Test confirms Roswell debris is not from Earth

Alejandro Rojas | Jul 12, 2011

The artifact that has been analyzed. Specimen size about 10 mm long. End fragment clipped off for testing. (image credit: Frank Kimbler)

A teacher at the New Mexico Military Institute in Roswell may have discovered the first scientific evidence of manufactured debris made on another planet. Furthermore, this debris was found near the location where pieces from an alleged flying saucer were discovered outside of Roswell in 1947.

Frank Kimbler (image credit: Alejandro Rojas)

Frank Kimbler teaches high school level Earth Sciences and college level Geology at the New Mexico Military Institute in Roswell. He says he has always had an interest in UFOs, and actually had his own unusual sighting in his twenties. So when he moved to Roswell, he decided to put his expertise to the test and take a shot at investigating the most famous UFO incident of all time, the crash at Roswell.

He says his main goal was to find some physical evidence. He started by looking at some satellite imagery of the alleged “debris site.” This is where rancher, Mac Brazel, had told the Air Force he had found pieces of the crashed object. Kimbler used these images to enhance the infra-red in order to highlight areas where the ground was disturbed. He was surprised to find an area that was similar to what witnesses had described. It was about ¾ of a mile long and a few hundred feet wide, and facing the direction witnesses had reported. He also noticed this area had very straight edges, something unusual for a natural occurrence.

His next step was to get out there with a metal detector to see what he could find. He began making trips to the site in May 2010. Using a metal detector that could find a piece the size of a BB, three inches below the surface, he would be able to find small pieces, which was exactly his goal. In previous archeological digs in the area they had sifted dirt through screens with holes large enough for very small pieces to fall through. Kimbler figured that if there was anything left it would be very small and perhaps in animal burrows, or ant hills. An ant hill was actually where he found his first piece.

Landsat multi-spectral satellite image showing the debris field. The image clearly shows a burn (or disturbed area) covering the exact location of the debris field as described by witnesses. (image credit: Frank Kimbler)

What he found was a silvery metal that looked aluminum. This was strange because there were no indications of any sort of aluminum objects in the area. He occasionally found tin, which would come from parts of tin roofs blowing around, and some nails. He eventually found more of these silvery pieces, and says they looked shredded. Some of the edges even appear melted. He also found some aluminum buttons that appear to be the type used on military fatigues in the later 40’s. If that is the case it demonstrates that the military was in the area.

The buttons. Tentatively identified as military fatigue buttons late 40's early 50's. (image credit: Frank Kimbler)

Kimbler felt the small silvery pieces were interesting enough for further analysis. To get some help he went to the Roswell International UFO Museum and Research Center. Located in downtown Roswell, the museum is the main hub for Roswell UFO crash research. He showed the material to the museum’s director, Julie Shuster, and was able to meet with researcher Don Schmitt. They decided to fund the first test which was done by New Mexico Tech in Socorro. Using a micro-probe, they were able to determine the material’s composition. It turned out to be an aluminum, silicon, manganese, copper alloy. It is not unknown, but it is used in construction and not usually found in a foil form.

This further inspired Kimbler to get some isotope work done on the piece. Kimbler says the isotope work is so important because the ratios are “very much like our fingerprints.” Certain concentrations of elements on earth are unique to Earth. So if you know isotopic ratios for magnesium, it will be the same for anything on earth with magnesium, but if it is not from Earth, it will have a different ratio. For instance meteorites have different ratios because they are not from Earth. Isotopic analysis is necessary to determine if a material is from Earth or another world.

Some of the metal alloy fragments found buried and scattered over the debris field area. (image credit: Frank Kimbler)

Kimbler went to the University of New Mexico Institute of Meteoritics, and talked to their expert on isotopes to get an analysis done. Kimbler had not told the expert anything about the samples. He looked Kimbler “square in the eye” and told him that the only reason he would want to get this sort of test done is because he suspected the material was from outer space. He wanted to know where the material was from, and when Kimbler told him he refused to do the test, stating that the idea of a spaceship crashing at Roswell was “a bunch of hooey.” One of the other scientists in the office actually argued the point that if it is something unusual, the importance of that possibility makes it worth taking a look at. However, the expert didn’t budge and refused to do the work. The second scientist was a micro-probe specialist at the University and although he could not do any isotope work, he was able to get more specific information about the material’s composition and confirm the early work that had been done.

Bigelow Aerospace showed some interest in helping Kimbler with his analysis, but after spending months with little results, Kimbler had to go elsewhere. Kimbler was able to find another lab with multiple certifications willing to do the work. The UFO Museum put up the money, and the results were back in five days. Kimbler says he almost fell over when he saw the information. The ratios were off, and as he puts it there were only two answers to explain the results, “either the lab made an analytical error or the material is not from Earth.”

Magnesium isotope fractionation chart modified from the graph used by Dr. Peter Sturrock in his analysis of the Ubatuba UFO fragment. Magnesium bearing compounds, metals, and minerals should all plot on or very close to the line. A chondite is a type of meteorite and since it does not originate from Earth does not plot on the line. The Roswell AH-1 alloy plots way of the line. The AH-1 plot is an anomaly that is either an analytical error or the material is not from Earth. More testing is needed to verify the data to see if it is an error or its from another world. (image credit: Frank Kimbler)

However, Kimbler’s work is not finished. He says, “Following good scientific method protocol one set of data is not going to cut it.” In order to prove the lab did not make a mistake he needs to get more work done. He says he does have two more certified labs lined up to do more isotopic testing to confirm the work done thus far, and that he may have this work done within the next few weeks. Kimbler says in order to confirm the material is not from Earth, it is necessary to have two or three labs showing the same results.

Another important aspect of the material being aluminum and showing unearthly origins is that aluminum must be manufactured. Unlike some natural elements, such as gold or silver that can be found as nuggets in its raw form, aluminum is not found in nature. If this proves to be material not of this earth, it means this was something that was manufactured elsewhere. Thus far humans are not manufacturing anything in space, let alone something that would fall out of space and land outside of Roswell in a location where an alleged spacecraft was found in 1947.

Kimbler says he is being careful before making any definitive claims, but he is “hopeful.” He says certified labs don’t normally make mistakes, and that these people who did the work are some of the best in the business.

The implications if Kimbler’s material turns out to be of extraterrestrial origins and manufacture are of course startling. Could he have the smoking gun to prove we are being visited by an intelligent civilization from another planet, and that they crashed outside of Roswell in 1947? Kimbler says he will keep us up to date, and has been gracious enough to provide us with pictures of the material and the analysis.

Listen to Frank Kimbler discussing his finding on Open Minds Radio.

Note: Most captions provided by Frank Kimbler.

New Mexico Tech microprobe data shows element composition of AH-1. Na and Cl values from small salt crystals embedded on the surface analysis shows AH-1 contains AL Si Mg Mn and Cu with small amounts of Fe. (image credit: Frank Kimbler)

University of New Mexico microprobe data shows element composition. Verified the NMT data with analysis showing AL Si Mg Mn Cu with a some Fe. (image credit: Frank Kimbler)

Magnesium isotope values from the certified lab that did the analysis. (image credit: Frank Kimbler)

AH-1 alloy element composition from the same lab. Shows the AH-1 alloy is a AL-Mg-Mn-Si-Cu alloy. (image credit: Frank Kimbler)

AH-1 under magnification shows banded or layered structures in AH-1. (image credit: Frank Kimbler)

AH-1 under magnification shows more areas of banding. (image credit: Frank Kimbler)

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14-07-2011 om 18:21 geschreven door peter  

14-07-2011 om 18:18 geschreven door peter  

Nu volgt deel 3...

3. De KLASSIEKE UFOLOGIE.

3.1. PROLOOG: HOE HET BEGON

De meeste ufologen laten de klassieke UFO-periode traditiegetrouw beginnen vanaf 1947 met de eerste melding van de verrassende, wereldberoemde ervaring van de zakenman en piloot Kenneth ARNOLD bij de MOUNT-RAINIER, USA. In feite begon de klassieke ufologie bij het einde van de Tweede Wereldoorlog, toen de Nazi’s West-Europa bezetten. Gedurende de winter 1944/45 ontmoetten de geallieerde piloten veelkleurige, bolvormige vuurballen, die zij “foo-fighters’ noemden. Deze mysterieuze lichtbollen vlogen argeloos naast hen, zolang de piloten geen moeite deden om er verlost van te raken. Soms dansten ze gewoon speels rond hun slachtoffer of waren ze tevreden met de vliegtuigen gewoon te achtervolgen en te begeleiden. Maar op andere tijdstippen verschenen zij in keurige formaties. In die tijd geloofden de officieren van de geheime diensten dat deze bollen met radar gecontroleerd werden en gezonden waren om de ontstekingsmechanismen van de vliegtuigen te saboteren of eenvoudig om de geallieerde radarinstallaties te storen. Het enig groot tegenargument is het vaststaand feit dat ook de Duitse piloten geplaagd werden door deze geheimzinnige metgezellen. De beruchte “foo-fighters” beperkten zich niet alleen tot Europa... Ze speelden eveneens “volg de leider” met de B-29 bemanningen tijdens hun bombardementen boven Japan. Tijdens zijn toespraak op 16/10/1973 voor de Amerikaanse Associatie voor de Wetenschappelijke Vooruitgang (A.A.A.S.) vertelde generaal George S. BROWN dat de Foo-Fighters regelmatig waargenomen werden tijdens het Koreaans en het Vietnamees conflict. Tegenstanders van het UFO-fenomeen, waaronder Philip KLASS, verklaarden dat deze foo-fighters niets anders waren dan verkeerde interpretaties van de planeet VENUS. Zoals je nu kan lezen en nog vaak zal horen, wordt de planeet VENUS vaak terecht en ten onrechte als verklaring voor vreemde waarnemingen ge(mis)bruikt... Op dergelijke wijze kan IEDEREEN snel alles wat hij niet kent of wilt erkennen, verklaren.

Het FOO-FIGHTER-mysterie leek in 1946 boven Europa te verdwijnen. In 1946 begonnen de “GHOST ROCKETS” of “SPOOKRAKETTEN” de plaats in te nemen van hun voorgangers. Een grote paniek verspreidde zich in Zweden van mei tot oktober 1946. Sigaarvormige voorwerpen, die voorkeur bleken te hebben om in de oppervlaktewaters van de meren neer te storten, werden regelmatig waargenomen. Ze kregen als bijnaam ‘GHOST BOMBS’ of “GHOST ROCKETS”. In Zweden richtte ze een speciaal comité op om deze meldingen te onderzoeken. Ze slaagden er zelfs in de aandacht van de Britse en Amerikaanse grootmachten aan te trekken, omdat het idee ontstond dat de Russen misschien geheime Duitse wapens uit PEENEMUNDE (= geheim Nazi onderzoekscentrum) buitgemaakt hadden. Ondanks alle waarnemingen en onderzoek vonden ze geen antwoord voor deze mysterieuze objecten.

Bij dit mysterie kwamen zich ook de vuurballen voegen die mensen zagen boven Frankrijk, Denemarken, Finland, Griekenland, Portugal, Spanje, Italië en Noord-Afrika gedurende de maand september 1946. Een onderzoekscommissie werd naar Zweden gezonden om het verschijnsel van de spookraketten te bestuderen. Nadat ze 100% zekerheid hadden dat dit geen Russische raketten waren, besloten de commissieleden dat het verschijnsel ontsproten was uit het brein van een culturele, psychologische statenmassahysterie...

Dus omdat het fenomeen niet paste in hun welbepaald, fysisch klassifikatiesysteem, plaatsten de Amerikanen de vreemde waarnemingen gewoon in een specifiek psychologisch kader. Je kan weeral eens besluiten dat de mensen niet zagen wat ze verklaarden te zien, vooral wegens het groeien van de KOUDE OORLOG-situatie en de daaruit voortkomende angstpyshose voor oorlog en atoomwapens (Hiroshima en Nagasaki lagen nog vers in het geheugen gegrift...) Daar het verschijnsel niet paste in het modaal referentiekader van de commissieleden en ervan uitgaande dat de onverklaarbare dingen die de burgers zagen, psychologisch van aard waren; was het een hele kleine stap te verklaren dat de mensen in feite niets hadden gezien. Dit is de eenvoudigste manier om mensen te doen zwijgen over hetgeen ze wel of niet waarnamen. Verder was een belangrijk argument zeker om een sluitende verklaring te geven dat het geen Sovjet-Russische wapens waren en deze meldingen dus geen gevaar vormden voor de internationale veiligheid. Een verklaring geven die rust en vrede uitstraalde, was de boodschap!

Alleen al het idee dat anderen zouden kunnen denken dat ze gek, dom, belachelijk of dwaas zijn, behoedt meestal de UFO-waarnemer ervan om zijn ongewone ervaring te melden... Deze techniek werd (wordt) vaker toegepast om de totale Ufologie in een slecht daglicht te plaatsen. Zelfs een aantal sceptische ‘Ufologen’ spelen dit spelletje aardig mee...

3.2  1947 – HET BEGIN

3.2.1. PROJECT SIGN

Het is louter toevallig dat de overheid van de U.S.A. betrokken raakte met het UFO-verschijnsel, net het jaar dat de luchtmacht een afzonderlijke afdeling werd van het Amerikaanse leger. Officieel begon het UFO-probleem op 24 juni 1947. Kenneth ARNOLD, IDAHO, zakenman en privépiloot, voerde een eenzame vlucht uit nabij MOUNT-RAINIER in de staat Washington, toen hij een formatie van negen schotelvormige objecten opmerkte, die hoog voorbijvlogen. Volgens Edward RUPPELT in zijn “THE REPORT OF UFO’S” beschreef Arnold na zijn landing hun beweging als dat van een “keitje (schotel) die over het water springt”. Verder beschreef Arnold de objecten  als twee op elkaar staande schotels... Volgens “ A SURVEY OF PRESS COVERAGE OF UFO’S 1947-1966” van Herbert J. STRENTZ zijn dit de historische woorden die de persmensen de woorden “vliegende schotels” in de mond legden. Volgens eens schets die Arnold voor de luchtmachtonderzoekers maakte, leek dit “schotelachtig” een gepaste omschrijving. De Arnold-waarneming genoot grote aandacht van de perslui, vooral toen de luchtmacht het bestaan van deze objecten probeerde te ontkennen. Dit ontkenningsproces verliep niet zo vlot: deze kredietwaardige, eerlijke individuele melding slaagde er dadelijk in  internationale bekendheid te verwerven. Andere getuigen begonnen eveneens vreemde objecten waar te nemen en het UFO-verschijnsel begon. Het tijdschrift LIFE gaf het onderwerp nationale bekendheid in de USA door een artikel van 21 juli 1947 : “A RASH OF FLYING DISKS BREAKS OUT OVER THE USA”. Het verschijnsel evolueerde niet traag, bouwend op voorafgepubliceerde verhalen, nauwgezet, beeldrijk en denkbeeldig wordend – zoals je van een psychologisch ontsproten verschijnsel, een sociaal of gebaseerd op folklore zou kunnen verwachten. Het dook eerder volledig ontwikkeld op als een volwassen verschijnsel in virtueel dezelfde volgorde van vormen, die getuigen de dag van vandaag nog rapporteren. Mensen begonnen een variëteit van geometrische modelvoorwerpen te zien, die ongewone karakteristieken vertoonden. Deze voorwerpen waren geen denkbeeldige ruimteschepen of aardse ruimtereis-ontwerpen uit de sciencefictionlectuur. De UFO’s waren een volledig nieuw iets en waren zeker niet verbonden met de populaire sciencefiction of de folklore in het algemeen.

Dat er geen voorafgaande verschijning was van de configuratie van de voorwerpen van 1947, zoals die bestond in 1897, geeft de 1947-golf een grote belangrijkheid en een bijzondere dimensie. Indien we aannemen dat de hoofdleverancier van scienfiction de filmindustrie is (en inderdaad critici proberen een link te leggen tussen S.F.-films en UFO-waarnemingen!), dan leer je met één oogopslag in de geschiedenis van de sciencefiction dat er weinig of geen S.F.-films waren met buitenaardse bezoekers als onderwerp. Sta me toch even toe er op te wijzen dat tijdens een “realistisch” opgevoerd luisterspel op de radio “War of the worlds” van Orson Welles in 1932 een grote paniek uitbrak in de USA. De mensen ontvluchtten in paniek de steden en dachten echt dat de Marsbewoners begonnen waren met de verovering van de Aarde. Dit bewijst één van de stellingen van Philip KlASS dat de menselijke geest sneller op hol slaat dan we vooraf aannemen. Het Amerikaans publiek was wel vatbaar voor buitenaardse beschavingen. Bijkomend belangrijk feit was dat dit luisterspel onder de vorm van nieuwsflashes uitgezonden werd. Het is dus wel begrijpelijk dat mensen, die te laat afstemden op dit luisterspel, de indruk kregen dat er echt iets vreemd gebeurde... Vele films, die toen gemaakt werden, hadden vooral als onderwerp dat aardbewoners naar andere planeten reisden, zoals BUCK ROGERS en FLASH GORDON. Maar voor 1950 namen de filmmakers geen enkele film op met wezens uit de ruimte, die proberen de aarde te veroveren. Beweren dat de populaire cultuur schuldig is aan het scheppen van het UFO-verschijnsel, kan ik mij moeilijk voorstellen. Het is eerder zo dat  boeken over UFO’s die een bestseller werden, later na hun groot succes verfilmd werden...

Het gedrag van de waargenomen objecten lijkt de technologische mogelijkheden van 1947 ver vooruit te zijn. Het stond dadelijk vast dat getuigen iets waarnamen dat volkomen uniek kon zijn. Als resultaat van dit buitengewoon karakter lag de  buitenaardse hypothese op het voorplan als de meest populaire theorie voor de waargenomen objecten.

Op 23 september 1947 schreef Luitenant-generaal Nathan F. TWINING, bevelhebber van het AIR MATERAL COMMAND (A.M.C.), Wrightfield-OHIO een brief aan het hoofdcommando van de Amerikaanse luchtmacht. In het zog van de waarneming van Kenneth Arnold en andere raadselachtige UFO-rapporten van die zomer was Generaal TWINING gevraagd een bijzondere voorstudie van het verschijnsel te maken. Na een reeks discussies met ingenieurs, die onder zijn bevel stonden, besloot hij het volgende en informeerde Brigadegeneraal George CRAIGIE hiervan: - “Het gerapporteerde fenomeen is iets reeëls en geen droombeeld, hersenspinsel of fictie. De objecten zijn metaalachtig, schotelvormig, in een aantal gevallen volkomen geluidloos en opmerkelijk manoeuvreerbaar.” “Het is aangewezen”, schreef TWINING, “dat het hoofdkwartier van de luchtmacht een richtlijn uitvaardigt die een prioriteit, een veiligheidsclassificatie en een codenaam bepaalt om een gedetailleerde studie over dit fenomeen te maken.” De verzamelde informatie zal beschikbaar gesteld worden aan andere militaire afdelingen en wetenschappelijke instellingen, verbonden aan de overheid.

Op 30 december 1947 keurde stafchef majoor-Generaal L.C. CRAIGIE, directeur van Opzoeking en Ontwikkeling, dit verzoek goed. Hij beval Project SIGN op te richten onder hoede van de A.M.C. te WRIGHT FIELD (nu de luchtmachtbasis WRIGHT-PATTERSON  in DAYTON, OHIO). Hij schreef dat het niet aan de luchtmachtpolitie was om rapporten van waarnemingen en fenomenen in de atmosfeer te ontkennen. In zijn brief gaf hij A.M.C. opdracht om “een project op te zetten met als doel het verzamelen, vergelijken, verifiëren, beoordelen, handelend op te treden op basis van informatie van die aard en de bekomen data betreffende de UFO-waarnemingen en verschijnselen in de atmosfeer, waarvan kan aangenomen worden dat ze de nationale veiligheid bedreigen, te verdelen aan alle Overheidsagentschappen en gecontracteerden.” Het project zou een 2A - veiligheidscode krijgen, met andere woorden “TOP SECRET” (= GEHEIM). (De hoogste  classificatie was 1A – For your eyes only) Zelfs de naam SIGN van het project was geheim, nochthans bleek in werkelijkheid het bestaan ervan bij een breder publiek bekend te zijn, dat het spottend “PROJECT SAUCER” noemde.

Op 22 januari 1948 startte project SIGN zijn activiteiten. De geheime diensten van de luchtmacht leidden de meeste onderzoeken met als logische uitvalsbasis de dichtsbijzijnde luchtmachtbasis bij de waarnemingsplaats. Indien de binnengekomen melding belangrijk genoeg was, dan vloog eigen personeel van het A.M.C.-hoofdkwartier naar de lokatie van de waarneming. De getuigen dienden onmiddellijk een standaard vragenlijst in te vullen en een lijst van vragen te beantwoorden over hun waarneming(en), inbegrepen tijdstip, tijdsduur, plaats, verschijning, hoogte, snelheid en manoeuvers. Alle relevante informatie en materiaal werd naar het A.M.C.-hoofdkwartier gezonden, waar evaluatieteams de rapporten onderzochten en analyseerden. Ze schreven een officieel rapport van de resultaten van hun onderzoeken. Kopies van deze rapporten zonden ze door naar andere overheidsdiensten en aan labo’s, die bekwaam waren te helpen bij de identifikatie van de meldingen.

Het werd snel duidelijk dat de waargenomen acties van de UFO’s niet overeenkwamen met het verwachtte patroon van technologische, vergevorderde militaire projecten of ramingen. Ofschoon het grootste deel (+/- 80%) van de UFO’s verklaard werden door verkeerde interpretaties van bekende zaken zoals vliegtuigen, weerballons, meteoren, de planeet VENUS, halo’s en anderen, stapelden de onverklaarbare gevallen zich snel op. Nieuwe rapporten met degelijke informatie over data en details, alsook over de hoge snelheid en bijzondere handelbaarheid van de UFO’s, bereikten een hoogtepunt midden 1947. In het meinummer van 1967 van “THE UFO-INVESTIGATOR” verklaarde TED BLOECHER dat volgens de verzamelde en geordende persberichten het jaar 1947 alleen al ruim 800 UFO-meldingen telde. Een typisch voorbeeld-waarneming voor die tijdsperiode was de waarneming boven DEN HAAG, Nederland op 20 juli 1948 van een raketvormig voorwerp met  twee rijen raampjes  over de lengtezijde. Vier nachten later op 21 juli 1948 meldde de piloot en de co-piloot van een EASTERN AIRLINES DC-3, dat zij bijna in botsing kwamen met een torpedovormig voorwerp van ongeveer 100 meter lengte boven MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA, USA. Het tuig had eveneens twee rijen blinkende kleine ramen, verspreid over  de lengte. Hier komen we later nog even op terug. Dit is één van de vele rapporten, vergelijkbaar met de “ghost-rockets” boven Noord-Europa een aantal maanden vroeger...

SIGN’s eerste grote onderzoek handelde over het MANTELL-incident van 7 januari 1948, dat een fatale afloop kende. De controletoren van het GODMAN-vliegveld, KENTUCKY, U.S.A. vroeg aan de kapitein van de nationale wacht Thomas MANTELL, “vluchtleider” van een formatie van 4 F-51 om een UFO-melding na te trekken. Mantell seinde dat hij het voorwerp zag en klom met zijn vliegtuig tot ongeveer 20.000 voet hoogte. De overige piloten waagden zich niet tot dergelijke hoogte bij gebrek aan zuurstofapparaten in hun vliegtuigen en vlogen verder. Ondanks het feit dat Mantell’s vliegtuig ook geen zuurstofapparaat aan boord had, zette de piloot zijn jacht onversaagd en een beetje roekeloos verder... Later op de dag vond een reddingsploeg Mantell’s ontzielde lichaam terug tussen de brokstukken van zijn gecrashte vliegtuig. De luchtmacht en project SIGN, onder druk gezet door de persmedia om een degelijke uitleg, verklaarde dat Mantell stierf door zuurstofgebrek, terwijl hij de planeet VENUS achtervolgde. Deze verklaring werd op veel ongeloof onthaald! In zijn rapport ‘THE UFO-PHENOMENON – A STUDY IN PUBLIC – RELATIONS” weerlegt David SHEA deze verklaring.  Een nieuw onderzoek van dit voorval in 1952 leidde tot een meer aanvaardbare oplossing. De onderzoekers verklaarden toen dat Mantell waarschijnlijk jacht maakte op één van de grote SKYHOOK-ballonnen, die de U.S.-Navy in het geheim gebruikte voor hun spionagedoeleinden. Deze verklaring wordt actueel algemeen aanvaard als uitleg voor dit incident. Vanuit publiek-zakelijke benadering, toonde de verkeerde behandeling  door de luchtmacht van het Mantell-incident het model aan dat de Air-Force toepaste op de meeste UFO-meldingen: snelle identifikatie en uitleg, onverschillig van het resultaat van degelijk onderzoek. Deze praktische aanpak van het probleem kadert in het doel om in staat te zijn alle UFO-meldingen zo snel mogelijk te kunnen verklaren…

Zelfs actueel nog passen de sceptici en de nonbelievers dezelfde tactiek toe. Hoe vaak wordt de planeet VENUS er niet bijgesleurd om een vreemde waarneming te verklaren, zelfs in België. In die tijd echter leek het de luchtmacht veiliger om het even welke uitleg voor een waarneming te geven, dan gewoon te zeggen :”op dit ogenblik weten we nog niet wat het is, het geval wordt verder onderzocht.” Meer en meer zou deze snelle indentifikatiepolitiek de luchtmacht in moeilijkheden brengen...

De Sovjet-Unie was een eerste verdachte in de productie van deze “Vliegende Schotels”. Nochthans was het niet zo opportuun aan te nemen dat de Russische piloten hun nieuw toestel boven het Amerikaans territorium zouden testvliegen.

Volgens sommigen zouden de Sovjets deze nieuwe toestellen gebouwd hebben  op basis van gevonden Duitse technologie uit PEENEMUNDE. In elk geval, het onderzoek van SIGN kon op geen enkel wijze aantonen dat de UFO’s het resultaat was van hoogstaande technologie van de Sovjets... Dit resultaat leidde tot een echte tweestrijd tussen diegenen, die dachten dat UFO’s van buitenaardse origine zouden kunnen zijn en de anderen, die geloofden dat alle meldingen potentieel leidden naar meer aardse en aanvaardbare oorzaken.

In de late zomer van 1948 zette het Pentagon het A.M.C.’s Air Technical Intelligence Center (A.T.I.C.) {= voorganger van het huidige Foreign Technolgy Division (F.T.D.) of Air Force Systems Commands.} onder druk om een degelijke oplossing te vinden voor het UFO-fenomeen, vooral wegens de wekelijks aangroeiende, raadselachtige UFO-rapporten. Wat ook de oplossing voor de meest raadselachtige rapporten ook zou kunnen wezen, vaststaand feit was dat een aantal andere rapporten duidelijk het resultaat was van eenvoudige of meer complexe misidentifikaties. Om te helpen om deze misinterpretaties te sorteren uit alle rapporten – komende van misleidde waarnemers, die in feite planeten, sterren, meteoren en kometen zagen – vorderde Project Sign Dr. J. Allen HYNEK, directeur van het MACMILLAN Observatorium van de Staatsuniversiteit van OHIO, op. Dr. Allen Hynek was de dichtstbijzijnde, professionele astronoom bij DAYTON. Dit was de reden waarom de eerste keuze om Hynek viel... Jaren later omschreef J. Allen Hynek over zichzelf en de keuze van SIGN als “de onschuldige toeschouwer, die van overal beschoten werd”. Met andere woorden, een geografische toevalligheid dropte Hynek gewild of ongewild in het netelige vraagstuk over UFO’s. Later genoten de meeste van zijn collega’s de vrijheid en de blijdschap om UFO’s als nonsens te kunnen verklaren...

Op 24 juli 1948 om 2u45’ a.m. vloog een raketvormig object met twee rijen “vierkanten” raampjes en vlammen, die uit het achterste deel van het tuig schoten, geruime tijd naast een DC-3 op 5000 voet hoogte boven MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA.  Een passagier van het vliegtuig zag het vreemde object eveneens. Uit een later onderzoek bleek dat een grondonderhoudsploeg op de ROBINS luchtmachtbasis in GEORGIA, een uur vroeger hetzelfde of soortgelijk object zagen.

Sign’s pro-buitenaardse fractie, inbegrepen zijn directeur kapitein Robert S. SNEIDER, waren overtuigd dat ze met het hoger incident het ultieme bewijs hadden dat ze zochten. Na dit voorval en ook van eerdere gerapporteerde gebeurtenissen stelden ze een topsecret “ESTIMATE OF THE SITUATION” (= situatieschets) op en zonden het door aan alle hogere commandoposten. In het Pentagon veroorzaakte dit dokument een felle controverse. Het bewuste dokument wees op het feit dat alle onverklaarbare UFO-meldingen wel degelijk het bewijs waren van interplanetaire bezoekers. Toen dit bewuste ESTIMATE-dokument bij de latere luchtmacht generaal HoyT S. VANDENBERG op het bureau belandde, weigerde de generaal in buitenaardse ruimtetuigen te geloven. Het rapport miste bewijskracht! In enkele maanden tijd werd dit dokument volledig gedeklassificeerd en het bevel gegeven om alle kopies te verbranden. Sommigen beweren dat een aantal exemplaren in het geheim bewaard bleven. Jarenlang beweerde de luchtmacht dat dergelijk dokument nooit bestaan had. Kapitein Edward J. RUPPELT, de latere A.T.I.C.-UFO-projectleider van maart 1951 tot september 1953, verklaarde dat dit dokument de ontmoeting van de DC-3 en andere meldingen, gedaan door geloofwaardige getuigen, uitvoerig rapporteerde. Hij zag het rapport wel degelijk!  Ruppelt schreef in zijn boek dat een groep A.T.I.C.-onderzoekers naar het Pentagon trokken om hun situatie-oordeel kracht bij te zetten. Maar net als bij hun stafchef vingen ze ook hier bot bij gebrek aan afdoend bewijs...

Volgens latere bronnen zou generaal VANDENBERG deel uitgemaakt hebben  van de fel betwistte geheime MAJESTIC-12- groep. Indien dit echt zo was, kan het niet anders of de generaal moest de theorie over buitenaardse bezoekers net als het bestaan van UFO’s ontkennen.

Eind 1948 verdween de aandacht van de luchtmacht voor de ET-hypothese.  Na het voorval van het “verworpen” rapport  verloren de pro-buitenaardse aanhangers veel van hun waarde. De fractie, die een meer prozaïsche verklaring(en) voor UFO’s verdedigde, begon Project Sign te domineren. Zelf de DC-3 ontmoeting sloegen ze KO. Wegens “totaal onmogelijk wegens de aangehaalde feiten” suggereerde Hynek dat de piloten bepaalde dingen fout inschatten... “Het object moet een buitengewone meteoor geweest zijn,“ omdat de piloten niet echt kunnen gezien hebben wat ze dachten te zien... Misschien zou het UFO-verschijnsel wel vanzelf verdwijnen!

In 1949 bereidde “PROJECT SIGN” hun laatste rapport voor. Volgens de “Project Blue Book Files” werd het rapport als “SECRET” geklassificeerd tot 1961. Het dokument besloot dat de toekomstige onderzoeksactiviteit tot het strikte minimum kon herleid worden. Desalniettemin verwierp  het SIGN-rapport  van februari 1949 het bestaan van UFO’s in het geheel niet. Het rapport gaf toe dat de onderzoekers niet bekwaam waren om 20 % van de onderzochte gevallen (237) te verklaren. Niettegenstaande deze toegeving, verklaarde ze een beetje verder “Er bestaat een mogelijkheid dat voldoende incidenten opgelost kunnen worden om het mysterie verbonden met deze gebeurtenissen te elimineren of grotendeels te verminderen. “ Wanneer genoeg gevallen opgelost worden, zou het UFO-project beëindigd worden. Alle verdere onderzoeken, die noodzakelijk bleven, zouden routinematig behandeld worden “zoals elk ander werk van de geheime diensten”. Een bijvoegsel van James E. LIPP van de RAND CORPORATION overwoog de mogelijkheid van het bestaan van buitenaards, intelligent leven, toegevend dat het mogelijk was, maar er direct aan toevoegend dat de afstanden tussen de sterren te immens waren om buitenaardse bezoekers toe te laten... Hij besloot “in elk geval, de acties, toegeschreven aan de “vliegende objecten”, gerapporteerd in 1947 en 1948 lijken tegenstrijdig met ruimtereizen.”

De luchtmacht schakelde kordaat een SIGN-voorstel uit om hun operatie uit te breiden door een UFO-onderzoeksteam op elke luchtmachtbasis te plaatsen. Omdat de aanhangers van de pro-buitenaardse hypothese het project verlieten of vervangen werden, nam de anti-UFO-fractie onbetwistbaar  de controle over. Vanaf dit ogenblik gingen de onderzoekers ervan uit dat er voor elke UFO-melding een conventionele verklaring te vinden was. Op 16 december 1948 kreeg het project SIGN een nieuwe en passender naam : PROJECT GRUDGE. Volgens kapitein RUPPELT, die later een soortgelijke UFO-werkgroep zou leiden, begonnen nu de “DARK AGES” van de Ufologie...

Nochthans uit het merendeel van het bewijs, blijkt dat de Amerikaanse overheid eveneens voor een raadsel stond, net als de doodgewone Amerikaan. Er doken zelfs hardnekkige geruchten op dat de Amerikanen in 1947 een wrak van een neergestortte UFO in ROSWELL borgen, waardoor de overheid virtueel over de volledige kennis van het UFO-mysterie beschikte. Uit een aantal vrijgegeven tantaliserende dokumenten, uit een aantal officiële verklaringen van de luchtmacht zelf en uit de verklaringen van de onderzoekers van dit voorval, blijkt actueel dat er in ROSWELL in 1947 wel degelijk een “onbekend object” crashte. De Amerikanen hebben in de loop der jaren de verklaring voor dit object meermalen aangepast aan de bevindingen van de onderzoekers... van een weerballon tot een spionageballon om de Sovjetrussische kernexperimenten op te volgen...

Het geheel van de opgedoken getuigen en bewijs, toont dus inderdaad aan dat iets in Roswell, New Mexico, neerstortte. Dit voorval laat enkel de controversie in de Ufologie toenemen. Sommigen nemen aan dat een buitenaards ruimteschip met inzittenden crashte in Roswell; anderen geloven blindelings de diverse, vrijgegeven verklaringen van de Amerikaanse overheid. Het laatste woord is hier zeker nog niet over geschreven, noch gesproken...

Tenslotte wijzigde de publieke geschiedenis van de UFO-polemiek niet wezenlijk. We dienen voortdurend aan te nemen dat de USA-overheid ongewild betrokken werd met het UFO-verschijnsel, enerzijds niet om het verborgen te houden, zoals steeds beweerd werd, maar gewoon omdat ze zelf de oplossing niet wisten. Anderzijds indien de hardnekkige geruchten een grond van waarheid hebben, zouden de Amerikanen wel degelijk hun geheimen en de buitgemaakte spitstechnologie willen verborgen houden voor de rest van de wereld.

Van 1948 tot 1952 maakte de luchtmacht gebruik van hun wetenschappelijke  raadgever en UFO-scepticus, Dr. J. Allen HYNEK om UFO-meldingen te onder zoeken en te verklaren...Meer dan 2 decennia later zou HYNEK hetvolgende over Project SIGN verklaren:

- De 237 originele project Sign – rapporten zijn niet overtuigend genoeg om de oplossing “bezoekers uit de ruimte hard te maken”. Na herziening van deze gevallen in 1970, moet ik persoonlijk erkennen dat zij merkbaar van gebrekkige kwaliteit zijn...

In 1947-1948  was er niet veel nodig om fel en snel opgewonden te raken. Zeker waren daar enige rapporten, die als je ze van nabij bekeek, die op geen normale fysische verklaring wezen. Maar zelfs deze specifieke gevallen  waren onbeduidend omdat ze op een onvolwaardige manier onderzocht werden; vele cruciale gegevens ontbraken

Na hun zelf ervan te overtuigen dat UFO’s geen geheime wapens waren van één of andere natie, begon de luchtmacht dus te vertrouwen op de notie dat de mensen niet nauwkeurig beschreven van wat ze zagen en ervaarden. De luchtmacht kwam tot het ongemakkellijk, maar correct besluit, dat het verschijnsel oorspronkelijk veroorzaakt werd door misinterpretaties (= verkeerd waarnemen) van doodgewone verschijnselen, ongewone psychologische of fysiologische toestanden, “sociale stress” en natuurlijke vervalsingen en publiciteitszoekers. Ze probeerden afstand te nemen van dit onderwerp door eerst te verklaren dat het ganse fenomeen niets ongewoon of onregelmatig was. In 1950 probeerde ze hun onderzoekseenheid PROJECT GRUDGE (zie 3.2.2.) op te doeken in de hoop dat het groot publiek de boodschap zou verstaan en zou stoppen met onaanvaardbare dingen te zien in de lucht...

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0.     VOORWOORD.

Op ieder ogenblik – zelfs op dit ogenblik – kan je door het venster naar buiten  kijken en een vreemd verschijnsel zien, een UFO misschien? Misschien zie je een reeks flikkerende lichtjes aan de nachtelijke hemel, die bewegingloos stilhangen - zoals geen enkel conventioneel vliegtuig dat kan – dan schieten deze lichtjes plots weg met soms onvoorstelbare koersveranderingen en versnellingen – zoals geen enkele helikopter of luchtballon dit kan. Misschien zie je een metaalachtig object, dat schotel-, kegel-, sigaar- of driehoekvorming is en dat laag over je auto vliegt, je achtervolgt, terwijl je rustig naar huis rijdt na een welverdiende uitstap. Het object doet zelfs je autoradio zwijgen en je injectiemotor stilvallen... Misschien is het onbekend tuig geland aan de rand van de weg of net buiten je huis, terwijl de inzittenden (de ufonauten) druk bezig zijn met één of andere mysterieuze handeling rond een onbekend voorwerp – of komen ze zelfs aankloppen aan je deur... word je zelfs ontvoerd uit je bed of je auto aan boord van hun ruimteschip, waar ze je aan een reeks kille medische onderzoeken onderwerpen en soms een ultraklein voorwerpje inplanten of lichaamsstalen nemen...

Deze woorden kan je moeilijk geloven, niet. Zulke zaken kunnen zeker niet waar zijn... Inbeeldingen, grappen, hersenspinsels, fictie of valse getuigenissen, denk jij beslist? Maar deze dingen zijn wel waargenomen, ervaren en gerapporteerd door tien-, zelfs honderdduizenden mensen, even normaal als jij en ik. De meeste geven hun naam en adres op, zijn blij dat ze hun verhaal even bij je kwijt kunnen en hopen dat jij een logische verklaring kan geven voor hun vreemde waarneming of ervaring. Meestal zijn ze niet bang om met hun ervaring naar buiten te komen, zoeken zeker geen bekendheid of media-aandacht. Ze verwachten enkel en alleen maar een antwoord op al hun prangende vragen over hun schrikwekkende ervaringen... Ze verwachten dat de onderzoeker hen gelooft en niet denkt dat ze gek zijn...

Honderden boeken verschenen over dit controversieel verschijnsel “Ufo’s”, waarin onderzoekers regelmatig dergelijke getuigenverhalen analyseren en bespreken. Er bestaan particuliere Ufo verenigingen die deze verslagen verzamelen, analyseren, evalueren en proberen een logische verklaring te geven voor dit vreemd en complex fenomeen... Vanzelfsprekend bestaan er tussen deze ufologen verschillende standpunten over deze meldingen gaande van believers, van neutrale onderzoekers, gaande tot sceptici en nonbelievers, die alles verwerpen en alle meldingen met aardse oplossingen willen verklaren...

Jij denkt misschien ook dat al deze UFO-meldingen slechts fictie of hallucinaties zijn, de vruchten van de menselijke fantasie, ontsproten aan de Sciencefiction-lectuur over vliegende schotels en groene Marsmannetjes. Dan moet ik jou teleurstellen, want ik stel vast dat in de loop van 60 jaar overzicht van de ufologie de mensen geen grote verbeeldingskracht bezitten, want actueel wijzigt er niet veel aan de trend van de waarnemingen. Er speelde zich wel een bepaalde evolutie af door een aantal bijkomende randverschijnselen zoals graancirkels, veeverminkingen, ontvoeringen (kregen meer aandacht!) maar de hoofdzaak van het waarnemen van onbekende tuigen bleef een vast patroon volgen, gaande van de klassieke schotelvorm, van driehoekige tuigen tot diverse lichtbollen (# ORB’s). Het blijft een feit dat er nog geen enkele UFO op wielen waargenomen werd. En ... indien het toch maar allemaal verbeelding is, waarom worden er dan geen roze Ufo’s gemeld in de vorm van olifanten... (delirium tremens!) of andere abnormale dingen waargenomen en gefotografeerd?

Er is geen twijfel mogelijk over het feit of Ufo’s wel of niet bestaan als verschijnsel, wat de nonbelievers en sceptici ook mogen beweren. Maar bestaan ze wel als een tastbare werkelijkheid, vraag je? Of zijn het holografische projecties van een buitenaardse beschaving? Indien dit het geval is, dan zijn ze toch het opmerkelijkste raadsel ooit ervaren door de menselijke soort. De zuivere grootte en de implicaties van het UFO-verschijnsel maken het tot één van de grootste op te lossen raadsels. Dit is één van de hoofdredenen - specialisten inbegrepen, evenals wetenschapslui en hogere overheidspersonen, die meestal denken het beter te weten – hun gezicht afwenden en weigeren toe te geven dat er een UFO-vraagstuk bestaat. Weet echter dat de officiële instanties er alles aan deden om de melders van Ufo’s en de totaliteit van het verschijnsel publiek belachelijk te maken om in het geheim hun onderzoek verder te zetten. Piloten mochten het waarnemen van een vreemd verschijnsel, een UFO niet meer bespreken met de pers anders volgden er strenge sancties...

Ongeveer 115 jaar geleden, in 1890, schreef H. G. WELLS zijn boek “WAR of the WORLDS” (Oorlog der wereld, recent nog verfilmd in een remake met Tom CRUISE!), waarin hij verhaalt hoe de Aarde bij verrassing aangevallen werd door buitenaardsen, door Marsbewoners, die onze planeet wilden veroveren. Dit was toen zuivere fictie!

Worden wij de dag van vandaag op dezelfde wijze bij verrassing belaagd – verklaring voor de vele duizenden ontvoeringen van mensen door aliëns – uitgezonderd dat het nu kille realiteit is in plaats van fictie? Is dat misschien de reden waarom de meeste overheden het diepe stilzwijgen bewaren over de ware achtergrond van het UFO-verschijnsel, gewoon omdat ze zelf machteloos staan; enkel kunnen toezien hoe de aliëns hun acties ondernemen en ... zwijgen ze om paniek alom en massahysterie te vermijden... Ik hoop echt dat de sceptici en de nonbelievers gelijk hebben als ze verklaren dat Ufo’s allemaal van aardse makelij zijn. Wat een opluchting? Of toch niet...

Proberen de overheden met medewerking van de media daarom het UFO-verschijnsel belachelijk te maken om in het geheim naar een oplossing te zoeken, hun krachten te bundelen (U.S.A., Groot-Brittannië, Rusland, Japan,...)? Het is een feit dat verschillende honderdduizenden mensen over een periode van 60 jaar merkwaardige objecten in de lucht waarnamen en rapporteerden; dat duizenden mensen beweren ontvoerd te zijn aan boord van een UFO en medisch onderzocht. Deze waarnemingsverslagen komen uit alle werelddelen en uit alle lagen van de bevolking. Véél van deze rapporten komen zelfs van hooggekwalificeerde specialisten, ervaren luchtvaartpiloten, politiemensen en radaroperatoren. Indien de meeste waarnemers slechts alledaagse mensen waren, is dat omdat de meeste mensen alledaags zijn... Slechts een klein deel van deze UFO-melders en zelfs een deel van de UFO-onderzoekers zochten publiciteit, media-aandacht of eigen financieel voordeel. Los van deze enkelingen, schuwen de meeste getuigen alle vorm van publiciteit. Terwijl wij hun waarnemingsverslagen lezen valt ons hun eerlijkheid op! Ondanks ongeloof, wantrouwen en het risico belachelijk gemaakt te worden, vonden deze mensen het hun plicht als burger om hun ervaringen te rapporteren aan de autoriteiten; zochten ze wanhopig naar een instantie, die hun ervaringen zou kunnen verklaren en dat ze er later zelf zouden kunnen om lachen...

Maar wat is er dan werkelijk aan de hand? Misschien wel het opmerkelijkste aspect van het UFO-mysterie gedurende de 60 jaar onderzoek, is het feit dat het UFO-probleem nog steeds groter wordt in plaats van opgelost te raken, en dit zowel in complexiteit als in kwantiteit. Iemand komt naar voren met een bepaalde verklaring of hypothese: een volgende waarneming heeft weer specifieke karakteristieken, die de openbaar gemaakte theorie weerleggen – zo schrijdt het verschijnsel altijd verder, meer frustrerend en angstwekkender met de tijd...

Daarom is het niet zo verwonderlijk dat zoveel mensen weigeren om het UFO-verschijnsel ernstig te nemen, net zoals Well’s aardbewoners aanvankelijk de mogelijkheid van een verrassingsaanval van Marsbewoners ontkenden... Je kunt zelf kiezen; indien je wilt “geloven” dat er een natuurlijke, aardse verklaring bestaat voor alle meldingen van Ufo’s, of dat er te weinig waarnemingsgegevens zijn of zielig onderzoek de oorzaak is van het actueel niet kunnen verklaren van alle meldingen, slaap dan rustig voort! Indien je zo handelt, zal je de immer groeiende berg aan bewijsmateriaal totaal moeten negeren en ontkennen en je hoofd verder in het zand steken... Je kunt net zoals de sceptici en de nonbelievers zeggen dat er actueel nog geen hard bewijs bestaat voor ETI-Ufo’s, maar is dit wel zo?

Zelfs de officiële Amerikaanse luchtmacht-werkgroepen waren genoodzaakt te verklaren: het meest onvermijdelijk besluit is dat de getuigen van de vele ontmoetingen echte gebeurtenissen rapporteerden, zoals zij ze waarnamen, en dat deze feiten vreemde wezens beschrijven, die op geen enkele wijze verward kunnen worden met eender welk levend schepsel, geboren op onze planeet...

Het zal van jezelf afhangen nadat je dit rapport las, of je het UFO-verschijnsel blijft negeren en ontkennen of dat je durft erkennen dat het één van de meest raadselachtige en verontrustende mysteries is, waar de moderne mens mee geconfronteerd wordt.

Met dit rapport wil ik de meest naïeve lever of scepticus aantonen dat Ufo’s geen verzinsels zijn, maar wel een realistisch feit; dat de overheden, de U.S.A. op kop, het verschijnsel probeerden uit te schakelen om in het geheim verder te onderzoeken (zie historisch overzicht); dat wij, zogezegde Ufologen, teveel tijd verloren in het willen bewijzen van de echtheid van het UFO-verschijnsel en daardoor de belangrijkheid van alle intenties uit het oog verloren; dat wij door het voortdurend kinderachtig gekibbel tussen believers, nonbelievers, sceptici en neutralen, teveel energie verspeelden aan een zinloos, oeverloos gekibbel... Zij die na 60 jaar Ufologie en onderzoek de bewijzen van de realiteit van het UFO-onderzoek niet willen zien, zullen bewijs van de echtheid van Ufo’s NOOIT aanvaarden, noch zien...

De angst om de ontstellende waarheid mag ons niet afschrikken, maar vormt net die uitdaging bij uitstek om voluit door te gaan met ons onderzoek. We leven actueel in een tijd van gechronometreerde nuchterheid en rationalisme, waar we de natuur als een object beschouwen en de wetenschap voor alles en nog wat “aardse” verklaringen zoekt, ook voor Ufo’s. Wat als er nu meer is tussen hemel en aarde, dan wij wel denken... In het verleden heeft de wetenschap toch al vaker de bal misgeslagen, niet?

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Weer uit stukje uit dit rapport...

2. VOOR 1947...

UFO’s zijn geen typisch hedendaags, modern verschijnselen. Het is normaal dat als gewone mensen naar de lucht kijken, dat ze dan wel eens voor hen vreemde en onbekende dingen kunnen / konden waarnemen, om het even in welke tijdsperiode ze leefden. In vroegere tijden zonder Tv, radio of andere media werden de avonden opgeluisterd door verhalen over weerwolven, vampieren, alvermannen, kabouters, elfjes en andere vreemde wezens en werd het nieuws en andere gebeurtenissen, vooral mondeling doorgegeven... Op deze wijze ontstonden zeer veel legenden in functie van de cultuur, waarin ze verteld werden. Deze vreemde waarnemingen en de vreemde wezens noemen wij in het modern tijdperk UFO’s en Aliënwezens. Eén van de eerste UFO-waarnemingen vind je al terug in het Oud Testament. In hoofdstuk I van het Boek EZECHIËL vind je de beschijving van een vurige koets terug, die uit een wervelwind verscheen en waarvan de profeet getuigen was in OUD-CHALDEA (nu deel van Irak) in 593 voor Christus. Misschien is dit ook het eerste “contactee”-geval. Vele andere verhalen uit het Oud Testament, zoals de ARK VAN NOË; het geven van de 10 GEBODEN aan MOZES door GOD op de berg SINAÏ; het roepen van ABRAHAM en MOZES; de plagen van EGYPTE en het vertrek uit EGYPTE van de Joden met de “ster” die het 24 u op 24 u dag licht liet zijn; de ster van Bethelehem voor de geboorte van Christus,... kan je in de kontekst van de huidige Ufologie in een ander daglicht plaatsen als de manipulatie, de programmering,  het brainwashen en het leiden van het “uitgekozen” volk naar een vooraf welbepaald doel door een kosmische macht die wij GOD (JAHWEH) noemen... Bij het niet naleven van de opgelegde regels en instructies volgen meestal zware sancties, zelfs tot vernietiging toe, zoals SODOM en GOMORRA, de ZONDVLOED,...

In zijn boek “ANATOMY of a PHENOMENA” vertelt de Franse schrijver Jacques VALLEE dat een Chinees, TSCHI.PEN.LAO van de Pekingse Universiteit enige granieten beeldhouwwerkjes vond in het HUNAN-gebergte en op een eiland in het TUNGTING-meer, waarschijnlijk rond 45.000 jaar voor Christus gemaakt. Ze beelden cilindervormige voorwerpen in de lucht uit en mensen van grote gestalte (reuzen?). Erich VON DÄNIKEN haalt in zijn diverse boeken “ WAGENS VAN DE GODEN”, “WAREN DE GODEN KOSMONAUTEN”... de restanten van diverse culturen aan om de “oude bezoekers uit de ruimte” aan te tonen. Via deze ruimte-archeologie wilt VON DÄNIKEN zijn gewaagde theorie bewijzen dat vertegenwoordigers van een hogerontwikkelde, buitenaardse beschaving onze aarde tot ongeveer 40.000 jaar geleden bezochten. Bij alle volkeren vind je een scheppingsverhaal terug, waarin sprake is van wezen(s) die uit de hemel neerdaalden om het menselijk ras te scheppen. Zijn sterkste argumenten in zijn bewijsvoering haalt Von Däniken bij de fysische getuigenissen uit Zuid- en Centraal-Amerika, Egypte en Azië. Op het NACZA-woestijnterrein in Peru kan je  een strook effen vlakte van ongeveer 40 km lang en 2 km breed vinden. Von Däniken zegt dat, indien je over dit terrein vliegt, je uitgestrekte lijnen ziet: “meetkundig uitgespreid, sommigen evenwijdig met elkaar, anderen elkaar kruisend of omringd met ruime trapeziumvormige vlakken.” “Vanuit de lucht,“ verklaart hij, “krijgt de waarnemer de indruk dat het wijde NACZA-plein met zijn tekeningen een landingplaats voor “interplanetaire tuigen” voorstelt...” In één van zijn laatste boeken “DE FANTASTISCHE WERKELIJKHEID” zet hij deze hypothese nog meer kracht bij. Hij zegt dat dezelfde lijnstructuren ook terug te vinden zijn in de MOJAVE-woestijn, aangelegd door de N.A.S.A. als oppervlaktemarkeringen om de piloten van de Spaceshuttles vanaf grote hoogte een overzicht te geven van hun landingsterrein. Ze werden opgespoten, vergelijkbaar! Deze “landingsplaatsen”, zoals NACZA, vinden we ook terug op andere plaatsen op de aarde, zoals aan het ARAL-meer in Rusland bij de analyse van sattellietopnamen van dit gebied. Sceptici en nonbelievers zullen het aanhalen van Von Däniken weliswaar bekritiseren... Persoonlijk vind dat deze schijver door zijn zoektocht over de ganse wereld naar restanten van vroegere hoogstaande culturen en mythen een aantal wetenschappen voldoende in vraag stelt. Vergeet nooit dat de oude stad TROJE dank zij het “geloven” van een mythe over het paard van Troje en de oorlog met SPARTA teruggevonden werd...

Bij UR in Chaldea zijn gouden plaatjes teruggevonden waarop teksten voorkomen die verhalen dat op mensen gelijkende goden uit de hemel neerdaalden en deze gouden platen aan de priesters schonken. In het Oud Testament vind je soortgelijke verhalen terug, zoals het scheppingsverhaal, de val der engelen, en last but not least dat van MOZES en de stenen tafels met de TIEN GEBODEN van GOD...

In een MAYA-bouwerk te PALENQUE in YUCATAN, PERU bevindt zich een welbekend reliëf dat uitgesneden werd korte tijd voor de stad verlaten werd rond 600 na Christus (oorzaak onbekend). In dit befaamd beeldhouwreliëf zien een aantal onderzoekers actueel een in steen uitgesneden zicht met overeenkomende details van hetgeen wij nu als een vertikale, lanceerbare raket met een ruimtepakdragende astronaut (h)erkennen, die ingewikkelde controles uitvoert, die de lancering voorafgaan.

In de oude Sanskrietteksten, zoals de RIG-VEDAS, de RAMAYANA, de SAMARANGANA-SUTRADHARA, de MAHABRATA en de VYMAANIKA-SHAASTRA vinden we ook verhalen terug over “vliegende VIMANA’s” in het oude INDIA, die soms gruwelijke oorlogen uitvochten met wapens van ongekende kracht (kernwapens, lasers,..). Meer hierover kan je lezen in het artikel “UFOs and INDIA: ancient and comtemporary” van de onderzoeker KANISHK NATHAN in de MUFON 1987 International UFO-Symposium- proceedings. Een gezegde zegt dat de geschiedenis zich keer op keer herhaalt, niet!

Ook door Griekse en Romeinse schrijvers werden regelmatig waarnemingen van vreemde dingen in het luchtruim opgetekend. Ze omschreven het waargenomen met de dingen uit de hun gekende leefwereld, zoals vurige zwaarden, schilden, kruisen...

Vele andere waarnemingen, die we vandaag UFO’s zouden noemen, werden door de oude en moderne tijden door geschiedschrijvers neergepend. Volgens de U.S.A.F. Archives Blue BOOK Project Files verscheen er 1254 in de lucht boven de SINT-ABBANS abdij, een rank luchtschip in frisse kleuren; de maan was toen 8 dagen oud. In 1520 verscheen er in het Franse luchtruim een bolvormig voorwerp met draaiende lichten en ook twee “vurige” zonnen. Vaak is er in de verhalen uit de kronieken van deze vroegere eeuwen sprake van beschrijvingen als vurige pijlen, zwaarden, kruisen; typische beschrijvingen van gekende voorwerpen uit die tijdsperiode...

De grote UFO-waarnemingen die in de moderne tijd na 1947 plaatsvonden, zijn niet de eerste luchtverschijnselen die het Amerikaanse volk schrik aanjoegen. De Franse schrijver Jacques Vallée schrijft in zijn “Anatomy of a Phenomena (1965)” dat een Texaanse farmer op 24 januari 1987 een donker vliegend, schotelvormig voorwerp waarnam, dat de lucht tegen wonderbaarlijke snelheid doorkruiste. In hun boek “UFO’s? YES.” schrijven David SAUNDERS en Roger HARKINS dat er gedurende de jaren 1896 en 1897 overal in de U.S.A. een mysterieus luchtschip werd waargenomen. De eerste waarnemingen begonnen blijkbaar op 22 november 1896 in OAKLAND, CALIFORNIË, toen een groep passagiers van een koets een luchtdoorklievend, sigaarvormig voorwerp zagen, dat een spoor van fluorescerend licht uitstootte. Na gemeld te zijn in UTAH, COLORADO, TEXAS, KANSAS,
NEBRASKA, IOWA, ILLINOIS, INDIANA en MICHIGAN keerde dit luchtschip naar het Chicago-territorium terug. Op 11 april 1897 nam Walter Mc. CANN uit ROGERPARK (een stad op 30 km van Chicago) foto’s van het vreemde tuig. Dit zijn misschien wel de eerste foto’s ooit van een UFO genomen. Volgens Jacques Vallée publiceerde de NEW-YORK HERALD dat de originele platen een zuurproef hadden ondergaan en onvervalste reprodukties van een voorwerp in de lucht afbeeldden en geen creatie waren van een studio...

De 1896-1897 golf van waarnemingsrapporten was in wezen een “prototype”-golf, die nog een zuivere kwaliteit bezit, die we niet kunnen terugvinden in de moderne golven van UFO-waarnemingen. De meeste mensen verklaarden een bestuurbaar-type machine te zien, dat min of meer vergeleken kon worden met hetgeen toen bekend was op het hoogste niveau van luchtschipspitstechnologie. Een verscheidenheid aan vormen, afmetingen, gedrag werd eveneens beschreven, inbegrepen niet-luchtschiptype machines, maar in het algemeen waren deze laatste in de minderheid. Interessant om weten is dat deze luchtschepen verbonden leken met allerlei culturele verwachtingen van de getuigen. Sommige luchtschepen hadden grote klapwiekende vleugels, anderen hadden passagiersmanden onderaan. Hoedanook de vluchtkenmerken van deze machines, hoe ze ook beschreven werden, waren ver vooruit op de spitstechnologie van die tijd. Het verschil in diverse typen kan te maken hebben met de menselijke geest zelf. Op het ogenblik dat iemand een vreemd object waarneemt, probeert hij die voorwerp in zijn bekend referentiekader in te passen. Onbekende details zal hij “invullen” met hem bekende gegevens, om zo zijn waarneming geloofwaardiger te maken, niet alleen voor de anderen, maar vooral voor zichzelf...  Verder mag je er ook van overtuigd zijn dat een aantal waarnemingen valse verhalen waren van publiciteits- en aandachtzoekers. Waarom zou het toen anders geweest zijn dan nu? De mensen leefden toen nog in een agrarisch tijdperk, waar het milieuprobleem zich nog niet noemenswaardig stelde. Het gemoed van de mensen was toen nog veel ontvankelijker dan in ons hedendaags Tv- en computertijdperk...

Het was tevens interessant omdat deze luchtgolf voor het eerst publiek de buitenaardse beschavingstheorie op de voorgrond plaatste, geopperd door burgers en dagbladen, die probeerden de origine van deze luchtschepen te bepalen. Discussies over het wel of niet bestaan van intelligent leven op Mars en Marsbewoners doen hier hun intrede... Hoedanook deze hypothesen kwamen niet van de wetenschappelijke gemeenschap, die aangesproken werd om het luchschipmysterie op te lossen. De theoriën kwamen (net zoals dit nu nog gebeurd) van ongeruste burgers, die naar de media schreven. De aspekten van de technologie van deze luchtschepen verbaasden het volk zo fel als zeer hoogstaand. De buitenaardse hypothese werd zoals de dag van vandaag een fel aangevochte theorie voor meer gebruikelijke, aanvaardbare verklaringen. Zelfs al mogen we nooit ontdekken wat deze mensen in werkelijkheid zagen, blijft het een fascinerende en leerrijke inleiding tot het gehele UFO-mysterie.  De luchtschepen verschenen in 1909 opnieuw, maar dit was een plaatselijke golf en veroorzaakte geen wijdverspreidde polemiek als deze van 1897...

Het eerste deel van de 20° eeuw kende weinig UFO-meldingen. Wel kan je regelmatig lezen over een raadselachtige ontploffing boven de Siberische taïga (voormalige U.S.S.R.) op 30 juni 1908 van de TUNGUSKA–meteoriet (?). Vaak halen onderzoekers en reporters deze ontploffing aan als een explosie van een buitenaards ruimteschip, zelfs specifieke Russische wetenschappers beweren dit. De eerste expeditie om dit fenomeen te bestuderen gebeurde al in 1927. Professor Leonid KULIK leidde de missie; ze hebben toen geen fragmenten van het voorwerp teruggevonden. Een eerder gepubliceerd artikel uit LES INVESTIA – persagentschap  NOVOSTI van 22/12/1986 maakte komaf met de buitenaardse ruimteschip-hypothese. De analyse van de opgegraven turf van de plaats van de katastrofe, gedaan door het INSTITUUT voor AARDCHEMIE en voor ANALYTISCHE CHEMIE, liet de wetenschappers toe te besluiten dat de TUNGUSKA-explosie eerder de ontploffing van een komeet was die tegen de aarde botste. Later kwamen de wetenschappers ook met de stelling dat de aarde boven Siberië in botsing kwam met een klein zwart “gat”.

Uit de gegevens doorgeseind door de ruimtesonde “VEGA”, gelanceerd door de U.S.S.R. om de komeet Halley te bestuderen, blijkt een duidelijke overeenkomst tussen de samenstellende deeltjes van de komeet Halley en de Tunguska-meteoriet. Natuurlijk geeft dit geen 100% zekerheid, maar in 1986 geloofden de Russische geleerden dat de sleutel voor dit raadsel gevonden zou worden in één van de varianten van de komeetversie...

In een artikel in de PRAVDA van 08/10/2004 ‘Explorers find UFO fragments in Tunguska meteorite area’ halen de onderzoekers de theorie van een buitenaards ruimtetuig dan toch  terug naar boven. Volgens de leden van een wetenschappellijke expeditie van de Siberische stichting ‘Tunguska Space Phenomenon’ vonden ze restanten terug van een buitenaards technologisch instrument. Algemeen wordt aangenomen dat deze als een reusachtige bol vuur boven Centraal-Siberië te zien was alvorens de Tunguska-meteoriet ontplofte.

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How can we say we have "proof" the Starchild is alien? Several of you, and critics, have written to me over the past several weeks asking how we can legitimately claim the Starchild Skull is "alien" if we don't have its entire genome to compare to the human genome. In fact, this very afternoon nationally syndicated radio show host Michael Medved bothered himself to excerpt the Wackypedia article about the Starchild on his show, announcing to his audience with apparent authority that Dr. Steven Novella had examined the Starchild and concluded it was a "common hydrocephalic." Let me say that Novella is a quack who has never laid eyes on the Starchild other than photos on our website, and I don't believe he's even a doctor. As far as I know he is a scam artist of some kind passing himself off as a qualified skeptic. But qualified or not, he doesn't know anything of substance about the Starchild Skull, having written about it once, way back in 1999, and since then his horribly flawed article has been taken as gospel by mainstream scientists, Wackypedia toadies, and, now, today, Mr. Michael Medved. That Novella article can be read in its entirety in the "Fight the Stupids" section of the Starchild Project website, along with my explanations of all the asinine errors in it. So now let's get to some new facts about the Starchild DNA testing and results that should make even "Dr." Novella and Michael Medved perhaps have second thoughts. Valuable input from Roger Cunningham Roger Cunningham is a good friend who recently offered me some great ammunition for dealing with critics and skeptics who insist we can't assert anything meaningful about the Starchild's DNA until we sequence its entire genome. We do understand that sequencing the entire genome is a must-do in order to make our case impervious to critics and skeptics. But we also know that from a strictly statistical standpoint, we already have enough fragments in hand to know what the final result will be---absolutely and definitely. First, some background on Roger. He is an engineer with a degree from Georgia Tech, which has one of the best engineering programs in the U.S. While at GT and the GT Graduate School, Roger took and passed nine courses in Statistics, Probability, and Hypothesis Testing. It is important to know that in the undergraduate and graduate programs of nearly all scientists other than engineers, they take at most two such courses. This is why they tend to be totally inept at grasping the meaning and significance of statistical data. What follows might at first sound intimidating because of everyone's basic unfamiliarity with statistic analysis. But if you bear with it and read through Roger's comments, I feel sure you will understand the great value of what he is putting forth here. At a minimum, if it gets posted in enough places maybe it will give skeptics and critics reason to think twice about where we are with the Starchild Skull, and where we are so obviously taking it--straight into the history books as the world's first genuinely "alien" being. The ABCs of statistical analysis direct from Roger Cunningham (Quote) In Hypothesis Testing, even a .1% sample can be significant if the population being measured has few or no outside influences to cause change. DNA nucleotides and base pairs are just such a population. They exist only in and of themselves, and never change once their host, a living entity, is genetically established during the first few moments of conception and gestation. (Quote) This is called a "Confidence Interval Test." Most scientists are not well versed in Confidence Intervals. This is why they can reject a sample that is 2% valid "because it is too small." However, in real statistics, which scientists are not trained in and receive only introductory-level courses, a verified sample of .1% to 2% can be all that is needed to prove a case, provided the Confidence Interval is sufficient. (Quote) Because Mitochondrial DNA is so highly conserved, its Confidence Interval is AT MOST only on the order of .1% to .5%. Thus, the Starchild data needs only a 99.5% Confidence Interval threshold for its mtDNA amount to be significant. The actual 9.5% recovery (of mtDNA base pairs) provides a 90.5% Confidence Interval threshold, which can only be termed "overwhelming." (Quote) It is completely legitimate to extrapolate that 9.5% recovery (multiplying it by a factor of 10.5) to firmly establish the Starchild as "not human." If scientists were well-trained in Statistics and Hypothesis Testing, the established 9.5% recovery would have them on their heels. (Quote) With only .001% recovered base pairs (approx. 30,000) of the Starchild's 3+ billion base pair nuclear genome, the required Confidence Interval has not been achieved. Nonetheless, by establishing that only 2% of the recovered amount (.02% x 30,000 = 600) was not found in the NIH database (and thus not found on Earth to this point), it would statistically confirm that the ultimate recovery of the entire genome would prove beyond doubt that it is "not human." And, indeed, the NIH database did not contain at least a few thousand of the base pairs from the Starchild's nuclear genome. (Quote) These numbers solidly establish proof of the Starchild's "alien" genetic heritage. However, because the vast majority of scientists have no understanding of these basic statistical facts, they will stubbornly insist that the only acceptable result is 100% recovery of both the nuclear genome and the mitochondrial genome. (Lloyd) Anyone who feels like challenging Roger on any of this, or thanking him for sticking his neck out to try to help us in this way, he can be reached at: gray22020777@gmail.com. Don't ask me about those numbers, he's an engineer! What it all means relative to what we do now. First, I'm going to do what I can to salvage the damage caused by Michael Medved on his radio show, such as it might have been. I'll ask for at least a few minutes on his monthly "Full Moon" show, which I am told deals with alternative subjects. He could hardly do better than to take anything resembling a fair and objective look at the Starchild Skull. I also intend to keep pushing hard to try to find the investor that we need to secure funding for the genome recovery and the documentary films that will show the world that the testing was done correctly and the results can be verified by any other genetics lab in the world. Times are hard everywhere now, and even people with great wealth are waiting to see what the U.S. Congress will do about raising our country's debt ceiling. Until that issue is resolved, we all seem stalled in a holding pattern. I hope to break out of it when everyone else does, but for now it's just "wait and see." I hope you all can have the necessary patience to bear with me as I grind through yet another of the many low points in the Starchild's story.

Books From Lloyd Pye Starchild eBook: www.starchildproject.com/Starchild_eBook.htm Starchild paperback book: www.starchildproject.com/Starchild_paperback.htm Everything You Know Is Wrong: www.lloydpye.com/eykiw.htm Mismatch (hi-tech spy thriller): www.lloydpye.com/fiction.htm A Darker Shade Of Red (football novel): www.lloydpye.com/fiction.htm

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Top Roswell researchers on UFO panel for first time

Alejandro Rojas | Jul 05, 2011

Panelists from left: Frank Kimbler, Kevin Randle, Don Schmitt, Tom Carey, and Stanton Friedman. (image credit: Alejandro Rojas)

Roswell is a household name, and mostly due to the research of a handful of men. Four of the top Roswell researchers met this past Saturday at the Roswell UFO Museum during their annual festival along with a gentleman with a new discovery. These four researchers have never been together on a panel before.

Julie Shuster, Director of the Roswell UFO Museum, introduced the panel. (image credit: Alejandro Rojas)

The panel included nuclear physicist, Stanton Friedman, Don Schmitt, Tom Carey, Kevin Randle, and Frank Kimbler. Although the incident took place in 1947, once the Air Force claimed they had mistaken pieces of a weather balloon for a crashed flying saucer, the story quickly faded away. However, Friedman shared how he rekindled this case. In 1978, embarrassed for making Friedman wait for an interview, a Baton Rouge, Louisiana TV station manager gave him a tip. He told Friedman that he should contact one of his ham radio buddies for information on UFOs. This buddy turned out to be Jesse Marcel, the Air Force intelligence officer who was the first to look at the debris. He told Friedman about the strange properties of the material and that it was definitely no balloon. Friedman enlisted the help of a fellow researcher, Bill Moore, and within a couple of years they had located over 60 other witnesses. This work all culminated into the book, The Roswell Incident, written by Bill Moore and Charles Berlitz, and featuring Friedman’s work.

Friedman explains to the audience how it all began. (image credit: Alejandro Rojas)

Still not a household name, the Roswell event continued to gain popularity and was eventually featured on the television program Unsolved Mysteries. The episode was very popular, and left the public hungry for more information. In the right place at the right time, Schmitt and Randle published their research on the incident in 1991, UFO Crash at Roswell, which included more witnesses and details. During the panel they each discussed some of the more interesting interviews, and recalled just how difficult it was to track these people down. Friedman had gained access to a Roswell Army Air Field yearbook with names and pictures of the men who were stationed there in 1947. Much of the work of the researchers consisted of tracking these people down to find out if they had any involvement with the alleged UFO crash. Prior to the internet and cell phones with long distance included, it was an expensive and tedious task.

Schmitt making a point. (image credit: Alejandro Rojas)

Friedman wrote his own book on Roswell titled, Crash at Corona, in 1992, and Schmitt and Randle published a second in 1994. This was the same year that a Showtime movie aired titled, Roswell, based on Schmitt and Randall’s first book. The movie starred Kyle McLachlan and Martin Sheen. All of this momentum launched the Roswell UFO Crash into the worldwide sensation that it is to this day.

Randle shared the story of how he got involved with Roswell in the first place. In the late eighties, he was a science-fiction writer, and while attending a conference was asked to take part in a debate. He and three other writers were going to debate two UFO researchers. The second UFO researcher wasn’t able to make it, so to make things fair, Randle volunteered to debate on the UFO side. His partner was to be Schmitt. This was the beginning of Schmitt and Randle’s partnership.

Kevin Randle shares research stories. (image credit: Alejandro Rojas)

Randle has also had a long career in the military, serving with the Army in Vietnam and the second Gulf War. After 911, Randle joined the Iowa National Guard, and his unit was deployed to Iraq in 2003. Randle eventually retired from the military as a Lieutenant Colonel in 2009. He says this obviously hampered his ability to participate in UFO research.

During this time, Schmitt took on a new partner, Tom Carey. Inspired by Friedman’s work, Carey wanted to get involved with the research himself. After meeting Schmitt they teamed up and eventually published, Witness to Roswell, in 2007. The book highlighted their continued discovery of witnesses to the events.

Don Schmitt and Tom Carey signing books and talking to visitors in the Roswell UFO Museum. (image credit: Alejandro Rojas)

The last panelist is not a long time researcher, but a newcomer to the search for answers to the Roswell mystery. Frank Kimbler is a teacher of geology at the New Mexico Military Institute in Roswell. Taking an interest in the case, he was able to spot an unusual scorch pattern in infra-red satellite images of the desert near where the debris was supposed to have been found. He then went out to the site and found unusual metals. Under analysis the material tuned out to be an aluminum silicate. He then was able to get the Roswell UFO Museum to sponsor an isotopic ratio analysis which also came back with interesting results. From what they discovered, the sample he gave them was not created on earth. Kimbler says he is a scientist and is handling this carefully. There is a possibility that the first lab made a mistake. He will seek further analysis to make sure the findings are correct.

Frank Kimbler explains his discovery. (image credit: Alejandro Rojas)

After all of these years, could Kimbler have the “smoking gun” evidence that everyone has been waiting for? We will talk with Kimbler on Open Minds Radio this Monday to discuss this further.

Overall, the panel was great. Hearing the various perspectives on how this amazing case unraveled from the lead investigators, all together for the first time, was a UFO geek’s paradise.

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Tags: Alien, Don Schmitt, evidence, Extraterrestrial, Featured, News, Roswell, Roswell Festival, Roswell UFO Museum, Stanton Friedman, UFO

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In Special Reports, this week's files cover: UFOs at Nuclear Missile Sites in 1967-68, and Babylonian Creation Story of Enuma Elish

Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Arizona, California, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Missouri, Michigan, New Jersey, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas and Washington. Sightings of UFOs were also reported in Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Czech Republic, Kazakhstan, Mexico, Slavonia, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.

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US and Britain 'Most at Risk' for Asteroid Strikes

Anissa Haddadi writes, "Experts at Southampton University have drawn up a list of countries most likely to suffer severe loss of life or catastrophic damage, should a large asteroid hit Earth. The news comes days after UFOs were apparently spotted flying over the BBC building in London .

The countries most at risk from an asteroid strike are Brazil, Britain, China, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Nigeria, the Philippines and the U.S. Any of these countries could mean millions of deaths. Canada, the U.S., China, Japan and Sweden are rated most at risk in terms of potential damage to their infrastructure. The report comes after a rock the size of a house came within 7,500 miles of Earth earlier this week. "The threat of Earth being hit by an asteroid is increasingly being accepted as the single greatest natural disaster hazard faced by humanity," said Nick Bailey, of the University of Southampton, who developed the NEOimpactor software."The consequences for human populations and infrastructure as a result of an impact are enormous."

Bailey also pointed out that an asteroid which landed in a remote spot near the Tunguska River in Russia in 1908 devastated a very large perimeter and the impacts would have been catastrophic if the area had been populated. "While it only flattened unpopulated forest, had it exploded over London it could have devastated everything within the M25," he said.

Scientists think that 65 million years ago, an asteroid was responsible for the extinction of the dinosaurs as a rock up to 10 miles in diameter hit Earth at 25,000 miles an hour with a force of 100 megatons, the equivalent of one Hiroshima bomb for everyone on the planet. The Apophis asteroid is expected to bring in Doomsday in 2036?

Many also insist that if Earth has until now managed to avoid being hit by such a large asteroid, it is partly due to Jupiter's gravitational field -- which limits our exposure to asteroids. Thanks to http://uk.ibtimes.com/

North Dakota Dogfight With a Ufo

FARGO -- An aerial dogfight between a pilot of the North Dakota Air National Guard and a UFO took place in the skies over Fargo on Oct. 1, 1948. The Air Guard pilot, George Gorman, was a seasoned flier, not knowing the intention of the pilot of the object, Gorman, in his P-51 Mustang, decided to engage the object. The 27-minute dogfight between the P-51 and the UFO was witnessed by two air traffic controllers in a tower at Hector Airport in Fargo and the pilot of a Piper Cub who witnessed it.

Gorman was born July 7, 1923, and grew up in Fargo, where his father was a Cass County agent. During World War II, Gorman became a B-25 instructor for French aviation students. When the war was over, he returned to Fargo and was employed as the manager of a construction company. He joined the 178th Fighter Squadron as a second lieutenant. On October 1, 1948, Gorman was flying cross-country with other Guard members. Shortly after 8:30 p.m., the other pilots landed at Hector, but Gorman decided to get in some extra flying time. Gorman was notified by the control tower that a Piper Cub was in the area. He could see the smaller plane 500 feet below him. Five minutes later, he spotted a dimly lit disk-shaped object slowly circling the city. Gorman contacted the tower asking about another plane and was told there were only two planes in the air over Fargo. Gorman approached the object to investigate and it suddenly brightened and accelerated. The object had been traveling "about 250 miles per hour, but as Gorman began the chase, it speeded up to "about 600 miles per hour. The P-51 could only travel 400 mph, so the object quickly outdistanced Gorman. It then made a "180-degree turn and came straight at him. Gorman "attempted to crash into it, but as they neared, it veered upward and passed over him.

When Gorman continued his pursuit, the object climbed to 14,000 feet, the P-51 in its chase went into a power stall, and Gorman temporarily passed out. At this point, the object turned in a northwest direction and disappeared. Observing this action were Lloyd D. Jensen and H.E. Johnson, two air traffic controllers in the tower at Hector. Another eyewitness was Dr. Cannon, a Fargo physician, who was the pilot of the Piper Cub. Both controllers noted the object's rapid rate of speed and how it easily outdistanced the P-51. Gorman was so shaken up he had difficulty landing his P-51. He then contacted his commanding officer, Major D.C. Jones and gave him a signed statement and referred the incident to U.S. Air Force intelligence. On October 4, an intelligence unit headed by Maj. Paul Kubala arrived in Fargo and questioned Gorman, Cannon and the two controllers.

Gorman signed another sworn statement on Oct. 23, stating: "I am convinced that there was definite thought behind its maneuvers. "I am further convinced that the object was governed by the laws of inertia because its acceleration was rapid but not immediate and although it was able to turn fairly tight at considerable speed, it still followed a natural curve. "When I attempted to turn with the object I blacked out temporarily due to excessive speed I do not believe that there are many if any pilots who could withstand the turn and speed effected by the object and remain conscious."The object was not only able to out turn and out speed my aircraft, but was able to attain a far steeper climb and able to maintain a constant rate of climb far in excess of my aircraft.

The Air Force concluded that the object was a weather balloon but weather observer George Sanderson stated,- "the time and altitudes didn't fit, and the wind direction was wrong. With this evidence, Gorman insisted that it was not a weather balloon.

The Air Material Command then warned Gorman not to divulge any more information or he would be subject to a court-martial.

Gorman maintained his silence. He retired from the Air Force with the rank of lieutenant colonel. After retiring, Gorman was a building contractor and talked publicly about his experience with the UFO. He did reveal to friends that, until his death on July 31, 1982, "he was never convinced that he had been dueling with a lighted balloon for 27 minutes.Thanks to UFO Casebook and Thanks to Ken Pfeifer MUFON New Jersey www.worldufophotos.org

UFOs at Nuclear Missile Sites in 1967-68

Robert Hastings writes, Last night I revised part of my book, I am working on the second edition--and integrated some new material I received from a former Minuteman launch officer.

In 2005, I posted a series of messages on the Yahoo missile_talk group's bulletin board, summarizing the testimony of former and retired USAF sources who had reported their UFO-related experiences at various nuclear missile sites over the years. My hope was that some of the group's members, come forth and discuss their own experiences. A few of them, including Larry Manross wrote,

"Robert, you are right on. As a launch crew commander at Minot AFB from 1966-1970, I will tell you that there were UFO incidents. In one [during which I was present] the security team upstairs went into a defensive posture with lights turned out. They had called in a UFO sighting to the base and radar was tracking it. All of a sudden it buzzed the launch control center and that was when they cut the lights and took a defensive position.

During 1967 or 1968, I was a 1st Lieutenant and a junior officer in the capsule. The security team kept us informed of their concerns; especially the buzzing of the Launch Control Center. I wish I had been upstairs when the incident took place, but as you know the launch crews were down in the capsules for 24 hour uninterrupted stretches. But Base Ops did confirm that they were tracking an unidentified object on radar.

I later asked Manross to elaborate on these statements. He responded, --

As a missile launch officer we had numerous UFO incidents that seemed to be all around us. I was in the 742nd Strategic Missile Squadron, and we manned Kilo, Lima, Motel, November, and Oscar. I was primarily assigned to Kilo or Lima with the commanders Capt. John Deresky and later Capt. Charles Brickley. Neither of them was with me that night. Later I moved up to the commander role. I was attempting to sleep while the commander was dealing with security upstairs and the base headquarters regarding some unidentified [flying] object. It was when his board lit up like a Christmas tree for a moment that he got scared and asked for back-up. The lit-up board signals that the missiles have launched. It was a false signal but correlated with the incident taking place upstairs. It all happened quite fast. Then things returned to normal.

[Anyway,] that was when I became engaged. The commander was rattled and so was the security team upstairs. The security team reported that something had buzzed the LCF and that they had gone into a defensive posture, turning out the lights and drawing their weapons. They indicated it was very bright and traveling at a high rate of speed. They did not describe any shape, etc., other than it was bright. [Then] base headquarters reported that the unidentified object was no longer on radar and that was the last we heard of it.

There was no debriefing—nada. Just another day pulling an alert at Minot. I do remember the senior officer saying something about how I should not talk about the incident without getting authorization. [In spite of that,] all the officers talked about UFOs and what was going on. As you can imagine there was quite a range of opinions. The common assumption among many [officers] was that the objects were somehow drawing power from the missile warheads.

A security team was stationed at one of the missile launchers because the radar surveillance was out. A UFO hovered over the launch pad and they discharged their weapons and claim they heard plinks as the bullets hit the object. Every security team I worked with said it was a true story and had taken place at Minot AFB. The number of UFO incidents at the time, during 1966-'70, were so frequent, that in the summer the security team sometimes would put chairs in front of the building, or on the roof of the building, to watch for UFOs. Can you believe it?

I had heard nearly identical stories from other former or retired USAF personnel who had been stationed at Ellsworth, F.E. Warren, and Malmstrom AFBs during that era. This particular side show is almost humorous: Nuclear missile security guards sitting outside Minuteman Launch Control Facilities at night looking for UFOs because the objects appeared above the missile field so frequently! If only the American media had been given that story at the time. But almost no information leaked out to the press or public. Thanks to Robert Hastings http://www.ufohastings.com/

Babylonian Creation Story of Enuma Elish

The Enuma Elish is a Babylonian creation story contrasting the forces of creation and chaos. The fragments of these seven clay Akkadian Cuniform tablets were found by Austen Henry Layard in 1849 at the ruins of Ashurbanipal, Nineveh. There is a discrepancy regarding the original date of the tablets; with an estimate of anywhere from the 18th century BCE to the 11th century BCE.

George Smith published the Enuma Elish tablets in 1876 as The Chaldean Genesis. These tablets were similar to the book of Genesis in that they both depicted a creator god that brought organization to a universe filled with chaos. Did the authors of the book of Genesis rewrite the Enuma Elish and claim it as their own? Of particular interest is the fifth tablet. Many of the lines are missing; but enough are left to suggest that the Babylonian hero god named Marduk created star stations for other gods to dwell upon.

He constructed stations for the great gods, fixing their astral likenesses as the stars of the Zodiac. (2) He founded the station of the pole star [Nebiru] to determine their bounds, (6) that none might err or go astray.

Alongside it he set up the stations of Enlil and Ea. (8) having opened up the gates on both sides, He strengthened the locks to the left and the right. (10)

The epic myth in the Enuma Elish is about a civil war between the gods. The god Marduk is chosen to lead the rebellion against Tiamet, the dragon of the primordial sea and against the leader of the Anunnaki. Marduk was renowned as the god of Mars with the symbol of the snake-dragon. Snake-dragons to this day appear on many royal crests, and many ancient societies venerated snakes and dragons. Perhaps some of the ruins on Mars that we so often see in Filers Files may be remnants from this war. Thanks to Valerie Lesley, Ph.D.

Billions Found at Hindu Temple in Southern India

A treasure trove of gold and silver jewelry, coins and precious stones said to be worth 500 billion rupees ($11.2 billion) has been found in a Hindu temple in southern India.

Thousands of necklaces, coins and precious stones have been kept in at least five underground vaults at the Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple which is renowned for its intricate sculptures.

The temple, dedicated to Hindu lord Vishnu, was built hundreds of years ago by the king of Travancore and donations by devotees have been kept in the temple's vaults since.

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MUFON UFO Reports

In June, California had 42 UFO reports leading the nation, Illinois had 27 reports; Texas 25 reports; Indiana 22 reports; and New York 21 reports. MUFON received 462 sightings last month.

Sightings of UFOs in the United States

Alabama Glowing Orbs

Birmingham -- I saw three amber glowing orbs in a triangle formation from the drive thru at McDonalds over the Hibbetts Sports Store southwest. The just hovered in one place and did not move until they disappeared.

California Orbs and Silver Object

El Monte -- On June 26, 2011, 4:35 PM, the witness was outside by her swimming pool when she noticed silver objects in the sky. At 4:35 PM, the first object moved eastbound and five minutes later, three objects stopped close by the first one forming a triangle facing west. At 4:48 PM, the last one moved east and now the triangle is facing east. At 5:05 PM, Now the head of the triangle moved slowly and went under the first object. Then I went in and to tell my husband, fetched my Nikon digital camera and snapped several photos. Thanks to William Puckett, Director http://www.ufosnw.com

Fresno -- I filmed this myself on June 10, 2011, at 2 PM. What do you think?

Note: The witness videotaped an unknown silver object that was hovering in the day sky. He uploaded the video to YouTube. Several frames shows a jet and others can be heard. It is unclear if the jets were pursuing the object. The object does not appear to be a balloon, blimp, kite or any other "flotation device." Venus was barely visible. The witness uses his zoom setting that clearly reveals a silver object. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLbGXGLnVKk&feature=related. Thanks to William Puckett Director UFOs Northwest http://ufosnw.com

Idaho Rectangle

Carey -- A rectangular object was observed for three minutes on June 25, 2011, at 4:40 PM, that instantly vanished. As a skeptic regarding UFO sightings, this is not easy to report. We were traveling 14 miles east of Carey eastbound on Idaho State Highway 20. The object was ahead of us and appeared stationary for about three minutes and then was instantly gone.

It was rectangular in shape, but had no visible lights. Thanks to Peter Davenport, Director National UFO Reporting Center http://www.UFOcenter.com/

Illinois Red Light

Chicago Ridge -- At about 10:06 PM, on July 4, 2011, I looked west out of my balcony doors to a clear sky and fireworks were going off. I thought at first it was fireworks, but it was the same red light I saw two nights ago. It was bright red light that hovered high in the sky. An airplane happened to fly below it slowly, so I know for sure it wasn't an airplane. It starts getting smaller and smaller then just disappears quickly! Two nights prior on July 2, 2011, my friend and I were driving at 10 PM, at night and we saw the same light. It just hovered there and then disappeared in Palos Park. On July 3rd that same friend called me and said he saw the light again at 8 PM, over Alsip, Illinois.

MELROSE PARK -- I was outside looking at building the lights that I just turned on, when the circuit breaker popped off as large light in the clouds caught my attention on July 5 2011. It was a solid orange red color heading east. It took about 5 to 8 seconds flying over head as it past it turned black and I could then see it was circular in shape against the clouds. A few seconds later a loud plane flew over head with its lights blinking and smaller than the object. I realized the orange red light was silent. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Indiana Glowing Red Object

Auburn -- My wife and I were standing in our yard looking east when we spotted a glowing red object flying northeast. We watched it fly silently at a slow pace. As it was becoming obstructed from view by my neighbor's house, I ran around to the other side to watch it. As it flew across the sky I happened to look straight up and I saw a large white object flying southeast over head. We were lucky enough to catch it on video as it flew off and faded away to nothing. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Maryland Star Brightens

Haystack Mountain -- My girlfriend and I sat down to relax on my parent's patio on June 29, 2011, facing southeast towards Haystack Mountain. We saw a light like a very bright star gliding southeast. I said, "I hope they come for us!" The object was just moving through the same space in the trees as it had just moved. It was like a glitch in the Matrix. Like in the movie, "The Matrix when the cat walks in front of the door twice, like it's on a loop. It seemed brighter and bigger than before.

It was moving fast enough that it should have kept going over the mountain and out of sight, but it was like magic. I ran to get a closer look and it wasn't in the part of the sky I expected, it was further down the mountain towards Cumberland. It was moving faster and becoming 10 or 20 times bigger, then faded to a dim red star and vanished. There was no sound. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Michigan Flying Object

HOWELL-- I was in my swimming pool with my two children at about 9 PM on July 5, 2011, when my 6 year old daughter pointed, "Look it's a space shuttle. I grabbed my glasses and I could see no wings and there was no noise. It was a white cigar shaped object from my perspective. My 7 year old son, who has much better vision than I do, said it had three windows and he drew this picture of the object. I would guess it to be 500 feet above us. It was a very bright white color and reminded me of a blimp but going much faster than that. It flew south over the trees and out of sight. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Missouri Object Photographed

Wentzville -- On June 27, 2011, around 7:30 PM, I was on phone talking to a classmate and looking southwest when I noticed a round black dot in the sky. The object performed linear maneuvers, up, down and left to right. It seemed very controlled and deliberate. I was able to determine that the object was moving independently. I told my classmate what I was seeing and it drew closer. I tried to take a photo with my cell phone camera but it was unable to focus so I grabbed my digital camera. I snapped a photo as the object made a backwards letter J swoop and shot outward and disappeared beyond the horizon.
The object was round and black, solid, possesses detail such as a domed top, maybe a flat bottom, circular in shape. Thanks to MUFON CMS

New Jersey Huge Pulsing Colors Object

Newark -- I was relaxing on my back stoop on June 29, 2011, at 10:16 PM, and spotted a ball of light rising in front of me from the west, and tracking nearly straight up. I live in the traffic lanes of Newark Liberty Airport, and have seen and photographed many planes going overhead. I had my cell phone nearby, and videotaped a very bright ISS, at magnitude -3.7.

I reviewed the footage and glanced back at the area where the ISS had emerged and saw an oval, canted, glowing jellyfish, about half the width of my outstretched index finger, slowly drifting silently south on the western horizon. It was like a bubble with white top and bottom of the ellipse, with red pulsing light on the bottom tip that changed colors, and a few other greens and blues in the top end.

I caught a few seconds of video and pictures before the object brightened, then moved out of sight. The object reappeared in a hole between two trees. I posted this to Facebook, and a witness in a nearby town claims she heard engines and it was an advertising blimp. A second witness in the same town claims he saw the same object at 3AM that morning. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Point Pleasant -- Barbara Broughlette writes, "I have never seen or reported anything even remotely like a ufo before. I saw something on June 29, 2011, with many red unblinking lights emanating from the sides and bottom, and possibly the top. It was about maybe 1,000 to 1,500 feet high with no sound. The sky still had a bit of light in it, and I could see that the "body" was matte black or dark in color. Although I was seeing it mostly from the underside, it did seem to have a compact roundish shape, and I think there was some sort of dome on the top - again, like maybe a helicopter might have.

The stars were out already and it was a clear night so I got a good look at it traveling in a large arc going from west to southeast. I saw it for several minutes and was shaking so I couldn't take my eyes off it. I saw it again around 10 PM, and didn't remember to look at the clock. It was hard to concentrate on anything after the experience. It was not traveling too fast, maybe about 100-150 miles an hour. The way it moved reminded me of a helicopter, but there was no sound, and only the non-blinking red lights and lots of them. I also did not see any propeller on top. It seemed to fly south over the ocean. Then as I watched all the lights went off except one non-blinking red light. A few seconds later, it disappeared. I can't imagine that one of the military bases in the area would let something fly at night with lights that would be confusing to other pilots. And there are lots of small planes around here and higher above where I saw the thing is a path that is used routinely by jets. Oh, and I'm not crazy. I'm a grandmother, ex-corporate fortune 500 management people. Last night I was up at the beach around 10 to see if it was coming back. It's really bothering me. Thanks to Barbara Broughlette

Oklahoma Streak

On July 2, 2011, it was wobbling around high in the sky. It was somewhat reminiscent of an eye. Very bright white in the center like a star but brighter than any other star. There were four yellow rays fanning down and four yellow rays pointing up. It slowly drifted up and to the south all the while wobbling side to side and up and down.

The oddest part is when I viewed it through binoculars it appeared completely different. It was like a triangular emerald with the point down and shooting out from the point was a yellow bolt like lightning. Directly under the bolt was a white chevron. At first I was excited to again see a UFO, but then I felt let down as nothing more happened. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Pennsylvania UFOs

Warren -- I was fishing by myself on the Alleghany River, at 9:17 PM; and I looked above the refinery across the river to see it start to move slowly. I flashed them the cross sign with my L.E.D. flashlight, to let them know I could see them. The ufo moved very slowly then in about two minutes it accelerated fast and was gone. Five minutes later, the Ufo appeared above me and vanished. At 9:30 PM, I noticed two stars that look like they're coming out, and the right star started to move slowly to the right and I saw another UFO above me hovering at about 1000 feet. I pulled out my light and gave them my flash sign as it started to move slowly down fast towards me. It gained in size and brightness about five times. They flashed me back with their ship and they were coming down and went back up to the right slowly following the other UFO buddy. Thirty seconds later they vanished. I caught a nice 14 inch catfish right after the UFO. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Rhode Island Flying Road Flare

Portsmouth -- While at a cookout party close to midnight on July 1, 2011, I noticed a reddish orange flickering light similar to that given off by a road flare moving across the northwest quadrant of the sky. It flew out of the airport flying north just above the tree line. It was moving slowly and climbing slightly taking perhaps a minute to cross a 45 degree arc of sky. Then it came closer silently to out location near the Greendale Vineyards. I called my friend's attention to it trying to figure out what it was. We observed it as it came closer, then rose almost vertically out of sight. We made several UFO jokes afterwards. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Tennessee Bright Object

PINEY FLATS -- I was driving home from my boyfriend's house on December 2, 2011, and the sky was a pretty pink color and it was close to sunset and so I took out my cell phone and took a picture of the horizon. Later as I looked at the picture, I realized there was an object in the upper right corner that I did not notice when I took the picture. I zoomed the object in and could not come to any explanation as to what it might be. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Texas Triangular Craft Descends Alarmingly Low

RED OAK -- Three members of my family and I were sitting in our backyard on June 10, 2011, at 9 PM, when we noticed an object in the northwestern sky. We kept our eyes trained on it as it descended lower and lower. As it continued to descend we recognized it to be a metallic triangular craft having three white lights affixed to each of its corners. The craft continued to descend to about 500 feet, or less, above us. It was DEFINITELY aware of our presence, and at this altitude to get a closer view of us. The natural outdoor lighting around this time wasn't optimal, so scant details of the craft's exterior were acquired. We could however make out that it was metallic. The craft's lights were jarringly bright. It hovered, silently, above us at this altitude for about a minute and then silently disappeared. The craft exited at an out-of-this-world speed into the northeastern sky. We have seen strange lights in the corn-field behind our house for years, but no experience can equate to this encounter. My family claims to have experienced encounters of the fourth kind as well, resulting in possible implantation of seemingly metallic objects no larger than a centimeter. We have lost four hours or more at a time during these encounters. I feel they are more common than people report or admit.

Thanks to Peter Davenport, Director National UFO Reporting Center http://www.UFOcenter.com/

Zapata -- On June 24, 2011, I was riding in back seat as we drove from Laredo to South Padre, when our driver saw a craft and pointed it out to us."To my amazement there was a round object moving westbound no higher than two to three stories over our head next to the road, that flew silently and just disappeared out of my sight. My cousin, who saw it first approaching our vehicle, described it as a silver triangle."

"When I was able to see it more clearly, it was already overhead and it looked like a disk with a lot of lights underneath. I couldn't identify the object as aircrafts I have ever seen." Thanks to MUFON CMS

Virginia Triangle

Chicahominy -- On July 1, 2011, I was looking outside and saw a squadron of three lights flying over the house. I walked outside with my camera twice and again saw lights. This time upon closer inspection I captured a triangle on film. After the triangle seemingly disappeared over the tree line I sat outside and waited. Soon I saw a flashing orb with 2 white and one red light flying over I observed said object for about 4 minutes until it faded over the river. (I live on the Chicahominy River) I acquired an overwhelming feeling of excitement and anxiety and as noted on the tape I cursed many times. I do not want this to be exposed to the media! Thanks to MUFON CMS

Washington Video

Bonney Lake -- We saw 15 to 20 red lights moving in a pattern towards Mt. Rainier on June 25, 2011, at 10:09 PM. The witness reported his sighting using our report form. He provided a link to the video that he uploaded to YouTube. The video was downloaded and brightened some to better reveal detail. Several lights can be seen on the video although they don't show up as bright. One still image is posted above. The video above has been clipped, but shows the most revealing frames. Users wishing to view the entire video can view on YouTube at the address supplied in the description above. Some portions of the video do show erratic moving lights. One light appears to a reflection of ground lights, but that does not explain the other lights. No frames show 15 to 20 lights as described by witness. However, this not unusual given that the video was taken with a cell phone (IPhone).

YouTube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=4VoOIGdPI3w/

Bremerton -- These all happened on June 28th at 10:03 PM. The lights lasted just 30 seconds and they vanished. The photos are all in order. This happened in Bremerton, Washington on the east side at the apartments.

Note: The weather report showed that winds were light and scattered clouds were measured at 10,000 feet. The streaking of the lights in the photo is probably due to a combination of motion of the lights and camera movement.

Thanks to William Puckett, Director http://www.ufosnw.com

Worldwide Sightings

Brazil Orb

Buenos Aires -- This Monday, on June 27, 2011, this object was filmed towards the south of the Federal Capital and to about 60/70 of Altitude. It does not fit with any known satellite orbital transits, or passages of the ISS and only one Iridium that appears in the Lists of Heaven Above.

Thanks to Ricardo D' Angelo and MUFON CMS

Bulgaria UFO Flies over the Power-Vested

Sofia's -- A UFO flew over the homes of important men in the VIP neighborhood of Boyana. Late Friday evening, July I, 2011, a flying object accompanied by a dozen lights appeared in the sky over Boyana. The Bulgarian National Television broadcast the shocking images taken by a witness to the event. "It was about 10:30 PM, when a UFO flew silently east from Vitosha. Assen Yovov spoke live on TV. "I saw the large discs as bright-red as fire, and have not seen anything like this before. I do not know what it is but I want this disc to go to a laboratory and be researched. I do not want people to think I am mad. Nobody from the residences of the Bulgarian President and Prime Minister commented on the UFO appearance. Thanks to Bulgarian TV.

Brazil Ovals

Maceio AL -- I saw unidentified objects flying over the sea in various directions that were illuminated and sometimes seemed to be on fire on June 24, 2011, at 2 PM. They then came back to flash various colors. It was wonderful to see them. Thanks to Peter Davenport, Director National UFO Reporting Center http://www.UFOcenter.com/

Canada Flashing Lights

Penticton, B.C. -- At about 10:30 PM, on June 28, 2011, I looked out the doorway and saw what looked like a star that was flashing red and blue intermittently. Upon closer inspection it seemed to be moving ever so slightly like a firefly. I called my roommate to look and as soon as she came it started releasing little white glowing orbs. Then two glowing objects shot across the sky at high speed zigzagging along. They covered the entire sky in three seconds and made an abrupt 90 degree turn without slowing down. Also three balls of light formed a triangle then became one, and then disappeared reappearing a short distance away. It almost looked like projectiles were being fired back and forth between different objects, but they were too far away to tell for sure. This went on for hours before I went to bed at about 4 AM. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Czech Metallic Disk

Prague -- My girlfriend was taking pictures of the castle in Prague, on holiday with her sister on February 20, 2011. When I reviewed the pictures I saw a metallic disk in the top right hand corner of the picture. At first I was reminded of Billy Meier's Plejaren Beamships as I research a great deal into UFO and our relations with the ancients. Then because I am from a military background (specialist soldier) and currently work with former specialist troops. I asked the opinion of some helicopter pilots. They said they couldn't tell what it was which fueled my suspicion of what it was. One pilot thought it could be a bird. I have no doubt it probably is a UFO because I saw many as a boy in Scotland. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Kazakhstan Disc

Astana -- Sensational UFO video from Kazakhstan on May 2, 2011.

This intense alien activity in the region has led many to believe that ETs attached to a secret UFO base beneath the Black Sea are stepping up their activity in preparation for open contact with humanity. http://www.facebook.com/allnewsweb http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zbCVHzpwUE

Slovenia Disc Image

Ljubjana -- I took pictures of a UFO this Saturday, on June 18, 2011, about 11:18 AM.

Note: The photos were sent by a friend of the photographer. They were taken with a Nikon D200 Digital camera with a Nikkor 28 -- 200 mm lens. This photo was taken with a resolution of 10.1 million pixels.. This allowed the blowup of the object to reveal more detail. The object does not appear to be a bird or insect. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Sweden Bright Teardrop

Heby -- A very big, very bright (whiter than white) flash-bulb shaped thing with no tail was observed falling very fast from the sky on June 27, 2011, at 11:45 PM. It was faster than any plane but not as fast as a "falling star". It made no sound and fell into a forest where it is not possible for me to go to. Thanks to Peter Davenport, Director National UFO Reporting Center http://www.UFOcenter.com/

UK/England Two UFOs

Borehamwood Herts -- My partner and I were out in the back garden last night and we both saw two UFOs. The first was at 10:25 PM, which was a spherical, shimmering yellow-orange object travelling north. It stayed in position for about 30 seconds as it faded and disappeared. The second appeared at 10.40 PM, and was much smaller as it was much further away but similar in appearance. It came from the west and went towards the north, travelling for around 45 minutes as a dot of light getting smaller until it disappeared. Thanks to Christine Brock

UK/Scotland

National Archives in previously classified files about unidentified flying objects now releases a series of photographs and sketches.

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The Bragalia Files

Annie Jacobsen’s recently released bestseller Area 51 has stirred global interest. She has been featured numerous times on many networks and websites. Her book was reviewed last week by the New York Times. Jacobsen’s biggest “scoop” concerns the Roswell crash. She learned from an early executive of one of our nation’s largest defense contractors that the Roswell crash of 1947 was resultant from a scheme by Russia’s Josef Stalin and escaped Nazi mad-scientist Josef Mengele to “hoax” the Americans by staging UFO sightings. The plan was to induce panic and psychological warfare in the manner of the Orson Welles War of the World broadcast aftermath. They would launch unusually-designed craft from a “mothership” (located near Alaska.) These were single-wing, remote-controlled “UFOs” with “alien-like” children on board. The craft were of Nazi German design (captured by the Soviets at the close of the War) and the “aliens” were actually 13 year olds. The grotesque child aviators were biologically engineered by Mengele with strange large heads and oddly spaced eyes. The craft and pilots had crashed near Roswell in July of 1947 and were flown to Wright Field. In 1951, Jacobsen’s source maintains, the crashed vehicle and the two still-surviving deformed children were taken to Area 51 and to the facilities of defense contractor EG&G (now URS Corporation)

This author has identified and located Annie Jacobsen’s anonymous source. I have also decided, after much consideration, to “out” him. In this article I will openly name him. I have also contacted him very recently. He reluctantly spoke with me for some time. I believe that the source was indeed told this bizarre story by officials. But just why this is so will stun readers, and is not for the reasons that you may think.

JACOBSEN’S SOURCE NAMED


EG&G’s Scientist Alfred O’Donnell in 1955

Ms. Jacobsen’s source about this Roswell story is unnamed by her in the blockbuster book. He wanted to remain anonymous. Annie Jacobsen kept her promise. I did not learn her source from her or from anyone associated with her publishing company. His identity and his background is revealed here and now:

Alfred O’Donnell is nearly 89 years old and he is one of Annie Jacobsen’s key sources about this Roswell crash story “interpretation.” O’Donnell is indeed exactly who he claims to have been. In the early 1950’s he was at the “Nevada Test Site” where atomic bombs were tested regularly. O’Donnell was indeed part of the nucleus of top management and engineers for EG&G- one of our nation’s top defense contractors. Founded as Edgerton, Germeshausen and Grier (EG&G) the company was acquired by URS Corporation some years ago. URS employs over 50,000 and is the leading designer and builder of federal classified facilities in the United States. They work with military as well as with the Intelligence Community (particularly the NSA) in constructing and operating some of our nation’s most sensitive and secret facilities.

O’Donnell joined EG&G in 1947 when the company employed only 15 people. He worked alongside the company’s founders and obtained Top Secret Clearance to work on our nation’s nuclear arsenal. He helped to develop explosives research protocols and optimized the firing systems of bomb devices. O’Donnell – a Bostonian - is a brilliant man who made significant contributions to EG&G and to our nation’s defense for many years. EG&G – and O’Donnell - had specialized expertise in electronically capturing and measuring the energy that was emitted from DOE nuclear blasts in the remote Nevada desert.

THE SOURCE SPEAKS



TRANSCRIBED INTERVIEW WITH ALFRED O’DONNELL, FORMERLY OF EG&G

MAY 26, 2011 (AFTERNOON)

(Bolded text that follows indicates Alfred O’Donnell speaking;
Light text indicates this author speaking to O’Donnell)

Hello…

Hi Mr. O’Donnell, my name is Tony Bragalia, a freelance journalist in Florida..How are you doing?

Fine, and who are you again? (I repeat above)

I’m a researcher, including of things like military history and the history of science. I happened to see an online article about an ‘Alfred O’Donnell’ that was from the Review-Journal. It’s called “100 Men Who Shaped Southern Nevada” It discusses your early work at EG&G in the 50s in nuclear blast testing and measurement.

Oh, oh, yes… I do remember that. I recall that very well.

It was written by a “ K.J. Evans”…

Yes, he’s dead now. That article was written some time ago. Some years ago.

It’s found its way onto the Internet so the story is everywhere now, forever…So I do have the right Alfred O’Donnell who was with EG&G in the ‘40s and 1950s?

Yes, that’s me.

Well, of course you must be aware then of the recent bestseller by Annie Jacobsen that is entitled Area 51?

I am. (silence/pause)

You know Annie?

I do know Annie.

Well you said something to Annie Jacobsen about the subject that I’d like to talk with you about…

I don’t talk about my work at Area 51.

Well, EG&G does not seem to be the kind of place that would be reverse engineering a Soviet craft and also doing biological experiments and analysis, there were better places….

Well, you really need to speak with the Publicity Director at Little Brown.

Why them?

They published the book.

What do they know more about all of this than you do?

They don’t. But I’m not saying anything…

Tony, how…how did you find me?

I am a researcher of some of these things. I think sort of like a computer when I am investigating. I googled key words. I happened across the article on you. I knew intuitively that you are Annie’s source, Alfred. And of course you are, so…

Alfred, you must realize that you have an obligation to truth and to history to come forward publicly. This is a much larger issue. It is about having people understand what really happened -if this is what really did- and to not believe in fantasies..things that aren’t scientific or historical truth…

I know…I understand… what you’re saying, Tony.

You know Alfred, I communicated with Dr. Stirling Colgate at Los Alamos recently and he made a recent confession about a UFO hoax that he was aware of from many, many years ago.

Oh…

Colgate is in his 90s and he’s still at Los Alamos. He confirmed to me that the famous Socorro, NM case involving a policeman in 1964 was a hoax by some of his students from New Mexico Tech. But it took him over 40 years to really say something! Colgate took to a real long time to tell the truth. And he still is reluctant…but his allegiance was in the wrong place for too long. It was to his kids at the college!…

(Laughs) So how did you find out about him?

Through a letter that I had found in some archives from Stirling Colgate to his friend Linus Pauling, who had an interest in UFOs I found out. In his reply, Colgate told Pauling the truth that it was a hoax.

Who is that he wrote to?

Linus Pauling.

Oh! Yes…

So my point is that we will all pass. And because of this we all have larger obligations as we get older. As a scientist you must understand this, truth is it. It’s really all that we want have in the end.

Will you leave anything - a document in writing to benefit history and science on all of this before you pass, including your name?

I don’t know. I don’t think so.

I think you must forget about your oaths and clearances. The Soviet threat is no longer. It is more than six decades on Alfred! I sometimes almost get emotional about all of this…doesn’t, does not truth mean anything? Why have our children’s children believe in fantasy, if this is what it was?

I will think about it. I will give it some consideration…

Alfred, have other people called you about this?

I’m not going to say anything at all about that.

Well, people come to very different conclusions that you do on all of this. The Air Force says that it is a Mogul balloon, others say it was a terrestrial secret experiment by German Paperclip scientists…

Yes, I have heard about that one.

Well, I will level with you Alfred. I come down on the side of truth - it was an extraterrestrial vehicle that crashed. And frankly I think that you know this and that you were “played with.”

I am certain that the craft was constructed of materials that were not known to science in 1947. I based this on many things including on my study of the history of Shape Recovery Alloys. They had reported they found “memory metal” at Roswell that was tough and would return back to its original shape. I found that in the months immediately following the crash that Wright Patterson contracted Battelle Memorial Institute to begin work on what we now know as Nitinol. I traced the scientific documents on Shape Memory metals to the incident. When you are reverse engineering, it is always easiest to begin with the ‘materials of construction’ –what is it made of- not the propulsion or navigation systems…

Yes..I follow.

And, Alfred, I will be candid with you: you must come forward. You are a man of science. You have lived for the discovery of truth. Why do you care now? Say what needs to be said. I mean I know you have. But openly. You know Annie is taking a beating on this. I frankly would like to know, as someone who believes in truth and accurate history…you are a man who honors science…you must know what I mean…

Tony, look, I will say this to you: if the Federal Government really wanted to have all of this released, why would they not have already done it themselves?

I don’t know. But you do Alfred. And I do respect your respect for your oath and your security clearances.

If we could get you a release from the Department of Defense to speak of this- of the truth of Roswell- would you then be open to speaking openly?

No. I would not. I just…I just cannot get involved like that.

Oh, one more last thing…

Yes.

Do you think that when URS acquired EG&G a few years back that they also got all of the early scientific and historical records from EG&G? I mean would they even know now? Many of the people there at URS now weren’t yet even born when this happened…

I don’t know. I really have no idea.

Again, Alfred, I have an understanding of the Intelligence Community –IC- and of the Defense communities, so I do understand where you are coming from. Thanks for all of your time, I really do appreciate it very much…

OK, Tony, Goodbye.

Goodbye.

THE STRANGE STORY HE TELLS – AND WHY HE WAS TOLD IT




I found Alfred O’Donnell to be telling the truth as he remembers it – and likely as he himself claims to have witnessed it. He was extremely lucid, deliberate and controlled in his responses to me. Frankly he seemed years and years younger on the phone. Like author Annie Jacobsen, I find O’Donnell to remain a bright and believable person.

However, I do not believe that the “essence” of what he was told was true. O’Donnell says that he viewed a hoaxed UFO by Stalin that was used to scare us - and that used a former Nazi’s eugenics skills to create the aviators. O’Donnell told Jacobsen that they were “grotesque.” O’Donnell also told Jacobsen that he and his other scientist cohorts at EG&G were “prepared” for the sight of them. They were told in advance that “seeing the bodies would be a shocking and disturbing experience.”

But the truth is this: It was all “staged.” O’Donnell was indeed “exposed” to what he says he was- but this “exposure” was planned, it was for a reason - and the accompanying story that he was told was not genuine.

He was told that it was of Soviet origin. But “exotic technology” that has been recovered by military are often studied by using the “subterfuge” or “cover” of being told that they are of “Russian origin.” And this holds especially true for the Roswell crash. There are numerous times when the “Soviets” or the “Russians” were used to describe where such artifacts came from. They were a convenient and ideal “excuse” or reason for the study of such things:

1) When Elroy John Center (the Battelle scientist who confessed to analysis of ET metal debris and who co-authored the first “memory metal report” for Wright Patterson) was told to analyze the unusual “piece”- he was told by his Battelle supervisor that it was recovered in a crash from “the Soviets.” Center knew this not to be true and he believed the material could not have been made by man. (See prior articles on the Battelle-Roswell connection archived on the Iconoclasts site to learn more.)

2) General George Schulgen, in a 1947 secret memo, instructed his officers to be aware of UFO’s and their “Items of Construction.” He indicated that the discs could be of possible Soviet origin. Schulgen was of course using this as a cover. Forthcoming information on Schulgen will show that this top Pentagon Intelligence official of the time knew that the material of which the discs were comprised was not known to science- and were engineered by those from another world.

3) When RAAF Base Commander Butch Blanchard told his wife and daughter Dale of the crash, he kept on repeating to them: “those Russians have some amazing things.” New information from researcher Tom Carey indicates that the exact opposite was true: Blanchard actually believed that it was an ET craft at Roswell, something he related to his second wife and others later in life.

The deepest recesses of Government were testing key personnel at emerging EG&G to see if they could be entrusted with such “remarkable secrets.” Would they say anything to anyone about this made-up Russian-Roswell scenario? They did not (at least not until a half-century later, and then only anonymously.) They could be entrusted with anything. And today the company is rewarded as the largest infrastructure firm to Federal government in the nation.

More importantly this author maintains that:

- Those in Government who knew about Roswell wanted to confuse the ET truth of the event to others with whom they may work by alluding to things “Russian.” It may have even been used as a “code word” of sorts.

- They felt that it was also a perfect way to have studies performed on actual ET crashed disc material by private contractors. Tell them these strange things were Russian. Fold the research into existing defense related technology research.

- They wanted to see if organizations that they would bring into the fold would keep such a pretend ‘Secret.’ And point to the Russians, feared and hated.

- They would occasionally and selectively “test” individuals within government (and its contractor community) to measure the “reactions” and coping skills of learned men when exposed to such bizarre things

- They “orchestrated” cover stories on Roswell to purposely confuse and obfuscate the issue. They sought to blur the ET truth of Roswell with layers of plausible deniability. They officially issued (and in other ways spread) many possible “real reasons” for the Roswell crash. In this way the actual extraterrestrial nature of the Roswell event will become “muddled.”

O’Donnell was shown an American-hoaxed UFO and “aliens” for one (or some) these reasons. But it was not a “Soviet” thing that he saw. That he saw these things is likely true… but the associated story that he was told about their origin was not.

The most telling reason that this is so is this: The story told to O’Donnell those many years ago –in historical hindsight- is ludicrous on the face of it. I will not detail those reasons. Many others (including the New York Times) have pointed out the many “holes” found like Swiss cheese within the story. These include fundamental logistical, technological and historical issues associated with the cover tale told O’Donnell.

And there is this clue: O’Donnell told Jacobsen that “Cyrillic writing” found around a rim area in the craft had led he and his EG&G associates to confirm that the craft was of Soviet origin, so that the story that they were told by their superiors made complete sense.

However, the fact is that the Russians would never have made such alleged “hoax overflights” of the US using anything like “Cyrillic writing” that would reveal the craft’s true Soviet origin. It would defeat the entire purpose of having our people believe that we were being invaded by “aliens” as O’Donnell maintains, like “Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds”- and so O’Donnell should never have found such writing.

It was, rather, placed there by US military intelligence to encourage the belief that it was Russian. And O’Donnell was just 29 in 1951 when he states that he saw all of this at EG&G at Area 51. He was impressionably young, as were his EG&G colleagues. They would go on in their defense contracting careers believing all the while (and repeating late in life) the lie that they had been made to believe that these things were “Russian.” How very “Cold War-ish.”

But given the context of the timeframe of the late 1940s and early 1950s (and the fear of Russians, with “War of the Worlds” having aired only 10 years prior) it is easy to understand why O’Donnell and his EG&G colleagues “bought in” to this scenario fed them. Given the “tenor of the times” and the initiation of the Cold War, anything related to the devious Soviets could be believed at that time.

And, tellingly, the “Russian” explanation that had been told by these EG&G retirees reminds one of the famous Kecksburg, PA UFO case of 1965. Some in Government offered the (now discredited) explanation that this crash incident was resultant from a Russian launch as well. That one though was explained away as the crash of an advanced Soviet satellite. Always the Russians…

The story is strange. And the reasons that I have offered that I “believe” the old scientist may seem even stranger to some. I have more to report on this and I hope to release other findings soon…

Roswell is an onion. We continue to peel away at its layers. But it still stinks and dizzies with the stench of disinformation, even after decades.

05-07-2011 om 21:33 geschreven door peter  

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Edgar Mitchell, Former Astronaut, Sued By NASA For Trying To Sell Apollo Camera

The space shuttle isn't the only old piece of NASA equipment that's making headlines. The space agency has filed suit against Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell in an attempt to reclaim a 40-year-old camera.

A federal lawsuit filed Wednesday in Miami claims that Mitchell, the lunar module pilot and sixth man to walk on the moon, illegally tried to auction off a camera he used during his 1971 lunar mission.

"Defendant Edgar Mitchell is a former NASA employee who is exercising improper dominion and control over a NASA Data Acquisition Camera," NASA alleged in court documents obtained by The Palm Beach Post.

Not so, says Mitchell.

"The thing had been sitting in my safe for 40 years -- I got it right after the mission," Mitchell told AOL.

The camera in question, used to photograph a variety of aspects of the Apollo 14 mission, was estimated to have been worth between $60,000 and $80,000 by Bonhams auction house.

According to the lawsuit, any equipment used on board Apollo missions remains the property of NASA and the space agency had no record of giving the camera to Mitchell.

The astronaut disagrees.

"The lunar modules didn't come back from the moon and everything in them -- all the equipment -- was considered government throwaways and it was deliberately crashed into the moon to ring seismometers that we set up to get data from inside the moon. However, we had an agreement with NASA management at that point that little things, like the cameras, could be kept," said Mitchell, a trained engineer and scientist and author of "The Way of the Explorer," who founded the Institute of Noetic Sciences in 1973. "That was standard practice and it was approved by NASA as incentive stuff."

He says that until he put the camera up for auction with the intention of raising cash for his research organization, Quantrek, the government never asked him to return it.

Mitchell Using Camera on the Moon

"I thought the extra money from that would help," he said.

Mitchell believes at some point in between the Apollo and space shuttle programs, NASA regulations were modified.

"Apparently, they changed the rules after I left NASA's service. Since the shuttle was a reusable spacecraft, it didn't include throwaway material, like we had in the lunar module. So, they quit allowing crew members to take stuff from the flight."

Why does Mitchell think the government even cares if he sells the camera?

"Because they want it back," he explained. "I consider it my property. Once we were given it, it's our property and we could do with it what we please, and that's what we're going to have to show in court."

The threat of a lawsuit from the federal government reportedly convinced the auction house to remove the camera from a recent sale.

"It's a fiasco and so unnecessary," said Mitchell. "We thought this was all resolved a long time ago and we were clearly not doing anything outside the rules, and all the things given to us were presented as incentive gifts and thank-yous for serving on the mission. And I've got several items all given to me by NASA when I served on different missions."

While Mitchell hasn't even officially been served with legal papers yet, he's feeling pretty confident about the outcome of the case.

"Oh, there's no question we're going to win it."

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