Did The Nazis Build A Secret Antarctic Base?

In the 1930's, Nazis exploring the southern extremities of the globe set up a base (called base-211) in Antarctica. You may have heard of Operation Highjump and how Admiral Byrd had an altercation with entrenched German forces that overpowered them with amazing flying craft. A map from the Third Reich (obtained by Russian forces during WW2) has recently surfaced detailing not only the direct passageway used by German U-boats to access this subterranean domain, but also a complete map of both hemispheres of the inner realm of Agartha!

After the Soviet collapse in 1991, the KGB released previously classified files that cast light on the mysterious US led Naval expedition to Antarctica in 1947.

The intelligence report, gathered from Soviet KGB spies embedded in the US, revealed that the US Navy had sent the military expedition led by Admiral Byrd to find and destroy a hidden Nazi base.

 

On the way, they encountered and were defeated by a German saucer force that destroyed several ships and planes, forcing the US to retreat and implement a media cover-up lasting up until today.

Officially called “The United States Navy Antarctic Development Program,” the naval component of Operation Highjump was comprised of 4700 military personnel, an aircraft carrier (the USS Philippine Sea among the largest of all carriers of the time), and a number of naval support ships and aircraft.

 

The Naval expedition was headed by famed polar explore Admiral Richard Byrd, who had been ordered to:

 

“to consolidate and extend American sovereignty over the largest practical area of the Antarctic continent. To establish Little America”

 

Byrd’s expedition ended after only 8 weeks with “many fatalities” according to initial news reports based on interviews with crew members who spoke to the press while passing through Chilean ports.

 

Rather than deny the heavy casualty reports, Admiral Byrd revealed in an interview that they had encountered a new enemy that “could fly from pole to pole at incredible speeds.”

 

Admiral Byrd’s statements were published in the Chilean Press but never publicly confirmed by US authorities. Indeed Byrd did not speak again to the Press about Operation Highjump, leaving it for researchers to speculate for decades over what really happened, and why Byrd was silenced.

 

 

If the fortress was in Antarctica, was it built by the Nazis, or discovered there? After the defeat of Nazi Germany, according various sources, elite Nazi scientists and leaders escaped to this impregnable fortress by Uboats, two of which experienced difficulties and surrendered in Argentina.

 

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04-09-2015 om 21:42 geschreven door peter  

Plus de 2.000 images d'ovnis capturées en Australie

Plus de 2.000 images ou vidéos d'ovnis filmés dans le ciel australien seront dévoilés dans un nouveau documentaire.

Les producteurs de « Skies australiens » expliquent que le film va tenter de mettre en lumière la raison pour laquelle le nombre d'observations étranges est à la hausse.
 
L’expert Damien Knott affirme avoir capturé plus de 2.000 images ou vidéos d’ovnis distincts.
 
Le réalisateur, Don Meers, a déclaré : « Le premier objectif de ce film est de voir si nous pouvons comprendre ce qui se passe. »

Ovni capturé par Damien Knott

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04-09-2015 om 20:41 geschreven door peter  

UFO Shuts Down a Major Airport in China Again

There don’t appear to be any official records of a UFO ever shutting down a major airport in the U.S. In China on the other hand, it’s happened three times in five years. Are Chinese air traffic controllers more respectful of UFO airspace … or more fearful?

The latest instance of a Chinese airport closing down because of a UFO sighting appears to have happened late last week or over the weekend. A video of a newscast showing the UFO was posted on August 29th, 2015.

There’s no indication of which airport it is (at least for non-Chinese speakers). At the beginning, it shows a round object passing over the airport. The object appears to change forms and become elongated to a cigar shape. The video shows military personnel apparently watching the UFO but no one seems to be mobilizing or panicking. Could it be because they’ve been through this before?

On July 7th, 2010, a UFO was spotted at the Xiaoshan Airport in Hangzhou, China, at 8:40 p.m. by the crew of a plane preparing to land. The crew notified air traffic control and the airport was immediately shut down. All outgoing flights were grounded and 18 incoming flights were diverted to airports in Ningbo and Wuxi.

UFO shuts down Xiaoshan Airport in China

Normal operations were resumed somewhere between one and four hours later, but passengers and local residents were left in the dark as to what the UFO might be. Speculation ranged from a U.S. missile to a Russian satellite to a secret Chinese military plane to a meteor. Officials from the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) told the media that the incident was “under investigation” but no record of any formal explanation is readily available. There seems to be no information from the Shanghai UFO Investigative Research Center either. Why not?

Perhaps they were warned by yet another UFO shutting down an airport, this time on October 6, 2010, in Inner Mongolia. The news report mentions the previous sighting and says it was a military test, but gives no details nor no information on the next one.

Three Chinese airports shut down by UFOs in five years. Do you think there’s more shutdowns that we don’t know about? Why are Chinese officials so quick to close airports after UFO sightings? What do they know and why don’t WE know it?

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04-09-2015 om 20:22 geschreven door peter  

The ‘alien’ found in a Russian nuclear power plant is not an alien, guys

Someone found a weird, shriveled animal corpse near a Russian nuclear power plant, so now it's an alien. Seriously, Internet?

[Sorry, there probably isn’t life on Rosetta’s comet — even if ‘scientists’ said so]

Adding fuel to the fire, unfortunately, are comments from a Russian biologist -- ones he now says have been taken out of context. Yegor Zadereev had announced -- quite reasonably -- that he isn't sure what kind of animal the decrepit little creature is. That's really not surprising, because:

1. Not every biologist has encyclopedic knowledge of every organism that might conceivably show up in their town.

2. This little critter has clearly gone through quite a bit of decay, further confusing its physiology.

3. It's even possible, given its proximity to a nuclear power plant, that the organism has radiation-related mutations -- though we'd obviously hope this wouldn't be the case, given the implications that would have for the safety of the plant.

4. Even to a barely-trained eye (read: my eye) it looks fairly embryonic. In other words, it's quite possibly a shriveled up chicken embryo, or something of that nature, and shriveled up embryos are as weird looking as you'd expect.

5. Who knows -- maybe it's a new species! A whopping average of 15,000 new species are discovered each year. Granted, most of these are insects and bacteria and other things more likely to escape notice than a weird winged thing in Russia, but it could happen. And it's a lot more likely than aliens.

21 bizarre species you didn’t know existed

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From cartwheeling spiders to rainbow crawfish, scientists are finding new species we never knew about.

[This tiny animal can survive basically anything, including the vacuum of space]

In an email to The Post, Zadereev clarified his thoughts on the corpse.

"I am not specialist in vertebrates," he wrote "This is definitely some either embryo or aborted vertebrate species that can be identified by specialist. DNA analysis will give answer about species identity. All parts of animal (skin, fear, bones, legs, etc.) looks quite normal for species that we observe on earth."

He added "I am quite familiar with mass media. That is why [I am] a bit disappointed by mistake that I did myself – never comment on issues that might be attributed to something mystical or extraterrestrial."

Ain't that the truth.

If this is our first contact with an extraterrestrial species, I'll eat my hat.

[After 24 years, this man came to a really sad conclusion about the Loch Ness monster]

This happens periodically: Something a little weird is found, scientists are "puzzled" over it, and the conspiracy theorists go nuts. Let me tell you a little secret, friends -- scientists are puzzled by a lot of things. Solving puzzles is basically a scientist's entire job. When a scientist isn't willing to come straight out and say "aha, that thing is definitely a chicken fetus that's been rotting in the water for six weeks" it's just because they're more careful about jumping to assumptions than, say, the people who blog about aliens are.

And if you still want to believe, here's one last reminder -- This happens all the time. "Alien" corpses make international news all the time. Two incidents in particular come to mind.

In 2009, some teenagers in Panama claimed to have found an alien corpse. It was pretty freaky:

...and it was a dead, bloated sloth.

And back in 2003, scientists found a tiny, unusual corpse in the Atacama desert in Chile. What could it possibly be? Definitely an alien. Until the DNA evidence came back showing that it was definitely human -- and probably just suffered from some profound defect.

But DNA evidence actually failed to stop the "definitely an alien" rumors on that little guy, and I'm sure Russia's weird baby chicken won't be any different.

This post has been updated with commentary from Yegor Zadereev. 

Read More:

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After 24 years, this man came to a really sad conclusion about the Loch Ness monster

The Curiosity rover spotted a ‘floating spoon’ on Mars

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This deep sea creature looks just like the Flying Spaghetti Monster

Bigfoot: still imaginary, probably not an undiscovered species of bear

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04-09-2015 om 20:05 geschreven door peter  

04-09-2015 om 00:39 geschreven door peter  

STRANGE SHAPE SHIFTING OBJECT CLOSES DOWN AIRPOR

T IN CHINA

04-09-2015 om 00:24 geschreven door peter  

VIDEO: Family That Owns Property Overlooking Area 51 Speak Out

04-09-2015 om 00:12 geschreven door peter  

UFOs and Halfhearted Media Coverage

A few nights ago I was interviewed on Richard Hoagland’s radio show and we spent a lot of time discussing one of my recent articles here at Mysterious Universe. It was the one on UFO Disclosure, the complete and utter naivety of those who support it, and my “seen it all before” comments. It was this article that led us into another, somewhat related, topic. Namely, how come the media – given its attention to breaking and/or understanding Watergate, Iran-Contra, the WMD situation, and the Edward Snowden affair – has never been able to blow the lid off the UFO secrecy and secure the disclosure so many seek and hope for?

The skeptics and debunkers would say – and they have said – that this glaring issue of the world’s leading journalists not having cracked something like Roswell, is because nothing of an extraordinary nature occurred back in the summer of 1947. That’s not true. And the outrageous thing is that those same skeptics and debunkers know exactlywhy the mainstream, influential press has not solved Roswell. They prefer, however, to spin and weave as they see fit.

The answer as to why the media hasn’t resolved something like Roswell is extremely simple and has nothing to do with a lack of potential data to be found. To put it bluntly, the media has never solved Roswell because it has never gone after Roswell (or any other major case of a UFO nature) in the same way, and on the same scale, that it has with the “Big Four” above: Snowden, Watergate, Iran-Contra, and the Weapons of Mass Destruction.

Yes, there’s no doubt that the media – of numerous nations – has extensively covered the UFO controversy, and has done so since 1947. The number of articles written by the press, since the 1940s, must surely be well into the thousands. Maybe tens of thousands. But, the typical type of UFO story that the media generally provides its readers/viewers with is not on a par with what one would expect to see on the four above. Some might say the subject is not worthy of such similar coverage. I would suggest otherwise.

President Richard M. Nixon

There may be those reading this article who take the view that when it comes to UFOs, “the government is silencing the journalists.” Really? Well, “the government” didn’t stop the press from breaking one of the biggest stories of the 20th century: the Watergate affair, which led to the resignation of President Richard M. Nixon. Nor was the press stopped from revealing the fact that there is a massive NSA-controlled data-collection program focused on the online activity and phone calls of US citizens. The persistence of the press meant that the facts came out – even if there were those who wished it didn’t.

The very same might happen for Roswell – in theory. An aggressive, lengthy, and wide-reaching study of Roswell by one of the world’s leading news outlets could well do for Ufology what it did for the “Big Four.” That’s to say, extract the genie from the bottle. And regardless of whether the genie wants out or not. But the media hasn’t done that with UFOs and Roswell. And it won’t. Here’s why.

As I pointed out on the Hoagland show, being able to show people you are the person who broke something like the Watergate story, or the Snowden case (etc., etc.) is something that many journalists would give their right arm to achieve. Developing a reputation for being the journalist who chases after little green men has far less appeal for those who want to climb the journalistic ladder. But, if they would only develop a pair of balls, care less about reputations, and actually spend major time (and I do meanmajor time) on Roswell, they might just find – to their amazement – that there really is something there.

The S-4.

As another example: Bob Lazar. When, in the late 1980s, Lazar came forward with his claim to have briefly worked at a Nevada-based facility called S-4 (at which, he also claimed, recovered alien spacecraft were stored), it made many heads turn within Ufology. It also made George Knapp’s head turn. Knapp, to his lasting credit, and as a respected journalist, dug deeply into the Lazar controversy. But he was one of barely a handful.

If Lazar’s story is nothing but a hoax, then it’s of no consequence and we should move on. And, yes, some have done that. On the other hand, if the story is true, then Lazar is a whistle-blower on the scale of Edward Snowden. Maybe even a bigger scale. Can you imagine what the outcome might have been had the world’s media gone after Lazar in the late-1980s in the fashion they did with Snowden? Okay, maybe Lazar’s claims would have been shown to have no merit. On the other hand, it could have resulted in the startling revelation that Uncle Sam has a fine collection of shiny UFOs and a motley collection of dead, pickled aliens. No surprises: it didn’t happen.

Certainly, the media commented on Lazar’s claims on more than a few occasions. But, a new Woodward and Bernstein, with major media backing and funding, to pursue the Lazar story as far as it could conceivably go, and for months or even years? Nope, no such new team was anywhere in sight. It still isn’t. But it is/was when it comes to the likes of Watergate, Snowden and so on.

On the matter of UFOs, the mainstream media is very good about entertaining us, vaguely intriguing us, making slightly fun-poking comments about Ufology (granted, some of which are deserved; even I have to admit that much), and preparing a couple of columns of text to be placed at the foot of page five. On the other hand, however, that same media is downright hopeless, impotent, and lacking in vision when it comes to getting behind the UFO subject and to a degree that history just might be made in the process.

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03-09-2015 om 23:47 geschreven door peter  

Patrick Moore 'watched UFO being caught on camera but BBC edited it out of his documentary'

Moore and his film crew reportedly watched an  orange glow that developed into a low-flying 'craft' which no-one could explain

Legendary astronomer Patrick Moore saw a UFO being filmed while making a documentary during the 1960s - but the BBC edited out, it has been claimed.

The allegation was reportedly made by Alien researcher Matt Lyons during the 50th anniversary celebrations of the 'Warminster Thing' in 1965.

That year people living in the town began reporting a large number of strange noises and paranormal sightings.

Mr Lyons revealed a story from a the local reporter called Arthur Shuttlewood, who broke the original story about the bizarre sightings which made the town a mecca for UFO spotters.

Mr Shuttlewood spoke to Sir Patrick - a well known UFO-sceptic - on January 31 1969 when he spent the evening star gazing with his film crew, the Daily Express reports.

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Mr Shuttleood wrote that Sir Patrick and his crew spotted something they couldn't explain and that some of their watches stopped when they arrived at the site.

He wrote: "Just after a satellite arced from north to south, the attention of a camera man was drawn to an orange glow that developed into an ellipsoidal craft flying low in the opposite direction to the satellite.

"It then flared into a glowing brilliance as it glided unerringly and silently towards the darkened copse saddling Cradle Hill."

He wrote that Sir Patrick said he would not call them "UFOs" but that they were nonetheless "simply fascinating and inexplicable light formations."

Mr Shuttlewood wrote: "There was no doubting the reality of his being wholly mystified and the producer later sent me a letter thanking me for giving them 'an unforgettable and wonderful experience'."

The reporter later claimed the final cut of the BBC documentary made by Sir Patrick had not shown his shock at what he saw or the actual footage.

A BBC Spokesperson said: "We have a lot of things in the BBC archive but no aliens or flying saucers."

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03-09-2015 om 23:40 geschreven door peter  

Is The Establishment Preparing To Unveil Aliens?

Roswell UFO Museum

UFOs and extraterrestrials have long been treated as the ultimate conspiracy theory by the establishment.  Therefore, the growing chatter of mainstream news stories about UFOs and aliens seems very peculiar. Why the attention all of a sudden?  Is the establishment conditioning us for the arrival of extraterrestrials?  Could they have an agenda for doing so?

Recent reporting of genuine events such as the multiple UFOs that forced the closing of separate airports in China; stories covering the release of new UFO books written by credible ex-military; UFOs tampering with nuclear devices; the discovery of a “habitable” planet near Earth; a bizarre story about the Pope’s astronomer saying he would gladly baptize an alien if asked; and the pending appointment of a U.N. space ambassador are bringing some legitimacy to the conspiracy.

Quick story: when I was a 21-year-old carefree hippie, a friend and I jumped in my Volkswagen Westfalia camper and headed west for a mountain-biking road trip.  One of our destinations was Roswell, New Mexico to see what remained of the UFO hype from the famed encounter in the late ’40s. We had a guidebook which mentioned a UFO museum that we were getting more excited to see by the mile marker.

We arrived in the seedy little town of Roswell in the morning, passing many buildings with alien and UFO likenesses painted on them. We found the museum without too much trouble and stretched our legs to the entrance.  After I had paid my admission and walked in, I suddenly realized that there weren’t going to be any artifacts there.  I felt sort of like a fool for being excited in the first place.  Instead, there were grainy photos blown up of famous UFO images and a recreation of the “alien autopsy” using mannequins.  Needless to say, we left the museum disappointed — mostly at ourselves.

We sought hard evidence to confirm our suspicions about the existence of intelligent alien life . . . and found none. In the book Probability 1, mathematician Amir Aczel used all known data, such as similar stars to the sun, and similar planets, to calculate the probability of intelligent life outside our solar system.  As the book title says, it is mathematically certain that we are not alone. However, this was just another theory, which is similar to government documents or photos about UFOs, in my view — neither one has the credibility of an artifact that would prove alien life beyond the shadow of a doubt.

I imagine that most rational people have considered the possibility of life beyond Earth, but are still waiting for concrete evidence before committing to that reality.  An apparently undeniable event must occur for the masses to fully “believe” the new nature of reality.  Should extraterrestrials actually exist, there is certainly enough motivation by the controllers to keep them under wraps, as their existence dramatically threatens their earthly power structure — especially the integrity of powerful religious institutions — unless of course they co-opt the event for their own gain.

The skeptic in me found one curious sign that this imminent arrival might indeed be orchestrated from this world:  these “visitors” are apparently concerned primarily with CO2 levels.  No matter which side you are on in the climate debate, I have to think that entities making such a long journey, and which presumably possess a higher intelligence, might look first at freeing Humanity of the global tyranny and war-like tendencies it lives under (and the tendency for our leaders to spread both), rather than arrive with the very mundane plan to address a political issue of non-galactic consequence.  But that is exactly what a new book by a retired NORAD officer predicts for the grand arrival on October 13th of this year according to Yahoo News:

• Author says the event to be the first in a series intended to avert a planetary catastrophe resulting from increasing levels of carbon-dioxide in the earth’s atmosphere dangerously approaching a ‘critical mass.’
• A newly-published 352-page book (Challenges of Change) by a retired Air Force officer, Stanley A. Fulham, tentatively predicts October 13, 2010 as the date for a massive UFO display over the world’s principal cities.   According to the author, the aliens will neither land nor communicate on that date; they are aware from eons of experience with other planets in similar conditions their sudden intervention would cause fear and panic.

This press release would have been absolutely laughed off by anything resembling mainstream media just a short time ago.

Bill Cooper’s 1991 book, Behold A Pale Horse, describes a different agenda:  the Elite’s plans to fake an alien invasion in order to unite humanity under a one world government against a common enemy.  But he explains that the timing hasn’t been right because:

• A major finding of the alien study was that the public could not be told. It was believed that this would most certainly lead to economic collapse, collapse of the religious structure, and national panic, which could lead to anarchy. Secrecy thus continued. An offshoot of this finding was that if the public could not be told, Congress could not be told.

Cooper even issued an attempt at a life-saving disclaimer to this revelation:  “If they kill me, you’ll know everything I said was true.”  Bill Cooper was murdered by a “SWAT raid” shortly after 9-11.

NASA’s declassified Project Blue Beam proves that the Elite maintain highly developed plans to fabricate an alien invasion event for the end game of global control.  “In principle, it will make use of the skies as a movie screen (on the sodium layer at about 60 miles) as space-based laser-generating satellites project simultaneous images to the four corners of the planet in every language and dialect according to the region. It deals with the religious aspect of the new world order and is deception and seduction on a massive scale.” (Source)  Advanced holographic technology now makes such a “movie” entirely plausible.  In fact, it already has been researched by the U.S. Air Force to use in war, as wasreported 11 years ago in The Washington Post.

The general public will likely be terrified and unite behind our leaders’ manufactured storyline to confront and protect us from the aliens.  Therein lies the motivation for the Globalists to engineer such an event. Simply by being aware that such a plan has been thought up by the controllers will make us less susceptible to potential fear tactics and propaganda should such an event occur.

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02-09-2015 om 22:53 geschreven door peter  

UFOs: The Trail Is Stale

02-09-2015 om 22:28 geschreven door peter  

UK town 'invaded by UFOs and eerie noises that killed flocks of birds and stopped cars'

IT STOPPED cars in their tracks, killed birds, terrified children and sparked reports of strange humming noises, tremors, lights, crop circles, UFOs, and even alien abductions - so just what did happen in a small leafy Wiltshire town?

02-09-2015 om 22:25 geschreven door peter  

Former Police Officer: People Are Vanishing Into Thin Air

Retired police officer David Paulides warns that people are disappearing in clusters all over the world, and he closely investigated more than 400 cases in the USA and Canada.

It’s understood that people routinely get lost, some want to disappear but this story is about the unusual.

Nobody has ever studied the archives for similarities, traits and geographical clusters of missing people, until now.

A tip from a national park ranger led to 3+ years and a 7000 hour investigative effort into understanding the stories behind people who have vanished. David's research chronicles children, adults and elders who disappeared, sometimes in the presence of friends and relatives. [1]

• "As I have explained many times in the past, the NPS has stated in response to our Freedom of Information Act Requests, they DO NOT have any lists of missing people.
  
  The public needs to understand that tracking missing people is not rocket science. It does not take massive computers; in fact, all you need is a clipboard and binder paper. Divide the paper into sections, date, time, location, name, and disposition. You keep the clipboard on the wall of the park supervisor’s office and add or delete cases as they evolve. This is not complicated, expensive or time consuming," David Paulides explained in an interview for the Examiner. [2]

In the same interview David said that the NPS asked for "$1.4 million dollars for a list of missing people from their system."

In the same interview, the police veteran was asked to briefly describe one of the case he investigated. You will find the following story both chilling and fascinating:

"One of the more recent and highly unusual cases occurred in South Carolina in 2011 and is a case that’s highlighted in the new book. Before I advise an audience about the facts behind a story, I always ask them to remember back when they had young children.

In this story the boy was 21 months old. I ask the readers to remember back when they were around a child that young. How well could they toddle and how far could they walk. How quickly could they get out of your view? How much stamina does a 21-month old child have?

In this incident the boy was in his residence with the family dog and his mother. She left the room momentarily and somehow the boy and the dog got outside. There was a large open field surrounding the residence before reaching thick woods. The mother realized that her son and the dog were gone and ran outside to check the yard. The boy and the dog were not only in the yard, they weren’t anywhere in sight.

The mother called the sheriff and searchers started to arrive in mass. By late in the afternoon, the weather started to change to rain. Searchers continued to walk the surrounding property and found nothing that first night.

The first morning of the search, a sheriff’s deputy and a natural resource officer were in kayaks on a river two miles from the victims residence, they were just two of hundreds looking for the boy. A search helicopter was flying above the river looking for a body and had just flown over the kayakers.

The two law enforcement officers were paddling upstream from the area of the residence and just turned a corner in the river when they made an amazing find. It was 2:30pm when they looked at a sandbar in the middle of the river. They found the missing boy alive lying on his back in the middle of the sand.

They immediately called the helicopter back to the scene to pickup the boy and take him to his residence. The pilot confirmed that he had just flown over that section of river and the boy WAS NOT on the sandbar, minutes later he’s lying there.

There are many confusing aspects to this case. How the boy got away from his residence so quickly is not understood. How a 21 month old can manage to go through thick woods, enter the river and arrive at a sandbar in the middle of the river, the million-dollar question. Why didn’t the boy respond to hundreds of searchers that were in the woods that first night?

The boy did not suffer from hypothermia even though the weather had been in the low 40’s with rain. The boy’s dog did reappear at the residence. This is one of three cases where very small children have disappeared from the interior of a residence while with the family dog. Each case is equally fascinating," David concluded.

The former police officer outlined a very interesting thing about those very few who are eventually found by the search and rescue teams:

• "In the vast majority of the cases that are chronicled, if people are found, they are located unconscious or semi-conscious and many times in areas that were previously searched. In The vast majority of these incidents, the people are so young they cannot speak or they have a disability that prohibits them from speaking, or they can’t remember what happened. In the rare incident where they do remember facts, they are baffling."

The above statement fits the patter of the so called "alien abductions". For a well-documented article about ET abductions, with strong evidence to support multiple cases, please follow this link.

You can buy David Paulides' books here.

By Alexander Light, HumansAreFree.com;

Sources: [1] NABS; [2] Examiner;

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02-09-2015 om 00:44 geschreven door peter  

NASA’s photos of Mars: Signs of life or imagination running amok?

Bizarre Mars photos: Does alien life really exists?

The NASA photos taken by the Mars Orbiter and the Curiosity and Opportunity rovers sparked speculations of alien life existing on the neighboring planet. While there are continuous debates wherein alien hunters and UFO enthusiasts push the idea of proof of life on Mars (and elsewhere), while NASA continues to maintain that there has yet to be confirmed proof of alien life found on Mars (or anywhere).

Conspiracy theorists for years have been keeping a close watch on the photos that have been transmitted back to Earth by NASA probes and “discovering” strange objects that they say proves the existence of extraterrestrial activity on Mars. For example, lizards, mermaids, petroglyphs, artifacts, jelly donuts, traffic lights, and various other somewhat recognizable objects all appears to exist together in the open dusty spaces of the red planet.

The latest arrival, where the alien hunters cited that the evidence found is that of a crashed rock shaped miniature spaceship on Mars.

“I found this anomaly in the latest Curiosity Rover photo. The black object looks like a crashed UFO,” writes Scott C. Waring on the UFO Sightings Daily website.

The craft is only about 2.5-3 meters across, so it probably only held a few passengers. Since many of the figures we found on Mars are about 5-8 cm tall, then we can conclude that his [sic]ship could carry about 20-40 passengers.”

Perhaps too far sighted but not as far as the discovery of a giant Martian crab in early August or for that matter the “strange woman” appearing briefly at the Curiosity rover last month or like the levitating rock in June.

One NASA scientist says there’s a perfectly good explanation for these sightings. Speaking to CNN, Ashwin Vasavada, a scientist who works on the Mars rover project, said that much of “sightings” suggest a psychological process known as paradoleia, or the brain’s recognition as familiar objects or patterns things even though it’s not actually there. For instance, cloud-shapes, face of a man in the moon, seeing the image of the Virgin Mary in a grilled-cheese sandwich, or even a tiny woman wandering around Mars.

“We have color HD cameras on this rover that far exceed anything ever sent to the planet before, and yet in order to find these things that kind of trick your brain into thinking it’s a mermaid or whatever, you do have to zoom in where it’s kind of a fuzzy shadow at that point,” he added.

Remembering the photo of a tiny woman wandering around Mars, he said “That photo was up in a place we are studying, a place we call a ‘geologic contact’ where there is a lot of sandstone next to mud that formed at the bottom of an ancient lake.”

“Now, three billion years after that happened, little drifts of sand are following down the hill … when you zoom in and kind of look at the light and shadows, it does look like a little figure of a woman,” he admits. “But she would be a few inches tall and hasn’t moved in months, so we don’t think that’s what it is.”

It is very interesting to see how people’s imagination work claiming the things they see in Curiosity’s photos, Vasavada says. However, his team does not take them seriously, he adds hoping that NASA will discover signs of intelligent life on Mars in the future.

In fact, many of the “alien” objects found in the photos taken by other NASA explorers and Curiosity have been quite small. Ironically, a recent study indicated for those searching for alien life, particularly intelligent alien life, when found would be quite a bit larger than the average human being.

“There is no group that would be (happier) to see such a thing than the 500 scientists around the world who work on this Curiosity rover,” he says. “So far we haven’t seen anything that is so obvious that it would be similar to what these claims are.”

“We have no evidence of Martian iguanas or rats at this time,” he says. “One of the best things we found is that Mars could support life, (but) if anything we think it’s microbial life that’s possible at this time. Things like rats and iguanas would be way further up the food chain that we think Mars may have ever gotten to.”

Just the other day, Vasavada says someone on the Internet “found a place where a meteor had struck Mars while we were there roaming, so that is pretty fantastic.”

For Vasavada, the bizarre thing about the thousands of photos taken by Curiosity is how they are not really strange at all.

“The thing that keeps coming back to me every single day is how un-weird it is, how much it looks like Earth,” he says. “It’s just fascinating that (on) Mars, even today, you can see the landscapes formed in similar ways that deserts and other places on Earth formed. It’s kind of mind-blowing.”

It is not as a overwhelmingly impressive find as a Martian; however, Vasavada recommends patience.

“We are working our way to answering what is a very difficult scientific question,” he says. “It’s unfortunately not going to be as easy as seeing a mermaid in a picture.”

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02-09-2015 om 00:26 geschreven door peter  

10 Craziest Theories From Ancient Aliens

“I’m not saying it was aliens… but it was aliens.”

The Ancient Astronaut theory, first proposed in 1919, explores the possibility that Extra-Terrestrials visited our ancestors, perhaps even having a hand in our very creation. Since 1919 the theory has been popularized by authors like Erich Von Daniken (Chariots of the Gods?) and most recently by the History Channel hit Ancient Aliens.

Over the past 8 seasons the series has turned millions of curious viewers into loyal fans and has become a pop-culture phenomenon. However, the theory has received considerable criticism from some parts of the scientific community. The Smithsonian Institute bluntly classifies the whole subject as pseudo-science and renowned scientist Carl Sagan had this to say about Von Daniken:

• “I hope for the continuing popularity of books like Chariots of the Gods? in high school and college logic courses, as object lessons in sloppy thinking. I know of no recent books so riddled with logical and factual errors as the works of Von Däniken” – Carl Sagan  

But are Von Daniken and the AA poster-boy, Giorgio Tsoukalos, really so crazy? What about countless other authors, radio hosts, even reverends, that appear on the show? Maybe not. In fact, the show has been lauded for offering an interesting alternative view of history.

AA does a good job highlighting unexplained evidence, but sometimes in an attempt to present their intriguing theory they go a little too far off the deep-end…

10. Saqqara Bird

Is it a bird… is it a plane?

…It’s a bird.

The very first segment in the very first episode of Ancient Aliens features this example of ancient extra-terrestrial technology, so you would expect it to be extra convincing.  

Supposedly, this wooden artefact is not the model of a bird at all (despite the beak and eyes); it is a small scale model of a glider or airplane, thus proving the ancient Egyptians had the power of flight. The show goes on to explain that many advanced tests, utilizing such space-age technologies as wind tunnels, have proven that with the addition of some important features, the “bird” is aerodynamic. 

The show also successfully tested a larger-scale version and found that a model made out of different materials, and with a horizontal, stabilizing tail-wing, would fly.

The conventional analysis of this artefact is that it may have been a toy, a ceremonial object, or a weather vane. And that it is undoubtably the depiction of a falcon, a common representation of the Egyptian deities Ra and Horus. 

9. Aliens VS Dinosaurs

Yes, that is an actual screenshot from an episode of Ancient Aliens.

• “What we have here is not an extinction, but an extermination event.” – Tsoukalos

This episode, “Aliens and Dinosaurs”, features scenes like something straight out of a mashup of Jurassic Park and Independence day. It also enlists the help of young-earth creationist Willie Dye, billed on the program as an archeologist, to describe how humans and dinosaurs were alive at the same time (of course using evidence and arguments that have been proven false). 

While there is some speculation in the scientific community as to what exactly caused the extinction of the dinosaurs the ideas put forward by the show are certainly not any of them. 

Smithsonian Magazine took exception to this particular episode, pointing out the incorrect assumptions that aliens may have been running an experiment with the dinosaurs or that they directed an asteroid towards earth in order to make way for humans.  

At a certain point the show decides that those theories might be too complicated, and that the aliens may have just nuked the dinosaurs.

8. Jonah And The USO

History

Ancient astronaut theorists love analyzing old religious texts. The bible in particular, is an infinite well of inspiration. 

While many bible stories are based on some kernel of truth, the story of Jonah being swallowed by a whale is one of the more impossible stories. In fact, some people believe the tale of Jonah to be a parody of earlier Greek myths. However not only do Ancient Aliens and Giorgio Tsoukalos believe the story of Jonah’s miraculous survival to be true, but that there is even more to it.

Tsoukalos points out that in some descriptions, Jonah notices that the “ribs” of the whale are gleaming bronze. 

“Jonah was not, in fact, swallowed by a whale… but a U.S.O.  An unidentified submersible object.”

That is, if it happened at all.

7. The Grim Reaper Was An Alien – And The Aliens Caused The Plague

This is the kind of thing that people in the middle ages might have believed while the black death was still decimating the European population. They were willing to blame demons, witches, and at one point they even blamed the Jews. Though modern science blames fleas carrying the Yersinia pestis bacteria for the outbreak, ancient astronaut theorists, like author William Bramley, blame extra-terrestrials.

To explain how the aliens infected us the theory utilizes another fringe favorite: chemtrails. Basically, humans were sprayed with toxic fumes the same way farmers spray their crops with pesticides. Possibly for the same reason, or maybe just for the sake of experimentation.

People may also remember that the image of the “grim reaper” emerged around this time. Apparently some victims of the plague, in their delirium, hallucinated images of a dark hooded figure. In the hysteria people also reported hooded figures appearing in the wheat fields outside of towns right before the plague struck them. The Grim Reaper soon became the most iconic personification of death. Some theorist suggest that if it wasn’t chemtrails, perhaps the extraterrestrials elected for a more “personal” touch and gassed our food supply from up close, dressed in black cloaks.

According to theorists, period stories of lights in the sky or visitations from the Virgin Mary (an alien) offer more proof that Aliens were involved with the Plague.

6. Pakal’s Rocket

K’inich Janaab’ Pakal was the ruler of the Mayan city-state of Palenque in the 7th century C.E. Upon his death he was placed inside an ornate sarcophagus and sealed in a tomb within the Temple of Transcriptions.

When archeologists uncovered his tomb they remarked on the decorative sarcophagus lid calling it an example of classic Mayan art. The common iconography made it easy for scholars to interpret the symbols and themes of the artwork. Everything from the background patterns to the posture of the subject was understood and accounted for.

On the other hand, ancient astronaut theorists consider this one of their best pieces of evidence. According to Erich Von Daniken the artwork is “Incredible… absolutely proof for extra-terrestrials”. According to other theorists the artwork on the lid of Pakal’s sarcophagus depicts an astronaut ascending into space on a rocket. Allegedly his hands are manipulating controls, his feet are on pedals, he is wearing a breathing tube, and there is exhaust firing out the bottom of the rocket.

The problem with the Ancient Alien theory is that each example was either a well known Mayan symbol or was just too far of a stretch. Also, would extra-terrestrials really be using a technology so primitive as a rocket?

But above all else, it just doesn’t really look anything like a rocket.

5. Hybrid Creatures Are The Result Of Genetic Engineering

Historically there has been no shortage of “mythical beasts”. Many stories tell of animals like the griffin (half lion, half eagle), or Medusa, a monster from Greek mythology whose hair was a tangles mess of venomous snakes. Ancient religious figures were often depicted as hybrid creatures. In fact, almost all of the Egyptian gods sported animal heads on top of their human bodies.

Some Ancient Astronaut theorists think these tales have an explanation; Ancient Alien genetic experimentation. Humans themselves have begun to dabble in genetic engineering, so, they claim, is it so crazy to believe ancient visitors would have done the same?

If the rest of the theory is true, it wouldn’t be a surprise. However, the theory rests on the fact that any of these creatures even existed at all. Even today we tell silly stories of creatures like “Nessy” or Big-Foot.

It is most likely that these creatures are the result of human imagination and not alien scientific experimentation. For example; even if the aliens were able to give the monster Medusa snake hair it was also reported that one look into her eyes was enough to turn anyone into solid stone… not quite sure how genetic engineering would have caused worked that part out.

4. Teotihuacan Is A Computer… Or Something.

Teotihuacan is an ancient Toltec city near what is now Mexico City. Much of the cite is devoted to religiously inspired temples and monuments, including the famous Pyramid Of The Sun.

Ancient Astronaut theorists believe it is also a giant computer circuit board. This is because, well, the layout “resembles one”. Numerous articles and documentaries from the community reference this fact.

“Oh my God, it looks like a little city.” – Anyone who has ever seen a circuit board.

What about Teotihuacan specifically looks so much like a circuit board? Actually, not too much. The theory also claims that some of the temples are “processors” without much of a reason why this is the case. But the theorists go further; pointing out that mica was incorporated into some of the structures and a few underground rooms were filled entirely with mica (an electrical insulator). However, many ancient civilizations were known to use mica. 

 Even though the mica rooms are a little curious almost nothing about Teotihuacan is even remotely circuit-like.

3. Dendera Light

This one is very similar to “Pakal’s Rocket” in that the theory begins with an image that allegedly depicts modern technology. However, unlike Pakal’s Rocket, this one actually does look a lot like the modern artefact it is purported to depict: a light bulb.

But the problem here is that it also looks like something else… a depiction of Egyptian mythology using typical Egyptian symbols. Specifically, an Egyptian version of the “creation” myth. In the Heliopolitan version; Atum, (sometimes in the form of a serpent) emerges from a Lotus flower into the universe, or as it was thought, a bubble of air in a dark infinite ocean.

This mainstream view seems to match up, as the base of the bulb is a perfect example of an Egyptian depiction of a Lotus Flower. And upon closer viewing the “filament” quite clearly has a serpent’s mouth and eyes. Many other pieces of the image line up with the story as well. But beyond on that, the other evidence that suggests the Egyptians had the power of electric light also fall flat.

First of all, despite there being other relatable images of the creation story, this is the only image that looks anything like a light bulb. This would be surprising if the Egyptians possessed any knowledge of such an intriguing device, let alone used it to light their pyramids/temples.

But Ancient Astronaut theorists think that happened as well. Yet more evidence for the existence of these light bulbs, they claim, is that there is no evidence of soot on the roofs or walls of Egyptian temples/tombs. How then did they illuminate these places?

AncientAliensDebunked.com does a good job refuting this claim (and the whole subject). They point out that there is black soot in almost every Egyptian temple and tomb, even the temple where the image is found.

• “In fact a recent ceiling cleaning conducted at the Temple of Hathor, which is the same temple where the so-called light bulb relief is found, they uncovered a brightly colored ancient ceiling painting that had never before been noticed.
  What was covering it up you ask? I will quote them directly, they said the ceiling was covered with “hundreds of years of black soot” That’s kind of funny, you have to admit.” -AcientAliensDebunked.com

Furthermore, archeologists are already sure of what kind of lighting Egyptians used (torches and oil lamps). And they are also very certain that no physical evidence of Egyptian use of electricity has ever been found.

2. Nazis Had Help From Extra-Terrestrials

Did Adolf Hitler base his plans for world domination on secret extra-terrestrial knowledge? – Ancient Aliens actually asks that. This may sound way out there, however, the “Nazi UFO” theory has a lot of support.

As it turns out, the Nazi’s had some pretty advanced technology when it came to rockets. They developed both the V1 and V2 rockets during the war and used them with great success against England and France. According to Ancient Aliens: German rocket scientist, Herman Oberth claimed that this technology was only possible because they had help from “beings from another world”. This, of course, suggests that the Nazi’s had contact with Aliens. (However, the origin of this quote is under debate.)

The subject of the Nazis comes up in the UFO Community quite a bit. The term “Foo-Fighter” refers to the numerous stories of strange aerial phenomenon observed by allied pilots over German. And the idea that the Germans were trying to build a fleet of saucer shaped craft called “Haenebu” has been around for a while. According to these theories the technology for such a craft, was acquired when German engineers reverse engineered an alien spacecraft that crashed in the woods of Bavaria.

Furthermore, some suspect that the Nazis may have also decoded ancient religious texts, such as the Mahabharata, to help design their flying craft. Some of these ancient texts include depictions of godlike beings flying in heavenly thrones. These thrones, or “Vimanus”, are another Ancient Aliens favorite as these descriptions may actually depict extra-terrestrial aircraft, and they believe Hitler felt the same way. How can they be sure Hitler was using these old religious texts to help win the war?

Because the Swastika is an Alien symbol, of course.

1. The Sword In The Stone

The legend of the sword in the stone is one of the most famous tales of King Arthur. However, the Celtic legend of a magical weapon, only movable by one divine figure, is not necessarily an original. It is quite similar to the Norse god Thor’s hammer, and countless other folk-tales. In addition, historians have been hard pressed to find any evidence that King Arthur himself actually existed.

But according to some proponents of the Ancient Astronaut theory, not only is the story of King Arthur pulling a magic unmovable sword from a stone absolutely true, it also involved aliens.

• “I start thinking about some type of biometric security system” -Giorgio Tsoukalos

Tsoukalos points out that this kind of technology is within the realm of possibility because modern technology has the capability of creating concept firearms that function in a similar way.

Some other notable suggestions made along these lines include; Arthur’s sword Excalibur, as well as Joan of Arc’s sword, were “Alien laser weapons”, and that the arthurian figure Merlin may have been an alien.

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02-09-2015 om 00:18 geschreven door peter  

Former Defence Minister Says Governments Are Hiding Aliens

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01-09-2015 om 16:03 geschreven door peter  

‘There is no group that would be happier to see such a thing’: Nasa hits out at UFO hunters who say they have found strange creatures on Mars

• Ashwin Vasavada, a Nasa scientist, blames the sightings on pareidolia
• It is a psychological response to seeing familar objects in random places
• UFO hunters have seen everything from Obama's head to women on Mars 
• 'So far we haven't seen anything that is so obvious that it would be similar to what these claims are,' said Vasavada

By ELLIE ZOLFAGHARIFARD FOR DAILYMAIL.COM

'I found this anomaly in the latest Curiosity Rover photo. The black object looks like a crashed UFO,' wrote UFO Sightings contributor Scott Waring.

He said the 'craft' is only about 2.5 to 3 metres across, 'so it probably only held a few passengers.' 

And earlier this month, alien hunters claimed they had spotted a mysterious 'facehugger crab' on the red planet.

Conspiracy theorists can't seem to get enough of the shadowy images sent by Nasa's Mars Curiosity Rover. In their latest 'discovery', they claim to have spotted the Star Destroyer from Star Wars

The fictional Star Destroyers (pictured) were the warships used mainly by the Empire in Star Wars, and were many times larger than the 'craft' Waring spotted

Since the image was uploaded on Facebook, a number of people have said it looks like the facehugger monster shown in the 1979 film, Alien.

The 'crab' can be seen in an image taken by the Mars rover Curiosity, which shows a formation that looks like a cave mouth on the red planet.

The photo was taken by Nasa in July but recently appeared in Facebook group 'Journey to the Surface of the Mars', who has the slogan: 'They will not tell the truth about Mars'.

'There is no group that would be happier to see such a thing than the 500 scientists around the world who work on this Curiosity rover,' Vasavada told CNN.

'So far we haven't seen anything that is so obvious that it would be similar to what these claims are.'

He blames the sightings on a trick of the mind, known pareidolia – the psychological response to seeing familiar objects in random places.

It is a form of apophenia, which is when people see patterns or connections in random, unconnected data.

Human eyes can spot faces within their environment and it helps them recognise friends in a crowd, work out how fast a car is travelling, and see patterns.

'We have colour HD cameras on this rover that far exceed anything ever sent to the planet before,' he added.

Earlier this month, alien hunters say they spotted a mysterious 'facehugger crab' on Mars hiding in a cave

Some UFO hunters have said the 'crab' on Mars is simliar to that shown in the 1979 film, Alien (pictured). Others say it may be an 'alien spider'

Does this look like Obama? Seth Shostak, director of the Centre for SETI Research, claims we tend to use this ability to 'enrich our imagination' and recognise meaningful shapes, even when they're not there

'Yet in order to find these things that kind of trick your brain into thinking it's a mermaid or whatever, you do have to zoom in where it's kind of a fuzzy shadow at that point.'

Seth Shostak, director of the Centre for SETI Research, claims we also tend to use this ability to 'enrich our imagination' and recognise meaningful shapes, even when they're not there.

'Those that send [images] to me are generally quite excited, as they claim that these frequently resemble something you wouldn't expect to find on the rusty, dusty surface of the red planet,' he said.

'It's usually some sort of animal, but occasionally even weirder objects such as automobile parts. Maybe they think there are cars on Mars.'

While conspiracy theorists who see Obama's head are widely mocked, we all can all suffer from pareidolia.

The mysterious object (left) was first spotted by UFO Sightings Daily who uncovered the photograph in Nasa’s archives. They claim that it could be a fossilised iguana

 

Conspiracy theorists had previously found what they claims to be a replica of one of Egypt's Great Pyramids on Mars. Citing the 'near-perfect design and shape', they said the pyramid could be evidence of an ancient civilisation on the red plaDid the Curiosity Rover recently see a pyramid on Mars?

The researchers also analysed brain responses to seeing faces in patterns and discovered the recognition occurs in the frontal and visual cortex.

'Most people think you have to be mentally abnormal to see these types of images, so individuals reporting this phenomenon are often ridiculed', said lead researcher Professor Kang Lee from the University of Toronto.

'But our findings suggest it's common for people to see non-existent features because human brains are uniquely wired to recognise faces.

'Even when there's only a slight suggestion of facial features the brain automatically interprets it as a face.'

Earlier this year, one UFO hunter spotted what he believes to be a bunker on the red planet, with armed people peering out of its windows (shown by the dotted red line)

Pictured From left to right, are structures, missiles and rockets Andre Cignac claims he found in Nasa's image

This suggests the visions aren't part of the viewer's imagination, or caused by a brain anomaly - instead they're a basic physical response.

Researchers also found that people can be led to see different images depending on what they expect to see, which in turn activates specific parts of the brain that process such images.

If people are told an object contains a face they will seek out the facial shape, and similarly with letters – even if they're not present.

'We have no evidence of Martian iguanas or rats at this time,' added Vasavada.

'One of the best things we found is that Mars could support life, (but) if anything we think it's microbial life that's possible at this time.'

ALIEN HUNTERS CLAIM TO SEE A 'DARK LADY' ON MARS 

In another strange claim this months, UFOvni2012 saw what he believed to be a woman on Mars in a recent image taken by Nasa's Curiosity rover

In another strange claim last month, alien hunters have seen what they believe to be a woman on Mars.

UFOvni2012 recently uploaded the image the image of the 'woman' on YouTube and it has seen been viewed more than 300,000 times.

'It's hard to tell if this is a living being, or a statue of a being from long ago,' said Scott Waring from UFO Sightings Daily.

'However, a statue that small would be eroded and destroyed easily, so it has a higher chance of being a living being. 

One of the commentators on the footage suggested that the 'woman' is an alien version of the Statue of Liberty.

'If she would be standing on that cliff you maybe a lot taller than anybody from Earth', he said.

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01-09-2015 om 15:57 geschreven door peter  

Butler organization seeks answers for unexplained phenomena

Jason Bridge | Trib Total Media

Dan Hageman holds up a flyer for this year's Butler Paranormal conference, which was held in April, signed by all of the guest speakers. Photographed at his Butler home on Friday, Aug. 28, 2015.

Dan Hageman talks about UFOs and aliens as matter-of-factly as others might talk about a rare bird sighting or an unexplained plane crash.

For Hageman, 62, of Butler, the existence of extra­terrestrials is a rather simple fact.

“There are an estimated 100 to 200 billion galaxies in our universe,” said the president of the Butler Organization for Research of the Unexplained (BORU). “It's ludicrous to believe that we're the only ones to exist.”

He's not alone in that line of thinking.

A 2013 Harris Poll found that 36 percent of Americans believe in UFOs — the same percentage that said they believe in creationism. And a National Geographic market research poll found that 10 percent believe they've spotted an unidentified flying object.

BORU, founded more than 30 years ago, is focused on providing information and understanding to those seeking to find out more about something they've seen or experienced.

“We offer a clearinghouse for people who have had sightings and want to discuss it and get a better understanding of what they saw,” said Hageman, a Harbor Freight employee, who has been BORU's director since 1982. “There's a lot of ridicule when it comes to this kind of phenomenon. We're not here to label them.”

The group holds monthly meetings that anyone can attend to talk about whatever they've seen or heard, including ghosts, aliens and strange creatures like Bigfoot.

Attendance varies from as few as 10 to 30 or more, Hageman said. The organization also hosts an annual Paranormal Conference in Lyndora, Butler County.

The group's presentations at the South Butler Community Library have been popular, library director Mandee Williams said.

“Any time they've come, we've had standing-room-only attendance,” she said. “They are just the most personable people. They're just doing this because they're genuinely interested and want to educate people about it.”

Hageman said he has been convinced of the existence of extraterrestrials since he was 5 or 6, when he said he saw “funny lights” in the sky on the car ride home from his family's weekly Sunday dinner at his grandparents.

His uncle was driving on Route 38 to Butler when others in the car spotted the lights too, he said.

“My uncle pulled over and got out, and I was watching two orange-red, saucer-shaped lights,” Hageman said. “They were spinning in opposite directions of each other, but it looked like they were connected.”

He said in the sky, they looked to be about the size of two dinner plates.

“My uncle jumped in the car and started driving, and right by Oneida Dam he stopped and got out again. These things stopped and hovered right over the vehicle,” Hageman said.

Everyone got nervous so they drove home, he said. The next day, he said, other residents talked about seeing the unidentified objects.

‘NO CREDIBLE EVIDENCE'

Despite Hageman's and others' certainty that aliens exist and have visited our planet, skeptics such as Robert Sheaffer have dedicated just as much time and effort debunking sightings.

He said he attends conferences held by some of the largest UFO organizations, like the Mutual UFO Network, to see their evidence. He said he has reviewed documents and accounts.

So far, there has been nothing convincing.

“I've looked at what they consider their best evidence, and they have these tired old photos — that's the best that they have,” said Sheaffer, a fellow and science writer with the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, which promotes scientific and critical investigation of unusual claims.

“There's absolutely no credible evidence that aliens have ever been here on Earth.”

Sheaffer, a retired computer software engineer, said debunking is a hobby for him, but he believes it's important to society.

“There's too much nonsense in this world in terms of ghosts and Bigfoot and alien encounters,” he said. “The world would be a better place if we were grounded in a bit more reality.”

Likewise, Sharon Hill, a geologist and author of Doubtful News, a website on which she critically reviews sensational news stories that appear online, said paranormal phenomena doesn't pass the scientific litmus test.

“Ever since I can remember, I've been interested in these mystery-type questions, and I began reading skeptical literature on it,” Hill said. “The presentation of the evidence was impressive and understandable, while the mainstream was just stories from people.

“You couldn't do anything with those. You went looking, and there was nothing there.”

But BORU members say the evidence believers have amassed is plenty of proof.

“There are scientists from all walks of life that belong to these organizations that lend their time to studying reports and going out into the field to do proper scientific investigations,” said Michele George, 65, of East Brady, vice president of the group. “Many of us have read a lot and been involved with this for years.”

She said even as a child she felt like she knew we weren't alone in the universe.

“From the time I was young, I would look up at the sky and I always felt that we were certainly not the only intelligent beings around,” said George, a former elementary school teacher and professional goldsmith.

“Having a support group of people who are interested in UFOs has really helped a lot of people,” she said. “People can get frightened because they don't understand it, but it's something they want to talk about and share.”

Jodi Weigand is a staff writer for Trib Total Media. She can be reached at 724-226-4702 or jweigand@tribweb.com.

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01-09-2015 om 10:35 geschreven door peter  

November 9, 1979 Val Johnson, inside Squad Car. Not the Squad that was Hit. Outside the Home-2--cafe in Oslo/Mn.

November 6, 1979 Regene Radniecki, Minneapolis Star Tribune

Close encounter, nearly forgotten: Former deputy moved on with life after UFO report 36 years ago

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01-09-2015 om 10:28 geschreven door peter  

5 Of The Most Believable Alien Encounters

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31-08-2015 om 23:03 geschreven door peter