Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.
This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.
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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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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 In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
MUFON of het Mutual UFO Network Inc is een Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in alle USA-staten en diverse landen.
MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com.
Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
03-01-2023
MUFON November 2022 Sightings - Statistical Report
MUFON November 2022 Sightings - Statistical Report
November 2022 Sightings
Statistical Report
COUNTRIES
UNITED STATES 544
CANADA 30
FRANCE 29
UNITED KINGDOM 23
AUSTRALIA 15
BELGIUM 7
BRAZIL 4
CHILE 2
SOUTH AFRICA 2
INDIA 2
GERMANY 2
ITALY 2
IRAQ 1
INDONESIA 1
NAMIBIA 1
CHINA 1
NEW ZEALAND 1
POLAND 1
IRAN 1
UNITED STATES MINOR OUTLYING ISLANDS 1 RUSSIAN FEDERATION 1
TURKEY 1
CZECH REPUBLIC 1
ESTONIA 1
MALAYSIA 1
BARBADOS 1
PORTUGAL 1
SPAIN 1
GIBRALTAR 1
UGANDA 1
TURKS AND CAICOS ISLANDS 1
SRI LANKA 1
IRELAND 1
COTE D'IVOIRE 1
TOTAL: 684
BY SHAPE
Circle 126
Sphere 76
Triangle 60 Unknown 53
Other 47
Oval 41
Disc 36
Star-like 31
Tic Tac 22
Square/Rectangular 20
Cylinder 19
Cigar 18
Fireball 15
Boomerang 14
N/A 13
Blimp 7
Flash 7
Diamond 7
Bullet/Missile 6
Cone 5
Egg 5
Chevron 2
Saturn-like 2
Cross 1
Teardrop 1
STATES OF USA
California 47
Texas 40
Florida 36
Pennsylvania 35
Michigan 30
Missouri 26
New York 24
Ohio 20
Kentucky 18
Georgia 17
Washington 16
Oregon 15
Indiana 14
New Jersey 13
Illinois 12
North Carolina 11
Arizona 11
Massachusetts 11
Oklahoma 10
Arkansas 10
Kansas 9
Nevada 9
Minnesota 9
Tennessee 8
Virginia 8
Wisconsin 8
Utah 7
Maryland 7
Connecticut 6
South Carolina 6
Maine 6 Colorado 6
New Mexico 5
Mississippi 4
Louisiana 3
Alabama 3
Hawaii 3
Idaho 3
New Hampshire 3
Montana 2
Vermont 2
Iowa 2
Wyoming 1
North Dakota 1
Nebraska 1
Rhode Island 1
DISTANCE FROM THE WITNESS
< 100 ft 78
101-500 ft 77
501 ft - 1 Mile 130
Over 1 Mile 163
Unknown 46
NO VALUE 21
Most impressively there were 21 Landings, Hovering, or Takeoffs reported and 20 Entities observed. Number of abduction (ERT) cases were 39.
Most impressively there were 23 Landings, Hovering, or Takeoffs reported and 27 Entities observed. Number of abduction (ERT) cases were 33. Number of submitted Experiencer Questionnaires were 0.
The “space ball” found recently in Namibia, now in the possession of that country’s National Forensic Science Institute.
(Credit: AFP Photo)
The recent story of a mysterious “space ball” found in Namibia, Africa last November, which baffled for a while that country’s National Forensic Science Institute, has now been identified as a type of space debris known as a Composite Overwrapped Pressure Vessel (COPV), according to a story posted by Discovery News. The metallic ball discovered in a Namibian grassland is 1.1 meter in diameter and weighs 13 pounds.
One of the space spheres on display at the UFO Vision Museum in Victoria, Argentina; photo of George Adamski in the background.
(Credit: Open Minds Production)
I am, in fact, quite familiar with these objects since I published a short article about them as a sidebar to my feature story, “3 International UFO Crashes” in Open Minds magazine Issue 8 (June/July 2011). The gist of that article dealt with three mysterious incidents involving possible UFO crashes in Shag Harbour, Canada (1967), Tarija, Bolivia (1978) and Dalnegorsk, Russia (1986), all of which were officially investigated at the time and still remain unexplained.
The sidebar, “The Metallic Spheres – a case of mistaken identity,” however, did not remain unidentified, and was put there as an example of so-called space mysteries that can be successfully explained, although some ufologists prefer to keep the mystery alive and suggest they may be of alien origin. These metallic balls have been falling to different parts of the Earth—mostly in Africa and Latin America—for a number of years, causing sometimes a bit of stir in the local press. They are on exhibit in at least two museums in Argentina. Hoping to discourage further confusion with real UFO-related stuff, we post below my article from Open Minds magazine, adding several photos that were not used in the original print copy.
THE METALLIC SPHERES – A CASE OF MISTAKEN IDENTITY
Two space spheres on display in the patio of the Firmat Museum in Santa Fe, Argentina.
(Credit: Open Minds Production)
Some of the Project Moon Dust documents declassified by the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) include reports of mysterious metallic spheres found scattered in many countries around the world like Bolivia, Chad, and New Zealand. Other similar cases not in the DIA documents were reported in Argentina and Mexico. Usually these cases were readily identified as some kind of space junk, but occasionally they were treated as fragments from crashed UFOs. A couple of these spheres are even on display at the “Visión OVNI” (UFO Vision) Museum in Victoria in the province of Entre Ríos, Argentina. Among the Mexican cases, one was found in Chiapas in 1996, two in Tamaulipas in 1994 and 1996, and another obtained by famous TV journalist Jaime Maussán in 2008, all of which were claimed as possibly UFO-related fragments. Yet there can be little doubt that all these “space balls” are mundane parts of the Russian or American space programs and not real UFO artifacts.
Here is a representative Moon Dust memo from the Republic of Chad in Africa, dated October 10, 1970:
This report forwards photographs of object believed to come under Project ‘MOON DUST’. The object was seen falling in an area 30 kms N.E. of LAI (0924N-1618E) on 1 August 1970. It produced three loud explosions on landing and was said to have burned for five days. The sphere weighs 30 pounds and has a circumference of four feet. A second object was found in the same general area. It however, resembles an automobile shaft. Photographs of this object are forwarded.
A longer Moon Dust document, dated August 17, 1979, concerns “an unidentified object having been found on a farm near Santa Cruz” in Bolivia, described as “about three times the size of a basketball.” The document quoted the director of the Air Force Academy, Col. Ariel Coca, as stating, “The sphere is made of special light alloy but very resistant, possibly a fuel tank or a part of a satellite! The object does not have any signs or marks that could identify its origin nor the country to which it belongs.”
Two views of the space sphere that fell in Mexico in 2008, now in the possession of Jaime Maussán. Notice the extensive damage inflicted due to reentry.
(Credit: Open Minds Production)
The argument in favor of the extraterrestrial origin of these spheres made by some ufologists in Mexico and Argentina is that they are extremely hard, almost impossible to burn or cut.
Cover of the Mexican magazine Contacto Ovni in the 1990s with the headline, 'The Mystery of the Spheres.'
(Credit: Contacto Ovni)
But this is what you would expect of a fuel tank for a spacecraft, designed to be ejected for earth reentry once the fuel is used; it has to be made of metals able to withstand the space launch or the satellite or spacecraft could be in danger. Mexican engineer Luis Ruiz Noguez, a well-known UFO skeptic, explained that the alloy, which is composed of titanium, vanadium, and aluminum, shown in the 1994 and 1996 Mexican spheres “is chiefly utilized in the manufacture of fuel tanks for artificial satellites due to their high resistance to corrosion and temperature.” While the spheres at Argentina’s Visión OVNI Museum are exhibited as true UFO artifacts, the local Firmat Museum in Santa Fe, Argentina has a couple of similar spheres that the Russian space program has acknowledged as part of a Russian space probe.
If you still have any doubt about the provenance of these objects, checkout Paul Maley’s Space Debris website, to see images of a number of these “space balls” of varying sizes and conditions found around the world. These spheres provide a useful cautionary tale in learning how to distinguish prosaic man-made space objects from true unknown devices. There is a good possibility that many so-called UFO crashes have a terrestrial origin, but others are still enigmatic and so far unexplained.
In what US prosecutors have called the biggest military hack of all time, Scottish hacker Gary McKinnon says it was all done in an effort to end secrecy regarding UFOs and free energy technology. McKinnon has been accused of hacking into computer systems belonging to NASA, the U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, Department of Defense, and the U.S. Air Force. He is fighting extradition to the United States to be held on trial. If extradited, McKinnon faces spending the rest of his life in prison, but were his efforts in vain or did he really find something?
In all of his interviews, McKinnon talks about two UFO related finds. He told the Guardian newspaper that he thought what he found was so important that he tried to barter with the government. When first caught he was offered the chance to take a plea bargain and get a three to four year sentence. He turned the offer down to get a lesser sentence and threatened to release everything he found if they didn’t give him a better deal. Unfortunately for McKinnon, the U.S. government wasn’t too worried about his revelations. Now he faces spending a 70 year sentence in a US prison.
Lucy Clarke, McKinnon’s girlfriend, is comforted at a protest.
(credit: Cate Gillon/Getty Images Europe)
McKinnon was inspired by physician Dr. Steven Greer’s Disclosure Project. Greer had brought together a number of witnesses to testify in front of the Washington National Press Club that they had knowledge of the existence of Extraterrestrial visitation and that it was being hidden from the public. One of the witnesses said they knew that pictures from space were being altered at NASA’s Johnson’s space center; UFOs were allegedly being taken out of pictures.
McKinnon hacked into Johnson’s systems and said he found a high definition picture of a large cigar shaped object over the northern hemisphere. He said that he was so shocked by the picture that he didn’t think to immediately save it. He also said that the file size was so large that is was difficult to view it on his computer. Eventually his connection was lost and so was the picture.
The most shocking find to McKinnon, the one he thought would be his ace in the hole negotiating with the US.. government, was what he found hacking into the systems of U.S. Space Command. McKinnon says he found a log that listed non-terrestrial officers. He doesn’t believe that these were aliens, but he believes this to be evidence that the U.S. military has a secret battalion in space. Some of these logs were ship to ship transfers, but he says he was usually smoking pot while he hacked, so that prevented him from remembering the names of the ships. McKinnon told the Gaurdian: “I was smoking a lot of dope at the time. Not good for the intellect.”
There are rumors that he has talked about the names of two of the ships he saw on the transfer logs, the names of the ships allegedly being the USSS LeMay and the USSS Hillenkoetter. Typically Navy ship names just have two S’, an acronym for United States Ship, however there are three S’ here, presumably standing for United States Space Ship. The names of the ships are also significant.
General Curtis LeMay
(credit: USAF)
General Curtis LeMay was friends with retired Air Force Reserve Major General and former U.S. Senator from Arizona, Barry Goldwater. Goldwater believed there was a UFO cover-up deep within the government, and suspected that his friend LeMay knew about it. There were rumors that there was UFO evidence being held in a secret room at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base called the blue room. Goldwater told the media several times that when he asked LeMay about this room, LeMay got upset and told him, “Not only can’t you get into it but don’t you ever mention it to me again.” Open Minds magazine will have an article going more into depth on Goldwater in the second issue.
The second ship’s namesake, Admiral Roscoe Hillenkoetter, was the first director of the CIA, and was also a member of a UFO research organization, the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP). In 1960, the New York Times reported that Hillenkoetter had sent a letter to Congress that included this statement: “Behind the scenes, high-ranking Air Force officers are soberly concerned about UFOs. But through official secrecy and ridicule, many citizens are led to believe the unknown flying objects are nonsense.”
Admiral Hillenkoetter
(credit: USN)
Although Hillenkoetter fought for the end of UFO secrecy, he eventually stopped commenting on the matter. Conspiracists also find Hillenkoetter intriguing because his name appears in debunked alleged secret documents that were leaked to UFO researchers. They list Hillenkoetter as a member of the infamous Majestic 12 group, an organization rumored to have been made up of high ranking military officers and civilians that was supposedly created by President Truman to initially manage the UFO issue.
However, the fact that McKinnon actually released names of these ships is also a just a rumor, thus far there are no sources for this claim.
So there we have it, the UFO picture that McKinnon saw and the ship rosters were all he had, and unfortunately for him, they were not enough to scare the government into going easy on him. Instead he has been fighting a long multi-year battle to keep from being extradited to the US, a fight that he is losing. So far every British court he has appealed to has denied his stay.
The US government is really throwing the book at him, alleging that he took down military computers making the U.S. vulnerable soon after 911. McKinnon denies those claims, and says that he was able to observe many hackers from around the world accessing the networks he was on at the same time he was on them. Many believe that McKinnon may just be a scapegoat.
UPDATE
In 2012, U.K. Home Secretary Theresa May announced she would not extradite McKinnon to the U.S. saying “she had to consider his human rights.”
“The home secretary told MPs there was no doubt Mr McKinnon was “seriously ill” and the extradition warrant against him should be withdrawn,” according to the BBC.
Soon after, it was also determined he would not face trial in the U.K. According to an article in the Guardian, “A joint statement from Keir Starmer, the director of public prosecutions, and Mark Rowley, assistant commissioner of the Metropolitan police, cited the huge difficulties of charging him in the UK, and said the chances of conviction would be poor.”
By Bob Spearing, Director of International Investigations
32 Years ago, in a remote hilly area of Scotland in 1990 called Calvine, two witnesses saw and photographed a large diamond shaped object with a military plane in the lower right corner. They took 6,photos. The photos were sent to a British newspaper but they were never published as the British Ministry of Defense confiscated the photos. Photostatted facsimiles of one photo have made the rounds for decades while the MOD denied all of the photos’ existence. Why? Here is the facsimile going around UFO circles for 3 decades followed by the actual photo released this past week.
This week one actual photo has been released due to a concerted effort by Dr. David Clarke, a scientist and UFO researcher in Britain. The photo released says it is the property of Sheffield Hallam University.
The photo has gone viral and is currently making its rounds about the internet. The other 5 photos have yet to surface and it is doubtful the MOD will ever release them.
The one released is an extraordinary photo but exactly what it shows is inconclusive. It is an impressive diamond and seems to dwarf the plane in the photograph. It is believed to be a military plane that is either escorting the object or chasing it.
Additionally, a concerted effort has now been mounted by the British media to identify the two
anonymous hikers that took the half dozen series of analog photos.
The object has been estimated to be as long as 100 feet in diameter. The object has also been theorized to be the American military stealth aircraft built by Boeing and known as the Bird of Prey. Only one was built in 1996 and it is on display today in a museum. Could it have been a top-secret project 6 years prior in 1990 undergoing testing? Possible yes but likely? Here are two photos of Boeing’s Bird of Prey. What do you think?
The most important questions to ask are why find and release the photo now after 32 years of silence?
Is it military? Is it Extraterrestrial? Is it real? Was it planned? Is it legitimate?
It is, nonetheless, the most famous and intriguing photo ever to come out of the United Kingdom.
Super Interesting Plane and Drone Designs, Courtesy of our Government This Month!
Super Interesting Plane and Drone Designs, Courtesy of our Government This Month!
By Bob Spearing
Tim Aines is the Chief Field Investigator in Illinois under the State Director, Sam Maranto. Illinois has a great team of people including great photo analysts like Greg Cisko. Tim Aines is also a retired military intelligence officer and MUFON certainly needs to bring individuals like Tim to the forefront due to their incredible knowledge base!
Tim has provided me with several spectacular illustrations of current government projects that may be accounting for numerous UFO sightings occurring across the United States in our CMS Database currently!
Per Tim, “On November 8th, the US Air Force released a rah-rah public relations video called “Heritage Today – ISR and Innovation” and in it they embedded a few teaser shots that only lasted a few seconds of two new aircraft, both of which are presumed to be flying now.
The first one is familiar looking.
It is called the RQ-180, or the Great White Bat, or also the Shikaka. It’s a spy drone that has already been seen over California and the Philippines.
The second one is presumed to be the new hypersonic space plane.
Hypersonic means a minimum of 5 times faster than sound, or 3,800 mph plus. It is called the SR-72 and is a drone that replaces the legendary SR-71 Blackbird seen below!
Here is a quick clip of the Air Force’s new drone the SR-72.
Finally, this is Otto Aviation’s new aircraft called the Celera 500L. It’s currently flying all around the country right now doing FAA flight testing at various airports.
Guess what it looks like from a distance and how many CMS reports it will generate. Your first 2 guesses don’t count… 😊 Thank you Tim!
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MUFON SADDENED BY THE PASSING OF DR. R. LEO SPRINKLE
MUFON SADDENED BY THE PASSING OF DR. R. LEO SPRINKLE
Well known UFO researcher Dr. R. Leo Sprinkle died this past week ( 22 november 2021) . Dr. R. Leo Sprinkle, known in the UFO community as a hardworking psychologist interested in UFOs, particularly alien abduction and who organized contactee conferences each year since 1980, has died at 91.
He was a Professor of Psychology at the University of Wyoming. MUFON joins the UFOlogy Community in mourning his passing. The man was not only brilliant but was a friend to many many experiencers throughout the years.
Dr. Sprinkle was very close to MUFON’s Colorado State Director Katie Griboski who wrote an entire book about the correspondences Dr. Sprinkle received over decades from the people he helped.
For those of you unfamiliar with him, Katie has allowed us to post this short biography from her book Letters of Love and Light.
Psychologist, hypnotherapist, and UFO contactee researcher R. Leo Sprinkle was born in 1930 in Rocky Ford, Colorado. As a young man he joined the United States Army, serving two years as a corporal in 194th Field Artillery Battalion in Wertheim, Germany.
He then returned to the United States, and began his studies at the University of Colorado, where he earned his bachelor’s degree, then a Master’s of Personnel Service in Counseling. He received his Ph.D. in Counseling and Guidance at the University of Missouri in 1961.
In 1964, after serving as Director of the Counseling Center at the University of North Dakota, he became Associate Professor of Guidance Education at the University of Wyoming. Leo served as Counselor and Associate Professor of Psychology there from 1967 till his retirement in 1989.
Leo’s many published writings have included his book Soul Samples (1999, Granite Publishing) and his approximately 50 articles published in academic and UFO journals. These have focused mainly on UFO research, extrasensory perception, hypnosis, reincarnation, spiritual growth, and counseling theory and practice.
Not long into his career, Leo became increasingly known in UFO circles as a researcher of contactee experiences, offering an open mind and a sympathetic ear for those needing to speak of their experiences. A nonbeliever for many years, Leo migrated, as he puts it, from “scoffer” to “skeptic” after experiencing a UFO sighting himself in 1949. A second sighting with his wife in 1956 then moved him from “skeptic” to “unwilling believer.”
By the mid 1960s, Leo was involved in trailblazing research and investigation of UFO abductions. As psychology professor and therapist, over the decades he has performed more than 500 hypnotic regressions of possible contactees and abductees. Viewed as an authority in the UFO field, he has spoken on this topic on national television and at international conferences.
Among the many cases Leo has investigated have been some of the most extraordinary and well-known UFO incidents to have occurred since 1930.
In 1964, using a set of standard tests, Leo’s breakthrough research included the first psychological study of hundreds of individuals who had reported sighting or experiencing a UFO. He concluded from this that most UFO witnesses operate within the normal psychological range……..
“My approach is to minimize the tendency to ‘explain’ (or explain away) the reality of psychic experiences,” Leo has said, “and to emphasize the willingness to explore the personal meaning of these human experiences of spiritual emergence.”
In 1980, Leo founded the University of Wyoming’s annual summer Rocky Mountain Conference on UFO Investigation as a meeting place for hundreds of UFO contactees, abductees, and other experiencers seeking affirmation and support.
In 1988, Leo published the PACTS model of abductee/contactee experience. Based on 24 years of study, it marked out five stages of experience. Briefly, these were: Preparation (family and cultural experiences of ESP and/or spiritual contacts, including childhood visitations by Spiritual Beings (SBs), Abduction (UFO sightings and/or abduction experiences inducted or initiated, involuntarily, by SBs), Contact (adult visitations inducted or initiated voluntarily by SBs), Training (instruction for a mission or task), and Service (cooperation with SBs—channeling verbal or written information from them, providing healing, instruction, or assistance to others).
There is also the accomplishment which this book celebrates: Leo’s active correspondence over 40 years, in supportive yet academically responsible ways, with UFO and ET experiencers all over the world.
Over the years, as a result of his research, Leo has concluded….that UFO activity is a part of an incoming wave of human consciousness—a shift into viewing ourselves not only as “planetary persons,” but as “cosmic citizens.”
Thank you Dr. Sprinkle. You will be greatly missed!
UNITED STATES 479 UK 33 CANADA 23 FRANCE 21 AUSTRALIA 8 GERMANY 4 SPAIN 3 MEXICO 3 IRAN 3 SOUTH AFRICA 3 GREECE 2 AFGHANISTAN 1 CHILE 1 IRAQ 1 VIRGIN ISLANDS,BRITISH 1 BOLIVIA 1 GUATEMALA 1 SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO 1 ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA 1 COSTA RICA 1 ISRAEL 1 BELGIUM 1 PAKISTAN 1 ANTARCTICA 1 ARGENTINA 1 DENMARK 1 KAZAKHSTAN 1 BELIZE 1 ROMANIA 1
1971 was a banner year for classic UFO Cases throughout the world. Perhaps two of the most intriguing investigated that year had what we would consider trace evidence.
First, let's look at the September 4th, 1971 Lago De Cote, Costa Rica case. One of the most analyzed UFO photographs ever was taken by a Costa Rican Government plane whose crew were doing an aerial mapping mission. Since these were days long before digital photography the negative went through much testing to verify if what was on it was real, a hoax or a blemish. The flight crew and mapping engineers were considered above reproach and no hoax was suspected. However, the object in the photo was only seen later. No one on the plane observed anything below them with their own eyes.
Richard Haines and Jacques Vallee analyzed the photo in The Journal of Scientific Exploration, Volume #3, Issue number #2 and concluded "In summary, our analyses have suggested that an unidentified, opaque, aerial object was captured on film at a maximum distance of 10,000 feet. There are no visible means of lift or propulsion and no surface markings other than dark regions that appear to be nonrandom. There is no indication that the image is the product of a double exposure or a deliberate fabrication". Richard Hall of NICAP’s analysis was as follows: Very high reliability, unquestionably an authentic photograph. The lack of a visual sighting or any observed or recorded extraordinary performances reduces the "strangeness" level. Yet, the evidentiary data is strong and the investigation thorough, resulting in a well-documented and well-investigated anomaly. Ray Stanford, another longtime UFO researcher most famous for his analysis of the April 1964 Socorro New Mexico egg shaped UFO encounter of Officer Lonnie Zamora provided his take next and was at odds with his fellow contemporaries as to what was seen. He considered it may have been the bulb reflector in a common flashlight. See his analysis below.
To this day there is great debate about what was seen. Entire internet forums are dedicated to attempting to debunk the photo outright or to suggesting various types of camera artifacts such as emulsion blemishes.
Our second case took place in Delphos, Kansas on November 16, 1971 when a sixteen-year-old named Ronald Johnson saw a mushroom shape descending on the farm where he was tending sheep with his dog.
Ronald came within 25 feet of the object which was covered in multi-colored lights. The object was reported to be nine feet wide and ten feet high. Ron ran to get his parents and when they returned, the object was gone but a glowing ring was found in the dirt where the object was seen hovering.
The case has several interesting facets including possible missing time for Ron, the farm animals being disturbed at the time of the sighting and for weeks afterwards but most of all was the physical effect suffered by Ron’s mom after touching the glowing material. Her fingers became numb for days and where she wiped off the dust on her leg that area of skin became numb also. Ted Phillips initially investigated with the cooperation of the Delphos police and the story eventually appeared in the September 1985 MUFON Journal. Again, Jacques Vallee got involved and tested the soil sample finding Actinomycetes which are intermediate organisms between bacteria and fungus according to Vallee. So, was it merely the result of a natural phenomenon of fungus growth called Fairy Rings? Even noted debunker Phillip Klass got involved claiming the ring was caused by sheep urine. Phyllis Budinger, a well-known Ohio chemist who has helped MUFON on innumerable trace evidence cases, tested the samples and found Oxalic Acid which could have been the result of exhaust from low level ionization or even a combustion engine. The National Inquirer even convened a panel of well-known UFO researchers to examine the best cases of the time with a $5,000 prize on the line. The Delphos Case and Ron Johnson’s family won the prize!
Photo of the National Inquirer panel from 1975. From left: Dr. Leo Sprinkle, Dr. Frank Salisbury, Dr. James Harder, Dr. Robert Creegan, Dr. J. Allen Hynek and Mr. Jim Lorenzo of APRO. Photo credit: APRO
MUFON Field Investigators, MUFON members, sky watchers and the general public all occasionally turn their eyes to the sky and see many amazing things. None are more spectacular that what appears to be a meteor streaking across the sky in any myriad colors and lengths!
MUFON receives hundreds, if not thousands, of cases of possible meteors. Many are but could some of them be something anomalous? Answers can be found by the dogged investigator!
The American Meteor Society has observers all over the United States, Canada and other continents reporting in when they see a purported meteor in the sky. Their expertise ranges from common citizens to astronomers!
For the UFO investigator, lets look into how this can help us determine a natural phenomenon from an artificial one deserving more scrutiny!
For example, if you have a UFO seen at 10:02 PM over New Jersey you can go to the AMS website fireball log at http://www.amsmeteors.org/fireball_report and see if someone reported a corresponding meteor in the sky at that time over NJ.
This is what the log looks like for June 21st, 2014 for New Jersey local time. You can see that a fireball was reported over Tewksbury at 10:02 (22:02) PM.
This however does not prove that the object was a meteor. Meteors usually enter the atmosphere incredibly fast between 25,000 and 160,000 miles per hour which is what creates its tail as it burns up from friction. Speed and mass determine the length of the tail while composition determines its color (copper=green).
First, to expand on our thesis, extend your search of the North American eastern seaboard south of New Jersey for the time frame 10:02 PM to 10:03 PM. Try Delaware and Maryland!
Let’s say you get a hit from Dover, Delaware at 10:05 PM. That means the object traveled from
Tewksbury, NJ to Dover, Delaware in three minutes. That’s 109.5 miles. Let’s calculate.
There are 3600 seconds in an hour. The object traveled 109.5 miles in 180 seconds.
Multiply 109.5 by 3600 seconds to get miles per second and then divide by 3 minutes (180 seconds) to get miles per hour.
The answer is 2,190 mph. This is definitely not a meteor. It is too slow.
Let’s try another one. The Tewksbury object at 10:02 PM reaches Dover Delaware at 10:10 PM. It took 8 minutes to go 109.5 miles. So 109.5 miles multiplied by 3600 seconds divided by eight minutes (480 seconds) equals 821.25 mph. Most definitely not a meteor!
The other advantage to the American Meteor Society fireball log is that it gives you a trajectory map with times of sightings at various points.
Looking at the map above you can see that the Tewksbury sighting at 22:02 PM and the Somerset NJ sighting at 22:00 PM are probably related but the Dansville and Montrose, Pennsylvania sightings are not related.
Since the distance between Tewksbury and Somerset New Jersey is 20.1 miles and the object took 120 seconds to go from point A to point B we can calculate that it traveled at 603 MPH in that time.
We would have a serious UFO situation here! Thus the importance of using the AMS website in your reporting can not be underestimated! Just because the news tells you it is a meteor, doesn’t mean it is one!
When an object purportedly is registered as a meteor but is far slower than what a meteor would be traveling at then we need to go to the second level of investigation. Here we would use a website called www.flightradar24.com. This website logs all aircraft in the world that use a transponder. This means some military or secret flights might not show up.
But the primary use of flightradar24 is simply to determine if the object flying over your position, is a known aircraft. Why is this important?
SCREENSHOT OF ATLANTA VIA FLIGHTRADAR 24
Well, you saw what appeared to be a meteor. It ended up being too slow. So, craft are the next most likely explanation. Can we identify the craft?
The beauty of flightradar24 is that depending on your membership you can go back in time a year or more to see every flight with a transponder over your location. If you allow them to place an antenna on your home, you get the platinum membership free for life!
So, after ruling out a meteor, you look at all flights over your location on June 21 st at 10:02 P.M.
You see a vehicle traveling in the same flight path as to the object you saw and since your object was moving at 603 mph according to the American Meteor Society log and Flightradar24 shows a plane at near the same speed and direction, you can surmise it is the same object. An IFO.
The issue comes when nothing registers on Flightradar24. That website will only eliminate a known, registered and transponding object from your possibility list. That’s a lot of eliminating. But if you end up with a slow flying object that is too slow to be a meteor and does not register as an aircraft with a transponder, then you have a few possibilities namely it is military, it is private with no transponder, OR you have a vehicle or object of an anomalous nature that requires more in-depth study. This more in-depth study could entail contacting local air traffic control towers, law enforcement to see if other reports were obtained, submitting FOIA requests, trying to canvass a neighborhood for more witnesses or looking for correlating cases in the MUFON Case Management System and/or The National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC) run by Peter Davenport.
While none of these tools are foolproof for the MUFON Investigator or the interested general public, it does show that citizens are not helpless in trying to identify UFOs. Many, many tools are available to the inquisitive person. And in many cases, primitive tools like a camera or a good website are all that is needed to question the status quo! Maybe, just maybe, you did see something that requires further investigation!
MUFON CASE : 117731 Buchanan, Michigan ( September 3, 2021 )
Mutual UFO Network : MUFON SUBMISSIONS : 4 total. Orange lights on all 4. No blinking. No sound.g lights. Long Description of Sighting Report - Case 117731
It was too low to be a typical commercial airline. Way under cloud cover. And went too far to be a remote controled drone. Orange light on all 4. No blinking lights, and No sound.
Date Submitted : 2021-09-03 Date of Event : 2021-09-03 MUFON SUBMITTER FILE : 20210903204743.mp4
MUFON CASE : 117717 Mesa, Arizona ( September 3, 2021 )
Mutual UFO Network : MUFON SUBMISSIONS : Three prominent hovering lights stationary and symmetrical eventually change to a triangle Long Description of Sighting Report - Case 117717
I was returning back to work when I noticed three prominent lights in the sky. They were not moving but were hovering almost stationary at first it appeared as a straight line and slowly Shifted into A triangle formation I tried to get as much video as I possibly could but was rushed to get back to work.
Date Submitted : 2021-09-03 Date of Event : 2021-09-03 MUFON SUBMITTER FILE :
MUFON CASE : 117712 Indianapolis, Indiana ( September 2, 2021 )
Mutual UFO Network : MUFON SUBMISSIONS : Three lights flying in formation south Long Description of Sighting Report - Case 117712
I was doing my evening exercise on Addison St., looking NNW. Three light orbs flew slowly south in formation. I have video. Lead UFO shined red, pulsating. The UFO in the middle veered slowly west then disappeared. Last UFO went behind cloud and disappeared. Lead UFO just disappeared. All three then appeared again farther north, flew south repeating the same route and disappeared again.
Date Submitted : 2021-09-02 Date of Event : 2021-09-02 MUFON SUBMITTER FILES :
MUFON CASE : 117614Morphing UAP / UFO Sighted Over Gaithersburg, Maryland ( August 8, 2021 )
Morphing UAP / UFO Sighted Over Gaithersburg, Maryland on August 8, 2021
STATEMENT : A morphing drone or craft?
This is MUFON CASE : 117614 : Long Description of Sighting Report - Case 117614
Entered I-270 south from Quince Orchard Rd and immediately saw slow moving (approx 30 mph) object which was so BIG I pulled over on narrow shoulder. I wouldn't have done this for a small toy or consumer drone. It seemed to be flying northwest first over Montgomery County Fairgrounds then as it crossed the 270 then flying west into sun.. On a UFO Facebook page many people were sure it was mylar star balloons. But the edges of the moving appendages had hard angular edges and whole thing seemed mechanical moving by its own propulsion. It was definitely spinning while the 4 to 6 appendages were moving up and down as if the whole thing was revolving around a rubix cube like axis. The red lights on bottom were much brighter than in video I shot and I recalled they were alternately flashing or strobing as appendages moved up and down. Some said it was morphing. The exterior shell or hull seemed hard and rigid, and appeared both dark gray and red as it moved. The lights seemed encasrd in the shell of craft.. One person even claimed I'd faked it, that original vid was manipulated. That is false. Please tell me if you can identify this. I was there and saw it and the strangeness of it was so much more uncanny than in video. Thank You, Steve Hay
Date Submitted : 2021-08-28 Date of Event : 2021-08-08 MUFON SUBMITTER FILE : 20210808181313.mp4
MUFON CASE : 117607 Mastic Beach, New York ( August 28, 2021 )
Mutual UFO Network : MUFON SUBMISSIONS : Four bright orange/amber objects appeared on the west side of Narrow Bay. They shot over the SW horizon in rapid succession like bursts from a Roman c Long Description of Sighting Report - Case 117607
I was standing on the deck of my cottage which overlooks Narrow Bay in Mastic Beach. Four bright orange/amber objects silently shot up over the SW horizon like bursts from a Roman candle in a rapid succession. The first object gained altitude and moved steadily in a North, Northeast direction. I attempted to get a better look through a pair of cheap binoculars, but all I could see was orange/amber light traveling more rapidly than any aircraft I had ever observed. The first object faded to a pinpoint in the northern cloud cover before disappearing altogether. The three remaining objects followed close afterwards appearing to maintain equal distances between them before fading and disappearing out of sight. I managed to get my phone and video record 1minute and 14seconds of the event.
Date Submitted : 2021-08-28 Date of Event : 2021-08-24 MUFON SUBMITTER FILE : 20210824214947.mp4
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