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Deze blog is opgedragen aan mijn overleden echtgenote Lucienne.
In 2012 verloor ze haar moedige strijd tegen kanker!
In 2011 startte ik deze blog, omdat ik niet mocht stoppen met mijn UFO-onderzoek.
BEDANKT!!!
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UFO'S of UAP'S, ASTRONOMIE, RUIMTEVAART, ARCHEOLOGIE, OUDHEIDKUNDE, SF-SNUFJES EN ANDERE ESOTERISCHE WETENSCHAPPEN - DE ALLERLAATSTE NIEUWTJES
UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld Ontdek de Fascinerende Wereld van UFO's en UAP's: Jouw Bron voor Onthullende Informatie!
Ben jij ook gefascineerd door het onbekende? Wil je meer weten over UFO's en UAP's, niet alleen in België, maar over de hele wereld? Dan ben je op de juiste plek!
België: Het Kloppend Hart van UFO-onderzoek
In België is BUFON (Belgisch UFO-Netwerk) dé autoriteit op het gebied van UFO-onderzoek. Voor betrouwbare en objectieve informatie over deze intrigerende fenomenen, bezoek je zeker onze Facebook-pagina en deze blog. Maar dat is nog niet alles! Ontdek ook het Belgisch UFO-meldpunt en Caelestia, twee organisaties die diepgaand onderzoek verrichten, al zijn ze soms kritisch of sceptisch.
Nederland: Een Schat aan Informatie
Voor onze Nederlandse buren is er de schitterende website www.ufowijzer.nl, beheerd door Paul Harmans. Deze site biedt een schat aan informatie en artikelen die je niet wilt missen!
Internationaal: MUFON - De Wereldwijde Autoriteit
Neem ook een kijkje bij MUFON (Mutual UFO Network Inc.), een gerenommeerde Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in de VS en wereldwijd. MUFON is toegewijd aan de wetenschappelijke en analytische studie van het UFO-fenomeen, en hun maandelijkse tijdschrift, The MUFON UFO-Journal, is een must-read voor elke UFO-enthousiasteling. Bezoek hun website op www.mufon.com voor meer informatie.
Samenwerking en Toekomstvisie
Sinds 1 februari 2020 is Pieter niet alleen ex-president van BUFON, maar ook de voormalige nationale directeur van MUFON in Vlaanderen en Nederland. Dit creëert een sterke samenwerking met de Franse MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP, wat ons in staat stelt om nog meer waardevolle inzichten te delen.
Let op: Nepprofielen en Nieuwe Groeperingen
Pas op voor een nieuwe groepering die zich ook BUFON noemt, maar geen enkele connectie heeft met onze gevestigde organisatie. Hoewel zij de naam geregistreerd hebben, kunnen ze het rijke verleden en de expertise van onze groep niet evenaren. We wensen hen veel succes, maar we blijven de autoriteit in UFO-onderzoek!
Blijf Op De Hoogte!
Wil jij de laatste nieuwtjes over UFO's, ruimtevaart, archeologie, en meer? Volg ons dan en duik samen met ons in de fascinerende wereld van het onbekende! Sluit je aan bij de gemeenschap van nieuwsgierige geesten die net als jij verlangen naar antwoorden en avonturen in de sterren!
Heb je vragen of wil je meer weten? Aarzel dan niet om contact met ons op te nemen! Samen ontrafelen we het mysterie van de lucht en daarbuiten.
31-07-2011
This Charming And Competent Scientist[-Astronaut] Left The Carl Sagan Bandwagon! [John Alexander Won't Agree What He Said In This Video I Guess!]
Brian O'Leary - Press Conference - Barcelona
Exopolitics Summit 2009
Former NASA astronaut Brian O'Leary (PhD) participated in
the exopolitical press conference which was held in Sitges just outside
Barcelona in 2009. He talked about the extraterrestrial presence and the need
for applying exotic and sequestered energy systems in a responsible way in order
to ameliorate the global environmental situation.
Brian O'Leary, founder of the New Energy Movement (which largely gave
rise to our New Energy Congress), author, speaker, astronaut, and a leading
voice in the new energy and planetary sustainability movements, passed away July
29 , 2011 at age 71 at his home in Vilcabamba, Ecuador as he rested in the arms
of his beloved wife Meredith. He will be greatly missed.
Brian O'Leary, a leading voice in the new energy and planetary sustainability
movements, has passed from among us. He will be greatly missed.
On Friday
July 29, 2011 our planet lost a high-profile visionary and champion advocate of
a global new energy revolution. Scientist and author Dr. Brian O'Leary, for
decades a leading and impassioned voice for the new energy and planetary
sustainability movements, died peacefully at age 71 at his home in Vilcabamba,
Ecuador as he rested in the arms of his beloved wife Meredith.
Brian
O'Leary was an energetic and colorful personality, and his life story displays a
long list of notable achievements Eagle Scout, Ivy League professor of
astrophysics, Apollo-trained astronaut, energy policy consultant to Congress,
advisor to presidential candidates, author of numerous books, gifted piano
player, and a staple of the global lecture circuit on issues of peace, justice,
and sustainability. But among all his many activities, O'Leary was most
recognized and appreciated for his tireless and passionate appeal for a
transformation in the way humanity generates energy moving away from
destructive, polluting fossil fuels and nuclear power and toward an embrace of
revolutionary new energy technologies.
Having visited the laboratories
and workspaces of dozens of pioneering energy inventors world-wide, examining
their research and witnessing their proof-of-concept experiments, O'Leary
himself was transformed from a mainstream establishment academic scientist to an
ardent and outspoken advocate of maverick scientists and frontier physics. He
was a fearless critic of conventional energy policy and of the corrupting
influence of "profit at all costs" on corporate and governmental behavior, which
O'Leary felt were at the heart of the widespread devastation of our planet's
ecosystems and the impoverishment of much of humanity itself.
Brian
O'Leary was a complex man. And he was my dear friend and a valued mentor. I was
privileged to have a close and intimate friendship with him that allowed me to
view his feelings in a most personal way. Brian was social and gregarious, but
at times sullen and brooding. He needed to both carry his urgent message out to
the world and to retreat from that very same world. He was full of concern for
the plight of our despoiled environment and compassion for those peoples most
damaged from the effects. He was very vulnerable to heartbreak and grief at news
of the latest environmental debacle whether it be an oil spill, a coal mine
disaster, the plundering of Amazonian rain forests by oil and mining interests,
rapid depletion of marine fish stocks, the Fukushima nuclear nightmare, among
others each bit of despairing news about the planet's state of health appeared
to cause Brian a great deal of psychic, and even physical, pain.
His
love for the Earth and desire for peace and justice motivated his vigorous
activism. But his personal energy was often depleted by the specter of a world
with time running out, and further drained by his indignation at those corrupt
influences he felt were most responsible for the dysfunctional state of world
affairs. At these times it was typical for Brian to cloister himself away while
he recovered his energy and processed his feelings of grief and outrage. Often a
new essay would spring out of his despondency.
I am very grateful to this
man. In 2002, it was Brian who invited me to join him in crafting a new
grassroots movement that would focus on educating the mainstream public about
radical new energy solutions and the urgency required to embrace them. That
collaboration with Brian and some close colleagues resulted in what is now known
as New Energy Movement, an educational
nonprofit which I have served ever since. And while the work of NEM has been
personally fulfilling and hopefully of some significant impact on the awakening
of our planet's citizens to new solutions, my gratitude to my mentor goes far
beyond the work itself. For it was Brian who introduced me to several who have
become dear friends of mine, and many other friendships have sprung directly
from the work of NEM. It is these relationships that have so enriched my life
and that I prize so much, because they are real and enduring in the face of a
world that is changing rapidly and whose outcome is beyond our ability to
predict.
It is more than a bit ironic that Brian's earthly torch was
extinguished at a time so close to the anticipated commercial release of the
Rossi cold fusion technology, since Brian was such a vocal advocate for that
class of breakthrough energy inventions. Perhaps the time for advocacy and
education is waning, to be soon superseded by the launch of multiple robust
over-unity energy technologies into the public domain. If true, this would
surely bring that warm and delighted smile back to Brian's face. In any case,
I'm sure he will continue to inspire those left behind to continue our work on
behalf of a planet in peril.
Our world has lost a man of peace, a leader,
a champion, a friend of the Earth. It was a sign of this man's depth of feeling,
his expressive heart, that he could sign his messages to his male friends "Love,
Brian." I always appreciated that.
Peace to you, Brian. We'll miss you.
And I love you too, my Brother and my Friend.
Read some of Brian
O'Leary's essays and listen to interviews at www.brianoleary.com.
Eulogy by Sterling Allan
Thanks to Brian O'Leary, I met Joel Garbon and the New Energy Movement, which
was a huge inspiration and support in giving rise to the New Energy Congress. I
think it's fitting that he should pass away during this time that is the TeslaTech
conference and the Bedini
conference, so we can pay special tribute to him.
I was finally able
to meet Brian a couple of months ago when he and a few of his associates flew me
down to a meeting in Costa Rica. He's a wonderful person who has done so much
to bless this planet and push it in a better direction.
About three years
ago, my wife and I were considering moving down to Vilcabamba to be part of the
intentional community project of which Brian was a part. Instead, we've ended
up participating in one here in Utah. (http://SafenHaveVillages.org)
I
was very satisfied today in preparing a brief eulogy for Brian here at the
TeslaTech conference in Albuquerque, to see that on his list of Interesting Sites, our
Pure Energy Systems was listed prominently.
The ripples emanating from
Brian go deep and wide.
Eulogy by Fred Burks
Dear In the Know friends,
I don't know how many of you know of the
great man Brian O'Leary. He died two days ago of cancer at age 70, after having
been diagnosed only six days earlier. He was a top proponent of the new energy
movement and one of the calmest, warmest, most grounded voices for
transformation around. You can see his website at http://www.brianoleary.info and bio at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_O%27Leary.
We will miss him dearly, yet we can also now call on his great spirit to provide
guidance in these wild and transformational times.
And for some
inspiration, I'll mention that every other month I have been doing one or two
days of silence and fasting for many years. I find these days to be most rich
and inspiring in helping me to keep focused on what I want to be doing in my
life, and in exploring how I can live with ever greater love and integrity. I
thought I would share with you here some rich realizations from a day of silence
I enjoyed just last month.
"I am both creating and being created in every
moment. Clear intentions empower me to be an active, potent creator. Willingness
to surrender to what's best for all - never knowing what that is - allows me to
accept and appreciate all that is created in my life. How I interpret what
happens makes all the difference in my experience of life.
"By accepting
all in my life exactly as it is, I leave my victim ways behind to step fully
into my co-creative role with the universe. As I acknowledge and work with the
shadow sides of both myself and the world around me, I invite ever greater
transformation to unfold through integrating the light and the shadows. By
continuously choosing love, support, and meaningful connection with myself and
all around me, I play an active role in creating a slice of the paradise we are
all ever more consciously manifesting."
Thanks for sharing in the
inspiration, and for playing your part in the global transformation which is
rapidly unfolding all around us. Take care, and have a most beautiful and
meaningful month of August ahead.
With sacred love and warmest
wishes, Fred
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De
wereldberoemde foto van de Belgische Driehoek boven Petit-Rechain blijkt een
vervalsing te zijn. Op 28 juli 2011 blokletterde Het Belang van Limburg deze
titel boven hun artikel. Blijkbaar had de fotograaf Patrick samen met vrienden
deze foto getrukeerd. Na 21 jaar heeft op RTL TV1 deze hoax bekend gemaakt. De
foto is een eigen leven gaan leiden Ze hebben met een stukje piepschuim, een
penseel en wat lampjes, opgehangen aan een keukentrap met een koord. Volgens
hem liepen rond deze vorm allemaal draden, die niemand opgemerkt heeft. De
bekendste foto zou dus het resultaat zijn van een flauwe studentengrap!
Feit
is dat deze foto de ganse wereld rondging en voor sommige ufologen het ultieme
bewijs was voor buitenaards bezoek aan onze aarde. De foto kreeg zo een grote
weerklank in de media, dat de fotograaf 21 jaar geleden moeilijk kon
terugkrabbelen en de joke vertellen Nu na 21 jaar achtte hij de tijd rijp voor
zijn bekentenis op Tv.
In
het Ufo-boek The Ufo-report 1991 van de Brit Timothy GOOD, wijdde ik een
hoofdstuk aan de Belgische driehoek ende andere evenementen. Ik berichtte toen
al dat ik ervan overtuigd was dat deze UFO geen buitenaards ruimteschip was,
maar eerder een prototype van een hoogtechnologisch, militair toestel, zoals de
F117A-Stealth Dat werd me niet door iedereen in dank afgenomen en mijn
hypothese werd zeker niet aanvaard. Je moet eveneens wetendat de sceptische ufo-onderzoeker Wim van
Utrecht van Caelestia, enkele weken na het verschijnen van de bewuste foto zelf
met een nagemaakte foto van de Belgische Driehoek naar buiten kwam. Persoonlijk
vond ik zijn reproductie bijzonder geslaagd en ook toen al was ik genoegd om
Wim gelijk te geven De gelijkenis was zo frappant en ik vond dat Wim best in
zijn opzet geslaagd was om aan te tonen hoe eenvoudig het was om met eenvoudige
middelen dergelijke foto te maken. Zeker moet ik je niet vertellen dat Wim
bijna met alle zonden van Israël overladen werd omdat hij die foto in vraag
durfde te stellen! De tijd geeft nu Wim blijkbaar gelijk, dat je met eenvoudige
middelen veel kan bereiken
De
sceptici gaan deze hoax weer aangrijpen om te beweren dat alle ufos nep en
verklaarbaar zijn; de believers gaan misschien de verklaring van de fotograaf
in twijfel trekken. Volgens mijn persoonlijke mening valt of staat de Ufologie,
noch de Belgische Ufomeldingen niet met de echtheid van deze foto. Gewoon omdat
de fotograaf de foto produceerde op basis van de getuigenissen van vroegere en
geloofwaardige getuigen, zoals de twee rijkswachters in Eupen. De basis van de
waarnemingen en de verschillende radaropnames wijzen wel degelijk op een echt
vreemd object dat in onze contreien rondvloog
2.WAAROM
BLIJFT DE WAARNEMING VAN DE BELGISCHE DRIEHOEK EEN UNIEKE GEBEURTENIS IN DE
UFOLOGIE?
a.De
geloofwaardigheid van de eerste getuigenissen.
De
verklaringen van de twee rijkswachters over de waarneming van een driehoekvormig
object boven Eupen kan je moeilijk in twijfel trekken. Na de massale aandacht
van de media voor dit voorval, volgden er nog honderden meldingen. De Waalse
Ufo-groep SOBEPS verzamelde en onderzocht de vele getuigenissen en dat
resulteerde in twee lijvige rapporten in boekvorm.
b.De
metingen van de luchtmacht.
Bepaalde Ufowaarnemingen werden door de
grondradars en zelfs door de radar van de F16s, die de luchtmacht ter controle
de lucht in zond om de ufo op te sporen, geregistreerd. De versnellingen, die
het bewuste toestel wist te genereren, het stilhangen, kon volgens de luchtmacht geen enkel
bekend aards toestel aan. En als je de verklaringen van ex-kolonel De Brouwer
blijft volgen, dan zegt hij nog steeds dat de luchtmacht nog altijd niet weet
wat er in het Belgisch luchtruim rondtoerde
c.Valse
fotos kunnen inderdaad een probleem opleveren.
Vooraleer Wim van Utrecht zijn nepfoto
aanmaakte van Belgische Driehoek, waren er ook al andere onderzoekers, die hun
twijfels hadden over de echtheid van deze bewuste foto. De duidelijkheid van deze
opname was te mooi om waar te zijn en je kon je ook afvragen waarom er maar één
opname van bestond. Nu begrijp je dat alvast beter in de wetenschap dat op de
andere fotos de draden misschien zichtbaarder waren.
Verder als je sommige getuigenverhalen
leest, is er sprake van een grote, zwarte driehoek, die boven hun hoofden hing,
groter dan een voetbalveld. Dat bleek niet uit de foto. Ondanks alles blijft
het een vaststaand feit dat de maker van de foto zich gebaseerd heeft op
beschrijvingen van voorgaande getuigen. E zijn altijd personen, die zich graag
in de kijker werken en die vervalsing, trucage of zelfs fraude niet schuwen
Persoonlijk vond / vind ik een knap staaltje
werk van de scepticus Wim van Utrecht dat hij 21 jaar geleden al zo snel wist
aan te tonen dat je met eenvoudige middelen (bijna identiek met de originele
fotograaf) een vergelijkbare en bijna identieke reproductie van de bewuste foto
kon maken. De experten, die beide fotos analyseerden, en die toen
opmerkelijke verschillen quasi intensiteit, helderheid, lichtsterkte ontdekten,
gaan misschien nu minder hoog van de toren blazen. Ik ben geen expert in
fotoanalyse maar is het niet normaal dat er tussen twee verschillende opnames
met verschillende cameras opvallende verschillen voorkomen? Ik denk dat zij /
we in onze naïveteit ons onvoldoende kritisch en achterdochtig opstelde
tegenover deze getuigen en fotograaf. Misschien waren er wel onderzoekers die
onbewust deze getuigen wel wilde geloven. Wat sommige fotografische experts
ook mogen beweren over de echtheid van sommige ufo-fotos, soms zegeviert
gezond boerenverstand over de expertise...
d.De driehoekvorm werd / wordt ook nog
boven andere landen waargenomen.
Er werden / worden niet alleen
driehoekvormige ufos boven België waargenomen, maar ook in diverse andere
landen en continenten. Als je de Filers Files er op naleest, dan duikt deze
ufo-vorm frequent op. Voor mij is dat een bewijs dat het primo om een artificieel
object gaat, secundo niet perse van buitenaardse origine, maar dat het tertio
eerder past in het kader van vluchten met een prototype van een geheim spitstechnologisch,
militair toestel.
Als je er de diverse verklaringen over de
Belgische meldingen op naleest, en de verklaringen, die de onderzoekers er
durven aan te geven, gaande van een luchtballon, een ULM, een helikopter, dan
mag ik ook wel blijven nadenken over mijn hypothese, niet? Nu als je de
opgemerkte en vastgestelde karakteristieken van dit object, geregistreerd door
de radars van de luchtmacht, dan blijft het zoeken naar een voor iedereen
aanvaardbare oplossing. Noch de luchtmacht, noch de sceptici, noch de
believers, noch de objectieve, kritische onderzoekers hebben tot heden een door
iedereen aanvaardbare verklaring kunnen aanbieden voor de Belgische ufomeldingen.
e.Aantal meldingen.
Als je weet dat na de eerste melding van de
driehoek boven Eupen door de twee rijkswachters en de massale media-aandacht SOBEPS
en diverse andere ufo-groepen honderden
meldingen ontvingen, dan is het realistisch om te denken dat er iets onbekends
in ons luchtruim rondvloog. En ja, een deel van deze meldingen waren
misinterpretaties, optische illusies, ed., maar de close encounter-verhalen kan
je niet zo snel negeren. Het was dus zeker niet allemaal verbeelding, of
fantasie, of hoaxen van aandachtzoekers.
Nu de publicatie van de valse foto kan wel
meegeholpen hebben om de hype, die ontstond bij de Belgische meldingen nog meer
kracht te geven. Misschien is dat het positieve dat je kan afleiden van deze
vervalsing, de algemene bekendheid van de Belgische waarnemingen, werden er zeker
mee in de hand gewerkt.
Verder is het zo dat deze trucage- of
vervalsingfoto, gemaakt op basis van de beschrijvingen van diverse getuigen,
ons een concreet, visueel beeld geeft van watde personen waarnamen.
f.Wat
/ wie is expert in Ufologie en in fotoanalyse?
De vervalsing van deze foto door een amateur
en zijn getuigenis bewijst eens te meer dat het ook voor expertszeer moeilijk is om fotos of ander
beeldmateriaal van vreemde verschijnselen grondig te analyseren en voor echt te
verklaren. Hun expertise valt of staat deels met de betrouwbaarheid en de
geloofwaardigheid van de getuigen / de waarnemer. Om het met de woorden van de
fotograaf Patrick te zeggen Ik wil duidelijk maken dat je iedereen kan
bedotten. Je kan veel bereiken met weinig. Het was mooi, maar ik wil mij ook
verontschuldigen aan iedereen die ik gefoptheb.
Met foto-shop en andere programmas kan je de
dag van vandaag al heel wat manipuleren, trukeren met opmerkelijke en
buitengewone beelden tot gevolg. Het is aangewezen om ons ingeval van
beeldmateriaal over Ufos of andere esoterische fenomenen kritisch en objectief
te blijven opstellen, met zelfs een vleugje achterdocht, tot je 100% zekerheid
kan inbouwen over het bewijs en de getuigen! Kan je dit niet dan mag je het
beeldmateriaal nooit als afdoend bewijs aanvaarden, wat sommige fotografische experts
ook mogen beweren. Het is zelfs zo dat dit geval en de sceptische visie ons
leert dat een gezonde dosis wantrouwen in verband met ufos geen slechte zaak
is. Hoe graag we de getuigenissen van de waarnemers ook willen voor volle
waarheid aanvaarden, altijd blijft de mogelijkheid bestaan dat één van hen een
vervalser, een aandachtzoeker of zelfs een fraudeur is. Dit zijn misschien
harde woorden, maar ik denk dat veel sceptische ponderzoekers zo geworden zijn
omdat ze in hun vroeger leven in hun naïviteit te getuigen te veel
vertrouwden.0 Het gevolg was dat ze regelmatig met de kop tegen de muur van
leugens en hoaxen botsten en hun geloof in de betrouwbaarheid van de getuigen
ernstig ging wankelen.
3.BESLUIT.
De bewuste foto van
de Belgische driehoek blijkt nu duidelijk een vervalsing te zijn. Het is een mooie reproductie
van een waargenomen object, zoals het door diverse getuigen beschreven werd.
Pluspunt is dat het ons een concreet, visueel beeld biedt van wat de getuigen
in ons Belgisch luchtruim zagen rondvliegen.
De bekentenis van deze fotograaf na
21 jaar doet geen afbreuk aan de ufologie, noch aan de ufo-flap van de jaren
89/90 en de honderden meldingen. Het blijft nog steeds een raadsel van wat er
toen in ons luchtruim rondvloog. Misschien krijgt mijn vroegere hypothese dat
het om een geheim, spitstechnologisch, militair toestel ging, zoals de F117A nu
terug meer kans. Niettemin was het een echt, fysisch, artificieel object dat
ons luchtruim teisterde!
Wat de sceptici ook mogen beweren, noch
de ufologie, noch de Belgische meldingen vallen of staan met die bewuste foto. De
scepticus Wim van Utrecht bewees reeds 21 jaar geleden hoe snel dergelijke foto
kon gefabriceerd worden met zeer eenvoudige middelen. Hij leert ons wel dat we
altijd op onze hoede dienen te zijn voor te mooi beeldmateriaal en in sommigen
gevallen kan het zelfs nuttig zijn om bepaalde getuigen te wantrouwen en de
nodige achterdocht te bewaren. Dit klinkt misschien in tegenspraak wat ik
vroeger schreef over getuigen en het vertrouwen dat ze verdienen, maar laat
vooral je gezond verstand en je mensenkennis spreken in dergelijke gevallen.
Voor mij blijven de meldingen van de
Belgische driehoek een indrukwekkende gebeurtenis in de wereld van de ufologie,
die je niet vaak meemaakt. De oplossing voor dit evenement is nog steeds een
raadsel, zelfs voor de Belgische luchtmacht. Persoonlijk vind ik mijn hypothese
over een prototype nog steeds even afdoend en mogelijk als al de andere theorieën.
Misschien waren de vluchten boven België en West-Europa een laatste test voor
dit toestel voor het operationeel ingezet zou worden in Panama en Koeweit?
Vloog het object niet toevallig in de internationale luchtcorridor, waardoor
het alle West-Europese radars testen op zichtbaarheid?Die internationale vluchtroute, toeval of
niet? Raar, toch..
De wereldberoemde foto van de
driehoekige ufo met verlichte hoeken, die op 4 april 1990 in de Luikse gemeente
Petit-Rechain (Verviers) genomen werd door een 20-jarige arbeider, is een
vervalsing. Het gefotografeerde voorwerp was in werkelijkheid niet meer dan een
maquette in piepschuim, zo heeft de fotograaf toegegeven aan de Franstalige
televisiezender RTL-TVI.
Eind 1989 en in
1990 werden een hele reeks meldingen gedaan van vreemde voorwerpen in het
Belgische luchtruim. Het was ook in die periode dat de beruchte foto van de ufo
werd verspreid.
Verschillende
onderzoekers en specialisten, onder meer van de Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie
NASA, hebben de foto bestudeerd in een poging om het raadsel op te lossen. Maar
niemand van hen slaagde erin het bedrog aan het licht te brengen.
Nu geeft de
fotograaf uiteindelijk toch toe dat het gaat om een vervalsing. 'We hadden
nooit gedacht dat de foto de fabriek zou verlaten waar we werkten. Het beeld
ging echter een eigen leven leiden en toen hebben we het maar zo gelaten.'
Wij kennen Hilary Evans als een gedreven, kritische en objectieve onderzoeker. Ik heb ooit de gelegenheid gehad om hem in de jaren 80 in levende lijve te ontmoeten op een Ufo-Symposium in Hasselt. Hij gaf een mooie voordracht en ik herinner mij nog héél goed dat hij van het Belgisch Bier hield.Ik heb nog jarenlang contact met hem onderhouden en het is spijtig dat er weer een goede onderzoeker weg is... Peter
Hilary Evans, who was born in 1929, passed away this morning, July 27, 2011.
He was an intellectual British pictorial archivist, author, and researcher into
cryptozoological, Fortean, ufological and other undiscovered phenomena.
Hilary and Mary Evans began their archives modestly and it grew
to be world-famous.
Evans was born in Shrewsbury, United Kingdom. In 1964 he and his wife Mary
Evans founded the Mary Evans Picture Library, an archive of historical
illustrations. In 1981 he co-founded the Association for the Scientific Study of
Anomalous Phenomena.
Evans was an exponent of the Psychosocial Hypothesis of UFOs as culturally
shaped visionary experiences.
From 2003: Hilary Evans is seen bidding a farewell to some of his
books and magazines before going to Sweden and preservation with AFU. Photo by
Clas Svahn.
BAPLA took the opportunity of their 2007 Picture
Buyers Fair to give a very special award to a very special lady. Mary Evans,
co-founder (with husband Hilary) of The Mary Evans Picture Library, was awarded
the BAPLA Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of her outstanding
achievement and her lifelong contribution to our industry. A founder member of
BAPLA in 1975, Mary tirelessly worked for the good of the industry, picture
researchers, and the preservation of cultural heritage for more than fifty
years. From left: Linda Royles, CEO BAPLA, Catherine Draycott, Chairman BAPLA,
Mary Evans, Hilary Evans, Valentine Ward-Evans. Photo credit: Paul Brown
Mary Evans sadly passed away in 2010. (See more here.)
The Evanses and their great contributions to Forteana will be sorely
missed.
With the passing of
William Corliss earlier in July 2011, the deaths of two great archivists
have been sadly and widely felt throughout the field of Fortean studies.
In Special Reports, this week's files cover: Mars Structures,
Mars Rover "Curiosity," Is Heading for Curious Site, Astronaut Onizuka Recalls
UFO Encounter, Mystery of 200 feet Crop Circle within Yards of Stonehenge,
Declassified videos of OVNIs (UFOs) in Chile, Preliminary report on Alien Tissue
and Fluid samples, and Egyptian Writing Similar to Roswell Craft.
UnidentifiedAerial Phenomena sightings were
reported over California, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Illinois, Kentucky,
Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Jersey, Nevada, New York,
Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Washington. Sightings of UFOs were
also reported in Australia, Canada, India, Taiwan, Singapore, South
Africa, and 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.
Preliminary report on Alien Tissue and Fluid samples
Robert M. Collins writes, "Samples were shipped
from a ranch in Phoenix Arizona where bizarre incidences had taken place over
many years culminating in a number of entities getting wounded or killed in the
ranch house. "
The witness wiped up the blood/fluid and tissue of the Gray I
nearly split in two parts with an exceptionally well sharpened Samurai sword
after hand to hand combat with these little parasites. We have plenty of
evidence to prove it, gathered over many years." These samples
were analyzed by a Dr Levengood and Amanda N. Nimke in 2009.
Blood found? Dr Levengood: "It's pure hemoglobin
like that found at the Cattle Mutilation sites with what appears to be segment
rods in the blood, never seen anything like it.
Skin looks
like segmented grass except it's not grass Levengood said, see
attachment 2.
Numerous samples have been collected under correct forensic technique by
several skilled investigators and were sent to independent labs of high regard.
All came back with the same result that the proteins in the samples could not be
identified as anything they had seen before either plant, or animal, or human.
One lab did add that the samples sent to them did match the samples
they had tested over the last 30 years of fluid specimens they had tested from
various cattle mutilations across the South West US. They believed
that there was a 100% compatibility that the two were from the same creature(s).
Finally a smoking Gun that absolutely links cattle mutilations to alien life
forms.
The important significance of these fluid matches is that
according to Dr. Levengood, the fact that they matched so well was proof that
they were both extraterrestrial as the samples match nothing from the animal or
plant kingdoms on Earth. However, as said above, the samples match
the samples from mutilated cattle sites, and that would in Dr. Levengood's words
show a correlation between aliens and cattle
mutilations.
"You have the smoking gun," "this is proof of
alien life visiting Earth and links the phenomenon together
positively!" These were Dr. Levengood's words!
"Robert Bigelow and his agency spent close to a month studying
the ranch and the events here and my wife and I underwent extensive
interviewing, videotaping, and analysis by ex FBI and CIA investigators.
Everyone involved has had a consensus that the events here are real, accurate in
nature, and have not been publicly released due to my desire to avoid a deluge
of publicity which will neither further the investigation nor heighten the hard
science approach to an unexplained phenomena that deserves the respect of
remaining a discussion between professionals.
Dr. Levengood, said, "I'm very excited about the samples which
contain tiny segmented fibers that are not cloth.
Levengood explained, "Blood as we know it does not contain
segmented fibers; normal antibodies that are positive or negative determine the
type of blood which is something totally different and this made the sample
highly unusual. It is very peculiar because the cell
parts look like joint grass, but are not grass."
He has sent the photomicrographs, which are photographs taken
through a microscope. Thanks to Robert M. Collins, Editor
Mars Structures
Mars Global Surveyor image M08-05725 67.67S 12.34W
Mars rover Curiosity is expected to launch from
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on November 25, 2011, and will land
on Mars in August 2012. Gale crater has been chosen for the landing site since
there are no visible ruins or indications of life in the area. NASA is
introducing a new Mars probe called Curiosity that is a $2.5 billion,
nuclear-powered machine that is the size of a Mini Cooper, and contains a laser
that can vaporize rocks at seven meters, a percussive drill, a large robot arm
and a weather station. In addition, it has 4.8kg of plutonium-238.
Curiosity's main mission on Mars is to find organic compounds as a
"telltale sign" that life have existed on Mars. Scientist's must pick a landing
area that will most likely contain such evidence. Gale Crater features a mound
of debris that is 3 miles above the crater floor, and contains layered deposits
of sulfates and clays. Editor's Note: I suggest they land at Cydonia, Elysium,
or Hale Crater where pyramids, faces, tubes and cities once existed.
Astronaut Onizuka Recalls UFO Encounter
Prior to the fateful launch of the space shuttle
Challenger on January 28, 1986, I had the honor and pleasure of sharing
conversations with several members of that crew. During one of many pre-mission
preps for the Challenger mission, I came upon Lt. Col. Ellison Onizuka in the
Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at launch complex 39. I had an assignment to
assess some problems at the Launch Control Center (LCC) and needed to access the
main drawing files.
Onizuka asked me if my surname had any connection with McClellan Air
Force Base in California? I said not as far as I was aware. I asked him
why?
Ellison said he had a surprising experience along with other USAF
aerospace flight engineers and pilots while on military training duty at
McClellan AFB, about eight or nine years prior to his astronaut training.
He and this group were at this base for specialized training when they
were directed to report to a viewing room. As they were seated, the room
darkened and a movie began without the usual official introduction by a USAF
officer.
They were all startled when a view of a facility similar to a medical
examination room appeared on the screen and small bodies were observed lying on
slabs. He heard several excited comments by the other officers seated near him.
The small, strange looking creatures were humanoid in shape, and appeared
similar to those described by alleged witnesses at the well-known Roswell site
in the Southwest USA in 1947.
They all had large heads, large eyes, slight torsos, arms, and legs.
They did not appear to be of earthly origin.
Ellison then said, "Clark, my God, these highly trained officers and I
were shocked by what we saw. We were not made privy to what we would see until
it happened. We were all caught off guard. Perhaps it was a test of our psyche
to determine our overall reaction. Well, we were all caught by
surprise."
Needless to say, I was also caught off guard hearing this revelation
from a highly intelligent USAF officer and NASA astronaut. One who flew his
initial space mission 51-C in the space shuttle Discovery a highly classified
U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) mission under top secret conditions. It made me
wonder what else Ellison knew, or perhaps had seen, during his first shuttle
mission and USAF career.
I said "that's amazing, Ellison! Were all of you given any
opportunity to question what you saw?" He said, "No! We were then asked to exit
the room and continued our scheduled technical activities as if nothing special
had occurred. In my opinion, I have considered the possibility that the group
was evaluated for individual reactions to what they saw. Perhaps it was a
planned USAF psychological test for military reasons. Who knows, NASA may have
evaluated it in my selection as an astronaut in 1978. You know, what would my
reaction be if I actually saw an alien being"?
We arrived at our separate building destinations and briefly discussed
his approaching second space mission in Challenger 51-L. He said he was
anticipating a successful flight with Judy Resnik, Christa McAuliffe, and crew.
I asked if we could discuss this topic again; and he agreed.
Unknown to us both, this would be the last time we would speak. He,
Judy, Christa and the other crew members would be making their final mission on
January 28, 1986.
I was at the Kennedy Space Center and watched in disbelief as they and
space shuttle Challenger fell into the Atlantic Ocean.
Upon leaving KSC for the night after being on duty for about 15 hours,
I was driving home to my Port St. John Apartment when the disaster finally
caught up with my emotions. I pulled to the side of the main NASA causeway
crossing the Indian River and sobbed my eyes out for about ten minutes. God, how
horrible it was, and still is to this day, in my memory.
God bless you Judy Resnik, Ellison Onizuka, Christa McAuliffe, Dick
Scobee, Michael Smith, Gregory Jarvis and Ronald McNair. Thank you God for the
honor of knowing all of them. Thanks to Clark C. McClelland, former ScO, Space
Shuttle Fleet, Kennedy Space Center, Florida (1958-1992) Special thanks to Billy
Booth and WWW.UFOCASEBOOK.COM
Mystery of 200 feet Crop Circle within Yards of Stonehenge
Daily
Mail Reports"Who built Stonehenge has long been
the subject of debate among scholars. But now the ancient site has offered up
another conundrum - in the form of a giant crop circle. This impressive 200 feet
design appeared within sight of the ancient monument Stonehenge yesterday in a
field of wheat.
Some believe they are manmade, and there are a
number who are convinced they are the work of extra-terrestrials. The ancient
site is widely considered the most important prehistoric monument in Britain and
is proving to be a hot spot for the phenomena this season. Online enthusiast
Eliakis Joseph-Sophia attempted to offer some explanation, believing that the
'three half moons in the crop and that could indicate plans due to budgets in
the third quarter. 'The crop is the other side of the road from Stonehenge. So
clearly, the people involved in this crop cannot reach the sacred stones.' Read
more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2014711/Elaborate-hoax-sign-outta-space-The-crop-circle-phenomena-continues.html#ixzz1SEOllvA4
Alien Contact in Vietnam
Today's post is written by, a processing
archivist at Archives II. Joe
Gillette writes, " During the
Vietnam War, American army commands maintained daily journals documenting
assorted events.Many contain
descriptions of combat against the enemy but there are entries that more closely
resemble an episode of the X-Files than a war movie. One such entry appears in
the January
6, 1969 daily journal of the 23rd Infantry Division's Chu Lai Defense
Command. The command's mission was to
coordinate ground defense of the Chu Lai Defense Sector on the Vietnamese
coast about 40 miles southeast of Da Nang. Base defenses included a system of
numbered observation towers ringing the base. Towers routinely reported anything
unusual or potentially threatening to the base. At 0152 hours (1:52 AM), the
day's journal records state:
Tower 72 reports an object flying into their area about 700 meters in
front [sic] of them, AZ 310. Object came in slow over the ASP & landed. When
object moves it has a glowing light. It is about 15 -- 20 ft across. It is
shaped like a big egg. Control tower reports their radar did not pick anything
up. Object also does not seem to have any sound to it when it moves.
Luis Jaspe writes, "Yet again we come across the subject
of UFOs (Unidentified Flying Objects) and cannot find an explanation for the
majority of the cases that suggest the existence "day after day" of something
beyond.
We cannot grasp how some authorities endeavor to
conceal the subject when increasingly greater numbers of people are interested
in really knowing what is going on. Fortunately, there are people who have
indeed involved themselves in UFO research, such as Chilean Captain Rodrigo
Bravo, and who has said on more than one occasion that, "We are
facing a real problem, even though the majority may not believe in subjects of
this nature. "UFOs Represent "A Real and Serious
Threat
Cronicaviva.com.pe published Captain Rodrigo Bravo's
thoughts in this regard: "We can no longer deny or ignore the UFO
situation. They represent a real and serious threat. Today we are faced by a
complex phenomenon whose characteristics cannot be explained within normal
terrestrial circumstances.
All
of this after reporting and advising about series of recordings in which various
Chilean pilots have stated having contact with one or more UFOs.
The
Comit de Estudios de Fenmenos Areos Anmalos (CEFAA) has these recordings, and
they are still under review.
Ronald Regehr writes "Does anyone but me see the
resemblance between the recently found glyphs in the pyramid at Giza and the
images Jesse Marcel, Jr. recalls from the "I beam" he handled from the Roswell
debris? Could this be a clue as to why the secrecy and intrigue? Thanks to
Ronald Regehr
Sightings in the United States
California Disc
GARDEN GROVE -- I was taking pictures in
my back yard of the Sun on July 18, 2011, at 5:30 PM, and noticed a small object
flying around erratically, very unlike an airplane. It moved very quickly,
darting about this way and that in the vicinity of the sun. I shot several
pictures and I can see a very distinctive saucer shape and metallic craft moving
very erratic and at very high rate of speed. The craft was rotating
counter-clockwise. My camera is an Olympus FE 14 mega-pixel shot at 8 mega
pixels. I was quite excited, and lost sight of the object after two minutes when
it zipped away. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Yucca Valley -- I spotted unusual circular
lights hovering over the city for ten minutes on July 21, 2011, starting at
10:33 PM. The glowing orbs were slightly moving to align with each other at the
same altitude in a dark desert sky. The glowing oval lights finally lined up, as
the remaining circle glowed brightly and disappeared. The witness is not a UFO
enthusiast, but her calls to local authorities and military officials were not
returned.
Note: The above is an edited photo. The original photo has
been requested. Thanks to William Puckett Director UFOs Northwest http://ufosnw.com
Connecticut Glowing Circle
Cheshire -- Out for a walk through our suburban neighborhood
with five friends on July 23, 2011, when one pointed to the sky at an orange
glowing circle. It was brighter than any star and not blinking, but the same
size of the planes. It seemed to hover oddly then fly off across the sky. We
followed it past some tree lines and it either vanished or got too far away.
Many of the witnesses initially thought it was a crashing plane on fire. It was
possibly a meteor but moved too slow and lingered in the sky. Thanks to MUFON
CMS
Delaware Flying Triangles
NEWARK -- My boyfriend and I were sitting
on our back deck watching the fireworks on July 4, 2011, around 10:15 PM, and
looked up to see two triangular orange lights. My boyfriend said,
"They're flying in an exact formation without sound, nor blinking
lights. He went inside and I was sitting there watching when one
flew over. Five minutes later two more also were heading north, showing red or
small orange triangular lights. They flew over the house and then seemed to
disappear: The above image is a rendering. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Florida Circle
Orlando -- The house shook but there was noise so I looked
outside and didn't see anything except the automatic lights were on by garage. I
went back to bed and this morning on July 22, 2011, I saw this visible circle in
the grass outside my living room window that is pretty strange. Thanks to MUFON
CMS
Kissimmee -I was driving down Marigold Avenue going home in
the rain on July 23, 2011, and saw smoke coming from the trees. My fianc called
to say, "Our backyard tree was hit by lightning, I
continued to look at what I thought was fire, and noticed six bright orange
lights, I never saw before, and then noticed they were moving. I pulled to the
side of the road to film and started to follow the lights. When got home they
were already looking at them. My fianc, daughter, and my son saw them and said
that they flew directly over the neighbor's house. When they got higher in the
sky they faded away into the clouds. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Illinois Orb
Plainfield --
At first the light, the object looked about
half the size the moon usually appears. It was yellowish orange, almost flame
like on July 15, 2011, at 8:55 PM. It was moving south and slowly losing
altitude. By the time I got out my cell phone to take a video, the light was
smaller and stopped moving south and looked to gain altitude straight up. It
hovered for a while, getting smaller and smaller. I thought maybe something was
actually burning until it took off to the north. Thanks to William Puckett,
Director http://www.UFOsnw.com
NORTHLAKE
-- On July 3, 2011, we were outside enjoying a BBQ when one of our
nieces shouted, "Look at that! To our amazement, we
saw a black triangle craft at least twice the size of a 747 jumbo jet slowly
cruising at 1500 feet off the ground. The object was jet black and made no sound
what so ever. We live within five miles of O'Hare International Airport and see
jumbo jets taking off and at low altitude every day. This object was at least
twice the size of one of these massive jetliners. As we watched with our mouths
agape, we saw two silver, cigar shaped objects come up along side of the
triangle.
They were only a quarter of the size of the triangle. They stayed parallel to
the object for about 20 seconds, and all three accelerated together as one, and
were out of sight within a matter of seconds. Five minutes later, we see a group
of three military "Blackhawk helicopters fly over. They flew around the
neighborhood and headed off to the north following the three objects. Thanks to
MUFON CMS
Chicago Skyway -- My wife, daughter, and I were heading
towards Gary, Indiana, on July 15, 2011, when my wife told me to look up,
because there was a triangle shaped object about a half mile away, and flying in
our direction. I looked up and saw many evenly spaced apart lights which were
encompassing the entire bottom of the object. The triangle was a couple hundred
feet across, and the lights were flashing red from front to back of each
individual light. The traffic was heavy, and we were unable to stop and take
pictures. We lost sight of the object soon after it passed over head. I did not
here any noise coming from the object as it passed over. I was able to look up
and notice that I could look through the object between the flashing lights. It
did not appear to be a solid object, but possibly a formation of bright red
flashing lights.
The sun was beginning to set, and I could not tell if the formations of
lights were planes but I have not seen planes flying in such a tight formation
with these types of lights. None of lights moved outside of the tight formation.
It was as if the lights were connected and moving in unison, yet there were gaps
between the lights that you could see the sky above. It looked very odd. I am in
the military, and my wife is an attorney. We have never seen anything like that.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Kentucky Two Red Flying Objects
Louisville-- I have never seen a
UFO, but my Mother was in the Air Force and has had many UFO sightings. Well
tonight July 16, 2011, from 11 to 11:05 PM, I saw two red flying objects. I saw
the first one going fast that slowed as I walked outside as if it noticed me as
well. I am a Christian and been told that aliens are another form of a demon, so
I leave the stuff alone. But it slowed as I watched it carefully. Then a second
one appeared right behind it. They both slowed down and seemed to wait for me to
move. When I moved to the left they took off. Thanks to William Puckett,
Director http://www.UFOsnw.com
Michigan Light Near Deer
Atlanta -- I am 56 yrs old and have these
orbs floating around my 11 acres backyard. I had one drop from the sky right in
front of me about 50 feet away. The pictures and videos are taken on deer cams
with heat and motion sensors to keep an eye on the deer. I am sending you a
picture taken on November 14, 2010, at 5:14 AM. I have never seen that many
small orbs at one time. I have been catching orbs about the size of a beach
ball.
Note: The witness sent other photos and videos besides what
is displayed above. Some photos are quite compelling. The deer quite obviously
is reacting to the presence of the light. I don't think that the light is a
flashlight because if a person was close by the deer likely would have fled.
Thanks to William Puckett Director UFOs Northwest http://www.UFOsnw.com/sighting_reports/2010/atlantami10232010/atlantami10232010.htmhttp://ufosnw.com
Maine Ten Orange Objects
Great moose Lake -- We saw ten round objects assemble into a
formation and fly over Great Moose Lake near Hartland on July 12, 2011. We got
some pictures as they flew in formation for awhile, and then disappeared one at
a time. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Minnesota Orange Orb
Brooklyn Park -- I was waiting for my wife at the Target
store when I noticed three red orange lights going west. As they came closer
they were round and the moved slowly in the night sky about 10 pm. They did not
make any noise and stayed on a straight line and spaced pretty even. They were
half a block or so apart. There were almost a dozen people watching when I
realized they were not planes and started taking pictures using my Canon camera
with a 300 mm lens. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Minneapolis -- We were getting hit by the biggest storm this
summer, and I stepped outside to get some pictures. It wasn't until later, after
looking at the photos, that I realized that I had captured something strange.
I have two images that were taken four seconds apart. The second shows
numerous "Orbs", I only mention this because the first shot has none visible. It
also clearly shows an object moving fast from left to right. The object is
bright at the tip and tapers off to a dark tail in the rear. Not sure what it
was, but if it had been a meteor, it was very close and would have hit a house
and made the news. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Nebraska Disc
KENNESAW I was taking pictures of storm clouds but no
objects were visible until I downloaded the pictures. I got decent pictures on
July 3, 2011, and the next night my wife, daughter and I saw seven unexplained
lights high up that looked like they were going to a meeting! One was close and
bright like a star/diamond. I've had multiple sightings in the Kansas City area
since April. One was an orange orb, beach ball size only 25 feet from me. Thanks
to MUFON CMS
New Jersey Two Alien Beings Seen Close-Up
Cape May -- My wife and I were on a short vacation at B and B on Beach Avenue
with a view of the Atlantic Ocean. I was asleep when I was awakened and opened
my eyes and saw two beings standing at the foot of the bed. They were an
identical in every way and four and half to five feet tall. They wore black
form-fitting outfits that resembled scuba diving suits. On their upper chests
was a rectangular, bronze colored plate about 6x4 inches with two rows of
inscribed symbols or buttons on them. They were no more than six feet from my
face and they were both staring right at me. It was a cool, appraising look like
a cat might give you.
Their crania were very large, perhaps twice as large as a man's. They had
huge, wraparound black eyes set above high cheekbones. Their skin appeared
orange in color. I couldn't detect a well defined mouth or nose, but along the
rim of their jaws and down to their chins were some kind of organ-like
structures, that were perhaps gills or mandibles? I propped myself up on my
elbows to get a better view, and felt no fear. I was about to say something,
when I got this very clear thought, "Something is wrong, he sees
us." I suddenly became extremely sleepy, and I tried to fight the
urge to lie back down, but it was no use. I felt my eyes closing and that was
it. The next thing I knew it was morning and I was awakened by the sunlight
streaming in through the balcony door. I asked my wife how she had slept and she
said it was the best night' sleep she's had in a while. No dreams.
As a child and teenager I was visited frequently and often terrifying. This
is the first time as an adult that I had such a clear sighting of these
creatures. They moved with military precision and discipline, who had a job to
do. They were not there to be my friend or to tell me any of the universe's
secrets. They were supremely confident and felt not the slightest fear towards
me.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Editor's Notes, We have been unable to contact the witness to investigate the
case and advise caution.
Rockaway BOROUGH -- Rosanna Shaw writes at the Fire
Department Fair on July 9, 2011, I saw a large and constant bright red (towards
orange) light moving from WSW to ESE at 50 from horizon across the sky. I was
with my husband waiting for the fireworks to begin and he also saw it. We were
facing east. The time was between 9:15- 9:20 pm. There was no sound or
navigation lights. The sighting lasted 30- 45 seconds. It did not originate in
the area where the fireworks were to happen and the fireworks did not start
until 10:30, even they were scheduled an hour earlier. Many people actually left
before the fireworks began due to the excessive delay and no doubt the Fire
Department lost money because of this. Thanks to Rosanna Shaw
Nevada Saucer
At 7:50 PM, at July 23, 2011, my son and I were in our backyard when he
happened to look up into the sky and noticed a very bright and shiny long white
object flying in the blue sky. It was a good sized object as related to an
airplane that was also flying near the object. We used my phone to capture still
images as well a video that shows the black plane in the frame. The object was
traveling at a much slower speed than the plane. When zooming in on the still
image, the shape looks saucer like and has an orange glow in the center. Thanks
to MUFON CMS
New York Triangle
Poughquag -- Large triangular shaped object with steady red,
green and white lights glided over my home on July 15, 2011 at 11:23 PM. While
lying on my couch watching TV I noticed through my blinds a white bright light
in the distance approaching my house. At first I thought it was plane but as the
light got closer I jumped up, looked through the window and saw a large
triangular shaped object slow and make a long swooping turn, almost as if were
gliding. It was dark, but I saw 3 or 4 red, green and white steady lights on the
object. This object was way to low to be a plane in my opinion. Thanks to MUFON
CMS
Pennsylvania Close Encounter
WATSONTOWN -- My mother said they were
watching tv in the middle of a sunny day on July 15, 2011, when all of a sudden
it became very dark outside. My mom went to the door to see if a storm was there
and she said when she looked up she saw a gray object hovering over the house.
The object made a low humming noise; and my father said, "It was
larger than football field. Mom said, It hovered for a
long time then just sped away very fast. It was also documented in
various newspapers from Williamsport to Harrisburg? It's amazing that no-one
ever followed up on what this was. I want to know.
Lyndhurst-- In March of 2010, I was on my front porch and my
wife saw this bright glow in the east that remained stationery for about 35
minutes. Twenty minutes later the glow flickered and appeared dim blue, then
went to bright white again. So I grabbed my Kodak c-310 camera and took these
photos.
I worked as an airline trainer for airlines and I am familiar with most
aircraft. I know this was not the Moon, Venus, or any aircraft I can identify.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Washington Flying Object
Marysville -- Upon leaving the Quill Ceda
Casino on July 23, 2011, I witnessed two objects going south and directly over
my head. They flew straight up at 12:07 AM. These objects were lower than of an
incoming airplane. I have seen a number of objects I can't explain, but these
objects looked different than the ones I have seen before. They were an odd
shade of red and silent and the shape wasn't uniform. Witnesses gave me the
classic, "I am afraid and I don't know what that is. I
had a hard time manipulating my new IPhone, but managed to take a picture of the
second object that was as big as a 737 aircraft.
Note: I know this witness and she is reliable. She sometimes
feels that she can predict the appearance of UFO and had a sensation on this
occasion. It was about 1/3 the size of a full moon. The distorted shape of the
light is likely due to a combination of camera movement and/or movement of the
light. Thanks to William Puckett Director UFOs Northwest http://ufosnw.com
Worldwide Sightings
Australian UFO Armada
GRAFTON N.S.W. -- Researcher Barry Taylor reports that a
formation of twelve to fifteen UFOs were observed on July 11, 1998, at 6:11 PM.
The white illuminated objects were at 40,000+ feet and moving fast in a "V"
formation surrounded by a white haze. They were plainly visible against the
stars moving south at 10,000 klm / hr. I videotaped the "V" formation for three
seconds in the clip. Unfortunately, they are only seen faintly on the original
tape. Five minutes later, while observing the northern sky, 200 white
illuminated objects surrounded by a fairly bright white haze was seen moving
east at 40,000 feet altitude. Bryan Dickeson of UFOR calculated their speed at
6500 to 6900 mph. This current "Armada" of UFO's arrived at Earth on April 6,
and departed on July 11, 1998. No similar sightings have been seen since then.
Thanks to Barry Taylor. stingray@nor.com.au
MELBOURNE -- I was following a jet when I noticed this
object and recorded it with a Yukon Ranger Night Vision. The orb is almost the
size of the aircraft and moving to the right while aircraft is flying to the
left. Thanks to UFOhunterorguk
Uploaded by loucanola
on Jul 22, 2011. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-KvU8vK25A&NR=1
Canada Huge Light
Moncton, New Brunswick -- Carol and Leo write,
"On July 19, 2011, we saw two UFOs; a black dot was near a cloud and
after two minutes it turned very bright and flew away. As it
climbed the light got very bright and super big before it disappeared. There was
no motor sound and no blinking lights. After 30 minutes at very low altitude
below the cloud the bright light just appeared in the clear sky flying fast
toward the airport. It turned and flew up as the light became super bright and
very big. I know it was UFO. They were the same as last two years UFOs that flew
around my car. I think the technology was like a plane. My Mom saw the light ten
houses tall. Thanks to UFOINFO.com
India UFO
New Delhi -- Last night, my brother and I were sitting in
the balcony of our house when we saw a yellow light coming from a distance
flying very low. It made no noise as it closely passed over our house gliding
very slowly. We could see yellow light, it was not blinking at all, but could
not see any big discs or vehicle, just a gliding light.
Just after five minutes an aircraft passed over our house making noise which
can be heard from a distance. It was flying the standard route for aircrafts to
pass over our house every five minutes. But strangely, the light took its own
time to glide by within the five minutes time before the aircraft's usual route.
Both of us were wondering if what we saw was a UFO?
Note: Thanks for your sighting report. Yes, it sounds like you saw an
unidentified flying object or UFO. You apparently know what normal aircraft look
and sound like, so it was not one of these. This apparently was very different.
Some UFOs seem to be electrical plasmas and under the right conditions, jet
aircraft can produce electrical plasmas that slowly follow aircraft. However,
alien UFOs often like to fly in similar routes to aircraft because they are less
likely to be noticed. Keep watching the skies.
Sierra de Madrid "Extraterrestrial Highway" is being created as a homage to
the opening of the motion picture "Paul" -- the adventures of a rogue
extraterrestrial on the run from the US government, aided and abetted by two
saucer buffs. Bearing the name "Ruta Extraterrestre Area Norte", this
undertaking has not been found at all unusual by some -- journalist David Benito
among them.
Javier Resines' article on the Spanish Kraken that
terrorized the vicinity of Cadiz during the Roman Era prompted recollections of
readings about "antiquarians" from the ancient world, who laboriously jotted
down all of the "prodigia" and oddities of their times. Readers of UFO tracts
are familiar with Julius Obsequens, who took special note of flying
shields and other heavenly displays -- pastimes indulged by other
ancient historians like Livy and Dio Cassius -- and the medieval St. Gregory of
Tours, whose annotations of every comet, meteor and unknown object overhead are
readily available in the excellent Penguin Books edition of his "A
History of the Franks"....[Thanks to http://inexplicata.blogspot.com]
Singapore Lights
Lights were seen and filmed over the city on July 11, 2011.
Taiwan UFO Reflection
TAIPEI -- On August 20, 2010, a series of photos were taken
of an automobile with UFO reflected in the windows. Thanks to MUFON CMS
UFO Seen in South Africa
Cape Town -- IB Staff reporter reports, "A mystifying
unidentified flying object (UFO) has been captured in a photo (July 26, 2011) in
Cape Town, South Africa. The image of the UFO seems to merge
perfectly in the photo with the correct amount of lighting on it. Amid multiple
claims of UFO sightings from around the world, what makes it unique is the fact
that you can find it on Google Earth...
BANBURY -- I used to cycle back home from work on my cycle
through dark unlit country roads in October of 1999. I was heading west along
Welsh Road I saw an object about the size of a UK water tower. The light that
appeared to circle around the object gave it a disc like appearance. They were
vertical deep red lights and reminded me of a florescent bulb orbiting the
object. I phoned my father to see if he'd come and see it, but he had had a beer
and was not willing to drive down. Thanks to MUFON CMS
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Although our decades long investigation is nearing its end, and will
culminate in the form of a book to be released later this summer, the work is
continuing right up to the last minute.
Information uncovered within the
last year necessitated one final trip to the Southwest. This last jaunt took
place primarily in Arizona as we were visiting various locations
there.
Historian
and aviation researcher Mike Price and I met with Dr.
Frank Thayer, journalism professor at New Mexico State University in Las
Cruces,
and former department head. Dr. Thayer has been an enormous help in our research
and his skills in editing our new book have been invaluable; he wanted to join
us on what we think is the last major excursion before we hit the "print button"
for our tome.
Once the boots-on-the-ground investigation was completed
(re our newly uncovered information), we had the pleasure of meeting with J.
Andy Kissner, the former State Representative from New Mexico, who has helped me
with research on Aztec in the past.
Andy was also integral to former New
Mexico Senator Steven Schiffs investigation into the Roswell Incident, which
involved an audit of the files of various military agencies, beginning with the
Air Forcethis was conducted by the General Accounting Office (GAO). The
investigation ended with the GAO having more questions than answers as many
documents were missing and presumed destroyed at some point.
We
also had time to see Mike
Fortson, one of the key witnesses to the Phoenix Lights case back in 1997.
Mike and I have met before, but Mike Price and Dr. Thayer had never had the
privilege. We had an enjoyable time sharing research (in general) as well as
bringing Mike up to speed on the last stages of the book.
20 Years Later, the Two Veteran Researchers Finally Meet
Following
our stay in Arizona, we (Mike Price and I) were off to the west coast to meet
with author/researcher Bill Steinman (Dr Thayer would make his way back to New
Mexico). As the book is nearing fruition, I had made up my mind sometime back
that a face-to-face meeting with Bill was paramount before the book goes to
press.
I
read Bill's book UFO Crash at Aztec back in 1991 after I had been researching the
Aztec case for several years; I had not been aware of Bill's work until
someone gave me a copy of the book and it wasnt long before I contacted
him.
This
had been a long journey for me, as although I had been in communication with
Bill for twenty yearswe had never met. Going back in time for a moment, the
first conversation with him was quick and to the point; although he was
cordial it was clear he didnt take my interest seriously, or more to the
pointlike a few before me, he presumed I wasnt serious about Aztec research
and would soon lose interest. He instructed me to call him when I had more years
under my belt! I explained to him that I first heard about the Aztec case back
in the late 80's, but this fell on deaf ears, and he basically "sent me
packing".
Given my business background, hearing nos or receiving less
then desired results in initial introductions or meetings, I wasnt deterred; in
factquite the opposite! Within a few months he slowly started to warm up to me,
and my research; we were soon brain-storming new ideas and he ended up giving me
a few leads that he received after his book came out (important to remember that
he is/was retired from UFO research at this time). Weve been friends ever
since.
Even when Bill was still actively involved in research, as a rule
he didnt give interviews, and in that vein, this meeting was a rare privilege.
Although Ufology is behind him, he is still active in research of another
flavor, as he is currently working on a new book entitled, The History of Rock
and Roll.
He and his wife were wonderful hosts and we enjoyed our
meeting; Bill was equally intrigued with our new revelations ala Aztec, as we
were recounting the facts published in his book and well as some minutia that
was left out, or was learned later.
As
I stated earlier, (after our initial conversation) Bill has always had the time
to listen to what I have found and compared it to what he learned over the
years, as well. His book is probably more popular today than when it came out
back in 1987. The Aztec case had been written off over the years but Bill picked
up where Frank
Scully left off. The interest seemed "light" until a few years ago when
people started looking at the events in deeper detail.
To our delight,
before we parted company, Bill gave Mike and me a set of audio tapes of
different people connected to Aztec that he recorded back in the 80's, and
these interviews never made it into the book or have never been heard by the
public. As our book goes to the final stages of editing by the talents of Dr.
Thayer, I am listening to these tapes to see if anything needs to be inserted
into our book at the last minute.
As if that wasnt enough, the final
gift granted by Bill, was his agreeing to write the preface for our book (the
foreword is written by Stanton
Friedman).
In the aftermath of our insightful, most rewarding
meeting, on the flight home, I couldnt help but reflect on the void that exists
in Ufology without the likes of Bill Steinman being an active participant in
it.
On a final note: traveling and doing research is not easy work; the
past two years I have been blessed by having Mike Price along for the help. Mike
can appreciate the long hours and sometimes "dusty" tasks of digging into old
boxes. Moreover, our wives have held down the Forts or Farms while Mike and I
were gone, and we certainly were thankful for their help.
Id
like to express my personal thanks to Dr. Frank Thayer for joining us in our
last major road trip as well.
We will have more updates as the book nears
publication.
Ex-Astronaut Story Musgrave: ETs Exist, They're Just Not
Visiting Earth
When former astronaut
Story Musgrave addresses an expected huge throng of UFO believers in
California next week, he'll delight the crowd when he tells them he believes
we're not alone in the universe.
But then he's going to tell members of the Mutual UFO Network -- the largest UFO research
organization in the world -- just what they don't want to hear: Earth has
probably not been visited by extraterrestrials.
And that's bound to disappoint many of the paying crowd at the 42nd annual MUFON Symposium in Irvine, Calif.
The gathering will feature nuclear physicist Stanton Friedman, former Air Force
intelligence officer George Filer and other prominent UFO researchers.
"I'm going to tell them that, for me, and my interpretation of everything
that's come my way, I cannot arrive at the idea that we have been visited --
either in the past or now," Musgrave told The Huffington Post.
Musgrave -- who logged 25 million miles during six space shuttle missions and
who developed the spacesuit that was used by shuttle astronauts for space walks
-- says that, despite dozens of military eyewitnesses, photos, films and
corroborating radar reports, he's still not convinced.
"Some astronauts have been quoted as saying they think they're [aliens] out
there -- I have seen their evidence, and for me, it's not evidence," he said.
"Other astronauts were not able to provide me with any empirical evidence,
either."
Musgrave is the keynote speaker at the MUFON event. During his many years
with NASA, he says he actually looked for evidence of a UFO conspiracy from
within the space agency and the government.
"I've been as deep in the military as you can go. I was Marine Corps and Air
Force and spent all this time with the government -- I was on two classified
department of defense missions, which got me as deep in the bowels of the
military and the intelligence community as you can go," he insisted.
"I found no conspiracy in terms of covering up information about
extraterrestrial visits. I simply didn't find it!"
The theme for the upcoming UFO symposium is "ET Contact: The Implications for
Science and Society" and features a roster of speakers presenting subjects such
as UFO disclosure, life on Mars, time travel, anti-gravity propulsion systems,
government conspiracies and how alien contact would affect science, technology
and religion.
MUFON's international director, Clifford Clift, isn't
concerned that Musgrave's not supporting the aliens-are-here theory.
"Sometimes we get too close to the subject and should realize that we need to
step back and look at the different approach to the science of this," Clift told
The Huffington Post.
"I think Story will enlighten us that way. That doesn't mean that they don't
exist, because I'm quite certain that he's going to say he's never seen [a UFO].
But that's okay. If he stays around for the rest of the conversations and talks
to some of the witnesses, he might have a little different approach to it."
But while Musgrave doesn't think Earth has been a vacation spot on any alien
itinerary, he's pretty adamant that intelligent beings are thriving elsewhere in
the cosmos.
"I feel that they're everywhere out there and they're doing interstellar
travel -- we'll think differently about ourselves once we accept that," he
said.
Major highlights include news on the FOTOCAT catalogs progress
(10,370 records compiled to date), a new paper online on pilots and UFOs, news
concerning photographic cases, book citation and critique, a succinct
statistical review of 5 decades of FOTOCAT data (1950 to 1999), and the release
of a major work on 205 UFO Ph.D. dissertations and other theses made worldwide
(P. Toselli), amongst other items of interest.
I hope you will enjoy this new edition.
Sincerely,
Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos FOTOCAT Project Valencia,
Spain
Het artefact
dat geanalyseerd is. Het specimen heeft een lengte van ongeveer 10mm. Het ene
einde is er voor de test afgeknipt. (Afb: Frank Kimbler)
Een
docent aan het New Mexico Military Institute in Roswell heeft waarschijnlijk het
eerste wetenschappelijk bewijs gevonden van industrieel vervaardigde brokstukken
afkomstig van een andere planeet. Bovendien werden de brokstukken gevonden op de
locatie in de buurt van Roswell waar in 1947 de wrakstukken van een beweerde
vliegende schotel werden ontdekt.
Frank Kimbler
(Afb: Alejandro Rojas)
Frank
Kimbler geeft op het New Mexico Military Institute in Roswell op high school
niveau les in geowetenschap en op collegeniveau in geologie. Hij zegt dat hij
altijd al geïnteresseerd is geweest in UFOs en in feite een eigen ongewone
waarneming deed toen hij in de twintig was. Dus toen hij naar Roswell verhuisde
besloot hij zijn vakkennis te testen en probeerde het meest beroemde
UFO-incident aller tijden te onderzoeken, namelijk de crash bij Roswell.
Hij
zegt dat zijn hoofddoel was om wat fysiek bewijs te vinden. Hij begon met het
bekijken van satellietfotos van het beweerde wrakveld. Dat is waar rancher Mac
Brazel de luchtmacht wees op de stukken van een gecrasht object welke hij had
gevonden. Kimbler gebruikte deze fotos om het infrarood te verhogen om zodoende
de gebieden naar voren te halen die waren verstoord. Hij was verrast een gebied
te vinden dat gelijk was aan wat de getuigen hadden verteld. Het was ongeveer
driekwart mijl lang en een paar honderd voet breed en het lag in de richting
zoals de getuigen dat hadden aangegeven. Het viel hem ook op dat het gebied zeer
strakke randen had, iets dat ongewoon is voor een natuurlijk gebied.
Zijn
volgende stap was om erheen te gaan met een metaaldetector om te kijken of hij
wat kon vinden. Hij begon de plek te bezoeken in mei 2010. Hij gebruikte een
metaaldetector die stukjes kon vinden met de afmetingen van 6mm op een diepte
van 8cm in de grond, daarmee kon hij de kleinste stukjes vinden en dat was zijn
doel. Tijdens eerdere archeologische opgravingen had men de grond gezeefd in
zeven die groot genoeg waren om de kleine deeltjes erdoor te laten vallen.
Kimbler vond dat als er iets was achtergebleven het heel klein moest zijn en
misschien te vinden was in holletjes van dieren of mierenhopen. En het was in
feite een mierenhoop waarin hij zijn eerste stukje vond.
Landsat
Multi-spectraal satellietfoto welke het wrakveld toont. De foto toont duidelijk
een verbrand (of verstoord) gebied dat exact de locatie van het wrakveld
aangeeft zoals de getuigen het beschreven. (Afb: Frank Kimbler)
Wat
hij vond was een zilverig metaal dat op aluminium leek. Dat was vreemd omdat er
geen aanwijzingen waren dat er enige aluminium objecten in het gebied waren of
waren geweest. Hij vond ook af en toe tin, dat kon afkomstig zijn van de tinnen
daken die soms in de rondte vlogen, en enkele spijkers. Uiteindelijk vond hij
meer van deze zilverachtige stukjes en hij zegt dat ze er verscheurd uitzagen.
Sommige randen ervan leken gesmolten te zijn. Hij vond ook aluminium knopen die
eruit zagen als de modellen die werden gebruikt op militaire werktenues van eind
jaren 40. Als dat zo is, dan toont dat aan dat het leger in dat gebied
was.
De knopen.
Voorlopig geïdentificeerd als knopen van militaire werktenues van de late jaren
40, beginjaren 50. (Afb: Frank Kimbler)
Kimbler vond dat de kleine
zilverachtige stukjes interessant genoeg waren voor een verdere analyse. Hij
ging voor hulp naar het Roswell International UFO Museum and Research Center.
Gevestigd in het centrum van Roswell is het museum het middelpunt van het
onderzoek naar de Roswell-crash. Hij liet het materiaal zien aan de directeur
van het museum, Julie Shuster, en was in staat onderzoeker Don Schmitt te
ontmoeten. Zij besloten de eerste test te betalen die werd uitgevoerd door New
Mexico Tech in Socorro. Door gebruik te maken van een micro-probe waren ze in
staat de samenstelling van het materiaal vast te stellen. Het bleek te gaan om
een legering van aluminium, silicium, mangaan, magnesium en koper. Dat is niet
onbekend, maar het wordt gebruikt in de constructiebouw en wordt normaal niet
gevonden in de vorm van een folie.
Dat
inspireerde Kimbler om wat isotopenwerk op het stukje te laten doen. Kimbler
zegt dat het isotopenwerk zo belangrijk is omdat de isotopenverhoudingen
vergelijkbaar zijn met onze vingerafdrukken. Sommige concentraties van
elementen op aarde zijn uniek voor deze aarde. Dus als je de isotopenverhouding
voor magnesium weet, dan zal die voor alles op aarde waar magnesium in zit
hetzelfde zijn, maar als het niet van deze aarde is, dan zal het een andere
isotopenverhouding hebben. Bijvoorbeeld meteorieten hebben verschillenden
verhoudingen omdat ze niet van deze aarde afkomstig zijn. Isotopenanalyse is
noodzakelijk om vast te stellen of een materiaal afkomstig is van de aarde of
van een andere wereld.
Enkele van de metalen legeringfragmenten die begraven en
verspreid over het wrakveld zijn gevonden. (Afb: Frank Kimbler)
Kimbler ging naar het University of
New Mexico Institute of Meteoritics en sprak met hun expert op het gebied van
isotopen om een analyse gedaan te krijgen. Kimbler had de expert niets verteld
over de monsters. De expert keek Kimbler echter recht in de ogen en vertelde hem
dat de enige reden waarom hij het materiaal wilde testen was omdat hij vermoedde
dat het vanuit de ruimte kwam. Hij wilde weten waar het materiaal vandaan kwam
en toen Kimbler hem dat vertelde weigerde hij de test te doen, hij beweerde dat
het idee van een ruimteschip dat bij Roswell was gecrasht grote nonsens was.
Eén van de andere wetenschappers die in het kantoor aanwezig was, wees erop dat
als het iets ongewoons was, het belang van die mogelijkheid het het waard maakte
om ernaar te kijken. De expert bleef echter bij zijn mening en weigerde het werk
te doen. De tweede wetenschapper was micro-probe specialist aan de universiteit
en ondanks dat hij geen isotopenwerk kon uitvoeren, was hij wel in staat meer
specifieke informatie over de samenstelling van het materiaal te verkrijgen en
bevestigde het eerdere werk dat al gedaan was.
Bigelowe Aerospace toonde enige
interesse en wilde Kimbler wel helpen met zijn analyse, maar nadat men maanden
bezig was geweest en weinig resultaat boekte moest Kimbler ergens anders
naartoe. Kimbler was in staat een ander laboratorium met vele bevoegdheden te
vinden en dat bereid was het werk uit te voeren. Het UFO-museum bracht het geld
bijeen en de resultaten waren binnen vijf dagen bekend. Kimbler zegt dat hij
bijna onderuit ging toen hij de uitkomsten zag. De verhoudingen weken af en
zoals hij het brengt zijn er slechts twee antwoorden om de resultaten te
verklaren: Of het lab maakte een analytische fout, of het materiaal is niet van
deze aarde.
Magnesium isotopenopdelinggrafiek aangepast aan de grafiek die
werd gebruikt door Dr. Peter Sturrock bij zijn analyse van het Ubatuba
UFO-fragment. Magnesiumhoudende samenstellingen, metalen en mineralen horen
allemaal zeer dicht bij de lijn te liggen. Een chondriet is een soort meteoriet
en omdat het niet van de aarde afkomstig is ligt het niet op de lijn. De Roswell
AH-1 legering ligt zelfs een heel eind van de lijn af. De AH-1 curve is een
anomalie die of een analytische fout is, of het materiaal is niet van de aarde.
Meer testen zijn nodig om de gegevens te verifiëren om te zien of het een fout
is of dat het niet van de aarde afkomstig is. (Afb: Frank
Kimbler)
Kimblers werk is echter niet
klaar. Hij zegt: Volgens het protocol van de goede wetenschappelijke methode is
één set gegevens niet voldoende. Om aan te tonen dat het lab geen fout heeft
gemaakt moet er meer werk gedaan worden. Hij zegt dat hij nog twee
gecertificeerde laboratoria heeft die meer isotopentesten kunnen doen om het
werk dat tot nu toe is gedaan te bevestigen en dat hij dat werk mogelijk in de
komende weken laat doen. Kimbler zegt dat om te bevestigen dat het materiaal
niet van de aarde is, het noodzakelijk is dat twee of drie laboratoria met
dezelfde resultaten komen.
Een
ander belangrijk aspect van het materiaal is dat het aluminium is, en een
niet-aardse oorsprong toont, en aluminium moet vervaardigd worden. Anders dan
enkele natuurlijke elementen, zoals goud en zilver dat in een ruwe vorm gevonden
kan worden als klompjes, wordt aluminium niet in de natuur gevonden. Als wordt
bewezen dat dit materiaal niet van de aarde afkomstig is, dan betekent dat, dat
dit iets is dat ergens anders werd vervaardigd. Tot nu toe vervaardigt de mens
nog niets in de ruimte, laat staan dat er iets uit de lucht valt en landt buiten
Roswell op een locatie waarvan wordt beweerd dat er in 1947 een ruimteschip werd
gevonden.
Kimbler zegt dat hij heel
voorzichtig is met het doen van definitieve beweringen, maar hij is hoopvol.
Hij zegt dat gecertificeerde laboratoria normaal gesproken geen fouten maken en
dat de mensen die het werk deden behoren tot de besten op dat gebied.
De
gevolgtrekkingen zijn natuurlijk opzienbarend als blijkt dat het materiaal van
buitenaardse herkomst en makelij is. Kan hij in het bezit zijn van de smoking
gun die bewijst dat we werden bezocht door een intelligente beschaving van een
andere planeet en dat zij in 1947 in de buurt van Roswell crashten? Kimbler zegt
dat hij ons op de hoogte zal houden en hij was zo hoffelijk om ons de fotos van
het materiaal en de gegevens van de analyse te verschaffen.
New Mexico
Tech micro-probe gegevens tonen de elementensamenstelling van AH-1. De Na en Cl
waarden zijn van kleine zoutkristallen die op het oppervlak vast zitten, de
analyse toont dat AH-1 bevat: AL (aluminium), SI (silicium), Mg (mangaan), Mn
(magnesium) en Cu (koper) met kleine hoeveelheden Fe (ijzer). (Afb: Frank
Kimbler)
De
micro-probe gegevens van de universiteit van New Mexico tonen de
elementensamenstelling. Ze verifiëren de gegevens van New Mexico Tech in een
analyse welke de elementen AL Si Mg Mn en Cu met wat Fe toont. (Afb: Frank
Kimbler)
Magnesium isotopenwaarden van het gecertificeerde lab dat de
analyse deed. (Afb: Frank Kimbler)
AH-1
legeringelementsamenstelling van hetzelfde lab. Toont dat de AH-1 legering een
AL-Mg-Mn-Si-Cu legering is. (Afb: Frank Kimbler)
AH-1
onder vergroting toont gestreepte of gelaagde structuren. (Afb: Frank
Kimbler)
AH-1 onder vergroting toont meer gebieden van gestreeptheid.
(Afb: Frank Kimbler)
Over de
schrijver Alejandro Rojas is de radiogastheer voor Open Minds Radio, redacteur
en schrijver voor Open Minds Magazine als ook voor OpenMinds.tv. Gedurende
verscheidene jaren was Alejandro de officiële woordvoerder voor het Mutual UFO
Network als directeur Public Education.Als UFO/paranormaal onderzoeker en
journalist heeft Alejandro persoonlijk vele uren in het veld gespendeerd aan
onderzoek van het fenomeen. Alejandro is geïnterviewd door mediaorganisaties
rondom de wereld, inclusief de grootste kabel en netwerk nieuwsagentschappen en
met verscheidene verschijningen in Coast to Coast.
Many states might shy away from immortalizing its UFO history. But the State of
New Hampshire is known for its fiercely independent people and its live free or
die motto. On July 20, 2011, it erected a historical marker to commemorate the
September 19-20, 1961 close encounter and lost time of Portsmouth residents
Betty and Barney Hill. The marker is located next to the highway in front of
Cabin # 20 at the Indian Head Resort in North Lincoln and across the street from
the granite stone face called Indian Head.
Several years ago, Mike
Stevens, a Farmington, NH, man circulated a petition to request a marker to
commemorate Betty and Barney Hills UFO experience. The State of NH Division of
Historical Resources, Department of Cultural Resources advised him that a formal
request would be required. I, as the Hills niece and trustee of Bettys estate,
then worked with the state over the next 3-4 years to complete the process.
Employees at the Department of Cultural Resources called upon me to suggest
appropriate text for the markera challenge in and of itself. Every statement
had to be footnoted and supported by ample evidence that it was true and
accurate. In all, the wording for the 12 line plaque had 20 footnotes and 28
sources listed in its bibliography.
The final wording approved by the
state agency reads as follows:
On the night of September 19-20, 1961, Portsmouth, NH couple Betty
and Barney Hill experienced a close encounter with an unidentified flying object
and two hours of lost time while driving south on Rte 3 near Lincoln. They
filed an official Air Force Project Blue Book report of a brightly-lit
cigar-shaped craft the next day, but were not public with their story until it
was leaked in the Boston Traveler in 1965. This was the first widely-reported
UFO abduction report in the United States.
They didnt accept my
first draft. I had stated that the Hills were prominent members of the community
and supported it with evidence that Betty and Barney were active in community
affairs. They helped organize the Rockingham County Community Action Program and
Barney was chairman of the Board of Directors. In 1965, Barney was appointed to
the NH State Advisory Committee to the U.S. Civil Rights Commission. Barney was
legal redress officer for the local chapter of the NAACP and served on the
regional board. They promoted literacy throughout the state and worked on Lyndon
Johnsons presidential campaign. I accompanied Betty and Barney to his
inauguration in January 1965. We were invited guests.
I had also added
that the Hills experience generated interest in the scientific community
because J. Allen Hynek, James McDonald, Carl Sagan, David Saunders, Leo
Sprinkle, Stanton Friedman and others looked into the case. But that text didnt
make the final cut either. I am, however, very pleased with the text that the
D.O.C.R. eventually approved. The marker is beautiful.
The decision to place the marker by Indian Head was a difficult
one to make. Five locations were initially considered. The Mt. Cleveland picnic
area, south of the Town of Twin Mountain was the Hills first stop. It gave
Betty the opportunity to view through binoculars the star like object that had
sparked her curiosity fifteen miles north. She watched as it traveled across the
face of the moon flashing multi-colored lights. By the time she handed the
binoculars to Barney, the object had changed course, and shortly thereafter,
rapidly descended in their direction.
My next suggestion was the Old Man
of the Mountain historical site in Franconia Notch, the Hills second stop. The
Hills stated that as they motored past the Cannon Mountain Aerial Tramway just
north of the Old Man, Betty noticed that the lights on a structure at the top of
the mountain blinked out as the craft passed over it. It then rounded the
mountain and hovered motionless in the sky, except for its rotation, beside the
Old Mans 48 foot profile. It was at least 1 ½ times the length of the natural
granite formation from chin to forehead. It appeared cigar shaped because they
were observing a lighted row of windows. Within moments, the silent craft
rapidly changed direction and ascended and descended in a stair step
pattern.
Indian Head was my next suggestion. Located near Franconia
Notchs the south entrance, the resort offers ample parking space and was a
prominent landmark along the Hills journey south.
In regressive hypnosis
with Dr. Benjamin Simon, Betty stated, We went past the Flume, somewhere
between the Flume and Indian Head or ..it was just beyond the Flume or just
beyond Indian Head. There was a motel and it was like cabins, these small neat
looking cabins. The sign itself wasnt lighted, but there was one cabin on the
end that had a light on, and there was a man standing in the door. And I saw
this and I thought, If I want to I can get out of this whole situation right
now. All weve got to do is drive in here and this object will go away, and that
will be the end of it. But they didnt stop.
Only a mile south of Indian
Head and almost directly in their path, the couple encountered a huge flattened
circular disc with a row of intense blue-white lighted windows along its forward
edge. Barney rapidly brought the car to a halt in the middle of the road and
grabbed his binoculars for a closer look, opening the car door for a less
encumbered view. The silent hovering object descended to an estimated eighty to
a hundred feet above their vehicle. It had ceased rotating. Rapidly, in an arc
like movement, it shifted from its location directly ahead, and rested above the
tree tops in an adjacent field. Barney pocketed his handgun and walked toward
it. The silent enigmatic craft was huge; maybe sixty to eighty feet in diameter.
As he approached it, two red lights at the end of fin-like structures parted
from the sides of the craft, and it tilted toward Barney.
Lifting his
binoculars to his eyes, he spied a group of strangely not human figures moving
about with what he described as the precision of German officers. As the craft
tilted downward and began to descend toward him, one of these strange creatures,
who remained at the window, communicated a frightening message. Barney had the
immediate impression that he was in danger of being plucked from the field.
Overcome with fear and with all of the courage that he could muster, he tore the
binoculars from his eyes and raced back to the car. Breathless, trembling, and
in near hysterics, he told Betty that they needed to get out of there or they
were going to be captured.
The close encounter field would have been my
number one choice for the marker but Interstate Highway 93 now passes through
it, with entrance and exit ramps to Route 3. At the height of the tourist
season, it would have presented a traffic flow problem. The Notch Express, a
convenience store and gas station near the ramp is a place of interest. Its
walls are lined with UFO photos and memorabilia and UFO related video is
constantly playing on a monitor by the checkout counter.
The fifth
location that we considered was the abduction site on Mill Brook Road in
Thornton. We almost immediately rejected that notion because it is located off
the highway in a new housing development. In 1961, Betty and Barney found
themselves on the then deserted logging road where they encountered a roadblock
by non-human entities. They reported that they were forced aboard a landed disk
and subjected to unearthly physical examinations before they were released.
After years of searching, they located the landing site on Labor Day Weekend in
1965.
We made the final decision that Indian Head was the best overall
location for the historical marker. Over the past 50 years, the Indian Head
Resort has grown into a large modern facility with motel rooms, a function hall,
business center, restaurant and lounge, and swimming pools. This year it will
host a 50th anniversary celebration of the Hills UFO experience on September
23-25. There will be a memorial marker dedication and many additional
activities. I will be on hand to give a guided tour along the close encounter
route and a new presentation about the Hills close encounter and abduction. For
additional information, see my website at www.kathleen-marden.com and my 2007
book with Stanton Friedman, Captured! The Betty
and Barney Hill UFO Encounter.
Note: the Hills archival
collection is housed at the Milne Archival Collection Department at the
University of New Hampshire Library, 18 Library Way, Durham, NH 03824. The
collection consists of 87 folders, arranged in 9 series. These contain
correspondence, personal journals and essays, manuscripts, newspaper clippings,
photographs, slides, and films and audio tapes of the Hills radio and
television appearances. I compiled the collection in 2005 at Bettys
request.
Roswell UFO Controversy: Former Air Force Officer Says Gen.
Ramey Lied To Cover Up Space Ship Crash
The Roswell UFO controversy may be 64 years old, but it shows no sign of
heading into retirement.
One thing we know for sure: On July 8, 1947, the front page of the
Roswell Daily Record proclaimed that a flying saucer had been captured
by the Roswell Army Air Field.
The U.S. Air Force had issued a press release that day stating that a flying
saucer had been "captured," and startling photos were released of soldiers
examining bizarre metallic objects.
Then the controversy began. At a press conference later that day in Ft.
Worth, Texas, Air Force Brig. Gen. Roger Ramey essentially recanted the entire
story, announcing instead that the debris was simply pieces of a fallen weather
balloon.
Speculation of what really happened has never truly ended. George Filer, a retired Air Force
intelligence officer, told The Huffington Post that he believes Ramey was forced
to lie about the Roswell incident.
And, in news that will come as a shock even to ardent UFO researches, he told
The Huffington Post in an exclusive interview that Ramey's wife told him he was
"embarrassed about having to lie about the weather balloon."
WATCH FILER DISCUSS A CRASHED UFO AND ALIEN THAT WAS SHOT AT FT. DIX
IN N.J.
Over his 20-year career, Filer regularly briefed generals and congressmen
about a wide range of security issues, including UFO sightings, up through the
Vietnam War.
"It is my opinion that President Truman was there [at Fort Worth] and that he
made the decision that it should be held at the highest levels," Filer said.
"The reason I believe that is that I had talked with Mrs. Ramey. She would
never admit that she knew anything about aliens, but she did say that [her
husband] was very embarrassed about having to lie about the weather balloon --
he was very upset about that."
"She also admitted that they became good friends with the Trumans," Filer
added. "My point is: How does a one-star general become a good friend with the
president of the United States?"
None of this comes as a surprise to former nuclear physicist Stanton T. Friedman.
He's the original civilian investigator of the Roswell UFO incident and the most
outspoken scientist who believes there is overwhelming evidence that alien
spacecrafts are visiting Earth. He, too, has talked with Mrs. Ramey.
"From talking to her, I had no reason to believe A) that she knew intimate
details about Roswell or any other such event; or B) that she made up this story
because it is consistent with a man of reasonable character who followed orders
as one would certainly have expected him to," Friedman said.
Both Filer and Friedman -- the military man and the scientist -- said they
believe the Roswell UFO was an alien spacecraft, that Earth is currently visited
by extraterrestrials and that only individuals with very specific "need to know"
credentials have access to this information. Both are speaking at next week's MUFON Symposium in Irvine,
Calif.
"We are being visited on a regular basis -- probably for thousands of years
-- by aliens from other planets," Filer said. "Their technology is much more
advanced than what we have. Even though we don't like to think of ourselves in
this way, in a lot of ways, we're primitive compared to them."
New wrinkles are constantly being added to the Roswell conspiracy theory. Author
Annie Jacobsen unveiled a whopper this year in her book "Area 51: An
Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base," that alleged the
alien spaceship crash was actually a hoax contrived by Soviet leader Joseph
Stalin and Nazi scientist Josef Mengele. There was no crash, according to
Jacobsen, but the Communist dictator and "the Angel of Death" allegedly sent
children surgically altered to look like aliens to Roswell in a
remote-controlled craft to frighten Americans.
Friedman echoed Filer's sentiment. "People need to recognize that the real
situation about where we fit in the scheme of things is very different from the
way it's been portrayed," Friedman said. "In my view of what's going on, there
are loads of civilizations out there all over the place, and that we are not
very significant.
"[The aliens] would instantly recognize that we don't qualify for membership
in a galactic federation because we're such a primitive society whose major
activity is obviously tribal warfare."
Het valt mij telkens weer op dat mensen die bezig zijn met
de studie van de ufologie, steeds weer zichzelf proberen te verantwoorden
tegenover de zogenaamde sceptici. Het is een beetje zoals proberen vertellen
aan een eskimo die nog nooit een papegaai heeft gezien, hoe zo een beest eruit
ziet. Het is ook een beetje als proberen diezelfde eskimo te overtuigen van het
bestaan van zo een beest, terwijl hij koppig verkiest om jou niet te geloven,
en sceptisch blijft argumenteren waarom zo een dier niet bestaat, en je
vervolgens gaat vertellen wat je dan wèl hebt gezien, of hoe het mogelijk is
dat jouw ogen iets hebben waargenomen dat er helemaal niet kon zijn, of dat er
tenminste zeker niet zo uitzag, zoals jij blijft beweren dat het was.
Je kan tegen die eskimo argumenteren tot jullie beiden geen
woorden meer overhouden, maar hij zal blijven jouw weten onderuit halen, enkel
en alleen omdat hij kiest iets niet te geloven wat hijzelf niet met zijn eigen
ogen heeft gezien.Welles-nietes, welles-nietes, welles-nietes, welles-nietes,
welles-
Juist, dat heeft geen enkele zin. Jij weet immers wat je
gezien hebt. Je weet dat je helder en duidelijk waargenomen hebt, toen. (En
bovendien weet je dat er nog mensen zijn die ditzelfde dier wel degelijk ook
kunnen beschrijven, omdat ze het ook al hebben gezien. Al doet dit niets
terzake, als het gaat om de bewijskracht van je eigen ervaring voor jezelf..)
De eskimo, die star blijft volhouden dat wat jij vertelt niet
kan kloppen, omdat hij het zelf nooit ervaren heeft, zal je met jouw getuigenis
nooit kunnen overtuigen. Om het even wat je zegt. Integendeel. Het is zelfs zo
dat hij zal proberen om jou te overtuigen van wat hij denkt : nl. dat de
papegaai niet bestaat, en dat je het in het beste geval gewoon fout
geïnterpreteerd hebt. Vervolgens, als je hem niet wil geloven , zal hij jou
en je argumentatie volledig belachelijk proberen maken, zodat er van jou niet
veel meer overblijft, als je niet heel sterk in je schoenen staat.
Mijn vraag is hier : waarom is er een drang, bij vele
UFO-ervarenen, om zich tegenover de sceptici te verdedigen ? Waarom is er een
behoefte, kennelijk, bij vele UFO-ervarenen om de discussie aan te gaan met de
sceptici, en om te pogen te bewijzen dat de UFO ervaring ( zij het van op
afstand, zij het van dichtbij, of nog andere) die zij hebben gehad, wel
degelijk echt dat was, een UFO-ervaring ?
Laat ons - de mensen die wel UFO-ervaringen hebben gehad, en
die bijgevolg het bestaan ervan niet kunnen loochenen - ophouden met de
sceptici serieus te nemen als gesprekspartners. Laat hen in hun waarde, en in
hun eigen ( beperkte ) overtuiging en begrip van de wereld zoals die door hen
wordt ervaren.
Zij hebben recht op hun scepsis, op hun mening. De vrijheid
van meningsuiting geldt voor ieder, ook voor hen. Maar, dat wil niet zeggen dat
die mening overeenstemt met de werkelijkheid zoals ze is. Een mening is slechts
een mening, niets meer dan dat. Het is niet de absolute waarheid, en het is
geen veto.
We kunnen van de werkelijkheid slechts datgene werkelijk
weten, wat we zelf hebben ervaren. Voor ons is dat een werkelijkheid waarin het
UFO-fenomeen zijn plaats heeft, omdat we het ervaren hebben op één of andere
manier. Wat we hebben ervaren hoeven we niet te ontkennen.
Wat we hebben ervaren hoeft ook niet bewezen te worden. Het
bewijst nl. zichzelf, eenvoudigweg door er te zijn. Wat is, is. Het hoeft niet
bewezen te worden om te mogen bestaan, het bestaat nl. al, want wij hebben het
bestaan ervan ervaren/gezien.
Het bewijst zichzelf voor ons, door te bestaan.
Laten we naar de sceptici toe eerder een milde houding
aannemen. Niet verontschuldigend, maar enkel mild. Zoals we hebben naar kleine
kinderen toe, die zich vergissen, omdat ze leren, omdat ze ervaring missen. Wat
je niet hebt ervaren, kan je immers niet kennen.
Ik roep hier niet op tot arrogantie. Dat zou ons verlagen.
We hoeven niet arrogant te worden omdat we weten. Kennis mag verrijken, mag
breeddenkend maken, en zal dan tot begrip kunnen leiden.
Het is onze verdienste niet dat we het UFO-fenomeen van
nabij hebben mogen ervaren. En dus is het ook niet iets om trots over te gaan
doen. Maar het is zeker ook niets om gebukt onder te gaan, of om ons voor te
verontschuldigen. Het is iets wat we een plaats dienen te geven. Mild voor
onszelf, en eventueel wel met nieuwsgierigheid naar de betekenis of de aard van
de diverse UFO-fenomenen.
Laten we vooral sterk zijn in zelfkennis, zelfbewust en
bewust van wat we weten. En laat ons vooral onthouden : wat is, is! En dat
geldt ook voor de fenomenen die tot het studiegebied van de ufologie behoren.
Very Good Idea, Paul! Enjoy Your Tea At Walden Pond!
The Other Side of Truth
"I'm putting The Other Side of Truth on
indefinite hiatus, until at least this time next year, at which point I'll see
where things stand. Maybe the journey will lead me back here (although I
sincerely doubt it), but at the moment, and for the forseeable future, to
paraphrase Jacques Vallee years ago, I've said all that I care to say in
public."
In Special Reports, this week's files cover:
Mars Stadium and River, Moon Square Object, General Kanshi
Ishikawa UFOs are Real, Last Space Shuttle Heading Home, FBI
Document Claims Alien Craft Crashed, and the First Crop Circle of the Season
Appears near Silbury Hill.
UnidentifiedAerial Phenomena sightings were
reported over California, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota,
Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Texas,
Virginia and Washington. Sightings of UFOs were also reported in
Azores, Australia, Canada, Germany, Haiti, Iran, South Africa, and England,
Northern Ireland, and Scotland 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
SIGHTINGS INCREASE
WORLDWIDE
Mars Stadium and
River
Mars Structure appears to be a stadium with writing on the front
with something like "MAG on the sign. Image thanks to NASA/JPL
The High-Resolution Stereo
Camera (HRSC) on board European Space Agency's Mars Express has returned images
of Echus Chasma, one of the largest water source regions on the Red Planet.
Echus Chasma is the source region of Kasei Valles which extends 3000 km to the
north. This image from ESA shows self leveling fluid in evidence here that shows
flowing liquid and a real transparency factor. This transpararncy rules out lava
flow carving out these deep canons and is obviously very suggestive of water
flow. The greener area below suggests plant life. Note two circular objects at
bottom center of image suggesting metallic structure. Thanks to Joseph Skipper
Strange square structure located at 21 23N 12 18E on the Moon.
Thanks to Google Moon.
General Kanshi Ishikawa
Chief of Staff of Japan's Air Self Defense Force stated, "Much evidence
tells us UFOs have been tracked by radar; so, UFOs are real and they may come
from outer space. UFO photographs and various materials show scientifically that
there are more advanced people piloting the saucers and motherships. -UFO News:
Vol. 6, 1974
Last Space Shuttle Heading Home
The last shuttle mission departed the International
Space Station on Tuesday, and is expected to land on Thursday bringing and end
to our shuttle flights. The flights cost about a billion dollars each and being
stopped.
The Atlantis Shuttle Commander Chris Ferguson said during a farewell
ceremony said, Boeing, or SpaceX, or Blue Origin -- any one of a number of
companies working on commercial space taxis will be the next American space
craft to reach the ISS. Speculation continues that the military has its own
shuttle.
FBI Document Claims Alien Craft
Crashed
A few weeks ago you published a
Filer's Files with a link to the British press about some newly de-classified
FBI UFO documents. One in particular was stunning (attached). It's a March 1950
memo to FBI Director (Hoover). I searched their website (www.fbi.gov) and found it at:
It's document #34 on that page, so it's official.
I've been following this stuff for a long time and read hundreds of FOIA/UFO
documents, but have never seen anything like this. It basically states we're in
possession of (at least) 3 flying discs and 9 dead 'pilots' (ie. aliens).
It also says they didn't crash by accident--they
were shot down by high-intensity radar. I find it interesting this made the
British news, but haven't heard a word about it in the American media. Keep
Looking Up, Mark McIntyre
First Crop Circle of the Season Appears Near Silbury Hill.
The unseasonably warm spring weather has sparked the usual
round of crop circles. The extraordinary floral creation is comprised of six
interlocking 'petal' like crescents. An elaborate 100 foot circle which appeared
overnight has caused a stir after it was found in a field of oil seed rape near
Silbury Hill, Wiltshire.
The ancient site, the tallest prehistoric man-made
mound in Europe, is considered a hot spot for the bizarre phenomena and this new
design proves the crop circle season is now under way. A field of bright yellow
oil seed rape has been transformed by a huge, floral crop circle. Expert Lucy
Pringle, widely known as an international authority on crop circles, believes
this is the first 'proper' design of the year. She added: 'The start of the season is always
exciting; I never know what's going to happen for the rest of the year.'The
latest circle is a floral pattern; I've never seen this before. There's never
been one identical to another.'
Apple Valley -- I went outside with my friend to retrieve
something out of the car about 9:35 pm, on July 12, 2011, and saw a police
helicopter for a brief second. It appeared to be rather large, unknown exact
shape, bright off white light(s), with a distinctive red light(s) underneath. It
seemed as if the object was revolving slowly but still remaining in the same
area. We kept staring at this object as it started to fade away and disappear
like it was not in any way humanly operated. This ordeal probably lasted only
for 2 to 3 minutes as my hair stood on end and I ran back in my house. This is
the second up close sighting I've seen in the past month. Thanks to MUFON
CMS
COARSEGOLD --We were on a family trip
driving up to the mountains on July 13, 2011, at 12:57 PM, as I was taking
photos along the way with my cell phone when I saw this disc. It was hovering
back and forth in a cloud. There were two adults and three children on the trip.
I snapped a clear photo of it and turned around to deal with fussy kids in the
back seat for a moment. When I turned around to take more pictures the disc was
gone. It looked bigger than a car and had a round disc like shape and the color
was shiny silver/gray.
Note: The photo was taken of low resolution (540 by 720
pixels). It is important to note that the witness saw the object and did not
later discover the object in the background of a scenic photo. Thanks to William
Puckett, Director http://www.ufosnw.com
Colorado Orange
Orb
Grand Junction -- On July 3, 2011, at 9:13
PM, A large orange fire like orb flew over our house in far Western Colorado. It
traveled southwest in an unchanging flight path. It traveled at a fairly good
rate of speed. By the time we could get the camera out to snap a picture it was
almost out of sight. The camera only picked up a small orange orb. Thanks to
William Puckett, Director http://www.ufosnw.com
Note: Hundreds of these orange orbs have been reported in July.
Connecticut Four Yellow/Orange
Lights
WATERBURY -- After
watching the fireworks at Municipal Stadium on July 4, 2011, which ended about
10 pm, I had gone inside our home and my husband had stayed outside. At about 11
PM, he came inside and said, "See what
is in the sky.I went outside
and we watched four things in the sky above. They were moving very slowly in a
formation with one in front, two on the outside and one in back. They were
yellow/orange color. I went inside to get our camera and my husband hollered -
three disappeared just like that and as I got outside the last one was almost
gone. We never saw anything like this before. Thanks to Peter Davenport,
Director National UFO Reporting Center http://www.UFOcenter.com/
Delaware UFO near
Chemtrails
Around noon on the 23rd of December, 2010, I noticed
parallel vapor contrails (or chemical) trails over my house. I took photos from
my rear yard as well as from the rear deck of my home. It wasn't until I pulled
the photos into Photoshop to create a pano shot from several photos that I
noticed a shiny object in one of the photos. I zoomed in on what appears to be a
double sphere shaped object. It left no contrail like all the other planes. I
don't get a lot of air traffic over my home and have a difficult time explaining
20 contrails running perfectly parallel to each other.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Florida Weird Objects
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER -- We are vacationing
in New Smyrna Beach, Florida and we've seen the same object on July 12, 2011, in
the sky three nights in a row. My wife was the first to notice it and remarked
it looks like one of those UFO photos. As it appeared to our eyesight, it was
extremely high up, at least 10-15,000 feet. It was, from our vantage point
possibly near or over Kennedy Space Center. Our impression was simply an object
which was changing colors rapidly. My two daughters felt something solid behind
the object that was obscured by a large light which changed from green to bright
white to a reddish color. Keep in mind we're amateurs at best and the object was
incredibly high up but the camera managed to catch two great shots, one from
each night. It remained completely stationary the entire time before
disappearing behind clouds the entirely gone. In particular the second photo
from July 13th is amazing when zoomed in! Anyhow this experience has made four
believers more for the world. Thanks to MUFON CMS system. Thanks to Ken Pfeifer
MUFON New Jersey www.worldufophotos.org.
MELBOURNE -- Florida Tech's Allsky
Camera Catches a Very Bright UFO on July 16, 2011. The Moon is at the top of the
image. A slow moving object at bottom right moves across the camera image.
Image captured above Georgia is likely an aircraft
leaving its contrail. www.UFOGlobalReportingCenter.com
Illinois Triangle
Hanover Park -- One night I couldn't
sleep. So I decided to sit on my sofa in my living room and just stare outside
on July 8, 2011, at 12:18 AM from my 3rd level apartment. After a few years of
living in this area I never saw any "strange" lights that glowed like
phosphorus. I saw three lights outside my window of an unknown aircraft that I
had ever seen. It is very rare that glowing lights like those would get my
attention. Usually I could hear an airplane's Doppler Effect sound, but on this
particular aircraft not a single sound was made. What was even odder about this
aircraft was that it had three lights surrounding it with a VERY bright light in
the center. And something that shocked me was that the craft was darker than the
night sky. I mean there is pitch black, but the aircraft was very dark to the
point where I could see its triangular details. It hovered slowly heading north.
It was indeed a UFO, as I looked through my curtains and saw that it was still
heading north at about 10 to 20 mph and disappeared. It had the most spectacular
red light that I had ever seen. Thanks to William Puckett, Director http://www.ufosnw.com
40.6331249 N 89.3985283W -- Horseshoe shaped pulsating craft that remained
stationary above clouds as the ISS did a flyby. I was able to capture a screen
shot of object. The object pulsated the entire flyby until it was out of range.
Can you get a copy of the video from NASA for Day 8 to review?? Thanks to MUFON
CMS
Michigan Orb
Dorr -- One of my neighbors and I were
walking after a bonfire about ten miles south of Grand Rapids on July 9, 2011,
at 10 PM to Midnight. In our conversation with that neighbor there was mention
of them seeing a UFO which we kind of laughed off. We walked back to my
neighbor's house were the bonfire was, I noticed an orange light to the north of
Dorr high in the sky. It flew in a circle and hard to describe. It went back up
into the clouds, but just before it did I took a picture. My camera phone
doesn't work well for distant pictures so it only shows about a little orangey
speck. So it went into the clouds and disappeared. We went back to chatting
about stuff around the bonfire and then it appeared in the same area and did the
same thing as it did the first time. That is my story and I am hoping someone
else got a glimpse of it and can say they saw something from a different
perspective and maybe clarify it.
Note: The weather observation for nearby Holland, Michigan
showed that skies were clear at the time of the sighting. The witness implied
that skies were cloudy. There is a possibility that some local cloudiness could
have present in the Dorr area. Thanks to William Puckett Director UFOs Northwest
http://ufosnw.com
Minnesota Disc
Ranier -- I was with some friends, we
were hanging out at her house on the lake when this disc of lights suddenly
appeared. It hovered for several minutes and then was gone. I didn't hear any
sounds as it was super quiet. We all just were in shock and a bit freaked out,
but amazed that it was SO close. I happened to have my phone and was quick to
snap just one picture. It seemed like it was almost right over the top of us...
and it moved some but not much. It turned in a circle motion as it went up into
never never land. This is not the first time I have seen this around this area,
but this is the first time I was able to get a picture and the first time it was
so close. My first sighting of this was further up Rainy Lake. I also know of
others that have seen them around. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Montana
Rectangle
Billings/Laurel -- After entering the interstate I-90
heading towards Laurel, I and my passenger saw a stationary white rectangle in
the sky on July 16, 2011. The rectangular white object was hovering with
flashing lights and disappears at midday. It was flying over towards the Rims
Area. It seemed to remain stationary and I was able to watch it until we took
the first Laurel exit as the object flashed with several round lights across the
front. It then turned black, then back again to white. I lost visual as we got
past the railroad to Walmart.
After shopping at Walmart for thirty
minutes, I glanced up to see a similar rectangular object that was not as long
and a little taller, but not quite square. It flashed very bright and then
disappeared. Thanks to Peter Davenport, Director National UFO Reporting Center
http://www.UFOcenter.com/
New Jersey Something Triangular
Glassboro -- Lewis Beaver saw "something triangular" on
Monday June 20, 2011, about 7:45 pm; as the sun was about to set under the large
awning of the store I work at. I noticed first a "glare" in the sky from the
angle I saw it, it could have been between Philadelphia and West Deptford, New
Jersey.
At first the setting sun was gleaming off it, then a second glare and finally
a third in a triangular form of a significant size. They were dull in color, but
VERY visible. There was three dark gray to silver, circular, "balls," just
sitting in front of the grey cloud in the form of a perfect triangle. I couldn't
see if there was mass in between the shapes, but it was definitely there. I
tried to take pictures, but it was down to one again and was gone before I could
get the camera on as the grayish balls disappeared. The time between the first
glare and it completely disappearing was about 3-5 minutes. Thanks to Lou
Beaver
Mt. Holly -- I should have reported this a
long time ago. The details of what my sister and I witnessed are not as clear
today as it was about 6 years ago during the winter of 2005. Here's what
we saw: We were driving home from a friend's house at 2 AM on Garden
Street. My sister yelled, "Oh my god! Look!" It wasn't
moving at all and we heard no noise as it hovered. It was three or four football
fields above the ground. It looked to be above Upper Lake and was metallic,
bulky and irregular shaped, like a crumples piece of metal or something. The
metal itself had a jigsaw puzzle type of design to it and the bottom looked like
it had lights on it that shined up at its underbelly, lighting the up bottom. It
was definitely illuminated, but not very bright. Either it vanished or the
treetops hid it. The above image is a rendering. Mike Sandino of MUFON New
Jersey is investigating this case. Thanks to Ken Pfeifer MUFON New Jersey www.worldufophotos.org
New Jersey New York Skyline
My Name's Mark I live in New Jersey and I submit allot of
pictures to Thanks to MUFON CMS, via the "Wired NY Web Cams" page. I have
captured UFO's and USO's or ufos that are on the River. Not to mention the Large
UFOs in the sky that appears in all these shots. This page refreshes every 30
seconds. How do planes and helicopters appear over NYC in crazy patterns every
30 seconds? How do boats change shape and colors every 30 seconds? Well, they
don't they have advanced technology. If you look where NYC WEB CAM #3 is
pointing you would have seen one hell of a show! We are not alone my friends!
Thanks to MUFON Thanks to MUFON CMS Note: The long light is likely the result of
a time exposure showing the movement of the aircraft.
SEA ISLE CITY -- Watching the fireworks on the beach on July
4, 2011, we spotted six or seven orbs traveling in formation offshore traveling
east past the fireworks we were watching. Hundreds of people witnessed them.
They flew out over the Atlantic Ocean and slowly disappeared. These were
definitely were not planes. There were a lot of reports of orange orbs on July
4, 2011. Thanks to MUFON CMS
New York
Yellow Ball
WATKINS GLEN -- On July 13, 2011, at 9:40 PM, while driving
in upstate New York, a very capable woman witnesses a stationary yellow ball of
light. She stopped her car, in order to get a better look at the object, as it
began to ascend into the nighttime sky. She witnessed eight similar looking
objects. She called family members who lived nearby, all of whom witnessed the
event. Thanks to Peter Davenport, Director National UFO Reporting Center http://www.UFOcenter.com/
North CarolinaInvestigation
This was yet another example of people misidentifying common ground objects,
in this case the old blimp hangar at Weeksville AAF. See Google Earth:
36*13'44.79"N. by 76*08'04.53"W.
The
cigar shaped UFO the boater thought she saw was a blimp hangar! The distance to
the hangar, plus mirage type convention from the surface in between, gave a
reflective quality to the landscape, creating a reflected image below the actual
hangar. (Kind of like seeing a distant car, reflected upside-down on the roadway
below and in front of it.) This gave it the illusion of being a fully-formed
cylindrical shape. Warm Regards, Mark McCandlish
PennsylvaniaBright Red Object
Pottsville -- Martha Scott and I went to the Haven Fireworks at the Old
Irish Flats Island at 9 PM, on July 13, 2011. After the fireworks we were
walking to the parking lot and saw something bright red and traveling almost
over our heads. My first thought was fireworks; but there was no sound. My
camcorder did not reveal any details as it was hard to keep steady without a
tripod. Freeze frame reveals an oval bright object. I watched it for about ten
minutes and noticed that it was heading towards the space like a rocket. This
object accelerated from 1 mile up to invisible in 20 seconds right out of our
atmosphere. Perhaps it was fireworks that attracted these ships?
There were groups of people standing in the
parking lot by their cars had no idea this thing was even there till I yelled,
"Hey that's a UFO up
there". Then they looked up and because it made no noise
two of them said: "What is that thing"This object had a red glow and no navigation lights or
sound. The behavior of this object does not qualify as anything manmade. Thanks
to MUFON CMS
Texas Shooting Star and Orb
Atascosita-- I went
outside to let my dog use the toilet at 10:43 PM, and noticed the bright moon
and saw a shooting star that the shooting star stopped. It changed direction and
shot off into the distance. I noticed my cell phone screen had a scattered
digital look. I had to take the battery out and it went back to normal!! Scared
the crap out of me. Thanks to MUFON CMS
San Antonio --
I saw a round shaped object that was
slowly moving north on July 18, 2011, between 4 and 5 PM. The sunlight reflected
off of the surface between 5-7 feet in length. The object was about 400 meters
high and gained altitude slowly as it passed over. There are two other objects
in photos that were not seen by visual observation. Listen
to Clip of Interview With Witness (MP3)
Note:An extensive zoom in two of the photos reveals an unknown
green object. The witness is ex military and knowledgeable. Thanks to William
Puckett, Director http://www.ufosnw.com
Virginia Object near the Sun
Virginia Beach -- On July 16, 2011 around
1:15 pm, I went outside in our yard to take pictures of the Sun. I shot some
video and took a few pictures consecutively, but on different settings. I then
uploaded the pictures and noticed lens pentagon and hexagon shapes around the
Sun in, various colors, beautiful but nothing unusual. After taking a second
look at my own pictures, I noticed this object to the middle left of the Sun. It
was small, but in reality was the size of our moon. It was gray, round and very
noticeable. The reflections in the first set of pictures were very
distinguishable and had no mass; however the "ufo" in question had solid mass.
This could be anything from a craft to a planet. My website is Virginia Beach
Ufo Quest. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Washington Bright Lights
EVERETT -- Last evening on July 13, 2011, we had an odd
weather with a dark cloud base and rain and half clear and sunny. The rain was
moving to the east after 6 PM, when I noticed a very, very bright light moving
slowly north. The cloud ceiling was low and the UFO was moving just under them.
I watched it for a full 20 minutes it then stopped, and then disappeared. I've
been in aerospace/aircraft manufacturing for 37 years and am familiar with just
about every type of craft.
A quick estimate of the distance across the field, from first sight to last
is about 300 feet. So, no fixed wing craft can travel that slowly and if it were
a helicopter, it would have had to hover and side slip with a powerful light on
the nose. No noise was heard from the three to four foot in diameter object. Ten
minutes it blinked out as two Navy jets from Whidbey flew over, so "someone"
else knew it was there! Thanks to MUFON CMS July 10,
2011
Yakima -- This video was filmed by my
husband on July 10, 2011 at 11:30 PM. We were out overlooking the city when
suddenly a "star" rose above the city. It was white at first, and then it
stopped moving and started changing colors. We filmed it for quite some time
before we decided to turn in for the night which was around 2 am. When we left,
it was still there, spinning.
Note: No bright planets were visible at the time of the
sighting in clear skies. It is strange in why the object (light) would be
visible for over two hours? Only a short segment of the video is included in
this report. Thanks to William Puckett, Director http://www.ufosnw.com
Washington Streaking Lights
Manastash Ridge-- I have attached a photo of what I believe
to be a UFO captured at around 1:45 AM on July 3, 2011. Over the last several
nights, my husband and I have been seeing several high flying UFOs about 10 PM.
We decided to go to Manastash Ridge in Ellensburg to get a better look at the
sky. There is a military base between Yakima and Ellensburg so we felt our
chances of seeing a UFO were very good because there are many sightings around
military bases.
We arrived at the ridge around midnight and left
at 3 AM. We saw 13 shooting stars, and nine "high flyer" UFOs which looked like
stars streaking across the sky. We brought our camera, a large telescope and
binoculars and compared one star, planet or UFO to other things in the sky to
make sure we knew what we were actually looking at. We decided to focus on two
"stars" that were changing colors dramatically.
Between 1:30 and 2:00 AM, we noticed a light
rising from behind a mountain ridge which was set back from Ellensburg. It
caught our attention because it was extremely low in the sky and changed very
vibrant colors.
Note:A check of astronomical data revealed that no planets were
visible at the time of the sighting. Given this scenario it doesn't suggest that
the object was associated with military activities. Thanks to William Puckett
Director UFOs Northwest http://ufosnw.com
Worldwide UFO Reports
AustraliaSilver Disc
My name is David Albert Smith; and in the 1960's I was working on
top of Mount Tom Price in Northwestern Australia, when one of the guys said,
"Look at that! I turned to see a silver object twenty
foot long and ten feet deep. It was motionless and within a couple of minutes
half the camp was up there looking at it. There were no markings on this object,
no windows, no doors, nothing at all. I jumped into my Land Rover and got my
camera as did almost every one. I got back to the top of the mountain and the
object was still there and I took photos of it until I ran out of film. After a
while it started to move slowly. Then it spiraled slowly past our camp staying
three feet above the ground. I was following it in my Land Rover and a lot of
other vehicles were following. If a vehicle speeded up to overtake the object,
it speeded up so no one could get in front of it.
It flew around Nameless Mountain and out of site. When we arrived at the same
spot it started to move forward again heading towards the Hamersly Ranges. It
was not a balloon and was situated at the end of our only air strip. If we got
close to it; the craft would not let any vehicle get too close to the rear of
it. If we got close it would go faster. At the end of the air strip it suddenly
went straight up in the airside ways, so fast that within perhaps two seconds it
vanished.
The management made enquiries with the Australian Air Force, and they denied
having anything on their radar and they said no. There were no facilities at
Mount Tom Price to get film processed, and about two weeks later four black
F250's came into Tom Price, with a film development unit. They said they would
develop all the films we had at no cost, if they could have copies of the film,
it sounded like a good deal so 100% every one took all their films in for
development. Three days later when I got my film back there was no UFOs in them.
A couple weeks later, a dozen students arrived from Perth University were
asking questions and I told them the craft was out of sight for five minutes. We
decided to go to Mount Nameless where it was out of sight and found three round
indentations in the ground that formed the shape off a triangle. Each
indentation was three feet across and three inches deep. The students had large
bags of Plaster of Paris with them, and made molds off each one and returned to
Perth University. We never heard any more about it, but I would not be surprised
is those moulds still exist I guess you could only ask the question. Thanks to
David A Smith and UFOINFO.com
Azores; Portugal Disc
Praia da Vitoria,
Terceira-- Disk shape and sphere
shape objects near US military base in the Atlantic Ocean. I am an amateur
photographer and usually after dinner when the sun is going down, I go out and
take some pictures. It was about 7:30 PM, when I started taking photos. When I
finished my sessions, I edited my photos in Photoshop raw format to help obtain
more of data from the photo. The object appears above the Sun as a disk shape,
doesn't look like a cloud or bird. Below that same object there is another one,
a sphere shape object also unidentified; there is a possibility that this second
one might be a weather balloon. Photo indicates very small, dark, blurry object.
Thanks to Peter Davenport, Director National UFO Reporting Center http://www.UFOcenter.com/
Canada
Ignace, Ontario-- I heard no noise on July 17, 2011 at 11 PM, as two orbs
hovered in the sky over Agimak Lake in Ignace, Ontario, a hundred miles north of
the US border. They came together, then split up and went away in two separate
directions. The whole sighting lasted less than two minutes Thanks to William
Puckett, Director http://www.ufosnw.com
SYDNEY, NS -- On July 17, 2011, I came home from work and
noticed an orange light flying at low altitude below the clouds. It was moving
rather slowly. I took a video of it. At the very beginning of the video you will
see the full moon, which gives you a reference to how bright this unknown light
was. It didn't make any noise. The light began to fade shortly after I started
filming it, but I got about a minute of it on film. Earlier in the day I noticed
a similar light in the same area. Thanks to MUFON CMS
HaitiDark Flying
Object
Port-au-Prince -- I was
walking through the cemetery taking photos of damage from the Earthquake on
November 29, 2010. I took a short series of photos and when I looked through
them later there was an abnormal object in two photos. The object doesn't line
up with any know flight pattern of airplanes in the country. Thanks to MUFON
CMS
Germany Multiple
Sightings
Buesum -- On July 9, 2011, I had my latest
sighting of a UFO. I had a series over the last couple of years. It was April
22, 2011, at 12.15 hours, shortly after midday, an object suddenly appeared in
the sky to the west at 2500 feet altitude. It was rectangular in shape, black
and had what seemed to be a large white ball, or blob' at the left side. The
only sound was very faint.
I rushed for my binoculars, and even though taking only about 30 seconds I
was too late as the object had disappeared just as quickly as it had arrived.
The very same day at 22.45 hours a very large bright white light suddenly
appeared, and at the very spot I had last witnessed the object. I quickly had my
binoculars trained on the light and it came east in my direction. I was unable
to detect any shape due to the power of the bright light. It changed direction
going southeast, but only a short distance before ascending diagonally and
disappearing totally. The next phase of my report is a star slightly to the east
suddenly juddered', or vibrated, just as when an engine is switched on, and then
scurried rapidly across the sky going southwest on July 1, 2011, at 00.33 hours.
Another star' came into my sight travelling southeast.
The latest sighting was on July 9, 2011 at 23.15 hours a red light dropped
into the airspace from nowhere, became a large, bright orange light. I got my
binoculars and shouted to my wife to take a photo as I joined my wife on the
balcony, and at one point we were directly underneath it, and as it was not
travelling speedily but the photos did not show the orange large and bright, but
on the camera; there was nothing.
These sightings are only the latest going back over a lot of years,
especially since January 1998 when living in Hagen, Germany. Mr. John Stewart
Patchett
Iran Winking Object
Tabriz -- I saw winking object that was flying rapidly from east
on July 16, 2011, at 10:23 PM, which seemed as if it is orbiting the earth. The
light of that was switching from red to silver alternately. It was moving faster
than I could keep track of within a short time. It moved south to east in 20
seconds and when it reached the east the light started to fade. Can it be
something like an airplane or it's an UFO. Thanks to Peter Davenport, Director
National UFO Reporting Center http://www.UFOcenter.com/
South Africa UFO
Fishhoek -- On July 17, 2011, around 8 PM, I was looking up
at the sky and noticed a bright star moving that was brighter than all the other
stars and had a vague little red light with it, like a plane actually. I thought
it was a bit high for a plane in that area as I am in Fishhoek on the peninsula.
If planes come around there they are too low to land and banking around. It was
too bright to be a satellite and being accompanied vaguely by the red glow.
So I deduced it must be a fighter jet and waited for it to pass over, but it
stopped abruptly. So I thought it must be a helicopter, but it was way too high,
and moving too fast to stop so abruptly. Then it started moving slowly left,
slowly right, making slow little circles by now, I thought an UFO. It must have
gone straight up, because it suddenly got smaller and faded in less than two
seconds and it was gone.
Thanks to Paul
UK/Northern Ireland Disc
Aughnacloy-- We were out in the
garden at midnight on July 17, 2011, with three of us in a tent when my friend
outside said,"Oh my God there is a UFO! I looked up
and a disc was flying slow and high up with a yellow light at the bottom of the
craft. We tried to record it, but our phones couldn't capture it, since it was
too high up and too dark. You would have needed a digital camera to capture it.
It was not a shooting star. Thanks to Peter Davenport, Director National UFO
Reporting Center http://www.UFOcenter.com/
UK/Scotland Sighting above Chemical
Plant
Cheryl
Gardnear Strong report on July 16, 2011, in the UFO
News. "A minor chemical leak in St Fergus, Scotland, prompted a
passerby to snap a few photos last week, it was only later
that the eyewitness noticed something odd in the photos. It was a UFO
sighting in hindsight. The UFO appeared in a series of photos over the no flying
zone terminal before heading southwest.
UFOINFO.com --
On July 15 2010 a former police officer only identified as "Nick R reported that
while driving along the A10 going home one evening after work a light which was
not the moon, orange and oval in shape.
He then drove into his parking space in Puckeridge
(near Hertford England) and went into his flat (apartment) after about 10
minutes he went outside for a cigarette.
His apartment was on Cambridge Court which backed
on to fields.
He saw in the twilight what he thought were kids
messing about. He then saw the orange oval shaped light over the field and
quickly realized that the short figures were not "children. Suddenly the three
child-like figures and the light disappeared without a trace. The witness lived
near Stansted Airport.
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Si, Si, Henri [Broch], Des OVNIS Réels "D'Ailleurs" Existent Jusqu'ici!
Pièces à Conviction - Ovnis : Mystères sur la
Planète (FR)
Il y a 60 ans,
le crash de Roswell bouleverse le monde. Les débris trouvés dans un ranch du
Nouveau Mexique seraient d'origine extra-terrestre ! L'armée américaine aussitôt
corrige le tir, mais l'affaire Roswell est née, en pleine guerre froide... 60
ans après les événements et pour son 60e numéro, "Pièces à conviction" enquête
sur les OVNIS, alors que l'état français vient d'autoriser la déclassification
des documents relatifs aux phénomènes aérospatiaux non
identifiés...
Un matin, Mark Brazel découvre sur l'une de ses
parcelles d'étranges débris. Déconcerté, il appelle le shérif du coin qui
préfère confier l'enquête à l'armée. Trois heures plus tard, un communiqué tombe
sur les téléscripteurs de la planète : l'US Air Force annonce qu'elle vient de
récupérer des morceaux d'un aéronef venu de l'espace, et qui se serait écrasé
aux Etats-Unis...Quelques heures plus tard, alors que la nouvelle commence à
faire le tour du monde, l'armée américaine se rétracte ; les militaires
expliquant qu'en fait, il ne s'agissait que des restes d'un
ballon-météo...
Trop tard, ce qui s'est passé à Roswell ce 3
juillet 1947 est trop mystérieux. Dès lors, tout le monde va voir des soucoupes
volantes survoler la planète...
60 après, la ville du Nouveau Mexique est
devenue La Mecque de tous les ufologues. Musée, tee-shirts, mascotte, le
business des petits hommes verts tourne à plein régime !
Mais que s'est il réellement passé dans ce coin
des Etats-Unis ? Pour percer ce mystère, l'équipe de "Pièces à conviction" s'est
rendue à Washington DC où sont archivés tous les documents déclassifiés relatifs
à l'affaire Roswell. En cherchant bien, on découvre également bien d'autres
secrets... Car dans la capitale américaine, vit aussi Gerald K Haines, ancien
historien en chef de la CIA. L'homme est spécialiste de la guerre froide et
des...ovnis et ses révélations sont proprement incroyables. Elles vont nous
emmener tout autour de la planète. Dans un voyage aux confins du
mystère...
Les invités :
Jean-Jacques Velasco
Ancien responsable du SEPRA Service d'expertise
des phénomènes rares atmosphériques (de 1983 à 2004) au CNES
Jack Krine
Pilote ayant observé un Ovni
Pierre Lagrange
Sociologue des sciences
Pr Henri Broch
Professeur de Physique
Directeur du laboratoire de Zététique à
l'université de Nice
[The Country] Where It All Began For Her [Leslie Kean]!
UFOs - The French Connection - Gildas Bourdais
LIVE
Gildas Bourdais is a French UFO and Exoploitics
researcher and author of five books including "An Inquiry Into the Existence of
Celestial and Cosmic Beings," "Are They Here Already? Extraterrestrials and the
Roswell Case," "UFOs: 50 Years of Secrecy" and "UFOs: The Progressive Lifting of
Secrecy." He has written articles in English for the MUFON UFO Journal and
International UFO Reporter as well as many French publications addressing the
UFO and ET subject. He has also written extensively about the historical,
mythological and religious dimensions of the extraterrestrial
issue.
Robert [S. Norris] and Jeffrey [T. Richelson], Quite Some Roswell Fantasies You Have There Too! Where To Begin, Stan?
Washington Decoded: Dreamland Fantasies
excerpt:
"In addition, the author seems to
have a strange notion of what constitutes a reliable source. An early indication
of her low threshold occurs when she first cites Stanton Friedman, a UFO
conspiracy theorist, on the importance of the Roswell Incident. She notes that
Friedman was often referred to by Larry King and others as Americas leading
expert on UFOs. Aside from the fact that any positive reputation Friedman has
is apparently restricted to those who believe in UFOs and extraterrestrials, why
would any serious author cite appearances with a notoriously credulous
entertainer as proof of reliability?"
ONTVOERINGEN DOOR BUITENAARDSEN: FANTASIE, BEDROG OF REALITEIT.
DIT IS EEN VOLLEDIG ARTIKEL, DAT LOS STAAT VAN DE VOORGAANDE DELEN " NA 60 JAAR UFO-ONDERZOEK : NOG STEEDS ANGST VOOR DE WAARHEID ".
1.VOORWOORD.
Aan
de hand van tienduizenden verslagen van mensen, die beweerden dat buitenaardse
wezens onze planeet bezoeken en een aantal uitverkoren personen aan boord
nemen van hun ruimteschip om op hen een aantal medische en
voorplantingsexperimenten uit te voeren, komen we in een nieuw raadselachtig
item van de ufologie terecht.
Door
de ontvoerde slachtoffers en sommige onderzoekers zijn dit realistische
rapporten, gebaseerd op levensechte ervaringen. Volgens de seculiere wetenschap
en de sceptici groeide dit verschijnsel, ondankshet ongelofelijk karakter van de overtuiging
en volgens hen ook bij gebrek aan geloofwaardig, ondersteunend bewijs, snel uit
tot een echte mythische cultuur. Als je weet dat volgens een enquête, eind
jaren 90 uitgevoerd in de U.S.A., meer dan 33% van de Amerikanen gelooft dar
buitenaardse wezens onze aarde bezoeken in de ufos, dan is de echte basis voor
een grote discussie gelegd.
Niettemin
blijft het een zeer moeilijk te vatten verhaal - Harige wezens; humanoïde,
mensachtige ufonauten of de algemeen bekende grijze wezens de Greys - met
grote, zwarte ogen bezoeken onze planeet in hun vliegende schotels. Het is
een vaststaand feit dat actueel ufologen al duizenden goed gedocumenteerde,
gedetailleerde verslagen verzamelden over ufos, die op Aarde landen, waaruit
inzittenden stappen en terug in verdwenen. Meer enmeer handelen deze rapporten over mensen, die
beweren door deze aliëns één of zelfs meerdere malen ontvoerd te zijn geweest,
aan boord gebracht van het ruimteschip, waar ze onderworpen werden aan een
medisch onderzoek, om daarna terug op de plaats van hun ontvoering afgezet te
worden. Als je bij deze rapporten de overtuiging voegt van sommige ufologen dat
in 1947 in Roswell, New-Mexico, USA een vliegende schotel met buitenaardsen
neerstortten en door de Amerikaanse overheid geborgen werd zowel het toestel
als de wezens wordt het verhaal nog fantastischer, maar daardoor ook
ongeloofwaardiger. Er zouden zelfs geheime ontmoetingen plaats hebben gevonden
met de buitenaardse wezens op de mysterieuze plaats Area 51
Dit
alles klinkt misschien ook voor jou als een sciencefiction story, maar
niettemin blijven vele slachtoffers en onderzoekers overtuigd van de realiteit
van deze ontvoeringen. Volgens het wetenschappelijk establishment en de
sceptici berust dit geloof in ufos en buitenaardsen louter op speculaties,
fantasie, bedrog en niet gerechtvaardigde besluitenvorming uit twijfelachtige
bewijzen en getuigenissen. En met deze denkwijze over deze ervaringen is de
welles-nietes polemiek tussen believers, kritisch onderzoekers en sceptici een
feit
2.WELKE
BESCHRIJVINGEN VAN ALIËNS VINDEN WE ZOAL TERUG?
De
beschrijvingen van deze bijzondere ufo-inzittenden of ufonauten variëren nogal
en omvatten ook doorzichtige of transparante entiteiten ( soms zelfs met
zichtbaar skelet ); grote, logge gloeiende mannen met slechts één oog in het
midden van hun voorhoofd; vriendelijke Venusianen (cf. Adamsky) met lang
blond krullend haar; kleine elf-achtige mensjes, slechts een paar tientallen
centimeter groot. Maar meer dan 4/5 of 80% van de verslagen handelen over de
greys of grijze grijze wezens van 1,20 m à 1,50 m grootte met een groot, kaal
hoofd, lange armen en grote schuine, zwarte ogen
Daar
een kleine20 % van deze typerende
beschrijvingen zovreemd en zo absurd
klinken, ja tot het geloofwaardigheid te verliezen. Slechts een klein aantal,
geduldige onderzoekers waagden een inspanning, zetten alle vrees op zij om al
deze idolate, maar toch zo verschillende relazen te verzamelen, te analyseren
en te bestuderen.
Volgens
sommige onderzoekers zijn vooral de kinderen de beste getuigen en vele
ufo-landingen zijn dan ook het beste en volledigste gedocumenteerd door
verslagen van waarnemingen door kinderen. Ik hoor de sceptici onder jullie al
luidop denken dat de hoofdreden hiervan ligt aan de fantasierijke en creatieve
verbeelding van de kindergeest, die onbewust geïndoctrineerd werd door de sciencefictionstrips, tekenfilms en PC- en andere games. De
believers reageren daarop dat het net komt door het maagdelijk, openminded
denken van kinderen dat ze het ideaal medium vormen voor contactlegging met
ufos en met de ufonauten. Vele ufo-ontvoerden bezeren immers dat het eerste
contact al plaatsvond in hun prille jeugd 4 à 5 jaar oud dat ze door de
buitenaardsen een eerste maal ontvoerd werden en later nog voor opvolging.
3.WIE
ZIET ER UFOS?
Volgens
de sceptici zijn het meestal onbetrouwbare en ongeloofwaardige personen, die
ufos en ufonauten zien. Als je weet dat niet alleen kinderen maar ook
politiemensen, dokters, notarissen, advocaten, astronomen, piloten en andere
notabele burgers, ja zelfs meerdere astronauten ontmoetingen met ufosen hun inzittenden rapporteren, dan is enige
twijfel bij de voorgaande stellingname van de sceptici wel op zijn plaats.
Weet
jij wat het woord SCEPSIS betekent? Wel scepsis staat voor TWIJFELZUCHT!Je mag er van uitgaan dat een fanatieke
scepticus onder het mom van de bestaande wetenschap alles in twijfel trekt wat
niet in zijn dogmatisch referentiekader past. In het boek WOORDENBOEK VAN DE
SCEPTICUS van Herman BOEL komen zon 400 definities, argumenten en kritische
artikels aanbod, gaande can acupunctuur tot zombies. Het is een vertaling van
The Skeptics Dictionary van Robert T. Carroll of waar Abraham zijn mosterd
haalde, in dit geval BOEL Ik heb de indruk dat ze alle ideeën verwerpenwelke niet binnen hun wetenschappelijke
controlevisie passen. Maar hoe kan je de getuigen niet vertrouwen als ze over
ufos en ufonauten praten, terwijl ze in het burgerlijk leven instaan voor jouw
veiligheid en verdediging? Hoe kan je hun gerapporteerde ervaringen gewoon
negeren en wegcijferen als fantasie of zelfs bedrog?
En
ja, over het ufofenomeen werden al duizenden boeken geschreven en toch bestaan
er niet zoveel objectieve, kritische en betekenisvolle studies over deze
bijzondere ontvoeringgevallen, die door alle partijen aanvaard worden. Kwam het
zien van ufos en ufonauten in de volksmond en de media vliegende schotels
en groene marsmannetjes genoemd al weinig geloofwaardig en betrouwbaar over
bij de media, de seculiere wetenschap en de sceptici, dan moet ik er zeker geen
tekening bij maken hoe deze over de specifieke ontvoeringervaringen denken
4.HOE KOMT HET DAT DE WETENSCHAP ZO
WEINIG BELANGSTELLING TOONT VOOR HET UFOFENOMEEN?
De
oorzaak ligt in het feit dat de ufologie nog steeds actief dient te strijden om
erkend, om aanvaard te worden als een ernstig studieonderwerp en niet als een
lucratieve bezigheidstherapie voor wat amateurs, fantasten en / of
aandachtzoekers. De scepticus Paul KURTA schrijft trouwens -de
ufologie is de mythologie van het ruimtevaarttijdperk. In plaats van Engelen en
Demonen hebben wij nu de confrontatie met buitenaardse wezens. De ufologie is
een product van de creatieve verbeelding. Ze heeft een poëtische en een
existentiële functie. De ufologie is een uitdrukking van een hoger mysterie ---
onze hoop op een transcendente betekenis. De goden van de Olympus zijn
ruimtereizigers geworden, die ons door on ze dromen naar andere werelden
brengen. Nu zou het niet kunnen dat het verschil in de verhalen over
engelen, demonen, trollen, ufonauten, ed. hem enkel verschilt in het
referentiekader, waarin het slachtoffer zijn frustrerende en onbekende
ervaringen probeert een plaats te geven. Als ik bijvoorbeeld het woord auto
gebruik, dan denk jij beslist aan jouw eigen wagen, terwijl aan mijn Opel Astra
denk. De ervaring een toestel om je in te verplaatsen blijft voor elke
persoon hetzelfde, alleen het invullen en beschrijven zal variëren volgens onze
eigen leefwereld en eigen referentiekader. Nergens zal je een artikel, een boek
of een repliek van een scepticus vinden met opbouwende kritiek over ufologen,
of die wat positiefs over ufos durft te schrijven. Hun eigen gelijk hebben en
betweterij druipt er zo van af.
De
specifieke landingsrapportenen zeker de
ufo-ontvoeringrapporten klinken inderdaad zo absurd, zo weinig geloofwaardig,
soms zelfs belachelijke en / of idioot, dat je zelfs als objectieve, ernstige
en kritisch ingestelde onderzoeker niet staat te springen om de verslagen te
bestuderen. Deze vreemde relazen geven de sceptici alle munitie om gans het
ufo-verschijnsel als een fabeltje, een fantasie of louter als bedrog voor te
stellen. Je kan je dus wel voorstellen dat weinig ufologen staan te springen om
dit toch bizar, maar vreemd fenomeen te bestuderen. Ze vrezen dat als ze dit
studieonderwerp aanvatten, ze zelf als idioot, onbetrouwbaar en ongeloofwaardig
afgeschilderd te worden door de sceptici. De vrees dus om hun
eigengeloofwaardigheid en deze van de ufologie in het algemeen op het spel te
zetten en nog meer schade te berokkenen, weerhoudt de meeste ernstige
onderzoekers om dit onderwerp ernstig te onderzoeken en te bestuderen. Ze
lieten / laten dit item liever links liggen omdat ze uit ervaring weten op
welke slinkse en achterbakse wijze sommige sceptici bepaalde ufologen in de
media afmaakten door hen publiek belachelijk te maken of voor PIPO te
verslijten.
Niettemin
stel ik de laatste decennia en vooral sinds de opkomst van het internetgebruik
vast dat meer en meer ufologen en waarnemers nu publiek hun visie durven te
geven over dergelijke onderwerpen. Ze hebben lak aan de sceptici en op bepaalde
sites, gaan ze henop dezelfde wijze
behandelen, zoals dat vroeger met hen gebeurde. Vroeger had een onderzoeker de
media nodig om zijn vaststellingen of de resultaten van zijn research bekent te
maken. De dag van vandaag kan je op verschillende sites en blogvan het internet terecht om jouw mening op
een eerlijke manier te verwoorden. Met eerlijk bedoel ik vooral dat vroeger de
journalisten hun creatieve vrijheid in het verwoorden van een gesprek durfden
te gebruiken en je soms woorden in de mond te leggen, die je nooit uitgesproken
had. Door deze ontstane vrijheid van denken en handelen konden meer en meer
ufologen rapporten over deze bijzondere landingsgevallen en zelfs over de
ufo-ontvoeringgevallen terugvinden en zelfs publiceren op een eigen site.
Voorbeelden van dergelijke onderzoekers zijn Budd Hopkins, Dr. John Mack, Dr.
Jacob Saunders en nog anderen. Dr. John Mack, een Amerikaanse psychiater,
verbonden aan de beroemde Harvard Universiteit, waagde het zelfs om na zijn
studie van deze specifieke ervaringen de publieke uitspraak te doen dat deze
ontvoeringen levensechte ervaringen zijn.
Geen
wonder dat de sceptici en het materialistisch, wetenschappelijk establishment
met alle middelen en trucjes probeerden om Dr. Mack in diskrediet te brengen en
zelfs probeerden om zijn academische titel en dus financiële steun af te nemen.
Gelukkig zijn deze fanatieke betweters daar niet in geslaagd, maar als je de
afbrekende kritiek van deze sceptici over Dr. John Mack leest in het vertaalde
Woordenboek voor de scepticus, dan pas besef je hoe egocentrisch en
narcistisch deze personen denken en handelen. Ik vraag me af of de vertaler van
de Engelse tekst zelf onderzoek gedaan heeft naar de beweegredenen en de
resultaten van Johns studie en verklaringen? Of heeft deze persoon de woorden
van de Amerikaanse scepticus gewoon vertaald en als papegaai nagepraat?Harde woorden vind jij misschien, maar als je
in hun artikels, hun commentaren, hun boeken openlijk en koudweg kan lezen, dat
John Mack zijn rapporten vrij kon publiceren en iedereen (lees vooral hen!) kon
trotseren door zijn academische vrijheiden onder het recht van de privacy van zijn patiënten en laat het net dat
zijn dat ze hem wilden afnemen
In
het Woordenboek van de Scepticus van Herman Boel kan je pagina 332 letterlijk
lezen Hij ( =John Mack) bevond zich
in de positie waar elke bedrieger van droomt: liegen zonder ooit gepakt te
kunnen worden Heeft Boel deze tekst letterlijk uit deEngelse tekst vertaald en overgenomen, dan
vraag ik me af of na-aperij ook wetenschappelijk onderzoek is. Je vindt hier
dus een verdoken beschuldiging dat Dr. John Mack een leugenaar en een bedrieger
was je kan tolerant, democratisch en vrijdenkend zijn, maar hoe narcistisch en
betweterig moet je zijn, dat je dergelijke, negatieve dingen over een persoon
durft te schrijven, die zich niet meer kan verdedigen. Als je verder leest dan
maken ze John Mack ook uit voor profiteur, die louter uit financieel winstbejag
handelde om zijn boeken te verkopen. Kan je uit dergelijke negatieve uitspraken
enig objectief, kritisch en wetenschappelijk onderzoek zien? Handelen ze als
volwassen onderzoekers, die opbouwende kritiek leveren? Als dat de enige en
echte wetenschappelijke methodologie van de scepticus is sorry, maar bij
dergelijke laag bij de grond handelswijze hou ik een bittere smaak aan over. Ik
kan daar echt niet de juiste woorden voor vinden, maar je kan je wel afvragen
wie in realiteit de echte leugenaars en bedriegers zijn
De
struisvogelpolitiek van het materialistische, seculier wetenschappelijk
establishment om in kop blijven in het zand te steken als het over ufos en ufonauten
gaat en het allemaal beschouwen als een doodgewoon aards gebeuren, is een
eenvoudige en veilige denkpiste. Het is gewoon het blijven volharden in eigen
boosheid om hun axiomas, hun stellingen, hun doctrines, ed. veilig te stellen.
Volgens de sceptische doctrine zelf verwijst hun algemene houding naar die van
twijfel en ter discussie stellen. Meestal verwijst het echter naar twijfel en
ongeloof in bovennatuurlijke en paranormale fenomenen. Hun negeren van het
bestaan van het ufofenomeen in zijn totaliteit heeft niet tot gevolg gehad dat
er geen ufowaarnemingen meer plaatsvonden en geen meldingen meer gebeuren. Integendeel,
het ufo-verschijnsel blijft gestadig verder groeien in zijn complexiteit; meer
een meer mensen raken overtuigd van de echtheid van ufos. Het internet met
Google vormt een gepast medium om informatie op te zoeken en tevens ufologen op
te zoeken, die willen luisteren naar hun ervaringen zonder deze vooraf als
onzin te beschouwen. Het enige wat de getuigen vragen is respect voor hun privacy,
de waarneming héél discreet te behandelen, want de wereld, hun omgeving, ja zelfs
hun familie en vrienden zijn vaak dermate gebrainwasht door de media en de
sceptici dat ze zelfs daar hun verhaal niet kwijt aan raken zonder het gevaar
belachelijk gemaakt te worden, of erger Erg toch, niet, want geloof me vrij al
deze slachtoffers zijn geen gekken! Als zelfs de sceptici durven te schrijven
dat als deze personen zo geen bizarre verhalen zouden vertellen, ze best
geloofwaardig en betrouwbaar zijn, dan weet je dat dat gewone mensen zijn,
zoals jij en ik, die dergelijke ervaringen melden. Waarom kunnen deze vreemde ervaringen
niet ernstig onderzocht worden? Zelfs als later uit het onderzoek zou blijken
dat de ervaringen niet aan ET te wijten is, dan nog werden deze mensen
geholpen, niet?
5.DE
REACTIE VAN DE WETENSCHAP?
Het
begon allemaal op 24 juni 1947 toen de Amerikaan Kenneth Arnold verklaarde dat
hij tijdens zijn vlucht in de buurt van Mount-Rainier negen vliegende
ruimtevaartuigen in de vorm van een halve maan had zien vliegen in een
onregelmatige formatie en tegen ongelofelijke snelheden. Ze deden hem denken
aan schotels, die over het water stuiteren. Zo werd de naam vliegende
schotels geboren, die de media gretig overnamen. In een paar weken tijd
volgden er in de USA honderden meldingen van mensen, die beweerden dat ze die
vliegende schotels gezien hadden. Je kan dit het best vergelijken met wat er
in 1989/1990 gebeurde in België na de waarneming van een driehoek boven Eupen
door twee rijkswachters. Deze melding kreeg veel aandacht van de media en na
deze melding liepen er bij de Brusselse, Franstalige UFO-groep SOBEPS honderden
meldingen binnen of hoe de media een UFO-flap kunnen in de hand werken.
Het
feit dat een hoog percentage waarnemingen van ufos en ufonauten (cf. the
Greys) in vrij hoge mate overeenstemmen met de standardbeschrijvingen is voor
sommige onderzoekers het bewijs dat de waarnemers echte ervaringen meemaakten.
De sceptici daarentegen beweren dat de getuigen dezelfde dingen zien en
beschrijven om geloofwaardig over te komen bij de onderzoekers. Volgens hen is
het zeker dat de waarnemers zien wat ze zien om primo te voldoen aan hun eigen
verwachtingen, die gebaseerd zijn op de bekende, stereotypes en secundo om dus
eveneens te voldoen aan de verwachtingen van de onderzoekers. De sceptici gaan
zelfs zover, dat als je het uit dit perspectief bekijkt, je volgens hen de
ufowaarnemingen en de buitenaardsen het beste kan vergelijken met het zien van
Sinterklaas
Ik
krijg meer en meer de indruk dat de hypocrisie en betweterij bij de fanatieke
scepticide bovenhand haalt. Voor de
metaalachtige, zilvergrijze daglichtschotels of denachtelijke lichten kan ik hun nog enigszins
begrijpen, want de onderzoekers kunnen +/- 90% van alle meldingen verklaren als
misinterpretaties van bekende natuurlijke of artificiële objecten, zoals
weerballons, vliegtuigen, Thaïse ballons, ed of voor ons nog onbekende
natuurfenomenen, zoals bolbliksems, ST.Elmusvuur, aardbevingslichten, plasmas,
ed.
Deze
uitleg gaat echter niet meer op voor de close encounters en als je over
ufonauten, humanoïden of ufo-ontvoeringen spreekt; verkeerde interpretaties
gelden niet in deze gevallen. Alle landing- en ontvoeringgevallen als
speculaties, fantasie, bedrog en ongegronde gevolgtrekkingen van twijfelachtige
bewijzen en getuigenis verklaren, zoals de sceptici en het wetenschappelijk
establishment dit doet, is even gek als beweren dat de Amerikanen nooit op de
maan landden of dat zwarte gaten in de ruimte niet bestaan Al deze
getuigenverhalen negeren, zoals de sceptici doen, is volgens mijn persoonlijke
mening te enggeestig; is onderzoek doen met oogkleppen op en zelfs laag bij de
grond als je door dit negeren je eigen gelijk probeert te halen. Niettemin dien
je als onderzoeker terughoudend en kritisch te zijn in je research naar
dergelijke, delicate studieonderwerpen, zolang je objectief en openminded van
geest werkt zonder de sceptische oogkleppen op. Er van uit gaan dat alles op
aardse wijze te verklaren valt en alle bewijzen en getuigenissen in die optie
verdraaien is geen wetenschappelijke methodologie...
De
gevolgen van het steeds maar blijven negeren van deze ufo-ervaringen lijkt mij
gevaarlijk en het risico bestaat dat je met het badwater ook de baby wegkiept
Is het enkel grootheidswaanzin en narcisme, die verhinderen dat de fanatieke
sceptici en de seculiere, materialistische wetenschappers weigeren om het
ufofenomeen in al zijn facetten ernstig te nemen? Of is het gewoon onkunde en
twijfelzucht over alles en nog wat, dat hun eigen leefwereldje in gevaar kan
brengen? Immers voor hen blijft het absoluut onmogelijk en ondenkbaar dat ufos
en buitenaardsen ons luchtruim zouden kunnen schenden. Ze willen we geloven in
het bestaan van intelligent leven in de onbegrensde kosmos, maar neen, die
kunnen door die onoverbrugbare afstanden onmogelijk tot bij ons geraken. Maar
als je A zegt, moet je ook B durven zeggen Als je ervan uit gaat dat er nog
intelligent leven buiten onze planeet bestaat, dien je er ook rekening mee te
houden dat die vroeg of laat verleden, heden en toekomst over de
mogelijkheid beschikken om onze aarde te bezoeken!
Nee,
zij schrijven al die getuigenissen liever toe aan fantay proned people of
mensen met een rijke , creatieve verbeelding. Maar als die getuigen toch zon
rijke fantasie bezitten, waarom beschrijven ze dan veelal dezelfde objecten,
dezelfde wezens en dezelfde ervaringen?
6.WAAROM DIEN JE TOCH ALTIJD KRITISCH,
OPENMINDED EN OBJECTIEF DERGELIJKE ERVARINGEN TE ONDERZOEKEN?
Ondanks
het feit dat dat ik mij vrank en vrij over dit bizar item van het ufofenomeen
durf uit te spreken, moet ik objectief gezien toegeven dat ook ik het moeilijk
heb om al deze vreemde getuigenissen als echte ervaringen te zien. De hamvraag
blijft niettemin waarom blijven mensen dergelijke ervaringen melden?, zelfs
met de angst om belachelijk gemaakt te worden of voor gek verklaard. Nochtans
zit deze vrees er bij de getuigen diep in, want meestal vragen de melders van
ufowaarnemingen om hun melding discreet te behandelen en hun identiteit niet
bekend te maken of vrij te geven. Ze durven in veel gevallen hun verhaal zelfs
niet kwijt aan familie, kennissen en vrienden! Je ziet welk goed werk de
sceptici en de media geleverd hebben om het ufofenomeen zo belachelijk en gek
mogelijk voor te stellen! Maar dien je als onderzoeker niet open te staan om
mensen hun relaas te laten doen; hen een beetje houvast te geven bij deze
vreemde ervaringen, die ze melden, zodat ze niet alleen staan in hun ervaringen
en hun zoektocht naar de waarheid achter deze gebeurtenissen? Hen vooraf voor
gek of niet goed bij het verstand zijn, als bedriegers of leugenaars uitmaken,
is zeker geen positieve methode om deze slachtoffers van een bizarre ervaring
te helpen! Bij het gerecht is iemand onschuldig, tot het tegendeel bewezen
wordt! Zijn wij als onderzoeker niet verplicht bij deze mensen dezelfde logica
toe te passen? Indien later na een grondig onderzoek en analyse zou blijken dat
deze ervaringen het resultaat zouden zijn van elektromagnetische pollutie of
andere soorten stralingen, zoals GSM-masten, hoogspanningslijnen,
energielijnen, onderaardse stromen, rivieren, ed. dan nog heeft de studie ervan
een positief resultaat opgeleverd, als je daarmee de slachtoffers kan helpen. De
vraag blijft dan nog wel bestaan waarom de getuigen dezelfde objecten, dezelfde
wezens en dezelfde ervaringen beschrijven? Als het fantasiebeelden zijn waarom
bestaat er dan geen grotere diversiteit? Maar als uit onderzoek zou blijken dat
slechts één van de vele tienduizenden ufo-ontvoeringen echt blijkt te zijn,
zoals de getuige beschreef, hebben wij dan geen probleem?
Weet
je dat zelfs de sceptici durven toe te geven dat de getuigenissen vaak, ja
zelfs altijd gemaakt werden door redelijk normale mensen zonder bijkomende
motieven. Ze durven zelfs de verklaren dat als hun verhalen niet zo bizar en
vreemd klonken, het zelfs onfatsoenlijk zou zijn om hen te wantrouwen En toch,
begrijpen wie kan, waarom worden de ervaringen van dezelfde personen dan niet
ernstig genomen en beter onderzocht door de wetenschap en zelfs door de
sceptici?
7.WELKE
UFOLOGEN HIELDEN / HOUDEN ZICH MET DEZE BIJZONDERE UFO-ERVARINGEN BEZIG?
Je
kan de inspanningen bijna op je hand tellen, die gekwalificeerde ufologen
leverden om deze ontvoeringervaringen uit de massa ufo-rapporten te selecteren
en te bestuderen. Aimé MICHEL en Jacques VALLEE (nu USA) uit Frankrijk; Gordon
CREIGHTON, later Charles BOWEN, Hilary EVANS en Jenny RANDLES uit
Groot-Brittannië; in de USA hat je Coral en Jim LORENZEN, Ivan SANDERSON, John
KEEL, Budd HOPKINS, Jacobs SAUNDERS en Dr. John MACK; in Nederland had je Hans
VAN KAMPEN met zijn boek De Gezanten van Hyperion en de therapeute Hilda
MUSCH: zijn de ufologen, die als pioniers het onbekende land van de vreemde
ervaringen probeerden te doorgronden. Ze zetten hun goede naam, hun faam en
geloofwaardigheid op het spel om in de woestijn van de ufologie de over
ontvoeringen en het buitenaards karakter van het ufofenomeen te debatteren
Zonder
veel publiciteit te maken en op een stille manier verzamelde de Amerikaanse
onderzoekster Isabelle DAVIS van NICAP de sporen van de humanoïde ufonauten.
Ironisch gezien waren de eerste reacties van NICAP om deze ontvoeringgevallen
gewoon te negeren en er verder geen aandacht aan te besteden. Omdat ze al meer
dan 12 jaar strijd leverden tegen de media, tegen de wetenschap en vooral tegen
de sceptici om de geloofwaardigheid en de betrouwbaarheid van de ufo-getuigen
te bewijzen, leek het hen beter om alle landingsgevallen gewoon te verwerpen.
Verhalen over vreemde, grijze wezens met grote schuine zwarte ogen en / of
absurde humanoïden, die mensen ontvoerden om medische en
voortplantingsexperimenten op uit te voeren, leek van het goede teveel en
pasten niet in hun kader om de geloofwaardigheid van de ufologie te laten
erkennen.
Uit
schrik om belachelijk gemaakt te worden, naïef, ongeloofwaardig en
onbetrouwbaar over te komen duizenden landings- en ontvoeringgevallen bestaan.
Misschien net omdat veel van deze bijzondere gevallen het populair lijken te
bevestigen dat ufos vliegende schotels zijn, het product van een
buitenaardse spits-technologische super-beschaving uit de ruimte lijken te
bevestigen, laten sommige onderzoekers nog ruimte om ze te aanvaarden
Actueel,
als je heel voorzichtig en kritisch slachtoffers van ontvoeringen door aliëns
ondervraagt, eventueel door gebruikt te maken van regressievehypnose, de leugendetector, ed., zoals thans
bij de huidige meldingen gebeurt, lijkt het er sterk op dat ufos een echt
subjectief verschijnsel zijn, dat deel uitmaakt van een groter geheel van
psychische fenomenen. Misschien speelt de sociologische achtergrond van de
getuigen één rol. Maar het is feit dat een getuige, wanneer hij een vreemde
waarneming meldt, er direct aan toevoegt primo om zijn melding in alle
discretie te behandelen en secundo dar hij / zij niets gedronken heeft, noch
gerookt, noch specifieke medicatie slikt.. Hoe zou het toch komen dat mensen,
die hulp zoeken zo op hun hoede zijn en zelfs angst hebben om hun ervaring te
melden. Indien dit de wens was van de sceptici, dan hebben ze hun doel bereikt.
Maar hebben wij niet de morele plicht om dergelijke slachtoffers op zijn
minst hulp aan te bieden, in eerste instantie hun relaas ernstig te nemen en
proberen een voor iedereen aanvaardbare verklaring te vinden? Enkel dan creëert
je als onderzoeker een win-winsituatie!
8.HOE
GEDRAGEN UFONAUTEN ZICH?
Bij
de meeste landingsgevallen lijken de ufo-entiteiten zich aals idioten te
gedragen, dieren of breinloze robotten van één of andere soort. Bij de
ufo-ontvoeringen reageren de wezens of de Greys dan weeralert, doelbewust en doelgericht, meestal als
gevoelloze onderzoekers, die een specifiek experiment uitvoeren met en op hun
labo-dier, de mens. Vele ontvoerden beklemtonen tijdens de beschrijving van hun
ervaring(en), dat ze de indruk hadden dat de entiteiten deel uitmaakten van een
groter geheel en dat ze meestal een complementair deel leken te zijn van een
grotere levensvorm.
In
1954 kennen wij de eerste, wereldwijde ufo-golf met vele landingsgevallen in
Frankrijk, Italië en Zuid-Amerika. De eerst Belgische foto van een UFO dateert
eveneens van 1954, werd boven namen gefotografeerd en komt dus ook overeen met
deze periode, net als de waarneming van ufos boven Lotenhulle in 1955.
De
Franse schrijver Jacques VALLEE verzamelde 200 rapporten over landingsgevallen
van 1954 en bestudeerde deze heel systematisch. In 8 van de 200 gevallen of 4%
verklaarden de getuigen dat de ufonauten kleien mannen of reuzen waren,
volledig of deels bedekt met haren. Bij meer dan 75% van de gevallen,
verklaarden de getuigen dat ze verlamd waren en totaal machteloos om zich te
bewegen in de aanwezigheid van de wezens. Nog ongeloofwaardiger en
merkwaardiger klinkt de vaststelling dat het aantal fysische (= medische)
implicaties van deze nabije ontmoetingen op de getuigen nauwelijks of nooit
ernstig genomen werden en verder grondig bestudeerd, ondanks het feit dat er
duizenden gevallen bestaan van mensen, die beweren dat ufonauten hen
ontvoerden..
Ook
in 1954 werelden er al veel grijsachtige, niet menselijke BEMS ( = Big Eyes
Monsters, Grote Insectogige monsters) gesignaleerd. In zijn boek Pasport to
Magonia somt VALLEE honderden landingsgevallen op, gespreid over een periode
van de laatste eeuwen op. Inderdaad, dit soort gebeurtenissen lijkt zich al
heel lang voort te doen, eerst héél onopvallend. Blijkbaar speelden deze
bijzondere ontmoetingen met vreemde entiteiten zich doorheen de ganse
geschiedenis van de mensheid af. Vele geschriften en legenden uit de Oudheid
lijken dit alleen maar te bevestigen. Alleen evolueert de beschrijving van de
vreemde entiteiten voor het tijdskader, waarin de gebeurtenissen plaatsvinden.
Zo evolueert de benaming, die de slachtoffers aan deze wezens geven van goden,
dwergen, engelen, demonen, in ons ruimtetijdperk spreken de ontvoerden over buitenaardsen
Andere
wereldwijde ufo-flaps situeerden zich in 1896/1897, in 1905 en 1909 door de
waarneming van vreemde, zeppelinachtige luchtschepen. Door de analyse van deze
historische gevallen kwam één van de karakteristieken van de ufos aan het
licht. De ufo-onderzoekers stelden vast dat de inzittenden van deze
luchtschepen ordinaire spullen verzamelden tijdens hun aardse vlucht en die
later op de landingsplaats achterlieten zoals het uitwerpen van dagbladen,
schoenen en zelfs geschilde aardappelen. Deze doodgewone, alledaagse dingen
werden aangetroffen na het doorkruisen van ons luchtruim door deze vreemde
luchtschepen, net alsof ze wilden aantonen, dat ze maar van onze planeet
afkomstig waren Toen ook al deze geruchten de ronde over geheime uitvinders,
die testvluchten uitvoerenden met experimentele toestellen. Ook deze geruchten
waren wereldwijd verspreid.
Het
probleem bij deze historische relazen is dat de auteurs niet altijd alle
details of karakteristieken van de waarneming weergaven. Waarom? Ofwel hebben
ze er gewoon niet aan gedacht om alle details te vermelden of niet alle details
opgemerkt; ofwel lieten ze doelbewust sommige details weg om de
geloofwaardigheid van hun artikel niet aan te tasten.De dag van vandaag laten ook de moderne journalisten
wel een fantastische details van de actuele ufo-rapporten weg of omschrijven
die in hun terminologie of interpretatie, gewoon voor de geloofwaardigheid van
hun artikel, ofwel om hun getuigen niet in diskrediet te brengen of erger nog
om die belachelijk te maken. Kan jij je voorstellen dat zelfs bij de melding
van doodgewoon, vreemd lichtfenomeen de waarnemer ons vraagt om primo hun
identiteit niet te onthullen en secundo de ufomelding in alle discretie te
behandelen. Gewoon uit vrees om belachelijk gemaakt te worden of voor gek
versleten, stellen ze deze eisen, zelfs in 2011! Het ridiculisering- en
debunkingproces van de media, de wetenschap en de sceptici heeft blijkbaar zijn
doel niet gemist.
Tijdens
de oorlog had je ook meldingen van foo-fighters of lichten , die de
vliegtuigen begeleiden. Beide partijen dachten dat het om een geheim wapen van
de anderen ging. Onlangs kwam nogaan
het licht dat Wiston Churchill vroeg om een ufomelding geheim te houden. Onmiddellijk
na Wereldoorlog II was er spraken van het zien van Ghost Rockets, dan vooral
boven Scandinavië, maar ze werden ook boven andere Europese landen gezien. De
Amerikanen en de Engelsen hebben er zelfs onderzoek naar verricht, maar tot
heden weten we nog niet wat dergelijke objecten waren. Eén hypothese was wel
dat het om Sovjet-Russische testen ging
In
het najaar van 1965 manifesteerde zich een ander grote ufo-golf, vooral boven
Mexico en de rest van de wereld. Mexicaanse kranten brachten verslag uit van 3
vrouwen van een zuidelijke voorstad van Mexico-City, die beweerden een groep
wezens met gloeiende ogen van tenminste 3 m grootte, ontmoet te hebben. Deze
vreemde wezens hadden geen zichtbare neus of mond. De drie vrouwen bleven de
vreemde wezens niet lang bekijken, want in volle paniek holden ze naar de
politie. Later werd in Brazillë ook een paar maal een vreemd wezen gezien. Het
zou er zelfs gevangen genomen zijn
Eind
1989 begin 1990 deed zich in België één van de beroemdste Ufo-flap voor,
namelijk de waarneming van de onbekende driehoekvorm. Na de eerste waarneming
nabij Eupen door twee rijkswachters en de grote media-aandacht volgden er nog
honderden waarneming. Zelfs de Belgische luchtmacht raakte er bij betrokken,
zond een paar keer een paar F16s de lucht in na een waarneming Tot op heden verklaren
de mensen van de luchtmacht dat deze waarneming nog steeds onbekend is!
In
Zuid-Amerika was er vanaf 1992 ook sprake van de Chupacabra of geitenzuiger dat
is
een wezen dat door getuigen wordt omschreven met twee rode ogen, twee gaten
voor neusgaten, een mond met tanden uitstekende boven en naar beneden en zou
worden bedekt met zwarte haren. Volgens
sommige lijkt het op een vleermuis of op de vermeende alien uit de Roswellincident .Het maakt deel uit van de
populaire cultuur in heel Latijns-Amerika, inclusief Mexico en het eiland Puerto-Rico.Het dier voedde zich door het zuigen
van het bloed van boerderijdieren, zoals geiten of koeien door het maken van een
perfect rond gat in de nek en door het
raken van de kleine hersenen doodde het het dier zonder geen pijn. Het kreeg
daarom ook de naam geitenzuiger.
Begin 1996, Varginha, Brazilië. Over een periode van
verschillende weken worden minstens twee, misschien wel zes, buitenaardse
wezens gevangenen genomen of gedood en overgedragen aan de Amerikaanse
overheid. Mogelijk is er ook een ufogecrasht. Ooggetuigen
beschrijven de buitenaardse wezens als mensachtigen, met een lengte van 90 tot
120 centimeter. Ze hebben een donkerbruine, haarloze huid, grote driehoekige
hoofden met daarop drie korte hoorns en gigantische rode ogen die verticaal
ovaal zijn.Op 20 januari 1996 nemen
militaire strijdkrachten in Brazilië twee buitenaardse levende wezens gevangen.
De 'vangst' gebeurde in de nabijheid van Varginha, State of Minas Gerais,
centraal Brazilië. Dit feitelijk gegeven wordt aanzien als één van de meest
gewichtige zaken ooit die in dit land, en waarschijnlijk de hele wereld, dat geregistreerd
werd. De militaire autoriteiten trachten alle details van deze bergingsoperatie
geheim te houden, maar dankzij het speurwerk van Dr. Ubiraja Franco Rodrigues
en Vitorio Paccaccini, die in de omgeving woont en een respectvol en toegewijde
onderzoekers is, lekte er toch informatie uit naar de ufologen.
Zoals je zelf kan lezen, duiken
periodiek nog wel eens vreemde verhalen op, die een eigen leven gaan leiden,
zeker als de media er alle aandacht aan besteden Je begrijpt dus zelf wel dat
je als ernstige, objectieve en kritische onderzoeker echt met open geest
onderzoek dient te verrichten naar deze verhalen en echt op je hoede blijven.
De vraag blijft, waarom blijven mensen dergelijke bizarre verhalen vertellen?
9.HOE REAGEREN OP DERGELIJKE VERHALEN?
De
meeste ufologen negeerden decennia lang dergelijke rapporten door ze niet te
publiceren in hun tijdschriften, of ze probeerden ze weg te cijferen als
speculatieve onzin vaak vreemder dan de originele rapporten. Bepaalde
ufo-onderzoekers gingen zelfs zo ver om in de originele ufo-rapporten, waarin
spraken was van abnormaal grote ufonauten, deze weer te geven als kleine,
groene mannen. Dit aspect van de manipulatie van ufo-verslagen door aanpassing
of wijziging van de inhoud van de melding in functie van de verklaring, de
theorie of de visie, die een ufoloog aan een bepaalde waarneming wenst te
geven, bewijst dat de objectiviteit, eerlijkheid, realiteitszin en fairplay
tegenover de waarnemer en zijn getuigenis vaak ver te zoeken is, maar wel een
noodzaak bij de studie van het ufofenomeen. Uit ervaring weet ik dat dit nog
altijd een actueel probleem is! Bij een specifieke case, die wij mede
onderzochten, spraken de getuigen over een ovaalvormig object met een boord van
een tiental lichten. Een sceptische mede-onderzoeker, die de stelling aanneemt
het zal wel een vliegtuig zijn , want het licht op de landingsroute voor de
luchthaven voor vliegtuigen vermindert het aantal lichten tot een tweetal Onze
onderzoeker van BUFON een ingenieur op rust met jaren onderzoekservaring -
had een afwijking vastgesteld in het elektromagnetisch veld tijdens het
tijdstip van de waarneming, met zijn zelfgebouwde meetinstrumenten. Om deze
afwijking weg te toveren probeert hij nu onze onderzoeker bij zijn mede,
sceptische collegas als onbetrouwbaar te laten overkomen, gezien hij niet al
zijn vragen over de meetinstrumenten zou beantwoord hebben ( Misschien snapte
hij wel niet de uitleg van een ingenieur, niet?) Al bij al het maakt het
samenwerken tussen collegas met een andere visie en die een ander doe
nastreven dan een objectief onderzoek en niet gemakkelijker op.
Zo
kan ik nog bladzijden schrijven over onderzoekers, die deze vreemde
ontvoeringgevallen bestuderen en anderen, die proberen deze belachelijk te
maken of voor nonsens te verklaren Het onderwerp is actueel bespreekbaarder
geworden en met het internet is er de ruimte om zijn ervaringen anoniem te
slijten, veel ruimer geworden. De slachtoffers kunnen zich zelf groeperen via
sommige sites en onderling over gedachten wisselen over hun vaak pijnlijke
ervaringen. Gedeelde smart is halve smart
De
sceptici vergelijken de ontvoerden met de mystici uit vroegere eeuwen, want
beiden geloven dat ze iets ervaren hebben, dat aan anderen ontzegd wordt; ze
zijn zogenaamd uitverkoren. Het enige bewijs van hun ervaring is hun geloof dat
het gebeurde en het relaas dat ze er aan geven: dat is de stelling van de
sceptici
Volgens
deze twijfelaars is het feit dat mystieke ervaringen, net zoals de ontvoeringverhalen,
op overeenkomstige manieren wordt beschreven door de mystici in verschillende
lande en tijdsperioden, geen bewijs voor de echtheid van hun ervaringen.
Volgens hen lijkt de overeenkomst eerder in de gelijkvormigheid van de menselijke
ervaring, namelijk elke cultuur kent geboorte, seks en dood
Volgens
de bronnen van de sceptici lijken deze ontvoeringen door ufonauten niet allee
op mystici, maar ook op de middeleeuwse kloosterlingen, die geloofden dat ze
verleid waren door de duivels en er seks meehadden; ook op de vrouwen uit het
oude Hellas, die dachten dat ze seks gehad hadden met dieren en op de vrouwen
in latere millennia, die geloofden dat er heksen waren. De therapeuten van de
ontvoerder van nu, zijn de priesters van toen, die de waanvoorstellingen niet
er discussie stelden, maar ze aanmoedigden, koesterden en ze deden er alles aan
om deze verhalen te laten aanvaarden. De sceptici vergeten er echter bij te
vermelden dat de historische slachtoffers van demonen en de heksen hun
bekentenis vaak via de folteringen van de toevallige wetenschappelijker en
kerkelijk inquisitie deden en vaak ook onschuldige kennissen tot lotgenoten
maakten en een gruwelijke dood door verdrinking of op de brandstapel stierven.
Gelukkig kan die inquisitie de huidige ontvoerden door ufonauten niet fysisch
veroordelen tot de dood, maar niettemin proberen ze deden personen psychisch
klein te krijgen Ze stellen de ervaringen van deze personen dan ook voor als
waanideeën; als wishfull thinking; als bedrog; ja, zelfs als geïmplementeerde
verhalen door frauduleuze therapeuten of onderzoekers! Ze gaan zelfs nog verder
door te spreken over bepaalde, psychiatrische stoornissen, die gekenmerkt
worden door waanideeën. Je ziet zelf, alle middelen zijn goed voor hen om deze
bizarre ervaringen te vernietigen, door het wegnemen van de geloofwaardigheid
en betrouwbaarheid van getuigen en onderzoekers
De
littekens, die sommige slachtoffers verklaren opgelopen te hebben tijdens hun
ontvoering, en de implantaten, die bij sommige ontvoerden operatief verwijderd
werden, doen ze gewoon af als fysische letsels van gewone aardse ervaringen en
dingen. Ook de implantaten worden door de sceptici minachtend en op
systematische wijze verworpen als gewone aardse dingen
Als
je de houding en de reactie leest van de media, van de sceptici, van de
seculiere, materialistische wetenschap over ufos, over ufo-ontvoeringen en
andere esoterische onderwerpen, is het niet verwonderlijk dat alle getuigen
huiverig staan om tegenover de publieke inquisitie te staan met hun
waarneming en / of ervaring.
Het
doel van een sceptische onderzoeker blijft sowieso om een aardse, doodgewone
verklaring te vinden voor alle vreemde fenomenen en / of ervaringen en niet zo
zeer om een afdoende verklaring te vinden, aanvaardbaar voor alle partijen voor
de bizarre ervaring, zodat een win-winsituatie ontstaat voor iedereen.
Uiteindelijk wille ze enkel hun doctrines en axiomas als evangelie verkondigen
en laten erkennen door de grote massa. Ze verwerpen alles wat in strijd met hun
visie. De onderzoekers, die echt proberen om een logische verklaring te vinden
voor deze ervaringen, ongeacht de origine, en zo het slachtoffer te helpen,
zijn voor hen enkel fraudeurs en charlatans. Maar wie heeft in feite een
psychiatrische aandoening met waanideeën en een behandeling nodig: het
slachtoffer van een vreemde ontvoeringervaring en zijn onderzoeker / therapeut,
die de ontvoerder tracht te helpen of de gefrustreerde, sceptische onderzoeker,
die aan alles en nog wat twijfel?
10.Besluit.
In
dit artikel heb ik misschien harde woorden gesproken over een scepticus, maar
lees het boek Woordenboek voor een Scepticus en je begrijpt best wat ik
bedoel. Ik heb persoonlijk niets tegen kritisch en objectief onderzoek, zolang
het met open geest gebeurt en niet dat je begint met een verklaring en alles
karakteristieken van een melding daarin doet passen, soms door het weglaten van
belangrijke details.
Ik
heb respect en begrip voor alle onderzoeker, ongeacht hun visie, zolang ze hun
onderzoek eerlijk en fair doen en aan opbouwende kritiek doen. De tijd dat de
believers en de kritische onderzoekers zich moesten laten kleineren en geen
verhaal konden halen via de geïndoctrineerde media is gelukkig voorbij. Via het
internet en diverse site en blogs kan iedereen nu zijn verhaal kwijt zonder
gevaar dat hij / zij belachelijk gemaakt wordt.
De
twijfelaars, die op alle mogelijke manieren proberen de hoop bij de gewone,
normale mensen weg te nemen, spelen in mijn ogen een vuil spel. Acupunctuur, een
Chinese manier om het lichaam en geest te genezen, bestaat al duizenden jaren
voor onze klassieke geneeskunde Homeopathie breken zij af als een placebo-middel
of effect, terwijl zij vergeten te vermelden dat enkele eeuwen geleden, de artsen
de patiënten probeerden te genezen met middelen, gemaakt van kruiden Zo kan ik
nog wel wat verder gaan, maar dit gewoon om aan te geven waarom ik liever als een
hoopvolle believer wil gezien worden dan een gefrustreerde, levenloze scepticus.
Toch
blijf ik hopen dat we vroeg of laat een gulden middenweg kunnen vinden,
waardoor we al deze vreemde, esoterische fenomenen Samen kunnen bestuderen,
analyseren en een voor iedereen logische, aanvaardbare oplossing te vinden.
Maar bestaat Utopia wel? Of is dat ook weer zon waanidee
NA MEER DAN 60 JAAR UFO-ONDERZOEK: NOG STEEDS ANGST VOOR DE KILLE WAARHEID!
Er volgt weer een deel uit het rapport : na meer dan 60 jaar ufo-onderzoek : nog steeds angst voor de waarheid = deel 3 en hieronder volgt ook deel 4
3.2.2.PROJECT GRUDGE
Met de initiatie van Project GRUDGE,
schreef RUPPELT in 1956, begonnen de DARK AGES van de UFO-studie van de
luchtmacht. De onderzoekers van GRUDGE analyseerden de UFO-rapporten nu met als
standpunt dat UFOs niet bestaan konden. Het is toch allemaak maar verbeelding,
illusies, vervalsingen,... Om het even wat je ziet, geloof je ogen niet!
Aangezien de
stafchef Generaal Hoyt S. VANDENBERG de situatieschets van SIGN
verworpen had, werd het project overgenomen door medewerkers, die er van
overtuigd waren dat ze alle UFO-meldingen met conventionele oplossingen zouden
kunnen verklaren. De plannen om de onderzoeksteams uit te breiden, werden
opgeborgen. Het studieproject degradeerde tot een algemene functie van de
inlichtingendiensten van de luchtmacht. De naamsverandering van SIGN naar
GRUDGE was nodig overeenkomstig het klassificatie-codewoord 2A TOP SECRET.
Al dan niet was de overtreding van de veiligheid de werkelijke reden om het
project anders te noemen. GRUDGE weerspiegelde de nieuwe houding van de
luchtmacht ten opzichte van het UFO-verschijnsel. Alle UFO-rapporten
evalueerden tot het begrip van verkeerde interpretaties van natuurlijke
verschijnselen. De luchtmacht nam als doelstelling aan om alle UFO-meldingen
te verklaren. De verklaringen van hun public-relations inzake specifieke
UFO-gevallen kwam weinig of niet overeen met de werkelijke feiten van deze
waarnemingen. Indien een UFO-waarneming enkele karakteristieken vertoonde van
een vliegtuig of een weerballon, werd deze waarneming in een volgende
persbulletin direct verklaard als een vliegtuig of een weerballon. Kapitein
RUPPELT replikeerde enkele jaren later de beschuldigingen dat deze grove
borstel- methodologie - weerleggingen deel uitmaakten van een groter
internationaal rookgordijnenproject om de reële feiten te verbergen door
verwarring te stichten. Hij zei hetvolgende: Dit
is niet waar, er was eerder een gebrek aan coördinatie. Maar had de luchtmacht
werkelijk geprobeerd om verwarring te stichten, dan had ze geen betere job
kunnen afleveren! De publieke overtuiging van de bekwaamheid of
de onwil van de luchtmacht om het probleem op te lossen ebde geleidelijk weg in
1949. In elk geval GRUDGE werkte samen met de journalist Sidney SHALLETT,
die een tweedelig artikel over UFOs schreef in de wijd verspreide Saturday
Evening Post op 30 april en 7 mei 1949. Hij schreef dat vliegende
schotels meer te maken had met verkeerde waarnemingen, vervalsingen en
lichtgelovigheid dan met interplanetaire bezoekers. Volgens Shalett geloofde
geen enkel persoon, die een beetje gezag had bij de luchtmacht in vliegende
schotels, laat staan in buitenaarde bezoekers... GRUDGE was ervan overtuigd dat
de publikatie van deze artikels, de mensen zou ontmoedigen om vreemde
verschijnselen te rapporteren. Jammer genoeg voor het standpunt van de
luchtmachthadden de bewuste
POST-artikels een boomerang-effect. De stukken puilden zo uit van negatieve
luchtmachtpropaganda, dat het publiek zich begon af te vragen wat de luchtmacht
in werkelijkheid probeerde te verbergen...
Toen een overvloed
van meldingen toekwamen enkele dagen na de installatie van project GRUDGE,
waren de onderzoekers ervan overtuigd dat dit het gevolg was van deze
publikatie. Aangezien de jounalist in zijn artikels aangehaald had, dat sommige
meldingen onverklaarbaar bleven, hadden de artikels enkel het geloof in UFOs
gevoed. Een debunking persbulletin faalde een paar dagen later om de
belangstelling voor UFOs te temperen. Het maakte de officiële werkgroep enkel
verdacht in het verbergen van de waarheid. Dit artikel bevestigde de totale
ommekeer van het officieel UFO-onderzoek door gewoon twijfel te zaaien in de
geesten van het groot publiek. De hogervermelde krantenartikels waren een
typisch schoolvoorbeeldvan de
informeringspolitiek van de luchtmacht tegenover het grote publiek voor die
periode. Vertel de wereld dat de Air Force 95% van alle UFO-meldingen
verklaarde, maar zwijg over de resterende 5%. Leg de nadruk op de trucage-,
vervalsing- en knalpotrapporten. Kan je de data niet verklaren, probeer dan de
waarnemer in diskrediet te brengen... Het is jammer dat de
luchtmacht deze politiek bleef aanhouden. In werkelijkheid had ze misschien
niets te verbergen, buiten misschien hun eigen onbekwaamheid om alle
UFO-meldingen te verklaren. Intussen bereidde ze de afsluiting van hun
onderzoek naar vliegende schotels intens voor...
Met J. Allen HYNEK,
een astronoomvan de staatsuniversiteit
van OHIO en toen een felle UFO-scepticus, als raadgever wilde GRUDGE een
wetenschappelijke kader geven aan het onderzoek van de meldingen. GRUDGE opzet
bleef wel om alle meldingen op een aardse manier te verklaren. Tegen eind
augustus 1949 stelden ze een 600 bladzijde- tellend rapport op (Technical
Report No. 102-Ac 49/15 100, als secret geklasseerd), waarin
ze 244 UFO-waarnemingen bespraken. Het rapport gaf toe dat ze voor 23% van de meldingen geen afdoende verklaring konden
geven, maar er waren voldoende psychologische verklaringen voor de
rapporten van UFOs, die niet anders kunnen verklaard worden... ER is
nergens bewijs dat de gerapporteerde objecten het resultaat zijn van de
technologie van een vreemde mogendheid en dus vormen ze geen direct gevaar voor
de nationale veiligheid. Niettemin, vooruitlopend op een later zorgenkind
van het door de CIA gesteund ROBERTSON PANEL, irriteerde GRUDGE zich aan
het publiek begrip over UFOs; een gevaarlijk begrip dat door vijandelijke
machten voor psychologische oorlogsvoeringsdoeleinden misbruikt kon worden...
Het project adviseerde
dat het onderzoek en de studie van UFO-rapporten op een kleinere schaal diende
gevoerd te worden. Ruppelt citeerde dat na deze aanbeveling project GRUDGE
tot een periode van bijna gehele inactiviteit afgleed. Op 27 december 1949
kondigde de luchtmacht aan dat ze het project ging afsluiten, ondanks het feit
dat ze nog een geklassificeerd onderzoek deden naar een aantal rapporten van
ongewone verschijnselen in het luchtruim van New Mexico. Intussen werden de
onderzoeksresultaten van GRUDGE opgeborgen in de archieven...
Ironisch genoeg, terwijl de luchtmacht hun
UFO-activiteit uitschakelde, maakte ze hun veiligheidsmaatregelen strenger!
Verschillende schrijvers, waaronder een op rust gestelde marine-officier, Majoor
Donald KEYHOE, verzochten de luchtmacht om informatie en medewerking om hun
artikels van hun tijdschriften te illustreren. Maar de AIR FORCE had er genoeg
van! Zelfs toen Keyhoe zich tot de toenmalige luchtmacht deputy-directeur voor
informatie, brigade-generaal Sory SMITH wendde, kreeg hij geen gehoor op
zijn verzoek. De luchtmacht weigerde kategoriek om nog meer data openbaar te
maken dan wat ze vroeger al gedaan hadden; hetgeen al heel miniem was. In het
Januarinummer van 1950 van het tijdschrift TRUE, toen een algemeen
populair magazine voor mannen, schreef Keyhoe een dramatisch artikel, The
Flying Sucers are Real.Keyhoe
schreef dat Project Saucer spotnaam door het publiek gegeven aan
Project GRUDGE zich enkel als sceptisch voordeed, maar in realiteit wisten ze
dat UFOs van buitenaardse origine waren. Ze wilde dit verwarrende geheim
verder verborgen houden voor het grote publiek.
Vanzelfsprekend kreeg dit artikel enorm
veel aandacht in de media en het zou nog jarenlang de populaire publieke opinie
over een officiële UFO-cover-up beïnvloeden. Zijn True-artikel groeide zelfs
uit tot een bestseller-boek met dezelfde naam. Keyhoes theorie bleef: De luchtmacht hield het antwoord op het UFO-raadsel geheim
tot de natie voorbereid was op de totale ommekeer van deze oplossing!
Niettegenstaande de publieke afkondiging,
was GRUDGE in het geheel niet dood. Het behield een marginaal bestaan, genoeg
om BOB CONSIDINE bij te staan toen hij een UFO-melding onderzocht. In
het COSMOPOLITAN januarinummer van 1951 verscheen het resultaat van deze
samenwerking. In dit artikel voer CONSIDINE met de steun van GRUDGE, fel uit
naar UFO-getuigen. Hij karakteriseerde deze personen als uitzuigers en
true believers.
Tot de zomer van 1951 bestond GRUDGE nog
enkel uit één onderzoeker, namelijk Luitenant Jerry CUMINGS. Alles bleef
verbazend rustig, maar de situatie sloeg snel om in september 1951. Dit was het
gevolg van een reeks waarnemingen en radaropnames van snelbewegende, onbekende
objecten in de omgeving van een legerradar in New-Jersey op 10 september 1951.
Dit geval is beter bekend als het MONMOUTH-incident. In Fort Monmouth,
New-Jersey, demonstreerde een student-operator een radarconfiguratieaaneen groep luchtmachtofficieren. Plots toonde het radarscherm een object
dat zichtbaar sneller vloog dan een jet. Ongeveer 30 minuten later, meldde een
piloot van een T-33 die op 20.000 voet hoogte vloog, dat hij ver beneden zich
een dof (matte) zilverkleurig, schotelvormig object zag. Toenhij omlaag dook om de jacht in te zetten,
spoedde het object zich uit zicht en verdween. Later op de dag merkte de
radar-operator een ander voorwerp op een hoogte van 31.000 voet, dat traag
voortbewoog. De volgende dag worden nog meldingen opgemeten. In verlegenheid
gebracht door dit vreemde rapport beval de directeur van de Inlichtingendienst
van de luchtmacht in het Pentagon, Majoor-Generaal C. P. CABELL aan
Luitenant CUMMINGS en Luitenant-Kolonel N. R. ROSENGARTEN, chef
van de A.T.I.C. om onmiddellijk een onderzoek te starten. Zij waren een daglang
op de waarnemingsplaats, waar ze alle getuigen ondervroegen. Zij rapporteerden
direct aan CABEL in het Pentagon.
Daar aangekomen kwamen Cummings en Rosengarten
in een meeting terecht, die al volop bezig was. Hier konden ze vrij hun
frustraties uiten over de actuele onderzoekstoestand van GRUDGE. Een
verontwaardigde CABELL, die voelde dat de vorige officieren van GRUDGE gelogen
hadden en gezien het feit dat er geen afdoende verklaring gevonden werd voor de
laatste frustrerende waarnemingen, beval hij een nieuw en meer open-minded
benadering van het UFO-onderzoek aan. Andere aanwezige hoge rang officieren en
twee vertegenwoordigers van de Republic Aircraft gingen akkoord met de
veranderingen in het onderzoek. Toen Cummings en Rosengarten terug naar
A.T.I.C. in Wright-Patterson gezonden werden, hadden ze de duidelijk opdracht
om het UFO-project GRUDGE grondig te reorganiseren.
Cummings dagen bij de luchtmacht waren
geteld... Niettemin van zodra hij het legerleven vaarwel zei, keerde hij direct
terug naar het Calefornisch Instituut voor Technologie(C.I.T.)
om actief mee te werken aan een ander geklassificeerd overheidsproject.
Rosengarten vroeg aan kapitein RUPPELT, een inlichtingenofficier bij A.T.I.C.
in Wright-Patterson om GRUDGE te reorganiseren.
RUPPELT zette een archiefkast op met alle
GRUDGE- en SIGN-rapporten en denodige referenties. Hij verzamelde een staf rond
zich, bestaande uit individuen die geen onwrikbare mening over het UFO-fenomeen
hadden en die de rapporten bijgevolg op een logische en objectieve wijze konden
benaderen en beoordelen in functie van hun verdiensten. Hij zei later zelfs: Ik
moest 3 personen doorsturen omdat ze te pro of te con waren.
Ze begonnen actief te werken in december
1952 en de leden van de staf bereidden regelmatig status-rapporten voor, die
ongeveer eens per maand uitgegeven werden.Vier van deze verschenen nog in de overblijvende GRUDGE-periode; de
eerste drie kregen als veiligheidscode Confidential, het laatste SECRET...
Terwijl ze hun werk verderzetten met HYNEK
als wetenschappelijke raadgever, stelde de nieuwe staf van GRUDGE een
gestandaardiseerde vragenlijst op om UFO-rapporten op te stellen. RUPPELT en
anderen lichtten alle luchtmachtofficieren van de U.S.A. in om hen te laten
weten dat ze graag alle UFO-rapporten zouden ontvangen en dat ze deze bekwaam
zouden onderzoeken.
In een inspanning om meer te leren over de
waarnemingen, die GRUDGE niet ontvangen had, schreef RUPPELT zich in bij een
news-clipping service. Op die wijze hoopte hij meer inzicht te verwerven in
het UFO-fenomeen door het opstellen van statistieken aan de hand van al de
verzamelde gegevens. Hij ontving de toelating van de luchtmacht. Het BATTELLE
MEMORIAL INSTITUTE, een Columbus-achtige denktank, werd onder contract
gezet om dergelijke fundamentele analyse te leiden.
In maart 1952 had de luchtmacht project
Grudge opgewaardeerd van een project binnen een groep naar een
afzonderlijke, autonome organisatie, met de officiële titel van AERIAL
PFENOMENA GROUP. Dezelfde maand kreeg Grudge een andere naam: PROJECT
BLUE BOOK.
NA MEER DAN 60 JAAR UFO-ONDERZOEK: NOG STEEDS ANGST VOOR DE KILLE WAARHEID!
Nu volgt er deel 4 van het rapport : "na meer dan 60 jaar ufo-onderzoek nog steeds angst voor de waarheid!"
3.2.3. 1952,
ROBERTSON en PROJECT BLUE BOOK.
a. Inleiding tot
project Blue Book
Door de vernieuwde
aandacht van de luchtmacht voor UFOs werd Blue Book dus een afzonderlijke
werkgroep bij A.T.I.C.. Hun onderzoekscijfer verdubbelde, van ongeveer 10
UFO-rapporten per maand in december 1951 evolueerde ze tot 20 UFO-meldingen in
april 1952. Een artikel in het LIFE-magazine van 7 april 1952 plaatste
de ET-theorie opnieuw op het voorplan..
In maart 1952
herwaardeerde de luchtmacht Project GRUDGE dus op tot een nieuwe, autonome
onderzoeksgroep. Kapitein RUPELLT kwam aan het hoofd te staan en probeerde het
onderzoek een nieuwe elan te geven. De nieuwe officiële
benaming luidde AERIAL PHENOMENA GROUP en kreeg als codenaam Project
Blue BOOK. Volgens Ruppelt was
deze naam afgeleid van de titel gegeven aan collegetesten. Jaren later
vertelde Luitenant-kolonel Charles COOKE, die toen de naam gekozen had,
dat hij niet wou dat iets in verband met GRUDGE of SIGN kon gebracht worden en
dat hij ook niet wilde overdrijven bij het uitkiezen van een benaming.
Met een aangroeiend aantal UFO-meldingen
plande Ruppelt een beter en nauwgezetter onderzoek dan ooit tevoren was
gebeurd. Met de A.T.I.C.s teams voor elektronische analysen en onderzoek,
inbegrepen de radarsectie, die eveneens volledig samenwerkten met Blue Book,
hoopte Ruppelt harde bewijzen te verzamelen voor het bestaan van UFOs. Hij vroeg
eveneens steun in het verkrijgen van de opgenomen radarbeelden van UFOs,
wanneer zij op A.D.C.-radar getraceerd en gefilmd werden...
Enkele dagen later
ontmoette Ruppelt een aantal wetenschappers van het Cambridge Research
Laboratory(= in de U.S.A. de
befaamde Bacon Hill-group), die voor de luchtmacht de technische zaken
analyseerden. Volgens een geklassificeerd Blue Book Status Report (n°. 5, 31
maart 1952) werden meerdere excellente suggesties voor het onderzoek
geopperd. Eén van deze briljante ideeën was om geluidsignalen
registreerapparaten te plaatsen op de lokaties waar regelmatig, veel
UFO-waarnemingen gemeld werden. In de toekomst zouden cameras (= professionele
patrouillecameras) ontwikkeld worden, die dergelijke objecten zouden kunnen ontdekken
en filmen.
Tijdens een onderzoek aan de
Wright-Patterson basis in Dayton, adviseerde de fysicus Joseph KAPLAN,
raadgevende wetenschapper voor de luchtmacht, om een speciale straalbrekend
rooster te plaatsen op de patrouillecameras om alzo toe te laten
spectroanalysen uit te voeren op de waargenomen UFOs. Volgens Blue Book zou
het spectrum van dit resultaat vergeleken worden met het spectrum van bekende
objecten. Deze werkwijze zou de mogelijkheid scheppen vast te stellen of de
gerapporteerde objecten een totaal nieuw type vliegtuig waren of gewoon een
verkeerd geïdentificeerd bekend tuig.
Kapitein Ruppelt
maakte een geestdriftige poging om het UFO-raadsel op een wetenschappelijke
basis te bestuderen. De overheid van de USA vaardigde alzo voor de eerste maal
in de UFO-geschiedenis gedetailleerde, geschreven instrukties uit over de te
volgen procedures bij UFO-meldingen. Nochthans lokten
deze dokumenten zelf tegenstrijdigheden uit. J.A.N.A.P.-146, Canadian-United
States Communications Instructions for reporting Vital Intelligence Sightings
somt de te nemen maatregelen op, die gevolgd dienen te worden bij het melden
van de informatie van levensbelang voor de veiligheid van de Verenigde Staten
of Canada. De JANAP-polemiek stuit op het meetellen van het UFO-verschijnsel in
dezelfde klasse als het ontdekken van vijandige vliegtuigen en/of vaartuigen,
als bijvoorbeeld gebeurtenissen die een zeer snelle en dringende defensieve
interventie- of onderzoeksaktie vereisen.Sommige mensen interpreteerden deze verklaringen
als de weerlegging van de uitleg van de luchtmacht dat UFOs geen gevaar
vormden voor de nationale veiligheid.
Op 5 april 1952 werd de Air Force Letter
200-5 UNINDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS uitgegeven en overgemaakt aan alle
luchtmachtbasissen van de U.S.A. met de opdracht om alle UFO-waarnemingen
direct aan Blue Book en het Pentagon te melden. Deze overheidsorder zorgde
eveneens voor tegenspraak. Twee alineas in dit order waren de oorzaak van deze
ontstane polemiek:
- Eerst: 2.
OBJECTIEVEN
c) Vermindering van het
UFO-percentage ONBEKEND. Het onderzoek van
de luchtmacht moet het percentage van de
ongeïndentificeerde gevallen tot
het strikte minimum beperken.
Door hier tussen de
regels te lezen, kan je afleiden of besluiten dat de luchtmacht alleen aandacht
had om alle UFO-gevallen te kunnen verklaren en zo in de doofpot te steken. De
tweede tegenstrijdige paragraaf was:
-
10... Luchtmachtpersoneel, andere dan mensen van het Inlichtingenbureau of
het
Secretariaat van de luchtmacht, mogen noch kontakt hebben met privé-
personen
in verband met UFO-gevallen, noch mogen zij hun akties of
funkties
met ongemachtigde personen bespreken, tenzij zobevolen werd en
alleen
op een nodig om weten-basis.
Criticasters van de luchtmacht interpreteerden
deze order als een vorm van verboden censuur en evenzeer als intimidatie van
het luchtmachtpersoneel. De luchtmacht weerlegde deze beschuldigingen door te
verklaren dat deze maatregel eenvoudig vereist was om onofficiële speculaties
over UFO-rapporten door hun personeelsleden te voorkomen.
De
UFO-meldingen werden dus direct doorgezonden naar Blue Book en het Pentagon. Kopies van deze rapporten zouden tevens doorgezonden
worden aan alle hoofden van de luchtmachtcommandos, aan de
inlichtingendirecteur van de luchtmacht en aan A.T.I.C.. De brief vermeldde
bovendien dat het personeel van Blue Book direct om het even welke
luchtmachteenheid kon contacteren, zonder de gewone commandorangorde te volgen.
Dit was voorheen nog nooit gebeurd bij de luchtmacht, noteerde
Ruppelt het gaf het project heel wat bijkomend prestige...
In 1952 evolueerde
Blue Book onder Ruppelt dus tot een bijzondere werkgroep, bestaande uit vijf
officieren, twee personen van de luchtmacht en twee burgers. Tevens konden ze
beroep doen op de raadgevende diensten van drie STANFORD RESEARCH INSTITUTEspecialisten
en van Dr. Allen Hynek, een bekend astronoom. Zo werd Blue Book de grootste
UFO-onderzoeksgroep die de luchtmacht ooit officieel oprichtte; voorheen
bestond hun inspanning enkel uit één of twee officieren, één inschrijvingsman
en één secretaris.
In zijn boek THE
UFO-EXPERIENCE (Ned. Vertaling = De UFO-uitdaging), schrijft Dr. Hynek
dat Blue BOOK publiek gezien werd als een volledige en ernstige
onderzoeksoperatie. Het grote publiek zag het project meestal heel
uitgebreid: een goed van personeel voorzien kantoor met rijen werkkamers,
computerterminals om de UFO-databank te raadplegen en groepen
wetenschapsmensen, die rustig UFO-rapporten onderzochten, bijgestaan door een
staf medewerkers. Later verklaarde Hynek dat de situatie
jammer genoeg net het tegenovergestelde was. Eén officier van lage rang leidde
gewoonlijk de onderzoeken; meestal evalueerde een sergeant met een kleine
technische en wetenschappelijke training de binnengekomen meldingen. Hynek citeerde dat ... het meeste werk in het
bureel was bestemd voor randmateries of aangelegenheden, alles gedaan op
amateuristische wijze.Verder verklaarde
hij nog, dat in de vele jaren, waarin hij aan Project Blue Book werkte, nimmer
opmerkte dat één of andere ernstige discussie over onderzoeksmethoden,
of in verband met de verbetering van de verzamelakties van UFO-data of
technieken van uitgebreide ondervragingsprocedures van getuigen plaatsvond.
De frustraties lagen er dus dik op bij Hynek in een latere onderzoeksfase... Goede wil volstaat niet alleen om aan goed onderzoek
te doen!!
In de loop van 1952
ging de aandacht van Ruppelt en zijn medewerkers vooral naar het onderzoek van
belangrijke rapporten, zoals het zeer bekende Washington National
Radar-Visual Case (= Washington National Airport Incident) en het nog
steeds controversieel Florida Scoutmaster Case. Wegens de raadselachtige
waarnemingen, zo dicht bij de Amerikaanse nationale hoofdstad hield de
luchtmacht haar eerste persconferentie over het UFO-fenomeen...
Op 19
juli 1952, kort na middernacht, registreerden radareenheden van de nationale
luchthaven 8 UFOs bij de ANDREWS-luchtmachtbasis, een 10 km zuiderlijker. De
oudste vluchtleider van dienst beschreef de UFOs aan de hand van radarsignalen
als een formatie van traagvliegende vliegtuigen, totdat twee objecten door een
plotse versnelling uit de radarcontrolezone verdwenen. De controleur riep er twee andere personen bij. Allemaal besloten ze dat het hier niet ging
om een vliegtuig. Het raadsel vergrootte nog toen een verkeersleider van
ANDREWS eveneens onbekende vliegende objecten op zijn radarscherm signaleerde.
Een Capital Air Lines-piloot, die net vertrokken was, meldde visueel contact,
hetgeen bevestigd werd op de radar van de Controletoren. Kort na deze gebeurtenis riep men de DOVER-luchtmachtbasis,
DELAWARE, op om onderscheppende jets te vragen. Wegens onverklaarbare redenen was het al dag eer één
F-94 aankwam. De UFOs waren natuurlijk verdwenen.
De
inlichtingendiensten van de luchtmacht werden totaal verrast door deze
waarnemingen. In de furie, veroorzaakt door deze raadselachtige waarnemingen,
dacht niemand eraan om het Pentagon te verwittigen, maar deze sightings lekten
toch uit in de pers. Fase I van dit voorval werd afgesloten, op het ogenblik
dat de verzamelde luchtmachtinstanties geen bijkomende details vrijgaven en een
eenvoudig no comment verklaarden.
Fase II begon op 26 juli 1952,
rond 10u30 a.m., toen dezelfde radaroperators van Washington National Airport
(die de week tevoren ook de UFOs waarnamen) opnieuw dergelijke traagbewegende
punten op het radarscherm opmerkte. Net alsof het om een algemene repititie
ging, toonde de radar van ANDREWS dezelfde onbekende signalen. Opnieuw kwam er
een dringende oproep om jets te zenden toe op DOVER A.F.B., maar de
radarbeelden verdwenen op het ogenblik dat de onderscheppende jets toekwamen.
Dan, net alsof ze een bizar spelletje opvoerden, verschenen de signalen
opnieuw, vanaf het moment dat de jets uit het gebied verdwenen. Weer keerden de
jets terug. De UFO-beelden bleven echter op het radarscherm, terwijl de jets
naderden. Vooraleer de piloten dichtgenoeg waren om meer dan een lichtvorm te
zien, schoten de UFOs weg. Na een nutteloze zoekactie van 20 minuten, keerden
de jagers terug naar hun basis wegens gebrek aan kerosine.
De pers in Washington ging zeer fel te keer
en zaaide een enorme oproer. Om de publieke opinie te sussen, besloot de
luchtmacht een persconferentie te houden op 29 juli, onder voorzitterschap van
de directeur van de inlichtingendienst, Majoor-Generaal J. SAMFORD. Een
aandachtige lezer van het persbulletin leerde dat SAMFORD een eerlijke poging
deed om de Washington-incidenten recht te zetten. Maar hij werd eenvoudig
afgeremd, daar hij zelf geen afdoend antwoord wist op alle vragen.
Niettegenstaande deze leemte, aanvaardde de media de mogelijke verklaring dat
de radarsporen eenvoudig veroorzaakt werden door temperatuurinversies. Zo
verlegden ze hun aandacht naar andere, minder raadselachtige items. In de
archieven van de luchtmacht staat actueel de verklaring van het
Washington-incident nog steed geboekt als UNKNOWN...
Tijdens de
zomermaanden van 1952 was er dus een tsunami van waarnemingen; alleen in juli
al werden er meer dan 500 UFO-meldingen opgetekend. Dit
was een rekord dat elke andere maandstatistiek van de luchtmachtarchieven van
de mat veegde... Ruppelt herinnert zich, De situatie was nooit voorheen
zo verdubbeld... Niet alleen werden
alle records met betrekking van het aantal UFO-rapporten gebroken, ze werden
gewoon verpulverd. Het 8° Status rapport van Blue Book(31-12-1952) verklaarde, Tijdens de
periode van 1 juli 1952 tot en met 31 oktober 1952 ontvingen we 886
rapporten...Het totaal van deze 886
rapporten bedraagt 149 verslagen méér ontvangen, dan de ganse voorgaande
periode van 5 jaar dat het UFO-onderzoeksproject bestaat. In dit
totaal van 886 waren de 800 verslagen, verkregen via briefwisseling van het
publiek, niet opgenomen.
Deze zomer sprak
raadgever en astronoom Dr. J. Allen Hynek ook met 44 collega-astronomen
en vroeg hun mening over het fenomeen UFOs. Hynek vernam dat vijf onder hen
zelf al UFOs hadden waargenomen. Dit is een veel hoger percentage dan
bij het groot publiek, claimde hij.
De
grote meerderheid van hen was noch vijandig, noch overdrevengeïnteresseerd in UFOs... Ik nam de tijd
om ernstig met enkelen van hen tepraten en hen op de feiten te wijzen dat
sommige waarnemingen echtraadselachtig waren en niet zo gemakkelijk
te verklaren. Hun belangstelling was direct aangewakkerd. Ze wezen erop dat
hun algemene onverschilligheid vooral te wijten was aan een gebrek aan
informatie over dit onderwerp. En zeker een belangrijke factor van hun
verlangen niet te spreken over deze dingen was hun verpletterende schrik voor
negatieve publiciteit.
BLUE BOOKs omgang
met wetenschappers gebeurde vooral met medewerkers van het befaamde BATELLE
MEMORIAL INSTITUTE. Dit instituut had een samenwerkingscontract met de
luchtmacht sinds 1951 om UFO-gegevens te verzamelen en te analyseren. A.T.I.C.
werkte ook aan het idee van Kaplan om twee lens ruimtecameras, waarvan één met
een straalbrekend rooster voor één lens - te plaatsen op de luchtmachtbasissen
en op sommige F-86 onderscheppingsvliegtuigen. Het A.D.C. beval hun medewerkers
om de radarscherm cameras 24 uur op 24 uur paraat te houden in alarmfase.
Bedoeling was ze direct te gebruiken bij het traceren van een onbekend object.
Blue Book plande ook visuele spotting stations te installeren in het noorden
van New Mexico. Dit was een gebied dat nog steeds constant meer rapporten
telt dan menig ander gebied van de U.S.A.. Deze posten zouden eveneens
uitgerust worden met instrumenten en cameras.
Historicus David M.
JACOBS schreef dat in 1952 het hoogste
punt van UFO-onderzoek van de luchtmacht bereikt werd. Volgens James E.
MCDONALD, een atmosferische fysicus van een universiteit van ARIZONA,
die een intensieve studie over het UFO-fenomeen maakte tot zijn dood in 1971,
schreef:
De 24
maandenvan oktober 1951 tot september 1953
groeide uit toteen
heroïsche periode van het UFO-onderzoek
door de luchtmacht... de enige
interval, tijdens de welke UFOs ernstig en
relatief energiek onderzocht
werden... Net voor deze periode lagen de
donkere jaren (dark ages), zoals
Ruppelt vertelde, genoemd het 1949-1951
tijdperk van deze projecten SIGN
en GRUDGE. Kort na 1953 begon een
soortgelijk, nieuw donker jaar, toen de
debunking en oppervlakkig onderzoek weer de
kop opstaken, en de
bovenhand haalde als antwoord op het
UFO-probleem...
Nochthans had de
luchtmacht veel kunnen bijleren bij het behandelen van het UFO-probleem
tegenover het groot publiek. Uit Samfords verklaring hadden ze kunnen afleiden
dat public-relationproblemen vermeden kunnen worden, indien de luchtmacht een
eerlijke poging had gedaan om de aanwezige feiten publiek te verklaren. De
inspanningen van de luchtmacht werden teniet gedaan door andere krachten binnen
de overheid. De globale UFO-golf van 1952 en de indrukwekkende UFO-sighting
boven het Witte Huis (= presidentswoning) en het Kapitool in Washington met de
onvermijdelijke, enorme publiciteit en de oncontroleerbare nieuwgierigheid van
het groot publiek, overtuigde de overheid ervan dat er iets specifieks moest
gebeuren om uiteindelijk een oplossing te vinden voor dit frustrerend probleem.
De bijeengekomen C.I.A. (= Central Intelligence Agency) steunde het Robertsonluik
van 1953 en bevestigt hierdoor het groot belang van de
luchtmachtonderzoeken. Het overladen, het vastlopen van de communicatiekanalen
van de inlichtingendiensten tijdens het uitbreken van de UFO-waarnemingen boven
Washington D.C., bracht de C.I.A. van streek. Ze vreesden dat een vijandige,
buitenlandse mogendheid voordeel zou kunnen putten uit dit soort van
communicatiestoringen. Deze grote bezorgdheid, die vele hooggeplaatste
luchtmachtofficieren koesterden, leidde dus tot een bijeenroeping van een door
de C.I.A. betaalde meeting tussen 14 en 17 januari 1953. Tijdens deze
vergadering overwogen en verwierpen een kleine groep skeptische wetenschappers
een aantal ideeën. De C.I.A. steunde het ROBERTSON panel, dat
verklaarde dat in de UFO-rapporten niets staat dat werkelijk op ongewone
objecten wees. UFOs vormden geen gevaar voor de nationale veiligheid. Maar
alleen al het geloof in hun bestaan, was volgens de inschatting van de
wetenschappers en de C.I.A. een potentieel gevaar om massahysterie en paniek te
veroorzaken. Een bedreven, vijandige macht van Amerika kon deze verslagen van
UFOs misbruiken als psychologische oorlogsvoeringswapen tegen hen. Daardoor
waren vooral de UFO-meldingen en niet de UFOs zelf een potentieel gevaar voor
de U.S.A. (massahysterie, paniek, blokkering van medialijnen,...) In het
tijdperk van de koude oorlog en het Sovjetgevaar dien je deze angst wel
realistischer te beschouwen dan wij de dag van vandaag kunnen vatten...
b. Wat houdt het Roberson-panel 1952
1953 effectief in?
Jarenlang
verspreidde zich het gerucht datde
Central Intelligence Agency (C.I.A.) sterk betrokken was met het UFO-mysterie
en met de controversie en gecrashste UFOs in het bijzonder. Deze beweringen
worden verder ondersteund door de inhoud van de Majestic 12 Dokumenten.
Desalniettemin, op een officieel niveau tenminste, heeft de C.I.A. enkel maar
bevestigd dat ze enkel en direct betrokken waren met één UFO-studie door het
zogenaamde ROBERTSON PANEL. Om het officieel verhaal van het Robertson panel te
begrijpen , dien je rekening te houden met de volgende verklaring:
In januari
1952 brachten H. Marshall CHADWELL (C.I.A. directeur van Scientific Intelligence) en H.P. ROBERTSON,
een befaamde fysicus van het Californisch Institute of Technology, een
voornaam panel samen van particuliere wetenschappers om het
UFO-onderwerp te bestuderen. In dit panel zat Robertson als voorzitter; Samuel
A. GOUDSMIT, een kernfysicus van de BROUKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORIES;
Luis ALVAREZ, een hoge energie fysicus; Thornton PAGE, de
plaatsvervangende directeurvan het JOHNs HOPKINS OPERATIONS RESEARCH
OFFICE en een expert in radar en elektronica en Lloyd BERKNER, een
directeur van de BROUKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORIES en een
specialist in geofysica. De opdracht van dit panelwas omhet beschikbaar bewijsmateriaal van deUFOs te herzien en na te denken over de
mogelijke gevaren van het fenomeen tot de nationale veiligheid van de
Verenigde Staten. Het panel kwam samen van 14 tot 17 januari 1953. Het checkte
luchtmachtgegevens over historische UFO-gevallen na. Na 12 uur tijd te besteden
aan de studie van het fenomeen, verklaarde ze dat aanvaardbare verklaringen
voor de meeste gevallen konden vooropgesteld worden, maar niet voor ALLE
waarnemingen. Bijvoorbeeld, nadat ze bewegende filmbeelden zagen van
een UFO-waarneming nabij TREMONTON, UTAH op 2 juli 1952 en één nabij
GREAT FALLS, MONTANA op 15 augustus 1950, bekeken,
besloot het panel dat de beelden op de Tremontonfilm veroorzaakt waren door
zonlichtreflectiesvan zeemeeuwen en dat de beelden van Great
Falls zonlichtweerkaatsingen waren van de oppervlakte van twee
luchtmachtonderscheppingstoestellen... Het panel besloot unaniem dat er geen
bewijs bestond voor direct gevaar voor de nationale veiligheid door de
UFO-meldingen, noch vonden ze enig bewijs dat de waargenomen objecten buitenaards
zouden kunnen zijn. Zij vonden dat de voortdurende klemtoon en aandacht op
de UFO-rapportering het orderlijk functionneren van de overheid
kon bedreigen door het overhitten en blokkeren van de communicatiekanalen met
onbelangrijke rapporten en doorhet veroorzaken vaneen
hysterisch massagedrag en daardoor bedreigend was om een degelijke autoriteit
te vestigen.Het panel was eveneens bezorgddat de potentiële vijanden, die een aanval op de Verenigde Staten overwogen, het
UFO-fenomeen kon uitbuiten en gebruiken om de verdediging door de
luchtmacht te ontwrichten. Actueel klinkt deze verklaring misschien
belachelijk, maar in de periode van de Koude Oorlog met U.S.S.R. en het Warchaupact als
gevaarlijke tegenstander was dit idee zeker niet zo zinloos.Om deze problemen te vermijden, stelde het
panel voor dat de National Security Councel UFOs zouden ontkennen
(=debunken) en eenpolitiek van publieke opvoeding zou instellen om het
grote publiek ervan te overtuigen van het gebrek aan bewijs achter UFOs. Ze
raadde aan om de massamedia te gebruiken, net zoals advertenties, business
clubs, scholen en zelfs de DISNEY-coöperatie in te schakelen om deze
boodschap over te brengen. Verslaguitbrengend aan de hogere
bewindvoeders van het McCarthisme (= Anti-communistenjacht in de V.S. in de
jaren 50) beval het panel ook aandat zulke particuliereUFO-groepen, zoalshet Civlian Flying Saucers Investigators (C.F.S.I.) uit Los Angeles en
de Aerial Phenomena Research Organisation (A.P.R.O) uit Winconsinkritisch dienden gevolg te worden voor subversieve (= onverwerpende) activiteiten.
De besluiten van het Robertson panel klonken alzo opvallend gelijkluidend
met de conclusies van de vroegere rapporten van de studiegroepen van de
luchtmacht, namelijk SIGN en GRUDGE en deze van de eigen C.I.A.-studiegroep,
de O.S.I.-studiegroep. Alle onderzoekende studiegroepen vonden dat
UFO-rapporten geen onmiddellijk gevaar voor de nationale veiligheid
betekenden en er geen bewijs aanwezig was van buitenaardse bezoekers.De bevindingen volgend van de Robertsongroep
besloot het Agentschap zijn inspanningen op te geven om een N.S.C.I.D.
te ontwerpen over UFOs. De Scientific Advisory Panel on UFOs (= het Robertson panel) legde
hun rapport voor aan de I.A.C., het Secretariaat van
Defensie, de directie van de Federal Civil Defense Administration en aan de
voorzitter van het National Security Resourches Board. C.I.A. officiëlenwensten kenniste hebben vanenige belangstelling van het Agentschap voor het
onderwerp van Vliegende Schotelsen deze strikt te beperken, niet alleen omdat het rapport van hetRoberson panel geklassificeerd was, maar ook
dat enige aanduiding van geldelijke steun aan het panel verboden
was. Deze houding zou het Agenstschap later zuur opbreken en grote
problemen veroorzaken omtrent hun geloofwaardigheid.
Ondanks de geschiedenis van de
betrokkenheid van de C.I.A. in de UFO-controversie, zo voorgesteld door HAINES
en het Agenstschap zelf, bleven verdachtmakingen opduiken dat het gehele
verhaal over UFOs openbaar moest gemaakt worden. Victor MARCHETTI,
vroeger bij de C.I.A., verklaarde dat hij van hooggeplaatsten binnen het
Agenstschap verslagen hoorde over lichamen van kleine, grijze mannen,
geborgen na het crashen van een UFO en bewaard op de Wright-Patterson luchtmachtbasis
te Dayton, OHIO.
Tegelijk, hoorde de latere UFO-onderzoeker
majoor Donald KEYHOE van insidersbronnen binnen het leger dat het doel van de
ROBERTSON-groep eenvoudig was om het UFO-onderwerp te debunken en te
ontkrachten. Deze manier van werken liet de C.I.A. toe om zijn UFO-onderzoeken
op een meer geheim niveau te voeren -uitleg die lijkt stand te houden doorhet geopenbaarde materiaal in de Majestic 12-dokumenten.
c.Gevolgen van de
besluiten van het Robertson Panel voor
Project Blue BOOK
De schrikbarende
vaststelling over een mogelijke bedreiging van de nationale veiligheid door het
eventueel vastlopen van de communicatiekanalen door massahysterie, had
eenvoudig het meest invloedrijke impact op de overheidstudie van UFOs. Hierna
zou de overheid de UFO-activiteit nooit meer publiek onderzoeken en analyseren.
Vanaf nu zouden ze alle officiële inspanningen richten op het
debunken van het verschijnsel. Ze beschouwden het
UFO-probleem alleen maar als een publiek gebonden hoofdpijn, die het
veroorzaakt en dat het meer aandacht en moeite kreeg dan het werkelijk
verdiende. Na 1953 trad de overheid eerder op als een sussende agent, die
probeerde alle angsten weg te nemen. Ze vertelden het publiek
gewoon dat ze alles onder controle hadden. In stilte
hoopten ze dat dit smakeloos verschijnsel en de publieke aandacht ervoor
stilaan zou stoppen en dat de vele meldingen zouden ophouden.
Vanaf nu werden de
ambities van RUPPELT om een meer gesofistikeerd en beter gefinancieerd
onderzoek te leiden een ware frustratie. De verschillende plannen om waarnemers
en instrumenten te plaatsen op de diverse luchtmachtbasissen werden afgevoerd;
de Blue Book staf sterk verminderd. In februari 1953 bracht Ruppelt het idee
naar voren dat een A.D.C.-eenheid, de 4602° Air Intelligence Service
Squadron (A.I.S.S.) de Blue Book onderzoeken zou leiden. Eind 1953 nam deze
eenheid de onderzoekstaak effectief over.
Toen Ruppelt in
februari 1953 Blue Book verliet om elders een tijdelijke opdracht uit te
voeren, nam een stafofficier luitenant Robert OLSSON zijn taak over.
Toen Ruppelt later terugkwam, vond hij zich nog aan het hoofd van een
werkgroep, die enkel nog bestond uit 2 ondergeschikten en hijzelf... Zijn
tijdelijke (bewuste?) detachering lijkt dus duidelijk op een elegante manier en
om zonder pottenkijkers of kritische commentaar Project Blue Book buiten spel
te zetten en verder af te bouwen. Bij Ruppelts vertrek in augustus 1953 kwam
er een onderofficier aan het hoofd te staan van Blue Book.
Dezelfde maand nog
vaardigde de luchtmacht zijn order REGULATION 200-2 uit. Deze officiële
richtlijn bepaalde hoe de luchtmachtofficieren van de diverse basissen in de
toekomst dienden om te gaan met UFO-rapporten. Tevens bevalen ze hen, er enkel
publiek over te discussiëren als de UFO-meldingen opgelost waren. In het andere
geval moesten ze geklassificeerd worden minimum - op een restricted-
niveau.
Een omvangrijk
rapport, opgesteld door het Battelle Memorial Instituut versterkte
alleen maar de overtuiging van de overheid dat UFOs geen objecten van
ongewoneorigine waren. De heersende
mening van de luchtmacht over de UFO-meldingen kwam overeen met deze van een
hoe langer hoe meer verwarde Dr. Allen HYNEK : Het kan niet mogelijk
zijn, daarvoor bestond het verschijnsel niet. Vanaf 1953 werd de
voorwaartse, elementaire politiek van de luchtmacht, proberen zoveel mogelijke
verslagen te identificeren, te weerleggen en het publiek op te voeden, dat alle
meldingen verklaarbaar waren. Ze hoopten dus dat bij gebrek aan publieke belangstelling
dat de UFO-meldingen zouden wegebben... Alle UFO-gevallen moesten weerlegd
worden in de overeenstemming met de actuele inhoud van het rapport. De files
(geordende, onderzochte gevallen) moesten geheim blijven om publieke
belangstelling voor het UFO-vraagstuk te voorkomen. Maar de poging om het
publiek weg te houden van alle UFO-verslagen faalde. Tegen 1958 trachtte een
gefrustreerde luchtmacht niet alleen het publiek van UFO-meldingen te
bevrijden, maar zichzelf te bevrijden van het volledige UFO-programma...
Rond deze periode
werden de eerste Amerikaanse amateur UFO-studiegroepen opgericht om op
nationale schaal op te treden. Jim en Carol LORENZEN in TUCSON,
ARIZONA stichtte de A.P.R.O (AERIAL PHENOMENA RESEARCH ORGANISATION).
De tweede grootste UFO-organisatie N.I.C.A.P. (NATIONAL INVESTIGATION
COMMITTEE ON AERIAL PHENOMENA) startte slechts enkele jaren later in WASHINGTON
D.C., onder leiding van Majoor KEYHOE, de schrijver van het beruchte
TRUE - artikel (= verdedigen van ET-hypothese) en van verschillende boeken over
vliegende schotels. Volgens de Blue Book-filesbestonden er in het najaar van 1950 in de U.S.A. ongeveer een50-tal UFO-verenigingen. Het waren vooral
A.P.R.O. en N.I.C.A.P., die de volgende jaren de luchtmacht aanzienlijk parten
zou spelen en moeilijkheden maakten...
Voorcritici op het werk van de luchtmacht, zoals
majoor Donald E. KEYHOE, was de richtlijn 200-2 net het bewijs van een
officiële cover-up. Voor hen die tot het kamp van de C.I.A. behoorden, was dit
eenvoudig een antwoord op hun aanbevelingen om de publieke belangstelling en
speculatie in en over de UFO-meldingen te ontmoedigen. De maandelijkse uitgave
van de Blue Book Status - rapporten werd met een afnemende frekwentie
gepubliceerd; ze legden de klemtoon in hun rapporten vooral op de opgelosten
rapporten. Hynek zou vele jaren scherp aanhalen dat de uitgave van
propaganda en public-relationshandleidingen vaak onbezonnen, ondoordacht en
tegenstrijdig waren.
Kapitein Charles
HARDIN werd in maart 1954 directeur van BLUE BOOK.
De eenheid 4602 - Air Intelligence Service Squadron trok het grote werk in het
onderzoek en de analyse naar zich toe. Hardin zelf had weinig of niets
te doen, hetgeen hij wel leuk vond, schreef RUPPELT volgens een privé
memorandum .Hij gelooft in het geheel niet in UFOs, noteerde
Ruppelt, in feite denkt hij dat iedereen die belangstelling toont voor
UFOs gewoon gek is. Zij vervelen hem. Hynek zou zich later
herinneren, HARDIN was een strikte carrièreman, die nog slechts naar één
ding uitkeek en dat was de dag van zijn opruststelling. Hij wou een
beursmakelaar worden en hij besteedde nu al veel tijd aan het lezen van
informatie over de effectenmarkt.
In februari 1955
vertelde A.T.I.C. het hoofd van A.I.I.S. dat het doel van het UFO-onderzoek was
om het aantal onopgeloste gevallen tot het strikte minimum terug te brengen. Om
deze opdracht tot een goed einde te brengen, had de luchtmacht volgens JACOBS
devolgende procedure toegepast: De luchtmacht had nu de
identificatiecategorie uitgebreid door de termen waarschijnlijk (= probable) en
mogelijk (= possible) toe te voegen in hun verklaringen. Deze vage
subcategoriën lieten de onderzoekers toe om een UFO-melding te identificeren op
hun inschatting van de mogelijkheid dat de waarneming en bekend verschijn
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Food, Mars Blueberries May Be Vegetation, South Africa Gold Mining Cities 200,
000 years old, UFO Sighted During October 2010 Nuclear Missile
Incident.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over
Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Indiana,
Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Oregon,
Tennessee, Texas and Washington. Sightings of UFOs were also reported in
Australia, Canada, Columbia, Ireland, Mexico, Russia, and 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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Shuttle Spots UFO?
Friday, July 8, 2011 marked the final flight of Space
Shuttle Atlantis and the end of an era. This was NASA's last space shuttle
launch, and future manned flights will not be planned for several years. So,
it's really no surprise that at least two eagle-eyed observers have noticed a
UFO in the video footage of Atlantis making her final voyage.
It is increasingly common for UFO sightings to be reported surrounding
historic events, natural disasters, and manmade accidents. It was only a matter
of time before the final flight of Space Shuttle Atlantis was recognized as the
setting for another potential UFO.
Nineteen-year-old YouTube user Chase Campbell ( ThatsJustChase)
spotted the UFO. You can click hereto
launch his video, "STS-135 Atlantis - Last Flight 2011 seen UFO?"
Mr. Campbell is a guitarist, songwriter, musician, and singer who
describes the UFO sighting as follows: "Look at the last few seconds just above
the back connector on the external fuel tank. Could that be a satellite taking a
photo or what? It is by definition a ufo...."
He is correct. Until the object clearly visible during the last few moments
of the video is otherwise identified, it is a UFO.
The video on the left side of this page is by another YouTube user who goes
by the name Streetcap1.
You can click this link to launch it: "UFO
near Shuttle Atlantis" It shows the same object that is seen in the other
video, but the video is slowed down significantly to make it easier to
observe.
HOUSTON -- Sometimes, the last man on the moon sounds like
one unhappy hero.
Gene Cernan, an affable ambassador for America's space program during the
Apollo era, has lately become an outspoken critic of what he considers a
deliberate agenda to destroy what NASA has wrought.
"I'll put it straight to you," Cernan said. "The agenda is to dismantle
America's space program."
Cernan commanded the final flight of Apollo in December 1972, landing in a
lunar valley deeper than the Grand Canyon and living on the moon for three days.
In television pictures beamed back from the mountainous landing site, he waxed
optimistic about the future of humanity's space exploration efforts.
"America's challenge of today has forged man's destiny of tomorrow," he told
an audience of television viewers back on Earth as he cradled a moonrock in his
gloved hand.
But today, with the space shuttle poised for its final flight, Cernan is
downright pessimistic and more than a little irritated. He's sharply critical of
what he believes is a lack of direction in the nation's space effort.
"There's no objective," he said. "There's no timetable. There's no goal. And
there's no mission."
Cernan expected other space travelers to follow in his lunar footsteps, but
now he's convinced that he will "go to [his] grave as the last man on the moon."
He testified before Congress earlier this year, complaining that the nation
is surrendering its role in space exploration.
"We're retiring America's space program," he said. "We're out of the
business. We're abdicating. We're giving leadership back to the guys we took it
away from."
When Cernan joined the nation's space effort during the Gemini days in the
1960s, he dedicated his professional life to beating the Soviet Union to the
moon. Now, he watches in dismay as the United States retires its space shuttle
fleet and pins its future on a space capsule designed a half-century ago by
Russians. Soyuz spacecraft launched from Russia will offer the nation's only
access to space.
"I don't think people have given much thought to this whole program, this
whole process," Cernan said.
With the space shuttle fleet headed for retirement in museums, Cernan argues
NASA should keep at least two of its billion-dollar orbiters in hangars, just in
case the nation needs them. After all, he argues, what will happen if they need
to haul something big to the space station?
But he hopes Americans will, as he puts it, "wake up" in a few years and
realize their country has lost the ability to put men and women in space,
something NASA first achieved a half-century ago.
"I think after this launch, it's going to be nostalgic," he said. "It's
tragic from the standpoint that we can no longer get anywhere from here."
Obama says NASA needs a technological breakthrough
'We've set a goal: Let's ultimately get to Mars,' president says in
Twitter town hall
President Barack Obama answers a tweeted question on space policy.
Question in a Twitter town hall meeting Thursday, President Obama suggested
spaceflight is stuck in the Apollo-era mode and said NASA needs a technological
breakthrough to allow faster, longer spaceflight with a goal of getting
astronauts to Mars.
"Frankly, I have been pushing NASA to revamp its
vision," Obama said. "The shuttle did some
extraordinary work in low orbit: experiments, the International Space Station,
moving cargo. It was an extraordinary accomplishment and we're very proud of the
work that it did. But now what we need is that next technological breakthrough.
"We're still using the same models for space travel that we used
with the Apollo program, 30, 40 years ago. And so what we've said
is: Rather than keep on doing the same thing, let's invest in basic research
around new technologies that can get us places faster, allow human spaceflight
to last longer. And what you're seeing now is NASA, I think, redefining its
mission.
Science Editor Alan Boyle's Weblog: Stereo imagery adds a new dimension to
the first and almost certainly last orbital view of a space shuttle docked
to International Space Station.
"We've set a goal: Let's ultimately get to Mars," the
president said while fielding questions from Twitter users about the economy
and other subjects. "A good pit stop is an asteroid." He joked that a specific
asteroid has not been chosen.
Obama was clear in alluding to what some critics have said: NASA's human
spaceflight program has been stuck flying circles around Earth for decades.
"Let's start stretching the boundaries so we're not doing the
same thing over and over again," he said. "Rather, let's start
thinking about what's the next horizon? What's the next frontier out there?
But in order to do that, we're actually going to need some
technological breakthroughs that we don't have yet."
The president did not dismiss low-Earth orbit efforts, but put that
responsibility on the shoulders of private enterprise. Let the private sector
handle routine tasks of sending vehicles into Earth orbit, he said.
And he mentioned how that could, in time, lead to space
tourism:Each shuttle flight costs a billion plus dollars and since they have
circling Earth for thirty years it is time to reach out further in space.
On "Independence Day, July 4th in 1951 there were 2,713 drive-in theaters in
the U.S. and many were showing one of the most anticipated films of the year,
"The Day the Earth Stood Still. Flash forward to the
Cold War of the 1980's, and this same movie is credited with "inspiring Ronald
Reagan to discuss uniting against an alien invasion when meeting Soviet leader
Mikhail Gorbachev in 1985. states a Nov. 1, 2008 New York Times points
to "The Day the Earth Stood Still" as
inspiring Reagan to discuss alien invasion
The report noted that both Lou Cannon and Army Gen. Colin Powell told the
New York Times that the film "The Day the Earth Stood Still inspired President
Regan to not only discuss "alien invasion with Gorbachev, but also moved the
president " during a 1987 speech to the United Nations general assembly " to
say: "I occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if
we were facing an alien threat from outside this world.
The New York Times story about Reagan's interest in the movie "The Day the
Earth Stood Still " and "how it inspired him to address the issue of alien
invasion " was revealed by Powell who served on Reagan's national security
staff, and by Cannon who served as Reagan's biographer; writing five books about
Reagan, including the acclaimed "President Reagan: the Role of a Lifetime.
A key point in the film is when the alien visitor talks freely about the
Earthlings he's encountered (in 1951) and states: "Even with their advanced technology,
they cannot truly overcome death.
The Day the Earth Stood Still Inspired Ronald
Reagon
According to the original 1951 Twentieth Century Fox
promotion -- for recent 60th anniversary DVD and Blue Ray edition of "The Day
the Earth Stood Still -- it's "one of the first films to portray aliens from
space as advanced saviors rather than menacing monsters. The Day the Earth Stood
Still has become a classic atomic movie' of the 50s. Klaatu () lands in
Washington, D.C., accompanied by a huge robot armed with an awesome death ray as
well as capabilities far beyond anything the Earth has ever seen. His mission is
a peaceful one.
However, the original promotion for the film also points out that "the human
race reacts with mistrust, fear and violence, leading Klaatu to demonstrate his
un-Earthly powers in a mind-boggling lesson for all mankind.
One of the film's most famous lines is "Gort! Klaatu barada nikto! This was
an order from Klaatu (Michael Rennie) to protect their flying saucer
sitting in a ball field in Washington, D.C., until their mission was
complete.
It was not only President Reagan who was inspired by the 1951 classic
"The Day the Earth Stood Still." I was also, because I
sat next to Michael Rennie on a flight while I was in my Air Force uniform.
He told me, "The Air Force helped make the picture and he worked on many
films for the Air Force.
Kepler Space Telescope Picks up Six Planet
Star
Kepler Spots More Planets
NASA's
Kepler space telescope has picked up multiple planets in a system with a star
much like the sun, the largest group of transiting planets yet discovered. The
system is very different from the one we call home. The star, about 2,000 light
years away, is very much like the sun, but the planets around are in fast, tight
orbits. One takes as little as ten days. Five of the six are closer to their sun
than Mercury is to ours. One of the most surprising things about the system is
that it is stable at all, says Jack Lissauer, a co-investigator for the Kepler
Mission at NASA's
Ames Research Center. For that many planets to be crammed into a small radius
the orbits have to be nearly circular, and they have to have just the right
distance from each other.
"This is why I was so surprised," he said. "There were so many planets so
close in."
Many of the solar systems discovered have been the homes of Jupiter-sized
planets in eccentric orbits. Those types of systems are much easier to see,
because a big planet's effects on the parent star are more visible. Kepler is
designed to seek out planets closer in size and mass to Earth.
Thus far Kepler has had one big success - in January NASA confirmed it had
found the first rocky planet outside our solar system. It is 4.6 times as
massive as Earth and has a surface temperature approaching 2,500 degrees
Fahrenheit, and like the most recent crop of planets, orbits close to its
star.
In this case, Kepler found six planets, all of them transiting the face of
the star, called Kepler-11. The outermost one is on the order of 45 million
miles out. The sizes of the planets around Kepler-11 range from 1.97 to 4.5
times the radius of Earth. The largest are comparable in size to Uranus and
Neptune, which means they probably have a lot of hydrogen and helium, Lissauer
said. Their heavy gravity allows them to keep those gases in their atmospheres
for a relatively long period. The smaller planets, Lissauer says, are denser,
and could have a mixture of rock and water. But the water wouldn't be like an
ocean on Earth. Without any other gases in the atmosphere, the water would
vaporize and become the atmosphere. Whether a planet retains an atmosphere at
all depends on the surface temperature and the gravity, Lissauer says. In our
own solar system, a planet like Mercury can't hold an atmosphere very long
because it gets blasted by the sun's heat and any gases (and most liquids) boil
off and get blown away by the solar wind.
In the Kepler-11 system, the fact that the planets are heavier would mean
they can hold an atmosphere longer. Lissauer says the only ones they are
reasonably sure about are the largest two, which given their diameters and
masses would have to have retained a lot of hydrogen and helium.
For Kepler 11's planets, the surface temperatures would be between 1,400
degrees and 1,100 degrees Fahrenheit, assuming they had no atmosphere at all.
(Venus, by comparison, has a very thick atmosphere and maintains a surface
temperature of 860 degrees F, while Mercury, which is airless, gets to about 750
F at noon).
Scientists can learn so much about the system because of the way Kepler finds
planets. When a planet transits across the face of its star, the light dips
slightly. The size of the planet can be deduced from how the brightness changes,
and by observing over several months one can estimate the period of its orbit.
That gives a good estimate of the planets mass.
Lissauer says the team poring over the data will keep looking for evidence of
more planets. He notes that the telescope can only see a small portion of the
sky, and even then, only those planetary systems that are facing edge-on towards
Earth. That means there are many more that Kepler can't see.
Thus far more than 1,200 candidates for planets have been found. About 68 of
them are Earth-sized, with a fraction of those in the "habitable zone" of their
stars, the distance at which liquid water can exist.
Kepler won't be the last mission like this. Kepler only looks at a relatively
small part of the sky, centered on the constellations Cygnus and Lyra. Lissauer
says he has a proposal in for another mission, one that will survey the whole
sky, using better camera technology (Kepler was designed a decade ago). While
that one won't be quite as sensitive as Kepler is, it will do a better job of
finding systems closer to us as it will look at a wider area. He hopes to get it
launched about five years from now.
To contact the reporter responsible for this story call (646) 461 6917 or
email j.emspak@IBTimes.co
The Secrets of Heaven are Finally Revealed!
"...[Jacob] dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the
earth, and the top of it reached to heaven... [and he saw] the angels of god
ascending and descending on it. And he was afraid, and said, 'How dreadful is
this place! This is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of
heaven.'" --Genesis 28:12, 17 KJV.
In "Gateway of the
Gods, author Craig Hines invites readers to reconsider
preconceived notions concerning Biblical theology in light of recent scientific
discoveries and inquiries concerning the nature of the universe. This
fascinating exploration reveals a number of ideas that have been suppressed and
obscured behind layers of symbolism and misguided propaganda for thousands of
years... until now.
Why is it that so many world cultures share details of an event when fallen
angels descended upon the earth and fathered hybrid offspring called the
Nephilim?
Do the latest advances in theoretical physics lend credibility to the idea
that otherworldly beings might reside in dimensions parallel to our own?
Was a secret message embedded within ancient texts that could only be
revealed after we have attained the knowledge and technology necessary to
understand it?
Drawing from a variety of historical sources and years of meticulous
research, the author weaves together a compelling argument involving a range of
seemingly disparate topics that when considered together, formulate a radically
new narrative concerning the history and destiny of the human race.
Coincidence, a day on Mars and a day on Earth last almost the same amount of
time. Almost, but not exactly: Mars spins just a little more slowly, so the time
from one sunrise on Mars to the next is 40 minutes longer than the same interval
on Earth. This small difference usually causes no problems, but if you're
remotely operating a robot near the north pole of Mars and you need to wake that
robot at sunrise every (Mars) morning and get it busy scooping up ice, those
extra 40 minutes per day can be maddening. One day you're heading to sleep just
as the terrestrial world is awakening, two weeks later you've slowly gotten in
sync with the rest of ground-based humanity, and two weeks after that you're
back to daytime and sleeping with your blackout curtains closed. If you're
sleeping at all. Because a robot at the pole of Mars has a lot to do and learn
in the five months before Martian winter comes and it freezes to death, if
indeed it makes it that long before a short-circuit disables it or NASA
discontinues your funding or you succumb to exhaustion.
Though earthbound, Andrew Kessler spent 90 Martian days and nights watching
the Phoenix robot perform experiments.
Sightings Worldwide
Arizona Discs Sandstorm and
Triangle
Phoenix -- Sandstorm-- On July 6, 2011,Show me a photo of a
helicopter of a plane that resembles a silver reflective disk like object with
thrusters on the outer ends like the one in this vid. Michael Cohen m.cohen@allnewsweb.com
TUCSON -- I have been taking pictures of certain star like
objects and I had some really neat things come up. There seems to be a few that
are not just stars as this one taken on April 28, 2011, all these are taken from
a tripod in series of ten shots at a time. Thanks to MUFON CMS
California Disc
NORTH HOLLYWOOD -- We were sitting
outside enjoying the evening on the Fourth of July with friends having a
barbeque. I looked up into the shy and i say a black circular disc moving from
the southeast to the northwest. At first sight i thought it was a balloon, but
it did not ascend at all, it was gliding like a jet, below the clouds. It looked
like a hockey puck, but as it was so far away, it was much larger than that.
There were no lights, and we followed it until it left our sight in front of the
San Bernardino Mountains Thanks to MUFON CMS
MT SHASTA -- I was at a park in Mt. Shasta, California. My
boyfriend and I all went to the park so that we could see the volcano up close
and take some good pictures. I was unaware of the UFOs at the time of the park
visit and had no sighting of them while I was physically at the park in the town
of Mt. Shasta.
I first noticed the UFO objects in my pictures a week or so after the actual
park trip on 7/9/2011 when I was zooming into them using my computer. I noticed
that many (mostly all) of the pictures that I took directly of Mt. Shasta
contained little dots that were somewhat hard to notice at first glance when the
pictures were not zoomed-in upon. The dots in the pictures are not in consistent
spots and seem as if they were moving as I was taking the pictures. I took the
pictures over a span of about 5 to 10 minutes and was on my way without knowing
that I had even taken photos of the said UFOs.
I was unaware of the UFOs while I was taking pictures of the volcanic Mt.
Shasta on June 27, 2011. Many pictures taken show UFOs in the sky. Thanks to
MUFON CMS
GeorgiaMother Ship
Atlanta -- Annie S. writes, "When I was 18, my brother and I
were on the interstate just outside of Atlanta, we looked up at the sky and saw
a UFO. We were dumbfounded and then started to see little ships come out of the
mother ship, then some blasts of light went from one ship to another and they
disappeared before our eyes - with no sound at all! We thought we were crazy
until we looked around and realized that everyone on the freeway had stopped
their cars and was witnessing this, too!! We even investigated if there were any
military maneuvers that day, but came up blank. I bet the military knew full
well what had happened, but they were obviously keeping it quiet. It was an
amazing thing to see, and I'll never forget it as long as I live." Thanks to
Annie.
Illinois Triangle
GlEn ELLYN -- I was looking at the moon with my boys and saw
a jet on flight path to a local airport and noticed way above the commercial jet
a triangular shaped object that was heading east on a straight line. It had a
short contrail behind it five times the length of the object. I think it was a
military plane but it was way to high and going way too fast than normal. My
reaction was this is really odd, like a SR-71 but those are retired. It looked
like the shape of the Space Shuttle but I know that is not up there. It has yet
to launch. I tried to take a picture with my cell phone camera but the object
was too far up to get into the picture. It reflected white in front of the
contrail. It was close to sunset so the sun rays were reflecting off the bottom
of the object as it flew out of sight into the distance. I would like to know if
the FAA tracked the object. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Maryland Ball of Light
ABERDEEN -- We were sitting outside at out picnic table
talking and watching a couple of airplanes flying by on June 29, 2011, when we
noticed strange objects flying without blinking lights. The first one we saw was
flying south about the same speed as an airplane that was a bright white ball of
light, and we could see an airplane at the same time. That's how we knew there
was a difference. As the object got to a certain point south of us it just
disappeared. The second object was coming from north northeast going south
southeast at the same rate of speed, but this one was a ball of red light. The
third and fourth ones we seen looked like the first one and heading in the same
direction north to south and it was a bright white light like the first one.
They too also disappeared when they reached a certain point. Thanks to MUFON
CMS
Missouri Bright Unidentified Object
Osage Beach -- At 8:45 PM, on June 29, 2011 the second night
in a row that I was out on my lakeside porch near the Grand Glaze Bridge. Bright
white orb moving across night time sky.
The orb had a trailer much like a comet, but moved smoothly and slowly across
the sky. It emitted bright white aura and then turned red before disappearing.
This area has commercial air traffic and is specifically used for military
training. I am used to seeing aircraft that has more than one continuous light.
Both nights had same visual on orb moving across sky before slowing and
disappearing. The night before I had contact on same orb, but with a jet
trailing behind by about 14 seconds. This helped confirm that the object I was
looking at was not commercial. I had never even heard of this site until these
sightings.
I find it interesting that there are reports from this area that predate
mine. Thanks to Peter Davenport, Director National UFO Reporting Center http://www.UFOcenter.com/
Michigan Fireball
Chesterfield Township " On July 4 and 5,
2011, at 11:30 PM to 1:30 AM, I noticed a bright red "fireball for lack of a
better description coming from the south slowly towards a local fireworks
display. I called for my girlfriend to come outside to see. She brought out her
camera and shot a trio of photos. By then, it was due West of us. It flew away
at high speed and faded from view. I went back out again at about 1:30 AM and
didn't see anything until I turned and saw it directly overhead and CLOSE. I
yelled for my girlfriend because it was right HERE! I am a pilot and it wasn't
any aircraft I ever seen. The object had no position lights etc. It was only 600
to 1000 feet above us and moving slowly towards the West. There was a fireball
an above it I could see a disc shaped structure that looked like a 35 feet in
diameter parachute. This was about and noiseless (the fireworks were all done)
no engine, jet or rotor sound was heard. It was completely SILENT. The Disc
varied in color from bright red to blood red to deep crimson purple. Then my
girl friend came out and all you could see was the fireball. She saw it and
suddenly yelled as it turned north and sped away at incredible speed. Thanks to
William Puckett, Director http://www.ufosnw.com
Missouri Orb
AFFTON " On June 25, 2011, at 8:30 to 9
PM, the photos were taken. A storm front was moving in and my wife and I noticed
the heavy cloud formations due west of our home. I shot several pictures and
next day I was looking at the photos and noticed the object. The camera is a
Kodak C653, 6.1 mega-pixel. I did not actually see this object, because I was
watching the thunder and lightning to the north. Note: The
enlargement of the photo shows a triangular shaped object. I believe that the
object is real and not a lens flare, droplet on lens, etc. I do not believe the
photo was doctored. Thanks to William Puckett Director UFOs Northwest http://ufosnw.com
O'FALLON -- I was at a family BBQ in the
backyard waiting for fireworks to start and we noticed in the southern sky an
orange flare-like object that appeared to be moving slowly but steadily
westward. It was unlike a plane or a firework, more flare like. The orange light
also seemed to be somewhat directional. The silent light finally just slowly
winked out was gone. Shortly thereafter we watched from the direction of Lambert
Airport three red lights jets take off and climb straight up in to the sky and
disappear. It was 11 PM, and I was walking near my home in O'Fallon. I witnessed
the orange light again for probably 45 seconds moving northwest before it slowly
winked out. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Montana fire-orange Light
MISSOULA --My boyfriend was outside smoking and called my
daughter and I outside because he was seeing something strange in the sky on
July 1, 2011. We are avid sky watchers so I ran outside and saw that it was not
a normal light in the sky so I ran back inside to grab my camera so I could
video it. It was a very bright, fire-orange light that seemed to travel
horizontally at first, and then it started to go up horizontally until it
disappeared. It seemed cigar shaped and there were no flashers like airplanes
have. The fire-orange light around it was very bright and was tons bigger than
any stars in the sky. There was also no sound. We were very excited to see it.
The video I got does not do it justice. It was way bigger than it shows and does
not show the fire-orange light around it very well. Maybe with the technology
you have access to you will see something.
New Jersey Light Traveling
Barrington -- Brilliant light traveling southeast, slowly
dimmed and vanished at 10:14 PM, on June 29, 2011. My daughter and I were
sitting in the yard talking when this bright light came into my view around 55
degree elevation heading southeast, altitude about 1500 to 2000 feet. The object
continued southeast, became very dim and vanished. The object traveled
perpendicular to the Philadelphia landing pattern. My daughter photographed the
object with her cell phone. The sky was clear and the object made no audible
sound. Thanks to MUFON CMS
South Kearny " On June 17, 2011, about
1:30 pm I went out on the porch at work to see the on coming Thunder Storm. I
was talking to a co-worker when big flash of lightening struck. We were watching
the sky for more lightening and seconds later, I said to my co-worker, "What's
that"?? First he said it was a bird, then said it was a black plastic bag then
said, "I don't know".. I told him to keep it in sight and I'll go get my
camera.. I have a 10x zoom on my camera and managed to get 3 pictures as it
traveled from South to North in a pretty direct path over my job in South
Kearny, NJ before losing sight of it over our building at work... All I know is
that it was Unidentified and it was flying. This case was investigated by Lida
Griffith and has been classified as '' unknown''.
KEN PFEIFER WORLD UFO PHOTOS
Cape May county -- At around 10 pm on the 4th of July my
wife and I were heading south on Rt47 in NJ between Goshen and Indian Trail Rd
(Rt147). I noticed and orange glowing ball in the sky off to north west of us
and at first thought it to be fireworks. I watched for a short while realized it
wasn't bursting or falling to the ground. I pointed it out to my wife and as I
got closer I lost site of it but my wife could still see it out of her side
window. She opened the window and told me stop the car that I had to in her
words "see this thing". I pulled onto the shoulder and we both got out as the
object passed over our car going from west to east I could clearly see a round
object. It was bright orange. In it's center there appeared to be something like
a brilliant reddish orange flame or burner and around the perimeter were orange
dots. The whole object was bright orange. There was a moderate but steady flow
of traffic heading in both directions so I thought for sure other cars would
stop but none did. The object made no noise and kept traveling east until it was
out of sight. As it went away form us it looked more like an orange ball again.
I took a picture with my blackberry camera but it came out looking like a small
dot in the sky. I believe it was overcast that evening as I don't recall seeing
any stars. I have tried to rationalize what I saw, thinking it was some kind of
4th of July display or possibly the bottom of a balloon gondola with a 4th of
July display under it but nothing made sense. I have never seen anything like it
in my life and neither has my wife.
I'm just surprised that I have not heard anything about anyone else seeing
it. The way it traveled out of sight it was heading for Wildwood on one of the
busiest nights of the year. Maybe you folks have received some reports, I just
can't believe we were the only ones to see this. The whole episode lasted maybe
3 minutes. I can't say how large it was or how fast it was going. If you held
bottle cap over your head and looked up at it, that's about size it looked up in
the sky but the details I describe looking straight up under it were very clear.
Regards, John Carpenter Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
New YorkSpherical
Objects
On July 4, 2011, we saw several pink/orange spherical objects initially in
triangle formation with many to follow. I already posted this but now have the
two pictures we managed to get (I wanted to get permission from the person who
took it). I am still stunned, especially since there are now hundreds of
postings with similar pictures, videos from all over the world. Thanks to MUFON
CMS
North Carolina Cigar
Elizabeth City -- Three of us were on a
sailboat in the Albemarle Sound in route from Manteo to Coinjock (NNW). We were
motoring at 7.5 nautical miles per hour & had passed Kitty Hawk to the East
at 10:50 AM, on July 1, 2011. I believe that we were southeast of the mouth of
the Pasquotank River. We were constantly scanning the water watching for crab
pots, debris, sailing markers, etc and hoping to see dolphins. Around Noon I saw
in the distance (NNW, 3-5 miles) a very large white shape, rectangular with
rounded ends. It was so pale it blended with the skies & water but was
distinct from the nearby trees. There was some smoke from the peat fires to the
East so the view was not the best. I studied the sight with binoculars &
didn't have a clue about what I was seeing. I pointed it out to the other
sailors who also looked and had a similar reaction. We could not determine if
the object was hovering, floating, teetered or otherwise secured. It did not
seem to move. I took two pictures though it was very hard to see the object in
the lens. I zoomed out (shutter speed 1/1250; focal length 60.0 mm) in the
direction I was looking & clicked twice. Remember, we were on a boat so
holding a camera steady is a challenge! The first picture shows the complete
object that we estimated was over 200 feet tall and 1000 feet long. The second
picture shows the object partially hidden by trees. (The object was NOT moving;
our boat was taking us out of sight of it as we continued our trip.) Look
closely in the trees to the right & see a house to get perspective of the
size. We wondered if it was a blimp since we had seen a blimp and blimp hangar
on June 21 when we were leaving Elizabeth City. But, it was much larger and a
different shape from any blimp we could recall. The bulges on either end of the
object and the lack of "fins" plus the sheer size of it made us doubt that
possibility. Also, there were dark squares that appeared to be windows near the
mid-line along the right side of the object. At the time we were wondering what
it was, trying to figure it out, knowing we had never seen anything like it. We
were curious but assumed there was a logical explanation. We chose not to
investigate further as we were meeting friends and wanted to get to port before
any afternoon showers might appear. Thanks to MUFON Thanks to MUFON Thanks to
MUFON CMS
Ohio
CLEVELAND " On July 4, 2011, at 11 PM, We
saw a white to red sphere shaped object moving north to south. Many people saw
it. I did not have tripod (sorry), but as I zoomed in you can see how red and
bright it was. It looked white from far away. I
caught it again at the end of film and it seemed to morph into something very
strange. The video does not do it justice.
Note: It appears that the witness zooms in towards the end
of the footage. The zoom reveals a red object of strange shape. This same
witness has sent interesting photos and videos before. Thanks to William Puckett
Director UFOs Northwest http://ufosnw.com
Cleveland -- The witness mailed a sketch
along with a lengthy description of experiences with the orb along with more
recent experiences. The witness was watching TV and saw an illuminated round
green crystal that floated in mid air. The crystal was about the size of a large
grapefruit. The witness felt more "shocked than scared."
The witness thought the crystal was some sort of machine and certainly real.
It float for about 12 seconds. It was present long enough to make a detailed
description. Within the crystal were four green rings. Two rings turned slowly
clockwise and the other two turned counter-clockwise. There were also two white
lights that pulsated on and off. Within each ring were adjoining sections (dark
green) that were shaped like mounted panels. The witness had the sense of "being
watched." When the witness called to a family member in the kitchen the crystal
suddenly disappeared into tiny metal fragments.
The witness described subsequent strange encounters with unknown beings since
the above incident. These accounts are not included in this report.
Note: This sounds like a fantastic intriguing case, but the
veracity of the case rests with the credibility of the witness. As J.R. Ripley
said" "Believe it not." Thanks to William Puckett Director UFOs Northwest http://ufosnw.com
Texas Lights
Elm -- On July 8, 2011, I stepped outside to smoke, look up
and this object was moving weird honestly I don't know much but you be the
judge. it flickered and move fast planes don't move like that it was around 10
PM. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Washington State
Trout Lake -- Can you please describe the
"satellite at .56 on the video timeline that is shown being "swarmed by orbs?
Which satellite is the one that is accompanied by luminous orb-like bodies while
travelling in space? Do video recordings of luminous bodies being "swarmed by
orbs reveal secret dimensions of the US Space Command? Please advise :) A new
video shows a UFO that appeared to witnesses "as bright as a second sun"
crossing the skies over the ECETI Ranch in Trout Lake Washington on the evening
of Monday, June 27, 2011. The event was just one in a series of ongoing
sightings that occurred during the previous four nights, captured in both
visible light and infrared night vision using a stereo camera imaging system.
The video also shows lights on Mt. Adams accompanied by mysterious flights over
the peak, a UFO that disappears in mid-air while flying in clear skies,
witnesses using lights to engage luminous vehicles, orbs swarming around a
low-flying UFO and incredible acceleration when what appears to be an
inter-dimensional spaceship makes a rapid exit. Story continues on Examiner.com:
http://exm.nr/eyBabt
Trout Lake -- This photo was taken on 6/27/2011. I was
taking random nature shots of the area and discovered this little object at the
top of the frame. It's one object - the two squares are zooms of the same
object. I didn't notice it while I was taking the shots. It's a shame I couldn't
get more detail, but I was shooting in RAW format so I was able to zoom in to
get the most detail from the original. Notice the color shift from top to bottom
and the vertical lines coming from the top and bottom of the object.
Brazil Orb
SAO PAULO " As a tourist to S?o Paulo, I
was returning from photographing a park called Parque da Independ?ncia on
saturday July 9th, 2011 (4pm local time), coming towards Ipiranga CPTM train
station to take a ride back to Br?s station, when I saw a shape floating over
the neighborhood of "Vila Prudente". The shape caught my eye, because when it
was moving, it looked like the sun was making different reflections of light
from the object like a mirror would in a sky, plus keeping my eyes focused on
the object, it seemed to have blueish, blinking lights. I took a couple of
photographs of the object with my Canon X-43 digital camera, 10x zoom on max,
from the entrance to the Ipiranga station, looking at the object, which was
slowly moving about against the clear blue sky. When I entered the station and
went to the open air train departure area, I was unable to locate the object
again. All in all, I saw the object for about 15 minutes. The three pictures I
have attached have been cropped from the original larger ones using Google's
Picasa. Thanks to MUFON CMS
I took this last night " other have seen it, but so far I haven't heard
anyone with pictures/video or media reports saying what it was.
Contact me if you need additional information.
Thank you, Justin
Colombia Flying Object
At 9:20 PM, Colombian time on July 9, 2011, I went to the balcony and
observed an object was moving from side to side. It was yellow and red and was
not a plane, helicopter. The object flew in a circle without explanation. The
first reaction I had was it was a star. It was still for a few seconds, but
after that it began to show yellow and blue colors as it moved from side to
side. I have seen videos of ufos and stuff like that because I have interest in
the subject but what I saw today was not anything I've ever seen on TV. I've
never seen something so unusual. My mother was also present. Thanks to MUFON
CMS
Norway Low Flying Disc
Nordkjostbotn -- A witness to a UFO sighting, was out
on trekking trip near his home town, and managed to film a UFO. The object at
low center might well be a craft of alien origin as it passed over the area
during daylight hours. The event took place in the vicinity of the town of
Nordkjostbotn in the far north of Norway and occurred around a week ago.http://www.allnewsweb.com/page1199999553.php
Russia Flames
MOSCOW -- I saw a very strange flaming
object on July 9, 2011. I had been sitting on my terrace at my country house,
when I noticed a strange flying object above. This attracted my attention
because it was flaming and burning like a plane was on fire. I thought something
had happened, but the flaming object was flying in a straight trajectory. After
that I called my friends and parents and it changed trajectory slightly to the
left and started to fly away and up. We could make out that it was one object
and looked like it was made up of three flaming balls (one big and one small one
on the each side). It was very interesting to watch and made this
picture to try and illustrate what I saw. Thanks to MUFON
CMS
UK/England
Guildford -- "I had just put our car
in the garage and was walking back towards the house on July7, 2011, when I
spotted two orange lights moving at speed through the sky. They
were closer and much faster than a plane. Also they were silent and there were
no flashing lights, so they were definitely not planes or helicopters. They were
heading northwest and ended up being obscured by trees. I ran into upstairs to
grab my camcorder and told my fiance what I had just seen. We looked out of the
window and another orange light flew past fast, before I had the chance to turn
on my camera. I went outside and saw another orange light to the north of my
house and managed to get some brief footage of it, which shows its speed. They
moved to fast to be Chinese lanterns and the final one came from a totally
different direction than the others. Thanks to MUFON CMS
I was sitting at my desk, pondering how I could get people
interested in getting my work of the last thirteen years. I have put together a
DVD of Filer's Files with hundreds of great photographs and UFO sightings.
Additionally, I have decided to include my book within the DVD
that includes George Ritter's exciting abduction story by Linda Moulton Howe.
Broadcaster David E. Twichell has also included much of his excellent dialog for
a donation of only $50.
We also include a year's subscription. Please include your
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What If "It" Is Real, My Dear Colleague Scientist?
The artifact that has been analyzed. Specimen size about 10 mm long. End
fragment clipped off for testing. (image credit: Frank Kimbler)
A teacher at the New Mexico Military Institute in Roswell may have discovered
the first scientific evidence of manufactured debris made on another planet.
Furthermore, this debris was found near the location where pieces from an
alleged flying saucer were discovered outside of Roswell in 1947.
Frank Kimbler (image credit: Alejandro Rojas)
Frank Kimbler teaches high school level Earth Sciences and college level
Geology at the New Mexico Military Institute in Roswell. He says he has always
had an interest in UFOs, and actually had his own unusual sighting in his
twenties. So when he moved to Roswell, he decided to put his expertise to the
test and take a shot at investigating the most famous UFO incident of all time,
the crash at Roswell.
He says his main goal was to find some physical evidence. He started by
looking at some satellite imagery of the alleged debris site. This is where
rancher, Mac Brazel, had told the Air Force he had found pieces of the crashed
object. Kimbler used these images to enhance the infra-red in order to highlight
areas where the ground was disturbed. He was surprised to find an area that was
similar to what witnesses had described. It was about ¾ of a mile long and a few
hundred feet wide, and facing the direction witnesses had reported. He also
noticed this area had very straight edges, something unusual for a natural
occurrence.
His next step was to get out there with a metal detector to see what he could
find. He began making trips to the site in May 2010. Using a metal detector that
could find a piece the size of a BB, three inches below the surface, he would be
able to find small pieces, which was exactly his goal. In previous archeological
digs in the area they had sifted dirt through screens with holes large enough
for very small pieces to fall through. Kimbler figured that if there was
anything left it would be very small and perhaps in animal burrows, or ant
hills. An ant hill was actually where he found his first piece.
Landsat multi-spectral satellite image showing the debris field. The image
clearly shows a burn (or disturbed area) covering the exact location of the
debris field as described by witnesses. (image credit: Frank Kimbler)
What he found was a silvery metal that looked aluminum. This was strange
because there were no indications of any sort of aluminum objects in the area.
He occasionally found tin, which would come from parts of tin roofs blowing
around, and some nails. He eventually found more of these silvery pieces, and
says they looked shredded. Some of the edges even appear melted. He also found
some aluminum buttons that appear to be the type used on military fatigues in
the later 40s. If that is the case it demonstrates that the military was in the
area.
The buttons. Tentatively identified as military fatigue buttons late 40's
early 50's. (image credit: Frank Kimbler)
Kimbler felt the small silvery pieces were interesting enough for further
analysis. To get some help he went to the Roswell International UFO Museum and
Research Center. Located in downtown Roswell, the museum is the main hub for
Roswell UFO crash research. He showed the material to the museums director,
Julie Shuster, and was able to meet with researcher Don Schmitt. They decided to
fund the first test which was done by New Mexico Tech in Socorro. Using a
micro-probe, they were able to determine the materials composition. It turned
out to be an aluminum, silicon, manganese, copper alloy. It is not unknown, but
it is used in construction and not usually found in a foil form.
This further inspired Kimbler to get some isotope work done on the piece.
Kimbler says the isotope work is so important because the ratios are very much
like our fingerprints. Certain concentrations of elements on earth are unique
to Earth. So if you know isotopic ratios for magnesium, it will be the same for
anything on earth with magnesium, but if it is not from Earth, it will have a
different ratio. For instance meteorites have different ratios because they are
not from Earth. Isotopic analysis is necessary to determine if a material is
from Earth or another world.
Some of the metal alloy fragments found buried and scattered over the debris
field area. (image credit: Frank Kimbler)
Kimbler went to the University of New Mexico Institute of Meteoritics, and
talked to their expert on isotopes to get an analysis done. Kimbler had not told
the expert anything about the samples. He looked Kimbler square in the eye and
told him that the only reason he would want to get this sort of test done is
because he suspected the material was from outer space. He wanted to know where
the material was from, and when Kimbler told him he refused to do the test,
stating that the idea of a spaceship crashing at Roswell was a bunch of hooey.
One of the other scientists in the office actually argued the point that if it
is something unusual, the importance of that possibility makes it worth taking a
look at. However, the expert didnt budge and refused to do the work. The second
scientist was a micro-probe specialist at the University and although he could
not do any isotope work, he was able to get more specific information about the
materials composition and confirm the early work that had been done.
Bigelow Aerospace showed some interest in helping Kimbler with his analysis,
but after spending months with little results, Kimbler had to go elsewhere.
Kimbler was able to find another lab with multiple certifications willing to do
the work. The UFO Museum put up the money, and the results were back in five
days. Kimbler says he almost fell over when he saw the information. The ratios
were off, and as he puts it there were only two answers to explain the results,
either the lab made an analytical error or the material is not from Earth.
Magnesium isotope fractionation chart modified from the graph used by Dr.
Peter Sturrock in his analysis of the Ubatuba UFO fragment. Magnesium bearing
compounds, metals, and minerals should all plot on or very close to the line. A
chondite is a type of meteorite and since it does not originate from Earth does
not plot on the line. The Roswell AH-1 alloy plots way of the line. The AH-1
plot is an anomaly that is either an analytical error or the material is not
from Earth. More testing is needed to verify the data to see if it is an error
or its from another world. (image credit: Frank Kimbler)
However, Kimblers work is not finished. He says, Following good scientific
method protocol one set of data is not going to cut it. In order to prove the
lab did not make a mistake he needs to get more work done. He says he does have
two more certified labs lined up to do more isotopic testing to confirm the work
done thus far, and that he may have this work done within the next few weeks.
Kimbler says in order to confirm the material is not from Earth, it is necessary
to have two or three labs showing the same results.
Another important aspect of the material being aluminum and showing unearthly
origins is that aluminum must be manufactured. Unlike some natural elements,
such as gold or silver that can be found as nuggets in its raw form, aluminum is
not found in nature. If this proves to be material not of this earth, it means
this was something that was manufactured elsewhere. Thus far humans are not
manufacturing anything in space, let alone something that would fall out of
space and land outside of Roswell in a location where an alleged spacecraft was
found in 1947.
Kimbler says he is being careful before making any definitive claims, but he
is hopeful. He says certified labs dont normally make mistakes, and that
these people who did the work are some of the best in the business.
The implications if Kimblers material turns out to be of extraterrestrial
origins and manufacture are of course startling. Could he have the smoking gun
to prove we are being visited by an intelligent civilization from another
planet, and that they crashed outside of Roswell in 1947? Kimbler says he will
keep us up to date, and has been gracious enough to provide us with pictures of
the material and the analysis.
Listen to Frank Kimbler discussing his finding on Open
Minds Radio.
Note: Most captions provided by Frank Kimbler.
New Mexico Tech microprobe data shows element composition of AH-1. Na and Cl
values from small salt crystals embedded on the surface analysis shows AH-1
contains AL Si Mg Mn and Cu with small amounts of Fe. (image credit: Frank
Kimbler)
University of New Mexico microprobe data shows element composition. Verified
the NMT data with analysis showing AL Si Mg Mn Cu with a some Fe. (image credit:
Frank Kimbler)
Magnesium isotope values from the certified lab that did the analysis. (image
credit: Frank Kimbler)
AH-1 alloy element composition from the same lab. Shows the AH-1 alloy is a
AL-Mg-Mn-Si-Cu alloy. (image credit: Frank Kimbler)
AH-1 under magnification shows banded or layered structures in AH-1. (image
credit: Frank Kimbler)
AH-1 under magnification shows more areas of banding. (image credit: Frank
Kimbler)
NA MEER DAN 60 JAAR UFO-ONDERZOEK: NOG STEEDS ANGST VOOR DE KILLE WAARHEID!
Nu volgt deel 3...
3. De KLASSIEKE UFOLOGIE.
3.1. PROLOOG: HOE HET BEGON
De meeste ufologen
laten de klassieke UFO-periode traditiegetrouw beginnen vanaf 1947 met de
eerste melding van de verrassende, wereldberoemde ervaring van de zakenman en
piloot Kenneth ARNOLD bij de MOUNT-RAINIER, USA. In feite begon de klassieke
ufologie bij het einde van de Tweede Wereldoorlog, toen de Nazis West-Europa
bezetten. Gedurende de winter 1944/45 ontmoetten de geallieerde piloten
veelkleurige, bolvormige vuurballen, die zij foo-fighters noemden.
Deze mysterieuze lichtbollen vlogen argeloos naast hen, zolang de piloten geen
moeite deden om er verlost van te raken. Soms dansten ze gewoon speels rond hun
slachtoffer of waren ze tevreden met de vliegtuigen gewoon te achtervolgen en
te begeleiden. Maar op andere tijdstippen verschenen zij in keurige formaties.
In die tijd geloofden de officieren van de geheime diensten dat deze bollen met
radar gecontroleerd werden en gezonden waren om de ontstekingsmechanismen van
de vliegtuigen te saboteren of eenvoudig om de geallieerde radarinstallaties te
storen. Het enig groot tegenargument is het vaststaand feit dat ook de Duitse
piloten geplaagd werden door deze geheimzinnige metgezellen. De beruchte
foo-fighters beperkten zich niet alleen tot Europa... Ze speelden eveneens
volg de leider met de B-29 bemanningen tijdens hun bombardementen boven
Japan. Tijdens zijn toespraak op 16/10/1973 voor de Amerikaanse Associatie
voor de Wetenschappelijke Vooruitgang (A.A.A.S.) vertelde generaal George
S. BROWN dat de Foo-Fighters regelmatig waargenomen werden tijdens het
Koreaans en het Vietnamees conflict. Tegenstanders van het UFO-fenomeen,
waaronder Philip KLASS, verklaarden dat deze foo-fighters niets anders waren
dan verkeerde interpretaties van de planeet VENUS. Zoals je nu kan lezen en nog
vaak zal horen, wordt de planeet VENUS vaak terecht en ten onrechte als
verklaring voor vreemde waarnemingen ge(mis)bruikt... Op dergelijke wijze kan
IEDEREEN snel alles wat hij niet kent of wilt erkennen, verklaren.
Het
FOO-FIGHTER-mysterie leek in 1946 boven Europa te verdwijnen. In 1946 begonnen
de GHOST ROCKETS of SPOOKRAKETTEN de plaats in te nemen van
hun voorgangers. Een grote paniek verspreidde zich in Zweden van mei tot
oktober 1946. Sigaarvormige voorwerpen, die voorkeur bleken te hebben om in de
oppervlaktewaters van de meren neer te storten, werden regelmatig waargenomen.
Ze kregen als bijnaam GHOST BOMBS of GHOST ROCKETS. In Zweden
richtte ze een speciaal comité op om deze meldingen te onderzoeken. Ze slaagden
er zelfs in de aandacht van de Britse en Amerikaanse grootmachten aan te
trekken, omdat het idee ontstond dat de Russen misschien geheime Duitse wapens
uit PEENEMUNDE (= geheim Nazi onderzoekscentrum) buitgemaakt hadden. Ondanks
alle waarnemingen en onderzoek vonden ze geen antwoord voor deze mysterieuze
objecten.
Bij dit mysterie
kwamen zich ook de vuurballen voegen die mensen zagen boven Frankrijk,
Denemarken, Finland, Griekenland, Portugal, Spanje, Italië en Noord-Afrika
gedurende de maand september 1946. Een onderzoekscommissie werd naar Zweden
gezonden om het verschijnsel van de spookraketten te bestuderen. Nadat ze 100%
zekerheid hadden dat dit geen Russische raketten waren, besloten de
commissieleden dat het verschijnsel ontsproten was uit het brein van een
culturele, psychologische statenmassahysterie...
Dus omdat het
fenomeen niet paste in hun welbepaald, fysisch klassifikatiesysteem, plaatsten
de Amerikanen de vreemde waarnemingen gewoon in een specifiek psychologisch
kader. Je kan weeral eens besluiten dat de mensen niet zagen wat ze verklaarden
te zien, vooral wegens het groeien van de KOUDE OORLOG-situatie en de daaruit
voortkomende angstpyshose voor oorlog en atoomwapens (Hiroshima en Nagasaki
lagen nog vers in het geheugen gegrift...) Daar het verschijnsel niet paste in
het modaal referentiekader van de commissieleden en ervan uitgaande dat de
onverklaarbare dingen die de burgers zagen, psychologisch van aard waren; was
het een hele kleine stap te verklaren dat de mensen in feite niets hadden
gezien. Dit is de eenvoudigste manier om mensen te doen zwijgen over hetgeen ze
wel of niet waarnamen. Verder was een belangrijk argument zeker om een
sluitende verklaring te geven dat het geen Sovjet-Russische wapens waren en
deze meldingen dus geen gevaar vormden voor de internationale veiligheid. Een
verklaring geven die rust en vrede uitstraalde, was de boodschap!
Alleen al het idee dat anderen zouden
kunnen denken dat ze gek, dom, belachelijk of dwaas zijn, behoedt meestal de
UFO-waarnemer ervan om zijn ongewone ervaring te melden... Deze techniek werd
(wordt) vaker toegepast om de totale Ufologie in een slecht daglicht te plaatsen.
Zelfs een aantal sceptische Ufologen spelen dit spelletje aardig mee...
3.21947 HET
BEGIN
3.2.1. PROJECT SIGN
Het is louter
toevallig dat de overheid van de U.S.A. betrokken raakte met het
UFO-verschijnsel, net het jaar dat de luchtmacht een afzonderlijke afdeling
werd van het Amerikaanse leger. Officieel begon het UFO-probleem op 24 juni
1947. Kenneth ARNOLD, IDAHO, zakenman en privépiloot, voerde een
eenzame vlucht uit nabij MOUNT-RAINIER in de staat Washington, toen hij
een formatie van negen schotelvormige objecten opmerkte, die hoog
voorbijvlogen. Volgens Edward RUPPELT in zijn THE REPORT OF UFOS
beschreef Arnold na zijn landing hun beweging als dat van een keitje
(schotel) die over het water springt. Verder beschreef Arnold de objectenals twee op elkaar staande schotels...
Volgens A SURVEY OF PRESS COVERAGE OF UFOS 1947-1966 van
Herbert J. STRENTZ zijn dit de historische woorden die de persmensen de
woorden vliegende schotels in de mond legden. Volgens eens schets die Arnold
voor de luchtmachtonderzoekers maakte, leek dit schotelachtig een gepaste
omschrijving. De Arnold-waarneming genoot grote aandacht van de perslui, vooral
toen de luchtmacht het bestaan van deze objecten probeerde te ontkennen. Dit
ontkenningsproces verliep niet zo vlot: deze kredietwaardige, eerlijke
individuele melding slaagde er dadelijk ininternationale bekendheid te verwerven. Andere getuigen begonnen
eveneens vreemde objecten waar te nemen en het UFO-verschijnsel begon. Het
tijdschrift LIFE gaf het onderwerp nationale bekendheid in de USA door
een artikel van 21 juli 1947 : A RASH OF FLYING DISKS BREAKS OUT OVER
THE USA. Het verschijnsel evolueerde niet traag, bouwend op
voorafgepubliceerde verhalen, nauwgezet, beeldrijk en denkbeeldig wordend zoals
je van een psychologisch ontsproten verschijnsel, een sociaal of gebaseerd op
folklore zou kunnen verwachten. Het dook eerder volledig ontwikkeld op als een
volwassen verschijnsel in virtueel dezelfde volgorde van vormen, die getuigen
de dag van vandaag nog rapporteren. Mensen begonnen een variëteit van
geometrische modelvoorwerpen te zien, die ongewone karakteristieken vertoonden.
Deze voorwerpen waren geen denkbeeldige ruimteschepen of aardse
ruimtereis-ontwerpen uit de sciencefictionlectuur. De UFOs waren een volledig
nieuw iets en waren zeker niet verbonden met de populaire sciencefiction of de
folklore in het algemeen.
Dat er geen voorafgaande
verschijning was van de configuratie van de voorwerpen van 1947, zoals die
bestond in 1897, geeft de 1947-golf een grote belangrijkheid en een bijzondere
dimensie. Indien we aannemen dat de hoofdleverancier van scienfiction de
filmindustrie is (en inderdaad critici proberen een link te leggen tussen
S.F.-films en UFO-waarnemingen!), dan leer je met één oogopslag in de
geschiedenis van de sciencefiction dat er weinig of geen S.F.-films waren met
buitenaardse bezoekers als onderwerp. Sta me toch even toe er op te wijzen dat
tijdens een realistisch opgevoerd luisterspel op de radio War of the
worlds van Orson Welles in
1932 een grote paniek uitbrak in de USA. De mensen ontvluchtten in paniek de
steden en dachten echt dat de Marsbewoners begonnen waren met de verovering van
de Aarde. Dit bewijst één van de stellingen van Philip KlASS dat de menselijke
geest sneller op hol slaat dan we vooraf aannemen. Het Amerikaans publiek was
wel vatbaar voor buitenaardse beschavingen. Bijkomend belangrijk feit was dat
dit luisterspel onder de vorm van nieuwsflashes uitgezonden werd. Het is dus
wel begrijpelijk dat mensen, die te laat afstemden op dit luisterspel, de
indruk kregen dat er echt iets vreemd gebeurde... Vele films, die toen gemaakt
werden, hadden vooral als onderwerp dat aardbewoners naar andere planeten
reisden, zoals BUCK ROGERS en FLASH GORDON. Maar voor 1950 namen de filmmakers
geen enkele film op met wezens uit de ruimte, die proberen de aarde te
veroveren. Beweren dat de populaire cultuur schuldig is aan het scheppen van
het UFO-verschijnsel, kan ik mij moeilijk voorstellen. Het is eerder zo datboeken over UFOs die een bestseller werden,
later na hun groot succes verfilmd werden...
Het gedrag van de
waargenomen objecten lijkt de technologische mogelijkheden van 1947 ver vooruit
te zijn. Het stond dadelijk vast dat getuigen iets waarnamen dat volkomen uniek
kon zijn. Als resultaat van dit buitengewoon karakter lag debuitenaardse hypothese op het voorplan als de
meest populaire theorie voor de waargenomen objecten.
Op 23 september
1947 schreef Luitenant-generaal Nathan F. TWINING, bevelhebber van het AIR
MATERAL COMMAND (A.M.C.), Wrightfield-OHIO een brief aan het hoofdcommando
van de Amerikaanse luchtmacht. In het zog van de waarneming van Kenneth Arnold
en andere raadselachtige UFO-rapporten van die zomer was Generaal TWINING
gevraagd een bijzondere voorstudie van het verschijnsel te maken. Na een reeks
discussies met ingenieurs, die onder zijn bevel stonden, besloot hij het
volgende en informeerde Brigadegeneraal George CRAIGIE hiervan: - Het
gerapporteerde fenomeen is iets reeëls en geen droombeeld, hersenspinsel of
fictie. De objecten zijn metaalachtig, schotelvormig, in een aantal gevallen
volkomen geluidloos en opmerkelijk manoeuvreerbaar. Het is
aangewezen, schreef TWINING, dat het hoofdkwartier van de
luchtmacht een richtlijn uitvaardigt die een prioriteit, een
veiligheidsclassificatie en een codenaam bepaalt om een gedetailleerde studie
over dit fenomeen te maken. De verzamelde informatie zal beschikbaar
gesteld worden aan andere militaire afdelingen en wetenschappelijke
instellingen, verbonden aan de overheid.
Op 30 december 1947
keurde stafchef majoor-Generaal L.C. CRAIGIE, directeur van Opzoeking en
Ontwikkeling, dit verzoek goed. Hij beval Project SIGN op te richten
onder hoede van de A.M.C. te WRIGHT FIELD (nu de luchtmachtbasis
WRIGHT-PATTERSONin DAYTON, OHIO). Hij
schreef dat het niet aan de luchtmachtpolitie was om rapporten van waarnemingen
en fenomenen in de atmosfeer te ontkennen. In zijn brief gaf hij A.M.C.
opdracht om een project op te zetten met als doel het verzamelen,
vergelijken, verifiëren, beoordelen, handelend op te treden op basis van
informatie van die aard en de bekomen data betreffende de UFO-waarnemingen en
verschijnselen in de atmosfeer, waarvan kan aangenomen worden dat ze de
nationale veiligheid bedreigen, te verdelen aan alle Overheidsagentschappen en
gecontracteerden. Het project zou een 2A - veiligheidscode krijgen, met
andere woorden TOP SECRET (= GEHEIM). (De hoogsteclassificatie was 1A For your eyes only)
Zelfs de naam SIGN van het project was geheim, nochthans bleek in werkelijkheid
het bestaan ervan bij een breder publiek bekend te zijn, dat het spottend PROJECT
SAUCER noemde.
Op 22 januari 1948 startte project SIGN
zijn activiteiten. De geheime diensten van de luchtmacht leidden de meeste
onderzoeken met als logische uitvalsbasis de dichtsbijzijnde luchtmachtbasis
bij de waarnemingsplaats. Indien de binnengekomen melding belangrijk genoeg
was, dan vloog eigen personeel van het A.M.C.-hoofdkwartier naar de lokatie van
de waarneming. De getuigen dienden onmiddellijk een standaard vragenlijst in te
vullen en een lijst van vragen te beantwoorden over hun waarneming(en),
inbegrepen tijdstip, tijdsduur, plaats, verschijning, hoogte, snelheid en
manoeuvers. Alle relevante informatie en materiaal werd naar het A.M.C.-hoofdkwartier
gezonden, waar evaluatieteams de rapporten onderzochten en analyseerden. Ze
schreven een officieel rapport van de resultaten van hun onderzoeken. Kopies
van deze rapporten zonden ze door naar andere overheidsdiensten en aan labos,
die bekwaam waren te helpen bij de identifikatie van de meldingen.
Het werd snel
duidelijk dat de waargenomen acties van de UFOs niet overeenkwamen met het
verwachtte patroon van technologische, vergevorderde militaire projecten of
ramingen. Ofschoon het grootste deel (+/- 80%) van de UFOs verklaard werden
door verkeerde interpretaties van bekende zaken zoals vliegtuigen, weerballons,
meteoren, de planeet VENUS, halos en anderen, stapelden de onverklaarbare
gevallen zich snel op. Nieuwe rapporten met degelijke informatie over data en
details, alsook over de hoge snelheid en bijzondere handelbaarheid van de
UFOs, bereikten een hoogtepunt midden 1947. In het meinummer van 1967 van THE
UFO-INVESTIGATOR verklaarde TED BLOECHER dat volgens de
verzamelde en geordende persberichten het jaar 1947 alleen al ruim 800
UFO-meldingen telde. Een typisch voorbeeld-waarneming voor die tijdsperiode was
de waarneming boven DEN HAAG, Nederland op 20 juli 1948 van een raketvormig
voorwerp mettwee rijen raampjesover de lengtezijde. Vier nachten later op 21
juli 1948 meldde de piloot en de co-piloot van een EASTERN AIRLINES DC-3, dat
zij bijna in botsing kwamen met een torpedovormig voorwerp van ongeveer 100
meter lengte boven MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA, USA. Het tuig had eveneens twee rijen
blinkende kleine ramen, verspreid overde lengte. Hier komen we later nog even op terug. Dit is één van de vele
rapporten, vergelijkbaar met de ghost-rockets boven Noord-Europa een aantal
maanden vroeger...
SIGNs eerste grote
onderzoek handelde over het MANTELL-incident van 7 januari 1948, dat een
fatale afloop kende. De controletoren van het GODMAN-vliegveld, KENTUCKY,
U.S.A. vroeg aan de kapitein van de nationale wacht Thomas MANTELL,
vluchtleider van een formatie van 4 F-51 om een UFO-melding na te trekken.
Mantell seinde dat hij het voorwerp zag en klom met zijn vliegtuig tot ongeveer
20.000 voet hoogte. De overige piloten waagden zich niet tot dergelijke hoogte
bij gebrek aan zuurstofapparaten in hun vliegtuigen en vlogen verder. Ondanks het
feit dat Mantells vliegtuig ook geen zuurstofapparaat aan boord had, zette de
piloot zijn jacht onversaagd en een beetje roekeloos verder... Later op de dag
vond een reddingsploeg Mantells ontzielde lichaam terug tussen de brokstukken
van zijn gecrashte vliegtuig. De luchtmacht en project SIGN, onder druk gezet
door de persmedia om een degelijke uitleg, verklaarde dat Mantell stierf door zuurstofgebrek,
terwijl hij de planeet VENUS achtervolgde. Deze verklaring werd op veel
ongeloof onthaald! In zijn rapport THE UFO-PHENOMENON A STUDY IN
PUBLIC RELATIONS weerlegt David SHEA deze verklaring.Een nieuw onderzoek van dit voorval in 1952
leidde tot een meer aanvaardbare oplossing. De onderzoekers verklaarden toen
dat Mantell waarschijnlijk jacht maakte op één van de grote SKYHOOK-ballonnen,
die de U.S.-Navy in het geheim gebruikte voor hun spionagedoeleinden. Deze
verklaring wordt actueel algemeen aanvaard als uitleg voor dit incident. Vanuit
publiek-zakelijke benadering, toonde de verkeerde behandelingdoor de luchtmacht van het Mantell-incident
het model aan dat de Air-Force toepaste op de meeste UFO-meldingen: snelle
identifikatie en uitleg, onverschillig van het resultaat van degelijk onderzoek.
Deze praktische aanpak van het probleem kadert in het doel om in staat te zijn
alle UFO-meldingen zo snel mogelijk te kunnen verklaren
Zelfs actueel nog
passen de sceptici en de nonbelievers dezelfde tactiek toe. Hoe vaak wordt de
planeet VENUS er niet bijgesleurd om een vreemde waarneming te verklaren, zelfs
in België. In die tijd echter leek het de luchtmacht veiliger om het even welke
uitleg voor een waarneming te geven, dan gewoon te zeggen :op dit
ogenblik weten we nog niet wat het is, het geval wordt verder onderzocht.
Meer en meer zou deze snelle indentifikatiepolitiek de luchtmacht in
moeilijkheden brengen...
De Sovjet-Unie was
een eerste verdachte in de productie van deze Vliegende Schotels. Nochthans
was het niet zo opportuun aan te nemen dat de Russische piloten hun nieuw
toestel boven het Amerikaans territorium zouden testvliegen.
Volgens sommigen zouden de Sovjets deze
nieuwe toestellen gebouwd hebbenop
basis van gevonden Duitse technologie uit PEENEMUNDE. In elk geval, het
onderzoek van SIGN kon op geen enkel wijze aantonen dat de UFOs het resultaat
was van hoogstaande technologie van de Sovjets... Dit resultaat leidde tot een
echte tweestrijd tussen diegenen, die dachten dat UFOs van buitenaardse
origine zouden kunnen zijn en de anderen, die geloofden dat alle meldingen
potentieel leidden naar meer aardse en aanvaardbare oorzaken.
In de late zomer van 1948 zette het
Pentagon het A.M.C.s Air Technical Intelligence Center (A.T.I.C.) {=
voorganger van het huidige Foreign Technolgy Division (F.T.D.) of Air
Force Systems Commands.} onder druk om een degelijke oplossing te vinden
voor het UFO-fenomeen, vooral wegens de wekelijks aangroeiende,
raadselachtige
UFO-rapporten. Wat ook de oplossing voor de meest raadselachtige rapporten ook
zou kunnen wezen, vaststaand feit was dat een aantal andere rapporten duidelijk
het resultaat was van eenvoudige of meer complexe misidentifikaties. Om te
helpen om deze misinterpretaties te sorteren uit alle rapporten komende van
misleidde waarnemers, die in feite planeten, sterren, meteoren en kometen zagen
vorderde Project Sign Dr. J. Allen HYNEK, directeur van het MACMILLAN
Observatorium van de Staatsuniversiteit van OHIO, op. Dr. Allen
Hynek was de dichtstbijzijnde, professionele astronoom bij DAYTON. Dit
was de reden waarom de eerste keuze om Hynek viel... Jaren later omschreef J.
Allen Hynek over zichzelf en de keuze van SIGN als deonschuldige
toeschouwer, die van overal beschoten werd. Met andere woorden, een
geografische toevalligheid dropte Hynek gewild of ongewild in het netelige
vraagstuk over UFOs. Later genoten de meeste van zijn collegas de vrijheid en
de blijdschap om UFOs als nonsens te kunnen verklaren...
Op 24 juli 1948 om
2u45 a.m. vloog een raketvormig object met twee rijen vierkanten raampjes en
vlammen, die uit het achterste deel van het tuig schoten, geruime tijd naast
een DC-3 op 5000 voet hoogte boven MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA.Een passagier van het vliegtuig zag het
vreemde object eveneens. Uit een later onderzoek bleek dat een
grondonderhoudsploeg op de ROBINS luchtmachtbasis in GEORGIA, een
uur vroeger hetzelfde of soortgelijk object zagen.
Signs
pro-buitenaardse fractie, inbegrepen zijn directeur kapitein Robert S.
SNEIDER, waren overtuigd dat ze met het hoger incident het ultieme bewijs
hadden dat ze zochten. Na dit voorval en ook van eerdere gerapporteerde
gebeurtenissen stelden ze een topsecret ESTIMATE OF THE SITUATION
(= situatieschets) op en zonden het door aan alle hogere commandoposten. In het
Pentagon veroorzaakte dit dokument een felle controverse. Het bewuste dokument
wees op het feit dat alle onverklaarbare UFO-meldingen wel degelijk het bewijs
waren van interplanetaire bezoekers. Toen dit bewuste ESTIMATE-dokument bij de
latere luchtmacht generaal HoyT S. VANDENBERG op het bureau belandde,
weigerde de generaal in buitenaardse ruimtetuigen te geloven. Het rapport miste
bewijskracht! In enkele maanden tijd werd dit dokument volledig
gedeklassificeerd en het bevel gegeven om alle kopies te verbranden. Sommigen
beweren dat een aantal exemplaren in het geheim bewaard bleven. Jarenlang
beweerde de luchtmacht dat dergelijk dokument nooit bestaan had. Kapitein
Edward J. RUPPELT, de latere A.T.I.C.-UFO-projectleider van maart 1951 tot
september 1953, verklaarde dat dit dokument de ontmoeting van de DC-3 en andere
meldingen, gedaan door geloofwaardige getuigen, uitvoerig rapporteerde. Hij zag
het rapport wel degelijk!Ruppelt
schreef in zijn boek dat een groep A.T.I.C.-onderzoekers naar het Pentagon
trokken om hun situatie-oordeel kracht bij te zetten. Maar net als bij hun
stafchef vingen ze ook hier bot bij gebrek aan afdoend bewijs...
Volgens latere
bronnen zou generaal VANDENBERG deel uitgemaakt hebbenvan de fel betwistte geheime MAJESTIC-12-
groep. Indien dit echt zo was, kan het niet anders of de generaal moest de
theorie over buitenaardse bezoekers net als het bestaan van UFOs ontkennen.
Eind 1948 verdween
de aandacht van de luchtmacht voor de ET-hypothese.Na het voorval van het verworpen rapportverloren de pro-buitenaardse aanhangers veel
van hun waarde. De fractie, die een meer prozaïsche verklaring(en) voor UFOs
verdedigde, begon Project Sign te domineren. Zelf de DC-3 ontmoeting sloegen ze
KO. Wegens totaal onmogelijk wegens de aangehaalde feiten
suggereerde Hynek dat de piloten bepaalde dingen fout inschatten... Het
object moet een buitengewone meteoor geweest zijn, omdat de piloten
niet echt kunnen gezien hebben wat ze dachten te zien... Misschien zou het
UFO-verschijnsel wel vanzelf verdwijnen!
In 1949 bereidde
PROJECT SIGN hun laatste rapport voor. Volgens de Project Blue Book Files
werd het rapport als SECRET geklassificeerd tot 1961. Het dokument besloot
dat de toekomstige onderzoeksactiviteit tot het strikte minimum kon herleid
worden. Desalniettemin verwierphet
SIGN-rapportvan februari 1949 het
bestaan van UFOs in het geheel niet. Het rapport gaf toe dat de onderzoekers
niet bekwaam waren om 20 % van de onderzochte gevallen (237) te
verklaren. Niettegenstaande deze toegeving, verklaarde ze een beetje verder Er
bestaat een mogelijkheid dat voldoende incidenten opgelost kunnen worden om het
mysterie verbonden met deze gebeurtenissen te elimineren of grotendeels te
verminderen. Wanneer genoeg gevallen opgelost worden, zou het
UFO-project beëindigd worden. Alle verdere onderzoeken, die noodzakelijk
bleven, zouden routinematig behandeld worden zoals elk ander werk van de
geheime diensten. Een bijvoegsel van James E. LIPP van de RAND
CORPORATION overwoog de mogelijkheid van het bestaan van buitenaards,
intelligent leven, toegevend dat het mogelijk was, maar er direct aan
toevoegend dat de afstanden tussen de sterren te immens waren om buitenaardse
bezoekers toe te laten... Hij besloot in elk geval, de acties,
toegeschreven aan de vliegende objecten, gerapporteerd in 1947 en 1948 lijken
tegenstrijdig met ruimtereizen.
De luchtmacht schakelde
kordaat een SIGN-voorstel uit om hun operatie uit te breiden door een
UFO-onderzoeksteam op elke luchtmachtbasis te plaatsen. Omdat de aanhangers van
de pro-buitenaardse hypothese het project verlieten of vervangen werden, nam de
anti-UFO-fractie onbetwistbaarde
controle over. Vanaf dit ogenblik gingen de onderzoekers ervan uit dat er voor
elke UFO-melding een conventionele verklaring te vinden was. Op 16 december
1948 kreeg het project SIGN een nieuwe en passender naam : PROJECT GRUDGE.
Volgens kapitein RUPPELT, die later een
soortgelijke
UFO-werkgroep zou leiden, begonnen nu de DARK AGES van de Ufologie...
Nochthans uit het
merendeel van het bewijs, blijkt dat de Amerikaanse overheid eveneens voor een
raadsel stond, net als de doodgewone Amerikaan. Er doken zelfs hardnekkige
geruchten op dat de Amerikanen in 1947 een wrak van een neergestortte UFO in
ROSWELL borgen, waardoor de overheid virtueel over de volledige kennis van het
UFO-mysterie beschikte. Uit een aantal vrijgegeven tantaliserende dokumenten,
uit een aantal officiële verklaringen van de luchtmacht zelf en uit de
verklaringen van de onderzoekers van dit voorval, blijkt actueel dat er in
ROSWELL in 1947 wel degelijk een onbekend object crashte. De
Amerikanen hebben in de loop der jaren de verklaring voor dit object meermalen
aangepast aan de bevindingen van de onderzoekers... van een weerballon tot een
spionageballon om de Sovjetrussische kernexperimenten op te volgen...
Het geheel van de opgedoken getuigen en
bewijs, toont dus inderdaad aan dat iets in Roswell, New Mexico, neerstortte.
Dit voorval laat enkel de controversie in de Ufologie toenemen. Sommigen nemen
aan dat een buitenaards ruimteschip met inzittenden crashte in Roswell; anderen
geloven blindelings de diverse, vrijgegeven verklaringen van de Amerikaanse
overheid. Het laatste woord is hier zeker nog niet over geschreven, noch
gesproken...
Tenslotte wijzigde
de publieke geschiedenis van de UFO-polemiek niet wezenlijk. We dienen
voortdurend aan te nemen dat de USA-overheid ongewild betrokken werd met het
UFO-verschijnsel, enerzijds niet om het verborgen te houden, zoals steeds
beweerd werd, maar gewoon omdat ze zelf de oplossing niet wisten. Anderzijds
indien de hardnekkige geruchten een grond van waarheid hebben, zouden de
Amerikanen wel degelijk hun geheimen en de buitgemaakte spitstechnologie willen
verborgen houden voor de rest van de wereld.
Van 1948 tot 1952 maakte
de luchtmacht gebruik van hun wetenschappelijkeraadgever en UFO-scepticus, Dr. J. Allen HYNEK om UFO-meldingen
te onder zoeken en te verklaren...Meer dan 2 decennia later zou HYNEK
hetvolgende over Project SIGN verklaren:
- De 237 originele project
Sign rapporten zijn niet overtuigend genoeg om de oplossing bezoekers uit de
ruimte hard te maken. Na herziening van deze gevallen in 1970, moet ik
persoonlijk erkennen dat zij merkbaar van gebrekkige kwaliteit zijn...
In 1947-1948was er niet veel nodig om fel en snel
opgewonden te raken. Zeker waren daar enige rapporten, die als je ze van nabij
bekeek, die op geen normale fysische verklaring wezen. Maar zelfs deze
specifieke gevallenwaren onbeduidend
omdat ze op een onvolwaardige manier onderzocht werden; vele cruciale gegevens
ontbraken
Na hun zelf ervan
te overtuigen dat UFOs geen geheime wapens waren van één of andere natie,
begon de luchtmacht dus te vertrouwen op de notie dat de mensen niet nauwkeurig
beschreven van wat ze zagen en ervaarden. De luchtmacht kwam tot het
ongemakkellijk, maar correct besluit, dat het verschijnsel oorspronkelijk
veroorzaakt werd door misinterpretaties (= verkeerd waarnemen) van doodgewone
verschijnselen, ongewone psychologische of fysiologische toestanden, sociale
stress en natuurlijke vervalsingen en publiciteitszoekers. Ze probeerden
afstand te nemen van dit onderwerp door eerst te verklaren dat het ganse
fenomeen niets ongewoon of onregelmatig was. In 1950 probeerde ze hun
onderzoekseenheid PROJECT GRUDGE (zie 3.2.2.) op te doeken in de hoop
dat het groot publiek de boodschap zou verstaan en zou stoppen met
onaanvaardbare dingen te zien in de lucht...
Franklin Institute astronomer Derrick Pitts is one of this countrys leading
scientific stars. Hes been named one of the Top 50 African-American research
scientists, and hes a media force, having appeared on MSNBC, The Colbert
Report and The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson and hosted his
own local weekly radio show on WHYY. So why, exactly, is he endorsing a book
that is, well, pro-UFO?
Science is looking for ET in microbes these daysnot via strange lights in
the sky. But Pitts says the book UFOs: Generals, Pilots and Government
Officials Go on the Record by Leslie Kean, pointed out to him by a
colleague, motivated him to adopt a more curious viewpoint. I had the view,
too, that UFOs were seen by hicks, he admits. But in this book you had really
credible people reporting these experiences, and while I have no hard data to
say what they report is an absolutely true experience, I came to think the
stigma surrounding the subject is unfortunate.
For the record, what Pitts endorses is the unidentified aspect of an
unidentified flying object. I have never seen a UFO myself, he says, and I am
not saying that UFOs are ET spacecraft. I am saying [that] here, there is some
mystery, and we should be able to address it scientifically, without all the
stigma involved.
Pittss endorsement will run on the paperback edition, which comes out in
August, and he knows the stigma surrounding those three letters UFO could
taint him in the eyes of some. Just saying theres something worth looking at is
usually regarded as verboten. I dont really care, he says. Because thats
not real science. The scientific viewpoint is to admit when we dont know
something and look for answers.
This article originally appeared in the July 2011 issue of Philadelphia
magazine.
NA MEER DAN 60 JAAR UFO-ONDERZOEK: NOG STEEDS ANGST VOOR DE KILLE WAARHEID!
U
krijgt nu regelmatig wat uit dit rapport te lezen...
dit is een eerste stukje
0.VOORWOORD.
Op ieder ogenblik zelfs op dit ogenblik
kan je door het venster naar buitenkijken en een vreemd verschijnsel zien, een UFO misschien? Misschien zie
je een reeks flikkerende lichtjes aan de nachtelijke hemel, die bewegingloos
stilhangen - zoals geen enkel conventioneel vliegtuig dat kan dan schieten
deze lichtjes plots weg met soms onvoorstelbare koersveranderingen en
versnellingen zoals geen enkele helikopter of luchtballon dit kan. Misschien
zie je een metaalachtig object, dat schotel-, kegel-, sigaar- of
driehoekvorming is en dat laag over je auto vliegt, je achtervolgt, terwijl je
rustig naar huis rijdt na een welverdiende uitstap. Het object doet zelfs je
autoradio zwijgen en je injectiemotor stilvallen... Misschien is het onbekend
tuig geland aan de rand van de weg of net buiten je huis, terwijl de
inzittenden (de ufonauten) druk bezig zijn met één of andere mysterieuze handeling
rond een onbekend voorwerp of komen ze zelfs aankloppen aan je deur... word
je zelfs ontvoerd uit je bed of je auto aan boord van hun ruimteschip, waar ze
je aan een reeks kille medische onderzoeken onderwerpen en soms een ultraklein
voorwerpje inplanten of lichaamsstalen nemen...
Deze woorden kan je moeilijk geloven, niet.
Zulke zaken kunnen zeker niet waar zijn... Inbeeldingen, grappen,
hersenspinsels, fictie of valse getuigenissen, denk jij beslist? Maar deze
dingen zijn wel waargenomen, ervaren en gerapporteerd door tien-, zelfs
honderdduizenden mensen, even normaal als jij en ik. De meeste geven hun naam
en adres op, zijn blij dat ze hun verhaal even bij je kwijt kunnen en hopen dat
jij een logische verklaring kan geven voor hun vreemde waarneming of ervaring.
Meestal zijn ze niet bang om met hun ervaring naar buiten te komen, zoeken
zeker geen bekendheid of media-aandacht. Ze verwachten enkel en alleen maar een
antwoord op al hun prangende vragen over hun schrikwekkende ervaringen... Ze
verwachten dat de onderzoeker hen gelooft en niet denkt dat ze gek zijn...
Honderden boeken verschenen over dit
controversieel verschijnsel Ufos, waarin onderzoekers regelmatig dergelijke
getuigenverhalen analyseren en bespreken. Er bestaan particuliere Ufo verenigingen
die deze verslagen verzamelen, analyseren, evalueren en proberen een logische
verklaring te geven voor dit vreemd en complex fenomeen... Vanzelfsprekend
bestaan er tussen deze ufologen verschillende standpunten over deze meldingen
gaande van believers, van neutrale onderzoekers, gaande tot sceptici en
nonbelievers, die alles verwerpen en alle meldingen met aardse oplossingen
willen verklaren...
Jij denkt misschien ook dat al deze
UFO-meldingen slechts fictie of hallucinaties zijn, de vruchten van de menselijke
fantasie, ontsproten aan de Sciencefiction-lectuur over vliegende schotels en
groene Marsmannetjes. Dan moet ik jou teleurstellen, want ik stel vast dat in
de loop van 60 jaar overzicht van de ufologie de mensen geen grote
verbeeldingskracht bezitten, want actueel wijzigt er niet veel aan de trend van
de waarnemingen. Er speelde zich wel een bepaalde evolutie af door een aantal
bijkomende randverschijnselen zoals graancirkels, veeverminkingen, ontvoeringen
(kregen meer aandacht!) maar de hoofdzaak van het waarnemen van onbekende
tuigen bleef een vast patroon volgen, gaande van de klassieke schotelvorm, van
driehoekige tuigen tot diverse lichtbollen (# ORBs). Het blijft een feit dat
er nog geen enkele UFO op wielen waargenomen werd. En ... indien het toch maar
allemaal verbeelding is, waarom worden er dan geen roze Ufos gemeld in de vorm
van olifanten... (delirium tremens!) of andere abnormale dingen waargenomen en
gefotografeerd?
Er is geen twijfel mogelijk over het feit
of Ufos wel of niet bestaan als verschijnsel, wat de nonbelievers en sceptici
ook mogen beweren. Maar bestaan ze wel als een tastbare werkelijkheid, vraag
je? Of zijn het holografische projecties van een buitenaardse beschaving?
Indien dit het geval is, dan zijn ze toch het opmerkelijkste raadsel ooit
ervaren door de menselijke soort. De zuivere grootte en de implicaties van het
UFO-verschijnsel maken het tot één van de grootste op te lossen raadsels. Dit
is één van de hoofdredenen - specialisten inbegrepen, evenals wetenschapslui en
hogere overheidspersonen, die meestal denken het beter te weten hun gezicht
afwenden en weigeren toe te geven dat er een UFO-vraagstuk bestaat. Weet echter
dat de officiële instanties er alles aan deden om de melders van Ufos en de
totaliteit van het verschijnsel publiek belachelijk te maken om in het geheim
hun onderzoek verder te zetten. Piloten mochten het waarnemen van een vreemd
verschijnsel, een UFO niet meer bespreken met de pers anders volgden er strenge
sancties...
Ongeveer 115 jaar geleden, in 1890, schreef
H. G. WELLS zijn boek WAR of the WORLDS (Oorlog der wereld, recent nog
verfilmd in een remake met Tom CRUISE!), waarin hij verhaalt hoe de Aarde bij
verrassing aangevallen werd door buitenaardsen, door Marsbewoners, die onze
planeet wilden veroveren. Dit was toen zuivere fictie!
Worden wij de dag van vandaag op dezelfde
wijze bij verrassing belaagd verklaring voor de vele duizenden ontvoeringen
van mensen door aliëns uitgezonderd dat het nu kille realiteit is in plaats
van fictie? Is dat misschien de reden waarom de meeste overheden het diepe
stilzwijgen bewaren over de ware achtergrond van het UFO-verschijnsel, gewoon
omdat ze zelf machteloos staan; enkel kunnen toezien hoe de aliëns hun acties
ondernemen en ... zwijgen ze om paniek alom en massahysterie te vermijden... Ik
hoop echt dat de sceptici en de nonbelievers gelijk hebben als ze verklaren dat
Ufos allemaal van aardse makelij zijn. Wat een opluchting? Of toch niet...
Proberen de overheden met medewerking van
de media daarom het UFO-verschijnsel belachelijk te maken om in het geheim naar
een oplossing te zoeken, hun krachten te bundelen (U.S.A., Groot-Brittannië,
Rusland, Japan,...)? Het is een feit dat verschillende honderdduizenden mensen
over een periode van 60 jaar merkwaardige objecten in de lucht waarnamen en
rapporteerden; dat duizenden mensen beweren ontvoerd te zijn aan boord van een
UFO en medisch onderzocht. Deze waarnemingsverslagen komen uit alle werelddelen
en uit alle lagen van de bevolking. Véél van deze rapporten komen zelfs van
hooggekwalificeerde specialisten, ervaren luchtvaartpiloten, politiemensen en
radaroperatoren. Indien de meeste waarnemers slechts alledaagse mensen waren,
is dat omdat de meeste mensen alledaags zijn... Slechts een klein deel van deze
UFO-melders en zelfs een deel van de UFO-onderzoekers zochten publiciteit,
media-aandacht of eigen financieel voordeel. Los van deze enkelingen, schuwen
de meeste getuigen alle vorm van publiciteit. Terwijl wij hun
waarnemingsverslagen lezen valt ons hun eerlijkheid op! Ondanks ongeloof,
wantrouwen en het risico belachelijk gemaakt te worden, vonden deze mensen het
hun plicht als burger om hun ervaringen te rapporteren aan de autoriteiten;
zochten ze wanhopig naar een instantie, die hun ervaringen zou kunnen verklaren
en dat ze er later zelf zouden kunnen om lachen...
Maar wat is er dan werkelijk aan de hand?
Misschien wel het opmerkelijkste aspect van het UFO-mysterie gedurende de 60
jaar onderzoek, is het feit dat het UFO-probleem nog steeds groter wordt in
plaats van opgelost te raken, en dit zowel in complexiteit als in kwantiteit.
Iemand komt naar voren met een bepaalde verklaring of hypothese: een volgende
waarneming heeft weer specifieke karakteristieken, die de openbaar gemaakte
theorie weerleggen zo schrijdt het verschijnsel altijd verder, meer
frustrerend en angstwekkender met de tijd...
Daarom is het niet zo verwonderlijk dat
zoveel mensen weigeren om het UFO-verschijnsel ernstig te nemen, net zoals
Wells aardbewoners aanvankelijk de mogelijkheid van een verrassingsaanval van
Marsbewoners ontkenden... Je kunt zelf kiezen; indien je wilt geloven dat er
een natuurlijke, aardse verklaring bestaat voor alle meldingen van Ufos, of
dat er te weinig waarnemingsgegevens zijn of zielig onderzoek de oorzaak is van
het actueel niet kunnen verklaren van alle meldingen, slaap dan rustig voort!
Indien je zo handelt, zal je de immer groeiende berg aan bewijsmateriaal totaal
moeten negeren en ontkennen en je hoofd verder in het zand steken... Je kunt
net zoals de sceptici en de nonbelievers zeggen dat er actueel nog geen hard
bewijs bestaat voor ETI-Ufos, maar is dit wel zo?
Zelfs de officiële Amerikaanse
luchtmacht-werkgroepen waren genoodzaakt te verklaren: het meest
onvermijdelijk besluit is dat de getuigen van de vele ontmoetingen echte
gebeurtenissen rapporteerden, zoals zij ze waarnamen, en dat deze feiten
vreemde wezens beschrijven, die op geen enkele wijze verward kunnen worden met
eender welk levend schepsel, geboren op onze planeet...
Het zal van jezelf afhangen nadat je dit
rapport las, of je het UFO-verschijnsel blijft negeren en ontkennen of dat je
durft erkennen dat het één van de meest raadselachtige en verontrustende
mysteries is, waar de moderne mens mee geconfronteerd wordt.
Met dit rapport wil ik de meest naïeve
lever of scepticus aantonen dat Ufos geen verzinsels zijn, maar wel een
realistisch feit; dat de overheden, de U.S.A. op kop, het verschijnsel
probeerden uit te schakelen om in het geheim verder te onderzoeken (zie
historisch overzicht); dat wij, zogezegde Ufologen, teveel tijd verloren in het
willen bewijzen van de echtheid van het UFO-verschijnsel en daardoor de
belangrijkheid van alle intenties uit het oog verloren; dat wij door het
voortdurend kinderachtig gekibbel tussen believers, nonbelievers, sceptici en
neutralen, teveel energie verspeelden aan een zinloos, oeverloos gekibbel... Zij
die na 60 jaar Ufologie en onderzoek de bewijzen van de realiteit van het
UFO-onderzoek niet willen zien, zullen bewijs van de echtheid van Ufos NOOIT
aanvaarden, noch zien...
De angst om de ontstellende waarheid mag
ons niet afschrikken, maar vormt net die uitdaging bij uitstek om voluit door
te gaan met ons onderzoek. We leven actueel in een tijd van gechronometreerde
nuchterheid en rationalisme, waar we de natuur als een object beschouwen en de
wetenschap voor alles en nog wat aardse verklaringen zoekt, ook voor Ufos.
Wat als er nu meer is tussen hemel en aarde, dan wij wel denken... In het
verleden heeft de wetenschap toch al vaker de bal misgeslagen, niet?
NA MEER DAN 60 JAAR UFO-ONDERZOEK: NOG STEEDS ANGST VOOR DE KILLE WAARHEID!
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0.HISTORISCH
OVERZICHT.
1. Inleiding.
De Ufologie, zoals
we die vandaag kennen, kende haar oorsprong in de U.S.A., de bakermat van de
Westerse spitstechnologie en research, maar tevens een hutsepot van diverse
culturen en rassen... De V.S. vormde tevens de kracht en steunpilaar van de
Westerse verdediging tegen het potentieel Communistisch gevaar van de
toenmalige U.S.S.R.. Nu door het vallen van de Berlijnse Muur en het
uiteenvallen van de U.S.S.R dit potentieel rode gevaar verdwenen is, is de
U.S.A. in vele ogen zelf de oorlogsboeman geworden. Vergeten zijn voor vele
Europeanen de vele duizenden gesneuvelde Amerikaanse soldaten, die eenzaam op
de Europese militaire kerkhoven rustten...
Toch handelt dit
historisch overzicht overwegend over het officieel Amerikaans onderzoek van het
UFO-raadsel, ondanks het feit dat hun imago als onkreukbare verdedigingspartner
door het UFO-verschijnsel dreigt verloren te gaan.
In feite onderscheid je twee fasen in het
Amerikaans UFO-onderzoek: een eerste fase, die als hoofddoel had het bestaan
van het fenomeen te bewijzen als onbekend en het op een wetenschappelijke wijze
te benaderen (=privé-initiatief) en de wettelijke publiekheid. Deze fase begon
in principe met de waarneming van Kenneth Arnold van negen reusachtige
vuurwielen. De pers noemde ze wegens hun vluchtpatroon en beschrijving
ironisch vliegende schotels. Deze waarneming vestigde de aandacht van de hele
wereld op de Ufos. Deze fase duurde tot het begin der jaren 80, tot dat de
eerste indrukwekkende publicaties over ontvoering gevallen verschenen (Budd
Hopkins). De tweede fase begon met de verwezenlijking van de belangrijkheid van
het abduction-aspect. Deze tweede fase evolueert nog steeds voort met het
zoeken naar bewijzen van ontvoeringen door het vinden van implantaten; het
zoeken naar ontvoering gevallen met meerdere getuigen...
Vanzelfsprekend
beperkt dit vreemd verschijnsel zich niet alleen tot de U.S.A.. Wij vinden
interessante gevallen terug van over de hele wereld, waarvan we enkel later van
nabij zullen bekijken... Het is in feite evident dat het UFO-verschijnsel zich
niet alleen tot de U.S.A. beperken. Overal zien mensen wel eens vreemde dingen in
het luchtruim! De indeling van dit historisch overzicht baseer ik vooral op de
diverse officiële werkgroepen van de V.S. en bepaalde tijdsperioden...
2. VOOR 1947...
UFOs zijn geen
typisch hedendaags, modern verschijnselen. Het is normaal dat als gewone mensen
naar de lucht kijken, dat ze dan wel eens voor hen vreemde en onbekende dingen
kunnen / konden waarnemen, om het even in welke tijdsperiode ze leefden. In
vroegere tijden zonder Tv, radio of andere media werden de avonden opgeluisterd
door verhalen over weerwolven, vampieren, alvermannen, kabouters, elfjes en
andere vreemde wezens en werd het nieuws en andere gebeurtenissen, vooral
mondeling doorgegeven... Op deze wijze ontstonden zeer veel legenden in functie
van de cultuur, waarin ze verteld werden. Deze vreemde waarnemingen en de
vreemde wezens noemen wij in het modern tijdperk UFOs en Aliënwezens. Eén van
de eerste UFO-waarnemingen vind je al terug in het Oud Testament. In hoofdstuk
I van het Boek EZECHIËL vind je de beschijving van een vurige koets terug, die
uit een wervelwind verscheen en waarvan de profeet getuigen was in OUD-CHALDEA
(nu deel van Irak) in 593 voor Christus. Misschien
is dit ook het eerste contactee-geval. Vele andere verhalen
uit het Oud Testament, zoals de ARK VAN NOË; het geven van de 10 GEBODEN aan
MOZES door GOD op de berg SINAÏ; het roepen van ABRAHAM en MOZES; de plagen van
EGYPTE en het vertrek uit EGYPTE van de Joden met de ster die het 24 u op 24
u dag licht liet zijn; de ster van Bethelehem voor de geboorte van Christus,...
kan je in de kontekst van de huidige Ufologie in een ander daglicht plaatsen
als de manipulatie, de programmering,het brainwashen en het leiden van het uitgekozen volk naar een vooraf
welbepaald doel door een kosmische macht die wij GOD (JAHWEH) noemen... Bij het
niet naleven van de opgelegde regels en instructies volgen meestal zware
sancties, zelfs tot vernietiging toe, zoals SODOM en GOMORRA, de ZONDVLOED,...
In zijn boek ANATOMY
of a PHENOMENA vertelt de Franse schrijver Jacques VALLEE dat een
Chinees, TSCHI.PEN.LAO van de Pekingse Universiteit enige granieten
beeldhouwwerkjes vond in het HUNAN-gebergte en op een eiland in het TUNGTING-meer,
waarschijnlijk rond 45.000 jaar voor Christus gemaakt. Ze beelden
cilindervormige voorwerpen in de lucht uit en mensen van grote gestalte
(reuzen?). Erich VON DÄNIKEN haalt in zijn diverse boeken WAGENS
VAN DE GODEN, WAREN DE GODEN KOSMONAUTEN... de restanten van
diverse culturen aan om de oude bezoekers uit de ruimte aan te tonen. Via
deze ruimte-archeologie wilt VON DÄNIKEN zijn gewaagde theorie bewijzen dat
vertegenwoordigers van een hogerontwikkelde, buitenaardse beschaving onze aarde
tot ongeveer 40.000 jaar geleden bezochten. Bij alle volkeren vind je een
scheppingsverhaal terug, waarin sprake is van wezen(s) die uit de hemel
neerdaalden om het menselijk ras te scheppen. Zijn sterkste argumenten in zijn
bewijsvoering haalt Von Däniken bij de fysische getuigenissen uit Zuid- en
Centraal-Amerika, Egypte en Azië. Op het NACZA-woestijnterrein in Peru kan
jeeen strook effen vlakte van ongeveer
40 km lang en 2 km breed vinden. Von Däniken zegt
dat, indien je over dit terrein vliegt, je uitgestrekte lijnen ziet: meetkundig
uitgespreid, sommigen evenwijdig met elkaar, anderen elkaar kruisend of omringd
met ruime trapeziumvormige vlakken. Vanuit de lucht,
verklaart hij, krijgt de waarnemer de indruk dat het wijde NACZA-plein
met zijn tekeningen een landingplaats voor interplanetaire tuigen voorstelt...
In één van zijn laatste boeken DE
FANTASTISCHE WERKELIJKHEID zet hij deze hypothese nog meer kracht bij. Hij
zegt dat dezelfde lijnstructuren ook terug te vinden zijn in de MOJAVE-woestijn,
aangelegd door de N.A.S.A. als oppervlaktemarkeringen om de piloten van de
Spaceshuttles vanaf grote hoogte een overzicht te geven van hun
landingsterrein. Ze werden opgespoten, vergelijkbaar! Deze landingsplaatsen,
zoals NACZA, vinden we ook terug op andere plaatsen op de aarde, zoals aan het
ARAL-meer in Rusland bij de analyse van sattellietopnamen van dit gebied.
Sceptici en nonbelievers zullen het aanhalen van Von Däniken weliswaar
bekritiseren... Persoonlijk vind dat deze schijver door zijn zoektocht over de
ganse wereld naar restanten van vroegere hoogstaande culturen en mythen een
aantal wetenschappen voldoende in vraag stelt. Vergeet
nooit dat de oude stad TROJE dank zij het geloven van een mythe over het
paard van Troje en de oorlog met SPARTA teruggevonden werd...
Bij UR in Chaldea
zijn gouden plaatjes teruggevonden waarop teksten voorkomen die verhalen dat op
mensen gelijkende goden uit de hemel neerdaalden en deze gouden platen aan de
priesters schonken. In het Oud Testament vind je soortgelijke
verhalen terug, zoals het scheppingsverhaal, de val der engelen, en last but
not least dat van MOZES en de stenen tafels met de TIEN GEBODEN van GOD...
In
een MAYA-bouwerk te PALENQUE in YUCATAN, PERU bevindt zich een welbekend reliëf
dat uitgesneden werd korte tijd voor de stad verlaten werd rond 600 na Christus
(oorzaak onbekend). In dit befaamd
beeldhouwreliëf zien een aantal onderzoekers actueel een in steen uitgesneden
zicht met overeenkomende details van hetgeen wij nu als een vertikale, lanceerbare
raket met een ruimtepakdragende astronaut (h)erkennen, die ingewikkelde
controles uitvoert, die de lancering voorafgaan.
In de oude
Sanskrietteksten, zoals de RIG-VEDAS, de RAMAYANA, de SAMARANGANA-SUTRADHARA,
de MAHABRATA en de VYMAANIKA-SHAASTRA vinden we ook verhalen terug over
vliegende VIMANAs in het oude INDIA, die soms gruwelijke oorlogen uitvochten
met wapens van ongekende kracht (kernwapens, lasers,..). Meer hierover kan je
lezen in het artikel UFOs and INDIA: ancient and comtemporary van de
onderzoeker KANISHK NATHAN in de MUFON 1987 International
UFO-Symposium- proceedings. Een gezegde zegt dat de geschiedenis zich keer
op keer herhaalt, niet!
Ook door Griekse en
Romeinse schrijvers werden regelmatig waarnemingen van vreemde dingen in het
luchtruim opgetekend. Ze omschreven het waargenomen met de dingen uit de hun
gekende leefwereld, zoals vurige zwaarden, schilden, kruisen...
Vele andere
waarnemingen, die we vandaag UFOs zouden noemen, werden door de oude en
moderne tijden door geschiedschrijvers neergepend. Volgens de U.S.A.F. Archives
Blue BOOK Project Files verscheen er 1254 in de lucht boven de SINT-ABBANS
abdij, een rank luchtschip in frisse kleuren; de maan was toen 8 dagen oud. In
1520 verscheen er in het Franse luchtruim een bolvormig voorwerp met draaiende
lichten en ook twee vurige zonnen. Vaak is er in de verhalen uit de kronieken
van deze vroegere eeuwen sprake van beschrijvingen als vurige pijlen, zwaarden,
kruisen; typische beschrijvingen van gekende voorwerpen uit die tijdsperiode...
De grote UFO-waarnemingen
die in de moderne tijd na 1947 plaatsvonden, zijn niet de eerste
luchtverschijnselen die het Amerikaanse volk schrik aanjoegen. De Franse
schrijver Jacques Vallée schrijft in zijn Anatomy of a Phenomena
(1965) dat een Texaanse farmer op 24 januari 1987 een donker vliegend,
schotelvormig voorwerp waarnam, dat de lucht tegen wonderbaarlijke snelheid
doorkruiste. In hun boek UFOs? YES. schrijven David SAUNDERS
en Roger HARKINS dat er gedurende de jaren 1896 en 1897 overal in de
U.S.A. een mysterieus luchtschip werd waargenomen. De eerste waarnemingen
begonnen blijkbaar op 22 november 1896 in OAKLAND, CALIFORNIË, toen een groep
passagiers van een koets een luchtdoorklievend, sigaarvormig voorwerp zagen,
dat een spoor van fluorescerend licht uitstootte. Na gemeld te zijn in UTAH,
COLORADO, TEXAS, KANSAS, NEBRASKA, IOWA,
ILLINOIS, INDIANA en MICHIGAN keerde dit luchtschip naar het
Chicago-territorium terug. Op 11 april 1897 nam Walter Mc. CANN uit ROGERPARK
(een stad op 30 km van Chicago) fotos van het vreemde tuig. Dit zijn misschien
wel de eerste fotos ooit van een UFO genomen. Volgens Jacques Vallée
publiceerde de NEW-YORK HERALD dat de originele platen een zuurproef hadden
ondergaan en onvervalste reprodukties van een voorwerp in de lucht afbeeldden
en geen creatie waren van een studio...
De 1896-1897 golf
van waarnemingsrapporten was in wezen een prototype-golf, die nog een zuivere
kwaliteit bezit, die we niet kunnen terugvinden in de moderne golven van
UFO-waarnemingen. De meeste mensen verklaarden een bestuurbaar-type machine te
zien, dat min of meer vergeleken kon worden met hetgeen toen bekend was op het
hoogste niveau van luchtschipspitstechnologie. Een verscheidenheid aan vormen,
afmetingen, gedrag werd eveneens beschreven, inbegrepen niet-luchtschiptype
machines, maar in het algemeen waren deze laatste in de minderheid. Interessant
om weten is dat deze luchtschepen verbonden leken met allerlei culturele
verwachtingen van de getuigen. Sommige luchtschepen hadden grote klapwiekende
vleugels, anderen hadden passagiersmanden onderaan. Hoedanook de
vluchtkenmerken van deze machines, hoe ze ook beschreven werden, waren ver
vooruit op de spitstechnologie van die tijd. Het verschil in diverse typen kan
te maken hebben met de menselijke geest zelf. Op het ogenblik dat iemand een
vreemd object waarneemt, probeert hij die voorwerp in zijn bekend
referentiekader in te passen. Onbekende details zal hij invullen met hem
bekende gegevens, om zo zijn waarneming geloofwaardiger te maken, niet alleen
voor de anderen, maar vooral voor zichzelf...Verder mag je er ook van overtuigd zijn dat een aantal waarnemingen
valse verhalen waren van publiciteits- en aandachtzoekers. Waarom zou het toen
anders geweest zijn dan nu? De mensen leefden toen nog in een agrarisch
tijdperk, waar het milieuprobleem zich nog niet noemenswaardig stelde. Het
gemoed van de mensen was toen nog veel ontvankelijker dan in ons hedendaags Tv-
en computertijdperk...
Het was tevens interessant omdat deze luchtgolf
voor het eerst publiek de buitenaardse beschavingstheorie op de voorgrond
plaatste, geopperd door burgers en dagbladen, die probeerden de origine van
deze luchtschepen te bepalen. Discussies over het wel of niet bestaan van
intelligent leven op Mars en Marsbewoners doen hier hun intrede... Hoedanook
deze hypothesen kwamen niet van de wetenschappelijke gemeenschap, die
aangesproken werd om het luchschipmysterie op te lossen. De theoriën kwamen
(net zoals dit nu nog gebeurd) van ongeruste burgers, die naar de media
schreven. De aspekten van de technologie van deze luchtschepen verbaasden het
volk zo fel als zeer hoogstaand. De buitenaardse hypothese werd zoals de dag
van vandaag een fel aangevochte theorie voor meer gebruikelijke, aanvaardbare
verklaringen. Zelfs al mogen we nooit ontdekken wat deze mensen in
werkelijkheid zagen, blijft het een fascinerende en leerrijke inleiding tot het
gehele UFO-mysterie.De luchtschepen
verschenen in 1909 opnieuw, maar dit was een plaatselijke golf en veroorzaakte
geen wijdverspreidde polemiek als deze van 1897...
Het eerste deel van
de 20° eeuw kende weinig UFO-meldingen. Wel kan je regelmatig lezen over een
raadselachtige ontploffing boven de Siberische taïga (voormalige U.S.S.R.) op
30 juni 1908 van de TUNGUSKAmeteoriet (?). Vaak halen onderzoekers en
reporters deze ontploffing aan als een explosie van een buitenaards
ruimteschip, zelfs specifieke Russische wetenschappers beweren dit. De eerste
expeditie om dit fenomeen te bestuderen gebeurde al in 1927. Professor Leonid
KULIK leidde de missie; ze hebben toen geen fragmenten van het voorwerp
teruggevonden. Een eerder gepubliceerd artikel uit LES INVESTIA
persagentschapNOVOSTI van 22/12/1986 maakte
komaf met de buitenaardse ruimteschip-hypothese. De analyse van de opgegraven
turf van de plaats van de katastrofe, gedaan door het INSTITUUT voor
AARDCHEMIE en voor ANALYTISCHE CHEMIE, liet de wetenschappers toe te
besluiten dat de TUNGUSKA-explosie eerder de ontploffing van een komeet was die
tegen de aarde botste. Later kwamen de wetenschappers ook met de stelling dat
de aarde boven Siberië in botsing kwam met een klein zwart gat.
Uit de gegevens doorgeseind door de
ruimtesonde VEGA, gelanceerd door de U.S.S.R. om de komeet Halley te
bestuderen, blijkt een duidelijke overeenkomst tussen de samenstellende
deeltjes van de komeet Halley en de Tunguska-meteoriet. Natuurlijk geeft dit
geen 100% zekerheid, maar in 1986 geloofden de Russische geleerden dat de
sleutel voor dit raadsel gevonden zou worden in één van de varianten van de
komeetversie...
In een artikel in
de PRAVDA van 08/10/2004 Explorers find UFO fragments in Tunguska
meteorite area halen de onderzoekers de theorie van een buitenaards
ruimtetuig dan tochterug naar boven.
Volgens de leden van een wetenschappellijke expeditie van de Siberische
stichting Tunguska Space Phenomenon vonden ze restanten terug
van een buitenaards technologisch instrument. Algemeen wordt aangenomen dat
deze als een reusachtige bol vuur boven Centraal-Siberië te zien was alvorens
de Tunguska-meteoriet ontplofte.
In elk geval na
analyse van honderden getuigen verhalen onthulden de wetenschappers een nog
onverklaarbaar detail. Donderachtige geluiden en ongelofelijke lichteffecten
waren niet alleen te zien tijdens en na de vlucht van de vuurbal, maar ook
ervoor. Deze waarnemers bevonden zich op tientallen kilometers van de regio
waar de vuurbal neerstortte. Een ballistische golf kan dergelijk geluid nietaanmaken: dergelijke golf zou zich achter de
vuurbal bevinden, maar het geluid zou de vuurbal nooit ver achter zich laten.
Volgens de wetenschappers is er maar één echte verklaring, die enkel gelinkt
kan worden aan sterke elektromagnetische verschijnselen. Wetenschappers hebben
het fenomeen nog niet geanalyseerd in optiekvanuit dergelijk oogpunt.
Een ander
omstandigheid is gebonden aan de richting van de beweging van het voorwerp.
Op grond van getuigenissen verzameld in de 1920 en 1930-jaren besloten de
wetenschappers dat de koers van de vuurbal noorwaarts ging vanuit het zuiden.
Nochthans uit de analyse van de verwoesting van de wouden, blijkt dat het
voorwerp van west oostwaarts bewoog. Het is opmerkingswaardig dat dit ook de
richting is, die je kan afleiden uit de ooggetuigenverhalen.
Het gebrek aan overeenstemming is evident.
Een groot aantal wetenschappers probeerden het mysterieus fenomeen te
verklaren, uitgaande van verschillende benaderingen. Er werd zelfs specifiek
gezegd datverschillende vuurballen in
1908 boven de Siberische wouden vlogen. Maar de ooggetuigen hebben de stelling
van meerdere vuurballen nooit bevestigd. Een andere stelling vanProfessor F. Zigel, dat de meteoriet
manoeuvreerde in de atmosfeer van de aarde, veroorzaakte een hele heisa binnen
de wetenschappelijke wereld. Deze theorie kan enkel onderwerp van discussie
vormen als de Tunguska meteoriet een door mensen-veroorzaakte ramp was. In
elk geval de vlucht van de meteoriet eindigde in een krachtige ontploffing, gelijkwaardig
met 40 Megaton TNT! Het laatste woord is blijkbaar nog niet gesproken in het
verklaren van deze mysterieuze ontploffing in 1908 boven de Siberische taïga...
Eén van de
bekendste waarnemingen voor 1947 komt van de Amerikaanse ontdekkingsreiziger Nicolas
ROERICH in de wildernis van Mongolië. In zijn ALTAI-HYMALAYA, A TRAVEL
DIARY meldt hij de volgende gebeurtenis op 5 augustus 1926: ... van
noord naar zuid verplaatste zich een reusachtig ovaal object tegen hoge
snelheid, terwijl het zonlicht erdoor weerkaatst werd...
Vanzelfsprekend is dit kort overzicht van vreemde
verschijnselen van voor 1947 verre van volledig. Met dit relaas wou ik enkel
aantonen dat er niets nieuws onder de zon is, dat mensen altijd vreemde
verschijnselen zagen, zien en zullen blijven zien...
Andrey, That Is A Bold Statement: "I Know For A Fact That It [Visiting Extraterrestrials] Did Not Happen! It Has Been Proven Quite Convincingly!" So, Where Is This Extraordinary Proof For Your Extraordinary Claim?
"USSR watched for UFOs every day"
RT spoke with Andrey Finkelstein, Director of the
Institute of Applied Astronomy about the scientific reasoning behind his
controversial statement that in 20 years humanity will discover aliens and they
are likely to look much like humans.
RT: Mr. Finkelstein, thank you for being with us tonight.
You have promised that in twenty years' time you will have discovered life on
other planets. Are we actually talking about aliens, or merely some
bacteria? Andrey Finkelstein: We are talking life forms, of course. What
particular form such life could be is a separate question. Where there is life,
intelligence and civilization are a possibility. But discovering life is of
primary importance. RT: In what form? AF: What I'm going to tell you is a
paradox. The form will definitely be well-known to us. In my opinion, and I
believe experts generally agree on this, life and intelligence, should they
exist elsewhere at all, should be highly human-like. You see, essentially,
the origins of life follow the same pattern, just as it is with atoms, molecules
or macromolecules. There are fundamental laws of physics that apply invariably
in each case. These laws have been thoroughly researched and explained. Now all
you need is the right environment that would enable a process like that to
start. For example, an atom of hydrogen that originates in a galaxy located
millions of parsecs away from us -- that is hundreds of millions of light years
away -- is absolutely identical to a hydrogen atom that originates in our Solar
System. Because fundamental laws are universal.
And it's the same with the fundamental laws that govern
the origins of life, including the fundamental laws of evolution. These are
universal, so all living things should have the same composition, and living
organisms should look like the ones we encounter on Earth.
[I Guess] This Guy Has Serious Issues With Himself, [Not So Much With "Aliens"]!
UFOs: The Evidence
Before actually addressing the evidence (or
"evidence"...) supporting the claim that we are being visited by aliens, I go
over just what would be considered sufficient evidence, considering the
extraordinary nature of the claim. A note to believers: I don't mean to make fun of the more
sensible ones among you. Still, the actual points I make apply to you as well.
Most importantly, you don't get to say "it's aliens!" just because you don't
know of any other explanation. That's an argument from ignorance.
Why our partial DNA sequencing is legitmate as proof.
How can we say we have "proof" the Starchild is
alien?
Several of you, and critics, have written to me over the
past several weeks asking how we can legitimately claim the Starchild Skull is
"alien" if we don't have its entire genome to compare to the human genome. In
fact, this very afternoon nationally syndicated radio show host Michael Medved
bothered himself to excerpt the Wackypedia article about the Starchild on his
show, announcing to his audience with apparent authority that Dr. Steven Novella
had examined the Starchild and concluded it was a "common hydrocephalic."
Let me say that Novella is a quack who has never laid
eyes on the Starchild other than photos on our website, and I don't believe he's
even a doctor. As far as I know he is a scam artist of some kind passing himself
off as a qualified skeptic. But qualified or not, he doesn't know anything of
substance about the Starchild Skull, having written about it once, way back in
1999, and since then his horribly flawed article has been taken as gospel by
mainstream scientists, Wackypedia toadies, and, now, today, Mr. Michael
Medved.
That Novella article can be read in its entirety in the
"Fight the Stupids" section of the Starchild Project website, along with my
explanations of all the asinine errors in it. So now let's get to some new facts
about the Starchild DNA testing and results that should make even "Dr." Novella
and Michael Medved perhaps have second
thoughts.
Valuable input from Roger
Cunningham
Roger Cunningham is a good friend who recently offered
me some great ammunition for dealing with critics and skeptics who insist we
can't assert anything meaningful about the Starchild's DNA until we sequence its
entire genome. We do understand that sequencing the entire genome is a must-do
in order to make our case impervious to critics and skeptics. But we also know
that from a strictly statistical standpoint, we already have enough fragments in
hand to know what the final result will be---absolutely
and definitely.
First, some background on Roger. He is an engineer with
a degree from Georgia Tech, which has one of the best engineering programs in
the U.S. While at GT and the GT Graduate School, Roger took and passed nine
courses in Statistics, Probability, and Hypothesis Testing. It is important to
know that in the undergraduate and graduate programs of nearly all scientists
other than engineers, they take at most two such courses. This is why they tend
to be totally inept at grasping the meaning and significance of statistical
data.
What follows might at first sound intimidating because
of everyone's basic unfamiliarity with statistic analysis. But if you bear with
it and read through Roger's comments, I feel sure you will understand the great
value of what he is putting forth here. At a minimum, if it gets posted in
enough places maybe it will give skeptics and critics reason to think twice
about where we are with the Starchild Skull, and where we are so obviously
taking it--straight into the history books as the world's first genuinely
"alien" being.
The ABCs of statistical analysis direct from
Roger Cunningham
(Quote) In Hypothesis Testing, even a .1% sample can be
significant if the population being measured has few or no outside influences to
cause change. DNA nucleotides and base pairs are just such a population. They
exist only in and of themselves, and never change once their host, a living
entity, is genetically established during the first few moments of conception
and gestation.
(Quote) This is called a "Confidence Interval Test."
Most scientists are not well versed in Confidence Intervals. This is why they
can reject a sample that is 2% valid "because it is too small." However, in real
statistics, which scientists are not trained in and receive only
introductory-level courses, a verified sample of .1% to 2% can be all that is
needed to prove a case, provided the Confidence Interval is
sufficient.
(Quote) Because Mitochondrial DNA is so highly
conserved, its Confidence Interval is AT MOST only on the order of .1% to .5%.
Thus, the Starchild data needs only a 99.5% Confidence Interval threshold for
its mtDNA amount to be significant. The actual 9.5% recovery (of mtDNA base
pairs) provides a 90.5% Confidence Interval threshold, which can only be termed
"overwhelming."
(Quote) It is completely legitimate to extrapolate that
9.5% recovery (multiplying it by a factor of 10.5) to firmly establish the
Starchild as "not human." If scientists were well-trained in Statistics and
Hypothesis Testing, the established 9.5% recovery would have them on their
heels.
(Quote) With only .001% recovered base pairs (approx.
30,000) of the Starchild's 3+ billion base pair nuclear genome, the required
Confidence Interval has not been achieved. Nonetheless, by establishing that
only 2% of the recovered amount (.02% x 30,000 = 600) was not found in the NIH
database (and thus not found on Earth to this point), it would statistically
confirm that the ultimate recovery of the entire genome would prove beyond doubt
that it is "not human." And, indeed, the NIH database did not contain at least a
few thousand of the base pairs from the Starchild's nuclear genome.
(Quote) These numbers solidly establish proof of the
Starchild's "alien" genetic heritage. However, because the vast majority of
scientists have no understanding of these basic statistical facts, they will
stubbornly insist that the only acceptable result is 100% recovery of both the
nuclear genome and the mitochondrial genome.
(Lloyd) Anyone who feels like challenging Roger on any
of this, or thanking him for sticking his neck out to try to help us in this
way, he can be reached at: gray22020777@gmail.com. Don't ask me
about those numbers, he's an engineer!
What it all means relative to what we do
now.
First, I'm going to do what I can to salvage the damage
caused by Michael Medved on his radio show, such as it might have been. I'll ask
for at least a few minutes on his monthly "Full Moon" show, which I am told
deals with alternative subjects. He could hardly do better than to take anything
resembling a fair and objective look at the Starchild Skull.
I also intend to keep pushing hard to try to find the
investor that we need to secure funding for the genome recovery and the
documentary films that will show the world that the testing was done correctly
and the results can be verified by any other genetics lab in the world.
Times are hard everywhere now, and even people with
great wealth are waiting to see what the U.S. Congress will do about raising our
country's debt ceiling. Until that issue is resolved, we all seem stalled in a
holding pattern. I hope to break out of it when everyone else does, but for now
it's just "wait and see." I hope you all can have the necessary patience to bear
with me as I grind through yet another of the many low points in the Starchild's
story.
Panelists from left: Frank Kimbler, Kevin Randle, Don Schmitt, Tom Carey, and
Stanton Friedman. (image credit: Alejandro Rojas)
Roswell is a household name, and mostly due to the research of a handful of
men. Four of the top Roswell researchers met this past Saturday at the Roswell
UFO Museum during their annual festival along with a gentleman with a new
discovery. These four researchers have never been together on a panel
before.
Julie Shuster, Director of the Roswell UFO Museum, introduced the panel.
(image credit: Alejandro Rojas)
The panel included nuclear physicist, Stanton Friedman, Don Schmitt, Tom
Carey, Kevin Randle, and Frank Kimbler. Although the incident took place in
1947, once the Air Force claimed they had mistaken pieces of a weather balloon
for a crashed flying saucer, the story quickly faded away. However, Friedman
shared how he rekindled this case. In 1978, embarrassed for making Friedman wait
for an interview, a Baton Rouge, Louisiana TV station manager gave him a tip. He
told Friedman that he should contact one of his ham radio buddies for
information on UFOs. This buddy turned out to be Jesse Marcel, the Air Force
intelligence officer who was the first to look at the debris. He told Friedman
about the strange properties of the material and that it was definitely no
balloon. Friedman enlisted the help of a fellow researcher, Bill Moore, and
within a couple of years they had located over 60 other witnesses. This work all
culminated into the book, The Roswell Incident, written by Bill Moore
and Charles Berlitz, and featuring Friedmans work.
Friedman explains to the audience how it all began. (image credit: Alejandro
Rojas)
Still not a household name, the Roswell event continued to gain popularity
and was eventually featured on the television program Unsolved
Mysteries. The episode was very popular, and left the public hungry for
more information. In the right place at the right time, Schmitt and Randle
published their research on the incident in 1991, UFO Crash at Roswell,
which included more witnesses and details. During the panel they each discussed
some of the more interesting interviews, and recalled just how difficult it was
to track these people down. Friedman had gained access to a Roswell Army Air
Field yearbook with names and pictures of the men who were stationed there in
1947. Much of the work of the researchers consisted of tracking these people
down to find out if they had any involvement with the alleged UFO crash. Prior
to the internet and cell phones with long distance included, it was an expensive
and tedious task.
Schmitt making a point. (image credit: Alejandro Rojas)
Friedman wrote his own book on Roswell titled, Crash at Corona, in
1992, and Schmitt and Randle published a second in 1994. This was the same year
that a Showtime movie aired titled, Roswell, based on Schmitt and
Randalls first book. The movie starred Kyle McLachlan and Martin Sheen. All of
this momentum launched the Roswell UFO Crash into the worldwide sensation that
it is to this day.
Randle shared the story of how he got involved with Roswell in the first
place. In the late eighties, he was a science-fiction writer, and while
attending a conference was asked to take part in a debate. He and three other
writers were going to debate two UFO researchers. The second UFO researcher
wasnt able to make it, so to make things fair, Randle volunteered to debate on
the UFO side. His partner was to be Schmitt. This was the beginning of Schmitt
and Randles partnership.
Kevin Randle shares research stories. (image credit: Alejandro
Rojas)
Randle has also had a long career in the military, serving with the Army in
Vietnam and the second Gulf War. After 911, Randle joined the Iowa National
Guard, and his unit was deployed to Iraq in 2003. Randle eventually retired from
the military as a Lieutenant Colonel in 2009. He says this obviously hampered
his ability to participate in UFO research.
During this time, Schmitt took on a new partner, Tom Carey. Inspired by
Friedmans work, Carey wanted to get involved with the research himself. After
meeting Schmitt they teamed up and eventually published, Witness to
Roswell, in 2007. The book highlighted their continued discovery of
witnesses to the events.
Don Schmitt and Tom Carey signing books and talking to visitors in the
Roswell UFO Museum. (image credit: Alejandro Rojas)
The last panelist is not a long time researcher, but a newcomer to the search
for answers to the Roswell mystery. Frank Kimbler is a teacher of geology at the
New Mexico Military Institute in Roswell. Taking an interest in the case, he was
able to spot an unusual scorch pattern in infra-red satellite images of the
desert near where the debris was supposed to have been found. He then went out
to the site and found unusual metals. Under analysis the material tuned out to
be an aluminum silicate. He then was able to get the Roswell UFO Museum to
sponsor an isotopic ratio analysis which also came back with interesting
results. From what they discovered, the sample he gave them was not created on
earth. Kimbler says he is a scientist and is handling this carefully. There is a
possibility that the first lab made a mistake. He will seek further analysis to
make sure the findings are correct.
Frank Kimbler explains his discovery. (image credit: Alejandro
Rojas)
After all of these years, could Kimbler have the smoking gun evidence that
everyone has been waiting for? We will talk with Kimbler on Open
Minds Radio this Monday to discuss this further.
Overall, the panel was great. Hearing the various perspectives on how this
amazing case unraveled from the lead investigators, all together for the first
time, was a UFO geeks paradise.
History
Channel ® : In 1954, a young Princeton university doctoral candidate named Hugh
Everett III came up with a radical idea: That there exist parallel universes,
exactly like our universe. These universes are all related to ours; indeed, they
branch off from ours, and our universe is branched off of others. Within these
parallel universes, our wars have had diferent outcomes than the ones we know.
Species that are extinct in our universe have evolved and adapted in others. In
other universes, we humans may have become extinct.
This thought boggles the mind and yet, it is
still comprehensible. Notions of parallel universes or dimensions that resemble
our own have appeared in works of science fiction and have been used as
explanations for metaphysics.
With his Many Worlds theory, Everett was
attempting to answer a rather sticky question related to quantum physics: why
does quantum matter behave erratically? The quantum level is the smallest one
science has detected so far. The study of quantum physics began in 1900, when
the physicist Max Planck first introduced the concept to the scientific world.
Planck's study of radiation yielded some unusual findings that contradicted
classical physical laws. These findings suggested that there are other laws at
work in the universe, operating on a deeper level than the one we know.
Parallel Universes: Split or String?
The Many-Worlds theory and the Copenhagen
interpretation aren't the only competitors trying to explain the basic level of
the universe. In fact, quantum mechanics isn't even the only field within
physics searching for such an explanation.
Following his famous Theory of Relativity,
Einstein spent the rest of his life looking for the one final level that would
answer all physical questions. Physicists refer to this phantom theory as the
Theory of Everything. Quantum physicists believe that they are on the trail of
finding that final theory. But another field of physics believes that the
quantum level is not the smallest level, so it therefore could not provide the
Theory of Everything.
These physicists turn instead to a theoretical
subquantum level called string theory for the answers to all of life. String
theory was originated by the physicist Michio Kaku. His theory says that the
essential building blocks of all matter as well as all of the physical forces in
the universe -- like gravity -- exist on a subquantum level. These building
block resemble tiny rubber bands - or strings - that make up quarks - quantum
particles -, and in turn electrons, and atoms, and cells and so on. Exactly what
kind of matter is created by the strings and how that matter behaves depends on
the vibration of these strings. It is in this manner that our entire universe is
composed. And according to string theory, this composition takes place across 11
separate dimensions. According to the theory, our own universe is like a bubble
that exists alongside similar parallel universes. Unlike the Many Worlds theory,
String theory supposes that these universes can come into contact with one
another. Gravity can flow between these parallel universes. When these universes
interact, a Big Bang like the one that created our universe occurs.
Einstein didn't live long enough to see his
quest for the Theory of Everything taken up by others. Then again, if Many
Worlds is correct, Einstein is still alive in a parallel universe. Perhaps in
that universe, physicists have already found the Theory of
Everything.
Ben [Rich], Please Give Me My Cloak! I Am [Feeling] Naked Without It!
Stealth Aircraft Technology
Stealth technology also termed LO
technology (low observable technology) is a sub-discipline of military tactics
and passive electronic countermeasures, which cover a range of techniques used
with personnel, aircraft, ships, submarines, and missiles, to make them less
visible (ideally invisible) to radar, infrared, sonar and other detection
methods.
In Special Reports, this week's files cover:UFOs at
Nuclear Missile Sites in 1967-68, and Babylonian Creation Story of Enuma
Elish
UnidentifiedAerial Phenomena sightings were
reported over Arizona, California, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Missouri,
Michigan, New Jersey, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas and
Washington. Sightings of UFOs were also reported in Brazil,
Bulgaria, Canada, Czech Republic,Kazakhstan, Mexico,
Slavonia, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.
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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US and Britain 'Most at Risk' for Asteroid
Strikes
Anissa Haddadi writes,
"Experts at Southampton University have drawn up a list of countries
most likely to suffer severe loss of life or catastrophic damage, should a large
asteroid hit Earth. The news comes days after UFOs were apparently
spotted flying over the BBC building in London.
The countries most at risk from an asteroid strike are Brazil, Britain,
China, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Nigeria, the Philippines and the U.S. Any
of these countries could mean millions of deaths. Canada, the U.S., China, Japan and Sweden are rated most at
risk in terms of potential damage to their infrastructure. The report comes
after a rock the size of a house came within 7,500 miles of Earth earlier this
week. "The threat of Earth being hit by an asteroid is increasingly
being accepted as the single greatest natural disaster hazard faced by
humanity," said Nick Bailey, of the University of Southampton, who
developed the NEOimpactor software."The consequences for human
populations and infrastructure as a result of an impact are
enormous."
Bailey also pointed out that an asteroid which landed in a remote spot near
the Tunguska River in Russia in 1908 devastated a very large perimeter and the
impacts would have been catastrophic if the area had been populated.
"While it only flattened unpopulated forest, had it exploded over
London it could have devastated everything within the M25," he
said.
Scientists think that 65 million years ago, an asteroid was responsible for
the extinction of the dinosaurs as a rock up to 10 miles in diameter hit Earth
at 25,000 miles an hour with a force of 100 megatons, the equivalent of one
Hiroshima bomb for everyone on the planet. The Apophis asteroid is expected to
bring in Doomsday in 2036?
Many also insist that if Earth has until now managed to avoid being hit by
such a large asteroid, it is partly due to Jupiter's gravitational field --
which limits our exposure to asteroids. Thanks to http://uk.ibtimes.com/
North Dakota Dogfight With a Ufo
FARGO -- An aerial dogfight between a
pilot of the North Dakota Air National Guard and a UFO took place in the skies
over Fargo on Oct. 1, 1948. The Air Guard pilot, George Gorman, was a seasoned
flier, not knowing the intention of the pilot of the object, Gorman, in his P-51
Mustang, decided to engage the object. The 27-minute dogfight between the P-51
and the UFO was witnessed by two air traffic controllers in a tower at Hector
Airport in Fargo and the pilot of a Piper Cub who witnessed it.
Gorman was born July 7, 1923, and grew up in Fargo, where his father was a
Cass County agent. During World War II, Gorman became a B-25 instructor for
French aviation students. When the war was over, he returned to Fargo and was
employed as the manager of a construction company. He joined the 178th Fighter
Squadron as a second lieutenant. On October 1, 1948, Gorman was flying
cross-country with other Guard members. Shortly after 8:30 p.m., the other
pilots landed at Hector, but Gorman decided to get in some extra flying time.
Gorman was notified by the control tower that a Piper Cub was in the area. He
could see the smaller plane 500 feet below him. Five minutes later, he spotted a
dimly lit disk-shaped object slowly circling the city. Gorman contacted the
tower asking about another plane and was told there were only two planes in the
air over Fargo. Gorman approached the object to investigate and it suddenly
brightened and accelerated. The object had been traveling "about 250 miles per
hour, but as Gorman began the chase, it speeded up to "about 600 miles per hour.
The P-51 could only travel 400 mph, so the object quickly outdistanced Gorman.
It then made a "180-degree turn and came straight at him. Gorman "attempted to
crash into it, but as they neared, it veered upward and passed over him.
When Gorman continued his pursuit, the object climbed to 14,000 feet, the
P-51 in its chase went into a power stall, and Gorman temporarily passed out. At
this point, the object turned in a northwest direction and disappeared.
Observing this action were Lloyd D. Jensen and H.E. Johnson, two air traffic
controllers in the tower at Hector. Another eyewitness was Dr. Cannon, a Fargo
physician, who was the pilot of the Piper Cub. Both controllers noted the
object's rapid rate of speed and how it easily outdistanced the P-51. Gorman was
so shaken up he had difficulty landing his P-51. He then contacted his
commanding officer, Major D.C. Jones and gave him a signed statement and
referred the incident to U.S. Air Force intelligence. On October 4, an
intelligence unit headed by Maj. Paul Kubala arrived in Fargo and questioned
Gorman, Cannon and the two controllers.
Gorman signed another sworn statement on Oct. 23, stating: "I am
convinced that there was definite thought behind its maneuvers. "I am further
convinced that the object was governed by the laws of inertia because its
acceleration was rapid but not immediate and although it was able to turn fairly
tight at considerable speed, it still followed a natural curve. "When I
attempted to turn with the object I blacked out temporarily due to excessive
speed I do not believe that there are many if any pilots who could withstand the
turn and speed effected by the object and remain conscious."The object was not
only able to out turn and out speed my aircraft, but was able to attain a far
steeper climb and able to maintain a constant rate of climb far in excess of my
aircraft.
The Air Force concluded that the object was a weather balloon but weather
observer George Sanderson stated,- "the time and altitudes didn't
fit, and the wind direction was wrong. With this evidence, Gorman insisted that
it was not a weather balloon.
The Air Material Command then warned Gorman not to divulge any more
information or he would be subject to a court-martial.
Gorman maintained his silence. He retired from the Air Force with the rank of
lieutenant colonel. After retiring, Gorman was a building contractor and talked
publicly about his experience with the UFO. He did reveal to friends that, until
his death on July 31, 1982, "he was never convinced that he had been dueling
with a lighted balloon for 27 minutes.Thanks to UFO Casebook and Thanks to Ken
Pfeifer MUFON New Jersey www.worldufophotos.org
UFOs at Nuclear Missile Sites in 1967-68
Robert Hastings writes, Last night I revised part of my
book, I am working on the second edition--and integrated some new material I
received from a former Minuteman launch officer.
In 2005, I posted a series of messages on the Yahoo missile_talk group's
bulletin board, summarizing the testimony of former and retired USAF sources who
had reported their UFO-related experiences at various nuclear missile sites over
the years. My hope was that some of the group's members, come forth and discuss
their own experiences. A few of them, including Larry Manross wrote,
"Robert, you are right on. As a launch crew commander at Minot
AFB from 1966-1970, I will tell you that there were UFO incidents. In one
[during which I was present] the security team upstairs went into a defensive
posture with lights turned out. They had called in a UFO sighting to the base
and radar was tracking it. All of a sudden it buzzed the launch control center
and that was when they cut the lights and took a defensive
position.
During 1967 or 1968, I was a 1st Lieutenant and a junior officer in the
capsule. The security team kept us informed of their concerns; especially the
buzzing of the Launch Control Center. I wish I had been upstairs when the
incident took place, but as you know the launch crews were down in the capsules
for 24 hour uninterrupted stretches. But Base Ops did confirm that they were
tracking an unidentified object on radar.
I later asked Manross to elaborate on these statements. He responded, --
As a missile launch officer we had numerous UFO
incidents that seemed to be all around us. I was in the 742nd
Strategic Missile Squadron, and we manned Kilo, Lima, Motel, November, and
Oscar. I was primarily assigned to Kilo or Lima with the commanders Capt. John
Deresky and later Capt. Charles Brickley. Neither of them was with me that
night. Later I moved up to the commander role. I was attempting to sleep while
the commander was dealing with security upstairs and the base headquarters
regarding some unidentified [flying] object. It was when his board lit up like a
Christmas tree for a moment that he got scared and asked for back-up. The lit-up
board signals that the missiles have launched. It was a false signal but
correlated with the incident taking place upstairs. It all happened quite fast.
Then things returned to normal.
[Anyway,] that was when I became engaged. The commander was rattled and so
was the security team upstairs. The security team reported that something had
buzzed the LCF and that they had gone into a defensive posture, turning out the
lights and drawing their weapons. They indicated it was very bright and
traveling at a high rate of speed. They did not describe any shape, etc., other
than it was bright. [Then] base headquarters reported that the unidentified
object was no longer on radar and that was the last we heard of it.
There was no debriefingnada. Just another day pulling an
alert at Minot. I do remember the senior officer saying something about how I
should not talk about the incident without getting authorization. [In spite of
that,] all the officers talked about UFOs and what was going on. As you can
imagine there was quite a range of opinions. The common assumption among many
[officers] was that the objects were somehow drawing power from the missile
warheads.
A security team was stationed at one of the missile launchers because the
radar surveillance was out. A UFO hovered over the launch pad and they
discharged their weapons and claim they heard plinks as the bullets hit the
object. Every security team I worked with said it was a true story and had taken
place at Minot AFB. The number of UFO incidents at the time, during 1966-'70,
were so frequent, that in the summer the security team sometimes would put
chairs in front of the building, or on the roof of the building, to
watch for UFOs. Can you believe it?
I had heard nearly identical stories from other former or retired USAF
personnel who had been stationed at Ellsworth, F.E. Warren, and Malmstrom AFBs
during that era. This particular side show is almost humorous: Nuclear missile
security guards sitting outside Minuteman Launch Control Facilities at night
looking for UFOs because the objects appeared above the missile field so
frequently! If only the American media had been given that story at the
time. But almost no information leaked out to the press or public. Thanks to
Robert Hastings http://www.ufohastings.com/
BabylonianCreation Story of Enuma
Elish
The Enuma Elish is a Babylonian creation story contrasting
the forces of creation and chaos. The fragments of these seven clay Akkadian
Cuniform tablets were found by Austen Henry Layard in 1849 at the ruins of
Ashurbanipal, Nineveh. There is a discrepancy regarding the original date of the
tablets; with an estimate of anywhere from the 18th century BCE to the 11th
century BCE.
George Smith published the Enuma Elish tablets in 1876 as The Chaldean
Genesis. These tablets were similar to the book of Genesis in that they both
depicted a creator god that brought organization to a universe filled with
chaos. Did the authors of the book of Genesis rewrite the Enuma Elish and claim
it as their own? Of particular interest is the fifth tablet. Many of the lines
are missing; but enough are left to suggest that the Babylonian hero god named
Marduk created star stations for other gods to dwell upon.
He constructed stations for the great gods, fixing their
astral likenesses as the stars of the Zodiac. (2) He founded the station of the
pole star [Nebiru] to determine their bounds, (6) that none might err or go
astray.
Alongside it he set up the stations of Enlil and Ea. (8) having opened up the
gates on both sides, He strengthened the locks to the left and the right.
(10)
The epic myth in the Enuma Elish is about a civil war between the gods. The
god Marduk is chosen to lead the rebellion against Tiamet, the dragon of the
primordial sea and against the leader of the Anunnaki. Marduk was renowned as
the god of Mars with the symbol of the snake-dragon. Snake-dragons to this day
appear on many royal crests, and many ancient societies venerated snakes and
dragons. Perhaps some of the ruins on Mars that we so often see in Filers Files
may be remnants from this war. Thanks to Valerie Lesley, Ph.D.
Billions Found at Hindu Temple in Southern
India
A treasure trove of gold and silver jewelry, coins and precious stones said
to be worth 500 billion rupees ($11.2 billion) has been found in a Hindu temple
in southern India.
Thousands of necklaces, coins and precious stones have been kept in at least
five underground vaults at the Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple which is renowned for
its intricate sculptures.
The temple, dedicated to Hindu lord Vishnu, was built hundreds of years ago
by the king of Travancore and donations by devotees have been kept in the
temple's vaults since.
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In June, California had 42 UFO reports leading the nation, Illinois had 27
reports; Texas 25 reports; Indiana 22 reports; and New York 21 reports. MUFON
received 462 sightings last month.
Sightings of UFOs in the United
States
Alabama
Glowing Orbs
Birmingham -- I saw three amber glowing orbs in a
triangle formation from the drive thru at McDonalds over the Hibbetts Sports
Store southwest. The just hovered in one place and did not move until they
disappeared.
California Orbs and Silver Object
El Monte -- On June 26, 2011, 4:35 PM, the
witness was outside by her swimming pool when she noticed silver objects in the
sky. At 4:35 PM, the first object moved eastbound and five minutes later, three
objects stopped close by the first one forming a triangle facing west. At 4:48
PM, the last one moved east and now the triangle is facing east. At 5:05 PM, Now
the head of the triangle moved slowly and went under the first object. Then I
went in and to tell my husband, fetched my Nikon digital camera and snapped
several photos. Thanks to William Puckett, Director http://www.ufosnw.com
Fresno -- I filmed this myself on June 10, 2011, at 2 PM.
What do you think?
Note: The witness videotaped an unknown silver object that
was hovering in the day sky. He uploaded the video to YouTube. Several frames
shows a jet and others can be heard. It is unclear if the jets were pursuing the
object. The object does not appear to be a balloon, blimp, kite or any other
"flotation device." Venus was barely visible. The witness uses his zoom setting
that clearly reveals a silver object. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLbGXGLnVKk&feature=related.
Thanks to William Puckett Director UFOs Northwest http://ufosnw.com
Idaho Rectangle
Carey -- A rectangular object was observed for three minutes
on June 25, 2011, at 4:40 PM, that instantly vanished. As a skeptic regarding
UFO sightings, this is not easy to report. We were traveling 14 miles east of
Carey eastbound on Idaho State Highway 20. The object was ahead of us and
appeared stationary for about three minutes and then was instantly
gone.
It was rectangular in shape, but had no visible lights. Thanks to
Peter Davenport, Director National UFO Reporting Center http://www.UFOcenter.com/
IllinoisRed
Light
Chicago Ridge -- At about 10:06 PM, on
July 4, 2011, I looked west out of my balcony doors to a clear sky and fireworks
were going off. I thought at first it was fireworks, but it was the same red
light I saw two nights ago. It was bright red light that hovered high in the
sky. An airplane happened to fly below it slowly, so I know for sure it wasn't
an airplane. It starts getting smaller and smaller then just disappears quickly!
Two nights prior on July 2, 2011, my friend and I were driving at 10 PM, at
night and we saw the same light. It just hovered there and then disappeared in
Palos Park. On July 3rd that same friend called me and said he saw the light
again at 8 PM, over Alsip, Illinois.
MELROSE PARK -- I was outside looking at building the lights
that I just turned on, when the circuit breaker popped off as large light in the
clouds caught my attention on July 5 2011. It was a solid orange red color
heading east. It took about 5 to 8 seconds flying over head as it past it turned
black and I could then see it was circular in shape against the clouds. A few
seconds later a loud plane flew over head with its lights blinking and smaller
than the object. I realized the orange red light was silent. Thanks to MUFON
CMS
Indiana Glowing Red Object
Auburn -- My wife and I were standing in our yard looking
east when we spotted a glowing red object flying northeast. We watched it fly
silently at a slow pace. As it was becoming obstructed from view by my
neighbor's house, I ran around to the other side to watch it. As it flew across
the sky I happened to look straight up and I saw a large white object flying
southeast over head. We were lucky enough to catch it on video as it flew off
and faded away to nothing. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Maryland Star
Brightens
Haystack Mountain -- My girlfriend and I
sat down to relax on my parent's patio on June 29, 2011, facing southeast
towards Haystack Mountain. We saw a light like a very bright star gliding
southeast. I said, "I hope they come for us!"
The object was just moving through the same space in the trees as it had just
moved. It was like a glitch in the Matrix. Like in the movie, "The
Matrix when the cat walks in front of the door twice, like it's on a loop.
It seemed brighter and bigger than before.
It was moving fast enough that it should have kept going over the mountain
and out of sight, but it was like magic. I ran to get a closer look and it
wasn't in the part of the sky I expected, it was further down the mountain
towards Cumberland. It was moving faster and becoming 10 or 20 times bigger,
then faded to a dim red star and vanished. There was no sound. Thanks to MUFON
CMS
Michigan Flying Object
HOWELL-- I was in my swimming
pool with my two children at about 9 PM on July 5, 2011, when my 6 year old
daughter pointed, "Look it's a space shuttle. I
grabbed my glasses and I could see no wings and there was no noise. It was a
white cigar shaped object from my perspective. My 7 year old son, who has much
better vision than I do, said it had three windows and he drew this picture of
the object. I would guess it to be 500 feet above us. It was a very bright white
color and reminded me of a blimp but going much faster than that. It flew south
over the trees and out of sight. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Missouri Object Photographed
Wentzville -- On June 27, 2011, around
7:30 PM, I was on phone talking to a classmate and looking southwest when I
noticed a round black dot in the sky. The object performed linear maneuvers, up,
down and left to right. It seemed very controlled and deliberate. I was able to
determine that the object was moving independently. I told my classmate what I
was seeing and it drew closer. I tried to take a photo with my cell phone camera
but it was unable to focus so I grabbed my digital camera. I snapped a photo as
the object made a backwards letter J swoop and shot outward and disappeared
beyond the horizon. The object was round and black, solid, possesses detail
such as a domed top, maybe a flat bottom, circular in shape. Thanks to MUFON
CMS
New Jersey Huge Pulsing Colors Object
Newark -- I was relaxing on my back stoop
on June 29, 2011, at 10:16 PM, and spotted a ball of light rising in front of me
from the west, and tracking nearly straight up. I live in the traffic lanes of
Newark Liberty Airport, and have seen and photographed many planes going
overhead. I had my cell phone nearby, and videotaped a very bright ISS, at
magnitude -3.7.
I reviewed the footage and glanced back at the area where the ISS had emerged
and saw an oval, canted, glowing jellyfish, about half the width of my
outstretched index finger, slowly drifting silently south on the western
horizon. It was like a bubble with white top and bottom of the ellipse, with red
pulsing light on the bottom tip that changed colors, and a few other greens and
blues in the top end.
I caught a few seconds of video and pictures
before the object brightened, then moved out of sight. The object reappeared in
a hole between two trees. I posted this to Facebook, and a witness in a nearby
town claims she heard engines and it was an advertising blimp. A second witness
in the same town claims he saw the same object at 3AM that morning. Thanks to
MUFON CMS
Point Pleasant -- Barbara Broughlette writes, "I
have never seen or reported anything even remotely like a ufo before. I saw
something on June 29, 2011, with many red unblinking lights emanating from the
sides and bottom, and possibly the top. It was about maybe 1,000 to 1,500 feet
high with no sound. The sky still had a bit of light in it, and I could see that
the "body" was matte black or dark in color. Although I was seeing it mostly
from the underside, it did seem to have a compact roundish shape, and I think
there was some sort of dome on the top - again, like maybe a helicopter might
have.
The stars were out already and it was a clear night so I got a good look at
it traveling in a large arc going from west to southeast. I saw it for several
minutes and was shaking so I couldn't take my eyes off it. I saw it again around
10 PM, and didn't remember to look at the clock. It was hard to concentrate on
anything after the experience. It was not traveling too fast, maybe about
100-150 miles an hour. The way it moved reminded me of a helicopter, but there
was no sound, and only the non-blinking red lights and lots of them. I also did
not see any propeller on top. It seemed to fly south over the ocean. Then as I
watched all the lights went off except one non-blinking red light. A few seconds
later, it disappeared. I can't imagine that one of the military bases in the
area would let something fly at night with lights that would be confusing to
other pilots. And there are lots of small planes around here and higher above
where I saw the thing is a path that is used routinely by jets. Oh, and I'm not
crazy. I'm a grandmother, ex-corporate fortune 500 management people. Last night
I was up at the beach around 10 to see if it was coming back. It's really
bothering me. Thanks to Barbara Broughlette
Oklahoma Streak
On July 2, 2011, it was wobbling around high in the sky. It was somewhat
reminiscent of an eye. Very bright white in the center like a star but brighter
than any other star. There were four yellow rays fanning down and four yellow
rays pointing up. It slowly drifted up and to the south all the while wobbling
side to side and up and down.
The oddest part is when I viewed it through binoculars it appeared completely
different. It was like a triangular emerald with the point down and shooting out
from the point was a yellow bolt like lightning. Directly under the bolt was a
white chevron. At first I was excited to again see a UFO, but then I felt let
down as nothing more happened. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Pennsylvania UFOs
Warren -- I was fishing by myself on the Alleghany River, at
9:17 PM; and I looked above the refinery across the river to see it start to
move slowly. I flashed them the cross sign with my L.E.D. flashlight, to let
them know I could see them. The ufo moved very slowly then in about two minutes
it accelerated fast and was gone. Five minutes later, the Ufo appeared above me
and vanished. At 9:30 PM, I noticed two stars that look like they're coming out,
and the right star started to move slowly to the right and I saw another UFO
above me hovering at about 1000 feet. I pulled out my light and gave them my
flash sign as it started to move slowly down fast towards me. It gained in size
and brightness about five times. They flashed me back with their ship and they
were coming down and went back up to the right slowly following the other UFO
buddy. Thirty seconds later they vanished. I caught a nice 14 inch catfish right
after the UFO. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Rhode Island Flying Road
Flare
Portsmouth -- While at a cookout party
close to midnight on July 1, 2011, I noticed a reddish orange flickering light
similar to that given off by a road flare moving across the northwest quadrant
of the sky. It flew out of the airport flying north just above the tree line. It
was moving slowly and climbing slightly taking perhaps a minute to cross a 45
degree arc of sky. Then it came closer silently to out location near the
Greendale Vineyards. I called my friend's attention to it trying to figure out
what it was. We observed it as it came closer, then rose almost vertically out
of sight. We made several UFO jokes afterwards. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Tennessee Bright Object
PINEY FLATS -- I was driving home from my boyfriend's house
on December 2, 2011, and the sky was a pretty pink color and it was close to
sunset and so I took out my cell phone and took a picture of the horizon. Later
as I looked at the picture, I realized there was an object in the upper right
corner that I did not notice when I took the picture. I zoomed the object in and
could not come to any explanation as to what it might be. Thanks to MUFON
CMS
Texas Triangular Craft Descends Alarmingly Low
RED OAK -- Three members of my family and I were sitting in
our backyard on June 10, 2011, at 9 PM, when we noticed an object in the
northwestern sky. We kept our eyes trained on it as it descended lower and
lower. As it continued to descend we recognized it to be a metallic triangular
craft having three white lights affixed to each of its corners. The craft
continued to descend to about 500 feet, or less, above us. It was DEFINITELY
aware of our presence, and at this altitude to get a closer view of us. The
natural outdoor lighting around this time wasn't optimal, so scant details of
the craft's exterior were acquired. We could however make out that it was
metallic. The craft's lights were jarringly bright. It hovered, silently, above
us at this altitude for about a minute and then silently disappeared. The craft
exited at an out-of-this-world speed into the northeastern sky. We have seen
strange lights in the corn-field behind our house for years, but no experience
can equate to this encounter. My family claims to have experienced encounters of
the fourth kind as well, resulting in possible implantation of seemingly
metallic objects no larger than a centimeter. We have lost four hours or more at
a time during these encounters. I feel they are more common than people report
or admit.
Zapata -- On June 24, 2011, I was riding in back seat as we
drove from Laredo to South Padre, when our driver saw a craft and pointed it out
to us."To my amazement there was a round object moving westbound no
higher than two to three stories over our head next to the road, that flew
silently and just disappeared out of my sight. My cousin, who saw it first
approaching our vehicle, described it as a silver
triangle."
"When I was able to see it more clearly, it was already overhead
and it looked like a disk with a lot of lights underneath. I couldn't identify
the object as aircrafts I have ever seen." Thanks to MUFON CMS
Virginia Triangle
Chicahominy -- On July 1, 2011, I was
looking outside and saw a squadron of three lights flying over the house. I
walked outside with my camera twice and again saw lights. This time upon closer
inspection I captured a triangle on film. After the triangle seemingly
disappeared over the tree line I sat outside and waited. Soon I saw a flashing
orb with 2 white and one red light flying over I observed said object for about
4 minutes until it faded over the river. (I live on the Chicahominy River) I
acquired an overwhelming feeling of excitement and anxiety and as noted on the
tape I cursed many times. I do not want this to be exposed to the media! Thanks
to MUFON CMS
Washington Video
Bonney Lake -- We saw 15 to 20 red lights moving in a
pattern towards Mt. Rainier on June 25, 2011, at 10:09 PM. The witness reported
his sighting using our report form. He provided a link to the video that he
uploaded to YouTube. The video was downloaded and brightened some to better
reveal detail. Several lights can be seen on the video although they don't show
up as bright. One still image is posted above. The video above has been clipped,
but shows the most revealing frames. Users wishing to view the entire video can
view on YouTube at the address supplied in the description above. Some portions
of the video do show erratic moving lights. One light appears to a reflection of
ground lights, but that does not explain the other lights. No frames show 15 to
20 lights as described by witness. However, this not unusual given that the
video was taken with a cell phone (IPhone).
Bremerton -- These all happened on June
28th at 10:03 PM. The lights lasted just 30 seconds and they vanished. The
photos are all in order. This happened in Bremerton, Washington on the east side
at the apartments.
Note: The weather report showed that winds were light and
scattered clouds were measured at 10,000 feet. The streaking of the lights in
the photo is probably due to a combination of motion of the lights and camera
movement.
Buenos Aires -- This Monday, on June 27,
2011, this object was filmed towards the south of the Federal Capital and to
about 60/70 of Altitude. It does not fit with any known satellite orbital
transits, or passages of the ISS and only one Iridium that appears in the Lists
of Heaven Above.
Thanks to Ricardo D' Angelo and MUFON CMS
BulgariaUFO Flies over the
Power-Vested
Sofia's -- A UFO flew over the homes of important men in the
VIP neighborhood of Boyana. Late Friday evening, July I, 2011, a flying object
accompanied by a dozen lights appeared in the sky over Boyana. The Bulgarian
National Television broadcast the shocking images taken by a witness to the
event. "It was about 10:30 PM, when a UFO flew silently east from
Vitosha. Assen Yovov spoke live on TV. "I saw the
large discs as bright-red as fire, and have not seen anything like this before.
I do not know what it is but I want this disc to go to a laboratory and be
researched. I do not want people to think I am mad. Nobody from
the residences of the Bulgarian President and Prime Minister commented on the
UFO appearance. Thanks to Bulgarian TV.
Brazil Ovals
Maceio AL -- I saw unidentified objects
flying over the sea in various directions that were illuminated and sometimes
seemed to be on fire on June 24, 2011, at 2 PM. They then came back to flash
various colors. It was wonderful to see them. Thanks to Peter Davenport,
Director National UFO Reporting Center http://www.UFOcenter.com/
Canada Flashing Lights
Penticton, B.C. -- At about 10:30 PM, on June 28, 2011, I
looked out the doorway and saw what looked like a star that was flashing red and
blue intermittently. Upon closer inspection it seemed to be moving ever so
slightly like a firefly. I called my roommate to look and as soon as she came it
started releasing little white glowing orbs. Then two glowing objects shot
across the sky at high speed zigzagging along. They covered the entire sky in
three seconds and made an abrupt 90 degree turn without slowing down. Also three
balls of light formed a triangle then became one, and then disappeared
reappearing a short distance away. It almost looked like projectiles were being
fired back and forth between different objects, but they were too far away to
tell for sure. This went on for hours before I went to bed at about 4 AM. Thanks
to MUFON CMS
Czech Metallic Disk
Prague -- My girlfriend was taking
pictures of the castle in Prague, on holiday with her sister on February 20,
2011. When I reviewed the pictures I saw a metallic disk in the top right hand
corner of the picture. At first I was reminded of Billy Meier's Plejaren
Beamships as I research a great deal into UFO and our relations with the
ancients. Then because I am from a military background (specialist soldier) and
currently work with former specialist troops. I asked the opinion of some
helicopter pilots. They said they couldn't tell what it was which fueled my
suspicion of what it was. One pilot thought it could be a bird. I have no doubt
it probably is a UFO because I saw many as a boy in Scotland. Thanks to MUFON
CMS
Kazakhstan Disc
Astana -- Sensational UFO video from Kazakhstan on May 2,
2011.
Ljubjana -- I took pictures of a UFO this Saturday, on June
18, 2011, about 11:18 AM.
Note: The photos were sent by a friend of the photographer.
They were taken with a Nikon D200 Digital camera with a Nikkor 28 -- 200 mm
lens. This photo was taken with a resolution of 10.1 million pixels.. This
allowed the blowup of the object to reveal more detail. The object does not
appear to be a bird or insect. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Sweden BrightTeardrop
Heby -- A very big, very bright (whiter than white)
flash-bulb shaped thing with no tail was observed falling very fast from the sky
on June 27, 2011, at 11:45 PM. It was faster than any plane but not as fast as a
"falling star". It made no sound and fell into a forest where it is not possible
for me to go to. Thanks to Peter Davenport, Director National UFO Reporting
Center http://www.UFOcenter.com/
UK/England Two UFOs
Borehamwood Herts -- My partner and I were out in the back
garden last night and we both saw two UFOs. The first was at 10:25 PM, which was
a spherical, shimmering yellow-orange object travelling north. It stayed in
position for about 30 seconds as it faded and disappeared. The second appeared
at 10.40 PM, and was much smaller as it was much further away but similar in
appearance. It came from the west and went towards the north, travelling for
around 45 minutes as a dot of light getting smaller until it disappeared. Thanks
to Christine Brock
UK/Scotland
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Paul Has An "Alien" Talk With His Uncle Stan!
Stanton Friedman - excerpts from 2000
pre-interview for Stanton T. Friedman is Real on Vimeo
These are excerpts from a pre-interview I conducted with
UFO researcher Stan Friedman in the fall of 2000 for the documentary Stanton T.
Friedman is Real, which we filmed in 2001 and released in 2002, initially
broadcast on Space and Bravo in Canada.
Annie Jacobsens recently
released bestseller Area 51 has stirred
global interest. She has been featured numerous times on many networks and
websites. Her book was reviewed last week by the New York Times. Jacobsens biggest scoop
concerns the Roswell crash. She learned from an early executive of one of our
nations largest defense contractors that the Roswell crash of 1947 was
resultant from a scheme by Russias Josef Stalin and escaped Nazi mad-scientist
Josef Mengele to hoax the Americans by staging UFO sightings. The plan was to
induce panic and psychological warfare in the manner of the Orson Welles War of
the World broadcast aftermath. They would launch unusually-designed craft from a
mothership (located near Alaska.) These were single-wing, remote-controlled
UFOs with alien-like children on board. The craft were of Nazi German design
(captured by the Soviets at the close of the War) and the aliens were actually
13 year olds. The grotesque child aviators were biologically engineered by
Mengele with strange large heads and oddly spaced eyes. The craft and pilots had
crashed near Roswell in July of 1947 and were flown to Wright Field. In 1951,
Jacobsens source maintains, the crashed vehicle and the two still-surviving
deformed children were taken to Area 51 and to the facilities of defense
contractor EG&G (now URS Corporation)
This author has identified and
located Annie Jacobsens anonymous source. I have also decided, after much
consideration, to out him. In this article I will openly name him. I have also
contacted him very recently. He reluctantly spoke with me for some time. I
believe that the source was indeed told this bizarre story by officials. But
just why this is so will stun readers, and is not for the reasons that you may
think.
JACOBSENS SOURCE
NAMED
EG&Gs Scientist Alfred ODonnell in
1955
Ms. Jacobsens source about this Roswell story is unnamed by
her in the blockbuster book. He wanted to remain anonymous. Annie Jacobsen kept
her promise. I did not learn her source from her or from anyone associated with
her publishing company. His identity and his background is revealed here and
now:
Alfred ODonnell is nearly 89 years old and he is one of Annie
Jacobsens key sources about this Roswell crash story interpretation.
ODonnell is indeed exactly who he claims to have been. In the early 1950s he
was at the Nevada Test Site where atomic bombs were tested regularly.
ODonnell was indeed part of the nucleus of top management and engineers for
EG&G- one of our nations top defense contractors. Founded as Edgerton,
Germeshausen and Grier (EG&G) the company was acquired by URS Corporation
some years ago. URS employs over 50,000 and is the leading designer and builder
of federal classified facilities in the United States. They work with military
as well as with the Intelligence Community (particularly the NSA) in
constructing and operating some of our nations most sensitive and secret
facilities.
ODonnell joined EG&G in 1947 when the company employed
only 15 people. He worked alongside the companys founders and obtained Top
Secret Clearance to work on our nations nuclear arsenal. He helped to develop
explosives research protocols and optimized the firing systems of bomb devices.
ODonnell a Bostonian - is a brilliant man who made significant contributions
to EG&G and to our nations defense for many years. EG&G and ODonnell
- had specialized expertise in electronically capturing and measuring the energy
that was emitted from DOE nuclear blasts in the remote Nevada
desert.
THE SOURCE
SPEAKS
TRANSCRIBED INTERVIEW WITH ALFRED ODONNELL, FORMERLY
OF EG&G
MAY 26, 2011
(AFTERNOON)
(Bolded text that follows indicates Alfred ODonnell
speaking; Light text indicates this author speaking to
ODonnell)
Hello
Hi Mr. ODonnell, my name is Tony Bragalia, a
freelance journalist in Florida..How are you doing?
Fine, and who are you again? (I repeat
above)
Im a researcher, including of things like military history and
the history of science. I happened to see an online article about an Alfred
ODonnell that was from the Review-Journal. Its called 100 Men Who Shaped
Southern Nevada It discusses your early work at EG&G in the 50s in nuclear
blast testing and measurement.
Oh, oh,
yes I do remember that. I recall that very well.
It was written
by a K.J. Evans
Yes, hes dead now.
That article was written some time ago. Some years ago.
Its found
its way onto the Internet so the story is everywhere now, forever So I do have
the right Alfred ODonnell who was with EG&G in the 40s and
1950s?
Yes, thats
me.
Well, of course you must be aware then of the recent
bestseller by Annie Jacobsen that is entitled Area 51?
I am. (silence/pause)
You know
Annie?
I do know
Annie.
Well you said something to Annie Jacobsen about the subject
that Id like to talk with you about
I
dont talk about my work at Area 51.
Well, EG&G does not seem
to be the kind of place that would be reverse engineering a Soviet craft and
also doing biological experiments and analysis, there were better
places .
Well, you really need to speak
with the Publicity Director at Little Brown.
Why
them?
They published the
book.
What do they know more about all of this than you
do?
They dont. But Im not saying
anything
Tony, how how did you
find me?
I am a researcher of some of these things. I think sort
of like a computer when I am investigating. I googled key words. I happened
across the article on you. I knew intuitively that you are Annies source,
Alfred. And of course you are, so
Alfred, you must realize that you have
an obligation to truth and to history to come forward publicly. This is a much
larger issue. It is about having people understand what really happened -if this
is what really did- and to not believe in fantasies..things that arent
scientific or historical truth
I know I
understand what youre saying, Tony.
You know Alfred, I
communicated with Dr. Stirling Colgate at Los Alamos recently and he made a
recent confession about a UFO hoax that he was aware of from many, many years
ago.
Oh
Colgate is in his
90s and hes still at Los Alamos. He confirmed to me that the famous Socorro, NM
case involving a policeman in 1964 was a hoax by some of his students from New
Mexico Tech. But it took him over 40 years to really say something! Colgate took
to a real long time to tell the truth. And he still is reluctant but his
allegiance was in the wrong place for too long. It was to his kids at the
college!
(Laughs) So how did you find
out about him?
Through a letter that I had found in some archives
from Stirling Colgate to his friend Linus Pauling, who had an interest in UFOs I
found out. In his reply, Colgate told Pauling the truth that it was a
hoax.
Who is that he wrote to?
Linus Pauling.
Oh!
Yes
So my point is that we will all pass. And because of this we
all have larger obligations as we get older. As a scientist you must understand
this, truth is it. Its really all that we want have in the end.
Will you
leave anything - a document in writing to benefit history and science on all of
this before you pass, including your name?
I dont know. I dont think so.
I think
you must forget about your oaths and clearances. The Soviet threat is no longer.
It is more than six decades on Alfred! I sometimes almost get emotional about
all of this doesnt, does not truth mean anything? Why have our childrens
children believe in fantasy, if this is what it was?
I will think about it. I will give it some
consideration
Alfred, have other people called you about this?
Im not going to say anything at all
about that.
Well, people come to very different conclusions that
you do on all of this. The Air Force says that it is a Mogul balloon, others say
it was a terrestrial secret experiment by German Paperclip
scientists
Yes, I have heard about that
one.
Well, I will level with you Alfred. I come down on the side
of truth - it was an extraterrestrial vehicle that crashed. And frankly I think
that you know this and that you were played with.
I am certain that the
craft was constructed of materials that were not known to science in 1947. I
based this on many things including on my study of the history of Shape Recovery
Alloys. They had reported they found memory metal at Roswell that was tough
and would return back to its original shape. I found that in the months
immediately following the crash that Wright Patterson contracted Battelle
Memorial Institute to begin work on what we now know as Nitinol. I traced the
scientific documents on Shape Memory metals to the incident. When you are
reverse engineering, it is always easiest to begin with the materials of
construction what is it made of- not the propulsion or navigation
systems
Yes..I
follow.
And, Alfred, I will be candid with you: you must come
forward. You are a man of science. You have lived for the discovery of truth.
Why do you care now? Say what needs to be said. I mean I know you have. But
openly. You know Annie is taking a beating on this. I frankly would like to
know, as someone who believes in truth and accurate history you are a man who
honors science you must know what I mean
Tony, look, I will say this to you: if the Federal
Government really wanted to have all of this released, why would they not have
already done it themselves?
I dont know. But you do Alfred. And I
do respect your respect for your oath and your security clearances.
If we
could get you a release from the Department of Defense to speak of this- of the
truth of Roswell- would you then be open to speaking openly?
No. I would not. I just I just cannot get involved
like that.
Oh, one more last thing
Yes.
Do you think that when URS acquired
EG&G a few years back that they also got all of the early scientific and
historical records from EG&G? I mean would they even know now? Many of the
people there at URS now werent yet even born when this happened
I dont know. I really have no
idea.
Again, Alfred, I have an understanding of the Intelligence
Community IC- and of the Defense communities, so I do understand where you are
coming from. Thanks for all of your time, I really do appreciate it very
much
OK, Tony,
Goodbye.
Goodbye.
THE
STRANGE STORY HE TELLS AND WHY HE WAS TOLD IT
I found Alfred
ODonnell to be telling the truth as he remembers it and likely as he himself
claims to have witnessed it. He was extremely lucid, deliberate and controlled
in his responses to me. Frankly he seemed years and years younger on the phone.
Like author Annie Jacobsen, I find ODonnell to remain a bright and believable
person.
However, I do not believe that the essence of what he was told
was true. ODonnell says that he viewed a hoaxed UFO by Stalin that was used to
scare us - and that used a former Nazis eugenics skills to create the aviators.
ODonnell told Jacobsen that they were grotesque. ODonnell also told Jacobsen
that he and his other scientist cohorts at EG&G were prepared for the
sight of them. They were told in advance that seeing the bodies would be a
shocking and disturbing experience.
But the truth is this: It was all
staged. ODonnell was indeed exposed to what he says he was- but this
exposure was planned, it was for a reason - and the accompanying story that he
was told was not genuine.
He was told that it was of Soviet origin. But
exotic technology that has been recovered by military are often studied by
using the subterfuge or cover of being told that they are of Russian
origin. And this holds especially true for the Roswell crash. There are
numerous times when the Soviets or the Russians were used to describe where
such artifacts came from. They were a convenient and ideal excuse or reason
for the study of such things:
1) When Elroy John Center (the Battelle
scientist who confessed to analysis of ET metal debris and who co-authored the
first memory metal report for Wright Patterson) was told to analyze the
unusual piece- he was told by his Battelle supervisor that it was recovered in
a crash from the Soviets. Center knew this not to be true and he believed the
material could not have been made by man. (See prior articles on the
Battelle-Roswell connection archived on the Iconoclasts site to learn
more.)
2) General George Schulgen, in a 1947 secret memo, instructed his
officers to be aware of UFOs and their Items of Construction. He indicated
that the discs could be of possible Soviet origin. Schulgen was of course using
this as a cover. Forthcoming information on Schulgen will show that this top
Pentagon Intelligence official of the time knew that the material of which the
discs were comprised was not known to science- and were engineered by those from
another world.
3) When RAAF Base Commander Butch Blanchard told his wife
and daughter Dale of the crash, he kept on repeating to them: those Russians
have some amazing things. New information from researcher Tom Carey indicates
that the exact opposite was true: Blanchard actually believed that it was an ET
craft at Roswell, something he related to his second wife and others later in
life.
The deepest recesses of Government were testing key personnel at
emerging EG&G to see if they could be entrusted with such remarkable
secrets. Would they say anything to anyone about this made-up Russian-Roswell
scenario? They did not (at least not until a half-century later, and then only
anonymously.) They could be entrusted with anything. And today the company is
rewarded as the largest infrastructure firm to Federal government in the
nation.
More importantly this author maintains that:
- Those in
Government who knew about Roswell wanted to confuse the ET truth of the event to
others with whom they may work by alluding to things Russian. It may have even
been used as a code word of sorts.
- They felt that it was also a
perfect way to have studies performed on actual ET crashed disc material by
private contractors. Tell them these strange things were Russian. Fold the
research into existing defense related technology research.
- They wanted
to see if organizations that they would bring into the fold would keep such a
pretend Secret. And point to the Russians, feared and hated.
- They
would occasionally and selectively test individuals within government (and its
contractor community) to measure the reactions and coping skills of learned
men when exposed to such bizarre things
- They orchestrated cover
stories on Roswell to purposely confuse and obfuscate the issue. They sought to
blur the ET truth of Roswell with layers of plausible deniability. They
officially issued (and in other ways spread) many possible real reasons for
the Roswell crash. In this way the actual extraterrestrial nature of the Roswell
event will become muddled.
ODonnell was shown an American-hoaxed UFO
and aliens for one (or some) these reasons. But it was not a Soviet thing
that he saw. That he saw these things is likely true but the associated story
that he was told about their origin was not.
The most telling reason that
this is so is this: The story told to ODonnell those many years ago in
historical hindsight- is ludicrous on the face of it. I will not detail those
reasons. Many others (including the New York Times) have pointed out the many
holes found like Swiss cheese within the story. These include fundamental
logistical, technological and historical issues associated with the cover tale
told ODonnell.
And there is this clue: ODonnell told Jacobsen that
Cyrillic writing found around a rim area in the craft had led he and his
EG&G associates to confirm that the craft was of Soviet origin, so that the
story that they were told by their superiors made complete sense.
However, the fact is that the Russians would never have made such
alleged hoax overflights of the US using anything like Cyrillic writing that
would reveal the crafts true Soviet origin. It would defeat the entire purpose
of having our people believe that we were being invaded by aliens as ODonnell
maintains, like Orson Welles War of the Worlds- and so ODonnell should never
have found such writing.
It was, rather, placed there by US military intelligence to encourage
the belief that it was Russian. And ODonnell was just 29 in 1951 when he
states that he saw all of this at EG&G at Area 51. He was impressionably
young, as were his EG&G colleagues. They would go on in their defense
contracting careers believing all the while (and repeating late in life) the lie
that they had been made to believe that these things were Russian. How very
Cold War-ish.
But given the context of the timeframe of the late 1940s
and early 1950s (and the fear of Russians, with War of the Worlds having aired only 10 years
prior) it is easy to understand why ODonnell and his EG&G colleagues
bought in to this scenario fed them. Given the tenor of the times and the
initiation of the Cold War, anything related to the devious Soviets could be
believed at that time.
And, tellingly, the Russian explanation that had
been told by these EG&G retirees reminds one of the famous Kecksburg, PA UFO
case of 1965. Some in Government offered the (now discredited) explanation that
this crash incident was resultant from a Russian launch as well. That one though
was explained away as the crash of an advanced Soviet satellite. Always the
Russians
The story is strange. And the reasons that I have offered that
I believe the old scientist may seem even stranger to some. I have more to
report on this and I hope to release other findings soon
Roswell is an
onion. We continue to peel away at its layers. But it still stinks and dizzies
with the stench of disinformation, even after decades.
In a case that might have served as one of the inspirations for the Steven Spielberg, J.J. Abrams blockbuster Super 8, a group of Japanese kids had repeated run-ins with a small, silver UFO, which they managed to not only photograph, but actually capture for a brief time during the summer of 1972.
There is inexplicably little information to be found in the western world anyway regarding the strange series of events that began on August 25th, 1972, in the Kera area of Kōchi City, which is the capital of Kōchi Prefecture on the Shikoku island of Japan. On the afternoon in question a 13 year-old student named Michio Seo was on his way home from middle-school when he allegedly caught site of an unbelievable metallic object hovering over a rice field.
The awestruck Seo watched the odd apparatus zip back and forth above the waterlogged paddy. The airborne object resembled a dull, silver hat with a flat bottom and a narrow lip. The curved dome atop the lip was relatively steep and level at the apex. Seo would later compare the objects movements to that of a bat making hairpin turns in pursuit of its insect prey.
Seos curiosity swiftly usurped his fear and he began to approach the miniature flying saucer, but before he could get too close the object allegedly shot a blinding beam toward the teen. Seo, not wishing to further provoke the UFO or its possible occupants quickly fled the scene.
As soon as young Seo got back to Kera he hurriedly rounded up four of his best friends Hiroshi Mori, Yasuo Fujimoto, Katsuoka Kojima and a buddy known only as Yuji and told them about his incredible encounter. His pals, skeptical, though intrigued, wasted no time in forming a makeshift posse to go out and find this miniature flying dome.
At approximately 7:00 pm. Seo, Mori, Fujimoto, Kojima and Yuji arrived at the rice field. The boys kept a steadfast vigil for the better part of an hour when, to the shock of everyone except Seo, the small object returned. The thrilled teens stared at the strange object that was hovering over the field approximately 60-feet from them. Then, as the sun dipped low over the horizon and dusk began to settle in, the device began to emit a pulsating multicolored light.
One of the young men, no doubt bolstered by the pressure of his peers, began to stalk the erratically floating UFO. As he neared the object it suddenly emitted an earsplitting pop and began to shimmer with a bluish hue. This was all the youngsters needed to send them sprinting back toward their homes.
Seo, Mori, Fujimoto, Kojima and Yuji would occasionally visit the field following their sighting and on September 4th Just over a week after their initial run-in their patience paid off. At about 9:30 pm. the five young men once again came face to face with the silvery object flying nearly 3-feet above the field. The little UFO started glowing and began to zoom toward the boys causing them to scatter and once again retreat with haste.
Once home, the boys reclaimed their courage and vowed to procure a camera and spend every waking moment they could staking out the field in hopes of finally capturing the unusual object on film. Their surveillance began the next evening, but the object did not return. The following night, however, would be a different story.
On September 6th the boys vigilance paid off when on their way to the rice paddy they spied the object lying on the ground in the middle of the field before them. The teenagers, now armed with a camera, sagely decided to snap a photo before they approached the downed craft.
Once the flashbulb went off the object on the ground began spinning and rapidly rose into the air. The unknown cameraman shot another photo just after its ascension.
This is where accounts get a little murky, but what seems to have happened next is that the object emitted a light that was even brighter than the flashbulbs burst, before once again plummeting to the ground.
The still spinning object almost seemed to be burrowing into the dirt when it stopped moving.
At this point 14 year-old Hiroshi Mori cautiously moved toward the incapacitated flying saucer. The brave (or foolhardy) boy decided to bend over and lift the object up with his bare hands.
As he did so he claimed that he felt something moving inside. A photo of Miro holding the UFO was then taken.
The boys marveled at their peculiar prize before Miro wrapped it in a plastic bag and placed it in his backpack and took it home. Once there the boys warily measured the object and declared it to be nearly 8-inches wide and almost 4-inches in height. The now inert UFO was said to weigh about 3 lbs.
They also discovered a series of concentric curves, thirty-one small holes and three unique designs etched into the base of the object. The gang deemed that the etchings represented waves or clouds, a bird or some sort of flying object, and something they interpreted to be a budding flower. There was no visible propulsion system.
Following their inspection, the boys repacked the object in plastic and brought their puzzling find to the home of Yasuo Fujimoto. Fujimotos father, Mutsuo, was the current director of the Center for Science Education in the city of Kōchi.
The senior Fujimoto gave the object a cursory examination, assuming that the find was of little significance. That would be a decision that he would come to regret. In his own words:
The frequent nights out of the boys began to worry parents, I told my son if it was true what he said, to bring the object. He did: it was something like an ashtray, cast iron, but too light for this metal. (It) had a top down it was impossible to open and inside were pieces similar to a radio. I did not give more importance, but now I regret not having studied more closely.
Following Mr. Fujimotos brief once over, the object was returned to Moris backpack, but, much to the chagrin of all involved, it was discovered missing just a day later. This would not be the last time this mysterious object would be seen or recovered for that matter.
Over the course of the next two weeks Seo, Mori, Fujimoto, Kojima and Yuji all claimed to have seen the same (or identical) objects in flight on at least six more occasions. Fujimoto himself saw it three times. The gang even managed to capture it a second time, but the object disappeared under mysterious circumstances yet again.
The boys trying to predict when the object would next rear its proverbial head deduced that the single unifying factor in all of their sightings was the fact that they never seemed to occur on rainy days. This, they surmised, was due to the fact that the object feared water. Bearing this in mind they formulated a plan to capture the device.
On September 19, the gang once again returned to the now notorious rice paddy to try and detain the mystifying UFO. This time the boys were armed with a bucket of runoff water and some tattered rags. As luck would have it they found the device sitting motionless on the ground.
The group hurriedly covered the object with rags and poured the water in the bucket over it. They then turned the object over and started to fill the perforations at the base with the remainder of the greenish water. As soon as the liquid entered the device it began emitting a deafening noise that they compared to a cicada-like buzzing. The interior of the object also started to glow.
The youngsters were abruptly struck with the notion that the object might try to retaliate to this perceived attacked and started to back away from the stationary UFO, pelting it with stones. The once flying object remained earthbound and the gang reclaimed their potentially extraterrestrial quarry.
Once back at Katsuoka Kojimas house, the young men looked through the tiny holes and noticed what appeared to be a plethora or miniature mechanisms, Levers and weird drawings.
The intrepid youths then took more pictures and attempted to open the device by inserting a wire into one of the holes and manipulating it.
Eventually they hung the device upside down by the wire, Gravity pulled at the top of the dome resulting in a slight separation between the top and bottom sections of the object. The boys could see what they referred to as complicated electronic equipment inside the item as well as unidentified a viscous material. Could this have been the liquefied remains of the pilot, who much like Ozs Wicked Witch melted on contact with the water?
The boys then attempted (with a dubious sense of scientific integrity, no doubt) to see how strong the exterior shell of the object was by pummeling it with a hammer. They discovered that even the thinnest parts of the light metal remained unblemished no matter how hard they hit it. This seems to be a fairly common trait of materials recovered at alleged UFO crash sites.
At this point the boys decided to try yet another experiment by putting the UFO in the oven to see what kind of temperatures it could withstand, but before they got the chance Kojimas mother, Aiko Katsuoka, wisely put the kibosh on that. She also refused to allow them to store it in her refrigerator, which the boys believed might prevent the UFO from escaping yet again.
The gang then came to the conclusion that the device was likely some kind of remotely controlled surveillance mechanism of unknown origin. It was then that they decided it was time to reveal their cherished mystery mechanism to their classmates the following week, but before putting it away for the night they wrapped in additional rags under the naïve impression that it would prevent the thing from leaking any atomic radiation.
The object was then given to Seo and Mori for safekeeping while the rest returned home for dinner and chores. The young watchmen, feeling that the object was secure in the room with them, relaxed for an evening of comic book consumption and the anticipation of the notoriety that would greet them and their cohorts the following Monday at school when they revealed their wondrous contraption.
When the rest of the group returned later that evening to check on their discovery, they were all dismayed to discover that beneath the pile of rags there was nothing to be found. After a fruitless search, the boys reached the inescapable conclusion that their mini-saucer has once again flown the coop, so to speak.
A few hours later Kojima and Mori were playing ball at Moris house. Kojima lunged over the fence pursuing the ball and much to his surprise and delight stumbled across the still immobile UFO. Kojima and Mori swiftly absconded back into the house with the recovered saucer.
At his juncture the comrades shrewdly decided that they should mark the silver dome with paint lest it pull another disappearing act. This would be to confirm that they were actually encountering the same UFO over and over again, rather than disparate (though indistinguishable) machines. The boys had lost and found the object so many times by this point they naturally assumed that if it vanished it would again turn up near the rice field or in one of their backyards.
On the evening of September 22nd, the crew gathered together of a bike ride into Kōchi City. It was decided that they would all take turns carrying the device, which they no longer left unattended.
To further prevent its escape Mori determined that the UFO would be sealed in a plastic bag full of water, which they continued to hypothesize, had some sort of restraining effect on the apparatus. As if that werent enough, the boys tied a piece of string from the knot on the bag to the wrist of whomever was carrying it to insure that nothing would happen this time.
The knotted bag containing the UFO was then placed in duffle bag and inserted into the bicycle basket of the first carrier, and the gang set off. The bag switched from rider to rider as they tore through the city until it ended up in the basket of its last caretaker, whose name was not revealed.
The gang continued their journey until they neared a local bicycle repair shop. At that moment, the final rider claimed he felt his wrist which was attached by string to the bag wrench with immense force. He immediately called out to his friends, who skidded to a halt ahead of him.
The boys instantly opened the satchel and untied the string and the knots on the plastic bag, but when they looked inside they found that, even though the knots had not been tampered with, the tiny UFO was nowhere to be found. The boys would never see the object again, much to their disappointment.
THE CASE IS REOPENED:
This unique case remained largely unknown to the general public until May of 2004, when UFO Comics published an illustrated retelling of the case. This introduced the encounter to a new generation of UFO enthusiasts garnering it somewhat of a cult following in Japan.
Due to the buzz, in 2007 a full 35 years after the events in question Shinichiro Namiki, the director of the Japan Space Phenomena Society (JSPS,) reopened the investigation. The head of the JSPS Osaka chapter, Kazuo Hayashi, was sent to speak with the remaining witnesses and confirmed that they all maintained the veracity of their original accounts.
During the course of his investigation, Hayashi encountered another tiny UFO tale that occurred in the same prefecture as the Kera event just 4 years later. On the evening of June 6th, 1976, a 9-year-old girl named Sachiko Oyama, from the village of Agawa (now known as Niyodogawa-cho,) went outside to find her pet cat when she noticed a small, yellow luminous object floating in the eastern sky.
Oyama walked into the middle of the street to afford herself a better view. It was then that she saw the unusual object descend in a nearby wooded grove. Overcome by curiosity, the young girl followed the UFO to the edge of the tree line. It was then that the object allegedly hit a tree and proceeded to silently land on the pavement near her feet at which point it emitted a hissing sound.
Oyama would layer describe the object has resembling a silver (though some accounts say black) hat that was about 7-inches in diameter; a familiar description to say the least. The courageous girl bent over and touched the object, which she claimed was covered with a slimy substance that stuck to her finger.
Like the boys who encountered the virtually identical object in Kera, Oyama suddenly found herself overwhelmed by fear. She turned and began to run for the safety of her home, but when she glanced over her shoulder she noticed that the downed device had started to glow yellow once again. Oyama watched in disbelief as the UFO rose, spun counter-clockwise three times, then shot skyward and out of view.
Hayashi also confirmed that the then 40 year-old Oyama still stood by her story in 2007. It was then that Hayashi put forth the hypothesis that these flying objects were actually inter-dimensional vehicles that had temporarily lost their way after slipping into our realm.
Hayashi seemed satisfies with his theory, but what should we make of these mysterious objects that seemingly toyed with these Japanese kids back in 1972 and 1976? Were they UFOs in the classic sense of a interstellar or inter-dimensional vehicles? It goes without saying that by 1970s (or current) technological standards an object as decidedly non-aerodynamic as this could not have been capable of such precise or speedy maneuvers as were attributed to it.
Also, unlike the micro-terrestrial invasion of Malaysia in the 1970s, there seems to be little indication of any humanoid or alien influence on these devices other than that fact that it was apparently intelligently controlled while in flight. Nevertheless, I think we have to look elsewhere for a solution.
How about the boys deduction that it was a remote controlled device of unknown extraction? This theory, I must admit, seems to make more sense than that of it being some sort of spacecraft.
In fact, when I first heard about this case, my initial reaction was to assume that this was nothing more than a prank played on naïve teens by some guy with a remote control flying saucer, but upon closer inspection of the photographs it does not take an aeronautical engineer to realize that without a rotor or some other driving force which this gadget seems to be distinctly lacking there is no way it would ever get off the ground.
There has even been the wild speculation that the device might have been a conscious being akin to those cutesy sentient saucers in the Steven Spielberg produced 1987 opus *Batteries Not Included. While even I am skeptical about this premise, lets look at the evidence that may possibly support this conjecture.
Firstly, assuming that the reports are authentic, this device flew with apparent precision even though there was apparently no recognizable propulsion device within the UFO. Secondly, the UFO appeared to be capable of evasive maneuvers and even displayed a desire to defend itself by utilizing brilliant lights and loud noises. Thirdly, like any living being, this machine resisted every attempt made to incarcerate it by the teens. None of the above is proof that the things actions were an example of intelligent life, but the thought is intriguing.
Perhaps were dealing with a non-terrestrial surveillance device here. Some unknown technology sent from another world or time or dimension or even the oceans depths to observe the human race. Whos to say that the unusual markings on the base of the UFO are not intended to be a message for humanity much like the one we etched into the gold plated disc on Voyager 1 for other citizens of the galaxy to discover.
Of course, theres one, obvious explanation that it was all just a hoax. There are some rumors that have circulated suggesting that the Kera UFO was actually a toilet training chamber pot craftily installed with radio components and pieces from a watering can, but if that were the case it not only reflects poorly on the judgment of Kōchis director of the Center for Science Education, Mutsuo Fujimoto, but also represents one of the most elaborate hoaxes ever perpetrated (and maintained for the better part of 4 decades) by a group of bored teens.
Casting further doubt on the hoax theory is the 2007 investigation by the JSPS, which confirmed that there was no indication of a prank. And, lets be frank, if Kera and Agawa phenomena were merely the whimsical follies of bored teenagers and one little girl, one would have to assume that the perpetrators would almost certainly have grown weary of the ruse as they climbed from adolescence into middle age.
The fact remains that this series of all too close encounters may well represent one of the most intriguing, albeit least well known, events in history of ufology or one of the most outlandish hoaxes ever.
Within the realm of Ufology, there is one particularly curious aspect of the subject that was far more prevalent in times-past than today namely, that relative to so-called vehicle interference. Even the briefest perusal of various UFO publications particularly those of the late-1950s, 60s and 70s will provide the reader with numerous reports of people driving home late at night, or in the early hours of the morning, when a UFO looms into view. Without warning it adversely affects the vehicle of the astonished driver, sometimes rendering the car or truck completely disabled. On other occasions it causes temporary disturbances to the engine, radio and lights. A number of such cases even reached the eyes and ears of officialdom, clearly demonstrating that someone within the corridors of power was taking keen note of this curious activity.
As a prime example, in February 1962, an employee of the British Royal Air Force Police one Sergeant C.J. Perry was ordered by his superiors to investigate a then-recent report that fell right into the heart of this particular category. The documentation prepared by Perry is now, thanks to the terms of the Freedom of Information Act, in the public domain. It tells an intriguing story:
At Aylesbury on 16th February 1962, at 1530 hrs., I visited the Civil Police and requested information on an alleged Flying Saucer incident. I was afforded every facility by the Civil Police authorities and although no official report had been made, details of the incident were recorded in the Station Occurrence book.
The details are as follows: Mr. Ronald Wildman of Luton, a car collection driver, was traveling along the Aston Clinton road at about 0330 hrs. on 9th February 1962 when he came upon an object like a hovercraft flying approximately 30 feet above the road surface. As he approached he was traveling at 40 mph but an unknown force slowed him down to 20 mph over a distance of 400 yrd., then the object suddenly flew off.
He described the object as being about 40 feet wide, oval in shape with a number of small portholes around the bottom edge. It emitted a fluorescent glow but was otherwise not illuminated. Mr. Wildman reported the incident to a police patrol who notified the Duty Sergeant, Sergeant Schofield. A radio patrol car was dispatched to the area but no further trace of the Flying Saucer was seen. It was the opinion of the local police that the report by Mr. Wildman was perfectly genuine and the experience was not a figment of imagination. They saw that he was obviously shaken.
I spoke to Sergeant Schofield and one of the Constables to whom the incident was reported. Both were convinced that Mr. Wildman was genuinely upset by his experience.
Four years later, the Royal Air Force was still secretly looking into such stories. Prepared by a Corporal Rickwood of the RAFs Provost and Security Services, extracts from the following, now-declassified report detail the experience of a young woman named Diane Foulkes, who had been frightened by an object in the sky while she had been driving along the A5 road near Great Ness at 2355 hours on 8th November 1966. This object had emitted brilliant lights and radiation beams. On arriving home her daughter had been in a distressed condition and she had discovered marks on the car, which she considered were burn marks.
Significantly, the unknown aerial object briefly drained the power from the headlights of Diane Foulkes car.
That, today, we have the technology to disable or to, at least, significantly affect car-engines and their internal systems, has led some Ufological commentators to speculate that perhaps someone else, from a world far, far away, has been doing likewise for much longer than us and possibly even as a means to abduct people off lonely roads, late at night. Maybe so. But, theres a problem with this. Ufology is not the only aspect of Forteana in which we see evidence of profound vehicle interference. And, for most researchers, at least, those other aspects have ZERO to do with UFOs. Read on
Late one night in June 1977, Gerald Monteith was driving through the town of Kountze, Texas, and close to the towns Old Hardin Cemetery. Suddenly, his cars engine began to falter and its lights faded. Monteith, thinking that perhaps a fuse was to blame, carefully brought the vehicle to a halt at the side of the road. However, as he exited the vehicle to take a look under the hood, at a distance of perhaps fifty or sixty feet from him, Monteith saw a tall, and very skinny, dark, hair-covered figure walking across the road, like a man but leaning forward and swinging [its] arms.
The sighting only lasted a few seconds, recalled Monteith, and the creature vanished into the trees. But most notable was what happened next. Only two or three seconds later, a soccer ball-sized, glowing mass of bright light came floating through the trees at a height of about fifty or sixty feet, and from the exact spot where the creature had vanished into the woods. The ghostly light moved slowly across the road until it was lost from sight amid the thick trees on the opposite side of the road. Interestingly, after both the beast and the light had vanished, Monteiths car started normally and bore no signs of any similar problem again.
Bigfoot and vehicle interference? Whatever next?! Well, how about a winged fiend of the night? Yep, you read it right.
In 2010, my book (co-written with good friend, Ken Gerhard) Monsters of Texas was published, and divulged countless tales of weird beasts seen throughout the Lone Star State. As is often the case, the book brought forth a number of previously unheard of incidents, both old and new. One such incident came from a man who had been driving home late one night from Austin to Houston, Texas in the summer of 1999, when, at the edge of the highway, he was horrified to see a creature that looked like a real-life equivalent of the flying nightmare from the Jeepers Creepers movies. Notably, as the man zoomed by at around 80 mph, and scarcely able to believe what he was seeing, the headlights, radio, and air-conditioner of the vehicle all briefly, and suddenly, failed.
Its one thing to suggest aliens are clandestinely skulking around in the dead of night, and abducting people from their deliberately-disabled cars. But, its quite another thing to bring a Texan Bigfoot and a Mothman-style beast into the vehicle-interference mix, too. Should we consider the latter events to be merely rogue incidents, where the car trouble was actually coincidental, and unconnected to the encounter of the Fortean kind? Maybe. But I have a sneaking suspicion the answer lies down another, very different road.
Like it or not and many certainly dont, hence the hostile reaction I often get when I discuss such issues! this all suggests, to me anyway, that whether its Bigfoot, bug-eyed aliens, bat-winged monstrosities and who knows what else, all these things are somehow inter-linked, and part of some bizarre and unearthly zoo.
And, maybe, the denizens of that same zoo are definitive tricksters, too. Recall that Gerald Monteiths vehicle-interference case, in Texas in 1977, was linked with his sighting of a hairy wildman. And, in 1962, the British Royal Air Force investigated a case of ufological car-trouble involving a witness named Ronald Wildman. The joke is most assuredly on us.
Are we here just to be the manipulated, baffled playthings of some strange, near-maniacal intelligence whose sole role in life is to screw with the minds of the natives? I sometimes think thats exactly what is going on!
I think weve all gotten up in front of a group of people once or twice in our lives and, while we may have felt initially like we were prepared to give a speech or presentation, we soon found we were stumbling over our words, with our thoughts and ideas pouring out of our mouths as gibberish and gobbledygook, rather than the words we might have planned to use.
This sort of thing is fairly common, and is generally simply a result of anxiety or fear of speaking in public. But some instances of this sort of breakdown in ones ability to communicate may not be so easily accounted for, or especially dismissed as just the result of ones anxiety. In fact, a handful of recent instances where television news anchors have had sudden, inexplicable breakdowns may indicate something far stranger and perhaps even something with disturbing social and conspiratorial undertones.
Below is one such video, where the female anchor in question experiences a strange breakdown in her ability to communicate during a live broadcast. What is it exactly that seems to be going on here?
Initially (though somewhat cruelly), internet trawlers jumped all over this clip, making light of the situation. Soon afterward, it was suggested that the anchor had in the past suffered from various kinds of seizures similar to that being witnessed in the clip. But before long, there would soon be other incidents that would begin to crop up as well which, though involving different individuals and circumstances, nonetheless seem to display the same sort of thing. Below is yet another instance of weird communication-breakdown of this sort, have transpired around the same time:
And just when it seemed that things couldnt get any stranger, this same sort of bizarre breakdown allegedly occurred with a nationally known television host. The smart and sassy Judge Judy, while recording an episode of her program back in March, suddenly told her audience I need to stop, after a similar bout with the onset of inexplicable gibberish. Among reasons for this, suggested causes ranged from conventional disorders such migraines to some sudden onset of apahsia or some similar form of speech disorder. But could there be anything more complex going on here?
Among the more fringe ideas proposed as causes for the strange speech problems these individuals were experiencing were theories involving mind control. Indeed, its easy to imagine whether there might be bizarre government projects that make use of various forms of focused electromagnetic radiation in order to cause individuals to suffer inexplicable seizures and similar conditions. But what if there were still more startling potential causes behind this strange rash of reports, and things involving elements which surround most of us in our daily lives?
Consider, for instance, the potential ill effects something like WiFi internet may have on people. Many have expressed concern about the potentially detrimental side effects of long or, as is the case in widely populated urban areas, virtually constant exposure to such energy fields. Though no studies yet exist that seek to determine whether there could indeed be harmful effects present, could it be that some individuals may be more prone to incurring health problems from exposure to things like wireless internet?
It has even been suggested that some people may become sick with various forms of cancer based on factors including what side of their bodies they choose to sleep on, in conjunction with metal bed frames and their potential to resonate with television and radio waves. What if things so subtle in our environments were actually more capable of causing harm to us and those nearby than we realize? Could these sorts of things be factors that contribute to the bizarre breakdowns appearing in the video clips above, or is there indeed something more sinisterand perhaps intentionaltaking place behind the scenes?
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Argentina Creates New UFO Commission
On May 26, 2011, Argentina officially launched the
Commission for the Study of Aerospace Phenomena under the direction of Captain
Mariano Mohaupt. Their goal is to contribute in the search for a scientific and
technical explanation of those aerospace phenomena which have not been
identified.
Edgar Mitchell, Former Astronaut, Sued By NASA For Trying To
Sell Apollo Camera
The space shuttle isn't the only old piece of NASA equipment that's making
headlines. The space agency has filed suit against Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar
Mitchell in an attempt to reclaim a 40-year-old camera.
A federal lawsuit filed Wednesday in Miami claims that Mitchell, the lunar
module pilot and sixth man to walk on the moon, illegally tried to auction off a
camera he used during his 1971 lunar mission.
"Defendant Edgar Mitchell is a former NASA employee who is exercising
improper dominion and control over a NASA Data Acquisition Camera," NASA alleged
in court documents obtained by The
Palm Beach Post.
Not so, says Mitchell.
"The thing had been sitting in my safe for 40 years -- I got it right after
the mission," Mitchell told AOL.
The camera in question, used to photograph a variety of aspects of the Apollo
14 mission, was estimated to have been worth between $60,000 and $80,000 by
Bonhams auction house.
According to the lawsuit, any equipment used on board Apollo missions remains
the property of NASA and the space agency had no record of giving the camera to
Mitchell.
The astronaut disagrees.
"The lunar modules didn't come back from the moon and everything in them --
all the equipment -- was considered government throwaways and it was
deliberately crashed into the moon to ring seismometers that we set up to get
data from inside the moon. However, we had an agreement with NASA management at
that point that little things, like the cameras, could be kept," said Mitchell,
a trained engineer and scientist and author of "The Way of the Explorer," who
founded the Institute of Noetic Sciences in 1973. "That
was standard practice and it was approved by NASA as incentive stuff."
He says that until he put the camera up for auction with the intention of
raising cash for his research organization, Quantrek, the government never asked him to
return it.
Mitchell Using Camera on the Moon
"I thought the extra money from that would help," he said.
Mitchell believes at some point in between the Apollo and space shuttle
programs, NASA regulations were modified.
"Apparently, they changed the rules after I left NASA's service. Since the
shuttle was a reusable spacecraft, it didn't include throwaway material, like we
had in the lunar module. So, they quit allowing crew members to take stuff from
the flight."
Why does Mitchell think the government even cares if he sells the camera?
"Because they want it back," he explained. "I consider it my property. Once
we were given it, it's our property and we could do with it what we please, and
that's what we're going to have to show in court."
The threat of a lawsuit from the federal government reportedly convinced the
auction house to remove the camera from a recent sale.
"It's a fiasco and so unnecessary," said Mitchell. "We thought this was all
resolved a long time ago and we were clearly not doing anything outside the
rules, and all the things given to us were presented as incentive gifts and
thank-yous for serving on the mission. And I've got several items all given to
me by NASA when I served on different missions."
While Mitchell hasn't even officially been served with legal papers yet, he's
feeling pretty confident about the outcome of the case.
UrtheCast
is launching the worlds first ever high definition, streaming video platform of
planet Earth. The camera will be installed on the outside of the
International Space Station through a joint effort with the Russian Space
Agency. The camera will provide a 40 km wide, high resolution, color image down
to as close as 1.1 metres.
In Special Reports, this week's files cover: Gold-mine
worm called nematode shows life could be living on Mars, Mars Structures, Water,
and Food, Mars Blueberries May Be Vegetation, South Africa Gold Mining Cities
200,000 years old, UFO Sighted During October 2010 Nuclear Missile
Incident.
UnidentifiedAerial Phenomena sightings were
reported over Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Indiana,
Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Oregon,
Tennessee, Texas and Washington. Sightings of UFOs were also reported
in Australia, Canada, Columbia, Ireland, Mexico, Russia, and
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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Gold-mine worm called nematode shows life could
be living on Mars
Animals on Mars
If complex life forms are able to survive inside
cracks deep inside Earth, it raises the possibility that they might have
survived undetected in similar environments on Mars.
Carl Pilcher,
director of NASA's Astrobiology Institute in Moffett Field, California, points
out that Tullis Onstott has previously discovered a bacterium living 2.8
kilometers underground, completely isolated from all other ecosystems on Earth
(Science, DOI: 10.1126/science.1127376). The bug gets its energy from the
radioactive decay of elements in the surrounding rocks. "The significance was
that you could imagine an ecosystem existing in the subsurface of a planet that
didn't have a photosynthetic biosphere, like Mars," he
says.
Until now, it was thought such an ecosystem could
be made of bacteria only. But Tullis Onstott's new findings have completely
changed that. "It has extended the [earlier] work to an animal," says
Pilcher.
"These nematodes
are grazing on microbes. So now you could imagine that if animal life had ever
developed on a planet, and the surface of that planet became lifeless,"Pilcher explains, "you
could imagine that animals [small enough to fit in tiny cracks] could coexist
with microbial ecosystems all powered by radioactivity." Journal
reference: Nature,
DOI: 10.1038/nature09974
Due to the expense and contamination associated
with coring from the surface, few microbial rock and water samples have been
collected from depths greater than 0.5 kilometers. These few samples,
nevertheless have demonstrated that microbial communities do exist in a variety
of subsurface rocks and sediments down to 2.8 kilometers below the
surface
Mars Structures, Water, and Food
Norman Bryden writes,"Located in the circled area of
this Mars Global Surveyor image is what appears to be a twin-columned tower
straddling an overpass for some kind of travel system. Some of the road-like or
tube structures seem to be elevated. Please observe other building-like
structures along the sides and in the corners of the crossroads and
intersections. In various images probable road or travel systems show a
coloration of segmentation. This could suggest the roads and tube systems are in
use, as we see the same type of segmentation in images of our modern roads and
highways. Many structures in images from Mars look intact, suggesting Mars is
currently inhabited. Thanks to Norman
Bryden
Opportunity Rover Finds Strong Evidence Meridiani Planum Was Wet
On March 2, 2004 JPL scientists announced the part of Mars that NASA's
Opportunity rover is exploring was soaking wet in the past as we have predicted
for several years. The rover found evidence in a rock outcrop and the presence
of sulfates, and niches where crystals grew. The scientists are convinced that
liquid water once flowed through these rocks. It changed their texture, and it
changed their chemistry," said Dr. Steve Squyres of Cornell University, Ithaca,
NY, principal investigator for the science instruments on Opportunity and its
twin, Spirit. "NASA launched the Mars Exploration Rover mission specifically to
check for water and an environment that could possibly have been hospitable to
life. Today we have strong evidence for an exciting answer:
Mars -- Evidence of Geysers and Flowing Water
Sir Charles W. Shults III reports, "Data from
Opportunity, Sol 183 shows a typical Martian geyser or periodic
spring." The only image data there is to work with is from L2, L5,
and R1. This is a left infrared image, a left green, and a right violet. I have
been able to assemble the following false color image that is merely an
approximation. The top left of the stone slab shows a deep depressed slot
outlining the stone. The sand around it is extremely clean and all debris is
missing from the area. This is one of the signs of sand that has been washed and
then vacuum dried.
The water emerged, sluiced through the sand, some ran back down into the
slot, and the thin air vacuum dried the sand. By contrast, to the upper right we
can see where the spherules have gone. They have washed over to the other side
of the slab. Notice how concentrated they are. In this magnified view, we see
the slot which is like a periodic spring and the results of water flow. Notice
how the sand is "cleaned" and has no spherules or small particles. All the small
particles have been washed over to the upper right area of the image. The
spherules have also been sorted by water flow and are much denser in the right
of the image. Notice the rippled character of the sand inside the slot itself.
This is caused by the movement of water. http://www.xenotechresearch.com/marsgey5.htm
Mars Blueberries May Be Vegetation
Dr. Annamarie Johnstone writes, "The blue berries in the
Opportunity Rover image may be fruticose type rock lichens (symbiotic plants
composed of fungi and algae.) Forming a mutualistic relationship, the dense skin
of the fungus protects the interior algal cells from desiccation, in turn, the
photosynthetic algae, using sunlight, and produce food for the fungus. Lichens
are brightly colored pioneer plants in an ecosystem, capable of "shutting down"
metabolically, when subjected to unfavorable environmental conditions. As a
result, they are able to survive extreme heat, cold and
drought.
Lichens grow only when moisture is available, so the amount of moisture
governs their rate of growth. Composed mainly of carbohydrates with a small
percentage of protein, rock lichen species can be a food source for animals,
man, and perhaps Martians. The frigid community is made up mostly of primitive
creatures called Cyanobacteria, which live in tightly-woven groups called
microbial mats. The microbes produce chemicals that act as anti-freeze and UV
shields, protecting them from frigid temperatures and from sunlight. I remain
convinced that the Mars "Blueberries" are fossilized Cyanobacteria (also known
as blue green algae) in an inclusion layer of mineralized sediment that can be
sectioned and observed. Thanks to Dr. Annamarie Johnstone
Ancient Carolina, South Africa Gold Mining Cities 200,000 years
old
Over the past 20 years, people like Cyril Hromnik, Richard Wade, and a
handful of others have discovered that these stone structures are not what the
seem to be. In fact these are now believed to be the remains of ancient temples
and astronomical observatories of lost ancient civilizations that stretch back
for many thousands of years located near 25 55' 53.28" S / 30 16' 13.13"
E
These circular ruins are spread over a huge area. They can only truly be
appreciated from the air or through modern satellite images. Many of them have
almost completely eroded or have been covered by the movement of soil from
farming and the weather. Some have survived well enough to reveal their great
size with some original walls standing almost 5 feet high and over a meter wide
in places.
Looking at the entire metropolis, it becomes obvious that this was a well
planned community, developed by a highly evolved civilization. There are
numerous ancient gold mines suggesting the reason for the community being in
this location. We find roads -- some extending a hundred miles -- that connected
the community and terraced agriculture, closely resembling those found in the
Inca settlements in Peru.
Robert Hastings: Unidentified Aerial Object Sighted During October 2010
Nuclear Missile Incident
TAOS -- Robert Hastings writes, "On October
23, 2010, F.E. Warren Air Force Base in Cheyenne, Wyoming temporarily lost the
ability to communicate with 50 of its Minuteman III missiles. The five Missile
Alert Facilities responsible for launching those ICBMsAlpha through Echo,
comprising the 319th Strategic Missile Squadronwould have been unable to do so
during the period of the disruption.
This dramatic story was leaked to Mark Ambinder, a contributing editor at
The Atlantic, which published it three days later. The U.S. Air Force
then quickly acknowledged the problem, saying that a back-up launch system could
have performed the task and claiming that the breakdown had lasted a mere 59
minutes.
The confidential Air Force sources also report that their squadron commander
has warned witnesses not to talk to journalists or researchers about
"the things they may or may not have seen" in the sky
and has threatened severe penalties for anyone violating security. Consequently,
these persons must remain anonymous at this time
According to two missile technicians stationed at F.E.
Warren, the communications issue, while intermittent, actually persisted over
several hours. Significantly, these same individuals report sightings by
"numerous teams" of an enormous, cigar-shaped craft that maneuvered high above
the missile field on the day of the disruption. The huge UFO appeared similar to
a World War I German Zeppelin, (shown here) but had no passenger gondola or
advertising on its hull, as would a commercial blimp.
Robert Hastings has interviewed law enforcement and civilian eyewitnesses to
ongoing UFO activity near F.E. Warren's ICBM sites.
June 20, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ The October 23rd missile incident
occurred less than a month after he September 27, 2010 UFO-Nukes Connection
press conference at the National Press Club in Washington D.C. Seven U.S. Air
Force Officers, including two retired colonels, discussed UFO incursions at
nuclear weapons sites.
The incidents involved the sudden appearance of UFOs that hovered
over ICBM sites and disrupted the missiles' guidance and control systems. A
disc-shaped UFO sent down laser-like beams into a nukes storage depot. Hastings
concludes, "The UFO sightings near F.E. Warren's missile sites in recent months
represent the latest chapter in the UFO-Nukes Connection saga. http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/06/20/idUS185480+20-Jun-2011+PRN20110620
UFO Sightings in the
United States
Alaska Ufos Watching for Earthquakes
Seward -- In addition to regular UFO sightings we had a nice
earth quake, a few days back in Seward, of at least a 5.5 or better. It woke me
from my sleep and, lasted about 40 seconds, on my way to anchorage you could see
the cracks in the highway. I believe the ground has been moving a bit up here.
Thanks Robert Mackey, Seward AK
Arizona Fifteen Objects and Light Swiggle
GLENDALE -- On June 11 2011, I was outside with my nephews
playing football when my cousin looked up and said, "What is that? There were 14
to 15 objects in the sky so my nephew ran inside and got my camera. Soon after
that I took a few pictures. They slowly moved all together but one that stayed
right over above for about 15 minutes some say balloons some say ufo you be the
judge. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Sedona -- I brought my Canon 5D Mark II 21.1 Megapixel
Camera and tripod to do some photography of the stars. One setting allowed
longer exposures to get better light into the camera. The temperature is about
25 degrees Fahrenheit. We didn't notice the object until we got home and
uploaded it to my Mac. A friend noticed the objects. I lost sight of object when
I turned the camera and continued fishing, towards north towards the Sedona
Airport.
I noticed the "star" like object that moved in 3 different
frames, all time delayed 6 seconds. No other stars or the Airplane even look
like this. Thanks to MUFON CMS
California Sphere
Woodside -- I am a delivery driver in the
Bay Area. After completing a deliver y on June 24, 2011, I was on Woodside Road
when I saw a cluster of silver or blackish sphere/circular objects. I pulled
into the parking lot of Karakade Thai Cuisine and these objects were hovering in
formation for several minutes. At first, they were headed towards me but headed
back north to Redwood City where they were coming from.
As I watched and
tried to record one of the balls it flew semi-low reflecting red light from the
sun looking like the ball of a sheet flapping in the air. It was a solid object
but it looked like it had waves in it. It was not a balloon. The reflections
were intense and many disappeared over time. The final three were lined up in an
"Orion's belt" shape across the sky, and then faded to white lights. Only one
out of 20 objects showed up in one photo. The balls flew across the sky at very
high speeds. Thanks to MUFON CMS
ColoradoAir Traffic Controller Reports a UFO
TIMNATH -- Three circular,
translucent craft in triangle formation were observed moving west for a period
of 15 seconds on May 26, 2011. I was standing outside when I saw what appeared
to be a faint shooting star moving toward me at high speed maintaining a
constant altitude with no sound. As an air traffic controller, I've spent twenty
years observing aircraft and they passed directly overhead at 8,000 feet and
1500 knots. The three circular craft were in a perfect triangle formation, and
made absolutely despite their fast speed and passing directly overhead.
They were translucent, and displayed the night sky on the bottom of the
craft. The only reason I saw the craft is because they were glowing orange due
to their speed and proximity to the ground. They had no lights of any kind
typical to other aircraft. I watched them approach from the east, pass overhead,
and head west. I believe it was three separate craft. Thanks to UFO Casebook and
Ken Pfeifer MUFON www.worldufophotos.org.
Florida Diamond
BOCA RATON -- I was with my boss and his wife when I saw a
diamond shaped object heading west after sundown on Saturday, June 18, 2011. The
object had what appeared to be a flame emitting from the center but it made no
noise. I could only make out the shape of the outline due to the shimmering from
the center. It appeared to be descending possibly due to damage to the craft,
hence the fire. We were directly east of the Florida Everglades so the object
headed into a sparsely populated area. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Illinois
Light
Crystal Lake -- On June
22, 2011, I was on my morning bike ride around 7:30 AM, and I stopped to take a
break, before I turned to go back home. I noticed the sun looked inspirational
peeking thru the clouds so I took a picture. When I came home I opened the
picture to show my wife how pretty the sun was. It was then I noticed this oval
amber light.
I couldn't explain it. At school people said wow looks crazy I agreed. Amber
reflects around the clouds as well. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Indiana Orbs
Greenwood -- On June 21, 2011, around 11 PM, I went into my
back yard to have a smoke and noticed a strange light moving north. It kept
getting bigger and brighter and pulsed in shades of orange. I knew something was
extremely odd, so I ran and got my camcorder and started filming. I zoomed in as
close as I could go and then I realized this thing was not right. It had what
looked like circular swirl marks in or on it and they would change and then it
just vanished. The object was filmed with a Sony Handy cam Dcr-Sr68 over a farm
field. This was all odd in itself but, this isn't the first time I saw something
strange on June 16, 2008. I videotaped them was three years and four days apart.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Greenwood -- On June 21, 2011, around 11
PM, I went into my back yard to have a smoke and noticed a strange light moving
north. It kept getting bigger and brighter and pulsed in shades of orange. I
knew something was extremely odd so I ran and got my camcorder and started
filming. I zoomed in as close as I could go and realized it had circular swirl
marks on it and they would change and then vanished. The object was filmed with
a Sony Handy cam Dcr-Sr68 over a farm field. I also saw something strange on
June 16, 2008. I videotaped them was three years and four days apart. Thanks to
MUFON CMS
Kansas Fat Missile
TOPEKA -- My wife and I were outside standing on the porch
on June 22, 2011,, when I noticed from the southeast a strange shining object. I
said to my wife would you look at this it's weird. There's no sound at all and
no contrails like a plane, I think it's a UFO. She tried to take a picture with
her camera phone, but couldn't get it in frame. My neighbors were trying to
figure out what we were seeing right in front of us in broad daylight!! It was
moving pretty slow so m y neighbor went in her home and retrieved her
binoculars. It was shaped like a short fat missile with 2 large circular lights
beneath it. We watched it travel from east to west until it was no longer
visible. About five minutes later it returned heading from the east to west. On
June 23, 2011, about 3:10 PM we witness three or more military choppers flying
the same direction as if they were tracking something in the air. They flew back
and forth for about 45 minutes. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Kentucky Disc
Berea -- We were having severe storm warnings all day on
June 23, 2011. That evening the clouds begin to break up and there were some
beautiful cumulus clouds behind the house with the sun's rays shining through
the clouds. So I decided to get my camera and take some pictures. These pictures
were taken within 1 minute and 30 seconds. When I went back into the house and
down loaded the pictures onto my computer I notice there were some objects in
several pictures. One object was disc shape and the other was shape like a
cigar/ cylinder shape. Thanks to MUFON CMS
The big ship was the size of a football field long and half
a football field wide and there all difference like of light under the ship. In
the middle the ship there was like a window that goes all around it. I look like
to me hovered over the trees cross the country road that is. I can tell you more
if you like to know more. Thanks to MUFON CMS
MaineGreen Glowing Flying Tad
Pole
Caribou -- I just got off of work on June 23, 2011, at 12:38
AM, and was heading north on Route 1 towards Van Buren when I saw green objects
that lasted maybe three seconds. I had a green tail/middle with a white tip at
the head. It looked almost like a glowing flying tad pole that lasted three
seconds and vanished. This wasn't a planet, plane or helicopter. I considered
maybe a shooting star. This was short, fat and didn't leave any type of trail
behind as they do in the photos. I'm lucky I was able to view this as it
happened so fast. In 41 years I have never seen something like this while
driving. It was dark green and glowing at the end and the middle. This happened
so fast I wouldn't have been able to take a photo. Thanks to MUFON CMS
New Jersey Gigantic UFOs Triangle
Glassboro -- This is Lewis B, "I saw something
for five minutes on Monday June 20, 2011, about 7:45 pm. I was at work as the
sun was about to set under the large awning of the store I work at. I noticed
first a "glare" in the sky ... from the angle I saw it, it could have been
between anywhere from southwest Philadelphia to maybe West Deptford, NJ.
At first the setting sun was gleaming off it, I went out to look
they were in a triangular form ... it was significant in size for the area ...
they were dull in color ... but VERY visible ... Three dark grey to silver,
circular, "balls" ... just sitting in front of the grey cloud ... in the form of
a perfect triangle ... I couldn't see if there was mass in between the shapes
... but it was definitely there ... by the time I got to my car to take
pictures, it was down to one again and was gone before I could get the camera on
... as the grayish balls disappeared, so did the cloud cover ... I thought it
was very odd. The time between the first glare and it completely disappearing
was about four minutes. Did anyone else see or report this? Thanks to Lou
Beaver
Twin Rivers -- It's 12:46 am, on June 22, 2011, my name is
Pete Hilker, and I just saw the most gigantic thing in the sky I have ever seen.
I was driving home from Route 33 in Twin Rivers and I started seeing a light
through the trees that I thought was the moon because of its size. As I got
closer and to a treeless section, I saw this gigantic object that was four
lights across. I really couldn't make out the shape but it was huge. It had two
lights in front that were lighting the front of it. I was terrified; I had an
ominous feeling, that there was a car behind me. I just saw it like thirty
minutes ago I didn't snap a picture because of my fear and raced to my house. I
opened my garage door with the clicker to see the craft pass right over the top
of my house. I saw the bottom of the craft had a red blinking light. I couldn't
see the shape, but it was flat and had four lights in a line. Like o O O o and
the O were like the bright headlight type lights. That thing was gigantic.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
East Windsor -- On June 22, 2011, I'll start by saying I was
coming from the Shell Gas Station on Route 33 in Twin Rivers, and started
driving for my road. I can see the moon light through the trees in the eastern
skies. I was listening to the ESPN radio and in an open area I can see it. It
was gigantic. It was at the height of when you see a low flying plane. It was
four lights across in a row about the size of half a football field. The two in
the middle were very bright almost like it's headlights but the light was very
diffused.
The craft was going NW and moving incredibly slow. I really couldn't tell its
shape, because the lights were like so bright. They were very close bright
headlights and I couldn't make out the object behind them. I have never seen an
airplane creep along in the sky so slow and so damn huge. It seems like a cruise
liner in the sky. Thanks to MUFON CMS
New Mexico Photo Analysis
AlbuquerquE --Don Burleson, State Director New Mexico
writes, "Hi, George-- Attached is an enhancement I did (just some
cropping and re-contrasting) on a photo submitted recently, taken of a sunset in
Albuquerque, (witness name Bill Hawley, not asking anonymity) and showing what
seems to be an object in the upper glow of the sun, not noticed by the
photographer at the time. There appears to be the same sort of
"aura" around the object as around the setting sun itself, which seems more
likely for a solid object than for, say, a tuft of cloud. (This is case # 29470
on MUFON CMS.) Thanks to Don Burleson, SD New Mexico
New York Silver Egg Boomerang
NEW YORK CITY -- I was walking home from Soho on June 26,
2011, and saw a silver egg shaped object while traversing Bowery Street. I
pointed it out to my friend and it changed colors and went behind a building. We
stopped and waited for it to fly past the building and when it emerged it was a
black boomerang shape approximately 1cm in length to the naked eye from where we
were standing. Two elderly men also saw the UFO and we were staring at it for
about five minutes. It just stayed in the sky at the same spot so it couldn't
have been a weather balloon, then it slowly changed back into a cigar shape and
then into a small egg shape. It was still for another five minutes, we began
walking back downtown and never took our eyes off it, but then it started
getting smaller and smaller. Then there was an airplane that flew past, but when
the airplane got close the UFO just disappeared. Thanks to MUFON CMS
North Dakota Tear Drop
I was driving from Fargo to Bismarck, and around the western edge of Stutsman
County I saw something egg or tear dropped shaped going straight down. It came
from the very top of my windshield and disappeared into some clouds so was only
visible for a few minutes, but more than enough time to see that it was
something I have never seen before. I was on the phone with a friend while this
was happening and they suggested taking a picture, but because it was so small
and white looking compared to the blue of the sky, I figured my phone camera
wouldn't work. My windshield also had bug splatters, but what I saw was
definitely not bug debris. It was white in appearance, like what you see when a
jet goes overhead, though this was much larger. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Ohio Object Engulfed in Light
Cleveland -- I live near Hopkins Airport and see planes take
off and land from my chair. At around 9:30 PM, on June 24, 2011, I noticed a
bright light heading my way from south to north. It moved in a straight line
until it reached the southwest end of the airport, then went northeast over the
airport. I watched it until it was just a dot. At first I thought it was a plane
until it got closer and looked at it clear as day to be engulfed in light, or
ablaze. It looked as though it was checking out the airport. After getting up to
look at this thing, I didn't know what think about what I just saw. About ten
minutes later, here it comes again, from the same direction and flight path,
except this time there happened to be a plane just taking off from CLE. The
pilot had to have seen this. The object then followed the same flight path as
the first time. That evening there was a lower cloud deck. It also seemed the
object was flying just under that cloud deck. I was purely amazed to see this
and for it to happen twice within ten minutes really kind of shook me up. Thanks
to MUFON Thanks to MUFON CMS
Oregon Odd Cloud
Albany--On June
21, 2011, at 2:26 PM, my friend's wife called him east of I-5 on Highway 20. She
told my friend to check out the odd cloud formations just to the south. At 2:26
PM he took this picture with his cell phone. It is interesting to see the
apparent discoloration and turbulence in the cloud near the object.
Note:It is difficult to do much analysis on the photo because
the cell phone photos are of low resolution. However, zooming in reveals a
circular object, not a bird but I don't know what they would be? The "RAINBOW"
effect is most likely to be a reflection of sunlight in primary wavelengths.
Thanks to William Puckett, Director http://www.ufosnw.com
Tennessee Triangle of Lights
MEMPHIS -- It was about twelve midnight, on June 23, 2011, I
was driving east, when I noticed two bright lights in the distance off to the
North. They appeared as though they were stationary, so I thought they must be
helicopters or possibly stars. I didn't think anything of it at first, but I
noticed one of the lights was slowly getting closer. As it gradually came nearer
I noticed it was a cluster of lights. The object appeared to have three distinct
lights on three corners of the vehicle. It appeared to have red lights and faint
pulsating dim lights on the underbelly. I wanted to believe it was an airplane,
but it moved like no other vehicle I have seen before. The object appeared to be
extremely low for an airplane, and it was completely silent.
Texas
LEAGUE CITY -- I would not like to explain story on here. I
have two clear pictures and two eye witnesses. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Washington Sightings
Chehalis -- On December 31, 2010, at
11:55, three adults, two children and I were outside getting ready to light
fireworks and we all saw the objects hovering for about two minutes. They took
off one by one towards the southwest. I apologize about the picture. It was
taken with a cell phone.
Marysville-- Weather conditions were low overcast with cloud heights
varying between 300 and 900 feet on June 18, 2011, about10:15 PM. Winds were
light and variable and visibility was 8 miles and. The witness reports seeing a
huge Mothership flying low joined by smaller UFOs.
The witness's observation that the dark object
(Mother Ship) was the size of aircraft carrier is probably accurate considering
how close he was to the object. This is the first report that our organization
has ever received of UFOs that later joined a larger object. Many of these type
of sightings occurred in the 1940s and 50s. Thanks to William Puckett, Director
http://www.ufosnw.com
Worldwide Sightings
Australia Flying Object
Kimberley -- My name is Sandra Hill and I
live in Western Australia and took this picture from the cabin window of the
Kimberley Quest 2 early morning on June 6, 2011, when we were cruising along the
Kimberley coast of Western Australia. Going through my photos on Iphoto, I
thought it was odd that six pictures had this weird cloud formation that seemed
to just dissipate.
Then something in the clouds to the left of the centre caught my eye...
There's no denying what that is!! It's behind the clouds and it's there. The
cabin lights were off and the camera was up flush with the window to be able to
get the shot in. A long time professional art photographer said it was not a
reflection and that the water drop stains on the window confirms that the lens
of the camera had to be very close to the window pane to be able to see them on
the shot which means that it was too close and the outside light too strong to
be able to capture any reflection from the interior of the cabin. There is
something there.
Thanks Sandra Hill - Visual Artist Wardong Art
Studio
BALINGUP W.A. 6253
Canada Disc
Vancouver, BC-- My digital camera indicates the image was taken September
14, 2010, at 5:56 PM. It is not the first time I have seen odd unidentified
objects in BC, but this is the first time I just happen to be shooting pictures
and a shiny object caught my eye in the camera and was able to take pictures.
Note:The witness sent multiple photos. Several of
the photos show the object highlighted. The date and time listed would only be
correct if the date and time were correctly set on the camera. The witness
stated that he saw a bright shiny disk shape object before taking the photos.
The object is likely a real and not a cloud. Thanks to William Puckett, Director
http://www.ufosnw.com
Columbia Abduction
NEIVA -- Close Encounter of the Third Kind, it was happened
to my sister too. I see one entity like 1,6 meters of stature (tall) in the room
library from my home in the country. I was like 1 meter near about me. I was
scared, the entity put his hands up and I don't remember anymore of that day, I
need support for this, I want to know what happen that day, can you help me
please?...
Ireland Zipping White Light
Bray, Wicklow -- Ian states, "I stepped outside to the back
garden for a cigarette at about 11:30 PM, on June 23, 2011. From
the south I spotted a brilliant white light zipping across the sky at a
remarkable pace. I have never seen a plane in the far off distance cover this
much ground so quickly. I managed to view it for a few seconds through my
binoculars it seemed to be almost bullet like in shape. It vanished after about
1 minute as it had gone so high up into the sky it was literally impossible to
see anymore. About thirty seconds after I had lost sight of this I spotted
another object coming from the south over some houses and it then arced off
towards the west. This one wasn't moving very quickly, just slowly across the
sky with an altitude that never seemed to change. We saw the objects two nights
in a row. On June 22, I also spotted a brilliant white object flying east a
couple of hundred feet from the ground. The ISS would have been possibly in view
much earlier. Thanks to www.uk-ufo.co.uk
Mexico Images
I will send you some pictures and videos for you to check it out and keep in
touch.... This photo was taken April 23, 20011.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Russia Alien Invasion Alleged
Alexandra Bruce comments that
there claims that there are rumors that Russia is preparing to surprise the
whole world with the announcement of an "alien invasion."
Some Russian
commentators say that this could be a UFO that crashed near the Siberian town of
Irkutsk. Others say it's a hoax. There's a lot disinformation on the Internet
coming out of Russia. I don't know what to make of this footage but it is
definitely an interesting shot! Uploaded by FlorykT
UK/England Stealth Bomber
Sutton Coldfield Paul writes, "During the warm weather we
had in April 1, 2011 3.30 PM, I was in my garden when I happened to look up
and saw a fast moving jet black object. I can only describe it has looking like
a small version of a stealth bomber. It was under cloud level and silent. It was
right in the path of aircraft landing at Birmingham Airport so I doubt it was
military. Thanks to www.uk-ufo.co.uk
Hornchurch, Upminster Bridge -- On June 22, 2011, a huge white light came
over our house heading northeast at 11 PM. When it was above me at least seven
red flashing objects appeared and were triangle shaped with a white light in
each corner. They were under the cloud and made no noise moving very fast. These
objects were so fast I'm pretty sure it's not a plane. It was moving at very
tight angles. The big white light faded to nothing but the others were around
for a few hours. Thanks to www.uk-ufo.co.uk
LONDON -- A video taken June 24,
2011 of a UFO that buzzed London.
Steven Mostyn BBC writes,
"When considering the advances
associated with today's modern visual effects technology, not to mention the
draw of potentially instant Internet fame and ease of access, it's becoming
increasingly more difficult to get excited about UFO sightings. Still, the
following display that reportedly illuminated the skies above London earlier
this month is certainly worth watching at least oncebefore then dismissing it
as just another slick piece of sensationalist click-baiting.
Posted to clip-sharing service YouTube
by user alymc01', the video reveals a number of unidentified objects whizzing
through the clouds high above the home of BBC Radio 1 on a beautiful June day.
The cameraman claims, "Ittook over a
week to get it but finally managed to get these critters on camera on a clear
day, and even get a close-up, the video's accompanying explanation
outlines. "It seems to be attracting quite a crowd now when they appear.
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dog with my three year old son in the local park on May 31, 2011, on a very
clear warm sunny evening with a few clouds and blue sky. I sat down on the grass
with my son and took some photos with my Blackberry. I didn't notice anything in
the sky and heard no sound but looking at the pictures I noticed a strange
object and upon zooming in on the pic i noticed the strange cloud formation like
a triangle and an arrow shape. This is a genuine picture taken on my cell phone
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Monthly Statistical MUFON Report - for June 2011
Monthly Statistical MUFON Report - for June 2011:
CMS continues to
amass sighting reports from around the globe. In June 2011 there were 462
sightings reported to MUFON through CMS from the following countries;
Country
Number of Reports
UNITED STATES
406
CANADA
13
UNITED KINGDOM
7
MEXICO
3
VENEZUELA
3
CHILE
3
CHINA
2
ARGENTINA
2
GUATEMALA
2
BRAZIL
2
COLOMBIA
2
SPAIN
1
PHILIPPINES
1
COSTA RICA
1
VIET NAM
1
NEW ZEALAND
1
AUSTRALIA
1
ALGERIA
1
SOUTH AFRICA
1
ITALY
1
ISRAEL
1
PUERTO RICO
1
TURKEY
1
IRELAND
1
SAUDI ARABIA
1
BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA
1
PORTUGAL
1
TOTAL:
461
Within the United States the distribution by State was as follows;
State
Number of Reports
California
42
Illinois
27
Texas
25
Indiana
22
New York
21
Ohio
19
Florida
19
Arizona
17
Michigan
15
Colorado
15
Pennsylvania
14
Tennessee
14
Missouri
12
Maryland
10
Kentucky
10
North Carolina
9
Virginia
8
New Jersey
8
Minnesota
8
South Carolina
8
Georgia
7
Oklahoma
7
Arkansas
7
Massachusetts
7
Kansas
7
Washington
5
Wisconsin
5
Nebraska
4
Maine
4
Oregon
4
Louisiana
3
Nevada
3
Utah
2
Idaho
2
Rhode Island
2
West Virginia
2
Connecticut
2
Mississippi
2
Alabama
1
Alaska
1
Hawaii
1
Vermont
1
New Hampshire
1
New Mexico
1
Iowa
1
North Dakota
1
If you are getting more sighting reports than listed here, please be sure to
enter them manually into CMS. To make this happen automatically, make sure your
local MUFON Website is pointing to the CMS Reporting form on www.mufon.com and
direct all calls you get to the MUFON website so that witnesses can enter their
own report directly into CMS.
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/cgi-bin/login.pl
and click on "UFO Sighting Reports" on the main menu and then click "ADD" 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 June 2011 are the shape of the
UFOs reported which were as follows;
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Ik ben Pieter, en gebruik soms ook wel de schuilnaam Peter2011.
Ik ben een man en woon in Linter (België) en mijn beroep is Ik ben op rust..
Ik ben geboren op 18/10/1950 en ben nu dus 74 jaar jong.
Mijn hobby's zijn: Ufologie en andere esoterische onderwerpen.
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