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UFO'S of UAP'S, ASTRONOMIE, RUIMTEVAART, ARCHEOLOGIE, OUDHEIDKUNDE, SF-SNUFJES EN ANDERE ESOTERISCHE WETENSCHAPPEN - DE ALLERLAATSTE NIEUWTJES
UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld Ontdek de Fascinerende Wereld van UFO's en UAP's: Jouw Bron voor Onthullende Informatie!
Ben jij ook gefascineerd door het onbekende? Wil je meer weten over UFO's en UAP's, niet alleen in België, maar over de hele wereld? Dan ben je op de juiste plek!
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!
Blijf Op De Hoogte!
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Heb je vragen of wil je meer weten? Aarzel dan niet om contact met ons op te nemen! Samen ontrafelen we het mysterie van de lucht en daarbuiten.
19-02-2021
Pentagon admits it has been testing wreckage from UFO crashes & findings may ‘change our lives forever,’ expert says
Pentagon admits it has been testing wreckage from UFO crashes & findings may ‘change our lives forever,’ expert says
THE Pentagon has admitted to holding and testing wreckage from UFO crashes in a bombshell Freedom of Information letter, shared with The Sun.
Researcher Anthony Bragalia wrote to the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) requesting details of allUFO material, which they hold and results of any tests they had been carrying out on it.
The Pentagon has admitted testing UFO materialCredit: Getty Images - Getty
He wrote: "This could include physical debris recovered by personnel of the Department of Defense as residue, flotsam, shot-off material or crashed material from UAPS [unidentified aerial phenomenon] or unidentified flying objects."
In the response, shared with The Sun, the DIA released 154 pages of test results that includes reports on a mysterious "memory" metal called Nitinol, which remembers its original shape when folded.
Bragalia said it was a "stunning admission" from the US government and the documents reveal that some of the retrieved debris possesses "extraordinary capabilities" including the potential to make things invisible or even slow down the speed of light.
He told The Sun: "The Pentagon has admitted to holding and testing anomalous debris from UFOs.
Bragalia's original FOIA request
Credit: Department of Defense/ Anthony Bragalia
Here is the official response from the Defense Intelligence Agency
Credit: Department of Defense/ Anthony Bragalia
"They have been able to learn some things about the materials of construction which hold tremendous promise as futuristic materials which will change our lives forever."
He said he first made the request in 2017 - which took three years for the DIA to fulfill - after it was revealed the Pentagon had been studying UFOs under the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP).
"The article mentioned that anomalous debris from UFOs (now called UAPs) was being analyzed by a private defense contractor," Bragalia said.
"Material evidence such as UFO debris has been a focus of my research.
"My Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request was very specific, seeking the test results of UFO/UAP debris, not material already known to science."
Major Jesse Marcel with debris from the Roswell UFO crash of 1947
Credit: Handout - Getty
Bragalia believes some of the debris being tested may be from this incident
Bragalia believes some of the material that is being tested could have come from the notorious Roswell incident of 1947, in which a UFO crashed in New Mexico.
"The inclusion of advanced technical reports on Nitinol is curious," Bragalia said.
"Nitinol is a shape-memory alloy that 'remembers' its original shape when folded or crunched, and snaps back seamlessly and instantly.
"This memory metal characteristic was reported by many witnesses at Roswell."
The site of the Roswell crash
Credit: Reuters
The Pentagon has not disclosed the origins of the UFO material
Credit: Getty Images - Getty
However the agency has held back certain details about the materials - including any information about they could be of alien origin - stating in the letter: "I have determined that some portions of five documents must be withheld in part from disclosure..."
"They are omitting information on the chemical and elemental composition of the material as well as its origin," Bragalia said.
"They have omitted the names of the involved scientists as well, but I have since learned some of their names and will be contacting them."
The DIA letter, first shared on Bragalia's blog, reveals that the testing was carried out by Bigelow Aerospace, one of the Department of Defense's private contractors based in Las Vegas, Nevada.
The DIA released 154 pages of testing results
Credit: Department of Defense/ Anthony Bragalia
Bragalia said the results of the tests could be life changing
Credit: Department of Defense/ Anthony Bragalia
The company laid off all of its staff at the Vegas plant last March due to the toll of the pandemic - and it's not known where the UFO material may now be kept.
Mysteriously Bragalia said everyone he approached who used to work at the plant refused to comment to him.
"All former personnel have refused me any real comment," he said.
"I suspect the material has been returned to the Pentagon."
The UFO researcher is planning to launch an appeal to obtain some of the redacted information in the coming months.
Declassified Russian Files List Gruesome Underwater UFO Encounters
Declassified Russian Files List Gruesome Underwater UFO Encounters
A Russian UFO researcher is calling for an investigation after declassified files from the Soviet era detailed cases of terrifying incidents alien encounters, reports dailystar.co.uk.
Former naval officer and UFO researcher Vladimir Azhazha believes the documents that mention Soviet K-222 submarines being hunted out of the sea by speeding unidentified objects, “are of great value.”
The experiences listed in the documents are similar to the ones reported in the region of the Bermuda Triangle, one of the world’s biggest mysteries, reports Alien Revelations.
According to the declassified Russian Navy records, unidentified submerged objects (USOs) have been spotted within the Earth’s oceans.
The technologically advanced objects are far superior to anything we’ve ever built, the website adds.
One of the most interesting cases Mr Azhazha examined, involved a nuclear submarine on a combat mission in the Southern Pacific.
During the routine operation, the submarine detected six unknown objects traveling in formation at speeds in excess of 230 knots (265+ mph).
In comparison, the fastest submarine was the Soviet K-222, which reached about 44 knots (51 mph).
The objects were believed to be headed straight for the Soviet submarines, which were therefore forced to surface. But the USOs followed them to the surface and then flew away.
Retired submarine commander Yuri Beketov recalled similar instances in the region of the Bermuda Triangle.
Mr Beketov said on-board instruments often malfunctioned, indicating the presence of strong interference. which many believed was a clear sign of USO and UFO presence.
Mr Beketov said: “On several occasions the instruments gave reading of material objects moving at incredible speed. Calculations showed speeds of about 230 knots, or 265 mph.
“Speeding so fast is a challenge even on the surface. But water resistance is much higher. It was like the objects defied the laws of physics. There’s only one explanation: the creatures who built them far surpass us in development.”
Vladimir Azhazha believes the issue should be thoroughly investigated.
He said: “I think about underwater bases and say: Why not? Nothing should be discarded.
“Skepticism is the easiest way: believe nothing, do nothing. People rarely visit great depths. So it’s very important to analyse what they encounter there.”
I think Ron and I are the only two guys, hereabouts, who see the fracturing of UFO efforts as not helpful or useful in resolving the UFO mystery.
Almost everyone in the UFO community has a fish to fry, many of those fish only peri- pherally connected to UFOs or the UFO conversation, some fish personal with no connection to ufology or UFOs at all.
The paranormal sobriquet often intrudes. And while there may be a tangential connection to the UFO phenomenon, the efforts expended on things paranormal haven’t shown what that connection may be.
Also, ufology is flush with persons, mostly via podcasts or Facebook postings, providing too much information about their personal lives, illnesses mostly but financial and domestic problems, plus reminis- cences of past glories or suggestions of music memories and trips to scenic sites around the country.
UFOs aren’t even a backdrop in these online excursions.
In the “old days,” often a UFO sighting or report would take hold of persons following the phenomenon, but nowadays, we’re all so jaded, disappointed by the lack of anything vital or substantive about UFOs that we comment and become absorbed by the discursive activity and verbiage by those soaked in their own personal sweat and inane lives, encouraging them to slavishly indulge in more banal personal activities.
This posting is another example of splurged quasi-UFO nonsense. (I apologize)
There comes a time when we UFO people have got buckle down and find solutions to some UFO sightings and accounts. We have to stop fooling around or sitting, still waiting for disclosure.
I know many do not like rechewing old UFO tales, but what can we do with newer, splashier accounts like those encapsulated in those AATIP videos?
We are kids hoping to be enraptured by something fresh or new then moving on, wishing for something else to titillate us. Meanwhile those iconic older UFO reports/sightings lie moldering in the dustbin where UFO books reside pretty much and therein lie all the answers as to what UFOs are, if we only had the stalwart patience to ferret out the clues that have to be there, yes?
According to more than 20 witnesses, a very large aerial object with very bright lights hovered near Fox Lake between 8pm and 9pm, in December of 1996, in Yukon, Canada.
Reflect On:
The disclosure of these strange objects has happened, and they've been recognized within the 'mainstream.' Are these objects extraterrestrial? How long have they been sighted?
The topic of UFOs has gained a tremendous amount of credibility, especially within the past few years alone. We’ve written in depth about the subject for ten years now, and if you’re interested in skimming through some of our articles on the subject, you can find all of them, in order, here
There are no shortage of stories from around the world when it comes to UFO sightings, one great example of strange objects that are commonly seen in the sky comes from the Yukon, a province in Canada situated on the Northwest side of the country. It’s a remote area, nowhere near any major cities or populated areas. This reported sighting happened on December 11th, 1996 near a place called Fox Lake. It’s extremely cold in this part of the country at this time of year – it’s not far from Alaska – and again, it is hundreds of miles from any major city or heavily populated public area.
According to more than 20 witnesses, a very large aerial object with very bright lights hovered near the lake (Fox Lake) between 8pm and 9pm.
The picture you see as the cover for this article was done by Canadian engineer Martin Jasek, who wrote a detailed account of the event after he investigated it for himself.
“Two of the witnesses were cousins, driving in separate vehicles. Each saw it over the lake, slammed on their brakes, and got out of their vehicles. They watched the huge object as it slowly drifted towards one of them and was soon almost directly overhead. It then moved slowly across the highway and over a hill to the east, whereupon it was lost to view.” (1)
“While the two cousins were observing this object, a married couple with their baby were a bit farther to the south along the same highway, driving toward them. They too saw the object. By the time they caught up with the cousins and pulled over, the object had moved off. The married couple continued driving until they arrived at a lodge farther ahead. There, they told the owner abougt what they had seen. He promptly recounted a sighting from an earlier witness, who had gotten very close to this object. (1)
“At the nearby village of Pelly Crossing, other people described the same object. In one case it seemed to respond to a man’s flashlight by accelerating towards him. When he turned off his flashlight, the object stopped. By then it had gotten quite close to him, filling much of the sky. It also emitted several beams of light, including one that swooped along the ground. They ran ran across a clearing, perhaps to get to a better view. When he turned to look for the object, it was gone.” (1)
Just imagine seeing something like this. How remarkable would that be? I myself have had a number of fairly remarkable UFO encounters, even with a few members here at Colletive-Evolution. As a result of all of the evidence supporting the phenomena, along with my own experiences, I have been fascinated with this subject for a very long time.
This case has been investigated by many, and most of the interviews with the witnesses are available online. Here is a video that has a few of them describing their experience in person, but again, more are available online.
This is one out of many extraordinary sightings that has occurred around the world, and judging by ancient artwork and history, it seems to have been happening for a very long time. One example would be the aboriginal community in Canada. Their stories have not been passed down through documentation, but through an oral storytelling tradition. These stories often speak of spiritual beings from another world.
“My people tell of Star People who came to us many generations ago. The Star people brought spiritual teachings and stories and maps of the cosmos and they offered these freely. They were kind, loving, and set a great example. When they left us, my people say there was a loneliness like no other.”
5000 year old cave art from Australia depicts strange beings that resemble what many perceive to represent the modern day ‘Gray Alien.’ These beings were known as Wandjina, cloud spirits and sky beings. You can read more about that here. It’s all very interesting to think about.
If you put all of these teachings and stories from multiple cultures around the world together with the evidence that is available today, things start to seem quite strange – and very real.
This particular case included various drawings and detailed interviews with many of the people who witnessed the object.
Phoenix MUFON Online Speaker Series – Michael Schratt is a classified “Black” projects researcher, specializing in the exposure of un-acknowleged special access aerospace programs.
Roswell UFO crash debris is still out there, expert claims as probe reveals ‘something really hot’ smashed into desert
Roswell UFO crash debris is still out there, expert claims as probe reveals ‘something really hot’ smashed into desert
Jon Lockett
WRECKAGE from the Roswell UFO incident could still be buried in the desert, an expert has claimed.
The astonishing revelation is made in a startling new six-part documentary which sets out to get the bottom of the world's most baffling UFO mystery.
Former CIA operative Ben Smith has been working with geophysicists
Credit: Sky History
Scans of the area appeared to show large gouges in the surface of the desertCredit: Sky Histor
Soils samples were collected from the suspected crash site
Former CIA operative Ben Smith has been called in to work with a team of top experts to find out exactly what happened in New Mexico in July, 1947.
And he exclusively told The Sun Online he believes debris from the crash could still be buried in the sand just waiting to be found.
Ben has teamed up with geophysicists and ufologists for 'Roswell: The First Witness', which starts on February 9 as part of Sky History's Mystery Season.
He told The Sun Online: "There are delineations in the soil from a north-western to a south-eastern direction which match witness descriptions of something falling from the sky, hitting the earth, skipping and scattering debris."
During his investigation, he visited New Mexico to search for "unnatural features" which could be evidence of a flying saucer crash.
Scientists then conducted an exhaustive geo-thermal examination of the area where the first debris was discovered - using cutting-edge technology to look deep into the earth for clues.
The experts scoured the desert with state-of-the-art kit including drones in the hunt for an "impact and skid mark".
They also studied aerial images of the area before and after the Roswell incident and soon noticed what could be multiple "furrows" in the surface.
Studies also revealed "something really hot hit the earth and heated up the surrounding soil", changing the magnetic field in the area.
Hi-tech detecting equipment also appeared to pick up signs of metal hidden beneath the surface.
Major Jesse Marcel led the original investigation into the Roswell crash
Credit: Handout - Getty
Marcel was the first military man to visit the desert crash siteCredit: Sky History
Soil samples were then sent to a lab to see if they contained materials "not from this world".
Ben believes the fact there could still be debris scattered beneath the desert is what makes the Roswell mystery so intriguing.
"This is what makes this project so interesting. We have this amazing Tic-Tac video recently declassified from American Navy pilots but it is footage but there is nothing physical," he said.
"Here we have a a record of something crashing into the ground and the geology (from the site) certainly supports trapping some of this debris.
"This a desolate site. The potential of finding a piece of it...whether through sophisticated space age technology that we used or tracking down original witnesses who may have taken a piece home is part of the crux of the invesitgation.
"We tried to keep it focused on the original witnesses and the original accounts of debris and go from there."
He now believes the key to solving this whole mystery could even be lying in a box after being collected by a local in the hours and days after the crash.
Ben said: "That's the crazy part and it could be the conclusive evidence that we need to determine whether this was truly extra terrestrial or this is very terrestrial.
"It could just be in a box somewhere. I think there is a piece of this thing somewhere out there and I think we can find it with enough time and resources."
Yesterday we told how a journal written by a US army major – who was first on the scene – may hold all the secrets to what has been described as the biggest cover-up in US military history.
The Roswell Daily Record's front page after the incidentCredit: Alamy
Not surprisingly, the news made headlines across the US but the very next day the US Army suddenly backtracked and released a second statement claiming the recovered object was actually just a weather balloon.
The bizarre incident would have been lost over the decades had it not been for Major Jesse A Marcel, a former intelligence officer who was stationed at RAAF at the time.
When a local rancher reported the debris’ discovery, Marcel was sent out to take a look and bring some of the material back to the base before being ordered to fly some of the wreckage to Fort Worth, Texas, for further examination.
Marcel was an intelligence officer of the 509th Bombardment GroupCredit: Sky Histry
However, in the late 70s, Marcel told UFO researchers later photos with him and the debris was staged for the press as part of an elaborate plan to dupe the press and the public.
He claimed the Army whisked the real debris away while he was ordered to aid in the cover-up of what was really found.
Marcel claimed the actual crash site was scattered with extremely strong shiny material that was foil-like but returned to its original shape after it was crumpled.
He later told his family what he found was “not made by human hands” but they say he was pressured by the US government to retract his original statement and deny he ever saw evidence of a UFO.
Now his diary – which has been in the hands of his family for decades – is being probed from cover-to-cover to unlock its secrets.
Ben Smith is a former CIA case officer with many years in the field as an undercover operative tracking terrorist networks, foreign intelligence activities and weapons of mass destruction.
He holds a degree in International Affairs and a Master's of Fine Arts. In his free time, he is either researching his next investigation or writing science fiction from his home in New York.
My long time contact JP has sent me a compelling video of an antigravity craft he personally witnessed and recorded on the night of February 6, 2021. The video shows a flying saucer shaped craft flying over North Carolina. JP is currently serving with a branch of the US military, and wishes to maintain his anonymity for personal and professional reasons.
I have known JP since 2008 when he first contacted me about an extraterrestrial encounter he had in Brazil. He has over the subsequent years supplied me many photographs and videos of different shaped antigravity craft and encounters with their occupants. These include both extraterrestrial entities and military personnel, including Air Force Special Operations.
I have written multiple articles about his previous encounters along with supporting photos and videos here.
The flying saucer craft he videotaped on Feb 6 is very similar to one that he witnessed on May 24, 2018, which landed near his home in Orlando, Florida. The Nordic looking extraterrestrial occupant offered JP a ride which he declined. He wore an Air Force uniform and said his group was working with the USAF. JP took a photo of the departing flying saucer which I wrote about here.
JP believes that the same Nordic group wanted to let him know that they are ready to make contact again, and are aware of his current position with the US military. His Feb 6 video can be viewed on Rumble or in the following YouTube video.
All photos and videos sent to me by JP are originals and have not be altered in any way. Enhancements are provided in addition to the original to provide clarity on what is being witnessed. The photos and videos are empirical evidence of other worldly contact and of secret space programs operating on Earth using antigravity technologies.
The work that medical doctor, researcher and author Steven Greer continues to do through the organization CSETI has made some tremendous breakthroughs in establishing contact with an intelligent phenomena, often perceived as UFOs, Light Phenomena and strange looking entities.
Steven demonstrates that there is a conscious connection being established with this phenomena and on many occasions they are being caught on camera.
New Linda Moulton Howe: Alien Presences on Earth, the Moon and Beyond
New Linda Moulton Howe: Alien Presences on Earth, the Moon and Beyond
TOPICS: The extraterrestrial Grey-human hybrid “Betty” returned eleven weeks ago on November 19, 2020, to communicate again in person with attorney Terry Lovelace before the release of his second book, Devil’s Den: The Reckoning.
Telepathically, Betty expressed concern about the future of Earth humans as she confirmed the existence of a secret space program already based on the moon, Mars and beyond. Tune In LIVE Earthfiles YouTube Channel broadcast on Wednesday, February 10, 2021, at 6:30 PM Pacific / 9:30 PM Eastern
— And all other time zones around the world — for deeper truths about the alien presences on Earth, the moon and beyond from the recent telepathic download to attorney Lovelace.
The ISS Recorded Again A Fleet Of Hundreds Of UFOs Approaching Our Planet
The ISS Recorded Again A Fleet Of Hundreds Of UFOs Approaching Our Planet
We have long believed, even claimed, that we are not alone in the cosmos, and scientists said a few months ago that there may be hundreds of intelligent alien societies not far from Earth. Any of them might also be enough advanced to engage with us.
Scientists at the University of Nottingham, UK, estimate that there are at least 36 extraterrestrial cultures highly advanced in the Milky Way, according to a report published in the science journal The Astrophysical Journal last June.
But they go on to claim that the calculation is simply conservative: it is based on the premise that intelligent life, using what they call the Astrobiological Copernican Limit, forms on other planets in a similar fashion as it does on Earth.
Researchers believed that the World is not special: if an Earth-like planet developed around a Sun-like star in an orbit identical to our planet, hosting a society that evolves technologically similar to humans, in our galaxy there will be around 36 civilizations.
In this scenario, in a timeframe close to that of humanity, other advanced cultures will also be transmitting messages, such as radio broadcasts from satellites and televisions, seeking to discover other modes of life. So if scientists are so convinced of the alien presence of our galaxy, images showing a fleet of hundreds of UFOs above Earth shouldn’t be shocking to us.
Fleet Of UFOs
Another A fleet of over 150 unidentified flying objects in Earth’s orbit has been captured by the International Space Station (ISS) camera. This is not, though the first time in recent months that a similar sighting has occurred.
The ISS was traveling in an undetermined location on Earth last April, as we had already published exclusively, but as the camera captured the progress, hundreds of formation lights were emerging in our path. Uh, earth.
In August, even the Russian cosmonaut Ivan Vagner, currently onboard the International Space Station (ISS), noticed the appearance of a number of unusual lights. The 60-second film, taken from inside the ISS, showed, from Vagner’s viewpoint, at least five unidentified objects traveling in formation, emerging behind Earth.
The arrival of the UFO fleet was caught by the ISS camera in this new sighting during the night of November 15. The appearance in the orbit of Earth of unusual objects is so many that they do not reach the field of view of the camera, but it can be seen that there are at least more than 150.
The most cynical Internet users have indicated that some city lights are these UFO formations, but because the ISS circles the Earth in about 93 minutes, doing 15.5 orbits every day we can see these types of supposed city lights every day on the live stream, but that’s not the case.
But it’s obvious that mysterious luminous objects are not the lights of major cities, and they’re not fishing boats or Starlink satellites because of their height.
It can also be added that on ISS live broadcasts, these light formations do not continuously appear, but rather appear suddenly and then vanish as if they never were.
Today, the question that many are wondering is where do they go and in such numbers for what reason do they travel?
There are numerous hypotheses at this stage that might justify its real intent.
One explanation is that owing to the coronavirus pandemic, it is alien spacecraft leaving our world in shape.
Another hypothesis, and one of the most famous, is that they are conclusive proof that some otherworldly civilization is preparing for a quiet attack, strategically positioning its fleet as if it were a chessboard.
We should not rule out that it is the US Space Force, however.
It must be said that the Space Delta 9 unit of the Space Force was formally awarded its first mission: orbital warfare. It formally took charge of the enigmatic experimental unmanned mini space shuttle X-37B, which completed a number of classified orbits for unspecified reasons, the latest of which involved a Space Force mission, as part of the strengthening of the armament of the Space Force.
So it should come as no surprise that hidden Space Power instruments are the hundreds of objects stealthily flying about in Earth’s orbit.
The fact is that if more than 150 unexplained space objects travel in our planet’s orbit, apart from all these hypotheses, why does the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) or the European Space Agency (ESA) not feel it appropriate to clarify the mysterious objects that appear in the live broadcast of the ISS?
CIA Document Dump Reveals 70 Years Of US Government UFO Info
CIA Document Dump Reveals 70 Years Of US Government UFO Info
“What does the U.S. government really know about UFOs and for how long have they known it?” Ufologists and UFO experiencers have been asking these questions for decades, and it seems that answers are finally emerging. Based on the CIA’s recent release, on January 14, 2021, of nearly 3,000 pages of documents that detail a wealth of fascinating data about UFO behavior and capabilities , it seems they know a lot and have known a lot about this topic for quite some time. These freshly declassified US government UFO info documents (published in their entirety on The Black Vault ) reveal the truth about harrowing and awe-inspiring encounters between reliable witnesses and “unidentified aerial phenomena” of unknown origin that have been occurring since the 1950s. The recently-released US government UFO info includes multiple stories of up-close sightings of mysterious disks , glowing spheres, wingless cigar-shaped cylinders, and other anomalous flying objects by military and commercial pilots, in the United States and elsewhere around the world .
In many instances these objects were observed visually and on radar performing aerodynamically impossible (for conventional aircraft) maneuvers. Other times they emitted odd beams of light and other forms of strange illumination. The CIA files even reported close encounters between shocked military personnel and actual aliens , who were spotted emerging from landed UFOs.
These types of stories have circulated for years, and have frequently been discussed on radio programs, podcasts, YouTube videos, at UFO conferences, and in online forums frequented by paranormal enthusiasts. But now, for the first time, the government is adding its official seal of approval to such reports, giving them a legitimacy that they lacked when they were coming exclusively from anonymous “whistleblowers,” lien disclosure gadflies, mysterious ex-military insiders, and other questionable sources sporting dubious or non-existent credentials.
The CIA has long withheld detailed information about UFOs from the public but that changed on January 14, 2021, when nearly 2 million documents were released and published online.
Government UFO Info: The US Senate Demands Answers
The January 2021 release of these new documents was apparently prompted by a special comment added to the recent $2.3 trillion COVID relief and government funding bill passed by Congress and signed into law by President Trump at the end of last December. In this comment, the Senate Intelligence Committee, headed by Senator Marco Rubio (R-FLA), instructed the Director of National Intelligence, the Secretary of Defense, and the heads of all other intelligence agencies to “submit a report within 180 days of the date of the enactment of the Act, to the congressional intelligence and armed services committees on unidentified aerial phenomena .”
Under the terms of the Intelligence Committee directive, the government UFO info report would have to address “observed airborne objects that have not been identified” and should include a “detailed analysis of unidentified phenomena data collected by geospatial intelligence, signals intelligence, human intelligence , and measurement and signals intelligence.”
In an added paragraph that seems like a nod to X-Files fans, the Intelligence Committee further ordered “a detailed analysis of data of the FBI, which was derived from investigations of intrusions of unidentified aerial phenomena data over restricted United States airspace … and an assessment of whether this unidentified aerial phenomena activity may be attributed to one or more foreign adversaries.”
It must be noted that this government UFO info directive says nothing about public disclosure. It only requests that reports be created and forwarded to the Senate Intelligence Committee for analysis. This makes the decision of the CIA to release this latest batch of documents to the public a matter of choice rather than law. No one required them to do it, but for reasons unknown they decided to do it anyway and several months before the June deadline that requires them to file a report with the Senate Intelligence Committee.
CIA UFO Data Dump: Honest Disclosure Or Hidden Agenda?
Curiously, this is the second occasion in the last year where an agency of the US government has deliberately chosen to release information that whets the public’s appetite for insider information about UFOs. In April 2020, the Department of Defense took the extraordinary step of declassifying three U.S. Navy videos that showed unidentified aerial objects performing their tricks for navy pilots.
These videos, which were recorded in 2004 in one case and 2015 in the other two instances, had already been leaked to the media in 2007 and 2017. It appears the Defense Department’s primary objective in releasing them officially was to confirm their anomalous nature .
In their statement accompanying the release, the Defense Department said it wanted to “clear up any misconceptions by the public on whether or not the footage that has been circulating was real.” They confirmed that “the authorized release of these unclassified videos does not reveal any sensitive capabilities or systems, and does not impinge on any subsequent investigations of military air space incursions by unidentified aerial phenomena.”
In other words, the United States Department of Defense wants its citizens to know that UFOs are real, that they aren’t secret military aircraft, and that investigations into their activities will continue if and when other encounters occur.
After decades of denial and obfuscation, it seems the US government is no longer interested in debunking UFOs or covering up the truth (whatever it might be) about their origin and nature.
Dutifully, mainstream media sources in the United States and the United Kingdom are following the government’s lead, and are now reporting UFO stories disclosed by official sources in a relatively straightforward manner, without the usual snide remarks, snarky tones, or tired and dismissive “explanations” that invoke swamp gas, ball lightning, weather balloons, or next-generation stealth aircraft.
Following this remarkable turn of events, it seems the old questions about “what do they know and for how long have they known it” have been rendered obsolete. In this current disclosure-oriented environment, what we should be asking instead is, “why are they doing this and why are they doing it now?”
Top image: US government info on “everything” to do with UFO sightings, held by the CIA, was released and published online on January 14, 2021 .
Although some of them were leaked out from under the Iron Curtain of the Cold War days, and many more have been brought into the public arena since, many UFO incidents and conspiracies are still likely buried beneath the secrecy of political ideology and mutual mistrust.
Considering how vast a country Russia is – and how much more territory the Soviet Union took in during its reign – combined with over four decades worth of suppressed information to be accounted for, there is surely a treasure trove of encounters still to be investigated.
We have written of several of these strange incidents and reports before. The Boshich Space Wreckage for example is still one of the most intriguing reports on record. The strange Birdman of Pripyat is another bizarre series of encounters in the wake of the Chernobyl Disaster.
Alien Encounters From Behind The Iron Curtain
Perhaps one of the most intriguing UFO encounters is that of the Voronezh sighting in 1989, thought by some to be disinformation, either to see how seriously the west would take such reports or just to simply feed outright false information. It is arguably a little of both. The fact that the report would enter the mainstream courtesy of the Russian news agency, TASS would also seem to suggest so.
On 27th September 1989, according to the report, a huge, disc-like craft landed in full view of thousands of people on a busy day in the city of Voronezh. Several tall beings then exited the craft and took in their surroundings. They then re-entered the craft, taking off into the air, leaving a “strange residue” behind where their ship had been stationed.
The following month in October 1989, TIME magazine even ran a story on the incident, and more to the point, why the Soviet Union would have allowed such a release to go international. According to Howard G. Chua-Eoan, he believed that the story was a way of testing the “glasnost policy” – an agreement between the two nations to an open media. You can read this article in full here and check out the videos below for further viewing.
An even more bizarre encounter is that of an apparent battle between Soviet military and alien beings, at the bottom of the icy Lake Baikal in Siberia. The account would come to light due to an apparent leak of official documents by a former Soviet navy officer, Vladimir Azhazha.
According to Azhazha, in the winter of 1982, the Soviet military were monitoring reports of strange lights hovering over the lake (incidentally, the area is still considered a UFO hotspot). Military divers would venture down to the icy depths of the lake. They would witness several strange humanoid beings, each dressed in shiny silver clothing, and each wearing a small oxygen mask. The unit would launch an attack on the beings, who responded with a technology akin to a sonar weapon. Three of the unit were killed, and the four survivors had major injuries. You can read a little more of the encounter here, and you can check out the video below.
The Far-Reach Of The Cold War
Although the incident didn’t occur in Russia, it did take place in Soviet controlled Berlin in East Germany. Largely because the Soviet regime stated that UFO sightings were in fact weapons tests “of the evils of the United States”, Linke would keep the encounter to himself until he finally managed to escape the repressed existence on the east side of the Berlin Wall. To make it known of a belief in such sightings invited government “interest” in you that could result in imprisonment.
Once Linke settled in the west to begin his new life with his family, he would tell of his encounter to a Greek newspaper. Interestingly, the CIA would use the newspaper article as a source and put the incident on their own records.
In the summer of 1952, as he was making his way home with his eleven-year old daughter, Gabriella, the pair would spot something in the distance. Believing it to be a deer, the pair crept forward to get a better look. They soon realised it wasn’t a deer.
Settling around forty meters away from the scene, Oscar and Gabriella could see two men examining the ground in front of them with bright lights flashing from their “shiny, metallic clothing!” Nearby was some kind of craft that resembled a “huge frying pan” with a “black conical tower” on the top of it.
When Gabriella let out an involuntary gasp of shock, the two men quickly boarded the craft, which rose into the air, rotating as it did so, before vanishing straight up into the evening sky. For years Linke believed they had witnessed secret Soviet technology and feared having his “movements restricted!” He stated to the newspaper years after the incident that, “The Soviets do not want anyone else to see their work”, going further to say that many people had restricted movements, and even house arrest, because “they know too much!”
Maybe one of the most interesting UFO encounters is one experienced by an apparent Soviet war hero pilot, who “doesn’t exist” and “is no hero of the Soviet Union!” At least that is what UFO researcher, Timothy Good, was told when he questioned Soviet officials.
According to the account put forward by Good, Arkady Ivanovich Apraksin was one of the most highly decorated pilots in Soviet history. So much so, that in the years after the Second World War, he would become the finest test pilot for the Soviet military, putting the cutting edge of Soviet aviation technology through their paces.
On one such test flight on 16th June 1948, he would witness a “cucumber-shaped” craft in the skies in front of him. It was heading straight for him. When it got within ten kilometres of his plane, it vanished out of sight. At the same time, Apraksin’s plane failed and he was forced to make an emergency landing.
He would have another encounter just short of a year later in May 1949. Again, the craft would interfere with his plane, and this time, although he managed to land again, he sustained substantial, injury. It appeared at this point, the Soviet regime were putting his removal from history into action. He would be sent for “re-evaluation” and then eventually registered as “Group One Disabled” – this basically meant he was not fit for active service.
Apraksin literally vanished in the years following his time as a test pilot. Was this due to embarrassment on the regime’s part of a pilot speaking of such “crazy” things. Or was he being removed from official records for another reason?
The Conspiracies Of The Lost Cosmonauts
Perhaps one of the most outlandish and chilling conspiracies said to have played out behind the wall of the Soviet Union during the Cold War is that of the Lost Cosmonauts. While there is no solid proof that the recordings said to have been intercepted by the Judica-Cordiglia brothers in 1961 are one-hundred percent genuine, the battle for the stars between the United States and the Soviet Union was very real, and so does lend a little bit of credibility to the claim. It is really that much of a stretch of the imagination to think that in their desire to score a huge propaganda victory over the United States (and the west as a whole), tragedies were downplayed and essentially kept out of the history books altogether?
The brothers claimed to have intercepted a total of nine such recordings altogether, but one in particular was especially harrowing. Claimed by the brothers to have been recorded in May 1961, the two minute audio is of a female cosmonaut communicating her concerns that her pod is about to burn up upon re-entry. Incidentally, there is no reply from the assumed control tower, despite the woman’s pleas that “I can see a flame! I can see a flame! I feel hot!” You can read a full transcript of the encounter here.
One last point worth mentioning here is, despite the Soviet government (at the time) and the Russian government denying there being any truth to the claims, is an apparent report from the old Soviet news agency TASS, who claimed an “unmanned satellite” had come back to Earth on 26th May 1961. Many believe this unmanned satellite was actually the remains of the unfortunate female cosmonaut. You can read a little more about that here and here.
If there is any truth at all to the Judica-Cordiglia brother’s claims, then somewhere in space – possibly still in the Earth’s orbit – there are several early 1960s space pods-turned-floating tombs containing the bodies of several unknown space pilots. Perhaps one of them was the aforementioned Arkady Ivanovich Apraksin.
Check out the videos below. The first looks at the alleged recording of the unknown female cosmonaut, while the following videos look at the Lost Cosmonauts conspiracy in a little more detail. The video below those looks at the conspiracy of Soviet UFO files.
Warp Drives, Space Manipulation, And The Pentagon’s UFO Program
Warp Drives, Space Manipulation, And The Pentagon’s UFO Program
Talk of wormholes and other dimensions outside the parameters of science fiction are usually greeted with nervous looks and uncomfortable sniggers from most. The fact is, however, that many intelligence agencies, in particular, the United States’ Defense Intelligence Agency, has at the very least, experimented and researched the logistics of these theories, as well as the technology required to embark on such endeavors. A “treasure trove” of documents was recently released in the United States following requests by a media outlet in Las Vegas including one, which we will look at in a moment, that looks in depth at not only the prospect of wormholes for space travel but how this could be accomplished. As will also look at a little later, these “projects” appear to have been taking place behind closed doors for over a decade, at the very least, with the roots of them going back to the years following the Second World War and the drastic and urgent increase in UFO activity across the planet – in particular, in the United States.
Warp Drive, Dark Energy, and the Manipulation of Extra Dimensions
Although the paper was dated 2nd April 2010, it was only very recently cast back into the public arena by Las Vegas-based media platform KLAS-TV who, incidentally, share close connections with respected UFO researcher, George Knapp.
The 34-page file titled, Warp Drive, Dark Energy, and the Manipulation of Extra Dimensions goes into intricate details of exactly what the title suggests. The document is just one of a plethora of “scientific studies of UFOs” by the Pentagon in 2007. As the opening lines of the document states:
“If one is to realistically entertain the notion of interstellar exploration in time-frames of a human lifespan, a dramatic shift in traditional approach to spacecraft propulsion is necessary. It has been known and well tested since the time of Einstein that all matter is restricted to motion at sublight velocities, and that as matter approaches the speed of light, its mass asymptotically approaches infinity. This mass increase ensures that an infinite amount of energy would be necessary to travel at the speed of light, and, thus, this speed is impossible to reach and represents an absolute speed limit to all matter traveling through spacetime."
IT quickly concludes that even if such a propulsion method was developed and utilized, the nearest star would still take multiple decades to reach from the start point of Earth. It then, however, speaks of recent developments in that “physicists have discovered two loopholes to Einstein’s ultimate speed limit – the Einstein-Rosen bridge (commonly referred to as a ‘wormhole’) and the warp drive. Fundamentally, both ideas involve manipulation of spacetime!” Furthermore, this would allow for “Faster-than-light (FTL) travel!”
The report continues that the wormhole will “connect two potentially distant regions of space”, essentially creating a “shortcut!” This would, in theory, result in the craft being “instantaneously be transported” from one point in space to another. The paper states that “observational evidence” suggests that wormholes don’t exist – at least not locally. They can, however, be manipulated into existence. The warp drive, the report states, “involves local manipulation of the fabric of space in the immediate vicinity of the spacecraft”. This manipulation creates “an asymmetric bubble of space that is contracting in front of the spacecraft while expanding behind it”.
According to the projections, it would be possible to reach Mars in just over three minutes, while reaching as far as Neptune would take only four hours. With regards to more distant destinations, the Orion Nebula, which is 1,599 light years away, could be reached in just over a year utilizing such wormhole-like technology.
It then talks about how the “spacecraft remains stationary inside this ‘warp bubble’ and the movement of space itself facilitates the relative motion of the spacecraft”. This is remarkably similar to how apparent whistleblower, Bob Lazar, spoke about the propulsion systems of alien crafts that he had back-engineered for the United States shadow government in the 1980s.
He would state that UFO crafts had “waveguides” that in turn connected to antimatter reactors that would create a gravity field which makes “manipulation of space and time possible!” He would further describe this manipulation was though the spacecraft in question was a “big stone on a sheet of rubber!” Upon turning on the gravity drives it would “pull the desired destination to it!” When the gravity drive was shut off, space (the rubber sheet) would return to normal, with the craft (the big stone) riding the wave of space-time – essentially, a wormhole. You can read a little more about Lazar and UFO propulsion here. The video below features Lazar speaking about UFO propulsion in a little more detail. You can also view the aforementioned files in full here or here.
The Pentagon and UFOs
According to a report in the New York Times in December 2017 (which you can read in full here), the Defense Department spent $22 million on the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program. That is, however, all that is known. The records do not show how the money was spent, where it went, or why. Only that the figure of $22 million was allocated to this particular platform. In reality, this money would appear to have been earmarked for “black budget” projects – at least according to those who keep an intense eye on government spending.
Like the above research into “warp drives” and creating wormholes, this project was first set up in 2007 by the Pentagon. Luis Elizondo would run the project until its closure in 2012. However, according to some, its closure was for public consumption, and behind closed doors, the project continues – as does the (now) secretive funding. Elizondo would go public with what he knew about the continued interest and funding the Pentagon had regarding the existence of UFOs. At the same time, US authorities would release two previously classified videos from their files showing UFO activity.
In 2008, the Defense Intelligence Agency would put parts of its research out to the highest bidder. Only weeks later, Bigelow Aerospace, owned by millionaire investor, Robert Bigelow, was awarded the contract. This contract came only weeks after Bigelow shut down what appeared to be one of the most promising independent studies of strange and paranormal phenomena in history at Skinwalker Ranch.
Part of the contract would require Bigelow to “provide a facility that qualified for top-secret work!” Skinwalker Ranch today, is completely off-limits to the general public. Perhaps also interestingly, given the above information regarding the creation of warp drives in order to travel through space in hours instead of years, is Bigelow’s chosen area of interest following the public closure of Skinwalker Ranch. As well as the contract work with NASA, Bigelow Aerospace would look to venture into “space tourism” in the near future.
Whatever the details of the situation, it appears certain that the study of UFOs and the technology they utilize continues by the US government, only now it appears to continue under the cloak of absolute secrecy. Perhaps, as we will look at in a moment, those advances in technology have more than mere human ingenuity at their core.
Check out the short videos below. The first looks at one of the recently released Pentagon UFO sightings, while the second looks at some of the conspiracies surrounding Skinwalker Ranch.
Alien At The Pentagon?
While the idea of top-secret, prolonged interaction between a shadow government operating out of the Pentagon is absurd to some, it isn’t the first time that such claims have been made. The strange tale of Valiant Thor tells of an apparent alien craft landing in a field in Alexandria, Virginia, in March 1957. A lone policeman witnessed the events purely by chance as he went about his routine patrols. A humanoid, very much human-looking, if not a little taller, emerged from craft and approached the policeman. He had, he claimed, been sent by the “High Council” to speak with President Eisenhower. His name was Valiant Thor.
The account was written about extensively by Frank Stranger in the book, Stranger At The Pentagon. Within these pages were several pictures claiming to show Valiant Thor. Whether it is of importance or not, no US official, serving or former, has stepped forward to discredit these photographs.
According to the accounts, Thor did meet with the President, as well as various other high-ranking US officials. He would remain at the Pentagon for three years as a “VIP”. He would be involved in numerous in-depth discussions with US officials during his stay. You can check out the short video below that looks at this claim in a little more detail, and you can read a little more about it here.
Of course, there are many who claim there are secret deals between aliens and top-secret shadow governments. The great-granddaughter of President Eisenhower, who some believe made “secret deals” with grey aliens in 1954 following offers of advanced technology for “access” to American citizens (you can read more about this here), would state that such deals came to fruition “in a world most of us don’t realize existed”. She would continue that the “Second World War was still being fought behind the scenes. It’s like there is this whole other reality going on that we don’t hear about. These timelines and the deeper history connected to secret societies, connected to these deeper ET agendas that have been around for thousands of years!”
Furthermore, according to Laura Eisenhower, not only did these deals result in greater technology, they would also result in secret space programs and unofficial missions. Of course, if there is any degree of truth to the claims, it would also result in the abduction of, and experimentation on, thousands of US citizens, as well as thousands more worldwide. Assuming for a moment these claims are true, we have to ask, how much clout and say in the decision making would Eisenhower really have had? It is likely a decision already made that he, as the President of the United States, had to put his name to. His great-granddaughter would state decades later that her great-grandfather “was instrumental in warning us about the military-industrial complex!”
The videos below features Laura Eisenhower speaking a little further about such notions of secret alien involvement in human affairs. Perhaps such technologies as “warp drives”, only now coming into the public arena for dissection, is the result of such secret deals that took place over half-a-century ago.
As I said yesterday: “Today’s article is a bit different to most of my articles. This one is a 2-part feature that is focused on controversial photographs in relation to the UFO mystery. As to why it’s a bit different, it’s because there’s not a UFO in sight. Rather, the pictures I’m going to talk about are from very different angles. You’ll see what I mean.” Indeed, you will. The second-part revolves around photos taken during an alleged alien autopsy – or more than one. It’s a story I was put onto by U.K.-based ufologist Jenny Randles. In 1997 I interviewed Jenny regarding a strange series of events she found herself in, back in late 1986 (you can find the full story in Jenny’s From Out of the Blue book). It was a very curious saga involving allegedly classified documents, dead aliens, crashed flying saucers, and much more. It all began in October 1986, when Randles came into contact with a man who had then recently left his employment with the British Army. According to the man, he had in his possession a large stash of still-classified material on UFOs that he had acquired under very controversial circumstances.
The story that “Robert” told was as remarkable as it was inflammatory. Roughly a year or so earlier, an American individual, employed by the U.S. military and working at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio, came across the computerized files while engaged in repairing one particular system at the base. And we’re not talking about just a few pages of material. According to what Robert told Randles and ufologist Peter Hough, the number of pages was huge. The man allegedly printed around six hundred pages of material, which wasn’t even anywhere near the overall total. It turns out that – allegedly – the man in question was friends with Robert’s commanding-officer in the British Army; the two having met on an exchange-program. Fearful about what he had got himself into, the computer-specialist gave the hundreds of pages of material on those aforementioned crashed saucers and alien autopsies to the CO. From there, they reached Robert.
One of the papers referenced the autopsy of a strange body. Randles also said: “There was a lot of material about Roswell, including photographs of the UFO and of the aliens. One of the most detailed files was an autopsy report – that ran close to 200 pages in length – of the bodies recovered from the Roswell crash. Robert remembered the name of the doctor who had written it. It was Dr. Frederick Hauser, a name I’d never seen connected with UFOs in any way whatsoever. Robert said that there was a very detailed account that was mostly filled with medical jargon about the autopsy which he didn’t understand, and there was a photograph of this entity with a slit right down the middle from the neck to the navel.”
A still from the “Alien Autopsy” video
And there was still more to come. Jenny said of those elusive photos: “One of the first things Robert said was that the aliens were very human-looking. He said that the head was completely bald, but the most unusual feature of the face was the nose, which was almost flush into the face, almost unnoticeable. He couldn’t tell from the photographs, but the autopsy report made it clear that the beings were slightly smaller than average human size – about five feet in height.” Randles also told me: “Bearing in mind, 1986 was years before the autopsy film [from Ray Santilli] surfaced. In fact, the connections with the autopsy film and with what Robert told me are chillingly similar. One of the impressions that you get from the alien autopsy footage is that the body is very human-like; and is around five foot in height. I have to say it struck me as soon as I saw the footage that this was very similar to what Robert had described.” And, as Ross Condit told me: “Not sure if this will ultimately bear fruit, but I did some internet research and dug up a Captain Frederick V. Hauser who was the CO of the 450th Medical General Dispensary Unit in Vienna in Feb. 1946. He was University of Michigan class of 1940, so the timing is tight but works.”
Imagine, most sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects and Unidentified Aerial Phenomena are not reported, because many witnesses do not want to talk about it or they do not know where to report their sighting.
Whether man-made or of alien origin, a lot of strange objects flying through our sky. The following footage of reported UFO sightings from around the world is just the tip of the iceberg.
The great saucer invasion: The day six 'spaceships' landed in England
The great saucer invasion: The day six 'spaceships' landed in England
By Tanya Gupta - BBC News
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The saucers were found to be giving out a low, ominous tone
They had big metal domes, emitted a strange, ominous hum and appeared one morning in a straight line across southern England. For a few hours, members of the public, police and the Army really believed alien spaceships had landed - until it was revealed to be a stunt by students. But how was the hoax so successful?
They had metal domes, emitted a strange and ominous hum and appeared in a straight line one morning in the south of England. The public, the police, and the Army believed they had landed extraterrestrial spaceships until it was revealed that it was a student joke. But how did they make the deception so successful?
The apparently extra-terrestrial vessels prompted a major police and military response, witnessed by Ray Seager who was with other children playing outside when one of the six saucers was found in the Isle of Sheppey on 4 September 1967.
"We all came running over, and there it was," he said. "There were no two ways about it. It was there.
"It was the old flying saucer shape. It was a silver, big dome with the thing round the outside. Yes, it was a flying saucer."
While the children were excited, he recalls there was also real fear as the police arrived.
"They started coming up the hill, and as they started getting close, they started gesturing to us, all the kids, to move away. And they were frightened I think, just as much as we were."
Newspapers reported how the saucers were watched, listened to and weighed at police stations and one RAF base throughout the day.
The Sheppey saucer was removed by RAF helicopter, while satellite experts were called to a "landing" site in Berkshire amid reports the object found there was bleeping and hissing and full of a mysterious liquid.
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The saucers were taken away and examined before it emerged that hoaxers were responsible
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Doubts about objects arose after batteries were found in one of them
From the moment apprentices at Farnborough's Royal Aircraft Establishment (RAE) came up with the idea for the hoax, there was a determination it should be convincing, said engineer Chris Southall.
All of them were interested in sci-fi, and they set out to create a design that would not be recognisably human.
There could be no giveaway features on the saucers, such as portholes or aerials, nor anything that might be seen on terrestrial inventions such as a plane or a boat.
First they made the metal-coated, fibreglass saucers by forming plaster moulds to build them in two halves, and then they sandwiched them together with electronic sound equipment inside.
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The objects were filled with a flour and water sourdough-like substance, which fermented and then exploded when the saucers were drilled into
"When you turned the saucers upside down, it flicked a switch and started a battery," Mr Southall said.
"We were putting them out in secret, in the middle of the night, in the early hours, and we didn't want them to make a noise until then. Only when we left, we turned them upside down and the noise started - and then we got away quick."
The saucers were also filled with a flour and water mix that fermented inside and turned into foul-smelling slime.
"We wanted to make something that looked really alien," he said.
They were placed in six locations in a straight line from east to west - Queenborough on the Isle of Sheppey, Bromley in south London, Ascot, the village of Welford, near Newbury, in Berkshire, Chippenham in Wiltshire and Clevedon in Somerset.
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Newspapers showed how the saucers "landed" in a straight line
Engineer Rog Palmer, who was also on the committee, organised teams of two or three apprentices to take the saucers to each location and briefed each group about how to carry out the task, including what to say if stopped by the police - that they had stayed out late at a party.
And by the time the saucers were discovered, the pranksters were back in their hostel - where 500 apprentices lived - bleary-eyed over breakfast after being up all night, but very excited.
They had risen to the task of planting the "spaceships" without detection, but were they prepared for the extraordinary success of their hoax?
image captionEngineers Rog Palmer (left) and Chris Southall masterminded the hoax
Mr Southall, now 72 and an environmental campaigner who runs an eco-house in Clacton, Essex, remembers it was the era of Sputnik and space exploration - and says the whole point of the hoax was for it to be taken seriously.
"We thought the government should have some sort of plan if aliens did land," he said.
"So we gave them a chance to try out whatever plan they had - but they didn't have one."
He recalls the surprise of the apprentices when police and Army responders blew one saucer up and dropped another.
David Clarke, media law expert at Sheffield Hallam University and a consultant and curator for the National Archives UFO project, believes the response to the hoax was flawed.
"One of the saucers when they actually drilled into it, because it was full of this compacted, sort of papier-maché mess, actually exploded and showered the police officers with this stuff.
"If it had been some kind of radiation hazard, how would they have dealt with that? It would have been a disaster area.
"And what did they do? Just washed it down the drains."
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The "landings" led to a major police and Army response
Dr Clarke and Mr Southall agree that in 1967 the public imagination was already gripped by UFO fever - at the time the Ministry of Defence was receiving near-daily reports of sightings.
But despite this climate, the apprentices did not expect the huge media response, which included international coverage and double-page spreads.
"It was more than we hoped for," Mr Southall said.
The events of that day remain something of a blur for him, but he remembers trekking to a TV studio in the evening after the hoax had been exposed.
By the time the papers went to press, journalists had been told about the prank, but it didn't deter them from reporting it as an alien invasion, Mr Southall said.
media captionIt's 50 years since the great UFO hoax fooled the nation
Press cuttings from the time reveal official sources "tended to be snappy" when questioned about the hoax.
But police confirmed no action was to be taken against the pranksters, with one Bromley officer quoted as saying: "We are taking it like gentlemen."
Mr Southall admits that to put the police and Army to such an inconvenience today would have entirely different consequences.
"Those were hippie days," he said. "We were apprentices from the RAE and people had a kinder attitude to us because of who we were, and in those days it was different."
Now, he says, the saucers would be treated as explosive devices and detonated - and the hoaxers could end up in jail.
"That's one of the interesting things looking back at this, 50 years on.
"The times we live in now are much harsher, and I don't think we could do it now. We would end up in trouble."
As far as a student pranks go, creating an incident which received worldwide coverage is fairly good going. But that is exactly what happened back in 1967 when an "alien invasion" took place.
The extraordinary events happened on September 4 that year.
Christopher Lever, then a worker in the city who lived in Winkfield, found a mysterious silver saucer in a paddock at his home in the village on the outskirts of Bracknell.
He didn't know at the time, but five other similar "spacecraft" were found around the country, which sparked fears of an Independence Day-style alien invasion.
Some of the devices that landed elsewhere in the country bleeped when they were touched, and others emitted a foul-smelling liquid. The saucer in Winkfield did neither.
The police were called and the "flying saucer" was taken to the police station in Ascot.
An investigation was carried out and gradually it was revealed the "alien invasion" was an elaborate hoax by engineer apprentices at the Royal Aircraft Establishment in Farnborough.
Another of the "saucers" was found in the wilds of West Berkshire in Welford near Newbury.
He said: “There used to be a satellite tracking station nearby so Christopher contacted them.
“They passed it to their station engineer Roger Kenyon, who thought the best part of valour was to stand at a distance and throw pennies at it – he thought it might blow up or angry little green men might emerge.
“When he ran out of change he went closer. Eventually the police were called and officers from Bracknell came and took the saucer to the station in Ascot.”
The papers revealed they were fitted with a motion sensitive alarm that went off if they were moved. They were also filled with a foul-smelling green gunge.
People were so scared by the crafts that in some areas the army was called in.
While the incident was debunked as a hoax, a recent report has revealed Berkshire as a hotspot for UFO sightings. And the area has a long history of mysterious activity in the skies.
Today’s article is a bit different to most of my articles. This one is a 3-part feature that is focused on controversial photographs in relation to the UFO mystery. As to why it’s a bit different, it’s because there’s not a UFO in sight. Rather, the pictures I’m going to talk about are from very different angles. You’ll see what I mean. From 2007 to 2010 I investigated the strange story of a U.S. Government think-tank-style group nicknamed the Collins Elite (as told in my 2010 book, Final Events), a story that has its origins in 1991 (even though the group was created decades earlier). Their belief is that the UFO phenomenon has – quite literally – demonic origins, and that the extraterrestrial angle is merely an ingenious, deceptive ruse employed by Satan. The goal: to further allow his minions to get their claws into us all, and lead us down a distinctly dark pathway before Judgment Day and the final-countdown begins. As someone who holds no particular views on the nature of religion or life-after-death, I have no real opinion on the validity of the beliefs of the Collins Elite, aside from the fact that I find it fascinating that such a think-tank group actually exists. But what interests me most of all, is that a certain theme runs through much of this story that can also be found elsewhere at an official level, and it’s one I find somewhat disturbing. It’s the matter of strange and suspicious deaths and photographs.
I was put on the trail of the Collins Elite by a man named Ray Boeche. As well as being an Anglican priest, Ray is a former State-Director (for Nebraska) with the Mutual UFO Network: MUFON. In a truly fascinating interview with Ray in 2007, he told me how he had been clandestinely approached, in 1991, by two Department of Defense (DoD) physicists working on a classified program to try and contact what were described to Ray as “Non-Human Entities,” or “NHE’s.” In Ufological terms, we would call these entities the diminutive, black-eyed “Grays.” For the people on the DoD project, they may very well have begun with that view too, but ultimately they came around to the notion that this was merely a terrible ruse. Like the Collins Elite, Ray’s ufological Deep-Throat-like sources finally accepted that the entities at issue were demonic. But, there was an interesting – and disturbing – further aspect to this revelation: there were those on the project that believed engaging the NHE’s in some form of “Faustian pact,” as a means to understand and harness their extraordinary and potentially-lethal powers, could actually aid in the development of occult-based weapons of war, such as the ability to provoke psychic-assassinations.
Ray told me the following: “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 NHEs. In fact, this was described to me as an “obsessive effort.’ And part of this effort was to try and control the NHEs and use their powers in military weapons applications and in intelligence areas.
Ray continued: “Most of it was related to psychotronic weaponry and remote viewing, and even deaths by what were supposed to be psychic methods. The project personnel were allowed to assume they had somehow technologically mastered the ability to do what the NHEs could do: remote-viewing and psychotronics. But, in actuality, it was these entities doing it all the time, or allowing it to happen, for purposes 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 at all; they were allowed by the NHEs to think that this is what they had done. But the NHEs were always the causal factor.”
Now, we get to the matter of those mysterious and highly controversial photographs. Here are Ray’s words on this particularly strange and sinister issue. Of what Ray saw himself, he said: “They showed me a dozen photos of three different people – four photos of each person, who had apparently been killed by these experiments [italics mine]. 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. 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 prisoners? I have no idea. Were they American? Were they foreign? There was no way to tell.”
Over the years, I’ve tried to find those elusive photos, but with no luck. I’m still trying, though.
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