Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.
This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.
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UFO'S of UAP'S, ASTRONOMIE, RUIMTEVAART, ARCHEOLOGIE, OUDHEIDKUNDE, SF-SNUFJES EN ANDERE ESOTERISCHE WETENSCHAPPEN - DE ALLERLAATSTE NIEUWTJES
UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
MUFON of het Mutual UFO Network Inc is een Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in alle USA-staten en diverse landen.
MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com.
Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
14-08-2014
Four UFOs Seen At NASA Space Station On Aug 12, 2014, -Video
Four UFOs Seen At NASA Space Station On Aug 12, 2014, -Video
“This was discovered by Streetcap1 of Youtube. He was watching the live NASA ISS cam and caught this on HD. Nice catch. These glowing objects actually come into focus for a few seconds and reveal that they are four very large glowing orbs. The orbs are in formation, so they can get noticed more easily by the astronauts or live cam. Yes, I believe they did this on purpose,” reports Scott Waring author of UFO Sightings Daily
UFO sighting above East Edmonton, Canada on 2nd August 2014
UFO sighting above East Edmonton, Canada on 2nd August 2014
New interesting video footage of a bright UFO light recorded in the daytime sky above East Edmonton, Canada on 2nd August2014.
Witness said:
We first spotted this object coming from East towards Edmonton then it made several sharp turns before this video was taken. At the time it was high in the clouds and hard to see and it dropped down from our view in area of south Edmonton.
UFO sighting moves above London, UK on 19th July 2014
UFO sighting moves above London, UK on 19th July 2014
New interesting video footage of a bright UFO light recorded in the skies above London, UK on 19th July 2014.
Witness said: Captured this UFO over London skyline. Tried to figure and rule out what it could have been but its movement made it impossible to do so. Any thoughts and suggestions would be appreciated.
Mysterieuze objecten gefilmd bij internationaal ruimtestation ISS
Mysterieuze objecten gefilmd bij internationaal ruimtestation ISS
Op 4 augustus jongstleden werd bij het internationale ruimtestation ISS door één van de webcams van de NASA een witte lichtbol gezien. Blogger Scott Waring van UFO Sightings Daily omschreef het object als een ‘oplichtende schijf’.
De Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie heeft in totaal vier webcams aan het ISS vastgemaakt. In HD-kwaliteit kunnen nieuwsgierigen ‘live’ meegenieten van het uitzicht. De beelden worden eerst naar aarde gestuurd en geformateerd, voordat ze worden uitgezonden. Voor de kijkers met geduld is er iedere drie kwartier een zonsondergang of –opgang te zien.
In drie verschillende filmpjes is te zien hoe de webcam buiten het internationale ruimtestation één of meerdere mysterieuze witte lichtbollen opvangt. De reeks waarnemingen bij het ISS begon op 4 augustus, meldt de Houston Chronicle.
“Ik maakte een screenshot van de UFO en zoomde in,” aldus Waring op zijn website. “In het midden van het object loopt een lange lijn. Bovenop zit een koepel. Van onderen bekeken is het vierkant van vorm.”
Terwijl het object steeds dichterbij lijkt te komen, schakelt de camera halverwege het filmpje over op een leeg, blauw scherm. Voor sommigen is dit reden om aan te nemen dat NASA de waarheid verbergt.
In de tweede video, die dateert van 7 augustus, is een wit licht boven de atmosfeer van de aarde te zien. Het licht verdwijnt langzaam uit het zicht.
Het laatste filmpje toont een aantal witte stippen die in de buurt van het internationale ruimtestation verschijnen. Na een minuut verdwijnen de vier stippen uit beeld.
Farmer may hold UFO clue to 36-year Valentich plane mystery
This photograph was taken off Cape Otway 20 minutes before pilot Frederick Valentich went missing. Picture: Supplied Source: News Limited
INVESTIGATORS have shed new light on one of Australia’s greatest aviation mysteries.
Almost 36 years to the month that Victorian pilot Fred Valentich vanished without a trace, an independent researcher says there is evidence suggesting the 20-year-old’s Cessna was spotted in the sky over South Australia — attached to a UFO.
The Victorian UFO Action group wants help to identify a farmer near Adelaide who reportedly witnessed the 30m craft hovering over his property the morning after Mr Valentich went missing.
It is claimed the Cessna was stuck to the side of the craft, leaking oil. The farmer even scratched the plane’s registration number on to his tractor but never came forward with the information because he was ridiculed by the few friends he told.
The theory has sparked furious debate as the nation’s leading UFO investigators prepare for a national conference in Melbourne next month.
Frederick Valentich.Source: Supplied
Lead investigator George Simpson, one of the last people to see the plane in the sky, says the farmer, if still alive, might have information to solve the mystery.
He conceded there was no proof, but said it was the best new lead for a case that had intrigued Australians for decades. “It’s easy for some to dismiss, but there are corroborating stories confirming that there was a UFO near Adelaide at the time,” Mr Simpson said.
Mr Valentich had been on a routine cargo flight to King Island in October 1978 when he disappeared.
In his last conversation with air traffic control, he reported an object hovering in front of him and said it was “not an aircraft’’. It was the last thing Mr Valentich said before a strange metallic clicking sound was heard and the transmission stopped.
Extensive searches failed to find any trace of the plane or the pilot.
“This was an experienced pilot who should have been able to identify another aircraft but was clearly unable to,” Mr Simpson said.
Adding to the mystery, an amateur photo taken in the area that evening shows a dark unidentifiable shape in the sky.
Investigators are also trying to find a copy of Valentich’s final transmission that was originally aired on Melbourne radio station 3XY.
The Valentich case will be among a string of Aussie X-files to be discussed when the Victorian UFO Action group hosts its “Age of Reason” conference on September 6.
“Strange days, strange tales” – a Valentich connection?
On Monday 21 October 2013 35 years will have passed since young pilot Frederick Valentich disappeared on a flight to King Island in Bass Strait. It is one of the major aviation mysteries of Australia. The following article has been prepared to see if there is anyone out there who can help with information pertinent to the story revealed here.
Consider this as a preliminary progress report on some strange days and strange tales in the lives of some UFO researchers pursuing a possible resolution of one of the stranger folios from the OZ Files – the Australian UFO story.
“The Unexplained Files” series on the Discovery Science channel debut in September 2013 featuring a good recreation of the extraordinary 1978 Valentich mystery. My friend George Simpson (based in Melbourne Victoria) was instrumental in the excellent accounting of this story on the programme.
The disappearance of young pilot Frederick Valentich and the Cessna (VH – DSJ, Delta Sierra Juliet) he was flying over Bass Strait and the UFO encounter he described in his conversation with Melbourne Air Service controller Steve Robey are all extraordinary aspects of one of the major aviation mysteries of Australia.
The lost Cessna VH-DSJphotographed at Essendon Airport in 1974(VUFOA/Victorian plane mechanic archive)
The Roy Manifold photo showing a possible UFO
The programme featured Steve Robey obviously still distressed about the disappearance of Valentich. Frederick’s younger brother Richard gave the family’s dimension to the story. Both these elements remind us that a disturbing and tragic element still haunts this mystery. George Simpson interviewed Roy Manifold who took some intriguing photos at the time and locality of Valentich’s departure from the Australian mainland on route to King Island in Bass Strait. There were many other interesting aspects described in the programme.
George Simpson
Roy Manifold discussing his photos with George Simpson
In the wake of the release of the long awaited official Valentich files from the Australian government’s Department of Transport during June 2012, (largely through the persistence of Keith Basterfield) which provided information for a wide range of conflicting theories, the Discovery Science programme reminds us that the disappearance of Frederick Valentich and the Cessna is still a mystery for which we have no certain answers.
The Department of Transport "Valentich" file V116/783/1047
Dr. Richard Haines who investigated the case and authored a book on it – “Melbourne Episode – case study of a missing pilot” (1987) facilitated the airing of the actual strange sound heard at the end of Frederick Valentich's last radio conversation with Steve Robey. I heard the tape back in 1984 when I stayed with Dr. Haines in California.
It was Richard Haines comment in the programme that the sound might be of contact between the Cessna plane (DSJ) and the UFO Valentich had been describing in the six minute conversation that caused me to suddenly reconsider a very strange story I had come across back in early 1995.
HIGH STRANGENESS IN COONABARABRAN
The "Coonabarabran Times" of Coonabarabran, in north west country New South Wales, Australia, in its November 17th, 1994 issue, carried brief details of an apparent close encounter with a diamond shaped UFO near ground level on November 15th, 1994, on the Mendooran road to the south of the town. With the assistance of local police, I was able to interview the 4 principal witnesses to this apparent close encounter.
The Mendooran Road UFO was initially seen as a large light source hovering over the nearby road. An approaching car appeared to cause the object to start moving. and slowly move closer to a farm house, where the 4 adults witnesses were observing it. At its closest point all witnesses described it as a massive object - a diamond shape with lights around the edges, with window like structures within the body of it. There was a very bright yellow light inside it. It appeared to be at tree height and of massive dimensions. As the 4 adults left the house verandah to go closer to the silent object, which seemed to be only 300 yards away and slowly passing along side the house area, it suddenly accelerated at a phenomenal speed and disappeared in the distance. After the object had passed by there was a tremendous high pitched engine noise, almost like a sonic wave.
The details were so striking I decided to do an on site investigation. Further still I had long known that Coonabarabran seemed to be a haven for UFO stories. There were many reports that my friend Robb Tilley and I would investigate over the days we were in the area.Here are a few of them. On the same section of Mendooran Road of the November 1994 incident a driver coming from Sydney to Coonabarabran had an encounter in which the radio and other electrical items in the car were affected.I spoke with a gentleman who witnessed another massive diamond shaped object while timber cutting near Binaway, back in about 1979. His companion allegedly took a photograph, which my informant indicates he saw. It apparently showed a silvery shape with sections without the observed lights. The informant states he was told the army took the photo and he believes that his companion ended up in a mental home. He implied it was due to the photo incident.
AN ASTRONOMER'S UFO SIGHTING
The Sydney Morning Herald of January 11, 1995 ran an article featuring a UFO sighting by Dr. John Dawe, the manager of the Sidings Spring Observatory, near Coonabarabran. Dr. Dawe is an internationally respected astronomer. The article stated that many months ago he was driving back from Sydney with his wife and daughter.
"We were going up a hill near Merriwa, at the top of the Hunter, when I happened to look up at the sky. There was a uniform, grey cloud cover, but suddenly something seemed to detach itself, hover for a while, then fall vertically very quickly below the brow of the hill. I yelled an expletive, which made everyone take notice. My wife saw the same thing, but by the time we got to the top we couldn't see anything."My tentative explanation was that it was a weather balloon. But it was grey, rather than silver, and was elliptical horizontally, not vertically."Dr. Dawe was quoted as saying it was "classic stuff.""It was something I still cannot explain. But I am 99.99 per cent certain it was nothing alien."
Dr. Dawe did not respond to a letter I sent him, but another Coonabarabran astronomer told me that he felt Dr. Dawe's report was only unexplained because unfortunately Dr. Dawe could not stick around immediately after the sighting and thoroughly investigate the matter. The sentiment expressed was that an explanation would have been forthcoming had a prompt investigation occurred.
LAURIE'S STORY FROM A SOUTH AUSTRALIAN FARMERABOUT A UFO & A CESSNA THE DAY AFTER THE VALENTICH DISAPPEARANCE
So there were many stories to look into in the area. One of the area witnesses told me that I should seek out Laurie a local businessman, who had a lot of UFO stories to tell that he himself had heard.
One story was utterly startling and unbelievable, but it was apparently connected to the Valentich mystery, initially told to me by one of the Coonabarabran witnesses who had heard it through Laurie. Others encouraged us to ask Laurie about other stories. We did both, but the story in question stood out.
Laurie told us he had heard the story directly from a South Australian farmer who had bought a property in the north west of New South Wales. The farmer had come into his business and the talk had strayed onto UFOs. He shared with Laurie an experience he had on his South Australian property on the day following the disappearance of Frederick Valentich.
The farmer said he was harvesting lucerne when he heard a loud screeching sound coming from the harvester. He thought it might have been a bearing, so he uncoupled the harvester from the tractor’s power drive, and jumped off and went back to have a look. The farmer was trying to work out the source of the continuing noise, when he became aware that he was in shadow. He looked up and saw he was directly underneath a large “saucer” shaped object, and going by the size of his harvester, he estimated it to be about 30 metres across (approximately 90 feet). The loud screeching noise continued. From directly underneath the object the farmer reportedly could see two concentric outer rings or bands that were counter rotational and were operating at different speeds. One went very fast, so fast that you had to blink to see that it was moving. The other one was moving very slowly in the opposite direction. There were two small protuberances that the farmer took to be rudders, and two large holes, one had ‘shimmering heat’ coming out, the other was shooting small flames.
The farmer began to think there was something horribly wrong with this huge object and that it might crash down on him. So he ran to get out from under it. He got the impression that one of object’s engines had stopped working.
As he moved away the farmer looked back at the object which he could now see edge on. It had a large dome on top, and what looked like a black weather seal along the base of the dome structure. He then noticed what looked like a “church door with a curved top, but no windows or handles were visible.”
He then told Laurie the most unusual thing was that he saw the massive object had a Cessna stuck to the outside of it – “the whole aircraft.” It was flat up against the side of the object with it’s tail hanging down. Laurie said he was not sure whether the farmer said there was engine oil running down the outside of the Cessna but he could clearly see the plane’s registration markings.
He found a nail and scratched the plane’s registration number into the paint of his tractor. According to Laurie, the farmer said the object – “the saucer” – still accompanied by the screeching sound then flew away over a ridge in the direction of a nearby Army range.
The farmer said to Laurie he told no one about what happened. He went into town later in the day. One of his neighbours saw him and apparently said, “I see you are doing some more crop spreading”. He said no, why do you say that. The neighbour said, “I saw the Cessna today up in your top paddock.” The farmer told Laurie, he replied to his neighbour, “There’s no Cessna in my top paddock.” The neighbour insisted, “Yes there is, I was up near there, I saw it there today.” The farmer said, “That’s interesting, I’ll have a look when I get home.”He went up to the top paddock and saw no plane, but he did see three tyre marks and some tracks from a plane. He followed the tracks to where they ended, and there was “a pool of ’flamin’ engine oil” on the ground. I recorded the story from Laurie on two separate occasions, one over the phone in January 1995 and face to face in Coonabarabran one month later in the presence of my friend Robb Tilley. Laurie was impressed with the story. Robb and I simply did not know what to think. Getting further information proved elusive.
As I had lived through the Valentich mystery unfolding at the time in 1978 and had written extensively about the research and investigation of the extraordinary events I was acutely sensitive to the bizarre and strange aspects. I also had contact with Guido Valentich, Frederick’s father and I knew that he had been exposed to various claims about what had happened to his son. He even helped me investigate one claim, which ultimately ended in no real resolution, just another unverifiable claim. Sadly Guido Valentich passed away without a definitive answer to his son’s disappearance.
With Laurie’s account from the farmer I had yet another extraordinarily bizarre and unbelievable claim. Laurie told me the farmer returned on another occasion with the Cessna’s registration number. It was DSJ the number of Valentich’s Cessna. This in itself was not convincing for me because that information was widely reported at the time of the plane’s disappearance.
I did not want to burden the Valentich family or authorities with yet another unverified story. The biggest problem the story had for me then was that Laurie couldn’t recollect the farmer’s name. He told me he had written all this down in notes, but he had not been able to find them. I stayed in touch with Laurie for a while but despite attempts to come up with a name, without his notes we couldn’t progress the investigation unless we had a vast amount time and resources available. I circulated a brief account on Paranet (a favoured research internet facility) at the time but nothing came of it. So the story stayed a sleeper until Dr. Haines comments on the Discovery Science programme “The Unexplained Files.” I immediately accessed my notes and tapes and began to evaluate whether the considerably improved resources of the internet, social media and other resources would now allow another attempt at getting to the heart of the story. Sadly, I quickly learnt that Laurie had past away about 7 years ago.
I contacted George Simpson and shared the story with him. We both agreed that despite the bizarre nature of the story we should try to see if we could track down anyone who had knowledge of the story and see if we could get a name for the farmer. We have since been tracking down all sorts of clues.
THE BIZARRE STORY OF A NSW FARMER
We have even talked with a farmer who described a similar experience - a UFO over his property with a Cessna attached to it on the day following the Valentich disappearance! His is a story with bizarre additions to the tale told to Laurie. It seems this farmer may not have talked to Laurie in Coonabarabran. He was not from South Australia and his property was in southern central News South Wales near the Victorian border! The former farmer, from southern New South Wales, talks of a part of his property he gave over to UFOs that would land from time to time. This became an obsession that his neighbours became aware of. He even tried crude strategies to catch the UFOs.
Then allegedly, there was the day and night the UFO came with a Cessna plane attached to the side of it. The story this farmer told included a visit to his homestead by a pilot, accompanied by a strange person, seeking aviation oil, a strange story of a pilot “forced” to fly a Cessna away from the area and an impossible tale of an object from the plane left in a tree stump as a clue, the farmer thought, that the pilot and “the plane” had been there, hoping to be found. The farmer thought this was a flight recorder “black box,” but this certainly could not be, as civilian Cessna aircraft, such as VH-DSJ, did not have one. That connection and other factors make this former NSW farmer’s story both troubling and problematic. His former neighbour, who I have spoken to, does not confirm details attributed to them, but does confirm curious UFO stories all coming from the former farmer, some seemingly predating October 1978 – the period the Valentich disappearance occurred in.Had he heard the story of the South Australian farmer and made it his own, absorbing it into his own UFO obsessions? There are perhaps curious echoes with other diverse tales of Valentich returning from Spanish, Russian and American sources, none which convinced me upon trying to thoroughly examined the dubious evidence for them.
We have not yet found the South Australian farmer who spoke with Laurie. All our investigations to date have supported that Laurie had a great memory, but unfortunately in this case when it came to names we need his notes and these may be lost to us. We hope not. Our investigations continue as we go through a number of different names and clues. We hope that our investigation or someone reading this might have facts that will stand up to scrutiny and give us the possibility of figuring out if this wild tale is the stuff of UFO high strangeness and an answer to the Valentich mystery, or just another ultimately unverified story. Hopefully time will tell and we will be able to report further on this fascinating or beguiling story.
CAN YOU HELP?
We owe it to the Valentich family to find out. Contact George Simpson or me if you have any information that might help in our investigation at aufornvic@optusnet.com.au or billozfiles@tpg.com.au
Some things are certain in our wild ride – these are strange days, strange tales. Far less certain is whether we are trying to resolve a genuine story, strange echoes of one, or a tall tale from down under – a strange kind of bush “urban legend” in the making. So far it has been an intense, intriguing and occasionally frustrating investigation of a tale from the OZ files.
As the news of the day pulsed along the once seemingly unthinkable pathways of the information industry — boots on the ground in Gaza, slide show updates on Mila Kunis’s pregnancy — adherents ofan earlier future gathered at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. The occasion was the annual conference of the Mutual Unidentified Flying Objects Network, which, in accordance with this year’s theme, “UFOs and the Media,” was focused not on the ephemera of the news cycle but rather on the eternalities of what several in attendance called “the biggest single story in history,” i.e., the existence of extraterrestrial life on Earth and the cover-up of that presence by the United States government, the corporate structure, and their oblivious and/or sold-out lackeys in the mainstream press.
While this year’s symposium attracted a reported 400 people, this was a far cry from the thousands who attended the MUFON conference in the late 1970s, after Close Encounters of the Third Kind introduced extraterrestrials to the mainstream moviegoer. That was at a time when a lot of people actually believed that these mysterious things from the sky represented the biggest single thing in history. Since then, despite the recent astronomical findings of the so-called “Goldilocks zone” that postulates sentient life is possible throughout the galaxy, ufology has apparently lost its grip on the public imagination, and has been demoted to a neo-cult status. For the populace at large space is no longer the place. Not that this mattered to those gathered at Cherry Hill. Used to marginalization, they were resolved to keep watching the skies.
The tone was set by keynote speaker George Knapp, an Emmy-winning reporter for KLAS-TV in Las Vegas, perhaps the best known above-ground correspondent on the ET beat, if you don’t count people like C.J. Jung, who late in life developed a deep interest in what is called “the phenomena.” A debonair raconteur, Knapp spoke of the ridicule he’d received from his MSM colleagues. “I’ll always be the UFO guy,” Knapp related with wry j’accuse, recalling how after doing a story about alleged alien medical procedures, he found himself labeled “the Grand Mullah in the Church of Cosmic Proctology.” The point wasn’t whether UFOs were “real” or a mass hallucination. The news was that people kept seeing them. Yet, according to the gatekeepers of supposed reality, Knapp said, “you, me, and everyone in this room are just a bunch of nuts.”
This was fun, especially when Knapp began talking about Area 51, “the world’s best known top secret base.” In 1989, Knapp broke the story of Robert Lazar, a then 30-year-old scientist who claimed to have worked the remote military facility in the Nevada desert. Lazar’s epic account of how the US armed forces were “reverse engineering” alien technology from crashed and captured flying saucers has become a cornerstone of the late stage UFO narrative. As soon as Lazar opened his mouth, “the meme was on the loose,” Knapp said, resulting in many books, movies, and Area 51-inspired product campaigns accompanied by theme music from the X-Files.
In the context of today’s ever-narrowing attention span, there was only one drawback to this 25-year-old story: It was 25 years old.
Not that the old was out of place in this crowd. MUFON has been around for 45 years and the average age of those who ponied up $239 for the conference was way past that. Many of the presenters, most of them long-established figures on the scene (Stanton Friedman, the 79-year-old widely acknowledged dean of the field, had to cancel owing to a mild heart attack) were equally venerable, as were most of the subjects they discussed. Much talk focused on the genre’s greatest hits: the Betty and Barney Hill abduction account (1961), the Lonnie Zamora/Socorro, New Mexico sighting (1973), the Rendlesham Forest incident in the U.K. (1980), and, of course, Roswell, circa 1947.
As noted, it wasn’t always this way. In another post-A bomb time ufology seemed a wholly appropriate response to a newer, bigger, and far more frightening world. Long before the appearance of Ezekiel’s wheel, people knew something was up there, and now that we’d fired off this nuclear bottle rocket capable of killing millions, the watchers had come in for a closer look. Suddenly palpable millennialism gave impetus to a number of so-called “ufo religions” ranging from the Honorable Elijah Muhammad’s talk of the liberating “mother plane” to ex-sci-fi writer L. Ron Hubbard’s Scientology. It also enabled a breed of typically American loner “independent researchers.” These were the free-thinking, often highly competitive (later highly paranoid) individuals who drove their vehicles into the middle of the desert, looked up into the vast firmament decided that, for better or worse, there had to be another world beyond this one. The fact that the UFO issue represented the first time a large segment of population felt the then-trusted government was withholding the truth from the public only whetted the frisson of the hunt.
It is true that very little beyond a shadow of a doubt forensic proof of alien presence has come to light over the years, but there are a number of subsidiary reasons for the seeming twilight of the UFO moment. With voracious proliferation of vampires, New World Order conspiracies, and the unprecedented rise of evangelical Christianity, the simple flying disc from far, far away has become a quaint, almost nostalgic specter. The saucer may have been the post-war generation’s signifier of the strange, but even versions of the unknown outlive their usefulness. The end of the era may have commenced with William Gibson’s Neuromancer, which located the drama of the unknown inside the claustrophobic cyberspace accessible to the common keyboardist. Instead of the far-flung wonder to the universe, much of what falls under the rubric of contemporary ufology has become deeply interiorized, resigned to the viscous psych-sexual abduction phenomena described and popularized by people like Budd Hopkins, Whitley Strieber, and John Mack. It is a narrative bothers many “hard science” ufologists. “I’m trying to evaluate these sightings,” said Tom Deuley, a no nonsense retired Naval officer, former NSA employee and a leading MUFON investigator for 37 years. “When you bring in crop circles, time-traveling and abductions, these things are hard to quantify.”
It made you wonder where, short of a landing on the White House lawn, ufology could possibly go from here. Case in point was the presentation of Steven Bassett, this year’s winner of the “Excellence in Ufology” award (MUFON executive director Jan Harzan called it “the biggie’). The first registered Washington lobbyist advocating the position that humanity is not alone in the universe, Bassett organized last year’s “Citizen’s Hearing” which enlisted several ex-congress people including former Alaska Governor Mike Gravel to hear testimony on what is now being called “exopolitics” so as to avoid being saddled by the ufology brand. People like astronautEdgar Mitchell, who walked on the moon, made the case for extraterrestrial visitation. The hope is that the mock hearings would lead to the real thing, which, Bassett was certain would “blow the lid off the Truth Embargo on the alien question that has existed since Roswell.”
After his presentation, I spoke with Bassett, an ardent former business consultant in his middle 60s who described the Disclosure quest as “my life, now.” Victory was inevitable, he thought, saying, “the Catholic Church’s attempt to suppress the Copernican revolution was a doomed enterprise. Now we’re talking about something far more profound than that … when the government tries to contain the reality of the galaxy, that is a task that is Herculean and ultimately can not succeed.” Once the alien presence was acknowledged, humanity would take a meaningful step into “maturity,” Bassett contended.
There was a manic, almost desperate optimism to Bassett’s Disclosure dream that had to be respected. Yet, many conference attendees had their doubts about the program. Bassett had just finished telling me that the Roswell crash probably resulted from the mid-air collision of two alien craft in a thunder storm. This happened, he said, because these were relatively primitive ships. Bassett said he “liked” this explanation. Other people did too. But what happened when the no-doubt heavily redacted “truth” came out and said something different? Wasn’t much of ufology about speculation, peering into the abyss? Besides, several said, what made Bassett so certain the government could end “the Truth Embargo” even if they wanted to? Perhaps the aliens, more powerful and smarter than our lowly bunch, did not want to be Disclosed. Maybe they liked things just the way they are, skulking around the shadowy mythland of the subconscious they’ve inhabited all these eons. Offering a smile, Bassett said. “Well, I guess you’ll just have to ask them about that.”
None of this, however, was a reason to close the books on flying saucers. This would be impossible, since if you happened to have laid eyes on something you sincerely believed to be a UFO, it tends to stick. I will never be free of that cold winter’s night in 1989 when, along with my wife, I saw a saucer-shaped object fly down the East River and soar beneath the Brooklyn Bridge. The way the craft seemed to coquettishly blink its lights as if to say, "even here, I appear, and then disappear" told me, that against all rationality, this particular interface with the ineffable was meant for me.
These are the things you talk about with people like H. Dyke N. Spear at UFO conferences. As George Knapp said, the subject matter does “tend to attract those whose elevator does not got all the way to top,” but you’ll never see Dyke Spear in a tinfoil hat. Past 80, he remained a man of the world, still practicing divorce law in West Hartford, Connecticut. Once he represented the famous featherweight boxing champion Willie Pep. “It was like Willie’s fifth divorce,” Spear related. “He said, relax, this is an easy case. Just give her five rooms of furniture and a fur coat. That’s what they always get.” Asked whether he took any abuse from friends and family about attending UFO conferences, Dyke laughed. “What are they going to tell me, I don’t know what I know?”
Fernando Garces-Soto, a wry, 60-ish Colombian-born music producer from Miami and fellow witness, was taking it more personally. “I’m spending a $1,000 to come to this. That’s a lot of money for the same old stories. This rehash, and more rehash. Probably next year I’ll spend another $1,000. What choice do I have?” Fernando exclaimed, finding the existential humor of the situation. “I’m obsessed,” he sighed. “I’m all messed up.”
Why did America lose its fascination with flying saucers?
The Chilean government’s civil aviation department recently met on whether or not UFOs pose a threat to their military air operations. Upon examination of their recorded UFO cases, and with input from their official UFO investigation organization, they decided that no threat exists.
Unlike the United States, and many other western countries, Chile takes the UFO phenomenon very seriously. They have their own agency for investigating the phenomenon called the Committee for the Studies of Anomalous Aerial Phenomena (CEFAA). It is part of the Ministerial Department of Civil Aeronautics (DGAC), their equivalent to our FAA. CEFFAA also works closely with the Chilean air force.
Leslie Kean with CEFAA staff (from left): Gustavo Rodriguez, General Ricardo Bermúdez, Leslie Kean, Jose Lay. (Credit: DGAC)
Author and journalist Leslie Kean has been keeping tabs on CEFAA and broke the news of the meeting on a blog post on the Huffington Post. She says the meeting took place on July 31, and was organized by CEFAA’s director, General Ricardo Bermúdez. He invited nineteen experts with varying background to explore the question of military air safety in regards to UFOs. The group convened for three hours.
Coverage of the meeting on the official DGAC YouTube page can be seen above.
Kean says the group had already determined that UFOs are a real phenomenon worthy of serious study. This includes scientists and DGAC specialists. She writes:
Among the DGAC specialists were the director of the Meteorological Observatory, the chief of Radar Operations Metropolitan Center, the head of Accident Investigations, DGAC chief of operations, the director of Airport Security Operations, and an aerospace engineer.
Representatives from different branches of the armed forces and the police corps were also present. All of them, including a navy commander who is in charge of flight security for navy aviation, are also pilots, or have been in the past. Along with Mercado, Bermúdez was once a combat pilot.
Members of CEFAA and the DGAC meet with other experts to discuss the threat UFOs pose to military air operations. (Credit: DGAC)
Kean highlighted some of the discussion leading to the final decision. The DGAC chief of operations pointed out that their evidence shows unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), another term for UFOs, demonstrates “intelligent behavior,” and as such it is important to discover the nature of the UAP’s intentions.
He said, “Intelligence is what matters. If this is so, we must ask: has it shown hostility or carried out openly threatening maneuvers? Has it actually attacked our aircraft? To date, this doesn’t seem to be the case. We cannot possibly call something a threat to something or someone if they have not shown any open intention to do harm.”
Navy captain Roberto Borè agreed, saying, “Aside from any natural distractions to the flight crews, the risks so far have been null. We cannot call UAP a risk to our operations, not even a low risk.”
Radar control chief Mauricio Blanco also agreed, but stressed the need for a scientific evaluation of the risk. Blanco told the group, “In aeronautics, we have to measure risk scientifically and we have all the tools for that. We have to establish a ‘risk matrix,’ considering possibility and probability. The risk level [for UAP] has not been analyzed. It can be measured, and given the probabilities, this level is very low.”
Throughout her report, Kean points out the vast difference in the way the UFO phenomenon is handled in Chile versus the U.S. She writes about her visit to a radar center in Santiago where Blanco collects UFO reports. They have a careful protocol to maintain the integrity of the cases, and Kean says she found it “hard to get used to the fact that UFOs are fully accepted as part of life in Chile.”
Chief of Radar Operations Mauricio Blanco at work. (Credit: Leslie Kean)
CEFAA’s Director of International Affairs Jose Lay told her, “For Chileans, this is completely normal and we don’t consider it news at all.”
During the meeting, officials comment on UFOs as a matter of fact, such as the DGAC expert on accident investigations who said, “Until now, in practice, we have seen only the effects. And those we have captured through photographs, videos, official reports, testimonies, etc. And thus, we are able to say the phenomenon exists. But its origin, we have not defined. And without this definition, we cannot establish a strategy to counteract it. … I have spoken with pilots who have had sightings. So far, none has experienced undue concern, just plain curiosity.”
In the end, the experts agreed that more multi-disciplined study into the nature of UFOs was necessary. The air force psychologist also suggested more education for pilots about UFOs. A nuclear chemist in the meeting also explained why this would be important.
The chemist said, “If our civilian and military pilots are well informed about UAP, the risk due to distraction will come down to a minimum because the surprise factor will not be there.”
Kean says the conclusions regarding air safety were clear.
“Based on the evaluation at the meeting, the committee concluded that UAP do not present a threat or a danger to air operations, either civilian or military,” Bermúdez said. “Although there have been a small number of accidents attributed to UAP around the world, none have withstood an objective examination that presented unmistakable proof that UAP were the cause.”
For more information on CEFAA and the meeting, visit Kean’ blog post on the Huffington Post.
West Chester, PA – 7/1977 – unedited: At the time, I was 18 yrs old. I was on my 3rd flr bedroom sleeping. My mother came & woke me and said “I have to show you something”. I went downstairs to her bedroom on the 2nd floor and we saw the UFO hovering over a building across the parking lot behind my house. I knew it was a UFO as soon as I saw it. It looked to be between 20-25 yards in length. It had a row of 4 colored lights that rotated around the whole craft. They looked to be approx. 4′x8′. There was a small dome on the bottom of the craft. There was a windshield approx. 10′x40′ above the lights and I could see several occupants in thru the windshield. I observed 2 tall occupants and 4 shorter ones. I then told my mom I was going to go to my bedroom to get my telescope to get a closer look. I don’t remember what happened after that. The next thing I remembered was walking down the steps (without my telescope). My mom was standing in the 2nd flr hallway and told me the UFO went straight up and was gone in 2 seconds. We then just said good night and didn’t mention the incident. I turned around and as I was walking upstairs to my bedroom, my brain was “empty” with no thoughts, almost “zombie-like”. My arms were hanging straight down by my side and my eyes were looking at the kickboards of the stairs as I was walking up the steps. It felt like I was on an esculater. I never mentioned anything of this incident to anyone for several years, not even my family or closest friends. (A month later on vacation in Maine, myself, mother, father & cousin went for a midnight walk and we witnessed 3 UFOs flying in a “V” shape formation at a high speed that looked like they were up in the stratusphere. In a split-second, all 3 dispursed. The very next night, at the same time and place, the exact same thing happened again.) – MUFON CMS
PONTOTOC, Miss. (WTVA) — The Pontotoc County Sheriff’s Department is hoping to catch a groundhog with a history of attacking people.
Sheriff Leo Mask says the latest incident happened Sunday. One woman says she was scratched on the leg during an attack on the porch of a home. The sheriff adds the animal then went inside and bit another woman.
One of the women, who did not want to be identified, told WTVA News she went to a medical clinic for treatment of her injuries and was given a tetanus shot.
Mask says the investigation has turned up other people who say they have been attacked by the animal as well.
He says deputies have set a trap in hopes of catching the groundhog.
A woman who underwent a brain operation is now believed to possess a heightened sense of empathy.
The woman, who has been referred to only as ‘Susan’, had been suffering from epileptic seizures for most of her life and doctors had taken the decision to remove part of her temporal lobe in an effort to alleviate her symptoms.
Not only did this work but after the surgery she discovered that she had developed an enhanced ability to read the emotions of other people and experienced heightened physical sensations when she herself was emotionally moved by something.
Her case was investigated by a French research team lead by Aurélie Richard-Mornas who conducted a series of tests and experiments to determine her empathic awareness.
They eventually concluded that Susan was suffering from a condition known as “hyper empathy” brought on by the removal of brain matter involved in the understanding of other people’s emotions.
“The present case report suggests that a new permanent cortical organization of attention and emotion processes has developed in our patient that may be responsible for an enhancement of affective theory of mind,” they wrote. – Wired
A recent high level meeting at the headquarters of Chile’s Civil Aviation Department will likely be the envy of those Americans desiring open government participation in UFO investigations, rather than the familiar blanket dismissal.
The question of whether UAP (unidentified aerial phenomena) pose any danger to civilian and military air operations was up for discussion. An official video about the event (the first 4 minutes), posted on Friday, is telling. You don’t need to understand a word of Spanish to take note of the serious expressions on the faces of the participants.
Chile’s agency investigating UFOs/UAP, 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.
Gen. Ricardo Bermúdez, director of the CEFAA, invited nineteen highly qualified experts from a range of specialties to the July 31st meeting, to explore the safety question and attempt to achieve a conclusion. The resulting dialogue lasted three hours.
The new DGAC director, air force Gen. Rolando Mercado, former director of operations and strategic planning of the Joint Chiefs, welcomed the participants and attended the early part of the discussion. “I wish to thank all the members of this committee for their serious, scientific approach in the investigation of this phenomenon,” he said afterward, “which has rightly earned prestige for the CEFAA, not only in Chile, but also in foreign countries.” Read more at THP
This morning, New York Magazine featured a thoughtful article on ufology, Mark Jacobson’s “The End of UFOs,” which presented a recap of the recent MUFON Symposium in Pennsylvania. In the commentary Jacobson provided, I found the following excerpt particularly poignant, in light of a culture of belief that surrounds a subject about which, in pure honesty, I feel a number of its great adherents remain very “in the dark”:
“Fernando Garces-Soto, a wry, 60-ish Colombian-born music producer from Miami and fellow witness, was taking it more personally. ‘I’m spending a $1,000 to come to this. That’s a lot of money for the same old stories. This rehash, and more rehash. Probably next year I’ll spend another $1,000. What choice do I have?’ Fernando exclaimed, finding the existential humor of the situation. ‘I’m obsessed,’ he sighed. ‘I’m all messed up.’ “
In truth, maybe we’ll stay “messed up” if we continue re-hashing and re-hashing, and hiring only “celebrity ufologists” to come out and give lectures because they are “the big names in the field,” and hence, the ones who will sell tickets. There are a great many brilliant thinkers out there whose names you never hear, and who wouldn’t sell tickets to a large-scale event; but what they have to offer might do more than just amuse or entertain… it might cause you to think. Innovators in ufology today, who actually present the best case for the existence of a phenomenon which we don’t fully understand? Arguably, many of the brightest thinkers aren’t names you would even know… and hence, from a practical business standpoint, you likely won’t hear them lecturing at large-scale UFO events. I think we all have to understand this… but we also must remember to try and overcome our reservations about listening to new voices in the field, whose work we know nothing about… just like we must overcome our feelings about what a UFO skeptic has to say on the subject. In truth, we might learn something meaningful from each of them. Innovators in Ufology today, who actually present the best case for the existence of a phenomenon which we don’t fully understand? Arguably, many of the brightest thinkers aren’t names you would even know… and hence, from a practical business standpoint, you likely won’t hear them lecturing at large-scale UFO events. I think we all have to understand this… but we also must remember to try and overcome our reservations about listening to new voices in the field, whose work we know nothing about… just like we must overcome our feelings about what a UFO skeptic has to say on the subject. In truth, we might learn something meaningful from each of them.
So is ufology “dying”? Is there so little to this phenomenon that there is nothing to be studied at all? I think that’s hardly the case; the problem, instead, is that we have become hung up in the ideological extremes, and the cult of personality surrounding those who have (and I say this in appreciation of their work) dedicated their lives, and livelihood, to studying this mystery. For a few of them, it has led to fame and notoriety… I wonder if they, after working so hard, and for so long, would really want people to shrug off new ideas and good research that may arise elsewhere, in favor of an autograph instead? It’s food for thought…Still, I would argue that the newest, and best innovators in this field are “below the radar,” so to speak. You may not find them at conferences, because they don’t draw crowds; you won’t see them on television, because they aren’t sensational enough to bring ratings. You may not even read about their work, because some of them are applying technical thought to the subject that publishers wouldn’t find appealing on any printed page… but they are out there, and they are working. I know, because I am familiar with many of them myself. In fact, I would argue that some of the best innovations in the study of unidentified aerial illuminations aren’t even generally accepted as what we call “UFOs,” and largely due to the fundamental (but timeless) misinterpretation of the acronym UFO–meaning simply an unidentified flying object–being taken to mean an extraterrestrial spaceship, which was never the intended use of the term.
Serious study of UFOs will always be criticized, but arguably, this is largely because it’s detractors are among those who don’t know where to look for the good research that’s being done. These critics will continually watch the sensational television shows, and sit in the back rows at popular conferences and events, criticizing arguments that, at times, are so easily deconstructed that it’s easily likened to shooting fish in the proverbial barrel. But what they are criticizing often isn’t the most meaningful, relevant, or up-to-date information on the subject; perhaps they should spend their time and criticisms more wisely, and go looking for a harder argument to deconstruct. And as for the groups who continually prop ufology high atop a rickety scaffolding of old cases, fringe theories, and sensational claims, they should learn to expect that critics will continue to attempt to debase their arguments. In truth, neither of these opposing sides seem to be interested in discussing the most relevant details pertaining to true anomalies which may exist in our world.
Of those outside the field of ufology whose work has helped formulate new ideas on the nature of anomalous aerial illuminations are Robert Theriault and John Derr, two of the authors who contributed to a brilliant paper on “earthquake lights” earlier this year titled Prevalence of Earthquake Lights Associated with Rift Environments. Nothing about the title insinuates an alleged UFO crash, an individual abducted from their bedroom, or a mass-sighting of a huge alien spaceship; but the scientific work it entails, while far from being the final word on the subject, may contribute more to understanding the nature of anomalous aerial lights than any presented in the last two decades. Yes, the authors argue that the “UFOs” they are discussing are of a natural variety… and in truth, this is likely the story behind many (if not a majority) of modern UFO reports.
The study of UFOs isn’t dead; if anything, the serious research is, and perhaps always has, worked behind the scenes. It takes place in laboratories where scientists take seriously the idea that there are natural phenomenon we have yet to fully understand or formulate a clear idea as to their origin. It also takes place in the homes and offices of individuals who are able to look past the sensational aspects of this phenomenon, and consider instead the idea that there could be correlations drawn and new isights extracted from the plethora of data on the subject that has been amassed since the end of World War II. There are businessmen–Robert Bigelow comes to mind–who take it all seriously enough to invest their time and fortunes in the study of the phenomenon, and whose work ends up being very much “behind the scenes,” for better or for worse. And yes, there are probably some secrets that are kept from the public; whether or not they represent some wide-reaching “conspiracy” or “cover-up” is irrelevant; it would be silly to think that a subject of potential national security importance would truly be systematically overlooked by government agencies. Proof of their fundamental interest in the phenomenon is presented with the release of countless official documents on the subject; again, whether or not they prove the nature of the phenomenon is irrelevant. The important fact is that we know they’ve been watching, with interest.
A colleague of mine, Chris Rutkowski recently expressed similar sentiments about all this. “I rarely go to UFOcons,” he said, “mostly because of the points you raise. Too bad, because there are some very good researchers out there who never get the recognition they deserve. Fortunately there’s an ‘underground ufology’ hard at work behind the fluff. Below the surface, there is good and thoughtful discussion that needs to be uncovered.”
As Rutkowski suggests, there is an entire world of study involving UFOs that very seldom makes it to the stage at UFO events, or onto the sound stages of the production companies and networks that produce popular UFO programming. You won’t read about it in popular books and magazines that cater to the rumors, conspiracy theories, and urban legends that have formulated around UFOs over the last several decades, though you may read about some of it in science journals, if you have proper access, and know where to look. The same can be said of information posted freely online: a lot of the process of finding good information is simply knowing where to look, and at times, having access to it.
If it must be underground, so be it, and maybe for the better. Serious study of UFOs will always be criticized, but arguably, this is largely because it’s detractors are among those who don’t know where to look for the good research that’s being done. These critics will continually watch the sensational television shows, and sit in the back rows at popular conferences and events, criticizing arguments that, at times, are so easily deconstructed that it’s easily likened to shooting fish in the proverbial barrel. But what they are criticizing often isn’t the most meaningful, relevant, or up-to-date information on the subject; perhaps they should spend their time and criticisms more wisely, and go looking for a harder argument to deconstruct. And as for the groups who continually prop ufology high atop a rickety scaffolding of old cases, fringe theories, and sensational claims, they should learn to expect that critics will continue to attempt to debase their arguments. In truth, neither of these opposing sides seem to be interested in discussing the most relevant details pertaining to true anomalies which may exist in our world.
Down in the heady world of research that exists below, there is no end to the UFO phenomenon anywhere in sight. But in fairness, innovation–if it is to be achieved–very seldom ever occurs on a soundstage, does it?
Welcome to the world of the underground innovators.
NOTE: The above image is a rendering.
KENS NOTE: I have been harping for years as to why all of the UFO conferences do not have a showcase of UFO photos. I had a presentation of UFO photos at the Baltimore Conference a few years ago and I feel it was a hit. There are many original and real UFO photo available to the public but they are never presented at a UFO conference. Why ?? I am the founder of the largest UFO photos web site in the world. Over 7000 great UFO photos and galleries of strange photos from the Moon and Mars. I have all the information so there is no excuse why some of these great photos can’t be presented to the public and the world.
Case Number 58760 Log Number US-08092014-0001 Date Submitted 08/09/2014 02:03 UTC Date of the Event 07/31/1976 12:00 UTC Source MUFON Disposition Unresolved City Indiana Region Pennsylvania Country United States Latitude 40.635664 Longitude -79.200775 Viewing Distance 101-500 Feet Sighting Duration Undisclosed Object Features Other Object Flight Path Stationary,Hovering then path,Straight-line path Object Shape Disc Weather Factors Unknown
To Whom it May Concern, I wanted to report a siting and ask about the possibilities of how I could test soil as we are curious. In the late 70′s my Mother awoke to visit the restroom in the middle of the night in the top level of our home, she happened to look out the window to see a UFO in our backyard, on Ben Franklin Road North in Indiana, PA about 1.75 acres away near the woods line. It was a saucer type ship with lights around the rim and she saw small beings walking at the base of the ship in front of the lights. She was frighten and ran back to bed. She had the senses they may have sensed she was up so she bundled in her covers and faced away from the bedroom window and tried to empty her mind and feign sleep. She feared what ‘they’ would do if they sensed they knew she seen them. She heard loud clanging sounds and the ship passed slowly by her bedroom window, it paused at the window as if checking to see if she was up then sped off. She said it was as loud as a coal truck clanging down the road. It was so surreal she questioned if it really happened and felt strange saying anything to anyone.
My bedroom was on the ground level. At about the same time period, I heard a cluster of footsteps run past my window from the backyard to the front. It sounded like there were maybe 7 of them spaced a few feet from one another and would be the size of kids 11 years old. We were the only kids on the street with the exception of another boy down the street. I wondered if my brothers were sleeping out in a tent in the backyard with friends but they did not so it was unexplained. The landing cite afterward had 3 circles where nothing would grow, today there are still 2 distinct areas with no growth.
Previous to that there was vegetation, it was more sparse than the rest of the yard, but ground cover existed. I’m not sure if soil composition can change but there is a patch of red clay where we never recalled seeing before. I was home a few days ago and took a soil sample from the landing area and an area maybe 20 feet away and the earth is very different. The top of the rocks in the landing area, looks different than the bottom of the rocks. I’m wondering how I can check the magnetism or radiation of the area, if anything still resides or if I can find any trace left from so long ago. I saw you have another report on your website from down he road during he same time period and yet another from nearby. You are welcome to investigate the site. We talk freely about it and it would be nice to have validation. Thank you for your time and consideration of our case. Sincerely, Kathy
Some researchers claiming that ancient pyramids, megalithic sites and obelisks are still active receiving power from a variety of sources, including the Sun, the earth’s energy field grid system or to transmit energy from one structure to another.
Depending on the tilt of the Earth’s axis at a particular time of the year, one structure would function to intensify and transmit energies to other structures which would then act as receiving devices and would disperse energy as it was needed. The opposite would apply when that structure was at an unfocused point to their celestial alignment, when other structures would be used as transmitters.
Some theorists claim that there is a fundamental relation between UFO phenomenon and magnetic-vortex-gravity anomalies in the Grid.
It is well known that many UFOs and USO’s coming from and diving back into the sea. Are these obelisks a coordination point and maybe a power station for UFOs? Perhaps there is a UFO base under the obelisks?
Kirsan Iljoemzjinov blijft voorzitter van de internationale schaakfederatie. De schaaksport was tijdens de Koude Oorlog een alternatief strijdtoneel voor de Sovjet-Unie. Op het bord met 64 velden heersten sovjetschakers. Tussen 1948 en 1983 kwamen alle wereldkampioenen schaak op één na uit de Sovjet-Unie.
Anno 2014 lijken politieke belangen weer nauw verweven met de schaaksport. Maandag kozen de leden van de wereldschaakbond FIDE een nieuwe voorzitter in het Noorse Tromsö. Er waren twee kandidaten: oud-wereldkampioen Garry Kasparov en de huidige voorzitter Kirsan Iljoemzjinov. Die laatste kreeg 110 van de 175 stemmen. Kasparov kon rekenen op slechts 61 stemmen.
Schaaknatie Rusland moet niets hebben van oud-wereldkampioen Kasparov, een verklaard tegenstander van president Vladimir Poetin. Kasparov, die in ballingschap in New York leeft, schildert Iljoemzjinov op zijn beurt af als een marionet van het Kremlin.
Rusland heeft een uitgesproken voorkeur voor Iljoemzjinov, de voormalig president van de arme, autonome republiek Kalmukkië. De 52-jarige beweert dat hij in 1997 in een gigantisch ruimteschip is meegenomen door buitenaardse wezens die op telepathische wijze met hem communiceerden.
Tijdens een televisie-interview in 2010 zei de president dat hiervan verschillende mensen getuige waren geweest. Volgens hem was het schip naar de aarde gekomen om monsters te nemen.
Iljoemzjinov ontmoet de Syrische president Assad
Naar aanleiding van het interview vroeg een Russisch parlementslid aan toenmalig president Medvedev een onderzoek naar deze claim te doen vanwege de veiligheidsrisico’s van een dergelijk contact met buitenaardse wezens. Iljoemzjinov vertelde ook aan een Russische krant dat hij telepathisch contact had met zijn kiezers.
Het Westen bekijkt Iljoemzjinov met argusogen omdat hij banden onderhield met onder meer Saddam Hoessein, Bashar al-Assad en de Libische leider Moammar Kaddafi. In juni 2011 verscheen de voormalige president van Kalmukkië in het openbaar met Kaddafi. Op het hoogtepunt van de NAVO-bombardementen in het Afrikaanse land speelde de voorzitter van de schaakfederatie een partij tegen Kaddafi, die na afloop de titel ‘Internationaal Grootmeester’ kreeg.
Rode planeet Op Mars is een nieuwe krater waargenomen op basis van 'voor en na'-foto's. De meer dan 45 meter brede krater ontstond eind maart 2012 al, maar werd pas een paar maanden geleden per toeval ontdekt door Bruce Cantor. De Amerikaanse nieuwssite Huffington Post spreekt van een primeur, gezien het om de grootste krater gaat die op dergelijke manier gespot werd.
Cantor was op basis van afbeeldingen van de Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter weersvoorspellingen voor de rode planeet aan het opstellen, toen zijn oog op een donkere vlek viel. De wetenschapper bestudeerde vervolgens oudere foto's van de plek. Hij bemerkte dat de krater ontbrak op foto's die genomen waren op 27 maart 2012, maar wel te zien was op die van 28 maart 2012, oftewel een dag later. Onderzoek met een ander instrument bracht uitsluitsel: op foto's die dateren van januari 2014 waren twee kraters te zien waarvan er in januari 2012 nog geen spoor was. De controle bevestigde dat de donkere vlek een nieuwe inslagkrater is.
In de buurt van beide kraters zijn ook meer dan tien kleinere kraters waargenomen, allicht een gevolg van het ontstaan van de grotere kraters. De grootste put is vermoedelijk ontstaan door de inslag van een object zo groot als een wagen. Het betreft een krater van zo'n 48,5 bij 43,5 meter groot. "Het object moet zo'n drie tot vijf meter lang zijn geweest", aldus nog Cantor.
Heel de wereld is in de ban van de supermaan. Het hemellichaam schittert iets groter en helderder dan normaal. Het is al enkele jaren geleden dat dit gebeurt op het moment van een volle maan.
De volle maan is 30 procent helderder en lijkt 14 procent groter dan wanneer hij het verste van de aarde af staat. De afstand varieert tussen de 360.000 km en 405.500 km.
Tussen zondag en woensdag zijn er ook veel vallende sterren te zien. Deze Perseïdenmeteoren, die ieder jaar in augustus de aarde passeren, zijn het best te bewonderen rond twee uur 's nachts.
I am called the King of spam for offering my pearls of wisdom for free to the public, and this put me in a position of endless attacks by the “Sub- Human” who will never in a million year appreciate nor perceive my total dedication, concern and outstanding FREE service induced by a UFO cosmic legacy that followed me since age 7.
Instead, envious souls trash me regularly and those people never read nor spent any time checking my claims. 6 Dark Days Ahead NOW Read the full story.
Thus I come to realize this world is lead by an unstoppable evil force and, at nearly 65, I find very hard to keep giving my pearls of wisdom to so many undeserving souls… But there are also thousands of “silent supporters” in need regenerating their spirits reading my work daily and this makes it difficult for me to stop serving this world unselfishly.
But looking at my Facebook page, it seems many of you openly and frankly show their real support and LIKE a man that works his ass off everyday to serve them unselfishly!
I understand the God fearing lost souls and the atheist born better than themselves and their attacks are meaningless and anticipated. After serving the public since 2000 on the Internet, if I had a dollar for everyone of those acidic remarks, I would enjoy a great retirement in Florida…
But the purpose of this article is to bring the newcomers wondering about my “August SOS To The World” veracity, back in time to July 11th, 2014 and read it for themselves!
This tell you the type of world you live in, where the majority of people are concerned consuming your mental ingeniousness at NO reward at all… And these young self absorbed souls expect good karma, good luck, emotional, financial and spiritual stability?
But this is the rough, struggling public expected response and in this pool of human, those who are ready and above the norm intelligently, will be “saved” and all they need is more time before reaching to the cosmic Code, joining my Cyber Cosmic University, God cosmic Divinity and my services…
But they are other people who I helped me in the past and those who will never budge… Here is a Memo of another article posted to all my VIP’s, LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Google and many other popular websites. Furthermore, I am so confident of my gift that on July 7th, 2014 I emailed it DIRECTLY some people in the media!
MEMO from turitrue@gmail.com to Scott Glenn Beck at the Blaze, Mike Broomhead KFYI , DougBurkizer, georgenoory and the world!
Memo; “Hello my friends and skeptics I decided to offer you a solid sample of my unique work and how a cosmic God speaks to me through the signs. This email has been published to my worldwide audience and posted on all public media. Please pass it on!”
I asked Scott and Glenn Beck at the Blaze to publicize my warnings as to save some lives or prepare the world for shocking news but, as usual not a single answer then or NOW!
Memo-To “The Blaze” 7/11/2014 – Famous French mentalist predict Obama’s utmost difficult time in office and serious natural disasters for August 9/10/11 2014. France, Italy, Japan and the US are the target for extraordinary/shocking/explosive news developments. Please make note. http://www.drturi.com/boehner-why-we-must-now-sue-the-president-prediction-unfolding/ BlessingsDr. Turi
Did any of these men made note as suggested or noticed the double RARE weather system in Hawaii, the shocking death of Robin William ON THE EXACT DATES or any of the major shocking news that took place during August 9/10/11 window?
“Too often over the past five years, the President has circumvented the American people and their elected representatives through executive action,” House Speaker John Boehner writes.
“I am particularly asking the skeptics, the atheists, the agnostics and the scientific community, including ALL security services in charge of our President’ safety to make a noteof this August 9/10/11 2014 SOS to the World window and the dates offered because then, nature will also speak of her destructive powers.”
By the way I was fired form this Facebook page, Maureen Elsberry any surprise? I guess posting UFO LEGACY! and offer her readers real PROOF of my UFO predictive legacy. Meantime the obvious results of my August 9/10/11 SOS to the world window was too much of a challenge for Maureen (and everyone else) to deny!
Interview W/ UFO Journalist Maureen Elsberry, She tries To Convince Double J that Aliens Exist And Her Opinion Of Roswell. Maureen is a reporter, she is not dealing with ET’s nor see a UFO directly and instead of looking like an idiot on You tube, she should have referred Dr. Turi to Double J.
I would have given this radio host the same opportunity offered to her and her Facebook audience by giving DATES and Predictions that can not be challenged! And at the same time offer Double J. the solid proof of my UFO “legacy.” She wasted a good opportunity avoiding real people dealing with real UFO!
What is so devious is when she mentioned “there are definitely something involving some people that SHOULD be investigated!”
Alejandro Rojas and youMaureen my dear LIBRA friend I am still here in Phoenix, near you Hun, but do I really need you and Alejandro “Open Mind TV” when you and your producers are so close minded with me?
Here is the section offering her and her audience a challenge involving the undiluted truth, the proposed test and she fired me for it on August 11th – shocking isn’t? no really… Nothing surprises Dr. Turi!
Memo - ” It is simply abominable to have so many readers from all walks of life in a position to help me and yet, since 1991 my claims are still rejected by the police, by the administration, by the US department of education, by the UFO community and 99.99% of a religiously poisoned and atheist world.
UFO experts from all walks of life have so much to offer to their audience but my UFO cosmic legacy makes me quite different because I own something solid, not just windy words. For this I am rejected by so many UFO organizers, for exposing the truth about them and so many of my “Friends and Foes” and for unarguably predicting the future.
Anyone can talk about UFO, there are so many books, so many UFO YouTube videos but many of those experts never saw or dealt physically nor felt the anguish of being “cursed” with a cosmic legacy.
But as soon as you are special, or unique and show real “magic” powers, be sure to be ignored! No I am not the Grand Son of Eisenhower and I have no name, nor fame to benefit to build a career.
Just the opposite in fact because when I arrived as an illegal Alien in 1984 I was homeless and totally destitute. But against all odds and all my enemies, Dr. Turi speaks and own the magic left by 4 UFO experiences they could only dream about!
My connection with Bob’s family was very close and personal, very real and their motivation not only financially oriented. Indeed those who pretend to know about UFO are the least knowledgeable of the matrix they run and control!
I am soon to retire and may move away from the US and I have my own cosmic reasons to do so, something I may have divulged to the audience and save so many lives, had I been invited.
But God decides not me, my talent, convictions and assurance is perceived as an ego trip by those who feel beneath me in the world of Ufology! In all the affairs of this world, the sub- human – psychically underdeveloped human being will always show its insecurity/inferiority complex by removing Dr. Turi from the real competition.
This is how Hitler and so many power angry Plutonic souls behave, kill the opposition before it surpasses you and others in a UFO field where I can bring so much to the future of humanity!
“When a true UFO contactee appears in this world you may know him by this sign that the dunces are all in confederacy against him” – Dr. Turi
“Time has and will always be my utmost trustworthy reliable witness” Dr. Turi
So here is the warning I am offering you all today, July/06/2014 And when all unfold, remember they are REAL people touched by a UFO agenda and those are given special predictive powers! And real people with real UFO “abductions/connections” are extremely rare, especially those who can not be denied anymore! These people should be given a voice and not removed from the public awareness…
MAKE NOTE readers PLEASE! BECAUSE THIS MAY BE THE LAST TIME I OFFER MY COSMIC WISDOM TO THE PUBLIC!
Update 07/10/2014 - GOP: We’ll sue Obama … for this - The Republican-led House is expected to vote on a resolution authorizing legal action against the President over Obamacare at the end of the month, just before lawmakers head home for August to campaign for midterm votes.
UFOs are reported all over the world, and over the week, they made an appearance in the skies above Helena, Montana.
The individual who took the video doesn’t provide any personal information and will only say.. “they have seen similar light shows in the sky around Helena”.
The vast majority are lights at night, and few have video evidence.
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Ik ben Pieter, en gebruik soms ook wel de schuilnaam Peter2011.
Ik ben een man en woon in Linter (België) en mijn beroep is Ik ben op rust..
Ik ben geboren op 18/10/1950 en ben nu dus 73 jaar jong.
Mijn hobby's zijn: Ufologie en andere esoterische onderwerpen.
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