UFO NEWS: 'Perfect 1950s flying saucer' filmed above crop circle

A CROP circle "expert" claims the mysterious corn field formations could be caused by aliens or other paranormal forces after allegedly filming a series of UFOs over the baffling creations.

Witness freaks out after seeing dark elongated shape in the clouds over Sanford, Canada (Video)

On July 9, 2017, a resident of Sanford MB in Canada was making hay when he noticed that something very strange happened in the sky.

According to the witness, it was as the clouds seemed to funnel towards a dark object, which at first glance looked like a dark human-like figure standing on top of a cloud before it changed into a dark elongated shape.

Although he felt freaked out during seeing, he then witnessed the elongated shape fired something into the air.

As it was dark shortly and he had a lot of work to do, he got back to concentrating on his job instead of staring to the object that sat in the sky, but not before he took some images of the object as well as he recorded the strange appearance in the sky which files he has submitted to the Mutual UFO Network (Mufon case file) for further investigation.

You can see the witness’s original video of the strange event, which starts at the moment the dark elongated shape fires something into the air at the following Mufon link:
https://www.mufoncms.com/files_jeud8334j/85962_submitter_file2__20170709214833.mp4

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Strange UFO object discovered in photo taken of “Witch Rock” formation outside Shingletown, California

A strange UFO object has been discovered in a photo taken of a rock formation near Shingletown, California. Interestingly, the object is similar to a UFO object which has been photographed by passenger on the Durango/Silverton train in Colorado, see third image below.

Witness states: A guy I was dating had taken me out for a jeep ride around the back forest roads of Lassen National Volcanic Park, outside of Shingletown, California.

I noticed a rock formation that had a face that looked very much like a classic hook-nosed witch.

I couldn't get a very good photo due to the distance away with my phone's camera, so he returned the next day with his DSLR to photograph the formation for me (to which I had given the name "Witch Rock").

He took several photos of the formation, and I noticed in one of them, there is a colorful object just below the witch's nose.

Interestingly, several photos were taken in quick succession, but only this one photo shows the object.

Zooming in on it, it appears to be a cigar-shaped shape, casting a shadow on its underside.

It must have been moving faster than the eye can see, because my friend observed nothing in person. The fact that it stands out grey against the white clouds behind it says it was somewhat near. The images were submitted to the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON case file).

How ‘Aliens’ Have Been Responsible For Many Horrific Murders

 

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The belief that aliens are controlling or possessing you is more common than you might think. For a variety of reasons, these kind of thoughts can suddenly occur and can have tragic consequences.

At the moment there is an ongoing trial in New South Wales, Australia, of an unnamed 44-year-old woman. She is accused of killing her young daughter sometime after Christmas 2000, to sacrifice her to the ‘wolfman’.

Michelle Hanlon, a friend of the woman, told the NSW Supreme Court D the woman disappeared for three days, and on returning said she had gone to the top of a hill to wait for aliens to take her home.

The wolfman, who rode a motorbike and was allegedly stalking her, was trying to prevent her from going with the aliens. To stop him, the woman believed she had to kill her daughter to distract the wolfman and enable thein Newcastle that by the late 1990s her personality had changed and had become very melancholic. After taking LS aliens to save her.

A similar harrowing and tragic case involved 57-year-old grandmother Gloria Stephens. Fearing that an alien machine, like a giant vacuum cleaner, was going to suck her two grandchildren to another planet, she stabbed one of them to death with a kitchen knife. She thought that by killing 10-year-old Tasha, 7-year-old Andrea and herself they would escape the aliens and get together again in paradise.

At her Old Bailey trial in June 1986, it was revealed that Stephens had boasted that in past lives she had been ‘Diana the huntress’ and various kings and queens. Her interest in all things psychic was dominated by a fear of aliens, who allegedly made regular visits to her and on several occasions had beamed her onboard their craft. She even kept clothing and personal effects in plastic bags ready for the day when she expected the aliens to take her away for good.

In June 2004, schizophrenic Graham Abram leapt out of bed and drove off in a car shouting: “Can you see the force, can you see the force?”

He thought he was St Peter being chased by demonic aliens, as he drove at high speed on the wrong side of the road in Leeds, Yorkshire. After covering two miles he was overtaking cars on Hill Top Road, Bramley when he drove head-on into a car being driven by 75-year-old pensioner, Dennis Rose. Mr. Rose died at the scene of the accident. At Leeds Crown Court, Judge Trevor Kent-Jones said that 47-year-old Abram had suffered a ‘quite sudden and unexpected severe relapse’.

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As the following cases show, driving away from an alien menace seems to be a common factor.

A year earlier, on Saturday 19 July 2003, Roderick Nigel Martin was involved in an alien-induced accident. After nearly hitting six vehicles he finally had a head-on collision with a car driven by 66-year-old Raymond John Turner. Mr Turner died from his injuries.

When Martin appeared at the Ballarat Magistrates Court in Victoria, Australia in 2005, his defence was that he had stolen the truck to escape aliens whom he thought were trying to take over human bodies. He was given a 14-year jail sentence and ordered to serve at least 10 years in prison.

At 4.51am on 21 June 2000 Eric Michael Clark was driving his pick-up truck in Flagstaff, Arizona when he was pulled over by police officer Jeff Moritz. Clark, a 17-year-old high school senior, shot dead the officer. His defence was that he suffered from paranoid schizophrenia. He had thought his parents were aliens and that the town was also populated by aliens, and that some disguised as government agents were out to kill him.

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A chain of tragic events started when Scott Krause’s girlfriend kicked him out of their home. On the afternoon of 6 January 2004 he stole a truck from a petrol station and sped off towards Nevada County Airport. Swerving and weaving across the traffic lanes of Highway 49 he eventually hit a UPS truck being driven by 34-year-old Drew Reynolds. The UPS truck careered into a utility pole killing Reynolds.

Krause’s defence was that he believed he was being pursued by ‘man-eating subterranean beings’ whom he thought were trying to capture him and send him to China. He called these beings ‘hemodrones’. He drove erratically because alien voices in his head increasingly warned him that they wanted to eat him alive.

27-year-old Allison Lamont Norman went on a shooting rampage in April 2005. It began when he shot to death Jamell Weston and wounded his cousin Marcus Cannon at the Carvel Gardens apartment complex in Laurel, Delaware. Wearing a bulletproof vest and brandishing a hand gun he went to a nearby shopping centre where he shot and wounded another man. Stealing a car he drove to Salisbury, Maryland, where he shot two dogs, wounded two more men and shot to death DaVondale M. ‘Pete’ Peters.

During his trial, held in Delaware in June 2007, defence attorney Brendan O’Neill told the court that Norman went on this spree because: “He thought there were aliens everywhere.”

Surprisingly, such delusions have a long history, with incidents stretching as far back as the 19th century. Chris Aubeck, the author of a forthcoming book on this subject, has discovered several instances, including one described by the Philadelphia Inquirer of 14 February 1896 as a ‘queer case’. This concerned a vagrant called John Moriety who said he and his brother were shot to Earth from the Moon by a mortar. Landing in Jersey he said it was his mission to reform the laws of the State.

In October 1900, a suspicious man lurking on a street corner in Anaconda, Montana ran away from the police. When he was caught they asked him why he ran away. His reply was that he had jumped out of the moon and he thought any man who jumped out of the moon had a right to run.

Another vagrant called Carmichael, who was arrested in Western Australia in 1907, declared he was from Mars. Allegedly he was 5,000 years old and his mission was to collect information that would make it easier for his Martian friends to signal the Earth.

This possession or control by alien entities can be viewed as a variant of the demonic possession that has long haunted humanity. Alien possession is a mental phenomenon that might be triggered by trauma, drugs or underlying psychological or psychiatric problems.

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Some, however, take the more direct option that alien possession is exactly what it says. The late Dr. William J Baldwin believed that aliens in nearby spacecraft are able to communicate with your mind when you are in an altered state of consciousness. He thought aliens are scientists and technicians who are conducting a long-term genetic experiment with the human race.

Another strand to this viewpoint is that secret government agencies are brainwashing people and that they have equipment that can control minds at a distance. Some even think that these activities are done in conjunction and with the cooperation of the aliens.

Whatever the causes, the outcome of a belief that aliens are trying to get us or our loved ones can lead to tragic and fatal consequences.

If someone asked you to point on a globe to where the highest concentration of volcanoes on Earth might be, where would your finger land? Indonesia? Mexico? Italy? East Africa? If your index digit first flipped the globe over before poking Antarctica … congratulations! Your lucky guess has just been confirmed by a new study which found 91 previously unknown volcanoes under the ice in western Antarctica. Is the continent’s frozen surface in danger of melting from below as well as above?

“The big question is: how active are these volcanoes? That is something we need to determine as quickly as possible.”

That somewhat panicky statement comes from Dr. Robert Bingham of the University of Edinburgh’s School of GeoSciences where researchers conducted a first-of-its-kind study that identified 91 volcanoes measuring from 100 meters (328 feet) to 3,850 meters (2.4 miles) in the area known as the West Antarctic Rift System. The project was suggested by Max Van Wyk de Vries, a third-year student at the school who went looking for volcanoes in what would seem to be the least likely place on Earth.

“Antarctica remains among the least studied areas of the globe, and as a young scientist I was excited to learn about something new and not well understood.”

According to the results published in the Geological Society Special Publications series, the research team used Bedmap 2 DEM, a digital elevation model, and data from ground-penetrating radar and satellite imaging to survey the underside of Antarctic ice for peaks of basalt rock, which is a volcanic indicator found when some of these peaks have actually poked through the ice. While they weren’t surprised to find more underground volcanoes, Bingham says they were shocked at the number.

“We were amazed. We did not expected to find anything like that number. We have almost trebled the number of volcanoes known to exist in west Antarctica.”

Are any of these newly-discovered Antarctic volcanoes active? That’s a good question which needs seismic analysis to answer. However, previous studies indicate that there was volcanic activity on the Antarctic continent during previous periods when it was warmer and the current warming trend (you remember the recent big iceberg, don’t you?) could thaw them out and stir them up again.

“If one of these volcanoes were to erupt it could further destabilise west Antarctica’s ice sheets. Anything that causes the melting of ice – which an eruption certainly would – is likely to speed up the flow of ice into the sea.”

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If you think Dr. Bingham sounds worried, you’re right.

“The most volcanism that is going in the world at present is in regions that have only recently lost their glacier covering – after the end of the last ice age. These places include Iceland and Alaska.”

I don’t live near any of these places but I may think twice about throwing salt on my driveway this winter.

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Zo schrijft SpaceX vandaag (opnieuw) ruimtevaartgeschiedenis - HLN.be

Bron: Belga, Mashable

De lancering van een Falcon 9 vanop Cape Canaveral, eerder dit jaar.

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RUIMTEVAART SpaceX heeft vandaag een raket gelanceerd en opnieuw doen landen. Het is de veertiende keer dat het ruimtebedrijf van Elon Musk een raket weer op aarde liet landen. Routine, zegt u? Dat valt nog te bezien: tot heel recent was dit huzarenstukje nog onmogelijk uit te voeren.

De Falcon 9 is vanavond om 18.31 uur Belgische tijd gelanceerd vanop de ruimtevaartbasis Cape Canaveral. Aan boord is onder andere een supercomputer van Hewlett Packard, bestemd voor het internationaal ruimtestation ISS. De bedoeling hiervan is een jaar lang de capaciteiten van een commerciële computer te testen in extreme omstandigheden in de ruimte. 

Zo'n tien minuten later keerde het eerste deel van de raket terug naar de aarde om te landen. Dat gebeurde ditmaal niet op zee, maar op het land. SpaceX heeft in totaal al dertien raketten opnieuw laten landen, waarvan vijf op een landingsplatform op het land. Voordien gebeurde dat op een drijvend platform op zee. 

De lancering is te herbekijken via het YouTube-kanaal van SpaceX:

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Het is de twaalfde keer dat SpaceX een Dragon-capsule naar het ISS stuurt. Het opnieuw laten landen van de raket, nadat de capsule is losgekoppeld, begint stilaan routine te lijken. Maar tot voor kort was dit onmogelijk. SpaceX werd in 2012 het eerste commerciële ruimtevaartbedrijf dat raketten mocht lanceren vanop Cape Canaveral. Drie jaar later landde de eerste raket weer op aarde.

Het bedrijf heeft zelfs al gerecycleerde raketten gelanceerd die er meer dan één missie hebben opzitten. Dat is een belangrijk deel van Musks plan om ruimtevaart betaalbaarder te maken.

SpaceX heeft dit jaar al elf missies gelanceerd, een record voor het bedrijf.

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Alien in the skies: Mystery hexagon cloud formation over Finland is ‘clearly a UFO’

A BIZARRE cloud formation appeared over Finland leading to claims that it was a result of alien activity.

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The mesmerising cloud looks similar to a hexagon and seems almost too perfect to be caused naturally, according to conspiracy theorists.

The incredible cloud formation was spotted on Wednesday morning over the Scandinavian country and quickly uploaded to social media by people who snapped it.

One person wrote on Twitter: “It is clearly a UFO”

Another added on Facebook: “For a certain cloud formation that's not too common we sure are seeing them often. I'm finished accepting what ‘they’ want us to believe so from here on out we must question everything.”

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While a third posted: “Cloaked UFO sitting at Cloud level. Just saying!”

However, the Finnish Meteorological Institute chipped in, stating the odd cloud was probably formed by ice crystals in the sky reacting with a ‘plate’ of droplets a bit lower down in the skies.

Paavo Korpela, a meteorologist with the Finnish Meteorological Institute, told Iltalehti: “That cloud layer, which is now there, is about six to seven miles (10-12km) high, and the temperature is over 20 degrees frost (12 Fahrenheit). 

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“One explanation could be that if ice crystals come from above cloud layers, it causes very rapid liquid water freezing in ice crystals, where clouds will rain down and evaporate at the same time.” 

It is not the first time that civilians have been baffled by a cloud formation and cried alien.

Black rings have been spotted across the world, which some believe is a sign of alien activity.

In April, onlookers in the Russian city of Novosibirsk spotted tan odd black circular cloud, while in 2016, an almost identical one was spotted over Disneyland, California.

The numerous sightings have seen alien hunters clamouring to offer their opinions, with prominent UFO blogger Scott C Waring saying it is a type of extra-terrestrial space craft.

He wrote about the sighting over Disneyland: “Ring UFOs are super rare, but they have been seen.

“This UFO is over Disneyland and causes the family to worry about an alien invasion.”

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'It's coming towards us' Black ringed UFO leaves beachgoers transfixed

CROWDS were left in awe when a black, ringed UFO flew in the skies above a packed beach in Dalian, China.

Jaw-Dropping Enormous Tall Land Vortex filmed in Jaguapita, Brazil

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Glowing Meteorite crashes into homeowner’s backyard in Appling, Georgia

Jay Sullivent heard a loud bang and thought there had been a car accident on the road in front of his house in Appling, Georgia on July 21, 2017.

Credit images: CratersNews / Jay Sullivent.

According to CratersNews, he went running outside but instead of a car accident he discovered a burnt circle of grass in his backyard with smoke still rising from it.

Approaching closer he discovered a flame and a small piece of pink colored rock in the middle of the spot and concluded that it was a small meteorite, before he took it out of the hole.

   

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NASA Says Trappist-1 Planetary System Is Older Than Our Own Solar System

What message would you send to outer space? NASA/JPL-Caltech, CC BY

Forty years ago, NASA launched Voyager I and II to explore the outer solar system. The twin spacecraft both visited Jupiter and Saturn; from there Voyager I explored the hazy moon Titan, while Voyager II became the first (and, to date, only) probe to explore Uranus and Neptune. Since they move too quickly and have too little propellant to stop themselves, both spacecraft are now on what NASA calls their Interstellar Mission, exploring the space between the stars as they head out into the galaxy.

Instructions to a far-off listener. NASA/JPL, CC BY

Both craft carry Golden Records: 12-inch phonographic gold-plated copper records, along with needles and cartridges, all designed to last indefinitely in interstellar space. Inscribed on the records’ covers are instructions for their use and a sort of “map” designed to describe the Earth’s location in the galaxy in a way that extraterrestrials might understand.

The grooves of the records record both ordinary audio and 115 encoded images. A team led by astronomer Carl Sagan selected the contents, chosen to embody a message representative of all of humanity. They settled on elements such as audio greetings in 55 languages, the brain waves of “a young woman in love” (actually the project’s creative director Ann Druyan, days after falling in love with Carl Sagan), a wide-ranging selection of musical excerpts from Blind Willie Johnson to honkyoku, technical drawings and images of people from around the world, including Saan Hunters, city traffic and a nursing mother and child.

Since we still have not detected any alien life, we cannot know to what degree the records would be properly interpreted. Researchers still debate what forms such messages should take. For instance, should they include a star map identifying Earth? Should we focus on ourselves, or all life on Earth? Should we present ourselves as we are, or as comics artist Jack Kirby would have had it, as “the exuberant, self-confident super visions with which we’ve clothed ourselves since time immemorial”?

But the records serve a broader purpose than spreading the word that we’re here on our blue marble. After all, given the vast distances between the stars, it’s not realistic to expect an answer to these messages within many human lifetimes. So why send them and does their content even matter? Referring to earlier, similar efforts with the Pioneer spacecraft, Carl Sagan wrote, “the greater significance of the Pioneer 10 plaque is not as a message to out there; it is as a message to back here.” The real audience of these kinds of messages is not ET, but humanity.

Pioneer 10’s plaque: ‘Hi, we’re here.’ NASA, CC BY

In this light, 40 years’ hindsight shows the experiment to be quite a success, as they continue to inspire research and reflection.

Only two years after the launch of these messages to the stars, “Star Trek: The Motion Picture” imagined the success of similar efforts by (the fictional) Voyager VI. Since then, there have been Ph.D. theses written on the records’ content, investigations into the identity of the person heard laughing and successful crowdfunded efforts to reissue the records themselves for home playback.

The choice to include music has inspired introspection on the nature of music as a human endeavor, and what it would (or even could) mean to an alien species. If an ET even has ears, it’s still far from clear whether it would or could appreciate rhythm, tones, vocal inflection, verbal language or even art of any kind. As music scholars Nelson and Polansky put it, “By imagining an Other listening, we reflect back upon ourselves, and open our selves and cultures to new musics and understandings, other possibilities, different worlds.”

Engineers mount the Golden Record and secure its cover on Voyager 1. NASA/JPL-Caltech, CC BY

The records also represent humanity’s deliberate effort to put artifacts among the stars. Unlike everything on Earth, which is subject to erosion and all but inevitable destruction (from the sun’s eventual demise, if nothing else), the Golden Records are essentially eternal, a permanent time capsule of humanity. And unlike the Voyager spacecraft themselves – which were designed to have finite lifespans and whose journey into interstellar space was incidental to their primary function of exploring the outer planets – the Golden Records’ only purpose is to serve as ambassadors of humanity to the stars.

Placing artifacts in interstellar space thus makes the galaxy subject to the social studies, in addition to astronomy. The Golden Records mark our claim to interstellar space as part of our cultural landscape and heritage, and once the Voyager spacecraft themselves are not functional any longer, they will become proper achaeological objects. They are, in a sense, how we as a species have planted our flag of exploration in space. Anthropologist Michael Oman-Reagan muses, “Has NASA been to interstellar space because this spacecraft has? Have we, as a human species, [now] been to interstellar space?”

I would argue we have, and we are a better species for it. Like the Pioneer plaques and the Arecibo Message before them, the Golden Records inspire us to broaden our minds about what it means to be human; what we value as humans; and about our place and role in the cosmos by having us imagine what we might, or might not, have in common with any alien species our Voyagers eventually encounter on their very long journeys.

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Giant hole on Mars could be work of aliens, researchers say

Tyler Glockner, who runs SecureTeam 10, said the hole is estimated to be hundreds of feet across. The rocky terrain of Mars -- which like Earth, has polar ice caps -- does not account for what the depression is, Glockner added.

The images come courtesy of NASA's Mars reconassiance orbiter, which has been exploring the planet.

Below is the video in its entirety:

NASA has given several possibilities of what could have caused the hole, including meteorites, lava tubes, ancient floods and volcanoes. But conspiracy theorists have other ideas.

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Glockner said the hole shows artificial characteristics, noting that it looks as if it has been hollowed out. Glockner added that the hole could also be an entrance of an underground civilization.

SecureTeam 10, which has nearly 900,000 YouTube subscribers, often runs conspiracy theory-based videos. The organization describes itself as the "source for reporting the best in new UFO sighting news, info on the space cover-up, and the strange activity happening on and off of our planet."

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Mining complex on the moon? UFO hunter claims structures visible on lunar surface

File photo: A supermoon appears after a total "supermoon" lunar eclipse in Brussels September 28, 2015.

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The truth is out there: 10 of the most bizarre UFO sightings in south-east London and north Kent

UFOs have been spotted across south-east London and north Kent

Tony Histed spotted this strange feature in the sky

Many of us spent time this weekend gazing up at the night sky, hoping to catch a glimpse of the Perseid meteor shower – only to be disappointed by the clouds marring the view. But the News Shopper area has had its fair share of objects in the sky that are harder to explain than the weekend’s celestial show.

Bright lights in Bexley, light shows in Lewisham, and eerie crafts in Erith – we take a look at some of the area’s most notorious UFO sightings.

1. Mother(ship) of all sightings at Thames Barrier

 

Andrew Burlington, of Cliffview Road, Lewisham, was out with his family in August 2016 when he spotted what he thinks may have been a fleet of UFOs flying over the Thames Barrier. He witnessed with his two nephews what they at first thought were balloons moving along the river, in the direction of Charlton, and caught the whole things on camera. “The fact that a long anomalous object shoots across the sky at the start of the video may well indicate that a UFO mothership was above the Thames Barrier releasing smaller UFOs,” said Mr Burlington.

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2. Engine trouble in Bexleyheath

Margaret Fry and her doctor reported seeing a 30-foot-wide craft hovering over the street in broad daylight on July 17, 1955. Car engines nearby reportedly stalled, and the object was seen by around 30 people as it landed at the junction of Ashbourne Avenue and Whitfield Road, near King Harold’s Way.

3. ‘Intelligent life’ over Lewisham

Andrew Burlington and his father, Les, again spotted an unidentified craft over their home on February 22, 2014. They ruled out the craft being a Chinese lantern because it appeared to change direction several times. Mr Burlington said: "Whatever it was, we all agree on one thing - it was being intelligently controlled."

• Read the full story, here.

4. Mystery repeating in Bexleyheath

King Harold’s Way was again the scene of a mysterious sighting on December 30, 2014, when Tony Histed spotted strange lights in the sky and saw two orbs flying up off the ground from the building site he was working at.

• Read the full story, here.

5. Latest lights over Lewisham

The most recent sighting over Lewisham was on July 2 this year, according to Facebook group Lewisham UFO Sightings. An object was seen making little or no sound, moving north and with three separate lights on it.

6. Gravesend visitations

A ball of lights was seen hovering over Deering Way for about 30 minutes at 7.50pm February 19, 2009 and reported to the Ministry of Defence, according to files released by the Ministry in 2013. No other sightings were reported in the area that evening, according to the Ministry.

• Read the full story, here.

7. Policing the skies

Two on-duty Metropolitan police officers witnessed a yellow UFO over Coldbath Street, Lewisham in May 1978. The craft hovered in the air for around 20 minutes, and was witnessed by several members of the public on the same evening. The officers described the UFO as ‘six times brighter than any star.’

8. Erith enigma

A sighting in Erith in September 1998 reported two objects larger than planes, both with round fronts, lit in red and blue. This sighting is listed in a government database of UFO sightings which was maintained until 2009 when it was discontinued along with the accompanying hotline because it served ‘no defence purpose,’ according to the Ministry of Defence.

9. Shapeshifting in Gravesend

A policeman was called by a mother and son in October 1993 after they described seeing an object in the sky. The UFO, which was reported to the Ministry of Defence in a seven-page report, apparently changed from being bell-shaped into an oval with protruding spikes.

10. Lights over the Dartford Crossing

Amateur photographer Gary Porter spotted these UFOs by the Dartford Crossing in September 2011 and managed to capture them on camera. He was on the industrial estate in Galleon Boulevard with his girlfriend when they noticed small, bright, circular lights in red, green and blue. Mr Porter said: "Mr Porter said: "There wasn't anything unusual to the eye. It was when we took a photo they appeared on the screen. The longer the exposure the brighter these things came out. They look almost as if they are a heat source."

The 25-year-old added: "I have spoken to friends and other photographers and Greenwich Observatory and there's no one who can explain what it is."

• Read the full story, here. 

Have you seen a UFO recently, or something you can't explain? Contact tom.bull@london.newsquest.co.uk

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UFO and secret alien base reports found in declassified U.S. Forest Service documents

Posted by: Alejandro Rojas 

The UFO files of the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) have been declassified. There are 20 pages in the files, and although there is a dubious claim about the construction of a secret alien base and an unconvincing UFO photo, there is an interesting UFO report from U.S. Air Force personnel at a radar station in Montana.

The Forest Service UFO files were obtained via a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request by John Greenewald. Greenewald runs TheBlackVault.com, a site that houses over one million declassified files obtained via FOIA requests.

Greenewald says he made the request in November, 2016 and received the files in February, 2017.

UFO Photo in Bighorn National Forest

The first report in the file is a letter and photographs from a man who says he caught something “very strange” in a photograph he took while visiting Lost Twin Lakes in Bighorn National Forest. The witness says he did not see or hear anything unusual while taking the picture, but he noticed an odd object in one of the photos when he reviewed them later. He speculates that perhaps it is a drone, but also says he did some research and did not find any drones that looked like the object in the image.

The marker shows the location of Lost Twin Lakes in Bighorn National Forest.

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The photograph was taken at about 2:30 pm on September 12, 2015.

Images of unidentified object at Bighorn National Forest provided to U.S. Forest Service.

(Credit: U.S. Forest Service)

It is hard to make out what exactly the object in the image is, but the USFS files did not include a high resolution image. Greenewald says he did inquire if higher resolution images were available, but they were not.

Enlargement of object in photo.

(Credit: U.S. Forest Service)

Without better images, this blob of light and shadows could be anything, and is likely a bird in flight. Often vacation photos with weird objects that were not noted at the time of their taking turn out to be birds or bugs that look strange in photographs once they are reviewed back home.

The USFS did not include their response to the UFO photog, or if they responded at all.

UFO Sighting at Yaak Air Force Station in Kootenai National Forest

Following the UFO photos letter and was a copy of an article regarding Yaak Air Base. According to the article, Yaak Air Base was in operation from April, 1952 to July, 1960, as part of a number of stations throughout the country that served as an early warning system during the cold war in case of a potential Russian attack. The base was near Yaak, Montana, in the Kootenai National Forest.

Location of Yaak Air Base as described in the article.

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For our purposes, the most interesting paragraph in the article is the last, and in the file provided to Greenewald, is highlighted in yellow.

It reads:

The Yaak Radar Station also had its share of mystery, on Sept. 1 , 1952, Yaak, Montana. 4:45 a.m: Two USAF enlisted men, and three men using AN/FPS-3 radar set. Report visually sighting two small, varicolored lights becoming black silhouettes at dawn, and flying erratically for one hour. The crew at the radar station saw a, “dark, cigar shaped object,” right where the radar had the UFO pinpointed. What these people saw is a mystery to this day.

This is my favorite part of the USFA UFO files. Unfortunately, no further information is provided.

Alien Base Construction in Tonto National Forest

The most sensational claim in the files, and the one picked up by silly UK tabloids, is a report of a secret government installation being constructed that has something to do with aliens. The subject of the report is “Secret govt installation being built in the Salt River Canyon area on the TNF [Tonto National Forest].”

Area of alleged construction of secret government base that has some relation to aliens that eat people.

(Credit: Google Maps)

What is scary is that this is not far from my house. However, it does make it less scary for me that I do not believe an alien base was actually built there.

Here is a report regarding the call that was taken by David of the Forest Service on the morning of December 30, 2013 regarding UFOs, aliens and one detached head.

David received a call this morning at the front desk from a male caller reporting the construction of a secret government installation upstream from the Salt River Canyon past Pinal Creek (upstream from Roosevelt Lake). Aliens and at least one detached head are involved.

Caller claims to have seen construction cranes coming out the side of the cliffs, miniature stealth planes and UFOs, aliens and people working together at the site, aliens eating people. He found a severed head and claims to have pictures of some of this stuff.

Caller reported that he is 60, not crazy, and doesn’t do drugs. He said he had already called the “office at the lake,” but he didn’t know if those people were turning the other cheek or maybe those people have been paid off.

David had him leave a message with Bray.

Please let me know if t here are any Talking Points to be developed. I’m sure the Phoenix media will be all over this.

Thanks.

P.S. David and I aren’t doing drugs either.

The only other item in the files was a report in 2012 of a meteor or space junk that landed in George Washington & Jefferson National Forests and caused a fire. It was determined the fire was caused by a lightning strike. The report states, “Witnesses saw flaming space junk or satellite crash land in these mountains [Massanutten Range, Virginia] which may have caused the forest fire of last year: June 24, 2012, at around 1150PM Sunday.”

You can check out the files yourself at TheBlackVault.com.

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