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...
04-09-2014
Orange and Red ‘Mystery Lights’ Over the Pacific Ocean!
Orange and Red ‘Mystery Lights’ Over the Pacific Ocean!
The Daily Mail paper reported “A pilot and his co-pilot have spotted a mysterious orange and red glow over the Pacific Ocean. The strange lights were spotted south of the Russian peninsula Kamchatka during the flight of a Boeing 747-8 from Hong Kong to Anchorage, Alaska. ‘Last night over the Pacific Ocean, somewhere South of the Russian peninsula Kamchatka I experienced the creepiest thing so far in my flying career,’ he said.”
Researchers discovered an engraving in Gorham’s Cave in Gibraltar that appears to have been made by Neanderthals more than 39,000 years ago. It’s pretty incredible.
The Utah arm of the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) is analyzing video shot by an Ogden witness who captured multiple orbs “moving like a school of fish or birds” across the sky, according to testimony in Case 56393 from MUFON witness database.
The witness was outside watching the moon about 9 p.m. on May 15, 2014, when movement was noticed in the sky that first appeared to be a drone.
The witness uploaded one video with the MUFON report, which was filed on May 18, 2014. The video is currently being analyzed.
Downtown, Ogden. (Credit: Wikimedia Commons)
Ogden is a city in and the county seat of Weber County, population 82,825.
Utah State Director Erica Lukes is investigating. Utah has a current UFO Alert Rating of 5 with a low number of recent reports nationally. Utah had 4 UFO reports in August 2014 – the 38th highest reporting state – while California had 99 reports as the highest reporting state. The above quotes were edited for clarity. Please report UFO activity to MUFON.com.
The UFO Alert Rating System is based on five levels – 1 through 5 – where states with 150 or more reports for the month are rated an Alert 1; states with 100 or more reports are rated an Alert 2; 25 reports or more for the month are rated an Alert 3; 13 or more reports are rated an Alert 4; and those states with less than 13 reports for the month are an Alert 5.
UFO researchers say UFO sightings are increasing in the state of Queensland in Australia. Recent sightings have included photos and video.
UFO Research Queensland President Sheryl Gottschall told the Brisbane Times there has been a spike in reports over the last few months. She says, “We get about 100 calls a year and across Australia all up the UFO research groups get up to 800. That’s just the reported sightings – a lot go unreported.”
Another representative from the Queensland UFO group agrees. In a radio interview with 4BC, Tino Pezzimenti says, “Only about 5% of reports or sightings actually get reported, so you can imagine. We get a couple hundred a year. That’s only probably 5% of people that actually find their way to reporting something to us.”
UFO photo captured in Brisbane, the capital of Queensland, Australia.This image was reportedly taken on March 5, 2014 at 2:34 am. (Credit: Brisbane UFO Sightings Facebook page)
Pezzimenti says many of these are not just reports of lights in the sky. Some of the sightings come with photos or video.
The hosts of 4BC said they had heard many sightings are due to a large local event called the Royal Queensland Show, aka Ekka (referred to as “the exhibition” in the radio show). The event is Queensland’s largest annual event, attracting hundreds of thousands of guest from around the world. It includes farm animal, food, and strength competitions, among other events, and takes place in early August.
Pezzimenti admitted that many UFO reports are misidentifications. He cited a recent sighting in mid-July in which the police suggested the mysterious lights were actually due to the testing of the fairground lights in preparation for Ekka.
However, Pezzimenti says their organization is not quick to call everything a UFO. He explains, “To be a UFO it’s got to have to do something unusual or look unusual like this photograph, or it does a 90 degree turn, or it flies off faster than any jet we have ever heard and there’s not even a sonic boom.”
The photograph Pezzimenti refers to is a sighting he is particularly excited about. The photo was allegedly taken on Friday, May 23, 2014 in the Wooloowin area at 5:35 pm. It shows what appears to be a strange disk-shaped object in the sky.
Close-up of the Wooloowin UFO. (Credit: Brisbane UFO Sightings Facebook page)
Pezzimenti says the object does not appear to have engines or propellers. He says this kind of photographic evidence needs to be taken “pretty seriously.”
The image was posted on a Facebook page called Brisbane UFO Sightings, which was created recently for the founder of the page to post pictures of UFOs. Apparently, he or she captures them often. Other than the date, time, and location of the sighting, no other information is provided.
Other videos can be seen in the interview with 4BC and Pezzimenti, embedded in the Brisbane Times article.
UFO from video of interview with Tino Pezzimenti of UFO Research Queensland. (Credit: 4BC/Fairfax Media)
The increase in sightings has lead to a local resident to begin holding skywatches. Kristy Buist, founder of the Paranormal Awareness Community, had her first skywatch scheduled for earlier this week.
Buist told the Brisbane Times she has had four sightings of her own. She described the first as, “platinum and sort of shaped like diamonds just casually floating across the sky”.
Now she says, “I do look for UFOs often. I look for them wherever I go.”
Brisbane Times says participants at the skywatch look for “‘unusual movement’ in the night sky, including ‘classic’ UFO moves such as bright lights travelling from one horizon to another in seconds or lights making sudden turns.”
Photos from the skywatch were posted on UFO Research Queensland’s Facebook page, but none of them include UFOs. However, as their Facebook page says, “Skywatching calls for a lot of patience and persistence.”
Both of which I am sure local researchers will continue to practice as they continue their quest for UFO evidence, which, incidentally, remains elusive despite the increased reports.
Wall, NJ – 3/19/2014 – unedited: I didn’t see the craft. I am trying to submit my story but this program is making fill in info about the craft. The Greys were already coming up my driveway with what appeared to be white flashlight like wands coming to the house. Amber, Green and blue lights started to pulse just outside my bedroom window as I looked out of it. The one closest Grey was not more than 10 feet outside my bedroom window. He stopped, looked directly at me with red glowing eyes. I could make out the outline of his head. I communicated telepathicly with it. As the lights kept changing, I told him that blue was cool. Blue was cool…Then all the other colors stopped and the lights in the driveway went all cool blue….I was getting communication without words in my brain. I just said to it, Please don’t hurt me and I will come outside to meet you if you want. (I know they can abduct you anytime if the really want to). My girlfriend saw the lights and everything. Got scared and hid under the covers in bed. I then got dressed, went outside cautiously to meet them, and they were gone. Poof! True event. Swear to god. I believe the message to me was that they will be back for me sometime soon for who knows what? I was scared s**t but was not afraid at the same time. If they want you, there is nothing you can do about it. – MUFON CMS
Volusia County — A 13-year-old girl is recovering after being bit by a shark on Sunday in New Smyrna Beach.
Beach Safety officials say the girl was swimming near the 2400 block of North Atlantic Avenue when she was bit on the calf causing a small puncture wound.
The girl was body surfing when the incident occurred, and was in what officials described as waist-deep water.
The shark was not seen by lifeguards, other swimmers in the area or beachgoers nearby.
According to Volusia County Beach Safety Ocean Rescue Public Information Officer Tamra Marris, this was the sixth shark bite this year. – MyNews13
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The 37-year-old was given a zero chance of survival after he was born with the astonishing condition, but he has defied medical odds to become an inspirational public speaker.
Claudio suffers from various disabilities, including badly deformed legs, almost no use of his arms and hands and his neck folded back on itself.
Doctors had given up hope of his survival shortly after his birth and even told his mother, Maria Jose, to stop feeding him.
But this inspirational man, from Monte Santo, Brazil, has proven them all wrong by overcoming his extreme disadvantages to graduate from university as an accountant and become a public speaker.
He said: “Since I was a child I’ve always liked to keep myself busy and work – I don’t like to depend totally on other people.
“I do a bit of accounting, research for clients and consulting.
“I have learned to turn on the TV, pick up my cell phone, turn on the radio, use the internet, my computer – I do it all by myself.” Read more at Express
Some close viewers of Fox 2′s nightly newscast in St. Louis, Missouri noticed an unknown object quickly shoot through the sky on Monday, September 1.
During the broadcast, footage from the Fox 2 roof camera shows an active lightning storm resulting from the area’s severe weather. The station describes that “during that shot something flashes across the screen. The flying object is illuminated by flashes of lightning. In the blink of an eye it is gone.”
Viewer David Whitener posted a video clip to Facebook from the newscast showing the unknown object shooting through the sky. He posed the question, “What was that shooting across the screen did anyone else see that?” Some offered suggestions like meteors and alien spacecraft. One commenter chimed in, stating, “It is said that during thunder storms UFO sightings increase.”
UFO over St. Louis. (Credit: Fox 2)
FOX 2 producer Kevin Pope and reporter Andy Banker examined the footage in question. After reducing the playback speed of the video, they conclude that the UFO is a bird illuminated by the lightning.
What do you think? Does the “bird” suggestion explain the mysterious object seen in the video? Share your thoughts by posting a comment below or by posting on the Open Minds Facebook page.
SAUCER SHAPED CRAFT PHOTOGRAPHED OVER AUSTRALIA MAY 23, 2014 ……. WOOLOOWIN AUSTRALIA
A saucer-shaped object photographed at Wooloowin on Brisbane’s north side should be taken “pretty seriously.” The truth is out there – and maybe it is hovering over Queensland. here has been a spike in the number of reported UFO sightings across the state over recent months, according to president of UFO Research Queensland Sheryl Gottschall, with the Gold Coast being a real “hot spot.” “We’ve had people calling from all over Queensland,” Ms Gottschall said. “There was a sighting on the Gold Coast on Friday night, Cairns last week and there was another sighting in Childers. “We get about 100 calls a year and across Australia all up the UFO research groups get up to 800. That’s just the reported sightings – a lot go unreported.” One photograph reportedly taken over Wooloowin on May 23 shows a silver disc hovering in the sky. There is also a letter from police dated July 18 in response to a call to investigate “three bright white lights hovering low” over homes in Wooloowin. The police concluded the lights were “presumed to be the result of EKKA lighting tests” but were of “unknown origin.” Ms Gottschall, who claims to have seen five UFOs and experienced one extraterrestrial “close encounter” in her lifetime, says there has been an ever increasing interest in UFOs and extraterrestrial life, which has resulted in the formation of “skywatch” groups. On Monday night, Ms Gottschall will attend a skywatch at Kurwongbah, just west of Brisbane, organised by Kristy Buist, founder of the Paranormal Awareness Community. Ms Buist, a 35-year-old from Redcliffe, saw her first UFO aged 11, when a fleet of three flew over her primary school at Gunnedah, NSW. The flying objects were also seen by a teacher, who happens to be her step-father. Since then, Ms Buist has experienced three more “definite” sightings. “I do look for UFOs often. I look for them wherever I go,” she said. “There’s always ifs and buts, but I’ve had four definite sightings in my lifetime.” Ms Buist described the fleet of UFOs she first saw as silent and “platinum and sort of shaped like diamonds just casually floating across the sky.” KEN’S NOTE: The real photos below were taken in 2014. This is only a couple of the many photos and UFO accounts in Australia. KEN PFEIFER WORLD UFO PHOTOS AND NEWS WWW.WORLDUFOPHOTOSANDNEWS.ORG WWW.WORLDUFOPHOTOS.ORG WWW.UFOCASEBOOK.COM THANKS TO Anne-Louise Brown, Journalist AND http://www.brisbanetimes.com
Witness said: 26/08/14 – I was in Sardinia. I just arrived in a nice hotel, before coming back home. I was about to take a bath in the swimming pool, when I noticed several huge lights in the sky. I took my iPhone, and recorded them. After watching the video on my PC, I also noticed a strange dark triangular craft, hovering next to the lights. It was certainly monitoring them. When the lights disappeared, the craft accelerated and certainly followed them. I’m sure it was some sort of escort, as there’s obviously a link between that craft and these lights. It’s a landing.
The lights were super huge, almost stunning to the eye. They descended fairly quickly behind the mountain, getting lower and lower, and further and further. It means these are physical objects, and probably some type of motorized device. You may think — and I did too — that these are Chinese Lanterns, but if you reflect a bit you’ll understand that Chinese lanterns don’t behave like that, and absolutely don’t look like that, overall in broad daylight.
Witness said: Bright yellow light appeared suddenly in sky, hovered and then started moving slowly. I was on my break at a gas station at the corner of 14th Street and Spring Street, looking up into the sky towards the north. Bright yellow light suddenly appeared in the direction I was looking, just above the trees, about a half or mile away. Then I grabbed my camcorder started taping and object started moving. At first it was hovering in same spot for about 5 minutes then it started moving, downward, when I started recording. At first I thought it was the reflection on a plane but it didn’t move. I look at planes all the time since I work around the airport. It was not a plane, not a blimp, or a helicopter. I finally lost sight of it as it desended and was obscured by the trees.
Witness said: On this video you will see a Formation of what appears to be Energy U.F.O Balls of Light traveling overhead….As you can see on the video they appear to be high above the clouds.At first they seemed to Hover as the Clouds Pass underneath.I continue to film as i zoom in they seem to be emitting some kind of glowing energy.At some point they began to travel until out of sight…In my opinion these objects were clearly no aircraft or satellite..
Nubiërs aan de Nijl: In Noord-Afrika staan nog veel meer piramides
Nubiërs aan de Nijl: In Noord-Afrika staan nog veel meer piramides
Egypte is niet het enige Afrikaanse land waar piramides omhoogrijzen uit het zand. Sterker nog: in één klein stuk van de Soedanese woestijn staan meer piramides dan in heel Egypte. Tijdens de 25e Dynastie van Egypte (760 v.Chr. tot 656 v.Chr.) was Meroë, een historische stad in Soedan, de hoofdstad van het koninkrijk van Koesj, dat werd geregeerd door Nubische koningen die Egypte hadden veroverd.
Piramides van Meroë (David Stanley)
Iets wat in de geschiedenisboeken vaak over het hoofd wordt gezien is dat deze zwarte farao’s heersten over een rijk dat zich uitstrekte van de Middellandse Zee tot Khartoem. Meroë, genesteld aan de Nijl, bevatte een necropolis voor koninklijke begrafenissen. Net als in Egypte werden Nubische koningen en koninginnen begraven met goud, juwelen, aardewerk en soms zelfs huisdieren.
Foto: David Stanley
Sommige koningen werden gemummificeerd, terwijl anderen werden gecremeerd. Op elke graftombe werd een piramide van zandsteen gebouwd. Verspreid over drie steden zijn in Meroë in totaal 220 piramides gebouwd. Ze bleven grotendeels intact tot de jaren 1830, toen de Italiaanse schatjager Giuseppe Ferlini 40 piramides beschadigde. In de afgelopen jaren zijn enkele piramides gerestaureerd om reizigers een idee te geven hoe ze eruitzagen.
Vanwege de onrust in Soedan zijn er veiligheidsrisico’s voor reizen naar het Afrikaanse land. De politieke situatie is er niet stabiel en in verschillende regio’s zijn gewapende conflicten.
Bezoek Atlas Obscura voor meer informatie over de piramides van Meroë.
Campaign to clear the name of Devon witches hanged for dabbling in the occult
A campaign has been launched to clear the name of the last three witches hanged in England – who met their fate in Devon.
The infamous trio, knows as the ‘Bideford Witches’, were put to death in 1682 for supposedly dabbling in the occult.
Temperance Lloyd, Susannah Edwards and Mary Trembles became the last three people hanged in England for witchcraft.
But historians and MPs claim they were targeted because they were old and suffered dementia.
A new campaign to have them officially pardoned has been launched to mark the largest ever gathering of witches together.
The event, the Grand Witches Tea Party, will see hundreds gather at Rougemont Castle in Exeter, Devon – 322 years since they were hanged in August 1682.
Modern witch Jackie Juno, 51, hopes the campaign will persuade Exeter City Council to take them seriously and reconsider.
She said: “By getting them pardoned we are making a statement that this bigoted behaviour should not be tolerated nowadays.
“It would prove that humanity could change for the better. It would also be laying the women to rest in a way that resolves the mistakes of history.
“If you were unmarried or childless or sometimes simply owned a cat you were regarded with suspicion.”
Records show Lloyd was accused of “having discourse or familiarity” with the devil and “having used some magical art, sorcery or witchcraft”.
Edwards and Trembles, who both lived with her, were also arrested before all three were executed at Exeter Prison in Devon.
Historians say the women were convicted on hearsay evidence, which included one of them being accused of turning into a magpie.
Even the justices at the time did not believe they were guilty but were forced to respond to an angry mob that was baying for a hanging.
Last year author Christine Nash set up an online petition to call for their public pardon but despite support, which included Exeter MP Ben Bradshaw, it was unsuccessful. – Plymouthherald
An interesting development in the last few hours at the James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF): a short statement has been posted to their website under the title “Los Angeles Office Closed”, advising that the headquarters of the organisation is moving across the country to Virginia. Oh, and also as an aside (in a statement released at the end of a long weekend) that the President of the organisation, D.J. Grothe, “is no longer with the JREF”!
In order to achieve cost-savings and greater efficiency, the Los Angeles office of the JREF has closed effective September 1, 2014. All operations have been moved to Falls Church, Virginia.
DJ Grothe is no longer with the JREF. James Randi has taken over as acting President.
This restructuring is part of an enhanced educational agenda aimed at inspiring an investigative spirit in a new generation of critical thinkers by engaging children and their parents, as well as educators and the general public, in how to think about the many extraordinary claims we hear every day.
A funny thing happened while Tim Bennett weed-whacked on a Scottsville farm two weeks ago: a big black cat crossed his path.
It was a really big black cat.
“He was all black, had a round face and long, black tail,” said Bennett, a seasoned woodsman who runs a landscaping business near Scottsville.
Bennett is pretty sure the cat was a black cougar, the elusive cousin of the elusive mountain lion that has been reported in a variety of Virginia mountain counties but has yet to be proven to exist.
Cougar sightings are commonplace with the big cats having been reported everywhere from Lynchburg and Bath County on to Rockingham County. Cougars themselves, however, are not as commonplace as their sightings.
In fact, no mountain lions, catamounts, pumas, American panthers, painters or mountain cats — all the same species — are believed to be full-time residents of the Blue Ridge Mountains, according to wildlife officials.
But Bennett’s eyes — and the odd behavior of a mare in a field — told him something different.
“I was doing some weed-whacking along the stable fence and one of the horses was there with me. I was going along with the weed whacker and she all of a sudden went up on her hind legs and kicked her front legs out,” Bennett recalled. “When she came down, she ran toward the stable and stopped. I shut down the weed whacker because I thought that’s what upset her.”
It wasn’t.
Bennett said the horse stared down toward the pond and pawed the ground with her front feet, making a distressed noise.
“I walked along the fence line to see what she was looking at,” he said.
That’s when he saw the cat.
“I proceeded to walk toward it and the cat proceeded to walk away, down toward the pond and then into the hollow. It walked with its head low and its tail toward the ground,” Bennett said. “It wasn’t like the cat was afraid of me. It was like it just knew that what was walking toward it wasn’t something it was interested in.”
There are doubts about the existence of black-furred or melanistic cougars despite thousands of reports over a hundred years because no bodies have ever been recovered. The Eastern cougar has been declared extinct, although its relative, the Western cougar, is alive and well in the Rocky Mountains and points west.
The only photo known to exist of a black cougar was shot in the 1950s in the Southwest. That cougar had dark gray fur on its sides and back, but pale gray fur on its belly.
“There has never been a documented case of an all-black cougar and the ones you see on television are all either jaguars or leopards,” said Mike Fies, wildlife research biologist at the state Department of Game and Inland Fisheries. “The Eastern cougar is considered extinct, with the last one being confirmed around 1880. There are no known resident populations. I haven’t seen one in the 30 years I’ve been here, and that makes it hard to accept that there is a resident population.”
Just because it hasn’t been proved doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.
“We never say never about these things,” Fies said. “But we still have no evidence of their being in Virginia.”
Ed Creasy, on whose property Bennett saw the cat, believes.
“[Bennett] came to the house and he was kind of shaken. He said he saw a large cat with a black tail and a rounded face down by the pond,” Creasy recalled. “We found a footprint where it looked like the animal had walked around the pond.”
The former FBI agent did a quick preliminary investigation, making a plaster cast of a paw print.
“I hadn’t done a plaster cast in years and had to go to the store to get what I needed,” Creasy said. “When we got back to the pond, water had just started to seep into the print, which meant we had been there pretty close behind it. I dried the print lightly with some paper towel and made the cast.”
The cast is inconclusive, though what it shows closely resembles a cat print, with an apparent trefoil paw pad at the back end.
The idea of a cougar prowling the Blue Ridge foothills might be improbable, but it isn’t impossible. In 2011, a cougar was killed on the streets of Connecticut. The animal had walked for three years across six states only to meet its death.
According to the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, DNA tests showed the cougar made its way east from South Dakota’s Black Hills, its image captured on trail cameras in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan’s Upper Peninsula and New York before the animal was struck and killed by a 2006 Hyundai Tucson outside Milford.
The cat’s death was not in vain, according to Science Daily. It taught researchers about cougar dispersals in which young male cats hit the road looking for mates. The dispersals from the West and Midwest can go far to the east and likely have occurred sporadically for many years.
That doesn’t mean that a lone male or female in a strange state will meet up with a lover and raise a family of resident cats.
“Neither males nor females will stop to establish a home range without the presence of possible mates. So, ultimately, for a new breeding population to start, a male and female who have dispersed separately from the West must randomly stumble upon each other in the 2 million square miles of habitat east of their range,” said officials from Mountainlion.org, an organization dedicated to preserving cougar populations.
“These random bets on exact location and timing, repeated over and over, represent the lion’s only chance for survival,” the publication states.
Sightings in the Midwest and East prior to 2000 commonly were attributed to rural myth, mistaken identity or the release or escape of lions once held as pets. Thanks to the killed cat in Connecticut, however, biologists say some of those sightings could have been dispersed males.
The nearest native pumas to Virginia are Florida panthers, which range from Florida into Alabama. There are believed to be only about 200 of them, although there also have been reports of cougar tracks and sightings in West Virginia and North Carolina.
Still, it’s unlikely cougars have filtered into the Blue Ridge, since no bodies, no photos and no feces have been found, Fies said. Regardless, he receives a lot of reports of puma sightings.
“That week, I had three reported sightings,” he said. “I’ve been in public meetings and asked how many people have seen a cougar and have almost everyone raise their hand. It just seems to me that if that many sightings were accurate, we’d see some evidence.”
Crozet-area residents have reported puma sightings for years, with a flurry around 2008.
“It’s been quiet recently, but for a while people were reporting them every few months,” said Mike Marshall, editor of the Crozet Gazette. “I think a lot of people don’t report them because they are afraid of being made fun of. I’m personally convinced they’re here.”
Fies said he has no doubt those who reported seeing cougars saw something; he just doubts they saw cougars.
“People misidentify them with a lot of things,” he said. “Bobcats are in the woods and from a distance, people easily mistake dogs for cougars. A lot of photos have been shown to be something else when they are reviewed.”
Fies said wildlife biologists doubt cougars would just disappear into the mountains without a trace. The Connecticut cat left tracks, trail photographs and scat across its path so that it was easy to follow once found.
“There’s no doubt that mountain lions are moving eastward. The Western cougar is definitely moving eastward,” he said. “Maybe there will be a time when some will colonize Virginia in the future.”
Bennett, however, said he believes that, be it Florida puma or Western cougar, there is at least one cat out there. – Roanoke
‘Finding Bigfoot’ Plodding Through Southwest Pennsylvania
The Bigfoot hunters starring on Animal Planet’s hit television series “Finding Bigfoot” went on a search for the mythical creature in southwestern Pennsylvania, an area that locals claim is a hot spot for supernatural activity and Bigfoot sightings.
On the popular program, which is now in its fifth season, four researchers travel to a different location in the United States and interview people who claim to have seen Bigfoot. Then the researchers set up re-enactments of the sighting to try to prove the existence of the mysterious creature.
The team consists of Bigfoot Field Research Organization (BFRO) President Matt Moneymaker, researchers James “Bobo” Fay and Cliff Barackman, and scientist Ranae Holland.
On Aug. 26, the producers of “Finding Bigfoot” explored Uniontown to find “a Sasquatch in these woods.”
According to the Herald-Standard, Bigfoot believers from as far as Ohio and West Virginia were among the more than 200 people who attended a town hall meeting where people shared stories about their interactions with the ape-like creature. The meeting was held at the State Theatre Center for the Arts in Uniontown.
“We knew we needed a venue that was capable of holding all these people,” said show producer Sean Mantooth. “It’s beautiful and centrally located in downtown Uniontown. It was a great location.”
Erica Miller, the executive director of the theater, mentioned that the theater received publicity from the show.
“We’ve had a lot of famous names and faces in here, but it’s not every day we film a TV show here,” she said, adding “It’s great exposure for the theater.”
“This is the best town hall meeting we’ve ever had – the sheer amount of stories we had – we literally did not have enough time before we had to start wrapping things up,” said Mantooth.
“We’ve gotten a lot of support from the local community. They’ve been very welcoming to the cast and crew and made it a really good episode for us,” he continued. – Latin Post
The National UFO Alert Rating System has been updated for September 2014, with California, Texas, New York, Michigan, Florida, Pennsylvania, and Ohio moving to a UFO Alert 3 as the highest reporting states during the month of August 2014, filed with the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON).
California was the leading high-reporting state in August with 99 cases, down from 104 July cases, 107 June cases, 102 May cases, 80 April cases, 103 March cases, 59 February cases, and 102 January cases. Those states in a UFO Alert 4 category with 13 or more reports include: Washington, Illinois, Missouri, North Carolina, Oregon, Colorado, Indiana, and New Jersey.
All other states move to a UFO Alert 5 category with lower numbers of UFO activity. The Watch States – with 10 or more cases – are Georgia, Nevada, Alabama, Arizona, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut and South Carolina.
MUFON released August statistics September 1, where the total number of reported UFO sightings is listed by state. The entire country was moved back to the lowest alert level – UFO Alert 5.
California takes the lead with 99 cases; Texas, 42; New York, 29; Michigan, 28; Florida, 26; Pennsylvania, 26; and Ohio, 25.
Those states with 13 or more reports, the next reporting tier level, are a UFO Alert 4 status: Washington, 23; Illinois, 22; Missouri, 20; North Carolina, 16; Oregon, 15; Colorado, 14; Indiana, 14; and New Jersey, 13.
Our Watch States this month are – with 10 reports or more: Georgia, 12; Nevada, 12; Alabama, 11; Arizona, 10; Maryland, 10; Massachusetts, 10; New Hampshire, 10; Connecticut, 10; and South Carolina, 10.
The sphere remains the most-reported UFO shape with 179 August cases; down from 216 July cases; 156 June cases; 129 May cases; 150 April cases, 131 March cases, 91 February cases; and 240 January cases. Other shape reports include: Circle, 94; Star-Like, 88; Triangle, 68; Disc; 68; Other, 63; Unknown, 59; Oval, 42; Fireball, 39; Cylinder, 24; Flash, 22; N/A, 20; Cigar, 16; Boomerang, 15; Blimp, 11; Cone, 11; Diamond, 11; Bullet-Missile, 8; Egg, 6; Teardrop, 5; Chevron, 2; Saturn-like, 2; and Cross, 1.
The object’s distance from the witness includes: Less than 100 feet, 112 cases; 101 to 500 feet, 113 cases; 501 feet to one mile, 189 cases; over one mile, 224 cases; unknown, 285; and no value stated, 25.
In addition, there were “28 landings, hoverings, or takeoffs reported and 1 entity observed.”
The most interesting UFO reports do not necessarily come from high reporting states – but those states with higher numbers do account for some of the most interesting evidence to study. While UFO sightings seem to pop up randomly around the country, this list is meant to offer a small insight into where Americans are filing reports.
Great Britain witnesses at Wigan reported watching two lights that dropped out of the sky and appeared to be scanning the ground around their home on two consecutive nights, according to testimony in Case 59507 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
The lights were first seen about 2:15 a.m. on August 27, 2014, and they returned about the same time on August 28. The reporting witness was outside in her garden looking at the stars when the event began.
“I noticed how starry the night was,” the witness stated. “This was unusual because the sky is usually foggy looking/overcast and to my left – northwest – I saw what looked like an orange star. I didn’t think much of it and went in.”
About an hour later, the motion sensor of the witnesses’ CCTV system in the back garden came on and she stepped outside to investigate.
“I saw two lights that looked to me at first like glowing eyes. They were high up in the sky and swooped fast into the garden. The lights then looked dim. The movement of these was strange. It seemed as though they were scanning around the garden and then would shoot off again and return.”
The witness described the event.
“The direction path wasn’t the same coming from different directions, but always coming back over the garden and this sort of scanning movement. Throughout the activity the motion sensor of the cameras was on constantly and it went on for nearly two hours and then moved further back to another house and the same movement again. I’ve never seen anything like this and it really freaked me out. My son also witnessed it.”
The lights returned the following night at about the same time, but now in front of the home.
“The weather was bad on this night, raining heavily and very windy and the movement of it was more erratic. My son’s bedroom window was open near where this was and I ran to close it and these lights seemed to zero in then on the window, repeatedly backing up and launching at the window I’d just closed. I really thought this thing was trying to get in. On this occasion all the family witnessed it and we were all freaked out. Couldn’t understand what it was, but scared.”
The object again seemed like it was scanning the area.
“On this night it stayed for about an hour, flicking around the garden, cars, flying off and then coming back. My son opened a window but we couldn’t see anything with the naked eye, only the CCTV with infrared picked this activity up. Again the motion sensor of the cameras remained on constantly while this was around, returning to normal when it left.”
Wigan is a town in Greater Manchester, England. It stands on the River Douglas, 7.9 miles (13 km) southwest of Bolton, 10 miles (16 km) north of Warrington and 16 miles (25.7 km) west-northwest of Manchester, population 97,000.
MUFON International is investigating. The above quotes were edited for clarity.
A resident of Cinnamon Brow sent a local newspaper an image of a strange object in the skies over his home. He and his wife saw several of the objects at first, but only one was left by the time he got his camera.
Mike Mayoux told This is Cheshire that he and his wife spotted the objects on Sunday at around 6 pm over their home in Cinnamon Brow, which is on the east side of Warrington, England. Mayoux says, “My wife saw two of them at first but I saw five before going inside to get the camera.”
However, Mayoux was not able to catch all five objects on camera. “By the time I came out with the camera, I could only see one left which I photographed using a superzoom camera at full zoom,” Mayoux said.
First Cinnamon Brow UFO photo. (Credit: Mike Mayoux/This is Cheshire)
Second Cinnamon Brow UFO photo. (Credit: Mike Mayoux/This is Cheshire)
He continued, “I have no idea of what it is, nor am I saying it is UFO, just some strange objects in the sky which appeared to be moving very slowly but were very high… There’s probably a fully rational explanation but I would be interested in knowing what they were.”
Technically, the object is unidentified and was flying, so it is a UFO. However, I think what Mayoux means is that he is not suggesting it is an extraterrestrial spacecraft.
This is Cheshire asked readers to post their suggestions as to what Mayoux may have captured in these images, extraterrestrial spacecraft or otherwise. Although no one seemed to be convinced there were aliens flying around over Cinnamon Brow, there were suggestions of celebration balloons and weather balloons.
One comment said, “It could be a weather balloon.. the higher they go the more distorted their shape becomes due to the low pressure.”
There was another very interesting suggestion made in another comment. It said, “It’s a Dummy shaped balloon that looks like it’s been released maybe by accident. I had them for my daughters christening. Google dummy shaped balloons and you can see they are the same thing.”
I thought that was an out of the ordinary possibility, so I did Google dummy-shaped balloons. BTW, a dummy is a British term for what we would call a baby’s pacifier here in the U.S.
I found some balloons that are shaped similarly to the objects in the photo. Although, the balloons seem to be smaller than the objects in the photos. However, Mayoux did say he zoomed in with his “superzoom” camera, so perhaps these object were smaller than they appear in his photos.
NASA has a UFO Sighting Protocol! IF UFO’S APPEAR…SHUT OFF THE CAMERAS A new footage recorded by Streetcap1 shows a disk-shaped UFO near the ISS on August 29, 2014.
Not surprisingly, NASA cut the live stream and changed the live feed from Cam 1 to Cam 2.
Astronauts working on the International Space Station spot something unexpected, flying objects near or hovering around the space station, the first thing they try to do is to take pictures of what they see, so they have photographic evidence!
Let’s make it clear, NASA has itself allegedly encountered many UFOs through the years, they have thousands of pictures, photographic evidence of the existence of UFOs, but those UFO pictures having never reached the general public.
NASA is funded by the government with all of our tax dollars. Actually owned, by the government, (nasa.gov) but as long as the Government keeps silent on UFOs, we will never see the NASA UFO Photo’s.
KEN’S NOTE: I DO REALISE THAT THERE ARE THOUSANDS OF SATELLITES AND SPACE DEBRIS FROM SOME GOVERMENTS BUT THE SMOKING GUN TO ME IS WHY NASA SHUTS OFF THE CAMERAS OR SHUTS DOWN THE LIVE FEED WHEN A UFO APPEARS. I WILL TAKE IT TO THE NEXT LEVEL. WHEN ALIEN CRAFT APPEAR. NASA SHOOTS THEMSELVES IN THE FOOT EVERY TIME THEY DO SOMETHING LIKE THIS. MAYBE NASA, IN ITS OWN WAY, IS DISCLOSING THE FACT THAT SOMETHING STRANGE IS GOING ON.
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