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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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.
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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.
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The government took the threat of UFOs thus seriously within the Nineteen Fifties that Britain intelligence chiefs met to debate the problem, newly-released files show.
UFO disclosure has been unbroken to a minimum, as several governments believe that the general public isn’t able to be exposed to extraterrestrial (ET) life and unidentified flying object phenomena, however. Government documents typically aren’t created public for many years (if at all), thus plenty of this info gets buried.
The former Prime Minister, Winston S. Churchill, allegedly prohibited reporting of the “bizarre” incident, off the East Coast of England, for half a century amid fears disclosures regarding unidentified flying objects would produce public hysteria.
In the waning days of the Second War, former British Prime Minister Winston S. Churchill allegedly ordered the hiding of a detailed encounter between an RAF plane returning to England from the EU dry land and a UFO; apparently, the ordinarily composed “British Bulldog” purportedly feared that ought to the encounter become public knowledge it'd produce mass panic among a war weary population and destroy their belief in faith.
THE CALVINE UFO PHOTO
The saga began on 4 August 1990 once two members of the general public out walking within the neck of the woods of Calvine, close to Pitlochry, in Scotland, quick-sighted a huge, diamond-shaped, aluminum apparition. The unidentified flying object was nearly stationary and hovered mutely for what the witnesses believed was many minutes, before fast away vertically at large speed.Throughout the observation, a military craft, believed to be a Harrier, was seen. However, it had been clear if it was escorting the craft, making an attempt to intercept it, or whether or not the pilot was ever tuned into it in the least.
The men, whose identities are not any longer known, allegedly took the camera to the Scottish Daily Record Newspaper, WHO successively allegedly sent the images and also the negatives to the MoD.
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GUARDIAN OF THE GALAXY Hollywood legend Kurt Russell reveals HE was the mystery pilot who first reported the notorious Phoenix Lights UFO sighting in 1997
GUARDIAN OF THE GALAXYHollywood legend Kurt Russell reveals HE was the mystery pilot who first reported the notorious Phoenix Lights UFO sighting in 1997
The sightings in Phoenix, Arizona, and Sonara, Mexico, saw thousands of people report seeing a huge array of lights
By Danny Collins
HOLLYWOOD icon Kurt Russell claims HE was the pilot who stumbled upon on a notorious UFO sighting that has had experts baffled for decades.
Guardians of the Galaxy star Kurt made the startling revelation that he witnessed the Phoenix Lights sightings in 1997 on BBC’s The One Show.
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Kurt Russell says he was the mystery pilot who spotted the notorious Phoenix Lights – claimed to be a UFO sighting
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The lights were spotted over Arizona by thousands in 1997
The sightings in Phoenix, Arizona, and Sonara, Mexico, were reported by thousands who saw a huge array of lights organised into a triangle.
And 66-year-old Kurt says he was one of the anonymous pilots – flying with stepson Oliver – who offered testimony on the sightings.
He said: “I was the pilot. [I] saw six lights over the airport in absolute uniform in a V-shape.
“I was just looking at them and I was coming in, we were maybe a half mile out.
“I kind of came out of my reverie and I said, ‘I don’t know what they are.’ [Oliver] said, ‘Are we okay here?’
“I said ‘I’m gonna call,’ and I reported it. They said…‘We don’t show anything.’”
It was only several years later when watching TV with wife Goldie Hawn that he released his account had been investigated by UFO sleuths.
The actor continued: “I began feeling like Richard Dreyfuss in Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
“I go, ‘What, why do I know this?’ And it’s not clear to me. And finally they said a general aviation pilot reported it on landing.”
The US Air Force has since claimed that one of the groups of lights was a squadron of A-10 Warthog jets flying in formation.
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Russell says he only realised when his reports to authorities was included on a UFO show he was watching with wife Goldie Hawn
Witnesses described how they moved in a huge V-shaped formation, producing no sound before disappearing and reappearing suddenly.
Many have claimed the bizarre spectacle is proof of extra-terrestrial life.
UFO expert Scott Brando told the Express: “The Phoenix lights were explained with two different events.
“The first was the flight of five planes in V-shape formation. This is what the witness saw in that day.
“The second event was the launch of military flares over Estrella mountains.”
Massachusetts-born Russell is a FAA-licensed private pilot.
Kurt Russell has revealed he was the pilot who reported the “Phoenix Lights” UFO sighting two decades ago.
In a recent interview with the BBC, the 66-year-old “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2” star said he’d been flying his longtime partner Goldie Hawn‘s son Oliver Hudson to see his girlfriend when they both witnessed lights in a triangular formation seemingly passing over Phoenix on March 13, 1997. The lights were also witnessed by thousands of people between 7:30 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. that night.
“I saw six lights over the airport in an absolute uniform, in a ‘v’ shape, and … I was just looking at them,” Russell said.
Prompted by Hudson, he reported the lights to ground control, which said nothing was showing on radar.
“Well, okay, I’m going to declare it’s unidentified, it’s flying, and it’s six objects,” the actor responded.
Russell and Hudson didn’t mention the sighting again and forgot about it until two years later when the actor found Hawn watching a show about UFOs that featured the Phoenix Lights incident.
“I’d never thought about it since then,” the actor said as he realized, while watching the show, that he’d been the pilot who reported the sighting.
“The fascinating part to me is that it literally just went out of my head … had I not seen that show, I’d have never thought of it again,” he said.
Author Steve Alten, photographed at his home in Wellington Monday, June 19, 2017. His book “Undisclosed” was inspired by what he describes as a UFO sighting in Wellington. “It looked like a saucer-shaped object with amber light on the bottom,” he said. “I saw a dozen coming over in staggered pairs. That was a big inspiration for the novel.”
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Three days before he was supposed to meet with a leading UFO researcher, New York Times bestselling author Steve Alten claims he saw something whirling in the sky above Wellington.
When he examined the odd lights more closely, he says he saw about a dozen saucer-shaped objects with amber lights on the bottoms flying from south to north along State Road 7. They were going in staggered pairs moving “whisper quiet” about 1,000 feet in the air.
Alten is convinced he saw a series of UFOs that night in 2013 and has been researching it ever since, culminating in a recently released fiction book called “Undisclosed.” His research on aliens and UFOs has cemented his the idea that extraterrestrials exist.
“Seeing these things for myself takes the belief to a different level because now there is no question about it,” he said at his home in Stonehaven Estates, across the street from Wellington.
Alten is known for a series of books centered around the fictitious survival of the megalodon, a giant prehistoric shark, inspiring a movie in the works called Meg. He calls his latest novel “faction” instead of “fiction” because it’s based on what he believes are facts. The cover has flying saucers above a farm with the tagline “we’ve been lied to…”
Allen describes what he saw that night:
“There were eight to 12 of them flying in staggered pairs, approaching from the south less than a thousand feet above State Road 7. They were far too silent and smooth to be helicopters and they were definitely not planes. As they came closer and passed almost directly overhead we could see the outline of a… well, their saucer-shaped vessels. By this time I had parked the car (my wife) and I just stood and watched them, the two of us incredulous as they moved north through a cloudless night sky… until, pair by pair, they simply faded into the ether.”
Alten met with Steven Green, a former medical doctor and current “UFOlogist,” who has been working to bring to light what he thinks is a government conspiracy to coverup UFOs and extraterrestrial visits. Alten helped Greer with a recent book called “Unacknowledged” that claims to expose the secrets about aliens.
Alten said he thinks more than a dozen UFOs crashed or landed starting with one of the more famous incidents in Roswell, N.M., 1947. After decades of speculation, the U.S. military claims the incident was a nuclear test surveillance balloon that crashed on a ranch near the town. Many, however, remain skeptical of that report.
Alten said he believes government officials and the fossil fuel industry are covering up details.
“The truth is out there, but first it’s going to really piss you off,” he said.
There have been hundreds of “UFO sightings” over the years including a famous image of a “flying saucer” over the 2012 London Olympic games, which turned out to be a Goodyear blimp.
“It’s very common for things like the moon, space debris, reflection from station windows, the spacecraft structure itself or light from Earth to appear as artifacts in photos and videos from the orbiting laboratory,” the statement reads.
Alten is still unflinching in his beliefs, but he is moving onto other projects.
The popular author has lived in the Wellington area for more than 15 years. He wrote his first book Meg: A Novel of Deep Terror in 1997, which is set in an alternate world where a giant prehistoric shark, the megalodon, survives. A science fiction horror film called Meg, based on his novel, will be released by Warner Bros. in 2018.
His books start with an idea followed by character development, months to years of research and then finally writing. He has written more than a dozen books, including eight from the Meg series.
“Writing is like a muscle,” he said. “The more you use it, the better you get.”
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Authors Release UFO Sightings Desk Reference for 21st Century
Authors Release UFO Sightings Desk Reference for 21st Century
Authors Cheryl Costa and Linda Miller Costa have compiled a reference book, "The UFO Sightings Desk Reference: United States of America 2001-2015", to document a phenomenon that until now has never had solid published statistics.
This project was an effort to bring some scientific thinking and big data analysis to the UFO sighting issue.
Authors Cheryl Costa and Linda Miller Costa have compiled a reference book, "The UFO Sightings Desk Reference: United States of America 2001-2015", to document a phenomenon that until now has never had solid published statistics. The reference is targeted to a broad range of researchers, as well as UFO enthusiasts and people curious about UFOs. The reference includes sightings from this century only. The book is the first national UFO statistics book ever compiled, with a national summary, state-by-state summaries, data at the county level, and various reported shapes. The authors compiled information on sightings by state and county over time, giving interested parties a single-point reference for statistical analysis of UFO sightings.
Cheryl Costa is a columnist with the Syracuse New Times in Syracuse, NY, retired aerospace industry information security professional, and a combat veteran who served in both the U.S. Air Force and Navy. Linda Miller Costa, M.L.S, worked in scientific research and publishing at The National Academies of Sciences and the Environmental Protection Agency. She is currently employed by LeMoyne College in Syracuse, NY.
“This project was an effort to bring some scientific thinking and big data analysis to the UFO sighting issue,” said Cheryl Costa. “We utilized the databases of the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC) and the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON). We also supplemented the combined databases with nationwide county information for what we call a “stable” reporting period, 2001-2015, during which reporting has been much more reliable and well-documented.” The Costas have received queries from professionals who seek data to complement their research in fields as diverse as Economics and Financial studies.
National Geographic conducted a national poll several years ago on UFO reporting and public beliefs. 36% were firm believers that UFOs had an explanation as alien phenomena, 42% were undecided, and 17% didn’t care or believe. 70% believe the government is hiding what it knows.
There were more than 121,000 eyewitness accounts during the period studied
California led the nation in reports, at 15,836
Florida, Texas, Washington State, Pennsylvania, New York, Arizona, Illinois, Michigan, and Ohio round out the top 10 states for reported eyewitness sightings
The top 10 counties for sightings in the U.S. are Los Angeles (CA), Maricopa (AZ), Cook (IL), San Diego (CA), King (WA), Orange (CA), Essex (MA), Riverside (CA), Clark (NV), and San Bernardino (CA)
Do the Costas believe these reports are all exotic off-world craft? “No, not by a long shot,” said Costa. “These are simply sincere eyewitness accounts. Most people in the U.S. don’t realize that rather than going down, sightings nationwide have actually gone up significantly, from almost 3,500 in 2001 to nearly 12,000 in 2015. When you see the huge numbers, nationally and regionally, it’s evident that something is going on. Even if only a tiny percentage is genuine off-world craft, then that’s a huge story. We call it ‘The greatest story never told.’”
The Costas hope the source book opens up a wider, objective dialogue about these unexplained phenomena. To find the number of sightings in your area, or for more information, contact Cheryl Costa at author(at)cherylcosta(dot)com or 315-299-8386.
The book, "The UFO Sightings Desk Reference: United States of America 2001-2015" by Cheryl Costa and Linda Miller Costa, is available from Amazon.
A recent Freedom of Information request featured in a UK newspaper states that British police officers responded to eight UFO reports in the last two years.
While no evidence was found by the officers, police were dispatched to emergency calls in Pendle Hill, Burnley, Fleetwood, Lytham St Annes, and several other places in 2015. In March of 2016, officers were also sent to investigate a suspected alien abduction in Accrington, and they were also notified that a UFO landed in Marsden Park, Nelson.
Alleged UFO video still taken over Holmfirth at 8:50 p.m. on October 6, 2016. Image by Gary Heseltine.
Police encountering UFOs while on duty is not a strictly British phenomenon. Many cases in the United States, and across the world, have the fuzz engaging with strange lights in the sky. In August of 2014, police officers were dispatched to a call in Lower Paxton, Pennsylvania, where a witness watched a UFO for 20 minutes. The officers arrived at the scene, contacted the local airport and military base, and made an official report that the object they saw that night was totally out of the ordinary.
In regards to the UK police sightings, while it might seem like a waste of money and resources to send police officers to a UFO sighting, there is some justification to entertain such calls.
A police spokesman stated that officers are only deployed when the emergency call operator feels that the sighting or event may pose any risk, threat or harm to people in the area.
Sometimes these calls are not what they may seem so a potential UFO call could be a suspicious light or suspicious movement that could mean any number of things and we would assess and deploy officers if required, or there could be a concern for the caller’s welfare.
Whether it is fact or fiction, strange lights in the sky seem to be pretty common, but actually having police officers show up to a 911 call concerning a UFO is definitely rare.
FBI special agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully are back on our television screens.
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A UFO is sighted somewhere in the world every six minutes.
But there could be even more seen, with many sightings and experiences going unreported, according to close encounter therapist Mary Rodwell.
She never strongly believed in extraterrestrial life herself, but when a family experiencing paranormal activity came to her some 20 years ago, they changed her convictions.
Ms Rodwell has now counselled more than 3000 people who claim to have been abducted and said the stories she has been told have many commonalities.
is a UFO on the Gold Coast?
“People experience the same anomalies, they wake in the morning after having a strange night and feel like they were taken somewhere else,” she said.
“Others have strange marks on their body or a bloody nose, with no idea of how they got them.”
Ms Rodwell, Australian Close Encounter Resource Network director, said these experiences had nothing to do with believers.
“It often happens to people who have no interest in UFOs or aliens and my clients are anybody from lawyers, doctors, nurses to pilots, police, housewives and children,” she said.
One of Ms Rodwell’s practises is hypnosis, for people to discover “missing time”.
Missing time is when you move from one point to another, with no recollection of how you got there.
Mary Rodwell, director of Australian Close Encounter Resource Network, believes aliens exist.Source:News Limited
“Clients often find out they have interacted with extraterrestrial life,” she said.
“Children learn things on the craft and they talk about complex things they shouldn’t know about like black holes.”
Ms Rodwell said extraterrestrial life could be confused for ghosts and other paranormal beings.
She believes they aren’t necessarily something to fear and said some were healers.
Ms Rodwell said she treated a Victorian woman in her 60s with chronic back pain.
She was told she would end up wheelchair-bound and only had morphine for relief.
“After she had a levitating experience, her condition was gone, she is no longer on medication,” Ms Rodwell said.
“I did hypnosis and we discovered she went onto a craft and was healed.
“Now she’s almost 70 and has more energy than her children.
“Part of her mission has been to prove to her family and partner that this is real, they find it difficult to believe her.”
Ms Rodwell said many were closed-minded when it came to the possibility of other intelligence and some refused to report their experiences at the risk of sounding “crazy”.
“After people have experiences their whole life is transformed,” she said.
“They are less materialistic and get involved with healing and caring for the planet.”
After 20 years of studying extraterrestrial life, Ms Rodwell said she had come to understand how common experiences are.
“People need to come out of the space closet,” she said.
With FBI special agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully re-hitting our television screens in the new series of The X-Files, we divulge some of Australia’s scariest and most unbelievable abduction reports.
Frederick Valentich went missing in 1978 while flying his plane to King Island.
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DISAPPEARANCE OF FREDERICK VALENTICH
“The thing is just orbiting on top of me.”
That was one of the last things 20-year-old pilot Frederick Valentich said before disappearing into thin air, with no trace of oil or metal on land or in sea.
He was flying over the Bass Strait in October 1978, when he called air traffic control to find out more about the aircraft flying just above him.
But air traffic control did not see a blip, except for Valentich, on the radar.
“What type of aircraft is it?” air traffic control asked.
Valentich replied, “I cannot affirm, it is four bright — it seems to me like landing lights”.
The pilot was at 4500 feet and said the “long-shaped” aircraft was playing some sort of a game.
“He’s flying over me two, three times, with speeds I cannot identify,” he told air traffic control.
Valentich then says the aircraft is orbiting above him, and he’s orbiting with it.
“It’s got a green light and sort of metallic,” he said.
Air traffic control attempted to get more details about the aircraft and Valentich cut in on the radio “it is hovering and it is not an aircraft”.
Valentich went silent and 17 seconds later an unidentified, metallic sound seeped through the radio transmission. He was never heard from again.
Almost 40 years on, a scrap of metal from his plane still hasn’t been recovered and it’s as if he disappeared from the face of the earth.
A computer-generated image of what Kelly Cahill claims to have seen on a drive home. Source: YouTubeSource:YouTube
KELLY CAHILL ABDUCTION
The 1993 abduction of Kelly Cahill was actually mentioned on the first new episode of The X-Files.
Ms Cahill was driving home with her husband in Dandenong, Victoria, when a craft flew overhead.
She claims they lost an hour of time and she was rushed to hospital with stomach pains after discovering a small triangle abrasion on her body.
Ms Cahill had no interest in extraterrestrial life and as she drove home with her partner, she thought she saw a bright blimp.
She has recounted her experience in a number of interviews, and said as their vehicle neared closer to the brightness, the lights began to separate into a row of round, orange lights.
“It appeared like there were silhouettes standing in these round, orange circles, like people,” she said in one interview.
The craft then flew away from the field it was sitting in, and Ms Cahill said further down the road they met a bright light, which was like a wall across the road.
Next thing she remembered was driving on the usual dark road, arguing with her husband.
Weeks later, she had recollections of getting out of the car and walking towards the craft.
She said dark beings began to approach her.
“This energy went through me,” she said.
“It was a low level frequency that came in waves, so dense I could physically feel it.
“That absolutely terrified me, I can’t explain the horror I felt and I just began screaming and the minute I did, the eyes on these things lit up and they came charging across the field.”
She said she was lifted off her feet and thrown back and when she sat up, she couldn’t see anything.
She then developed the triangle on her body, and extraterrestrial experts researching Ms Cahill’s case found there were three other people who stopped their cars that night, who describe the same experience as Ms Cahill.
To this day she still doesn’t know what happened to her.
Faye Knowles and her sons Patrick, 24, Sean, 21, and Wayne, 18, claim to have been terrorised by a UFO as they travelled across the Nullarbor towards the South Australian border in 1988.Source:News Corp Australia
THE KNOWLES FAMILY
Extraterrestrial life experts say the Knowles family case is one of the most significant close encounters in history.
Faye Knowles was heading to Perth along the Nullarbor Plain in January 1998.
She was with her three sons Patrick, 24, Sean, 21, and Wayne, 18.
The road was deserted at the time and Sean was driving, with his older brother beside him.
Ahead of them was a bright light and Sean decided to chase it.
The light was shaped like an egg and was moving back and forth just above the road.
Sean swerved to miss the object and continued driving.
The egg was now following them and they started to feel the car being lifted off the road.
The mother stuck her arm out the window and felt something soft, rubbery and hot, her arm was then covered in a black dust.
The voices of everybody in the car then became distorted, their talking had slowed and Patrick said after the experience it was as if his brains were being sucked out.
The car then thudded back onto the road and the back tyre burst.
The Adelaide Advertiser reports the family hid in a bush for 30 minutes before heading to the police station.
Ceduna Sergeant Fred Longley said the family was distressed, according to the Adelaide Advertiser.
“They were in a terrible state — even though it was five hours after the incident. Something happened out there. Their car, even after being driven all that way, still had black ash — or dust — over it. Even on the inside,” he said.
NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter normally loops around the red planet in celestial solitude, but on June 5, its existence became a bit less lonely.
That’s because the craft spotted a NASA comrade, the Curiosity Mars rover. Curiosity was navigating rocky and sandy terrain between Mount Sharp — a peak within the planet’s Gale Crater, which may be a dry lake — and the Vera Rubin Ridge.
Curiosity is heading to the ridge to analyze outcrops upon which the iron oxide hematite has been spotted from orbit. The rover probably couldn’t tell that the orbiter’s High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera was keeping watch over it. Ah, the tragic beauty of outer space.
Here’s an image the orbiter captured of Curiosity. HiRISE takes pictures using only a few colors — red, blue-green, and infrared — in order to expose details on Mars’s surface, so the rover appears bluer than it actually is. Curiosity is about nine feet wide and ten feet long.
That little blue dot is Curiosity.
Here’s an image that Curiosity took as it roamed the area (while being watched from above):
Look up, Curiosity!! Look UP!
A NASA press release notes that the orbiter glimpses Curiosity “about every three months,” and that the images it takes in these instances help scientists “monitor the surrounding features for changes such as dune migration or erosion.” In other words, the photos help the agency ensure that the rover is on an appropriate path.
Does the orbiter look forward to these encounters to get through the long months alone?
Curiosity’s exploration of Mount Sharp may reveal more information about what Mars was like in its early history. The mountain has layers that “record environmental conditions from different times,” says the press release. Curiosity has already found evidence that wet environments once existed in Gale Crater, and it’s possible that these could have hosted microbial life.
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Australia's greatest aviation mystery. Frederick Valentich was a 20 year old pilot who vanished along with his light airplane, somewhere over Bass Strait one Tuesday evening in 1978.
No trace has ever been recovered of pilot or aircraft. But what deepens the mystery is what Valentich reported seeing from his plane, in communications with Melbourne air traffic control just minutes before he disappeared forever.
“With the passage of more than 50 years since my incident in Minot and 70 years since the incident in Roswell, NM, there can be no ethical, moral or critical reason to keep the secret of humanity any longer and my other colleagues agree thereby.”
A Minuteman missile at Malmstrom Air Force Base in the 1960s
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Here’s another one of those old-is-news-again stories that keeps people suspicious of what governments may be hiding about UFOs. On December 6, 1966, the Minot Daily News in Minot, North Dakota, carried a front page story about recent UFO sightings in the area, especially around the Minot Air Force Base, home of a number of nuclear missiles poised to be launched if the Cold War heated up. That story is back on the front page again 50 years later with the release of It Never Happened, Volume 1, a tell-mostly-all-before-I-die memoir of the incident by Captain David D Schindele, a Minuteman I intercontinental ballistic missile launch crew commander at the base on that day. Schindele claims that nothing more was reported about the UFO sightings because the Air Force ordered everyone there to never in their lives speak about what happened next … the unexplained change in status of 10 ICBMs to ‘off-alert’ – meaning that they could not be launched.
“I remember that when we were relieved the next morning and arrived topside, I attempted to query the Flight Security Controller, who told me he could not speak about the incident. It was then that my commander also informed me that he had received word, during my rest break below, that we were to never speak about the incident.”
Schindele kept silent until 2010, when he first revealed his experiences to Robert Hastings, author of UFOs & Nukes: Extraordinary Encounters at Nuclear Weapons Sites. Why did Schindele finally disobey that order?
“During that time in Minot, many of us experienced unworldly incidents at Minuteman facilities but we were all individually instructed to keep silent. We never realized at the time that others among us were also experiencing incidents, but now the truth is becoming known. About 35 years after my Minot incident and learning about an identical incident experienced by another missileer (Capt. Robert Salas) connected to Malmstrom AFB in Montana, which was during the same general timeframe as my incident, I then contemplated coming forth with the ‘truth’.”
David D Schindele
These old “missileers” liked to get together to reminisce and commiserate and it seems that Schindele and Salas discovered they had something more than their service time in common. Schindele found additional officers from the base who would admit that they were individually ordered “to keep our ‘lips zipped’” but many took the secret to their graves and more refuse to disobey the order to this day.
This is ‘old news’ in that there have been many reports of UFOs at nuclear missile sights and nuclear plants around the world, ranging from UFO activity at the plant where plutonium was processed for the first atomic bomb to UFO sightings at nuclear plants in France to documents from Russia indicating similar unexplained missile shutdowns in the Soviet Union after UFO sightings.
It’s ‘new news’ that eyewitness David Schindele put his experiences in a book and, as the title indicates, has more to tell. Is he doing it for the money?
“From the beginning, I’ve been conflicted with the goal of bringing truth to as many people as possible, while having no appetite for bringing attention to myself or receiving monetary benefit. But I also realize the fallacy in that.”
Schindele says he will donate proceeds from the book to the Seattle Chapter of the Air Force Association where he still meets with fellow veterans.
Are the claims in the book true? If so, will the government release any supporting documents or will the book suddenly go ‘off-alert’ too?
Bizarre ontdekking in Peru. Waar komt dit mensachtige wezen met drie vingers en groot hoofd vandaan?
Bizarre ontdekking in Peru. Waar komt dit mensachtige wezen met drie vingers en groot hoofd vandaan?
Gaia.com heeft informatie naar buiten gebracht over de ontdekking van een gemummificeerd lichaam in Peru. Het heeft drie vingers aan elke hand en drie tenen aan elke voet.
Gaia werkt samen met een aantal wetenschappers om de herkomst van de mummie te achterhalen.
De Mexicaanse onderzoeksjournalist Jaime Maussan spreekt alvast van ‘één van de belangrijkste ontdekkingen van de 21e eeuw’.
Verbazing
“We hebben een hele belangrijke missie hier in Peru,” zei professor Konstantin Korotkov van de ITMO University in Rusland.
“Ik ben hier naartoe gekomen vanwege deze groep wetenschappers, professionals en journalisten,” voegde hij toe.
Toen het lichaam uit de kist werd gehaald, was iedereen stil van verbazing, aldus dr. Korotkov.
Nazcalijnen
De mummie is ontdekt in de nabijheid van de Nazcalijnen, enorme geogliefen die in de Peruaanse Nazcawoestijn zijn gevonden. De grootste figuren zijn tot wel 370 meter lang.
De tientallen figuren van dieren, honderden geometrische vormen en duizenden lijnen zijn in het woestijnzand lang bewaard gebleven.
Fossielenbestand
Op het eerste gezicht lijkt het te gaan om een soort die niet voorkomt in het fossielenbestand, weet Gaia.
Gaat het om het vervormde lichaam van een primitieve mens of is dit bewijs voor het bestaan van een niet-menselijke soort?
Bekijk hieronder een reportage over de mummie:
Bekijk hieronder een interview dat Collective Evolution had met Jaime Maussan:
Vreemde zwaartekrachtsvelden in zonnestelsel trekken objecten uit hun baan. En dat kan maar één ding betekenen
Vreemde zwaartekrachtsvelden in zonnestelsel trekken objecten uit hun baan. En dat kan maar één ding betekenen
Astronomen zeggen Planeet Tien op het spoor te zijn. Uit onderzoek naar banen van objecten in de Kuipergordel blijkt dat zich daar nog een planeet ter grootte van Mars moet schuilhouden.
Het object staat volgens onderzoekers van de Universiteit van Arizona ongeveer twee keer zo ver van de zon als Neptunus.
De banen van veel objecten in de Kuipergordel maken een hoek van ongeveer acht graden met het hoofdvlak van ons zonnestelsel.
Nieuwe planeet
De wetenschappers hebben dit gelinkt aan de zwaartekrachtsinvloed van een grote planeet in het buitenste deel van ons zonnestelsel.
“Dit is niet wat je verwacht te zien als je alleen de bekende planeten in ons zonnestelsel meetelt,” zei Kathryn Volk van de Universiteit van Arizona over de afwijkende banen.
“Dat betekent dat je er een nieuwe planeet bij moet halen – Planeet Tien, ervan uitgaande dat Planeet Negen bestaat,” voegde ze toe.
Nog verder weg
De planeet moet op ongeveer negen miljard kilometer van onze zon staan. Planeet Negen zou zich op een nog grotere afstand bevinden.
“Alles wijst op [het bestaan van] een extra planeet,” zei Volk.
10 keer groter
Afgelopen jaar voorspelden wetenschappers van het California Institute of Technology het bestaan van een negende planeet die 10 keer groter is dan de aarde en op 700 AE (astronomische eenheden) van de zon staat.
Het onderzoek zal worden gepubliceerd in The Astronomical Journal.
An official government UFO dossier that’s referred to as “Britain’s X-Files” has finally been released.
The National Archive has opened up a cache of 15 files from the Ministry of Defense that divulge details of mysterious incidents in British skies.
They include material relating to an unsolved encounter that’s been likened to the Roswell UFO incident in America.
The incident took place in December 1980, when three military personnel claimed to see flashing bright lights and a triangular object near a Royal Air Force base in Rendlesham Forest, Suffolk, about 100 miles northeast of London.
An investigation was opened but the mystery remains unsolved.
But alien hunters will have to wait a little longer to find out the truth, thanks to the process that’s been put in place to read these newly released files.
They have not been digitized, so enthusiasts must join a line to inspect the paper records at the National Archive’s reading room in London.
The UK’s most notorious UFO incident happened in the Rendlesham Forest Getty Images
What’s more, there are an additional three files which have still not been released, according to Nick Pope, a former civil servant who worked for the Ministry of Defense.
Pope, who ran the defense ministry’s UFO project from 1991 to 1994, said: “The lack of a smoking gun and the fact that these files seem to have been slipped out without a formal media announcement is bound to start some conspiracy theories, and I know that many people believe the ‘good stuff’ is being held back.”
“Furthermore, the fact that some files haven’t been digitized, can’t be downloaded, and can only be viewed in person at the National Archives will doubtless also generate conspiracy theories.”
“After this, there are only three more UFO files still to be released, and they should be made public later this year, so there’s still more to come.”
“This is a good day for open government and for freedom of information.”
Last year, an American airman involved in the incident won a legal bid to force military health chiefs to pay for the treatment of injuries he claimed to have sustained at Rendlesham Forest.
“In citing the [MoD radiation documents] and in granting John Burroughs full disability for his injuries in Rendlesham Forest, the US Government has by de facto acknowledged the existence of unidentified aerial phenomena which, in John Burroughs’ case, resulted in physical injury,” his lawyer Pat Frascogna said.
The Rendlesham Forest incident: Britain’s most famous UFO sighting
The Rendlesham Forest incident is so famous that there is an official “UFO Trail” in Suffolk, England.Getty Images
The Rendlesham Forest incident took place in December 1980 over several nights.
On Dec. 26, 1980, military personnel at the twin bases of Royal Air Force Bentwaters and Royal Air Force Woodbridge in Suffolk saw a strange light in Rendlesham Forest, which lies between the two bases.
Three men were sent out to investigate and two of them encountered a small, triangular craft.
One man, Jim Penniston, got close enough to touch the side of the object.
He and another of the airmen present, John Burroughs, made sketches of the craft for witness statements.
Two nights later a deputy base commander, Lt. Col. Charles Halt, and his team encountered the UFO.
He said later: “Here I am, a senior official who routinely denies this sort of thing and diligently works to debunk them, and I’m involved in the middle of something I can’t explain.”
Despite a Ministry of Defense investigation, the Rendlesham Forest incident remains unexplained.
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Bij Wim Post aan de Kappellenweg in Lochem, buurtschap Nettelhorst, zijn graancirkels aangetroffen. In een gedeelte van zijn veld met zomertarwe zijn de cirkels te zien.
Wim merkte zelf de cirkels pas maandagochtend op terwijl zijn buren er zondagavond al druk mee waren. Buurman Freek van Asch fietste die avond een rondje toen hij vreemde vormen zag in het gewas.
Hij trommelde wat buren op en die wilden het bijzondere fenomeen van boven filmen. Via een bevriende hovenier regelden ze een hoogwerker en maakten ze foto's en filmpjes die op dit moment veel gedeeld worden op Facebook.
Dan duurt het niet al te lang voordat het mysterie van deze graancirkel is opgelost, want een paar jongelui zouden dit in een dronken bui op hun geweten hebben.
Nu is er op Facebook een filmpje opgedoken waarin buurtbewoner prins Stef wordt geïnterviewd. Hij legt in de video een complete bekentenis af, 'want het liep een beetje uit de hand'.
'We hadden een boog gemaakt voor een bruiloft. Er gingen een paar biertjes in, het werd gezellig....toen waren we aan het ouwehoeren en dachten we: kom, we gaan graancirkels maken,' gaat Stef door het stof.
Naar aanleiding van de bekentenis van Prins Stef ontvingen wij de volgende mail:
Waarom komen die dronken jongeren dan niet in beeld die dat gedaan hebben? Waarom komt er geen nieuwsbericht dat er een groepje jeugd is aangehouden vanwege het beschadigen van een graanakker?
Hoe denkt Niburu.co over dit nieuwsbericht, is het echt of inderdaad mensenwerk?
Laten we eerst even kijken wat boer Post heeft te vertellen over de actie van Prins Stef en vrienden:
Boer Wim Post gelooft er helemaal niks van. 'Ik denk dat het om een grap gaat', laat hij telefonisch weten. Volgens Post zijn er experts bij geweest die geen enkel spoor hebben kunnen vinden. 'Ze kunnen er dus nooit dronken doorheen hebben gelopen, dan zouden we sporen moeten kunnen zien.' Hij beraadt zich nu op vervolgstappen. 'Als ze claimen schade te hebben aangericht mogen ze ook betalen, maar ik geloof het niet', aldus de boer.
Boer Post gebruikt zijn gezonde verstand en komt tot de conclusie dat een aantal dronken jongelui dit echt niet gedaan kunnen hebben zonder sporen achter te laten. En dat alles dan waarschijnlijk ook nog een keer in het donker, hetgeen helemaal onmogelijk is.
De enige conclusie kan dan ook alleen maar zijn dat Prins Stef liegt. Waarom hij dat doet, is niet duidelijk, misschien om aandacht te trekken of misschien omdat hij bang is dat er dingen zijn die hij niet begrijpt.
Bij deze dagen wij Prins Stef dan ook uit om te demonstreren, en dat mag nuchter dit keer, hoe hij dit soort graancirkels maakt. Hij beschikt naar eigen zeggen over een ronde boog, dus dat moet een koud kunstje zijn voor hem om dit artistieke hoogstandje dan nog eens te herhalen.
Als het hem lukt om precies dezelfde graancirkel te maken zonder sporen achter te laten in een veld, dan zullen wij publiekelijk onze excuses aanbieden.
Wij weten ook niet wie of wat deze cirkel heeft gemaakt, maar als er weer iemand bekent, laat deze dan direct even aantonen hoe ze dat precies hebben gedaan.Waar Omroep Gelderland in ieder geval nog de reactie van boer Post plaatst, zo maakt het voor de Telegraaf allemaal niet uit, want die nemen alles klakkeloos aan. Zolang het maar in het mainstream kader past.
Succes met de graancirkel Prins Stef en keep us posted!
Europe approves deep-space ‘PLATO’ project to hunt for alien life
Europe approves deep-space ‘PLATO’ project to hunt for alien life
PARIS – Europe has approved the launch of a deep-space observatory to sniff out habitable planets in other star systems, along with any life forms they may host.
“The PLATO mission will address fundamental questions such as ‘how common are Earth-like planets?’ and ‘is our solar system unusual or even unique?’ ” the University of Warwick, whose scientists will take part in the project, said on Wednesday.
The multimillion-euro undertaking “could eventually even lead to the detection of extraterrestrial life,” it added.
A committee of the European Space Agency (ESA), meeting in Madrid, green-lit the mission on Tuesday, meaning “it can move from a blueprint into construction,” the university said in a statement.
When the candidate project was first announced three years ago, its cost was estimated at some €600 million ($668 million).
With 26 onboard telescopes, PLATO will join NASA’s Kepler observatory in a dedicated search for exoplanets revolving around stars other than our sun.
Kepler has so far found more than 3,400 confirmed exoplanets.
Of these, 30 are less than twice the size of Earth and orbiting within the so-called habitable zone of their star — not so close that water evaporates and not so cold that it freezes.
Liquid water is a key requirement for life as we know it.
This illustration shows Kepler-22b, a planet known to comfortably circle in the habitable zone of a sun-like star. The ESA's PLATO space telescope will join NASA's Kepler observatory in a dedicated search for exoplanets revolving around stars other than our sun. | AFP-JIJI
PLATO — whose acronym derives from PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars — will be launched 1.5 million kilometers (932,000 miles) into space, monitoring thousands of stars over a large area of sky.
Telescopes search for slight dips in light when a planet “transits” between the star it orbits and the telescopes watching it.
Planets do not emit their own light. Had they been visible to the naked eye, they would appear as dark dots tracking across their bright stars.
PLATO is due for launch in 2026, the ESA said.
Other projects that have contributed to the exoplanet search, though it was not their exclusive mission, include NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, as well as several dozen ground-based observatories.
The search for a planet capable of hosting life remains a distant pursuit — there is no solar system close enough for mankind to ever reach it, unless we develop time travel.
ESA also gave provisional approval for a project called LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna), tasked with observing gravitational waves — created when black holes collide — from space.
Predicted in Albert Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity, gravitational waves were first observed with Earth-based instruments last year.
LISA will comprise free-floating detectors on three craft, separated by 2.5 million km in a triangular formation, following Earth in its orbit around the sun.
Launch is expected in 2034. But final approval will depend on the availability of technology and money, the ESA said.
The estimated mission cost is about a billion euros. Warwick University is based in central England.
Could a dedicated mission to Enceladus detect microbial life there?
Could a dedicated mission to Enceladus detect microbial life there?
by Tomasz Nowakowski, Astrowatch.net
Saturn's icy moon Enceladus is best known for its numerous geysers ejecting plumes of water and ice. These eruptive fountains perplex researchers searching for signs of microbial life beyond Earth. A dedicated spacecraft designed to study the plume-like features spewing from Enceladus could definitely tell us whether or not they contain alien microorganisms.
"We need a spacecraft to travel to Enceladus, fly through a geyser plume, and analyze the water that is immediately accessible," Geoffrey Marcy, a retired professor of astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley, told Astrowatch.net.
Marcy is a renowned exoplanet researcher who discovered many extrasolar worlds. He was one of the co-investigators of NASA's Kepler planet-hunting mission that detected more than 4,000 exoworlds. He was also involved in studies focusing on detecting signals from extraterrestrial civilizations and was the principal investigator of the Breakthrough Listen project. The program, funded by billionaire Yuri Milner, is looking for signs of extraterrestrial civilizations by searching stars and galaxies for radio signals and laser transmissions.
Marcy emphasizes that when it comes to searching for signs of microbial life in our solar system, assistance from billionaires investing in space projects could be helpful.
"The NASA missions, as currently planned, will require at least 20 years before a detection of microbial life will happen, at the earliest. However, a brilliant team of billionaires could work with NASA to fund a spacecraft to Saturn's moon, Enceladus. It could capture the water spurting out the geysers and use conventional microscopes to detect any microbial life there," Marcy said.
While a future mission to Enceladus would address complex questions about the origin of life, the spacecraft itself will be relatively easy to build and operate. According to Marcy, it would only require a dedicated probe equipped with a set of well-suited science instruments, capable of flying through the plumes and able to perform required measurements.
"The remarkable aspect of the search for microbes in the water spurting from geysers is that the spacecraft only needs to fly through the plume, well above the surface of Enceladus. No lander is needed—just a succession of flybys through the plumes as it orbits Enceladus," Marcy said.
He noted that such spacecraft should be fitted with a mass spectrometer to detect organic compounds that could be signs of microbial life. The spectrometer will look for amino acids and the structure of any organic molecules, especially fatty acids such as those composing cell membranes. It could also measure the relative amounts of isotopes of carbon (12 and 14) to detect non-natural anomalies due to biological processes.
Moreover, the mission to Enceladus would measure the properties of the water such as pH, oxidation and temperature, therefore assessing its suitability for organic life.
Marcy added that besides a spectrometer, the proposed spacecraft should also have an optical imaging system capable of capturing microscopic images in order to better examine microorganisms on this icy world.
"The mission should also include a microscope and camera to image directly any organisms in the water that are as small as a few microns in size," Marcy said.
Discovered in 1789 by William Herschel, Enceladus is the sixth-largest moon of Saturn with a diameter of about 310 miles (500 kilometers). First detailed pictures of this moon were acquired in the early 1980s by NASA's two Voyager probes. Since 2005, Enceladus is continuously studied by NASA/ESA Cassini spacecraft, which detected the water plumes erupting from the moon's south polar region.
ET PHONEY HOME Crackpot conspiracy claims ALIEN MUMMY has been found Near Peru’s Nazca Lines
ET PHONEY HOMECrackpot conspiracy claims ALIEN MUMMY has been found Near Peru’s Nazca Lines
The viral footage was posted online by a conspiracy website which pays curious users to view their paranormal content
By Mark Hodge
A CRACKPOT video created by conspiracy theorists purports to show a mummified ALIEN body.
Supposedly filmed in the ancient city of Nazca, Peru, the ridiculous footage has went viral despite users pointing out the “corpse” looks like it is a half-finished cardboard creation.
The ‘mummified alien’ body is inspected in Peru in a viral video which has divided the internet
Many social media users have said the creature looks like it was made out of plaster
The video was posted by website Gaia.com which charges curious users money to view their exclusive paranormal content.
The clip shows a three-fingered creature curled up in a ball.
The site claims the extraterrestrial beast’s body was dug up during an excavation of the mysterious caves.
The Daily Star reports that the “humanoid” has long legs and is around five feet five inches tall.
But many social media users are not convinced.
One viewer commented: “Something seems off. The corpse looks like it was made of plaster,” reports the Daily Star.
While one YouTube viewer writes: “Just grabbed my tin foil hat, now I can properly watch this s**t.”
But some users seem to like the preposterous clip.
One believer wrote: “Looks cool. Waiting for DNA sampling. I want to believe but with that guy at the helm it’s unlikely. Nice video.”
OSHAWA — Wildlife photographer Ken Rice was out shooting photos in Oshawa on June 17 when something unusual suddenly appeared in his camera lens. June 21, 2017. - Ken Rice Photo
OSHAWA — Wildlife photographer Ken Rice was out shooting photos in Oshawa on June 17 when something unusual suddenly appeared in his camera lens. June 21, 2017. - Ken Rice Photo
OSHAWA — Wildlife photographer Ken Rice was out shooting photos on Saturday when something unusual suddenly appeared in his camera lens.
“It came out of no where, this thing,” said the Oshawa resident, who was at the marsh area near the General Motors of Canada headquarters on Colonel Sam Drive at about 7:45 p.m. on June 17 when he noticed the object off in the distance.
“I was walking back to my car and I just saw something pop out of no where, way up high, far away in the sky,” he said.
“I thought it was a big turkey vulture so I just took a picture of it anyway and then it kind of hovered, sat there for a minute and then it took off.”
After returning home, Rice took a closer look at the image and said he has no idea what it could be.
“A balloon wouldn’t go that fast and disappear No. 1, and it was too high. Nobody would be flying a kite there because it’s just railroad tracks and the road and there was nobody around there. I didn’t see anybody, and where did it go?”
He’s shown the photo to several people and even posted it on Facebook but no one has been able to identify it.
“It’s just really odd; I’ve never seen anything like that. I looked on the Internet to (find) weather balloons and that kind of thing and see what it might be but none of them looked anything like this,” he said.
“You hear people all the time with the UFO stuff but a UFO just stands for unidentified flying object — it doesn’t mean aliens — and to me, it’s an unidentified flying object. I don’t know what it is.”
US pilot Kenneth Arnold’s sighting of peculiar flying objects sparked the UFO craze
Pilot Kenneth Arnold reported seeing nine UFOs near Mount Ranier, Washington, on June 24, 1947.
US pilot Kenneth Arnold’s sighting of peculiar flying objects sparked the UFO craze
Troy Lennon, History editor, The Daily Telegraph
THE late 1940s through to the ’50s was the golden era of the UFO. It was a time when Cold War paranoia was just kicking in but, instead of fearing Soviet infiltration, people began seeing strange things in the skies. It was also when the terms “flying saucer” and “UFO” were coined and popularised, fuelling the public imagination.
But this alien spaceship craze can be traced largely to an incident that happened 70 years ago tomorrow.
Kenneth Arnold saw something in the skies on June 24, 1947, that caused millions of people to wonder if we were not alone in the universe. Arnold was born in Sebeka, Minnesota, in 1915, but grew up in Montana and North Dakota. He went to the University of Minnesota (although some sources say Iowa) where he showed himself to be a keen sportsman, going out for the university swimming team and contemplating a football career before a knee injury forced him to rethink his options.
After university he got a job with a company that sold fire fighting equipment and in 1940 started his own company, Great Western Fire Control Supply. A lot of his business involved visiting remote areas of the US so he decided that rather than relying on chartering aircraft he would fly his own. He took flying lessons, gained a pilot’s licence and bought a plane.
Gen. Roger M. Ramey with Colonel Thomas J. Dubose from the US air force identify metallic fragments found near Roswell, New Mexico, on August 7, 1947, as a high-altitude sounding device used by the air force and weather bureau.
Arnold had logged thousands of hours of flight time before his alien encounter. It happened in June 1947, while on a business trip in the state of Washington. He had taken off from Chehalis and was helping out with the search for a lost military transport plane. While flying over the Cascade Mountains, near Mt Rainier, he was startled by a flash of light.
“I observed a chain of nine peculiar looking aircraft flying from north to south” near Mt Rainier, he later said. It was about 3pm and Arnold watched the aircraft for two or three minutes.
When he landed at Yakima he told a friend who didn’t believe him.
The story soon got around and Arnold was sought out by reporters who asked for an account of what he saw.
At first he described the aircraft as like a “pie pan” but never mentioned that they were flat discs. In fact his description suggested they were shaped like a crescent or a boomerang. But when he said the aircraft moved “like saucers skipping on water” reporters started calling them flying saucers.
Not long after, in early July, a farmer named Mack Brazel found strange debris from something that dropped out of the sky on his farm about 60km northwest of Roswell in New Mexico. The remains consisted of sticks, metal pieces and a silver foil that, when crumpled, quickly regained its shape.
Brazel got in touch with the Walker Air Force Base at Roswell, thinking it might have been one of their aircraft.
Unidentified flying objects sighted over Yunnan province, in China in April 1981.
The base sent out Major Jesse Marcel who issued a press release on July 8 that they had recovered a flying disc from the farm. Newspapers reported that a “flying saucer” had been found on a ranch near Roswell.
The next day the air force base issued a new press release saying that the disc had been a weather balloon. But now that the “flying disc” story had been released nobody wanted to believe that it was just a weather balloon.
In reality it wasn’t a weather balloon but an experimental high altitude sounding balloon, codenamed Project Mogul, the US military hoped to use to monitor Soviet bomb tests. When one of the balloons crashed and people began talking about flying saucers it provided the perfect cover for the real story.
The Roswell incident fired up the public imagination and the number of sightings of strange aircraft soared.
This was also useful for the military because people were reporting suspicious aircraft or letting the military know when their top secret experimental aircraft were being indiscreet. In 1948 the US air force established Project Sign (later renamed Project Blue Book) to investigate all sightings.
Hollywood soon jumped on the bandwagon. In 1950 it released the film The Flying Saucer, the first time an alien ship was depicted as a flying disc. In 1951 The Day The Earth Stood Still depicted a saucer landing to warn humanity about nuclear annihilation.
In 1952 the USAF coined the term Unidentified Flying Object, or UFO, to describe any aircraft of unknown origin. It was meant to refer to any unidentified aircraft but over the years the acronym UFO has come to be indelibly associated with alien visits.
A Washington witness at Sunnyside reported a slow-moving, triangle-shaped object that followed his vehicle along a rural roadway, according to testimony in Case 83989 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
Witness illustration of the scene.
(Credit: MUFON)
The witness had just gotten off work and was driving home at 10:50 p.m. on May 25, 2017, when the incident began.
“I take the back roads home and got on Factory Road outside of Sunnyside, Washington,” the witness stated.“After about three minutes or so traveling down the road, I noticed an orange light near two red lights in a triangular pattern. The orange light was blinking.”
Thewitness immediately thought the object was a Chinook helicopter.
“I found it strange how low it was to the ground and the lack of sound. I also noticed it was traveling a bit fast to be a helicopter. It flew from south to north.”
The witness then thought that the object might be a drone.
“My speed was about 50 mph, though I was slowing down not wanting to get too close to the object. It crossed the road in front of me and then I proceeded to pass it. I found it to strange – it grabbed my curiosity. An oncoming car passed me, and once it did I pulled into a dirt driveway and turned around – doing a U-turn. I quickly drove back and found that it was out in the same area I had left it.”
The witness then slowed down in the middle of the road with no place to pull over.
“I simply stopped in the middle of road – now able to see a mile infront of me and behind me. I was facing west with my back to the east. It seemed to stop flying south and began to fly west.”
Witness illustration of the craft.
(Credit: MUFON)
The witness quickly reached for his smartphone and pulled up the camera app.
“I began to record as I drew closer. This was when I noticed a white light, much like a star starting to fly down from above it and near the object. It quickly got my attention as it quickly stopped again and turned 90-degrees and flew south across the road again. Once it had done this, it began to fly west.”
The object was then flying parallel to the road and began to make the witness afraid.
“Though it stopped and then began to fly northwest from its location towards me, I became overwhelmed with fear knowing this wasn’t a plane or a helicopter. Having both my windows down, I would have heard something. I threw my phone in the passenger seat and began to speed off. As I began to pass it, I came as close as I ever was to the object.”
The witness described the object.
“It was a gray triangle, with three orange lights and one red, glowing light in the middle with two small, green lights near the rear. It was hovering. I am now driving back from where I had come from. Heading into Sunnyside on Factory Road. I reached a speed of 97 mph and quickly began to slow down. I felt safer near town, though, now that it was nearly 11 p.m. and no one would be around.”
But that safe feeling quickly dissolved.
“I turned left onto Handford Road, and before getting to Vakima Valley Highway, I turned left onto another road that was near a car dealership and stopped again to see if I could see the object. It was flying west again and was in the same light configuration as when I first saw it – with one blinking, orange light and two red ones. I watched it fly for a short time before it began to fly southwest and I didn’t want it getting too close again. I got back onto Handford Road and onto Yakima Valley Highway driving towards Grandview.”
Cropped piece of witness illustration from the scene.
Credit: MUFON)
But once the witness arrived home and got of his vehicle, he saw the craft again.
“It had followed me approximately six miles and was flying southeast, though, I did not turn and I watched it fly in that direction until it was out of sight. I thought about following it, but didn’t want to push my luck as I began to feel afraid again. When I reviewed the video I recorded, the object was not captured due to it being too dark outside, and had stop recording without me pressing pause as I passed the object.”
Sunnyside is a city in Yakima County, Washington, population 15,858.Washington MUFON State Director James Clarkson investigated and closed this case as an Unknown.
“I would point out this case was near the Hanford Nuclear Reservation,” Clarkson stated in his report. “Given the highly unusual shape and lighting configuration, and the lack of sound when the witness had parked his car with all of the windows down, I am classifying this case as a true UAV with a highly credible witness.”
Please remember that most UFO sightings 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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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 73 jaar jong.
Mijn hobby's zijn: Ufologie en andere esoterische onderwerpen.
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