In special reports, this week’s files cover: Lord Mountbatten a UFO Enthusiast, Pine Bush Boomerang Craft, President Washington Proclaims Happy Thanksgiving, Attack the Shooters, and Nearby Exoplanet Found Like Earth

Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Michigan, Maryland, Missouri, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Vermont and Utah..

Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Brazil, Canada, France, Georgia, Philippines, Sweden, and England in the United Kingdom.

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Lord Mountbatten a UFO Enthusiast

Prince Phillip and Lord Mountattaen

Lord Admiral Mountbatten even wrote an official report about an alien in a silver spaceship landing on his estate, historical documents show. Admiral of the Fleet Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, (born Prince Louis of Battenberg; 25 June 1900 – 27 August 1979) was a British naval officer and statesman, an uncle of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, and second cousin once removed of Elizabeth II. Lord Mountbatten, arranged the first meeting between Prince Philip and Elizabeth in 1939, who later became Queen..

During the Second World War, he was Supreme Allied Commander, South East Asia Command (1943–46) equivalent to General Douglas MacArthur. He was the last Viceroy of India (1947) and the first Governor-General of independent India (1947–48). He was likely aware of a UFO base in the Himalayas Mountains.

From 1954 until 1959 he was First Sea Lord, a position that had been held by his father. Admiral Earl ‘Dickie” Mountbatten who was at sea as the Fourth Sea Lord, and  was Commander of the Mediterranean Fleet in the 50s had personally seen UFOs along with most of the fleet.”

Thereafter he served as Chief of the Defence Staff until 1965, making him the longest serving professional head of the British Armed Forces. During this period Mountbatten also served as Chairman of the NATO Military Committee for a year. Mountbatten, was often referred to as Prince Philips “honorary godfather” and mentor because of his close relationship with the Duke of Edinburgh, made an official report about a strange encounter his bricklayer Fred Briggs had with a flying saucer and an alien creature.

The report, which was uncovered after Mountbatten’s 1979 death at the hands of the IRA, describes how a silver spaceship landed in the grounds of his Broadlands estate in Romsey, Hampshire.

The flying saucer hovered above the ground before a man dressed in overalls and a helmet descended from the bottom of the craft, according to the documents. Fred was then reportedly knocked off his bike and held on the ground by an “unseen force”.  “The object was shaped like a child’s huge humming-top and half way between 20 feet or 30 feet in diameter,” the official report states. “Its color was like dull aluminum, rather like a kitchen saucepan. It was shaped like the sketch which I have endeavored to make, and had portholes all around the middle, rather like a steamer has.” It went on: “While I was watching, a column, about the thickness of a man, descended from the centre of the saucer and I suddenly noticed on it, what appeared to be a man, presumably standing on a small platform on the end. He seemed to be dressed in a dark suit of overalls and was wearing a close fitting hat or helmet.”www.thesun.co.uk By Emma Parry The Sun 9-28-17

Note: In childhood Mountbatten visited the Imperial Court of Russia at St Petersburg and became intimate with the doomed Russian Imperial Family, harboring romantic feelings towards his maternal first cousin Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna, The Russian Imperial Romanov family (Tsar Nicholas II, his wife Tsarina Alexandra and their five children Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia, and Alexei) and all those who chose to accompany them into imprisonment – notably Eugene Botkin, Anna Demidova, Alexei Trupp and Ivan Kharitonov were shot, bayoneted and clubbed in 1918 by  the Soviet Bolsheveks on orders from Lenin.

Maria was the early love of Mountbatten’s life and he kept her photograph at his bedside for the rest of his life.

Pine Bush Boomerang Craft

On the 3rd of October 1997 a group of people from four states gathered at Newburgh, New York, for a three day field trip.  This was no ordinary group of people.  They were all MUFON, field investigators and came together to perform an experiment.  They wanted to see if ten people could work together as one, and collect data at night using various types of instruments and cameras.  They also wanted to try to duplicate some of the results of Bruce Cornet, who had been studying the Pine Bush phenomenon since June of 1992.

MUFON field crew, Field Investigators at Muddy Kill Lane, Montgomery, NY, 3 October 1997, 1. John Love, 2. Dennis Hawley, 3. Jim Durfee, 4. Jim Bouck, 5. Rick Atristain, 6. Bruce Tilden, 7. Bob Long, 8. George Filer, 9. Bruce Cornet, 10. Alexander Zikas,
The team met and stayed at the Super 8 Motel in Newburgh, NY, and had an organizational meeting at a Holiday Inn nearby.

Frick Atristain organized the project, while Bruce Cornet provided the field locations for their nighttime experiment.  The first location where the team set up their equipment was along Muddy Kill Lane, located on the eastern side of a low ridge along the western side of the Wallkill River Valley.

              Two theodolites were used in order to track objects in the sky, determine their trajectories, triangulate their distances and altitudes, and record communications between pilots and the tower at Stewart International Airport.  Rich Atristain gives members of the team a lesson in how to use the surveying equipment.

That location could not be maintained when local residents complained about our activities, and Montgomery police asked us to locate somewhere else.  The police chief, Sergeant Edward Clancy, was kind enough to offer his property for us to conduct our experiment, but because it was not close to where Cornet had done his research, the Owen dairy farm was chosen instead.

The team examines the Indian mound located on the Owen dairy farm at the center of the UFO hotspot.  he aerial shot below, taken on 10 May 1994, shows the raised mound with remnant hexagonal shape, and another permanent circular feature to the west.  It is from the small field just west of the circular feature that an AOP/UAP rose up two years earlier (see time exposures below).  Circular discolorations in the grasses can still be seen from the air, years after they were made by craft landing and taking off from there.

The field between the mound and circle was measured, the theodolites set up and the distance between them measured. Cameras on tripods positioned in order to record aerial objects from different angles.

The field between the mound and circle was measured, the theodolites set up and the distance between them measured, an cameras on tripods positioned in order to record aerial objects from different angles.

Jim Bouk points to a woodchuck hole on top of the Indian mound, while Alexander Zikas takes notes on the types of material brought to the surface by the woodchuck.  That material consisted mostly of stream pebbles and orange-brown soil, implying that it was built up and not the product of natural erosion.

On 28 October 1995 another group of people witnessed an AOP (UAP of Dr. Richard F. Haines) turn on its plasma headlights, lift off from a small field to northwest of the Indian mound, and arc its way across the northern sky before descending to a field to the southeast of the mound.  The craft took three minutes to reach its apogee before starting its descent.

The Anomaly

For most of the evening the team saw and recorded conventional aircraft either flying towards or from Stewart International Airport, or flying at high altitude over the valley.  If it hadn’t been for the recording of a pilot asking the control tower to “Check those runway lights up nice and bright for us,” the sighting of an unusual aircraft might have peaked more curiosity.”

It wasn’t until Cornet had his film developed that he discovered the first two anomalies: Lights that appeared to strobe on the time exposures, but which did not strobe on the video, and glowing bars of light across the leading edges of both wings. In addition, the running lights on the video appear normal: White, green, and red.  But all the lights on the time exposures are a golden color.  None are white, green, or pure red.  Seven still frames from the video are presented, showing the boomerang from directly below at 10:53:12 pm to showing it turning and moving away from the camera.

Eighteen seconds of video are presented, with the last image at 10:53:30 pm viewing the boomerang from behind.  The time exposure on the right represents about 20 seconds of time, with the central strobe firing once every three seconds. See Image Analysis.

Whenever Cornet can get the help of commercial pilots and aircraft specialists in identifying aircraft, he presents them with his data.  Bill Ristau analyzed the pictures above, and came back with the following comments.

William E Ristau writes, The pics of this wild looking “craft” appear to be what some observers call, the “Boomerang”. The thing that caught my attention immediately, was the wing dihedral. It appears to portend an angle of 15 to 20 degrees or more. I do not remember ever flying any aircraft with more than about 5 to 7 degrees of dihedral. Dihedral enhances stability during turns. I’m guessing that this craft also has low speed capabilities, looking at your time exposed pic. This is speculation on my part, but the extreme angle of descent, not ending in a crash, might well be proof of that. It’s another mystery ship, Bruce. I suppose it is one of ours

As you well know, all airports are locked down now (since 9/11). though I have credentials, they will not allow me to visit the ramp at Atlanta’s Hartsville International Airport. The best that I can do, at this time, is to send you a pic of a

DC-9. Am hoping that this pic and others might be helpful. I have been a flight instructor and airline pilot for 31 years. Take care, Bill Ristau.

Image Analysis

There is no reflection of light off of a forward-projecting fuselage, and no reflection of light off of a tail section.  If this aircraft had a tail and nose section, its bright lights would reflect off of some part of those structures.  Compare the two images below:

There is no reflection of light off of engine pods.  There is no elongate dark silhouette where a fuselage would be on a conventional aircraft.  Instead, the fuselage appears to be trapezoid in shape, with a square, box-like front.

The running lights and strobes are asymmetrically positioned, which is highly unusual – especially for so many of them being asymmetrical.  This condition is not typical of conventional aircraft.  The landing lights and strobes are also located too close to the center line of the aircraft, something rarely seen for conventional aircraft.  The image below is looking at the boomerang from directly below.

The colors of the strobes and running lights are off.  This could be due in part to the CCD chip, and its inability to capture the correct color hues, but some of the colors are distinctly off hue for conventional aircraft lights.  The green wingtip light is blue-green in color, while the red strobes flash orange-red and purple-red.  Very similar anomalies and blue-colored lights were noted for a manta ray-shaped craft that Cornet caught on video flying sideways over his neighbor’s property in Red Bank, NJ, on 24 April 1997.

The dihedral angle of the wings is incorrect for a conventional aircraft.  As Bill Ristau pointed out above, the dihedral angle of this aircraft is 15-20 degrees or more.  NO conventional or military aircraft has its wings forming a V-shape like this – not even the B-2 stealth bomber, which has hardly any dihedral angle at all.  The image below is looking at the boomerang from behind, not from directly below it.  If this were the B-2 bomber, the apparent dihedral angle of the wings would have decreased to near zero in this picture.

The B-2 stealth bomber has hardly any dihedral angle, eliminating it as a possibility.

The time exposure shows all the lights to be of a similar golden color.  Only the central bright light, which occasionally flashes red on the video, has an aura of red around it in the time exposure.  The bar-like slats along the leading edge of the wings glow and pulse in time with the wingtip lights, something that is not seen in the video shots.  Forward slats on conventional aircraft do not reflect light from nearby strobes, even though they are extended during landing.  Thus, the question must be asked: Why does the video not agree with the time exposure?  Why are the colors so different between the two media?  Why do the two bright round lights in the center of each wing not show up very well on the time exposure (is this just a problem of orientation?), along with the other colored lights?  In The Experiment, Cornet presents evidence that these types of anomalous craft can project different images to cameras positioned next to one another.

Sound Analysis

The sound produced by the boomerang-shaped aircraft resembles that of a conventional jetliner to the unaided ear.  However, frequency spectral analysis reveals the very same types of characteristics noted for other anomalous craft caught on video and/or audio over the Pine Bush hotspot by Cornet between 1992 and 1997.  The sound spectra are quite different from that of conventional aircraft jet engines in that there is little or no white noise as in typical jet engines,

Conclusions

The Pine Bush Boomerang has been reported by various people living in Orange and Ulster counties over the years.  Ellen Crystall was one of the first people to report this type of craft in her book, Silent Invasion.  She notes that boomerangs come in small and large varieties (Crystall, 1991, p. 115).  The small one is described as being about 25 feet from tip to tip, while the large one appears to be about 200 feet in perimeter.  What we witnessed at the Owen dairy farm on 3 October 1997 matches her description of the larger craft.

The asymmetrical distribution of strobes and lights (for example, the large white central light is positioned slightly off to the starboard side of dead center, and the two red strobes are not in line with one another), as well as the blue-green color of the “green” starboard light, are characteristics of these anomalous craft.
For example, on 10 July 1992 the Manta Ray flew over Cornet on South Searsville Road., Montgomery, NY.  Cornet ran out of film.  The Manta Ray stopped and hovered, waiting for Cornet to put in a new roll of film.  The next pictures he got of the diamond-shaped craft flying overhead show multicolored asymmetrically-positioned lights.  Either that or the craft was flying rotated at an angle.

The absence of white noise and the composite nature of the frequency spectrum for its engine sound indicate that the sound recorded is probably synthetic and not mechanical.  Similar synthetic sounds have been recorded for other Pine Bush AOP/UAP.

The recording of a pilot asking the control tower to turn up the runway lights, and then thanking the tower for complying, strongly implicates a human pilot and a possible military aircraft landing at Stewart Air Force Base or a secret base nearby. It seems Stewart’s lights would be on early in the evening. It would not be out of consideration that this boomerang intentionally flew over us when another aircraft was on approach to Stewart.  The broadcast of a request to the control tower could be a legitimate request for runway lights for the boomerang.  Such timing has been a common ploy used in the past, but uncovered when the type of aircraft that landed did not match what was witnessed in the field.

Bruce Tilden was stationed at Stewart International Airport, photographing and recording all the aircraft that landed and took off during the time the other members of the team made observations at the Owen dairy farm.  Unfortunately, he remained there only until about 8:30 pm, and did not see any aircraft landing at the time the boomerang would have landed.

If he had remained at Stewart, his data might show that the boomerang landed at Stewart airport, solving one mystery. I talked to C-5 pilots at Stewart who had never seen a Boomerang type craft at Stewart or anywhere.

It would not be out of consideration that this boomerang intentionally flew over us when an aircraft was on approach to Stewart.  The broadcast of a request to the control tower would be coincidental, giving the boomerang a great cover.  Such timing has been a common ploy used in the past, but uncovered when the type of aircraft that landed did not match what was witnessed in the field.

Note: Other airports such as Wallkill are also in the area with restricted entry to the public that may be used by the boomerang craft. There are no known experimental military craft with these shown attributes. Then it is possible these are alien craft using various techniques to disguise their operations. Two investigators spotting the boomerangs at night had red apparent burns on their faces.  Sunburn is caused by UV radiation, either from the sun or from artificial sources.  Thanks to Bruce Cornet

President Washington Proclaims Happy Thanksgiving

Many Americans are unaware that many people in the American Colonies were loyal to Britain’s King George III and General Washington’s Army was barely able to fight effectively during the Revolutionary War.

At the start of the War in 1775, General George Washington took command of the Continental Army to fight King George III of England, then the world’s most powerful nation. The first general order issued to his pitifully few troops who had little hope of winning the war was:

“The General most earnestly requires and expects a due observance of those articles of war established for the government of the army, which forbid profane cursing, and drunkenness. And in like manner, he requires and expects of all officers and soldiers not engaged in actual duty, a punctual attendance of Divine Services, to implore the blessing of Heaven upon the means used for our safety and defense.”

George Washington during his first year as President established by proclamation Thursday, November 26, 1789, as “A Day of Public Thanksgiving and Prayer.”  Washington signed the decree on October 3, called “General Thanksgiving,” that appointed the day to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many and signal favors of Almighty God.   While there were Thanksgiving observances in America both before and after Washington’s proclamation, this represents the first to be so designated by the new national government.   .

General John Burgoyne with some 8,000 British troops with 500 Indian allies was invading the American Colonies down the Champlain corridor from Quebec Canada in June 1777.

There were few of Washington’s troops to intercept the invading Army and the British captured a series of New York Forts and would likely defeat Washington’s Army. These Indian allies became impatient and began indiscriminate raids on frontier families and settlements, which had the effect of increasing rather than reducing local support to the American rebels.

In particular, the death and scalping at Indian hands of the attractive young Loyalist settler Jane McCrea was widely publicized and served as a catalyst for American rebel support. Burgoyne’s decision to not punish the Indian perpetrators was seen as unwillingness or inability to keep the Indians under control.

Her death rallied large numbers of militias such as the Green Mountain Boys who surrounded the British and caused the surrender of General Burgoyne at Saratoga the major turning point of the war.

Burgoyne’s surrender was instrumental in formally bringing France into the war as an American ally. This battle also resulted in Spain joining France in the war against Britain. France provided significant economic, military, and technical assistance at critical time in the war. At the Battle of the Chesapeake off Yorktown in 1781, the French ships outnumbered the British fleet that departed leaving the British Army no choice but to surrender and end the war. God works in wondrous ways. Jane McCrea’s death was the defining moment of the war and partly why we are able to celebrate Thanksgiving today.  https://www.google.com/.. ..

Attack the Shooters

…I served in the military for twenty years and have seen the ability of weapons to kill. In the latest shootings at a church in Sutherland Springs, Texas 26 were killed in a small church where no one had weapons, but the atheist killer who had clear firing lanes. He came in the back of the church shooting and walking down the aisle killing children and babies. Where ever you maybe I encourage you to prepare for the worst. It could happen to you. I suggest you to talk to your group. If none of you are armed, agree to swarm and attack the shooter with anything handy such as shoes, phones, belts, chairs, etc. Attack from all directions, a few may be shot, but you’ll save most of the people there. I’LL BE WITH YOU.

Nearby Exoplanet Found Like Earth

Ross 128 b orbits the star Ross 128 just eleven light-years away and could be rocky and temperate like Earth, and just about the same size, too. Unlike other close rocky planets, such as those orbiting Trappist-1 and Proxima Centauri, Ross 128 b is set apart because its host star doesn’t regularly blast it with potentially sterilizing flares of radiation.

An international team of astronomers on Wednesday published a paper (PDF) detailing the planet’s discovery in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics.

Like Proxima b and the Trappist-1 planets, Ross 128 b’s host star is an M dwarf. This common class of star is smaller and redder than our sun, and its relative dimness and size makes it a favored target of astronomers looking for exoplanets. That’s because orbiting worlds are generally easier to spot around smaller, dimmer stars.

ESOcast 137 Light: Temperate Planet Orbiting Quiet Red Dwarf (4K UHD) by European Southern Observatory (ESO) on YouTube. The problem with M dwarfs is that many, have a nasty habit of sending out big flares that could erode the atmospheres of orbiting planets. This bathes those surfaces in radiation that makes it difficult for life as we know it to emerge or survive. Ross 128, on the other hand, is what’s known as a “quiet” M dwarf, meaning it doesn’t seem to be shooting off the killer flares seen from other stars like it. Ross 128 b is the second closest known exo-Earth (after Proxima Centauri b, which is just over four light-years distant), and it’s the closest temperate planet known around a quiet star. Translation: the combination of its nearness and calm host star make Ross 128 b one of the best places for life like ours. Perhaps many of our visitors are from there?