UFO crash in Bolivia witnessed by thousands of people

Date: May 6, 1978
Location: El Taire Mountain, Bolivia

On May 6, 1978, at about 4:15 p.m., something crashed into a mountain near El Taire on the Bermejo River, the border between the Bolivian province of Tarija and Argentina.  Thousands of people saw this happening and later described the object as being cylindrical in shape with a flaming tail.   It had caused a supersonic bang that was heard up to 150 miles away.

                                

Photograph of El Taire mountain.The crash site is marked with an arrow. (credit: Hesemann)

                                  

The UFO crash in Bolivia. Sketch according to eyewitness reports. (credit: Hesemann)

Classification & Features

Type of Case/Report: StandardCase        
Hynek Classification:         
Shape of Object(s): Cylinder         
# of Witnesses: Multiple  
Special Features/Characteristics: Crash/Retrieval, Mass Sighting    

Full Report / Article

Source: Michael Hesemann, 1998

        On May 6, 1978, at about 4:15 p.m., something crashed into a mountain near El Taire on the Bermejo River, the border between the Bolivian province of Tarija and Argentina. Thousands of people saw this happening and later described the object as being cylindrical in shape with a flaming tail. It had caused a supersonic bang that was heard up to 150 miles away and that cracked windowpanes as far away as 30 miles in every direction. The next day, the papers were speculating on what had come down in that godforsaken place. The explanations ranged from meteorites to UFOs and belated reentry of some Apollo capsule. All of them referred to statements of eye witnesses.

Then it was announced that the Argentinian authorities had sent the 20th unit of the border police to the area in question to look for wreckage on their side of the border. The search in that mountainous country could last for weeks, so swarms of reporters went to the nearest big town, Aguas Blancas, to take up quarters there and await further developments, as well as to interview eyewitnesses in the town. And in fact, there were a number of witnesses who claimed to have seen the object. Most of them described it as oval or cylindrical and metallic. The army, too, seemed to be convinced that it was a UFO. Corporal Natalio Farfan Ruiz, the commandant of a small border police unit at the little village of La Marmora (800 inhabitants), confirmed the crash to Argentinian reporters saying: "It was about 4:30 p.m. when a cylindrical object made the earth tremble. Just imagine what would have happened if the UFO had fallen on the houses!" Policeman Juan Hurtado had also seen what had happened: "It looked like a gigantic wine container emitting a trace of white smoke. I saw it clearly. It flew directly above my head. I was on duty and at that moment was talking with three engineers from the mine in La Paz, when we saw the object crashing into the El Taire mountain. The impact was so strong that it threw me to the ground. The earth trembled at that moment."

Finally, the Bolivian Air Force sent three single-motored AT6 airplanes—a model from World War II—to the area and discovered the crash site on the southern slope of the El Taire mountain. Whereas the pilots found it impossible to land anywhere near it, the newspaper Clarin of Buenos Aires announced on May 14, that the object had been found. As proof, they quoted the police chief of Tarija: "Our men have discovered the object and inspected it, but have received no instructions for further action. It is a dull metallic cylinder twelve feet long with a few dents. No one knows what is inside it, and we are awaiting the arrival of various technical commissions. A NASA expert is also expected to arrive tomorrow morning."

As a matter of fact, no NASA expert came at Tarija.-Instead, two U.S. Air Force officers, Col. Robert Simmons and Maj. John Heise arrived. According to a newspaper, although these officers were officially on leave, they had been instructed to take the object to the United States in a Hercules C-130 transport machine, which was waiting for them at La Paz. When other newspapers made inquiries at the American Embassy regarding this secret mission of Simmons and Heise they were met with a denial. Only two years later, 5 relevant documents were released by the U.S. State Department: they revealed that Simmons and Heise had been assigned to the military attache of the U.S. Embassy in La Paz and did, in fact, fly to Tarija accompanied by an officer of the Bolivian Air Force, in connection with Project Moon Dust.

The first of these documents was a telex sent by the U.S. Ambassador in Bolivia, Paul H. Boeker, to the State Department. In that, he quoted newspaper reports and requested the department "to ask the relevant agencies whether they could explain what this object could be," adding "during the last week, more and more UFO reports are coming from this region." The answer was a telex classified "secret" dated May 18 in which the U.S. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance personally declared: "Preliminary information has been checked with appropriate government agencies. No direct correlation with known space objects that may have reentered the earth's atmosphere near May 6 can be made. However we are continuing to examine any possibilities."

He then referred the embassy to "State aerogram A-6343" of July 26, 1973, classified 'Secret,' "which provides background information and guidance for dealing with space objects. In particular any information pertaining to the pre-impact observations, direction of trajectory, number of objects observed, time of impact and detailed description, including any markings would be helpful." The next document was a "Moon Dust Message" of the office of the U.S. military attache, dated May 24, addressed to the Division for Foreign Technologies at the Wright Patterson Air Force Base and the headquarters of the U.S. Air Force at the Pentagon, classified as "confidential NOFORN (No Forwarding To Foreign Nationals)." Under reference Moon Dust, the military attache at La Paz reported that "they had taken pains to verify the press reports. " In addition to that, they had asked the general staff of the Bolivian Air Force and the chiefs of the Bolivian Army who had declared—apparently after a first unsuccessful attempt— "we have sent search troops to the area in question but have found nothing. " The army came to the conclusion that there could have been an object there, or maybe not, but to date they had found nothing. The attache added that he would send two officials to Tarija and promised, "We will keep you informed if anything turns up. " These "two officials," we can assume, were Simmons and Heise.

Regrettably, no further reports concerning the Simmons-Heise expedition were released and, to get a picture of what happened, we are forced to rely on reports in the Argentinian press. Apparently, however, nobody came to the conclusion that a meteorite had hit the earth. At the world-famous Smithsonian Institution there is a data bank of scientific occurrences, or an "alarm network," that keeps track of every volcanic eruption, every earthquake and every meteorite collision since 1973 with painstaking accuracy. The data bank reveals no mention of a meteorite falling during May 1978 at the Bolivian-Argentinian border. The Air Force documents reveal that the 1127th field activities group, which coordinated Project Moon Dust, was interested in another task besides the recoveiy of UFO wrecks and other space objects, represented by the code name HUMINT. This code name, short for Human Intelligence, means the collection of information from human sources through clandestine undercover methods—in contrast to interrogations, reading through files and correspondence, etc. In other words, it meant the collection of information about UFOs from reliable sources through a game of deceit. The method which was chosen to achieve HUMINTs goals was so bizarre that nobody outside the UFO community would believe it. It was the birth of the "Men In Black," subject of a Hollywood blockbuster movie in 1997. 

Case ID: 635

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Kelly Cahill Abduction

Date: August 8, 1993
Location: Dandenong foothills, Australia

In August 1993, 27-year-old Kelly Cahill, her husband and three children were driving home after a visit to a friend's house.  After midnight the Cahills first noticed the lights of a rounded craft with windows around it. It silently hovered above the road. Different colored lights were clearly visible on the bottom of the object.

                                

Artistic reconstruction of event by Chris Jones (Credit: Bill Chalker)

                                  

Kelly Cahill pointing to abductino location (Credit: UFO Casebook)

Classification & Features

Type of Case/Report: MajorCase        
Hynek Classification: CE4        
Special Features/Characteristics: Missing Time, Abduction, Witness Photo, Portholes/Windows         

More Articles on this Case

The Kelly Cahill Encounter

B.J. Booth/ UFO Casebook

  In August 1993, 27-year-old Kelly Cahill, her husband and three children were driving home after a visit to a friend's house. Their routine journey would soon become a harrowing trip into an unknown world of strange beings that occupied space but were void of color as we know it.               

Print / Other References

Chalker, Bill.  "The Oz Files: The Australian UFO Story."  1996. p.9-16.

Cahill, Kelly. "Encounter." 1996.

Story, Ronald. "The Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters." 2001. p.291-293.

Full Report / Article

Source: Bill Chalker, International UFO Reporter, Sept/Oct 1994, Vol 19, No 5       
[go to original source]                

        AN EXTRAORDINARY ENCOUNTER IN THE DANDENONG FOOTHILLS 
Bill Chalker, International UFO Reporter, Sept/Oct 1994, Vol 19, No 5

As a scientist I am always aware of the maxim that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. To date Mainstream UFO events have revealed some compelling evidence for their physical reality. The challenge for researchers has always been to determine if that evidence is consistent with an alien reality. Comparable evidence to support the reality of abduction events has been lacking Or relatively uncompelling. 

In my two decades of research into Australian abduction claims, it has been difficult not to hold the position that abduction cases have perhaps told me more about the human condition than they have about UFOs. What follows, however, is a report On an affair which may amount to evidence for a reality behind abduction reports.

Kelly Cahill, a 27 -year-old housewife and mother of three children, is a pivotal figure in a remarkable episode which may have much to tell experiencers and researchers alike. She contacted me on October 4, 1993, seeking assistance in understanding a bizarre experience she underwent near the outer Melbourne suburban housing estate of Narre Warren North, in the foothills of the Dandenongs, Victoria, between Belgrave and Fountain Gate, during the early hours of August 8, 1993.

Kelly told me that apart from her husband with her in their car, she was aware of another vehicle farther down the hill from their own position. That car contained at least two persons, a man and a woman. She paid little heed to them at the time because she and her husband had their attention riveted on a massive UFO which had landed in the field opposite them.

Because Kelly lived in Victoria and I live in New South Wales, I passed details of Kelly's experience on to John Auchettl of Phenomena Research Australia (PRA) and urged Kelly to contact him. PRA got on the case immediately .

By November 17 PRA had located the man and woman Kelly had seen that night. It turned out that the couple also had a friend (a woman) with them. These witnesses took Auchettl to the encounter site, to a spot consistent with Kelly's description. The group's drawings of the UFO and entities also closely coincide with Kelly' s.

Here we have a striking situation. Two groups of persons unknown to each other have witnessed the same UFO encounter and entities. They also experienced missing time, and each group has been available to competent investigators. Independent witnesses have provided information which enable cross-checking and correlations to reveal a remarkable amount of similar information. The result is a compelling case for the reality of the strange events.described. The ontological status of the events is further strengthened by a range of apparently related physical traces, including ground traces, a magnetic anomaly, and effects on some of the witnesses.

What is perhaps even more extraordinary about this case is that the second group described seeing yet another car parked farther back down from them. In it was (it appeared) one male who seemed to be gazing fixedly toward the encounter site. So we have the situation of three cars present: Kelly and her husband in one near the top of a hill, the three-person group (Bill, Jan, and Glenda) another 150 meters down the hill, and the other car, with one visible occupant, about 25 to 30 meters farther back.

The first two cars were parked with their lights off. The other had its lights on. This circumstance may explain an apparent anomaly, in that Kelly was able to glance down and spot the second car, with what to her seemed only two persons (in fact three), but the group of three could not see Kelly, her husband, or their car. It was a dark and cloudy night. Evidently Kelly could see the second car only because it was backlit by the headlights of the third car.

From the trio' s testimony, investigators could determine the location of this third car. The male was looking at the UFO's position through a break in the vegetation cover. The trio's evidence coupled with Kelly' s allowed for triangulation of the encounter site with the UFO. The location was consistent with the anomalies discovered (to be discussed later). Unfortunately, this potential additional witness has yet to be found.

Typically witnesses to these sorts of events are known to each other, and such relationships often beg the question of whether the witnessed events have emerged from shared delusions or even collusion. Through Auchettl, Kelly became aware of the independent witnesses, but they knew nothing of her existence until quite recently. Kelly tried hard to persuade Auchettl to give her the other group' s names, but he refused because he wanted to maintain the integrity of the testimony. Only when the investigation was completed did the three learn what Kelly had been saying. So far they have not attempted to contact her. PRA has uncovered no evidence of a previous connection between the Cahills and the other group.

After the encounter Kelly' s recollection faded from conscious memory, despite animated discussions about it with her husband in the immediate wake of the incident. Her husband remembered at least the UFO encounter but not the entities and has not acknowledged the missing time. It was her husband' s reference to the August 8 event at a barbecue on September 16 that led to Kelly's initial confused attempts to reconcile this troubling situation. Kelly found this temporary amnesia along, especially since she has vivid memories going all the way back to age two.

Other events began to be seen in a different and bizarre perspective. These included a "dream" she had immediately after the encounter, upon getting home and going to sleep on August 8, and two "dreamings" in September. Each involved (apparently) the same entities as those encountered on the road. The latter two "dreamings" had a strange physical dimension. A further two "dreamings" followed, one on October 23 and the last during January 1994.

Alarmed, Kelly sought help with little success from universities and aviation authorities. The latter gave her two UFO contact numbers, one in Victoria and mine in Sydney.

After getting no satisfaction from the Victorian group, she contacted me, and after our preliminary discussion of her experience, the PRA investigation commenced.

What follows is the transcript of an interview Kelly gave to my associate Robb Tilley on March 21 of this year.

The details are consistent with those recounted to me on October 4, 1993, in numerous conversations with me since then, with the PRA investigation, and with a manuscript she is writing about her experience.

THE INCIDENT

My husband and I were driving to my girl friend's place up in the mountains. It was her daughter's . . . birthday.

It was just after dark, and we were nearly there, about half an hour from her place. It takes us about an hour and a half from our place. It was just after 7.

[The area has] little bits of field . . . and then you run right into a major shopping centre. . . .

My husband drives really fast. . . . I'm just busy looking out the window . It's turned dark, and I look over towards this field as we are going past, and I see a ring of orange lights. It was the first time I ever thought I had seen something that wasn' t normal. . . . I was going to shut my mouth. I thought, "No, he' s just going to have a go at me." But a couple of minutes up the road I said, "I swear I saw a UFO." He said, "Don't be stupid! It was probably a helicopter." I said, "It wasn't making any noise. It was just sitting on the ground. Anyway, after a few jibes at me, he forgot all about it, and we arrived at [my girl friend's place].

When we were there, my friends bring up this conversation, about what I thought I had seen. Her father says, "You think you've seen little green men or something, . Kelly?" and all this sort of stuff. It was turned into a joke, and I just totally forgot about it.

We went out and played bingo. We came back. We had a bit of a problem about what time we left. As far as my husband's concerned, because we got home at 2:30 in the morning, it means we must have left at one o'clock.

But that night I think we left at a quarter to 12. We got back from bingo at about 1 1, and we didn't stay for very long because [my friend's] daughter' s boy friend had just . . . split up with her and had gone home with the new girl friend . . . and she was really upset and crying, and we didn't want to stay. So we weren't there for that long at all.

THE ENCOUNTER BEGINS

Anyway, we were driving back down the road in the same stretch. Both of us,just me and my husband . . . we both saw this ring, mind you ... . in front of us, hovering above the road. It was just something sitting there. . . . I couldn't tell what it was. We were at first far away, but as you got closer to it was sort of . . . well, it wasn't like the orange light in the field. It was a round shape with some sort of glass around, or what looked like windows and lights around the bottom. Because it was dark, you couldn't really tell at first. But as we got closer and closer, there was no noise or anything.

Even my husband's going. "You're right! That's something. That's very, very strange." And I swear we saw people in there, and then just as I said to him, "I swear there's people in there," it just shot off to the left as fast as it could go. I mean it just disappeared. Within a split second it had gone.

We kept driving and about a kilometre ahead, all of a sudden, there's this really, really bright light in front of us, and I've got my hand up, up above my brow, to look out the window, because it's that bright, but I can't see anything.

I said to [my husband], "What are you going to do?" He said, "l'm going to keep driving." From there, that is the last we remembered until . . . I knew I was going to see a UFO, you know, I just knew, because of what we had seen, I'd seen it twice in one night and he had seen it once . . . and the adrenalin is pumping, the heart is thumping, I'm so excited. All of a sudden I'm sitting in the car, and I'm saying to my husband, "What happened?" And he says to me, "I don't know. We must have gone around a corner or something." By the time we got home, he was definite of everything, but at that time he didn't know what happened either. I said to him, "I swear I've had a blackout," because adrenalin just doesn't disappear in a split second
like that. I mean your heart is going mad! And all of a sudden. . . .

One thing that really annoyed me was that I could smell vomit. I couldn't figure out where the smell of vomit was coming from.

I argue about this half the way home until it started getting ridiculous, and I ended up just shutting up to stop all the fighting that was going to come out of it, you know, because we fight like cats and dogs. . . .

As we were getting close to our home, about 20 minutes away from where we live (there was no one on the road), I saw a figure standing on the side of the road a tall dark figure. It was only for a couple of seconds, and I didn't relate it to anything until much later on at all. But it made me turn my head. I kept it in my mind, because it reminded me of a story I was told when I was a little girl about the headless horseman on the side of the road . . .because it was on the side of the road. It wasn't headless or anything,just this tall black figure. I saw it for only a couple of seconds, and then I couldn't see it anymore, but I thought I saw it.

POST ENCOUNTER FALLOUT

I get home. That night I actually had a dream about UFOs to top it all off, that something happened . . . but a whole lot of it went out of my head.

Kelly and her husband argued about what happened for part of the way home. They agree they saw a UFO but cannot agree on the feeling Kelly had of experiencing a blackout or missing time and seeing people. They also could both smell vomit. Each experienced unexplained stomach pain. For Kelly it was like a pain from severe muscle fatigue which radiated from her lower abdomen to the upper shoulders.

Later, after they got home, Kelly experienced menstrual bleeding and became quite ill. She had had her period only the week before. Eventually she entered the hospital with a womb infection. The doctors there said she must have been pregnant; either that, or she had had some kind of gynaecological operation. In fact, she had had neither in recent times. A strange triangular mark was also found on her abdomen along with a scar.

Kelly elaborated on these matters: But when I got home that night, that's when I found the triangular mark below my navel, with what I thought was a little laparoscopy cut, and I also started bleeding that night. Three and a half weeks later I ended up in hospital... . . [The hospital] actually did a laparoscopy, another laparoscopy. This was not when I first went in. I went back in later, another six weeks after that, because I had a lot of pains in my stomach and just wanted to have it checked to see what it was. And I still had the triangular mark there. . . .

They just did a blooming laparoscopy cut right next to it. [There was] no comment whatsoever. . . . I have a letter from a friend saying that she saw it.

CONSCIOUS RECOLLECTIONS

Kelly's recollections did not come from any hypnosis. Indeed she had only one session well after the main investigation had been completed. It failed to reveal anything of significance. Feeling that at best she had been only lightly under, she felt the session had been of little value.

With regard to the August 8 encounter, she recalls crossing the road to the paddock, seeing at first one tall black being with glowing red eyes, then many. These latter seemed to be approaching rapidly, as if gliding. The large group of tall black beings apparently were split into two groups, one focused on Kelly and her husband, the other one on the other people who had also crossed farther down the road. The rest of her recollection is largely confusing and fragmented. She experienced voices and blindness.

Kelly elaborated on how her memory came back: We went down to a girl friend's place a little bit later, a few weeks later, and the subject of UFOs came up, and her husband was saying, "Oh, I don't think they really exist." It was my husband that said, "If you had seen what Kelly and I saw, you might change your mind." I said, "What are you talking about?" You know, if I'd seen something, I'd have remembered it. I didn't even remember that I had seen it hovering in the middle of the road. It had been totally blanked out of my mind. And I search my head for days, because I knew he wouldn't say something if he didn't mean it. He was telling me, "Remember, on the way home from [your girl friend's], remember, it wasn't making any noise?" And I was just sitting there. I couldn't remember it.

And a few days later, all of a sudden I remembered it! It hit me! And .. . . then I remembered going into the light, and then I couldn't remember anything else. A couple of weeks after that, this started to really bug me, because I remembered that light, and I remember arguing with him all the wayhome, but it was all I did remember.

I went up to [my girl friend's] house again in October, this time for her other daughter's . . .birthday, and again we went to bingo. On the way home from bingo that night, we went along the same road, and as we passed a certain spot I just got this incredible feeling of terror go through me, I mean absolute terror. All of a sudden I just started remembering, and by the next morning I had remembered just about everything that happened, except there's still missing time that I can't.

What we had actually done, we had driven . . . into the light, but the road curved, and the light we had thought was in front of us was actually to our right-hand side. It was in the field, and it was massive. . . . [Estimates put the possible diameter of the UFO at the "size of a house" or perhaps close to 5O meters.] So it was very big.Why I knew it was very big was because we could have driven for five minutes. The road sort of wound around this part.

You could have driven for five minutes and not had it out of your sight the whole time.

Kelly and her husband had a clear, uninterrupted view of a craft of enormous size. It was much larger than the UFO seen a few minutesearlier, and it was at ground level in the field at the bottom of a gully area.

I asked him to stop the car, and we both got out. I remembered leaning back in, actually on the floor, to pick up my handbag, because I didn't go anywhere without my handbag. And that' s one of the sort of things that triggered off a lot of these memories doing that. The other thing was telling myself, "You are conscious. This is real! This is happening! This is real!". . . .

For a while it was just absolutely terrifying, but you can't help it because it sounds really wacky. I mean this is not the way it's supposed to happen at all. . . .

We crossed over the road. We jumped the gutter, and we walked up. . .I looked down the road, and there was another car-a light blue car-pulled up. Some people got out and went across the road. I only thought it was two, but it was actually three, but I didn' t pay much attention. They must have been at least a hundred meters down the road from us. When you've got something like that in front of you, and you' we got people down the road . . . well, I was more interested in what was in front of me than them, so I didn't get any detail. . . .

I'm standing there, and we are looking at this thing [for about 3O seconds]. All of a sudden there is a black figure on the field. It's about seven foot tall. . . . I knew it was really tall at the time.

For Kelly this was quite startling. She expected to see a human being, but this was not human. Kelly tried to use thought as a means of communication. She was immediately overwhelmed with fear. Its eyes seemed to turn to a red fire.

At the distance of about 150 meters, they possessed an extraordinary luminosity .

It started coming towards us, only slowly, and it had big red eyes. It sounds stupid, but it had great big round red eyes, like huge flies' eyes and they were red like, not like a reflection of red, but like burning red, like . . . fluorescent stop lights, I suppose, that sort of real burning red.

All of a sudden I started screaming out [to my husbands. . . . Now this has really got me baffled because of the fact that a human being doesn't know this, so I don't even know how I came out with this, but I started saying, "They've got no souls." And then I started screaming, "THEY'VE GOT NO SOULS!" Then all of a sudden there were heaps of them in the field, not just one, a whole heap of them, and they started coming towards us . . . faster than a man could run, and they were gliding off the ground. They got halfway across the field.

They split up. Some of them went towards the other people [two or three, Kelly thought]. and some of them [the rest] came towards us. Kelly found herself screaming to the other people down the road, "They're evil! They're going to kill us!"

The next thing I know, I felt this oomph! in my stomach, right across here like I was winded, but I was thrown right back, and I was on my back on the ground. I sat up, with my head between my knees. Here, I'm trying to stay conscious. I couldn't see. My eyes. . . . It was all black.

.. . . I'm screaming out to [my husband]. . . .

Kelly speculated that her "winding" may have been caused by an electric fence present at the site. That may or may not be true. The fence may not even have been on at the time. Even if it was, the power may not have been strong enough to generate the effect she described. Nonetheless this possibly prosaic incident led her into confusion over whether the forces she was confronting were "good" or "evil."

But the next thing I heard him saying, "Let go of me." His voice was all sort of cracked up with fear, and I'd never heard that from my husband. He's not frightened or afraid of anything. . . .

Then this male voice said, "We [don't] mean you any harm." And then he said, "Why did you hit Kelly then?" That's the last I heard of [my husband]. No one else talked except me. I heard the male voice. Then I heard myself saying, "Oh, God, I'm going to be sick." I've got my head between my knees, and I just felt, like, violently nauseous. Then I must have blacked out for a little while.

I don't remember being sick. Then I remember hearing talk about being a peaceful people, and I started screaming out, I said, "Don't believe them! They're going to steal your souls!" I know it sounds so ridiculous now, but at the time I was hysterically terrified. . . . I had never felt terror like that. Not even in my worst nightmares had I experienced terror like that. . . .

Oh, there's one thing I remember that he said: "I wouldn't harm her. She's my daughter." Now when I first saw the-on the way up to [my girl friend's] in the field, the first thing I did was pray. And I took it as sarcasm straight away. And it sounded like sarcasm. . . .

It sounded like there was even a small laugh after that. I don't know-it just wasn't good to me.

For Kelly, a strong faith in God often involved an ability to get answers to many of life's situations, albeit sometimes in the most subtle and unlikely ways. For her the brief observation of a possible UFO on the way to her girl friend's place on August 7 was perhaps a glimpse of one of life's mysteries, perhaps even a lesson from God. So she made a silent prayer which began with "Father." She thought for a moment, "Wait for me. I'll be back down this way in a few hours." To put this in context, it should be pointed out that Kelly had long been on a spiritual quest, anchored in a religious journey and a desire to understand the great mysteries.

Though she had little time for organized religions, she had a deep interest in the great religious works and had studied them, particularly the Bible, in great detail. Therefore, given her brief prayer for clarification of the nature of the UFO event on the way up to her friend, as well as the use of the word Father, she got a sense of "mockery" when she heard the voice saying, "She is my daughter."

Anyway, I started screaming and going on about demons trying to steal people's souls. . . . I like not to admit that it came from my mouth, but it did. . . . But I'm going to tell it the way it is.

Next thing I hear him saying, "Would somebody do something about .her?" And I felt a hand . . . touch my shoulder. It wasn't hard. It was quite gentle.That's when I absolutely cracked! I'm still sitting on the ground, and I couldn't see a thing, but I made sure that my eyes were just fierce. . . . Something snapped in me. Before that I was crying. All of a sudden something snapped in me, and I got so angry . Then I started screaming out, "How dare you do this to these innocent people?" Like it was my fault. Because I was on a big spiritual search, and I really got the impression that it was my fault. And I thought, why involve other people?. . . I felt like, almost like there was a fight for me. Like it was something I had to do. . . .

Anyway, I started screaming out stupid things, told them to go back where they came from. Next thing I remember I was sitting in the car. I've still got missing time.

When she found herself sitting in the car, her last memory was of driving into the light.

THE DREAM OF AUGUST 8, 1993

Once she was home and asleep, the night brought a bizarre dream. This dream is of interest in that it emerged within hours of the encounter and it places Kelly back in the encounter. The subsequent "dreamings" do not have this quality about them. Nonetheless they were unusual in their own way, for reasons that will shortly be apparent.

In the August 8 dream she is on the side of the road with her head between her knees. She becomes aware that she can see again. A being is leading her husband down the slope onto the field. Throughout the dream she is unable to see the beings above the level of their elbows. Their limbs seem long and thin.

Inexplicably convinced that the being with her husband is female, she tackles it and then blacks out. In the dream she once again regains consciousness to find herself on the extreme right of the field with the UFO further down the field to the left. Before her on the ground is a still body, at first nonhuman, then changing to human. A middle-aged woman standing further down the field is screaming at her, "Murderess! Murderess!" She is overcome with grief with no awareness of having killed anyone.

Still in the dream, a hand on her shoulder leads her, and she follows obediently. Eventually Kelly becomes aware that she is in a small room, with only a small table and a being standing before her. The being tells her she did not kill anyone and they had to use her sense of morality to overcome her fear. Kelly has a profound feeling that she knows this being. On a table behind the being is a Bible, one of hers, which had disappeared a few weeks before. The being gives Kelly a strange choice which deepens her suspicion of the beings' motives. She is told she can come but must leave the Bible behind. In the dream the being gives her this Bible.

The dream ends at that point. A few days after the encounter, her husband found the Bible in the car.

The "dreamings" mentioned earlier, first interpreted as something like a ghostly episode, take on a bizarre perspective when Kelly's recollections flooded back. The first two preceded the point when more complete recall of the events of August 8 returned.

THE "DREAMINGS"

The first started with a presence which warns her to be calm. Then a frightening "sucking" sensation begins as if something is being taken from her. She comes out of the dream terrified and is confronted by a tall black figure in a floor length hooded cloak, about seven feet tall, with glowing red eyes. She screams, and the being disappears.

Initially Kelly interpreted the being as like a "soul vampire" or the Grim Reaper. At the time she did not place this incident in a UFO context, since the memories had yet to resurface.

In the second "dreaming" she experiences her legs being lifted and drawn out of the bed. She wakes and once again finds the same or similar being present, but this time the cloak obscures the eyes.

When after I did remember it, I had another dream, and these dreams seemed very physical. I know I'm dreaming, and I've got to wake up out of them. . . .

In this particular one, I felt as if my legs were being pulled off the bed, and it was like I was paralysed from my waist down, and my legs were being pulled over to the side; yet I could almost use the top of my body. Then I'm grabbing a pillow, trying to hit my husband, to wake him up. . . . I'm fighting this. I'm not going to let this thing drag me off the bed by my legs. Then I woke up and saw it standing there again! This time the hood covered the eyes, and it didn't scare me. . . . I was still terrified, but it didn't scare me quite as much, because each time it scared me, it was that same power like I felt out in the field that night.

When I was sitting on the ground, it was like something, almost like a frequency or a sound vibration or something. And it's getting right into my head! And I couldn't get it together. Like I was trying to get my logical thoughts together, not logical, almost conscious thoughts, and I was fighting it the whole time, which is probably why I seemed to remember more than my husband or even the other people.

The third "dreaming" occurred at a friend' s place on October23 (see front cover). By then Kelly had experienced the flood of recollections. The two earlier "dreamings" took on an added significance, especially given the presence of the beings after Kelly had awakened from her "dreamings." This time she wakes from a "dreaming" which seems to take the form of a "peak experience" (as psychologist Abraham Maslow calls it; Richard Maurice Bucke defined it as the sense of"cosmic consciousness"). She sees apparently the same creature as before; but unlike earlier manifestations, it is naked and leaning over her as if about to kiss her navel area. It is tall, with a head much larger than normal, long and thin arms, with an abdomen out of proportion to its thin frame, like a child's stomach suffering from malnutrition.

Its skin is like gray-black plasticine. Kelly's screams turn into an "uninterrupted stream of hysteria" and words.

In the morning she insisted that her husband check under the car. She had heard a distinct voice during the night urging such a check. He ignored her request, but their car subsequently suffered such a problem.

Numerous other "psychic" events and "electrical disturbances" followed. Frequently their car started up when no one was inside it. The vehicle had a kill switch which rendered these events even more startling and curious. Kelly thought she had developed enhanced psychic powers. The electrical events apparently ended in January 1994, as did many of the psychic incidents.

The fourth "dreaming" occurred in January of this year.

In the dream the bathroom light is blown. There is a sense of presence. Something persistently tries to grab Kelly's right hand. Eventually she lets her hand be taken. Immediately she wakes up. Once again the creature in the black robe is standing by her bedside. It goes away. It turned out that the light had indeed blown and that diamond and sapphire rings .she wore on her right hand had disappeared. To date they have not
been found.

OTHER MATTERS

Other, earlier episodes, experiences, and issues of possible significance: . From July through September 1993 small orange fireballs, about the size of tennis balls, frequently hit the windows of the house. Kelly, her husband, and her mother witnessed the phenomena.

o About two and a half years earlier, at Lalor, Kelly had a peculiar dream in which she moved through a flesh-like hourglass apparatus. The same night she experienced a "vision" of opening their back door and seeing a light for a few seconds. Then she blacked out. Kelly experienced the same sense of power she felt in the field in August
1993.

o After the encounter and until July 1994, the Cahill house (built in 1949) had been the scene of fleeting observations of tall "shadows," seen by both Kelly and her husband.

o A bad smell occasionally permeated the house and seemed to move around.

THE OTHER WITNESSES

If the August 8 encounter had revolved only around Kelly, it could be argued that the experience may have been some sort of psychological episode. But the presence of other witnesses - a married couple and their friend, plus a possible other observer in a third car-forcefully argues for a real encounter. Indeed, the PRA contends that the focus of the incident was not Kelly but the two other women.

As in Kelly' s situation, the females in the other group seemed to play a dominant role. Bill, the male witness in the trio, appears, like Kelly's husband, to have had only limited involvement. The two women consciously recalled onboard episodes. They remembered the UFO and the tall black beings. Their description did not feature the red eyes Kelly saw.

For the trio the experience apparently started when they approached the site. All three could hear a strange noise and suddenly felt ill. Bill thought he was going to faint. He lost control of the car and ran off the road, striking a pole. After checking for damage, they drove off. A few minutes later a speeding car with its high beams on shot past them. Then another passed. They came to a bridge with a sharp turn following it almost immediately. Farther along this section the trio stopped. As all this was going on, Bill's vision was impaired. Obviously he had Some type of vision as he was driving, but he was unable to remember seeing the UFO. The two women with him recall the UFO clearly, and their descriptions closely match Kelly's.

In some unexplained manner Bill was isolated from the central experience. He has conscious recall of smells and sounds and remembers that a lot of activity was going on. He does not recall seeing anything. He subsequently underwent hypnosis, which expanded his apparent recollections to seeming onboard components, but once again these were through the senses of smell and hearing only.

The two women did not think of theirs as an "abduction" experience. They felt as if they had exercised free will all through it. Yet the principal element of their onboard experience was a form of examination-not, however, visually remembered. Other parts of their onboard experience exist in visual images and conscious memory. Hypnosis in their cases appears to have only reinforced what they recall already.

The entities did not speak and provided very little information. Neither woman saw the other or any of the others while in the alien environment presumably aboard the UFO. Curiously, each was still aware of what was happening to her companion, ostensibly through psychic means.

The trio apparently did not have the complex background experiences described by Kelly. Their experience seem limited only to the August 8 encounter.

There is also some physical evidence. PRA found a possible related ground trace and low-level magnetic anomaly at the encounter site.

COMMENT

Kelly has gone on to write her own account of the experience and its difficult aftermath. In October 1994 John Auchettl and PRA, whose investigative thoroughness is to be commended, released a comprehensive report on the affair. In this emotionally explosive area it is easy for people to get caught up in less than satisfactory situations while they attempt to understand extraordinary experiences. I hope this event and the documentation that flows from it will be of some help to others in similar situations.

The victims of these experiences must not be unrealistically encouraged by advocates of an alien presence; nor, at the other extreme, should they be ridiculed by the sceptical among us. They should be helped to deal with their experiences, whether those experiences turn out to be prosaic or profound in origin. The second part of this report will review the PRA report and examine in detail the accounts of the other group of witnesses. It will also consider the physical evidence and provide reflections on the nature and meaning of this event.

Update (12/6/02) The Cahill case, PRA & openness:

It should be noted that the above "comment" in the 1994 IUR report was prepared on the assumption that the "PRA comprehensive report on the affair" was about to be released. Despite nearly a decade passing, John Auchettl and PRA have not released their report other than a few fragments of information. 

As the researcher responsible for passing Kelly Cahill onto PRA in the first place, principally because I am NSW based and the incident occurred in Victoria, I have to say now that that decision was, in hindsight, a mistake. 

My comment in my 1994 IUR report: "John Auchettl and PRA, whose investigative thoroughness is to be commended", was based entirely on conversations with Auchettl and discussions with Kelly Cahill at the time (1993-1994), and in retrospect should have been qualified more accurately. While Auchettl & PRA may well have been thorough in their investigation, in reality there has been no way to absolutely verify this, because of their unwillingness to release their report and data on the case. PRA have offered some seemingly unusual and convoluted explanations for this lack of sharing.

I have long encouraged openness and sharing in UFO research (my web site is in part an expression of my position on this matter). My attempts to encourage PRA in this direction, from my perspective, have been very disappointing, and have instead lead me to not to refer cases to John Auchettl and PRA. Unless PRA changes their apparent lack of transparency and openness, researchers and witnesses should carefully consider the wisdom of cooperating with Phenomena Research Australia (PRA). 

Regards, Bill

Case ID: 187

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25-02-2015 om 17:49 geschreven door peter  

UFO mania: UFO Sightings UFO Crash In Canada!? Chief Of Jackhead Speaks? Exclusive Interview

 

Chief Of Jackhead Speaks? Thirdphaseofmoon Interviews Possibly the Chief Of Jackhead First Nation Reservation In Regards To the Possible Biggest UFO Event In Canadian History! [Exclusive Interview] 2/24/2015 

25-02-2015 om 16:40 geschreven door peter  

Extraterrestial Disclosure: Are We Ready? Are YOU...?

February 25, 2015 - When in his final tweet as a presidential adviser, John Podesta said that he was disappointed that he had been unable to achieve release of still secret UFO files in 2014, the general media at first assumed that it was a joke. When his past record on the subject became clear and it was realized that he wasn't joking, most outlets fell silent. The New York Times, the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal were all silent. And yet it's major news when a man of Podesta's stature, not to say his access to classified documents, says something like that.

The silence is telling. It comes because the major media has a seventy year long commitment to the idea that there are no aliens here and the whole subject is nonsense. Scientists and intellectuals, in general, take the same position. The general public, on the other hand, is either indifferent or mildly interested. Religious authorities, led by the Catholic Church, seem more able to face this possibility than those of us who are at the forefront of human exploration, as are scientists and intellectuals.

Years ago at the World Affairs Conference at the University of Colorado, I talked with astronaut Rusty Schweikart about this resistance. He said, "I guess I don't want the way to Mars to be a well-worn path." I thought that, in those few words, he made an enormously important point. The people at the leading edge fear disempowerment. We are trying to find ourselves and our place in the universe, and our scientists and humanists are the ones making the discoveries and gaining the insights.

For example, NASA is just now beginning to think about the possibility of interstellar travel. What happens if that's trumped and turns out to be a commonplace? Generations of exploration will never happen. And what of the mysteries of culture and being that are addressed in philosophy? What if there is a definitive answer to the fundamental philosophical question, 'Why is there something rather than nothing?'

How can we bear to go from our present place in discovery to the end of it? If we come into contact, that could be something we must face.  Unless, of course, contact is not what it seems.

And, in fact, that might very well be the case. Not that aliens may not be involved, but rather that 'alien' is the wrong word to describe them. I think that a good beginning would be to discard the 'us' vs. 'them' assumption and start with a new one: we don't know what they are, no more than we know what we are.

In this way we can replace what are already tired assumptions about 'the alien' with a new direction that is filled with wonder and rich with empowerment. Of course, we won't do that, at least not initially. The media will rush to the conventional UFO investigators like Stanton Friedman and Leslie Kean, and possibly some officials like John Podesta and even some presently concealed 'insiders.' They will tell a story that, while it isn't untrue, is also not the whole truth. A beginning, certainly, but also exactly the story that is going to leave mankind's intellectual leading edge in a very difficult space, facing the very sort of disempowerment that could fatally blunt our culture's exploratory sharpness.

This must not be and it need not be. This is because there is a larger, more important reality behind the conventional UFO stories. It is about the way we and the visitors are interpenetrated. It is about finding them in us and us in them. It is about discovering, for example, why it is that, during the abduction years, so many of us encountered our dead along with them. And how they communicate. (A thought: We might begin by by forgetting things like instructions and channeled material, unless there comes to be objective proof that any of it is real.)

What communication we have actually received seems to have been more by way of demonstration.  For example, in narrative after narrative, the visitors have identified themselves with the owl. And sure enough, if you study the owl, you will find a whole lot that seems to reflect the way the visitors act in our lives. It's not simple, though. Deep, serious study of the species and of the close encounter narratives will reward one with useful insights about how they want us to see them, and, above all, the place they occupy in nature and the cosmos...and the one we occupy.

The truth is that the scientific and intellectual communities stand to gain the most by disclosure, but it is going to be crucial to at once look past the 'alien vs. human' assumptions and the UFO material, and into the real depths that will open within us and before us.

This will by no means disempower us. On the contrary, it will open useful opportunities to advance our sciences and deepen our cultures in ways that are just now coming into focus. We are going to be able to approach basic questions of science and philosophy in entirely new ways. Just knowing that we are in some way involved in this previously hidden inner and outer form of communication tempts us much more toward renaissance than decline.

We must see this for what it has the potential to be: a feast of newness and discovery. But we should not forget the owl, dangerous bird of the night.

By Whitley Strieber

{ http://m.disclose.tv/ }

25-02-2015 om 16:35 geschreven door peter  

UFO Over Russia Gets Attention On Instagram and Twitter, Feb 19, 2015, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: February 19, 2015 at 19:35 hours
Location of sighting: Vladivostok, Russia
News Source: http://primamedia.ru/news/society/19.02.2015/422100/neobichnie-oblaka-nad-vladivostokom-privlekli-vnimanie-internet-pol.html

Guys, this is not a normal UFO. Its like a drone, but its soul purpose is to create cloud cover for UFOs. I saw 4 such things create 4 cloud tunnels above Rapid City, SD back in 189-1990, then glowing bus size UFOs shot through them. I believe this is a cloud maker drone, either learning or testing its new tech...much like a new printer printing out a test page or two before it starts normal work. 

The cloud maker itself can only be seen partially with the help of infrared filters, for example I saw one in Taiwan when using an old sony cam with an ir filter on it. I caught it only for 1-2 seconds, but what I saw was a three arm star that turned on its end like a wheel, churning the clouds as it moved through it. I believe that is what made these clouds in Russia...a alien drone whose soul purpose it to create cloud cover for UFO activity. SCW

Russian News States: (Translated)
"Unusual" clouds over Vladivostok attracted the attention of users of social networks. The most popular version of the appearance of clouds - UFO (MULTIMEDIA) Photos from the event from other sources. Unusual clouds over Vladivostok. Photo by: Screenshot Instagram user @primdesign

Vladivostok, February 19, PrimaMedia. Users of popular social networks Twitter and Instagram got a surprise today, February 19, with the appearance of unusual shaped clouds in the sky over Vladivostok. In the photos, which appeared on the Internet more than a dozen tweets, and videos can be seen depicted quite remarkable "white circles", which immediately began to ascribe extraterrestrial origin, RIA PrimaMedia.

Unusual cloud appeared over Vladivostok at lunchtime and instantly became an eye camera lens and gadgets of many citizens. Some expressed concern, if not a UFO has left its mark. Others argue that these bands could leave the plane.

Unfortunately, the editors failed today to receive comments from meteorologists and physicists to discuss what could cause such an unusual form of clouds. Sure that all the laws of physics could explain it all, for example, thereby "effect of the Prandtl-Gloerta", which is most often remembered today internet users. We are talking about the origin of the clouds after the plane. All the same plane?

The emergence of the cloud due to the effect of the Prandtl-Gloerta depends not only on the speed of the aircraft, but also on the temperature and humidity. In normal or slightly elevated humidity cloud formed only at speeds close to the speed of sound. In extreme humidity effect can be observed at lower (transonic, "transonic") speeds.

25-02-2015 om 16:29 geschreven door peter  

UFO DOCUMENTARY   The presence of aliens on Earth 2014   2015

UFO Disclosure - New Aliens Documentary Full documentary 2015

UFO DOCUMENTARY 2015: Can't deny the existence of UFOs in the world 2015

25-02-2015 om 16:20 geschreven door peter  

UFO Crash Filmed in Manitoba CANADA by Witness!

New amazing video footage of a UFO Crash Filmed in Manitoba CANADA by Witness!.

25-02-2015 om 14:20 geschreven door peter  

UFo hovering above Chile 24-Feb-2015

New video of a bright unidentified flying object hovering above Antofagasta, a port city in northern Chile. This footage was taken on Tuesday, 24th February 2015.

{ http://www.latest-ufo-sightings.net/ }

25-02-2015 om 14:17 geschreven door peter  

Push is on for 'comprehensive' extraterrestrial hearings on Capitol Hill

We’ve recently seen a drone crash a congressional hearing on drones, but what would happen if there was a hearing on extraterrestrial life?

Stephen Bassett, executive director of Paradigm Research Group and founder of the Extraterrestrial Phenomena Political Action Committee would like to find out.

While he’s pushed for congressional hearings on the topic in the past, Bassett is launching a new effort to overcome the “truth embargo” about the government’s involvement with alien life forms.

It comes in the form of “The Congressional Hearings Initiative.”

“Once this evidence is properly looked at, the way it should be, any reasonable person will come to the same conclusion,” Bassett told Roll Call.

Bassett is flooding approximately 180 members of Congress with meeting requests.

And if Basset gets his way, he doesn’t just want some skimpy meeting done for show.

“The goal is to get one of the committees to commit for comprehensive hearings,” Basset said. “Not three witnesses, come up [to] the Hill for half a day and give ’em a spiel. I’m talking about 25, 30, 35 witnesses, at least, testifying over a week, two weeks if possible. The reason is we’ve got those witnesses and the issue is not an issue that you can dispense with something trivial.”

Two people Bassett should get in his corner: John Podesta, President Barack Obama’s counselor, and former President Bill Clinton.

Considering Podesta’s comments that his “biggest failure” was not securing the disclosure of UFO files, it’s a natural fit.

And as far as Clinton, he did once tell Jimmy Kimmel that maybe the only way to united the world would be with an alien invasion.

So really, a congressional hearing on extraterrestrial life could also double as a world peace hearing.

Here’s our vote for the first witness if that hearing takes place:

h/t: Roll Call

25-02-2015 om 13:08 geschreven door peter  

The Battle of Los Angeles

The mystery remains of what the U.S. military was shooting at over Los Angeles

You are a soldier of the American Military in the middle of World War 2 stationed on California’s West Coast. It’s been a arduous three months since the surprise attack on Pearl Harbour. Your CO has ordered you to keep an eye out for possible Japanese sneak attacks. Just last night, a submarine was spotted further north, attempting to destroy an oil refinery – a key target in a conflict that had raged for years now. It is now just after 2am. What was that?

That is the question that historians, veterans, investigators and the general public have been pondering for 70 years now. What was that thing? Was there anything really there?

The debate rages on even now. Regardless of what was spotted, the understandable response of a tense and suspicious army was to fire everything it had at the object and blow the thing completely out of the sky. Approximately 15000 shells later, the apparently undamaged object disappears. Six casualties are reported on the ground; confusion surrounds their fate. Popular consensus stated that the shelling was responsible, but cardiac arrests were reported. If the Air raid sirens and the bombardment of AAA guns did anything, it was to wake up the entire city. Witnesses reported everything from single white lights to a giant alien mothership.

Of course this epic encounter was sandwiched roughly half way between the infamous War of the Worlds radio broadcast and the Kenneth Arnold sightings. With everything that was taking place, only one man took the time to record the event photographically. This picture, shown in this article, has become one of the most enduring and iconic of all UFO photographs on record. While it has been retouched and restored, a routine practice for most photography of the era, the LA Times has categorically denied any and all accusations that it has somehow doctored or enhanced the photograph. The image does support the notion that something was hovering or moving at the time. A recent curiosity came to light when UFO researcher Ben Hanson (of Fact or Faked) researched the encounter; the negative stored within the LA Times archive was discovered to be a copy and not an original.

The Press and Media had a field day during and shortly after the sighting. CBS reported on the incident as if it were broadcast live but was, in fact, recorded several hours after the last of the shelling had stopped. Press conferences were arranged and held as promptly as could be realistically expected. Some of these insisted on explanations such as false alarms, practice drills and a combination of mass hysteria and vivid imaginations. The official verdict was that the entire episode was caused by a lack of proper knowledge of the primitive radar technology, heightened tensions of the War and what may or may not have happened and general confusion. Surely someone must have realised this at some point during the two or three barrage.

Reports of wreckage being found and shipped off somewhere were denied. It is possible that some of the shelling had somehow been mistaken for debris from whatever was thought to be gliding over the skies that night. It was also thought that the shells themselves were taken to be enemy aircraft and fired upon as well. It cannot be refuted that the War itself was a contributing factor to whatever was going on at the time. Five years before or after might have made a difference. When the conclusion of hostilities arrived, the Japanese military insisted that none of their aircraft or forces were involved in whatever was seen during that particular night-time.

Every side in this fascinating tale has denied any culpability of responsibility, which is likely to mean that The Battle of Los Angeles is a mystery not likely to be solved to any great satisfaction.

Sources: The Complete UFO Sightings Catalogue (Peter Brookesmith), UFOs Declassified (Yesterday TV Channel – part of UKTV), Wikipedia

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25-02-2015 om 12:59 geschreven door peter  

Thomas Reed UFO Alien Case Appeared Before The U.N. ( Photographic Evidence )

Apparently the United Nations thought this case with Thomas Reed was important enough to appear before a Parapsychology meeting before the United Nations. Contained within this interview is photographic evidence of the fact that this case was indeed discussed before many delegates of the United Nations of their Parapsychology unit. Many other faces were there from the UFO community as well. Below is the photographic evidence of the Reed Family and their lawyers being involved in the case that was discussed at the United Nations. Lawyer Robert Bletchman who represents the case is shown mentioned in the evidence heavily. As well as the stunning revelation that the U.N. actually discussed UFOs, Aliens, and the Paranormal.

For more on the Reed Family Case

Two decades of collected evidence solidify the Reed family Multi-Generational abduction case. The findings have been said to be overwhelming, and one of the strongest cases ever professionally investigated. Thomas and Matthew Reed are the two sons of a prominent Connecticut Mayor and attorney who ran the democratic ticked support by Senator Christopher Dodd. This family of professionals have reported they involvement to local authorities, Mufon and aerospace groups since the mid 1980’s.

The individual cases have been investigated by several groups and over a span over 20 years. There file classified as a CE-4/ 3-star file: Close Encounter of the 4th kind to include physical evidence. Their family’s involvement in the late 1960’s that had seemingly been behind them, surfaced once again while the two boys were successful professionals raising their young Children. In the Brownsburg IN abduction of April 2009, investigators Identified strong radioactive material and radioactive Hot Spots. The radiation on the Reeds SUV had been detected with a Geiger counter. Forceful Magnetic fields were also present on the vehicle and strong enough to spin a compass in circles form two and a half feet away. The testing equipment and readings have been recorded on camera and are logged in the Mufon CMS. The only common factors are that the family shares the RH Negative blood group and has lived relatively close to nuclear power plants.

Their investigations would also uncover, trace evidence, witnesses, damaged digital instrument gages, and physical makings on Matthew & Thomas Reed. The April 2009 craft was spotted on radar and observed by local residents. The professional groups involved in the validation of this case include. police officers, The Star Team, a Roan County C.C. Detective, MUFON, Doctors, and Attorney Robert Bletchman, who discussed the case along with others at the United Nations Symposium on Extraterrestrial Intelligence and Human Future which occurred on October 2, 1992, just ten days before NASA was to begin its SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) program.

Thomas’s son participated and undergone psychoanalysis after their school found him to test in the superior range. Test results reflected 127% rank, / 96% throughout the US. Doctor Michael Buckner a respected Ph.D. then evaluated his son and verified the child did present remote viewing abilities. The document and medical record was dated Sept 2010. The heightened abilities have also been supported and witnessed by TN Mufon assistant state director and Officer Steve White a Roan County Sheriff. Members of the Reed family have taken and passed a Polygraph test. Several of the drawings sketched in the 1960’s and 70’s from Thomas Reed are displayed in the Roswell UFO museum. The Reeds have also appeared on The Church Of Mabus Radio Show. Once Tom appeared with Travis Walton of the Fire in the Sky legacy.

The Reeds are a well-respected family of Attorneys, Physicians and Business owners, with October 6th a local designated holiday recognizing their family’s contributions to the City of Bridgeport. Thomas started his career as a fashion photographer, before accepting positions in upper management for several future 500 companies. Thomas is also the founder of Miami Models, with clients such as Polo Black Label, Tommy Hilfiger, Nike, Ralph Lauren, Parisian, Vogue Bambini, and Saks Fifth Avenue.

www.tomreed.info

Photographic Evidence Of A Special Unit Of The United Nations Having Meetings About Alien UFO Cases

25-02-2015 om 12:48 geschreven door peter  

Let's Take Another Look At A Tiny Fraction Of UFO Cases That Made The Media

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvW--Pf_sRk&app=desktop 

(The Lonnie Zamora Incident, 1964)

25-02-2015 om 12:36 geschreven door peter  

Georgia family encounters hovering triangle UFO

(Before It's News)

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The Georgia family was driving along Furys Ferry Road in the Augusta-Martinez area when they first saw the hovering triangle. Pictured: Furys Ferry Road in Martinez. (Credit: Google)

A Georgia family at Augusta encountered a hovering triangle-shaped UFO along Furys Ferry Road and drove under the object for a better look, according to testimony in Case 63503 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.

The husband, wife and son were driving along Furys Ferry Road when they first saw the hovering object about 7:30 p.m. on February 21, 2015.

“Wife thought it was new cell tower or something, but the lights were white and very bright,” the reporting witness stated.

The family drove toward the object.

“Drove underneath and to one side and saw it was a triangle with bright lights at each corner and a small red light in center.”

As the family drove under the object, it tilted slightly. Pictured: Old Furys Ferry Road in Martinez. (Credit: Google)

The object moved as they drove by.

“As we drove past, it tilted slightly and began moving.”

The family then drove past the object, but decided to turn around and go back for another look.

“I drove down one-quarter mile and spun around. By the time we got back it had moved off very rapidly and it appeared in the distance. Thought I saw a blinking/pulsing blue light on the side facing us as it flew off. No sound.”

The object eventually moved away making no sound. Pictured: Old Furys Ferry Road in Martinez. (Credit: Google)

Augusta is a consolidated city-county in Georgia, population 197,872.

Georgia is currently a UFO Alert Level 5 – with 1.01 sightings per million population based on MUFON January 2015 statistics. Georgia received a total of 10 UFO reports in January.

The UFO Alert Rating System is based on five levels – 1 through 5 – where states with 4.01 or higher reports per million residents are rated an Alert 1; 3.01 – 4.0 reports are an Alert 2; 2.51 – 3.0 are an Alert 3; 2.01 – 2.5 are an Alert 4; and those states with 2.0 or lower are rated an Alert 5.

Please remember that most UFO sighting can be explained as something natural or man-made. The above quotes were edited for clarity. Please report UFO activity to MUFON.com.

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25-02-2015 om 12:30 geschreven door peter  

Ufo: Fallen Angel Canada

(Before It's News)

This weekend I was notified that a recent UFO sighting, involving a dramatic crash into Lake Winnipeg in Canada has now gotten the attention of amateur UFO researchers and those who wish to debunk the crash as some sort of experiment gone wrong.

The UFO report was first filed on Facebook by a man named Brent Mancheese, who snapped a few photos in the area of the crash and posted them on his news feed.

Lake Winnipeg prior to crash

Immediately his Facebook page had been taken down. The UFO crash, which garnered attention for the dramatic nature of the military UFO cover-up involved, occurred near Jackhead, Manitoba. With this event standing as one of the most dramatic UFO incidents of the past several months

Crash site in Jackhead

Military trucks seen in Jackhead

Another dramatic UFO encounter happened in Peru during a television interview.

A television production crew in Lima, Peru, videotaped a purple-colored disc-shaped UFO hovering in the distant sky near a construction site. So far, there’s no official explanation for the object.

According to Peru This Week, the TV show “Alto al Crimen” was shooting an episode in the upscale Miraflores district of Lima on February 10. The show’s host, Lima Congressman Renzo Reggiardo, halted an interview to allow his camera operator to focus on the strange-looking purple object in the sky.

The object was a classic disc shaped object that was just hovering over a construction site giving off a strange purple and blue color.

Purple UFO seen in Peru

Meanwhile the Canadian UFO crash kept gaining ground as residents in the area of Jackhead told that there was a shelter in place in effect and that all cell phone and computer communications would be halted until the craft was safely pulled out of the ice and the danger was clear.

Literally, the Canadian military had blocked communications about the incident, which brings up a lot of questions that I am sure the military does not want to answer.

UFOs of course are a hard sell in a world where skepticism has taken hold all because of internet opportunists that love a good UFO story that they can hoax or use to fool the public.

It seems there was indeed something in the ice of military interest on Feb. 18. Pictures of military vehicles near Jackhead were popping up all over the internet, generating from twitter accounts in Winnipeg.

People described the vehicle as looking like a stepped up pyramid about 200 yards long and triangular shaped. One resident commented that whatever the craft was, it was huge and had a long set of lights and literally broke in two.  Pieces of it were seen heading straight up and then dropping suddenly into the lake causing a huge wave that pushed the ice up into huge piles.

CBC news was alerted to all of the talk of UFOs and decided to investigate. What they reported was that it was not a UFO at all, according to Lt.-Col. Paul Davies, commanding officer 38 Territorial Battalion Group. He claimed that the battalion is involved with an Arctic Response Company Group training exercise on Lake Winnipeg called Arctic Bison 2015

Members of the Arctic Response Company Group drive across frozen Lake Winnipeg during Exercise Arctic Bison 2015.

About 150 military personnel are taking part in Exercise Arctic Bison 2015, which includes the 38 Canadian Brigade Group, the 2nd Battalion of the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry, the 4th Canadian Ranger Patrol Group, and 440 Squadron of the Royal Canadian Air Force.

Davies said soldiers are training to deal with a plane crash and provide ground search and rescue support in the Arctic.

The bright light that people saw, he explained, came from an airplane that takes off very quickly and then crashes.

Residents were not aware of this exercise and during the UFO incident a very harsh cold front has blown through making it dangerous to be outside. It is also peculiar that a shelter in place command has been issue for the area. Nobody is allowed to leave or enter the reservation at this time and that the military has been going door to door talking with residents. They are telling the residents that they are conducting emergency training exercises.

If it routine training why all of the drama, why is there a shelter in place command being issued by the military and with the extreme cold front in Manitoba over the last two days why would these so called exercises continue in extremely dangerous conditions. In a deadly freeze, it is dangerous to spend time outdoors for any period.

The military has moved in all their equipment effectively blocking any view of what may have crashed into the water or what they are doing there.

We contacted Peter Davenport from the National UFO Reporting Center. He tells us that he had contacted Dr. Chris Ruthowski from the Canadian UFO report in Manitoba and the strike team from MUFON and they claim there is nothing to the story.

What we lack are credible witnesses in this story. The few that have talked are now being told not to. The evidence was not first presented to a credible news agency. Even if a UFO crashed in the waters of Jackhead, there would be a hardly anyone that could accurately get near it. All we have are a few curious pictures and some commentary that something evidently crashed there.

Again it is a matter of who do you trust, the military’s explanation or what people saw?

The UFO community is frequently inundated with promises of easy answers. Insiders emerge with convenient explanations about what is being seen, and with the latest Blue Book revelations there is more caution now about what is reported and what is left to be ignored.

It is always interesting to see what UFO stories eventually become easily explained away by the military and which ones aren’t explained and how long it will take for the story to get lost somewhere in the memory hole.

Many people in the field of research sincerely wants to believe that UFOs piloted by aliens is a common thing, but the truth is  there are many theories that presume that perhaps the alien UFOs are rare and that what we are experiencing is the result of alien probes or unmanned or Artificial intelligence now pilots these aircraft.

In October of 2012, more than 100 UFOs were seen along the India-China border, and the sightings had officials puzzled. The Times of India reported that “yellowish spheres appeared to have lifted off from the horizon on the Chinese side and slowly traversed the sky for three to five hours before disappearing.”

The Times of India added that the UFO sightings stumped numerous Indian military groups, including their air force, NTRO technical intelligence agency and the Indo-Tibetan Border Police. The Los Angeles Times reported that intelligence had ruled out the simple answer of the UFOs being Chinese drones or low-orbit satellites. Even though officials tried to calm the population with possible down to earth explanations the people were not convinced that the objects were from earth or even friendly.

In fact a photographer who had witnessed this phenomenon began shooting pictures. What he witnessed was something that even baffled him. What he saw were orbs and spheres but what he also witnessed was what appeared to be machines with what appeared to be mechanical arms picking up spoil samples.

It was suggested that this was an extraterrestrial probe looking for earth soil. The theory lasted a long time and got the attention and the imagination of the people in China and India. In 2014, however, the media suggested that the UFOs in question were Chinese balloons gathering information and positions of troops along Chinese border. China is on altogether different level as compared to Indians in terms of technological advancement in military operations. The highly advanced robots that were used at the border have not been explained satisfactorily.

It is stating the obvious to say that everybody who does UFO research has at one time or another wished for the one great event — the ultimate smoking gun — that would decisively reveal the truth. Unfortunately, there is no shortcut. UFO research is just plain hard work.

In Ufology, a close encounter or CE is an event in which a person witnesses an unidentified flying object. This terminology and the system of classification behind it was started by astronomer and UFO researcher J. Allen Hynek, and was first suggested in his 1972 book The UFO Experience: A Scientific Inquiry. He introduced the first three kinds of encounters; more sub-types of close encounters were later added by others, but these additional categories are not universally accepted by UFO researchers.

Most are familiar with the term “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” because of the Steven Spielberg film which introduced the pop culture to UFO encounters.  As UFO encounters have became more sophisticated there have been more terminologies associated with such encounters. These numeric terminologies were added after Hynek’s scientific studies.

CE-4: A UFO event in which a human is abducted by a UFO or its occupants. This type was not included in Hynek’s original close encounters scale

Hynek’s erstwhile associate Jacques Vallee argued in the Journal of Scientific Exploration that a CE4 should be described as “cases when witnesses experienced a transformation of their sense of reality,” so as to also include non-abduction cases where absurd, hallucinatory or dreamlike events are associated with UFO encounters.

CE-5: A UFO event that involves direct communication between aliens and humans. This type of close encounter was named by Steven M. Greer’s CSETI group. Those of this type are described as bilateral contact experiences through conscious, voluntary and proactive human-initiated cooperative communication with extraterrestrial intelligence.

CE-6: Death of a human or animal associated with a UFO sighting. Close Encounters of the Seventh Kind –The creation of a human/alien hybrid, either by sexual reproduction or by artificial scientific methods.

There are also military terms for UFOs. There are “Bogeys,” “Santa Claus,” and, if they crash, they are known as “Fallen Angels.” The term also refers to a military craft that has crashed with a pilot inside.

The investigation of UFO sightings involves many hours spent interviewing witnesses, surveying sighting locations, collecting photos and evidence, digging through archives, and even going to the site itself to investigate.

I would say for the sake of argument that since the temperatures at Jackhead and Lake Winnipeg are so frigid and dangerous, all reports from outside sources should be considered spurious. The only people that know what has happened to them are the residents of the area and of course the military knows as well.

The sad thing is we often find out about sightings long after they happen — when the trail has become stone cold. Other times the trail of evidence leads to a dead end: Witnesses don’t agree, somebody lies, evidence is lost or compromised, or an event turns out to be a hoax. Yet still we persevere. Eventually we see the fuzzy beginnings of a picture of the UFO phenomenon – but still we find no smoking gun. There are no easy answers.

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25-02-2015 om 12:21 geschreven door peter  

Mars foto's van NASA afkomstig van de Aarde ? ( Video)

Velen hebben zich verbaasd over dat de Rovers van NASA zoveel bijzondere voorwerpen hebben gefotografeerd aan het oppervlak van Mars.

En hoewel ze hun uiterste best hebben gedaan om zoveel mogelijk weg te poetsen, zijn er toch nog heel wat mooie plaatjes door de mazen van het net geglipt.


Zo is er bijvoorbeeld gisteren op één van de NASA foto’s iets ontdekt wat niet anders omschreven kan worden dan als een boek. 

Vraag is natuurlijk hoe er in 's hemelsnaam een boek op Mars terechtkomt en vooral, hoe kan het dat het in zo’n goede staat is?

Iemand die daar een antwoord op heeft is de Engelse onderzoeker Richard D. Hall. Hij heeft een theorie die onder andere het volgende stelt:

De reden dat al dit soort voorwerpen worden gevonden op het oppervlak van Mars door al die verschillende NASA Rovers is omdat die karretjes helemaal niet op Mars rondrijden en nooit de aarde hebben verlaten.

Met andere woorden, de beelden die wij zien, zijn foto’s van een gebied ergens op aarde en dan is het ook logisch dat je daarop af en toe voorwerpen aantreft die door mensen zijn gemaakt, zoals het boek hierboven.

Nu is het één ding om dat zomaar te stellen, maar Richard D. Hall heeft dit samen met andere onderzoekers wel degelijk onderbouwd.

Hall vraagt dan ook mensen om hem niet zomaar bij voorbaat te veroordelen, maar eerst het door hem gepresenteerde bewijs tot zich te nemen alvorens een oordeel te vellen.

In de twee video’s hieronder wordt door Richard Hall, samen met andere onderzoekers, dieper ingegaan op hun stelling en het bewijs daarvoor.

Voor diegenen die geen tijd hebben om de video’s te zien, is hier de complete onderbouwing van de stelling van Richard D Hall te downloaden.

De hoofdstelling is dat wat NASA het publiek voorhoudt één grote hoax is en bedoeld als afleiding van de werkelijke ruimteprojecten waar men (de Amerikaanse luchtmacht en de NSA) zich mee bezighoudt.

Te vergelijken met wat wij eerder schreven over Gary McKinnon en de geheime ruimtevloot en de geheime ruimtevloot van de Bilderbergers.

Kijk en lees zelf of dat wat Richard D Hall te vertellen heeft houd snijdt.

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25-02-2015 om 11:58 geschreven door peter  

Sinkholes steeds gevaarlijker ( Video )

Al jarenlang is er sprake van een fenomeen dat onderdeel vormt van de vele aardveranderingen: sinkholes of zinkgaten.

Vroeger iets wat heel sporadisch voor kwam, tegenwoordig in toenemende mate en er vallen ook steeds meer doden bij.

Een groot zinkgat bijvoorbeeld dat op 3 februari opeens ontstond in een veld in Noord Korea en dat aan elf mensen het leven heeft gekost.

Het ongeluk gebeurde in een veld in het noorden van het land dichtbij de grens met China.

Nu is het in de praktijk niet zo gemakkelijk om nieuws te krijgen uit dit land, maar volgens bronnen waren vrouwen een akker aan het ploegen toen de grond onder hen opeens wegviel. De elf doden zijn dan ook allemaal vrouwen en daarnaast schijnen er nog eens 30 gewonden te zijn gevallen.

Je hoeft echter niet ergens op het platteland te zijn om slachtoffer te kunnen worden van een sinkhole. Als je met de bus gaat in het Zuid Koreaanse Seoel dan ben je in net zoveel gevaar.

Een man en een vrouw stappen uit de bus op de stoep en het volgende ogenblik zijn ze verdwenen. Opgeslokt door een gat in de grond.

Wanneer je de volgende video ziet dan geeft dat toch wel een beangstigend gevoel:

Gelukkig voor dit stel is het voor hen goed afgelopen en werden ze naar verluidt door omstanders uit het gat gehaald. Ze hadden niet meer dan wat lichte verwondingen.

Het bovenstaande is vooral beangstigend omdat je geen enkele waarschuwing krijgt. Het ene moment loop je op straat en het volgende ben je letterlijk opgeslokt door een gat.

Die waarschuwing kregen inwoners van het Italiaanse Napels wel toen ze afgelopen zondag wakker werden en een enorm zinkgat in hun straat ontdekten. 

Het gevolg was dat er in allerijl 380 gezinnen geëvacueerd moesten te worden. Hier zijn gelukkig geen doden of gewonden gevallen, maar volgens een vrouwelijke getuige is er wel een auto verdwenen in het enorme gat.

Voorlopig is de boel afgesloten en hebben de mensen geen flauw idee wanneer ze weer naar hun huizen terug kunnen keren. 

Iedere keer weer wordt er door overheden en instanties wel een "logische" verklaring bedacht waarom dit soort sinkholes ontstaan.

Feit is dat ze zo langzamerhand epidemische vormen aannemen en dat ze steeds gevaarlijker beginnen te worden. Toegeven dat dit soort heftige aardveranderingen het gevolg is van de nadering van de planeet Nibiru, is iets dat natuurlijk nooit zal gebeuren.

Bron:

Sott Net

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25-02-2015 om 11:54 geschreven door peter  

The Right Guide to Capture UFOs

For a UFO hunter like you, do you care to share how you do capturing? Do you have a hidden technique how to easily capture a UFO once it is around your area? Perhaps, you have a different technique from others, isn’t it? UFO hunters have various ways to capture their most awaited hunting with UFOs. Originally, there is nothing wrong which such waiting. There is nothing wrong if you get used to a long waiting prior to capturing UFOs.

But for once in your hunting experience, have you not thought of possibly changing your hunting technique in order to stop waiting and just be amazed how you can easily hunt and take enormous shots of UFOs for a certain period of time? If you are open to possibilities and you have thought about this, lucky you for there is now a latest tool that will ultimately teach you the WHAT, HOW and WHEN you can hunt UFOs.

Do you want to know what this tool is? To excite you no more, this guide is a book titled “How to Capture UFO.” By far, this book is the most recommended by UFO hunters who been have greatly benefited by the book. From the previous waiting in vain for a UFO to pass their telescope, this book covers everything hunters need to know in order to easily and immediately capture UFOs. Here are some of main subjects this book covers:

• The Right Equipment. These are everything you need in order to get professional audio, photos and videos of UFO.
• How to Research. Prior to hunting for UFOs, you need to have complete basic preparation about it.
• Getting Good Results. You need to get tangible proofs in order to make people believe your experience. Once your pictures are unprofessional and grainy, no one will believe your UFO captures.

UFOs or unidentified flying objects have always been present throughout history. One major example for this presenting is the Halley’s Comet. This comet was initially documented by the Chinese astronomers in 240 B.C. It terrified people for a lot of cases.

Oftentimes, UFOs were related with religious insinuations. People sight them off like angels or other celestial beings. Even the UFO hunters today have compared the religious symbols and icons displayed in old paintings in accordance to UFO sighting.

It is crystal clear that UFOs are not a natural security issue but a scientific one. Issues about these flying saucers have long been around. Studies are continuous and never ending. UFO hunting is no like walking in the park. It is more than just putting your boots on and snapping photos of UFO. It is quite a complicated task in which you must be prepared in order to get and deliver a story that people will believe in. Your story will only be accepted by people see clear evidences about for story. If you want this book now or you want to know more about it, simply hit this link to the official site of the book www.howtocaptureufo.com.

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25-02-2015 om 11:24 geschreven door peter  

reaction of a FB-friend of Canada

New message of Ch. L. from Canada

thanks Peter, I had a quick glance at your blog...just so you know it really was a military exercise in Manitoba, where I was born and raised. THe picture showing the pyramide type object is just a pile of snow and ice, as they were clearing a path for a landing strip..common sense, why would a UFO look like and have some consistency, color of the snow..it's not a coverup..Thirdphaseofmoon really did a false and bad reporting on it..interviewing someone that wasnt even there, so it didn't help as well as many other non credible sights taking advantage of the hoax...I would reconsider what you mentioned in your blog...Chris Rutkowski is from Winnipeg and he's unbiased and researcher, he investigated it and it was really just an exercise..I have other colleagues and friends from the area, nothing of what they are stating about what happened ever occurred...just thought you should know...thanks

Canada UFO Crash 2015...

Last Wednesday February 18, 2015 in lake Winnipeg, near Jackhead Canada, there was an alleged UFO crash.  There were several eyewitnesses that saw a pyramidal or disk shaped object crash in the frozen lake. Military arrive at the zone and told the witnesses that it was an airplane crash during a military training exercise and that they were not allowed to have or take any pictures of the craft in the lake. 

 That night facebook and twitter was filled with eyewitnesses stories and photos of what they saw and what the military people told them. The rumor was stronger when photos of the Canadian Forces vehicles in the area, allegedly to contain the UFO crash site made an appearance. 

 Lt.-Col. Paul Davies, commanding officer 38 territorial battalion group, involved in an Artic Response Company Group training exercise on the lake Winnipeg  told CBC news that there was no UFO at all, it was all an exercise.  "There'sno aliens, just my friends in the air force who are out helping un on the exercise". 

If all of this was a hoax, a military exercise of in fact a UFO crash we are not sure at the moment. As always history is repeating itself and military are covering everything up with "exercise" stories to maintain people calm and with the curiosity on low levels. If you think about it its all really weird to be just a military routine stuff.  But if all was an exercise crash why the huge mobilization of soldiers and tons of equipment blocking the view of the site?

Also why the eyewitnesses weren't allowed to have any pictures and allegedly they were detained?
Why does anyone wasn't able to enter or exit the reserve and soldiers were losing time going door by door telling the same story to every resident of the reserve? It's like too much trouble and work just for an exercise that is something so common in the military.

We have to be really open minded and question everything, because all things have at least two sides of the story. The one you choose to believe it's your decision...

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24-02-2015 om 23:00 geschreven door peter  

500 Year Old Map Was Discovered That Shatters The “Official” History Of The Planet

24-02-2015 om 22:42 geschreven door peter  

After Thousands of Years, Earth's Frozen Life Forms Are WAKING UP

February 24, 2015 - What's happening in Siberia's thawing permafrost and Greenland's melting glaciers sounds borderline supernatural. A ncient viruses, bacteria, plants, and even animals have been cryogenically frozen there for millennia—and now, they are waking up.

Cryofreezing is best known for its appearances in science fiction, but self-styled "resurrection ecologists" are now showing the world just how real it is. 

In 2012, scientists germinated flowers from a handful of 32,000 year old seeds excavated from the Siberian tundra.  Last year, researchers hatched 700-year old eggs from the bottom of a Minnesota lake, while another team  resuscitated an Antarctic moss that had been frozen since the time of King Arthur. Bacteria, however, are the uncontested masters of cryogenics—one bug, at least, was alive and kicking after 8 million years of suspended animation.

Fear not—while awakening a million-year old plague sounds like a great scifi plot, most of these critters are totally harmless. But they're fascinating for another reason: They're a window into Earth's past; one that may offer clues to how  species will cope with change in the future.  Here's what the emerging field of resurrection ecology—which is as badass as it sounds—may allow scientists to do.

Evolutionary biologists are accustomed to thinking about  deep time —events that occurred millions, even billions of years in Earth's past. Using fossils, rocks and chemical signatures, scientists have built beautifully detailed theories about what our ancient world looked like. Still, if there's one thing any dino researcher would kill for, it'd be the chance to see one of her long-lost subjects in the flesh.

For the first time now, biologists can do just that—study live organisms that hail from a different era. Sure, bacteria and mosses are a far cry from a T-rex, but being able to poke and prod any creature that crawled about a million years ago is still astounding. As scientists described in the 2013 resurrection ecology manifesto, cryogenically frozen specimens are like an  "evolutionary time machine." They offer researchers a new way to study the past, but also,  the chance to observe evolution in real time.

What would it mean to see evolution in action? Going back to  dinosaurs for a moment, imagine  you're a paleontologist studying the evolution of feathers.  It'd sure be nice if you could clone some dinos, rear them in your Jurassic Park-sized lab, expose them to a range of different environmental conditions—evolutionary biologists call these "selective pressures"—and re-create the "scenario" that caused plumage to evolve. Clearly, this  particular experiment is preposterous and will never happen.

But with microbes, which multiply in minutes and pack by the billions into a petri dish, researchers can now do something similar.

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24-02-2015 om 22:34 geschreven door peter