Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.
This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.
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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 In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
MUFON of het Mutual UFO Network Inc is een Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in alle USA-staten en diverse landen.
MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com.
Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
02-03-2014
72 Years Ago: The Great Los Angeles Air Raid - PART II
72 Years Ago: The Great Los Angeles Air Raid - PART II
It is said by some locals that the skipper or one of the officers on the Japanese sub had worked in the Ellwood oil field some years prior to the outbreak of the war. The story claims that the man had been mistreated by some of his co-workers during that time, had returned to Japan before the war began, and had then subsequently helped lead the submarine back to the area to make it’s attack. – Paul T. Collins – Fate Magazine July, 1987
Raid Scare Blacks Out Southland, but Knox Claims ‘False Alarm’
Washington(AP)-Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox said today that there were no planes over Los Angeles last night. “That’s our understanding,” he said. He added that ” none have been found and a very wide reconnaissance has been carried on.” He added, “it was just a false alarm.”
Anti-aircraft guns thundered over the metropolitan area early today for the first time in the war, but hours later what they were shooting at remained a military secret. An unidentified object moving slowly down the coast from Santa Monica was variously reported as a balloon and an airplane.
No bombs were dropped and no planes were shot down during the anti-aircraft firing in the Los Angeles area, the western defense command said in San Francisco.
“Cities in the Los Angeles area were blacked out at 2:25 a.m. today on orders from the fourth interceptor command when unidentified aircraft were reported in the area,” the western defense command said.
“Although reports are conflicting and every effort is being made to ascertain the facts, it is clear that no bombs were dropped and no planes were shot down.”
“There was a considerable amount of anti-aircraft firing. The all-clear signal came at 7:25 a.m.”
Army Scofts at Civilian Reports
Army intelligence, although uncommunicative, scoffed at reports of civilian observers that as many as 200 planes were over the area.
There were no reports of dropping bombs, but several instances of damaged property from anti-aircraft shells. A garage door was ripped off in a Los Angeles residential district and fragments shattered windows and tore into a bed where a few moments before Miss Blanch Sedgewick and her niece, Josie Duffy had been sleeping.
A santa Monica bomb squad was dispatched to remove an unexploded anti-aircraft shell in a driveway there.
Wailing air raid sirens at 2:25 a.m. awakened most of the metropolitan’s three million citizens. A few minutes later they were treated to a gigantic Fourth-of-July-like display as huge searchlights flashed along a 10-mile front to the south, converging on a single spot high in the sky.
Anti-Aircraft Guns Open Fire
Moments later the anti-aircraft guns opened up, throwing a sheet of steel skyward.
Tracer bullets and exploding shells lit the heavens.
Three Japanese, two men and a woman, were seized at the beach city of Venice on suspicion of signaling with flashlights near the pier. They were removed to FBI headquarters, where Richard B. Hood, local chief, said, “at the request of Army authorities we have nothing to say.”
A Long Beach police sergeant, E. Larsen 59, was killed in a traffic accident while in route to an air raid post.
Henry B. Ayers, 63-year-old state guardsman, died at the wheel of an ammunition truck during the black-out. Physicians said a heart attack was apparently responsible.
Rumors of Planes Downed Spiked
Police ran down several reports that planes had been shot down, but said all were false alarms.
Aircraft factories continued operation behind blackened windows, while ack-ack guns rattled from batteries stationed near-by.
A Japanese vegetable man, John Y. Harada, 25, was one of three persons arrested on charges of violating a county black ordinance. Sheriff’s Capt. Ernest Sichler said Harada, driving to the market with a load of cauliflower, refused to extinguish his truck lights.
Others held on similar charges were Walter E. Van Der Linden, Norwalk dairy man, accused of failing to darken his milking barns, and Giovouni Ghigo, 57, nabbed while driving to market with a truckload of flowers.
Traffic Snarl Follows All Clear Signal
Soon traffic was snarled. Thousand of southern Californians were an hour or more late to their jobs.
There were isolated incidences of failure to comply with black-out regulations. Neon signs were glowing inside stores. Traffic signals continued to flash in some areas.
Radio stations went off the air with the first alert, and were not permitted to resume broadcasting until 8:23 a.m.
There was speculation, that the unidentified object, might have been a blimp-although veteran lighter-then-air-experts in Akron, O., the nations center of such construction, said Japan was believed to have lost interest in such craft following experiments in World War I. These sources said inability to obtain fire proof helium caused discarding of such plans.
Observers lent some credence to the blimp theory by pointing out that the object required nearly thirty minutes to travel 20 or 25 miles-far slower then an airplane.
Unidentified Planes Pass Over Harbor
An official source which declined to be quoted directly told The Associated Press in Los Angeles that United States Army Planes quickly went into action. Later however, another official said no United States craft had taken off because of possible danger from the army’s own anti-aircraft fire.
A newspaper man at San Pedro said airplanes passed over the Los Angeles-Long Beach harbor area. The craft were not identified.
There were no reports of any attempt to bomb southern California from the air although many war-vital factories, shipyards and other defense industries were on the route the object followed.
Although some watchers said they saw airplanes in the air, semi-official sources said they probably were the United States Army’s pursuits.
All the action, clearly spotlighted for ground observers by 20 or so searchlights, was just a few miles west of Los Angeles proper.
Object Disappears Over Signal Hill
Observers said the object appeared to be 8000 ft or higher.
Firing, first heard at 3 a.m., ceased suddenly at 3:30 a.m., after the object disappeared south of Signal Hill, at the east edge of Long Beach. Anti-aircraft guns fired steadily for two minute periods, were silent for about 45 seconds, and continued that routine for nearly a half an hour.
All of southern California from the San Juaquin valley to the Mexican border was blacked out. Los Angeles doused its lights first, at 2:25 a.m.. San Diego, just 17 miles from the border did not receive its lights out order until 3:05 a.m.
When daylight and the all-clear signal came, Long Beach took on the appearance of a huge easter egg-hunt. Kiddies and even grown-ups scrambled through the streets and vacant lots, picking up and proudly comparing chunks of shrapnel fragments as if they were the most prized possession they owned. – Glendale News Press – Wednesday, Feb. 25, 1942
Witness Scott Littleton:“I was an eye-witness to the events of that unforgettable February morning in February of 1942. I was eight-years-old at the time, and my parents lived at 2500 Strand in Hermosa Beach, right on the beach. We thus had a grandstand seat. While my father went about his air-raid warden duties, my late mother and I watched the glowing object, which was caught in the glare of searchlights from both Palos Verdes and Malibu/Pacific/Palisades and surrounded by the puffs of ineffectual anti-aircraft fire, as it slowly flew across the ocean from northwest to southeast. It headed inland over Redondo Beach, a couple of miles to the south of our vantage point, and eventually disappeared over the eastern end of the Palos Verdes hills, what’s today called Rancho Palos Verdes. The whole incident last, at least from our perspective, lasted about half an hour, though we didn’t time it. Like other kids in the neighborhood, I spend the next morning picking up of pieces of shrapnel on the beach; indeed, it’s a wonder more people weren’t injured by the stuff, as we were far from the only folks standing outside watching the action.”
“In any case, I don’t recall seeing any truly discernable configuration, just a small, glowing, slight lozenge-shaped blob light-a single, blob, BTW. We only saw one object, not several as some witnesses later reported. At the time, we were convinced that it was a “Jap” reconnaissance plane, and that L.A. might be due for a major air-raid in the near future. Remember, this was less than three months after Pearl Harbor. But that of course never happened. Later on, we all expected “them,” that is, the Military, to tell us what was really up there after the war. But that never happened, either.” – brumac.8k.com
THE ARMY AIR FORCES IN WORLD WAR II; DEFENSE OF THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE
“The Battle of Los Angeles”
During the night of 24/25 February 1942, unidentified objects caused a succession of alerts in southern California. On the 24th, a warning issued by naval intelligence indicated that an attack could be expected within the next ten hours. That evening a large number of flares and blinking lights were reported from the vicinity of defense plants. An alert called at 1918 [7:18 p.m., Pacific time] was lifted at 2223, and the tension temporarily relaxed. But early in the morning of the 25th renewed activity began. Radars picked up an unidentified target 120 miles west of Los Angeles. Antiaircraft batteries were alerted at 0215 and were put on Green Alert—ready to fire—a few minutes later. The AAF kept its pursuit planes on the ground, preferring to await indications of the scale and direction of any attack before committing its limited fighter force. Radars tracked the approaching target to within a few miles of the coast, and at 0221 the regional controller ordered a blackout. Thereafter the information center was flooded with reports of “enemy planes, ” even though the mysterious object tracked in from sea seems to have vanished. At 0243, planes were reported near Long Beach, and a few minutes later a coast artillery colonel spotted “about 25 planes at 12,000 feet” over Los Angeles. At 0306 a balloon carrying a red flare was seen over Santa Monica and four batteries of anti-aircraft artillery opened fire, whereupon “the air over Los Angeles erupted like a volcano.” From this point on reports were hopelessly at variance.
Probably much of the confusion came from the fact that anti-aircraft shell bursts, caught by the searchlights, were themselves mistaken for enemy planes. In any case, the next three hours produced some of the most imaginative reporting of the war: “swarms” of planes (or, sometimes, balloons) of all possible sizes, numbering from one to several hundred, traveling at altitudes which ranged from a few thousand feet to more than 20,000 and flying at speeds which were said to have varied from “very slow” to over 200 miles per hour, were observed to parade across the skies. These mysterious forces dropped no bombs and, despite the fact that 1,440 rounds of anti-aircraft ammunition were directed against them, suffered no losses. There were reports, to be sure, that four enemy planes had been shot down, and one was supposed to have landed in flames at a Hollywood intersection. Residents in a forty-mile arc along the coast watched from hills or rooftops as the play of guns and searchlights provided the first real drama of the war for citizens of the mainland. The dawn, which ended the shooting and the fantasy, also proved that the only damage which resulted to the city was such as had been caused by the excitement (there was at least one death from heart failure), by traffic accidents in the blacked-out streets, or by shell fragments from the artillery barrage.
Attempts to arrive at an explanation of the incident quickly became as involved and mysterious as the “battle” itself. The Navy immediately insisted that there was no evidence of the presence of enemy planes, and Secretary [of the Navy, Frank] Knox announced at a press conference on 25 February that the raid was just a false alarm. At the same conference he admitted that attacks were always possible and indicated that vital industries located along the coast ought to be moved inland. The Army had a hard time making up its mind on the cause of the alert. A report to Washington, made by the Western Defense Command shortly after the raid had ended, indicated that the credibility of reports of an attack had begun to be shaken before the blackout was lifted. This message predicted that developments would prove “that most previous reports had been greatly exaggerated.” The Fourth Air Force had indicated its belief that there were no planes over Los Angeles. But the Army did not publish these initial conclusions. Instead, it waited a day, until after a thorough examination of witnesses had been finished. On the basis of these hearings, local commanders altered their verdict and indicated a belief that from one to five unidentified airplanes had been over Los Angeles. Secretary Stimson announced this conclusion as the War Department version of the incident, and he advanced two theories to account for the mysterious craft: either they were commercial planes operated by an enemy from secret fields in California or Mexico, or they were light planes launched from Japanese submarines. In either case, the enemy’s purpose must have been to locate anti-aircraft defenses in the area or to deliver a blow at civilian morale.
The divergence of views between the War and Navy departments, and the unsatisfying conjectures advanced by the Army to explain the affair, touched off a vigorous public discussion. The Los Angeles Times, in a first-page editorial on 26 February, announced that “the considerable public excitement and confusion” caused by the alert, as well as its “spectacular official accompaniments, ” demanded a careful explanation. Fears were expressed lest a few phony raids undermine the confidence of civilian volunteers in the aircraft warning service. In Congress, Representative Leland Ford wanted to know whether the incident was “a practice raid, or a raid to throw a scare into 2,000,000 people, or a mistaken identity raid, or a raid to take away Southern California’s war industries.” Wendell Willkie, speaking in Los Angeles on 26 February, assured Californians on the basis of his experiences in England that when a real air raid began “you won’t have to argue about it—you’ll just know.” He conceded that military authorities had been correct in calling a precautionary alert but deplored the lack of agreement between the Army and Navy. A strong editorial in the Washington Post on 27 February called the handling of the Los Angeles episode a “recipe for jitters,” and censured the military authorities for what it called “stubborn silence” in the face of widespread uncertainty. The editorial suggested that the Army’s theory that commercial planes might have caused the alert “explains everything except where the planes came from, whither they were going, and why no American planes were sent in pursuit of them.” The New York Times on 28 February expressed a belief that the more the incident was studied, the more incredible it became: “If the batteries were firing on nothing at all, as Secretary Knox implies, it is a sign of expensive incompetence and jitters. If the batteries were firing on real planes, some of them as low as 9,000 feet, as Secretary Stimson declares, why were they completely ineffective? Why did no American planes go up to engage them, or even to identify them?… What would have happened if this had been a real air raid?” These questions were appropriate, but for the War Department to have answered them in full frankness would have involved an even more complete revelation of the weakness of our air defenses.
At the end of the war, the Japanese stated that they did not send planes over the area at the time of this alert, although submarine-launched aircraft were subsequently used over Seattle. A careful study of the evidence suggests that meteorological balloons—known to have been released over Los Angeles —may well have caused the initial alarm. This theory is supported by the fact that anti-aircraft artillery units were officially criticized for having wasted ammunition on targets which moved too slowly to have been airplanes. After the firing started, careful observation was difficult because of drifting smoke from shell bursts. The acting commander of the anti-aircraft artillery brigade in the area testified that he had first been convinced that he had seen fifteen planes in the air, but had quickly decided that he was seeing smoke. Competent correspondents like Ernie Pyle and Bill Henry witnessed the shooting and wrote that they were never able to make out an airplane. It is hard to see, in any event, what enemy purpose would have been served by an attack in which no bombs were dropped, unless perhaps, as Mr. Stimson suggested, the purpose had been reconnaissance. – sfmuseum.net
The “Battle of LA,”: 5 Irrefutable Arguments Why It Was Actually a UFO Attack
The U.S. government said what happened was nighttime antiaircraft crews protecting Los Angeles got nervous — it was just two months after Pearl Harbor — and opened fire on a weather balloon.
The crews also set off flares, and all the confusion just built on itself. So we’re told.
Others say the night featured an attempted UFO landing, in which the valiant gun crews fought aliens trying to land.
It’s pretty obvious the latter is true.
Obviously the aliens not only attempted to land, they succeeded. Just look at what’s happened in Hollywood since then. The logic becomes inescapable.
5. The quantity of UFO/alien movies has increased dramatically
Between 1911 and 1941, UFOs and flying saucers were occasionally a subject for films. Since then — especially since the 1950s, after a necessary period of time to learn the equipment and infiltrate studio management — movies about UFOs exploded. Coincidence? who’s being naive, Kay?
4. movies has increased dramatically The quality ofUFO/alien
In the 1930s, UFOs were laughably portrayed on screen, obvious frauds. While it understandably took a decade or two to import the necessary technology from the home planet to Earth, all of a sudden you got Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Independence Day and the Transformers series. The aliens’ unstinting desire for complete accuracy in movies is inspiring
3. Very, very strange people like Tom Cruise and Arnold Schwarzenegger have reached the pinnacle of Hollywood success
One fiercely believes in aliens and Xenu as if he knows it was true and the other became an influential box-office legend despite documentaries that proved a) he could barely speak English, and b) he was a cyborg sent from the future to kill a specific human. Luckily for the U.S. — and the world — the aliens overreached when they had him elected California governor as a first step towards getting his finger on the nuclear button (Yes, their plans included overturning the “natural born citizen” section of the Constitution.)
2. The attacks suddenly stopped
If it was a case of “itchy trigger fingers,” why weren’t there countless more up and down the coast? Answer: Because the aliens had succeeded in landing and needed no more attempts. Sherlock Holmes’s “dog that didn’t bark” theorem FTW, bitchaz.
1. They never found the “weather balloon” that started it all
The feds would have you believe the following: 1) A weather balloon was shot at by a lot of antiaircraft guns 2) It, or its pieces, fell to the Pacific Ocean.
If that’s true, why couldn’t they produce the balloon? Surely the balloon (or the pieces thereof) would have floated in the Pacific for some time, and the Pacific is known by oceanologists to be, as they say, “not very big.”
So why couldn’t the government find this alleged “balloon”? – houstonpress
NOTE: there is a lot of evidence that this was not a weather balloon though it’s almost impossible to make an actual determination…even with the original footage. I have been told be residents of Southern California and the West Coast during this period that there was a heightened sense of wariness after this incident occurred adding to the terror already present after the Pearl Harbor attack as well as constant fears of an invasion. I’d be interested in your comments…Lon
Wat hebben wereldrevolutie, kwantummechanica, kosmische straling, oude wijsheden, duurzaamheid, vrije energie en metafysica met elkaar gemeen? Al deze onderwerpen worden samengebracht in de documentaire The Shift.
In de film wordt gekeken naar de revolutionaire verschuiving die ieder aspect van onze wereld beïnvloedt. Mensen worden zich bewust van het controleapparaat waarmee een kleine groep probeert te voorkomen dat ze hun volledige potentieel bereiken.
Bewustzijn en wetenschap komen in de documentaire samen om duidelijkheid te verschaffen over de verschuiving. Er worden praktische manieren aangereikt om uit de overlevingsmodus te stappen en onze natuurlijke staat van vrede en samenwerking te bereiken.
Er komen interviews voorbij met verschillende revolutionaire sprekers en mensen die er al voor hebben gekozen om uit het huidige sociaal-economische systeem te stappen. We zien verborgen technologieën en interessante alternatieven die de weg vrijmaken naar een duurzame toekomst.
In 1879 hing er een moederschip boven New York City
In 1879 hing er een moederschip boven New York City
We schrijven 12 april 1879. Het is een heldere avond. Astronoom Henry Harrison uit New York kijkt naar de sterren en ziet plotseling een moederschip verschijnen. Het cirkelvormige object blijft op grote hoogte hangen. Harrison beseft dat het object zich vanwege de rotatie van de aarde met grote snelheid moet voortbewegen.
Harrison bleef naar het object kijken terwijl hij op de achtergrond sterren zag opkomen en ondergaan. Het moederschip bleef drie uur lang op dezelfde plaats hangen en begon daarna plots richting het oosten te vliegen. De astronoom sloot uit dat hij komeet Brorsen had gezien omdat het object uit het zicht was verdwenen. Een komeet zou nog te zien moeten zijn geweest.
Henry, indertijd lid van de Toronto Astronomical Society, besefte dat hij zijn bevindingen moest doorgeven aan een wetenschappelijke autoriteit. Hij stuurde de volgende dag een telegram aan het US Naval Observatory in Washington, DC. De directeur van de sterrenwacht, de beroemde astronoom Asaph Hall III, deed niets met het telegram. Een boze Harrison schreef een brief aan de redacteur van de New York Tribune. De krant publiceerde op 17 april 1879 een artikel met de kop ‘A Curious Phenomenon’. De waarnemingen van Harrison werden op 10 mei 1879 ook gepubliceerd in het tijdschrift Scientific American.
Harrison werd na de publicaties overstelpt met brieven van andere astronomen. Critici waren ervan overtuigd dat hij de komeet Brorsen had gezien. De komeet bewoog echter één graad per dag langs de hemel, terwijl de rechte klimming van zijn object met twee minuten per minuut toenam. Een komeet kon het volgens Harrison dus niet zijn geweest.
Harrison kreeg bijval van de astronomen J. Spencer Devoe uit New York City en Henry M. Parkhurst. Harrison sprak van een klokvormig object dat duidelijk werd bestuurd door een intelligentie. Op basis van metingen die door de drie astronomen waren verricht, berekende astronoom Morris K. Jessup dat het moederschip drie uur boven New York City heeft gehangen. Hij stelde voorts vast dat het object op een hoogte van 130 tot 160 kilometer boven de aarde moet hebben gehangen en een doorsnee had van 800 meter.
Publisher's Note: I received an email this morning from the National UFO Center and one of its top posts was entitled, “We Almost Doubled Just Today the Number of Planets Known to Humanity”. According to the article 715 new planets that could sustain life have been discovered outside of our galaxy. Excellent read. Enjoy Dirk
WASHINGTON (AP) — Our galaxy is looking far more crowded and hospitable. NASA on Wednesday confirmed a bonanza of 715 newly discovered planets outside our solar system.
Scientists using the planet-hunting Kepler telescope pushed the number of planets discovered in the galaxy to about 1,700. Twenty years ago, astronomers had not found any planets circling stars other than the ones revolving around our sun.
“We almost doubled just today the number of planets known to humanity,” NASA planetary scientist Jack Lissauer said in a Wednesday teleconference, calling it “the big mother lode.”
Astronomers used a new confirmation technique to come up with the largest single announcement of a batch of exoplanets – what planets outside our solar system are called.
While Wednesday’s announcements were about big numbers, they also were about implications for life behind those big numbers.
All the new planets are in systems like ours where multiple planets circle a star. The 715 planets came from looking at just 305 stars. They were nearly all in size closer to Earth than gigantic Jupiter.
‘We Almost Doubled Just Today the Number of Planets Known to Humanity’
And four of those new exoplanets orbit their stars in “habitable zones” where it is not too hot or not too cold for liquid water which is crucial for life to exist.
Douglas Hudgins, NASA’s exoplanet exploration program scientist, called Wednesday’s announcement a major step toward Kepler’s ultimate goal: “finding Earth 2.0.”
It’s a big step in not just finding other Earths, but “the possibility of life elsewhere,” said Lisa Kaltenegger, a Harvard and Max Planck Institute astronomer who wasn’t part of the discovery team.
The four new habitable zone planets are all at least twice as big as Earth so that makes them more likely to be gas planets instead of rocky ones like Earth – and less likely to harbor life.
So far Kepler has found nine exoplanets in the habitable zone, NASA said. Astronomers expect to find more when they look at all four years of data collected by the now-crippled Kepler; so far they have looked at two years.
Planets in the habitable zone are likely to be farther out from their stars because it is hot close in. And planets farther out take more time orbiting, so Kepler has to wait longer to see it again.
Another of Kepler’s latest discoveries indicates that “small planets are extremely common in our galaxy,” said MIT astronomer Sara Seagar, who wasn’t part of the discovery team. “Nature wants to make small planets.”
And, in general, smaller planets are more likely to be able to harbor life than big ones, Kaltenegger said.
There are quite a few ghost tales which, had they been publicised in different cultural environments, would serve just as well as sightings of non-human entities. Peter Ackroyd, in his compendium of EnglishGhosts retells the experience of Mr Andrews and friend in Swinbrook, Oxfordhire in the early seventies.
Something `jet black` stood ahead of them on the country road they were walking along. It rose into a `column` and became the shape and size of a man – except it was composed of what looked like smoke in zigzag patterns (Ackroyd p110-11.) We would say now that they had beheld a shape-shifting shadowman!
A good source of modern unclassifiable reports of this kind is the `It Happened to Me` section of the Fortean Times online forum, although these are difficult to follow up or verify.
What I do find credible is a recent thread about a `spiky thing` seen in houses by a number of Australian posters. One of them describes as being like a `three dimensional asterix`. Another tells of a gelatinous looking spider like being clinging to the ceiling of her bedroom. This was seen by more than one person. We are back in Nameless Thing territory! (see www.Fortean Times.com/forum.)
Down to brass tacks.
Non-human entity claims are not that difficult to debunk. We are more apt to misjudge the nature of something that we are not so familiar with –like a passing animal – than something we are used to.
In accordance with this, sceptics have written off many of these sightings as simple misidentifications of known animals. Nor are they without a point. A walking reptilian entity was seen by some policemen in Loveland, Ohio, USA and was dubbed the Loveland frog. It has since transpired that what they saw might well have been a rare, but classified Nile Monitor Lizard (Bord, p-246-247.)
In that same tradition Joe Mitchell has proposed that the Flatwoods monster was nothing but an owl (see ufos.about.com) After all, many are now satisfied that the Kelly-Hopkinsville case, where eight adults were besieged by floating demons, may have been triggered by a hysterical misperception of owls following a UFO sighting. The famous `Mothman `with its glowing red eyes has been given a similar reductionist explanation. (See ufos.about.com and www.csicoporg, for example)
Likewise a British UFO investigator called Chris Wolfe has re-opened the Saltwood case. He has declared the headless bat type creature to have been a crow illuminated by a passing train….
Some of these zoological debunkings end up in places less prosaic than what was started with. Some saw fit to account for the Nameless Thing of 50 Berkeley Square as having been a mutated freshwater cephalopod – octopus to you and me. This had somehow ended up in the sewers from the Thames and so into the plumbing of that building. The thing had graduated from eating rats to people. (Now that is my kind of debunking exercise!)
Then there are the tricks of the mind brought about by aberrant psychology. A must read for all paranormal enthusiasts is Oliver Sacks’ book Hallucinations (2011). This is chockfull of instances of detailed images that our ever creative brains can throw up in the right circumstances (and, yes, little people are a feature of this.) Indeed, one sceptic has reviewed the Pascagoula abduction in the light of hypnopompic hallucinations (see www.csicorp.org/famous-alien-abductions.)
As for me.
I find the owl interpretation of the Hopkins goblin case quite convincing. This is because what they described does tally well with both the behaviour and appearance of some owls. When, however, people extrapolate from this and apply the same thinking to the Flatwoods monster I am far less sure. What they saw was much larger, less owl like and was seen by separate witnesses.
Nor does it seem probable to me that four boys in Saltwood would mistake a common bird for the high strangeness entity which they spoke of.
That there was a mutant killer octopus creeping through the sewers of London is a lovely Gothic notion. The whole legend, however, has more than a whiff of London town blarney about it. There have been no further incidents associated with it, and the matter seems to be lost in time.
As for hallucinations: no doubt some of the more idiosyncratic solo experiences can be dropped from our enquiries by the hallucination theory. What comes across from Sacks’ study of these, however, is that they are more often than not the result of an illness or prolonged sensory deprivation (rather than excitement.) The visions may be exotic but they are almost always of things known to the observer. Furthermore, the observer almost always knows that they are hallucinating. (A typical example given is that of an elderly woman who, on losing her sight, began to hallucinate detailed pictures of people clad in elaborate Eastern clothing going about their daily tasks.) Nor is it clear that hallucinations can be shared: Sacks himself does not provide any examples of this.
The case for exotic arial phenomena does seem much better to me than for any entity of any description, no matter how common are the claims made for it. I think it possible – as suggested by Allen Danelek in UFOs: the Great Debate –that some non-terrestrial intelligence is manipulating our consciousness. This intelligence could be doing so to monitor our reactions to varied stimuli. This could be being done as a preliminary precaution before first contact is made for real.
If this hypothesis is correct then we have no idea what ET looks like until we finally meet up with it for real!
Edward Crabtree
References.
Ackroyd, Peter The English Ghost: Spectres through Time (London: Vintage Books, 2011)
Bord, Janet and Colin Modern Mysteries of the World: Strange Events of the Twentieth Century (London: guild Publishing, 1989)
Bowen, Charles (Ed.) Encounter Cases from the Flying Saucer Review (USA: signet, 1977)
Danelek, J. Allen UFOs: The Great Debate: An Objective Look at Extraterrestrials, Government cover Upsand the Prospect of First Contact (Minessota: Llellewyn Publications, 2010.)
Location. Pati dos Alferes, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Date: October 31 1977 Time: 1800
On his way to a friend’s wake the witness, Moacir, 53-years old, was near his home when the witness was approached by 3 meter tall giant blond haired man who invited him for a conversation in perfect Portuguese. Somehow the witness was not frightened by the strange situation and joined the stranger in conversation. They walked together in the midst of a strange thick fog to an unfamiliar and desolate field. In the field a large disc-shaped object is sitting on the ground, the witness is then allowed to see the outside of the craft and then was welcomed inside the object, always accompanied by the giant stranger, who never provided any explanations. After this was done the witness was deposited back near the house of his deceased friend’s widow. The next morning the witness is surprised to find the giant alien sitting on a chair in his home by the table, strangely his wife is unable to see the tall alien and a squabble ensues between husband and wife. After everything is calmed down, the giant alien suddenly vanishes in plain sight. Additional information: The witness states that as he left his house he heard a strange voice that sounded sort of familiar asking him to stop and talk. As he turned to the voice he was briefly blinded by a very strong light. This caused him to lower his eyes and once he did he saw two large feet covered in large shiny metallic white boots. These boots belong to two huge muscular ‘hairy’ legs of someone wearing white shorts and a brown belt. At the height of the belt which was directly opposite of Moacir’s face, there was a silvery shiny metallic belt buckle about 20cm in diameter. At 1.64m in height Moacir still had to look up to see the face of the stranger, which appeared jovial and round, the stranger was about 3m in height, or twice the height of the witness. Moacir then realized that the shiny belt buckle had been the source of the shiny bright light. The giant was a very muscular man, similar to a weight-lifter. His chest area was covered with something similar to a brown vest. The giant had a youthful countenance, appearing about 40 years of age; his skin was waxy in appearance. Strangely Moacir was not scared or concerned when the giant put his hand on Moacir’s shoulder and led him towards the nearby fields. Suddenly but well protected by the giant Moacir plummeted down a steep trail, which was very muddy due to recent rains. Moacir was led down this narrow trail by leaps and bounds, tightly held by the giant. Something strange then happened at the foot of a hill both entered a thick and dark fog and remained in it for several minutes. After leaving the fog Moacir realized that they arrived at an area near some houses that snaked along the foot of Belvedere Hill overlooking a field with scant vegetation. At this point Moacir noticed at walking distance, perhaps some 10 to 15m away a landed metallic saucer shaped object, matte-aluminum in color, about 15meters in diameter which had landed on what appeared to be on tripod like landing gears. It resembled to juxtaposed plates. Along the center of the craft were opening through which Moacir saw what appeared to be ‘moving parts’ inside. The ship stood about 7m in height with a dome on top, and through a slit Moacir saw what seemed to escaping gas or steam since the area around it appeared to be distorted. Moacir was then invited to inspect the outside and under the craft by the giant. Accompanied by the giant at all times Moacir noted that the giant’s head almost touched the bottom of the craft. At the base of the craft Moacir saw several shiny rings. The alien then lifted his left hand and opened up a metallic hatch on the bottom of the craft. Once the hatch was opened a ladder with four rungs was lowered down from the craft. The giant then invited Moacir onboard the craft and easily climbed up the rungs, which caused some difficulty for Moacir. Inside Moacir felt cold, even though the ship was apparently heated or “acclimated” once the giant removed his hand from Moacir’s shoulder, the witness felt as if half his weight had been suddenly removed. The prevalent color inside the ship was light green and the floor appeared to be covered with a soft foam-like material. Moacir couldn’t locate the exact position of the hatch after it had been closed but around this circular room were several large windows 3 m in length and 1.5m in height. Through these windows filtered some light which illuminated the mostly darkened interior of the craft. However Moacir scarcely reached to the bottom of the frames since everything onboard was made according to the giant’s dimensions. In place of one of the windows there was what appeared to be a commando console complete with multicolored buttons and levers, in the midst of the controls there was a shiny ‘cap’ about 30cm in diameter and from its center emitted various beams of light towards its periphery. Upon approaching the windows Moacir moved slowly to his left and was able to see out of the first one and saw a beautiful blue gray sky filled with bright ‘stars’. Looking out the second window Moacir suddenly felt a sudden impact in his body, as if it were rising up in the air, as he looked out this window he saw two large luminous bodies and instinctively covered his face to protect himself. On the other windows Moacir saw different views of what appeared to be outer space, he saw planets, and other bodies, and one planet which resembled Saturn with multicolored rings around is perimeter. After having finished viewing all the windows the giant alien then invited Moacir to visit “a secret room” (!). They went to a corridor and down three steps into what Moacir described as a “very cold room”. In this room Moacir saw numerous shelves and niches along the walls filled with different size and type containers all filled with a pale looking green liquid. In the center of the room stood a table corresponding to the height and dimensions of the giant that resembled a kind of laboratory or operating table. According to Moacir all his questions were immediately telepathically answered by the giant. When he asked about the propulsion of the craft, he was told that the craft was ‘tele-guided’ by the beings from their bases. When Moacir asked why he had been chosen for this contact he was told by the giant that he possessed ‘intelligence different from that of his countrymen’. When the alien told Moacir that it was time for him to go, Moacir suddenly felt as he where in a descending elevator. He does not know how he exited the craft but he suddenly found himself in a field near the train station and very close to the house of his deceased friend’s widow. Moacir noted other strange features of the giant, such as its large eyes which lacked irises and were almost luminous in nature; his teeth appeared to be composed of a one complete piece on each side, without any visible divisions, white in color. He also noted that the last two sections on the giant’s fingers were covered with tufts of thick blond hair. The giant’s hair was very blond almost white. The rest of the night Moacir felt as if in a stupor or in a semi-hypnotic state, he could hardly remember the wake, and remembers seeing the strange fog again on his way home.
HC addendum Source: SBEDV Nr. 168/173 Type: G & E Comments: The witness has been involved in other strange experiences.
Location. Ranton, Stafford England Date: October 21 1954 Time: 1645
Near Stafford, Mrs. Jessie Roestenburg heard a noise like an aircraft and she ran out into the garden. There she found her two children lying prostrate and terrified. Above the children was a huge saucer-like object with a dome, the front par of which was transparent stated Mrs. Roestenburg. Staring at the children from the machine were two unsmiling human-like creatures, with long faces and long hair. Jessie then ran to the back of the house in fright. The object then moved over the house, hovered there for about 15 seconds and then shot off at high speed. The men inside the object had white skin, long hair to their shoulders, and very high foreheads. They wore turquoise blue clothing, resembling ski suits. The object hovered at a tilted angle while the two occupants looked at the scene “sternly, not in an unkind fashion, but almost sadly, compassionately.” After about 15 seconds during which these men gazed at her, the craft ascended at 45-degree angle, with a blinking violet light in front. Leaving a contrail, it circled the house, and then streaked out of sight.
Humcat 1954-76 Source: Gavin Gibbons, for FSR also Wolverhampton Express & Star Type: A
Location. Near Logroño Spain Date: July 29 1988 Time: 03:00 a.m.
After a night of traveling the main witness had stopped at a truck stop to rest, there was only one other vehicle there, a French owned truck. Later a strong light and a humming sound woke him up. He looked out and the light dimmed. The French truck driver came over to his vehicle and pointed at a strange dark object on the ground from where the light had originally shone. They both walked toward the object but were prevented from getting any closer by a strange invisible barrier that felt like some type of gelatinous substance. Suddenly one side of the object became illuminated and two huge figures became visible next to the object. These were almost 3 meters tall and almost as wide. Both were identical to each other, robot-like and metallic green in color. They moved slowly sideways and in unison, a low humming sound could be heard. No other features were noted. The figures suddenly disappeared behind the dark object. The object then became luminous, lifted up and left the area at high speed.
HC addition # 642 Source: J. J. Benitez, La Quinta Columna (The Fifth Column) Type: C
Location.Palhano, Ceara, Brazil Date: March 5 1992 Time: 1830 Military police officer Luis Ribeiro de Oliveira and his friend Pedro Rodrigues da Silva had gone hunting for wild duck in an isolated area when in the Rio Palhano area both men observed what appeared to be a “star” descending at high speed towards the earth. Suddenly a bright light enveloped both men and Pedro ran and hid behind some nearby bushes. Luis ran towards town with the light chasing him close behind. He could see that the light now resembled a luminous wheel-shaped object the size of a bus. Soon he felt as he was being sucked up into the object. At the same time Pedro watched in terror as he saw Luis being taken up into the light. Pedro saw Luis enter the round light and it suddenly vanished in plain sight. Terrified, Pedro armed himself with a shotgun and searched the area but was unable to find Luis. Pedro then ran towards town and entered a local bar telling everyone present what had just happened. But later on Luis suddenly appeared in town and related to Pedro a weird story. He remembers running and his legs suddenly becoming numb. He then came to hearing strange foreign sounding voices, looking up; he saw five strange beings standing in front of him. Frightened he asked the beings what was going on, he received the following answer, “Don’t be afraid, we won’t harm you, we are Catadorians from Catandorius Decnius. Our civilization originated from another higher civilization that lived on the earth 353,000 years ago.” They pointed to a small pyramid shaped object and told Luis that it was a model of their “temple.” The aliens told Luis that they were here on Earth looking for remnants and descendants of that lost civilization that they claimed lived in underground caves and tunnels worldwide. Luis was then placed inside what appeared to be a gas-filled sphere in the center of the room. He saw in front of him a panel with multicolored lights and heard what appeared to be radio transmissions. Around him stood five humanoids about 1.50 meters in height that spoke in a strange language. However their apparent leader communicated with the witness telepathically in perfect Portuguese. Soon the leader returned to speak with the other aliens and Luis lost consciousness. When he woke up he found himself in the same place where the UFO had originally picked him up. Feeling a little dizzy he searched for Pedro and his shotgun and then walked back to town. Luis described the humanoids as short with gray skin, with black eyes lacking any pupils or eyelashes, large heads, wide shoulders, wearing tight fitting clothing with boots and gloves. Their heads and bodies were completely hairless. Their speech was measured and their breathing was heavy and labored. Every time their leader spoke to the others Luis felt a sharp pain in the head. All the humanoids were identical to each other; he could not find any difference among them.
HC addition # 2394 Source: UBPDV 1992, Painel Ovni
Location. NE of Cuba Date: March 1967 Time: daytime The 6947th Security squadron’s mission was to monitor all Cuban Air Force communications and radar transmissions. One hundred of the squadron’s men were assigned to Detachment “A” located at Key West Naval Air Station. This forward base against attack from Cuba was on Boca Chica Key, a tropical island in the Florida Keys, east of Key West and about 97 miles from the nearest Cuban coastline. Several of these units were scattered geographically to enable direction-finding equipment to locate fixed or mobile land-based radar sites and communications centers and to plot aircraft movements from flight transmissions. One day in March 1967, the Spanish-speaking intercept operators of Detachment “A” heard Cuban air defense radar controllers report an unidentified “bogey” approaching Cuba from the northeast. The UFO entered Cuban air space at a height of about 10,000 meters and sped off at nearly Mach 1 (nearly 660mph). Two Cuban Mig-21 jet fighters were scrambled to meet it. The jets were guided to within five km of the UFO by Cuban ground control intercept radar personnel. The flight leader radioed that the object was a bright metallic sphere with no visible markings or appendages. When a try at radio contact failed, Cuban air defense headquarters ordered the flight leader to arm his weapons and destroy the object. The leader reported his radar was locked onto the bogey and his missiles were armed. Seconds later, the wingman screamed to the ground controller that his leader’s jet had exploded. When he gained his composure, the wingman radioed there was no smoke or flame that his leader’s Mig-21 had disintegrated. Cuban radar then reported the UFO quickly accelerated and climbed above 30,000 meters. At last report, it was heading south-southeast towards South America. Intelligence Spot Report was sent to NSA headquarters.
HC addendum Source: Barry Greenwood & Lawrence Fawcett http://www.nicap.dabsol.co.uk/cuban1.htm Type: X And this from a recent Mufon posting: It was late March of 1967. I was in the army at that time, and assigned to an air defense center in Key West, Florida. I spent many of my nights in a radar control center watching the various screens. My second cousin was also in the scope dope business. He was in the Air Force at the time and worked in a radar station in Homestead, Florida, just outside Miami. We spent many an evening conversing on the air defense net, although our conversations rarely had anything to do with air defense.
My cousin called me one night on the net and advised me that something unbelievable was happening in South Florida. He opened the net so I could monitor the traffic regarding the incident taking place. I pulled my headset to my ears as I listed to various NORAD stations tracking a UFO just of the coast of Miami. At the time, Homestead was a SAC base, and any such traffic was a great concern to the Air Force.
Although I was about 100 miles from the target under discussion, I had the capability to observed activity in the area with my own radar. I had only to take it off standby. As I was bringing up my antenna, the chatter continued, and referred to three more objects in the sky near Miami. It was also noted that civilian observers had now sighted the objects and the sighting was being reported on local commercial radio.
As my scope came up the first thing I noticed was three Marine fighters departing Boca Chica Naval Air Station, heading North. The UFOs were clearly visible just Southeast of Miami. They appeared to be moving just East of North, skirting the Florida Coast. They then turned sharply West, crossing the keys near Everglades National Park on the south tip of the Florida mainland. It only took the Phantoms a few minutes to reach the area of the bogies. I have no idea if the pilots sighted the targets visually, or electronically. The air channel was not part of the NORAD net.
As the phantoms approached the targets they disappeared off the scope. Now there is only one way to disappear when being observed by a PAR (pulse acquisition radar). You must go straight up, or straight down.
This cat and mouse game went on all night. Much to much to type in this report. Visual observations in Miami reportedly included the observation of one large object and three small. This I can not verify, although I imagine the Miami Herald would have some record of it. To me, they appeared to be flying a search pattern. The way the Coast Guard would search in grids.
After about four hours one of the unknowns began moving South directly towards my location. The target was really moving, probably twice the speed of anything I had ever tracked, around 1100 miles an hour. This would provide me with an excellent opportunity to lock onto the target with a different type of radar. This other type of radar, which I probably should not identify, has the capability of bringing back actual sounds of the target . Turbo prop, jet engines, or the thud of rotary aircraft could clearly be heard with this system.
As the target approached it decelerated but was still super sonic. I brought the targeting radar into alignment with it and brought the unit on line. For a short moment, a very short moment, I could hear a high pitched whine, similar to a jet engine, but smoother and much higher pitch. At this point the target obviously detected my lock and hit my sight with some type of Electronic Counter Measure. It appeared to reverse the polarity of every piece of equipment on the sight, although I was never able to verify that. Needless to say this caused an instant shut down of the system and erased a great many taxpayer dollars.
As I was exiting the control center the launch crew stated that they had seen the object pass over. It was moving so fast that one of the guys swore it was a meteorite, but was flying level.
When last seen the object was headed South towards Cuba.
It was many years later that I read newspaper articles about a two week flap in the Miami area. I would also later learn
Location. Huyton Merseyside England Date: early January 1977 Time: evening Mrs. Barbara Street was at her home address in St. Gabriel’s Avenue one evening and asked her son, Stephen (11) to empty the rubbish into the waste bin at the back of the house. He returned, a short time later, very agitated, and told her that he had seen a large head looking at him. She naturally thought he must have been mistaken and tried to calm him down, but he was insistent, so she decided to have a look for herself. She walked into the back garden and was shocked to see a pair of legs at the bottom of the garden, which belonged to a tall, well built, ‘figure’ over nine feet tall, dressed in a white suit, with a kind of visor covering its face. She shouted, “Get out of my garden”, it had no effect. It just stood there, looking at her. She made her way back into the house, now feeling frightened and told her son what she had seen. There was a knock on the door. It was Jenny—one of her neighbors. She asked her, “What’s the matter? You look like you’ve seen a ghost”. She explained what had happened. Jenny went over to the window and looked out. After confirming she could also see it, she picked up a brush and opened the door, brandishing it at the ‘figure’ in a threatening motion. There was no effect—it just stood there. Jenny rushed back into the house, locked the door and stood with the others, discussing what to do, when Don, a friend from up the road called. They all told him what had happened. He suggested it must be someone playing a practical joke, and picked up a knife from the kitchen and went outside, but returned almost immediately, very frightened, exclaiming “It isn’t human”. Someone then called the police. While this was happening, Barbara went upstairs with Don and looked out. The ‘figure’ seemed to be studying something on the ground. Don shouted, and it turned and pointed something at them. She felt calmness, as if tranquilized in some way. A short time later, two police officers arrived. They explained the situation to them. They went to the window and confirmed they could see the ‘figure’. When they approached it, it just faded away in front of their eyes. Barbara asked them what they were going to about the matter. They told her, ‘nothing, as nobody would believe us’, but promised to return the following morning, in daylight which they did, but found nothing of any significance, and advised Barbara in a friendly manner to forget about what happened. Researcher Brian Fishwicke had occasion to speak further to Mrs. Street after she had telephoned him, wishing to speak about a visit made to the house, two days earlier, on the 12th of February 1979. She told him that just before 1930 she received a visit from a couple—Mr. Robert Dobson and his wife, Betty—who asked her about the giant figure she had seen. After telling them what happened, Mr. Dobson told her he had been working with the ‘aliens’ and had been taken inside a UFO and that “he had been brought back from the dead, five times, and they had cured his wife.” At this point, Mrs. Street noticed the kitchen lights were flashing on and off, which attracted a comment made by Mr. Dobson, who said, “The aliens are watching you and, if you continue telling people about your sighting, something would happen to you or your son may be abducted.” By now the lights in the lounge were also flickering, heightening the atmosphere in the house. Dobson then repeated his threats, including a verbal attack on the UFO researchers, stating something would happen to them as well. After they left, the lights went back to normal and a clock, which had stopped when the couple arrived, began to work once again.
HC addition # 396 Source: Janet & Colin Bord, Modern Mysteries of Britain and Brian Fishwicke Type: E
Location. Tbilissi Georgia (USSR) Date: February 1978 Time: late night
Militia captain, Avtandil Bukhrashvili woke up with a terrible toothache; looking out the window he saw the flight of a huge luminous object that disappeared behind the mountains. Astonished, he ran out into his verandah and suddenly saw two enormous “black birds”, descending overhead, they appeared not to have any wings. Soon the so-called birds gradually descended and landed on the verandah. The two “birds” proved to me two humanoids, of which one was over two meters in height, the other somewhat shorter. Both wore dark tight-fitting suits and helmets. The helmets had one ball-protrusion on each side. In the region of the eyes and nose was an aperture through which were visible large frog-like eyes without eyelashes. There were other apertures on the breast area. Conversation was conducted telepathically and in “refined” Georgian language. They proposed to the witness to go with them, but he politely refused telling them that he had a bad heart. One of the humanoids then produced a tablet and insisted that the witness swallowed it, at first he refused but when the humanoid insisted he swallowed it. Moments later the witness heard a peeping sound and immediately both humanoids took off vertically upward emitting a smooth hissing sound. These flew away in the direction of the mountains, where apparently the luminous object he had seen previously had landed. His next memory was of waking up in bed not knowing how he got there.
New Info and Interview surfaces regarding the famous The 1988 U.S. Coast Guard Encounter with the Lake Erie UFO’s!
This is actually a pretty famous UFO case.
“The 1988 U.S. Coast Guard Encounter with a UFO is one of the top 12 Government Documents That Take UFOs Seriously” – Richard Dolan
Coast Guard personnel responding to citizen reports of unusual aerial activity over Lake Erie on March 4, 1988, witnessed classic UFOs near Eastlake, OH. Sheila and Henry Baker were driving home with their three children about 8:35 P.M., after taking them out to dinner, and were almost home. As they neared the waterfront, Sheila noticed something hovering over the lake; they drove down to the beach to investigate and got out of the car. The moon was bright, and there was ice on the lake; Sheila could hear it cracking like claps of thunder.
Plainly visible was a huge, gunmetal gray, football-shaped, silent object rocking back and forth, blinding white light emanating from both ends. Then the object began moving, swinging one end toward the shore and descending. The Bakers became frightened, ran back to their car, and fled. When they got home, the object was still visible from a window facing the lake. Sheila hid the children in a closet, fearing that the thing might come and get them.
The object moved out over the ice and continued to descend, with red and blue lights now flashing in sequence along its lower edge. Sheila called the Eastlake police to report a UFO, and after several referrals, with no one expressing much interest, was told that unusual activity over the lake would be the responsibility of the Coast Guard. Suddenly five or six bright yellow triangular objects shot out of the center of the large object and began darting around independently (satellite objects). Once they stopped and hovered point up around the parent object, then sped away to the north, turned east, then inland toward the Perry nuclear power plant.
At this point Sheila called the Coast Guard, which sent a team to their house to investigate. Seaman James Power and Petty Officer John Knaub arrived towing a Boston Whaler (a seaworthy boat) just in case. They told the Bakers that they had seen some lights over the lake from Fairport Harbor and thought they were flares, maybe fishermen trapped out on the ice. However, when Sheila pointed to the main craft and some of the triangular objects still zipping around it, the men drove closer to the lake to investigate, accompanied by the Bakers. At the lakefront they could hear the ice rumbling and roaring.
In their incident report sent later by teletype to Coast Guard headquarters in Detroit, MI, the men were quoted as saying that “the ice was cracking and moving abnormal amounts as the object came closer to it.”
Power and Knaub gave a running report on what they were seeing to their base via the two-way radio in their Chevy Suburban. The window was down, and the Bakers overheard them saying words to the effect: “Be advised the object appears to be landing on the lake . . .
There are other objects moving around it. Be advised these smaller objects are going at high rates of speed. There are no engine noises and they are very, very low.”
Abruptly one of the triangles zoomed straight toward the Coast Guard vehicle, a blur of light, then veered east, straight up, and came down beside the parent object. Two witnesses in separate locations also reported seeing the triangles. Cindy Hale was walking her dog when she noticed a triangular object hovering overhead, and her dog began to whine and cower (animal reactions). She took the dog indoors and came back out to watch. The triangle flashed a series of multicolored lights, then accelerated and was gone without making a sound (hover-acceleration).
Tim Keck was using his astronomical telescope when one of the triangles caught his eye. He had a cheap throwaway camera with him and snapped a picture of the object before it flew away over the horizon. The photograph was analyzed by optical physicist Bruce Maccabee, who considered it to be a legitimate.
Here is the actual Coast Guard UFO Report…
I want to bring the reader to the attention of a testimony from a witness of the ’1988 Coast Guard Lake Erie Sighting’, Sheila Baker. She is mentioned in the article above, but there is a longer, quite rare interview with her as well that I think we need to take a look at, because it’s so typical for those ‘Lake Erie Sightings’. The interview was done by Richard P. Dell’Aquila and Dale B. Wedge. Unfortunately, this interview is not very known in the mainstream media and in the UFO community, although it’s such a famous case, so I think it’s a wonderful opportunity to include it here. These two witnesses, I believe stick holes in all the official denials and unrealistic explanations to the 1988 incident.[4]
“On March 26, 1988, two civilian witnesses to the Eastlake UFOs (W1 and her husband W2) who were on the beach with the Coast Guard March 4, 1988 were interviewed. The following is a partial transcript of that interview, conducted by Dale Wedge (DW) and Rick Dell’Aquila (RD). Several other witnesses have also been interviewed and photographic evidence has been obtained. To date, however , the Coast Guard has refused further information or interviews of its personnel concerning the UFO sighting that night near the CEI electric power plant. The investigation continues.
RD …Please tell us what happened in your own words.
W1 We were coming home (on March 4, 1988) and I saw something over the lake…and it wasn’t moving and I had my husband go down the street and I said, “Go down to the beach because I’m telling you there is something out there.” He kept laughing at me. I said I was serious and we went down there. We got out of the car and walked to the beach. I had left the kids in the car and you could see it. It looked almost like the shape of a blimp and had lights on both sides. One end was brighter and the other end was a little bit dimmer, but one end flashed. It wasn’t a constant light that was on. It seemed to rock a little bit–you could just see it rocking back and forth. It hovered and didn’t make any noise. The ice was cracking really bad and the ice down here doesn’t crack like that. It was making like–it was rumbling and cracking it was real, real loud. There were no animals barking or nothing. Around here we have a lot of dogs and that was surprising because you always hear the dogs out. There were no animals–just the real loud noise out of the lake. We were standing on the beach and my husband and I were looking at this thing. It started to turn and I thought–you know how you get really eerie feelings? I said to myself there i s something up there. You could see it was a ship or something because you could see there was a gray line like a football kind of thing in the middle, but you couldn’t really see it. You could just see it was there. Do you understand what I’m saying?
RD We are going to ask you to draw a sketch in a while.
W1 You could see the whole thing, but not real well. You could see there was a middle to it. We stayed and we watched it for a while…(interview interrupted by phone call).
DW Okay, we are back on. We had a phone call interruption.
W1 …Okay, we sat down at the beach and while we were watching this I had the kids in the car and I was getting kind of “weirded-out” you know, because you hear about these things, but you never really believe it until you see them. It started to turn toward us. It was coming in closer to land and beacuse my kids were in the car, I didn’t want to stay down at the beach, because you never know what’s going to happen or if it was going to come down to get us or whatever.
RD In other words, you were concerned for your safety?
W1 Yeah, because it was coming closer to us. You could see…it seemed like it knew we were there. We were the only ones down there at the time and I was getting really nervous. I told my husband, “You know, we’ve got two kids in the car. Let’s get them home and safe so we don’t have to worry about anything.” He said okay, so we got the kids back to the house and I put them in their room and I locked the door because I had a real eerie feeling, you know after we left there. We were down there a while looking at it and we came home to watch it from our living room.
RD When you say “we”–who else was there with you?
W1 My husband and my kids. So I was looking at it from here and I said to my husband, “Well, maybe I’m nuts, I don’t know, but let’s call Sue,” who lives across the street, “and see if she sees the same thing that we do.” So I did, I called he r and her and her son went outside and they saw the same thing and we kept hearing this noise at the lake and that really scared us because, like I said, the lake doesn’t make noises like that. We watched it most of the evening and when it started to come down, we all got real curious and we all went back down. Sue drove down to the beach and she saw it with her son and her husband thinks she’s totally “cracked-up.” (Laughter.) But they all did. Everybody thinks, you know, we didn’t see what we did. So now we get down there and the thing’s starting to land. You co uld see like red and blue lights and they said they were planets and gasses and nonsense like that, but they were actual lights starting to flutter. But before this, while it was still in the sky, there were like little triangle “planes”, about, there were, we counted about five–we weren’t sure if there were five or six, but we counted five of them that were running back and forth. They were going up and down, like hovering. They didn’t make any noise, but they were going REALLY fast across the sky and by this time the Coast Guard was down there. I had called the Coast Guard, I would say at least twelve times and they kept telling me, “Well, your crazy and nothing’s wrong…(Phone call interruption).
DW Pause for phone call.
DW Okay, we’re back on.
W1 So now what had happened was these planes were like, looked like they had come out of it, because they came out of nowhere. We saw them come out…I don’t know if it was on the side or on the front of it, but you could tell they ca me out of it because they were real little. They looked like little yellow triangles. They were real bright and went super, super fast.
They went up and down like this, instead of, you know how a plane goes this way? Well, they were going up and down and like diagonally at it and they were hovering around it and then they started shooting out toward the lake and this time the Coast Guard saw all this because that’s when they sent their people out when these little planes started appearing. And w hen they g ot down here, they saw these things and they were coming real close to the coastline. That’s when these kids were getting scared.
RD When you say “kids,” do you mean Coast Guard personnel?
W1 Yeah, they were young boys. They were real scared and we got REALLY scared because we were right down on the beach there and we figured the coastline that would be it. We were afraid they would attack their truck, because their truck had lights on it. So w e told them, “Turn off your lights.” Because the more they kept coming closer and closer to the lights of the truck, because the truck was parked on the hill. There’s like a little hill over there. They could see the lights, because they seemed to be coming at the lights. And so we had them shut their lights off because we were scared. You never know what was going to go on. We didn’t know what was in these ships or planes or whatever they were because we couldn’t tell, but I’ve never seen a yellow triangle fly around the sky.
RD It was yellow?
W1 Yeah. Bright, REAL BRIGHT. It looked like a light. That’s what it looked like. It looked like a bright light. You know how a car light you’d have? It looked just like that, but it glowed. It was yellow.
RD Was there any portion of it that was brighter than any other portion of it?
W1 No. It was all real bright.
RD Just one solid, bright light?
W1 Yeah, little bright triangles. You know like the little glider models you get for your kids? There in triangles. You make paper airplanes…Like that shape? That’s exactly what they were, and they were solid. They weren’t…it didn’t have wings or anything else.
RD Was it even-sided? All three sides of equal length?
W1 No, no, it was more pointed like that (gesturing).
RD Okay.
W1 It was exactly like that (forming triangle with her fingers). The front was more pointy. How’s that? I flunked geometry by the way.
RD Okay.
W1 But it was more pointy, almost like the tip of an arrow.
RD Okay, so i n other words, the two sides were longer…
W1 Were longer than the base…I was wondering why you were laughing at me.
RD We’re not laughing at you.
DW No. We’re not.
(Wedge and Dell’Aquila had reacted to the fact that the triangular objects described by W1 were identical to those described by other independent witnesses that night and identical to the bright yellow triangular object one witness photographed.)
W1 Okay. They were all solid bright light. There was no part of it that was darker than others. We saw it real close down at the shoreline. But when they started coming at this thing and they went back into it, too, we thought maybe it disappeared over the lake. Well, here they had gone, shooting out over the lake and coming, then all of a sudden we saw them about an hour later, coming back REALLY fast, and they came right into that ship.
RD Did you see anything open up on the ship, a door or anything like that?
W1 No, but they went right into it because they went rig ht between the lights, so it had to be an opening on the side of it, because they went right into it. They came up and then they went right into it.
RD Were you able to observe which direction they left.
W1 They went out that way, toward Canada…they went east too, this way. But none of them went that way, toward Cleveland. They all went this way.
RD Did any of them go south or southeast?
W1 No. They stayed over the lake…they went east and north toward Canada, and that’s where basically they stayed. When you saw them shooting out, it was just almost right over land and we had seen them come out and said to my husband,” What in the world is that?” He was just laughing. He said, “You’re just…” and he got, you know, he goes, “Yeah, sure, I’m going to tell my mother we were sitting home watching UFOs tonight.” But, that’s what happened. They were there and then we saw them like I said, about an hour later, come back in the same direction they came in, and they all went right back into the thing, one at a time, too. It wasn’t like they all swooped down on it and went back into it. They went back in it one at a time, and then the ship seemed to land in the lake. It was about maybe an hour difference, an hour lapse. The ship started setting down on Lake Erie. That’s when all these colored lights started coming on when it sat down. You could see the lights as it sat down on the lake, because it was all ice. As soon as it landed, about five minutes later after it landed, you coul d still see it, the red and the yellow lights and the blue lights, running around the bottom on the lake, because it was a clear night, it was beautiful. Then as soon as all the lights went out on it, the lake stopped cracking. Everything got dead silent. There wasn’t animals–nothing. Everything got totally quiet. That was it.
DW Can you give us a time, approximate time?
RD When did you first see it?
W1 About six. I think it was about six. My husband said it was later but I don’t think so, because it was just getting dark.
DW It doesn’t get dark until about 6:30
W1 Okay, then maybe it was a little later, about 6:30 or 7:00 P.M. It wasn’t exactly dark, but it wasn’t light out. It was like dusk, almost, where it’s just starting to get dark.
RD When did you last observe it?
W1 I’d say about 11:30 P.M.
RD You were down there for 4-1/2 to 5 hours?
W1 No. We came back up to the house and watched it. When it started to set, we went back down.
RD I see. At the same time, were you able to observe any of the objects in the sky that you would recognize?
W1 Oh, yeah, absolutely because we were there, we kept looking at them and looking at them to see, you know, we were curious. Even from the house, when it started moving in-land, you could see, you know, what it was if you looked real close.
RD Where was the moon for example?
W1 The moon?
RD Yeah. Was it out?
W1 Yeah, the re were moon, the stars were beautiful. All the stars were out.
RD Was it a clear night?
W1 Yeah. it was real clear.
RD Did you notice where the planets were?
W1 The planets that they told me this was?
RD Well, the planets.
W1 I didn’t really…we weren’t looking for the planets, but they would have been behind it, and farther off.
RD Is there any question in your mind that what you were looking at was something that you should have recognized, like the planets or…?
New Info and Interview surfaces regarding the famous The 1988 U.S. Coast Guard Encounter with the Lake Erie UFO’s!
W1 No. It was definitely a ship, because y ou could see that there was a center of it. You could also see planes coming out of it, or little vehicles or whatever they are that came out of it and we saw them go back in it. We were almost right directly underneath it…The more we stayed down at the beach, it was turning toward us to come toward us and I got scared, thinking well, maybe someone would come out or get us or something will happen…If we could see it, I knew it could see us, because we were right out in the open on flat land looking at it…
The interview continued for several more minutes and W1 drew some sketches.
W1 (Drawing) The (light) on the left hand side of the object blinked constantly.
RD Was there a regular pattern to the blinking?
W1 It was almost like if you looked out the lake, you know how they have those (lights) when you come in from the lake? Almost like that. (Phone interruption)
DW We are going to pause for another phone call.
RD What color was the object between the lights?
W1 …gunmetal gray .
RD Did it seem solid?
W1 Yes.
RD Did it seem to have a three-dimensional shape?
W1 You could tell it was almost rounded. It was like a football…It was all the same color and you could definitely see the outline of it. We were standing SO close, that you could see the outline. It was totally dark in the center of it and at the top, but you could tell the difference between the sky and the shape.
RD Did it seem to have hard edges or fuzzy edges?
W1 No, they were very clear edges…
The interview continued and W1′s husband (W2) arrived home.
W2 …Boy, I’ll tell you you ought to see this thing, I watched this thing down at the beach with the Coast Guard guys. It was the strangest thing I’ve ever seen in my life. It had these guys running, they were so scared. It was strange. As it got lower to the water, all these little, what we thought were jets, came and hovered right above this thing. We assumed they were those Harrier jets that can just hover. When they got closer, these jets came about forty or fifty feet above the ice and they were going back and forth across the lake unbelievably fast. They were covering a fifty mile stretch, like that (Snapping his fingers).
RD What shape were they?
W2 We thought that they looked like little jets. That’s what we assumed. Then when they got closer, they were so little, they were smaller than a one-seated Cessna. They didn’t make any noise.
DW What about shape?
W2 We couldn’t tell. All I could see was lights. I could tell you that it looked like a triangle. That’s what it looked like. It just looked like a plain triangle. We couldn’t tell a tail fin or anything like that. It looked like a triangle because it was lights down the wings and on the tip of it.
RD You mean at the top of the triangle there was a light?
W2 Yeah. There was a light.
W1 Now see, I didn’t see that. I saw just a plain light.
DW Do you know what color it was?
W2 One was white and one was bright white…you could tell they were definitely connected, because if the nose dropped, the tail went up exactly. But anyhow, when the thing got closer to the water, the one bright light started twirling like all different colors: red, green, blue, yellow, and then it just sunk into the water and one end was white and one end was red. Then it just sat in the water for about a half hour and then it was gone. While it was sitting on the ice, those planes were hovering above it. You could see that they were flashing lights down on it. It was like five jets within maybe a quarter mile area of each other, and all of a sudden they were just gone. They just went up in the air and out, just out.
RD About what time did they leave like that?
W2 9:30 or a quarter to ten…
DW Did you talk with the Coast Guard guys?
W2 Yeah, we sat and talked to them for a half hour. We watched the thing for an hour.
DW What were they saying?
W2 They couldn’t believe it . They said they never saw nothing like it in the world. The guy said he’s been in the service for years and he said he knows that a Harrier jet can’t take off and fly that fast from a start. This thing got up so high in the air and was gone so fast, it was seconds and it was gone out of view. The night was so clear that we could see for miles and miles and miles…These two guys were so scared. They thought, first our assumption was it was a satellite, maybe from Canada, that went bad and it was coming down over the lake. They told me that they believed it was Canadian air maneuvers. But then when they saw these planes, they came about five miles off shore and they were going about fifty feet above the ice. You could just see the ice and stuff rippling behind them. They got nervous because they didn’t want their truck to be seen…they were afraid maybe a missile would be shot at them or something.
RD Is there any confusion in your mind that it was maybe the moon or the stars…?
W2 No. No, not the first night. The second night it was much, much much higher in the air. Miles and miles. But the second night, it appeared at the same time and dropped down in the lake at the same time…But the first night, no way. We went and saw that thing. That thing was no more than three miles in the air.
RD You’re aware that the newspaper accounts are that it was the planets?
W2 Planets, right. No that’s BULL****, because I went and stood out on the lake and looked up at them and I saw the thing moving. You could see it pivo ting like this (gesturing in a rocking motion like a teeter-totter). When it got way out over the lake, that thing just started spinning around, it was all different kinds of lights…The interview continued and more sketches were made by W1. In being asked to draw the small objects, she drew a triangle.
RD When it landed on the ice, did it seem like it went under the surface of the water, or did it rest on the ice for a period of time.
W1 I don’t know. Sue saw it too from her back yard. You could see it sit down though. It didn’t look like it sunk. We went down the next day to see if we could see anything. All you could see was ice broken everywhere. Huge, huge chunks of ice…
DW Which Coast Guard Station?
W2 & W1 Fairport Harbor.
DW Did they come up, did they drive up? That’s quite a way down isn’t it?
W2 They drove this way. They said they could see the lights from their Coast Guard station.
W1 Right. They were watching it and observing it from the Coast Guard station itself and didn’t know what to make out of the little lights.
DW Did they tell you why they decided to come up here?
W2 Yeah, because they got so many calls that they wanted to come and investigate it. They had even called us back a few times that night.
W1 They said it was totally out of their league. They didn’t know what it was or what it could be. They didn’t want to speculate. They also said to us, even on the next day, that the Army and I guess, NASA did not want them to investigate any further. They did not want them to go out on the ice, because they have a cutter. They could have gone out to see where it landed, because their men made a report too. Somewhere along the line…and they could not get an answer from NASA, they couldn’t get an answer from anybody. And they were told NOT to do anything about it, that it was out of their league, it was
RD They were told it was out of their league?
W1 Uh- huh.
RD That’s a quote?
W1 Yes. It was ou t of their league and out of their hands. That’s exactly what they told us. I talked to…a person in command there and he got on the phone with me and that’s exactly what he told me also. That they had to forward all their information to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and a place in Detroit, which I don’t know where in Detroit they were going to send something, but they said the were NOT ALLOWED to investigate it any further, that that’s what they we re told and to stay out of it…I wrote down their names because I was so upset that they called the police on me.
DW Did they ever tell you not to talk about it?
W1 They told me that it was just more or less, that it was out of their league and no one would, more or less, believe me and I think that’s what they were getting at when they talked to me…I mean, they sent the police to my house, and that was more a harassment than anything else. You could tell they didn’t want to talk about it either, because I called them back the next day and they were real snotty to me on the phone.
Investigation forms were then completed, and the photograph taken on the same night in a location several miles to the southeast was shown to the witnesses. They confirmed that the triangular object shown in the photograph was identical to the triangular objects they had observed on the same night. Clearly, these witnesses, the Coast Guard, other independent witnesses who have been interviewed, and the photographic evidence all confirm that the Venus/Jupiter hypothesis offered by the skeptical “experts” as the ultimate solution to this case has no merit or validity. The responses of these experts are invited.
Rick Dell’Aquila and Dale Wedge”[5]
Shortly after this interview was done, Rick Dell’Aquila posted an update to the 1988 incident:
“UPDATE TO N.E. OHIO UFO FLAP: On Saturday, April 2, 1988 at about 3:15 P.M., Eastern Time
Flat black helicopter was reported to fly at tree-top level over the N.E. Ohio home of one of the witnesses whose prior sighting has been filed with MUFON by Dale B. Wedge an d Rick Dell’Aquila, and recounted on Paranet (see LAKERIEn.UFO). The helicopter was observed by at t 5 individuals from three separate residences in the neighborhood, and was in sight for 2-3 minutes. The unmarked and unlit helicr had a military appearance as it approached slowly from the west, making a loud sound peculiarly similar to that made by a small airplane rather than a helicopter. The apparently windowless craft was observed to fly eastward, before turning to the south and disappearing over the line of trees. It apparently caused “snow” on a television screen. The investigation of the continuing series of UFO events in this area continues and updates will be provided to MUFON and Paranet as they become available. –Rick Dell’Aquila”
Update - Sensational Mass UFO Sighting Over Lake Erie With Multiple UFO’s & Multiple Witnesses!
Monthly Statistical MUFON Report - for February 2014:
Monthly Statistical MUFON Report - for February 2014:
CMS continues to amass sighting reports from around the globe. In February 2014 there were 514 sightings reported to MUFON through CMS from the following countries;
Country
Number of Reports
UNITED STATES
432
CANADA
29
UNITED KINGDOM
15
AUSTRALIA
5
PUERTO RICO
3
BRAZIL
3
SPAIN
3
KENYA
2
MEXICO
2
INDIA
2
ARGENTINA
2
POLAND
1
GREECE
1
GERMANY
1
LUXEMBOURG
1
COLOMBIA
1
BAHAMAS
1
AMERICAN SAMOA
1
VENEZUELA
1
ROMANIA
1
SWEDEN
1
FRANCE
1
GUAM
1
SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO
1
BULGARIA
1
TOTAL:
512
Within the United States the distribution by State was as follows;
State
Number of Reports
California
59
Florida
39
Texas
29
New York
26
Arizona
21
Pennsylvania
17
Michigan
16
Washington
16
Georgia
15
New Jersey
13
North Carolina
12
Ohio
11
Illinois
11
Oregon
10
Virginia
8
Minnesota
8
Missouri
8
Nevada
7
Mississippi
7
Oklahoma
6
Indiana
6
South Carolina
6
Alabama
5
Tennessee
5
New Hampshire
5
Iowa
5
New Mexico
5
Louisiana
4
Maine
4
Maryland
4
Massachusetts
4
Connecticut
4
Kansas
4
Kentucky
4
Alaska
3
Arkansas
3
Colorado
3
West Virginia
3
Hawaii
2
Nebraska
2
Idaho
2
Utah
2
Rhode Island
2
South Dakota
2
Montana
1
North Dakota
1
Vermont
1
Wisconsin
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 (once logged in) and click on "ADD CASE" in the upper right hand corner of the screen. This gives you a blank sighting reporting form that you can fill out while the witness is on the phone. Once the report is filled out be sure to click "SAVE" and you will have easily added your NEW report to CMS.
Other interesting data points in CMS during February 2014 are the shape of the UFOs reported which were as follows;
Shape of Object
Number of Reports
Sphere
91
Other
60
Circle
59
Disc
52
Unknown
51
Star-like
46
Triangle
45
Oval
31
Fireball
26
Cigar
14
N/A
10
Boomerang
9
Flash
8
Cylinder
8
Saturn-like
6
Egg
5
Bullet/Missile
5
Diamond
4
Teardrop
4
Blimp
3
Cone
2
Cross
2
as well as the distance from the observer;
Distance from Witness
Number of Reports
< 100 ft
82
101-500 ft
85
501 ft - 1 Mile
120
Over 1 Mile
120
Unknown
145
NO VALUE
12
Most impressively there were 21 Landings, Hovering, or Takeoffs reported and 1 Entities observed.
To review the CMS data yourself go to www.mufon.com and click on "UFO Case Files" to 1.) Easily look at the Last 20 Sightings, or 2.) Do a customized search of the CMS database by date and/or location, or 3.) Logon to CMS for even more detailed UFO sighting information about your State and the World.
I hope you are enjoying our new internet based Sighting and Reporting System. For questions regarding its use please refer to the User Guide available on your CMS main menu screen. Please send your questions and/or suggestions to Jan Harzan at janharzan@hotmail.com.
Call them alien greys or call them Nephilim, either way, they are one in the same! The fact of the matter is aliens exist and there is just far to much evidence to state otherwise. These beings have been watching us from the skies for years and every now and again we get a glimpse of these demonic forces.
The recent footage claims to be a video of Nephilim inside of a flying space craft! It’s a rare, unique find and it just might be enough to claim even the skeptics acceptance…but who knows!
Nearly three years later, one witness of several who saw a mysterious orb and flying disk in 2011 is still compelled to share what he learned from the encounter. He says the orb communicated information about flying saucer propulsion and how crop circles are formed, and left him with the feeling that it was important he share this information with scientist.
Chris Brown says, “I really want to try hard this next year getting our encounter out more.”
He feels that his sighting has not received enough attention. To give me a better idea of what he experienced, and an unbiased look into an investigation of it, he sent me a report from the Oregon chapter of the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON). The report was put together by field investigator Jason Ingraham and Assistant State Director Keith Rowell.
Location of the first sighting. The red star marks where Brown saw the UFO. (Credit: Keith Rowell)
According to the report, the encounters began on August 18, 2011 at approximately 9 pm in Sublimity, Oregon. Brown was getting ready to water his front yard when he saw a disk-shaped object in the sky off in the distance. The object had two rows of lights around its perimeter. The top row was yellow, and the bottom was blue. There were also red lights on the underside.
Wanting to get a better look, Brown dropped the hose and ran to the end of his street. He reported that the object slowly moved back and forth a few times before moving to the south and disappearing behind the trees and houses in the neighborhood.
Brown says he had an iPod Touch with him, but couldn’t figure out how to use the video function before the object was out of sight. A few minutes later an orb came from the area he had lost sight of the disk. It flew right over him and his neighborhood. Brown says the neighborhood dogs were barking at the object. Just past his neighbor’s home, the object stopped and then moved down and out of sight.
The MUFON investigators say that during an interview with a neighbor, they discovered there may have been other witnesses to this event. Brown’s neighbor, Britney (a pseudonym used by the investigators to maintain her anonymity) says she knew of a group of campers on a nearby mountain that night. One of them told her they had seen “an object with purplish colored lights around the perimeter and a red colored bottom zig-zagging back and forth before suddenly disappearing.”
This sighting had an emotional effect on Brown, because this was the first time he had seen a UFO, He had a mild interest before, but this event shocked him. However, his next encounter was even more dramatic.
A few days later, on Friday, August 26, Brown was outside watering the lawn with his nine year-old son just before midnight when they saw a streak of yellow light shoot across the sky from east to west. Then they heard a loud noise at the end of their block and the area lit up like lightning. They saidthe sound was like a fire-cracker, but the light lasted longer than just a flash.
Area of the second sighting. (Credit: Keith Rowell)
Brown and his son then noticed a basketball-sized orb floating in the middle of the street about ten feet away. It was about four feet off of the ground moving slowly in their direction.
The report gives this description of the orb:
The orb-shaped object was lime green, blue, and white around its perimeter. This glowing part was about beach ball sized. The clear glass-like center part was a smaller basketball size. Inside this clear spherical part was a brilliant red, tear-drop shape. This interior red part moved around with tremendous activity and energy (it seemed). Also, the glass-like spherical part appeared to be rotating backward around a horizontal axis as it floated along.
Years later, Brown is still excited about the event. He writes, “We could see the clear sphere and the red liquid in the middle!” Brown continued, “It went spinning by us so close I could have touched it! It would have melted my hand off and made me sick I’m sure!”
Brown made this rendition of the orb on Photoshop. (Credit: Chris Brown)
As it moved past them, it began to move closer to the ground until it hit the ground with a loud bang 20 feet away from Brown and his son. It had come to the ground at a manhole cover and disappeared leaving sparks. Once it was gone, there was no evidence it had been there at all.
At about that same time, Brown’s wife came out of the hou
se with a friend who had been visiting and was then leaving. Britney had also just come home. Brown and his son were still excited, and Britney had come over to see what the excitement was about. Meanwhile, Brown’s wife went back into the house after her friend drove off. As the three who were left were talking, another yellow streak shot across the night sky.
Drawing of the orb by Brown’s son. (Credit: Chris Brown)
Drawing of the streaking object made by neighbor.
Brown’s son said he also saw as dark object with four headlight-like yellow lights on its corners. In the middle of the object was a dark blue grate. Brown and Britney didn’t see this object.
Drawing and description of the last object seen by Brown’s son. (Credit: Chris Brown)
Brown told investigators that when the orb object was closest to him, he felt he was given some sort of knowledge. He said he was transfixed on the object as it passed, and he wondered how the thing operated. That information then came to him.
He felt that the information he received was also related to how other UFOs operated and how crop circles were made. He was also left with the feeling that it was important that he share this information with scientist.
Here is what he had to say about the technology:
The bubble of energy was pulling power from the power lines. When it was doing this the diamond in the middle reflected 2 times more light (or appeared to)? It was able to pull power off any power line. I think that’s how they all fly in formation and pull power off the same grid. They probably can all power off each other. After seeing this object I did some research of the videos that are online and have a theory how they can work with regards to crop circles as well.
Drawing of the orb with a description of the technology given to Brown. (Credit: Chris Brown)
Drawing describing the formation of crop circles. (Credit: Chris Brown)
The MUFON investigators checked the manhole cover where the orb disappeared for any unusual electromagnetic reading, but they found none. In fact, they admit all they had to go on was the testimony of the witnesses.
However, they did find the witnesses to be sincere and credible, and they did not believe the testimony to be a hoax.
Brown continues to try to share his story with as many people as he can. He says he just wants to “help educate everyone about ufo orbs” and their technology. He has recently created a Facebook page, where he plans to post more information, and is soliciting others to help share is new found knowledge, as he was compelled to do.
There are cell phone applications for just about everything. And there is no shortage of apps that enable users to add UFOs and aliens to photos. One of these photo apps, Camera360, was responsible for several hoaxed photos that made headlines in 2013.
Creating a UFO invasion with FxGuru. (Credit: Picadelic)
Mobile product company Picadelic released a new app titled FxGuru: Movie FX Director that enables users to addspecial effects to videos on their phones. The company describes that one of the app’s many features is the ability to “astound friends by filming a UFO invasion over your backyard.”
Although apps like this can be amusing, they also inevitably cause problems because there are always unscrupulous individuals trying to pass off these created photos and videos as legitimate evidence of UFOs and/or extraterrestrials. It is important for people to familiarize themselves with current technology, like these apps, so, hopefully, they will be better positioned to distinguish videos created with these apps from genuine videos that merit legitimate research.
Anew book written by retired U.S. Army Col. John Alexander, Ph.D., is bringing new attention to the phenomenon of unidentified flying objects over Northwest Florida.
In the mid-1980s and early 1990s, Pensacola and Gulf Breeze were thrust into the world’s consciousness after multiple sightings of alleged UFOs were reported in the nowdefunct ‘Gulf Breeze Sentinel.’
In his book ‘UFOs: Myths, Conspiracies and Realities,’ Alexander – a former Green Beret A-Team commander and developer of weapons at Los Alamos, N.M. – writes about an encounter that Marine Reserve Squadron Capt. Larry Jividen and his crew of five aboard a T- 39D Sabreliner combat trainer allegedly had with a UFO in the skies over Pensacola.
On Feb. 6, 1975, Jividen – a nine-year Marine Corps officer – and five Naval pilots took off for a two-hour training flight that began and ended at Pensacola Naval Air Station.
During the flight at approximately 9 p.m., Jividen spotted a solid red light in nearby airspace off the right nose of his aircraft.
Jividen and the other five crew members mutually described the UFO as a “solid, circular object about the relative size of a kid’s marble held at arm’s length,” Jividen recalled. In the following five minutes, the object appeared to respond to various moves from the flight path of the T-39D.
Eventually, Jividen said, the UFO flew away at a very high rate and disappeared southwestward over the horizon. The T- 39D returned to base at Pensacola NAS, and Jividen filed a report. Nothing else was ever said or written about the alleged incident until 2011 with Alexander’s book and a subsequent story written by the ‘Huffington Post’Web site.
Alexander is a private consultant and a Senior Fellow at the Joint Special OperationsUniversity. His previous books include ‘The Warrior’s Edge’ (1990); ‘FutureWar’ (1999); and the sequel ‘Winning the War’ (2003).
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