DEEL 13 - NA MEER DAN 60 JAAR UFO-ONDERZOEK NOG STEEDS ANGST OM DE WAARHEID.

DEEL 13 EN LAATSTE VAN DEEL I VAN HET RAPPORT - NA MEER DAN 60 JAAR UFO-ONDERZOEK NOG STEEDS ANGST OM DE WAARHEID.
Aan deel 2 van dit rapport wordt nog volgop gewerkt en zal later gepubliceerd worden...
5. Waar staan we nu in 2011?
Na 60 jaar de UFO-patronen te bestuderen, beraadslagend over hun oorsprong, het ontwikkelen van onderzoeksprocedures en meldingsrapporten voor het bestuderen van waarnemingen en getuigen, het opstellen van internationale databanken en alzo speculerend over de betekenis van deze waarnemingsrapporten en zoekend naar gelijkenissen via computer tussen de verschillende duizenden rapporten, blijft het UFO-probleem nog even verwarrend en controversie oproepen als 60 jaar geleden. De verwarring over de betrokkenheid van de overheid in de UFO’s en in hun stilzwijgen of ridiculiseren leidde ons meer en meer naar het ontvoeringsmateriaal. We kunnen vaststellen dat we als particuliere, amateuristische onderzoekers vorderingen maakten in het gebruik van een algemeen waarnemingsverslag. Onze communicatie intern en internationaal verloopt door het gebruik maken van het internet enorm snel en grenzenloos. Onderzoeksgegevens, resultaten en informatie is via een website op internet onmiddellijk beschikbaar voor elke onderzoeker en het groot publiek. Het is nu zelfs al een vaststaand feit dat we door het internet bedolven worden onder een massa informatie over alle mogelijke aspecten van het UFO-fenomeen. Het is een hele opdracht om uit te maken welke site als betrouwbaar mag beschouwd worden, waarop informatie staat die 100% waarheidgetrouw en gecheckt is..
De laatste decennia werd de aandacht van de onderzoekers vooral in de richting van de bizarre ontvoeringsgevallen getrokken. Het diverse materiaal, ontwikkeld uit de ontvoeringsgegevens, heeft onze aandacht gevestigd op de studie naar buitenaards leven, hun bedoelingen, hun intenties en activiteiten. Het heeft ons ruim 40 jaar gekost om sinds de waarneming van Kenneth ARNOLD het belangrijkste van wat we waarnamen te begrijpen. Arnold’s waarneming zette een kettingreactie van UFO-meldingen op gang en een publieke dynamiek van waarnemingen, meldingen, verslagen, onderzoeken, analysen en beraadslagingen, dat zich steeds opvolgde tot de dag van vandaag. Sinds Arnold’s waarneming leerden de Ufologen dat zijn en de ontelbare andere vergelijkbare meldingen en ervaringen zin hadden tegenover het eenvoudig feit van de waarneming van een ongewoon verschijnsel, dat blijkbaar doelbewust plaatsvond. Deze betekenis was even mysterieus als ondoorgrondelijk... Virtueel centraliseerde alle publieke beraadslaging over de realiteit van ofwel een bijzondere waarneming, ofwel het verschijnsel als een geheel, maar wij waren onbekwaam om tot de kern, de eigenlijke betekenis van het verschijnsel door te dringen. Wij discussieerden over de betekenis van de uiterlijke manifestaties van een innerlijk gericht fenomeen. Sinds de jaren 1990 kenden de ontvoeringsgevallen een sterke opgang. De onderzoekers waren niet langer bang om belachelijk over te komen in de studie van deze nieuwe, beangstigende ervaringen. De ontvoeringen voegden een nieuwe dimensie toe aan het UFO-fenomeen en schetsten een beeld van de ware aard achter de intenties van de “bezoekers”. Publikaties van Budd HOPKINS, Whitley STRIEBER, Dr. John MACK en nog vele andere over de ontvoeringsgevallen maakten dit aspect van het UFO-fenomeen bekend bij het grote publiek. UFO’s kregen een andere betekenis door de ontvoeringservaringen en “hun” bezoeken krijgen een andere dimensie... Zijn wij proefdieren geworden in het labo “AARDE”?
Zonder twijfel zal deze evolutie nog verder gaan! Actueel hebben wij een informatorische gegevensbank en computermateriaal ter beschikking, waarin wij al onze data en info kunnen opslaan, snel analyses maken en statistieken trekken van duizenden UFO-rapporten, gelijkenissen en resultaten zoeken, waarop wij onze kennis en hypothesen kunnen baseren. Het zoeken naar een hard en doorslaggevend bewijs blijft zeker nog doorgaan, gaande van sporen of restanten van UFO’s tot implantaten van specifieke ontvoeringsgevallen... De controversie tussen believers, nonbelievers, neutralen en sceptici blijft evenzeer doorgaan. Het eigen gelijk wordt te pas en te onpas fanatiek verdedigt, tot het extreme toe...
Wel is het zo dat de moderne UFOLOGIE aan héél wat publiek belangstelling ingeboet heeft. Het organiseren van UFO-symposia was / is niet meer leefbaar in België. Dit terwijl het jaarlijks congres van M.U.F.O.N. is de V.S. jaarlijks nog honderden belangstellenden lokt met een hoge kwaliteit aan sprekers. De meeste UFO-groepen, zoals SVL, UROS, FUO, UFO-Belgium,... hadden het moeilijk om een tijdschrift te blijven uitgeven. De te leveren investeringen aan tijd en financiële fondsen voor een een paar tientallen lezers lagen veel te hoog. Veelal ligt / lag het resultaat van de publikatie in de handen van een paar personen en kostte dit te veel vrije tijd voor een zo beperkt lezerspubliek. Tevens bleef zo de nodige erkenning uit om te blijven volhouden...
Gelukkig in het internettijdperk werd er snel omgeschakeld naar een website, waarop alle info ter beschikking staat. Groot voordeel was dat de info nu bereikbaar was voor een veel groter publiek en minder kostelijk...
Internationale samenwerking dringt zich meer en meer op. Het internet is het ideaal forum om dit mogelijk te maken. Het Amerikaanse M.U.F.O.N. is een netwerk met vertegenwoordigers en afdelingen in diverse landen. De faam van deze vereniging is zo sterk dat een aantal wetenschappers niet meer bang is om met deze UFO-vereniging samen te werken. Beste voorbeeld van deze samenwerking zijn de jaarlijkse symposia en de “proceedings”, waar specifieke onderzoekers en wetenschappers de bevindingen van hun studie kwijt kunnen. Verder heb je in de V.S. een organisatie “Burgers tegen de geheimhouding van UFO-data”, die zich al jarenlang inzet om nog meer verborgen gehouden gegevens over vroegere UFO-rapporten voor publikatie vrij te krijgen.
Volgen een artikel in “Het Laatste Nieuws” van 10 maart 1982 kan de geheimste ale Amerikaanse geheime diensten, het NATIONALE VEILIGHEIDSBUREAU, niet verplicht worden de geheime inlichtingen over onbekende vliegende objecten openbaar te maken. Met deze sterke uitspraak bevestigde het Amerikaanse HOOGGERECHTSHOF een eerder vonnis van een federale rechter. Hij stelde meteen een einde aan de jurische verwikkelingen tussen overheid en burgers...
Desalniettemin werd deze vereniging een paar maanden later toch nog verplicht om files over UFO’s vrij te geven, namelijk diegene die geen gevaar opleverden voor de nationale veiligheid en voor de Amerikaanse overheid. Het vrijmaken van deze gegevens voor het groot publiek maakte de particuliere UFO-groeperingen bewust van het feit dat de overheid nog steeds ultra-geheime UFO-gegevens achterhoudt...
Ondanks het vrijkomen van een aantal dokumenten dalen het aantal bestaande, particulieren UFO-groepen. In België werd er na een eindeloos gepalaver tussen diverse partijen een forum opgericht, waar elke onderzoeker de resultaten van zijn onderzoek kwijt kan. Het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk (B.U.F.O.N.) probeert elke onderzoeker op nationaal niveau samen te brengen. Dit lukt niet altijd en specifieke “sceptische” UFO-groeperingen zoals S.V.L. (Studiegroep voor Vreemde Luchtverschijnselen) van Wim van UTRECHT en S.U.F.O.N. (Sceptisch UFO-Netwerk) van Marc BROUX blijven onafhankelijk verderwerken. Toch zijn er sporadisch schuchtere pogingen om een specifieke melding samen te onderzoeken en te beoordelen.
Niettemin zet BUFON zijn taak verder en organiseert sporadisch UFO-meetings. Ze hebben een geactualiseerde website www.UFO.be, waarop je allerlei informatie en links kan terugvinden. Het is een spijtige zaak dat de meeste UFO-verenigingen elkaar bestrijden, elkaar de loef proberen af te steken en meestal een loop nemen met ernstig UFO-onderzoek.
Een Europees netwerk van samenwerkende UFO-verenigingen met eventueel zijn administratieve zetel in BRUSSEL en jaarlijkse of tweejaarlijkse symposia, zou de Europese Ufologie meer zeggingskracht en uniforme, goed onderzochte verslagen van UFO-meldingen geven Een droom waarover ik het 20 jaar geleden al had in mijn eerste rapport “40 jaar UFO-ONDERZOEK: de angst om de waarheid”. Misschien slaagt BUFON erin om deze utopie te verwezenlijken. Enkel de toekomst kan hier een antwoord op geven.
Indien er geen samenbundeling van krachten komt, zie ik persoonlijk dat de kleine UFO-verenigingen gedoemd zijn om te verdwijnen bij gebrek aan financiële steun en publieke belangstelling. De “publieke” Ufologie zal deels verdwijnen en in plaats zal research overblijven van een “Invisible College”, de volhardende, idealistische individuen. Het is normaal dat enkelingen niet kunnen optornen tegen de “debunkings- en ridiculiseringspolitiek” van officiële instanties; dat enkelingen er niet zullen in slagen om nog meer geheime UFO-files vrij te krijgen van de officiële instanties... Gelukkig hebben wij het internet waar enkelen via hun site hun informatie kunnen verdelen. Een groot gevaar schuilt er in deze “wildernis” aan informatie, dat je door het bos de bomen niet meer ziet..
Het nationaal en internationaal samenwerken van de diverse UFO-verenigingen met hun diverse visies is een “MUST”. Hoe willen wij, UFO-onderzoekers, geloofwaardig overkomen bij het grote publiek en de officiële instanties als wij zelf vergeten de UFO-rapporten te bestuderen; als wij zelf niet tot een consensus kunnen komen over de UFO-problematiek en onze artikels of publikaties slechts gebruiken om persoonlijke vetes uit te vechten (BUFON met SUFON, UFO-NORGE met NORDIC, ...). Alleen een consensus op (inter)nationaal vlak, het aanvaarden van ieders mening, wederzijds respect, het opstellen van gezamelijke leidraden en methodologie voor een objectieve research van de UFO-problematiek, het aanbieden van een wetenschappelijke opleiding voor “jonge” Ufologen kan het UFO-onderzoek een nieuw elan bezorgen
Onze interne verdeeldheid, ons onbegrip voor elkaars doelstellingen en visies, maken ons net vatbaar voor negatieve kritiek en ongeloofwaardigheid. Zo hoeven hoeven de officiële instanties op middellange termijn ons niet meer te vrezen. UFOLOGIE is meer dan publiciteit zoeken; UFOLOGIE is de waarheid zoeken achter het grootste raadsel van de 20° eeuw.
Zelfs indien achteraf blijkt dat UFO’s slechts nonsens en misinterpretaties zouden zijn, loont het beslist de moeite om internationale samenwerking en vrienschap op de bouwen in een wereld van onverdraagzaamheid. Misschien kunnen we zo ons steentje bijdragen tot een betere wereld?
Budd HOPKINS
UFOS IN DE OUDHEID
VOORSTELLING VAN AUTOPSIE VAN ALIEN
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DEEL 12 - NA MEER DAN 60 JAAR UFO-ONDERZOEK NOG STEEDS ANGST OM DE WAARHEID.5. Het COMETA-rapport uit
Frankrijk.
Het officiële COMETA-rapport onder de titel “UFO’s en DEFENSIE: Waarop dienen voorbereid te zijn?”(Les OVNI et La DEFENSE: A QUOI doit-on se préparer? ) werd op vrijdag 16 juli 1999 in Frankrijk gepubliceerd. Het is een waardige bijdrage bij de UFO-studie met positieve aspecten. Het rapport telt 90 bladzijden en was het resultaat van een grondige studie over UFO’s, die vele aspecten van het onderwerp dekte, vooral vragen over de nationale veiligheid. De studie liep meerdere jaren door een groep onafhankelijk vroegeren toehoorders van het “Institut des Hautes Etudes de la Défense National” (I.H.E.D.N.) en door gekwalificeerde experts op verschillende onderzoeksgebieden. Alvorens het rapport vrij te geven aan het publiek, werd het eers naar de Franse president Jacques CHIRAC en zijn eerste minister Lionel JOSPIN gezonden.
De volgende woorden komen uit de openingsverklaring, gehouden in het rapport door de Franse luchtmachtgeneraal Denis LETTY, en schetst een aantal goede backgroundgegevens over COMETA en zijn bevindingen. “De opeenstapeling van goed gedokumenteerde UFO-waarnemingen, gedaan door geloofwaardige getuigen, dwingen ons van nu af aan na te denken over alle hypothesen, die handelen over de origine van Onbekende Vliegende Objecten of UFO’s en in het bijzonder over de buitenaardse hypothese.”
Het dokument gaat verder:
- Alhoewel geen onmiddellijk gevaar uit de waargenomen gegevens in
Frankrijk blijkt, lijkt het toch noodzakelijk voor de vroegere auditors van het
“INSTITUT des HAUTES ETUDES de DEFENSE NATIONAL (I.H.E.D.N.)”
het onderwerp na te gaan en op te volgen. Samen met gekwalificeerde experts
met totaal verschillende specialiteiten en achtergronden, worden ze samen
gebracht om een particulier detailzoekend comité te vormen, dat de naam
COMETA kreeg. Dit comité werd omgevormd tot een COMETA-associatie,
waarvan ik voorzitter ben.
Van COMETA maakte verder de volgende personen deel uit:
Luchtmachtgeneraal Bruno LE MOINE; wapeningenieur generaal Pierre
BESCOND en politiechef Denis BLANCHER. De personen die verder
bijdroegen tot de studie waren Edmond CAMPAGNE, vroegere technische
directeur van de Franse luchtmacht, eskadercommandant Michel PERRIER
en luchtmachtgeneraal Joseph DOMAGE. Tussen de bestudeerde
onderwerpen in het rapport bevonden zich: de getuigenissen van Franse
piloten, die UFO’s waargenomen hadden; nabije ontmoetingen in Franrijk;
luchtfenomenenvan de hele wereld; UFO-incidenten gebaseerd op
radarvaststellingen en politieke, godsdienstige en wetenschappelijke
gevolgen, verbonden aan het UFO-mysterie. De gebeurtenissen van 1947 in
Roswell, New Mexico, U.S.A. worden eveneens besproken in een bijlage met
als titel “De Roswell affaire – Disinformatie”. Dit deel toont aan op welke
wijze het programma van de Amerikaanse overheid succesvol werkte om
disinformatie te verspreiden om zo de belangstelling van de media af te leiden
en de waarheid geweld aan te doen omtrent de reële feiten achter de Roswell
UFO-crash.
Was COMETA een pseudo “officieel rapport”? Een aantal ufologen heeft geprobeerd het Cometa rapport te presenteren als een “quasi-officieel Frans dokument”, “een dokument dat het UFO-fenomeen een quasi-officiële status geeft”, gepubliceerd “onder de auspiciën van een instituut dicht bij het ministerie van defensie”, of “door COMETA, een ondersteuningsgenootschap voor het I.H.E.D.N.”, en verscheidene andere gelijkluidende verklaringen. Meer nog, we lezen in een aantal UFO-publicaties dat de president en de premier van de republiek “akkoord gingen het rapport openbaar” te maken of dat “dit strikt vertrouwelijk rapport naar de media is gestuurd met goedkeuring van de hoogste regeringskringen”. Omdat “het duidelijk is dat het besluit het rapport openbaar te maken van een hoger niveau komt dan Cometa, een belangrijk detail dat de journalisten gemist hebben.”
Kortweg, “het deksel is officieel van een taboeonderwerp gehaald.”
De waarheid is echter minder opwindend. De aankondiging die dit rapport presenteerde als “ Het vertrouwelijk rapport dat is voorgedragen aan de president en de premier van de republiek” lijkt een simpele publiciteitstruc op de cover van de speciale uitgave van het tijdschrift V.S.D. dat het dokument publiceerde. Zo begint G. Bourdais, die niet altijd zo gewetensvol is, een van zijn teksten met “het feit dat dit een onafhankelijk rapport is moet benadrukt worden, geschreven door een particulier instituut: COMETA.” (Gildas Bourdais: ‘Rapport Français sur les Ovnis et la Défense,’ Contact-Ovni, 3de kwartaal 1999, blz. 13). Een korte verklaring die al enkele dingen suggereert…
P. Petrakis geeft in zijn beoordeling van het Cometa Rapport getiteld “Reacties” echter de volgende informatie (Perry Petrakis, ‘La Guerre de Mondes, version Cometa’, Phenomena 1999, nr. 42, blz. 17):
“Om bij het begin te beginnen, distantieert het I.H.E.D.N. (Institut des Hautes Etudes de la Défense Nationale) zich van het Cometa Rapport: Alles waar generaal Norlain na zijn vertrek bij het I.H.E.D.N. mee bezig is geweest en heeft geschreven valt alleen onder zijn eigen verantwoordelijkheid en niet die van het I.H.E.D.N.. De persdienst van het instituut heeft verklaard “verrast” te zijn door dit rapport. Na vragen onzerzijds liet het Elysée weten geen antwoord te kunnen geven vanwege de vakanties. In Matignon (in het Elysée zetelt de president en in Matignon de premier) bevestigde M. Henri Petitgand, een “regeringsgemachtigde”, dat hij iets van het postkantoor had ontvangen: “Het lijkt in niets op een rapport. Rapporten zijn documenten waarom gevraagd is, maar in dit geval hebben wij nergens om verzocht. Het document werd ons per post toegestuurd, louter op initiatief van de schrijvers.” Het woord “Rapport” op de cover is dus nogal aanmatigend.
Omdat ik zelf een duidelijk overzicht van de situatie wilde krijgen, vroeg ik op 31 januari 2000 aan betrokken partijen (het kantoor van de president en de premier, de bevelvoerend generaal van het I.H.E.D.N. en de voorzitter van OMETA) om de status van het ‘COMETA Rapport’. Tot nu toe (3 mei 2000) heb ik de drie onderstaande antwoorden ontvangen:
• Brief gedateerd op 23 februari van generaal Bastien, van de speciale staf van de president: “In antwoord op uw vraag beantwoordt dit ‘rapport’ dat is samengesteld door leden van een instituut opgericht onder de wet van 1901 (bepalend voor de meeste niet-commerciële instituten in Frankrijk) niet aan welk officieel verzoek dan ook en heeft geen speciale status. U zult hebben opgemerkt (blz. 7) dat de schrijvers, meenden, onder allerlei andere aanspraken, de besluitvormers over dit onderwerp te moeten informeren. In die geest moet deze kopie ter informatie aan de president van de republiek worden gezien.”
• Volgens luitenant-kolonel Pierre Bayle, hoofd van de persdienst van I.H.E.D.N., “wenst het Instituut duidelijk te maken dat verklaringen van deze personen alleen hen aangaan, en op geen enkele manier de mening weerspiegelen van het IHEDN, die over dit onderwerp geen speciale informatie heeft.”
Natuurlijk kan je stellen dat zulke verklaringen misleidend zijn, omdat politieke en militaire autoriteiten heel goed weten dat UFO’s bestaan. Toch zijn bovenstaande geciteerde verklaringsstandpunten de enige objectieve realiteit over de ware status die aan het COMETA Rapport wordt verleend.
Tenslotte schrijft de woordvoerder voor COMETA Michel Algrin, in een brief gedateerd 18 april, dat “Het COMETA genootschap niet veranwoordelijk is voor de her en der gemaakte fouten in de presentatie van haar rapport. De aan dit dokument verbonden status wordt in de tekst zelf beschreven. Het rapport werd niet gepubliceerd door een tijdschrift, maar door de mediaonderneming GS Presse (uitgever van het V.S.D.tijdschrift) die zodoende een wijde verspreiding kon garanderen. Er waren verschillende redenen om het rapport te publiceren: in het bijzonder om te verhinderen dat er onjuist geciteerde versies van de tekst zouden gaan circuleren.” Hij eindigt met: “COMETA wenst niet mee te gaan in de controversiële uitgangspunten. Het blijft bij haar bevindingen in dit rapport”.
In juni 2003 werd het COMETA-rapport onder boekvorm gepubliceerd en werd zo toegankelijke voor een breder publiek...
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DEEL 11-- NA MEER DAN 60 JAAR UFO-ONDERZOEK NOG STEEDS ANGST OM DE WAARHEID.
3. De N.A.S.A. en UFO’s.
Je vraagt je misschien net als ik af welke belangstelling het “NATIONAL AERONAUTICS and SPACE ADMINISTRATION (N.A.S.A.)” toonde voor de UFO-problematiek. Wel, we moeten ons tevreden stellen met het volgende perscommuniqué:
Geen enkele tak van de overheid van de Verenigde Staten is actueel betrokken met of verantwoordelijk voor onderzoeksprojecten naar de mogelijkheid van vergevorderde, intelligente aliën beschavingen op andere planeten of voor onderzoeken naar Unidentified Flying Objets (UFOs). De U.S. luchtmacht (USAF) en de National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) hadden bij tussenpozen, onafhankelijke onderzoeken naar de mogelijkheid van aliën leven op andere planeten. Hoedanook, geen van deze studies bracht feitelijk bewijs aan het licht dat leven buiten onze planeet bestaat, noch dat UFO’s verbonden zijn met buitenaardse ruimtetuigen. Van 1947 en 1969 onderzocht de luchtmacht UFO-meldingen. In 1977 werd de N.A.S.A. gevraagd om de mogelijkheid te onderzoeken voor de hervatting van het UFO-onderzoek. Na het bestuderen van alle beschikbare feiten, stelde ze vast dat er geen winst te halen was bij verder onderzoek, omdat er geen aanwezigheid was van tastbaar bewijs.
In oktober 1992 kreeg de NASA de opdracht om een gedetailleerde zoektocht te starten naar artificiële radiosignalen van andere beschavingen onder de noemer NASA TOWARDS OTHER PLANETARY SYSTEMS (T.O.P.S.) – HIGH RESOLUTION MICROWAVE SURVEY (H.R.M.S.) PROGRAM. Dit project is beter bekend onder de algemene naam SEARCH for EXTRATERRESTRIAL INTELLIGENCE PROJECT (S.E.T.I.). Het H.R.M.S. ontdekte geen enkel bevestigd signaal tot het stopgezet werd. Niettemin werd een soortgelijk werk verder gezet door particuliere groepen en door academische instituten. Het “SEARCH for EXTRATERRESTRIAL INTELLIGENCE INSTITUTE (S.E.T.I. instituut) in MOUNTAINVIEW, CALIFORNIA, verving effectief het project van de overheid. Ze namen zelfs het signaal uitzendend systeem in bruikleen van de N.A.S.A.. Het SETI instituut, een nonprofit coörporatie, verricht onderzoek in een aantal area’s, inbegrepen alle wetenschappelijke en technologische aspecten van astronomie en planetaire wetenschappen, chemische evolutie, de ontstaan van het leven, de biologische evolutie en de culturele evolutie. Tijdens meerdere ruimtemissies rapporteerden de NASA-astronauten verschijnselen, die niet direct verklaarbaar waren. Niettemin kon de NASA op elk ogenblik bepalen dat de waarnemingen niet als “ABNORMAAL” konden beschouwd worden in de omgeving van de ruimte.
De USAF-onderzoeken van 1947 tot 1969 bestudeerden UFO’s onder de noemer van Project Blue Book. Het project, met zijn hoofdkwartier in de luchtmachtbasis van Wright-patterson werd op 17 december 1969 stopgezet.
Van het geheel van 12.618 onderzochte UFO-rapporten uiit Blue Book, bleven 701 gevallen “ONGEÏDENTIFICEERD”.
De beslissing om de UFO-onderzoeken te beëindigen was gebaseerd op een rapport, opgesteld door de Universiteit van COLORADO. Het rapport droeg de naam “SCIENTIFIC STUDY of UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJETS”. Verder was er een evaluatie van het rapport door de National Academy of Science, de besluiten van voorgaande UFO-studies en de ervaring van de luchtmacht met het onderzoeken van UFO-rapporten in de 40’, 50’ en 60’jaren. Als een eindconclusie van ervaring, onderzoek en studies sinds 1948, luiden de vaststellingen als het volgt:
1) geen enkel UFO-rapport, onderzocht en geëvalueerd door de luchtmacht vormde ooit een bedreiging voor de nationale veiligheid;
2) er was geen enkel bewijs voorgelegd of ontdekt door de luchtmacht, dat een UFO-rapport met het label “unidentified” technologische ontwikkelingen of principes voorstellen buiten de grenzen van de moderne, wetenschappelijke kennis;
3) er was geen bewijs dat aanduidde dat de meldingen, gecatalogeerd als “unidentified” buitenaardse ruimtetuigen waren.
Met het stopzetten van Project Blue Book werd de USAF richtlijn voor het instellen en het controleren van het onderzoeksprogramma en de analyse van UFO’s vernietigd. Dokumentatie, betreffende het vroegere Project Blue Book onderzoek werden permanent ondergebracht naar het “MODERN MILITARY BRANCH, NATIONAL ARCHIVES and RECORD SERVICE” in WASHINGTON, DC 20.408. Deze data en files blijven beschikbaar voor publieke onderzoeken en analysen.
Sinds het stopzetten van Blue Book is er geen enkel incident gebeurd dat de hervatting van het UFO-onderzoek door de V.S. overheid kan verrechtvaardigen. Sinds het einde van Blue Book is noch de NASA, noch de luchtmacht betrokken in dagdagelijks UFO-onderzoek, noch in het herzien van artikels over UFO’s , noch in het evalueren van schetsen van UFO-type ruimtetuigen of het aanvaarden van verslagen van UFO-waarnemingen of toepassingenvoor het gebruik op gebied van onderzoek naar luchtveschijnselen.
Je dient aan
te nemen dat er weinig aanduidingen in de Majestic-Projecten staan van
betrokkenheid van de kant van de medewerkers van de NASA in het UFO-onderzoek.
Ondanks het feit dat een aantal astronauten vreemde, UFO-achtige verschijnselen
tijdens hun ruimtemissies signaleerden, is het niet verwonderlijk dat de NASA
dezelfde houding aanneemt als de luchtmacht en die van Project Blue Book.
Vragen die je zeker dient te stellen is: ZOU DE USAF OF DE NASA ALLE VERWOORDEN
OF GEBORGEN KENNIS – indien ze die bezitten – PUBLIEK BEKEND MAKEN AAN DE GANSE
WERELD EN ZO EEN EVENTUELE TECHNOLOGISCHE VOORSPRONG UIT DE HAND GEVEN? Of zouden ze alleen al uit militair standpunt
deze kennis voor zichzelf houden in de optiek hun spitstechnologische
voorsprong verder uit te bouwen? Ik denk dat iedere persoon met een beetje
gezond verstand en logisch denken, snel een antwoord zal vinden op deze vragen.
In deze kontekst begrijp je ook vlug alle initiatieven en pogingen van de USAF
om het UFO-fenomeen belachelijk te maken en te ontkennen...
4. De luchtmacht, het “General Accounting Office”, MOGUL-ballonnen en Crash- Test DUMMIES.
Op 8 juli 1947 gaf de bevelhebber van luchtmachtbasis van Roswell, New Mexico een perscommuniqué vrij, waarin de berging van een “neergestortte vliegende schotel” aangkondigd werd. Dezelfde avond werd deze aankondiging door Generaal RAMEY van de 8° luchtmachtafdeling in FORT WORTH, TEXAS tegengesproken. De officieren van de luchtmachtbasis, die steun verzorgden aan de “kernbom”-vliegtuigeskadron, zagen eenvoudig een neergestortte weerballon met zijn radar aan voor een vliegende schotel... De pers slikte deze uitleg en het incident werd gedurende 30 jaar vergeten.
In 1978 vond de Amerikaanse UFO-onderzoeker Stanton FRIEDMAN met een beetje geluk een hoofdgetuige, de vroegere majoor Jesse MARCEL terug. Hij stond in voor de veiligheid op de basis. Hij was het die de restanten van het neergestortte “object” op de crashsite borg. Hij verklaarde nogmaals aan de onderzoeker dat de geborgen materialen zeer vreemd waren en op niets bekends leken. Sinds deze verklaring hebben vele onderzoekers hun aandacht op dit incident gericht en een aantal getuigen teruggevonden.
De theorie van de gecrashste UFO kunnen wij baseren op drie sleutelelementen: primo het perscommuniqué van de luchtmachtbasis; secundo getuigenissen over de vreemde materialen, terugevonden op de crashsite en tertio getuigenissen over de ontdekking van het object en lichamen nabij Roswell.
Een vraag die snel bij mij opkomt over dit perscomminiqué is: hoe is het mogelijk dat deze officieren van een elitekorps (= bewakers van de eerste kernbommen!) zo een domme, onhandige fout konden maken? Vanzelfsprekend als wij de luchtmacht geloven, maar het voorval enkel erger te maken door hun dramatische aankondiging, tegenstrijdig met de opgelegde regels van militaire geheimhouding, voor dewelke dit elitekorps specifiek getraind was...
Om de controversie en de geruchten tegen te gaan, die het zogenaamde Roswell-incident omringen, die blijven leven en weigeren uit te doven, publiceerde de luchtmacht in de 1990 ‘ jaren twee onderzoeksrapporten met de betrekking van Juli 1947. De volgende woorden komen uit het perscommuniqué van de luchtmacht over het eerste rapport, gepubliceerd in 1994 als antwoord op een onderzoek, gelanceerd door het GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE – het onderzoeksorgaan van het Congres. Het onderzoek van de G.A.O. kwam als een direct resultaat op vragen, gesteld door de latere Afgevaardigde van NEW MEXICO, Steven SHIFF
Volgens het kolosale, bijna 1000 bladzijde tellend rapport van de luchtmacht, “The ROSWELL REPORT = FACT vs. FICTION in the NEW MEXICO DESERT, 1994” waren de gevonden brokstukken in ROSWELL waarschijnlijk van een spionage MOGUL ballon. Deze ballon hoorde bij een Top Secret leger-luchtmachtinstrument, bedoeld om de militaire van de V.S. te helpen bewijs van nucleaire testen van de Sovjets te ontdekken.. In 1994 verklaarde de luchtmacht dus dat de gevonden brokstukken het resultaat waren van de crash van een “trein” van 20 à 30 weerballonnen, vastgemaakt aan één lijn, met de code naam “MOGUL“ en gelanceerd in WHITE SANDS. Onderzoekers toonden later aan dat deze uitleg niet klopte, want de officieren van Roswell zouden geen moeilijkheid hebben om dergelijke brokstukken en instrumenten, zoals een ballastreservoir, een elektrische batterij, een radiozender of een “sonbuoy”, die sterk op een zuivere, metalen kan, te erkennen. Maar geen enkel van deze hogervermelde instrumenten werd op de crashsite van Roswell teruggevonden...
Maar wat dan te zeggen over de rapporten over Aliën lichamen? In 1997 wijdde de luchtmacht uit over dit aspect van het Roswell-incident in een dokument met als titel “The ROSWELL REPORT: CASE CLOSED!”:
Dit rapport handelt over de resultaten van dit grondig onderzoek en
identificeert de vermoedelijke bronnen van de verklaringen van “aliën
lichamen” in Roswell. Tegenstrijdig met de beweringen, lijken veel van de
verslagen beschrijvingen van ongeklassificeerde en wijdgepubliceerde
wetenschappelijke prestaties van de luchtmacht. Andere beschrijvingen van
de “lichamen” lijken actuele incidenten te zijn tijdens de welke leden van de
luchtmacht gedood werden of gekwetst raakten tijdens hun dienst.
De besluiten zijn: “Activiteiten van de luchtmacht, die over een periode van vele jaren plaatsvonden, werden bevestigd en nu voorgesteld gebeurd te zijn tijdens de twee à drie dagen in juli 1947. De waargenomen “Aliëns” in de woestijn van New Mexico waren actueel antropromorfistische (= op mensen lijkende of menselijke eigenschappen toegeschreven) houten testdummies (= poppen), die door de V.S. luchtmacht omhoog gebracht werden in grote hoogte bereik ballons voor wetenschappelijke onderzoek. Doel van dit onderzoek was deze dummies te laten neerstorten zonder het openen van de valscherm en zo het impact nagaan voor gecrashste piloten...
Deze “ongewone” militaire activiteiten in de woestijn van New Mexico waren dus hoge altitude onderzoeksballonnen, gelanceerd endie verborgen operaties inhielden. Rapporten van militaire eenheden, die altijd snel lijken aan te komen bij de crash van een “vliegende schotel” om het object en de “bemanning” terug te vinden en te bergen, waren actueel nauwkeurige beschrijvingen van luchtmachtpersoneel, geëngageerd in de bergingsoperaties van deze antropromorfistische dummie(s)...
Verklaring over de “Aliën lichamen” in het Roswell legerluchtmacht veldhospitaal waren heel waarschijnlijk een combinatie van twee gescheiden incidenten:
1. een KC-97 vliegtuig ongeluk in 1956, waarbij 11 leden van de luchtmacht het leven verloren en;
2. een bemande ballonongeval in 1959, waarbij tweeluchtmachtpiloten gewond raakten.
Dit rapport is gebaseerd op nauwkeurige onderzoek met goede dokumentatie, gesteund door officiële aantekeningen, technische rapporten, op film vastgelegde gebeurtenissen, foto’s en interviews met individuen, betrokken bij deze gebeurtenissen.
Ondanks de poging van de luchtmacht om de controversie rond het Roswell-incident en de gebeurtenissen in diskrediet te brengen en het zich toeëigenen van de bevindingen van de G.A.O. (= Genaral Accounting Office) mislukten. Hun standpunt dat de getuigen verschillenden incidenten, zoals het neerstorten van de MOGUL-ballon, het neerstorten van een vliegtuig, het neerstorten en bergen van dummies wordt niet door iedereen zomaar kritiekloos aanvaard. De luchtmacht trekt op dergelijke wijze de geloofwaardigheid van alle betrokken getuigen van het Roswell-incident in twijfel, door te verklaren dat de getuigen herinneringen van verschillende gebeurtenissen door elkaar haalden en samenvoegden tot één verhaal... De Amerikaanse onderzoeker Walter HAUT legt dit spitsvondig uit “ Je moet echt een dummie zijn om geen dummie te erkennen!”
Het is zinvol een aantal sleutelfactoren op te tekenen.Vooreerst bezitten de bewuste MOGUL-ballonnen geen ongewone karakteristieken, zoals deze beschreven door de verschillende getuigen van de gebeurtenis van Roswell. Ten tweede leidde het crash-dimmie-experiment in de woestijn van New Mexico volgens de luchtmacht tot de mythe over geborgen “aliën lichamen”. Maar deze testen werden voor de 1950’ jaren niet uitgevoerd! Ten derde, tijdens de loop van het onderzoek leerde de G.A.O. dat alle administratieve nota’s (aantekeningen) van het Roswell legervliegveld van maart 1945 tot december 1949 en alle uitgaande boodschappen van de basis van oktober 1946 tot december 1949 op een onverklaarbare wijze vernietigd waren. Héél toevallig, vind je niet...
Het Roswell raadsel gaat nog steed verder, ondanks de beste inspanningen van de luchtmacht om deze zaak te laten rusten. Persoonlijk vind ik toch bizar dat de luchtmacht in functie van de vooruitgang van particuliere onderzoekers en het vinden van getuigen hun verklaringen al meerdere malen aanpaste... Het enige positieve aspect van deze laatste rapporten van de luchtmacht is dat ze geen andere méér aanvaardbare verklaringen naar voren brachten, zoals de crash van een geheim testtoestel, of van een raket of van een atoombommenwerper...
De legende gaat verder. In zijn boek “BODY SNATCHERS in de DESERT –The Horrible Truth at the Heart of the Roswell Story” van de Britse Ufoloog Nick REDFERM van 2005, haalt deze schrijver zeer vreemde dingen aan. In het kort, volgens deze schrijver bouwden de Amerikanen een experimenteel toestel, geboren uit de revolutionaire luchtonderzoeken van de HORTEN broeders uit Duisland. Dit toestel deed zijn testvluchten vanuit WHITE SANDS, NEW MEXICO. Volgens Redferm bevonden zich aan boord van dit toestel een aantal fysisch gehandicapte personen, bevrijd uit de Japanse labo’s van Eenheid 731 en gebruik werden voor een geheim en verwarrend experiment. Doel was om te proberen beter de gevolgen te begrijpen van een met kernenergie aangedreven vlucht op de bemanning... Dit experiment eindigde tijdens een eerste vlucht met een crash in White Sands en een aantal bemanningsleden kwamen om. Begin 1947 volgde een tweede vlucht met een soortgelijk toestel vanaf White Sands. Nu was het toestel ook vastgemaakt aan een hoge altitude ballon, gebaseerd op de FUGO-ballons , ontwikkeld door de Japanners tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog. Nu werd het toestel bestuurd door een aantal Japanse medewerkers, specifiek getraind voor deze opdracht, maar het toestel crashste nabij de Foster Ranch, Roswell, nadat het in een zware storm terecht was gekomen en geraakt door de bliksem...
Het materiaal van het experimenteel toestel, de materialen van de ballon en de lichamen van de bemanningsleden werden op een ultrageheime wijze geborgen en achter een rookgordijn van een gecrashste vliegende schotel verborgen. Volgens Redferm zijn het deze incidenten die later zouden leiden naar de legende van het Roswell incident... Hij heeft zijn boek over Roswell kunnen schrijven, dank zij de informatie die hij ontving van 1996 tot 2003 via insiders, die vanzelfsprekend anoniem willen blijven.
Dit scenario van Redferm lijkt nog bizarder en gruwelijke dan al de voorgaande verhalen... Het laatste woord is hierover zeker nog niet gevallen. Zoals jezelf kan lezen en besluiten, is dit misschien de zoveelste poging van de luchtmacht om door het geven van disinformatie zo de ware achtergrond achter het ROSWELL-incident verder in discrediet te brengen en te ridiculiseren...
[Physical Evidence?] [First] Yes & [Then] No Said The Estimate! Yes Said Philip!
ZE VLIEGEN BOVEN ONS HOOFD
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Bob Said Yes… John Says No!
Now, another local man has caused a furor among those who follow the UFO subject. He's a former Army intelligence officer, well known to 8 News NOW viewers, who used his contacts in government to track down saucer rumors.
"They are very real phenomena. I think we need to understand this will lead to a different understanding of how the universe is built," said Dr. John Alexander.
Dr. Alexander is skeptical by nature, but not about UFO's. After many years of stalking the topic through the corridors of power in Washington and the far-flung nooks and crannies of the military industrial complex, the former military intelligence officer is convinced that some of the objects seen in the skies are alien in origin and deserve to be studied.
"UFO's are real and I'm talking about physical reality. There are craft that are seen, balls of light flitting around, to craft -- some of them a mile and a half across. They show up on radar and are really here," he said.
But despite his acceptance of the basic UFO story, Alexander is viewed with suspicion and scorn by the pro-UFO crowd, "a real life man in black" someone called him. His frequent trips to UFO conferences are often met with overt hostility and tough questions.
"The true believers are even more hostile than the skeptics. If you don't believe their particular brand, whatever that is, you become the enemy. You've got to buy every bit of it otherwise you are part of the cover up, and blah, blah, blah," he said.
Alexander's blasphemy is that he doubts there is an active cover up by the government. In his new book, UFO's: Myths, Conspiracies and Realities, he describes his lengthy search for the keepers of the secrets.
While still on active duty with the Army, Colonel Alexander got the green light to create the military's only UFO working group, tasked with finding where the reports all go and who might be holding material from crashed saucers. He met with the CIA, DIA, NSA, Pentagon, as well as civilian heavyweights like Edward Teller, father of the hydrogen bomb, and Ben Rich of Lockheed's Skunkwords.
"Our supposition was there's got to be a back program someplace, someone minding the store, and over time, a series of meetings, everyone was interested but no one said they were doing it. It was always someone else," said Alexander. "I talked to the head or deputy of all the lettered agencies you know, some that you don't, and it was consistent across the board."
Contrary to the government's public position, Alexander says he found broad interest in UFO's within intelligence agencies and the military, including many top officials who have had their own experiences. But if there's a warehouse filled with UFO secrets, he never found it, and his conclusion that there is no active cover up has led to accusations that he is part of the conspiracy.
"My premise is we're not even to the point of asking the right questions. But the UFO community has decided what the answers should be," he said.
To extend his blasphemy even further, Alexander thinks UFO's are not necessarily extraterrestrial. The ultimate truth, he says, could be much more complicated. At a minimum, Alexander argues, people should be allowed to study this without fear of ridicule.
"We need to make it permissible for a look at the very real phenomena, but to do so without risking your career or livelihood. This is a tar baby, if you get associated with it, and I can show you the scars," he said."
http://www.8newsnow.com/story/15387087/i-team-former-intelligence-officer-spe...
a matter of observation!
Now It Is A Fact Of History!
Sightings of strange lights and darting orbs are reported from all over the world, and most are easily explained. But a few other cases present evidence that UFOs are real. SECRET ACCESS: UFOs ON THE RECORD focuses on claims that cannot be ignored: sightings over a nuclear-armed military base near Phoenix, a forest in England, a small city in Belgium. These remarkable eyewitness stories are illustrated with actual source materials such as footage, radar images and voice recordings from NASA, the Air Force and the FAA. Although the government has determined such episodes to be "insignificant," records
have nonetheless been confiscated, and the experts were sworn to secrecy...until now.
Aired: 25th August 2011
Monthly Statistical MUFON Report - for August 2011 - DEEL 1
Monthly Statistical MUFON Report - for August 2011: DEEL 1
CMS continues to
amass sighting reports from around the globe. In August 2011 there were 1093
sightings reported to MUFON through CMS from the following countries;
| Country | Number of Reports |
|---|---|
| UNITED STATES | 1013 |
| CANADA | 28 |
| UNITED KINGDOM | 16 |
| BELGIUM | 3 |
| COLOMBIA | 3 |
| BRAZIL | 3 |
| AUSTRALIA | 3 |
| ITALY | 2 |
| MEXICO | 2 |
| CHINA | 2 |
| PORTUGAL | 2 |
| POLAND | 1 |
| JAPAN | 1 |
| MALTA | 1 |
| ALBANIA | 1 |
| ARGENTINA | 1 |
| NICARAGUA | 1 |
| VIET NAM | 1 |
| IRELAND | 1 |
| FRANCE | 1 |
| TOGO | 1 |
| MALAYSIA | 1 |
| BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA | 1 |
| IRAN, ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF | 1 |
| GERMANY | 1 |
| SLOVENIA | 1 |
| NEW ZEALAND | 1 |
| TOTAL: | 1093 |
Within the United States the distribution by State was as follows;
| State | Number of Reports |
|---|---|
| California | 127 |
| Florida | 69 |
| Pennsylvania | 62 |
| Texas | 59 |
| New York | 46 |
| Michigan | 44 |
| Missouri | 39 |
| Ohio | 38 |
| Connecticut | 38 |
| Illinois | 30 |
| Indiana | 30 |
| Colorado | 29 |
| Arizona | 26 |
| Kentucky | 22 |
| New Jersey | 22 |
| Washington | 22 |
| Georgia | 20 |
| North Carolina | 19 |
| Oregon | 19 |
| Tennessee | 18 |
| Oklahoma | 15 |
| Kansas | 15 |
| Massachusetts | 14 |
| Wisconsin | 14 |
| Minnesota | 13 |
| Nevada | 12 |
| Virginia | 12 |
| Rhode Island | 11 |
| Louisiana | 10 |
| Iowa | 10 |
| Maine | 9 |
| North Dakota | 8 |
| Nebraska | 7 |
| Arkansas | 7 |
| Alabama | 6 |
| Idaho | 6 |
| New Mexico | 6 |
| Delaware | 6 |
| Wyoming | 5 |
| Montana | 5 |
| Maryland | 5 |
| New Hampshire | 5 |
| South Carolina | 5 |
| Hawaii | 4 |
| Utah | 4 |
| West Virginia | 4 |
| Mississippi | 3 |
| Alaska | 2 |
| Vermont | 2 |
Monthly Statistical MUFON Report - for August 2011 - DEEL 2
ALL sighting reports received by CMS are already filled in by the witness, saving you and your investigators time. Each report is automatically sent to YOU, the State Director and Assistant State Director, for you to assign someone to follow-up and complete the report.
If a UFO sighting comes in over the phone, or by e-mail, and you want to enter it yourself, simply go to CMS at http://mufoncms.com (once logged in) and click on "ADD CASE" in the upper right hand corner of the screen. This gives you a blank sighting reporting form that you can fill out while the witness is on the phone. Once the report is filled out be sure to click "SAVE" and you will have easily added your NEW report to CMS.
Other interesting data points in CMS during August 2011 are the shape of the
UFOs reported which were as follows;
| Shape of Object | Number of Reports |
|---|---|
| Sphere | 279 |
| Star-like | 240 |
| Circle | 198 |
| Triangle | 144 |
| Disc | 130 |
| Other | 125 |
| Oval | 102 |
| Unknown | 98 |
| Fireball | 92 |
| Flash | 58 |
| Cylinder | 46 |
| Cigar | 45 |
| Boomerang | 40 |
| Square/Rectagular | 36 |
| Diamond | 29 |
| Egg | 29 |
| Bullet/Missile | 28 |
| Blimp | 24 |
| Teardrop | 18 |
| Chevron | 14 |
| Saturn-like | 13 |
| Cross | 12 |
| Cone | 10 |
as well as the distance from the observer;
| Distance from Witness | Number of Reports |
|---|---|
| < 100 ft | 128 |
| 101-500 ft | 167 |
| 501 ft - 1 Mile | 219 |
| Over 1 Mile | 263 |
| Unknown | 320 |
| NO VALUE | 22 |
Most impressively there were 39 Landings, Hovering, or Takeoffs reported and 4 Entities observed.
To review the CMS data yourself go to www.mufon.com and click on "UFO Case Files" to 1.) Easily look at the Last 20 Sightings, or 2.) Do a customized search of the CMS database by date and/or location, or 3.) Logon to CMS for even more detailed UFO sighting information about your State and the World.
I hope you are enjoying our new internet based Sighting and Reporting System. For questions regarding its use please refer to the User Guide available on your CMS main menu screen. Please send your questions and/or suggestions to Jan Harzan at janharzan@hotmail.com.
Thank you!
Nine Eleven...

Nine Eleven...opednews.com
In a few days it will be the tenth anniversary of September 11, 2001. How well has the US government's official account of the event held up over the decade?
The [Remaining] "15 %" Compromised!
During World War II the various allied nations held a tenuous relationship with the Soviet Union, but cooperation persisted due to a common enemy. Never quite trustful of each other, this resulted in espionage of tactics and technology between the Western bloc and Soviet bloc. After World War II ended, the two sides became increasingly confrontational, culminating in the Cold War.
Active Measures (Russian: Активные мероприятия) were a form of political warfare conducted by the Soviet security services (Cheka, OGPU, NKVD, KGB) to influence the course of world events, "in addition to collecting intelligence and producing politically correct assessment of it." Active measures ranged "from media manipulations to special actions involving various degree of violence". They were used both abroad and domestically. They included disinformation, propaganda, counterfeiting official documents, assassinations, and political repression, such as penetration of churches, and persecution of political dissidents.
Active measures included the establishment and support of international front organizations (e.g. the World Peace Council); foreign communist, socialist and opposition parties; wars of national liberation in the Third World; and underground, revolutionary, insurgency, criminal, and terrorist groups. The intelligence agencies of Eastern Bloc and other communist states also contributed in the past to the program, providing operatives and intelligence for assassinations and other types of covert operations.
Retired KGB Maj. Gen. Oleg Kalugin described active measures as "the heart and soul of Soviet intelligence": "Not intelligence collection, but subversion: active measures to weaken the West, to drive wedges in the Western community alliances of all sorts, particularly NATO, to sow discord among allies, to weaken the United States in the eyes of the people of Europe, Asia, Africa, Latin America, and thus to prepare ground in case the war really occurs."
Active measures was a system of special courses taught in the Andropov Institute of KGB situated at SVR headquarters in Yasenevo, near Moscow. The head of "active measures department" was Yuri Modin, former controller of the Cambridge Five spy ring.
Filer's Files #36 2011 - Russian Supply Ship to ISS Explodes, may doom Station


George A. Filer
MUFON Eastern Region Director
August 31, 2011

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In Special Reports, this week's files cover: Lord Hill Norton Tireless UFO Advocate at the House of
Lords, Russian Supply Ship Heading for the ISS
Explodes, Moon Dome, Spaceport America, Hollywood Has Caught Alien Fever,
Driving Tips in the Rain.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were
reported over Arizona, California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Illinois,
Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, New Mexico, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon,
Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington
and Wisconsin.
Sightings of UFOs were also reported in Belgium,
Canada, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Russia, Wales and England in the
United Kingdom.
The purpose of these files is to report the UFO eyewitness and photo/video evidence that occurs on a daily basis around the world and in space. These Files assume that extraterrestrial intelligent life not only exists, but my hypothesis is that the over a thousand UFOs reported each month represent technologically advanced spacecraft conducting surveillance of Earth. I personally became interested in UFOs when London Control ordered me to intercept one over England while flying for the US Air Force. Under Project Blue Book, the US Air Force investigated UFOs for more than twenty years; and we continue this research. I believe the God of the universe has spread life throughout the cosmos and UFO's are visiting us in ever-increasing numbers.
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Special Reports
Lord Hill Norton Tireless UFO Advocate at the House of Lords.
Lord Hill Norton, Chief of Defense Staff, Ministry of
Defense, Great Britain, 1973; Chairman, Military Committee of NATO, 1974-77;
quoted from his foreword to "Above Top Secret" by
Timothy Good, Morrow & Co's Quill Books, 1988.
" The evidence that there are objects which have been seen
in our atmosphere, and even on terra firma, that cannot be accounted for either
as man-made objects or as any physical force or effect known to our scientists,
seems to me to be overwhelming... A very large number of sightings have been
vouched for by persons whose credentials seem to me unimpeachable. It is
striking that so many have been trained observers, such as police officers and
airline or military pilots. Their observations have in many instances... been
supported either by technical means such as radar or, even more convincingly,
by... interference with electrical apparatus of one sort or another...."
Goodnight
Irene
Hurricane Irene passed through New Jersey knocking
down numerous limbs and thousands of sticks, but no real damage to my home
despite eight inches of rain and high winds. Many states reported seeing UFOs
indicating our observers had interest in the phenomena. More and stronger
hurricanes are likely this year and UFO sightings are likely to continue to
rise. The History and Discovery Channels and movies are creating a strong belief
in the phenomena. It's time for the government to realize the people are ready
to acknowledge the situation. I email these files to over 8,000 people a week.
MUFON and National Reporting Center sightings have doubled in the last several
years, with both having around 600 sightings a month with a total over a
thousand.
Russian Supply Ship Heading for the ISS Explodes
MOSCOW -- An unmanned Russian
supply ship bound for the International Space Station failed to reach its
planned orbit Wednesday, and pieces of it fell in Siberia amid a thunderous
explosion, officials said. A brief statement from Roscosmos, Russia's space
agency , did not specify whether the Progress
supply ship that was launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan had
been lost. But the state news agency RIA Novosti quoted Alexander Borisov, head
of a the Choisky region in Russia's Altai province, as saying pieces of the
craft fell in his area some 1,500 kilometers (900 miles) northeast of the launch
site.
"The explosion was so strong that for
100 kilometers (60 miles) glass almost flew out of the windows,"
he was quoted as saying. Borisov said there were no immediate reports of
casualties. The ITAR-Tass news agency quoted Choisky's Interior Ministry as
saying the space ship crashed in a vast Siberian forest.
The ship was carrying more than 2.5 tons of
supplies, including oxygen, food and fuel. Since the ending of the U.S. space
shuttle program this summer, Russian spaceships are a main supply link to the
space station.
NASA is now forced to
rely on Russian spacecraft to operate the International Space Station since the
shuttle program has been cancelled. A continuing problem with Russia's fleet may
force NASA to abandon the station as soon as late November.
There are six astronauts now aboard the ISS with plenty of supplies at the moment. If Russian Soyuz rockets remain grounded beyond mid-November, there may be no way to launch new crews before the current residents are supposed to leave. It is possible military or civilian rockets may be able to accomplish the resupply mission. Thanks to Fox News
Orbital
Tech Reveals Plans for Space
Station
A Russian company has revealed plans for a space
hotel designed by Orbital Technologies that will accommodate seven guests in
four cabins -- and cost nearly a million per room.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/08/24/russian-space-ship-fails-to-reach-orbit/#ixzz1W4loym00
Moon Dome
Scott Waring writes, "Supposedly this is where
NASA found the abandoned alien base that was still in working order and then
they stationed US Marines on it, or so the story goes from the info that
computer hacker Gary McKinnon has stated in interviews. If this is true and this
dome over the crater is the base, then these photos I am posting today may be
the first ever photos of the city of Luna as its been called in the
past. The dome is located at: 5 deg South, 134.1 deg East. NASA
Photo Archives, Lunar surface. The NASA photo was taken back in December of 1972
and discovered the legendary glass dome over a moon crater. Photo is
AS17-P-1923
http://scottcwaring.blogspot.com/2011/03/glass-dome-found-on-moons-surface-nasa.html
Spaceport America
An artist's conception of the completed Spaceport America. When finished in 2013, a mere $200,000 will let you take a voyage at least partway to the stars: Virgin Galactic will be the first carrier to transport space-curious passengers on sub-orbital missions. Source: Spaceport America Conceptual Images URS/Foster + Partners.
http://www.foxnews.com/slideshow/scitech/2011/08/18/construction-underway-at-spaceport-america
Hollywood Has Caught Alien Fever
In the past few months, a slew of big-budget alien movies has hit theaters, from kiddie flicks ("Mars Needs Moms") to comedies ("Paul") to high-octane action films ("Battle: Los Angeles," "Green Lantern" and the just-released "Cowboys & Aliens," among others). And many more such movies are on the way, both this year and next.
This glut of alien sci-fi films comes at a time when
scientific discoveries are making the existence of life beyond Earth seem more
and more plausible. And that might not be a coincidence, some experts say.
"It's a long-term interest, but the science now is making it that much more realistic," said Emory University physics professor Sidney Perkowitz, author of "Hollywood Science: Movies, Science, and the End of the World" (Columbia University Press, 2007). "I think Hollywood and science will feed into each other on this." Just 20 years ago, scientists had yet to find a single planet beyond our own solar system. Now the count of confirmed extrasolar planets tops 1300, with many more about to be added to the list.
In short, the prospect that life exists beyond Earth -- and perhaps even beyond our solar system -- is becoming more and more likely. This is big news that affects the way many people view our species and its place in the universe. And now more than ever, Hollywood may be tapping into that growing well of interest.
"My suspicion is, even if Hollywood weren't pushing it, people would be interested," Perkowitz told SPACE.com. "I think the straight science turns them on, but there's no doubt that Hollywood knows how to enhance it, and how to use it in really effective ways."
Of course, it's not as if Hollywood has just discovered that aliens can be
box-office gold. Alien films have been around -- and have been raking in big
bucks -- for decades. "There's money in aliens," said
Seth Shostak, senior astronomer at the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
(SETI) Institute in Mountain View, Calif. -- He does, however, sense an overall
increase in alien movies in the last two decades. But this trend may have more
to do with geopolitical developments than scientific ones, he said. "I think
that they became popular after the collapse, in 1991, of the Soviet Union,"
Shostak told SPACE.com. "You still needed bad guys in movies, and
all of a sudden your favorite bad guys -- who came from behind the Iron Curtain
-- they weren't available anymore."
Aliens were a natural choice to wrest this role from the Russians. First of all, aliens won't complain about being caricatured or typecast. "There's no anti-defamation league, if you will, for the aliens," Shostak said. "And they have another advantage: They don't ask for residuals. They're cheap. You have to computer-animate them, that's true, but that's a lot cheaper than hiring a big-time Hollywood star."Thanks to space.com
UFO Sightings in the
United States
Arizona Lights
Globe/Miami -- My husband and I were in our backyard spa saw two military jets with white and red lights chasing four very fast, erratic in movement white-yellow lights at 7:35 PM, on August 20, 2011. Within a five minute span we heard several passes of the familiar sound of military jets (I was born in Globe-Miami area and have lived here 47 years). We both talked how unusual it was to hear so many military jet passes. My husband was facing the EAST sky and told me to look. I saw 2 white-yellow circular lights and 2 objects (white with red lights) in the sky. The white-yellow circular lights were faster than the other 2 objects in the sky. It looked like the 2 objects were chasing the circular lights but could not keep up because the circular lights were making erratic moves and were much faster.
One of the circular lights would go right, then make an extreme northern change in direction while the other circular light would go left and disappear and then re-appear. Then a 3rd and 4th circular light would appear. Once in a while they would be headed in the same direction and then split off and circle in other directions while the 2 objects (white with red lights) would try and follow them. At one point, there were 4 white-yellow circular lights and 2 (white objects with red lights). We continued to occasionally here the military jets (white objects with red lights) over the next 10 minutes and then they disappeared. The next hour we continued to watch 1 to 4 white-yellow circular lights dancing in the sky. They made impossible erratic movements. A few times the lights would stay in one place, and then suddenly race across the sky. The lights would sometimes get larger (as big as a star) with the naked eye, and then change directions and get smaller (1/2 the size of a star). The UFO's would occasionally circle instead of making sharp turns. There was a five minute increment that we did not see UFO's, and then they appeared again for another 20 minutes. By then we were using binoculars and the white-yellow lights appeared more spherical than circular. Thanks to Peter Davenport, Director National UFO Reporting Center http://www.UFOcenter.com/
California Sightings
SAN FRANCISCO BAY -- Thos picture was
taken on May 10, 2004 during a charter fishing trip. No one recalls seeing the
UFOs but they appear clearly and in an extremely realistic fashion in two
photos. One appearing was a tiered shaped craft with distorted "field" around it
with another "ball-like" object nearby. Second photograph shows a curved like
object that is clearly defined and extremely odd shaped, almost like a
boomerang. Another "ball-like" object can be seen above the individuals head.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
GUALALA -- I was heading north on Highway 1 just after sunset in southern Mendocino County on Monday August 22, 2011 at 8:25 pm. I spotted a contrail way up above the clouds to the right of the sun over the ocean. At first, I thought it was a missile so I pulled over but lost track of the contrail. I scanned the sky again and found two contrails close together. The object rose at a steady rate up into the sky higher and higher until it vanished into the blue sky. The event lasted no more than five minutes and might be a rocket sent into space, but from where would it have been launched? Thanks to MUFON CMS
BRENTWOOD -- Riding bikes through
neighborhood down Breakwater Way to Minnesota Avenue/Carmel Parkway intersection
at 8:35 - 8:37 pm on August 21, 2011. In glancing up to the North/East, two
unusual objects were clearly visible resting in the night sky. Each object was
about a half a hand outstretched and a hand apart. The formation on the left had
two large white lights - which looked almost like a car headlights to an
invisible car.
The object to the right looked something like the Pleiades but upon standing stationary and staring, there were white dots of lights grouped in a boomerang shape. Both objects seemed to have a shape blending with the dark night sky to which the lights were attached. The two-light object on the left had brighter lights than the one on the right. The lights were white or whitish blue. The lights did not blink. The objects made no detectible sound. Both objects appeared to be still but upon closer observation were moving in tandem off to the north/east. While trying to follow the trajectory of the objects on bike and upon crossing the intersection, the objects were suddenly no longer visible. If the objects were aircraft they would have still been quite visible from a farther distance but it appears as though they vanished from the night sky. There was a lot of air traffic during this evening but these objects looked absolutely nothing like air traffic and appeared quite large. No air traffic appeared to be nearby these objects. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Dana Ruth, age 57, Genara Krug, age 42 and
myself, age 58 were out in my spa enjoying the evening at 8 PM. Genara pointed
up and to the saying "Look". I initially observed
three objects that were about five miles south of us traveling NNE. After
several moments I shook off the amazement and called for my camera and
binoculars. I am a multi-engine private pilot with thirty years of experience
around most types of aircraft, military and the most qualified observer
otherwise. I watched the lead object stop illuminating, while the others were
lit up and stretched out in a varied line with no sound. The objects all had the
same illuminated sphere shape 50 to 90 feet in diameter with a solid bar of
light that resembled a flattened out letter "W". They changed color from bright
orange on a couple of them to yellowish on others. During their approach the
last three trailing objects swept wide to the west before turning to the east.
There were no red, green, white, or strobes for navigational lighting. I took
several pictures and two short videos with a Kodak digital camera but the images
are poor. The objects speed was very slow and two objects hovered before
continuing to the east.
I switched over to a set of Nikon Monarch 10 X 56 6 degree binoculars with lens optimum for low light conditions. I tracked the last three of the objects that stopped. I could see the bottom 4/7ths of a sphere with a slightly conical structure on top. This structure was centered on top and fell short of reaching either edge by 1/5th of the top distance of the shape. They flew east until they became obscured by my neighbor's roof line. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Colorado Luminescent Metallic
Orb
Colorado Springs -- Paul writes, "I read about the sighting in Mt Evans, CO on August 23rd and I was on vacation visiting my friend on a 16 mile hike near Pikes Peak. Towards the highest point of our hike, we took a rest, and looked at a luminescent metallic orb/ellipse make hair point turns behind the clouds. What was fascinating was that everything was completely silent. I was transfixed as this thing turned and headed towards Pike's Peak. The fact that there was other activity in the state on that day is fascinating. Respectfully, Paul Gaspari, Ph.D.
Delaware Lights
BETHANY BEACH -- A little after midnight
on August 12, 2011, I went out to the beach with a relative to watch the Perseid
meteor shower. I looked up and saw a yellowish bright star moving silently over
the ocean. A light was darting around within the same general space and then I
noticed alternating red, green, and other pale colors attached to a single craft
darting around like a hummingbird. My relative saw it too and spotted another
one over the water, behaving almost identically.
I silently asked that, if it could hear me, to indicate so by moving up and down. It did as I asked. Then I asked for it to just move down, and it also complied. The third time I asked it to move side to side, and it started to do so before I could even finish the question in my head and my whole skull felt warm. A few minutes later I started asking, "Give me proof that you can hear me?" But it stopped responding. We stayed on the beach for about forty-five minutes, and both craft remained for the entire time.
NOTE: The above image is a rendering. Thanks to MUFON CMS and Ken Pfeifer MUFON New Jersey www.worldufophotos.org
Florida Lights
I kept seeing a star like entity in the Gulf of Mexico on
August 24, 2011, which flashed in the colors of the rainbow. Thanks to MUFON
CMS
SARASOTA -- On August 20, 2011 three of my friends and I went for a walk on our college campus down to the bay on the gulf coast about 10 pm, when I saw a bright light from north. I actually jokingly said, "It's a UFO. Once everybody was focusing on the object, we became confused about what it could be. It wasn't too far from us, moving very slowly, and began to make a zigzag pattern over the water, at times heading right towards us. It was definitely less than a mile away, silent flying toward us. There were no other lights on the craft other than the main brightest white one, and the object appeared to be triangular in shape. We were standing next to a copse of trees which separated the campus from a nearby neighborhood and the UFO descended just beyond the trees and landed, very slowly and silently. We didn't go into the trees to investigate because we were unsure of what the object could be. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Illinois Triangle
CHICAGO -- On August 27, 2011, I snapped a
photo of the Michigan Avenue Bridge looking north. At the time I didn't notice
anything but when I got home and uploaded the photos I noticed something in the
sky on the photo. Not sure if it was some weird reflection from the city lights
or what but I am uploading the photo with this so I will let you be the judge.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Minnesota Cylinder
Willmar -- My girlfriend and I were
loading my vehicle at the Willmar Wal-Mart at 3:30 PM, on Wednesday, August 24,
2011. She spotted the object first and asked me, "What is
that? We observed a shiny chrome cigar shaped craft cruising
slowly west in a straight line. We could see there were no wings or other
structures on the craft. There were two black colored circles on the bottom
middle of the craft. I was awestruck at how a craft that big with no wings could
cruise that slowly. Then, as we were watching it, it just simply vanished.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
New Mexico Cell phone Photo
DULCE -- Resident C. Vigil took this
photo near the high school football field not too far from Dulce Rock on March
1, 2011. This is part of the Archuleta Mesa.
Sightings of UFOs are common in the area. Photo courtesy of Norio Hayakawa
and http://unitedkingdomufogroup.yolasite.com
New York 25 Objects
Canandaigua -- The witness spotted the first object followed by 20 to 25 objects on August 28, 2011. They were not in a distinct formation but slowed, hovered, up, and then moved along fairly quickly in a loose formation flying west. The event lasted about ten minutes. Thanks to MUFON CMS
North Dakota Civil Air Patrol Spots UFO
JAMESTOWN -- The weekly meeting of the local Civil Air Patrol squadron, ND 031, had just ended, and several cadets were being driven home in the squadron van, which was heading west on I-94 just west of Jamestown. The object was seen by 4 of the 5 Civil Air Patrol members in the van just east of exit 248, a bright glowing object with bright "vapor trail". Both the object and the trail were bright blue green in color. The object's apparent size was that of a softball, with an apparent velocity roughly equal to or slightly greater than the vehicle, which was moving at freeway speed (75 mph). The flight path was roughly 10 degrees descending, i.e., not quite horizontal, and appeared parallel with the interstate, east to west. After being observed for 20-30 seconds, the object disappeared with a flash, reportedly making a couple of "popping" sounds which were audible in the vehicle while driving.
The intensity of the light was such that the inside of the van was lit, described as similar to the light of an arc welder. This is not a first-person account; I am compiling this account from the descriptions given by the people in the van. I am the squadron commander, but was not at the meeting; my wife, the deputy commander for cadets, was driving. Based on the descriptions, I asked if this object could have been a meteor, but most felt that it looked more like a man-made object, burning with the color of magnesium on fire. We have speculated on the possibility of a satellite reentry, but the flight angle is not conducive to that conclusion. Also, the trail apparently did not contain debris as would be expected. Reports have been made to the local sheriff's office. Thank You, John Nyberg Captain CAP
Ohio Ball Shaped Fireball
Fremont -- My girlfriend and I were
coming back to town on August 20, 2011, at 10:15 PM, and saw a ball shaped
fireball moving in the sky. We pulled into a parking lot and got out and watched
as it traveled away, then returned and stopped above us. My girlfriend took this
picture before it disappeared shortly after. Thanks to William Puckett Director
UFOs Northwest http://ufosnw.com
Oregon Alien Image
Tillamook -- I actually did not see this
creature until later when I took the memory stick out of my camera and put it on
my computer. An old school chum noticed it on the photo on my Facebook page. It
looks like a gargoyle to me. It is facing a fire we had built between our
families two trailers and is not the flames. This thing was right next to me,
but I did not see it.
When we arrived at the Sand Lake Dunes in Tillamook there was an odd noise that startled everyone that we thought was a cat. It was the weirdest experience as all my family and friends have really been unsettled by this photo. I have photos taken in daylight with nothing there. There is also a blue orb in the photo. This evening my boyfriend did some photo shop playing with the lights of the photo and it appears to be solid as the light reflects off of it. There is some sort of insignia on the metallic part of the garment. It appears to be a genuine otherworldly creature. I thought I should share this October 2010 image. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Pennsylvania News
Camera Image
Allentown -- Take a look at this at 27 seconds of video taken on
August 24, 2011, at 4:30 PM, from the top of the local Allentown PPL building!
Response to Investigator Questions:
I live in the Allentown area and someone
else from my local area posted the video on facebook. it. I figured you might be
able to look at it. The one thing about it that gets me is that the traffic is
going so slow compared to the object crossing the screen. Thank you for your
help!
Note: I am unsure of the identity of the object in the video. It
is flying quite low and fast. No distinctive features are visible that would
suggest that the object was a regular aircraft. Thanks to William Puckett,
Director http://www.ufosnw.com
Tennessee Ball of Fire and Flying
Objects
Fairlight -- I would like to report a sighting on August 20, 2011, at 11:25 PM, near Hastings, in clear skies. My wife and I saw what looked like a ball of fire high in the sky which moved faster than a plane and took 30 seconds to go across the sky and out of view. We live in a rural setting with no light pollution and there was no noise. It was too big and far too fast for a Chinese lantern and it wasn't a plane. Thanks to Nick
Knoxville
-- About 8:45 PM, on August 27, 2011, I was
working on my deck when I saw these objects appear so I got my camera and took
these pictures. The silent objects would go straight up, fly north, reverse,
travel east and disappear. It could have been man- made, but who knows? What do
you think? There were three and less.
Note: Given the movements described by the witness I don't have
an explanation for this sighting. Thanks to William Puckett, Director http://www.ufosnw.com
Westmoreland -- On August 26, 2011, I was out side with my wife who said, "Look at that nice bright star. I told her, "That wasn't there last night. Looking at the light I noticed that it was moving up and down and grabbed the camera and took pictures. Watching it for two hours the lights suddenly went out. The next night we tried to find it but there was no light in this location. I took a picture in the same location and the object lit up and moved about 8 miles, stopped, and stayed there for about two hours and then disappeared. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Texas Disc Shaped
Object
San Antonio -- I'm a police detective and have been an officer for over 17 years so I guess you could consider me a 'trained observer'. I'm also a backyard astronomer and was in the process of setting up my telescope when I happened to notice high in the east sky a disc shaped object moving very slowly north on August 27, 2011. The object brightened significantly brighter than Venus before completely disappearing. When the object dimmed with a lingering fade out, I could clearly see that it had a physical shape of a circle or edge-on disc.
The object was about the apparent size of maybe a small pea held at arm's length. A few seconds later the object repeated the brightening and fading one more time. I called my wife who is also a police detective and she came out and we both saw the object again brighten, dimmer than the first two times I saw it. The object was significantly larger than a visible satellite or even the ISS/shuttle passes. This object was large enough to actually resolve a circular edge-on disc shape and it appeared to be extremely high in altitude. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Virginia Cigar and Disks
Martinsville -- South bound in my 18 wheeler on August 18, 2011, I saw a cigar shaped craft fly over the highway just above tree tops. It was a fast flying 20 feet long and six feet tall disk or cigar. I saw it for a few seconds and quickly it was gone. It flew silently. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Roanoke -- I was stopped at a stoplight at
11PM, on August 11, 2011, when I spotted what at first seemed to be a spider web
in my passenger window. All I could see were three reflections of light that
were bobbing up and down seemingly connected like a spider web. I swatted at it
with my hand but soon realized they were alien ships. They had a disk shape and
emanated light from above and below their vessel. Three disk shaped ships were
moving in formation, one was white and two were red with a strange aura around
them. It was truly a spectacular sight. The whole encounter lasted no more than
30 seconds as the light turned green and the lights left. Thanks to Peter
Davenport, Director National UFO Reporting Center http://www.UFOcenter.com/
Washington Lights
Arlington -- Our sighting was July 4, 2011 around 9 PM. We thought it was meteorites. I have a video from my digital camera, but it's just a Nikon so it was hard to pick up anything. Thanks to William Puckett Director UFOs Northwest http://ufosnw.com
Wisconsin Bulb Shaped
Lake Superior -- I was fishing on shore behind McDonalds' on August 29, 2011, when I noticed the object over Lake Superior. It was kind of light bulb or saucer shaped, but its profile changed as it sat there and appeared to be spinning? The light bulb was flatter on one side than the other and moved up and down perpendicular to the water, not hovering like a usual saucer. It just sat there for about 18 minutes so I tried taking pictures but it was just too small to see. I looked away for a brief moment, and it was gone. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Worldwide UFO Sightings
Belgium Bright Image
Brussels -- I shot six pictures of a
nice sunset with an interval of 45 seconds between pictures during my trip
during August. When I looked at them a few days later, I saw this weird spot on
the bottom left of one of the pictures. I don't think this is a cloud because of
the orientation, shape and it is a little brighter than the rest of the clouds
around. I didn't see a plane, birds or any kind of activity in the sky at the
moment I was taking the pictures. This weird thing appears only on the third
picture. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Canada Bright Light
Ottawa -- We were driving north on the Highway 416 towards Ottawa before the Rideau river. My husband was driving and my son was in the back seat and yelled, "Look at that light! About 500 feet up in the cloudy sky was a very bright light. I realized it was way too low to be a star or plane, and it wasn't moving. It was not on a huge pole, like a light tower. We have gone down that highway many times. Before I could even finish my thoughts, it disappeared right before our eyes. Thanks to UFOINFO.com
Japan Flashing Lights
We were at home on August 24, 2011, and the window was open and I noticed red, blue, green, and white flashing lights hovering at first and then making some small circular movements. I called my family when I first noticed it and we agree it wasn't a plane or helicopter as we see these frequently around here. We had no fear and felt the lights were interesting. It finally descended slowly in the northern direction. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Mexico Disc
Tulum -- In
going through some photos of my trip to Mexico I saw a couple of strange things
in a few of the pictures taken on August 8, 2011 at 12:40 PM. In picture 73,
look just left of center. You will have to magnify it quite a bit.
Note: Three photos were taken several minutes apart and all
three show the same object. In one photo the object is close to the ocean and
the other two it is high in the sky. Thanks to William Puckett, Director
http://www.ufosnw.com
New Zealand Orb
When I first noticed it, it was a streak of light above a cloud bank. I yelled out to my partner who took photos of it as it gradually began to resemble star. We took eleven photos as the object seemed to change shape, opacity, orientation and position. In the last photos we took the object was spherical in shape and had a shadow underneath, and had a disturbance around it. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Russia UFOs in River
Viyatka River -- Mike Newark writes, "It twists and turns west of the Ural Mountains where I dowsed any number of submerged alien craft in the river there. The craft were there for up to three days and I lost count of the alien hits. It's very isolated and a wonderful place to hide where people don't often visit and easy to come and go at will for the aliens. The river is cut into the mountains having steep sides where access is not very easy. It's thought the aliens use this river as a sort of car park, to save the journey back and forth to the Mother Ship/Moon. I never saw so many alien hits in one small area as the river is two/three hundred yards wide, but I get a hit every half mile! Why are there so many alien craft together, and is something about to happen? "Thanks to Mike Newark http://youtu.be/cVTWcJf16Pk
UK Sightings
Brecons, Wales -- I attach a strange image
I took in Wales from August 18 to 25, 2011. We were attending my stepson's
wedding and stayed for dog sitting duty while they took a short honeymoon to the
Isle of Jersey. While in Wales we took a picnic to the Brecons and spent the
whole afternoon there taking photographs of the sky and caught this strange
pardon the word "Thingy" in not one but several photos. This almost living
"whip" like entity is in pursuit of what looks like a sky squid. I have always
wondered about life forms in the upper atmosphere and after seeing this I think
there could be some truth to all the theories.
Note: If anyone else has captured anything like this on camera please let me know. You can reach me at: capteasycheese@gmail.com Best to you from Essex, England.
Thomas Finley USAF Ret.
Warwickshire, ENGLAND -- I was sitting in my garden as usual around 10 PM, on August 23, 2011, and taking photographs of cloud formations. I saw a bright white light about 25 feet above a neighbor's house moving slowly towards my garden at 500 feet. I picked up my camera (NOKIA P100) and tried to take photos and video, but the camera isn't brilliant at night. The object slowly and silently flew above my garden rooftop and hovered so I managed to get a few stable photos.
After a while the object disappeared. I had seen a UFO in the late 70's and I have always watched the skies for others since then. The second object appeared roughly the same place as the first around 10:15 PM, on the same night, but at first this one was orange. I took two photos and a video which lasts about 70 seconds. The photos are shaky as is the video, but you can get a rough idea of what the object looks like. To me it seemed as though it was pulsating bright orange and later it seemed to flash from orange to green and orange again. Eventually it got too distant to see it any more. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Cheshire -- Traveling in daylight on A51 towards Chester on
August 8, 2011, my partner noticed a very bright ball of white light hovering in
the sky. The light was too bright to be a plane. The ball hovered stationary in
the sky for 50 seconds and then traveled directly towards Chester at phenomenal
speed being lost from sight in a second. I had seen reports the day before of
sightings on M11 and I asked him to describe exactly what he saw. The
description he gave exactly matched what was filmed yesterday on the M11 He had
seen an identical orb.
We reported the sighting to the local police and
doubt it was a Chinese lantern due to its high speed. I only wish I had had my
glasses with me. Thanks to Peter Davenport, Director National UFO Reporting
Center http://www.UFOcenter.com/

Bethlehem -- I took this picture yesterday during an air show just outside Bethlehem with my. BlackBerry.
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Maybe They Have Been Suffering From The David Susskind Syndrome, Stan?
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Attack Earth to End Global Warming, India's Moon Mineral Mapper Finds Water,
Mars Endeavor Crater, Mars Cavern What Lies Beneath, Hacker Uncovered US
Off-Planet Space Navy, Aviation Week's Space planes and Blackstar, Black Budget
$50 Billion in 2010, Libya Gadhafi's Compound Captured, and East Coast
Earthquake.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Washington. Sightings of UFOs were also reported in Brazil, Canada, China, Northern Ireland and England in the United Kingdom.
The purpose of these files is to report the UFO eyewitness and photo/video evidence that occurs on a daily basis around the world and in space. These Files assume that extraterrestrial intelligent life not only exists, but my hypothesis is that the over a thousand UFOs reported each month represent technologically advanced spacecraft conducting surveillance of Earth. I personally became interested in UFOs when London Control ordered me to intercept one over England while flying for the US Air Force. Under Project Blue Book, the US Air Force investigated UFOs for more than twenty years; and we continue this research. I believe the God of the universe has spread life throughout the cosmos and UFO's are visiting us in ever-increasing numbers.
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Special Reports
NASA Frets Aliens Could Attack Earth to End Global Warming
UNIVERSITY PARK, Penn. --
News Core reports, " A team of American researchers have produced a range of
scenarios in which aliens could attack the earth, and curiously, one revolves
around climate change.
They speculate that extraterrestrial
environmentalists could be so appalled by our planet-polluting ways that they
view us as a threat to the intergalactic ecosystem and decide to destroy
us.
The thought-provoking scenario is one of many
envisaged in a joint study by Penn State and the NASA
Planetary
Science Division, entitled "Would
Contact with Extraterrestrials Benefit
or Harm Humanity? A Scenario Analysis."
It divides projected close encounters into "neutral," those that cause mankind "unintentional harm" and, more worryingly, those in which aliens do us "intentional harm."
Extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI) "could attack
and kill us, enslave us, or potentially even eat us. ETI could attack us out of
selfishness or out of a more altruistic desire to protect the galaxy from us. We
might be a threat to the galaxy just as we are a threat to our home planet," it
warns.
One such scenario is the stuff of many a Hollywood blockbuster, a "standard fight-to-win conflict: a war of the worlds." But another might resonate more with fans of Al Gore's documentary film "An Inconvenient truth."It speculates that aliens, worried we might inflict the damage done to our own planet on others, might "seek to preemptively destroy our civilization in order to protect other civilizations from us."
"Humanity may just now be entering the period in which its rapid civilizational expansion could be detected by an ETI because our expansion is changing the composition of Earth's atmosphere which therefore changes the spectral signature of Earth," the study says.
"While it is difficult to estimate the likelihood
of this scenario, it should at a minimum give us pause as we evaluate our
expansive tendencies."
But before we brace ourselves for alien annihilation, the report suggests things could turn in humanity's favor. Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/08/19/aliens-could-attack-earth-to-end-global-warming-nasa-scientist-claims/#ixzz1VaDIKEh6 Note: This NASA scenario suggests they are well aware we are being visited.
Orb flap over multiple regions of US/world this week

Orbs have been captured with film and video over many regions of the US this week and reported on by local mainstream news media as "serious" news. Could it be that mainstream news media is finally getting past the "snicker factor" when it comes to UFO activity? Let's hope so.
US News Media: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-XGSQHQ178
South Korea: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXHcSdmXhBc
Bud Hopkins dies at 80
I'm sad to report that Budd Hopkins, the internationally
renowned abduction researcher and artist, passed away. UFOlogy lost a giant in
the abduction field. He died Sunday, August 21, at 1:35 p.m. Budd died from a
combination of liver cancer and pneumonia.
I had been to his home several times and he always treated me with respect and friendliness. He showed me hundreds of letters from abductees. He was an extraordinary man, who researched a difficult field. He will be greatly missed.
India's Moon Mineral Mapper
This image of the moon is from NASA's Moon Mineralogy
Mapper on the Indian Space Research Organization's Chandrayaan-1 mission. It is
a three-color composite of reflected near-infrared radiation from the sun, and
illustrates the extent to which different materials are mapped across the side
of the moon that faces Earth.
Small amounts of water and hydroxyl (blue)
were detected on the surface of the moon at high latitudes toward the poles.
Blue shows the signature of water and hydroxyl molecules as seen by a highly
diagnostic absorption of infrared light with a wavelength of three micrometers.
Green shows the brightness of the surface as measured by reflected infrared
radiation from the sun with a wavelength of 2.4 micrometers and red shows an
iron-bearing mineral called pyroxene, detected by absorption of 2.0-micrometer
infrared light. "Scientists claimed the moon was dry but three papers now
challenge that notion: Infrared spectroscopic measurements of the lunar surface
from spacecraft provide unambiguous evidence for the presence of hydroxyl (OH)
or water." Thanks to NASA/JPL Moon Mineralogy Mapper in Science
Magazine.
Mars Endeavor Crater
It took Mars Exploration
Rover Opportunity three years to get there, but it recently made it to the edge
of Endeavor Crater, a 14-mile wide crater that has shown evidence of holding
life-sustaining water in the past.
The 13-mile journey was a painstaking process
for the rover, which first landed on the Red Planet back in 2004 and has been
gathering data about the makeup of the land and its topography in the time since
its arrival. The decision to send the rover to Endeavor was made after the Mars
Reconnaissance Orbiter detected clay minerals in the vicinity of the crater — an
indication that the area was once a much warmer, wetter environment that
would've been more able to sustain life.
"Our arrival at this destination is a reminder that these rovers have continued far beyond the original three-month mission, said John Callas, Mars Exploration Rover project manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Photo of Endeavor Crater courtesy of NASA
Mars Cavern What Lies Beneath
Mars
Earlier this year a crater was spotted by the
HiRise camera with a dark spot at its center. When the team took a closer look
with the high-resolution camera they saw that the spot is actually a 35-meter
(115-foot) -wide skylight that opens into an underground cavern. The cavern is
most likely a section of an empty lava tube, leftovers from ancient Martian
volcanic activity.
Based on the shadows it's estimated that the pit
is about 20 meters (65 feet) deep. Image credit: NASA / JPL / University of
Arizona. Thanks to John Schuessler
Hacker Uncovered US Off-Planet Space Navy
Gary McKinnon, the English hacker facing 70 years in U.S.
prison for searching Pentagon sites for UFO evidence, says the weirdest thing he
found was a list of "Non-Terrestrial Officers" and fleet transfers
between ships that don't exist in the U.S. Navy. -
In the House of Commons debates July 13, 2011 David Burrowes
(Enfield, Conservative) asks, "Can I raise with the Prime Minister a
different case of hacking--the computer hacker Gary McKinnon? While I recognize
that the Home Secretary has a legal process to follow, does the Prime Minister
share the concern for my constituent's nine-year nightmare? He feels that his
life is literally hanging by a thread that is waiting to be cut by
extradition.
Prime Minister David Cameron
replies, "I do recognize the seriousness of this case, and the
Deputy Prime Minister and I actually raised it with President Obama when he
visited. I think the point is that it is not so much about the alleged offence,
which everyone knows is a very serious offense, and we can understand why the
Americans feel so strongly about it. The case is now in front of my right hon.
Friend the Home Secretary, who has to consider reports about Gary McKinnon's
health and well-being. It is right that she does that in a proper and
effectively--I am sorry to use the word again today--quasi-judicial
way.
Note - If Mr. McKinnon's data is correct, it validates the assumption the US
Navy may well be operating off-planet via back-engineered ET technology. His
data indicates the Navy and probably the Air Force operate a fleet of space
craft and officers to either man them or otherwise control them. Gary McKinnon
states, "I found a list of fleet-to-fleet transfers, and a list of
ship names. I looked them up. They weren't U.S. Navy ships. What I saw made me
believe they have some kind of spaceship, off-planet The US Navy
Clementine mission project mapped the entire
Moon.
In his interview with the BBC, Gary claimed, "The Disclosure Project" had some very credible people all saying there is UFO technology, there's anti-gravity, there's free energy, and it's extraterrestrial in origin and they've captured spacecraft and reverse engineered it." He said, he investigated a NASA photographic expert's claim that at the Johnson Space Center's Building 8, images were regularly cleaned of evidence of UFO craft, and confirmed this, comparing the raw originals with the "processed" images.
He claimed to have viewed a detailed image of "something not
man-made and cigar shaped floating above the northern hemisphere.
McKinnon stated the image was approximately 256 megabytes in size, yet that the
craft's details were still distinct in 4-bit color and low resolution on his
mere 56k modem connection http://www.sploid.com/news/2005/07/hacker_uncovere.php
Aviation Week's Space planes
Aviation Week and Space Technology magazine has
investigated myriad sightings of a two-stage-to-orbit system that could place a
small military space plane in orbit during the 1990s. After the shuttle
Challenger disaster in January 1986, and a subsequent string of
expendable-booster failures, the military needed a quick method to get
satellites into space to keep tabs on its Cold War adversaries.
It appears the "Blackstar" system may have replaced the shelved U.S. SR-71 reconnaissance aircraft. It was composed of a large "Mothership," closely resembling the Air Force's historic XB-70 supersonic bomber (shown above) with the orbital component under its fuselage, accelerating to supersonic speeds at high altitude before dropping the space plane. The orbiter's engines fire and boost the vehicle into space.
The National Aero-Space Plane was under development during the Carter Administration that could reach orbit but was allegedly cancelled but might have been updated to replace the Shuttle. Small maneuverable space craft could be launched from a Mothership and conduct key reconnaissance.
The space plane could deliver microsatellites to low Earth orbit or, perhaps, be fitted with no-warhead hypervelocity weapons--what military visionaries have called "rods from god." Launched from the fringes of space, these high-Mach weapons could destroy deeply buried bunkers and weapons facilities.
"In 1986, Boeing filed a U.S. patent application for an
advanced two-stage space transportation system. Patent No. 4,802,639, was
awarded on Feb. 7, 1989, details how a small orbiter could be air-dropped from
the belly of a large delta-winged carrier at Mach 3.3 and 103,800-ft. altitude.
Tons of material--including long-lead structural items--for a third XB-70
Valkyrie had been stored in California warehouses years before, and a wealth of
data from the X-20 DynaSoar military space plane program (shown) was readily
available for application to a modern orbiter. "The DynaSoar program
in November 1959 was the first effort to use a manned boost-glider to fly in
near-orbital space and return. The B-70 was to carry the 10,000-lb. DynaSoar
glider and a 40,000-lb. liquid rocket booster to 70,000 feet and release them
while traveling at Mach 3. With this lofty start, the booster could then push
the glider into its final 300-mile orbit."
On October 4, 1998, an XB-70-like carrier aircraft was spotted flying over Salt Lake City at about 2:35 PM, by James Petty, the president of JP Rocket Engine Co. He saw a small highly swept-winged vehicle nestled under the belly of the XB-70-like aircraft climbing slowly on a west-southwest heading. The sky was clear enough to see both vehicles' leading edges, which Petty described as a dark gray or black. Thanks to Aviation Week.
Blackstar Is a Secret Military Piloted Space plane
Does, or did, a secret piloted military space plane,
called the Blackstar, fly into suborbital and orbital space since the early
1990s? That's the highly intriguing and provocative big question raised in an
amazing cover feature article in the prestigious "Aviation Week & Space
Technology."
It is quite likely the U.S. Space Command operates a
military space plane for orbital missions with an elite corps of astronauts. The
significant, ground-breaking investigative news report, with 18 years of
Aviation Week research to back it up, strongly suggests that the "black budget
project" program was developed on the "fast-track" in the 1980s after the
catastrophic loss of the space shuttle Challenger in January 1986 to give the
military regular operational piloted reconnaissance access into suborbital and
orbital space. The orbital spacecraft, shown is an artistic rendering of a
likely Blackstar follow on craft.
The space plane, first known as the XOV
(experimental orbital vehicle) was apparently flight tested and likely became
covertly operational in the early 1990s. This two-vehicle "Blackstar"
carrier/orbiter system was allegedly cancelled in 2006, and an advanced Shuttle
follow on like craft is now in orbit.
Once a Blackstar orbiter reenters the atmosphere, it can land horizontally at almost any location having a sufficiently long runway. So far, observed space plane landings have been reported at Hurlburt AFB, Fla.; Kadena AB, Okinawa; and Holloman AFB, N.M.
These craft are often reported as UFOs. Boeing Aerospace and Lockheed were
the apparent contractors in 1990-91, and helped make the space plane operational
under the U.S. Space Command in Colorado. A former program manager of a major
aerospace company once declared, 'There is no question. Lockheed is
flying a two-stage space vehicle.'" Ben Rich the director of the
famous Lockheed Skunkworks, claimed we are thirty years in advance of science
and can fly to the stars.
This specific stealth space program has been
suspected, as noted, since 1992 when MUFON witnesses noted unusual high altitude
aircraft speeding supersonically across the skies with large puffs of
donut-shaped smoke over the southwestern U.S. The news media also picked up the
reports and called them, "Aurora."
Black Budget $50 Billion in 2010
The Fiscal Year 2010 budget is gigantic. Spending on classified programs and activities is listed by a category such as 0207248F Special Evaluation Program. These long-running budget lines, with their ever-changing names, have disappeared. In the R-1 (research and development), P-1 (procurement) and O-1 (operations) budgets for 2010, just over $50 billion is listed for classified programs, the largest-ever sum. The Pentagon's "black" operations, including the intelligence budgets nested inside it, are roughly equal in magnitude to the entire defense budgets of the UK, France or Japan.
Highlights include the US Air Force's classified research
and development budget. Earlier estimates suggested that secret projects
accounted for 36 per cent of USAF Rand D spending, but the FY2010 budget shows
that even this startling number is on the low side. The USAF plans to spend
almost $12 billion on secret programs in 2010 - more than three Joint Strike
Fighter F-35 development efforts - or just about 43 per cent of its R&D.
Black-world other procurement section just above $16 billion, that's 240 per cent more than it was ten years ago. On the operations side, secret spending has risen 8 per cent over last year, to just over $15 billion - equivalent to more than a third of Air Force operating costs. What does it all go for? If Gary McKinnon is right, US space planes are still in orbit despite the shuttle being cancelled.
New Crop circle near Stonehenge
On July 14,
2011, a new 200 foot crop circle few hundred yards from Stonehenge built in the
shape of a typical disc.
Lucy Pringle reports "A crop circle near Stonehenge in 2009 was especially
important for several reasons. A pilot flying a light aircraft from Exeter to
Thruxton flew over the field opposite Stonehenge at on the afternoon of Sunday 7
July 2009, with a passenger taking photographs, at which time the field opposite
on the A303 was unmarked. The pilot disembarked at Thruxton, completed the
necessary landing and flight forms, refueled and then got back into the same
plane to fly back to Exeter. Imagine his surprise on when flying over the same
field opposite Stonehenge some 40 - 50 minutes later, at 6:15 PM, he observed an
enormous formation measuring 915.2 X 508 feet imprinted in the wheat below.
A gamekeeper and a guard at Stonehenge both confirmed that
it had not been there that morning. The formation was named the `Julia Set` as
it represented a complex computer generated fractal image to the mathematicians;
to musicians, a base clef, and to marine biologists the cross section of a
nautilus. "This report has remained one of the most important in the history of
the crop circle phenomenon as rarely do crop circles appear during day light
hours." http://www.lucypringle.co.uk/news/stonehenge-julia-set-eyewitness.shtml
Palestinian Islamic Refugees Coming to the
US
By executive order, President Barack Obama has ordered the expenditure of $20.3 million in "migration assistance" to the Palestinian refugees and "conflict victims" in Gaza. The "presidential determination" which allows hundreds of thousands of Palestinians with ties to Hamas to resettle in the United States, was signed and appears in the Federal Register.
The order provides a free ticket replete with housing, transportation and food allowances to individuals who have displayed their overwhelming support to the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) in the parliamentary election of January 2006.
To verify this for yourself: www.thefederalregister.com/d.p/2009-02-04-E9-2488
Libya Gadhafi's Compound Captured

TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) - Hundreds of Libyan rebels blasted through the gates of
Moammar Gadhafi's compound in Tripoli Tuesday after five hours of intense
fighting around it. They killed some of those who defended it, fired celebratory
shots in the air and hauled off crates of weapons and trucks with guns mounted
on the back.
The storming of the sprawling compound in the capital, long
the key of Gadhafi's power marked the effective collapse of his 42-year-old
regime, even though pockets of resistance are likely to persist around the
country for some time. Gadhafi has disappeared and is likely in hiding.
East Coast Hit by 5.8 Earthquake
An earthquake centered in Mineral, Virginia shook the whole East Coast as far west as Chicago on August 23, 2011. My house shook and I held on to the TV hoping it would not fall off the table.







