UFO spotted by multiple pilots prompts investigation

Pilots saw bright lights "moving so fast" over Ireland Friday. They're not calling the sight aliens, but authorities are taking a closer look.

Space junk could explain what pilots saw over Ireland last week.

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Pilots flying over Ireland on Friday reported seeing an unidentified flying object, or possibly objects, spurring an investigation into the UFO (or UFOs) by the Irish Aviation Authority.

The sighting was recorded over radio traffic between air traffic control in Shannon, Ireland, and multiple pilots. At 6:47 a.m. UTC, one British Airways pilot can be heard asking controllers if there were any military exercises taking place in the area. Air traffic control responds that no such exercises are visible on radar.

"It was moving so fast," the pilot says. "It [came] up on our left hand side and then rapidly veered to the north. We saw a bright light and then it just disappeared at a very high speed."

The pilot explains the team didn't fear the object was on a "collision course," but was just wondering what it could be.

At that point another pilot cuts in, saying his Virgin Airlines 747 also had encountered multiple meteors or some other sort of objects "making some kind of reentry."

"Appeared to be multiple objects following the same sort of trajectory," the pilot says. "They were very bright where we were."

The Irish Aviation Authority later told local media the reports were being investigated.

Harvard astronomer Jonathan McDowell, who also makes a habit of tracking space launches and the many bits of space junk that regularly burn up in the atmosphere, tweeted that he wasn't aware of any satellites known to be reentering at that time.  

But as McDowell himself has pointed out in the past, there are literally thousands of objects whipping around Earth. It's possible any number of them could have reentered the atmosphere and been responsible for what the pilots spotted.

Or, as one of the pilots suspected, it could have been a small meteor burning up in the atmosphere. Four major meteor showers are currently active, according the the American Meteor Society, including the Taurids, which are know to produce bright fireballs in the sky.

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13-11-2018 om 00:11 geschreven door peter  

Aliens? Mysterious UFO spotted by three pilots under investigation amid BIZARRE radar data

A MYSTERIOUS bright light spotted by three separate pilots has sparked an investigation from the Irish Aviation Authority - after an initial report could not explain the UFO sighting.

12-11-2018 om 23:59 geschreven door peter  

UFO investigation launched by Irish aviation officials after pilots flying BA and Virgin Airlines jets report seeing mysterious bright lights 'moving fast' above the country

• BA pilot on flight from Canada to London reported 'very bright light' over Ireland
• She said the object came up on the left side before it 'veered to the north'
• Pilot of Virgin Airlines jet saw 'multiple objects following same sort of trajectory'
• Irish Aviation Authority is investigating the UFO sightings after filing a report

By JULIAN ROBINSON FOR MAILONLINE

A UFO investigation is under way in Ireland after pilots flying BA and Virgin Airlines jets reported seeing mysterious bright lights as they crossed the country.

The Irish Aviation Authority launched the probe after sightings on November 9 at around 7.40am.

The pilot of British Airways flight BA94 from Montreal to London contacted Shannon Air Traffic Control after seeing the object on the left-hand side of her Boeing 787.

A UFO investigation is underway in Ireland after pilots flying BA and Virgin Airlines jets reported seeing mysterious bright lights as they crossed the country (stock image of a Boeing 787)

She asked whether military exercises were taking place, according to Airlive.

Air traffic control reportedly said nothing was showing on their radar systems, to which the unnamed pilot replied: 'OK. It was moving so fast.'

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She added that after approaching on the left side, it 'rapidly veered to the north'. She described it as a 'very bright light' that 'disappeared at very high speed'.

The pilot of Virgin Airlines flight VS76 from Orlando to Manchester then reported seeing a similar thing, the website reports.

The pilot of Virgin Airlines flight VS76 from Orlando to Manchester then reported seeing a similar thing, the website reports

He described it as a 'meteor or another object making some kind of re-entry' and said it was 'multiple objects following the same sort of trajectory – very bright from where we were.'

Both planes were flying in high level airspace - an altitude from between 28,500ft and 42,000ft.

Airlive says a third pilot also saw the bizarre lights and that the Irish Aviation Authority has filed a report with the sightings due to be 'investigated under the normal confidential occurrence investigation process'. 

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12-11-2018 om 23:45 geschreven door peter  

Alien news: UFO sighting over Britain triggers ALIEN alert

A UFO has been spotted in British skies – triggering both puzzlement and a glut of online speculation aliens have been visiting Kent.

12-11-2018 om 21:53 geschreven door peter  

The Most Reputable UFO Blogs & Resources on The Internet

Any UFO enthusiast knows there’s no shortage of websites and UFO blogs dedicated to the search for alien life. But navigating through hoax sites and click-bait can be tiresome.

There’s also the issue of running into sites where the writers and researchers believe so strongly that every single thing moving in the sky must be aliens.

So where do you go for good unbiased information?

When I do research for my articles, I really put effort into finding reputable sources. Credibility is key. Here’s a list of the top sites I’ve found which provide the most reputable research on UFOs and aliens.

1. The Mutual UFO Network – MUFON

MUFON is by far one of the most reputable sites you can find. They have a global network of trained investigators who research UFO sightings and alien abduction reports around the world.

The MUFON organization has been around since 1969 and takes pride in applying the scientific method to their research.

MUFON approaches every report with an eye towards proving separating the hoaxes & misidentifications from the true mysteries.

If MUFON concludes that a sighting is unexplained, you can be confident they’ve honestly researched it to arrive at that conclusion.

2. The National UFO Reporting Center

Also known as NUFORC, The National UFO Reporting Center keeps a large database of UFO sighting reports. The reports are similar to the database kept on MUFON.

NUFORC was founded in 1974 and actually has a 24/7 hotline for reports.

While they don’t have investigators going out into the field to research reports, their report database is a treasure trove for those looking to find sightings similar to their own or to find multiple reports which corroborate a single event.

3. The UFO Research Center of Pennsylvania

For a more local twist, the UFO Research Center of Pennsylvania provides a real world take on unexplained phenomena.

They don’t post often, and while much of their information includes paranormal topics outside the realm of extraterrestrial life, it’s well-thought out and unbiased.

4. Weird News Section: Express.co.uk

When I first found out that Express had a ton of UFO articles, I was skeptical. Their headlines are total clickbait and they get a bad rap for that in the news world.

But, if you actually delve into the article and read beyond the headline, you’ll actually find a lot of down to earth reporting.

They’re not afraid to say when there’s a legitimate explanation about a particular sighting, though the headline may not lead you to believe that.

5. Huffpost UFO Section

The Huffington Post is a mainstream news outlet, so you know when they post a UFO story, it’s been vetted.

The section is relatively quiet, as a large agency such as Huffpost disqualifies a lot of stories if they can’t get good evidence and confirmation.

One of the nice things is that if you see a UFO sighting on this site, you can be certain people are talking about it all around the world.

6. Black Diamond Social Club

Also known as BDSC by their readers, Black Diamond Social Club is a site with varied topics.

While it’s mostly a men’s magazine, it has an impressive paranormal section that includes articles about UFOs and conspiracy theories.

BDSC is another one of those sites that spends a lot of time researching and weeding out fakes before they put their stamp of approval on it.

What UFO Blogs Do You Read?

I’m always looking for good quality research points. What do you read?

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12-11-2018 om 21:26 geschreven door peter  

Cigar Shaped Space Ships: A Good Design or Not?

This past October, a cigar shaped object was been discovered hurdling through our solar system. Most likely an asteroid, the object is about 10 times as long as it is wide. It’s certainly an odd shape for an asteroid. Named “Oumuamua”, the object appears to have originated from far away outside our solar system and appears to be just passing through.

A Cigar Shaped Alien Ship?

While Oumuamua is almost certainly an asteroid, there are some who believe it could possibly be an alien ship. Even prominent mainstream scientists such as Stephen Hawking admit the possibility cannot be ruled out just yet. But if it was an alien ship, does the cigar shape even make sense? Is there any scientific theories or data that indicate a cigar-shaped craft would be the best geometry for an interstellar ship?

The elongated cigar shape has long been a staple of UFO sightings. Only a handful of more common geometries exist in the realm of ufology. But does the geometry meet the sniff test for space travel?

The Cigar Shape We Already Use

No, I’m not talking about the Goodyear Blimp. I’m talking about modern day rockets. The human race has relied on cigar shaped rockets for our meager space travel endeavors for decades. Sure, the rockets don’t remain in that shape once they exist the earth’s atmosphere, but they are cigar shaped nonetheless.

We design our rockets for low drag. In deep space, there is no atmosphere in space to create drag. A spacecraft might still, however, be slowed down by friction from cosmic dust and other particles. The oblong cigar-shape helps to minimize this. For especially long journeys lasting maybe for years or even decades, that lower friction could add up to significant savings.

Oblong Shape for Protection

Another benefit of the cigar shaped craft is protection from space debris. It’s critical that a craft uses as little mass as possible because it takes a lot to move mass over great distances. Low mass could mean a flimsy ship and nobody wants to be on one of those hurdling through space at Mach 30.

Assuming a cigar-shaped space vessel is moving through space like an arrow, engineers could place protective armor at the nose for protection while going lighter on the sides. Modern-day airplanes already use this idea in their nose construction.

What About Warp Speeds?

This is where it gets a bit complicated. The benefits of the cigar shaped spaceship begin to fade once we break past light speed. Since it’s impossible for anything to physically move faster than the speed of light, the only way for a warp engine to work is by bending the fabric of space itself. It would require a tremendous amount of energy.

A warp drive might be able to use an intense artificial gravity field to shrink the space in front of the ship while expanding the space behind it. The ship itself wouldn’t really move, but space would move around it. It would travel in its own little ‘gravity bubble’. In such a scenario, a cigar or oblong shape would have little benefit. In fact, the ship could be any shape imaginable with no detriment.

It’s safe to say that a cigar shaped spaceship would only be beneficial for space travel at sub-light speeds.

Manned vs. Unmanned Space Travel

Here’s another thing to consider. Human beings don’t do well in zero gravity for long periods. We lose muscle mass, bone density, and our immune systems shut down. In a zero-gravity environment, we’re literally dying. Without a way to create artificial gravity of some sort, humans simply can’t survive space flights lasting for years.

One way to create artificial gravity is by using a gravity field generation device. Currently, human beings don’t have this type of technology.

We could also construct rotating spaceships where artificial gravity is created by the centrifugal force of rotation. The design is known as a Stanford Torus and it’s basically a big spinning ring. This type of ship would provide reliable artificial gravity for long-term space voyages or even permanent colonization in space.

The rotating design could be used for even multi-generational space travel to migrate explorers over hundreds of years to a new solar system for example.

Unfortunately, as cool as the rotation spaceship is, it’s not cigar shaped. So where does that leave us with the viability of cigar shaped spacecraft? Is it really a good geometry for space travel? As usual, when it comes to complexities such as this, the answer is, “it depends”.

Bringing it All Together

For faster-than-light travel, a cigar shaped craft doesn’t really provide any benefit. It’s not bad. There’s simply no advantage to the shape. As it also turns out, a cigar-shaped spaceship doesn’t have a way to provide artificial gravity needed for humans to survive long-term in space.

So what’s the verdict?

For a long-term travel at less than the speed of light, a cigar-shaped craft would be good for unmanned missions. Robots don’t need artificial gravity. We must note, however, aliens might not have the gravitational requirements of human beings. So while an oblong craft may not be good for humans, it could be perfectly safe for an alien race in the right circumstances.

A cigar shaped ship will only be good for humans over long travel periods if we can develop an artificial gravity generator. Without it, humans will perish in a relatively short time in such a ship. Because of the connection between gravity & warp speed, once we have the technology to build an artificial gravity generator, we’ll likely already know how to build warp engines. At that point, we’ll be able to travel faster than the speed of light eliminating the benefit of the cigar shape anyway.

A rotating vessel is currently the only option for humans to travel for long periods in deep space. The cigar shape would be a death trap. Human beings in a cigar-shaped craft for many years would be doomed to waste away to nothing, eventually falling ill and dying as their immune system shuts down.

What do you think about space travel and our place in it? Would you want to take a journey in cigar shaped spaceship or a Stanford Torus? Let us know in the comments!

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12-11-2018 om 20:43 geschreven door peter  

UFO reported streaking across Irish skies on Friday morning

Pilots saw bright lights streaking across the sky at an ‘astronomical’ speed

Ronan McGreevy

If aliens are visiting Earth they have proved to be very elusive.

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The Irish Aviation Authority (IAA) is investigating an unidentified flying object (UFO) which streaked across the sky on Friday morning and disappeared.

Several commercial aircraft reported seeing at least one bright light with one pilot stating that the UFO was going at an “astronomical” speed of at least Mach 2 (2,500 km/h), which is twice as fast as a commercial jetliner.

http://archive-server.liveatc.net/einn/EINN-High-Nov-09-2018-0630Z.mp3

The Irish Aviation Authority is investigating a unusual sightings by a number of pilots of commercial aircraft while in contact with Shannon Air Traffic Control last weekend.

If there are little green men and women visiting Earth for the first time, they have proved to be very elusive.

The British Airways 787, call sign Speedbird 94, radioed Shannon Air Traffic Control at 6.47am asking if there were any military exercises off the west coast of Ireland.

A pilot recounted: “It was moving so fast. It appeared on our left hand side and rapidly veered to the north. We saw a bright light and it then just disappeared at a very high speed.

“We were just wondering. We didn’t think it was likely political. We were just wondering what it might be”, she added. 

A Shannon air traffic controller responded: “There’s nothing showing on either primary or secondary (radar)”.

A pilot from a Virgin Airlines plane, callsign Virgin76, came on to air traffic control and suggested it might be a “meteor or another object making some kind of re-entry. There appeared to be multiple objects following the same sort of trajectory. They were very bright from where we were.”

The pilot also confirmed that he he had seen “two bright lights that seemed to bank over to the right and climb away at speed at least from our perspective.”

A third pilot responded: “Glad it wasn’t just me”.

An IAA spokesman said the authority is investigating the incident and will file a report. “This report will be investigated under the normal confidential occurrance investigation process.” The spokesman added that it was unlikely to be aliens from another planet.

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12-11-2018 om 15:22 geschreven door peter  

Audio: Close encounter with UFO off Irish coast leaves pilots ‘wondering’

By Catherine Shanahan
Health Correspondent

The Irish Aviation Authority has begun an investigation into the sighting of an unidentified flying object (UFO) by a number of aircraft off the south-west coast of Ireland last Friday.

At approximately 6.47am on November 9, the pilot of a British Airways flight, call sign Speedbird94, contacted Shannon Air Traffic Control (ATC) to ask if there were military exercises taking place in the airspace through which her Boeing 787 was passing.

There were no military exercises underway.

Shannon ATC replied: “There is nothing showing on either primary or secondary [radar].”

The pilot responded: “OK. It was moving so fast.”

The controller then asked: “Alongside you?”

The BA pilot, flying from Montreal to Heathrow, describes how the UFO came up along the left-hand side of the aircraft, “then rapidly veered to the north”.

She said it was “a very bright light” that “disappeared at very high speed”.

She said they were “wondering” what it could be, that it did not seem to be on a collision course.

The pilot of a Virgin Airlines Boeing 747, call sign Virgin76, then joined the conversation and made reference to a meteor or another object re-entering the earth’s atmosphere and said there were “multiple objects following the same sort of trajectory”.

He said they were very bright “where we were”.

Shannon ATC than asked if the pilots knew which direction the objects were heading. The Virgin Airlines pilot said it was in his “11 o’clock position” with “two bright lights over to the right”, that then climbed away at speed. Shannon ATC told the pilot it would pass that information on. Shannon ATC then told Speedbird94 that “other aircraft in the air have also reported the same thing so we are going to have a look and see”.

Another pilot said the speed of the UFO was “astronomical, it was like Mach 2”, or twice the speed of sound.

The Virgin Airlines flight, from Orlando to Manchester, can carry 455 passengers, while the 787 has 214 seats. A third aircraft, a Norwegian Air 737 travelling from Stewart, New York, to Shannon, which can carry 200 passengers, was also party to the conversation.

The BA flight was passing over Kerry at the time, while the other two flights were off the south-west coast, heading eastbound, and in high-level airspace, which extends from 24,500ft upwards.

The Irish Examiner contacted the Irish Aviation Authority to ask if it was investigating the UFO. 

In a statement, the authority said: “Following reports from a small number of aircraft on Friday, November 9, of unusual air activity, the IAA has filed a report.

“This report will be investigated under the normal confidential occurrence investigation process.”

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12-11-2018 om 15:13 geschreven door peter  

Investigation launched after several pilots report close encounter with UFO (AUDIO)

The UFO was first spotted by a baffled British Airways pilot last Friday (November 9) at approximately 6:47am local time while flying over the south-west coast of Ireland.

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Very interesting report on Shannon high level Friday 9 November at 0630z with multiple aircraft with reported sightings of a UFO over County Kerry. Skip to 17 minutes to listen reports on @liveatc http://archive-server.liveatc.net/einn/EINN-High-Nov-09-2018-0630Z.mp3 … #Aviation #UFO #Ireland

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The pilot was flying a Boeing 787 from Heathrow to Montreal when he made a call to Shannon Air Traffic Control (ATC) to ask if there were military exercises taking place in the airspace.

You can listen to the archived recording of the call from 17 minutes here.

http://archive-server.liveatc.net/einn/EINN-High-Nov-09-2018-0630Z.mp3

ATC said there were no military exercises underway and added: “There is nothing showing on either primary or secondary [radar].”

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“OK. It was moving so fast,” the pilot replied. “Alongside you?” asked the controller. The pilot went on to describe the UFO that appeared along the left side of the aircraft and then “rapidly veered to the north.”

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The pilot said they saw “a bright light” that “disappeared at very high speed.” She said that she did not believe it to be on a collision course but was “wondering” what it could be.

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A Virgin Airlines Boeing 747 pilot then joined the conversation to suggest that a meteor or some other object was re-entering Earth’s atmosphere. The pilot said there were “multiple objects following the same sort of trajectory,” and that they were “very bright where we were.”

When Shannon ATC asked the pilots which direction the objects were heading, the Virgin Airlines pilot said it was in his “eleven o’clock position” with “two bright lights over to the right,” that then climbed away at speed. “Very interesting, that one,” said the pilot.

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After a third pilot chimed in to say “Glad it wasn’t just me,” and reported a UFO that was “astronomical, it was like Mach 2,” (2,500kph or twice the speed of sound), Shannon ATC told the BA pilot that “other aircraft in the air have also reported the same thing so we are going to have a look and see.”

The Irish Aviation Authority said they had filed a report of the “unusual air activity” following reports from a “small number of aircraft on Friday.”

“This report will be investigated under the normal confidential occurrence investigation process,” read the IAA statement to the Irish Examiner.

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12-11-2018 om 15:12 geschreven door peter  

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11-11-2018 om 23:55 geschreven door peter  

In a recent article here at Mysterious Universe I described how, on occasion, people in the UFO research field have fallen victim to paranoia. And, on some occasions, to an almost life-crippling degree. In many cases, the paranoia was provoked by wholly down to earth issues that were misinterpreted and blown out of proportion. A perfect example of one such case: back in the 1990s, I had a friend, Wayne, who lived in a little village in the north of England; a friend who was deeply involved in the UFO subject. Wayne told me that on three occasions across a period of several weeks, an old, black-colored Jaguar car was parked directly opposite his house, on the other side of the road. He was seriously concerned it was the Men in Black, carefully watching him. It was not.

After confronting his neighbor (in a fashion which didn’t really help the situation at all), Wayne was told that the car belonged to his daughter’s boyfriend. The boyfriend, it turned out, was someone who restored old, classic cars and then sold them for a good price. The car was a 1950s-era Jaguar, which soon went up for sale. Mystery solved. In fact, there was no mystery at all: just a mind overwhelmed by MIB-driven paranoia. Sometimes, though, it’s very easy to see why paranoia might occasionally surface and for legitimate reasons.  I’ll share several examples with you.

Greg Bishop is a good friend and the author of a number of excellent books, including Project Beta (on the weird and even sinister UFO-themed saga of Paul Bennewitz and his, Bennewitz’s, descent into a state of overwhelming paranoia), and It Defies Language! The latter is a book that contains dozens of Greg’s articles on UFOs. Greg has a strange story to tell that is relevant to the subject of this article. He says: “Mail tampering is the darling of clinical paranoids, but nearly every piece of mail that the late researcher/abductee Karla Turnersent to [my] PO Box looked like it had been tampered with or opened. Since this is easy to do without having to be obvious, we figured someone was interested in her work enough to make it clear that she was being monitored. She took to putting a piece of transparent tape over the flap and writing ‘sealed by sender’ on it. Karla pretty much took it for granted after awhile, and suggested I do likewise.” Moving on…

Lisa Hagan has been my literary agent for around a decade-and-a-half. Some time ago, Lisa shared with me several strange experiences she had and which gave her reason to be concerned. Lisa said that on several occasions, late at night, she heard the trunk of her vehicle open. She explained the situation: “It’s very dark where I live and there are only a few people here. It’s very heavily wooded and there’s a lot of farmland. And it’s all dirt road, so there’s not a lot of traffic. So far, it has happened to me at least three or four times. My house is a long bungalow, and my bedroom is on the end, near the car-port. And, periodically, I’ll be lying there reading, with the light on. It’s always been between 10:00 and 11:00 at night, and I’ll hear my vehicle trunk open. Then I hear it close. I do have a picture of a hand-print, in the dust on my trunk that I took after it happened one night. I kept the picture in case I wanted to do anything with it, which I did not. If I had wanted to I could have crept up in my pajamas and intervened, but what would I do? It made me mad, though. Nothing was ever taken from the trunk. But, I did check if anything had been put in there. Those bugs are small though, so who knows?”

Lisa also had a run-in with what John Keel termed “phantom photographers.” Over to Lisa: “It was a Sunday and I was in the kitchen making something, standing at my kitchen sink. And, I saw a flash to the left. In my yard. I looked over and there was a little white Honda. An Accord, I think; two people. There was a guy taking pictures of the side of my house. And then they drove right in front of the house and took a picture – right where I was standing in front of the kitchen window. They were only about two car-lengths from the window. They went down passed my house and then came back. And then they drove off. That made me nervous and my anxiety went up. My intuition, my alarm bells, went off.”

Finally, from Lisa: “The other story is that my aunt and I had seen a UFO on our farm. This was Christmas night, 2015. And, on the 26^th she left. I called and asked friends if they wanted to come over, to look for UFOs. They were like, ‘No, we’re already in bed.’ But, another friend wanted to come over and see if we might see anything. We were standing by the trunk of my vehicle – the trunk someone had been in and out of – as we had the iPads and the binoculars resting on it. It was a beautiful night and we were talking and looking around. As my friend left, he said that when he was maybe ten cars away from me, around a row of trees here, there was a black, unmarked SUV with a lot of antenna on it. Not long after that, the same friend was driving on our main road – the road that everyone lives off – and there were two of those SUVs, with men outside them with binoculars, overlooking our farm.”

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11-11-2018 om 17:52 geschreven door peter  

Sometimes UFO footage makes me want to grab the aliens by their tiny shoulders and yell at their dumb faces like a disappointed little league coach “Be cooler!”  All the footage that ever really seems unidentified is also always the most boring. Both in the filming itself, and the thing that’s being filmed. But that’s to be expected and it’s why those are usually the most convincingly bizarre.

UFO’s aren’t going to look like floating neon sci-fi disco balls. They don’t care about aerodynamics, they’re not going to be sleek. They don’t have the same imaginative sense style and intimidation that we do, they’re not going to be “cool” in the classical sense. UFOs probably look like weird potatoes. But that doesn’t mean they won’t be worth filming. If you do spot a weird potato in the sky, you’re not going to get your DSLR and $1,200 telephoto lens. You’re not going to set up a gimbal and frame the shot perfectly. You’re just going to hit record and get what you get. It’s going to be messy and shaky and generally unpleasant to watch.

This looks cool, because a human made it.

And here we have a video that’s a perfect example of both those things. This footage—which you can watch here—was uploaded by MUFON to their YouTube channel, so it comes from as decent a source as you can reasonably hope for. At the very least, someone who’s watched a lot of these things saw it first and decided it was worth uploading. The footage was reportedly taken in Perthshire, Scotland. Here’s a snippet ofthe description the witness sent to MUFON along with the footage (edited for clarity and the reader’s well-being):

I would describe the object as puck shaped, a disc with an edge. I was viewing it moving from my left to right. It does appear cigar shaped as it moves horizontally. There were clouds above it and below it. It approached some lower level clouds then banked. As it did this, you could clearly see it was circular when viewed from underneath.

You say puck-shaped, I say potato. Despite the horrendous shaky-cam situation going on when they zoom in (kudos for at least trying, though) you can see that the object is moving and seems to be swooping over the clouds. It certainly looks like the classic UFOs that became known as “flying saucers.” It’s not the moon, and it’s not a bird. You show me a potato bird and I’ll show you an abomination.

Flying saucers are the rally cars of space.

It could be a drone. But I’m starting to suspect that the more times you say the phrase “it could be a drone” the easier it will be to dismiss all UFO footage. After all, they didn’t have drones when these things first started showing up in the skies. That’s the modern version of the weather balloon dismissal. You never want to fall into those traps, in any part of your life. The easy way out is never worth it.

Still. It could be a drone.

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11-11-2018 om 17:38 geschreven door peter  

Interview with George Knapp

The now defunct website UAPinfo wasn’t able to come to full fruition like many had hoped. Our biggest accomplishment, however, was this eye opening interview with the legend, George Knapp. Mr. Knapp graciously answered our questions in an honest, in depth and forthcoming manner. All members of UAPinfo, myself included, will forever be grateful that Mr. Knapp took the time out to share his views with us.  – Danny Silva

Andreas Stahl: Without going into specific individual cases or details there seems to be a few individuals claiming they are whistleblowers from inside DOD ‘black projects’. Given the extreme claims in some of these cases, what do you believe should be put in place with regards to verification of sources, how therefore can Ufology be brought into the upcoming mainstream to that regard?

George Knapp: The only Latin phrase I know that comes close is…Caveat Emptor. Buyer beware. In a subject as crazy as this it is important to keep an open mind while maintaining a healthy degree of skepticism. Basically, it boils down to this–show me what you’ve got and is there supporting evidence? I can’t even guess how many times in the last 30 years that people have contacted me, claiming to be DOD insiders or whistle blowers who want to share info about UFOs, and for the most part, they turned out to be bullshitters, or people who wanted attention, some who seemed mentally unstable, and a few who–I suspect–wanted to find out what I knew, as opposed to telling me what they knew.

Legitimate DOD insiders/whistle blowers who have plausible or verifiable info about UFOs are pretty rare. There are a lot of people in the military establishment who know bits and pieces about UFOs because, as we know, the Pentagon has continued to collect information, incident reports, visual and other types of evidence, but there are very few who know the big picture stuff. The subject really is compartmentalized. Most DOD folks think it’s nonsense because that is what has been drilled into them for the last 60 years, and as we have learned in the last 9 months, even dramatic encounters involving large numbers of pilots and other personnel can and are kept secret, or at least do not end up being reported on network newscasts or on the front page of the New York Times. The ridicule factor is a huge part of that. The same is true at higher levels of DOD. No one wants to be the UFO general or UFO admiral of UFO guy on the Joint Chiefs. In the end, that means the number of insiders who really, truly know about the subject is pretty small.

I can say, with a degree of confidence, that much of what is known on a macro scale about UFOs is not within the confines of DOD. It is in private industry. My guess is that a small and informal network of like-minded people on the inside will occasionally exchange information on this subject with what might be a larger network on the outside, but, again, the number of people who know the big picture stuff is likely pretty low. We have all seen what has happened in recent times regarding objective truth, actual facts, a shared version of reality. They’ve been demolished. Facts are now flexible. A large segment of the population thinks that Alex Jones is a crusading truth-teller while the New York Times peddles fake news. That world of fact-free facts is a target-rich environment for anyone peddling wacky UFO tales and Deep State conspiracies. The more outrageous the claims, the more attention they seem to get from devotees of UFOlogy. It’s not a new development for ufology, because there have always been hucksters, but this current crop of pitchmen has taken things to a whole new level. Mars? Really? With Barack Obama? Or, say, are you one of the guys who personally shot and killed and gutted a few dozen extraterrestrials? Are you the guru who can attract alien spaceships anytime you want, just by using a flashlight? You asked how can ufology enter the mainstream? The UFO topic has already entered the mainstream. It happened this year. Ufology, however, is another matter.

There are no standards, no prerequisites, no governing authority, not even an agreement on what is included under that umbrella term. If someone says they study anthropology or microbiology, we have a pretty solid idea what they mean. But ufology is a different animal. It includes everyone from a nuts-and-bolts physicist like Stan Friedman to the media personality who thinks Queen Elizabeth is a Reptilian. I support and sympathize with MUFON, which has strived to make Ufology respectable or credible, but it is an uphill battle, and one that might be unwinnable. In a way, this is similar to what has happened to journalism. Social media and the rise of citizen journalism have been great in many respects, but owning a keyboard and computer does not make someone a journalist. The claims made by ufologists of UFO “journalists”, either online or in conference speeches or on TV shows, don’t undergo a rigorous editing process. There is no hard-nosed managing editor asking for the proof or verification that a DOD insider source actually exists, or that the writer really did hang out on Mars with young Mr. Obama. People type stuff up and let it fly from their computer or Twitter feed, with no editorial oversight or fact checking, and then they wait to see how many people will buy into it.

I realize that Tom Delonge is seen as a controversial figure in this arena. He has taken an amazing amount of shit from ufology in general, from assorted UFO poobahs, and from what seem to be millions of UFO authorities and experts who lurk on Twitter and Facebook, but…I can tell you from direct personal experience that he really DID develop a small and special network of insider sources. I know because Tom and I were in frequent contact as it was happening. He would call and share info about breakthroughs he had made, and it was understood I was not going to report the details. In many of those conversations, I offered some suggestions about “the pitch” he could make as he worked his way up the UFO food chain, and he would call me back to tell me how things went. It was an incredibly exciting time. Tom has always been interested in the subject but I think he did his first major interview on the topic with me on Coast to Coast, then, on his own initiative, he shifted into UFO overdrive. He took things to a much higher level. When he started to share little tidbits about having inside sources, the reaction from “serious ufologists” was pretty much universal–ah, bullshit, they said, no Pentagon insiders are going to spill UFO secrets to a rock star. But it was true. I watched it happen in real time, step by step, name by name. When Wikileaks published John Podesta’s emails, the world found out that Tom wasn’t exaggerating. Among the leaked emails were a few from Delonge in which he mentioned the names of the people he’d been speaking to about UFOs—major league, heavy hitter names. He was telling the truth. (One of those leaked emails was mine, by the way, and it was a very odd feeling at the time.)

The leak was initially viewed as a disaster because it spooked the people he had cultivated, but it confirmed he had been telling the truth, that Tom Delonge really did have insider DOD sources who were talking to him, as well as sources outside of DOD. Like it or not, he is the primary driving force for much of what has unfolded in the last 9 months. (There are others who do not work for or with TTSA who have helped as well.) With the high level contacts he developed, he was able to convince some pretty serious people to join him at TTSA. His organization gave Lue Elizondo a place to land when Lue left the Pentagon and AATIP. The now-famous videos were released. The Pentagon confirmed the program was real. The NY Times and countless other news organizations did serious, straightforward news stories about UFO research and the Pentagon’s interest. These are major developments. Tom did that, like it or not.

I am not in that loop anymore. I don’t know who might be helping him now, other than the team that has been identified publicly. I do not work for TTSA. As with everything else in “ufology”, it is a good idea to take new information with a grain of salt, so I would not necessarily endorse all of the stuff that Tom has been told. I think even he would admit that some of what he has been told might be a test of sorts, or a riddle. But he really did develop legitimate DOD insider sources, and together, they have turned the UFO subject on its head. Sometimes DOD sources turn out to be real. What the ultimate agenda might be is a whole different subject. One last point about DOD insiders–there is an entirely different cadre of people who have–or had–direct info about UFOs, but who are hostile to anything approaching disclosure. Their motives range from petty personal issues to religious beliefs to the fact that a few of them get a kick out of stirring the pot and watching what happens. UFO folks are always on the lookout for the dreaded disinformation plot. Well, it does happen. We can all cite examples. I am reasonably sure there are a couple of long-time influencers who are currently whispering in the ears of people in this field, people whose lives and stature have been upended by TTSA/AATIP/AAWSAP/BAASS/NIDS revelations. If you wonder why there is so much conflicting information and seemingly contradictory theories and scenarios, all coming from the same place, well….

Dregs: Can you speak on the Height 611 UFO crash? How did a fragment of the debris end up in the national atomic testing museum? The analysis of this debris sounds like Delonge’s metamaterials. Is there a connection? What became of the debris?

George Knapp: There is no connection between the meta-materials mentioned by TTSA and the material that was on display in the museum. In the early 90’s, I worked for Altamira Communications in Las Vegas, and the reason I took the job is that Altamira has its own TV studio, and the owner was willing to finance the ultimate UFO documentary project. I sketched out an initial series of 12 documentary films. We travelled all over the country to interview authorities and witnesses. A US Congressman introduced me to a Russian physicist who was in the US to lecture about nuclear arms issues. He had been the national security advisor to Russian president Yeltsin, to the Russian Parliament, and to their Academy of Sciences. We engaged him to seek out sources of UFO information, people who had never spoken publicly about the topic. He did. I made two trips to Russia…one in 93 and one in 96. We succeeded in obtaining hundreds of pages of Ministry of Defense documents regarding UFOs. Turns out the Russian military conducted the biggest UFO study ever. It lasted ten years, collected thousands of detailed cases, some of them very dramatic encounters. During that first trip, we met a Russian microbiologist who studied UFO landing site trace cases. He had found hundreds of very odd, very tiny glass-like spheres in the soil at places where witnesses had reported UFO landings. He referred to them as cosmic sperm. He generously agreed to share with me about half of the world’s known supply of cosmic sperm. I carried it out of Russia through multiple airport checkpoints along with very sensitive documents, a few of which were STILL classified.

When I returned to Moscow in 96, everything had changed. The sources who had been cooperative during the age of glasnost were scared to even be seen with me. I was traveling with a British TV crew who were re-tracing our steps from the 93 trip for a Discovery show, with one exception–this visit would include a side trip to Dalnegorsk, 11 time zones from Moscow, on the edge of the world. It was a rough journey. Dalnegorsk had been the site of an unusual crash. An object in the sky was seen by hundreds of witnesses before it crashed on Hill 611. The first scientist to climb the hill and collect samples was the main person we interviewed during the visit. He handed over several packets of material gathered from the crash site. He told me the debris from the object itself had very strange qualities, were the product of unknown engineering processes, and had been sent to various government and military labs for further analysis. (The scientists never had his samples returned.) The material I brought back was not the metal from the craft. it was rocks and soil and plants that had been burned when the object exploded.

When the Atomic Testing Museum wanted to open an Area 51-themed exhibit, I offered to loan them whatever I had. They were intrigued by the Russian samples and included the material in their exhibit, and it was a big hit for them. It generated a lot of media attention over a few years. (I supplied them with samples from Dalnegorsk as well as some of the tiny spheres.) In the meantime, the spheres I still possessed were subjected to rigorous testing in multiple labs. I am not able to share those specific results with you except to say the composition was really unusual and the reason they had been made at all remained a mystery. So far as I know, the spheres had no magical properties. Fast forward—the few spheres I still had at my home disappeared. I don’t know how or when it happened, but after holding onto the samples for close to 20 years, the spheres were gone. As a footnote, when the Atomic Museum decided to downsize its Area 51 exhibit, they returned the various objects and materials I had loaned them—except for the spheres.

They’re missing.

Danny Silva: What got you interested in the subject, originally?

George Knapp: There are some events in my family history that I do not remember. I don’t know if they were a subconscious influence or not, but as an adult, i had no interest in UFOs. That changed in 1987 when a pilot named John Lear walked into KLAS TV. Lear’s family was well known in Nevada (and around the world.) John had helped my bosses, Bob Stoldal and Ned Day, in breaking a huge story about the existence of a “stealth” aircraft being developed at a mysterious base called Area 51. Stoldal, my news director, had been collecting anything and everything that was reported about Area 51. It wasn’t much—a folder of maybe 25 pages. Lear’s improbable story about a plane that was invisible to radar turned out to be true (it was a plane called the F-117 Nighthawk) so he had some credibility with us. He walked into the newsroom and dropped a stack of UFO documents onto the desk of managing editor Ned Day. He told Ned that this would be the biggest story of his life, the UFO coverup. Ned wanted no part of it, told Lear that if the UFO thing was true, he–Ned–would already know about it. I was eavesdropping–as always–and as Lear started to leave, I asked if I could see his stack of documents. Over the next few days, I pawed through the material. Some of it was of unknown origin, but most of the pages had been released through FOIA, meaning they were legitimate government documents. At the time, I hosted and produced a 30-minute public affairs interview show called On the Record. The guests were mostly Nevada political figures or the occasional mobster. I asked Lear if he wanted to come on the show to talk about UFOs. He did. It changed my life, not because I believed everything Lear told me, but because of the paper trail–the internal reports and memos written to and for military insiders in which they acknowledged UFOs were real and of unknown origin.

The documents had been written before FOIA existed, so the DOD folks were candid in sharing their opinions in writing–unlike now. Anyway, after the Lear interview aired, my phone started ringing off the hook. People were calling to ask when that UFO interview would air again, or to tell me their UFO story. i wondered, what the hell is going on? I had Lear return for a second interview and the public response was even bigger. t was clear that the subject touched the pulse of the pubic in a way i did not understand or had not recognized. I started reading UFO books and tried to get my head around the subject, went to Lear’s home to see what else he had in his files, then had him on the program a third time, an interview that aired sometime in late 1988. It was a pretty wild program because Lear brought along a guy named Bill Cooper, who spun quite a tale of mystery. In that interview, Lear hinted that he knew a guy who might be taking a job at Area 51. That guy turned out to be Bob Lazar. In May 1989, I was the anchorman on the 5 pm news and our interview guest cancelled at the last minute. I called Lear to ask if his Area 51 contact might be willing to come on the show, even if we had to hide his identity. He called Lazar. We sent our live truck to Lear’s house. The live silhouette interview we did with Lazar created a firestorm and media frenzy, and dramatically changed the lives of everyone who was directly involved, for better or worse.

Area 51 has since become known all over the world.

Danny Silva: What are the biggest stories and issues affecting the subject that aren’t getting talked about or focused on? What UAP incidents have slipped through the cracks that should be revisited?

George Knapp: In just the last few weeks, the public has heard about mystery metals and meta-materials, pieces of odd stuff that reputedly is from crash sites or UFO landing sites. It’s been around for a long time but either wasn’t tested or our technology was not advanced enough to notice the unusual properties. TTSA has issued some clues about what it is doing. I hope that we might soon learn about really unusual, distinctly physical pieces of evidence that will be difficult to dismiss. Months before the New York Times broke its story, I was fortunate to get an early view of the Pentagon videos that are now widely known…Gimbal and Go Fast. People can nitpick all they want, but those videos are damned interesting, and, in my opinion, are legit. I hope that we will learn a lot more about the videos that are already known. I am less hopeful about the other videos that were scheduled for public release. I’m just guessing, but I can imagine there are military recordings of very clear, very dramatic, multi-plane, long-duration encounters with unknown aircraft. Presumably, there could be dozens of highly qualified military witnesses. If such video exists, we have no idea if it will ever be released.

If you have noticed, since the Pentagon reluctantly admitted to the NY Times that AATIP was real, there have been NO releases of UFO files or video, despite thousands of records requests filed by the public. I am NOT optimistic that this will change. Bottom line, there are thousands of UAP incidents that have slipped through the cracks…..that have never been made public at all…and I do not believe the Pentagon is in Disclosure mode. It might look that way, but it really is not the case. Ultimately, this subject is NOT about physical, observable UFOs, in my opinion. That stuff is window dressing. If you want to get to the next level, consider the possibility that UFOs are like shiny baubles on a Christmas tree ….or candles on a birthday cake. They are a performance, and sometimes a distraction. For a deeper dive, read Vallee.

Danny Silva: You are able to boil things down into profound statements. You now have become the story. You are one of the only outlets that the community is able to turn to for direct, credible information. Do you have any plans to write another book, or get more of your personal story released in some way?

George Knapp: Any decent reporter would be aghast at the suggestion that THEY have become the story. I certainly do not agree with that assessment in this case. I have been able to break some pretty good stories related to the subject because of a combination of geography, some tenacity, and a lot of luck. When the 1989 stories about Lazar and Area 51/S-4 exploded on a massive scale, I was fortunate to get a call from a Las Vegas businessman named Bob Bigelow, who is an amazing –and greatly misunderstood person. He told me he was interested in the subject and wanted to know how he could help. I had no idea he would subsequently create an elite scientific team–NIDS–and that I would get to meet and interact with…. truly remarkable people like Colm Kelleher, Hal Puthoff, Kit Green, Edgar Mitchell, Eric Davis, John Alexander, Jacques Vallee, and many others who do not want their names to be made public. It was a mind-blowing and humbling experience. For years, I was allowed to be a fly on the wall for much of what they pursued back then, including their investigation of a Utah property that would later be known as Skinwalker Ranch. NIDS has been described as a UFO research organization. That doesn’t even come close.

Another fortuitous connection is Harry Reid. In 1989, when I was initially overwhelmed by the Bob Lazar/Area 51 allegations, the first person I told–outside of the KLAS newsroom–was Harry Reid. Reid later became the Senate Majority Leader, the most influential Nevadan in history. Over the next quarter century, we continued a discreet, off the record conversation about UFOs. The conversation is ongoing. In the mid 90’s, I told Sen. Reid about NIDS. He had met Bob Bigelow many years before, so he asked about attending a NIDS board meeting. (Reid was not the only Senate member who was present.) It happened. He developed an understanding and appreciation of the larger subject matter. From that seed–and a variety of other lucky circumstances–I am now in an unexpectedly fortunate position, just at the time when all of this UFO news is breaking. Harry Reid was the principal sponsor of the Pentagon UFO study. Bob Bigelow created BAASS, which relied on the talents of many of the NIDS scientists. Some of those NIDS scientists are now part of Tom Delonge’s TTSA. That has spawned many conspiracy scenarios, I know, but the simple fact is, there are not that many credible scientists with DOD clearances who are willing to put their careers on the line by tackling these subjects.

It is understandable why some people want to connect the dots and assume that all of these people are involved in the same ongoing plot, but that is simply not true, in my opinion. I have great respect for Mr. B, and for the work done by NIDS, and I think this subject matter is lucky to have people like Hal Puthoff and Chris Mellon and Lue Elizondo who are STILL willing to risk their personal and professional reputations in the pursuit of this bewildering and frustrating mystery. As for future books, there are several I would like to write but can’t imagine when I would ever have the time. There really should be a new book about Skinwalker Ranch because the story of the BAASS study, what they encountered, and how BAASS interacted with the AATIP folks has not been told. (BTW—shameless plug—there is new info coming in Jeremy Corbell’s film about Skinwalker. It will be unleashed in September.) I also think there could be an important book about the politics of UFOs and the extraordinary risks that were taken by Harry Reid and a few others to both initiate and protect the Pentagon UFO study. I could not write such a book unless given the green light by both Mr. Bigelow and Senator Reid because I made a promise.

Danny Silva: Tom Delonge highlighted Operation Starfish Prime as one of the most important moments in the history of the phenomenon. In regards to weapons being used against UAP, what has your research pointed towards and what is your opinion?

George Knapp: Sorry, but I don’t know anything about it, beyond what has been reported.

Danny Silva: How do you obtain the documents you release?

George Knapp: I can’t tell you. I’ll say this much—the guesses are wrong.

Danny Silva: You were involved in Wikileaks’ Podesta emails. The public was able to hear from you directly, speaking candidly to Tom. How did you first find out that you were involved in the leak? How were you affected by it and did you receive any blow back?

George Knapp: Someone sent me an email to let me know that my name came up in the Wikileaks dump. It was a very weird feeling. It happened again a few weeks ago when the Russians who allegedly

engineered the hack were indicted, by name. I received no blowback whatsoever. I think Tom had some problems in dealing with the people whose names were mentioned. Some of them may have cut off contact. He seems to be moving forward.

Danny Silva: In the Wikileaks emails, Delonge said you were in his secondary advisory group. Recently, you stated that ended when the emails were leaked. What were some of the most important topics discussed during that time?

George Knapp: If I was listed as a secondary advisor, I don’t remember it. I did talk to Tom a lot back then. I would certainly be a secondary person compared to the other folks he engaged during that time. I’m not going to be specific about personal conversations, but will say this: the reasons I wanted to continue a conversation with Tom are 1) because it was fun to bullshit about UFOs with him, 2) because he was smart, 3) because he wanted to learn more about how it all fits together, and 4) because he went way out on a limb for this subject. I have read these scathing, brutal, atomic bombs lobbed in his direction…initially from Blink 182 fans who insisted he reunite with the band, then from UFO people who think he is being used by the Deep State, then from hardcore conspiracy folks who are certain he is helping to initiate a false flag alien invasion…blah blah blah…. I think that what TTSA is doing is pretty remarkable. I do not know where it will lead but am willing to give them some space before I pass final judgement.

The last 9 months have seen a major shift on how the topic is viewed. It is the biggest change in my 30 or so years of chasing this. If this is some kind of stealth disclosure operation, great. If it is disinfo, we will know soon enough. What if it’s real? Lue Elizondo, in my opinion, is a solid dude. It does not seem to me that he is spreading lies. At the MUFON event, he responded to a semi-hostile question about his motives and told the audience that even if he is carrying out an assignment here, sharing UFO info with the public because he was ordered to do it, what is the difference? Ufology wants the government to admit these things are real and that the subject should be studied. It just happened.

Christian Flynn: There are two dominant schools of thought on the incident at Roswell. One promotes the ET hypothesis, the other a Nazi/Russian source. Which do you find more compelling?

George Knapp: Roswell is a mud puddle for me. Seems like that is on purpose. I have no idea if it was ET, but I believe the eyewitnesses. The Nazi/Russian story is interesting but not credible. Who knows? Maybe there is physical evidence that can be analyzed.

Christian Flynn: What was the final piece or pieces of evidence that concretised your belief in the Bob Lazar story?

George Knapp: Mostly, it was the little things that happened during that very strange period….break-ins at Bob’s house…in his car…the people that followed us around…the agency that tapped my phone and then threatened and intimidated people who agreed to be interviewed. When I visited Los Alamos National Lab, and the guard waved Bob into the facility without even looking at his badge, then other folks in different LANL facilities did the same…the fact that the lab denied he had ever worked there, even though he was listed in their phone book…..the fact that Kirk Meyer initially offered to hand over his employment file, then said there was delay, then said they didn’t have the files, then wouldn’t take my calls at all..the fact that he knew the name of the investigator who came to his house to do a background check….and, perhaps most importantly, Bob knew when and where a glowing disc shaped object would be flown on Wednesday nights out in the Nevada desert. It happened three weeks in a row and it’s on video. I lived through it, I saw it, and it was real. When Lazar got into trouble for getting involved with some hookers—a not-entirely-uncharacteristic move on his part–the Parole folks wanted him to do hard time because they could not confirm his background. THAT was the time to come clean if he was making it up, because if he stuck to a lie, it meant prison. He didn’t change his story. I used to care whether people believed Lazar or not. I stopped that many years ago. People can make up their own minds, but I was there.

Keith Mayoh: In a recent interview with Shadows of your mind magazine you stated that you have suspicions that the Ute tribal people have other ideas about what may be going on at Skinwalker Ranch, can you share these with us?

GK: Some of them told us (this year) that they view the ranch property as a portal..a place where spirits of their ancestors move from one life to the next.

Keith Mayoh: You have given the subject a lot of coverage through the years particularly in the I-team news format. Is there a general consensus with your colleagues there that this subject is legitimate or is there some skepticism?

George Knapp: I hope there is some skepticism. That’s our job. In our newsroom, I’ve been there longer than anyone and was reporting UFO stories before any current employee was hired, so it sort of comes with the territory when new people are hired. Seems like a lot of them have heard about it before they get there, or soon thereafter. I have the support of my news director and station management and think my fellow employees generally tolerate my eccentricities. For many years since I dived into the deep end of the pool, our competitors in both TV and print took a lot of pot shots. It’s okay. I have hard bark. I think the events of recent months make it a lot harder to laugh it off.

Jason Goldthorpe: Has the phenomena changed how it portrays itself in anyway over the years that you have been involved with the subject?

George Knapp: It always changes. That is maybe the only consistent thing about it. In the late 80’s when I started down this road, the dominant paradigm was that UFOs are spaceships piloted by aliens from other planets. It didn’t take long to figure out that the explanation really doesn’t cut it. There might be ET’s visiting here in spaceships that are far more advanced than anything we have… and maybe we have recovered pieces of those ships. The pieces, the ships, maybe the bodies of the visitors could be distinctly physical, measurable, real in every sense, but I don’t think that evidence adds up to anything remotely close to actual truth. I do not claim to know what the real deal is, and in my opinion, no one does. No one. This thing takes on many forms. It appears to us in different ways. Sometimes it is physical and many times it is not. The shapes and forms change from century to century, continent to continent. Humans have different name for it, different explanations. UFOs and ETs are seemingly distinct from Bigfoot and poltergeists… and from fairies and goblins and creatures and bulletproof wolves. I think the phenomena has always been here, and it often puts on shows and displays for us, messes with our heads, manipulates humans on both micro and macro scales. Vallee and Puthoff and others say the UFO craft can manipulate space-time, which means they could be from other planets.. or other realities .. or other times… or all of the above. I don’t think the phenomena is benign, and I don’t think anyone really knows what it is or where it is from or what its agenda is.

Jason Goldthorpe: Is it possible that Bob Lazar was purposefully planted as a conduit for the UAP community?

George Knapp: Yes, it is possible. I’ve had that conversation with Bob more than a few times and he agrees it is possible, but if he is a plant or operative, I think it is not a conscious decision on his part. They definitely messed with his head….. and with mine.. and with the other people who were in his orbit. (And it is still going on, by the way.) But, as I have stated a few times, if the idea was to release the UFO story as a distraction from some other program under way at Area 51/S-4, that was a really bad plan, because the end result was to shine an international spotlight on that secret base and whatever it might be doing. Was it an operation to see how the public might react to this kind of news? Maybe, but again, I think the consequences were not what was intended. The public didn’t freak out. The general reaction was—and IS—please tell us more. There is a documentary movie in the works about Lazar. You can judge for yourselves.

Jason Goldthorpe: Is there a possibility that Robert Bigelow is involved in other SAPs as well as his own space program? Do you think he is still studying the phenomena but in a different guise?

George Knapp: No. and No. Mr. Bigelow will always have an interest in the subject, but he separated himself from any active role. People don’t want to believe it, but it is true. He had very good reasons for taking this step. The business reasons are well known. There are personal reasons that are even more compelling. I’ve known him for almost 30 years and he has always been honest with me. He is no longer actively involved.

Jason Goldthorpe: Will we eventually get to see full length videos such as the gimbal and do you agree that if we do it can only be congress that makes such a release?

George Knapp: I hope so but am not optimistic. Unless Congress or the White House order the Pentagon to release other videos, it seems unlikely. I do not agree with the general opinion that some sort of formalized disclosure program is underway. It might look like it, but it is also possible that multiple parties, acting independently, have seized the moment and tossed a few tidbits into the mix. To someone, it might appear to be a large, coordinated effort, but looks can be deceiving. Remember, many of the people who have always wanted to keep the public in the dark about this are still working on the inside.

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10-11-2018 om 22:06 geschreven door peter  

I-Team: Race is on to solve the mystery of unknown materials

LAS VEGAS - A global scramble is underway to identify and perhaps replicate unidentified mystery materials that have been collected at multiple sites around the world.

A few of the samples have defied analysis by leading scientists, who say they don't know how the material was engineered, or why, or by whom?

Some of the metamaterial was allegedly collected in connection with UFO incidents, which gives the whole endeavor an otherworldly glow.

For years, the Pentagon secretly studied the seemingly impossible abilities of unknown craft captured in military videos.

Scientists now want to know if the materials used in these mystery aircraft allow them to do what they do. For years, one of the secret studies was carried out by BAASS (Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies), a Las Vegas operation hidden within Bigelow Aerospace.

Documents first reported by the I-Team show that BAASS landed a contract with the DIA (Defense Intelligence Agency), and one of the objectives was to study so called metamaterials, as well as futuristic technologies.

"It was a multilayered bismuth and magnesium sample. Bismuth layers less than a human hair. Magnesium samples about 10 times the size of a human hair, supposedly picked up in the crash retrieval of an advanced aerospace vehicle. It looks like it's been in a crash," said Dr. Hal Puthoff, with the Institute for Advanced Studies during a presentation in Las Vegas.

In June, physicist Hal Puthoff came pretty close to saying that the weird wedge of metamaterial came from a crashed saucer, but he can't know for sure. Puthoff and his colleague Dr. Eric Davis are on the cutting edge of attempts to identify an assortment of bits and pieces that are seemingly beyond anything we can create.

This one sample is engineered in layers thinner than microns, through a process unknown on earth, and for a purpose we can only guess.

"Nowhere could we find any evidence that anybody ever made one of these when we talked to people in the materials field who should know, they said we don't know why anybody would want to make anything like this," Dr. Puthoff said.

Astrophysicist Dr. Jacques Vallee has been analyzing mystery materials since the 80s, often using the technical expertise of Stanford University and Silicon Valley to unravel unknown samples acquired from all over the world. Vallee pointedly steers clear of any military funding and he's shared his findings at public conferences.

"We have multiple samples from multiple sources, a wide range of variety and integrity," said Lue Elizondo, To The Stars Academy.

These days, former intelligence officer Lue Elizondo helps to collect and protect unknown chunks for To The Stars Academy. Before that, he ran AATIP (Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program), the Pentagon's secret UFO study. The same one which released the now famous videos of encounters between Navy pilots and the mystery machines dubbed the Tic Tac and Gimbal UFOs.

This summer, To The Stars launched ADAM, its own effort to find and study pieces of material that may have been stashed for decades after being retrieved from the sites of close encounters. Elizondo says there are legitimate reasons why the military, and now private groups, are now in  a race to figure out these materials.

"What our international efforts are to potentially -- and I say potentially, I'm not saying we're doing this, maybe to replicate that technology or to reverse engineer that technology. Now you're getting into sensitivities you don't necessarily want everyone to be privy to," Elizondo said in a June 2018 interview with the I-Team.

When the New York Times broke its story last year about the Pentagon's UFO story, it reported that a sample of mystery material was secretly stored at Bigelow aerospace. Managers of that program told the I-Team that while they are familiar with some of the metamaterial samples, none were ever stashed in Las Vegas.

• The science of proving an object was created by an extraterrestrial civilization
• Dr. Jacques Vallee invites the public to send inquires and samples of mystery metal to him at the following address: P.O. Box 641650, San Francisco, CA 94109

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10-11-2018 om 21:52 geschreven door peter  

The first part of this article told (in his own words) the strange saga of a man named Ray Boeche. Part-One started as follows: “My previous article was on the subjects of (A) how the UFO phenomenon might be a threat to our physical and mental health; and (B) why the Men in  Black might not be bad guys, after all. Rather, they just might actually be good guys trying to warn us of the hazards that the same phenomenon might pose. I thought I would follow-up that article with one which graphically demonstrates the dangers that UFO entities and their powers might pose. We have to go way back to November 25, 1991. On that date, Ray Boeche – a priest and a former State-Director with MUFON (the Mutual UFO Network) – had a very strange meeting at Lincoln, Nebraska’s Cornhusker Hotel. It was a meeting with a couple of guys who worked on a highly classified program within the U.S. Department of Defense. Now, with that said, I’ll hand the story over to Ray himself, who I extensively interviewed for my Final Events book.”

And here, in Part-Two, are Ray’s words on what was undoubtedly the most disturbing – and even deadly – part of the story. Why so? Because it all ended in three strange and violent deaths. Back to Ray: “They showed me a dozen photos of three different people – four photos of each person, who had apparently been killed by these experiments. These were all postmortem photographs, taken in-situ, after the experiments. The areas shown in all of the photographs were like a dentist’s chair or a barber’s chairs; and the bodies were still in those positions, sitting in the chairs. Still there, with EEG and EKG leads coming off of them; and I believe that one had leads to their head. They were all wired.

“It was a very clinical setting, and there was no indication of who they were. It was a very disturbing sort of thing. And I’m thinking in the back of my mind: if these are real, who would they have gotten for these experiments? Were they volunteers? Were they some sort of prisoner? I have no idea. Were they American? Were they foreign? There was no way to tell.” Ray told me that the three deaths were caused by a “remotely induced” fatal heart attack;  a “remotely transmitted head trauma” and “remotely controlled suffocation. The deaths and heart attacks were allowed to happen because it served the NHE’s goals: the deception that they were aliens trying to help us and give us this advanced technology.”

As for why Ray was contacted, he told me: “The impression was that it was to test the waters; that’s what they told me. They had read some of my stuff; and they knew that I’d become a pastor and that I had a Christian viewpoint from which I could view these things. And they were concerned morally and ethically that they had allowed themselves to be duped into doing this research; and it had taken such a turn. My concern was always that: why come to me? Who am I? I can’t do anything for you. I’m happy to evaluate it as best I can; but if you have this concern why not go to a Christian leader with a lot more clout and public visibility than I’ve got? But that was their reason: they were aware of the research I had done on a lot of things; that I could approach it from a Christian viewpoint; and that it was more of a moral dilemma for them. They wanted the information out there. But, to me, I have to think: is any of this accurate? On one hand, is this a way to throw disinformation out? But, on the other hand, I think that even if they wanted to just spread disinformation, they could have done it with someone a lot more influential than me.

“As a pastor and someone who’s trained as a theologian, I can’t come to any other conclusion than there is some sort of spiritual deception going on here. In so many of these kinds of alien contacts, they make a denial of Christianity: anytime the spiritual issues are addressed, there is always some sort of denial of the validity of Christianity, and the validity of The Bible. And, I find it interesting that these percipients are told that Jesus was a great guy; but you just misunderstood him. They say: he wasn’t really God’s son. You just don’t quite get it. But you never hear them say that about Buddha, or Krishna, or Mohamed. It always seems to come down to some sort of denial of Christianity. I mean the percipients of contactees, abductees and the NHE’s engage them in spiritual discussions – but it’s always one-sided. I would have a lot less suspicion for the potential of the demonic nature of these things if they were to say: ‘You guys are all screwed up, that all of your spiritual leaders had some good ideas; but none of them really got it. It’s a big mess.’ But it seems to be so specifically pointed at the Judeo-Christian tradition. It certainly seems to me like it’s the two genuine forces squaring up against each other.

“I think that some people have a sharper sense of sight; some have a sharper sense of hearing, or touch. I think there are people who have an ability to somehow have some sense stimulated and be aware of something that the majority of people aren’t. These are people just better gifted in some way than others. This is a thorny thing to dissect because there are definitely demonic influences generally. They do want to deceive us. I’m hesitant to paint with too broad a brush and say that everything can be attributed to them. I think there are too many theologians, Christians, who want to see a demon behind every rock. But I think the demonic world is real. But one of its principle goals is to deceive us. Does that negate the existence of some sort of extraterrestrial intelligence? I don’t think so. I think, though, that the extraterrestrial hypothesis is too simple an explanation. I have come into contact with too many cases that go so far beyond that; where there are so many strange effects that are left in the lives of the percipients that to me seem to say this is E.T. is too simplistic for so many of these things.

Ray’s final words: “A valid way to distract people is the two camps: the E.T. believers and the skeptics, while the real story is buried. The more distractions you can make, the easier it is to keep people from hitting on what’s actually important. That’s what so confusing about the whole thing. I’ve been involved in this since 1965 and this is the most bizarre stuff I’ve ever run across. I didn’t know what to make of it then and I don’t know what to make of it now.”

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09-11-2018 om 20:42 geschreven door peter  

My previous article was on the subjects of (A) how the UFO phenomenon might be a threat to our physical and mental health; and (B) why the Men in  Black might not be bad guys, after all. Rather, they just might actually be good guys trying to warn us of the hazards that the same phenomenon might pose. I thought I would follow-up that article with a two-part one which graphically demonstrates the dangers that UFO entities and their powers might pose. We have to go way back to November 25, 1991. On that date, Ray Boeche – a priest and a former State-Director with MUFON (the Mutual UFO Network) – had a very strange meeting at Lincoln, Nebraska’s Cornhusker Hotel. It was a meeting with a couple of guys who were working on a highly classified program within the U.S. Department of Defense. Now, with that said, I’ll hand the story over to Ray himself, who I extensively interviewed for my Final Events book. Ray told me:

“I found it interesting because they had contacted me at work, and I have no idea how they tracked me down there. But, they wanted to know if we could get together and have lunch to discuss something important. I met them for a brief period of time on that first meeting, and then they said: ‘We’d like to get together and have a longer conversation.’ I arranged a time and it was quite a lengthy discussion: probably three and a half hours. And that’s how it all came about. After the meetings, when I was able to verify that the men held the degrees they claimed to hold, and were, apparently, who they claimed to be, I was intrigued and excited at the possibility of having stumbled on a more or less untouched area which could be researched. But I was also cautious in terms of ‘why me?’

“Initially, I suppose I was apprehensive and curious. I had no way of knowing before our face-to-face meeting if there was any legitimacy to this at all. I wasn’t given any information at all before our meeting, just the indication that they were involved in areas of research I would find interesting, and that they had some concerns they wished to discuss with me. Both men were physicists; I’d guess they were probably in their early-to-mid fifties, and they were in a real moral dilemma. Both of them were Christians, and were working on a Department of Defense project that involved trying to contact the NHE’s [“Non-Human Entities,” as the pair called what most people refer to as “aliens”]. In fact, this was described to me as an ‘obsessive effort.’ And part of this effort was to try and control the NHE’s and use their powers in military weapons applications and in intelligence areas, such as remote-viewing and psychotronic weapons.

“They believed that the NHE’s were not extraterrestrial; but were some sort of demonic entities. And that regardless of how benevolent or beneficial any of the contact they had with these entities seemed to be, it always ended up being tainted, for lack of a better term, with something that ultimately turned out to be bad. There was ultimately nothing positive from the interaction with the NHE entities. They felt it really fell more under the category of some vast spiritual deception instead of UFOs and aliens. In the course of the whole discussion, it was clear that they really viewed this as having a demonic origin that was there to simply try and confuse the issue in terms of who they were, what they wanted, and what the source of the ultimate truth is. If you extrapolate from their take that these are demons in the biblical sense of the word, then what they would be doing here is trying to create a spiritual deception to fool as many people as possible. From what they told me, it seemed like someone had invoked something and it opened a doorway to let these things in. That’s certainly the impression they gave me.”

Ray told me that his informants said the “doorway” was opened by none other than Jack Parsons, a brilliant figure in 1930s-early 1950s rocketry. He was a man with a Top Secret clearance with the military, and a devotee of Aleister Crowley. Ray expanded on this: “They said that was the genesis of this. Was this a doorway that was opened by Parsons to allow these demonic entities in? Or did Parsons give someone else the idea that maybe someone in the government should look into this? That was one of their big concerns: that in order to try and accomplish some sort of military advantage, demonic things – masquerading as aliens – had been contacted and forces had been unleashed that were not going to be able to be controlled for very long; or, at least, were not going to be able to be bent to the will of whoever started this project. Satanic rituals, ritual magic and even human sacrifice were all mentioned as being linked with the project. They were convinced the work had to stop.

“They never revealed how it was all initiated in the beginning; but the situation today did, they said, go back to Parsons. I was never able to get an exact point of origin of these sorts of experiments, or of their involvement, and when they got started. But I did get the impression that because of what they knew and the information that they presented, they had been involved for at least several years; even if the project had gone on much longer. They were concerned that they had undertook this initially with the best of intentions; but then as things developed they saw a very negative side to it that wasn’t apparent earlier. So, that’s what leads me to think they had a relatively lengthy involvement.

“They didn’t just think that this was a spiritual deception; but that it was possibly something leading to a final deception. In their view – which, theologically, I don’t particularly hold – they viewed things much more like that of [Tim] LaHaye and [Jerry B.] Jenkins in the Left Behind book-series: the anti-Christ will appear, then we are fooled, and Armageddon will then be triggered. That seemed to be their personal feeling about the whole scenario.”

Ray added: “I tend to take the view that a lot of those prophecies in the Book of Revelations were fulfilled with Rome’s destruction of Jerusalem. I don’t think there is any way to deny that orthodox Christianity teaches a physical return of Christ; but that is always considered to be the church’s great hope: Christ’s returning, a triumphant return. So, from that point of view, the Left Behind mentality – that Armageddon is a terrible thing – and that you want to push off as long as possible, to me doesn’t really hold; at least in the historical sense. Christ’s eventual return is the culmination of this age and this world; so it’s not something to fear. It’s something to be welcomed. But it was viewed by the DoD like that, and as a final-battle scenario. Their other big fear in the whole thing was: if you have these types of entities who will present themselves as extraterrestrial beings, how is that going to affect the spiritual outlook of the people? Will it sway people from a belief in Christ? Would it have that sort of a spiritual effect?

“Their position was that these entities are the origin of a lot of the UFO reports; a lot of the abduction phenomena, and the cattle mutilations; and that they are able to interact physically with us in our world. I was never told how they knew, but the guys knew that there was wreckage of non-earthly origin at Roswell. And I remember asking them specifically in a later conversation: ‘How do you know this? And how does it happen that a demonic force can also interact physically?’ Their response was to me was: ‘You’re a pastor; you’ve studied theology. Go back to the Bible and look.’

“Well, that set me on months trying to piece this together in my own mind. Scripture refers to Satan as the prince of this world and the prince of the powers of the air. I deduced that there could be a precedent: a logical precedent based on scripture that demonic forces can in some way influence the physical world. So, given that that’s the case, could they create something? Could they somehow pluck matter from somewhere else – a different planet, a different galaxy that was so different from Earth that it’s going to be something recognized as not coming from here? Could they manufacture or create a physical object or wreckage – deliberately – to make us fall into the trap of believing that something extraterrestrial had fallen from outer space? A staged crash: to make us fall into the deception that they are extraterrestrials. That was the scientists’ conclusion. One of the things that made me believe there could be some sort of physical interaction is the mention of the Nephilim in Genesis in The Bible. Whatever these other worldly beings were – angels, fallen angels – they were able to interact physically and create some sort of progeny here on earth.

“Most of it was related to psychotronic weaponry and remote viewing; and even deaths by what were supposed to be psychic methods. They said that these entities are really the ones who were behind whatever actions the people working on the project thought they were able to perform themselves. It seemed that the project was allowed to assume that it had somehow technologically mastered the ability to do what the NHE’s could do: remote-viewing and psychotronics. But in actuality it was these entities doing it all the time, or allowing it to happen, for something that suited their deception. With both psychotronic weapons and remote-viewing, I was told that the DoD had not really mastered a technology to do that; they were allowed by the NHE’s to think that this is what they had done. But the NHE’s were always the causal factor.”

• Part-2 of “More On The Deadly Dangers of UFOs” to follow…

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09-11-2018 om 01:39 geschreven door peter  

'Fleet of UFOs' descend on Texas in bizarre footage

A COLLECTION of UFOs have been filmed descending on the US state of Texas, according to wild claims online.

09-11-2018 om 00:26 geschreven door peter  

UFO news: Does THIS photo prove NASA is lying about alien life in space?

NASA is covering up the existence of alien UFOs and structures on distant asteroids, according to bizarre conspiracy theories made online.

By SEBASTIAN KETTLEY

Notorious UFO hunter Scott Waring has accused NASA of doctoring its space photos to conceal evidence of aliens from the public.

Mr Waring, who runs the website UFO Sightings Daily, said NASA has “deliberately altered” its photos of Asteroid Ryugu and Asteroid Bennu to keep the public in the dark.

According to the conspiracy theorist, pictures of the distant space rocks show clear evidence of alien UFO activity.

In a video shared online, Mr Waring said: “This is a UFO that I found on Ryugu Asteroid. It’s pretty extraordinary, it’s very long and as you see it is really, really kind of cool.”

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Mr Waring found the supposed UFO in question between two canyon walls, hidden away on the asteroid.

He claims the alien spacecraft was hidden there “for a long time” and has only now seen the light of day.

The UFO hunter also claimed he has found a similar spacecraft tucked away on the Earth’s Moon.

He said: “The UFO looks very similar to one I found in about 2013 and look at the size of this UFO.

UFO news: UFO hunter Scott Waring claimed NASA is hiding evidence of alien activity 

(Image: UFO SIGHTINGS DAILY)

“It’s long and it has an L-shaped arm here and kind of a huge, huge area which looks like a black, clear, transparent sunglasses kind of sunroof area.”

Mr Waring then accused the US space agency NASA of tampering with its latest batch of Asteroid Bennu photos, which NASA published online.

They didn't want the public to know that alien structures exist on it

Scott Waring, UFO hunter

The conspiracy theorist accused the space agency of making the asteroid appear farther away than it actually is to obscure the amount of detail seen on its surface.

He claimed NASA “lied” to keep the truth of alien structures on Bennu a secret.

Some of these photos supposedly show a giant pyramid on the asteroid’s surface and a “square structure with windows or entrance openings along its sides”.

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Mr Waring wrote on his website: “So why did NASA want to make asteroid Bennu look smaller and farther away than it really was?

“Because they didn't want the public to know that alien structures exist on it.”

In June this year, the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa 2 rendezvoused with Asteroid Ryugu in a bid to land exploration drones on its surface.

On September 21, the first two Hayabusa rovers successfully touched down on the asteroid in a historic moment for space exploration.

• READ MORE: Did NASA just film an ‘Earth-sized ALIEN CUBE’ entering the Sun?

UFO news: The notorious conspiracy theorist claims to have found alien structures on asteroids 

(Image: UFO SIGHTINGS DAILY)

UFO news: This photo shows a supposed alien spacecraft on the Moon 

(Image: UFO SIGHTINGS DAILY)

However, since the Japanese probes landed on the asteroid, scientists and astronomers have not found any evidence of alien life.

Instead, Mr Waring may have fallen to the effects of mind trick known as pareidolia.

NASA explained: “Pareidolia is the psychological phenomenon where people see recognisable shapes in clouds, rock formations, or otherwise unrelated objects or data.

“There are many examples of this phenomenon on Earth and in space.”

UFO hunters typically fall for this effect when they claim to see faces, structures and spacecraft in shadows and rocks on planets or moons where they do not exist.

• READ MORE: Are these NASA photos of ‘ALIEN faces’ on Mars evidence of UFO activity?

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08-11-2018 om 23:30 geschreven door peter  

UFO sighting over Lake Tahoe is ‘100 PERCENT’ proof aliens are visiting

A UFO spotted over Lake Tahoe in the US in unprecedented detail is “100 percent” proof that aliens are visiting Earth. The sighting has been described as a “classic” spaceship by alien enthusiasts who claim it to be a flying saucer.

Holidaymakers at Lake Tahoe, Nevada, spotted the UFO zooming across the sky and were fortunate enough to capture it on video.

The craft was moving so fast it can barely be seen in the video, but some eagle-eyed experts slowed it down to get a better look.

The unnamed person who shot the video said: “We went to Lake Tahoe for vacation and we got a tour on a boat to ride on the lake.

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08-11-2018 om 23:14 geschreven door peter  

Des OVNI envahissent le ciel de Bogotá, en Colombie

Source

www.dailystar.co.uk 

O.V.N.I. - 07 novembre 2018 - Wakonda 

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08-11-2018 om 21:49 geschreven door peter