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UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld Ontdek de Fascinerende Wereld van UFO's en UAP's: Jouw Bron voor Onthullende Informatie!
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België: Het Kloppend Hart van UFO-onderzoek
In België is BUFON (Belgisch UFO-Netwerk) dé autoriteit op het gebied van UFO-onderzoek. Voor betrouwbare en objectieve informatie over deze intrigerende fenomenen, bezoek je zeker onze Facebook-pagina en deze blog. Maar dat is nog niet alles! Ontdek ook het Belgisch UFO-meldpunt en Caelestia, twee organisaties die diepgaand onderzoek verrichten, al zijn ze soms kritisch of sceptisch.
Nederland: Een Schat aan Informatie
Voor onze Nederlandse buren is er de schitterende website www.ufowijzer.nl, beheerd door Paul Harmans. Deze site biedt een schat aan informatie en artikelen die je niet wilt missen!
Internationaal: MUFON - De Wereldwijde Autoriteit
Neem ook een kijkje bij MUFON (Mutual UFO Network Inc.), een gerenommeerde Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in de VS en wereldwijd. MUFON is toegewijd aan de wetenschappelijke en analytische studie van het UFO-fenomeen, en hun maandelijkse tijdschrift, The MUFON UFO-Journal, is een must-read voor elke UFO-enthousiasteling. Bezoek hun website op www.mufon.com voor meer informatie.
Samenwerking en Toekomstvisie
Sinds 1 februari 2020 is Pieter niet alleen ex-president van BUFON, maar ook de voormalige nationale directeur van MUFON in Vlaanderen en Nederland. Dit creëert een sterke samenwerking met de Franse MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP, wat ons in staat stelt om nog meer waardevolle inzichten te delen.
Let op: Nepprofielen en Nieuwe Groeperingen
Pas op voor een nieuwe groepering die zich ook BUFON noemt, maar geen enkele connectie heeft met onze gevestigde organisatie. Hoewel zij de naam geregistreerd hebben, kunnen ze het rijke verleden en de expertise van onze groep niet evenaren. We wensen hen veel succes, maar we blijven de autoriteit in UFO-onderzoek!
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31-10-2018
UFO news: Shock claim BLACK TRIANGLE spacecraft recorded over Ohio is ‘proof of aliens'
UFO news: Shock claim BLACK TRIANGLE spacecraft recorded over Ohio is ‘proof of aliens'
A BIZARRE triangular UFO photographed over Perrysville, Ohio, is genuine proof of alien spacecraft entering Earth’s atmosphere, conspiracy theorists have claimed.
He said: “The UFO seems to almost have one, two, three tail-like appendages hanging from it behind it.
“It has three pointy ends – it’s not just two – this doesn’t look like a stealth bomber or a stealth fighter here.
“This is really, really strange and there is a huge divide in between.
“This UFO, whatever it is, is nothing like I’ve ever seen before.”
UFO news: This photo supposedly shows and alien spaceship UFO over Earth
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Based on his calculations, Mr Waring claimed the UFO could be bigger than a Boeing 747 jet airliner – an aircraft with a wingspan of nearly 200ft (60m).
This UFO, whatever it is, is nothing like I’ve ever seen before
Scott C Waring, UFO SIGHTINGS DAILY
The supposed alien spacecraft was photographed on September 3, 2018, when it passed over a construction site in the US village of Perrysville, Ohio.
Some of Mr Waring’s supporters were stunned by the UFO photographs, claiming it is definitely the real deal.
YouTube user Xavier Perkins said: “Weird UFO. The sightings are increasing worldwide. We are definitely not alone.”
Mr Waring also noticed the black triangle appears to cast a shadow onto the clouds below, seemingly confirming his extraterrestrial theory.
He said: “The UFO is also throwing a shadow onto the cloud below, which is 100 percent amazing, because this means the UFO was freaking huge.
“I’m talking several times bigger than a 747.
“This UFO must have been cloaked because something this big would normally stand out like a sore thumb.
UFO news: Scott Waring claimed the UFO is larger than a Boeing 747
(Image: UFO SIGHTINGS DAILY)
“So I say the digital eye caught this because it is more precise of an instrument than our flawed eye which misses out on a lot of the spectrum.”
The person who originally took the UFO photo, noted the black triangle made no jet engine sound or other noise when it passed overhead.
However, this is not the first 'black triangle UFO' to be spotted over the US and is one of many annual sightings.
A declassified UK Ministry of Defence report on so-called Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) concluded most sightings can be explained by natural causes or misrepresentation.
UFO news: There is no evidence to suggest triangle spacecrafts are real alien technology
(Image: UFO SIGHTINGS DAILY)
The secret document revealed to the public in 2006 reads: “Considerable evidence exists to support the thesis that the events are almost certainly attributable to physical, electrical and magnetic phenomena in the atmosphere, mesosphere and ionosphere.
“They appear to originate due to more than one set of weather and electrically-charged conditions and are observed so infrequently as to make to unique to the majority observers.
“There seems to be a strong possibility that at least some of the events may be triggered by meteor-reentry, the meteors neither burning up completely nor impacting as meteorites but forming buoyant plasmas.”
Another popular conspiracy theory stipulates black triangle UFOs could be top-secret US Military aircraft, dubbed TR-3B.
Sightings of potential alien activity have been investigated by Mecca Bingo who have analysed all UFO sightings in the UK since 2007.
According to their data, there have been four sightings in Hull in the April, May, June and July of 2013, but nothing has been reported since.
A witness in Hull at the time said: "Whilst sat in the hot tub on a Saturday night, my husband and I noticed a dark triangle shape craft glide past us that was 100% silent.
"The silence of this aircraft grabbed me most as there were no lights.
"There were lines running down either side of the triangle, and my husband said the end had scallop edges."
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So this Halloween keep an eye out for saucers in the sky, as well as the usual spooky sights.
The Mecca Bingo survey also identified the top five superstitions we believe will bring us luck:
Fantastic UFO sighting in Brazil 2018 Supposed UFO footage shows energy in São Paulo. The video would have been recorded by touris }}ts in October 2018 in the interior of São Paulo.
A triangular UFO that photographs show resembled a flying stingray was seen recently in Ohio near the site of a famous encounter 45 years ago between a UFO and a military helicopter – an encounter the military acknowledged but has never resolved. Have the aliens returned? Why was there no encounter this time? Or is it one of ours?
“It looked just like a sting ray and was all black. I have the original 2 photos of the craft as well as zoomed screen shots which show the craft in very plain view.”
This report comes from the site UFOStalker.com (includes five photos) which covers sightings on MUFON. The witness saw the UFO on September 3rd, 2018, and admitted that he was taking photos of a drill site with his father and neither heard nor saw anything unusual. However, they spotted the UFO in two photos taken no more than two seconds apart. Even under magnification, they admitted being unable to tell if the UFO was ascending or descending, but figured, because of the location of the pointy end, it was heading towards the Mansfield Lahm Air National Guard Base in the nearby city of Mansfield where the 179th Airlift Wing (179 AW) unit is stationed.
That’s where the story gets interesting. He claims the father showed the photo to “10-15 airmen from the wing” and none would admit to knowing what it is nor were any aware of unusual base activity on September 3rd. However, Perrysville is also the location of another report of a triangular UFO in 2016. Also, the witness claims that the photo becomes “distorted” when it is forwarded via email.
Then there’s the famous incident over Mansfield on October 6, 1973, when an Army Reserve helicopter with four crew members returning to Cleveland “encountered a near midair collision with an unidentified flying object” and filed an official signed report to their superiors. It has become known as the “Coyne/Helicopter” incident because the commander of the chopper was Major Larry Coyne, who retold the story numerous times.
“We were flying along at about 2,500 feet when the crew chief on the helicopter observed a red light on the east horizon. He then informed me that the light was closing on the helicopter — that it was coming at us on a collision course. I looked to the right and observed that the object became bigger and the light became brighter, and I began to descend the helicopter toward the ground, to get out of the collision course path. We were descending and this object was like a missile locked onto the helicopter, only it came at us on a perpendicular angle, to hit us almost broadside. It looked like we were going to collide with it and we braced for impact, and then I heard the crewmen in the back say, ‘Look up!’ and I observed this craft stopped directly in front of us — stopped — it was hovering, right over the helicopter! It was a bright green light. And all of the red night lights that we utilize for night navigation were dissolved in this green light — the whole cabin turned green. It hit all of us directly in the face. We assumed it was a high-performance fighter, but when it stopped directly in front of us, then all four of us realized that was no high-performance aircraft. This craft, from the angle that we saw it, was cigar-shaped. It had no wings, no vertical or horizontal stabilizer, was approximately 60 feet long, 15-20 feet in height.”
So, the Mansfield, Ohio, area has another unexplained UFO incident. While the shapes are dissimilar, the proximity to an air base is not, lending credence to them being secret military aircraft sightings that the military is not interested in revealing, even to its own personnel. Also, the “cigar shape” was a common UFO descriptor in the UFO-crazy 70’s while the “triangle” is popular today, matching the description of the rumored TR-3B. Forty-five years later, the question still remains … is the military becoming more open about UFOs or is it (or some other foreign military) responsible for the sightings?
If you live in the Mansfield area, have your phone ready and keep looking!
The U.S. government has been keeping an eye on unidentified flying objects. Here’s everything they’ve been keeping from you.
1. The Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program
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In December 2017, a blockbuster report in The New York Times revealed that the U.S. Department of Defense had been funding a program called the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), focused on investigating reports of unidentified flying objects, or UFOs. The Defense Department told the newspaper that the secret program started in 2007 and had been shut down in 2012, but Luis Elizondo, the military intelligence officer who came forward to say he had been in charge of it, insisted that the investigation efforts had continued after that date without specific funding. Find out 10 other secret U.S. government operations that have also been revealed.
2. Fighter jets catch UFO on video
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Although the revelation that the U.S. government had been studying UFOs was exciting, the two videos that accompanied the article got lots more play—they show 2004 infrared footage of an unexplained object filmed from Navy fighter jets. One of the pilots, David Fravor, described the scene to the Times: “It accelerated like nothing I’ve ever seen.” He told the paper the encounter left him feeling “pretty weirded out.”
3. Scientists aren’t convinced the footage shows extraterrestrial visitors
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“The only real piece of evidence that was widely available were some short videos showing a peanut-shaped object in front of a Navy jet,” says Seth Shostak, senior astronomer and fellow at the SETI Institute, which is dedicated to exploring the origins of life and intelligence in the universe. James Oberg, a space journalist and historian and a former NASA engineer, is similarly skeptical: “Nobody’s seen the original material and its context,” he says. Oberg also points out that although we think of pilots as particularly reliable witnesses, they are also susceptible to the tendency of the brain to try to make sense of confusing sights by using past experiences to fill in gaps. He explains that fireball swarms caused by satellites re-entering Earth’s atmosphere have been perceived as “a structured object with lights mounted on it” by people of varying education levels watching from both rural and urban areas of many countries. These are the 12 UFO myths scientists wish you would stop believing.
4. AATIP was requested by Congress
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Harry Reid, the Nevada Democrat who was Senate majority leader in 2007, requested funding for the project, which was cosponsored by Alaska Republican Ted Stevens and Hawaii Democrat Daniel K. Inouye. Reid told The New York Times that he’s proud of the program: “I’m not embarrassed or ashamed or sorry I got this thing going.” While it ran, the program collected pilot reports, camera footage, and radar data, and tried to match it all with known aircraft. Luis Elizondo, the official who ran the program, told Wired that they often couldn’t match aircraft they investigated with anything they knew about. Check out these famous people who said they saw UFOs.
5. UFO enthusiasts were ecstatic
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Jan Harzan, the executive director of the Mutual UFO Network, which collects and investigates sightings, told Space.com columnist Leonard David that the publicizing of AATIP data would “make it safe for our scientists and engineers to study this phenomenon without fear of ridicule or retribution, but with funding provided by Congress and private industry.”
6. The Pentagon shut down AATIP in 2012
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Still, Seth Shostak points out that the closure of the program doesn’t exactly make him think that it was finding lots of useful UFO information. “If there were compelling evidence for out-of-this-world craft, I would expect that the AATIP study would have continued, and not been canceled,” he says. “Programs are killed for lack of progress, not in the face of significant progress!” Check out more about the secrets of Area 51.
7. To the Stars Academy of Arts and Science
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Elizondo resigned from his post at the Defense Department around the same time he was speaking to the press about AATIP, and he took a job with a new private organization called To the Stars Academy of Arts and Science. The new venture aims to raise money for UFO research, new technology development, and entertainment projects, including documentaries and science-fiction novels. To the Stars released a new video clip in March 2018 that shows Pentagon footage of an object being tracked by a Navy jet over the East Coast three years earlier. This new video isn’t any more convincing to James Oberg, who thinks the releases are part of the To the Stars publicity push. “These selected portions [of military footage] were released by a private group raising money,” he says.
8. AATIP collected metal alloys from unidentified aerial phenomena
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This point in the AATIP exposé included very few details, but The New York Times specified that the company running the Defense Department program (a private contractor) had modified buildings in Las Vegas to properly store the materials for study. A Live Sciencearticle by Rafi Letzter ran this idea past some metallurgists and chemists, who didn’t think there could be any metal alloys (mixtures of elements) that would be difficult to identify. May Nyman, a professor in the Oregon State University Department of Chemistry, told the site that it would be possible to determine if an alloy had come from space by studying it for signs of ionization. (And alloys do come from space—most often in the form of nickel-iron meteorites.) Find out just how many Americans believe in aliens.
9. Project Blue Book
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AATIP isn’t the first U.S. government UFO investigation program—between 1947 and 1969, Project Blue Book collected more than 12,000 reports of UFO sightings. More than 90 percent were explained away (as being weather, known astronomical events, etc.), but 700 didn’t have ready explanations. However, after a research committee headquartered at the University of Colorado examined the unexplained reports and found no evidence of extraterrestrial visitations, Project Blue Book was shuttered.
10. Other countries keep UFO files, too
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The United Kingdom’s Air Ministry (and later Ministry of Defence) collected UFO files between 1959 and 2009, when it too closed down its program. In France, a UFO program started in 1977—known now as GEIPAN, it’s still operating. Residents who see something they can’t explain file official reports, and the agency collects them for researchers and scientists but doesn’t independently investigate them. When GEIPAN put its archives online in 2007, so many people logged on to read them that the website crashed. As of May 2018, more than 2,700 cases had been submitted to the database.
11. China’s new radio dish was built to listen for extraterrestrial signals
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It’s more than 1600 feet in diameter, which is twice the size of the biggest U.S. radio telescope, the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. That means it will be sensitive enough to find celestial objects such as distant galaxies and pulsars, but China’s government also specifically built it in order to search for signals sent from intelligent beings elsewhere in the universe.
12. Project 1794
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In the 1950s, during flying-saucer fever, the U.S. government actually tried to build a disk-shaped aircraft. They were hoping it would go as high as 100,000 feet and fly at around 2,600 miles per hour, and it was meant to take off and land vertically. After spending more than $3 million (that would be more than $26 million today) on the top-secret development program, it didn’t pan out and was scrapped. Next, find out about 12 crazy conspiracy theories that actually turned out to be true.
L’affaire “Roswell” du Royaume-Uni : Un OVNI repéré dans la forêt de Rendlesham confirme bien la réalité du phénomène
L’affaire “Roswell” du Royaume-Uni : Un OVNI repéré dans la forêt de Rendlesham confirme bien la réalité du phénomène
Les chasseurs d’OVNI sont retournés dans le plus grand foyer extraterrestre du Royaume-Uni et ont découvert que les extraterrestres ciblent encore le site, selon des chercheurs dans le paranormal.
Le 26 décembre 1980, une patrouille autour de la RAF Woodbridge a signalé avoir vu des lumières qui semblaient se poser près de la forêt Rendlesham.
Ils se sont précipités sur le site, pensant qu’il s’agissait peut-être d’un avion humain écrasé, mais ils ont prétendu avoir trouvé un objet métallique rond et brillant avec une lumière colorée qui faisait peur aux animaux dans une ferme voisine.
Aujourd’hui, les enquêteurs paranormaux sont retournés sur les lieux du crime et ont repéré des activités plus étranges dans un endroit surnommé le Roswell du Royaume-Uni.
Au cours des 8 et 9 octobre, un groupe connu sous le nom de Ghostech Paranormal Investigationsa passé du temps dans la forêt de Rendlesham à la recherche d’activités extraterrestres.
À leur grande surprise, ils ont repéré ce qu’ils croyaient être des ovnis et ont même obtenu des images.
Jeff Young, enquêteur principal de Ghostech Paranormal Investigations, a déclaré à express.co.uk que les talkies-walkies ne fonctionnaient plus et que “pas un seul oiseau, écureuil, hibou, pas un seul animal sauvage” n’avait été vu pendant leur enquête, alors que les lumières d’un OVNI étaient visibles de loin.
M. Young a dit : “Le premier soir, nous avons réussi non seulement à voir les lumières par nous-mêmes, mais nous les avons aussi filmées.”
“Nous étions les seules personnes dans la forêt et nous avons dû marcher 5 kilomètres à travers la forêt pour atteindre l’endroit, il n’y a donc pas de routes ou toute autre explication pour ce que nous avions vu.”
“Sachant où nous avions vu les ovnis se déplacer à l’intérieur de l’arbre, la deuxième nuit, nous avons placé nos caméras face à ces zones, mais cette fois-ci j’ai marché un kilomètre vers le côté opposé pour pouvoir observer toute la zone ainsi que mon équipe se trouvant sur le site d’atterrissage afin que nous puissions mieux voir ces objets.”
“Cette fois, nous avons tous vu les ovnis se déplacer à travers l’arbre et nous les avons à nouveau capturés sur pellicule, mais cette fois-ci beaucoup plus clairement qu’auparavant.”
À ce stade, M. Young dit que des hélicoptères Apache planaient au-dessus des enquêteurs, qui semblaient suivre les lumières vives de la forêt.
Il a poursuivi : “Alors que nous observions les ovnis, un hélicoptère Apache Longbow est apparu au-dessus de moi, et il s’est ensuite dirigé vers l’endroit où le reste de mon équipe se trouvait sur le site d’atterrissage, l’hélicoptère nous a encerclés plusieurs fois, puis un autre l’a rejoint et un troisième a suivi.”
L’équipe Ghostech Paranormal Investigations
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“On s’est alors rendu compte qu’ils suivaient aussi ces OVNIs ainsi que nous avec nos caméras.”
L’équipe a alors décidé de quitter la forêt car elle craignait d’être persécutée et de voir leurs preuves confisquées.
Après l’incident initial de la forêt de Rendlesham en 1980, les recrues de l’armée sont retournées sur les lieux le lendemain matin et ont trouvé un certain nombre de traces triangulaires sur le sol.
Un témoin de l’événement, l’officier à la retraite de l’armée de l’air américaine Steve Longero, a déclaré en Décembre 2016 : “Je pense que ce n’était pas quelque chose de ce monde.”
Il a dit de l’objet trouvé dans les bois : “D’après ce dont je me souviens, c’était comme une lueur rougeâtre, verdâtre, elle brillait vraiment comme une lumière rougeâtre.”
“Elle brillait vraiment, comme si quelque chose était vraiment chaud et qu’elle brillait.”
Il a également rappelé comment l’objet a disparu. Il a ajouté : “Au fur et à mesure que les gens se sont approchés de cette chose, elle s’approchait un peu plus de nous, puis elle s’est mise à aller de l’avant, puis vers l’arrière et tout à coup elle a disparu, comme dans Star Trek, c’était comme une vitesse de distorsion et nous étions tous là en mode ‘quoi?'”.
The witness was vacationing in Lake Tahoe when he unknowingly filmed this UFO. The UFO passes at an amazing speed from the right to the left of the screen.
From the X Files –“Why Don’t Astronomers See UFOs”
From the X Files –“Why Don’t Astronomers See UFOs”
As a NASA research scientist who worked for four years at NASA Ames Research Center in the Intelligent Systems Division, and now a professor of physics, Kevin Knuth attended the 2002 NASA Contact Conference, which focused on serious speculation about extraterrestrials. During the meeting a concerned participant said loudly in a sinister tone, “You have absolutely no idea what is out there!”
The silence was palpable as the truth of this statement sunk in. Humans are fearful of extraterrestrials visiting Earth. Perhaps fortunately, the distances between the stars are prohibitively vast. At least this is what we novices, who are just learning to travel into space, tell ourselves.
Are we alone? Unfortunately, neither of the answers feel satisfactory. To be alone in this vast universe is a lonely prospect. On the other hand, if we are not alone and there is someone or something more powerful out there, that too is terrifying. And Why don’t astronomers see UFOs asks Knuth, an Associate Professor in the Departments of Physics and Informatics at the University at Albany. He is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Entropy.
Knuth writes: I have always been interested in UFOs. Of course, there was the excitement that there could be aliens and other living worlds. But more exciting to me was the possibility that interstellar travel was technologically achievable. In 1988, during my second week of graduate school at Montana State University, several students and I were discussing a recent cattle mutilation that was associated with UFOs. A physics professor joined the conversation and told us that he had colleagues working at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Great Falls, Montana, where they were having problems with UFOs shutting down nuclear missiles.
At the time I thought this professor was talking nonsense. But 20 years later, I was stunned to see a recording of a press conference featuring several former US Air Force personnel, with a couple from Malmstrom AFB, describing similar occurrences in the 1960s. Clearly there must be something to this.
With July 2 being World UFO Day, it was a good time for society to address the unsettling and refreshing fact we may not be alone. I believe we need to face the possibility that some of the strange flying objects that outperform the best aircraft in our inventory and defy explanation may indeed be visitors from afar – and there’s plenty of evidence to support UFO sightings.
The nuclear physicist Enrico Fermi was famous for posing thought provoking questions. In 1950, at Los Alamos National Laboratory after discussing UFOs over lunch, Fermi asked, “Where is everybody?” He estimated there were about 300 billion stars in the galaxy, many of them billions of years older than the sun, with a large percentage of them likely to host habitable planets. Even if intelligent life developed on a very small percentage of these planets, then there should be a number of intelligent civilizations in the galaxy. Depending on the assumptions, one should expect anywhere from tens to tens of thousands of civilizations.
With the rocket-based technologies that we have developed for space travel, it would take between 5 and 50 million years for a civilization like ours to colonize our Milky Way galaxy. Since this should have happened several times already in the history of our galaxy, one should wonder where is the evidence of these civilizations? This discrepancy between the expectation that there should be evidence of alien civilizations or visitations and the presumption that no visitations have been observed has been dubbed the Fermi Paradox.
Carl Sagan correctly summarized the situation by saying that “extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.” The problem is that there has been no single well-documented UFO encounter that would alone qualify as the smoking gun. The situation is exacerbated by the fact that many governments around the world have covered up and classified information about such encounters. But there are enough scraps of evidence that suggest that the problem needs to be open to scientific study.
When it comes to science, the scientific method requires hypotheses to be testable so that inferences can be verified. UFO encounters are neither controllable nor repeatable, which makes their study extremely challenging. But the real problem, in my view, is that the UFO topic is taboo.
While the general public has been fascinated with UFOs for decades, our governments, scientists and media, have essentially declared that of all the UFO sightings are a result of weather phenomenon or human actions. None are actually extraterrestrial spacecraft. And no aliens have visited Earth. Essentially, we are told that the topic is nonsense. UFOs are off-limits to serious scientific study and rational discussion, which unfortunately leaves the topic in the domain of fringe and pseudoscientists, many of whom litter the field with conspiracy theories and wild speculation.
I think UFO skepticism has become something of a religion with an agenda, discounting the possibility of extraterrestrials without scientific evidence, while often providing silly hypotheses describing only one or two aspects of a UFO encounter reinforcing the popular belief that there is a conspiracy. A scientist must consider all of the possible hypotheses that explain all of the data, and since little is known, the extraterrestrial hypothesis cannot yet be ruled out. In the end, the skeptics often do science a disservice by providing a poor example of how science is to be conducted. The fact is that many of these encounters – still a very small percentage of the total – defy conventional explanation.
The media amplifies the skepticism by publishing information about UFOs when it is exciting, but always with a mocking or whimsical tone and reassuring the public that it can’t possibly be true. But there are credible witnesses and encounters.
I am often asked by friends and colleagues, “Why don’t astronomers see UFOs?” The fact is that they do. In 1977, Peter Sturrock, a professor of space science and astrophysics at Stanford University, mailed 2,611 questionnaires about UFO sightings to members of the American Astronomical Society. He received 1,356 responses from which 62 astronomers – 4.6 percent – reported witnessing or recording inexplicable aerial phenomena. This rate is similar to the approximately 5 percent of UFO sightings that are never explained.
As expected, Sturrock found that astronomers who witnessed UFOs were more likely to be night sky observers. Over 80 percent of Sturrock’s respondents were willing to study the UFO phenomenon if there was a way to do so. More than half of them felt that the topic deserves to be studied versus 20 percent who felt that it should not. The survey also revealed that younger scientists were more likely to support the study of UFOs.
UFOs have been observed through telescopes. I know of one telescope sighting by an experienced amateur astronomer in which he observed an object shaped like a guitar pick moving through the telescope’s field of view. Further sightings are documented in the book “Wonders in the Sky,” in which the authors compile numerous observations of unexplained aerial phenomena made by astronomers and published in scientific journals throughout the 1700s and 1800s.
Evidence from government and military officers
Some of the most convincing observations have come from government officials. In 1997, the Chilean government formed the organization Comité de Estudios de Fenómenos Aéreos Anómalos, or CEFAA, to study UFOs. Last year, CEFAA released footage of a UFO taken with a helicopter-mounted Wescam infrared camera.
Declassified document describing a sighting of a UFO in December 1977, in Bahia, a state in northern Brazil. Arquivo Nacional Collection
The countries of Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Ecuador, France, New Zealand, Russia, Sweden and the United Kingdom have been declassifying their UFO files since 2008. The French Committee for In-Depth Studies, or COMETA, was an unofficial UFO study group comprised of high-ranking scientists and military officials that studied UFOs in the late 1990s. They released the COMETA Report, which summarized their findings. They concluded that 5 percent of the encounters were reliable yet inexplicable: The best hypothesis available was that the observed craft were extraterrestrial. They also accused the United States of covering up evidence of UFOs. Iran has been concerned about spherical UFOs observed near nuclear power facilities that they call “CIA drones” which reportedly are about 30 feet in diameter, can achieve speeds up to Mach 10, and can leave the atmosphere. Such speeds are on par with the fastest experimental aircraft, but unthinkable for a sphere without lift surfaces or an obvious propulsion mechanism.
1948 Top Secret USAF UFO extraterrestrial document. United States Air Force
In December 2017, The New York Times broke a story about the classified Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program, which was a $22 million program run by the former Pentagon official Luis Elizondo and aimed at studying UFOs. Elizondo resigned from running the program protesting extreme secrecy and the lack of funding and support. Following his resignation Elizondo, along with several others from the defense and intelligence community, were recruited by the To the Stars Academy of Arts & Science, which was recently founded by Tom DeLonge to study UFOs and interstellar travel. In conjunction with the launch of the academy, the Pentagon declassified and released three videos of UFO encounters taken with forward looking infrared cameras mounted on F-18 fighter jets. While there is much excitement about such disclosures, I am reminded of a quote from Retired Army Colonel John Alexander: “Disclosure has happened. … I’ve got stacks of generals, including Soviet generals, who’ve come out and said UFOs are real. My point is, how many times do senior officials need to come forward and say that this is real?”
There is a great deal of evidence that a small percentage of these UFO sightings are unidentified structured craft exhibiting flight capabilities beyond any known human technology. While there is no single case for which there exists evidence that would stand up to scientific rigor, there are cases with simultaneous observations by multiple reliable witnesses, along with radar returns and photographic evidence revealing patterns of activity that are compelling.
Declassified information from covert studies is interesting, but not scientifically helpful. This is a topic worthy of open scientific inquiry, until there is a scientific consensus based on evidence rather than prior expectation or belief. If there are indeed extraterrestrial craft visiting Earth, it would greatly benefit us to know about them, their nature and their intent. Moreover, this would present a great opportunity for mankind, promising to expand and advance our knowledge and technology, as well as reshaping our understanding of our place in the universe.
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Witnesses are being sought to shed light on one of North Wales greatest mysteries.
A new documentary is in the pipeline investigating the Berwyn Mountains incident in 1974 and investigator Russ Kellett is asking if anybody who was there to come forward.
Dubbed the Welsh Roswell, at about 8.30pm on January 23, in 1974, people reported hearing a huge bang, earth tremors were felt amid claims of a brilliant light in the sky above the mountain range.
Police received reports and arrived in the area and a RAF search and rescue team was scrambled from Anglesey.
In the 44 years since there has been a huge debate as to what exactly happened that night, with TV documentaries made and books written on the subject.
Some researchers have claimed a UFO landed or crashed, with further claims “bodies” were retrieved and taken away by soldiers.
Other theories suggest it was a meteor shower combined with an earthquake – the epicentre of which was at Bala Lake – and the misconception of poachers on the hillside carrying lamps.
A witness who saw an object on the hillside said in a statement: “Saw bright red light, like coal fire red. Large perfect circle. Like a big bonfire. Could see lights above and to the right and white lights moving to bottom. Light changed colour to yellowish white and back again.”
A message in a police log said: “There’s been a large explosion in the area and there is a large fire in the mountainside. I can see the fire where I am.”
Telex message to chief constable Gwynedd constabulary. 22.00pm approx 23/1/74: Saw bright green lights, object with tail – travelling west. Saw about Bangor direction – dropped down.
At approx 10pm on 23/1/74: Saw a circular light in the sky at an estimated height of 1,500 feet. This object exploded and pieces fell to the ground. Mr ...... estimates the pieces would have fallen into the sea between Rhyl and Liverpool.
Russ Kellett believes UFOs were out there that night
Russ who has investigated the incident for years, said: “I have been investigating this for 25 years.
“I have been approached by a company in America to make a documentary, the Americans are fascinated by this.
“If there is anybody who may have witnessed what happened at the time or may have seen military or anything else, could they please get in touch with me.”
Witnesses can contact Russ on 07368 417871.
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UFO: People reported seeing a huge craft and other lights (Pic: GETTY)
People reported seeing a huge craft and other lights, along with military planes and helicopters.
Other accounts include claims of an Apache helicopter landing with its cockpit on fire, weird "snow" and mystery men in white overalls.
The activity in Pentyrch, near Cardiff, on February 26, 2016, was explained by the authorities as an armed forces exercise code-named "Chameleon".
But many claim they saw unidentified lights which did not seem to belong to conventional military aircraft.
The incident echoes the most famous alleged UFO incident ever at a ranch in Roswell, New Mexico, when the US military was claimed to have captured a crashed flying saucer.
Recalling the events in Wales, witness Caz Clarke, said she could "categorically state it was no exercise".
She said: "I will take a lie detector anywhere for anyone. What I witnessed will stay with me for the rest of my life.
"What is more, the military knew they were coming and had a spotter plane in the air for two days waiting for 'the event'. When it came, four planes chased the green object while the spotter plane circled about six red oval objects which formed a pyramid shape.
SPOTTED: Computer generated images of a UFO sighting in Pentyrch (Pic: Media Wales )
"Several red spheres hovered silently above the fields until the helicopters came."
Another witness, Mike Henbury, claims to have seen three red pulsing lights in a triangle descending from the clouds.
Mr Henbury said: "It looked very large indeed. I don't think it touched down totally but about 10 to 12ft from the ground it lit up fully, showing the full outline of it, then it dimmed down."
It was also claimed Apaches flew low across the fields in a pyramid formation.
Members of Swansea UFO Network recently visited the scene of the sighting, guided by Caz Clarke.
Co-founder Emlyn Williams said: "There is a strong electromagnetic residue in the core location to the place the UFOs were spotted. It's physical evidence something unusual happened there."
Google Earth blindspot is ‘HOSTING UFOs’ - whistleblower’s shock global conspiracy claim
Google Earth blindspot is ‘HOSTING UFOs’ - whistleblower’s shock global conspiracy claim
A FORMER Ministry of Defence expert has astonishingly claimed Google conspired with the US government to cover up a “super secret” location deep in the Nevada desert.
Nick Pope, who used to work for the government’s specialist UFO department, has said the discovery the search engine giant did not update images of the Tonopah Test Range for eight years is “murky”.
Using his insider background of how governments want to keep such facilities out of the public’s knowledge, he has speculated the reason behind the blackout was because the American government kept top secret information and crashed UFOs.
The search giant normally updates satellite images of every part of the continental United States every 60 days but no fresh photos of the Nevada facility appear on Google Earth between 2008 and 2016, it has emerged.
This is despite most other military bases in the US being regularly logged.
Mr Pope told the Sun Online that the base is close to the infamous Area 51, which is why he thinks the US government wanted Google’s cameras to ignore the facility.
He said: "Because of its proximity to the infamous Area 51, this has understandably started all sorts of conspiracy theories in the UFO community.
"Could this super-secret location be where the US government hides crashed UFOs?
“Or is it where the next generation of stealth aircraft, drones and hypersonic weapons are developed and tested?
Nick Pope believes Google and the US government blocked satellite images of the site
(Image: Nick Pope)
"Either way the US government is hugely concerned - and understandably so.
"This is all quite murky. Either as a consequence of federal law, or through a 'gentleman's agreement', Google and/or the third party providers from whom they obtain satellite imagery have ensured that the public won't see up-to-date images of the Tonopah Test Range.
"Along with drones flown by hobbyists, the easy availability of high-quality satellite imagery has caused immense problems for the military and the intelligence community.
"It's given people a window on a world that was previously closed to them.
The Tonopah Test range is home to some of the US government’s most secret projects
(Image: UIG via Getty Images)
"Simply put, these technologies make it more difficult for the government to hide things."
"Having worked in the MoD for 21 years I well understand the need for secrecy, and indeed my final posting was to the Directorate of Defence Security.
"While I understand that people are naturally curious about what's going on at Tonopah, the problem with people's 'right to know' is that once information is in the public domain, it's seen by everyone: not just UFO researchers and aviation enthusiasts, but the Russians, the Chinese, the Iranians, the North Koreans, ISIS and all sorts of other non-state actors who may not have the best of intentions."
The desert army barracks have long been the subject of mystery after it was reported the range has been used for secret government aerospace and weapons testing since the 1950s, including the development of the iconic stealth bombers.
Aerial shot of the airbase in the Nevada desert
(Image: Google)
A spokesperson for Google denied any censorship of the base in a statement.
The company said: “Google Earth didn’t censor this area in Nevada.
"Our satellite imagery is licensed from third party providers which are commercially available and are not the property of Google.
"We update imagery by prioritising areas that are most popular with users while complying with local and federal laws.”
Renewed US interest could produce some fascinating hearings, but the focus should be on the quality not just the quantity of reported sightings
The terms UFO and ‘flying saucer’ are both wrongly, regarded as being synonymous with ‘extraterrestrial spacecraft’. Photograph: Jim West/Rex/Shutterstock
There’s renewed interest in the UFO phenomenon and it’s coming from an unexpected source: the United States Congress.
The Senate Armed Services Committee is looking into a 2004 incident where US Navy pilots flying with the USS Nimitz strike group encountered, chased and filmed fast-moving unidentified objects. Reliable sources say at least two of the military pilots involved have already been interviewed, and a radar operator was subsequently invited to get in touch.
In parallel, the House Armed Services Committee is taking an interest. Records from April show the committee received a Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) briefing on the Pentagon’s UFO project, the cryptically-named AATIP. We know so little about AATIP that there’s even dispute over whether the acronym stands for Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program or Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program. The very existence of the project caused a sensation, because until the New York Times broke the story in December 2017, the US government claimed it had not investigated UFOs since the 1960s when sightings were looked at in a study called Project Blue Book.
As noted in the Guardian recently, data from two civilian UFO research organisations show that the number of reported sightings has fallen in recent years. However, there’s no single, global focal point for reports (the Ministry of Defence stopped investigating UFOs in 2009) and statistics will never tell the full story.
It would be better if the phenomenon were assessed and judged not on numbers alone, but by focusing on cases where we have compelling evidence: independently submitted reports from pilots on different flights; visual sightings corroborated by radar; photos and videos regarded as genuinely intriguing by intelligence community imagery analysts. Irrespective of the methodology we use to assess the phenomenon, how can we do so in an even-handed way when the subject has so much pop culture baggage?
A first step in reframing the debate might be changing the language. The term “UFO” has become as obsolete and baggage-laden as the now largely-defunct “flying saucer”. Both are widely, but wrongly, regarded as being synonymous with “extraterrestrial spacecraft”, when self-evidently all the phrase should mean is something in the sky that the observer cannot identify. When the question “do you believe in UFOs?” is misinterpreted as “do you think we’re being visited by aliens?” then we clearly have a problem.
We addressed this in the MoD in the 1990s by replacing “UFO” with “UAP”, for Unidentified Aerial Phenomena. It got us increased funding and made a few senior officials take the matter more seriously, because they felt we were looking at a science problem, not a science fiction mystery.
Years later, in 2011, I was one of the briefers at a private gathering in Washington DC, chaired by Bill Clinton’s former chief of staff John Podesta, who has a longstanding interest in the issue. It was reminiscent of an episode of The X-Files and there was even a former CIA director sitting at the back, playing no part in the discussion, but silently taking notes. I briefed attendees on the MoD’s use of the term “UAP” and the message clearly hit home.
During Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, for which Podesta was the campaign chair, she occasionally discussed UAPs and in one interview on the Jimmy Kimmel show she corrected the host for using the term “UFO”. We have yet to learn what Donald Trump thinks about UAPs, but his enthusiasm for a Space Force has certainly created a few conspiracy theories.
When it comes to UAPs, truth really is stranger than fiction. It turns out that AATIP was largely the brainchild of the then Senate majority leader Harry Reid, and that much of the work was contracted out to Bigelow Aerospace, run by former budget hotel magnate (and believer in extraterrestrial visitation) Robert Bigelow. A 2009 letter from Harry Reid about AATIP reads like science fiction in places.
Now, some of the people formerly involved with the project – including the DIA official who ran it, Luis Elizondo – have joined a Public Benefit Corporation called To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science, fronted by Tom DeLonge, the former vocalist/guitarist and founder of pop punk band Blink-182. Their mission statement talks about creating a consortium “to explore exotic science and technologies … that can change the world”.
If current US Congressional interest evolves into formal hearings, either specifically on AATIP, or on UAPs more generally, I hope they can get past debates about terminology, and avoid getting bogged down in statistical analyses. I have made clear my willingness to testify on the basis that my experience with the MoD might be relevant.
Focusing on the quality of reports and not simply the quantity should result in a far more meaningful assessment of the phenomenon. Irrespective of the outcome, these might turn out to be the most fascinating Congressional hearings in history.
•Nick Pope worked at the Ministry of Defence for 21 years. From 1991 to 1994 he was posted to a division where his duties included investigating UAP sightings to determine whether they had any defence significance.
The Extraterrestrial Cigar Shaped Craft, Discovered On A South Atlantic Island?
The Extraterrestrial Cigar Shaped Craft, Discovered On A South Atlantic Island?
Google Earth has recently been the center of attention for many UFO Truth seekers after a mysterious object which appears to be some kind of crash-landed alien craft, has been doing the rounds across the internet. You can even see a trail behind it, which appears to show that the potential craft crashed through a nearby mountain – as of yet this has NOT been debunked!
Many leading UFO researchers have been using satellite mapping to zoom in and look at the alleged spaceship, near the 10,000ft tall Mount Paget. You can clearly see like an artificial trail coming from behind the huge crashed looking object. Researchers have also suggested that the length of this object is in the region of 63 meters!!!
The nearby tracks suggest the irregular-shaped object had slid through the snow prior to arriving at the final resting place on the icy island, not far from Antarctica. It has been suggested that this is/was a huge block of ice, which fell off the mountain after an avalanche the day previous to this image being taken – but a 1,000 metres is long way for a huge piece of ice to travel, leaving a perfect trail behind it!
Since it was uploaded onto the internet, the video has been viewed more than 420,000 times, attracting almost 6,000 comments in just a week!
Many people have agreed that this could be an alien spaceship.
A Frank Lucas wrote:
“That definitely looks like something was airborne and definitely crashed into that mountain.”
Meanwhile James Carter said:
“The Georgia island object is definitely not anything we can explain from looking through satellite imagery.”
Another Youtube user, Tom Brown, suggested:
“This could actually be a rocket or the left overs of a rocket. It could also be a missile that was fired for testing purposes.
“It could even be a human-made airplane or aircraft of some sort.
“Governments all around the world do all kinds of testing with air crafts for modern warfare and the perfect place to hide one that didn’t work out would be on a small island that is near a continent no one is allowed to explore.”
South Georgia Island is part of the British Overseas territory of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
(Picture: Google Earth)
There have also been many others who believe that this could be some kind of rock formation which has broken away from the mountain behind it. Another government funded researcher Dave Petley, pro-vice-chancellor (research and innovation) at the University of Sheffield has stepped forward to claim the object broke off a nearby mountain and slid through the snow. On his blog, he wrote:
‘This is conventional landslide behavior on snow and ice covered surfaces, and we have seen other large isolated boulders travel long distances.’
Although this theory has not been confirmed either – interesting how government figures always confirm that it’s nothing ALIEN!?!?
Whatever this incredible look object it is, one thing is for sure that it needs far more research to be able to confirm exactly what it is. Ideally we need boots on the ground to look at this huge object face to face, although this is not the easiest part of the world to travel to.
Did the ‘mass’ slide down or out of the mountain?
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Now THIS is a very interesting story which has recently come about. Of course this object could be a large piece of rock or ice that slid off the nearby mountain (before any self proclaimed UFO debunkers/trolls start abusing us!) HOWEVER just look at the shape of the huge object and the perfect trail it left behind it!
When you watch the video it almost appears as if the object has crashed through the mountain! Of course this could be something out of nothing, but it’s important for us to cover off these stories with you as nothing has yet been confirmed what it is and the elite like to debunk pretty much everything!
We are going to do some more research into this intriguing story.
According to data from the National UFO Reporting Center, UFO sightings around the world have reached an all-time high. Statistics show individuals in the US are more likely to witness a UFO
The sci-fi series "The X-Files" popularized the saying "the truth is out there." And in the past 15 years, thousands of UFO sightings across the United States show a lot of people are still looking.
A new list of the top cities in the U.S. that have had UFO sightings from 2001-2015 has been published, with Phoenix topping the list, according to a story in the Syracuse New Times.
The data is pulled from the book "UFO Sightings Desk Reference: United States of America 2001-2015," written by Cheryl Costa and Linda Miller Costa. Published in March 2017, the book compiles "data and analysis for 100,000+ sightings of unidentified flying objects reported by individuals during the first 15 years of the 21st century."
Costa noted that Phoenix may be the most prevalent place in the U.S. for UFO sightings, perhaps due to the Phoenix Lights phenomena two decades ago.
In 1997, there were two events that occurred in Phoenix, Arizona, and Sonora, Mexico. Thousands of witnesses say they saw a formation of five lights in a V-shape, producing no sound and a triangular formation of lights. The U.S Air Force claimed the second group of lights were flares dropped from a A-10 Warthog aircraft.
In addition to Phoenix, Las Vegas, Seattle, Chicago and Portland round out the top five cities on the list.
Below is the list of 25 most sightings across U.S. cities.
The strange night in a Welsh field involving 'huge UFO lights, explosions and military planes'
The strange night in a Welsh field involving 'huge UFO lights, explosions and military planes'
By Robert Dalling / Wales Online Senior Reporter
Wales' 'Roswell' is still fascinating UFO hunters two years later
A cold winter's night in south Wales back on February 26, 2016, was anything but ordinary in one Welsh town, some say.
In a scene worthy of an episode of the X-Files, multiple witnesses reported seeing a huge UFO and other lights - along with military planes, helicopters, a chase, explosions, shaken buildings, damaged trees and wreckage in Pentyrch.
An apache helicopter landing with its cockpit on fire, weird snow, and mystery men in white overalls were other reported sightings.
The activity was explained by the authorities as an Armed Forces exercise known as 'Chameleon', as was reported at the time .
But many still believe it was something out of this world, claiming to have spotted unidentified lights which did not conform to the normal idea of a military aircraft.
It echoes one of the most famous alleged UFO incidents of all time at a ranch in Roswell, New Mexico, when the US military is claimed to have captured a crashed flying saucer. The military has always said it was simply a conventional weather balloon.
'It was no exercise'
Recalling the events of that day more than two years ago, one witness, Caz Clarke said she could "categorically state it was no exercise".
"I will take a lie detector anywhere for anyone but what I witnessed will stay with me for the rest of my life," she said.
"What is more, the military knew they were coming and had a spotter plane in the air for two days waiting for 'the event'.
"When it came, four planes chased the "green" object whilst the spotter plane circled approximately six red oval objects, which formed a pyramid shape. Several red spheres hovered silently above the fields until the helicopters came."
Another witness, Mike Henbury, claims to have seen a red pulsing light, followed by two more to form a triangle descending from the clouds.
Mr Henbury said: "It looked very large indeed. I don't think it touched down totally but about 10 to 12 feet from the ground it lit up fully, showing the full outline of it, then it dimmed down."
A computer generated image of one of the sights allegedly seen on the night
(Image: Michael Hopkins)
The lights glowed different colours, including orange, according to witnesses
(Image: Michael Hopkins)
He added that black, red and green orbs emerged from it "as if they were dancing and moulding into one pulsing from red to green slowly".
Witnesses told the Swansea UFO Network they spotted a red light to the west above, and beyond the line of trees that marked the field's western extremity.
It was followed by other red lights that formed the outer edges of a huge triangle standing upright, tilted to the right, with a convex, rather than straight lower edge.
They said they did not see it 'arrive' but rather it just appeared in front of them, with a suggestion it travelled inter-dimensionally.
A small green-lighted object emerged from the top of the large structure, witnesses claimed, adding that the lights were so bright it was difficult to see their individual shape.
A line drawing by Caz Clarke of what she claims to have witnessed
(Image: Caz Clarke)
Witnesses explained that a the green object emerged from the top of the large one, four military planes arrived, two from the direction of RAF St Athan and two from the direction of Cardiff.
The green object flashed or strobed three times and headed off to the north-west towards Llantrisant and the aircraft chased it, they claimed.
It has also been recalled how the apache helicopters approached low across the fields from the south, in a pyramid formation. They were so low that the witnesses could see the grass being disturbed beneath them.
Swansea UFO Network's Emlyn Williams, Steve Drewson and Mike Maunder who recently paid a visit to Pentyrch.
(Image: Adrian White)
Another image from the recent visit to Pentyrch
(Image: Swansea UFO Network)
The large object then dipped to the right, turning on its axis, witness accounts claimed, adding that it descended below the tree line, but due to the trees having no leaves, the witnesses could see through them, and that as the object was turning on its axis, it was descending into the field to the north of where it had initially appeared.
As the object neared the ground, the bright red lights towards the bottom of the craft became brighter and changed to street-light orange. They gave off so much light that the sides of the craft were illuminated, showing a pyramid shape to it.
They told the UFO Network members that the lowest lights became really bright, almost white/orange, and released several fingers of light arcing down to the ground, like coloured lightning.
The red lights then went out and the large object was no longer visible.
The location of Wales' 'Roswell'
Garth Mountain is marked by the red pin on this Google Maps aerial image
(Image: Google Maps)
Pentyrch lies on the southern slope of Garth Mountain, known locally as 'The Garth'.
The summit is just above the village to the north and is surmounted by a bronze age burial mound, on top of which is a trig-point at 1,007 feet.
Swansea UFO Network recently visited the spot of the sighting, guided by Caz Clarke.
'Something unusual happened there'
The group claimed to have discovered electromagnetic residue which they said was evidence something unnatural occurred.
Swansea UFO Network's Emlyn Williams
(Image: Adrian White)
"We went up to the top of Garth Mountain itself which gave a good view and you can see right across where it took place," Swansea UFO network co-founder Emlyn Williams said.
"We went to the site and there is a strong EM residue in the core location to the place the UFOs were spotted. It's physical evidence something unusual happened there."
Swansea UFO Network said it was always looking for new reports of UFO sightings, and encouraged anyone with information to contact them via their website, http://www.sufon.co.uk
Video footage shows the bizarre anomaly that was spotted during NASA’s live feed from space.
It shows a strange grey object appearing to float above Earth.
The article appears to be shaped like an aircraft and moving south, though some believe it could be stationary on top of a mountain or the Luobubozhen facility in China.
But the person behind the camera even speculates a figure can be made out inside the UFO.
“I think it is some sort of craft”
Anonymous source
“The craft has 90 degree sharp angles and looks to be intelligently designed," they said.
“I think it is some sort of craft, but cannot work out whether it is on the ground, or flying.
“If it's on the ground its huge.”
According to the person who captured it, who wishes to remain anonymous, the clip shows: “A craft with a doorway and a being inside.”
They said: "At first I thought it was a cloud, but now I'm convinced its much more."
YOUTUBE
BIZARRE: What could it be?
The footage was captured in September 2017, but only shared on October 1 this year.
It was shared on YouTube channel MrMBB333 yesterday and has already racked up more than 55,000 hits.
“No chance that is on the ground – looks like it's in the air,” one viewer claimed.
Des OVNI filmés dans la province de Overijssel, aux Pays-Bas
Des OVNI filmés dans la province de Overijssel, aux Pays-Bas
Le jeudi 27 septembre 2018 vers 19h30, des OVNI ont été repérés au-dessus de Broekland et de Sint Jansklooster, deux villes situées dans la province de Overijssel, aux Pays-Bas.
Deux témoins sont parvenus à filmer ces objets volants non identifiés. Mais quelle est l’origine de ces engins ?
Les boules de lumière semblaient flotter et s’éteindre lentement. Selon les observateurs, ces objets étaient parfaitement ronds et émettaient des éclairs de lumière très brillants.
Le site Internet ufomeldpunt.nl a publié deux vidéos de ce phénomène. Selon cette organisation, ces lumières ressemblaient plus ou moins à des fusées éclairantes.
Du 17 septembre au 22 octobre, un exercice militaire géant, baptisé Falcon Autumn, a eu lieu dans une grande partie des Pays-Bas. Esther Broekman, conseillère en communications du Commandement des hélicoptères de défense, a annoncé qu’il pourrait s’agir de soi-disantes fusées éclairantes.
« Cette semaine était la première semaine de vol et jeudi soir, nous avons utilisé ce que l’on appelle des fusées éclairantes », a déclaré Esther.« Mais je veux faire un commentaire à ce sujet. Nous en avons lancé dans la région du Veluwe, la question est de savoir si ces fusées pouvaient être vues d’en haut jusqu’à Broekland et St. Jansklooster. Cette lumière devait être très éloignée. »
Cette histoire demeure énigmatique malgré cette explication plausible.
WATCH THE SKIES: WHAT WE SHOULD BE ASKING ABOUT U.F.O.S
WATCH THE SKIES: WHAT WE SHOULD BE ASKING ABOUT U.F.O.S
On June 1947 Kenneth Arnold, a business man and civilian pilot from Boise Idaho, was using his private plane to aid in the search for a missing military C-47 cargo plane near Mount Rainier in Washington State, when he sighted nine aircraft of a type he could not identify. Having been a pilot for many years, he became curious and turned to follow the unusual craft. He described them as being chevron shaped, silver in color, and flying in a motion reminiscent of a “saucer being skipped across the water”.
Arnold dutifully reported his encounter, and his story was picked up by the world press. Misquoting Arnold, the press coined the term ‘flying saucer,’ despite the fact that Arnold’s saucer analogy was used to describe the way the objects moved, not their shape. This was the beginning of what is now called UFOlogy: the study of unidentified flying objects, or UFOs. The topic of UFOs has been the subject of tremendous ridicule and less than friendly humor. Those people who claim to have seen such objects are often suspected of mental illness, or of outright dishonesty. Yet despite this stigma, people, many of them holding positions of great responsibility, still report encountering such phenomenon. While quantifiable, tangible evidence has not yet been produced, one thing is certain: the UFO phenomenon cannot be explained away in its entirety. While it is certain that the UFO mythos has become a commercialized farce, it is also true that many well credentialed scientists and political leaders have risked considerable damage to their careers and reputations because they investigated, and in some cases, continue to investigate UFOs and related issues. Perhaps the two most prominent examples of this are the late Doctor John Mack and former Congressman Stephen Schiff. Mack, a tenured professor and Doctor of psychiatry at Harvard University Medical School, investigated the phenomenon of UFO abduction for over a decade, and published several books on the subject before his death in 2004. Doctor Mack concluded that the patients that believed that they had been abducted by UFO occupants were, for the most part, “…sane and well adjusted individuals who had experienced something real”. Schiff, during his term as Congressman from New Mexico, personally petitioned the Defense Department, Central Intelligence Agency, the National Archives, and the General Accounting Office for any and all material relating to UFOs. Schiff also publicly supported groups as Citizens Against UFO Secrecy. (C.A.U.S.) Despite over 40 years of receiving reports, including over twenty years of official government interest in UFOs under three different project names, (Projects Sign, Grudge, and Bluebook) Schiff received only thirty pages of information, much of which was censored. Given the Government’s propensity for record keeping, one would think that there would be hundreds of pages of eyewitness reports alone. These two prominent citizens had everything to lose and nothing gain by investigating UFOs. They did so because they believed that the phenomenon, science fiction and fantasy aside, merited investigation if for no other reason than its sheer scope. Additionally, while the United States government has been less than forthcoming about UFOs, the governments of Belgium and France have been more candid. The French in particular have been transparent in their investigation of UFOs, publishing a ninety page report entitled The 1999 French Report on UFOs and Defense. This report says, in its conclusion, “The physical reality of UFOs, under the control of intelligent beings, is a very reasonable conclusion, although not proven.” Although this report was prepared as private venture, the authors were all former or active members of the French Institute for Advance Studies on National Defense, (the French equivalent of the United States Military’s War Colleges) and was the product of ten years of studying the UFOs incidents in which physical evidence was present, and the eye-witnesses were of the highest credibility. The report was given to French President Jacques Chirac who suggested it be made public. The importance of this report cannot be understated. It concluded that it was scientifically plausible for UFOs to be real, physical objects, and they could be piloted intelligently. The authors of the report are not UFO enthusiast or persons of questionably character they are prominent members of the French scientific and defense apparatus who felt that if there was any validity to even some UFO reports, French national security could be at risk. The understandable reluctance for the average person to believe UFO accounts is continuously reinforced by popular culture, which makes great fun of UFO enthusiasts. However, reports continue to be made despite the ridicule that is sure to follow such reporting, and mountains of UFO photos and video footage continue to accumulate. Is it reasonable to believe that every report and all the photographic evidence taken since 1947 are all either misidentified phenomenon or hoaxes? Is it not more reasonable to assume that at least some of these instances are real phenomenon that are, as yet, unexplained. No one with any credibility can categorically state that UFOs are extraterrestrial in origin. However it is equally incredible that the phenomenon itself is entirely fabricated or imagined. Something is happening in the skies, or possibly with the human psyche, which has yet to be explained. Rather UFOs are purely psychological (but no less real) manifestations, misunderstood atmospheric anomalies, experimental terrestrial aircraft, or an extra-solar spacecraft, the phenomenon exist; it is real, and should be studied seriously. UFO debunkers and skeptics will argue that pressing problems such a global hunger, fatal diseases, and environmental issues are more deserving of precious research dollars than a subject as fanciful as UFOs. They point to the fact that an overwhelming percentage of investgated UFO sightings have been explained as natural phenomenon or misidentified conventional aircraft. These are valid points. However, the UFO question needs to be looked at in a different light. Let us say that all UFO sightings, even the five or ten percent that have not been explained despite intense scientific inquiry, are indeed not extra-terrestrial craft. Let us concede that people are seeing something explainable by natural and scientific laws. Let also concede that the vast majority of people who report UFOs are honest, sane people that actually saw something, or believed sincerely that they did. Since the number of sighting reports number well into the thousands each year, and since even the most hardened skeptic will concede that not all of those thousands who report UFO incidents can be hoaxers, then is it not in our best interest to find out what these people are seeing and why? If it is an as yet unidentified psychological phenomenon occurring in thousands of people (including airline and military pilots, police officers and military personnel, and public officials including Presidents Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan) then does it not have to be worthy of study?
In the case of the abduction phenomenon, the alleged abductees (also called by the more politically correct term 'experiencers') report extreme traumatization, and often seek psychological help. If these people have a mental disorder that has yet to be diagnosed correctly, or an unknown variation of an identified disorder, then they cannot receive proper treatment until that disorder is identified. Further, some abductees have been victimized by charlatans claiming to be legitimate therapists, but who have no credentials whatsoever. Many times, these charlatans dabble in hypnotherapy, and mind altering drugs to help abductees ‘remember’ an abduction experience, but actually use those methods to further damage the alleged abductees' mental health. Another, more likely, explanation put forth for UFO sightings is the misidentification of experimental aircraft. However, since many sightings occur over heavily populated areas of the United States (as in Hudson Valley, New York sightings that occurred repeatedly throughout the 1980s) one must ask why secret military vehicles would be tested where thousands of people would be sure to observe them? If experimental vehicles are being tested in populated areas and, as is claimed, local air traffic controllers truly know nothing about such tests, then there must be a great danger to the public due to possible aircraft collisions if nothing else. Also consider that such experimental aircraft are funded by taxpayer dollars. Even acknowledging the need for secrecy in the interest of national security, there still must be some accountability for the fear, confusion, and wasted resources that accompany UFO reports if they are, indeed, caused by experimental aircraft. In summation, even if all supernatural aspects of the UFO question are ignored or dismissed, the question itself still exists, and has direct bearing on the lives of many honest and loyal American citizens. Is it right to belittle these people and marginalize them because they have seen and reported something they cannot explain, or because they have a view of the universe that does not agree with convention? I submit that if we allow them to be marginalized, we cannot help but marginalize ourselves.
In the 1950s, my dad, Frank Redfern, served with the U.K. Royal Air Force as a radar mechanic. He was involved in a series of UFO incidents that occurred during September 1952. It was at the height of a NATO operation – Exercise Mainbrace – when a number of fast-moving and unidentified targets were tracked flying over the North Sea by radar operators at RAF Neatishead, Norfolk. My dad related this to me when I was a kid and it was a key turning point in my life and ultimately led me on a still-continuing quest to determine the truth that lies behind the UFO puzzle. I made mention of my dad’s experience in my first (1997) book, A Covert Agenda. Since the publication of the book, however, a number of important sources have come forward to corroborate the remarkable events of September 1952 – including Ken Dayman, a radar operator at RAF Langton, Lincolnshire.
“We would do shifts,” Dayman told me, “and I would read out the plots and the girls would then plot them on a big map. Well, over the course of two days in 1952, something strange happened. On the first day, somebody said: ‘Look, there’s something happening on the screen!’ There were about three or four of us watching as something was speeding across the screen; and this was fast, very fast.
“It looked like there were actually two objects and they were approaching from the North Sea and flew across Lincolnshire, Peterborough and then up the country at about 2,000 miles per hour. Well, an officer was called and he made some comment. But then our commanding officer arrived and reminded us not to talk about this as we’d signed the Official Secrets Act. But this happened over a couple of days and the UFOs were tracked by several shifts – not just ours.”
By far the most important source of new and previously-unseen data on the Mainbrace UFO encounters of September 1952, however, was William Maguire, who enlisted in the Royal Air Force in 1950: “From the early part of 1950, I did my basic training for a few months, and the rest of the year I did technical training and worked on radar and became an instructor. By 1951 I was operative at RAF Sennen, near Land’s End in Cornwall. I was a junior NCO [Author’s Note: Non-Commissioned Officer], a corporal; but at the time of this incident in 1952, I was a senior aircraftsman; I was on the sports committee and helped edit the station magazine. Most of my five years in the RAF was peace and quiet.’ Maguire’s military career was not all peace and quiet, however.
‘When I read your book [A Covert Agenda], I started to sweat – literally – at the memory of that night. We were like a fire-fighting service. We would be called out to go to different RAF stations when they required an accurate reading of their radar instruments from experienced people. So, I was all over the damned place. Usually, it was made clear to us where we were going. You’d get a travel warrant and there’s a truck waiting and usually it’s got windows you can see out of; but in this case they were closed. Well, we were driven to a location which I believe was very close to RAF Sandwich in Kent and this was night-time. I’d been to Sandwich before, but the actual location was just a field – sort of nowhere.
“I have a feeling that this particular place is not in any book. It was very hush-hush. The machinery looked quite standard – all to do with detection and observation – but what did surprise me as an experienced radar operator was the extent of the machines. They were able to see right across to Eastern Europe and parts of Russia and way over to Sweden, which I hadn’t realized at that time we could do. My memory was that everything was in a complete flap. Normally, in a military situation everything is ordered, regular and set out. But here was a situation that was plainly out of control. Mechanics were flying about all over the place.”
As William Maguire got his bearings and the situation was revealed to him in its stark form, however, the reasons behind the blind panic became staggeringly clear. Some form of huge, unidentified aerial object was being tracked on the radar-scopes high over the English Channel. As Maguire reveals, “The mechanics were being blamed for not calibrating the instruments properly; we were being blamed for not interpreting the readings properly. But the obvious answer staring us in the face, on every single instrument on the base, was the fact that there was sitting up at an unbelievable height, this enormous thing with the equivalent mass of a warship and it just stood there…and stood there…and stood there.” That is, until it split into three pieces and quickly vanished.
Only months after William Maguire’s experience, Denis Plunkett, who was serving at the time with the Royal Air Force at RAF Church Lawford, had occasion to view a high-level Air Ministry memorandum dealing with UFOs that was circulated throughout the entire RAF. The document (titled: Order No. 4: Reports Of Aerial Phenomena) read as follows: “It is undesirable for information about aerial phenomena observed by aircrew and ground service personnel to be communicated to the Press and members of the public before such information has been examined at Air Ministry. The public attach more credence to reports by Royal Air Force personnel than to reports by members of the public, and it is essential that information of this kind should be controlled officially. All service personnel are warned that they are not to communicate to anyone any information about phenomena they have observed except through official channels.”
As Plunkett states, he has never forgotten reading this document. And its warnings to RAF personnel not to discuss the details of their UFO sightings outside of official channels, had a deep effect on him – to the extent that today he heads the longest-running civilian UFO investigations group, the Bristol-based British Flying Saucer Bureau. Although not wholly identical in content and style, the document that Denis Plunkett read at RAF Church Lawford in 1953 was very similar to a document that I located at the National Archives a number of years ago that also centered around RAF-originated UFO reports. The reference to Order No. 4 in the document that Plunkett viewed, however, suggests strongly that a number of such secret guidelines were circulated throughout the Royal Air Force in the early 1950s, and in the wake of the Mainbrace affair.
UFO seen flying over New Jersey was actually a drone, police say
UFO seen flying over New Jersey was actually a drone, police say
JULIA JACOBO
It wasn't a UFO -- or bird, or plane -- stalking the skies over northern New Jersey Tuesday night.
The unidentified flying object was actually a police drone being used to search for two suspects who robbed a Home Depot, according to the Township of Union Police Department.
Police received a 911 call around 5:49 p.m. Tuesday and reported that the suspects fled with stolen merchandise after one of them pulled a knife on a store loss prevention employee, the department wrote on Facebook.
The Home Depot employee observed the suspects get into a Lexus and try to flee the scene.
The suspects attempted to allude a marked police car that followed it and abandoned the vehicle after striking the curb twice near the entrance to the Garden State Parkway, according to authorities.
Union Police Sgt. Dan Hanselmann was able to tackle the driver and took him into the custody, but the passenger jumped over a guardrail and headed toward the Kawameeh Swamp, prompting a large-scale search for him, police said.
The man was not found after a search that lasted several hours in the heavily wooded area, police said.
A video posted to Twitter Tuesday around 8 p.m. showed a device with blinking lights hovering over the Garden State Parkway.
People were calling into the News12 New Jersey newsroom to report the possible UFO sighting, the station tweeted.
The driver of the Lexus, identified as 45-year-old Rashon Plant, told Hanselmann that the other suspect was armed with a gun or knife and carjacked him, police said. Investigators determined that the driver was part of the shoplifting plan after reviewing the surveillance video from The Home Depot, police said.
Police found about $2,000 worth of various tools in the truck, police said.
Plant was charged with robbery, eluding police and "various drug charges" for possession of heroin and cocaine, police said.
Investigators are still trying to identify the suspect who got away.
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