N'était ce pas plutôt pour le ridiculiser ?

J'ai trouvé un article qui me semble intéressant sur la "méthode" Condon

http://www.astrosurf.com/luxorion/ovni-naissance-phenomene6.htm

Le défi des OVNI

La méthodologie "Condon" (VI)

Les manifestations d'OVNI restaient un sujet sensible. En 1967, plusieurs bases de missiles stratégiques du Montana furent survolées par des OVNI : Minot, Great Falls et Malmstrom. Pour la première fois des ogives nucléaires furent déprogrammées sans raison apparente[44].

Devant l'insistance du public et du gouvernement, l'Université du Colorado releva le gant et passa officiellement un contrat avec l'Armée de l’air le 6 octobre 1966. Ce contrat N° F44620-67-C-0035 stipulait que "Les rapports d'observations à étudier seront choisis par l'US Air  Force".

L'enquête qui portait sur l'entièreté du phénomène OVNI depuis 1947 était confiée au professeur de physique Edward U.Condon. Il s'entoura de 36 professionnels, parmi lesquels le Dr Hynek, James McDonald et Carl Sagan, trois savants favorables à la vie extraterrestre, mais non moins rigoureux.

Mais des indiscrétions jetèrent un doute sur la bonne fin de l'enquête. Hynek apprit par ses amis que trois psychologues ne s'accordaient pas sur la matière à étudier. L'un d'eux considérait déjà que les gens "avaient simplement des visions" et refusait d'admettre qu'ils avaient pu observer un phénomène matériel inconnu jusqu'alors. Ainsi que le relatent D.Saunders et R.Harkins[45] dans le questionnaire qu'il proposait aux témoins, le psychologue réservait une page à la description du phénomène... et vingt pour décrire le profil psychologique du témoin. Soyons impartial et rappelons au lecteur que le Dr Saunders plaçait l'hypothèse extraterrestre au centre du débat, au point que dans son esprit, le public considérait que le terme OVNI était synonyme de visites extraterrestres...

Saunders réalisera toutefois un excellent travail, s'attaquant à l'encodage de toutes les notifications du "Blue Book" sur ordinateur, en vue de leur analyse ultérieure; au terme du programme cela représenta 30000 rapports (dont 1200 seront traités par Saunders). Saunders créa également des questionnaires types pour les témoins et des formulaires de notifications pour les enquêteurs. Il fut également chargé d'envoyer des équipes d'enquêteurs sur le terrain afin de valider les événements et d'essayer de les reconstituer. Condon le renverra cependant pour "incompétence", en réalité pour des raisons de dissensions personnelles, et il ne tint pas compte de ces résultats dans son analyse finale.

Alors que Jacques Vallée et Hynek prièrent la Commission d'utiliser la méthode statistique pour mettre en évidence des schémas globaux, communs à toutes les observations, la Commission Condon n'exploita que 87 rapports, dont 14 étaient déjà analysés dans le "Blue Book" et classés comme méprises... une sélection dérisoire qui ne correspondait pas du tout à l'image et à l'importance réelle du phénomène. Pour sa part, le Dr Saunders continua d'analyser les notifications sur ordinateur et finit par rassembler quelque 85000 observations, constituant l'une des plus grosses bases de données informatique sur le phénomène OVNI.

La méthodologie était au centre des débats. Dans un mémorandum[46] daté du 9 août 1966, Robert Low, doyen de l'Université du Colorado écrivait notamment que son établissement souhaitait conserver sa respectabilité : "L'astuce consisterait, à mon avis, à décrire le programme de telle sorte qu'il apparaisse au public comme une étude résolument objective tout en présentant, aux yeux de la communauté scientifique, l'image d'un groupe de sceptiques faisant son possible pour rester objectif mais avec une espérance quasi nulle de trouver une soucoupe". En apprenant la nouvelle, James McDonald écrivit un article dans le magazine Look[47] et le sénateur J.Roush, défenseur des OVNI, dénonça violemment à la Chambre des Représentants la malhonnêteté de l'équipe qui entourait le professeur Condon.

Le 26 janvier 1967, le journal Star-Gazette de l'Etat de New York publia une déclaration du Pr.Condon : "Je tendrais dès maintenant à recommander que le gouvernement abandonne l'affaire. Pour moi, je suis déjà persuadé qu'il n'y a rien là-dedans... mais je ne suis pas censé déposer mes conclusions avant un an encore. Peut-être son étude (celle du problème OVNI) serait-elle valable pour les groupes qui s'intéressent aux phénomènes météorologiques".

Deux mois plus tard Warren Rogers, éditeur du magazine "Look"[48] écrivit avec lucidité à propos de la mission confiée au Pr Condon : “Il est peu probable que ses efforts soient couronnés d’un prix populaire. Il expliquera trop à ceux qui veulent y croire et pas assez à ceux qui n’y croient pas”.

Mais W.Rogers croit encore à cette époque que “Condon conduit cette quête de réponses, armé seulement de curiosité et de logique scientifique”.

En fait, selon le Dr Saunders[49], Condon se préoccupait surtout des aspects farfelus du phénomène OVNI, se moquant gentiment des témoins crédules et des ufologues qui brillaient le titre de scientifiques : "Le psychologue que je suis en était profondément choqué. Peut-être avaient-ils besoin qu'on leur vienne en aide mais sûrement pas que l'on se moque d'eux. C'était comme si Condon avait perdu tout sens des perspectives et sacrifiait ces malheureux pour se débarrasser de ses propres frustrations... Il semble que dès qu'il estimait avoir assez ri d'un cas, il passait à un autre encore plus amusant..."

L'intervention de Condon discrédita complètement l'oeuvre de la Commission et son prestige aux yeux du public. Trois mois après la mise sur pied de la Commission d'enquête, Condon avait déjà trouvé la solution. Ses conclusions étaient tellement triviales qu'il demanda une rallonge de 259146 dollars quelques mois plus tard, qui s'ajoutaient au 313000 dollars initiaux, pour poursuivre une étude inutile...

On peut en rire aujourd'hui ou crier au scandale, mais comme le disait le Dr Hynek[50] en 1953: "La méthode scientifique n'a que faire du sarcasme, et il ne faut pas enseigner au public qu'il en est une partie intégrante...Le flot régulier des rapports, souvent rédigés de concert par plusieurs observateurs valables, soulève la question de l'obligation et de la responsabilité scientifiques. Demeure-t-il, une fois les divers rapports débarrassés des enjolivements et fioritures qui dissimulent avec art leur aridité foncière, un résidu digne de l'attention scientifique ? Et, dans la négative, le public ne doit-il pas en être averti - non pas avec esprit mais avec sérieux, afin de ne pas entamer la confiance publique dans la science et dans les savants ?"

On discutera encore longtemps de l'opinion des personnes "avisées", des "autorités en la matière" ou des "experts". Tous les débats reçoivent un jour ou l'autre de tels scientifiques à leur table, dont les déclarations, surtout en matière d'OVNI, sont préjudiciables à l'entretien d'un bon rapport entre la science et la société. Les propos de ces chercheurs sont souvent perçus comme faisant autorité dans le public. Pourtant, s'ils acceptent d'assister à ce genre d'émission, pour l'heure ils s'écartent délibérément des sciences - et du programme de recherche qu'ils conduisent professionnellement -, mais cela, le public n'en a pas conscience. Il recherche une réponse à ses questions et c'est donc au scientifique de définir les limites de sa démarche. Mais nous y reviendrons en détail lorsque nous discuterons de la philosophie des sciences.

En 1968, la Commission Condon était toujours sur pied, mais stagnant sur place, se perdant en conjectures sur quelques notifications mystérieuses, le physicien de l'atmosphère James McDonald plaida pour que la NASA prenne une part active dans cette démarche scientifique.

Plusieurs ingénieurs des universités de Caltech, Harvard et MIT partageaient son opinion. Le Dr Hynek écrivit plus tard que parmi les notifications relatées dans le "Blue Book", il y avait "quelques cas intéressants, noyés dans un véritable flot d'élucubrations". A l'instar de ses collègues astronomes, il ne croyait pas à la réalité physique d'émissaires d'une civilisation technologiquement avancée, mais reconnaissait l'intérêt du sujet[51] : "s'il n'y a pas d'extraterrestre, eh bien ! nous touchons là à un domaine qui est aussi étranger et inconnu pour nous que l'était l'énergie nucléaire pour Benjamin Franklin". En bref, après avoir accumulé des preuves 20 ans durant, il plaidait en faveur de l'étude du phénomène OVNI.

Le Dr Hynek[52] était également conscient des polémiques que suscitait le sujet et du besoin de l'entourer d'une extrême rigueur. Il écrivit notamment ceci : "Je pense que l'Académie Nationale des Sciences reconnaîtrait sans difficulté qu'une méthodologie scientifique (et il souligne lui-même) doit se garder, en abordant un problème, de la partialité, des idées préconçues et du sarcasme... On ne doit jamais préjuger de la réponse à une recherche à un degré tel que cette anticipation en colore l'orientation. Chaque fois que j'ai eu le plaisir de rencontrer les membres et les associés du groupe d'étude de l'Université du Colorado, j'ai pu constater leur réelle objectivité...Par contre il en allait tout autrement du directeur du programme".

En 1969, un volumineux "Rapport Condon" de 1465 pages, richement commenté et illustré fut publié. Il contenait parmi d'autres annexes, un sondage Gallup sur lequel nous reviendrons. Soumis en lecture à l'Académie des Sciences, le rapport fut approuvé. Edward U.Condon[53] déclara dans l'introduction du document : 

"Aucune grande priorité ne saurait être accordée [à la recherche sur les OVNI] au vu de l'analyse des données étalées sur deux décades d'investigations du phénomène. Nous sommes unanimes pour reconnaître que ce travail a été un effort honorable d'utilisation objective des techniques scientifiques appropriées pour trouver une solution au problème OVNI. Le rapport reconnaît qu'il reste des observations d'OVNI difficilement explicables. Néanmoins, le Rapport suggère tant de directions raisonnables et possibles dans lesquelles une explication pourrait être éventuellement trouvée qu'il semble qu'il n'y ait aucune raison de les attribuer à des causes extraterrestres sans preuves convaincantes. Le Rapport montre également les difficultés qu'il y a à appliquer avec quelque chance de succès des méthodes scientifiques à des observations éphémères. Si une étude de certains aspects du sujet (des phénomènes atmosphériques par exemple) peut être intéressante, celle des OVNI, en général, n'est pas une manière prometteuse d'améliorer la compréhension scientifique des phénomènes. Sur la base de nos connaissances actuelles, l'explication la moins probable est l'hypothèse qu'il s'agit de visites d'êtres extraterrestres intelligents. Notre conclusion générale est que rien ou pas grand chose n'est sorti de l'étude des OVNI au cours des 21 années écoulées qui aurait enrichi les connaissances scientifiques, et qu'une étude approfondie des observations d'OVNI n'est pas justifié". 

Cette conclusion était fausse, car elle était fondée sur une minorité de cas. Elle était facilement démontrable si les responsables de la Commission avaient pris la peine d'investiguer dans le détail les 20 cas réellement inexplicables et, par-delà, les centaines d'autres qui n'avaient pas été étudiés. En excluant toutes les observations qui tombaient sous le sens commun, il restait quelques cas typiques qui demeuraient en désaccord avec les lois de la physique moderne. C'est ainsi que les "scientifiques" jugèrent un peu vite que le phénomène OVNI n'apporterait rien à la science.

L'Université du Colorado[54] considéra également que l'armée pouvait dorénavant ignorer le phénomène OVNI : "Il nous paraît [que porter] une si grande attention à ce sujet (les OVNI) ne devrait être considérée par le Département de la Défense que d'un stricte point de vue de la défense. [...] Nous avons l'impression que la fonction de défense pourrait s'effectuer dans le cadre d'opérations d'intelligence et de surveillance sans [l'assistance d'une] unité spéciale telle le Project Blue Book, mais c'est une question qui concerne les spécialistes de la défense plutôt que les chercheurs scientifiques".

L'affaire était close et en décembre 1969, sur bases des conclusions des scientifiques, le Pentagone mit fin aux activités du "Project Blue Book" : "...Ces études ont conclu : (1) qu'ils n'existaient aucune preuve selon lesquelles les notifications d'OVNI représentent une menace pour notre sécurité nationale; (2) l'Armée de l’air n'a reçu aucune preuve ou n'a fait aucune découverte selon laquelle les observations classifiées comme "non identifiées" représentent des développements technologiques ou des principes en avance sur les connaissances scientifiques contemporaines; (3) il n'y a aucune preuve indiquant que les observations classifiées comme "non identifiées" soient des véhicules extraterrestres."

Malgré l'attitude controversée de l'Armée de l’air, elle sortit honorablement de la polémique. Mais aux yeux du public, cette enquête se terminait en queue de poisson et ne répondait toujours pas à ses espérances : les notifications d'OVNI restaient inexpliquées.  

Prochain chapitre

Les notifications d'OVNI en Europe

Retour aux OVNI

Salut à tous,
Un article de 100 pp. de PA Sturrock qui date un peu (1987) mais mérite lecture :

http://www.scientificexploration.org/journal/jse_01_1_sturrock_2.pdf

Sturrock traite en particulier des relations secrètes entre la Commission Condon -- et son directeur -- et les Agences. La dernière phrase du papier est une citation de Condon lui-même. Quoique sonnant comme une lapalissade, elle est révélatrice :

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“I feel the scientific study of UFOs is for the benefit of humankind and is an important endeavor. The weekly intelligence report provides you with information on the latest sightings and UFO news that you need to understand the world situation.”

In special reports, this week’s files cover: Time Travelers, Why Are These Entities Visiting Earth? Nuclear Fusion Rocket Could Reach Mars in 30 Days, Saturn’s Rings Sparkle with Water, Boston Bomb Likely Stops Chance of ET Disclosure, and North Korea Danger, and UFO Reports Down.

Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over: Arizona, California, Florida, Illinois, Maryland, New Jersey, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Wyoming.

Sightings of UFOs were also reported in: Australia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Iran, Netherlands, and England in the United Kingdom.

The purpose of these files is to report the UFO eyewitness and photo/video evidence that occurs on a daily basis around the world and in space. These Files assume that extraterrestrial intelligent life not only exists, but my hypothesis is that the over a thousand UFOs reported each month represent technologically advanced spacecraft conducting surveillance of Earth. I personally became interested in UFOs when London Control ordered me to intercept one over England while flying for the US Air Force. Under Project Blue Book, the US Air Force investigated UFOs for more than twenty years; and we continue this research.

 I believe the God of the universe has spread life throughout the cosmos and UFO's are visiting us in ever-increasing numbers.

We send our prayers and thoughts to Boston and those who have been injured or died.  

Special Reports

Whirlpool Galaxy

Time Travelers

Commander Graham Bethune told me, “The entities that crashed near Roswell, New Mexico in 1947 seemed to be coming home and might be from our Earth’s future”. It is apparent they are unhealthy in appearance like their livers or other organs are damaged, perhaps as the result of an environmental disaster. They may be suffering from radiation poisoning possibly from a nuclear war, environmental chemical poisons, or space radiation. The eye is the most sensitive target for space radiation and long duration stays may lead to detectable opacities and cataracts. The unusually large eyes may reflect repeated damage to the eyes and immune disorders. They also seem to be collecting DNA, fertile eggs and sperm possibly to improve their species and develop offspring that can live in Earth’s atmosphere. Our bacteria and virus strains appear to mutating into stronger diseases and visitors may also be attempting to obtain some of our antibodies that fight these strains.

The entities may have come here to prevent humans from destroying Earth in an attempt to keep the Earth environmentally clean for future generations. Earth is the best planet for life for millions of miles in this part of the galaxy and is a tremendous source of life forms, food, water, minerals, and atmosphere.

It is apparent our government based on President Truman’s orders kept the entities visits and crashes secret because they feared the intentions and abilities of the visitors. My experience has shown our leaders often make decisions similar to what the average person would make knowing the same information.

There have been rumors that humans probably taken by the Grays were found in the crashed craft. There is also an indication the Grays are robotic computerized animals and all look essentially the same.

According to various reports the visitors have large brains and are able transmit their thoughts and read our minds. They obviously have advanced technology and reportedly are able to go through walls, transport people into their craft, and control people’s actions, etc.

Former Air Force Sgt weatherman, Dr. Charles Hall claims he met aliens in Dreamland near Indian Springs, Nevada. He claims, he spent two years working with three different extra-terrestrial races. One race was the tall whites are about 5 feet 11inches who grow taller after age 40 years old.

Nearby Ruth David was the Director of Development Testing at Sandi Labs Tonopah, Nevada, often called Area 52 from 1991 to 1994 and likely has inside knowledge of our latest weapons and activities.

Why Are These Entities Visiting Earth

Entities are probably visiting Earth as a tourist attraction to show other aliens how not to behave. Our tribal wars, crime, and environmental destruction would likely make an interesting study of human nature. They are also worried that our war like activities could be spread out to other planets. Each life form on Earth from the tiniest bacteria to whales may be valuable to an alien race for food or medicine. There is no evidence the aliens plan to destroy Earth or to wipe out humanity. However, they do apparently have interest in human life, minerals, nuclear power plants and weapons. It is possible they desire to take control of the world and settle here if their planet or sun is failing. An alien race trying to take over this planet may attempt to accomplish numerous tasks to make the transition painless.

Several bases have already been set up to house aliens, and conduct detailed reconnaissance. Assuming they wish to settle on Earth a logical plan would be to clean up the environment, to stop crime and wars, and to prevent a guerrilla insurrection. Humanity would need to be convinced that following alien leaders would be beneficial to the average person. Religion is one method to gain support as would an advanced welfare system. Various national leaders would likely be allowed to stay in office if they supported the alien leadership. The aliens may use walk-ins or other methods to control the national leaders. Providing medical aid and saving lives would also gain support. Stopping crime and wars, disarming the military would save billions.

Establishing a New World Order, a New Jerusalem, or Shangri-La on Earth might be possible.

It is quite likely various nations would join together to fight the intruders. PRESIDENT REAGAN stated at the United Nations regarding extraterrestrials in Sept. 21, 1987, `Is not an alien force already among us?"

Scientist and astronomer Dr. Carl Sagan in his book, "Intelligent Life in the Universe" indicated Earth had likely been visited by extraterrestrials numerous times.  He states, "Sumer was an early--perhaps the first -civilization the contemporary sense on the planet Earth.  It was founded in the forth millennium B.C. or earlier.  We don't know where the Sumerians came from.  I feel that if the Sumerian civilization is depicted by the descendents of the Sumerians themselves to be of non-human origin, the relevant legends should be examined carefully." (Page 456)

He goes on to ask, "What might an advanced extraterrestrial civilization want from us?"He answered his own question by stating, "One of the primary motivations for the exploration of the New World was to convert the inhabitants to Christianity -- peacefully if possible -- forcefully if necessary.  Can we exclude the possibility of an extraterrestrial evangelism?"  (Page 463) 

Kenneth Larson writes, “Our nuclear age started in 1945 during World War Two.

  The UFOs might have come en masse soon after and starting in 1947 so as to prevent or stop any future and all-out nuclear war between battling earth-nations so as to save humanity. This could explain UFOs seen hovering over America's nuclear missile weapons sites and reportedly shutting them down temporarily. Concerned UFOs might have been involved with an intelligent Creator described in Genesis and Isaiah and Job of the Bible in the creation.”

Thanks to Kenneth Larson

Nuclear Fusion Rocket Could Reach Mars in 30 Days

 Space.com reports, “This is a concept image of a spacecraft powered by a fusion-driven rocket with the crew in the forward-most chamber. Solar panels on the sides would collect energy to initiate the process that creates fusion.” (University of Washington, MSNW)

Nuclear fusion, the energy source that fuels the sun could one day propel rockets that allow humans to go to Mars and back in 30 days. Fusion-powered rockets promise to solve problems of deep-space travel. Scientists at the University of Washington and a space-propulsion company named MSNW say they are getting to closer to creating a feasible fuel for travel to other planets.

John Slough, a UW research professor of aeronautics and astronautics says,

"Using existing rocket fuels, it's nearly impossible for humans to explore much beyond Earth; we are hoping to give us a much more powerful source of energy in space that could eventually lead to making interplanetary travel commonplace." Now it takes about 500 days of space travel to make the round trip to Mars. A rocket powered by fusion would make 30- and 90-day expeditions to Mars possible.

Nuclear fusion occurs when the nuclei of two or more atoms combine, resulting in a release of energy. But to use fusion to power a manned spacecraft, a more controlled process is needed.

Lab tests by Slough and his team suggest that nuclear fusion could occur by compressing a specially developed type of plasma to high pressure with a magnetic field. A sand-grain-sized bit of this material would have the same amount of energy as current rocket fuel, the team says.

To get this fuel to propel a rocket to Mars, the team says a powerful magnetic field could be used to cause large metal rings (likely made of lithium) to collapse around the plasma material, compressing it to a fusion state, but only for a few microseconds. Energy from these quick fusion reactions would heat up and ionize the shell of metal formed by the crushed rings. The hot, ionized metal would be shot out of the rocket nozzle at a high speed. Repeating this process roughly every minute would propel the spacecraft, the researchers say. Slough said, “The next step of the team's work is to combine each of the isolated tests they've already completed successfully into a final experiment that produces fusion using this technology.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/04/11/nuclear-fusion-rocket-could-reach-mars-in-30-days/#ixzz2QD1GAK2f

Saturn’s Rings Sparkle With Water

Saturn’s rings may be vintage jewelry as old as the solar system, and they’re practically sparkling with water ice, according to data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft.

The findings, released this week in the Astrophysical Journal, give planetary scientists a window into the solar system’s birth and development, and show that the formation of at least one of the planet's 62 known moons may have been a little more complicated than thought. Launched in 1997, the Cassini mission spacecraft is now on its third lifetime exploring Saturn’s complex system and still turning up remarkable new information about the ringed gas giant.

Data from the spacecraft’s visual and infrared mapping spectrometer have revealed how water ice and shades of color are spread through Saturn’s system.

Finding an abundance of water ice -- too much to have been deposited by icy comets ramming into the planet or its moons -- the team of Italian and American scientists realized that the ice must hail from around when the solar system first formed, more than 4 billion years ago. Image is an architectural structure in the rings of Saturn. The Urantia Book explains Earth and architectural worlds such as this one out near Saturn.

NASA and the European Space Agency all involved with designing the Cassini-Huygens
Spacecraft that uses its telephoto lens for a close up view of New Jerusalem bright moon
 Thanks to jpl/NASA. http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS20/N00061934.jpg

http://helloearth.info/nasaconnection/nasaconnection.html

North Korea Danger

There are statements being released claiming North Korea does not have the capability to put a nuclear weapons inside its rudimentary missiles. As a young man I met Igor Sikorsky who told me it is just a matter of time before one nation catches up to another technologically. Enough money or spying will usually obtain the technology you need. In addition with hackers much data is stolen and secrets can be passed from countries like Pakistan to North Korea to Iran.

North Korean media constantly sends aggressive language directed against the US and South Korea and occasionally Japan. When they do act such as the artillery attack on a South Korean island in 2010, you see very clear warnings," The North has consistently warned that military exercises being conducted in the area would spark a retaliation and it is likely they will carry out their threat.

Any time a nation threatens pre-emptive nuclear war, there is cause for concern.

Thirty years old North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un wants to be recognized has a world power. He has lived in a bubble of adoration all his life and his reality is very different than most people. Kim may go too far in his campaign since he may feel he will not be taken seriously unless he shows sizeable military strength with his million man Army, four million reserves and a nuclear missile strategy. The US often tries to ignore North Korea as a matter of policy. Kim  message is “We will not go away; you have to deal with us."

Allegedly, his last missile fired on December 12, 2012, was recovered by US submarines and was more sophisticated than previously thought. The missile cone with dimensions for a nuclear warhead and could likely hit US bases in the Pacific and Japan. Kim Jong Un is in a precarious leadership position and attempting tactics designed to keep him in power. Frankly there are indications he is emotionally unstable.

Japan is on full alert ahead of an expected mid-range missile launch by North Korea, with Patriot missiles stationed in its capital to protect the 30 million people who live there.

In addition to PAC-3 batteries, Aegis destroyers equipped with sea-based interceptor missiles have been deployed in the Sea of Japan near Korea.

Boston Bomb Likely Stops Chance of ET Disclosure

The Citizens Hearing would provide an excellent vehicle for the administration to encourage the news media to support disclosure. The recent terrorist bombings at the Boston Marathon will likely delay any possibility of announcing the existence of extraterrestrial life.  The bombs were apparently inside pressure cookers with nails steel balls and hidden inside a black nylon bag seen  near the curb. Apparently, one suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev a 26 year old is dead after shooting a policeman, and also being killed. Tamerlan was killed late Thursday night after a shootout with police in Watertown, outside Boston. Tamerlan, was originally from Chechnya and a boxer.

Authorities are searching for Dzhokhar A.Tsarnaev, 19, the younger brother of the alleged bombers. The dead suspect brother Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is a native of Kyrgyzstan, the Kyrgyz state news agency said. He was studying at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, university officials said. Thanks to the Boston Globe

UFO Reports Down a third in US after 2012 Spike

UFO reporting in the United States appeared to spike during the summer of 2012 with higher numbers until a significant drop in February 2013 in a trend that continued into March, according to UFO report statistics from both the Mutual UFO Network.

Sightings in the United States

Arizona Abductions

 SUN CITY -- Hello my name is Shirley Goodwin.  I took this picture of a UFO at 3AM the first week of April. I have been an abductee since June 6, 1996, when I lived in Maryvale, Arizona.  I moved to Sun City and I was followed by these Demonic Beings. I know they lay the Chemtrails to hide their vehicles and their personal coming and going.

I was noticing a lot of activity inside my bedroom and had my camera with me when I went outside. I took my camera outside to take a picture of a Chemtrail that I thought would be over my house. There were no Chemtrails but a small plane flew house frequently showed up. When I opened up the memory stick the first photo showed streaks coming from the small plane. I was shocked when I saw the next photo. Whatever this object is I did not see it, I did not hear it but my camera did. Keep up the good work at MUFON because these horrible Beings need all the publicity they can get.  I believe Awareness will one day get rid of them. Thanks to Shirley Goodwin

California Lights

San Diego -- On April 14, 2013, at Imperial Beach several witnesses and I saw three objects flying in the night sky. There was a coastal eddy or marine layer with drizzle all day. About 8 pm, I went outside and started to speak to a person on the phone and I heard a boom and a light appeared in the southwest sky. I said, “I’m seeing something strange in the sky, I’ll call back after I film it.”

An object was flying north along the coast and originated over the ocean then disappeared after five minutes. The second object did the same thing, so I called my neighbors to come out and see it. The third object appeared as soon as the other had disappeared and flew slower over the same path as the others.

The objects were like fireballs very bright and red in color it was absolutely amazing. My dog was freaking out and still is acting weird. I am hoping that someone else saw them. The Total sightings lasted twenty minutes. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Florida Light

Pompano Beach – On April 10, 2013, here are a few pictures taken by my wife before heading to work Wednesday the 10th. At around 8 AM she called it to my attention and there was one more guy taking pictures too.

My wife said there was too much glare against the sun light. She only took the pictures because she saw a guy looking up at the sun who was taking pictures. It was cloudy, but there is a strange color around the light.

Note: It is believed that the witness didn’t see the object, but later discovered it in a photo. It would appear that the light in the photo is a lens flare because the photo was taken in the direction of the sun. Thanks to William Puckett, Director http://www.UFOsnw.com

FALMOUTH -- Have witnessed multiple UFOs every night since February 16th, 2013, with hundreds of pictures, videos and dozens of witnesses now after showing people. Military planes, fighter jets, and helicopters fly over regularly. I have videos of UFOs shooting a red beam onto neighbors houses and what I assume they are doing is abducting people late at night, have witnessed this strange behavior numerous times, at least three separate types of ufos here; flying discs, triangles, and large cigar shaped. I watch UFOs come down from the sky at dusk and move slowly about the area until daylight. My family is on edge and concerned with all the activity and will post some pictures. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Illinois Lights

NORMAL -- I was driving down one of the main streets of town going to my friend’s house on April 5, 2013, and the first thing that I noticed was a very bright low light. As it got closer to my car I noticed that it was a very large triangle shape, about three times the size of an airplane. I pulled out my phone and took five pictures of it. The craft appeared to be black, and had white lights around the sides and on the front, and three rows of red lights underneath the craft. It moved very slowly and appeared to be hovering and it was silent. It didn’t blink like on an aircraft. I watched the craft disappear behind trees five minutes later. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Maryland Disc

Dundalk – I spotted a very beautiful and positive frequency of light on April 10, 2013. It seemed as if they were having fun. Their flight pattern was straight up to the sky, and then coming straight towards me at an alarming rate. It was like nothing I’ve ever seen before. I thought it was a nuclear bomb! Then all of a sudden it reduces its speed and turns like a motorcycle, then increases speed again and turns 90 degrees right of them.

Then the spacecraft moved as if it wanted to be seen. It was like a dish with top as usually interpreted. It had blue lights circulating the dome and every turn had white light sparks. The blue was vibrant and different, and I liked it. I’m just a young man from Baltimore and I have a great video. I promise I’m not exaggerating. Thanks to MUFON CMS

New Jersey Flew 250 Feet Up Across the Sky

EGG HARBOR -- I was sitting on my back porch watching the doves in the trees I saw a small object coming from the left about 2 or 300 ft. off the ground across the trees in front of me above my house on April 9, 2013. It then looked like a bird to me at first then it looked like balloons and then it got closer, I could see what it was, it looked gun black, about 10 ft round and 6 to 8 ft tall. It looked like a thread bobbing, it flew across the sky, the same speed and until it went out of my sight. It took about 30 seconds to go from left to right, absolutely no noise, it blew my mind. I could not believe I saw that in the sky. I live two miles from the FAA center in New Jersey and know this was not a plane. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Air Force F-102's Chase a UFO Oregon

 PORTLAND -- Just before dawn, police officer Robert Dickerson was cruising the city streets in his patrol car when he noticed a bright falling object like a meteor on September 24, 1959. But instead of "burning out," the object took on a larger, ball-like appearance, stopped abruptly, and hovered about 200 feet above the ground. Its glow lit up juniper trees below it.

The patrolman watched the UFO for several minutes, and then drove toward it on Prineville Highway, turning in at the airport. The UFO changed color from bright white to a duller red-orange color, and dived rapidly to a new position NE of Redmond airport. The object hovered over Redmond Airport southeast of the city of Portland. Patrolman Dickerson, Wertz, and others studied the hovering object through binoculars. The UFO was round and flat, with tongues of "flame" periodically extending from the rim.

At 5:10 am, official logs show the UFO was reported to Seattle Air Route Control Center and Hamilton Air Force Base. The Seattle log continues:

"UFO was also seen on the radar at Klamath Falls Ground Control Intercept (GCI) site. Six F-102 fighters were scrambled from Portland. As they took off, the Air Force radioed the pilots of a B-47 bomber and an F-89 fighter nearby, ordering them to join the chase. The Redmond Observers saw a high speed aircraft approaching from the southwest. The Redmond log continues: "As aircraft approached, UFO took the shape of a mushroom, observed long yellow and red flame from lower side as UFO rose rapidly and disappeared above-clouds." The UFO was seen again hovering 25 miles south of the airport and radar picked up the UFO south of Redmond for about two hours changing altitudes from 5.000 feet to 52.000 feet

 Thanks to Ken Pfeifer MUFON NJ www.worldufophotos.org

Pennsylvania Flashes

Wilkes-Barre, Wyoming Valley -- I take pictures on partly cloudy days such as on April 6, 2013, and you’ll see little flashes like diamonds. When you see the flash start taking pictures but you will not see anything until you review the pictures. Sometimes they are white, or dark round objects but they are always there. They may be drones from bigger craft, or they come from space, or underground. Perhaps they are alive themselves. I know that they are not something I could see without the help of a camera. If someone with a high speed camera did this just for a couple days they would likely get something. Happy hunting! Thanks to MUFON CMS

Texas Photo

Corpus Christi -- Don Burleson writes, “At first impression I thought the Corpus Christi image might be sundogs, but after doing some enhancement (just cropping and a little re-contrast and adjustment of saturation and lighting).

I’m not so sure. Have a look.” – Thanks to Don Burleson

Wyoming Cylinder

Colter Bay RV YELLOWSTONE park -- Our family was on the way to Colter Bay as my nephew was taking pictures of the beautiful Grand Teton Mountains on July 18, 2008. He noticed an object on his camera screen. He showed me the camera and I instructed him to continue taking pictures. We never heard or saw anything visual in the sky. All we had was the actual photograph of an object. On the way home, we stopped in Roswell and showed it to the museum. They asked when it was taken and stated, “They had sightings at that same time.” Thanks to MUFON CMS

Worldwide UFO Sightings

Australia Mothership

Kingaroy – I was outside admiring the incredibly bright night sky with another person when we observed many unusual orbs darting across the sky on February 21, 2013. Some were meteorites yet others were different altogether. I had a strange feeling that caused me to look over my right shoulder to see a large high altitude object that was moving slowly. Using line of sight and landmarks I determined it was flying in a southerly direction headed south over the Bunya Mountains.

It was higher and much larger than the commercial jets heading north to Queensland. This was a massive mother ship larger than a city in a typical cigar design. The massive cigar object had a bright light at either end and between was the dark shape of the body of the 'vehicle.

I was amazed and could not speak during the event out of shock and excitement. After ten minutes, it moved slowly until it disappeared into the southern horizon around 2:26 am. I have never seen anything like it. We watched until 4 am when we saw another object with a massive bright light and then a swift darting back and forth to the same locations. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Brazil Light

Itajai, SC -- I filmed a strange light late on Saturday April 6, 2013. I posted the original video, unedited, on YouTube. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Bulgaria Glowing

Kozloduy – On April 11, 2013, a sunny day as I was travelling with my husband back to Kozloduy while taking pictures when I saw a glowing object in the picture that really surprised me, because the sky was almost clear. There were a few little white fluffy clouds, but the object didn't look like them. I actually didn't really see it. To make sure that it wasn’t some defect on my lens, I took some more pictures, but the object didn't show again. After we saw that picture we joked "What the aliens would be searching for in a small village like Butan? Now seriously, I don't know what to think. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Canada Orb

CHILLIWACK – On April 15,2013, I was on a 4th floor apartment looking east, south east and seen a red/orange round light/orb pulsating and rising in altitude, seems to be going away from me. It wasn’t a plane and it was bigger than a star. It reminded me of a signal flare but not as bright as that. It got higher and dimmer and looked like it went into the cloud eventually. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Iran Object

Malayer -- Every year on the second of April my large family goes on a picnic where I was taking numerous photos with my mobile phone. In one photo an unidentified flying object is present. I never saw it, but it is in my photo. Please research about it and see if it was observed in other places? I used my mobile Galaxy Gio 3.2 MP camera. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Netherlands Lights

ZEELAND – On March 20, 2013, I was driving my car and saw two lights under a cloud. It was bizarre as I saw the light disappearing after looking after it for three minutes. I was happy that I was able to see it well while I was driving. I stopped my car and watched for six minutes before it disappeared. I didn’t get a photo because I didn't have my cell phone or camera with me. But I got a bizarre video of something; bit I don’t know what it is. Maybe you know. There are two things on one video. First a weird cloud, and a second a black stripe out of space. In the future I’ll never forget my camera again for the lights. Thanks to MUFON CMS

UK/England Triangle

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“Yes, there have been ET visitations. There have been crashed craft. There have been material and bodies recovered. There has been a certain amount of reverse engineering that has allowed some of these craft, or some components, to be duplicated. And there is some group of people that may or may not be associated with government at this point, but certainly were at one time, that have this knowledge. They have been attempting to conceal this knowledge or not permit it to be widely disseminated. ...

People in high level government have very, very little, if any, valid information about this. Most have no more knowledge than the man in the street.

[As to] the question, "How could it be kept secret?" It hasn't been kept secret. It's been there all along. But it has been the subject of disinformation in order to deflect attention and create confusion so the truth doesn't come out. I believe it is a very important effort that we get Congressional oversight of all this.” pp. 61-64. See also The Way of the Explorer, Edgar Mitchell and Dwight Williams, p. 212

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  LES OVNIS DE L’HUDSON RIVER 

L’une des plus extraordinaires observations d’ovnis au XXème siècle aux Etats-Unis.

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A voir absolument !

Vous pouvez désormais visionner les deux premières parties de la conférence de M. Thierry Gay sur notre site Dailymotion à l’adresse suivante :

http://www.dailymotion.com/ovniinvestigation#video=xwug46

Cette conférence exceptionnelle a été enregistrée dans son intégralité le samedi 6 avril dans le cadre des Rencontres des Sciences et de l’Inexpliqué à Lyon. En raison de la durée de la conférence (plus de 3 heures), il reste encore deux parties à mettre en ligne. Nous remercions M. Bernard Jolivet pour son travail de préparation et de mise en ligne des vidéos.

Je rappelle que la vague d’ovnis de l’Hudson River est l’une des plus extraordinaires affaire ufologique du XXème siècle. Plus de 7000 témoins directs des évènements, la centrale nucléaire d’Indian Point survolée au moins deux fois pendant plusieurs dizaines de minutes. Survol qui a été intégralement filmé par les caméra de surveillance. Cette affaire d’une ampleur inégalée comporte toutes les facettes du phénomène ovni, avec des enlèvements, des contacts psychiques entre les témoins et les ovnis observés. Si vous souhaitez en savoir plus rendez-vous sur Dailymotion…

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