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 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...
11-07-2014
The Classic Warminster England UFO Encounter Tales
The Classic Warminster England UFO Encounter Tales
Warminster England May 30 1969 The witnesses were staying in a caravan on Cradle Hill and were looking out for any mysterious lights that might appear when suddenly they saw a crimson red oval shaped light passing over the area, it was completely silent. Later one of the witnesses noticed a luminous cloud-like humanoid figure standing by a nearby gate; it appeared to be covered entirely by tiny pinpricks of white light. No facial features could be seen.
Cradle Hill Warminster England: August 27 1969 11 people watching for UFOs saw on the ground something like a “burning bush” about 600 yards away, in the place called “Kidnappers Hole.” Christopher Trubridge and Robert Coates ran in that direction. The lights went out, but when near the spot Christopher saw in the moonlight, 100 ft away, a figure about 7 ft tall, dressed in a tight fitting shiny black suit, with a gold sash or “bandoleer” around the neck and shoulder. Long, dark gold hair fell to its shoulders and it had bright eyes, their color indeterminate in the lighting, and a “rather feminine” set of features in a not unattractive face. The figure was motionless, one arm upraised. The witnesses could not approach it nearer than about 30 yards. Overcome by fear, oddly mixed with an indescribable emotion, both men retreated hastily.
In a historic, precedent setting development, Jan Harzen, MUFON’s Executive Director, has posted an entire page of information on the Billy Meier UFO contact case, ongoing in Switzerland, since 1942, on MUFON’s official website.
Derived primarily from Wikipedia, the information is the first official public recognition of the Meier case from MUFON in over 30 years.
While the information from Wikipedia may vary in its accuracy and currency, MUFON will soon be putting up instructions on the page so that people who wish to pose questions and challenges to me about the Meier case can do so.
Additionally, Prof. Rhal Zahi has agreed to also answer questions of a technical nature, especially as they apply to his new analyses and protocols that prove the authenticity of both the WCUFO and the “Pendulum UFO”, and which contributes to the overall scientific and legal standards of proof of the Meier case.
This new, groundbreaking development creates an official platform for an alliance between all people who are seeking the truth about UFOs and the Billy Meier case in particular.
My sincere thanks to Jan Harzen for making this possible.
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A witness claims that his video shows UFOs landing in a forest in southern France.
The witness, who runs a “UFOs & Disclosure” YouTube channel, uploaded this video on July 5 with the sensational title, “Disturbing UFO activity! 3 UFOs landing in Forest, July 2014.” Three aerial objects are visible, floating above the treeline in the distance. One of the three UFOs illuminates with flashes of light. Then, shortly after, a fourth object to the right of the original three objects also displays flashes of light.
UFOs landing in a French forest. (Credit: WTFflow/YouTube)
The witness provided the following description with the video:
I filmed four UFOs over a forest in Dordogne, France. It was during a beautiful sunset. I looked between two houses to discover the nice sky, when I saw these objects. I had may Canon 700D in hands, hopefully I could record quickly! I think these objects were there since a long time. This is probably a landing. Indeed, the three objects seem to descend and get behind the trees…
I couldn’t know more about this event, this is a ghost village, only 50 inhabitants in the area. None of them was outside to witness these UFOs with me! I checked on Google map, and the forest in front of me is alone in the middle of huge lands. I don’t see how anyone else could have seen them too..
Type ➫ Dark round objects Scale ➫ House-sized Duration ➫ ~30 seconds Color(s) ➫ Black Light(s) ➫ Yes, two Speed ➫ Really slow Filmed with ➫ Canon 700D + 50mm F/1.8
It is unclear why the witness found this incident “disturbing,” especially considering that other videos allegedly filmed by him, like a “Massive UFO Flying Saucer” landing on Earth, and a “Huge UFO Patroller filmed Landing on Mountain,” are much more shocking.
French daily newspaper Sud Ouest reportedly attempted to contacted GEIPAN, a department of the French Space Agency that investigates unidentified aerospace phenomena, to get an opinion on the UFO video. But, apparently, GEIPAN could not be reached for comment.
News website The Local asserts that, so far, “scientists have been unable to come up with an explanation” for the aerial objects in the video.
But the behavior and appearance of these objects is consistent with that of hot air balloons. Although some have commented that hot air balloons “don’t land in the forest,” it is impossible to determine the exact landing location from the witness’s vantage point. And, hot air balloons are actually a common tourist activity in that area of France.
A hot air balloon over southern France. (Credit: France Montgolfières Balloon Company)
The France Montgolfières Balloon Company operates flights all across the country, flying an average of 7,000 passengers a year. So, although the video could depict something much more mysterious, the likely identification in this case is hot air balloons.
A number of unidentified flying objects have been spotted in mid Wales on the last four years. When it comes to latest flying saucer “sightings” reported to Welsh police, it seems ewe couldn’t make it up. Because an alert about alien SHEEP abduction was among the calls about UFOs received by one force over the past four years. Newly released data shows that a caller to Dyfed-Powys Police claimed they had seen sheep being taken on board an unidentified flying object from a field in Llanybydder, near Lampeter.
In the same year, 2011, a caller from Aberystwyth reported they were previously abducted by aliens, experimented on, then returned to earth.
Elsewhere in the force’s UFO files, in Llandysul someone reported seeing a triangular-shaped object about 40ft in the air with orange lights and in Welshpool a caller reported seeing a UFO “dropping in the distance.” In 2012 a caller from Carmarthen claimed they saw “a metallic and circular object in the sky.” There were two reports of UFOs last year. A Carmarthen caller reported seeing three objects “the size of a small house” 200-300ft in the sky. And there were reports of a UFO moving erratically in Crickhowell also in 2013.
It brings the total number of UFO sightings reported to the force area – which is home to a sightings hotspot once dubbed “the Welsh triangle – to 27 since 2002. Among the earlier sightings, a UFO was reported in the Aberdyfi Estuary by a caller who claimed his car engine stopped when he saw it. The driver escaped without harm. UFOs were also seen at New Quay, Ffrwdgrech, Brecon, Cardigan and Llanelli. NOTE: The above image is a rendering.
The colorful career of Revolutionary and Indian War General “Mad” Anthony Wayne came to end at Fort Presque Isle on December 15, 1796 at the age of 51. He was buried underneath the Erie Blockhouse per his request at the foot of the flagpole.
There his body lay for the next dozen years, until his daughter Margaretta asked her brother Isaac to bring their father’s remains home to the family cemetery in Radnor. He jumped into a buggy and headed to Erie. When they opened the coffin, they found Wayne’s body had barely decomposed.
They couldn’t take the body home in Wayne’s sulky, a light, two-wheeled wagon (although another version said the locals protested the move and held out for two burial sites), so Dr. Wallace and four assistants boiled the meat from the bones of the good general in a big black kettle, much like traditional cannibal chefs.
Isaac headed east with his dad’s bones, neatly packed in a trunk, for burial at St. David’s Cemetery in Chester County. The flesh, clothes, water and instruments used to filet Wayne were reburied at Presque Isle.
It’s said that Isaac, on the steep and bumpy ride home along what is now Route 322, lost a few bones along the way. Every New Years Day on his birthday, Mad Anthony Wayne arises from his Erie grave and travels the road to St. David’s in search of his missing bones.
What’s left of Wayne’s Presque Isle grave is now on display at the Presque Isle Blockhouse museum, including his coffin lid, some bits of clothing, and Dr. Wallace’s tools. The rest either rotted away (burying the water was probably not a stroke of genius) or was destroyed in a 1853 blaze at the blockhouse and a subsequent leveling of the old parade grounds. The kettle is on exhibition at the Erie County History Center.
So if you’re driving along 322 on New Year’s Day and see a Revolutionary War figure riding along the road on his charger, pull over and say hi to Mad Anthony while he proceeds on his annual quest to make his skeleton whole after all these years. – Reader submission
The mayor of a Mexican fishing town has married a crocodile in an elaborate ceremony where the bride wore white and guests danced with the reptile.
The reptile is a princess, according to local tradition, and it is hoped the nuptials will boost catches of fish, shrimp and other seafood along the Pacific coast.
Before the ceremony, the wedding party walked with the crocodile bride through the southern Mexican town of San Pedro Huamelula.
“It’s my wish to marry the young princess,” mayor Joel Vasquez Rojas said as the pair tied the knot.
He then danced with his new wife in his arms before guests joined in.
One local resident explained the importance of the ritual.
“As young people, this means a lot,” said Eduardo Zarate. “It’s the greatest treasure our ancestors have left us.”
Members of the local council pay for the wedding festivities, which include dancing and fireworks.
Greenville, NC – 9/18/1994 – Myself and my wife had decided to go and glean the fields for sweet potatoes,and upon loading the car and heading back home which was about a mile from home, right in the clear blue sky on the right appeared this huge craft in the sky, dark brown in color with windows going all around it, there was one woman standing in front of one of the windows as it hovered about a good two hundred feet above the trees, as we were riding in our car I asked my wife do you see that and she said yes, it was so huge and magnificent, I never seen anything on this planet like it before as it hovered over the trees not making a sound and no wind was stirring at all from this huge craft, the tops of the trees didn’t move at all, as I sped up to get a better view of the huge craft,I had some trees that blocked our view for maybe 5 seconds as we was clearing the trees with great anticipation to get a better view the huge craft had vanished without a trace. We are a christian family with strong christian values, and when I tell my story of what we saw people really don’t believe but I know what I saw and my wife know what she saw, and she doesn’t like to talk about it and seems like she’s a little different since it happened but we know what we saw. I’ve been searching the web to try and see something that looks similar.I feel that more time had passed than what we could remember but I’m not sure, it didn’t dawn on me to look at my watch for the time we were so in awe, but at times I feel more had taken place than what I can remember. After we had encountered it I just remembered being tired,and going to bed early that night. We told some family about it but not much was said or done since.In school I used to be a fairly good artist,now I just can’t seem to even draw what we saw on paper. – MUFON CMS
Swede faces illegal weapons charges after building crossbow to protect himself from vampires
A man in western Sweden faces charges for illegal weapons possession after building a crossbow to protect himself from vampires. The man in Uddevalla, western Sweden, hates vampires.
He hates them so much that he built a crossbow at home and had it aimed at the door. The man had a history of weapons violations, and police were on their way to pick him up for a trial relating to a breach of knife laws. Upon entering his apartment they discovered that a crossbow, with arrow at the ready, was pointing straight at the door.
“Today I am going to go out and kill vampires,” the man had written on his Facebook page. Other social media statuses included “Garlic!” and “What do you do when the blood is all gone?” The man admitted at the trial that he owns two crossbows, one which he had purchased and the “Zero – God’s punishment”, which he had made by hand.
The man said that he had the weapons because he felt threatened, and said that he admits to his crimes if indeed owning a crossbow is illegal. But if there is no clear law against it, he wants the weapons back. Police tried out the crossbow to see if it functioned – and lodged an arrow into a wall 22 metres away. – The Local
A six-foot crocodile has been found in a lake near the seaside town of Rethymno on the Greek island of Crete, terrifying locals who claim it’s been feeding on lambs and ducks.
It is an unusual sight, as wild crocodiles are not known to inhabit Europe – most are found spread across Africa, Asia and America. Residents have been blaming the crocodile for missing lambs and ducks, and souvenir shops are now selling inflatable crocodiles.
“Yes, they (the locals) are very upset because they are in danger. There are farm lands and properties (nearby) and people are in danger, they are afraid,” said local resident Nikistratos Charokopou. “There are rivers from which people draw water to irrigate their fields and they are afraid to visit their land,” he added.
Regional official Vangelis Mamangakis said it was unclear how long it has been there. Mamangakis said the crocodile was probably a pet that grew too big for its owner, who probably dumped him in the lake. Parts of the lake were fenced off and efforts will be made on Thursday to remove the crocodile.
Filer’s Files #28 – Scripture Tells of Other Worlds - PART I
Filer’s Files #28 – Scripture Tells of Other Worlds - PART I
In special reports, this week’s files cover: Buddhist and Hindu Scripture Tells of Other Worlds,Are Orbs and Lights from Space?Electromagnetic Gyroscopic Propulsion, and July 4th Fireworks in a galaxy 23 million light years from Earth.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over: Alaska, Arizona,Arkansas, California, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky. Maryland, Missouri, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Virginia. Sightings of UFOs were also reported in: Australia, Canada, Chile, India, South Africa, Spain, Tanzania, and England and Wales in the United Kingdom.
The Filer Research Institute feels the scientific study of UFOs is for the benefit of humankind and is an important endeavor. The weekly intelligence report provides you with information on the latest sightings and UFO news that you need to understand the world situation. The purpose of these files is to report the UFO eyewitness and photo/video evidence that occurs on a daily basis around the world and in space. These Files assume that extraterrestrial intelligent life not only exists, but my hypothesis is that the over a thousand UFOs reported each month represent technologically advanced spacecraft conducting surveillance of Earth. I personally became interested in UFOs when London Control ordered me to intercept one over England while flying for the US Air Force and Prince Phillip told me of his personal interest in UFOs. The US Air Force investigated UFOs for more than twenty years under Project Blue Book; and I continue this advanced research. I believe the God of the universe has spread life throughout the cosmos and UFO’s are visiting us in ever-increasing numbers.
Special Reports
Buddhist and Hindu Scripture Tells of Other Worlds
Capers Jones writes, “A description of an alien visit is in the Buddhist Lotus Sutra scripture called Saddharma Pundarika that was first written circa 300 A.D. Buddha himself was born in 563 BC, so the Lotus Sutra was obviously written by Buddhist monks around eight centuries after his death.The English language version cited here was translated by H. Kern and originally published in 1884. Buddhist cosmology is surprisingly modern and recognizes the existence of millions of other worlds and casually asserts that they are inhabited. Each inhabited world is stated to have a Buddha of its own enlightened being.”. In Buddhist teachings, anyone is theoretically capable of becoming a Buddha, although actually accomplishing this goal is rare.) One Buddhist scripture mentions in passing that on earth sermons are given with words, but on other worlds sermons may be given with light or with scents or by other non-verbal means. Another modern aspect of Buddhist cosmology is the recognition that the universe has existed for many millions of years. The concept is first mentioned in the epic Mahabharata Hindu poem that according to Dr. V. Raghavan, retired head of the Sanskrit department of India's prestigious University of Madras. He contends that centuries-old Hindu documents prove that aliens from outer space visited his nation. "Fifty years of researching this ancient works convinces me that there are livings beings on other planets, and that they visited earth as far back as 4,000 B.C.,” The scholar says. "There is a just a mass of fascinating information about flying machines, even fantastic science fiction weapons, that can be found in translations of the Vedas (scriptures), Indian epics, and other ancient Sanskrit text.
In the Puja ritual there is worship of images of God that has become in recent times a great and potent tenet of faith and belief in out Hindu Religion. Puja is not only performed in temples but also in many Hindu homes. The object of the puja ritual is to create and setup thoughts of spiritual forces in and around the worshipers. This is best achieved by singing or chanting of mantras, performing certain actions and making offerings in three defined stages. Each mantra is a magazine of vast spiritual forces. "In the Mahabharata (writings), there is notion of divine lighting and ray weapons, even a kind of hypnotic weapon. 'Lord of the Three Worlds'(Lord Vishnu and Lord Shiva). Lord Brahma is the first member of the Brahmanical triad, Vishnu being the second and Shiva, the third.
Brahma is the god of creation and he is traditionally accepted as the Creator of the entire universe. Lord Vishnu holds a discus which always returns by itself after being thrown. He rides a huge flying creature, called Gandara shown at left. His home is in a heaven. Many religions throughout the world have beliefs indicating God and his messengers ride in space ships. Capers Jones states, “Buddhist cosmology also overlaps modern quantum theory, in that the Buddhists think that the void or emptiness is the source of both material objects and energy. As in quantum theory, particles can flash into existence from the void. The fact that material objects are constructed from millions of small particles is also part of Buddhist teaching. A central teaching of Buddhist philosophy is that all objects composed of such particles are fated to decay.” This entropy or decay applies to living creatures, material objects, and the universe itself. Since Buddhist cosmology dates back prior to 525 BC, it is interesting that there are so many similarities between Buddhist cosmology and modern cosmology.
Incidentally at about the time the Lotus Sutra was being written, the famous Buddhist University of Nalanda was being created in Northern India. Nalanda was the first university to teach astronomy and cosmology, as well as teaching mathematics. It is still in existence. Although Nalanda was a Buddhist university, it was surprisingly eclectic and attracted students of other religions and students from many Asian countries. For example, translations from Sanscrit into Chinese carried out at the University of Nalanda preserved many valuable scientific documents whose originals were later destroyed during the Muslim invasions of the 11th century.
• The existence of many other inhabited worlds is casually accepted.
• Both psychic and physical travel between worlds is casually accepted.
• Forms of communication other than words are casually accepted.
• Visiting aliens can apparently assume human shapes if desired.
• A surprising alien motive for visiting earth is to learn and share knowledge.
• Human beings and the earth are described as being ugly to aliens.
• At least some aliens visiting earth are cautioned not to be rude to humans.
Considering that the Lotus Sutra was written around the 3rd century AD and the English translation was made in 1884, the concept of interstellar travel is surprisingly matter of fact. It is stated explicitly in the chapter that extra-terrestrials can travel between worlds and that visits to earth are not uncommon. Somewhat more surprising is the concept that instantaneous mental communication between enlightened beings on many worlds is possible and indeed a common activity. This is surprisingly similar to the idea of “entanglement” from physics, or instantaneous communication between widely separated particles.
Are Orbs and Lights from Space?
Hundreds of plasma orbs or lights are seen each night around the world. The orbs are often seen high in the sky moving among the stars. Some zigzag around the sky alone or in two, three or even dozens. Some claim the orbs turn into craft or aliens. It is apparent the visitors may sometimes use the orbs for their purposes or reconnaissance and transportation. Some of the lights are navigation or propulsion lights from actual craft. There are other strong possibilities that many of the orbs are some type of natural phenomena. Plasma is by far the most common form of matter. Plasma in the stars and in the tenuous space between them makes up over 99% of the visible universe and perhaps most of that which is not visible. On earth we live upon an island of "ordinary" matter. The different states of matter generally found on earth are solid, liquid, and gas. We have learned to work, play, and rest using these familiar states of matter. Sir William Crookes, an English physicist, identified a fourth state of matter, now called plasma, in 1879.
The National Lightning map shows where cloud-to-ground lightning strikes have occurred in the last hour indicating thousands of lightning strikes occur every day. Lightning is an atmospheric discharge of electricity, which typically occurs during thunderstorms, and sometimes during volcanic eruptions or dust storms. There are over 16 million lightning storms every year. Lightning can also be caused by violent forest fires which generate sufficient dust to create a static charge. These thunderstorms may leave left over plasma that is seen as orbs or lights. Comparatively low altitude Earth lights are also common near Earthquakes and fault lines. Orbs can be created by heavy air or vehicle traffic. Many of the orbs photographed are actually reflections of lights on the camera lens. Also satellites and various metallic objects such as high flying aircraft reflect the sun’s light even though the early night sky appears dark. The orbs that are real often contain images of people who are often departed. People are seeing something, but it may be spiritual or ghost like as outlined in Jacques Vallee’s book “Messenger of Deception.”
Northern lights is the name of a light phenomenon often seen in the northern regions. The scientific name for the phenomenon is “Aurora Borealis that are charged particles that create the northern lights are sent from the sun in the solar wind, a fast-moving stream of particles constantly flowing from the Sun that carries the Sun’s magnetic field out into space. The solar wind, typically moving at 250 miles (400 kilometers) per second, flows past into the Earth’s magnetic field creating electrical currents that drive protons and electrons into the polar atmosphere. Solar flares can send plasma an ionized gas of protons and electrons—flying towards the Earth. The numbers of orbs continues to rise that may be connected to increased solar excitement. A correlation between the solar wind’s accumulation of charged solar particles and the numbers of orbs or unidentified lights may be found. The Southern Hemisphere Aurora Australis as seen from the Space Shuttle Discovery on STS-39 is shown below. Auroras are caused when high-energy electrons pour down from the Earth’s magnetosphere and collide with atoms. Red aurora occurs from 200 km to as high as 500 km altitude and is caused by the emission of 6300 Angstrom wavelength light from oxygen atoms. Green aurora occurs from about 100 km to 250 km altitude and is caused by the emission of 5577 Angstrom wavelength light from oxygen atoms. The light is emitted when the atoms return to their original unexcited state.
NASA-Johnson Space Center: “The story of Galaxy 4, a heavily used communications satellite, extremely energetic cloud of electrons serves as a good example. At 22h UT on May 19, 1998, while in geostationary orbit above the central United States, Galaxy 4 lost its primary and backup attitude control systems. At the time, Galaxy 4 handled about 80 percent of all U.S. pager traffic. Controllers could no longer maintain a stable link between the satellite and Earth, resulting in a loss of pager service to an estimated 45 million customers. Credit: Image Science and Analysis Laboratory, In 1981, it was about midnight when Brenda and I were watching an Aurora and saw a strange light about the size of a Beach ball, it then increased in size until it was all around us, and then there was like flames of fire coming off a tree. The next day I asked many others if they saw it they did. One lady said it was all around her house. I have experienced many things through my lifetime, and I look for the time when this planet will see The True New World Order If you will read Ecclesiastes 9: in its full context you will have better understanding of the writings. Men's success seldom equals their expectations. We must use means, but not trust to them: if we succeed, we must give God the praise; if crossed, we must submit to his will. A man may, by his wisdom, bring to pass that which he could never do by his strength. If God be for us, who can be against us, or stand before us? It is my opinion most of the orbs are a natural phenomena, plasmas and various ionized gas of protons and electrons. Apparently our visitors from the spirit world and space can use the orbs and lights to their advantage for show, reconnaissance and for other purposes. This field of study has numerous causes making the solution very difficult.
Electromagnetic Gyroscopic Propulsion
Ken Mortimer writes, “Enclosed are two articles I had published over ten years ago in a magazine called Flying Saucer Review (FSR). They are about electromagnetic gyroscopic propulsion (EGP) and associated ideas to do with UFOs.” 'The material does require careful reading as two people missed the main point of why it may work, which is that the force fields created by the gyroscopes interact with the earth's electromagnetic fields or the sun's EM fields as well, etc. However, three physicists grasped the principle involved immediately when they read them. I have wondered whether anyone at companies such as Space X, Boeing or Lockheed-Martin might be interested in reading these items? Please note the experiment performed by Boyd Bushman who was a since team leader at Lockheed-Martin. Bushman is mentioned in part two. 'It was a knowledge of astronomy, physics and the UFO phenomenon that led me to the conception you are about to read, hopefully. 'Please feel free to publish this on your Filer's Files website if you wish. Yours sincerely, Ken Mortime Note: I tried to download or copy the interesting PDF articles without success. For those readers interested they can go to this website to read the article. This image is a summary of the article.
July 4th Fireworks in a galaxy 23 million light years from Earth
Fireworks far, far away: This new composite image of NGC 4258, where X-rays from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory are blue, radio data from the NSF's Karl Jansky Very Large Array are purple, optical data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope are yellow and blue, and infrared data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope are red. The galaxy is famous, however, for something that our Galaxy doesn't have - two extra spiral arms that glow in X-ray, optical, and radio light. A new study of these anomalous arms made with Spitzer shows that shock waves, similar to sonic booms from supersonic planes, are heating large amounts of gas - equivalent to about 10 million Suns. Radio data shows that the supermassive black hole at the center of NGC 4258 is producing powerful jets of high-energy particles. Researchers think that these jets strike the disk of the galaxy and generate shock waves. These shock waves, in turn, heat some of the gas - composed mainly of hydrogen molecules - to thousands of degrees. Part of the evidence for this heating process comes from the similarity in location between the hydrogen and X-ray emission, both thought to be caused by shocks, and the radio jets. The Chandra X-ray image reveals huge bubbles of hot gas above and below the plane of the galaxy. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2681230/July-4th-galaxy-far-far-away-The-incredible-intergalactic-firework-display-23-million-light-years-Earth.html#ixzz36p3ArZrS
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Filer’s Files #28 – Scripture Tells of Other Worlds - PART II
Filer’s Files #28 – Scripture Tells of Other Worlds - PART II
UFO Reports in United States
Alaska Orb
Girdwood -- My wife and I were camping in the motor home June 28 thru July 2nd watching two eagles fight with three seagulls over some food and decided to try get pictures of the eagles. I took four pictures with my IPhone 5, but I didn't see the object until later that night looking at the pictures. I showed my wife the eagle and I said, “What do you think that is?” I was pointing at the white object in the picture. She said, “I don’t know.” I was showing the picture to my dentist friend while I was scrolling through my pictures and realized I had taken more than one shot of the object and it had moved above the trees. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Arizona Lights
Tucson -- I got out of bed to take a photo of the Blood Moon event. I took two photos and then went back to bed on April 14, 2014. It wasn't until recently I took a look at them. The first picture was just a picture of the full moon before the event. The picture showing the Blood Moon had a bright white light zigzag in a small area. When enlarging you can see a red light lower down that does not move. The red light is probably coming from a house down the valley. The zigzagging light cannot be a bug; I had no exterior lights on at the time. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Tortilla Flat-- My wife and I were driving on the Apache Trail a couple of miles from Tortilla Flat on June 29, 2014, we noticed a silver disc. My wife was taking dozens of pictures from the passenger seat before and after the UFO. The object was hovering in place about 4 pm, and then started moving. Our view was obscured for a split moment after the sighting, and when we could see again, it was no longer there. The disc was highly reflectant, bright silver with no lights other than the light reflecting from the sun. It had a very large dome in the top center of the craft. It was slightly tilted downward so we could see the top part, not the bottom. It was about a half a mile from our vehicle. We kept driving and enjoyed the rest of our evening. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Arkansas Lights
Haines – I was taking pictures of aurora and on a one minute shutter setting one picture of aurora was great the next is on February 15, 2014. Thanks to MUFON CMS
California Disc and Lights
Murrieta--On the evening of June 25th 2014, about 10:45 pm, I looked out my kitchen window and saw three huge bright yellow/orange balls of light hovering and pulsating over the mountains to the west of my home. They were huge so I went outside onto my balcony and observed them. They hovered for about 5 minutes and then moved down behind the mountains in the same formation that they appeared. The back side of the mountain was glowing for about 5 minutes and then about 12 to 15 smaller bright yellow/orange balls of light rose out of the mountain and hovered in the same place as the last set were. Some of the balls seemed to change their shape as they were pulsating. After about 7 minutes they went back down behind the mountains. The experience lasted for half an hour and I was in total shock.
Bakersfield -- I was working and taking pictures of a job site at a local dairy where our company is going to be installing a water line on June 27, 2014,. When I took the photo I thought I saw something quickly go by. I didn't think anything of it at the time. Later when I got back to the office and was reviewing the photos I took from my I-phone I saw the object in the photo. Whatever it was it was moving very fast because I never really saw it and heard nothing. It was kind of strange when I took the photo I thought I saw something go by while taking the photo viewing through my phone screen and when I looked up nothing was there. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Illinois Row of Lights
Oak Brook-- I attended the Taste of Oak Brook with my family on July 3.2014, to see the fireworks, when we walked away there was a beautiful crescent moon with a lit up object down to the left at 9:30 pm. I knew this was something different hovering. It then suddenly started moving to the right for a few seconds, stopped quickly to hover again, then suddenly started moving to the left. The object had a row of 3 to 5 non - flashing red lights. Below the red lights was a shorter row of 2 or 3 green lights that flashed rhythmically in a pulsating manner. I had seen this before at a greater distance a while back outside my home. The feeling it caused made my hair stand on end, although I could not make out the shape of the object, but it seems it would be an elongated shape. It got smaller and farther away and I lost sight of it. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Indiana Light
Secunderabad -- I was seeing television and my father called me to the balcony. I saw the ufo becoming bright like coming to us and again going back after that disappeared on April 16, 2014.. It was like a star but there was no star before and after the day of the sighting. It was glowing in white color .sorry that I could not click a photograph because I did not had any time. So I am giving you a created image. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Kentucky Lights
Glenn Pennington here in Northern KY, sending you a few interesting pictures from June 18, 2014. These lights appear over my farm almost every night. Thanks to Glen
Maryland Disc
Fulton -- On my way to Knights of Columbus meeting on July 1, 2014, I saw a large rainbow disc with a orange yellow dome moving northeast. Other people saw it and we all stopped on the over pass, I took a picture that looked weird enough to question what I was seeing. It moved behind large bank of clouds and was gone. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Missouri Circle
Springfield – About 8:30 PM, I went out to water my tomatoes and the UFO hovered over my house on June 27, 2014. It stayed for three minutes and headed north. It was solid silver and white glowing object with no sound or smoke coming from it. I told my wife to come out and look and she did she asked, “Why does it keep coming to our area?”. Last month it was reported by some of our neighbors in the same area within a 1/4 mile of my house. We went to the front yard to and found this crop circle in my front yard about 30 feet in diameter. It must have just been made since I mowed today and it was not there. We had one about 8 years ago in the front yard the same size it finally went away but the grass still won't grow right there anymore. G Thanks to MUFON CMS
New Jersey Light
Berkeley Heights– I couldn't sleep so I looked north on June 30, 2014 and saw the object. My wife was awake, and also spotted it and woke our son and he also saw the object. We watched it blink white and red continuously. I then got my cell phone to take a picture that shows the craft all white. My son took a video. By now my daughter is also up as we watched for 20 minutes and it slowly moved westerly. We got in the car and tried to follow the best we could and possible get better photos. My son and I jumped into the car but we were blocked by the Raritan River and never caught sight of it again. My wife and daughter were scared. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Surf City, Long Beach Island-- My husband and I have seen craft over the years in the Long Beach Island and some werre videotaped by others and featured on the news. But this most recent sighting occurred around mid-June, at twilight as we were home along the main boulevard leading to the beach. The craft was sort of rectangular, but more like an upside-down pie plate, except very thick. There were a series of white/pale yellow round lights all along the mid-section from nose to tail. There were no street lights, lights from homes, just beach and homes. We observed it for quite a while as flew from south to north, then declined nose down at an angle near the shoreline. The craft was close- I'd say we were about 30 feet away. This isn't my first encounter. I was 15 when that happened- oddly- also near the beach, but a different city. A friend and I were "chased" by a craft that hovered at the height of the treetops on a clear night in the summer of 1964. It was shrouded by a cloud cover and the noise we heard was like nothing I had ever heard - to this day. Like a thousand bells/gears turning at once, each having their own individual sound. She says, “My husband still thinks that I was implanted with something that programs me to make his life hell.”) But I don't have any marks, scars, or missing time from that event. We talk about it every once in a while- just to be sure we remember it correctly. NOTE: The above image is a rendering. This case is under investigation by Ken Pfeifer MUFON NJ www.worldufophotos.org.
New Mexico
Albuquerque -- I was looking north over the balcony on July 3, 2014, when I saw a white light in the clouds. It broke into four white orbs that rotated in clockwise motion then came back as one light. This was a repeating pattern hovering over the same location. There was no obvious light coming from the ground like a dealership. There was also no horizontal light seen from the direction of the Air Force base or airport. There was no visible or audible craft in the area such as planes or helicopters. Thanks to MUFON CMS
New York Orb
New York City -- This video was caught as a UFO researcher was watching some live cams on July 4, 2014. At 18 seconds into the video you will see this UFO pass over the buildings and pass in front it. The UFO is as wide as the antenna on top of the building, which is at least 3-4 cars in length. Fantastic capture by Orlando Bosca of YouTube. SCW http://www.earthcam.com/usa/newyork/skyline/?cam=skyline_pano
New York-- I took some random pictures of buildings while waiting to view fireworks onn July 4, 2014, from unusually closed FDR drive. Upon viewing photos I noticed object in question. I did not notice the object at the time I took the photo. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Pennsylvania Triangle
Donora -- I was finishing up my jog on a hill at our local park at 3:15 pm, whenabove the hill was aHUGE black rectangleobject moving slowly over the treetops on April 21, 2013.. Moving right to left it had a very "boxy" look to it with sharp defined edges. It was 1-2 miles away and did not reflect the daytime sun. I saw no lights on it or windows. The object did appear to change shape, going from a large solid rectangle to a thinner but just as long rectangle. It was just cruising along very slowly above the treetops and even hovered a few times. It was 2-3 times the size of the Goodyear blimp It was touching the treetops practically. I tried to jog to my car as fast as I could. There were some other people there at the park. The object crossed over a gap between the large hillsides getting thinner than real big again. It always maintained the rectangle shape and dull black color. It backed up away from my position, then back towards me again. NOTE: The above rectangle was photographer on September 2011 in round rock Texas. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Texas Disc
Houston-- On March 31, 2012 at 6:01 pm, I was shooting some photographs outside of the Sam Houston Race Track for a high school reunion. I shot three photos of the race track sign from different angles and then went inside. One year later I was going through these photos for inclusion in a Shutter fly photo book when I noticed an object on one of the photos that looked like it could have been a spec of dust on my lens. When I enlarged the photo, I found something that looked like a disc or cigar-shaped object above the race track park sign. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Virginia Disc
Dublin – I was at a neighbor’s house helping him cut firewood when we looked up to see a center light that was very bright like looking at the sun at times on June 25, 2013. We saw a disk shaped craft with a taller dome in the center and windows around the dome about 5:15 pm on a clear and sunny day. The first thing we noticed was the light. It hovered for 30 minutes in the same general area just moving to different locations and then ascending at a sharp angle about 75 degrees following the Little Walker Creek Ridgeline and then disappearing. There are at least two other witnesses one with me and one later telling me he saw the same thing without me asking. There is a fourth person that took photos with a cell phone but he is to scared and is refusing to show them. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Worldwide UFO Reports
Australia Lights
Gosford New South Wales-- I stepped outside and tried to see if I could see the Full Moon on cloudy cover on June 13. 2014. I looked toward the north and saw five objects weaving in a line from northwest to south and ran inside to get my camera. I only captured one photo of two of the objects after three disappeared. The sighting lasted several minutes with two other family members seeing them as well as myself. These objects were completely silent. The wind at the time after checking a weather site was north to south at about 10 knots. I would say the size of the objects from my viewpoint were about 1/6th the size of the Full Moon. Being an amateur astronomer, I can say that these were not planets and were not helicopters. I have seen many Satellites as well in my 40 years of observing the Stars and these were not Satellites either. These were moving in a "weaving pattern" one behind the other.
Marian, Queensland -- It was an orange bright light about the size of a bright star onJune 28th 2014, about 10 pm. There was a smaller orange light underneath zigzagging slowly back and forth across the sky then it got faster as it moved away and suddenly disappeared.
West Beach -- I was looking west out of our 2nd floor bedroom window at 9:30 pm. when I saw a bright green light travelling fast over the houses on June 29th 2014. It came over the top of the house before moving away. We live near the airport, but are positioned so that no planes ever come over the top of us. And although we see light planes towards the north, this was way too low and it was bright green light. Thanks to John Hayes www.UFOinfo.com
Brazil Light
Santa Catarina-- I was leaving the restaurant after breakfast in late June and decided to take some pictures of the landscape. The object was opaque and was hovering and I grabbed my phone, and a took multiple photo for fear that the object would go away. Within seconds the object rose and disappeared. It took me a few seconds to observe the object as it clashes with the landscape. It was very quick but my friend also got a photograph so I was pleased. I had to go because the bus was leaving. I've had previous contacts but this was the first time I could make a photo. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Canada Sightings
Burlington, Ontario – I was looking up in the sky at 10:15 PM, and saw an object moving southwest on June 21st 2014. Its lights were not blinking but were bright as we watched it move at a low speed. I realized it was moving away and up as it faded up and was gone that fast. My wife also saw it.
Port Hope, Ontario-- On June 21, 2014 my wife and I were at the Drive In and at 9:35 pm, and noticed to the west a bright white single low slow moving light. It was heading towards us and turned south about a mile short of our position heading towards Lake Ontario. This light remained at a constant white illumination flashing, and its movements were half the speed of a Cessna aircraft.
Oakville, Ontario-- We were sitting on our patio at 5:30 pm and I noticed white round objects near a high flying jet on June 22nd 2014. I told my husband and friends to look and they also saw them. We watched for about 15 minutes as they changed formation from a diamond, to a circle, to a long line and stayed in the same location. At one point I counted six moving very slow.
Campbellton, New Brunswick-- OnJune 23rd 2014 I saw two lines dancing in the skythat werevery shiny at 9 am. One changed positions and I could see very well the light all around it.
Gatineau, Quebec– I let my dogs out at 12:30 am, on June 27th 2014, and saw a blinking light that was surrounded by stars. With spy glasses I saw a string of white lights in a line with a red one at the top. Over the next hour I watched it change shape and it started as a line of lights heading south and then turned into a triangle that looked like an upside down ice cream cone. Thanks to John Hayes www.UFOinfo.com
Chile Sightings
Ryan P writes, “The government office investigating UFOs in Chile has released an analysis of two high quality photos showing what appear be genuine unidentified flying objects. One of the workers reportedly took the pictures on a Samsung S860 camera after they spotted the object at the Collahuasi copper mine while they were working in April 2013. The office, known as the CEFAA (Committee for the Studies of Anomalous Aerial Phenomena), is located within the Ministerial Department of Civil Aeronautics (DGAC), the equivalent of our FAA, under the jurisdiction of the Chilean Air Force. It is responsible for the analysis of selected reports of unexplained aerial phenomena in Chilean airspace, most of them from pilots and aviation personnel. http://www.chilevision.cl/noticias/chvnoticias/nacional/direccion-de-aeronautica-reconocio-oficialmente-un-ovni-en-chile/2014-06-30/214905.htmlIndia LightsKalyan, Maharashtra -- I observed the moving light from my window for 20 seconds and then went too far away to be visibleonJune 25th 2014. It was moving north fast and had a yellow light at 11:50 PM. Thanks to John Hayes www.UFOinfo.com
South Africa Orb
Sasolburg, Free State -- The object appeared to be a very low bright star when we noticed it onJune 21st 2014, at 7:05 PM. Using a phone camera we could zoom in on the object and the sphere shape was visible. It was hanging motionless towards Parys. The object was far from us but it looked like it was changing colours between blue, red, and white. This was something unusual in the night sky and we checked again the following day but there was nothing there. Thanks to John Hayes www.UFOinfo.com
Spain Disc
Toledo -- Our tour group was visiting Spain and I took a picture of the city on May 12, 2014. When I was looking at the pictures upon our return to the USA, I noticed the shiny object in the Toledo photo.
Xavia -- I saw a UFO with three other people that was flying very a fast speed and disappeared without a trace on June 29, 2014. It was bright and silver in color. It was not like the flight of an airplane or helicopter. It was flying very fast and disappeared. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Tanzania Lights
Dar es Salaam-- My father was smoking in our balcony where we have a view of the open sky and neighboring buildings on July 7, 2014. After a while he called me see something unusual in the sky. I rushed to the balcony and noticed an object that was flashing multi-colored lights; they were much brighter than those emitted by Airplanes. We couldn't see the shape due to the bright lights. My father would have brushed it off as an airplane had it not stopped midair that's when he called me. I watched it start spinning around and took two circles and then remain stationary mid-air for one or two seconds after which it sped off in another direction in a lightning speed and disappeared. We were both shocked and wondering what did we just see. It all happened so quick that I couldn't think of getting my phone and take a video or a photo. I do not have a picture and cannot tell what shape it was, as the bright lights concealed it. However I searched on YouTube on similar sightings and found this video Thanks to MUFON CMS
United Kingdom Flying Objects
London -- I was taking some pictures from my bedroom window June 5, 2014, with my Galaxy S4. To my surprise i realized id actually taken a picture of UFO. The tree that the object is behind is about 75 feet behind the lamp post. Lamp post is 120 feet away Please can you analyze. Thanks to MUFON CMS
UK Wales
Pontypool, Torfaen-- Richard Davies writes, The photos were taken over five different nights/mornings between 24 April 2014 and 26 May 2014. I went up to a mountain at 3 am view in Pontypool, Wales to catch the sunrise. Upon my arrival I noticed strange activity of way lower stars. I instantly felt very uneasy almost as if I was not meant to be taking these photos. I was a skeptic up to this point, but definitely struggled to believe in aliens this area. I had previously been a skeptic about the spirit world until I had a very believable message from a medium. I felt a strong presence around me as I took the photos and got into my car for safety. I looked in my car mirror and saw someone standing nearby in the bushes watching me. I had to take many photos. I have returned to the same location 8 times and have seen strong UFO activity each night. NOTE: This witness has send me over 100 photos and some are incredible. Special thanks to the witness and photographer Richard Salon Davies of Wales England. Ken Pfeifer MUFON NJ www.worldufophotos.org -.
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UFO mania: Machine dated at 400 million years found in Russia?
UFO mania: Machine dated at 400 million years found in Russia?
In the remote Kamchatka peninsula (map below), 200 km from Tigil, University of St. Petersburg archaeologists discovered a strange fossil. The authenticity of the find has been certified. According archaeologist Yuri Golubev, the discovery surprised scientists by its nature, and will change history (or pre-history).
It is not the first time that is an artifact, an ancient object, something like this is found in that region. But, surprisingly conserved, this specific artifact is – at first glance, inlaid in rock (which is understandable since the peninsula is home to numerous volcanoes). Subjected to analysis, the conjunct showed to be made of metal parts that seem to form a mechanism, a gear which may be of a type of watch or computer. The astonishing is that all the pieces were dated 400 million years old.Yury Gobulev commented:
We got a call from the prefec of Tigil. He told us that hikers that were walking in place, found these remains in rock. We went to the place indicated, and initially we not understand what we saw. There were – hundreds of toothed cylinders which appeared to be parts of a machine.
They were in perfect state of conservation, as if they were frozen in a short period of time. It was necessary control the area, because soon the curious began to appear in large numbers. Other scientists, americans geologists, defined the piece as an amazing and mysterious artifact.
Nobody could believe that 400 million years ago that it could have existed on Earth even a man [even more a machine]. At that time, the forms of vida were very simple, but the finding, [simply] – clearly suggests the existence of intelligent beings capable of such technology. Certainly, such beings would had come from other planets. It is possible that a spaceship was damaged [or there was an accident] and it was abandoned in place
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This blog is in response to John’s very excellent points in his question below:
Q: Michael, you have done an incredible job bringing the Meier material to the public. I want to thank you for all your efforts and please continue holding their feet to the fire.
I just wanted to pass along a thought. To me….the Meier photos, videos, audio are like comparing apples and oranges. To clarify….Billy Meier’s photos, etc., are not UFOs at all. They are IFO’s, Identified Flying Objects (the apples) as opposed to UFOs, Unidentified Flying Objects (the oranges). They are identified as beamships of various classes that are piloted by known extra-terrestrials. After all, if the pilot and the flying craft are ‘Identified’, how can they be classed as ‘Unidentifed’ ? It is just a thought….
That difference seems clear to me when I see very clear photos taken by Billy of SEMJASE’s beamship in bright daylight, etc. The ship is Identified and even the pilot is known…whether it is SFATH, PTAAH, ASKET, SEMJASE, QUETZAL, PLEIJA, MENARA, ALENA, or anyone else that has made contact with Billy. In my opinion, an Identified Flying Object with known occupants is FAR superior to ‘chasing lights in the sky’. Maybe that is the real reason the Meier material should be separated from the UFO wingnuts. Just a thought. Keep up the outstanding work.
Actually I think most of us agree with you. The problem is that the overall topic of UFOs is marginalized, often deservedly, as being fringe, tabloid, crackpot, etc., thanks to both the efforts of the intelligence agencies and the disinformation apparatus and the largely idiotic UFO community and industry (UFOCI).
John
A: John, We certainly should have arrived by now at the point where we can speak of the Meier case and the craft therein as IFOs, or just Beamships, and it may be time to hold everyone’s feet to the fire in expressing it that way. It’s possible though that for many it’s still too big of a leap, since they haven’t yet allowed the idea of actual extraterrestrial life and their craft to enter as a possibility in their minds.
Then we come back to the fact that proof of the existence of extraterrestrial life and their craft would be the biggest, most important discovery/story in all of science…and human history. And when we look around we notice that there’ve been no announcements of such a historical event.
But we already know that the Meier case has more than enough solid evidence, which meets both scientific and legal standards of proof, to prove the entire matter…if only people will look through the telescope.
UFO or IFO…we live in a world of denial, arrogance and ignorance. The mass of humanity defaults, abrogates personal responsibility and seemingly prefers to have all hell rain down upon us, while watching it all on TV and the internet and praying to their imaginary gods and saviors, than to trouble themselves to think, reason and confront the real truth about almost anything.
It would be lovely to live in a world in which we would have already long been speaking of those nice helpful folks flying around in their…Beamships, instead of still slogging through the resistance, fear and denial, watching the prophecies fulfill as if we’re stuck in the movie “Groundhog Day”.
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There is a mystery unfolding along New Mexico’s roads and highways. A mystery many of you may have already noticed.
Strange UFO symbols have appeared on dozens of cattle crossing signs. Where are they coming from? Some may want you to think it’s the work of aliens, but the explanation is probably a little more down to earth.
It’s a mystery straight out of the X-Files. Driving down the highway from Taos to Santa Fe, you’ll see them. Just one of the many places they’ve appeared around New Mexico. UFO stickers placed on cattle crossing signs, giving the appearance “aliens” are beaming the cows up.
Maureen Ortega is one of the many New Mexicans who have noticed the strange signs. She says they first started appearing around Taos and northern New Mexico a few years ago.
“They’ve been there for a while and I’ve often wondered who did them. Wondered if it was someone who was into UFOs or did it for a prank or whatever,” said Ortega.
She thinks the message behind the stickers may have to do with reports of cattle mutilations in the area. Mutilations, many believe are the work of extra-terrestrials.
“Twenty-two years ago ranchers were finding cattle mutilated all over the place and it was blamed on aliens. What else could have done it?”
For the answer we turned to author and paranormal investigator Benjamin Radford. The self-described skeptic has written books about the cattle mutilation phenomena.
“The majority of these so-called animal mutilations are actually perfectly explainable. There’s nothing mysterious about it,” Radford said.
He says here in New Mexico it makes perfect sense “some” would think aliens “are” involved.
“There’s a strong folklore of aliens and ETs tied to New Mexico anyway. On top of that you have the animal mutilations, the cattle mutilations,” Radford continued. “Let’s say for example you have the exact same animal and if it was found in the late 90s in Texas, people would say it’s a Chupacabra. The vampire beast came and sucked it blood out. The same animal found in Northern NM in the 1980′s people might say its aliens.”
So does he think that is the reason behind the stickers? Is someone putting them up to send a message?
Radford said the people that are doing this aren’t necessarily UFO believers. It’s easy to assume there’s some big important message here. He says they’re having fun.
Even Radford admits we’ll never really know who is turning our cattle crossing signs into extra-terrestrial messages, or why, but the truth is out there.
Whatever the reason, the mystery may be over.
KOB reached out to the New Mexico Department of Transportation to see what it thinks of the altered signs. A spokesperson says they weren’t aware of them but will be taking them down since they can distract drivers and the stickers block the reflective areas meant to warn people about cattle crossing the road.
If an alien spacecraft had indeed crash-landed in Roswell in 1947, it would have certainly become THE GREATEST EVENT IN HUMAN HISTORY.
But things didn’t turn out that way.
Instead, the only thing we got to show for it is a MONEY-MAKING MUSEUM IN ROSWELL, NEW MEXICO.
To this I might as well add predatory hucksters who thrive on selling this myth to a gullible sector of society known as the “UFO community”….
(Hucksters can also include certain authors, “researchers”, TV producers as well as Conference promoters).
Sad and comical at the same time, this myth (along with generalmyths of UFOs and Aliens) has firmly entrenched itself in the pseudoscientific subculture of America and the world:
This came from Norio who was spreading this on Facebook..
STRANGE CIRCUMSTANCE BEHIND THE ONE AND ONLY PUBLIC APPEARANCE OF BOB LAZAR: Strange but true fact.
On May 1, 1993, my colleague Gary Schultz and I organized a public event in Rachel, Nevada in which Bob Lazar had made his one and only public appearance ever.
The biggest secret about this event was that Joe Travis, owner of the Little A-le-inn confided to both Gary Schultz and me (after the event) that he had “borr…owed” the huge military tent (along with at least 200 folding chairs) from “the base”.
In other words, “the base” (with which Joe Travis had a good relationship all along) knew about the event and lent it to him.
Yes, the one and only public appearance of Bob Lazar was conducted under the huge military tent furnished by the Groom Lake base!!
This event attracted about 250 people from all over. (Photo courtesy of Dennis Stacey)
I woke up and saw a bright light coming through my bedroom doorway.i felt a desire to check it out I walked out into the dining room and could see it was coming from the kitchen window facing the back yard.I started to panic and was terified but could not stop myself from going to the kitchen window.I then heard in my head to have no fear and to calm down,I felt the presence of a warm and loving being,and was willing to go to the window to see.I could see the glow was coming from a disk,landed in my neighbors back yard.The voice was strong in my head telling me everything is alright.I watched something come out of the side and extend to the outside basement doorway.I could hear them moving around in the basement underneath.
The next thing I remember is being face to face with a tall grey staring very close into my eyes,I felt a very intense love.They showed me my yet to be born kids in the future that I have now.They showed me,me running through some kind of devastating event happening to the planet,chunks of rocks hitting around me.Giant enormous black triangular ships covered the sky.After the rocks stopped,the planet was peaceful and I was looking up at two suns in the sky.
De ISEE-3 is terug tot leven gewekt. Voor het eerst in bijna 20 jaar zijn de stuwmotoren van de ruimtesonde dit weekend gebruikt. Dat schrijft technologiewebsite The Verge.
De ruimtesonde, die ondertussen meer dan 35 jaar oud is, werd terug tot leven gewekt, nadat de NASA een groep burgerwetenschappers daar groen licht toe gaf. Via crowdfunding wist een groep ex-NASA-medewerkers genoeg geld te verzamelen voor het project.
De sonde heette oorspronkelijk ISEE-3, maar kreeg in 1985 de naam International Cometary Explorer. De satelliet moest toen twee kometen, waaronder Halley, onderzoeken.
In 1997 werd de satelliet afgedankt omdat ze zich steeds verder en verder van de aarde verwijderde. In 2008 ontdekten gewezen NASA-medewerkers echter dat de satelliet nog steeds een signaal uitzond.
Bedoeling nu is de sonde haar oorspronkelijke missie opnieuw te laten uitvoeren: het meten van de interactie tussen de zonnewind en het magnetische veld van de aarde. Daarvoor wordt de satelliet in augustus in een positie op 1,5 miljoen kilometer van de aarde gebracht.
Dit weekend werden de eerste stappen gezet: voor het eerst in meer dan 20 jaar werden de stuwmotoren van de satelliet geactiveerd.
Wetenschappers hebben 20 miljoen jaar oude fossielen ontdekt op een bouwwerf in het Californische Silicon Valley. Het gaat om haaientanden, resten van walvissen en een dier, dat nog het meest lijkt op een nijlpaard. Dat berichtte de krant San Jose Mercury maandag. Ze kwamen aan het licht door de bouw van een 66 meter hoge dam in het Calaveras Reservoir.
"We hebben hier eerder al fossielen gevonden, voor de constructiewerken zijn begonnen. Dat was erg opwindend", zei paleontoloog Jim Walker. "We hebben schelpen ontdekt en ik zei 'nu wil ik een walvis', en die hebben we nu ook gevonden." Sinds 2011 werden al meer dan 530 verschillende fossielen uit het Mioceen gevonden. Het Mioceen begon ruim 23 miljoen jaar terug en eindigde ongeveer 5 miljoen jaar geleden.
De vindplaats is gesloten voor alle publiek. De fossielen zullen later in een museum in San Francisco tentoongesteld worden. De dam zal over een drietal jaar opgeleverd worden. Duizenden technologie- en IT-bedrijven, van kleine start-ups tot de grootste ondernemingen in de sector, hebben zich in de regio ten zuiden van San Francisco gevestigd.
Elke sonde die terugkeert van de Rode planeet, brengt telkens wat meer bewijs mee van het waterige verleden van Mars. Onderzoekers van het Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Arizona zijn er nu in geslaagd een stukje van Mars erg gedetailleerd in kaart te brengen. Volgens de wetenschappers toont hun kaart duidelijk aan dat water en ijs de hooglanden van Mars hebben vormgegeven. Dat meldt de wetenschapssite SEN.
Scott Mest en David Crown brachten de zuidelijke hooglanden van Mars in kaart. Het resultaat toont de opeenvolging van geologische processen die zich voltrokken toen de (hoog)vlaktes overspoeld werden met water, dat nadien weer verdween. "De kaart toont hoe het oude, ruige hoogland rond het Hellas Bassin vorm kreeg en bewijst de blijvende effecten van water en ijs op het oppervlak van Mars", zegt Crown.
Het duidelijkste bewijs van de aanwezigheid van water is volgens de onderzoekers te zien in de canyons van Waikato Vallis in het noordelijke deel van de kaart en Reull Vallis in het midden. Van beide kloven wordt gedacht dat ze gevormd werden toen ondergronds water aan het oppervlak kwam, waardoor de grond instortte. De wetenschappers achten het mogelijk dat het water opgeslagen zat in een watervoerende laag in de ondergrond of als ijs, dat smolt door de hitte van nabijgelegen vulkanen.
Ondiep meer Op basis van beelden uit de jaren 70 van de Viking Orbiter gingen wetenschappers ervan uit dat Wailato Vallis en Reull Vallis twee delen waren van één lang canyonsysteem. De nieuwe kaart gebruikt hogeresolutiebeelden van recentere ruimtesondes, die aantonen dat het gaat om twee aparte systemen die van elkaar gescheiden zijn door de vlaktes van Eridania Planitia.
Door voorzichtige schattingen te maken van de ouderdom van de kloven en de vlaktes konden de onderzoekers de volgorde van de geologische processen achterhalen. Alles begon toen er water vrijkwam van Waikato Vallis, dat een tijdlang een ondiep meer vormde in de vlaktes.
Terwijl Reull Vallis, onafhankelijk van Waikato Vallis, ontstond, doorbrak de canyon een kraterrand die het water in het meer hield. Daardoor begon het water langzaam weg te lopen, zoals te zien is aan de smalle kanalen op de bodem van Reull Vallis.
Gletsjers Op de kaart is nog meer bewijs te vinden voor de historische aanwezigheid van water op Mars. Zo worden de vlaktes en hooglanden doorgesneden door kleine kanaaltjes, die vermoedelijk rond dezelfde periode zijn ontstaan door stromend water.
De meest recente wateractiviteit zijn 'rotsgletsjers' nabij de pieken van de hooglanden en de wanden van inslagkraters, waar ijsrijke bezinksels naar beneden gleden. De wetenschappers sluiten niet uit dat deze gletsjers nog steeds actief zijn.
Man suffering from sleep paralysis captures shadow figure on camera while asleep
Man suffering from sleep paralysis captures shadow person on cameraPhoto courtesy of Youtube via Mike Pike
A man suffering from sleep paralysis decided to set up a camera to film what he experienced while asleep. The camera captured something strange hovering over him Altered Dimensions reported on Monday.
Mike Pike often wakes up in the middle of the night and upon waking he experiences a half-waking state where he is unable to move. On several occasions Pike felt like he wasn’t alone and sometimes notices a strange shadowy figure at the foot of his bed watching him.
“I’m a rationalist and a very skeptical person with no previous interest in paranormal activity, but after doing some research it seemed like there was a possibility that this entity is real,” Pike said.
On one evening last week Pike decided to place a camera in his bedroom to document what he was experiencing on his sleepless nights. Pike set up a camera facing the bed and went to sleep with the lights on. The footage that he captured was shocking. In the video, around the 30-second mark, an eerie mist rises to the ceiling from Pike’s bed.
“I have watched the footage over and over trying to figure out some logical explanation for what could have caused the image of what seems to be a ghost, but I haven’t been able to come up with a solution,” Pike said about the video. “I am really starting to believe that I captured the entity I saw during my paralysis on video. This terrifies me so much that I can no longer sleep in my room.”
Scientists claim that a sleep paralysis condition known as hypnogogia is what causes the illusion of shadow people. Hypnogogia is also known as waking-sleep and the person suffering from the condition is in a dreamlike state but they are aware of their environment. During this state people experience a feeling of dread, pressure on their chest, and visual images of shadowy beings.
Some studies have showed that certain drugs such as pseudophedrine can produce hallucinations. Pseudophedrine is found in many over-the-counter allergy and cold medicines. Many people that suffer from pet allergies have had shadow person experiences.
What exactly is the strange mist? Is it a hoax? Could it be a shadow figure?
More Wikileaks Documents Surface Confirming The Existence Of Extraterrestrial Life & UFOs
More Wikileaks Documents Surface Confirming The Existence Of Extraterrestrial Life & UFOs
Julian Assange has grabbed the attention of the entire planet, as both mainstream and alternative media networks have covered Wikileaks in depth. For those who don’t know, Wikileaks is an international, online, non-profit organization that publishes secret (classified) documents, information, news leaks and other classified material from anonymous sources. They are no different from Bradley Manning and Edward Snowden. As I’ve mentioned before, they’ve been a tremendous threat to the controlling elite for a number of years and have gained the attention of major mainstream media outlets worldwide, many of whom have bashed Assange, pointing to the idea that the release of classified documents is a threat to national security. Wrong, it’s simply a threat to secrecy, information and truth. America alone classifies over five hundred million pages of documents per year. Think about a historian trying to study history, or technological development, science and more, how can they properly do this if most of this information is constantly kept secret from the general population?
That’s why organizations like Wikileaks are so important, as they shed light on truth that most of the human race knows nothing about, and one of them is the reality of UFOs and extraterrestrials.
Wikileaks is a major attention grabber, so it’s a great way to bring more attention to the UFO/extraterrestrial phenomenon that’s been gaining heavy interest over the last few years.
As far as UFO documents go, the Wikileaks ones are not really significant compared to what’s already available in the public domain. They do however show that these topics are still mentioned in highly classified documents. Again, we already have a number of (more significant and telling) documents that have been released into the public domain, as well as statements from high ranking military and political figures. To see some of these documents and whistle-blowers, you can refer to the last article I wrote on this subject by clicking HERE. For more articles on this subject from Collective Evolution, you can click HERE.
Wikileaks UFO/Extraterrestrial Documents
Prominent Lithuanian politician says that there are a “group of UFOs, who are making influence from the Cosmos.” That “there exists a decreasing group of persons, who are trying to rationally analyze the situation and objectively evaluate what is happening.” (source)
This cable comes from the year 2006 from the American Embassy in Vilnius, Lithuania. The statement was made by Albinas Januska, who at the time was appointed adviser to the Lithuanian Prime Minister.
Chief Cabinet Secretary of Japan Nobutaka Machimura Says UFOs definitely exist.
This is a cable from Japan that shows how the Chief Cabinet Secretary was unhappy with the governments official view rejecting the existence of UFOs. The document goes on to describe how he stated in a press conference that “I am sure that unidentified flying objects exist, otherwise it is impossible to explain the Nazca Lines (In Peru), isn’t it?” (source)
He also stated that ” the government has offered only a boilerplate response in its formal statement” regarding UFOs.
Tajik Mayor says there is life on other planets, and that peace and unity on Earth is necessary.
On January 13 Ambassador called on Dushanbe Mayor and Chairman of the upper house of Parliament Mahmadsaid Ubaidulloev at his parliamentary office. The Mayor began the meeting with a lengthy discourse on Afghanistan, thanking the United States for its contributions and sacrifices there, and saying that U.S. activities there were very important “as we enter the third millennium and the 21st century.” Ubaidulloev thought the main task there was to build a sense of national identity among ethnically disparate groups, and said the United States was an example for this. He noted that “war is very dangerous”, and said “we know there is life on other planets, but we must make peace here first.
In a platitude-ridden meeting, Dushanbe Mayor Mahmadsaid Ubaidulloev said upcoming elections would be free and fair, that contributions to the Roghun Dam were voluntary, and that the losses suffered by the United States in Afghanistan were felt by Tajiks as their own. Ubaidulloev asked for help in getting Tajik students admitted to Harvard University, but effectively declined to help find a new location for an American Corner in Dushanbe. He asserted the existence of life on other planets, caveating this by noting that we should focus on solving our problems on Earth. End Summary. (source)
Julian Assange has also said that that a UFO cult called the Raelians were of concern to the U.S. ambassador in Canada. It’s not surprising that the U.S. ambassador in Canada was concerned with this group. Government agencies have been concerned, harassing, monitoring and questioning extraterrestrial abductees and contacts for a number of years. They have been studying this subject for a very long time.
Like I said, Wikileaks seems to garnish a lot of attention, that’s why I chose to cover the topic, even though the documents are not as significant as ones that have already been released from dozens of governments, three letter agencies and more. Not to mention shocking statements from high ranking military and political personnel. I linked an article in the first few paragraphs of this one that provides more examples of these, and below I am going to provide a brief excerpt from it to illustrate what I am talking about.
VERY BRIEF example of other information that’s already out there
Within the past few years, dozens of governments admitted to allocating resources and having programs to study the UFO phenomenon. For instance, in Canada the RCMP, Transport Canada and the Department of National Defence recently admitted to tracking UFOs and investigating them. (source) They’ve been doing it for years, accumulating thousands upon thousands of UFO related documents -many of which have since been officially released.
HERE is the latest batch of UFO files released from the United Kingdom.
Documents released by the National Security Agency (NSA) reveal what is recorded when a UFO is being tracked on radar. HERE is one example. HERE is a four page U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency and NSA report describing a particular encounter in great detail.
“As the F-4 approached a range of 25 nautical miles it lost all instrumentation and communications. When the F-4 turned away from the object and apparently was no longer a threat to it, the aircraft regained all instrumentation and communications. Another brightly lighted object came out of the original object. The second object headed straight toward the F4. ”
You can read more about the radar tracking of UFOs HERE.
HERE is a Wikileak cable that describes how some politicians already know we are not alone in the universe. You can read more about that HERE.
Again the list goes on and on and thousands upon thousands of UFO related documents are now available in the public domain. For a summary of more documents that have been declassified and made available, a video done by UFO expert Richard Dolan does a great job at doing just that in 10 minutes.
Forgive me for using much of the same information in multiple UFO articles. We always have new readers coming to our site and this is always new information for some.
“Decades ago, visitors from other planets warned us about the direction we were heading and offered to help. Instead, some of us interpreted their visits as a threat, and decided to shoot first and ask questions after. Trillions of dollars have been spent on black projects which both congress and the commander in chief have deliberately been kept in the dark.” (source) - Former Canadian Defense Minister Paul Hellyer
“In one of the cases during the cold war, 1961, there were about 50 UFOs in formation flying South from Russia across Europe. The supreme allied commander was very concerned and was about ready to press the panic button when they turned around and went back over the North Pole. They decided to do an investigation and they investigated for three years and they decided with absolute certainty that four different species, at least, have been visiting this planet for thousands of years. There’s been a lot more activity in the past two decades, especially since we invented the atomic bomb.” (source) - Paul Hellyer
“Behind the scenes, high ranking Air Force officers are soberly concerned about UFOs. But through official secrecy and ridicule, many citizens are led to believe the unknown flying objects are nonsense” Former head of CIA, Roscoe Hillenkoetter, 1960 (source)
“There is a serious possibility that we are being visited and have been visited for many years by people from outer space, by other civilizations. Who they are, where they are from, and what they want should be the subject of rigorous scientific investigation and not be the subject of ‘rubishing’ by tabloid newspapers.” (source) - Lord Admiral Hill-Norton, Former Chief of Defence Staff, 5 Star Admiral of the Royal Navy, Chairman of the NATO Military Committee
“This thing has gotten so highly-classified…it is just impossible to get anything on it. I have no idea who controls the flow of need-to-know because, frankly, I was told in such an emphatic way that it was none of my business that I’ve never tried to make it to be my business since. I have been interested in this subject for a long time and I do know that whatever the Air Force has on the subject is going to remain highly classified” – Senator Barry Goldwater, Chairman of the Senate intelligence committee (source)
“There is abundant evidence that we are being contacted, that civilizations have been monitoring us for a very long time. That their appearance is bizarre from any type of traditional materialistic western point of view. That these visitors use the technologies of consciousness, they use toroids, they use co-rotating magnetic disks for their propulsion systems, that seems to be a common denominator of the UFO phenomenon” (source) - Dr. Brian O’leary, Former NASA Astronaut and Princeton Physics Professor
Former Sen. Mike Gravel (D-Alaska), and 2008 presidential candidate said that there is “an extraterrestrial influence that is investigating our planet. Something is monitoring the planet and they are monitoring it very cautiously.” You can learn more about the citizens hearing here.
I cannot begin to express how much information and evidence is out there to support the extraterrestrial hypothesis.
For more articles on this subject from Collective Evolution, you can click HERE
Sources: All sources are highlighted throughout the article.
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The "Illusion" of "Investigative Journalism" -- Reporter writes on "Why I Left 60 Minutes"
The "Illusion" of "Investigative Journalism" -- Reporter writes on "Why I Left 60 Minutes"
Hi all:
I have a brother (vehemently dismissive, but also very ignorant, of UFOs) who works as a programmer for a Belgian newspaper publishing company. He told me that journalists hardly ever check the stories they get from the various wire services with which the newspaper company has a contract. They just copy paste, translate and slightly redact the stories because there is no time for fact searching as they always have a deadline to catch. And since the newspaper publishing companies have agreements with these news services, they will understandably swallow whole their news reports. British journalist Nick Davies wrote an excellent book "Flat Earth News" (2009) which deals with the lies, the distortions and propaganda in the worldwide media.
What bothers me most about prominent journalists is their arrogance pretending to be in the know of all that is important in the world and thus what is real and what isn't. In June 2007 I attended a farwell lecture by a Belgian believer turned diehard debunker (who, by the way, told me in private that he liked my thoughts and postings re UFOs but said I was in the wrong camp). After the lecture he was interviewed by a female journalist (the press onlypaid attention to this retiring debunker) and after finishing her interview she came and sat next to me. So, I seized the opportunity to asked her if she knew anything about UFOs and she said no. She said that UFOs do not exist and are nothing more than a belief. So, here we have a journalist drawing conclusions about a topic she knows nothing about without ever having studied the relevant data. Journalists should base their statements on facts. She clearly stood out because of her gross ignorance. She said it wasn't her job to report accurately about the UFO phenomenon, she was just there to interview this retiring debunker. In other words, she was just carrying out an assignment from her employer. And an article about UFOs is always an eye-catcher especially in the summer time.
“We don’t do stories about issues, we do stories about people.
In other words, for today's journalists UFO's are an "issue" and thus not a "story." The story is "people" – thus the vast emphasis on colorful UFO kooks and nutballs. In other words, journalism is entertainment not factual investigation and reporting on important issues.
Another way to look at it is that journalists do not regard UFO’s as events – which would imply reality – but as experiences of people – who are then chosen according to sensational or entertainment value.Wackjob people can have experiences they “believe” are real, without society via its journalistic representatives endorsing their reality.It’s tongue-in-cheek reporting.
Since the entire field of journalism in America takes its cues from theNew York Times and Washington Post all it takes is a few well-placed phone calls by key US Government officials to buddies atNYT andWP to derail serious UFO investigative reports forever (note Charles Lewis' story of how that worked so well on a non-UFO subject with60 Minutes producer Don Hewitt who instantly jerked Mike Wallace like a puppet on a string). Do that every decade or so and UFO's are locked out of society because the tone and the agenda have been set by influential people who have been quietly approached. No vast conspiracy. Just a few key people with close friends in the defense and intelligence communities.
Note that this requires virtually no budget.A few phone calls or a couple off-hand conversations in a bar don’t cost a thing to federal agencies and would barely even be worth a memo for the files.Journalists are just conferring with trusted sources “on background” or “deep background” and it does not matter who initiated the contact – the effect is the same.UFO’s are marginalized as a freak, untouchable subject.
The big networks say they care about uncovering the truth. That’s not what I saw.
Ernest Hemingway famously said that “the most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof shit detector. This is the writer’s radar and all great writers have had it.” He was talking about the novelist, I suppose. But his dictum applies to the investigative journalist, in spades. It is the born reporter who insistently, even masochistically, clings to the notion that things are not what they outwardly seem and pursues the hidden truth in any situation even when other people prefer to ignore it. For most people this simply is not normal human activity
Imagine discovering that a paid FBI informant may have actually killed a civil rights worker during one of the most famous civil rights marches in U.S. history? Or that a top county public school official had put 23 of his relatives on the payroll, sexually harassed female employees and separately had informed the parents of handicapped students that their children couldn’t attend school. Or uncovering the fact that the most famous divorce lawyer in America had been literally raping his clients. Or that the (then) biggest savings and loan fraud in the U.S. was actually an inside job, in which a banker had allowed his financial institution to be defrauded as he received millions of dollars from the perpetrators. Or that a presidential campaign co-chairman had helped teach white supremacist groups how to develop a militia capacity. In Washington, D.C., especially in Washington D.C., an investigative reporter’s shit detector must be mighty.
I’ll admit it takes a strange sort of zeal to spend months or years on a single subject, to accept rejection by scores of sources, to weather threats—everything from the very real possibility of being thrown from a second-story window to being stalked outside my hotel room to million-dollar lawsuits and almost universal calumny—all in dogged pursuit of obscured information. Despite having spent a lifetime with this peculiar form of affliction, I’m sure I can’t fully explain it.
But when I embarked on this profession, I was in many ways prepared for all that—for the threats, the lawsuits and the general hostility. That was just the cost of doing business. What I didn’t foresee, what floored me and frustrated me, was that sometimes the biggest obstacles in the pursuit of what Carl Bernstein calls “the best obtainable version of the truth” came from the inside—from my bosses and my bosses’ bosses who, despite their professed support, had no real interest in publishing the hardest-hitting stories.
*******************************************************************************************************IIn October 1977, a few weeks before I turned 24, after a brief make-or-break meeting with the reporting unit’s leader where I pitched half a dozen potential national investigative stories that apparently resonated with him, I was hired as a “reportorial producer” for a fledgling “Special Reporting Unit” at ABC News. This was my dream job.
Over my six-and-a-half years at ABC, I investigated everything from attempted presidential assassinations to unsolved crimes from the civil rights era, from prospective Supreme Court nominees to FBI misconduct, from Washington corruption scandals such as ABSCAM to the 1980 presidential campaign. I remain proud of my work during these years, which provided my continuing education about the United States and the world, about national and local politics and news gathering, about internal corporate machinations and duplicity, about truth and airbrushed truth (and the best techniques for distinguishing the two).
Yet over time, the work was becoming enormously frustrating. The Special Reporting Unit was disbanded after a year, and I was reassigned within the ABC Washington Bureau. Independently, I had begun to conclude that, generally speaking, network television news (in that pre-Internet age) was disconcertingly tethered to the front-page news judgment of the nation’s most respected newspapers. When I would propose exclusive stories up the ladder, for example, I would frequently receive notes back saying, “I haven’t read this in the New York Times” as the rationale for not pursuing them.
It became painfully apparent over time that network television news was not especially interested in investigative reporting, certainly not to the extent or the depth of the best national print outlets. In fact, the most trusted man in America around this time, CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite, had told Time magazine something in 1966 that still rang true more than a decade later: that “the networks, including my own, do a first-rate job of disseminating the news, but all of them have third-rate news-gathering organizations. We are still basically dependent on the wire services. We have barely dipped our toe into investigative reporting.”
Gradually, television’s daily editorial insecurity vis-à-vis the older print world and its own tepid commitment to enterprise journalism caused me to conclude that all three major networks were mostly interested in the illusion of investigative reporting. Breathless, “exclusive” coverage of the latest government report (preferably ahead of the other networks), replete with “revelations” and “findings”—all unabashedly piggybacking on the investigations of others, official reports by inspectors general or congressional committees, criminal or civil court records—could create the aura of an aggressive news organization, for much less money (and fewer libel suits) than actually doing the original reporting. I found it sobering to realize that the news organization I worked for didn’t consider the work of finding the actual truth about a complicated situation economically efficient or even necessary.
The absurdity of this faux-investigative game reached its nadir for me one day when I was asked to follow up on a wire service report about former president Lyndon Johnson. Someone with personal access to Johnson when he was Senate majority leader in the late 1950s had just asserted under oath that he had on more than one occasion given Johnson envelopes of cash. I was explicitly asked to “check it out” for that evening’s news program.
I had only a few hours to confirm the veracity of an allegation of misconduct more than two decades earlier, said to have been committed by a president deceased for more than a decade. Plausible or not, allegations this serious and anecdotal would take months, if not years, of archival research and reporting to investigate, and even then the chances of being able to reach a credible conclusion about what had happened were still very low.
Still, an assignment is an assignment. I gritted my teeth and, at the behest of my superiors, tracked down Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert Caro, who was in t have been more gracious, but we both immediately realized that this was a fool’s errand. In his own meticulous reporting, examining every day of Johnson’s adult life, Caro had not yet scrutinized the time period of these sensational allegations. I sheepishly thanked him and handed in some sort of response to the supremely ludicrous challenge I’d been given
I came away from that poignant, teaching moment vividly aware of the vast difference between fluff and noise masquerading as the serious pursuit of the truth and the real thing. I still tried hard to carve out a professional space where my investigative instincts could flourish. But outside of the network and within the profession of journalism, I was virtually unknown, toiling away in what was essentially a dead-end job
It didn’t help matters that I had the temerity to turn down an investigative producer job for correspondent Geraldo Rivera at the prime-time TV newsmagazine 20/20. The offer was made to me in a one-on-one meeting in New York City by ABC News vice president David Burke. Taking that position would have immediately more than doubled my salary, but I nevertheless politely declined on the spot. When Burke pressed me to explain my decision, I said that I didn’t want to work with Rivera—a controversial showman known for breathless, sensational stories such as (years later) the live unsealing of Al Capone’s secret vault (which turned out to be empty).
Burke was flabbergasted and apoplectic with rage; his face turned red, his neck veins popped, he jabbed a finger at me, and he spewed a string of expletives, along with a line I’ve never forgotten: “You people in [the] Washington [Bureau] are so fucking smug and arrogant. The only reporter at this network with any balls is Geraldo Rivera.” What’s more, he made it emphatically clear that I would never be offered another job at ABC News, and I’ve been told that he went out ofhis way to block any promotions or transfers to other bureaus.
At the same time, to my dismay, I discovered that big-time newspaper editors viewed TV news veterans with great suspicion and distrust. In their view, I had begun my professional journalism career by going to work on the dark side. So with considerable frustration, and with no appealing alternatives, I resigned myself to staying at ABC until a better opportunity came along.
In March 1984, it did. Veteran CBS News correspondent Mike Wallace called me to ask if I might be interested in producing investigative segments for him at 60 Minutes. I had never met Wallace or spoken with him, and I was floored by his unexpected call. Of course, I had followed his network career for many years and was fully aware that 60 Minutes was the highest-rated, most honored network news program in the history of television. Wallace had been one of the two original 60 Minutes correspondents in 1968, earning fame for his unflinchingly aggressive interview style and investigative edge. He’d been assaulted on the floor of the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, and he’d interviewed the Ayatollah Khomeini in Tehran during the Iran hostage crisis in 1979—just two highlights from an award-winning, sometimes controversial career. I was excited by the opportunity to work with him. I thought maybe this time would be different.
During my first year at 60 Minutes, I looked into 150 possible stories and wrote memoranda about a couple dozen of them. Yet only three became broadcast segments on the program. I had been hired explicitly to break big, edgy, investigative stories, but I soon discovered that large, original investigations of my own were generally impractical—even at a show famous for its exposés—because of the intense time pressures. So the challenge was to find important, previously investigated subjects that could be told well and further reported on television.
There were other restrictions as well. The dictum at 60 Minutes, as often repeated by founder and executive producer Don Hewitt, was that “we don’t do stories about issues, we do stories about people.” Good “characters” were essential for these morality plays, and without a few of them, there simply would be no 13:30 story—then considered the “ideal” segment length, I had been told
It would be wrong to say that I didn’t find satisfaction in the job. During my roughly five years at the program, I investigated and brought to broadcast numerous segments—most of them of the classic, formulaic, good-versus-evil 60 Minutes genre—about a diverse range of subjects: a corrupt public school superintendent in Appalachia; multimillion-dollar Social Security check fraud by postal employees in San Francisco; art fraud involving Salvador Dali lithographs; and murder inside the worst hospital in America.
But I had also seen things at two networks that had troubled me profoundly: nationally important stories not pursued; well-connected, powerful people and companies with questionable policies and practices that were not investigated precisely because of the connections and the power they boasted.
My last 60 Minutes segment, “Foreign Agent,” featured well-known former U.S. officials and presidential campaign aides from both parties who were cashing in on their political connections by working as lobbyists or investment bankers for foreign entities. One of the latter was former Commerce Secretary Pete Peterson, at the time the CEO of the New York-based investment firm Blackstone and, more important, one of Don Hewitt’s closest personal friends. The two men were so close that Don would often join Peterson on his company helicopter for Friday-night flights to the Hamptons, thereby avoiding the summertime bumper-to-bumper traffic.
The script we’d written included the line, “For Japan and other foreign interests, finding former U.S. officials to do their bidding is not at all difficult,” accompanied by the image of a Japanese newspaper advertisement with five smiling Blackstone officials, extolling their prior U.S. government service and connections. The translation of the ad read, “If you are thinking about developing a new business or an investment strategy … that will be effective in the U.S., by all means, consult us!”
During the production process, when I showed Mike Wallace the photo I’d had shipped from Tokyo, Mike said, “That’s not our story—you’re not filming that.” And I countered, “Mike, what are you talking about? This is the nut of the story—former officials trading on the prestige of their former positions, trying to make a buck with foreign companies and governments.” Wallace and I had a huge expletive-filled shouting match, toe to toe, our faces close; I refused to back down, and he stormed out. We put the picture in the piece.
The first time Don screened the piece, he quipped, “I guess I’m not going to get any more rides on Pete’s helicopter.” But as the days and weeks wore on, with the piece not green-lighted for air—ostensibly because it was “too long”—I realized that I had no choice but to find some sort of editorial compromise, which was offensive to me then and, quite frankly, still is.
One day, while I was on the phone, Don walked into my office and asked whether I’d found a way to “fix” the piece
“Yes,” I said, and I suggested that we remove Peterson’s name from the script and replace it with the name of another well-known Blackstone official, former Reagan budget director David Stockman. It was a nanosecond shorter—two syllables instead of three—and it solved the unstated, real problem that Don had with the story. Don smiled, said “Terrific,” and left the room, which meant the segment had just been approved for air that Sunday.
I picked up the open phone receiver and resumed my conversation with one of the segment interviewees, Pat Choate, the Ph.D. economist and author who later ran for vice president on the Ross Perot ticket in 1996. I asked Pat, “Did you hear all that?” And he replied, “Every word.”
The substitution of Stockman for Peterson didn’t settle all the problems with the piece. In the days leading up to the broadcast, other prominent people mentioned in the story had been applying personal and legal pressure on Don and Mike, as well as the president of CBS News. So instead of being praised for producing a powerful, important story, I was under siege, being blamed for causing problems. I found myself in an inhospitable environment for original investigative reporting and its occasional consequences—pushback from the powerful (which should be a badge of honor for a reporter), but also spinelessness from my employer about what we had just published. Wallace and I had several venomous arguments that week, none more boisterous or invective-filled than some phone calls in the hours before the Sunday broadcast, in which we literally hung up on each other.
The whole noxious ordeal made something inside me snap. The morning after “Foreign Agent” led the broadcast, in the midst of a four-year contract, with a family to support, a mortgage to pay, and virtually no savings, I quit 60 Minutes.
Producers there usually retire, voluntarily or involuntarily, or die on the job—hardly anyone just up and quits. In a brief phone call from my Washington office to the show’s offices in New York City, I matter-of-factly informed Mike Wallace that I had decided to leave. My announcement came moments after Wallace had called me, somewhat giddy, to say that CBS chairman Laurence Tisch had just phoned him with effusive congratulations about our hard-hitting story the previous evening. It was the best thing he had seen on CBS in years, Tisch had told him, a “real public service.”
Later that morning, I faxed Don Hewitt a three-sentence letter of resignation
Wallace and others at the program later asked my friends and colleagues if perhaps I was having a nervous breakdown. Don Hewitt wanted to know if “this” was all about money; he indicated that my contract could be substantially renegotiated upward, and then I could get back to work.
Of course, my departure had nothing to do with either of these factors. Nor was it driven by any personal animus on my part toward Mike Wallace. Mike was certainly not the easiest man to work with, but I respected him and his enormous contribution to broadcast journalism, and appreciated the opportunity he had given me.
It was a matter of principle. It was simply time for me to leave.
Many people, then and since, have asked me what exactly I was thinking—after all, I was walking away from a successful career full of future promise. Certainly, quitting 60 Minutes was the most impetuous thing I have ever done. But looking back, I realize how I’d changed. Beneath my polite, mild-mannered exterior, I’d developed a bullheaded determination not to be denied, misled or manipulated. And more than at any previous time, I had had a jarring epiphany that the obstacles on the way to publishing the unvarnished truth had become more formidable internally than externally. I joked to friends that it had become far easier to investigate the bastards—whoever they are—than to suffer through the reticence, bureaucratic hand-wringing and internal censorship of my employer.
In a highly collaborative medium, I had found myself working with overseers I felt I could no longer trust journalistically or professionally, especially in the face of public criticism or controversy—a common occupational hazard for an investigative reporter. My job was to produce compelling investigative journalism for an audience of 30 million to 40 million Americans. But if my stories generated the slightest heat, it was obvious to me who would be expendable. My sense of isolation and vulnerability was palpable.
The best news about this crossroads moment was that after 11 years in the intense, cutthroat world of network television news, I still had some kind of inner compass. I was still unwilling to succumb completely to the lures of career ambition, financial security, peer pressure or conventional wisdom.
Just weeks after I quit, I decided to begin a nonprofit investigation reporting organization—a place dedicated to digging deep beneath the smarminess of Washington’s daily-access journalism into the documents few reporters seemed to be reading, which I knew from experience would reveal broad patterns of cronyism, favoritism, personal enrichment and outrageous (though mostly legal) corruption. My dream was a journalistic utopia—an investigative milieu in which no one would tell me who or what not to investigate. And so I recruited two trusted journalist friends and founded the Center for Public Integrity. The Center’s first report, “America’s Frontline Trade Officials,” was an expanded version of the 60 Minutes “Foreign Agent” story. Not long after this report was published, President George H.W. Bush signed an executive order banning former trade officials from becoming lobbyists for foreign governments or corporations.
Over the years, the center was the first news organization to analyze and post online all of the available financial disclosure statements for every state legislator in America, revealing numerous apparent conflicts of interest. It broke the Lincoln bedroom scandal first revealing that President Bill Clinton’s top donors had been rewarded with overnight stays in the White House. In February 2003, weeks before the U.S. invasion of Iraq, the center posted secret draft “Patriot II” legislation, and in October it posted all of the known U.S. war contracts in Afghanistan. In the past quarter-century, the center’s reporting has won more than 70 national awards, including the Pulitzer Prize, the Goldsmith Prize and the George Polk award for three separate stories in 2014. Meanwhile, I now teach journalism at the American University School of Communication in Washington, and I am the founding executive editor of the Investigative Reporting Workshop, the largest university-based, nonprofit newsroom in the United States.
The center did amazingly well, today even becoming a venerable institution—employing 40 people full-time and it publishing scores of investigative stories a year. But it’s frustrating that it was ever necessary at all. Back in 1989 when I started it, major investigative reporting did not seem to be particularly valued by national news editors, whether in broadcasting or newspapers. Instead, they seemed satisfied merely to reactively report on the systemic abuses of power, trust and the law in Washington—from the Iran-Contra scandal to the savings and loan disaster to the first resignation of a House Speaker since 1800. There was very little proactive, original investigative journalism about these or other vitally important subjects, and, equally galling to me, there was smug arrogance and complacency instead of apologetic humility by those in the national press corps, despite their lackluster pursuit of such abuses of power.
And more than two decades later, it’s no better. With a third fewer commercial journalists than 20 years ago and public relations “spinners” now outnumbering professional reporters and editors by 4 to 1, the Center for Public Integrity and organizations like it are more necessary than ever. Fewer commercial news organizations support investigative journalism now than at any time in recent history, and reporters today—especially those who aggressively seek the truths that government, business and other powerful institutions seek to conceal—are arguably more alone, more exposed and more vulnerable to professional and even physical harm than they ever were.
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Ik ben Pieter, en gebruik soms ook wel de schuilnaam Peter2011.
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