The purpose of this blog is the creation of an open, international, independent and free forum, where every UFO-researcher can publish the results of his/her research. The languagues, used for this blog, are Dutch, English and French.You can find the articles of a collegue by selecting his category. Each author stays resposable for the continue of his articles. As blogmaster I have the right to refuse an addition or an article, when it attacks other collegues or UFO-groupes.
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Deze blog is opgedragen aan mijn overleden echtgenote Lucienne.
In 2012 verloor ze haar moedige strijd tegen kanker!
In 2011 startte ik deze blog, omdat ik niet mocht stoppen met mijn UFO-onderzoek.
BEDANKT!!!
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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!
Wil jij de laatste nieuwtjes over UFO's, ruimtevaart, archeologie, en meer? Volg ons dan en duik samen met ons in de fascinerende wereld van het onbekende! Sluit je aan bij de gemeenschap van nieuwsgierige geesten die net als jij verlangen naar antwoorden en avonturen in de sterren!
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.
On
14th November 1976 about 9.00pm near Winchester, Joyce Bowles and Ted Pratt were
driving down the A272 when the car started to jolt and shake, and then veered
off the road into a grass verge by the roadside. The car was subject to
electrical interference as the engine roared, and the lights seemed to be shine
brighter than normal. They spotted what appeared to be a cigar shaped craft with
three entities behind a window in the object. As they watched a bearded humanoid
wearing a silver suit came out of the object, walked to the car and looked in
on
In
1966, in the Australian suburb of Westall, HUNDREDS OF STUDENTS, TEACHERS AND
LOCAL RESIDENTS WITNESSED A UFO hover overhead for several minutes, land and
take off again AT INCREDIBLE SPEED. Silenced by authorities at the time, and
still angry about not being believed, they REVISIT THE EXTRAORDINARY EXPERIENCE
as tenacious sleuth SHANE RYAN goes back to find an answer to the mystery.
Enclosed you will find an article from Travis
Walton arguing that he has proof that the Fox show "The Moment of Truth" muddled
the truth and hence was a fake. I received this document from him in December
2011. As it was an WPS document I wasn't able to open it but I finally managed
to convert it to PDF. I have Travis' permission to share his detailed reply wide
and far.
Kind regards.
André
Travis Walton Takes "Moment Of Truth" Polygraph
Test
Enclosed you will find an article from Travis
Walton arguing that he has proof that the Fox show "The Moment of Truth" muddled
the truth and hence was a fake. I received this document from him in December
2011. As it was an WPS document I wasn't able to open it but I finally managed
to convert it to PDF. I have Travis' permission to share his detailed reply wide
and far.
Kind regards.
André
Travis Walton Takes "Moment Of Truth" Polygraph
Test
One of the most prolific abduction cases in the history of ufology, which
happened more than 35 years ago, was that of Travis Walton. His disappearance
caused a whirlwind of news reports, controversy, and skepticism.
For his entire adult life, Walton has been carrying this emotional burden and
the telling of his story has been, for the most part, a solo journey. Recently,
at the 2012 International UFO Congress, two eye
witnesses, John Goulette and Steve Pierce, came forward to speak with Walton
about the incident. Hearing their stories has educated Walton about what
Goulette and Pierce experienced during his abduction,
and since then he has also connected with others who have shared similar
stories. Making these connections and his own process of maturity has allowed
Walton to reexamine his beliefs surrounding the incident.
Recently Walton sat down with Open Minds and during the interview it was
apparent he had a certain newfound confidence. Whether it is the result of
Walton being joined by his fellow workmen and sharing their stories, or just
through the maturity process, it is evident that Walton has become much more
comfortable in his own skin.
One can only speculate how someone is personally affected after an experience
like this. The truth as to why this happened to Walton will probably never be
known for sure. But he continues to press on and uses his new conviction
surrounding the incident to broaden his philosophy on life and society.
22 October 2013Last updated at 13:30 GMTBy Melissa HogenboomScience reporter,
BBC News
Scientists are looking for more rocky worlds that
could possibly retain liquid water on their surface
The number of observed exoplanets - worlds circling
distant stars - has passed 1,000.
Of these, 12 could be habitable - orbiting at a distance where it is neither
"too hot" nor "too cold" for water to be liquid on the surface.
The planets are given away by tiny dips in light as they pass in front of
their stars or through gravitational "tugs" on the star from an orbiting
world.
Abel Mendez of the Planetary Habitability Laboratory at the University of
Puerto Rico, said that although the number has rapidly increased in recent
years, due to a lack of funding this figure is much lower than it could be.
"We have more techniques and proven technology to detect more exoplanets, but
the limit has been telescopes, especially space telescopes.
"If we had more funding there would be more telescopes and that count would
be much larger by now."
The Kepler space telescope, which spotted many of these worlds in recent
years, broke down earlier this year. Scientists still have to trawl through more
than 3,500 other candidates from this mission so the number could rapidly
increase.
In January 2013, astronomers used Kepler's data to estimate that there could
be at least 17 billion
Earth-sized exoplanets in the Milky Way galaxy. They said that one in six
stars could host an Earth-sized planet in close orbit.
Continue reading the main story
Exoplanets
An exoplanet exists outside our Solar System
Many of those found so far are large planets believed to resemble Jupiter or
Neptune
The first exoplanet was discovered in 1992, orbiting a pulsar
A few years later, the planet 51 Pegasi B was found
orbiting a star similar to the Sun
Hundreds of extrasolar planets have been confirmed since, and thousands more
"candidates" await confirmation
The number of confirmed planets frequently increases because as scientists
analyse the data they are able publish their results online immediately. But as
the finds are not yet peer reviewed, the total figure remains subject to
change.
"Each night we get a list of astronomy papers where there might be an
exoplanet announcement. When we get that we have to review it," explained Prof
Mendez.
This exoplanet catalogue is organised by Jean Schneider, an astronomer at the
Paris Observatory. For the past 18 years he has catalogued new exoplanets on the
Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia.
Fuzzy
planets
Others in the field, like Prof Mendez, are then able to review and comment on
the findings, which makes it "more dynamic" he explained.
"That's why the other catalogues just lag behind. The review is reliable as
it's exactly the same as what the journals do." Prof Mendez told BBC News.
Nasa will only accept those announced in an academic journal, so it updates
its list far less frequently. Their tally currently stands at 919 confirmed
worlds.
Jean Schneider said it was also important to note that there was "no
consensus for the definition of a planet" and that past experience had shown
that a few objects declared as planets were actually artefacts or low-mass
stars.
"Some objects, like some Kepler planets, are declared 'confirmed planets' but
have not been published in [referenced] articles. It does not mean that they
will not be published later on, but it introduces another fuzziness in the
tally," he added.
Even if there was a generally adopted definition, Mr Schneider said that for
some objects "there is a large uncertainty on parameters, so that the planetary
nature of the object is uncertain".
For Prof Mendez reaching 1,000 marks an important milestone in the quest to
understand the history of the evolution of the cosmos.
A planet next door
"I don't just want to know where the exoplanets are, I want to understand the
stars, because they are the hosts for the planets. I want to understand the
whole galaxy and the distribution of the stars because everything is connected,"
he explained.
For him, the most exciting discoveries are Earth-like planets which could be
habitable.
"We want to know how unique our planet is, that's a big question and we are
now closer than ever," he added.
Army Helicopter's UFO Scare Still A Mystery, 40 Years Later
Forty years ago today, a four-man crew of an Army Reserve helicopter was
flying over Mansfield, Ohio, around 11:00 p.m. when they "encountered a near
midair collision with an unidentified flying object," according to the official
report, signed and submitted by the
crew after the incident.
A full explanation for this terrifying UFO close encounter has never been
offered, and to this day, the helicopter-UFO incident remains one of the most
credible -- and terrifying -- in the history of the subject.
The commander of the helicopter, Maj. Larry Coyne, and his crew, thought at
first that the light on the horizon was a radio tower beacon.
"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," Coyne told this reporter in 1975.
"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!" (See main story illustration above)
Watch this video excerpt of the Coyne account from a documentary
report. The story continues after the video.
With the unknown object hovering in the air above the helicopter, Coyne and
his crew suddenly noticed a light coming out of the aft end of it -- a light
that swung 90 degrees and came into their cabin.
"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."
Coyne and his crew knew they were encountering something extraordinary.
"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."
What occurred next was like something out of science fiction.
"We were at 1,700 feet," Coyne recalled. "Then this craft began to move
slowly to the west away from us. At this time, I was worried we were going to
hit the ground, and I looked at my altimeter and our helicopter was at 3,500
feet, climbing 1,000 feet a minute with no changes in the control. We went from
1,700 feet to 3,500 feet in a matter of seconds and never knew it!"
The helicopter topped out at 3,800 feet and the four men felt a bump, "like
turbulence, at which time we had control of the aircraft again. I had control
and we went back down to 2,500 feet and then continued on to Cleveland," Coyne
said.
"As far as the vehicle itself, there's no doubt in our minds what it looked
like. A craft that can move at terrific speeds in excess of 1,000 knots, and
then stop on a dime, maintains altitude, can change altitude, climb, descend. To
encounter a UFO when it approaches your aircraft, you have no idea what it is. I
think if it wanted to collide with us, it could have. You can't get away from it
-- you don't have that much time to respond!"
Lending credibility to this case were eyewitnesses on the ground who observed
the UFO-helicopter encounter. The Army didn't prevent Coyne and his crew from
speaking out about their experience. In fact, Coyne was allowed to recount the
UFO incident to the United Nations in 1978, as seen below, under the sponsorship
of Grenada.
This 1973 UFO incident, while certainly dramatic and terrifying for the
helicopter crew involved, is not the only time that conventional aircraft have
had encounters with unknown objects.
Many crew members of major airlines have witnessed unusual objects near their
aircraft but have been reluctant to tell their stories publicly.
In 1999, Richard Haines, a retired senior research scientist for the
NASA-Ames Research Center in California, created the National Aviation Reporting
Center on Anomalous Phenomena, or NARCAP, to give pilots and air traffic
controllers a confidential place to report their own unusual sightings of what
Haines refers to as unidentified aerial phenomena, or UAP.
"We have two objectives: To make flying safer with regard to unidentified and
poorly understood phenomena in the atmosphere. And the second objective is to
collect, analyze and then report high quality data from the aerospace world on
the phenomena, to help us understand them better," Haines, 76, told The
Huffington Post.
According to Haines, on an average daily basis, since the creation of NARCAP,
he's received six to 12 reports a year. He absolutely believes there are real
dangerous or safety issues that come up between pilots and some UAP.
"Based upon analysis of past cases, a potential for a very serious event does
exist," Haines said. "We have reviewed a great many encounters in flight where
several things can happen. One of them is an electromagnetic effect in close
proximity to the phenomenon, where cockpit instrumentation are affected -- it
might be a magnetic field, radio interference or even an inertial effect, and
that's obviously unsafe. Pilots don't want to be flying airplanes where they
can't trust their instruments."
Another area of concern that Haines and his colleagues have found is similar
to what Coyne and his helicopter crew experienced in 1973.
"It's where a UAP is near the airplane, perhaps ahead of the plane, and the
pilot makes a rapid emergency dive to avoid a perceived collision. That's not
very common, but it would have to be reported. It has happened in the past and
there are still near-misses that occur which sometimes are associated with a
nearby UAP."
Haines has always been impressed with the Coyne helicopter incident.
"It qualifies as a genuine UAP encounter. Multiple witness cases are very
important and should command the attention of aviation officials. In the Coyne
case, its color, speed and apparent shape -- those are all important physical
characteristics that can be related to other pilot sightings.
"I think the Coyne case ranks very, very high in credibility. One reason is
Coyne's reputation as a good pilot before this happened. And his courage -- the
fact that he was willing to come forward with this very bizarre story and to
stand by it says an awful lot. And he would give encouragement to other pilots
to do the same.
"If everybody remains silent, we're never going to get to the bottom of
this."
If Not Extramundane, Then Something Very Much More Bizarre
"On the basis of the evidence I have
examined, and on the basis of my own weighing of alternative hypotheses, I now
regard Hypothesis 7 [Extraterrestrial devices of some surveillance nature] as
the one most likely to prove correct. My scientific instincts lead me to hedge
that prediction just to the extent of suggesting that if the UFOs are not of
extramundane origin, then I suspect that they will prove to be something very
much more bizarre, something of perhaps even greater scientific interest than
extraterrestrial devices"(Statement on Unidentified Flying Objects (p. 5) uit
1968).
AUDIO
RECORDINGS BY DR. JAMES E. MCDONALD SENIOR PHYSICIST, INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC
PHYSICS, UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA TUCSON JAMES E. MCDONALD'S ARCHIVED UFO
FILES
Darrell Rose, April 4th, 2013 : James Edward McDonald (May 7, 1920 -- June 13,
1971) was an American physicist. He is best known for his research regarding
UFOs. McDonald was senior physicist at the Institute for Atmospheric Physics and
professor in the Department of Meteorology, University of Arizona, Tucson.
McDonald campaigned in support of expanding UFO studies during the mid and late
1960s, arguing that UFOs represented an important unsolved mystery which had not
been adequately studied by science. He was one of the more prominent figures of
his time who argued in favor of the extraterrestrial hypothesis as a plausible,
but not completely proved, model of UFO phenomena. McDonald interviewed over 500
UFO witnesses, uncovered many important government UFO documents, and gave
important presentations of UFO evidence. He testified before Congress during the
UFO hearings of 1968. McDonald also gave a famous talk called "Science in
Default" to the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). It
was a summary of the current UFO evidence and a critique of the 1969 Condon
Report UFO study. http://wolfdigitalmedia.com/ufo/jamesmcdonaldarchive.htm
Dr. James E. McDonald's Complete Audio Tape
Archives/Recordings
Audio Recordings by: Dr.
James E. McDonald Senior Physicist, Institute of Atmospheric
Physics University of Arizona Tucson
Selections from MS 328 Dr. James E. McDonald Papers,
University of Arizona Library, Tucson Arizona. All contents copyright 2005.
Arizona Board of Regents. All rights reserved.
Recorded from the period of 1967 through 1968
110 disc CD-R archive
(CDDA files) 18 disc DVD-R data archive of digitized .wav files (Edited
Master from Original Recordings)
Recorded, Edited and Transferred by: Ralph
McCarron March 2002 - February 2006
Coordinated by Ann Druffel and Vince Uhlenkott from a
grant provided by the "Fund for UFO Research"
Note:This project took 4 years to
complete. Im self-employed and run my own business from my home. My main
business is video editing, video production, CD/DVD-Rom authoring and web
design. The project turned out to be a huge undertaking, encompassing many more
hours than I initially thought, however I'm happy to have been given the
opportunity to have cataloged the amazing life's work (in audio form) of Dr.
James E. McDonald's UFO research.
Once finished, the project ended
up being archived on 110 CD-Rs for playback in a car radio, portable CD player
or boom box. The original uncompressed (WAV) files were backed up on 18 data
DVD-Rs. After this was done I also processed the files to Windows Media Audio
(WMA) files and MP3 (MP3) files. The WMA or MP3 files could be used for
streaming off a web server for internet playback. Also WMA and MP3 files can be
played on most new media players like the iPod or any other current DVD/CD
players. The beauty of the WMA and MP3 files is that I was able to compress
roughly 81 gigabytes of Dr. James McDonalds complete archive to fit on one (1)
DVD, just being under 4.5 gigabytes.
Where do I start
In March of 2002, Ann Druffel and Vince Uhlenkott asked me for
their help in converting all of Dr. James McDonalds reel to reel tapes to
digital format. At that time my business was a little slow so I said I would
help them out. Ann and Vince then supplied me with the whole archive of Dr.
McDonalds reel to reel tapes. They consisted of:
* Eighty Three (83), 1 7/8 ips (inches per second), 3 inch reel
to reel tapes, record time 1 hour per side, 2 hours of record time per reel =
166 hours of record time.
* Ten (10) , 3 ¾ ips, 5 inch reel to reel tapes, record time 1
hour per side, 2 hours of record time per reel = 20 hours of record time.
* Twenty (20), 3 ¾ ips, 7 inch reel to reel tapes, record time
2 hours per side, 4 hours of record time per reel = 80 hours of record time.
(See Fig. 1).
(Fig. 1) Collage of Dr. James
McDonalds original audio tapes and notes.
Total record time = 266 hours, just to record the audio into
the computer.
The editing time probably quadrupled that.
The recording and editing process consisted of these five
steps:
1. Recording all of Dr. James McDonalds reel to reel archive
into the computer as uncompressed (WAV) files.
2. Editing of each reel. (Each reel could contain either 4 to 5
telephone interviews, recordings of symposiums or recordings of television/radio
shows). The WAV files would have to be split up into each of their own
segments.
3. Processing of limiter and noise/hum reduction to each file
depending on how bad the file was recorded. Almost all of his recordings needed
this process done to every file.
4. Cataloging and naming of each computer file. (I would have
to listen to every file after the recording process and use Ann Druffels
original notes to make sure names, spellings and dates were correct). I had to
figure out an easy way to name the files so they could be organized easily. I
wanted each file to correspond with the existing reel to reel tape for a
reference. That way, if I looked back to my original WAV files I could tell
exactly what reel they came from and what side the recording was from. So a 3
inch reel, tape #27, Side 2 would be named: 3T27S2 and then what the filename
was.
Example: 3T27S2 James McDonald Interviews Dr Allen
Hynek.wav
This stands for 3 (being a 3 inch reel), T means tape, so 3T
means 3 inch tape. 27 means reel #27, S2 means Side 2. If there were four
interviews or segments on one side I would split up the files each into their
own file and name the file:
Example (segment one would be called): 3T36S101 James McDonald
Interviews Paul Hill.wav Example (segment two would be called): 3T36S102
James McDonald Interviews Lt Col Chase.wav
In these two examples this stands for 3 (being a 3 inch reel),
T means tape, so 3T means 3 inch tape. 36 means reel #36, S2 means Side 2. 01
means segment #1. In the second example it would be the same except that 02
would stand for segment #2. So I could tell by looking quickly at this that:
3T36S102 James McDonald Interviews Lt Col Chase.wav was an interview that came
from Dr. McDonalds 3 inch reel, tape #36, Side 1, Segment 2.
5. CD burning and labeling of each CD and/or DVD. I had to
create a separate label, corresponding to Dr. McDonalds original reels. (See
Fig. 2)
(Fig. 2) Image of CD-R Tape
7, Side 1 & 2, 7 inch reel, Disc 9.
The files would have to be recorded first. Then audio noise
reduction software tools were used to remove hum, crackle, hiss, etc. Some one
hour files would take four hours to edit. I would have to do one to four passes
on the file just to remove hum and background noise. Since Dr. McDonald wasnt a
recording engineer or an audio expert, the recordings werent always recorded in
a noise free environment. A couple of times he did interviews in the witnesss
car on the way to the location, which is very noisy. I had to deal with removing
engine, traffic and wind noises.
This doesnt include the time it took me to edit the actual
files and listen to them to figure out names, dates etc. so I could name each
file correctly. Ann Druffels original notes on the cataloging of Dr. McDonalds
files helped a lot for referencing names, dates etc. I would also call Rob
Swiatek or email Richard Hall from the Fund for UFO Research to help me with
names and dates to make sure they were correct. Dr. McDonald would record his
voice before most interviews and say the date, time, and location and spell out
the name of each witness. And other times there would be nothing recorded before
the interview. Sometimes I would have to look up witnesss names and dates of
UFO events on the internet. This way I could double check if the dates were
correct and the names of the witnesses were spelled correctly. And sometimes,
unless it was a famous UFO case, I wouldnt be able to find anything on the
internet about it. So some spellings of peoples names maybe spelled
incorrectly. If I wasnt sure of a name or date I added a question mark next to
the name or date. Some witnesses were also unknowns so I would list the person
in my notes as, Dr. James McDonald Interviews Unknown Man, or Dr. James
McDonald Interviews Frank (Last Name Unknown?). If there are words misspelled
or incorrect dates, please forgive me. Recording and editing the data was a big
enough job in itself.
The first problem in recording the files was that Dr.
McDonalds original 3 inch, 1 7/8 speed reel to reel tape recorder was of no use
being an old belt driven unit. Sometimes the audio would play at a correct speed
and then slow down, so recording was useless. The audio would sound like Dr.
McDonald was talking underwater. So the next thing I did was search on eBay for
another recorder. Since the older recorders are pretty cheap ($20 to $50
dollars), I figured I would buy one to see if it would solve my problem. I found
a Sony TC-123 reel to reel tape recorder that would play at 1 7/8 ips on eBay
for $23.17 with shipping and handling. (See Fig. 3).
(Fig. 3) Vintage Sony
TC-123 reel-to-reel tape recorder.
I tried to use this recorder to record the 3 inch, 1 7/8 ips
reel to reel tapes into my computer, but again this machine was old, belt driven
and also had playback speed problems. It also had problems with major hum once
it was connected to my computer for recording, due to the fact of grounding
problems.
I called Vince Uhlenkott and he told me he had a reel to reel
tape recorder that could play 3 ¾ ips. So we suggested to use this recorder to
start the job and would try to find another player that was able to play 1 7/8
ips and 3 ¾ ips. The problem with this would mean that the job was basically
started and recorded in reverse order. This being that Dr. McDonald originally,
(at that time) recorded on 3 inch reels. Then when the technology got better he
recorded on 5 inch reels and then 7 inch reels. Since we didnt want to waste
any time we started recording the 7 inch reels right away.
After I had recorded 10 or more files I would edit out long
pauses, coughs or spaces between the interviews. This way the listener didnt
have to wait for long breaks while listening to the audio. Then limiting and
noise/hum removal would be applied so the files would sound clean and wouldnt
have any background noise. I would then take notes on each file, name them, burn
a CD and label them. This is a very tedious process as you can see and could
only be done, as I mentioned earlier, on my time off.
After some time it got to the point that Vince Uhlenkotts tape
player/recorder started also having playback problems. Since we both knew that
we would eventually need another playback machine that could playback 1 7/8 ips
speed, Vince told me to go ahead and look on eBay for another one. I was able to
eventually find a really clean vintage reel to reel Sony TC-155 player. (See
Fig. 4).
(Fig. 4) Vintage Sony
TC-155 reel to reel tape player.
This one was recently serviced by an audio specialist so I knew
it would not have any playback problems for awhile. Over the next few years I
recorded the rest of the 7 inch, 5 inch then 3 inch reels. I found that it was
easier just to record the whole archive first and then concentrate on editing,
noise reduction, cataloging, burning and finally labeling. For anyone
technically interested I used Sonys Sound Forge software to record the WAV
files to my hard drive on the PC. Originally I used Sonys Noise Reduction
software to remove noise and hum but as the technology got better I used Biass
SoundSoap Pro. I found this to be a lot better at removing noise and hum than
Sonys Noise Reduction software. (See Fig. 5)
(Fig. 5) The editing and
noise/hum removal process of Dr. James McDonalds audio recordings with
Sound Forge and SoundSoap Pro software.
At the end of February of 2006 I finally had the whole project
completed, burned and labeled. (See Figures 6 & 7).
(Fig. 6) The 3-ring binder
of the complete 110 CD-R archive of Dr. James McDonalds audio
recordings.
(Fig. 7) A peek inside the
3-ring binder housing Dr. James McDonalds audio recordings.
Im glad that this could finally be completed and Im sure it
will become a huge research tool for the whole UFO community. There a probably
references, or info in these interviews that could have been missed by other
researchers in the past. Also new info could be gleaned from any of these past
UFO cases. I hope eventually that these files will be streamed on the University
of Tucsons website for all UFO researchers to be able to have access to
them.
British scientist 'solves' mystery of Himalayan yetis
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October 2013Last updated at 10:29 GMT
Professor Bryan Sykes: "Yeti hairs genetically identical to polar bear"
Research by a British scientist has concluded that
the legendary Himalayan yeti may in fact be a sub-species of brown bear.
DNA tests on hair samples carried out by Oxford University genetics professor
Bryan Sykes found that they matched those from an ancient polar bear.
He subjected the hairs to the most advanced tests available.
He says the most likely explanation for the myth is that the animal is a
hybrid of polar bears and brown bears.
Prof Sykes told the BBC that there may be a real biological animal behind the
yeti myth.
"I think this bear, which nobody has seen alive,... may still be there and
may have quite a lot of polar bear in it," he said.
"It may be some sort of hybrid and if its behaviour is different from normal
bears, which is what eyewitnesses report, then I think that may well be the
source of the mystery and the source of the legend."
Prof Sykes conducted the DNA tests on hairs from two unidentified animals,
one from Ladakh - in northern India on the west of the Himalayas - and the other
from Bhutan, 1,285km (800 miles) further east.
The results were then compared with the genomes of other animals that are
stored on a database of all published DNA sequences.
Suspected yeti footprints -
such as these in Nepal - are regularly photographed
Prof Sykes found that he had a 100% match with a sample from an ancient polar
bear jawbone found in Svalbard, Norway, that dates back to between 40,000 and
120,000 years ago - a time when the polar bear and closely related brown bear
were separating as different species.
The species are closely related and are known to interbreed where their
territories overlap.
The sample from Ladakh came from the mummified remains of a creature shot by
a hunter around 40 years ago, while the second sample was in the form of a
single hair, found in a bamboo forest by an expedition of filmmakers around 10
years ago.
Prof Sykes said that his results were "completely unexpected" and that more
work needed to be done interpreting them.
He said that while they did not mean that "ancient polar bears are wandering
around the Himalayas", there could be a sub-species of brown bear in the High
Himalayas descended from an ancestor of the polar bear.
"Or it could mean there has been more recent hybridisation between the brown
bear and the descendant of the ancient polar bear," he said.
In 2008 scientists in the US examined hairs given to the BBC which some had
claimed were from a yeti.
The scientists concluded that in fact the hairs - obtained from the
north-east Indian state of Meghalaya - belonged to a species of Himalayan goat
known as a Himalayan Goral.
Alien abduction 1973: Calvin Parker Jr. speaks about
encounter
PASCAGOULA, Miss. (AP) - Charles Hickson never regretted the notoriety that
came his way after he told authorities he encountered an unidentified flying
object and its occupants 40 years ago on the banks of the Pascagoula River.
Until his death in 2011, Hickson told his story to anyone who would listen.
Calvin Parker Jr. says he was part of one of the most high-profile UFO cases
in American history. AP Photo.
But Calvin Parker Jr., the other man present for one of the most high-profile
UFO cases in American history, has never come to terms with what he still says
was a visit with gray, crab-clawed creatures from somewhere else. He says the
encounter on Oct. 11, 1973, turned his life upside down.
"This is something I really didn't want to happen," Parker told The
Associated Press as the 40th anniversary of the encounter approached.
Parker was unnerved by initial crush of unwelcome attention, with newsmen and
UFO enthusiasts overrunning Walker Shipyard, where he and Hickson worked. He
tried to dodge the spotlight for decades, moving frequently before returning to
Mississippi's Gulf Coast in recent years.
The incident made headlines, sparked a wave of UFO sightings nationwide and
became one of the most widely examined cases on record. Skeptics ranged from the
deputies who first interviewed the men to an author who sought to poke holes in
the story, and Parker himself has had conflicting thoughts about whether he was
visited by aliens or demons.
Parker, now 58, was 18 when he went fishing with Hickson on a tranquil
Thursday night after work.
As they dangled their lines without much luck, the two said a UFO with blue
lights swooped down. They told of a zipping noise made by the object.
Hickson, then 42, said three creatures with leathery gray skin and crab-like
claws - he thought they were robots - took them by the forearms and levitated
them aboard the craft. He said something that looked like a large floating eye
appeared to examine him.
Parker says he was conscious but paralyzed.
"They gave a thorough, I mean a thorough, examination to me just like any
doctor would," he said.
And then they were back on the shore, where it all began. The UFO was gone
and Parker said they tried to collect themselves. Hickson needed three shots of
liquor from a bottle in his car to calm his nerves before deciding to report
what happened.
At the Jackson County Sheriff's Department, deputies initially suspected both
men were drunk. Then-Capt. Glenn Ryder, who still works for the sheriff's
office, said he laughed at the report, but met with the men. Parker and Hickson
stuck to their story.
After the formal interview, deputies left Hickson and Parker together in a
room with a hidden tape recorder, hoping to catch them in a lie.
"Me and the other investigator got up and left to let them talk, to see if
they were going to say, 'Well, we got them fooled,' but they didn't," Ryder
said. "They were really concerned."
On the tape, Hickson tells Parker, "It scared me to death too, son. You can't
get over it in a lifetime. Jesus Christ have mercy."
"I don't know what happened to them," Ryder said. "I wasn't there with them,
but I know you don't fake fear, and they were fearful. They were fearful."
The next afternoon, the story was splashed across the front pages of
newspapers in Pascagoula and Gulfport. Overnight, Pascagoula became a magnet for
news reporters and UFO investigators.
Widespread interest in UFOs began in the 1940s with an incident at Roswell
N.M., in which UFO enthusiasts believe the government got its hands on a crashed
UFO and alien bodies. The government spent decades denying it.
In the 1960s, interest flared anew with a series of reports, including the
purported alien abduction of New Hampshire couple Betty and Barney Hill in 1961.
The widespread attention to the Pascagoula encounter set off a new round of
reports.
In south Mississippi, hundreds of reports overwhelmed authorities in the two
weeks after the Hickson-Parker encounter.
There were hoaxes and humor too. A Long Beach, Miss., taxi driver told police
a being with pincers tapped on his window, a story he admitted days later was
fake.
A Mobile, Ala., television station said it would record a UFO appearance
predicted by a psychic between Mobile and nearby Pascagoula. Roughly 1,000 cars
converged on the spot, where nothing happened.
An Ocean Springs alderman proposed an ordinance making it illegal to operate
a UFO at more than twice the speed of light on U.S. 90, the coast's main drag.
Mayor Tom Stennis voted against the ordinance, joking he didn't want to
discourage tourism.
UFO skeptic Philip Klass believed Hickson and Parker's report was a hoax. In
his book "UFOs Explained," he noted Hickson changed some details of his story
and claimed a polygraph operator whose test Hickson passed wasn't up to the
task. Parker later passed a lie detector test himself.
Hickson would go on to appear on talk shows, give lectures and interviews,
and self-publish a book in 1983 titled "UFO Contact at Pascagoula." He reported
three more encounters in 1974, and said the aliens communicated to him that they
were peaceful.
"The only thing he wanted to do was let everybody know we were not alone,"
said Eddie Hickson, his son. "He didn't care if you believed him or not. If you
wanted to listen, by gum, he'd tell you."
"He could never understand why he was chosen," the younger Hickson added.
"But he never once told me that he wished it had never happened. Never."
Parker said the intrusions by curiosity seekers have become less frequent
over the years, but have never really let up. "You don't never have no privacy,"
he said.
Parker married later in 1973 and eventually took oil industry and
out-of-state construction jobs to escape the attention.
"By the time you get somewhere and they figure out who you were, I'd just
go," he said. "I'd just go find another job somewhere."
Parker attended some UFO conventions, and was once hypnotized by Budd
Hopkins, a noted UFO investigator. He briefly tried to capitalize on his story
in 1993 by starting a Louisiana company called UFO Investigations where he and
partners would produce television segments on the subject.
Parker moved to Moss Point in 2006 and in 2010 suffered a stroke that limited
him physically. He's on disability aid now, but sometimes boats by the site of
the encounter when he goes fishing. He said that just recently he met a woman at
a gas station who already knew who he was.
"I'm always recognized," he said.
There's no historical marker on the river bank noting the encounter, and
stores don't sell UFO souvenirs. But local people remember - though often with
skepticism and jokes.
For his part, Parker said he's had conflicting thoughts over the years about
that night in 1973. At one point, he wasn't even sure the creatures were aliens.
They might have been demons, he said.
"I'm a firm believer in God and where there's good, there's bad," Parker
said.
Associated Press writer Stacey Plaisance in Pascagoula, Miss., contributed to
this story. Jeff Amy reported from Jackson, Miss.
The writer of an article which appeared a while ago at the now defunct american chronicle link proposed to use the abbreviation ET UFO as a designation for extraterrestrial flying objects as opposed to the generic term UFO which can be anything without further investigation. Isn't it more logical and far better to use the term flying saucer as a designation for solid objects fromsomewhere else or somewhen else with high strangeness in appearance and behavior and probably piloted by unknown visitors? The term flying saucer really does fit the bill because what is weirder and stranger than a saucer that flies. Any intelligent object coming from somewhere else or somewhen else would have a high degree of strangeness on about every level compared to human society. The term would make many people laugh because they would immediately think of a dinner plate which one has thrown into the air concluding incorrectly that this cannot be real. However, just because of this fact the term is more fitted. What would be more alien to people than the concept of saucers flying. A fitting description for craft from elsewhere. What have we? Weird-looking and strange-behaving objects that have been buzzing our skies which haven't replaced our airplanes as yet indicating that they are not ours as the Avro car showed the difficulties associated with saucers while "alien" saucers did all kinds of unbelievable maneuvers. Nobody on this planet has come forth claiming to be the owner of these weird-looking metallic moving objects. And they must be coming from somewhere. If we aren't building them, someone else is. There have been sketches and patents indicating the Nazis possessed UFO technology but this doesn't proof that they are behind the flying saucers. An idea most likely favored by Nazi-enthusiasts.
In this column I want to examine the changing terminology thats been applied
to strange things seen in the skies over the years, and see if and how this has
affected the way in which the subject is viewed.
Since the dawn of time, people have seen strange things in the sky, but
setting aside Biblical references to fiery chariots, and Twentieth Century
terms such as scareships, foo fighters, ghost rockets and ghost
aeroplanes, our story starts in 1947 with Kenneth Arnolds sighting of nine
strange objects over the Cascade Mountains in Washington State. When describing
the motion (not the shape, as is often believed), he said that they moved in an
odd, jerky way, like a saucer skipped across water. The media adapted this
quote into flying saucer and a modern mystery acquired a new name.
Things stayed that way until the then Head of Project Blue Book, Edward
Ruppelt, decided in around 1951 that a more scientific term was needed - not
least because flying saucer had become synonymous with disk-shaped craft,
whereas people were seeing a great variety of different shapes. He coined the
phrase unidentified flying object, which was abbreviated to UFO, and slowly
replaced flying saucer.
We were stuck with UFO for a long time and still are, for the most part.
The problem with this is that in pop culture, the term UFO has become
synonymous with alien spacecraft, leading to nonsensical questions such as Do
you believe in UFOs?, when what people actually mean is Do you believe that
some UFOs are extraterrestrial vehicles?
This was a problem at the UK Ministry of Defense, when for example we
wanted to secure funding for a highly-classified intelligence study into the
phenomenon. Given competing demands on the defense budget, we were unlikely to
get financial approval for any study into UFOs. So we changed the terminology
to unidentified aerial phenomena, which we abbreviated to UAP. The strategy
worked and the study was funded. It evolved into what the UFO community now
knows as Project Condign.
The closure of the UK MoDs UFO project and the declassification and release
of the huge archive of its files inadvertently led to the introduction of yet
more terminology. The fact that the MoD axed the UFO project obviously didnt
stop people seeing UFOs, and while reports from the public could be ignored, if
a military pilot sees a UFO thats tracked on radar, clearly the chain of
command wont ignore it. And if a commercial aircraft has a near-collision with
a UFO, clearly the UKs Airprox Board wont ignore that either. Its just that
such things will be looked at on a case-by-case basis, outside of any
formally-constituted investigative program.
This new situation created a problem, because any investigation of such
incidents might be regarded as contradicting the governments We no longer
investigate UFOs line, which is now routinely parroted to any journalist or
member of the public who asks about the subject. So pilots tend to get around
this by using phrases such as unusual aircraft, unconventional helicopter,
and other variations on the theme.
Aside from helping to preserve the integrity of the We no longer investigate
UFOs line, this new terminology has other advantages. Firstly, it encourages
more pilots to make reports, because the stigma of reporting a UFO (with the
fear of being ridiculed, disbelieved or having ones active flying status
questioned) is no longer an issue. Unusual aircraft carries with it the subtle
implication that what was seen was a new spy plane or drone, which is perfectly
acceptable for pilots to see. The other great advantage of the new phrases is
that they avoid creating a Freedom of Information Act liability, as people tend
to ask questions in terms of UFOs, and not unusual aircraft. Its not clear
to what extent this constitutes a deliberate policy (a deliberate attempt to
subvert the Freedom of Information Act is illegal), as opposed to a case of
unintended benefits.
Whatever the truth of the matter, it shows how the words and phrases that we
use are important. Any graduate of psychology, media studies, politics and a
host of other disciplines knows how thinking and language are inextricably bound
together. The terminology we use can be deliberately chosen to provoke a
reaction positive or negative. One persons terrorist is another persons
freedom fighter. So it is with UFOs. Phrases like flying saucer and little
green men may have been acceptable decades ago, but now seem so old fashioned
that they make the subject seem ridiculous. Even UFO has sufficient stigma to
discourage most politicians and mainstream media outlets from wanting to be
associated with the subject. Some people know this and use this knowledge
deliberately to disparage the subject and those who study it.
However, the UFO community might ultimately profit from all this. Finding out
more about the words and phrases that pilots and air traffic controllers use to
describe UFOs will enable Freedom of Information Act requests to be better
targeted. Adopting more scientific-sounding terms like UAP might enable
ufologists to make their case more effectively. And being aware when someone is
deliberately using archaic terminology to disparage the subject should enable
the UFO community to be better aware of when its under attack, and thus better
able to fight back.
Nick Pope is a former employee of the UK Ministry of Defense. From 1991 to
1994 he ran the British Government's UFO project and has recently been involved
in a five-year program to declassify and release the entire archive of these UFO
files. Nick Pope held a number of other fascinating posts in the course of his
21-year government career, which culminated in his serving as an acting Deputy
Director in the Directorate of Defense Security. He now works as a broadcaster
and journalist, covering subjects including space, fringe science, defense and
intelligence.
Three Former U.S. Air Force ICBM Launch Officers Speak Out About
UFOs
This article appeared in the September 2013 issue of the MUFON
UFO Journal
I am currently working on a documentary film
concerning UFO activity at nuclear weapons sites. Ive just returned from
Albuquerque, New Mexico, where a series of interviews with former U.S. Air Force
missileers were recorded. The veteransPhilip Moore, Jay Earnshaw, and Gaylan
Kingwere first interviewed on audiotape years ago but graciously agreed to
participate in the current project as well.
Although it will be many
months before the film is finished, brief summaries of the former nuclear
missile launch officers audiotaped statements appear here:
Philip Moore
In 2005, retired USAF Lt. Col. Philip E. Moore
agreed to tell me about his own UFO experience at Walker AFB, New Mexico. At the
time of the incident Moore had been a Deputy Missile Combat Crew Commander
(DMCCC) and was on duty in one of the 579th Strategic Missile Squadrons
underground Atlas ICBM launch control capsules.
He said, It was late at
night. My crew was on alert at 579 Site 7 in late 1964 when my crew commander,
Major Dan Gilbert, and I got a call from one of our sister sites. The other
missile crew said that a UFO was alternately hovering over their site, rapidly
moving away, then returning.
Moore continued, It was Major Gilbert who
took the call, most likely from the other MCCC. I believe it was Site 6 that
called, but it might have been Site 8. Sites 6, 7, and 8 were in a cluster
south-southeast of Roswell. The sighting could have been made by a guard or
enlisted crew member at the other site.
I was a first lieutenant at the
time, one of three crew members certified to monitor the launch console. So
Major Gilbert sent our enlisted crew membersTechnical Sergeant Jack Nevins,
Airman 1st Class Bob Garner, and Airman 1st Class Mike Rundagup to the Silo
Cap, at ground level, to see what they could.
They reported the UFO
zooming from the direction of Site 6 to the direction of Site 8 and hovering for
awhile at the end of the movement. I recall my crew members saying that the
hovering was instantaneous. At times it hovered over Site 6, then flew extremely
rapidly to the other site and instantly stopped and hovered in-place over that
one. I cant remember how many round-trips were involved. They all described it
as a silent light that moved extremely rapidlyinstant go and instant stop, no
getting up to speed or slowing down. Unfortunately, no binoculars were
available.
Moore added, The common comment I remember was that everyone
thought it was a UFO and that it was hovering directly over Sites 6 and 8 and
nowhere else. Thus, it was specifically interested in those sites.
When
I asked Moore whether the crew members had been certain that the UFO was
stopping directly over the other missile sitesgiven their estimated 10 to
15-mile distance from Site 7he responded, They assumed that the hovering was
directly over the sites because the crew commander who called us said that it
was definitely over his site. After awhile, Major Gilbert ordered Nevins to sit
at the console with me and he went topside. He saw the same activity. During the
event, the UFO did not come to our site. By the time my turn came to go topside,
the show was over so I didnt see anything.
I asked Moore if he and his
crew were debriefed about the incident. He responded, We were never debriefed,
never warned not to discuss it, nor was it discussed beyond [the members of our
crew]. In other words, there was no official discussion or acknowledgment. It
seemed to be ignored above crew-level. But some of us crew members discussed it
freely.
Moore concluded, I personally believe that there is something
to the UFO-ICBM connection. I know the Air Force covers-up when it feels the
official need. UFOs over ICBM sites could be one of those official
needs.
Jay Earnshaw
If one goes to the documents section of my web-site
one will find a three-page Air Force report discussing UFO activity at F.E.
Warren AFBs Minuteman missile sites from July 31 to August 2, 1965. Retired
launch officer John F. Jay Earnshaw was involved in the events of August 1st
and, it seems, on other unknown dates in the mid-1960s.
He told me, I
was a Captain, a Missile Combat Crew Commander or, early on, a Deputy Commander,
primarily at Echo Flight. We did have [UFO] sightings at Echo Flight. There were
times that our security forces up above would report strange things. Lights in
the sky. Because I was a missile commander, the security people were required to
call down to the capsule and report anything unusual going on up there.
The information we got about the UFOs was that none of them came inside
the fenced area [around the Echo Launch Control Facility], and none of them
touched-down in the area outside the fence. As reported by the on-duty security
controller, the lights visible from Echo Flight would have extended from the
northwest to the southeast. So they were all just strange aerial lights, making
no noise, that would stack on top of one another and then just
disappear.
I asked Earnshaw if he could recall any specific description
of the aerial lights. He said, The security people described them as oblong or,
from the correct perspective, disc-like. No reported markings or navigation
lights. If a color was reported, it was usually reddish or orange-ish shades.
They were reported as aloft or up in the air but I dont recall any mention
of altitudeno reliable estimated distance other than close.
Earnshaw
added, I heard that [the Air Force Office of Special Investigations] was
debriefing people. OSI was charged with doing whatever the commanders above them
wanted done.
I asked Earnshaw to estimate the number of UFO-related
calls he had received from the security police topside at Echo. He said, There
were a few. It wasnt a multitude of calls. Those calls were eventually
discouraged by higher command. There was a lot of pressure by Blue Book to keep
this under wraps and, you know, they were saying publicly that there was nothing
to [UFOs] and all that. But [among the missile launch officers] there were
reports by word-of-mouth. But it was one of those things that was never
officially acknowledged.
Earnshaw then said firmly, But we got reports
from our security people that there were objects in the sky stacked up, one on
top of the other, just hovering there. The Russians sure didnt have the
capability to do that! So that leaves only one other possibility. I am one who
believes that we are not the only ones in the Universe and, well, I think
someone might have been interested in what we were doing at our [nuclear
missile] sites. I wasnt one of the witnesses to these events because I was
underground in the capsule, but my second-hand information from the security
people up above was that the objects were really there.
Gaylan King
Retired U.S. Air Force Major Gaylan W. King, who
was a Minuteman launch officer at Ellsworth Air Force Base, South Dakota, in the
mid-1960s, told me during a taped telephone conversation:
I think this happened in 1967 but it may well have been in 66. I was a
Captain, a Missile [Combat] Crew Commander, with the 66th Strategic Missile
Squadron. We experienced several cases of UFOs hovering over sites. Everyone
knew that there were weird things going on.
The most interesting
occurrenceof about 10 to 15happened one night at another flight, Charlie. I
was in the Echo capsule that night and heard what happened on the Primary Alert
System. Following the security violation [alarms], both Outer and Inner, they
sent out a Strike Team and received a visual report of a UFO hovering over a
Launch FacilityI dont remember which onewith some kind of light beam coming
down from the bottom of the UFO to the site. The team leader told the commander
at Charlie that the object looked like a flying saucer and the beam was
described as reddish in color. The craft then took off at high
speed.
This report went immediately up the chain [of command] to SAC
Headquarters. Soon, black, unmarked Huey helicopters showed up at Ellsworth.
They were constantly coming and going, from the base out to the countryside. You
know, we had 150 missiles scattered around out there. Anyway, the Hueys were
strategically stationed around the greater area of the 44th Strategic Missile
WingI guess to get a look at the UFOswhich were very evident for three to four
weeks.
The crews of those choppers came to the Officers Club but spoke
to no one and disappeared as quickly as they appeared. They werent Air Force;
they were probably working for the CIA or NSA or some group like that. Short
hair, dark clothes, kept to themselves. They were different and stuck out. They
were all over the place. Id love to know who they were.
As soon as they
showed up, everything began to clamp down. We heard nothing about the results
[of their investigations], but I spoke with some of the security Strike Team
commanders, all NCOs, who actually saw the unidentified intruders. This scenario
apparently happened at all or most of the Minuteman wings. We heard about that
through the grapevine. I have no doubt what the objects were.
While we
cannot know with certainty, I suspect that the events described by Gaylan King
occurred in 1966, not 67. Retired missile maintenance technicians Albert
Spodnik and John Baker have independently discussed UFO-related events at
Ellsworths Juliet Flight, in June 1966, involving mysterious single-missile
shutdowns that occurred when UFOs were reported to be in the vicinity. King told
me that he had not heard about those incidents, perhaps because they occurred at
launch sites belonging to a different squadron at the base.
Three more
videotaped interviews, with other former ICBM launch officers, are scheduled.
Brief excerpts from all six will appear in my documentary film and the
full-length versions will eventually appear on YouTube.
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main site are completely mobile compatible -- whether on a tablet or phone.
The Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force (IRIAF) has reportedly used F-14A
Tomcats to intercept UFOs for decades.
Cover of Combat Aircraft Monthly. (Credit: Key Publishing)
An article in the October 2013 issue of the military aviation magazine
Combat Aircraft Monthly details the history of the Tomcat aircraft in
the IRIAF. Near the end of the article, a section titled UFO hunters describes
that F-14s have been used by the air force during the last twenty years to
intercept foreign and unknown aircraft.
The article explains that, when Irans nuclear program was revealed, the U.S.
used unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to gather reconnaissance from nuclear
facilities in the fall of 2004. IRIAF reportedly had four F-4 and four F-14
interceptors standing by, twenty-four hours a day, because of this UAV presence.
Other F-4s and F-14s were kept on alert, and some were even flown every night to
monitor the areas airspace. But some of the unidentified craft they encountered
were anything but ordinary.
UFOs were spotted multiple times by both ground radar and airborne radar.
According to Combat Aircraft Monthly, Iranian sources described that
the UFOs displayed astonishing flight characteristics, including an ability to
fly outside the atmosphere, attain a maximum cruise speed of Mach 10, and a
minimum speed of zero, with the ability to hover over the target. These craft
also reportedly emitted high levels of magnetic energy that disrupted navigation
systems and jammed radars.
The article details one of these encounters where equipment was affected by a
UFO:
In one case over Arak in November 2004, the crew of an F-14A armed with two
AIM-9Js and two AIM-7E-4s spotted a luminous object flying near the heavy water
plant of the Arak site. When the beam of the jets AN/AWG-9 radar painted the
object, both the RIO and pilot saw that the radar scope was disrupted, probably
due to the high magnetic energy of the object increasing the power of the
reflected radar waves. The pilot described the object as being spherical, with
something like a green afterburner creating a considerable amount of turbulence
behind it. The Tomcat crew achieved a lock-on when it was flying a linear and
constant flight path. Once the pilot selected an AIM-7E-4 to launch against it,
the object increased its speed and then disappeared like a meteor.
The article also mentions a 2012 incident where an F-14 was scrambled to
intercept an incoming UFO, but seconds after taking off, the F-14 exploded.
NASAs X-43A. (Credit: NASA)
Other attempted engagements by the F-4s and F-14s proved futile, so the IRIAF
reportedly ordered an end to flying missions against these luminous objects.
Both Iran and Russia allegedly investigated these extraordinary UAVs. But
following two years of research, the Iranian Army settled with the conclusion
that the craft were simply U.S. intelligence drones.
No currently known aircraft has the ability to perform like the UFOs observed
in Iran. NASAs X-43A Scramjet set a new world speed record for a jet-powered
aircraftMach 9.6, or nearly 7,000 mphin 2004. But it does not have the
capability to hover. It is a natural assumption that the U.S. military has
secret aircraft and technology that is yet to be publicly acknowledged. But
until such incredible technology is revealed, it is impossible to conclusively
write off the UAVs in Iran as U.S. drones.
Thanks to Pedro from Miami, FL for sending the Combat Aircraft
Monthly article to me.
Russia Unprepared to Deal With Space Alien Invasion
Official
KRASNOZNAMENSK (Moscow region), October 2 (RIA Novosti) A Russian military
space official admitted Wednesday that the country will be powerless to act
should Earth become the target of an interplanetary incursion.
Sergei Berezhnoy, an aide to the head of the Titov Space Control Center, said
that Russian aerospace defense authorities have not been tasked with preparing
for the contingency of an alien attack.
There are enough problems on Earth and in near-Earth space, Berezhnoy said
in response to a reporters question.
The planets space powers are in any event limited in their scope of action
for building up military capabilities beyond the Earths confines. Under the
terms of the 1976 Outer Space Treaty, to which Russia is a signatory, states
cannot place weapons of mass destruction in orbit, although conventional weapons
are allowed.
The Titov Space Control Center, which is run by the Russian Aerospace Defense
Forces, is the countrys primary military and commercial satellite control
facility.
The facility currently operates about 80 percent of Russian orbital
spacecraft.
This must be the most cringe-inducing interview by a senior journalist Ive
ever seen.
Its conducted by Kirsty Wark, one of the BBCs top presenters, and takes
places on Newsnight, the BBCs flagship nightly current affairs programme.
It truly makes me more ashamed of the profession of journalism than I
already was and I didnt think that was possible.
Throughout the interview, Wark abandons even the pretence of doing what
journalism is supposed to be about: interrogating the centres of power and
holding them to account.
Instead Wark mimics adversarial journalism by interrogating the US journalist
Glenn Greenwald about his role in the NSA leaks, as though shes a novice MI5
recruit. To do this she has to parrot British government misinformation and fire
at him questions so childish even she seems to realise half way through them how
embarrassing they are.
This is actually how most Newsnight interviews run: creating the theatre of
conflict between journalist and interviewee that conceals the real issues rather
than revealing them. If one wanted to produce news that looked honest while
actually being deeply dishonest this is exactly how one would do it.
The reason that the charade is exposed in this case is because the
interviewee, Greenwald, is another journalist, and a far better one than Wark.
So every time she relays an MI5 talking point, he can point out that shes not
doing the work of a journalist, even by the official definition she is supposed
to believe in.
9 March
2013Last updated at 03:17 GMTBy Alex HudsonBBC
News
Marc Cieslak investigates fighting fire in a virtual world
With "immersive media" taking content well beyond
the TV screen, new technology is attempting to move virtual reality towards
something even closer to real life.
Whether it be a cave, an igloo or a theatre, virtual reality is getting the
immersive experience, with sight, sound and smell.
Full 360-degree screens are now capable of taking audiences to a whole new
place. The companies pioneering this technology are hoping it will be close to a
literal experience.
In a specially designed room, images are projected in every angle, even on to
the ceiling so that those viewing are drawn into the illusion more fully than
just looking at a screen.
Current applications are wide-ranging but include education about space
travel, military training and acting as a tour guide around such sights as the
pyramids. There is also a huge potential for gaming.
Flight simulators have offered a similar idea for a while but a true
simulation cockpit costs about $20m (£13m) to purchase. It's still quite a way
from the home for most.
"When it's done well it's an incredibly immersive experience, profoundly
immersive," says Martin Howe, vice-president of tech company Global Immersion.
"It's like being there. In technology terms, it's just a giant computer... a
super computer.
"We're just at the start... we can put anything on the screen."
But with screens already being the way a vast majority of people consume
their information, what is so different about this?
'Suspend disbelief'
Visuals are wherever the person looks and even peripheral vision in a system
like this is seen as incredibly important.
"Imagine if you went through the world with sight blinders on and could only
see what's in front of you - how much of the world would you see?" says Mike
Hancock, of Mechdyne which produces the Cave system.
"If you just have that flat screen, then you're blinding your peripheral
vision so you don't get the information you would usually get, which your brain
processes whether you know it or not."
The thinking behind bigger screens operating in every angle is to suspend
disbelief for the time the people seeing it are there.
This would mean the psychological response is very similar to how it would be
in real life.
"The minute they are in a situation where they have got visuals all around
them, they feel like they are in that environment which is obviously far removed
from just looking at a flat screen in a normal room," says Colin Yellowley, MD
of Igloo Vision.
The Igloo is a steel-tubed framework covered in PVC and a 360-degree screen
powered by five HD projectors.
It offers large-scale simulation and a screen that draws you into the
experience because there is no chance to look away.
But people are still in a room without the ability to truly interact with
their surroundings in a natural way?
Firefighters using the system for training use a joystick to look around the
environment rather than physically moving through it.
But the benefits for them and other organisations using the devices are
heralded as an important progression.
"What it does is it brings things into a more realistic perspective," says
Neale Smiles, business director of military training company H4 Global.
"They can do things such as dangerous missions, bring things very close to
your own position - all of the things that they are not allowed to do in
peacetime using live munitions."
This is not just in vision. Military services have asked for smell and sound
to play a key part in the training, from recreating the smell of vomit or blood
to the noise of a helicopter landing close by.
It certainly is quite a way from a textbook and a white board.
Bullets 'around the room'
This technology is even creeping towards finding its way into the home. At
the recent CES conference, Microsoft showed off a proof-of-concept video that
expands games beyond the television screen.
Called the IllumiRoom, bullets fly through the room, environments appear off
screen using projections and a Kinect motion sensor monitors the position of the
user.
"[It] blur[s] the lines between on-screen content and the environment we live
in allowing us to combine our virtual and physical worlds," wrote
Microsoft.
Rumours have emerged online that this could be somehow related to the new
XBox console announcement. Microsoft will not say any more until further details
emerge in April.
For well over half a century I have been interested in exploring phenomena while maintaining firm balance in the real world. Therefore my web site contains two bios; one for the straight world (www.johnbalexander.com...) and another that be of more interest to ATS readers (www.johnbalexander.com...). For 32 years I served in the Army entering as a private, rising to sergeant first class (E7), attending Officers Candidate School, was commissioned as a second lieutenant and became a colonel before I retired in 1988. My varied assignments were mostly in special operations, intelligence, and research and development. I am a Special Forces combat commander, Ranger, Pathfinder, underwater operations qualified, and later served under contract as a mentor to the senior MOD leadership in Afghanistan.
My second career was at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). Recognizing the world was rapidly changing I developed the concept of Non-Lethal Defense which has evolved into a major military endeavor, but remains poorly understood. Despite persistent rumors it has nothing to do with mind control but will be integral to the future application of force in all sectors.
After retiring from the University of California (LANL is actually a campus of the UC system) I was the person first to join the National Institute for Discovery Science (NIDS) here in Las Vegas. Among my many experiences there, I was the first of NIDS staff to spend the night on Skinwalker Ranch. Very likely, most of what you think you know about NIDS is wrong. It was wholly owned by Robert Bigelow and had no connection to the U.S. government (other than accepting FAA referrals on UFOs.)
Scholastically I graduated from the University of Nebraska Omaha, obtained an MA from Pepperdine University and Ph.D. from Walden University. Later I attended advanced programs at the Sloan School of Management at MIT, Anderson School of Management at UCLA, and the Senior Executive Program in National and International Security at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard.
We have traveled the world, including all seven continents, and lectured on most. Most recently we have returned from exploring shamans and the reindeer people in Northern Mongolia and experiencing voodoo ceremonies in Togo and Benin, West Africa. We saw things that cant happen but did. For information about the countries we have visited check my web site www.johnbalexander.com That may answer questions or generate new ones. New Guinea was amazing, as were experiences with shamans and healers from all over the world. John of God in Brazil is a favorite.
I have had four books published and written many scientific articles on a broad range of topics from non-lethal weapons and geopolitics, to remote viewing, near death experiences and UFOs. As a senior fellow at defense universities I have published monographs on the changing nature of war, intelligence shortfalls in Central and South America, emerging conflicts in Africa, and the convergence of functions between special operations forces and civilian law enforcement agencies. My next monograph, which addresses maritime piracy, is due out within a few weeks. I have also contributed to a National Defense University book on the future of biological warfare. All of those DOD publications are available for free on my web site.
My book, UFOs: Myths, Conspiracies, and Realities, is based on an ad hoc group I formed decades ago to study the topic. Participants came from all services, several intelligence agencies, and aerospace industries. All members had very high security clearances. Contrary to popular mythology we found no ultra-secret organization lurking in the background. Excluding the names of individuals involved that already have not self-identified, I have no prohibitions in answering any questions you might have about the topic.
While in the military we explored a lot of controversial issues. With help of Jack Houck I taught metal bending (PKMB) to hundreds of officials and researched monitoring of emotions at a distance through oral leucocytes with information from Cleve Backster. Later I was a founding member of the board of directors for the International Remote Viewers Association (IRVA). Based on my dissertation topic I joined the board of directors of the International Association for Near-Death Studies (IANDS), then at the University of Connecticut. As one of the presidents I heard many extraordinary cases. On the straight side of thanatology studies I helped form Childrens Hospice International (CHI) and was on the founding board of directors along with my mentor, Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross. Now, decades later there are free-standing hospices for pediatric care and support for their families that did not exist before 1980.
To support serious research into phenomenology I joined the Society for Scientific Exploration (SSE) which has some of the most forward thinking and open-minded scientists on the planet. For nine years I served as a council member until eliminated due to term limits.
Philosophically I concur with Einstein; there are no limits to human stupidity. Although often associated with them through ridiculous rumors, I have little tolerance for conspiracy theories that abound. I find that most people have no concept of how large organizations work, and willingly make huge leaps in logic about capabilities the government may, or may not have. That said, I will not knowingly make any misleading statements in my response to questions; but expect blunt answers to such questions.
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Best selling
US author Tom Clancy (with Grant Blackwood) has a 2010 novel out titled "Dead or
Alive" (published by Michael Joseph. New York. ISBN 978-0-718-15741-8.) It's the
usual action packed spy and military novel we have come to expect from
Clancy.
However, a section of page 756 came as a surprise to me, when I
read it the other day. Clancy and Blackwood describe a truck driver, working for
the US Government who undergoes a special training program. "Mostly they drilled
him on emergency procedures: what to do of someone tried to high jack the load;
what to do if he got into an accident; what to do if a UFO came down and beamed
him out of the cab..."
Well, I know it's only a very small line in a
fictional story, but it led me to wonder what Clancy's views were on the UFO
phenomenon? Clancy has previously spoken of the very knowledgeable military
personnel who he knows through his research for his novels.
I then
recalled that Clancy had written a "commentary" for John B Alexander's 2011
book "UFOs:myths, conspiracies and realities," (published by Thomas Dunne
books. New York. ISBN 978-0-312-64834-3.)
In the commentary (p.
xix)Clancy opens with "Like most Americans, I've been reading about UFOs since I
saw my first flying saucer movie back in 1954 or so."
Referring to
Alexander's book "This book is, I think, maybe the first-ever look into a
question that millions of people have, and more to the point, it's a look that
asks questions and looks for hard answers...What he says you can take to the
bank."
After speaking of the growth of our own technology "We can assume
that UFOs, if they exist, have computer power such as we have not yet dreamed
about, and what else can they do? Dimensional corridors that by-pass space-time?
If so, then they can hop from place to place faster than the speed of light. Or
even time travel? What we consider reality would be immensely limiting to the
pilots of such craft. We cannot know, and even if we did know, could we
understand? Probably, yes."
Comparing out state of knowledge of UFOs,
Clancy concludes "And so it is with the UFO. We do not know how they, if they
are real, operate. All we can do is to gather information, draw conclusions from
it, then advance a step at a time in the hope of catching up."
Scientists create never-before-seen form of matter
Harvard and MIT scientists are challenging the conventional wisdom about
light, and they didn't need to go to a galaxy far, far away to do it.
Working with colleagues at the Harvard-MIT Center for Ultracold Atoms, a
group led by Harvard Professor of Physics Mikhail Lukin and MIT Professor of
Physics Vladan Vuletic have managed to coax photons into binding together to form molecules a state of matter that,
until recently, had been purely theoretical. The work is described in a
September 25 paper in Nature.
The discovery, Lukin said, runs contrary to decades of accepted wisdom about
the nature of light. Photons have long been described as massless particles
which don't interact with each other shine two laser beams at each other, he said, and they simply pass through one
another.
"Photonic molecules," however, behave less like traditional lasers and more
like something you might find in science fiction the
light saber.
"Most of the properties of light we know about originate from the fact that
photons are massless, and that they do not interact with each other," Lukin
said. "What we have done is create a special type of medium in which photons
interact with each other so strongly that they begin to act as though they have
mass, and they bind together to form molecules. This type of photonic bound
state has been discussed theoretically for quite a while, but until now it
hadn't been observed.
"It's not an in-apt analogy to compare this to light sabers," Lukin added.
"When these photons interact with each other, they're pushing against and
deflect each other. The physics of what's happening in these molecules is
similar to what we see in the movies."
To get the normally-massless photons to bind to each other, Lukin and
colleagues, including Harvard post-doctoral fellow Ofer Fisterberg, former
Harvard doctoral student Alexey Gorshkov and MIT graduate students Thibault
Peyronel and Qiu Liang couldn't rely on something like the Force they instead
turned to a set of more extreme conditions.
Researchers began by pumped rubidium atoms into a vacuum chamber, then used
lasers to cool the cloud of atoms to just a few degrees above absolute zero.
Using extremely weak laser pulses, they then fired
single photons into the cloud of atoms.
As the photons enter the cloud of cold atoms, Lukin said, its energy excites
atoms along its path, causing the photon to slow dramatically. As the photon
moves through the cloud, that energy is handed off from atom to atom, and
eventually exits the cloud with the photon.
"When the photon exits the medium, its identity is preserved," Lukin said.
"It's the same effect we see with refraction of light in a water glass. The
light enters the water, it hands off part of its energy to the medium, and
inside it exists as light and matter coupled together, but when it exits, it's
still light. The process that takes place is the same it's just a bit more
extreme the light is slowed considerably, and a lot more energy is given away
than during refraction."
When Lukin and colleagues fired two photons into the cloud, they were
surprised to see them exit together, as a single molecule.
The reason they form the never-before-seen molecules?
An effect called a Rydberg blockade, Lukin said, which states that when an
atom is excited, nearby atoms cannot be excited to the same degree. In practice,
the effect means that as two photons enter the atomic cloud, the first excites
an atom, but must move forward before the second photon can excite nearby
atoms.
The result, he said, is that the two photons push and pull each other through
the cloud as their energy is handed off from one atom to the next.
"It's a photonic interaction that's mediated by the atomic interaction,"
Lukin said. "That makes these two photons behave like a molecule, and when they
exit the medium they're much more likely to do so together than as single
photons."
While the effect is unusual, it does have some practical applications as
well.
"We do this for fun, and because we're pushing the frontiers of science,"
Lukin said. "But it feeds into the bigger picture of what we're doing because
photons remain the best possible means to carry quantum information. The
handicap, though, has been that photons don't interact with each other."
To build a quantum computer, he explained, researchers need to build a system
that can preserve quantum information, and process it using quantum logic
operations. The challenge, however, is that quantum logic requires interactions
between individual quanta so that quantum systems can be switched to perform
information processing.
"What we demonstrate with this process allows us to do that," Lukin said.
"Before we make a useful, practical quantum switch or photonic logic gate we
have to improve the performance, so it's still at the proof-of-concept level,
but this is an important step. The physical principles we've established here
are important."
The system could even be useful in classical computing, Lukin said,
considering the power-dissipation challenges chip-makers now face. A number of
companies including IBM have worked to develop systems that rely on optical
routers that convert light signals into electrical signals, but those systems
face their own hurdles.
Lukin also suggested that the system might one day even be used to create
complex three-dimensional structures such as crystals wholly out of light.
"What it will be useful for we don't know yet, but it's a new state of
matter, so we are hopeful that new applications may emerge as we continue to
investigate these photonic molecules' properties," he said. Explore further:MIT researchers build an all-optical transistor
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