Er zijn tegenwoordig steeds minder meldingen van ufo's en ook fanaten van vliegende schotels moeten toegeven dat ze beginnen te twijfelen aan buitenaards leven.

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Al tientallen jaren houden ufo-watchers het luchtruim voor ons in de gaten. Maar na al die tijd hebben ze nog geen bewijzen gevonden. Bovendien worden er steeds minder ufo's gezien en dat kan de komende jaren tot het einde van een hype leiden, stellen Britse 'ufo-kenners'. Volgende week organiseert één van de grootste organisaties in het onderzoek van ufo's een bijeenkomst om te bespreken of ze nog wel een toekomst hebben.

"Het is best mogelijk dat over tien jaar niemand nog over ufo's spreekt", zegt Dave Wood, voorzitter van de 'Association for the Scientific Study of Anomalous Phenomena' (Assap). "Het gebrek aan bewijzen doet ons vaststellen dat er niets is daarbuiten. Ik denk dat iedere ufo-onderzoeker zal zeggen dat 98 procent van de vaststellingen eenvoudig te verklaren zijn." Dat het aantal meldingen afneemt, is heel verrassend in deze tijd van het internet. Bij Assap is het aantal ufo-zaken sinds 1988 met liefst 96 procent gedaald. Natuurlijk impliceert het gebrek aan ufo's niet noodzakelijk dat er geen buitenaards leven mogelijk is.

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Veel van de verhalen die ufo-organisaties vandaag onderzoeken, zijn meldingen van tientallen jaren geleden. Zo is een incident in Roswell in 1947 nog steeds een populair onderwerp. Toen zou een buitenaards ruimteschip in New Mexico gecrasht zijn. "Op ufo-conferenties praten mensen hoofdzakelijk over oude gevallen. Ze brengen zelden nieuwe verhalen aan." Eerder dit jaar heeft het Britse ministerie van Defensie aangekondigd dat ze bij gebrek aan bewijzen niet langer onderzoek naar ufo's voeren en dat er geen bedreiging is voor het Verenigd Koninkrijk.

Nu haast iedereen een camera in zijn gsm heeft, zouden dit soort beelden eerder moeten toenemen. © getty.

Veel valse meldingen worden op het internet meteen ontkracht. Deze dode alien uit Rusland ging al snel viraal op het internet. © photo news.

David Clark, ufo-adviseur van het Nationaal Archief, stelt dat het een dood onderwerp is. "Iedereen beschikt tegenwoordig over een camera. Als er echt dingen zouden rondvliegen, zouden we nu toch over duidelijk bewijsmateriaal moeten beschikken." Vroeger moesten mensen brieven sturen en werd het mysterie versterkt door gebrek aan antwoorden, stelt Clark. Tegenwoordig wordt alles door het internet meteen verklaard of weerlegd.

Ook Nick Pope, van 1991 tot 1994 voorzitter van de UFO desk op het Britse ministerie van Defensie, geeft toe dat er veel vals materiaal op websites als YouTube circuleert. Toch wil hij het onderwerp niet zomaar over boord gooien. "Er zijn vandaag zoveel meldingen toe te schrijven aan Chinese lantaarns dat we de interessante gevallen uit het oog dreigen te verliezen", zegt hij. "Of zoals ik vroeger op het ministerie altijd stelde: de gelovigen hoeven maar één keer gelijk te krijgen."

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Ook in ons land bestaat er een meldpunt voor wie denkt een ufo te hebben gezien. Oprichter Frederick Delaere stelt een andere trend vast dan in het Verenigd Koninkrijk. Hoewel zijn meldpunt nog maar sinds 2007 bestaat, kreeg hij toch al 1.058 meldingen binnen. Ieder jaar blijft dat aantal groeien. "We moeten toegeven dat een deel van deze meldingen te weinig bruikbare informatie bevat voor verder onderzoek", zegt hij. "We gaan daarom het meldingsformulier aanpassen, waardoor getuigen genoodzaakt zullen zijn ons van meer bruikbare informatie te voorzien."

Het meldpunt werkt samen met sterrenwachten en meteorologische instanties. Naast de archivering van alle meldingen probeert de organisatie ook logische verklaringen te zoeken. "We zijn geen voorstanders van de buitenaardse hypothese, die jammerlijk genoeg vaak in verband wordt gebracht met dergelijke waarnemingen. Het promoten van zo'n theorieën brengt veel schade aan het kritisch en wetenschappelijk onderzoek van dit fenomeen toe."

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Missing Time and the Puzzle of

Missing Teeth

Abductions of humans by alien beings have become so commonplace that those claiming the abductions are no longer ridiculed into oblivion. Friends and family now listen with sympathy and interest but when the words missing time are spoken more official ears will often perk up.

The human brain is designed to shut down and slip into a subconscious mode for a few hours during every revolution of our planet. What we refer to as dreams might simply be necessary mental purging or these disjointed images could be far more profound journeys into astral realms. Whichever, no matter how erudite the opinion, no one really knows why we dream or whether or not we possess a second, ethereal persona and the subject is actually worthy of an entire article but for now we are talking about missing time. What is certain about sleeping and dreaming is the fact that the human brain is not meant to shut down while driving an automobile when the driver has had plenty of sleep.

On September 19^th, 1961 an interracial couple named Betty and Barney Hill were motoring along an isolated roadway that cut through the White Mountains of New Hampshire in the United States. They both consciously recalled seeing a strange light in the sky above and both were to say that it seemed to be following them. What neither could speak to, however, was what had happened to the time when they arrived home a couple of hours later than the journey should have required.

Over 40 years later, a woman accompanied by her two sons and her mother, lost time as the family was motoring home after enjoying a meal. Somewhere between Ingleton, North Yorkshire and High Bentham in Britainthe family lost nearly half an hour of conscious time.

While these two events would seem to be related only because the missing time occurred while driving a motorcar, there are subtle differences that might not be so understated upon closer examination. In point of fact, the study may even lead us to ask: Are we and our complex subconscious minds evolving at a rate that matches that of extraterrestrials?

While under hypnosis by a reputable psychiatrist named Dr. Benjamin Simon, Betty and Barney Hill offered details of their experience that were fraught with horror and utter confusion as they were set upon by curious little creatures. The British family, on the other hand, realized a tremendous peace and indescribable love from what they called, simply, a light that was so bright it made the moon appear yellow. The driver of the automobile, a sincere and lovely lady named Rachel, underwent hypnosis and could only speak of being high into the light that seemed to caress her soul as she heard her children giggling happily in the background. She broke down, offering a pretty smile to soften her sobs, while her mother also cried when merely accessing the conscious portion of her memory. One of Rachels boys said of the light (in paraphrase): .it was fun and made you want to go back to it..

Neither Betty nor Barney Hill wanted any more of their encounter. They were stripped and given a thorough physical. Betty had a scary needle plunged into her abdomen, had hard cups pressed around her breasts as well as having unpleasant probing of her vaginal area and was, in general, examined as would be done by someone seeing something for the first time.

Numerous abductions have occurred since 1961 and the abductees have reported that the little doctors knew the human anatomy quite well. During later abductions, for example, whole eyeballs were reportedly removed and replaced as if the operations were mundane.

Barney Hill used dentures to replace his missing teeth. When Dr. Simon could calm him enough during their sessions (Barneys horror was veritably uncontrollable as his subconscious mind allowed regression) he told of the aliens surprise when his teeth were pulled out. The little fellow was so perturbed by this that he ran and got the leader to have a look. Barney would say that there was much disconcertion about his prosthetic teeth as they hurried to check Bettys mouth.

These reports must lead one to believe the aliens are in a learning curve that parallels our own. When ultrasound techniques were later perfected scary needles were no longer used about the abdomen during abductions. False teeth no longer puzzle alien abductors and it seems that the more we search for resources within our being the aliens alter their own techniques to meet our changing psychology.

Betty and Barney Hill were handled in 1961 like livestock by overpowering aliens.

A British family in 2005 was treated to a gentle, soulful meeting with a light that had to issue from a powerful source.

The question begs: Are humans and extraterrestrials evolving towards the same goal?

Animal Abductions and Mutilations

An often disturbing event in the alien/UFO community, animal abductions and mutilations are on the rise this year, and the areas that are now being deemed hotspots for UFO activity appear to be having a rash of these occurances. Though this is a somewhat distasteful subject to some in the community, nevertheless it brings about strong emotions in experiencers and non-experiencers alike. While it may be easy to dismiss a witnesss account of a sighting, one cannot dismiss the physical evidence of these events; namely that animals across the globe are being somehow damaged in a way that defies current scientific explanation.

Fossil records indicate that there is a possibility of animal abductions happening in ancient times becauase of the migration of some species to areas unobtainable by these animals. Several species from millions of years ago crossed oceans that were impossible to cross, unless they were somehow air-lifted. For example, how did marsupials get from North America to Australia? How did monkeys get from Africa to South America? Evolution often happens too fast for Darwins theory and gaps in the fossil record indicate that some kind of unnatural force and possible genetic engineering might have acted together with natural selection.

Though the current phenomena of strange animal deaths and mutilations can possibly trace its roots back hundreds of years, it first came to the attention of the public and the media in the early 1960′s with a rash of these surgically precise cuttings done on livestock, mainly cattle. Testimony from veterinary pathologists, law enforcement officials and cattle inspectors clearly distinguished animal mutilations from deaths of domestic and wild animals by infectious disease, predation, and other natural causes.

There are several indicators concerning these strange deaths, whereas there will generally be unexplained damage to any remaining organs, no trace of blood, no sign of damage to the surrounding area, a lack of of teeth or claw marks, and no obvious scavenging by any known predators. While some animals are found lying on the ground, others are found draped over fences and treetops, their injuries consistent with being dumped from a great distance. Sometimes the ground under the animal appears depressed, as if the animal was dropped on the site from a height high enough to leave an impact crater under the animal.

The situation is serious and sometimes apparently even involves harm to human beings:

By the mid 1970s, mutilated cattle were reported in 15 states, from Montana and South Dakota in the north, to New Mexico and Texas in the south.

Democratic senator Floyd K. Haskell contacted the FBI asking for help in 1975 due to public concern regarding the issue. He claimed there had been 130 mutilations in Colorado alone.[4]

In 1998, documented photographic evidence of a 1994 mutilation surfaced that involved a [5] human being outside of Sao Paulo, Brazil. An autopsy report concluded that the procedure occurred while the victim was still alive, and the associated pain resulted in cardiac arrest.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cattle_mutilation

The occurances have been so widespread, that in in the United States, this has been the subject of two separate federal investigations.

A current video with Phil Hoyle of the Animal Pathology Forensic Unit in the U.K. discusses the matter further. In this presentation, there is footage of one the factors of the possible evidence of visitor related activity, namely burn marks which appear near or around where the animals were harmed.

In the story below it is shown that these burn or scorch marks are not a new event nor is the event of possible harm to a human being during it:

Faxinal de Sao Bras, Brazil
Date: 1940
Time: afternoon

9-year-old Sebastiana Roncador had gone to the goat pen in order to milk the animals when she noticed a strange luminous object resembling a circus tent on a nearby field. Curious she approached it and watch astonished as some type of ladder emerged from the object. The ladder moved in a way that it seemed to be alive. Soon several 1-meter tall creatures exited the object. The beings had a dark complexion with large frog like eyes, large round faces, large heads, huge pointy ears, and short necks. They wore tight fitting silvery outfits. The creatures approached the witness who ran frightened towards the house screaming. Her father ran out armed with a stick, which he threw at the creatures. These retreated back into the object. The craft then took off causing a huge cloud of dust to rise up and emitted flames from its bottom apparently burning the ground. At the site a black scorched circle was found and today nothing grows there. One of the goats was found apparently with a puncture wound and bleeding. The blood apparently coagulated and the animal died. Around the same time a local woman disappeared without a trace. Nothing was ever heard from her.

Source: Jose Edilson de Oliveira

http://www.alien-ufos.com/ufonauts/47626-ufonauts-animal-mutilations-abductions.html

More evidence of visitor related activity to the events occuring to the animals is a picture captured by Phil Hoyle of a possible UFO which appeared over the same area as the deaths and surgical cuttings were taking place.

Note: these investigations of the APFU are current and ongoing

The strange object over Wales Copyright: Phil Hoyle: The
Animal Pathology Field Unit

Though once thought confined to cattle or other livestock, these cases are now being found more and more in domestic animals, that is, the family pet. In Salt Lake City in 2003, a rash of cat mutilations occured, again with the same surgical cutting; these cases are still open, no cat serial killer was found, but coincidentially, there were numerous UFO sightings in that area and other parts of Utah that year. Or consider the stories of several experiencers, who, upon waking from their encounter, would find their dog or cat deadwith no apparent cause. Several experiencers were lucky enough to actually see the damage inflicted as is evidenced by a story which occured over 50 years ago:

Location. Near Denbigh Castle, Clwyd, Wales
Date: March 1964Time: 0130am

The witness, Mrs. W, was up late studying when she heard her terrier dog yelping. She knew it was on the back patio and looked through the kitchen window to see him cowering beside a bush in clear distress. Rushing out, Mrs. W saw that a beam light was coming from the sky and enveloping the dog. She could not see a source. Reacting instinctively the woman picked up her pet and immediately felt a burning sensation as she touched the beam. Without looking upwards she fled indoors with the animal and noticed that her arm was burnt and remained in pain for some time. the dog also suffered discomfort from what she took to be skin burns that persisted for a short time.

Source: Margaret Fry in: Northern UFO News

http://www.alien-ufos.com/ufonauts/47626-ufonauts-animal-mutilations-abductions-2.html

Currently in a northwestern Montana town, there have been a rash of unexplained deaths of dogs; several of the animals reportedly died suddenly in their fenced yards while the owners were right inside the home. According to witnesses testimony, at least nine dogs have mysteriously died and other strange animal deaths are occuring, an example being of a wolf found draped in a tree. Clearly this is not the work of some serial animal killer. Prior to these incidents, there was possible UFO activity in the western skies.

Many experiencers have discussed missing pets, pets dead for no apparent reason, strange marks that appear almost surigically done, yet the anuimal has had no such surgery in that particular area. It appears that the evidence is strong that there is a very possible connection to UFO activity and these animal experiements, if thats what they indeed are. Yet why hurt an experiencers or others animals and in such numbers? We all know and understand the concept of using animals to further medical knowledge, but in this case, a very large number of animals appears to be necessary for this research. Too many animals are dying under mysterious circumstances which begs the question of, if the visitors are indeed taking these animals, then, why, if they are so advanced, do they need so many? And why primarily the experriencers animals? Or, as some might suggest, does it have to do more with the experiencer and the effect on them that in any interest in the actual pet.

Whatever the reason, as more and more animal deaths are reported worldwide, and more sightings coincide with these occurances, it may be prudent to not only watch the skies, but to watch your animals, also.