Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.
This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.
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The purpose of this blog is the creation of an open, international, independent and free forum, where every UFO-researcher can publish the results of his/her research. The languagues, used for this blog, are Dutch, English and French.You can find the articles of a collegue by selecting his category. Each author stays resposable for the continue of his articles. As blogmaster I have the right to refuse an addition or an article, when it attacks other collegues or UFO-groupes.
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Deze blog is opgedragen aan mijn overleden echtgenote Lucienne.
In 2012 verloor ze haar moedige strijd tegen kanker!
In 2011 startte ik deze blog, omdat ik niet mocht stoppen met mijn UFO-onderzoek.
BEDANKT!!!
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UFO'S of UAP'S, ASTRONOMIE, RUIMTEVAART, ARCHEOLOGIE, OUDHEIDKUNDE, SF-SNUFJES EN ANDERE ESOTERISCHE WETENSCHAPPEN - DE ALLERLAATSTE NIEUWTJES
UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
MUFON of het Mutual UFO Network Inc is een Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in alle USA-staten en diverse landen.
MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com.
Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
13-03-2015
UFO's die gezien willen worden ( Video )
UFO's die gezien willen worden ( Video )
Nadat vorige week plotsklaps een UFO in beeld verscheen tijdens een nieuwsuitzending op televisie in Argentinië, gebeurt het nu weer.
Alleen is het dit keer niet in Argentinië, maar in Colombia en je vraagt je af welke boodschap hier getracht wordt overgebracht te worden.
Als er ergens een plek is op aarde die word overspoeld door ufo’s dan is het wel Zuid Amerika.
Of het nu is bij de vele vulkanen, waargenomen door gewone mensen of in televisieuitzendingen, het barst ervan. Ook nu weer in een nieuwsuitzending in Colombia afgelopen woensdag 10 maart.
Terwijl de nieuwslezeres de laatste nieuwsfeiten bekendmaakt aan de bevolking, vliegt er achter haar van rechts naar links een UFO door het beeld.
Het feit dat ze nu met grote regelmaat verschijnen in nieuwsuitzendingen lijkt teveel om nog toeval te kunnen zijn.
Ook dat het gebeurt in Zuid Amerika is misschien veelzeggend. Dat is het gebied waar met recht de meeste en ook interessantste UFO waarnemingen voorkomen de laatste tijd.
Tevens het gebied waar eigenlijk voor het eerst heel duidelijk een dimensieportaal op film is vastgelegd.
Om nog maar te zwijgen over de permanente stroom UFO’s die worden waargenomen bij de diverse vulkanen in vooral Mexico.
Het is dan misschien ook niet zo vreemd om te veronderstellen dat Disclosure zal beginnen in Zuid Amerika
This day in UFO history: Most Famous UFO Story In Phoenix Remains A Mystery
This day in UFO history: Most Famous UFO Story In Phoenix Remains A Mystery
One of the most mysterious UFO sightings in Phoenix happened on March 13, 1997. It involved hovering space balls in perfect formation when it comes to their distance. The incident soon became the Phoenix Lights. Some people accept the explanation that they were just military flares, but many believe they experienced alien encounter and government has spread lies and disinformation.
In years that followed, Phoenix Lights has changed many views about the existence of aliens and even few lives. But one thing still not changed, the mystery remains in the minds of the witnesses and some people who are following the story.
One of the witnesses, Lynne Kitei, ran inside to get her video camera. She claimed to have seen six hovering lights evenly spaced over Phoenix. They were not planes or balloons, according to Kitei. The Phoenix Lights sighting was not her first and wondering if they could be like the amber orbs she had seen in 1995. The orbs also hovered in formation just a hundred yards from the backyard of her Paradise Valley home. Seeing those orbs was not also the first for her as she saw the same aerial things two months ago. She managed to snap photos in her two previous sightings, and she wanted to get a video on the third one.
By the time she was back, only three lights had remained shining. She managed to record the aerial event on video. She never thought that her video will be featured in several news agencies and later in television specials. Several years later, her video was featured in her documentary film.
After the Phoenix Lights, physician Kitei has resigned from her job at the Arizona Heart Institute to become a full-time investigator of the Phoenix Lights. She finished 750 pages of notes from her interviews with experts, witnesses, and UFO researchers. She also investigated similar sightings from different parts of the world.
Kitei had no courage to look for the truth because of fear to be ridiculed. However, her investigations allow her to feel that she has an obligation to reveal the truth to the world. Her notes were then condensed into a 222-page book, where she detailed the Phoenix Lights and revealed her name.
Kitie provides educated speculations as to the meaning of lights in her book. She said that it’s not about her witnessing the UFOs, but it’s all about the data.
The Phoenix Lights started around 10 p.m. on March 13, 1997 in a clear sky. A string of lights made an appearance to the southwest. The orbs appeared like a boomerang, forming a flattened V shape. They seemed to hover or move at a very low speed.
They were seen by approximately thousands of people on the ground as they shimmered for five to ten minutes. On days after the incident, Sky Harbor International Airport told UFO investigators and reporters that their controllers had seen nothing on radar. Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson stated no military activities on that night, but later changed their statement saying that the person on duty overlooked the specific details on the logbook.
Two UFO encounters were reported by a Great Britain witness at Worcester. The sighting reportedly started at 7 p.m. on March 8, 2015. The object in the second encounter was approximately 20 feet off the ground. The incident was reported to Mutual UFO Network and filed under Case 63845 in the witness reporting database.
When the witness was about to leave for work, she saw the first object speeding across the sky. The witness described the object as star-like light but was not flashing. No other lights were seen nearby, according to the report. The witness said that the UFO travelled faster than a plane.
When the witness was on the way home, she saw another UFO with a bright white light beaming down. The object was approximately a hundred yards away from the observer hovering around 20 feet in the sky, according to the MUFON report. The witness described it as so bright that it lit up the outline below the object. The witness said that it was like 3-D metallic ship in triangular form nearly hovering above her.
She stopped her vehicle to get a clear look at the object in a pitch black, clear sky, the report said. The witness claimed that the object suddenly became bright green in its flame trail and moved straight in an incredible speed. After that amazing movement, the object disappeared in her view.
When the witness was on her way home, she looked at the sky again and saw a stream trail in an X shape glaring in the moonlight, with clouds spiralling down that looked like a tornado.
Her partner tried to take a picture of the floating orb but failed to get it on the camera screen. The reporting witness uploaded an image similar to the UFO she observed in her report to MUFON.
Scientists find Water on Mars… 4 Billion Years Ago
Scientists find Water on Mars… 4 Billion Years Ago
Do you believe in Mars’s ancient history? Do you think that once, mars was a habitable planet plenty of water and possibly even vegetation?
An international team of scientists used ESO’s Very Large Telescope, along with instruments at the W. M. Keck Observatory and the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility to discover and mapped out the surface of mars to identify the history of water that once lay across the surface of the planet.
The data shows that not only did the surface of mars have water, but approximately more water than the Arctic Ocean… and at one point, enough to cover the entire surface of the planet!
About four billion years ago, the young planet would have had enough water to cover its entire surface in a liquid layer about 140 metres deep,
but it is more likely that the liquid would have pooled to form an ocean occupying almost half of Mars’s northern hemisphere, and in some regions reaching depths greater than 1.6 kilometres.
“Our study provides a solid estimate of how much water Mars once had, by determining how much water was lost to space,” said Geronimo Villanueva, a scientist working at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, USA, and lead author of the new paper. “With this work, we can better understand the history of water on Mars.”
What's At The Bottom Of The DEEPEST Hole On Earth?
What's At The Bottom Of The DEEPEST Hole On Earth?
March 12, 2015- Remove this rusted metal cap and the world’s deepest hole tunnels miles into the Earth. However, we know more about certain distant galaxies than we do about what lies miles beneath our very own feet. For that reason, Soviet scientists in the 1970s decided to probe deeper than humanity has ever done before. For the next 24 years, they drilled on and off into the Earth’s crust.
The result was the Kola Superdeep Borehole and a drill-depth of more than 7.5 miles (12 kilometers). To put that in perspective, Kola descends further than the deepest point of the ocean, which lies at nearly 6.8 miles (11 kilometers). The borehole is located on the Kola Peninsula of Russia.
So did we learn anything from these decades of labor? Thankfully, yes! Scientists found microscopic fossils of single-celled organisms at 4.3 miles (7 kilometers) down. And at nearly the same depth, they discovered water. They also found that the temperature at the bottom of the hole reached a blistering 356°F (180°C). Too hot to continue, drilling officially halted in 1994.
However, what’s even more impressive is that scientists estimate that the distance to the center of the Earth is nearly 4,000 miles (6,400 kilometers). Turns out, 7.5 miles barely scratches the surface.
Watch a video about the Kola Superdeep Borehole presented by Hank Green from SciShow below:
Posted March 11, 2015… hundreds of white somethings were floating in the sky over California.
Since they are not just drifting on the wind and some are moving in directions distinct from others, they are intelligently controlled. Galactic drones or probes?
Wake up world! They’re here.
And it’s one helluva rabbit hole we’re living in. I think we must soon come out in China—unless, of course, the Earth is indeed flat, LOL. ~ BP
Who Are the Allied Forces? (AF)
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THIS ARTICLE IS WRITTEN BY AN INDEPENDENT EEKER YELLOW ROSE FOR TEXAS FACEBOOK
The AF are from our home / heavenly realm. They were given the call by The ONE to fight in the war in the heavenly realm outside of set’s server. When set pulled us down into his realm ‘the abyss’, which by the way is connected by (set’s design) to the nine underworlds (aka the devil’s playground). The AF are our brothers and sisters from the heavenly realm above and are also sealed by The ONE as he & EVE created all that there is outside of set’s server.
The AF are fighting with ONE to release us (their brothers & sisters) and EVE (that part of her that was trapped when she was downloaded into her Eden earth when it was in our heavenly home realm). So you see the AF & DAD have fought their way into set’s server/domain, fought for years (in set’s timeframe which is our timeframe) to destroy ed, the enemy planet forces/vah’s inside set’s server, and now they are at the door that leads out of our domed flat earth construct.
The AF have a deep, sincere, heartfelt love for us and EVE who is their Mother too. The AF are ALL of our family OUTSIDE of set’s server whom chose of their free will (who could resist the Call to Arms from their Father/The ONE?) to come to our collective rescue.
The AF what their Mother, their sisters and their brothers back on safe territory just as badly as we want to be rescued. I guess this is my SHOUT OUT to my family working behind enemy lines wherever they may be, I LOVE YOU! AND SO APPRECIATE YOUR STEADFAST DETERMINATION IN FIGHTING THIS WAR AND BRINGING US YOUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS AND MOTHER HOME. ONE’S SPEED!!!
The witness and three friends were returning from a movie in 1967 when they encountered a disc-shaped UFO along a rural stretch of roadway near Hobbs, NM. Pictured: Hobbs, NM. (Credit: Google)
A now retired airline mechanic recalls a UFO event from 1967 with three friends driving in a rural area near Hobbs, New Mexico, according to testimony in Case 63741 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
The reporting witness was driving along a highway near Hobbs with three friends returning from a movie when the incident began.
“Noticed flares approximately three feet in diameter traveling approximately two feet above a power line running along parallel to the road one-half mile distance moving 30 mph,” the witness stated. “The car was traveling 60 mph and going in the opposite direction.”
The witness turned onto a road heading in the opposite direction.
“Thought flares might be an overload power burst from power station. Had never seen anything like it. After turning onto the side road and heading towards friend’s house passed by power transfer station on way to friend’s house.”
The witnesses’ vehicle shut off at the same point where the disc-shaped object was hovering directly above them. Pictured: Hobbs, NM. (Credit: Google)
But as they passed the power station, the car “suddenly died.”
“Pulled off on side of road under power station lights. Got out of car – all four of us. Thought car might be out of gas although gas gauge was reading one-quarter tank.”
At this point, the witness sent one of his friends in the car to a restaurant one-half mile away to call his brother to bring gas.
“While standing outside car waiting for friend to return, a flare started traveling along three feet above the power line. When our eyes automatically back tracked back to the origin of the flares path, with our eyes looking almost straight up above our heads, there was a hovering disc 30 feet above us with no lights and silent.”
The group had been outside the vehicle for several minutes, but had not noticed the disc before.
“Apparently it had been there for the approximately five minutes we had been standing outside the car, but we never looked up directly above our heads all that time. We were astounded because it was so close and we had not seen it – although it had no lights. The power station lights were reflecting off of it and clearly showed a gray disc easily visible with sharp edges and blotting out bright stars in the clear desert sky.”
The group reacted to what they were seeing.
“Our mouths fell open and tears were forming in my eyes. No more flares came out as we observed it for approximately 15 minutes. After observing it for another approximately five minutes, it very, very slowly started to ascend straight up. I got the impression that it was in distress. It took 10 minutes for it to ascend until it appeared the size of a dime. All this time it was clearly visible with a sharp outline.”
Seconds later the object disappeared from sight.
“When it had ascended to an altitude where it was the size of a nickel my friend returned from calling his brother for gas and witnessed the last two minutes of the sighting. We put the three gallons of gas in the car and it started and we went home.”
The witness called police to report the incident.
“The officer seemed annoyed and gave me an excuse that seemed to me to be a stock answer to give people who report UFOs. He said White Sands 300 miles away had tested a rocket that day. The next day I checked the gas gauge on the big Buick and it was one-half full. I’m 63 now and have never reported this again. I have only told about a dozen people in my life. I just wanted to get this story out before I die. I am a retired aircraft mechanic for a major airline. I am also a commercial pilot rated to fly many types of aircraft. Thanks for listening.”
Hobbs, NM, is about 115 miles southeast of Roswell, NM. (Credit: Google)
Hobbs s a city in Lea County, New Mexico, population 34,122.
New Mexico is currently a UFO Alert Level 5 – with 1.44 sightings per million population based on MUFON February 2015 statistics. New Mexico received a total of three UFO reports in February.
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.
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft spotted geysers on the surface of Saturn’s moon Enceladus ten years ago. And new research suggests that these geysers are caused by active hydrothermal vents at the bottom of the moon’s ice-covered sea–vents that potentially warm the water to a temperature that could sustain life.
Artist’s impression of Cassini in orbit around Saturn. (Credit: NASA)
After the geysers were spotted, researchers were able to determine that water ice was being spewed by these geysers. Then, using the Cosmic Dust Analyzer aboard Cassini, scientists concluded that the geyser spray contains ice crystals and fine silica dust. Recent tests reveal that the only way these fine rock particles can form is through a mineral interaction with alkaline water at a temperature of at least 194 degrees Fahrenheit, which also has a salinity of four percent or less. NBC News space writer Alan Boyle points out, “Those just happen to be the conditions that exist at a field of hydrothermal vents on the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, known as the Lost City, where volcanically heated water makes it possible for weird types of life to survive in a sunless ecosystem.”
Although other processes could explain the geysers observed by Cassini, scientists believe Earthlike volcanic vents are the best explanation. And scientists note that this is the first time active hydrothermal vents have been seen outside of Earth’s seafloor.
Illustration showing geysers on Enceladus. (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute)
Boyle explains, “The latest findings support the view that Enceladus has the ‘Big Three’ requirements needed for life on Earth: liquid water, the chemical building blocks for organic activity, and an energy source in the form of hydrothermal heat.”
Scientists are excited for future missions to Enceladus to better determine if the moon’s sea does, indeed, harbor life. Cassini will sample the moon’s water plumes again in October. But, unfortunately, the spacecraft doesn’t have the necessary instruments to detect life. And, it will likely be a while before any subsequent mission to Enceladus is realized. NASA’s priority is Jupiter’s moon Europa–another moon that may be home to extraterrestrial life.
There are many unexplained objects in the world but the artifacts known asKlerksdorp spheres are some of the oldest. During the past decades, South American miners have been uncovering them from copper mines.
Metalworking certainly isn’t that new and people have been making metal spheres for ages. But these strange ones have been found in Pre-Cambrian deposits, some as old as 2.8 billion years. That’s way before dinosaurs or any multicellular life for that matter. Life more complex than single-celled proto-bacteria only appeared some 580 million years ago.
The spheres range between 0.5 to 4 inches diameter and were found inpyrophyllite deposits. Pyrophyllite is a soft mineral that could not have formed the artifacts, some of which are almost perfect spheres. They are also very hard to scratch. Some believe the spheres to be of artificial origins.
They seem to be made from two different materials. One type of sphere is made out of a solid bluish metal and others are hollowed out and contain a spongy substance that has not been identified yet.
The study of geologic layers has proven that oxygen only became abundant around a billion years ago. If the spheres were made by intelligent beings, they must have been very different and there is no fossil record of them.
Another theory is that they must have been left behind by extraterrestrial beings that had some activity on or around Earth all that time ago. Although not verified, some said that the spheres are so well balanced that they had to be made in zero gravity.
There are a number of theories floating around these mysterious objects. Some have suggested that they might be art or some form of talismans while others pointed to currency or ammunition. It has even been said they’re physical signals or part of an ancient surveillance system.
Their mystery is as unsolved today as it was when they were first discovered. We will undoubtedly find out their secrets as science advances and new investigation techniques are developed. For now, speculation is the rule.
Kreeg België gisteren bezoek van buitenaards leven?
Kreeg België gisteren bezoek van buitenaards leven?
Wie gisteren naar de sterrenhemel boven de stad Lommel in België keek, heeft daar mogelijk iets raars gespot. Het Belgische UFO-meldpunt kreeg een reeks foto’s binnen van een inwoner van de stad die rond 22.23 uur een ongeïdentificeerd vliegend object gezien zou hebben.
Er zou een lichtpunt zijn opgedoken dat meer dan zeven minuten statisch bleef hangen en daarna opeens verdween. Dat schrijft Het Belang van Limburg.
Frederick Delaere van het Belgische UFO-meldpunt zei sinds 2007 al zo’n 1617 meldingen te hebben ontvangen van UFO’s. “Natuurlijk zijn er enkele waarvoor we geen verklaring vinden en die dan de geschiedenisboeken ingaan als een niet-identificeerbaar voorwerp,” zei hij. “Enkele jaren geleden waren lampionnen erg in, als die een bepaalde hoogte krijgen kan dat op een vreemd object lijken. En vandaag de dag zijn er heel wat mensen die experimenteren met drones voorzien van lampjes.”
Bij de Nederlandse en Amerikaanse meldpunten nemen elk jaar de meldingen toe. Anders is dat in België, waar de regels voor het spotten van UFO’s zijn aangescherpt. In 2014 kwamen er 169 meldingen binnen bij het Belgische UFO-meldpunt, dat waren er 92 minder dan in 2013. Voor vier meldingen werd geen verklaring gevonden.
In januari kwamen de meeste meldingen binnen. In diezelfde maand stond de politie van het Duitse Bremen voor een raadsel: drie uur lang was een voorwerp te zien op de radar van de vluchtleiding. Ook met de verrekijker konden de luchtverkeersleiders een onbekend vliegend voorwerp zien. Het luchtverkeer werd er door gehinderd.
Inwoners Puerto Rico eisen antwoord over buitenaardse basis
Inwoners Puerto Rico eisen antwoord over buitenaardse basis
Het gebeurt niet vaak dat inwoners van een bepaald gebied op hoge poten naar de gemeente stappen om opheldering te krijgen omtrent een mogelijke buitenaardse basis.
Dit is echter precies wat er gebeurde op Puerto Rico toen het aantal UFO waarnemingen in dat gebied de pan uit rees.
In het gebied Lajas op het eiland Puerto Rico zijn de inwoners wel wat gewend als het gaat om vreemde vliegende voorwerpen.
Al jarenlang zien de mensen ze hier letterlijk vliegen. De laatste tijd schijnt het echter met vreemde vliegende voorwerpen (Ufo’s) behoorlijk uit de hand te lopen.
Zodanig dat de inwoners zich nu serieus afvragen of er onder of in de valleien in hun gebied een buitenaardse basis is gevestigd.
Niet alleen worden er veel UFO’s gesignaleerd, maar worden foto’s hiervan die op internet worden geplaatst onmiddellijk verwijderd, aldus de bewoners.
Een voorbeeld van een UFO zoals die enkele dagen geleden is waargenomen zie je op de volgende foto's.
Onder leiding van ufoloog Reinaldo Rios is de vraag bij de burgemeester neergelegd of we hier te maken hebben met een buitenaardse basis. Deze heeft nog niet geantwoord en ondertussen wachten de inwoners vol spanning af.
Als er geen uitleg komt dan zal er door het onderzoeksteam van Reinaldo Rios een persconferentie worden gegeven waar men spannende onthullingen tegemoet kan zien.
A woman in Mississippi recorded video of a large triangle-shaped UFO. We discuss this and other space and UFO stories on this episode of Spacing Out! Jason McClellan also talks with Jessica Chobot, host of Nerdist News and of the Bizarre States podcast. Plus, we show you a brief glimpse of the 2015 International UFO Congress.
Stories discussed in this episode:
- Scientists puzzled by strange lights on Ceres – Canadian UFO crash hoax – Large triangle over Mississippi
Whitley Strieber's “Communion” had just made its way to #1 (with a bullet) on the New York Times bestseller list (the other gray lady) and thanks to the fairly thorough press coverage (for a non-fiction book about alien abductions–who would have thunk it?), the image of Whitley's lady was burned into my impressionable 7 year old mind.
What this means is that I grew up with my back against the wall – literally! I propped my bed against the corner of my room every night and sat upright, a close eye on the door, window, and closet. I sat watch all night and waited for one of Whitley's visitors to pop out of my closet and shout “peek-a-boo” in a mechanical voice with a Midwestern twang (the mechanical Midwestern twang of the gray lady being one of the many bizarre details that made “Communion” the most frightening “UFO book” ever written.)
The lack of nocturnal sleep soon took its toll on my diurnal wakefulness and my mother took me to our family pediatrician. My nurse mother raised me to think of doctors as the great wise men and precise technicians of the unassailable medical establishment, the final fruit of all dialectical struggles in human history. In some sense, of course, it is. The practitioners of modern medicine have saved my life and the lives of those I love on more than one occasion, but do they think outside of their paradigm? In my naivete, I expected Dr. Bogdanovich to at least give me a handle on my concerns. The smartest in our society would by necessity also be the most open-minded, right?
So my mother drove me to his office, a fluorescent-lit cube as cold as any abductee examination room.
“What seems to be the problem, big guy?” asked Dr. Bogdanovich as he sat me up on the examination table. He smelled like aftershave. I think I suddenly preferred the cheddar cheese smell of the grays (that's what they smelled like according to Whitley Strieber.)
“I'm afraid that aliens will come into my room at night and abduct me.”
“Aliens, huh? I don't blame you! Aliens are pretty scary. I'm afraid of aliens too!”
The jack-ass was patronizing me. Patronizing me!
“You know those Ghostbuster packs they sell at Toys R' Us? Well, they don't just work against ghosts! They also work against aliens! So next time aliens come into your room just zap them with the Ghostbuster pack and that'll get rid of 'em! Will you buy him a Ghostbuster pack, mom?”
“Sure,” said my mother.
“Would you like your mother to get you one of those packs?” he asked me.
“Sure,” I said, too well-mannered to not play his stupid game.
What a loss of innocence and a blow to my naive humanism. Dr. Bogdanovich was nothing but an Amazing Randi. An Amazing Randi, MD (and I thought Doogie Howser was annoying.)
“Now go out to the desk and get a lollipop from Gretchen, our receptionist. I'd like to have a word with your mother.”
From Gretchen's front desk I heard Dr. Bogdanovich comfort my mother:
“Don't worry about it at all! It is perfectly normal for kids his age to have irrational fears. They're all afraid of the boogeyman, ghosts, monsters under the bed, etc… In fact, I would be worried if he wasn't having these fears at his age. Perfectly normal.”
Who the hell was he calling irrational? In a sane and rational world, Dr. Bogdanovich would have addressed my problem thus:
“Mrs. Johnson, I fear your son may be a possible abductee. I'm not saying he is or that it's even likely, but it is possible. I recommend setting up a video camera in his room. If anything unusual happens in response to this camera I want you to call me immediately. If it blacks out, if he turns it off, if he turns it away from his bed, if he seems hypnotized, or if anything the least bit strange happens in response to the presence camera I want you to call me immediately. We have to carefully monitor this situation.”
Unfortunately, we do not live in a sane and rational world.
“Would you like to go to Kmart and get one of those Ghostbuster packs?” my mom asked as she turned out of Dr. Randi's (I mean Dr. Bogdanovich's) parking lot.
“Mom, we don't know what these things are or where they come from, but they are not going to be afraid of a plastic toy. They have the ability to hop between dimensions for all we know. They're going to be afraid of a toy?”
Perhaps I am a starchild! How many other 7 year olds would have come up with such a sophisticated answer?
Starchild or not, I have always prided myself on two things: an open mind and a strong imagination. Skeptics like Michael Shermer and the Amazing Randi lack both. I go by the philosopher Martin Heidegger's definition of Truth as an”uncovering.” Truth is not always a set of propositions extracted from a pallid model (even if that model is the Almighty scientific method itself.) Reality does not care about our models any more than it cares about the equations we foist upon it in the name of our most chauvinistic reason. Truth is a going forth and “uncovering.” So we may not be able to repeatedly produce a UFO sighting under controlled conditions in a lab, but that does not mean that there are not “reams and reams” of evidence to sort through. If even 1% of it is of genuinely “alien” origin then the entire Shermerian/Randian paradigm has been altered forever. Our friend Whitley Strieber often suggests skeptics are frightened this larger and very obvious reality will blow their intellectual egos away like the proverbial pup tent in a tornado (not his exact words!)
That's not to say that reason is not equally or even more important than a process of “uncovering.” We need both. We need more than a smidgeon of “everything and the kitchen sink” to sort out phenomena that is undeniably taking place.
The shallow scientism of Dr. Bogdanovich and his ilk will not do the job.
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Where: Hog Mountain in May (southwest of Stephenville)
What: Lights making trail in sky, similar to famous Stephenville lights
Strange lights resembling the famous Stephenville lights showed up over the town of May (which happens to be near Stephenville), and two family members in different parts of May were witness and fortunately one of them submitted a report to Texas UFO Sightings. This must have been huge! Check out the photo (and compare it to the Stephenville one) and then read description of the event:
May Lights from March 2015
Stephenville Lights from 2000
My son in law texted me and told me to look to the south. There was colored lights stationary in the night sky. I grabbed my binoculars and had trouble focusing. I kept seeing a double white light. I ran and got my Nikon Coolpix and zoomed in as far as I could and started taking pictures. I was rather surprised to see what came out. These lights are identical to the famous Stephenville, TX lights of 2000 that are on youtube. We just happen to be 60 miles SW of Stephenville. It was about 7:30-7:45pm, I have 5 pics total
I will try to find the other photos and get more details, but in the meantime, if you saw this phenomenon as well, report your sighting
@UFOcommunity Archer City, Texas — A motion-activated camera at a Fort Worth family’s favorite hunting spot is capturing shots of mysterious objects.
Lisa Brock-Piekarski’s game camera is supposed to take pictures of the deer on her Archer City hunting lease, but the pictures show something she can’t explain.
“What I see looks almost like a Frisbee,” she said. “You see a several lights going around, and they’re all symmetrical and lit up, and it just looks like an object in the sky.”
Brock-Piekarski’s is hesitant to call the string of lights in the sky UFOs, although she can’t identify the flying objects.
“We’ve seen falling stars, all kinds of stuff out there because you’re away form the city,” she said. “Anytime there’s a meteor shower or anything, you can see it a lot better, but I’ve never seen anything like that.” Whatever it is, she is now a little hesitant to go out to her deer blind alone.
“It’s creepy,” Brock-Piekarski said. “I don’t know if I want to be sitting out in my deer stand by my self anymore, hunting.”
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Ik ben Pieter, en gebruik soms ook wel de schuilnaam Peter2011.
Ik ben een man en woon in Linter (België) en mijn beroep is Ik ben op rust..
Ik ben geboren op 18/10/1950 en ben nu dus 74 jaar jong.
Mijn hobby's zijn: Ufologie en andere esoterische onderwerpen.
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