2015 International UFO Congress Recap

The 2015 International UFO Congress was the largest ever! This video highlights some of the great speakers and events that made that happen.

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04-03-2015 om 13:41 geschreven door peter  

Mysterious Sphere Caught Over South Carolina

 

A mysterious object has been photographed in the skies over Greenville County in South Carolina.

The anomaly which was snapped by local resident Stephanie Davenport appears to show a huge circular object with six possible lights attached to its body.

“I originally thought it was the moon, but when I zoomed in on my pictured it clearly wasn't. It is round and looked to have lights on it.”

Davenport said she consulted someone who might have the answer: a family member who works for NASA.

According to Davenport, this was what he wrote back, "I think those dots are just pixels in your camera CCD that are over exposed. They are too orderly to be sun spots. Nothing to get excited about."

Still, she's not quite ready to accept that explanation.

04-03-2015 om 01:01 geschreven door peter  

Exclusive: Lost City Discovered in Honduran Rain Forest

March 3, 2015 - An expedition to Honduras has emerged from the jungle with dramatic news of the discovery of a mysterious culture's lost city, never before explored. The team was led to the remote, uninhabited region by long-standing rumors that it was the site of a storied "White City," also referred to in legend as the "City of the Monkey God."

Archaeologists surveyed and mapped extensive plazas, earthworks, mounds, and an earthen pyramid belonging to a culture that thrived a thousand years ago, and then vanished. The team, which returned from the site last Wednesday, also discovered a remarkable cache of stone sculptures that had lain untouched since the city was abandoned.

In contrast to the nearby Maya, this vanished culture has been scarcely studied and it remains virtually unknown. Archaeologists don't even have a name for it.

Christopher Fisher, a Mesoamerican archaeologist on the team from Colorado State University, said the pristine, unlooted condition of the site was "incredibly rare." He speculated that the cache, found at the base of the pyramid, may have been an offering.

"The undisturbed context is unique," Fisher said. "This is a powerful ritual display, to take wealth objects like this out of circulation."

The tops of 52 artifacts were peeking from the earth. Many more evidently lie below ground, with possible burials. They include stone ceremonial seats (called metates) and finely carved vessels decorated with snakes, zoomorphic figures, and vultures.

The most striking object emerging from the ground is the head of what Fisher speculated might be "a were-jaguar," possibly depicting a shaman in a transformed, spirit state. Alternatively, the artifact might be related to ritualized ball games that were a feature of pre-Columbian life in Mesoamerica.

"The figure seems to be wearing a helmet," said Fisher. Team member Oscar Neil Cruz, head archaeologist at the Honduran Institute of Anthropology and History (IHAH), believes the artifacts date to A.D. 1000 to 1400.

The objects were documented but left unexcavated. To protect the site from looters, its location is not being revealed.

The ruins were first identified in May 2012, during an aerial survey of a remote valley in La Mosquitia, a vast region of swamps, rivers, and mountains containing some of the last scientifically unexplored places on earth.

For a hundred years, explorers and prospectors told tales of the white ramparts of a lost city glimpsed above the jungle foliage. Indigenous stories speak of a "white house" or a "place of cacao" where Indians took refuge from Spanish conquistadores—a mystical, Eden-like paradise from which no one ever returned.

Since the 1920s, several expeditions had searched for the White City, or Ciudad Blanca. The eccentric explorer Theodore Morde mounted the most famous of these in 1940, under the aegis of the Museum of the American Indian (now part of the Smithsonian Institution).

Morde returned from Mosquitia with thousands of artifacts, claiming to have entered the City. According to Morde, the indigenous people there said it contained a giant, buried statue of a monkey god. He refused to divulge the location out of fear, he said, that the site would be looted. He later committed suicide and his site—if it existed at all—was never identified.

More recently, documentary filmmakers Steve Elkins and Bill Benenson launched a search for the lost city.

They identified a crater-shaped valley, encircled by steep mountains, as a possible location.

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04-03-2015 om 00:52 geschreven door peter  

UFO mania: USAF Releases Rare 'Microfilms' of UFO, Alien Sightings from 'Project Blue Book'

There is plenty of work for amateur investigators to try to come up with explanations they never had time to consider or research,' Nigel Watson author of the UFO investigations Manual told MailOnline.
One case that Mr Watson is particularly intrigued in for historical reasons is a report filed by Kenneth Arnold which led to the popular term 'flying saucers'.

Read here: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2908998/Can-solve-world-s-biggest-UFO-mysteries-Rare-microfilms-alien-sightings-available-online-free.html#ixzz3OpMCvuwu

04-03-2015 om 00:41 geschreven door peter  

Declassified UFO Documents Include Intriguing Puerto Rico Cases

04-03-2015 om 00:37 geschreven door peter  

Astronomers Find a Dusty Galaxy That Shouldn't Exist

An object from the very early universe is bafflingly rich with dust that theory says shouldn't have formed yet.

Astronomers have spotted a surprisingly dusty little galaxy within the cluster Abell 1689, shown here in an image by the Hubble telescope.

Photograph by NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA), J. Blakeslee (NRC Herzberg Astrophysics Program, Dominion Astrophysical Observatory), and H. Ford (JHU)

Michael D. Lemonick

for National Geographic

Peering back in time to find the very earliest objects in the universe, an international team of astronomers has discovered a galaxy that shouldn't be there at all.                     

The problem, the scientists report Monday in Nature, is that while the tiny galaxy dates from just 700 million years or so after the big bang, it's far more dusty than something this young and small has any right to be.

It's surprising, says Daniel Marrone, a University of Arizona expert on galaxy formation who wasn't involved in the research, because although dust is essential for the formation of planets and other solid material, the cosmos started out with no dust at all. In the aftermath of the big bang, the universe consisted only of hydrogen and helium gas (along with dark matter, but that's invisible).

The dusty galaxy is just one of the recent surprises astronomers have found. "Last week," says Marrone, "we learned of an incredibly massive black hole in the early universe. Now we have this average galaxy with significant amounts of dust. We've had this cartoon picture of the early universe, but it's clear that we really don't know what's going on."

What Astronomers Think They Know

The gas in the post-big bang universe condensed to form the first stars, which forged heavier elements, including carbon, silicon, and oxygen, then died and released those elements into space. It was from these that the first particles of dust formed.

Those first stars had already lived and died by the time this newly discovered galaxy, known as A1689-zD1, was up and running, so the universe was hardly dust free at that point. But most of the dust should have been in large, bright galaxies that formed lots of stars. A1689-zD1 is relatively small and dim—no bigger than the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy that orbits the Milky Way.

Few early galaxies have been spotted, because even the brightest among them is far away and thus relatively dim. To get around that problem, astronomers use the magnifying effect of gravity. Einstein's general theory of relativity says the gravity from an object closer to Earth can warp light rays from a more distant one. (Einstein thought we'd never actually observe this so-called gravitational lensing, but he was dead wrong about that.)

In this case, the Nature paper's lead author, Darach Watson, of the deliciously named Dark Cosmology Centre at the University of Copenhagen, used the Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile's Atacama Desert to look at a massive cluster of galaxies called Abell 1689. The cluster's gravity magnified A1689-zD1 by a factor of nine, says Watson, which allowed him and several colleagues to gauge its distance from Earth and thus how long ago its light began traveling in our direction.

The VLT can see starlight but not dust, so Watson called on a colleague who was using the dust-sensitive ALMA radio telescope (see "Cosmic Dawn" in National Geographic magazine). "She had a look," says Watson, "and bingo!"

Like Marrone, Watson was taken aback by how dusty A1689-zD1 turned out to be. In bigger galaxies with more massive, short-lived stars, dust can pile up quickly since giant stars explode violently as supernovae after just a few million years. In smaller galaxies, most of the dust should emerge from the more gentle deaths of smaller stars that live for billions of years. So maybe A1689-zD1's dust comes from supernovae after all, says Watson. "But they'd have to produce the maximum possible dust," he says, to account for what ALMA sees, "and the dust can't be destroyed."

The only way to find out for sure is to uncover more galaxies like A1689-zD1. Unfortunately, they're extremely difficult to find—and the one other example astronomers have is almost entirely dust free, so it's impossible to say which type is more common. "We don't have any other candidates at this point," says Watson.

With ALMA, completed two years ago, and a new generation of giant optical telescopes now under construction, however, they're likely to find more of these galaxies before long. (See "Cosmic Vision: Telescopes.") The very early universe doesn't make a lot of sense at the moment—but that's almost certainly going to change.

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03-03-2015 om 23:58 geschreven door peter  

Vet says government has acknowledged he was injured by UFO while on duty

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A U.S. Air Force veteran believes a UFO incident he experienced while on duty in 1980 is the root of his current health problems. However, initially the government denied he was on active duty at the time. With the help of a lawyer and U.S. Senator John McCain’s office, his records have been corrected and he has received his full medical disability. He and his lawyer now claim their victory represents the “U.S. government’s de facto acknowledgement of the existence of UFOs.”

John Burroughs was serving as a U.S. Air Force police officer at Royal Air Force Base (RAF) Bentwaters, near the Rendelsham forest in Suffolk, United Kingdom in December 1980 when the UFO incident took place. The base, along with its sister base, RAF Woodbridge, were on lease to the U.S.

John Burroughs accepting an award at the 2015 International UFO Congress. (Credit: Carlo Petrick)

Late on the night of the fateful incident, lights were seen in the forest and Burroughs and several other security personnel were sent out to investigate. They saw a bright light that grew brighter as they approached. It then flew off into the night sky.

The next night the lights were seen again. Skeptical of the whole affair, and eager to figure out what he assumed was a prosaic answer to the sightings, Deputy Base Commander Charles Halt took a group of men out again. This group included Burroughs. This time the entire group saw lights flying around the forest. Some of these orbs of light beamed rays of light on the ground near the men’s feet and on the nearby munitions storage.

Illustration simulating the UFO reported by Halt.

The event became a large story in the UK, and is still debated to this day.

Burroughs, who along with an airman named James Penniston approached closest to the object, feels his health issues stem from his proximity to the UFO. He has since found a document that was created by UK Defence Intelligence that also speculates this could be the case. A section of the report that covers UAP (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena) – another term for UFO – radiation, speculates, ”The well-reported Rendlesham Forest/Bentwaters event is an example where it might be postulated that several observers were probably exposed to UAP radiation for longer than normal UAP sighting periods.”

Burroughs has since suffered from congestive heart failure, which he says he has been told by scientists can be caused by radiation exposure.

While living in Arizona, Burroughs sought to get his medical records from the U.S. Air Force to help his doctor diagnose his problems. However, they said he was not in the service at that time. Burroughs sought the help of a lawyer familiar with Veterans Affairs (VA) cases and U.S. Senator John McCain’s office. McCain’s office was able to get his military records corrected, but, according to Burroughs and his lawyer Pat Frascogna, McCain’s office was not confident he would ever get his medical records.

John Burroughs (right) and his lawyer Pat Frascogna presenting their case at the 2015 International UFO Congress. (Credit: Carlo Petrick)

In an Open Minds UFO Radio interview with Frascogna, he said it was not unusual that someone who worked on classified projects in the military would have records withheld. He said in these cases the military typically settles and grants disability. However, these are individuals who knowingly working on classified projects. Burroughs was not working on classified projects. However, the government is not required to say why military records have been classified or by whom.

Researcher Linda Howe (www.earthfiles.com) introducing Burroughs and Frascogna at the 2015 International UFO Congress. (Credit: Carlo Petrick)

At the recent 2015 International UFO Congress, Burroughs and Frascogna announced that, as Frascogna predicted, Burroughs was granted full medical disability. However, they say his medical records remain classified.

To Burroughs and Frascogna the granting of the benefits signifies an admission by the VA and Department of Defense (DOD) that his health issues stem from his years in the service. Furthermore, they believe it is an admission that they are a result of his close proximity to a UFO.

In a press release titled “U.S. Government’s De Facto Acknowledgement of the Existence of UFOs,” Burroughs writes:

In January of 2015, after years of exhaustive efforts the VA settled, in full, with me. I needed someone to champion my cause, someone not afraid to put themselves at risk to help me.  I was lucky.  I found two to champion my cause, my attorney Pat Frascogna, and Senator John McCain and his staff. Through their efforts, I received lifesaving heart surgery to replace a badly shredded anterior mitral valve caused by the UAP radiation, and a settlement from the DOD and VA admitting I was injured in the line of duty in December of 1980.

Although this story has a happy ending, Burroughs and Frascogna say they aren’t finished looking into what really happened in the Rendelsham Forest in 1980, and what the UK and U.S. governments know about it.

Pat Frascogna sharing information on John Burroughs’ case at the 2015 International UFO Congress. (Credit: Carlo Petrick)

Recent book on the Rendelsham Forest Incident written by former UK Ministry of Defence UFO researcher Nick Pope with witnesses John Burroughs and James Penniston.

Burroughs has submitted several Freedom of Information Act Requests in the UK and U.S. He has already been able to get the UK government to admit that they have more UFO files to release, even though they had previously claimed to have released all of their UFO files. He also says he is confident he will receive more files from the U.S. government that have not been available to the public before.

The Rendelsham Forest incident is often referred to as UK’s Roswell, and like its American counterpart, is the gift that keeps on giving with alleged new discoveries coming to light on a regular basis. Stay tuned for more revelations from Burroughs and Frasogna, and the other numerous dogged researchers out there who will undoubtedly continue their search for answers.

For his work getting the UK government to admit they had more UFO files to release, and for the discovery of the UK Defence Intelligence document speculating that the witnesses of the Rendelsham Forest Incident had been exposed to UAP (UFO) radiation, Burroughs was awarded the UFO Researcher of the Year award at the 2015 International UFO Congress. Watch the video below to view the presentation of the award.

Full text of the press release issued by Burroughs and Frascogna:

FOR RELEASE ON: February 22, 2015

U.S. Government’s De Facto Acknowledgement of the Existence of UFOs

PHOENIX, AZ — The United States Government has, for the first time ever, acknowledged by de facto the long-suspected reality of the UFO phenomenon.  John Burroughs encountered a craft of unknown origin in England’s Rendlesham Forest in December of 1980 and suffered injury there from for which the Veterans Administration has now recognized by granting him full medical disability. The December 1980 Rendlesham Forest incident in the United Kingdom is arguably the most well documented and important UFO encounter in history.  A UFO was seen over three consecutive nights by United States Air Force personnel stationed at the twin bases of Bentwaters and Woodbridge, near Ipswich, England — then the largest NATO air force bases at the height of the Cold War.

The UFO was tracked on radar and physical evidence was found at a site where the UFO was seen to land, including indentations in the frozen ground, scorch marks on the sides on the trees, and radiation levels subsequently assessed by the UK Ministry of Defense as “significantly higher than the average background”.

Airman First Class John Burroughs encountered the UFO at close proximity on the first night. While for many years the U.S. Government denied that this incident had even occurred, in 2006 the UK Government declassified an intelligence study on UFOs (codenamed Project Condign and classified as Secret UK Eyes Only) in which the following statement is found:

The well-reported Rendlesham Forest/Bentwaters event is an example where it might be postulated that several observers were probably exposed to UAP [Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon] radiation for longer than normal UAP sighting periods.

John Burroughs was one of those observers who was exposed to UAP radiation in the Rendlesham Forest in December 1980.  However, despite having been exposed to UAP radiation as postulated by the UK’s own intelligence report, the U.S. Government stonewalled John, his attorney, and two United States senators for years.  Now, after decades of persistence, the U.S. Government has finally acknowledged that John Burroughs suffered adverse health effects in the Rendlesham Forest and, therefore, has recognized the link between his health problems and the UFO he encountered.  In an interesting twist, John’s complete medical records file from that time he served in England remains classified.  In regard to the VA’s action on his case, John said:

In January of 2015, after years of exhaustive efforts the VA settled, in full, with me. I needed someone to champion my cause, someone not afraid to put themselves at risk to help me.  I was lucky.  I found two to champion my cause, my attorney Pat Frascogna, and Senator John McCain and his staff. Through their efforts, I received lifesaving heart surgery to replace a badly shredded anterior mitral valve caused by the UAP radiation, and a settlement from the DOD and VA admitting I was injured in the line of duty in December of 1980.

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03-03-2015 om 23:27 geschreven door peter  

Does Alien And Ufo Disclosure Reveal A Human – Hungry God?

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03-03-2015 om 23:13 geschreven door peter  

Did A Ufo Crash Land In Canada?

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03-03-2015 om 23:04 geschreven door peter  

Ufo: The Search Continues

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UFO: THE SEARCH CONTINUES is Pat Regan’s second book on the astonishing UFO phenomenon.In this unique study, Pat Regan continues on from where his last book on this subject, UFO: THE SEARCH FOR TRUTH, left off.

Once again Pat Regan has collected numerous unusual UFO and Alien reports from around the globe and presented them in a logical and easygoing fashion. UFO witnesses have had their sightings and experiences recorded in detail and with respectful accuracy by the author.

Pat makes no one-sided pronouncements about the matters at hand and leaves the reader to make up their own mind about strange things that many people have witnessed.

UFO: THE SEARCH CONTINUES does not attempt to specialise on any one particular UFO sighting but instead provides food for thought and debate in relation to the many true stories within.

UFO: THE SEARCH CONTINUES is not fiction but facts gathered from the international community.  

03-03-2015 om 22:57 geschreven door peter  

Daily UFO Headlines 3/3/15

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• A methane-based organism could thrive on Saturn’s moon Titan, claims study – Daily Mail
• NASA Blurred Out Image Of UFO Sighted Near Sun – The Inquisitr
• Is the US government actually run by Nazi aliens? – Metro
• Earth is all ears for long-distance calls. Should it try to dial E.T., too? – Theadanews
• NASA Confirms Presence Of Methane On Mars Prompting Speculations On Possibility Of Existence Of Alien Life On The Red Planet – Yibada

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03-03-2015 om 22:53 geschreven door peter  

03-03-2015 om 22:47 geschreven door peter  

2015 Sinkholes & Landslides Pole Shift Cataclysm!!

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Planet X Nibiru! Affects of nibiru! IKTTOTW shows us in this video, the affects of planet x. “I’ve showed you numerous videos of Planet X Nibiru… Here are its affects. I found so many landslides & sinkholes in just one morning that It was simply staggering… what I show you in this video is just a tiny fraction of what is going on so far in 2015 (That’s just two months).”

03-03-2015 om 17:09 geschreven door peter  

UFOs: What Happened at Shag Harbour?

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October 4, 1967, a large object was witnessed by man to fall into the the water in a fishing village called Shag Harbour in Nova Scotia. The police and Coast Guard were called in to see what had happened. Eventually, the Air Force and the government chimed in on the investigation.

Almost a dozen people at just after 11 pm, witnessed this crash, reporting a low-flying orange lit object with a sound like a bomb whizzing by. 

It was such a reliable witness account that search and rescue were deployed. One group in a car said they could see something floating on the water. It was immediately considered a possible small plane crash.

Local boats were dispatched and a rescue team and yet no floating debris, bodies or other evidence of a crash was found in the water. Once it was confirmed, no planes were missing, the rescue search was called off. 

It was then labeled a UFO incident and underwater search planned.  Divers came in and dove for three days, reporting nothing found.

Canadian newspapers reported some dark object being hauled off and rumors began. It would seem that something definitely had crashed into the water, but why wasn't it found? The mystery remains today.

In retrospect, sorting through witness reports, others had reported four orange lit objects that night. One meticulous witness (a constable) expressed his take on what he was seeing – a 60-foot object with four lights on it. He reported that he then saw a yellow light moving slowly over the water and leaving a yellowish foam in its wake. It moved into the distance, diving under the water. This observation sounded rather purposeful instead of accidental. 

There is a phenomena called “USOs” which are “unidentified submerged object.” These are UFOs that come and go from the water. 

In the height of Cold War paranoia, there was talk of a Russian plane and American involvement. Even though the story died out locally for a time, there was a nagging residue it left behind of unanswered questions. They found nothing? How could they find nothing when something was very evidently in the water? More meticulous interviews with the witnesses elucidated more details and some things that didn't add up about search and rescue.

For the most part, at the time period this occurred in the latter 1960s, it would seem that civilians and government workers alike were afraid to be attached to statements that might haunt their lives, their security and their careers.

Even after all this time, there are only two things we know for sure about this incident. 1. Something that was lit up, did crash into the water that night. 2. There seems to be information withheld into the true nature of what it was. 

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Book - Dark Object: The World's Only Government-Documented UFO Crash 

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03-03-2015 om 17:05 geschreven door peter  

Frightening Close Encounter In South Australia

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FRIGHTENING CLOSE ENCOUNTER IN AUSTRALIA
 FEBURARY 28, 2015   ……   YORKE PENINSULA SOUTH AUSTRALIA

 Came out to my Nannas & Papa’s for tea and they invited there friends over, which they live on a farm in the middle of Hardwicke Bay and Warroka, Yorke Peninsula, SA.  I had just finished my tea and I made a phone call to one of my friends from school outside of the office.  All of a sudden it was getting a little breezy and I said on the phone to my friend “It’s getting a little windy, I’m getting a little cold. Is it windy where you are? and cold?” then I looked up at the trees because I could hear the wind becoming more stronger. Then I looked at my phone again because it vibrated and then I heard like a swoshh… like a whirly wind was happening. I looked up and an object was hovering over the trees. It had yellow and orange lights around it shaped in a disc form, then a beam of a light blue and white came down – not all the way – just a little bit around 70-80cm from the under of the object off the ground, and it kept hovering. I said “I will call you back soon” then ended the call. I was screaming because I had no idea what it was going to do to me because I had no idea what it was. I didn’t know if something was gonna jump out or if the object was going to move towards me and make the beam of light which was located beneath the object shine upon me. I was thinking of the documentary that I saw on the TV not long ago which the object beam of light shined upon these people and they were no where to be seen.   

The light from underneath fainted and it moved slowly east and I ran inside and got all the adults and I said “Come quickly there is something in the sky that is moving away. It was directly in front of me while I was talking on the phone!  Did you not hear me screaming? “Quickly” and they all came running out of the house to see it. When we got out there it was moving very slowly away from where I was standing. As we were watching it we were trying to decide what is was by the lights and shape and the movement. Then as I said “UFO” its lights all switched off. Now its no where to been seen. Now I feel so scared because I have no idea where it came from, how it got here, it just came out of no where! I have no idea what to do. I just don’t want it to come back! I definitely don’t want to be abducted!! Now I know we are not the only ones on this planet by the looks of it. 

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03-03-2015 om 16:55 geschreven door peter  

Aliens Shooting Kids: The Voronezh UFO Incident

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Aliens Shooting Kids: The Voronezh UFO Incident

As Ian pointed out in several previous articles ( one, two, three, four) it’s become obvious that strange things have happened in Russia. Perhaps the Russians are more open-minded towards the UFO phenomenon or they’re just messing with the rest of the world. In any case, I’d like to present the Voronezh UFO incident, for your enjoyment, ladies and gentlemen.

I should note that this event might have happened or it might be nothing more than a media ruse but it’s an interesting one nonetheless.

As the story goes, on September 27, 1989, multiple residents of the Soviet city of Voronezh witnessed a close encounter of the nth kind. You know, the kind where aliens end up shooting people. The Soviet news agency TASS reported that on the evening of that particular day, several kids were kicking a ball in a park on the outskirts of Voronezh when they heard a whistling sound and saw a pinkish glow in the sky.

A crowd of onlookers quickly gathered as the pink glow turned dark red. Shortly after, a UFO in the shape of a flattened disk touched down in the park. A hatch opened and out came a 9-ft. tall alien followed by what could only be a robot. According to the witnesses’ report, the alien had a small head and three. It was wearing a silvery costume and bronze-colored boots and also had a disk strapped to its chest.

The dumbfounded crowd was left speechless, save for a boy who was so terrified he let out a scream. The invaders turned their attention to him and their gaze silenced and momentarily paralyzed the young boy. Naturally, this move did not go well with the public and they all panicked and screamed altogether. Perhaps this situation proved frustrating to the alien visitors since they vanished.

Five minutes later, they rematerialized. Witnesses say the alien now held a 20-inch long tube that resembled a pistol. As they made their way towards the UFO, a 16-year-old boy decided to play the brave and blocked their way. He was promptly dealt with by way of being shot with the alien weapon. The boy disappeared. Only then did the brave people of Voronezh run for their lives.

The intruders entered their spacecraft and shot to the skies. As the last trace of the pink glow faded, the boy reappeared, visibly shaken. If it weren’t for the memory-wipe, he might have had an impressive story to tell.

TASS noted that the witnesses underwent extensive questioning by the Soviet police and they maintained their statements. I don’t know about you but I certainly wouldn’t have appreciated being questioned by those bad boys and I’m fairly certain they wouldn’t have appreciated being lied to. Furthermore, the three youngsters cited as witnesses by TASS were later interviewed by other newspapers and stated that they were still very much afraid.

The young boys weren’t the only ones to step forward. As it would seem, the UFO was also witnessed by a member of the authorities, Lieutenant Sergei A. Matveyev of the Voronezh district police.

At first I thought I must be really tired, but I rubbed my eyes and it didn’t go away. Then I figured, in this day and age, anything is possible. […] it was certainly a body flying in the sky,” NY Times quoted Lieut. Matveyev as saying.

According to some reports, an investigation would later reveal an increased concentration of the radioactive isotope cesium-133 in the area near the UFO’s alleged landing.

Unfortunately, there isn’t much in the way of evidence supporting this case. Although the incident was picked up by media all around the world, an extensive investigation has yet to be performed. If the witnesses indeed exist, objective interviews are needed. Until then, the Voronezh UFO incident remains an interesting story and an unsolved mystery.

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03-03-2015 om 16:51 geschreven door peter  

Photos of the Roswell Alien to be Revealed on May 5, 2015

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Photos of the Roswell Alien to be Revealed on May 5, 2015

Back in November, we ran a short article about Roswell researcher and author Tom Carey and his announcement about new information regarding the well-known incident. We’ve got some updates and we wanted to share them with you.

The Roswell UFO crash is undoubtedly the most famous incident of its kind and needs little to no introduction. Over the years, books have been written and movies have been made on this subject and it’s pretty much given rise to the UFO hunter counterculture. Despite its major impact, there isn’t much physical evidence to support the scenario of a flying saucer crashing in New Mexico in 1947.

However, if Tom Carey is true to his word, things are about to change.

On the 5th of May, an event will be held at the National Auditorium in Mexico City, and during this event we’ve been told we should expect some new evidence to be made public. This proof will come in the form of the much-tooted Roswell Slides, a set of Kodachrome images that allegedly show a deceased small humanoid that was not born into this world.

Should this information prove accurate, we might witness the biggest breakthrough since the term UFO was coined.

According to Carey, the Kodachrome slides have been authenticated by experts and have been confirmed to originate from the Roswell UFO crash.

Who’s this expert? you might ask.

We’ll just have to wait and find out since his identity will be made public on May 5. According to what information we were able to find, this mystery expert has worked as a photo scientist at Kodak for several decades and is quite a reliable source. That remains to be seen but we do hope this information is accurate.

What Roswell slides? you might ask. Where have they been all this time? we might add.

According to Carey, the images were found a while back, while an attic was being cleaned out. A chest containing a copious amount of Kodachrome slides was found in that attic and hidden inside the inner lining of the chest was an envelope containing two images never before released to the public.

The attic and the chest had belonged to a now-deceased couple. The husband, Bernard A. Ray had been an oil exploration geologist that worked in the Roswell area right around 1947. Although Ray was the President of the Texas branch of the American Institute of Petroleum Geologists, curiously enough, his activity ceased altogether after 1947 and he made no appearances and published no papers following this date. Intriguing.

His wife was a high-end lawyer with intelligence connections. She was friends with influential individuals in both public and private sectors.

According to what has been made public so far, these two people were of the highest integrity and were in positions that could have allowed them to obtain these slides. In fact, the other slides in the chest showcased famous people such as President Dwight Eisenhower.

OK, we’ll bite.

The Kodachrome slides belonged to a respectable and connected couple and an expert allegedly authenticated them. Since we advocate open-mindedness, we encourage you to wait until the official presentation and draw the conclusions after. After all, there are only three possible scenarios: 1) the truth will emerge; 2) this is just another hoax and 3) we’ll be left with even more questions and puzzles.

We’ll keep you posted.

03-03-2015 om 16:45 geschreven door peter  

Britain’s Roswell: The Rendlesham Forest UFO Incident

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Britain’s Roswell: The Rendlesham Forest UFO Incident

It didn’t crash. It landed.” – Sergeant Bud Steffens

The Rendlesham Forest incident is widely considered the most famous UFO incident to ever take place in Britain. Also dubbed Britain’s Roswell, this case is one of the best documented UFO encounters and was witnessed by dozens of United States Air Force personnel.

As with the Roswell case, the government officially stated that nothing out of the ordinary happened in Rendlesham Forest and that the national security had not been threatened. However, subsequent evidence showed that the Ministry of Defence had documented an extensive file on the subject, leading many to believe a cover-up had taken place.

Let’s take a look at the event.

Rendlesham is a 6 square miles pine forest located east of the town of Ipswich in Suffolk. Near Rendlesham are two former military bases, RAF Bentwaters in the north and RAF Woodbridge which extends into the western side of the forest. At the time of the incident, the bases were leased to the USAF and under the command of Colonel Gordon E. Williams.

The event began on December 26, 1980 at around 3:00 a.m., when two USAF security police patrol men spotted a set of strange lights outside the perimeter of RAF Woodbridge. Believing they had seen an aircraft crashing down into the forest, they requested permission to investigate. Three patrolmen were allowed to proceed on foot.

They reported seeing an unknown glowing object in the forest and described it as being “metallic in appearance and triangular in shape, approximately two to three meters across the base and approximately two meters high.” The object lit up the entire forest with a white light. It had a pulsing red light on top of it and a row of blue lights underneath. It is unclear whether the object was hovering or on legs. When the patrolmen approached the object, it maneuvered through the trees before disappearing. It was reported that at the time of the sighting, animals at a nearby farm had become agitated. An hour later, the object made a brief appearance near the back gate of RAF Woodbridge.

In a later statement, one of the servicemen at Woodbridge, Sgt. Jim Penniston claimed to have seen the “craft of unknown origins”, touched its “warm” surface and written down the symbols that were engraved on its outer shell. He mentioned that the craft was resting on a triangle-shaped landing gear. When Penniston underwent regression hypnosis in 1994 he said that the craft’s occupants were time travelers visiting from the future rather than extraterrestrial beings. However, these aspects do not appear in the report he filed shortly after the incident took place.

I estimated it to be about three meters tall and about three meters wide at the base. No landing gear was apparent, but it seemed like she was on fixed legs. I moved a little closer. I had already taken all 36 pictures on my roll of film. I walked around the craft, and finally, I walked right up to the craft. I noticed the fabric of the shell was more like a smooth, opaque, black glass,” said Penniston.

Penniston’s drawing of the object encountered in Rendlesham

One common factor regarding cases such as this is that over the years, witnesses come forward with new testimonies that sometimes contradict previous statements. As it turns out, Jim Penniston was accompanied into the forest by John Burroughs and their accounts differ:

As we went down the east-gate road and the road that leads into the forest, the lights were moving back and they appeared to stop in a bunch of trees.[…] Also, the woods lit up and you could hear the farm animals making a lot of noises, and there was a lot of movement in the woods. All three of us hit the ground and whatever it was started moving back towards the open field.[…] We got up to a fence that separated the trees from the open field. You could see the lights down by the farmer’s house. We climbed over the fence and started walking toward the red and blue lights and they just disappeared,” Burroughs said.

When morning came, servicemen returning to the scene noticed three impressions one and a half inch deep and seven inches wide where the object had rested. The nearby trees had burn marks and broken branches. Plaster casts of the imprints were made.

On December 28, several servicemen returned to the clearing where the object had landed. They were accompanied by Lt. Col. Charles I. Halt, who has since played a key-role in ulterior investigations. A radiation check was performed and if we are to trust Halt’s memo, the readings indicated that the unknown craft had irradiated the area.

Beta/gamma readings of 0.1 milliroentgens were recorded with peak readings in the three depressions and near the center of the triangle formed by the three depressions. A nearby tree had moderate (0.05-0.07) readings on the side of the tree toward the depressions,” Halt’s memo read.

Later that night, a bright light was seen pulsing and moving through the forest. It appeared to emit glowing particles end eventually broke off into five distinct white objects that ultimately disappeared. Right after that, three star-like lights were seen in the sky, two to the north and one in the south, at an elevation of approximately ten degrees relative to the horizon. They traveled at high speeds and were capable of making sharp angular turns. During movement, they changed their colors from red to green and then to blue. When viewed through an 8-12 power lens, the objects appeared to be elliptical in shape.

The northern objects disappeared after about an hour while the one in the south remained visible for two or three more hours while intermittently beaming down a ray of light. It is believed the USAF had filmed the incident. If such a tape exists, it has not been made public.

I believe the objects that I saw at close quarter were extraterrestrial in origin and that the security services of both the United States and the United Kingdom have attempted – both then and now- to subvert the significance of what occurred at Rendlesham Forest and RAF Bentwaters by the use of well-practiced methods of disinformation,” Halt said in a 2010 notarized statement.

Penniston and Burroughs were diagnosed with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder after the incident. Some would argue that PTSD cannot be faked, thus lending some credence to their accounts. In the book co-authored with Burroughs and UFO investigator Nick Pope, Penniston said:

I left the forest a different man… I was in awe of the technology and yes, knowing that it was not an aircraft which could have been manufactured in 1980 or even now.”

Almost 35 years later, we’re no closer to unraveling the mystery of the Rendlesham Forest UFO incident

Source: http://locklip.com/

03-03-2015 om 16:37 geschreven door peter  

UFO and alien encounter declared true by historical society

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The Great Barrington Historical Society and Museum has inducted an alleged UFO sighting and alien abduction because they believe the case to be “historically significant and true.”

The announcement was made early last month. In it, they refer to the incident as an “off-world/UFO case” that involves Great Barrington residents Thomas Reed and his family. The incident took place on September 1, 1969, and began with UFO sightings that were reported by multiple witnesses in the area. Many of the witnesses had contacted Great Barrington’s WSBS radio, who reported on the incident at the time.

Thomas Reed speaking about his family’s experiences at the 2015 International UFO Congress. (Credit: Carlo Petrick)

As The Boston Globe reports, Reed claims that this UFO sighting was part of a string of strange encounters he and his family experienced beginning back in 1966. The first encounter took place on their horse farm when Reed was 6 years old. He and his younger brother saw strange lights coming  from the forest and strange figures in their hallway. They remember seeing a large disc-shaped craft in a clearing in the forest, and being taken aboard.

They experienced similar incidents over the next few years.

In one instance, while driving with his mother, younger brother, and grandmother, Reed remembers strange lights in the sky. Soon after, they found themselves in a giant room where they met with two large ant-like creatures. Moments later, they were back in their car.

Reed went into more detail on the encounters and shared the Great Barrington Historical Society’s press release with the audience at the International UFO Congress in Arizona.

In the press release, the Great Barrington Historical Society lists some reasons why they decided to induct the case. They note that the case was examined by U.S. Air Force’s official UFO investigation, Project Blue Book, and that the case was mentioned at the United Nations in 1992.

They also state that, “this renowned case has received international recognition due to factual and corroborated evidence as well as first hand testimony, including recent polygraph test, the Great Barrington Historical Society confirms that the Reed off-world incident is historically significant and true and warrants induction in the GBHS collection.”

Great Barrington Historical Society and Museum Pres Release. (click to enlarge)

Debbie Opperman, the director of the Great Barrington Historical Society, reiterated her belief in the story in an interview with The Boston Globe. When asked what it means that they inducted the case, she answered, “It means that we believe it is true.”

“I know we’re going to get a lot of backlash. We’re going to get hammered,” she continued. “But we have given it an awful lot of thought, and, based on the evidence we’ve been given, we believe this is a significant and true event.”

Director Debbie Oppermann says the Great Barrington Historical Society believes the Reed family story of having been abducted by aliens in 1969 is true, in part because dozens of people reported seeing a UFO at that time. (Credit: Mathew Cavanaugh for The Boston Globe)

She also noted that their boards decision to induct the “off-world” case was not unanimous. Opperman said three of the nine members were “strongly opposed.” However, they did receive a consensus, and according to The Boston Globe,  Opperman believes it to be “the first time a ‘mainstream’ historical society or museum in the United States has declared a UFO encounter to be historical fact.”

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03-03-2015 om 16:23 geschreven door peter  

UFO boomerang formation photographed over Philadelphia

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A Pennsylvania witness at Philadelphia reported watching and photographing a group of lights moving in a boomerang formation that could not be identified, according to testimony in Case 63646 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.

The witness was driving northbound along Frankford Avenue in northeast Philadelphia about 7:38 p.m. on February 26, 2015, when the lights were first seen.

“Noticed lights swirling around and had to look twice because there were wires on both sides of the street and directly above for electric buses,” the witness stated. “I thought it was reflections of some sort at first.”

When the witness realized the lights were not reflections, he pulled over for a better look.

Witness image #1. (Credit: MUFON)

“I took some video and photos until they disappeared into the sky where I could not see anymore.”

The witness reports that the video is poor, but two photos show the V-pattern. The witness included two images with the MUFON report, which was filed on February 28, 2015: Image 1 and Image 2.

Philadelphia is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and its only consolidated city-county, the fifth-most-populous city in the United States, population 1,553,165.

Pennsylvania is currently a UFO Alert Level 5 – with 0.71 sightings per million population based on MUFON February 2015 statistics. Pennsylvania received a total of nine UFO reports in February.

Witness image #2. (Credit: MUFON)

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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03-03-2015 om 16:15 geschreven door peter