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Dinsdag 13 oktober 2020

Filer’s Files 41, 2020 Structures on the Moon and Mars - PART I

UFOs taken on October1, 2020, over Claysville, New York

Filer’s Files 41, 2020 Structures on the Moon and Mars - PART I

Major George A. Filer III ret. USAF

New Jersey State Director

MUFON Eastern Region Director

Www.nationalUFOcenter.com. Now receiving 3 to 4 million hits a month

Sending out 32,000 emails a week

In special reports, this week’s files cover: Moon Structures. Mars Structures, Navy UFOs, Patricia Heaton’s Opinion, Strange Craft, and Carbon 60.

Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over California, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and South Carolina.

Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Canada, Malaysia, and Spain.

The Filer Research Institute feels the scientific study of UFOs is for the benefit of humankind and is an important endeavor. The US Air Force investigated UFOs publicly for more than twenty years under Project Blue Book; and I continue this advanced research. I believe the God of the universe has spread life throughout the cosmos and UFO’s are visiting us in ever-increasing numbers.

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Special Projects

Moon Structures

This is important; people don’t seem to recognize its significance. The moon is probably the most mysterious celestial body in our galaxy, it doesn’t spin on its axis, is precisely the right size and distance to make a complete solar eclipse possible, has an incredible amount of both light and artifact anomalies and I am aware of more than one ancient legend saying that it wasn’t always there but rather brought here from somewhere else. Totally weird, all of it. Dr. Johnston has done an incredibly brave thing with this book and I can only hope that more people will read it and consider its possibilities.

In his book Johnston shows ancient structures and likely alien bases. Note series of drones.

Ken Johnston, Sr. reveals how he discovered the truth about alien bases on the moon and how and why NASA tried to cover it up. Ken takes you behind the sacred walls of our space program and leads us to the conclusion that we are, and have been, visited by extraterrestrials. He will also reveal, for the first time, how he wound up at the right place, with the right stuff, at the right time, to do the right thing! Ken did not want to see historical data that could change people’s perspective of the lunar landings, being destroyed. He took those pictures and kept them sealed in document protectors and secluded them in a safe place to ensure that their integrity was not lost. Now, after 47 years, Ken has made his personal archive available to the world so researchers can have access to the high definition digital copies of his first generation pictures at kenjohnstonmedia.com. He says that now that the TRUTH is out there he feels much safer. So many people have taken their part of the truth to their graves, lost forever. Now Dr. Johnston has prevented that from happening by donating HD copies of his entire personal ARCHIVE to the ROSWELL INTERNATIONAL UFO RESEARCH MUSEUM where it will continue to be available to the world.

Apollo Astronaut on the Moon with Earth behind

Bio: R. Ken Johnston, Sr, was one of 4 Civilian Astronaut Consultant Pilots from the Apollo Moon Program, Don Johnson is a retired aerospace engineer, former active duty US Marine, and “NASA Whistle Blower”. He refused to strictly follow orders and destroy a nearly-complete collection of 8? X 10? Glossy photo-prints from the Apollo program. These photos are not available from NASA at this time and are of a higher resolution than what is found on-line. Johnston was born at Fort Sam Houston US Army Air Corps Base in San Antonio, TX. in1942.

Moon Dom

Johnston was hired by Grumman Aircraft Corp. because of his training as a pilot with an avionics background for the Apollo Lunar Module testing. His duty was to assist with cockpit and instrument development and Astronaut training at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. Ken later worked at the Lunar Receiving Laboratory, where all the moon rocks were stored, cataloged, and in some cases, distributed to scientists from around the world. As the Director of the Data and Photo Control Department he had access to all the original lunar pictures, film, and slides.

Moon Tower

When the lunar sample distribution wound down, he was instructed to destroy what remained of the photo archive, but Johnston kept one set as a personal collection for a work portfolio. This personal portfolio became known as “Ken’s Archive” and has been used by researchers from around the world to help them discover evidence of ET presence, past and present on the Moon.

Website: KenJohnstonMedia.com Moon Towers

Lee Guilmette writes: In the latter mid 60’s the Lunar Orbiter’s 5 missions took photographic images of 99.9 % of the entire surface of the moon. The image shows the Crater Tycho’s yawning mouth, 54 miles in diameter. A strange tower pokes out a tongue of stone 7,000 feet high. The crisp rim and untarnished rays is recent by moon standards. Surveyor 7 soft landed on comparatively smooth terrain just beyond the crest of the rim at upper left. With all the pocked craters on the moon and their relative closeness to one another, how did a 7,000 feet high stone tower stand alone to survive such heavy meteorite bombardments? The similarity of the tower-like stone tongues on either hemisphere of the moon are most intriguing. Are they beacons to reflect and transmit the rays of the Sun or broadcast receiver and transmission towers for linkage to the Universal radio waves? Thanks to LEE GUILMETTE

Lecture: Exclusive NASA Photos of Alien Bases on the Moon

Ken Johnston, Sr. reveals how he discovered the truth about alien bases on the moon and how and why NASA tried to cover it up. Ken takes you behind the sacred walls of our space program and leads us to the conclusion that we are, and have been, visited by extraterrestrials. He will also reveal, FOR THE FIRST TIME, how he wound up AT THE RIGHT PLACE, with the RIGHT STUFF, at the RIGHT TIME, to do the RIGHT THING! Ken did not want to see historical data that could change people’s perspective of the lunar landings, being destroyed. He took those pictures and kept them sealed in document protectors and secluded them in a safe place to ensure that their integrity was not lost. Now, after 47 years, Ken has made his personal archive available to the world so researchers can have access to the high definition digital copies of his first generation pictures at kenjohnstonmedia.com. He says that now that the TRUTH is out there he feels much safer. So many people have taken their part of the truth to their graves, lost forever. Now Dr. Johnston has prevented that from happening by donating HD copies of his entire personal ARCHIVE to the ROSWELL INTERNATIONAL UFO RESEARCH MUSEUM where it will continue to be available to the world.

UFO over the Moon

Website: KenJohnstonMedia.com

In his book “Dark Mission,” Hoagland wrote this about the photo prints: “In scanning Ken’s priceless Apollo 14 C-prints, [I’d] discovered that the computer could “see” what the human eye could not—incredible geometric detail in the pitch black areas, like the lunar sky.

Mars Close and Sightings Increase

Water spay at the top center of Mars photo

Mars is often close to Earth when UFO flaps occur. Sightings fell dramatically in December and after Christmas suddenly increased. Despite their excellent record, the Mars Rovers are periodically shut down to avoid certain areas where interesting and extremely unusual images appear on the horizon such as this Spirit Rover shot above of bunker like structures. After passing these places the Rover operates without problems. There are also unidentified flying objects imaged by the Rovers. We were told in the past that there is no life on Mars because there is no water. Now water seems abundant as shown in this NASA photograph.

P. Skipper found this photo of white water spraying at top of photo.

http://www.marsanomalyresearch.com/evidence-reports/2004/068/moon-objects.htm

This image shows what appears to be a log. Perhaps a petrified log that has turned to stone. In any case it seems unlikely that a rock would take this shape. These and hundreds of other features indicate Mars has life or at least at one time had forests and trees.

Japanese Satellite shows Anomalies on the Moon

John E. Combest writes, “I went to the web site for the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) as listed in Filer’s Files #4 and made a detailed study of all the moon photos shown. About 1/5th of the photos have the RED and BLUE color layers misaligned, and about 6 photos are slightly out-of-focus so that no useful study could be made.

Nevertheless, I did find what appear to be artifacts (buildings and other structures) in several of the photos. I enlarged the area of each original photo to show the items of interest, and placed arrows and notations to point out those objects in each of the four attachments.

There is evidence that the Japanese (just like NASA) are practicing airbrushing and black-out to prevent public recognition of some objects, and I have pointed out those instances’.

In view of the length of time their satellite has been orbiting the moon, I am quite surprised that so few photos have been made available.

JAPANESE SPACECRAFT WILL SHOOT MARTIAN MOONS IN 8K RESOLUTION soon giving much better video/

Images courtesy of Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) Jaxa

High Speed Ahead for Falcon

Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2 (HTV-2) is an experimental hypersonic glide vehicle developed as part of the DARPA Falcon Project capable of flying at 13,000 mph (Mach 17.53, 21,000 km/h).^[1]^[2] It is a test bed for technologies to provide the United States with the capability to reach any target in the world within one hour (Prompt Global Strike) using an unmanned hypersonic bomber aircraft.^[3]

The Falcon HTV-1 program, which preceded the Falcon HTV-2 program, was conducted in April, 2010. The mission ended within nine minutes from launch.^[3] Both these missions are funded by the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to help develop hypersonic technologies and to demonstrate its effectiveness.^[4] Under the original plan, HTV-1 was to feature a hypersonic lift-to-drag ratio of 2.5, increasing to 3.5-4 for the HTV-2 and 4-5 for the HTV-3. The actual lift-to-drag ratio of HTV-2 was estimated to be 2.6.^[5]

HTV-2 was to lead to the development of an HTV-3X vehicle, known as Blackswift, which would have formed the basis for deployment around 2025 of a reusable Hypersonic Cruise Vehicle, an unmanned aircraft capable of taking off from a conventional runway with a 5,400 kg (12,000 lb) payload to strike targets 16,650 km away in under 2 hours. The HCV would have required a lift-to-drag ratio of 6-7 at Mach 10 and 130,000 ft (40,000m).^[6]

Editor’s Note: The US Space Shuttle program ended in 2010. The release of the information on these programs indicates the US is building a replacement craft. More than likely the earlier models have been flying into space on a regular basis. Rumors persist that secret classified aircraft were the cause of the Texas flap, but sightings have been reported in the area for fifty years.

Navy UFOs or USOs

Triangle craft over Atlantic Ocean

The Navy has been tracking UFOs in the air and under water since before World War 11. Many of these craft come out of the water at various places in the oceans, lakes, and rivers. Although they may come from other planets it is quite possible they are naiveté of Earth. It’s apparent they have overcome gravity in both the sea and sky. Water maul not be too different from atmosphere once a type of enclosure is placed around the craft or underwater base. Some abductees claim to have been flown into the ocean and taken to underwater facilities. The air pressure and facilities are said to be reasonable comfortable. The craft seem to be surrounded by a cushion of air that moves the water ahead of the craft. Submarines have clocked strange underwater craft moving at over a 200 knots/ The Navy has officially release reports of high speed Tic Tac like craft than drop from 100,000 feet to the surface in a few seconds.

Alleged UFO photo taken from the USS Trepang in March 1971.Similar craft to more modern Tic Tac sightings over the US Carrier Nimitz.

Navy Arctic UFO photos allegedly leaked by anonymous source in UFO’s July 16, 2015 8 Comments 39,000 Views

Alejandro Rojas July 15, 2015

Several impressive photos of alleged UFOs over the arctic captured on camera by the Navy in 1971 have been leaked to UFO researchers, and their discovery has been getting worldwide media attention.

UFO researcher Alex Mistretta claims that the images were originally given to him by an anonymous source in Europe. Later, he discovered that they were also published in a French paranormal magazine called Top Secret.

Two of the images from the French magazine Top Secret. The caption reads: “(Top) On this photo, we identify without a doubt a triangular-shaped UFO. It seems to be in trouble. If the order that we have chosen for these pictures is correct, the UFO here seems to now go sideways before plunging into the ocean…”

(Credit: Top Secret/TheBlackVault.com)

To further investigate, Mistretta enlisted the help of John Greenewald, who runs the website TheBlackVault.com. He asked Greenewald to post the pictures in hopes that Greenewald and others may be able to find out more about the images.

After posting the story last week, it began getting international headlines. A Reddit user that goes by the name SqizCat was also able to find higher resolution copies of the images.

The images are fantastic. They seem to be of large objects aloft over the ocean, some, if not all, taken from the periscope of a submarine. The big question is are they real, and if so, what are they?

UFO photo taken from the USS Trepang in March 1971.

Alleged UFO photo taken from the USS Trepang in March 1971. This appears to be a structured craft and not a balloon/

Alleged UFO photo taken from the USS Trepang in March 1971.Visit TheBlackVault.com to see more of the images.

The Investigation

In his email to The Black Vault, Mistretta listed what his anonymous source told him.

The photos were taken from a United State Navy submarine.

Map of the area the photos were allegedly taken.

(Credit: Google Maps/TheBlackVault.com)

The location was between Iceland and Jan Mayen Island in the Northern Atlantic Ocean. (Jan Mayen belongs to Norway, and is only inhabited by the Norwegian Meteorological Institute and the Norwegian military.)
They were taken in March of 1971.
The Submarine was the Navy’s USS Trepang (SSN 674) and the Admiral on board was Dean Reynolds Sackett. Obviously, the next step is to try and locate this Admiral Dean Reynolds, if he exists.
The Submarine came upon the object by “accident”, as they were in the region on a routine joint military and scientific expedition. Officer John Klika was the one who initially spotted the object with the periscope.

Greenewald looked into these claims and he says that he found that Admiral Sackett was onboard the USS Trepang at the time listed. He also found that Officer Kilka was also aboard. Further, he found that the USS Trepang was in the area the source claimed at the time the pictures were allegedly taken.

Image of the USS Trepang

(Credit: Hullnumber.com)

Mistretta wrote: “[Kilka] found the investigation interesting reading, and doesn’t know what the pictures represent. I believe them. I feel confident in saying the Trepang was not involved in the taking of the photographs.”

Although Mistretta now believes his source’s information to be inaccurate, Greenewald found clues that indicate the images may still be real, albeit not extraterrestrial.

Greenewald says, “When I first saw these, I noted there was something very Zeppelin-like about some of the photos, but, unlike the actual Zeppelin’s, it did not have a carrier for the occupants.”

Navy’s USS Trepang

(SSN 674)

By researching the USS Trepang’s whereabouts, he also found this on the site Hullnumber.com: “From 22 February to 22 March [1971], the nuclear attack submarine operated beneath the northern ice cap, conducting extensive tests to provide data for her weapons systems, as well as carrying out scientific experiments concerning the movement, composition, and geological history of the cap itself.” He searched the Library of Congress and found images of test balloons that look similar to what is in some of the images.

Greenewald’s discovery makes it possible, that the images are from test balloons being fired upon by Navy submarines being used in the 70s, Any photos are possibly misidentified objects.

Although the media has picked up on the story, few, if any, have mentioned the investigation work done by Mistretta, Greenewald, and Murillo.

Actress Patricia Heaton Opinion

Actress Patricia Heaton has denounced the Democratic Party’s platform for including what she called a “barbaric” position on abortion.

“I don’t understand why pro-life people want to know if they are ‘welcome’ to join the democrat party [sic],” the “Everybody Loves Raymond” co-star tweeted Wednesday. “Why would any civilized person want to support a barbaric platform that champions abortion for any reason through all nine months funded by taxpayers?” More than a million babies per year are aborted with tax payer funding much of the bill.

Democrat Mayor Buttigieg’s answer as a pass for partial-birth abortion.

“He said as long as a mother wants to abort a baby, at any age, she should be able to even if that means partially delivering a full-grown, 7 lb infant, who can recognize her mother’s voice, and then stabbing her neck and suctioning out her brain then selling the parts.,” she tweeted. Second trimester surgical abortions also involve dismembering a fetus and crushing its skull.

Note: In the next four years woman who has abortions will attempt suicides about a million times according to the Eliot Institute of California.

Strange Craft

The True Story of Major George Filer an Air Force Intelligence Officer and flyer’s Life with UFOs.

Filer belongs to the generation of pilots and airmen who first became aware of the strange aircraft showing up in the Earth’s atmosphere. These men – military professionals began to whisper amongst themselves about encounters with suspected extraterrestrial aircraft.

Award-winning investigative reporter John Guerra spent four years interviewing Filer, a decorated intelligence officer.

Filer’s most memorable case – the shooting of an alien at Fort Dix Army Base/ McGuire AFB in 1978 – is fully recounted. UFO information, for the first time, after decades of denying what its intelligence officers, pilots, and air traffic control personnel know to be true, the military finally admitted to what Filer describes in this incredible book. By John L. Guerra (Author) click on this link: https://amzn.to/2SmCKMy

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FILER FILES - overzicht met foto's met dank aan Georges Filer en WWW.nationalUFOCenter.com (ENG)

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Dinsdag 13 oktober 2020

Filer’s Files 41, 2020 Structures on the Moon and Mars - PART II

UFOs taken on October1, 2020, over Claysville, New York

Filer’s Files 41, 2020 Structures on the Moon and Mars - PART II

UFO Sightings in the United States

Sightings are from MUFON CMS

California Object

Madera — My girlfriend and I were on our way home from Monterey and when we were about 45 minutes from getting home a craft comes out of now where at an altitude of 150 feet. It was just slightly visible above the trees along the highway and I thought by the speed and angle it was coming down at I said to my girlfriend “That is going to be bad.

I was sure it was probably coming in for a crash landing and it had the wing span of a 737… it was only a second or so when I seen it coming but I only seen the lights and no structure. I didn’t realize that it was a UFO until about 15 seconds later when it shot out from behind the tree line the same way it came in but at twice the speed it came in. I was in the Navy and worked with f/18 super hornets and I can say with confidence that when it came down at when I first saw it was going around 220 mph, when it shot out from behind those trees it was going around 370 mph. That was when I realized it was a UFO. After it shot out from behind the trees it started flying beside my vehicle passing over the top of us and the side as well. It did that in a playful manner. I was no more than 150 ft away when it flew along my driver side. But I got as close as 40 ft or so from it at one point. Then it would take off really fast and in 20 seconds time be 5 to 8 miles away.

Florida Lights

Miami –Have been seeing a lot of black and white objects over Miami on September 27, 2020, I have seen then for several months… I have been seeing UFOs for years…. usually at night but last 5 months I’ve been seeing them on a weekly basis during day. I live 4 miles from Miami airport so I know it not drones….. I know what I’m seeing and its getting almost daily…. unfortunately I don’t have good camera only phone… because I could really show more but phone cant capture. on photos that are of downtown zoom in the clouds are strange there is something falling and look closer and you’ll see a row of lights and to the far right you’ll see something falling and to the right of that 2 bright glowing lights this is over downtown Miami. I have many videos many photos this is happening daily!!

Hawaii Object

Ihei, Lahaina, Kula, Maui — Many photos of orbs and other strange objects captured around 2013-2015 while living on Maui. I can only include 10 on this site. However I have well over 30 or more unexplainable photos. The context of pics adds to the mystery. Speaking to a field rep might be helpful. One looks like its shooting a strange beam at a birds head, one looks like a bubble, another cylindrical, many orb (light and dark) in same pic. Others have same Mickey Mouse head shape taken at same spot on different day, others a twin engine shape all taken same day, most are light, and dark orbs in same frame etc. Only 3 I have were taken at night. most all were taken during the day. Thank you

Illinois Light

Chillicothe — Central Illinois near Peoria Illinois Sept. 6th 2020 at 8pm I was driving my car on the lane I live on out in the country, I seen this and jumped out of my car to take this video 4 separate objects I was only able to get three on video. Showed this to my neighbor he says it’s a Chinese lantern It disappears in the clouds as a just a bright light then the light disappears and comes out the other side of a cloud as a black object it changes directions from north to north east. Not sure what to think as it got higher in the clouds and farther away I’d say at least 1000 feet or more altitude and more than a half mile away when it came out of the cloud. Would a Chinese lantern look this large from that distance? Sorry for the cursing near the end I was a little shocked when it came out of the cloud no longer as a light but as this black looking circular object.

I also posted to YouTube I’m just curious as to what this was I’m not convinced its a Chinese lantern Maybe a large balloon with a light the second one seemed to pick up speed and altitude also direction change from going north to Northeast There were 4 total all came from the same direction two I was able to catch on video The next day I found out my Neighbor that lives on the corner where I was at during the video capture also seen it. He didn’t seem to think it was anything to be concerned over he thought. It was a maybe Wedding Lanterns he was saying they sometimes have a metal disk at the top that gets burnt black from the candle below I would think this was much larger than any lantern but that’s why I’d like an expert opinion

New Jersey Lights

Egg Harbor — Just went in my backyard looked up and there are the pair of orbs I saw last night 1 large and 1 small. Same position, same situation as 9/30/20 – see previous report MUFON Case # 111634. Plane flew by while I took video. Very clear night earlier and no stars out at time first observed.
Orbs till out there, I just checked at 7:46 pm. There are some clouds now and the smaller one is in and out, but they are in the same location as earlier.

New York Objects’

Claysville — A low humming sound can be heard in the audio with certain speakers. Also the baby says uh oh before the UFO flew away.

Photo courtesy of MUFON.com

Was taken on October1, 2020,

Pennsylvania Object

Philadelphia — September 26, 2020, something strange is flying or floating around over Grays Ferry Plaza in South Philadelphia. It seems to change shape, dip, and then rise. It was far away and came in close enough to see the details of it before I could pull out my phone. And then it sailed up and away. When it was closer (before I could record it), it looked like a string of large black shiny balls (but it wasn’t balloons, and was too large to be any type of kite and no tail was behind it). Then, as it got farther, it resembled a flock of birds flying in formation, but birds had been nearby when it was closer, and I could see the huge difference in size. So once it was in the clouds I realized it just appeared a lot smaller than it actually was so it could not have been birds. Then finally it stops in the clouds and just stays there.

South Carolina Lights

Rock Hill—On September 28, 2020, These objects are strange. We tried to debunk them as floating lanterns, or drones, etc., but still are believed that they are UAP’s.
*** (attached are two videos: one being the full length video, and the second being a shorter clip of the multiples of UAP’s) ***

Worldwide UFO Sightings

Canada Orb.

Quebec City – There was cloud cover and the object was under the clouds at about 500 feet high. I too video and photos of the orb

Media was taken on April 2, 2020.

Malaysia Cylinder

Kuala lumped Kuala lumpier – On September 30, 2020. was driving past the iconic Petronas twin towers in Kl, the city I am currently living in and have been living in since 1996. When I stopped at the red light I wound down my windows to take a photo of the twin towers using night mode with a 3 second timer. In 2 shots I reviewed back I saw 2 lights at the top right hand corner of the 2 photos and it looks like a boomerang shaped craft with the yellow orange lights, one side is long while the other side is slightly less visible. In the 2 shots I took it looked like it was moving across d sky from the direction of the twin towers to the right side of the photo. I took a 3rd photo of the twin towers and the two lights were not inside that 3rd photo. Can someone take a look at the photos and tell me what’s going on?

Spain Object

Zumarrag –I was just trying to take a beautiful picture of the sunset. I felt something different that day in the sky but I couldn’t see clearly the object with my eyes.
It was the picture with the phone which took perfectly the object

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Maandag 12 oktober 2020

President Trump Indirectly Threatening Aliens with Country's Mighty Weapons?

President Trump Indirectly Threatening Aliens with Country's Mighty Weapons?

Donald Trump had previously revealed that he knows some surprising details about the Roswell UFO crash.

By Nirmal Narayanan

Following an investigation report published in the New York Times, the Pentagon, in 2017, admitted that they conducted a secret project named AATIP (Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program) to unravel the mysteries behind UFO sighting that happened in the US Naval bases.

Earlier this year, Pentagon officially released some UFO videos, and it made many people believe that alien existence on planet Earth is real. Even though President Donald Trump has never admitted the existence of aliens, his recent comments on America's military might have made many believe that he was actually threatening aliens.

Donald Trump's Comments on UFOs

In an interview on Sunday, Fox News host Maria Bartiromo asked Trump why the Department of Defense had set up a UFO task force. She also asked him whether he believes in the existence of UFOs.

Donald Trump

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"Well, I'm going to have to check on that. I mean, I've heard that. I heard that two days ago. So I'll check on that. I'll take a good, strong look at that," replied Trump.

Soon, he started talking about America's military might, which many social media users consider an indirect threat to aliens who are planning to invade planet Earth.

"I will tell you this, we now have created a military the likes of which we've never had before, in terms of equipment. The equipment that we have, the weapons that we have, and hopefully — hope to god we never have to use them. Russia, China, they're all envious of what we've had. All built in the USA, we've rebuilt it, $2.5trn. As far as the other question, I'll have to check on it. I heard about it two days ago actually," added Trump.

Trump and Roswell UFO Crash

This is not the first time that Trump is making crazy remarks about aliens. Recently, in a Father's Day-themed interview with his son Don Trump Junior on his YouTube channel, the president claimed that he knows several interesting things about the Roswell UFO crash.

The Roswell UFO crash happened in 1947, and initially, it was reported that an alien spacecraft crashlanded on Earth. But later, the US military revealed that it was a weather balloon, and eventually, the authorities admitted that the wreckage was the part of a top-secret atomic project.

UFOs , UAPs , USOS

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Maandag 12 oktober 2020

Majestic 12: When a Wave of “Secret UFO Documents” Surfaced in the 1990s

Majestic 12: When a Wave of “Secret UFO Documents” Surfaced in the 1990s

Nick Redfern

Continuing on my theme on the Majestic 12 documents, the mysterious “Falcon,” Stan Friedman, espionage and the FBI, and alleged leaked papers on crashed UFOs and dead aliens, today I thought I would share with you what specifically came after all of that. I’m talking about another Falcon-type character who claimed knowledge of the truth of Roswell, alien autopsies and more. In this case, the time-frame was not the 1970s-1980s, but the early 1990s. And the man who revealed the then-new Majestic 12 documents was a resident of Big Bear Lake, California: Timothy Cooper. Although no longer active in the UFO research community, Cooper provoked a wealth of controversy for saucer-seekers when it was announced what he had in his possession. It was all “thanks” to an enormous body of allegedly leaked and highly secret documentation that had been given to Cooper under circumstances worthy of All the President’s Men. Cooper was certainly no Woodward or Bernstein, but you get the point I’m making: Cooper said he had insider sources who were willing to significantly assist his UFO research by feeding him controversial papers on aliens and extraterrestrial spacecraft. Clandestine mail-drops in the dead of night were very much the order of the day. The primary informants were an elderly man named “Thomas Cantwheel” and a woman named “Salina.” The latter was said to have been Cantwheel’s daughter. Both of them, Cooper was told, had worked in the field of U.S. counterintelligence for decades. They were the careful keepers of untold numbers of sinister UFO-connected secrets, some supposedly connected to the 1962 death of uber-babe, Marilyn Monroe, and to the November 22, 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy, in Dealey Plaza, Dallas, Texas. If you believe their words, that is.

It’s important to note that if you do a Google search on “Cantwheel” you will find only links that deal with UFOs, Tim Cooper, and Majestic 12. The reason for this is very simple: “Cantwheel” is not a real name and never has been. Yet, that’s the name Cooper’s source consistently signed off on his communications to Cooper. The closest real name is “Cantwell.” Even now, I’m still amazed as to why hardly anyone, back in the 1990s in the UFO research community, pointed out that “Cantwell” was a completely manufactured name. Over a period of time that ran close to a decade, Cooper’s informants provided him with what ultimately amounted to thousands of pages of saucer-themed material and additional data. They were focused on everything from Majestic 12 to alien autopsies, and from accounts of crashed UFOs to attempts by the U.S. military to replicate extraterrestrial technology.

One of the documents even alluded to the possibility that the May 22, 1949 death of James Forrestal – the first U.S. Secretary of Defense – was not the suicide that many assumed it was. Rather, the Cooper papers suggest, Forrestal had to be taken out of circulation to ensure that he didn’t go public on what he knew about flying saucers. What really set the Cooper-era Majestic 12 documentation apart from that which caught the attention of the Moore-Shandera-Friedman team in the 1980s, however, were the references to deadly viruses. Indeed, in several of the papers provided to Cooper there were references to plans to try and back-engineer an alien virus. This was way more controversial than the original Majestic 12 documents that reached Jaime Shandera and Bill Moore. Tim Cooper quit the UFO scene more than a few years ago. He has not returned. And no more leaked documents have surfaced. Who, precisely, Cantwheel and Salina were – and what their true agenda was in the matter of aliens (dead or alive) – remains a mystery. As does just about everything – from the 1970s to the 1990s – that relates to the matter of alleged leaked documents of a UFO-themed nature.

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MYSTERIES , Complot Theories, ed ( EN, FR, NL )

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Maandag 12 oktober 2020

A Secret Space Program Insider on Secret Exploration and Operations on Exo-Planets

A Secret Space Program Insider on Secret Exploration and Operations on Exo-Planets

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Secret Exploration And Operations On Exo-Planets…(A Secret Space Program Insider)

Emery Smith, a former US Air Force Surgical Assistant, has revealed more about his knowledge and face to face interactions with extraterrestrials he encountered while working on classified programs.

He encountered the extraterrestrials at Kirtland Air Force Base, and other classified facilities in New Mexico such as White Sands and Dulce; along with Denver, Colorado and Charlottesville, Virginia. Emery also reveals information in regards to his operations within the secret space program and visiting other planets.

RELATED VIDEOS, selected andposted by peter2011

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MYSTERIES , Complot Theories, ed ( EN, FR, NL )

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Maandag 12 oktober 2020

Sphere Cloud Over Japan Is Cloaked UFO, Oct 11, 2020, Photos, UFO Sighting News.

Sphere Cloud Over Japan Is Cloaked UFO, Oct 11, 2020, Photos, UFO Sighting News.

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Date of sighting: Oct 11, 2020
Location of sighting: Fujisawa, just south of Tokyo, Japan

Source:

https://www.sciencenatures.com/2020/10/this-strange-spherical-cloud-appeared.html

Its a well known fact among UFO researchers that UFOs not only hide in clouds, but can even make the cloud to hide within. This perfectly shaped sphere clouds is clearly held together by a alien sphere within its center. Twitter user @pmxpvrtmx(Poppy) was so frightened that this might actually be a UFO, they changed their name on Twitter to @wizorwizoutu and made their account private. Clearly the fact that this has an alien appearance about it caused them to make such a drastic change. This is absolutely and undeniably a UFO cloaked in a cloud sphere.

Scott C. Waring

News states:

According to reports from the photographer, the cloud began to lose its shape as soon because it was photographed, then rapidly faded into the sky as if it never existed. "When I looked out of the window I saw a round ball-shaped cloud. I gazed at the cloud for ages then I rushed to require the photo, after I saw the cloud it had been an excellent more spherical shape, so I regret not taking the photo more quickly." Twitter user @pmxpvrtmx(Poppy) told the local Japanese news outlet, Rocket News 24.

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Maandag 12 oktober 2020

Bright lights were filmed over Laporte, Indiana

Bright lights were filmed over Laporte, Indiana

This UFO sighting video was filmed back in November (23rd) 2019 but it was just posted in MUFON’s website today.

Witness report:

I see these lights often. Nothing else could have made these lights, just corn underneath the lights and a road. They don’t look military too me. Lights appear and fade out, lights change formation then a different light takes the front. I watched them go over my house then break formation and speed off in different directions faster then any plane I have seen.

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Maandag 12 oktober 2020

Alleged UFO photos over China Lake analyzed

Alleged UFO photos over China Lake analyzed

Posted by: Philip Mantle

In October 2017 a curious post appeared on the facebook page of ‘Art Bell’s Midnight In The Desert Feat Heather Wade’. It showed an apparent daylight scene of a ‘UFO’ in the desert with a helicopter hovering overhead. The text to accompany the photo read: “I’ve been holding on to these pictures for 10 years and it’s time I showed someone. I took pictures of this thing in July 2007 on out radar test range in the Mojave Desert. I’ve always been nervous to show anyone but here you go.”

My curiosity peeked I dropped the post of this message whom I shall call Keith Bradshaw (real name on file) a note in a private message asking for more details. Checking the next day the post had been removed but Keith did reply to my private message. Keith made it clear from the beginning that he was worried about releasing these photos as they had been taken illegally and he regretted posting one of them on facebook. It did however tell me that there were taken at China Lake in California at about 11.30 am.

Over the next several days Keith and I exchanged numerous private messages on facebook and he eventually told be the back story behind the taking of the photos in question. He also sent me five photographs in total. Here is what Keith had to say:

KEITH’S STORY

I grew up in a town called Ridgecrest which is a U.S. Naval base in the Mojave Desert. As a kid it was very easy to get onto the base and everyone in town had passes that would allow you through the gates to get to school, swimming pools, the movie theatre etc. Everyone knew someone who worked on the base so you would get to know where the different parts of the base were. They had the bombing range and the radar range. I grew up with a kid who after High School joined the Navy. After he retired he moved back to town and got a job working in the civil service on the base monitoring radar. He said it was the world’s most boring job but he did tell me about interesting things that went on out there. Things like them having jeeps and tanks scattered all over the desert and then flipping a switch and they all would disappear. Turns out that’s what fiber optic camouflage does. People would talk about unbelievable things that turned out to be true. Planes would come from all over the world to use the radar test range out there. I have pictures of that too. Planes with markings from other countries. While I was in between jobs in 2007 I went back to town to visit some of my old friends.

While I was in town I stopped by this friend’s house and after a few drinks he started telling me how that week he had been monitoring a flying saucer. When I asked him how he knew that’s what it was he told me- first of all, in all the years he had been doing that job he never had two generals and three other men with top security clearance recording and watching everything he did. He explained how it was very simple. There were two signals on the radar screen. One would appear very low in altitude, go up to a certain higher altitude and then click off. There would be a countdown for a certain amount of time- five; four, three, two, one and then it would click back on. When this happened the first time the people in the room got very excited. The object on his screen would lower in altitude until it was no longer on the radar, move to a different position and repeat the same thing over and over at different altitudes. All the while the other signal on the radar screen would remain constant.

Curious as to what it was he was monitoring he asked around. People that he knew who physically worked on the radar range and would see what was out there told him that believe it or not it was a flying saucer. They described it as being shiny like a mirror and smooth like glass all over inside and out. It had no doors or windows only a hole cut in the top (I got the idea that the hole had jagged edges like it was cut with something) they described the inside as only having three small seats surrounded by a bird nest of fiber optic cable. The seats were molded out of the floor rather than attached to the floor. This thing was one piece with no seams anywhere.

Keep in mind that description is just a rumour as to what it was like. He didn’t actually see it himself he was just told that’s what it was. Being in between jobs and having nothing to do the next day I made my way out there. ( I’m not telling you how I was able to get there but I will say I walked a very long distance) as I got closer I could hear a helicopter so I peeked up over a hill and down in the small valley below sure enough I could see this silver disc out there. There were a few tan-colored trailers and other military vehicles on the North End of the valley. This thing would wobble along close to the ground very unstable. I don’t believe anyone could have been riding on the inside but got the idea that helicopter was remotely controlling it.

It was very wobbly as it moved along close to the ground and then it would freeze in position, go up to a certain height and sit there for a few minutes perfectly still. It made no noise that I could hear over the helicopter. It would go back down and wobble to the next position. It looked like whoever was controlling it was having fun with it sometimes because they would do little tricks with it.

Like one edge would be pointing towards the sky and then it would do a U-shaped flip to where the other edge was pointing towards the sky then back down and wobble along the valley floor close to the ground to its next position.

At first I was too afraid to take any pictures but then it got really close to me so I started snapping some photos figuring that if I was going to be caught I might as well have some pictures. I also took a short video but then to save space on my camera I started deleting the blurry pictures. I spent maybe 10 minutes total watching this thing. I then turned around and got out of there as quickly as I could. I took my shirt off thinking the color of my skin would blend in with my surroundings better than the color of my white shirt. About halfway back I got scared and hid the camera in the desert.

That night I went back over to my friend’s house and when I told him what I had done he laughed in disbelief until I told him the path this thing followed from the North-West side of the valley to the South-East. When he realized I was telling the truth he got very angry and threw a plastic cup at me. He basically chased me out of the house telling me never to go get those pictures. I let them sit there for two days and then went back and got the camera. When I looked at the pictures there was no video and I realized that what I thought was a blurry picture was actually a blurry video that I deleted. I still kick myself for that one every time I think about it. A few years later I went back to town and ran into him at Walmart and he pretended he didn’t even know me. This is someone that I have known my whole life. We went to school together and played on the same Little League baseball teams.

I’ve been holding on to these pictures ever since. That is all there is. Sorry it’s not more exciting. I really don’t know how you would write an article about it. “

KEITH’S ALLEGED UFO PHOTOGRAPHS

Well, an interesting story and interesting set of alleged UFO photographs. Of course you cannot just take the photographers word for it that the photographs are what he says they are. With this in mind I sought out a number of people who could undertake analysis of these photographs. The first was Jason Gleaves in the UK and this is his full and unedited report with comes complete with five computer photographs highlighting the points in his report.

ANALYSIS IMAGE REPORT BY JASON GLEAVES

Metallic Disk Shaped Object Captured Near the U.S. Naval Air Weapons Station, China Lake, California, U.S.

I was asked by Philip Mantle if I could conduct my own analysis on five interesting UFO images captured of a Disk Shaped Object (metallic in appearance) which appeared to be stationary appropriately 50-60 feet above a desert environment (location unknown at this point). Also in another image a helicopter (HH-1K Iroquois, helicopter (“Huey”) is also captured in flight above the right side of the object and appears to be passing slightly behind (speed unknown).

First appearance the images looked authentic but with technology of today and software (photoshop etc) you really can’t rely on image authenticity, no matter how good it looks.

More detailed enlarged and enhanced images of the metallic object appear to show sunlight and consistent reflections on the body of the object, plus in one of the images a dark oval shadow is clearly seen directly below the object again consistent where a shadow would be (without actually seeing where the Sun location/position is in relation to the object, it’s always difficult to give a more accurate Sun-object-Shadow location). I also produced a twin layer image overlay of two separate images (taken from approximately the same position/location) to see if the object had moved from its original position, I aligned the two images, to the best of my ability with similar reference points (background mountain range and cloud formation, horizon). Upon viewing the final enhancement of the overlay the Disk Shaped Object is clearly seen in two different positions, both at slightly different altitudes and one further away in relation to the other regarding their relevant positions within the two separate photographs.

A few days passed and a more detailed report and witness statement emerged giving the sighting location as (U.S. Marine Corps Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake, California, U.S.) this is also consistent as to the type of military helicopters reported and documented being operational in that region, and similar to the Helicopter captured in the images.

Analysis by Jason Gleaves @Ufonly (Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and Ufonly YouTube) I am Ex-Royal Air Force, BAE Airbus division, I contribute on numerous UFO pages and have carried out Photo/image/video footage analysis on UFO’s and anomalies for many ufologists within our community worldwide.

ANALYSIS BY DR BRUCE MACCABEE

Another and perhaps more well known expert in the analysis of alleged UFO photographs is Dr Bruce Maccabee in the USA. Bruce is well known for his work on analyzing alleged UFO photographs. Dr Maccabee received a B.S. in physics at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Worcester, Mass., and then at American University, Washington, DC, (M.S. and Ph.D. in physics). In 1972 he began his career at the Naval Ordnance Laboratory, White Oak, Silver Spring, Maryland; which later became the Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division. Dr. Maccabee retired from government service in 2008. He has worked on optical data processing, generation of underwater sound with lasers and various aspects of the Strategic Defence Initiative (SDI) and Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD) using high power lasers.

ANALYSIS/DISCUSSION

My immediate impression was that the orientations of the main rotor and tail rotor blades were very much the same. What would the chance of getting the same orientation in two pictures probably many seconds to minutes apart? See the pictures A and B below. Using the position change of distant land features I estimate that the camera pointing direction has rotated to the right by about 9 degrees (based on an assumed angular picture width of 35 degrees). The UFO has also moved to the right about 7 degrees and the helicopter moved about 11 degrees to the right. The helicopter image in B is nearly the same as in B, but the pictures are not identical.

PICTURE A

PICTURE B

The helicopter is about 10% farther from the camera in B and there is a helicopter body rotation to the left of some (10 or so?) degrees.

The lack of blur of the main rotor blades plus the nearly identical rotor blade orientation suggests a hoax with a model helicopter. The nearly identical position of the tail rotor blades also suggests a hoax but the blur of the tail rotor blades argues against a hoax unless one used a model with a rotating tail rotor. Note that the blur width of the edges of the tail rotor increases in going from the center (axle) outward to the end. This is exactly what one would expect of a rotating blade and is exactly what appears to be missing from the images of the main rotor blades.

PICTURE C

A “fast shutter” (very short exposure time) can “stop” a moving object so that it moves very little during the exposure time. Therefore, if one could establish that the exposure time was short enough to effectively “stop” the motion of the main rotor while not being fast enough to “stop” a much faster tail rotor, one could explain this situation. How fast would the shutter have to be? That depends upon the rotor rate and radius (distance of the end from the axle). Consider, for example, a rotor rate of 360 revolutions per minute or 6/sec, The outer end of the rotor travels at 6 x 2 pi radians per second = 37.7 radians/sec. Assume a radius of 15 ft. The outer end of a blade is traveling at 37.7 x 15 = 565 ft/second = 6,786 inches/sec. Assume the blade is 1 ft wide at the outer end. To avoid noticeable motion blur the blade should move less than 1/10 its width or less than about 1 inch during the shutter time. So, what is this shutter time needed to register the image of the blade without noticeable blur? The answer is (1/6786 sec/inch) x 1 inch = 0.000147 seconds, much faster than any typical video camera shutter.

This analysis raises questions: (1) the near identically of the image of the helicopter in two separated-in-time frames suggests a “set up” (hoax)’; (2) the lack of blade image smear suggests very fast shutter or hoax; (3) the tail rotor blur suggests real event because difficult to hoax the blur that increases with distance from the center; There appears to be a faint slightly dark shadow under the UFO in Picture A which is not in Picture B (consistent with real) and there is only the barest hint of a shadow under the UFO in Picture B that is not there in Picture A (consistent with real.

Need to know camera type, settings etc. This might be a real event, but have to explain helicopter imagery

After spending some time analyzing the available testimonial and pictoral evidence and considering the actions or activities of the object in question I conclude that there is not enough evidence to prove that the object was not simply an unusually shaped drone operating under control of the person(s) flying the helicopter.

ANALYSIS FROM TOBIAS LINDGREN

Tobias Lindgren

FIRST ANALYSIS

Now I have analyzed the pictures.

First I want to say that I have doubts if the object is really physical. It can be computer generated. As well as lack of basic data such as picture metadata, observation site, time, date, cardinal direction, and duration. If the unidentified object is physical, the following applies:

Roughly calculated distances in the picture. The references there are is the helicopter and the shrubs in the foreground. The helicopter is a Bell UH-1Y Venom, which is 17.8 meters long. The shrubs in the desert are about one meter high.

With these measures I can find out that the helicopter is about 20 times farther away from the photographer than the shrub. If the object is at the same distance as the helicopter, it has a diameter of about 6 meters and 12 meters if it is twice as far as the helicopter, but to me it is not likely. Accordingly I estimate the object was very close to the camera at the time the picture was taken.

If the object is at the same distance as the first bush, it is about 20 cm, but my assumption is that it is closer than that, less than half the distance from the camera to the shrubs, and then it will be less than 10 cm in diameter. The object’s reflected color on the underside shows only sand and ground colours, which is only to be seen between the bushes and the camera, no green from the vegetation. Same effect in the first picture without the helicopter. The dark spot on the ground, which my brain interprets as a shadow from the object, and the object itself is merely an unfortunate coincidence and has no relation, but creates the illusion of a long distance. The real shadows are aimed at the sun, and hard to spot.

However, the most crucial fact for the object to be placed close to the camera is the big sunflower / highlight that is on the object. The size of such is proportional to the distance.

Conclusion: High hoax factor. No obvious connection with the China Lake Naval Base, except for a similar environment. ”Photoshop” or physical object less than 10 cm. Such a small object could be a toy.

SECOND ANALYSIS

Hi.

The reason for the late answer is that we have just had our annual field investigation course in UFO-Sweden. It takes all of our time in October. Strange and interesting story, I have to say. Here we also see the risk of not having all the information.

It may be easy to believe that the previous analysis was poor and insufficient, but with the information available, the result will of course will come afterwards. What makes a person get so scared that you hide the pictures for ten years? No, I do not think the military is so stupid that they fly in an open space with a “flying saucer” if they want to keep it secret. It may be the total opposite instead which is to draw attention. But it may be to be all very conspiratory. Visually, I still think it does not feel right. The object (UFO) is blurry in a way that the rest of the pictures are not, and that tells me that something is not what it seems. It can still be, as I said before, that the object is so close to the camera that it is out of focus. Had the object been out of focus because of the distance, it should get something like a bit transparent due to atmospheric depth haze in the atmosphere.

I still have no idea what the object could be. Perhaps it might be a radio-controlled “toy” that the military testing, just as written in the witnesses story. The military obviously knows what it is because it’s no coincidence that it looks like it does, if it is not computer-generated images. I draw parallels with a Swedish hoax that went viral on YouTube a few years ago:

http://www.ufo.se/index.php/news/home/1563-avsloejad-ufofilmen-som-skulle-lura-vaerlden

If this had happened in Sweden, UFO Sweden would have taken us to the location at “Ridgecrest” and knocked on all doors to look for more witnesses. In recent projects where we did this, it was found that 10 percent of all people had a story they did not mention before.

Regards

Tobias Lindgren

UFO-Sweden

Tobias Lindgren, UFO Sweden and AFU Board Member, born 1972, he lives in Norrköping, Sweden. His interest in UFO study began in the late 1970’s, but only became really active as an ufologist 10 years later. Had been the head of the UFO-Sweden Report Center from 2005 to 2015. In this position, he coordinated Swedish UFO investigations, distributing incoming cases among field investigators. He is now responsible for the UFO-Sweden website. He writes regularly for the “UFO-Aktuellt” Newspaper. He is UFO-Sweden’s image analyst. Tobias is also a skilled computer artist and combines his interests in illustration and computer engineering to illustrate the most recent cases very effectively. He has also studied computer science. mathematics and physics at Linköping University and more recently, visualization and geographic information systems. He is now employed as a GIS engineer at the Swedish Aviation Authority in Norrköping and works with flight information, airplanes and visualization.

As if that wasn’t enough yet more analysis was conducted in Brazil with the help of my colleague Thiago Luiz Ticchetti. The analysis was brief and to the point…

ANALYSIS FROM BRAZIL

We have already analyzed the photos. According to our specialists, unfortunately, they are fakes:

The reflection of the sun in the object does not correspond with the position of the sun observed in the shade of the vegetation.
The shadow of the object itself does not match the position of the sun
The helicopter is real.
All the images are without EXIF

Ricardo Varela: Researcher at the National Institute of Space Research (INPE), electronic engineer at the Federal University of Brasília, master and doctor in applied computing

Inajar Kurowski: Veterinary doctor, university professor, police officer and criminal expert of the Institute of Criminalistics of Paraná, with specialization in vehicular identification and forensic ballistics. He is also a postgraduate in science methodology and a master’s degree in environmental management. Administrator of specific courses in the area, he became a specialist in examining photos and films of flying saucers

SO WHAT ARE THESE PHOTOGRAPHS?

In an attempt to get to the bottom on these alleged UFO photographs the have been analysed by five different people from around the world. Jason Gleaves from the UK is of the opinion that they are the genuine article. Dr Bruce Maccabee from the USA is not sure whether they are fake or real and the same goes for Tobias Lingren in Sweden. And last but not least Ricardo Varela and Inajar Kurowski in Brazil left us in no doubt that they believe the photographs in question to be fake.

It is therefore my hope and intention that by releasing these photographs here that we may learn more about them. Perhaps other specialists will add their comments to those above or maybe someone will come forward who can offer testimony to either support the authenticity of the photographs or the opposite, show us that they are indeed fakes.

As yet the photographer does not want his identity revealing which is something I have honoured here but I do have his name on file. Perhaps the photographer will offer more information which will allow us to determine one way or the other the authenticity of the photographs. Until then I think it is only fair to say that the jury is still out. Are these photographs fake or genuine? We shall see.

The Carter Administration’s Attempt to Create a NASA UFO Commission

The Carter Administration’s Attempt to Create a NASA UFO Commission

Posted by: Antonio Huneeus

Forty-three years ago was the last time the U.S. government considered creating an official commission to investigate and report on UFOs. Despite Washington’s efforts to dissuade the public from any interest in UFOs through the 1969 issuance of the University of Colorado’s Condon Report, UFOs continued to appear. Eight years later, with President Jimmy Carter in office, his administration thought the time was right to officially request that NASA look into the phenomenon.

As put by a NASA scientist in a memo issued around the same time, however, “undertaking a formal [UFO] study at this time appears fraught with perils.” Needless to say, the commission was never finalized, and the 1977 deliberations between NASA, the White House, and other governmental agencies are an almost-forgotten episode in the official history of American ufology.

Jimmy Carter, UFO Witness

The inauguration of Jimmy Carter as the thirty-ninth President of the United States ushered a new round of expectations in the UFO community. After all, it could be said he was a member of that community. President Carter, who was a former Georgia governor, peanut farmer, and U.S. Navy nuclear engineer, not only claimed to have seen a UFO but officially reported it. In terms of UFO data, President Carter’s sighting is not an impressive incident, falling into the category of nocturnal light. The sighting would surely be forgotten if Carter had not become the president.

Steven Spielberg mentions Jimmy Carter potentially releasing UFO information in this video.

The first account of Carter’s sighting appeared in October 1973—during that year’s big UFO flap—when dispatches from Georgia quoted the governor’s first statement on UFOs: “I’ve seen one myself.” The story was picked up in the press, prompting the International UFO Bureau in Oklahoma City and the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP) in Maryland to send UFO questionnaires to the Georgia State Capitol. Carter personally filled out both questionnaires and gave permission to use his name as a witness. According to the questionnaires, the sighting occurred “shortly after dark” in October 1969 when Carter and ten other “members of Leary Georgia Lions Club” were “outdoors waiting for a meeting to begin at 7:30 p.m.” The sighting lasted between ten to twelve minutes and the object, located at “about 30 degrees above the horizon,” was described as “about the same size as the moon, maybe a little smaller, varied from brighter/larger than planet to apparent size of the moon.”

President Carter’s UFO story reemerged as he gained prominence during the 1976 presidential campaign. On June 8, the National Enquirer published a short interview with Carter in which he said, “I am convinced that UFOs exist because I have seen one,” adding that “I’ll never make fun of people who say they’ve seen unidentified objects in the sky.” In that interview, Carter also made an important promise to the American public: “If I become President, I’ll make every piece of information this country has about UFO sightings available to the public and the scientists.”

Ironically, the only ufologist to really investigate Carter’s sighting was skeptic Robert Sheaffer. The main clue was that Carter claimed to have seen the object while visiting the town of Leary to lecture at the local Lions Club. In his book, The UFO Verdict: Examining the Evidence, Sheaffer recounts that his effort to locate additional witnesses was difficult, but he was finally able to find one who remembered seeing, “like a blue light or something or other in the sky that night.”

However, Sheaffer soon discovered that there was a problem with the date given by Carter as the date of the sighting. Carter always said that in the sighting occurred in October 1969, but the Lions Club in Leary had disbanded in February of that year. Sheaffer eventually located the official records of the meeting at the Lions Club International Headquarters. The exact date of Carter’s speech in Leary was January 6, 1969, “nine months earlier than Mr. Carter’s recollection had placed it.” Furthermore, after computing the position of the planets for that date, Sheaffer discovered that “Venus was a conspicuous evening star, nearing its maximum brilliance. Venus was . . . at 7:15 PM, at about 25º elevation, in virtually the exact position where Carter had placed his UFO.”

The result of Sheaffer’s investigation was mostly ignored because it robbed the public of identifying the president as a witness to a genuine UFO. Yet, there is a high probability that what Carter saw could have been explained. The visual tricks that Venus can play in the eyes of the beholder have been known for decades by competent UFO investigators like Allan Hendry, who has characterized Venus as “the real champion” of the stars and planets that tend to cause UFO sightings.

The sighting, however, was only one aspect of President Carter’s link to ufology. The other was his campaign promise to release all the UFO data held by the government. Stanley Schneider, assistant to President Carter’s White House Science advisor Frank Press, later admitted to the New York Times that “public interest in this has been brewing for several months, slowly building up . . . It was getting to be more than we could handle.” In fact, so many letter about UFOs were sent to President Carter that Virginia ufologist Larry Bryant eventually published a book on the letters entitled, UFO Politics at the White House: Citizens Rally ‘Round Jimmy Carter’s Promise. One indicator of the campaign’s impact was revealed by U.S. News & World Report in its April 18, 1977 edition. Under the heading of “Official Word Coming on UFOs,” the magazine stated that “before the year is out, the Government—perhaps the President—is expected to make what is described as ‘unsettling disclosures’ about UFOs . . . based on information from the CIA.”

NASA’s UFO Past

In an attempt to achieve UFO disclosure, the White House had difficulty in developing a coherent policy, and thus, NASA became the logical candidate. Unlike the U.S. Air Force, NASA had never been officially involved in the UFO controversy, although a link between the two surfaced occasionally. Popular UFO articles, books, and movies often displayed UFO photos taken by NASA astronauts, but the great majority of these images were explained by prosaic phenomena such as lens flares, booster rockets, or items ejected from space capsules.

White House science advisor Dr. Frank Press (left) with President Jimmy Carter.

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While NASA never officially investigated UFOs, it did produce a few UFO-related documents such as the Kennedy Space Center’s “NASA Management Instruction (KMI 8610.4)” of June 28, 1967, regarding “Processing Reports of Sightings of Space Vehicles Fragments.” The four-page-document signed by the space center’s director, Kurt H. Debus, contained procedures dealing primarily with manmade space vehicles, but KMI 8610.4 added that “reports of sightings of objects not related to space vehicles” were also included: “It is KSC policy to respond to reported sightings of space vehicles fragments and unidentified flying objects as promptly as possible.” The document provided definitions of “Space Vehicle Fragment” and “Unidentified Flying Objects,” and KSC personnel were instructed to “call in unidentified flying object reports to the Patrick Air Force Base Command Post.”

Additionally, NASA’s name appears often in connection with mysterious space crashes such as the one in Kecksburg, Pennsylvania in 1965, which later led to a lengthy Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against NASA by journalist Leslie Kean. The space agency also appeared as a “forwarding” office in several declassified documents from other government branches.

NASA’s Response to the White House

It was against this background that NASA found itself tasked with official UFO responsibility early on in the Carter administration. That segment of the population that believed Earth was being visited by aliens had not forgotten Jimmy Carter’s campaign promise. The president’s science and technology advisor, Frank Press, became the White House official in charge of the UFO problem, but outside help was sought when the White House became overwhelmed with UFO mail. Press stated in his July 21, 1977 letter to NASA administrator Robert Frosch “that the focal point for the UFO question ought to be NASA.”

President Carter giving the Robert Goddard award to NASA Administrator Robert Frosch.

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“There appears to be a national revival of interest in the matter with a younger generation becoming involved,” wrote Press, adding that “this is a public relations problem as much as anything else.” Press’s problems were twofold: First, the most immediate issue was how to deal with the growing number of correspondence regarding UFOs being received by the White House. Second, Press has to face the substantive issue of whether there was any truth to the UFO phenomenon and he believed that a new “panel of inquiry could be formed by NASA” to review the UFO evidence and “see if there are any new significant findings.”

First letter by White House science advisor Frank Press to NASA Administrator Bob Frosch stating that “the focal point for the UFO question ought to be NASA.”

Image credit: Huneeus Collection

Subsequent FOIA requests revealed that even before Frosch responded to Press on September 6, 1977 the U.S. Air Force was already meddling in the affair. One of the most significant and prophetic pieces of paper to come out of this period is a four-line letter written on September 1, 1977 by Colonel Charles H. Senn, the chief of the air force’s community relations division. The addressee was another former air force man, Lieutenant General Duward L. Crow, who was, at that time, the assistant deputy administrator of NASA. Along with an enclosed “UFO Fact Sheet and standard response to UFO public inquiries” that Crow had requested, Senn wrote, “I sincerely hope you are successful in preventing a reopening of UFO investigations.” Considering what took place in the ensuing months, when NASA literally turned down an official request from the White House, one does not need to be particularly conspiratorial to see that the air force was not a neutral party in this drama. Before Frosch’s response to Press was sent on September 6, the letter was rewritten twice by Crow.

Colonel Senn’s letter to retired Lieutenant General Crow, with a highly suggestive phrase about “preventing a reopening of UFO investigations.”

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Bob Frosch’s letter was courteous, but not encouraging. The strategy for responding to UFO inquiries from the public through “form letters” and “information sheets” was discussed, as both NASA and the air force had discovered long ago that it was the most economical method. It obviously had its problems, continued Frosch, such as the lack of a “focal point for technical appraisal of sightings.” No quick action was to be taken regarding the proposed UFO panel or commission, wrote Frosch, “before . . . we should assure ourselves that an inquiry is justified.” His suggestion, therefore, was to name “a NASA project officer to review reports of the last ten years” and “provide a specific recommendation” by the end of the year.

Press’s response to Frosch a week later stated he was “pleased . . . that NASA can handle the public inquiries” so as to “relieve my staff of a responsibility we are not equipped to handle.” Frosch never said in his letter that NASA would handle the mail for the White House; instead, he had only referred to the air force and NASA’s experience in using form letters. Press agreed fully with Frosch that the NASA commission was something that should be weighed carefully and wrote, “I can understand your reluctance to commit the agency to a formal program.” He conceded that it was up to the space agency to review the UFO situation as it best saw fit.

NASA’s review of the UFO question was not a formal study, but an in-house analysis of the options available. The key document is a four-page memo, “UFO Study Considerations,” dated November 8, 1977 written by Dr. Noel Hinners, NASA’s associate administrator for space science. Dr. Hinners considered “the question of what NASA could reasonably do in both the short and the long term,” he wrote in his memo to NASA’s assistant administrator. The scientist went about his task in a straightforward manner, outlining succinctly the current UFO scene which included

“Widespread interest” with about half of the American population believing “something” exists;
Interest in forming a “specialized agency” in the United Nations;
A formal study group being set up by the CNES, NASA’s counterpart in France;
Several solid private UFO organizations in the USA “with responsible membership”;
An increase in reports of what Hinners referred to as “the near encounter type”; and
A wider acceptance within the UFO community of a government cover-up, meaning not only that the Government “knows far more than it has released,” but that it “may even have pieces of UFO hardware in hand.”

Dr. Hinners analyzed the problems facing a NASA UFO review: the “apparent lack of any tangible or physical evidence for laboratory analysis,” and the “absence of any sound scientific protocol for investigating the phenomenon firsthand.” The word “apparent” in the first line is to be noted while the word “absence” in the second line is questionable. After three decades of amateur investigations, by 1977, civilian UFO organizations had achieved a degree of this so-called “scientific protocol.” Other problems outlined by Dr. Hinners were the abundance of “secondary source materials” or “hearsay”; the prejudices on the part of investigators; hoaxes; “the delicate interface,” as Hinners put it, between the government and UFO witnesses; and “the danger of projecting an inaccurate NASA or Administration image.” Dr. Hinners’s conclusion was that, “all in all, undertaking a formal study at this time appears fraught with perils.”

First page of Dr. Noel Hinners’ key internal NASA document, “UFO Study Considerations,” of November 8, 1977. Image credit: NASA/Huneeus Collection

Dr. Hinners presented two choices to NASA. The first option was to reject the White House’s idea for “the Federal government and specifically NASA, to investigate the UFO phenomenon.” As Dr. Hinners opined, this option would give added fuel to the “charges of cover-up” by the UFO community, but it would also avoid “controversy . . . within the science community NASA deals with.” There were budgetary advantages too in keeping the current policy of form letters and not spending extra resources, but Hinners had the intelligence of pointing out that choosing this option “would also be begging the question.”

The second option was for NASA to consider creating a commission to investigate the topic. This option seemed almost identical to the early, positive days of the Condon Committee. Basically, Hinners’s thought was that the commission could request major UFO organizations “to submit their ‘best’ cases,” put “this material into a usable format,” update and revise it, and finally “ask for a peer review.” On the basis of this preliminary study, NASA would decide whether some form of permanent UFO investigative branch should be established. Hinners also recommended something that was later used by Bob Frosch in his final and formal rejection of the commission that, “as a minimum, having gone so far and this publicly, NASA should stand ready to investigate new hard evidence that might come in.”

In late November 1977, the White House decided to go ahead publicly with formally requesting a NASA UFO commission. The wire services carried the story and quoted David Williamson, NASA’s assistant for special projects, saying the agency was “not anxious” to study UFOs. Like Dr. Condon, Williamson appeared to disqualify any existence of UFOs before any official conclusion had been reached. “There is no measurable UFO evidence such as a piece of metal, flesh or cloth,” he said.

When Bob Frosch finally responded to Frank Press on December 21, 1977, nobody in Washington was surprised. The main theme was “the absence of tangible physical evidence available for thorough laboratory analysis” coupled with the willingness to analyze “any bona fide physical evidence from credible sources” submitted to NASA. Frosch also mentioned the lack of “a sound scientific procedure for investigating these phenomena” as a reason that a study “would be wasteful and probably unproductive.” The shadow of Dr. Condon, deceased since 1974, seemed to pervade this letter. Condon had concluded eight years earlier that science could not be expected to gain anything by studying UFOs. Frosch reached the same conclusion without even embroiling himself in a thousand-page report at a cost of over half a million dollars. After turning down the White House’s request, Frosch left a way out, just in case, writing, “I wish in no way to indicate that NASA has come to any conclusion about these phenomena as such; institutionally, we retain an open mind, a keen sense of scientific curiosity, and a willingness to analyze problems within our competence.”

In 1978, NASA released its revamped “Information Sheet No. 78-1” on UFOs. It stated that other than answering UFO-related mail sent to the White House, “NASA is not engaged in a research program involving these phenomena, nor is any other government agency.” The six-page document was an updated version of the old air force form letter, yet NASA added an interesting paragraph not to be found in the Pentagon’s counterpart: “Reports of unidentified flying objects entering United States air space are of interest to the military as a regular part of defense surveillance. Beyond that, the US Air Force no longer investigates reports of UFO sightings.” In other words, NASA provided an admission that NORAD and the U.S. military still keep an eye on UFOs with possible national security implications. The NASA document quoted extensively from the administrator’s letter about the “bona fide physical evidence” and lack thereof.

First page of the NASA Information Sheet Number 78-1 on “Unidentified Flying Objects,” the new revamped governmental form letter on UFOs to come out of the Carter failed ufological initiative.

Image credit: NASA/Huneeus Collection

It is interesting to see how quickly and effectively the government muzzled this revival of UFO interest. Although numerous FOIA lawsuits were being pursued by researchers, many months and even years would pass before some of these documents were obtained, processed, and publicized. But, the interaction between the White House, NASA, and the U.S. Air Force during this little known episode in President Carter’s administration offers a window into how the federal government deals publicly with ufology. The failed NASA UFO commission attempt by the Carter administration in 1977 is the last time the U.S. government even considered launching a new formal study. Given the current state of affairs in Washington, it’s extremely unlikely that a new effort will be attempted anytime soon, but the phenomenon itself is certainly not likely to go away.

Colonel Senn’s phrase becomes reality in this AP newswire story published in the NY Times on December 28, 1977, “NASA Refuses to Reopen Investigations of U.F.O.’s.”

Image credit: NY Times/Huneeus Collection

A version of this article originally appeared in Issue #23 (December/January 2014) of Open Minds UFO Magazine. Back issues can be found here.

The Glowing Vision of a UFO Observed Over Clarenville, Newfoundland and Labrador Comes to Life on New Royal Canadian Mint Collector Coin

The Glowing Vision of a UFO Observed Over Clarenville, Newfoundland and Labrador Comes to Life on New Royal Canadian Mint Collector Coin

OTTAWA, Ontario, Oct. 8, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- The Mint has added to its extra-popular Canada's Unexplained Phenomena series by telling the strange story of the 1978 UFO sighting in the skies of Clarenville, Newfoundland and Labrador. The Clarenville Event is vividly illustrated on a new glow-in-the-dark collector coin that captures the moment an RCMP Constable and multiple witnesses observed the mysterious lights and oval shape of an unidentified flying object hovering near the city of Clarenville. The Mint is now accepting orders for this mesmerizing coin.

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Working with a canvas-like rectangular coin, East coast artist Adam Young has recreated the events of October 26, 1978, when Clarenville made UFO history. On that night, RCMP Constable James Blackwood responded to a call from astonished onlookers. When he arrived at the scene, witnesses directed his attention to a brightly lit object in the sky. Using binoculars and a high-powered scope, they observed the fin-tailed, oval-shaped craft as it hovered above the water near Random Island. It emitted no sound; and when the officer flashed the lightbar on his police cruiser, the mysterious craft instantly mimicked the lights. It remained in the area for nearly an hour before rising up suddenly and vanishing into the night, leaving no traces of its passage – except a credible eyewitness account.

"I wanted this piece to include all the elements of the 1978 experience while also incorporating the rugged yet whimsical coastline so often found in the Newfoundland landscape," explains Adam Young. "Light and line direction were also important aspects of the design, creating a circular visual flow throughout the composition. This has been an exciting artistic endeavour, which, throughout my research for the design, has caused me to tumble down the rabbit hole of other Canadian UFO sightings."

True to the scene described by witnesses that night, luminescent elements on the coins shine through when exposed to a black light. The rectangular $20 Fine Silver Coin - Canada's Unexplained Phenomena: The Clarenville Event has a limited mintage of 5,000 and retails for $129.95.

This new collectible may be ordered as of today by contacting the Mint at 1-800-267–1871 in Canada, 1-800-268–6468 in the US, or at www.mint.ca.

Images of this coin are available here.

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UFOs, Flying Saucers and the Bender Mystery

UFOs, Flying Saucers and the Bender Mystery

by Charles Lear

In the early years of the flying saucer mystery, the U.S. Air Force was the only organization doing any sort of significant investigation. Then, in 1952, a number of private groups were organized and the first citizen investigators went into the field and endeavored to solve the mystery for themselves. The first of these to rise to global attention was the International Flying Saucer Bureau, founded by Albert K. Bender. They put out a quarterly publication called Space Review, and were taken seriously by their fellow enthusiasts. They didn’t last long, however, as Bender put an end to his creation in 1953 after telling his followers he had solved the mystery. He later informed them he’d been visited by three men wearing black suits and homburg hats, who’d threatened him into keeping silent about his discovery. The mythos of the Men in Black entered flying saucer lore and the Bender Mystery became a subject that is still being debated today.

Albert K. Bender was born on July 16, 1921 in Duryea, Pennsylvania. What the “K” stood for seems to be part of the mystery. He served stateside as a dental technician in the U.S. Army Air Forces from June 8, 1942 to Oct. 7, 1943. He was stationed at Langley Field, Virginia. After his service, he moved to Bridgeport, Connecticut with his mother and stepfather. His mother died shortly thereafter.

Bender lived in the attic, which had a bedroom and a den. He was employed as the chief timekeeper at the Acme Shear Company. It may have been a conscious nod to his profession or just an ironic coincidence, but Bender had twenty clocks in his living space that all would ring, chime and clang every fifteen minutes.

The clocks were just one of the many manifestations of Bender’s eccentric nature that increasingly expressed itself as he entered his late twenties. He was a fan of horror movies, ghost stories and the occult. He adorned his attic space with Halloween decorations, fake skulls, shrunken heads, rubber spiders and snakes, and his own macabre paintings. When friends came over, he put on recordings of spooky noises and enjoyed showing off what he called his “Chamber of Horrors.” His offbeat interests and living space were interesting enough that an article was written about him and published in the May 25, 1952 Sunday Herald, a local Bridgeport newspaper.

Flying saucers were added to Bender’s list of interests and they eventually became his chief interest. Bender and some friends formed the IFSB in April 1952 and its membership quickly grew beyond the borders of Connecticut. The first Space Review, put out in Oct. 1952, included a list of representatives in 14 states and one in Ontario, Canada. Bender had a letter announcing the formation of the group published in the Dec. 1952 issue of the Ray Palmer publication, Other Worlds. The letter captured the attention of Flatwoods Monster investigator, Gray Barker, who contacted Bender and expressed his desire to become a member. Bender convinced him to become the state representative for West Virginia.

Barker would later become the chief investigator for the organization and he became good friends with many in the group. By this time, the group had lived up to its name and was truly international. There were chapters in South America, Europe, and the IFSB was in contact with newly formed organizations in Australia and New Zealand. They inspired people all around the world to form their own groups and citizen investigators were here to stay. The IFSB, however, was not. Barker wrote about the events leading to its demise in his 1956 book, “They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers.”

According to Barker in his book, he received a letter from Bender dated Sept. 16, 1953. It contained the mysterious instruction not to accept any more memberships until he’d seen the Oct. issue of Space Review. He then received a letter on tape from New Jersey based member, Domonic Lucchesi. This was common among members as, according to Barker, a saucer investigator without a tape recorder “is considered almost a non-entity.”

Lucchesi described being present when fellow member August C. Roberts called Bender to cancel their planned visit because of car troubles. In the course of the conversation it came out that Bender was unsure whether there would be another issue of Space Review after October. Bender then said he’d discovered the secret of the flying disks and told Roberts about the visit by the three men. He said they confiscated his copies of back issues of the magazine and, as an American citizen, he was sworn to secrecy about his discovery.

In the Oct. 1953 Space Review, Bender announced, “The mystery of flying saucers is no longer a mystery.” He apologized for not being able to elaborate saying, “because of the nature of the information we have been advised in the negative.”

Barker got in touch with Roberts and suggested Roberts and Lucchesi go to Connecticut and speak to Bender in person. Barker emphasized it was important they remember everything that was said. They were sure Bender wouldn’t allow a tape recorder or a note pad and Barker suggested Roberts should slip away to the bathroom periodically where he could make notes unseen. He could tell Bender he’d taken a laxative or had bowel issues. Roberts complained he wasn’t a good actor and Barker suggested he should actually take a laxative.

Roberts and Lucchesi interviewed Bender and, while they didn’t get the answer to the mystery, they did get some interesting replies to some of their questions. He told them the government had known what the saucers were for two years and if they didn’t tell the public in the next five months, it would be four years before they did so.

After the Oct. 1953 issue, only three more issues of Space Review were published. These were for the members that didn’t want refunds. Flying saucers were not even mentioned and the articles focused solely on space. The IFSB was closed.

Barker was putting out his own magazine, The Saucerian, and he reached out to his readers to help him solve the Bender Mystery. Some of them speculated but no one came up with a convincing explanation.

The Aerial Phenomena Research Organization had formed in the fall of 1951 just prior to IFSB. APRO’s director, Coral Lorenzen, offered the suggestion in the Nov. 15, 1953 APRO Bulletin that a pulp magazine publisher (Ray Palmer?) had been funding IFSB and had backed out. Lorenzen reasoned that with no funds to run the organization, Bender had made up the story in order to be done with it. Barker assures the reader in his book that this was not the case.

David Houchin, curator of the Gray Barker collection at the Clarksburg-Harrison Public Library in West Virginia, came up with a theory during a Gray Barker tribute on the radio show “Exploring the Bizarre.” Houchin presents a scenario based on two letters to Bender that are housed in the collection. According to him, a man in Clarksburg suffered an epileptic seizure and was taken to the hospital. Someone had taken his wallet but he had Barker’s IFSB business card on him. An official visited Barker and interviewed him in an attempt to identify the man. Barker claims in his book that the official showed him FBI credentials while Houchin feels he was probably a local police detective. Barker got paranoid, called Bender and got no answer because Bender was on vacation. He then wrote to Bender that he’d been investigated by the FBI and others should expect the same. Barker also called Washington, DC based member Rev. S. L. Daw, and gave him the same information. Daw had been seeing flying saucers everywhere, was taking pictures and some of them were taken at a restricted site. The day after Barker called him, three actual FBI agents visited him and he wrote a letter to Bender to tell him about it.

Bender came back from his vacation to find Barker’s and Daw’s letter waiting for him. Houchin suggests this panicked Bender and he adopted Daw’s three-man scenario as an excuse to shut down the organization.

Barker played up the paranoia in his book and the MiB mythos took root. Bender wrote his own book, “Flying Saucers and the Three Men”, which was published by Barker through his Saucerian Books in 1962. In Bender’s book, the three men become three ethereal creatures with glowing eyes from the planet Kazik, pronounced with a long “a” and a silent “z.” Could Kazik have been what the mysterious “K” stood for in Bender’s name? Bender’s book was met with dubiousness by most in the flying saucer community.

There are now three major speculations making the rounds in UFOlogical and paranormal discussions on radio, the web and in literature. One is that Bender came up with a story to get out of the flying saucer business, one is that he was visited by MiB of either governmental or extraterrestrial origin and the third is that his interest in the occult caused him to call up some entities he couldn’t get rid of. Where one comes down on the Bender Mystery is a good indication of one’s place in the world of the paranormal.

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Trump says he'll 'take a good, strong look' at whether UFOs exist

Trump says he'll 'take a good, strong look' at whether UFOs exist

Amanda Krause

President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office on September 17, 2020. Oliver Contreras-Pool/Getty

President Donald Trump was asked about the existence of UFOs during an interview with Maria Bartiromo of Fox News on Sunday.
Trump said he first heard about the Pentagon's Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force, which was announced in August, two days ago.
He also added that he'd "take a good, strong look" at the existence of UFOs.
When asked about unidentified flying objects in 2019, Trump expressed skepticism.
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President Donald Trump said in an interview on Sunday that he plans on looking further into US intelligence on the existence of UFOs.

Fox News host Maria Bartiromo asked Trump during "Sunday Morning Futures" about the Department of Defense's announcement that the Pentagon launched a task force to investigate sightings of unidentified flying objects in August. The group is called the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force (UAPTF).

"Mr. President, as we wrap up here, are there UFOs?" Bartiromo said.

"Well I'm gonna have to check on that," Trump replied. "I mean, I've heard that. I heard that two days ago, so I'll check on that. I'll take a good, strong look at that."

"In April, the Pentagon declassified three videos of 'unidentified aerial phenomena,'" Orecchio-Egresitz wrote. "The next month, the Navy released several incident reports from encounters with unidentified flying objects (UFOs) — a generic term for any aerospace asset that is unidentifiable, rather than confirmation as an actual aerial object piloted by extraterrestrials."

Trump has expressed skepticism when asked about UFOs in the past

In June 2019, Trump told ABC News that he had "one very brief meeting" to discuss US Navy reports of UFOs. At the time, he said he didn't necessarily believe the reports, but wanted pilots to "think whatever they think."

"I think it's probably — I want them to think whatever they think," Trump told George Stephanopoulos. "They do say, and I've seen, and I've read, and I've heard, and I did have one very brief meeting on it. But people are saying they're seeing UFOs."

"Do I believe it? Not particularly," he added.

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The Majestic 12 Documents: Who Really was the Mysterious “Falcon”?

The Majestic 12 Documents: Who Really was the Mysterious “Falcon”?

Nick Redfern

Over the last few days I have written articles on the Majestic 12 documents, the Paul Bennewitz affair, Stan Friedman’s FBI file, and (briefly) the mysterious “Falcon,” someone “on the inside” and who may have been the primary source for the aforementioned Majestic 12 documents. All of the above people and subjects were inter-connected in various ways. But, who was the Falcon? Well, let’s have a look. In 1999, Gerald K. Haines – in his position as the historian of the National Reconnaissance Office – wrote a paper titled “CIA’s Role in the Study of UFOs, 1947-90.” It’s now in the public domain, thanks to the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act. It can be read at the CIA’s website. Haines’ paper detailed the history of how, and why, the CIA became interested and involved in the phenomenon of UFOs. Although Haines covered a period of more than forty years, I will bring your attention to one particular section of his paper, which is focused on the 1970s-1980s. Haines wrote: “During the late 1970s and 1980s, the Agency continued its low-key interest in UFOs and UFO sightings. While most scientists now dismissed flying saucers reports as a quaint part of the 1950s and 1960s, some in the Agency and in the Intelligence Community shifted their interest to studying parapsychology and psychic phenomena associated with UFO sightings. CIA officials also looked at the UFO problem to determine what UFO sightings might tell them about Soviet progress in rockets and missiles and reviewed its counterintelligence aspects.”

The Soviets, then, were camouflaging their secret rocket tests by spreading false and fantastic tales of UFOs. Haines also noted something that is absolutely key to the story that this book tells and particularly so with regard to the Majestic 12 papers: “Agency analysts from the Life Science Division of OSI and OSWR officially devoted a small amount of their time to issues relating to UFOs. These included counterintelligence concerns that the Soviets and the KGB were using U.S. citizens and UFO groups to obtain information on sensitive U.S. weapons development programs (such as the Stealth aircraft), the vulnerability of the U.S. air-defense network to penetration by foreign missiles mimicking UFOs, and evidence of Soviet advanced technology associated with UFO sightings [italics mine].”

What about those “U.S. citizens” that Haines referred to? Let us see. The 1970s and 1980s were the decades in which Paul Bennewitz was most active, at least in terms of his UFO research in and around Kirtland Air Force Base, Albuquerque, New Mexico. He was almost certainly one of those Americans who Haines was talking about and whose actions the CIA’s counterintelligence people were worried about. That the U.S. Air Force was very concerned by the possibility that Bennewitz was unknowingly being used by the Soviets, was reason enough alone to practically force-feed Bennewitz with almost unending, nightmarish horror stories of dangerous and deadly aliens under Dulce, New Mexico. And, then, have Bill Moore report back on the extent to which those same horror stories were destabilizing Bennewitz’s increasingly paranoid mind. All of this strongly suggests that Moore may have been as much a victim as Bennewitz was: both men may have been fed wholly bogus material. Interestingly, Haines actually references Shandera and Moore’s work on the Majestic 12 documents in the “Notes” section of his very own paper.

Another aspect on this particular part of the story: Maybe Moore was used, but not just by U.S. intelligence. It should be noted that, as Greg Bishop said, the Falcon had what was described as an eastern European accent. He may well not have been an American, which suggests the incredible theory that the Russians may have been running the program to learn all they could from Bennewitz. Or, maybe, there was more than one Falcon, which really serves to complicate matters. Based on private data provided to him by sources in the know, Greg Bishop has concluded that the Falcon was a man named Harry August Rositzke; he ran covert programs for the CIA, after cutting his teeth in the heart of the Second World War-era Office of Strategic Services. Rositzke, a Brooklyn native, was an expert on the matter of Soviet intelligence, the KGB, and Russia’s programs designed to destabilize the West with carefully crafted propaganda. Rositzke, who died in 2002 at the age of ninety-one, wrote a number of non-fiction books on the world of espionage, including The KGB: The Eyes of Russia and The CIA’s Secret Operations. Rositzke, it’s important to note, did not have a European accent. That revelation adds further weight to the possibility that there may have been competing Falcons; one, Rositzke, an American trying to protect U.S. government secrets. The other? An unknown European (or Russian) character posing as an American official, and using the same alias of the Falcon, and trying to further disrupt U.S. intelligence.

The final words go to Encyclopedia.com, who stated of Rositzke: “After he retired, Rositzke spent his time on his cattle farm and wrote books about spy activities between the United States and the Soviets, always maintaining that secret intelligence agents helped to stabilize political relations by providing America with much-needed information.”

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Maandag 12 oktober 2020

Reptile Alien Face Found On Mars, Oct 11, 2020, Photos, UFO Sighting News.

Reptile Alien Face Found On Mars, Oct 11, 2020, Photos, UFO Sighting News.

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Date of discovery: Oct 11, 2020
Location of discovery: Mars
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I found a reptilian head on mars. The face is certainly unusual and even has a long tubular appendage coming out of its lower nose area. The mouth is open. Its ears are small, its eyes are small but its head is slightly elongated. The original color of the photos was fake red/brown, but I put it into natural color. The color of the face is unique. It has orange, blue and grey throughout it. This unique and strange reptilian face might explain the strange sculptures and civilization artifacts we have been finding on Mars. Such an unusual alien probably has a equally unique culture and way of life. One that we could never relate too.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan

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Maandag 12 oktober 2020

Alien Structure On Moon Measures 118km Across! Google Moon Map! Oct 2020, Photos, UFO Sighting News.

Alien Structure On Moon Measures 118km Across! Google Moon Map! Oct 2020, Photos, UFO Sighting News.

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Date of discovery: Oct 11, 2020

Location of discovery: Earths moon, Drygalski crater edge

Source: Google Earth Moon map

Google Coordinates: 75°55'52.36"S 90° 4'6.03"W

I was looking over Google moon map which is easy to use. Just open Google Earth, then hit the button to switch to moon map. I found some highly unusual structures on the moon. The kind that NASA would never report about find for fear the public would learn about the existence of intelligent aliens so close to Earth.

Near Drygalski crater there is some smaller craters and I found some finger like structures in two long craters. The fingers were close to 7km long according to Google ruler. The length of the structures along the edge of Drygalski crater is 118km across! Now these are huge structures with absolutely smooth surfaces. More like a glass-like windows of structures for aliens to look out and see space. This is 100% proof that NASA hides alien evidence from the public.

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Maandag 12 oktober 2020

Possible Directed Energy Weapon caught beaming at Tyndall Air Force Base Space Wing, Florida

Possible Directed Energy Weapon caught beaming at Tyndall Air Force Base Space Wing, Florida

If its us beaming out to ourselves, testing some sort of laser.. creating a hot spot for some reason at ground level.. then we can move on and let them deal with moving to different frequencies to prevent civilians seeing it.

If its not us beaming down causing a hot spot on ourselves, then we've got problems.

October 9, 2020 350am Central time - This video from Dutschsinse documents (real time) a directed energy weapon beam which has been caught on Weather Satellite beaming down directly at Tyndall Air Force Base (space force communications base), along the coast of Florida, creating a hot spot at the location receiving the beam as well.

A beam of energy shooting down next to our Space Communications Wing base resulting in a physical hot spot being detected.

A second beam was captured beaming down to the SW Louisiana Lake Charles Nexrad Radar station.

It would appear both beams reside in the shortwave Infrared spectrum, and are targeting in on our United States radar systems along the coast of the Gulf. Targeting first at the Nexrad along the coast of Louisiana, then a 2nd beam down at Tyndall AFB (the beam location showing an actual hot spot on thermal return via GOES 16.

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Maandag 12 oktober 2020

What is interstellar space?

What is interstellar space?

Posted by EarthSky in ASTRONOMY ESSENTIALS | SPACE

You might be surprised to learn that interstellar space isn’t just vacuum. It’s full of gases, elements, and dust – very thinly spread, to be sure – but the building blocks of stars and planets.

In this infrared image from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, winds flowing out from a fast-moving star (Zeta Ophiuchi) are making ripples in the dust in interstellar space.

Image via NASA.

Interstellar space – the space between the stars – isn’t just empty space. There’s a lot of “stuff” out there, including hydrogen (70%) and helium (28%), formed in the Big Bang that set our universe into motion. The other 2% of “stuff” in interstellar space is heavier gases and dust, consisting of the other elements made inside stars and spewed into space by supernovae. The material in interstellar space is very spread out. It’s denser in some places than in others, but a typical density is about one atom per cubic centimeter. Still, even the most dense regions of interstellar space count as vacuum, compared with our earthly air.

Our sun controls the conditions around our solar system, but outside of that is interstellar space and all that it contains.

Astronomers call this space between the stars the interstellar medium.

Straight line with sun and planets on one end, heliopause marked, and wide Oort cloud at other end.

Diagram of the solar system showing planets, heliopause, and interstellar space. The numbers shown are astronomical units (AU), where 1 AU is the distance between the sun and the Earth.

Image via NASA/ JPL-Caltech.

Why is interstellar space important?

The interstellar medium is where stars are made. Without it, we wouldn’t exist. If there weren’t thick and thin spots that condensed into thicker patches that eventually became stars, the whole universe would just be a cloud of boring, cold, lifeless gas.

The thick parts of the interstellar medium are called molecular clouds – often referred to as stellar nurseries – the places where stars are born. The first stars didn’t have planets because there weren’t any materials in interstellar space beyond hydrogen and helium. But, over the billions of years of our universe’s history, that has changed.

It changed because stars themselves make increasingly more complex elements in their interiors. When the most massive stars grow old and die, they explode as supernovae, releasing their elements into interstellar space. Thus it has become possible for stars to form with planets and for at least one planet we know of, Earth, to harbor living things.

Given the contents of interstellar space, and process by which stars and planets are born, it seems highly likely that other planets have living things, too.

Pink cloudy space with many bright stars and small, irregular black globules.

This intriguing view of spectacular stellar nursery IC 2944 was released to celebrate a milestone: 15 years of ESO’s Very Large Telescope. This image also shows a group of thick clouds of dust – known as the Thackeray globules – silhouetted against the pale pink glowing gas of the nebula.

Our solar system, and spacecraft, in interstellar space

The sun is our local star. It’s about 870,000 miles (1.4 million km) across, approximately 100 times wider in diameter than our planet Earth. It would take more than 965,000 Earths to fill up the volume of the sun. Earth is one of the smaller planets in our solar system.

A stream of charged particles emanates from the upper layers of the sun’s atmosphere; this stream of particles is known as the solar wind. The sun – and its solar wind – create a kind of cavity that envelopes our entire solar system, known as the heliosphere. The heliosphere is like a balloon, with our sun and planets inside the balloon. Outside the heliosphere is interstellar space.

Neptune, the farthest of our solar system’s major planets, is 30 times the distance from the sun as Earth. We call the distance from Earth to the sun an astronomical unit (AU), so Neptune is at a distance of 30 AU.

The edge of the heliosphere is four times as far, at about 120 AU.

The heliosphere is moving through the space of our Milky Way galaxy. As it moves, the part of the heliosphere that faces the center of our galaxy receives more pressure than the side that faces away, so the heliosphere is stretched out into a teardrop shape.

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A comparison of the size of Earth and the sun.

Image via SFWriter @Fiverr.

Tiny solar system, surrounded by gigantic heliosphere, which is stretched out in one direction; two spacecraft.

View larger. | Illustration of the positions of the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 spacecraft – the farthest spacecraft from Earth – now both outside of the heliosphere, in interstellar space. Voyager 1 crossed the heliopause, or the edge of the heliosphere, in August 2012. Heading in a different direction, Voyager 2 crossed another part of the heliopause in November 2018. The Voyagers revealed that the size of the heliosphere changes. It seems to “breathe” in a way related to the level of the sun’s activity, getting bigger when the sun is active, and shrinking when it’s quiet.

Image via NASA.

Presumably, every star creates its own bubble around itself. At the edges of all these billions of “heliospheres,” stars leak particles and electromagnetic radiation into space, further feeding the interstellar medium.

Once you have traveled past the inner edge of the heliosphere, there is a region called the termination shock that is like white-water rapids in a stream.

Finally it smooths out and you enter the heliopause, an area where the internal pressure of the sun’s effect balances with the outside pressure of the interstellar medium. It is very still, where you finally enter interstellar space itself.

About that “vacuum” of space …

When we talk about space, we often think of vacuum where there is absolutely nothing for us to breathe. Earth’s atmosphere is quite thick at sea level. It extends well above the International Space Station (ISS), but it is so thin that after a few hundred kilometers, it’s almost as if it isn’t there. Earth’s atmosphere may finally end around 6,700 miles (10,800 km) above Earth’s surface, or higher, depending on whom you ask.

On Earth at sea level, a cubic centimeter of air has 30,000,000,000,000,000,000 molecules in it, or we could say 3 with 19 zeros after it, but for convenience, we write it as 3 times 10^19. So in a volume just a little bit smaller than a normal die, there is an unfathomable amount of molecules.

At Mount Everest’s peak there are is a bit more than 10^18 molecules in the same volume, and, at the altitude of ISS (~350 km or a little over 200 miles up), there are only 1 million (10^6) molecules per cubic centimeter – and the same for the thin atmosphere of the moon.

In comparison, interstellar space only has about 1 atom per cubic centimeter on average, although this number varies from 100,000 to as low as 0.01 depending on if you’re in a molecular cloud or in the space in between the clouds. Either way it’s about as close to an absolute vacuum as you can get (not counting intergalactic space where the number is even lower …).

Layers of atmosphere with typical things in them such as planes, auroras, and spacecraft.

The layers of Earth’s atmosphere.

Graphic via NOAA.

Bottom line: Interstellar space is the space between the stars in a galaxy. It’s not “empty,” but, overall, it’s as close to an absolute vacuum as you can get. Molecular clouds are places in interstellar space where the material is collected most densely. Within these clouds, new stars and planets are born.

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Maandag 12 oktober 2020

Inside the secret lives of synchronous fireflies

Inside the secret lives of synchronous fireflies

Posted by Eleanor Imster in EARTH

In the Smoky Mountains, thousands of fireflies flash in unison. Researchers want to know how.

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It’s a sight to behold: On June evenings in Tennessee’s Smoky Mountains National Park, thousands of male fireflies all flash together in near-perfect harmony. These fireflies, also called lightning bugs, flash with a distinct rhythm: a few quick bursts of light followed by a several-second pause, then more bursts. In person, the display looks like a wave of light passing over the hillside.

A team of researchers from University of Colorado Boulder wanted to understand how relatively simple insects manage to coordinate such feats of synchronization.

Their new study, published September 23, 2020, in the peer-reviewed Journal of The Royal Society Interface suggests that, rather than flash according to some innate rhythm, the fireflies observe what their neighbors are doing, then adjust their behavior to match.

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View larger. | Stacked photo of fireflies in Tennessee.

Image via University of Colorado.

To date, scientists have struggled to explain how the fireflies’ synchronization works. University of Colorado researcher Raphaël Sarfati is lead author of the new study. Sarfati said in a statement:

Is it something hardwired in fireflies that makes them want to synchronize? Or is it something more context dependent, maybe based on their environment?

As study co-author Orit Peleg describes it, the firefly display is over almost as soon as it begins. Males belonging to the species Photinus carolinus only flash for about two weeks every June, and then just for a few hours a night. She said:

Studying them is a constant race against time.

Fireflies in the wild

For their research, the team drove to Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Tennessee in June 2019. There, they set up two 360-degree cameras in a wooded area to map out the locations of the bugs flashing in their vicinity. The group also assembled a pop tent on site and introduced a few fireflies at a time to the isolated environment. Sarfati said:

It was, basically, like we were one of the fireflies in the swarm.

The researchers discovered that the fireflies don’t behave the same way when they’re alone as when they’re in a big group. For example, the team found that a single male firefly alone in the tent would flash without a good sense of rhythm, a few bursts here, a few bursts there. But with more fireflies in the tent, things began to change. Sarfati said:

When you start putting 20 fireflies together, that’s when you start observing what you see in the wild. You’ve got regular bursts of flashes, and they’re all synchronized.

That suggested to the researchers that the fireflies likely aren’t hardwired to flash with a particular pattern. Instead, their light displays seem to be more social. Bugs watch what their neighbors are doing and try to follow along.

The group’s findings, Peleg said, could help researchers learn more about a range of other synchronous behaviors in nature. She said:

This kind of synchrony occurs in many natural systems. The cells in our hearts all flex and contract at the same time. Neurons in our brains also synchronize.

The researchers noted that insect species that their glow to attract mates have found themselves competing for attention with human sources of light. Many species are on the decline around the world because there is more and more light pollution. Peleg said she doesn’t want to see the glow from these insects disappear:

There always was this last half an hour at night where we were tired and sitting in the forest, waiting for the fireflies to stop flashing. It was the most relaxing part of this work.

Bottom line: On summer evenings in Tennessee’s Smoky Mountains, thousands of fireflies flash in unison. Researchers want to know how they do it.
Source: Spatio-temporal reconstruction of emergent flash synchronization in firefly swarms via stereoscopic 360-degree cameras
Via University of Colorado Boulder

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Zondag 11 oktober 2020

Government bans release of secret UFO dossier for another 50 years leaving experts furious

Government bans release of secret UFO dossier for another 50 years leaving experts furious

Paul Sims

UFO experts hit out when it emerged a dossier into Britain’s most significant sighting is to be kept secret for another 50 years.

The file is said to contain astonishing colour photographs of a 100ft craft hovering over the village of Calvine in the Scottish Highlands in 1990.

A colourised image of the alleged UFO sighting in 1990

Photographs were taken by two Perthshire hikers who watched the “diamond-shaped metallic craft” for ten minutes before it shot up vertically out of sight.

They also claimed to see military jets fly a series of low-level passes.

Where the UFO was spotted in the Highlands in 1990

Evidence collected and held on to by officials included the hikers’ six colour snaps.

A redacted version of the file has been released, including just a blurred photocopied image.

UFO investigator Nick Pope helped colourise the image, seen above.

Last night, Mr Pope said: “Despite an extensive investigation, we never found a definitive explanation for what was seen at Calvine.”

A UFO hunter added: “This is all so frustrating. The Calvine Incident is one of the most intriguing of all the UFO mysteries from that period.

“Under the 30-year rule, the file should have been released on January 1 2021, but if the ministry get their way it won’t be released until January 1 2072 — an 82-year closure.

“By the time the world gets to see the file, the two witnesses will be dead. It is crazy. What are the authorities trying to hide?”

The redacted file also omitted the names and contact details of the hikers.

Those who believe the “truth is out there” slogan of TV show The X Files are furious that, without access to those who reported the sightings, it remains impossible to get the full story.

A complaint lodged under the Freedom of Information Act about the National Archives withholding the documents is now under investigation by the UK information watchdog, the Information Commissioner’s Office.

The National Archives refused to comment further. The MOD refused to comment at all.

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By Nick Pope, ex-MOD UFO investigator

TESTS showed the photos hadn’t been faked. They showed a structured craft of unknown origin, unlike any conventional aircraft.

There was no fuselage, no wings, no tail, no engines and no markings of any sort.

Because the photos had been taken in daylight with the surrounding countryside visible, Ministry of Defence boffins could make some calculations about the mystery object’s size.

It turned out to be nearly 100 feet in diameter.

An enlargement of the photos revealed two military jets.

It wasn’t clear if they were escorting the UFO, trying to intercept it, or just there by coincidence.

UFOs are suspected to be carrying alien life on board

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Truth-seekers spot 'UFO' being 'followed through sky' by mysterious orbs

Truth-seekers spot 'UFO' being 'followed through sky' by mysterious orbs

A man claims to have captured footage of a UFO being chased by orbs in the skies above Japan and the clip was debated by believers on conspiracy theory YouTube channel The Hidden Underbelly 2.0

By Sofie Jackson - Video News Reporter

Footage of an alleged "UFO" cruising through the skies near a volcano in Japan has sent conspiracy theorists wild, with some claiming it is being chased by smaller craft.

In the clip, recorded at Kagoshima City in Japan, a large bright object appears in the night sky above the urban area, with the silhouette of Sakurajima volcano behind.

As the shiny object zips from the right of the frame to the left, a group of smaller-looking lights that appear to be flying in a triangle formation appear and follow in its wake.

The footage was spotted by Chris M who sent it to the popular YouTube conspiracy theory channel The Hidden Underbelly 2.0 where it had since been viewed more than 1,000 times.

A bright object appears in the sky and is 'persued' by a cluster of other objects

A bright object appears in the sky and is 'persued' by a cluster of other objects (Image: Hidden Underbelly 2.0 / YouTube)

In the caption, he explained: "These objects were seen by the viewers of this live stream that is set up to monitor the Sakurajima volcano."

Unsurprisingly, the clip drew an enthusiastic debate about whether the lights were UFOs or not.

"That's a fantastic capture, definitely one large one and then a smaller group following," commented one believer.

A second conspiracy theorist said: "Mother ship trying to fly away from her baby ships. In all seriousness though, it was very good footage".

"There's always UFO activity near volcanos, like the one in Mexico," wrote another fan.

A fourth viewer, speculating that it might be advanced technology, commented: "The concept that comes to mind when I see these clusters that change back to a singular light or appear to stutter is maybe they move at a frequency that is not native to our perception.

"Certainly wouldn't blow my mind If that were the case."

More cynical viewers claimed the footage was simply "drones" or perhaps a "reflection".

This comes after a strange "metallic" object was spotted on the International Space Station (ISS) live feed, sparking a frenzy of conspiracy theories.

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