolate area in the Andean foothills. a few miles east of the city of Putre.
One of the soldiers, who had been assigned sentry duty, rushed back to the corporal to inform him that a red light was hovering above a nearby peak. Suspecting that contrabandists may be at work, Valdés ordered his platoon to ready weapons and extinguish the campfire--their only source of warmth in the near-zero weather. The soldiers moved out toward the source of the purplish-red light, realizing in a matter of seconds that they weren't dealing with illegal activity or lost mountaineers. The light was moving down the hillside, but not on its surface.
Having complained earlier about the frigid temperature, the soldiers were stunned to discover that it was actually getting warmer as the light grew closer, turning into giant oval-shaped object which bathing them in its purplish-red glow.
The object landed some fifty feet away, swathed in a violet fog that stood out in stark contrast to the surrounding darkness. This was enough to cause panic among the young conscripts, but they found themselves unable to move. Weapon in hand, the corporal ventured forward alone into the unearthly fog, adding later that he felt attracted by something within the luminosity, and was standing no farther than nine feet away from his men when the purplish light engulfed him. The corporal stated for the record that his only recollection of the event was a dreamlike vision of falling down a deep well or chasm. He was also left with a feeling that he would meet again with the strange presence.
The truly amazing part of the story follows: the leaderless platoon witnessed the corporal's unexplained reappearance some fifteen minutes later, when they heard him calling for help. Valdés gave the appearance of having been drugged; his normally clean-shaven face showed dense beard, and his calendar wristwatch indicated that the time was 6:30 a.m. on the 30th of April, when it was still in fact 4:25 a.m. on the 25th. By all indications, the hapless military man had undergone a five-day sojourn in some unknown region of time and space. Hypnotic regression, which would ordinarily have been the procedure of choice in unlocking the "missing time", was expressly forbidden by the Chilean military. Medical specialists agreed that Valdés's panic at the ordeal, as well as the unknown radiation he had been subjected to, could have accelerated the growth of his facial hair, but no explanation was forthcoming about what had happened to his wristwatch.
Argentinean parapsychologist Antonio Las Heras conducted further research into the Valdés Case, as it came to be known, following a television appearance on Santiago's Channel 13, where he formed part of a panel with an aeronautical engineer and an astrophysicist who supported the corporal's claim. A few days prior to Las Heras' arrival in Chile, the Chilean Army had issued a communiqué confirming that Corporal Valdés and his platoon had come face to face with an unidentified phenomenon. The communiqué also added that the protagonists of the case had been forbidden to comment on the incident until military authorities had issued a final verdict. After conducting his own research, Las Heras felt that a solution to the mystery was in hand.
According to the parapsychologist, both the media and amateur investigators alike mistakenly suggested that the corporal had spent five days within a UFO, while only fifteen minutes had elapsed for the terrified onlookers. Las Heras posits that the corporal's digital timepiece "went crazy" upon entering the purple haze, probably as a result of electromagnetic fields emanating from the object. The digital watch was affected for a given period of time, finally stopping at a random time. In short, Valdés disappeared for only fifteen minutes, since his wristwatch had stopped shortly before his disappearance.
Las Heras challenged the theory that a space-time alteration took place, since exactly the opposite to what would be expected of any travel at relativistic speed is what happened: Valdés, the subject of the ordeal, was the one who aged, whereas the onlookers remained the same. According to the theory of relativity, the soldiers should have aged at least fifteen minutes, while the corporal should not have aged at all. On the other hand, Las Heras entirely agreed with the somatic explanation for the sudden growth of the corporal's beard.
A flood of sensationalistic information followed the Valdés Case: it was alleged that the corporal had shouted at the UFO: "Go! In the name of God, leave this place!" as if he were a country bumpkin facing a ghost; the local UFO press claimed that the corporal had been given a "message" by the vehicle's occupants. These, and other details, also proved untrue. Perhaps a 2010 release by Patricio Abuselme Hoffman – “Los centinelas de la noche” (The Night Sentries), covering the entire Valdés Case, will provide some long awaited answers.
After crisscrossing Chilean skies for decades, UFO activity dwindled in later decades down to a few unimportant sightings. According to an article from the EFE news agency, more than 400 confirmed sightings took place in the years before 1990. However, the period running from 1990 through 1994 has remained quiet. Not even the truck drivers who cross the Atacama Desert--the driest in the world, with a unique topography that resembles that of the moon on a starry night--have witnessed any sightings worthy of public attention.
In November 1990, a woman from a small community some 450 kilometers to the north of Santiago was violently awakened by a loud noise while an intense light, as bright as the Sun's, poured into her bedroom. The woman stated that she was filled with dread when she noticed a figure no more than 115 cm. tall standing at the door. It had very large eyes and ears and its skin was illuminated by a strong violet light (perhaps the same "purple haze" that engulfed Armando Valdés Garrido in 1977?).
One of the most spectacular of the cases befell a Chilean who revealed in August 1990 that 12 years earlier, in the middle of the antipodal winter and while traveling in his old car some 1000 km south of Santiago, he had had sexual relations with an extraterrestrial female.
Gaspar H.H., who was 66 years old at the time of his revelation, attained global notoriety when he told a major newspaper in the Chilean capital that he had been inside a spaceship for four hours and managed to establish telepathic communication with its occupants. Later on, he was placed on a bed that adapted to the contour of his body while skin samples were drawn. The ufonauts threw water on him to "decontaminate" him, after which sex with an extraterrestrial woman took place.
On October 8, 1994 a forest ranger in the Torres del Paine National Park, located in the Magallanes region, was allegedly chased by a gigantic UFO that hovered in the sky. The forest ranger, who has spent eighteen years in this particular park, was conducting a routine inspection when an enigmatic, spherical artifact that gave off a powerful beam of light surprised him.
Visibly upset, the ranger began a frantic race back to the Paso de la Muerte Shelter, some 17 kilometers away. He was pursued the entire distance by the object, which emitted "flashes of light". After gaining the shelter's safety, he was able to alert some comrades, who observed the UFO moving away at a high rate of speed. A driver identified as Arturo Cofre corroborated the forest ranger's testimony, stating that he had also witnessed the giant sphere over the so-called Cuernos del Paine. Carmen Salvat, an employee of the Hotel Explora, claimed to have seen a large luminous sphere moving in a northerly direction as it gave out potent red and violet flashes. As a final note, a tourist who wishes to remain anonymous (along with the forest ranger) said that the device managed to land, turning off all its lights before taking to the skies once more.
Part III of this article continues tomorrow Saturday, December 5, 2014!
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