Gemini 4 (or Gemini IV) was the second manned space flight in NASA's Project Gemini, occurring in June 1965. It was the tenth manned American spaceflight. Astronauts James McDivitt and Edward H. White, II circled the Earth 66 times in four days.
The highlight of the mission was the first space walk by an American, during which White floated free outside the spacecraft, tethered to it, for approximately 20 minutes. Both of these accomplishments helped the United States overcome the Soviet Union's early lead in the Space Race.
The flight was the first American flight to perform many scientific experiments in space, including use of a sextant to investigate the use of celestial navigation for lunar flight in the Apollo program. It is rumored that Astronauts may have filmed a UFO with a movie camera, during this mission, while in orbit passing over Hawaii.
Origin: lights-in-sky.blogspot.com
Posted by Unknown
|
at
1:38 PM
THE FOLLOWING ANECDOTAL ACCOUNTS WERE RECEIVED FROM 'PHANTOMS & MONSTERS' READERS:
OLD MAN HAYES
This is a true story. When I was about twelve or so my family moved into a rural neighborhood called Hayes Glenn. It was some old farm land owned by a man named Mr. Hayes. We built a new home on five acres and moved in the winter of 1986. About a year or so later another house was being built next door to us. Being kids me and a good friend would hang out in the house while it was being built. One day we were just sitting in the unfinished house talking when we both heard foot steps coming down the hall right toward us. They were very loud because there was no carpet on the concrete foundation so they could clearly be heard. I looked down the hall and there was no one there. Thinking the owners were there we ran out of the house but I soon realized there was no body there.
A couple of weeks later I awoke up about two in the morning. My room was on the side of our house that overlooked the property that the house was being built on. I don't know why but I looked out of the window and clearly saw an old man standing outside of the house. I could see him in the moonlight. I went and woke my mom up but when she got to my room he was gone. Nothing else happened. The house was finished and a couple of years passed. I happened to be talking to a friend's dad who lived in the area. He was a police officer who, about 10 years before all of this, handled the case of old man Hayes...the farmer who had hung himself in a barn exactly were the neighbors house was built. JJ
STOP SIGN ENCOUNTER
About two years ago, I had an experience which I will recount to you. I have been speaking of this more, but it took some time to reconcile.
I believe it would have been early March. I am an interiorscaper, which means I take care of plants in offices and estates. At the time, I had the contract to maintain the plant material in the executive offices at Electronic Data Systems in Plano, TX. Because I maintained the plants for the highest level employees (ceo, cio, etc..), I would do my work pretty much in the middle of the night by escort of their security personnel. I had the contract to do this work for them since 1998.
Once a week, I would leave my home, where I live in a country setting, and travel about 45 minutes in to Plano to do this work. On this morning, it was about 2:30am. I had loaded my van with my work materials, and started out on a very cold and unpleasant morning. It had been raining and the wind was blowing. I had my windshield wipers on because the wind was blowing water off the trees, though it wasn't raining at the moment. I turned on the residential street to make my way out and to the main roads. As I approached the first stop sign, my headlights illuminated a being.
This is how I describe it: First, I must comment that I was immediately struck by a terrible fear. I believe my neck hairs stood on end, and I realized later that I had popped out in a complete sweat. I never sweat, and it was very cold, but my shirt had huge armpit rings by the time I reached the toll road. So I instantly knew that I was seeing something very out of the ordinary at the first second.
I would say this being was about five feet tall. It crossed the road on the cross street in front of me. I had probably 10 or so seconds as my van approached the stop sign, and I had my foot on the brake pedal already when I saw it. (I was traveling slowly anyway). It was a glossy white color, and I could not discern any clothing. It was the same glossy white from its head to its feet. It did not turn its head to look at me, so I do not know what the eyes looked like. It moved in a very strange fashion. It did not seem to have any bend at a knee area, and shuffled rather than walked. The arms were very long, much longer than a person's, and they hung down much past where one would expect knees, and also had no bend where one would expect elbows. I believe the hands were large. The head was not very big, nothing like one sees looking up pictures of 'greys'. There was nothing threatening in its manner, but I was terrified, nonetheless. I must say it took every ounce of courage for me to turn my head to the left in the direction it had gone when I came to a stop at the stop sign. I saw nothing there, and I floored it and got the hell out of there.
Nothing strange or unusual happened on the rest of the trip, although I was really scared. And nothing has happened in all the time since then. I wish I had known that there would be no consequences from seeing it and I could have saved myself a lot of anxiety. I would love to see it again, if I could know for sure that again there would be no consequences, and I could look at it from behind an army of people who probably believe me to be deluded or a liar.
Obviously, I have no idea what it is. Except to say that I know it is not human. I guess it could be an alien from space, or a creature from another dimension.
Seeing it had a big effect on me. I have never been in the least bit afraid outside in the night (I breed and raise horses, and I have spent many, many nights out in the barn by myself waiting for a mare to foal) but I was very nervous outside after that. I also began to dread going to that account. It was eons before I could go by that stop sign without feeling that fear.
I have had some unusual experiences in my life, but nothing like this. I do not know what to make of this experience, other than to acknowledge that there is much more to this world than we know. I come from a well-educated family of engineers and economists, and they would have preferred no family member of theirs have an experience like this, which puts on in a category of 'kooks'. Kate
Strange Encounters : Bizarre & Eerie Contact With UFO Occupants
Encounters: With the Strange and Unexplained
Trucker Ghost Stories: And Other True Tales of Haunted Highways, Weird Encounters, and Legends of the Road"
Source: project-ufo.blogspot.com
Posted by Unknown
|
at
4:21 AM
From UFO Media Matters
"Rural area in the UFO suburb for the most accommodate misery disclosure. Dr. Salla constructively gives it to them...a few few months.
I am sure the doctor cares about the run in the UFO suburb but these enormously run are disillusioned one time his insider dope doesnt pan out. Not one in UFO research or any UFO "SPOKESMAN", in our suburb requirements to personal offering sources aroma. Michael Salla, PhD is a instance of the Exopoltics Bias. They are accommodate and container to a hum that thinks if you rebuke the government, tabled the media, of ghastly stuff, in the middle of no hardly evidence, they will be dishonored tolerable to here you all you misery.
http://www.inspector.com/examiner/x-2383-Honolulu-Exopolitics-Examiner~y2009m10d21-Official-disclosure-of-extraterrestrial-life-is-imminent
Dr. Salla touted out a few months ago information on a UFO UN consultation the modestly deliver was it never happened. Let me ask the reader if they unite whatever thing this big would be leaked to Dr. Salla or his insiders? I ask,in all shyness, one time this force tabled Dr. Salla, will you utterly tie up listening to these popular people? Bestow seems to be a high spot transaction of crying plague with brute force a variety of blogs these days I make up your mind its supercilious about feat hits than allocation the truth get out. I was inherent in the old university of education truthfulness matters and shouldnt be fruitless for any briefing trash."
Take supercilious. Respect this narrate
--
Wilkipedia writes about Dr. Salla an eminent synthesis of the "EXOPOLITICAL MAIN" Blameless search Dr. Salla.
"...His open-minded views bear prepared his work the question of substantial quarrel and moan voguish each one the ufological and average hard-working communities. A lot of the bang he uses to corroboration his stage set is unsettled due to a lack of empirical evidence to verify heaps of the claims. Despite the fact that heaps of Salla's sources are calculated to be believable by adherents to the UFO Shock hum who refer to a separate of basic documents and setting, critics contest these sources bear been discredited for a separate of reasons; among these the dispersal of patent falsehoods in the jovial of claims prepared, and the defamation of setting."
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rationalufology
http://ufoculture.blogspot.com/
--
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rationalufology
Http://ufoculture.blogspot.com/
Posted by Unknown
|
at
3:25 PM
"Sean Casteel, veteran UFO researcher, suspects in recent article there..."IS A "BREAKAWAY CIVILIZATION" BEHIND THE MYSTERIOUS SECRET SPACE PROGRAM?" Casteel, co-author of new book, "THE SECRET SPACE PROGRAM WHO IS RESPONSIBLE?", interviewed Richard Dolan, who uses term "BREAKAWAY CIVILIZATION" to designate what he suspects is a group of humanity who appropriated secret technology for themselves. Dolan describes process in simple terms how this could happen: "'I THINK THIS IS SOMETHING THAT IS REAL,' DOLAN SAID. 'NOW, MY THEORY OF IT IS THAT IT ORIGINATED IN REALLY IN POST-WORLD WAR II SOCIETY, BUT THERE'S NOTHING PREVENTING SUCH A THING FROM HAVING HAPPENED EARLIER. THE BASIC IDEA OF THE 'BREAKAWAY CIVILIZATION' IS SIMPLY THAT YOU HAVE A SECRET GROUP, A CLASSIFIED GROUP OF PEOPLE, WITH ACCESS TO RADICALLY ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY, RADICALLY ADVANCED SCIENCE, AND THEY JUST DON'T SHARE IT WITH THE REST OF THE WORLD...' THIS IS ALSO MESSAGE OF PRESENT BOOK CO-AUTHORED WITH TIMOTHY GREEN BECKLEY, TIM R SCHWARTZ AND COMMANDER X..."A SECRET SOCIETY CONSISTING OF SCIENTISTS OF VARIOUS DISCIPLINES HAVE BANDED TOGETHER TO CREATE THE MEANS OF OUR TRAVELING TO BOTH THE MOON AND MARS AND CONSTRUCTING ARTIFICIAL BUILDINGS, EVEN LITERAL LIFE-SUPPORTING BASES OF OPERATION, FOR WHATEVER PURPOSE."
Casteel also suggests case of Gary McKinnon lends support when "...the Scottish-born computer hacker who in the thirteen months between February 2001 to March 2002 hacked into 97 US military and NASA computers, using the name 'Solo,"'" to view documents that seem to fit only a secret program. McKinnon revealed in the past, he found lists of officer names under heading of "NON-TERRESTRIAL OFFICERS," and from article: "I FOUND A LIST OF 'FLEET-TO-FLEET' TRANSFERS AND A LIST OF SHIP NAMES. I LOOKED THEM UP. THEY WEREN'T US NAVY SHIPS. WHAT I SAW MADE ME BELIEVE THEY HAVE SOME KIND OF SPACESHIP, OFF-PLANET..IN A LATER INTERVIEW WITH THE BBC, MCKINNON ALSO CLAIMED THAT 'THERE ARE SOME VERY CREDIBLE, RELIABLE PEOPLE ALL SAYING THAT YES, THERE IS UFO TECHNOLOGY, THERE'S ANTI-GRAVITY, THERE'S FREE ENERGY, AND IT IS EXTRATERRESTRIAL IN ORIGIN. THEY'VE CAPTURED A SPACECRAFT AND REVERSE-ENGINEERED IT.'."IF MCKINNON'S CLAIMS ABOUT NASA AND THE US NAVY ARE TRUE, THEY MAY SERVE AS CONCRETE PROOF OF SOME OF THE MYTHOLOGY THAT HAS GROWN UP AROUND THE BELIEF IN A SECRET SPACE PROGRAM," concludes Casteel. Rightfully So. The high Pentagon interest in McKinnon exposes real importance of what was seen on their computers. McKinnon may even know more than publicly shared? A previous entry on McKinnon provides additional details HERE. Richard Dolan shares his view on "BREAKAWAY CIVILIZATION." Ground Zero Live host, CLYDE LEWIS, DISCUSSED SAUCERS AND BREAKAWAY CIVILIZATION WITH CO-AUTHORS BECKLEY AND SCHWARTZ this past week in an excellent program! The present writer can only agree and wish we knew more about a breakaway civilization!
Posted by Unknown
|
at
10:10 PM
This Spooky Friday we have Chupacabra! Well not really, it's fake but still I think it's a pretty good attempt at a fake Chupacabra video.
Chupacabras en moreno.
There are some very good scary videos out there, like this one that most people have probably seen of the Ghostly Hitchhiker. I always avoided watching it because it was so long, each time I attempted to watch it I would cancel it but I watched it the whole way through today and it is very creepy.
Hitchhiker Ghost.
Most videos that I watch on the net with a paranormal theme seem to end up like the two above, either artificial or very well made with a good amount of suspense and a descent story to tell. Very few videos seem to be genuine but I'm still gonna try and find the best out there.
Technorati Tags:
Paranormal, Chupacabra, Ghost, Video
Source: ufo-chronicles.blogspot.com
Posted by Unknown
|
at
1:35 PM
By Roger Marsh
OpenMinds.tv
1-9-15
A California witness at Boyle Heights reported watching a boomerang-shaped UFO that looked like a "creature" when turned on its side as observed beginning about 4:50 p.m. on January 7, 2015, according to testimony in Case 62515 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
"Parked car in front of my home and my younger son was outside of the car and looked up said, 'What is that?'" the reporting witness stated.
The son then went inside to get his binoculars.
"I looked up from inside the car and saw something dark/black up in the sky to the southwest. My son looked through binoculars and said it looks really weird. I looked through the binoculars and it was solid black - some sort of UFO - an upside down boomerang. Not moving."
The witnesses' two daughters also looked through the binoculars and saw it as well.
"My older daughter tried to take a picture with her camera, but it is not a good camera for that height. I got the binoculars again to observe it a while and it slowly turned to its side and it did not like a UFO, but maybe a creature/alien?"
The witness described the object as it looked from the side.
"It had a wispy tail-like and wispy wings, but not wings - slow moving tentacles/arms - very hard to describe, but it is not like anything I've ever seen."
The witness then showed the object to the other children.
"The thin arms/wispy tentacles moved in different forward directions. I just watched it for a while. Two planes did pass not too far from it, so it appeared to be the size of a huge airplane. Then I had to leave. I was late to meet a friend and left at 5:29 p.m. It was still up in the sky when I left."...
Continue Reading...
See Also:
UFO NEWS - UK: "UFO was Inches form Our Car," Say Elderly Couple
"...Some Form of Intelligence, Fused with High Technology, Lies at the Heart of the UFO Puzzle..."
Alien Creature Reported in Carmel Area
REPORT YOUR UFO EXPERIENCE
Read more >>
Credit: discover-ghosts.blogspot.com
Posted by Unknown
|
at
10:25 PM
Plenty of Norwegians thought aliens had taken a fancy to their country back in the 1950s thanks to a slew of inexplicable UFO sightings. Inexplicable no more: It was the CIA, reports the BBC. Actually, it was the CIA itself that fessed up in this tweet, which reads in part, "Remember reports of unusual activity in the skies in the '50s? That was us." It then provides a government writeup about the sightings, which weren't caused by alien spaceships but by U2 spy planes being tested. The planes flew above 60,000 feet, which wasn't thought possible at the time, so commercial pilots who saw something so far above them couldn't explain it. The effect was more pronounced at different times of the day and night, and if the U2 planes caught the rays of the sun just right, even people on the ground would see silvery glints of light. The explanation was kept classified for decades, notes the BBC, picking up on a report in the foreign-language "Aftenposten".
Link: http://www.newser.com/story/190441/1950s-norwegian-ufo-mystery-solved.html
Posted by Unknown
|
at
1:15 PM
See the state of Missouri as you never have before - as a hotbed of UFO activity and paranormal phenomena.
From time slips and vortices to extraterrestrials and interdimensional beings, the Show Me State appears to be a haven for all things supernatural.
Hear about residents who have been "implanted" or experienced missing time.
Learn what to say to an Extraterrestrial and how to call down a UFO.
Visit the many sites of UFO sightings, including Excelsior Springs, Harrisonville, Marshfield, and Northview.
Travel to Missouri's own Bermuda Triangle - Joplin, Springfield, and Branson.
New perspectives on UFOs, mysterious phenomena, intriguing tales, and scary UFO revelations are just waiting to be explored, as the extraterrestrials beckon.
Will you answer their call?
To purchase this book: http://www.schifferbooks.com/newschiffer/book template.php?isbn=9780764337475
Posted by Unknown
|
at
2:23 PM
1) More than 90% of all sightings of "unidentified flying objects" are sightings of lights in the night sky.2) Trained investigators can easily identify up to 95% of all sighted flying saucers as conventional objects. 3) Where identification is not possible, it is invariably due to LACK OF INFORMATION, NOT TO INFORMATION THAT CANNOT BE "EXPLAINED" CONVENTIONALLY.4) Sources of nocturnal lights which have given rise to such sightings include: planets (especially Mars and Venus) and bright stars (30% of all cases); advertising planes (20% of all cases); commercial and military aircraft (18%); bright meteors, meteor fireballs, and satellite re-entries (10%). Daylight reports of flying saucers are much rarer; they are almost always due to aircraft or weather balloons.5) There have been several official and unofficial scientific studies of flying saucer reports, including a symposium sponsored by the AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE in December 1969. All such studies have come to the same fairly obvious conclusion: THERE IS NOT A SHRED, NOT THE TINIEST FRAGMENT, OF HARD PHYSICAL EVIDENCE THAT THE PLANET EARTH HAS EVER BEEN VISITED BY A VEHICLE OR OTHER SPACECRAFT MANUFACTURED ON ANOTHER WORLD OR PILOTED BY CREATURES FROM ANOTHER WORLD.6) Claims that real evidence does exist, but is kept top secret, cannot be taken seriously. HOW CAN ANYONE SERIOUSLY BELIEVE THAT ANY GOVERNMENT AGENCY AND THE WHOLE SCIENTIFIC ESTABLISHMENT COULD HAVE SUCCESSFULLY KEPT SUCH A SECRET FOR 64 YEARS- THROUGH TWELVE DIFFERENT PRESIDENTIAL ADMINISTRATIONS?Science! vs. Pseudoscience!SCIENCE: The literature is written for scientists. There is peer review, and there are rigorous standards for honesty and accuracy.
PSEUDOSCIENCE: The literature is aimed at the general public. There is no review, no standards, no pre-publication verification, no demand for accuracy and precision.
SCIENCE: Reproducible, reliable results are demanded; experiments must be precisely described so that they can be duplicated exactly or improved upon in sensitivity and volume of cases or events.
PSEUDOSCIENCE: Results cannot be reproduced or verified. Studies, if any, are always so vaguely described that one can't figure out just what was actually done or how it was done.
SCIENCE: Failures are searched for and studied closely, since incorrect theories can often make correct predictions by accident but no correct theory will make incorrect predictions.
PSEUDOSCIENCE: Failures are ignored, excused, hidden, lied about, discounted, explained away, rationalized, forgotten, and avoided at all costs.
SCIENCE: As time goes on, more and more is learned about the physical processes under study.
PSEUDOSCIENCE: No actual physical phenomena or processes are ever found, noticed or studied. No progress is made; nothing concrete is learned.
SCIENCE: Individual defects, idiosyncrasies and blunders of investigators average out- do not affect the real "signal" under study.
PSEUDOSCIENCE: Individual defects, idiosyncrasies and blunders of investigators provide the only "signals" ever seen- the average is zero.
SCIENCE: CONVINCES BY APPEAL TO THE EVIDENCE, BY ARGUMENTS BASED UPON LOGICAL AND/OR MATHEMATICAL REASONING, BY MAKING THE BEST CASE THE DATA PERMIT. WHEN NEW EVIDENCE CONTRADICTS OLD IDEAS, THEY ARE ABANDONED.
PSEUDOSCIENCE: Convinces by appeal to faith and belief. PSEUDOSCIENCE IN ALMOST EVERY CASE HAS A VERY STRONG QUASI-RELIGIOUS ELEMENT: it tries to convert, not to convince. You are to believe in spite of the facts, not because of them. The original idea is never abandoned, whatever the evidence.
SCIENCE: There are no conflicts of interest; the scientist has no personal financial stake in any specific outcome of his studies.
PSEUDOSCIENCE: EVERYTHING IN PSEUDOSCIENCE SEEMS TO GENERATE SOMETHING FOR SALE; look for courses in how to remember past lives, on galactic diplomacy (sic.) Books about extraterrestrials and cover-up, and teaching how to hunt for ghosts, how to become a prophet, how to... you name it, you got it... BUT PAY UP FIRST.
Posted by Unknown
|
at
2:01 AM
BRIAN CLEGG. EXTRA SENSORY: THE SCIENCE AND PSEUDOSCIENCE OF TELEPATHY AND OTHER POWERS OF THE MIND. ST MARTINS PRESS, 2013.
It probably takes some guts for an established science writer to write a book about ESP and the like, and not to immediately write the whole thing off without a moment's thought. Perhaps being an outsider to the academic establishment Clegg is freer in such regard. Clegg provides a critical but not unsympathetic account of the subject. His interest seems to have been stimulated by a teenage incident in which he felt he was in telepathic contact with a friend, and, I suspect, a more cautious approach developed when he had an extraordinary non-precognitive experience, awaking one morning with the absolute certain 'knowledge' that the plane he was going to fly on that day was going to crash. So powerful was this feeling that he persuaded his sympathetic boss to allow him to change flights. The plane did not crash, and nothing bad happened at all. Of course, if the plane had crashed, that would have been excellent evidence for precognition, or would it have just been a coincidence. Clegg points out that feelings like this which don't pan out get forgotten, where those when some coincidence takes place become highly memorable. He begins his exploration of telepathy by examining the possible theories advanced for it, or at least some of them. His main interest, as a (ex)physicist is Brian Josephson's linking telepathy with quantum entanglement, an idea towards which Clegg is not wholly unsympathetic, though this is a controversial idea even among paranormalists with a physics background. There are two reasons for that, one is that it is considered axiomatic that quantum entanglement cannot be used to break special relativity by sending messages, and by the feeling that the brain is a far too complex and messy environment for quantum effects to play much role. He is far more sceptical of other theories, involving electromagnetism or an, as yet unknown, new force. He also points out that dualistic views also have overwhelming problems. Clegg argues that the main problem that scientists face in the field of parapsychology is that of cheating, and that this is especially the case in things like mediumship. I note that he came to the same conclusions as me over the Scole Affair, (he didn't read my review, I checked the references!), pointing out how every attempt to introduce controls led to one evasion and excuse after another. He examines in general some of the evidence for telepathy, precognition and psychokinesis, and points out some of the pitfalls in experiments such as those using the ganzfield, and also looks at the some of the work of Daryl Bem. He argues that in almost all of these studies, it is not clear that what is being studied is what the ordinary person would think of as telepathy etc, it is just statistical anomalies, which might suggest there is something there, but gives no clue as to what it is. He further notes that if PK is a real effect, affecting a moving dice would be a much more difficult feat than moving a very light static target. He takes a detailed look at the original experiments of J. B. Rhine the work of the remote viewers and the tricks of Uri Geller, showing how they each had multiple methodological flaws. Parapsychologists might correctly point out that this really is a selection of weak cases, sceptics might reply that are cases that easily show up the methodological errors that occur more subtly in other cases. I would like to have seen some discussion of the complex debates between Charles Honorton and Ray Hyman here, though I understand that they be just too recondite for a popular readership. Clegg also examines the work of Dean Radin and PEAR (Princton Engineering Anomalies research) and I get the feeling that he really doesn't understand what is being claimed here. Join the club! Clegg is surely right when he argues that the endless debates about statistical anomalies will never get anywhere, what is needed are clear decisive experiments, which replicate real life more. Here's a couple of examples of mine, for telepathy use identical twins in separate buildings, experiments performed by students who not told what the experiment is for, and monitor the brain activity of each. One twin is shown a series of slides of scenes ranging from the positive to the negative, from the arousing to the soporific etc. Experiments like these could be tweaked in a variety of ways. For psychokinesis, try moving a microgram weight in a completely environmentally controlled container (or given the claims that are made for RSPK) transmitting a microgram weight through a micrometre thick partition from one hermetically sealed container to another. To test what lies behind the statistical anomalies use computers doing millions of runs and not people. Clegg suggests that parapsychologists do not look for final definitive experiments, because just going from one vaguely suggestive result to another is a way of keeping the subject going and maintaining their positions. ["Much like ufologists, then - Ed".] Perhaps they suspect that the answer to such a definitive experiment would be negative, and indeed sceptics can point out that there have been any number of real world experiments with negative outcomes, not one case of a completely unambiguous prediction of a truly unexpected event made before the event, no football referee spontaneously combusted. If psychic powers are real they ought to be as an obvious and public as outstanding athletic, musical, artistic or any other ability and to be a quotidian part of our lives not occasional anomalies." - Peter Rogerson"
Posted by Unknown
|
at
11:39 PM
"The Collegian," the newspaper of Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, MI, has a great article today commemorating the 49th anniversary of the "Dexter-Hillsdale" UFO sightings, which is to this day one of the most significant events in UFO history.
Although largely remembered today for introducing the term "swamp gas" into the official lexicon of the UFO phenomenon, the D-H sightings were also noteworthy for causing the American public to lose all confidence in the Air Force's handling of the UFO phenomenon, for triggering the first Congressional hearing on UFOs, and for launching the famous University of Colorado Project, better known as "The Condon Committee, which led to the ultimate dismantling of "Project Blue Book," the Air Force's 20-year investigation of UFO reports, by which the government hoped to drive a wooden stake through the heart of the UFO phenomenon once and for all... Oh, and it also made Dr. J. Allen Hynek's name a household term.
"
Here's something you don't see every day: J. Allen Hynek being welcomed to southern Michigan."
The account in "The Collegian" is well researched and well written, even if it does repeat and reinforce the unfortunate mythology surrounding the event:
"So Dr. Allen J. Hynek, consultant to Project Blue Book and professor at North-western University, came to Hillsdale to inves-tigate. But after inter-viewing many key eyewit-nesses, including Evans, Hess, and Van Horn, he reached a simple conclusion: 87 eyewit-nesses were mistaken, and had seen only 'swamp gas.'"But that's not the conclusion Hynek reached at all. The truth is, Hynek never actually reached a conclusion. Pressured by his boss on Project Blue Book, Major Hector Quintanilla, to hold a hurried press conference and provide a "natural" explanation for the sightings, Hynek "suggested "that the lights that the Hillsdale students saw bobbing up and down in the college arboretum "may have been" swamp gas.
There were a lot of witnesses, and a lot of descriptions -- hell, half of southeast Michigan saw something in the skies that week -- but the descriptions varied so dramatically that Hynek only considered those that had common factors and dispensed with the outliers. Unfortunately for the true believers, the descriptions that had common factors all suggested the possibility of swamp gas (the witnesses were, after all, looking out over a densely-foliated arboretum in early spring shortly after an intense thunderstorm had saturated the ground, leading to somewhat, oh... let's say "swampy conditions) so, with no time to conduct a thorough investigation, that's what Hynek went with.
It wasn't a lie. It wasn't a cover-up. It wasn't a mistake. It wasn't a cowardly cop-out. It was the only logical speculation Hynek could make from the inconsistent testimony and scant evidence with which he was presented, and he presented it as just that: speculation.
What's more, one of the key witnesses, local undertaker and Civil Defense Director Bud Van Horn, told Hynek that when he saw the lights in the college arboretum he immediately thought they were swamp gas... Van Horn -- who went on to become one of Hynek's harshest critics -- was one of a half-dozen people who suggested the swamp gas theory to Hynek in the days leading up to the fateful press conference, yet no one ever assails their credibility or accuses them of taking part in a government cover-up.
One very interesting part of the story in "The Collegian" involves an interview with one of the local policemen who joined Van Horn at the college that night to look for the lights in the arboretum. Trust me when I say I have researched the hell out of this case and have never come across any statement from any local cop describing any "blinding light" coming from the arboretum that night. All the witnesses in the college dorm, Van Horn included, testified that the mystery lights were so dim they could only be seen when all the dorm lights were off; in fact, the lights disappeared completely when the police car drove by the arboretum with its lights on (This blinking out in the presence of other light sources, by the way, is one of the distinct characteristics of swamp gas... just sayin')
So, I'm not sure where this cop is coming from, but I'm damn sure going to find out.
Oh, and that comment about how the arboretum was found to be radioactive after the event? Those "findings" came from the investigation of noted local undertaker and nuclear expert Bud Van Horn. They were never verified by anyone.
Anyway, Happy Anniversary, swamp gas!
Posted by Unknown
|
at
10:00 AM
MARCH 03, 2013 - SPACE - The following videos feature the latest capture from NASA's satellites of strange unidentified flying objects around the International Space Station, the Sun, Planet Mars and the Moon.
WATCH: Fleet of UFOs at the ISS - March 1, 2013.
WATCH: Huge UFOs near the Sun - March 1, 2013.
WATCH: Strange object seen on Planet Mars - March 1, 2013.
WATCH: TR3B seen from live stream camera at the ISS - February 25, 2013.
WATCH: UFO flies past SOHO satellite camera - February 24, 2013.
WATCH: UFO makes fast exit at the ISS - February 24, 2013.
WATCH: View from the ISS Camera - February 24, 2013.
WATCH: Blurry images of the Moon - February 20, 2013.
WATCH: Craft or creatures at the ISS - February 20, 2013.
WATCH: UFOs at the ISS - February 13, 2013.
Source: ufos-and-aliens.blogspot.com
Posted by Unknown
|
at
12:35 AM
SHORT UFO FACT: [In title 14, section 1211 of the Code of Federal Regulations there is a law wich was added without public debate. It's a law that makes anyone who comes in contact with a UFO or an alien can be fined up to 5000 and be jailed for up to a tear. And a NASA administrator has the right to determine whetever a person needs to be in quarantine for extra-terrestrial exposure and for how long it's necessary. Anyone involved with UFOs and aliens are according to this law criminals.]
WHAT IS REALLY HIDDEN ON PLANET MARS PART1
SHORT UFO FACT: [FEMA is Federal Emergency Management Agency. It's referred to as the "SECRET GOVERNMENT" of the USA. It was founded in the Richard Nixon Administrations, refined by Jimmy Carter and both the Ronald Reagan and George Bush administrations. When created it had one original concept, in case of a nuclear attack on the US Nations it should assure the survivability of US government.]
UFO MOSCOW 1 JUL 2001 430 AM
IF THESE EVIDENCES ARE ENOUGH FOR YOU, THEN RATE THIS PAGE:
>>> You're still not sure? Get the documentary proof here
Credit: ufo-chronicles.blogspot.com
Posted by Unknown
|
at
6:09 AM
4UFOS.COM UFO GLOSSARY:
(Term Followed By Definition)
USAF Flying Saucer
UFO GLOSSARY ON UFO NEWS
This is the UFO Glossary:
UFO DEFINITIONS AND DISCUSSION.
What follows are some of my own definitions for some key terms in Ufology and the study and research of UFOs and the UFO Phenomenon.
UFO
Unidentified Flying Object, currently in the year 2013, "UFO" is frequently used to denote Extraterrestrials or Aliens Visitors to Earth. Ultimately, most UFOs are actually one of a few sets of phenomena: aerial, stellar, terrestrial and perhaps some sort of extraterrestrial.
UFOLOGY IN 2013
Paranormal Genre of Science, some deem a pseudoscience, using the Scientific Method and good experiment methods to gain insight and understanding of actual physical clues of Real UFOs and Aliens. Still considered by many a pseudoscience - or a study that does not meet the criteria to be a legitimate peer-reviewed branch of the Scientific Studies.
EXOBIOLOGY
The study of life that exists outside or away from the Planet Earth. Any and all life that evolved on other worlds and solar systems qualifies to be Exobiological in Nature. Species of Extraterrestrial intelligence would be "sentient exobiological entities". Relative to EXOBIOLOGY, the field of study regarding any debate regarding how much influence mankind should have on the worlds around him, as well as the mostly supposition discussed of our interaction with any intelligent life of the Universe in the past, present or in the future: all-together known as the field of EXOPOLITICS.
UFO SIGHTING
A UFO Sighting is a specific type of paranormal encounter reported all over the world, from mysterious lights to unknown and suspicious and alien aircraft. In Real UFO Sightings popular culture, the most frequent "NEWEST UFO SIGHTINGS OF 2013" references find "Grey Aliens" and Extraterrestrial Entities at a completely different rate than actual UFO Field Investigators, who historically find down-to-Earth causes for up to 95% of all Reported UFO Sightings.
UFO DisclosureA emerging imperative in 2013 is revealing the truth about interactions between Extraterrestrials and the governments of the world.
This is of grave importance, with all of Ufology now hopeful for 2013 UFO disclosure.
Poor Sad UFO Alien. Dry your Tears...
REAL UFOS
Real UFOs in this frame of reference of this Glossary means crafts, whether piloted or unmanned drones, scouts or other unknown aircraft or spacecraft that are not those created by mankind but rather by Alien Intelligence - most often the term goes along with beings of Extraterrestrial Origin, but theories such as Extra-dimensional Aliens alongside the traditional extra-solar Aliens (beings not from our "Solar System". In Short: A REAL UFO is one that is of the more common connotation of UFO: an alien craft of some origin other than we here on Earth might have produced. Also, any biological entity that also causes such
"GREY ALIENS"Grey Aliens, popularly known as THE GREYS are a subspecies of a type of Extraterrestrial that has been reported to have had a significant amount of interaction with humankind over the many years of our existence. While the first mentions of the Grey Aliens is not until the mid 20th Century, there are many Ufologists, Exobiologists and proponents of the Ancient Astronaut Theory who believe that there is proof of Grey involvement on Earth as far back as mankind has existed.
GREY ALIEN ORIGINATORSAND THE ADAMUIN FACT, SOME BELIEVE THE ANCIENT "ADAMU "tales of the "SUMERIANS "were discussing the "Greys "as possible stars in that story: gods who came to Earth for Gold and took whatever mankind was before "Homo Sapiens" and altered us with their own genetic structure in order to have a better working force of slaves. There is no proof of such claims - no direct evidence at least, other than our genetic make-up, so perhaps when we do finally meet the real aliens officially, will they greet us as children or as a mutant bug - needing to be stepped on as fast as possible?2013 (c) Copyright Robert Hughey.
All Rights Reserved by 4UFOs.com and with the specific content creators themselves. For Reproduction Rights email: admin(a)4ufos.com
Posted by Unknown
|
at
11:31 PM
July 2nd is known to bring a lot of attention to the UFO phenomenon. It isn't strange that the UFO sightings jump up on that day! Here are a collection of reports, about UFOs spotted on World UFO Day, made on July 2nd 2013.
Taking the trash to the street when I noticed a bright red light in the sky. Under path for LAX and thought this was a plane on right base turn to the airport. I stood to observe it and noticed that it didnt move. I kept watching and waiting for some action however, it stayed motionless. There were a few light clouds and it seemed to be shining through them.
I didnt notice any anti-collision lights so I knew it couldnt have been a helicopter and the fact that it wasnt moving convinced me it wasnt the ISS flying over head (which is the brightness I would describe it).
I went and got my binoculars and as I watched it for several seconds more, it slowly began to dim until if finally vanished.
Moments later, some friends of mine several miles away called and asked if there was a supernova in the sky and described it the way I saw it also.
A friend and I were in my driveway talking and stargazing when I saw a very bright white light pulse twice about 1 second apart very high up in the sky, I immediately knew it was not a comet or plane or anything else familiar. I told my friend about it then we both looked in the direction of the sighting and we both saw that it pulsated again after about 15 seconds a few degrees north from the first sighting. I was surprised but I was not shocked as I am very well informed on the subject of extra-terrestrials and this is not my first sighting. It did not reappear after that sighting and there was nothing near that couldve blocked the view of it, later that night, about an hour later we also saw a much smaller and much less intense blue star-like object moving very fast very high up in the sky heading south-west then disappear. Also I should note that a while later a friend on Facebook posted a status stating that he saw the same pulses of light at the same time and area
> ~1104MST Saw two aircraft creating zigzag pattern in the sky with their contrail/exhaust.
When I was observing the crossing flight pattern I drew notice to a rod shaped/aligned light sources/orbs floating against the contrail wake from the two jets.
> ~1114MST Orbs continued in aligned rod shape and drifted towards north along the contrail wake. Orbs had appearance of being 'on-top' of clouds drifting into the distance. Orbs were present on dramatic/brilliant 'blue earth' background for a period of time and images were captured.
> ~1130MSTOrbs continued in aligned rod shape and drifted towards west/southwest for a period of time. Orbs maintained rod shape/alignment and drifted from time to time on top section (1st 2 Orbs) to the left and right of the below two orbs. Orbs quickly aligned back to Rod shape anytime they drifted too far from one another.
> ~1250MST Observed Orbs in WNW sky from 1130MST until ~1250MST when the Orbs faded into way far west distance.
I observed the orbs for a aprox 1 hour 45 minutes. I have lived in/around military bases my entire life and accustomed to normal aviation lighting, etc.. I admit I also felt a strange feeling/presence during the time I was observing the orbs/lights
I was riding in my friends car. We were on SR 165 just north of SR 62 traveling north. I had been looking out my window to the east as we were talking when 2 bright red lights appeared. I watched them for several seconds, they remained in the same place with a bright steady glow. I told my friend to look at these lights. She stopped the car and leaned down to see them. We discussed how they werent moving and just stayed on at a steady glow. We started to drive up the road 1/4 mile to get off the road to watch them more. I told her that one was starting to fade ( the northern one). She was looking and could not see it. I then said the other one just disappeared. She stopped the car and jumped out and looked for several minutes but we could not locate them. It was still and cloudless, we heard nothing. My window was down when I first saw them and still no noise. She was a little shaken and I kept going over what we had just seen, checked the time, and kept checking the sky. I drove back to the same location after 10 minutes and saw nothing. It was bizarre how they appeared then disappeared just as quickly. When I first noticed them, I thought they could be airplanes, but the lights never flashed and they were much brighter then a plane.(function(d, s, id) {
var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s);
if (d.getElementById(id)) return;
js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;
js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en US/all.js#xfbml=1
fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);
}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));
The post UFOs spotted on World UFO Day appeared first on.
Posted by Unknown
|
at
7:47 PM
LINCOLNTON UFO PIONEER DEAD AT 83
By Joe DePriest
www.charlotteobserver.com
1-23-13
LINCOLNTON As a kid in Mount Airy, George Fawcett played basketball with Andy Griffith and got hooked on UFOs.
A 1944 newspaper article describing "mysterious balls of fire" spotted by American pilots over Germany during World War II sparked his imagination.
Fawcett went on to work as a YMCA director, textile employee, weekly newspaper manager and sandwich shop operator. A long-time resident of Lincolnton, he also became known as the UFO man.
His health had declined in recent years, and Fawcett died Saturday at age 83.
During more than 65 years of research, Fawcett wrote numerous articles about unidentified flying objects in such publications as Argosy, True and Flying Saucers Review. He taught a UFO course at Gaston College and investigated more than 1,200 UFO sightings, including 600 across the Carolinas. His 20,000-item Sauceriana Collection is at the International UFO Museum & Research Center in Roswell, New Mexico....
Continue Reading...
See Also:
Local News : Local Writer Releases New UFO Book for 2007
Veteran Ufologist George Fawcett Retiring
Veteran Ufologist - George D. Fawcett To Speak at Festival
SHARE YOUR UFO EXPERIENCE
Read more >>
Posted by Unknown
|
at
12:24 PM
Welcome! "Alien Life" tracks the latest discoveries and thoughts in the various elements of the famous Drake Equation. Here's today's news:
g STARS - Maggie Turnbull, an astronomer with the Carnegie Institution, has spent many years thinking about what kind of stars could harbor Earth-like planets. Her database of potentially habitable star systems could be used as a target list for NASA's forthcoming Terrestrial Planet Finder mission. Turnbull presented a talk, "Remote Sensing of Life and Habitable Worlds: Habstars, Earthshine and TPF," at a NASA Forum for Astrobiology Research on March 14. This edited transcript of the lecture is part two of a four-part series. See article.
g LIFE - University of Colorado scientists have found bacteria that live in the rocks of a hot, acidic environment in Yellowstone National Park. Such extremophiles - organisms that can tough it out at sub-zero temperatures or with little water - are the cat's meow to astrobiologists, who want to determine the origin of life here on Earth, as well as estimate good spots to look for life elsewhere. See article.
g INTELLIGENCE - Will there ever be another Einstein? This is the undercurrent of conversation at Einstein memorial meetings throughout the year. A new Einstein will emerge, scientists say. But it may take a long time. After all, more than 200 years separated Einstein from his nearest rival, Isaac Newton. See article.
g MESSAGE - Is it even ethical for us to contact alien life? See article. Note: This article is a few years old.
g COSMICUS - An illuminated part of a lunar crater rim may be very close to the Moon's North pole and is a candidate for a peak of eternal sunlight. Such places could be key locations for future lunar outposts. The European Space Agency's SMART missions - Small Missions for Advanced Research and Technology - are designed to test new spacecraft technology and propulsion while visiting various places in the solar system. See article.
g LEARNING - Here's a neat classroom activity courtesy of NASA: "Mountain Quest." Students divide into five research teams to make recommendations for building a new observatory for NASA. See article.
g IMAGINING - Speculation about aliens has typically been left to science fiction authors, science fiction readers and Hollywood writers and directors. But what if we apply what we have learned about life on Earth to speculate about what alien life forms might be like? Here's a primer.
g AFTERMATH - Here's an intriguing read: the final report of "The Workshop on the Societal Implications of Astrobiology". Note: The workshop was held in 1999.
Read this blogger's books
Posted by Unknown
|
at
8:31 AM
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/08/roswell-ufo-cia-agent-chase-brandon n 1657077.html?utm hp ref=mostpopularROSWELL UFO WAS NOT OF THIS EARTH AND THERE WERE ET CADAVERS: EX-CIA AGENT SAYSPOSTED: 07/08/2012 12:36 PM UPDATED: 07/08/2012 2:22 PMHappy anniversary, Roswell, N.M. It was 65 years ago today that the Roswell Daily Record blasted an infamous headline claiming local military officials had captured a flying saucer on a nearby ranch. And now, a former CIA agent says it really happened."IT WAS NOT A DAMN WEATHER BALLOON -- IT WAS WHAT IT WAS BILLED WHEN PEOPLE FIRST REPORTED IT," SAID CHASE BRANDON, A 35-YEAR CIA VETERAN. "IT WAS A CRAFT THAT CLEARLY DID NOT COME FROM THIS PLANET, IT CRASHED AND I DON'T DOUBT FOR A SECOND THAT THE USE OF THE WORD 'REMAINS' AND 'CADAVERS' WAS EXACTLY WHAT PEOPLE WERE TALKING ABOUT."Brandon served as an undercover, covert operations officer in the agency's Clandestine Service for 25 years, where he was assigned missions in international terrorism, counterinsurgency, global narcotics trafficking and weapons smuggling. He spent his final 10 years of CIA service on the director's staff as the agency's first official liaison to the entertainment and publication industries. It was during this time, in the mid-1990s, that he walked into a special section of CIA headquarters in Langley, Va., called the Historical Intelligence Collection."It was a vaulted area and not everybody could get in it," Brandon told The Huffington Post. "One day, I was looking around in there and reading some of the titles that were mostly hand-scribbled summations of what was in the boxes. And there was one box that really caught my eye. It had one word on it: Roswell."I took the box down, lifted the lid up, rummaged around inside it, put the box back on the shelf and said, 'My god, it really happened!'"What exactly did the box contain that had such a powerful impact on Brandon?"Some written material and some photographs, and that's all I will ever say to anybody about the contents of that box," he said. "But it absolutely, for me, was the single validating moment that everything I had believed, and knew that so many other people believed had happened, truly was what occurred,"None of this comes as a surprise to Stanton T. Friedman, a nuclear-physicist-turned-UFOlogist, who was the original civilian investigator of the Roswell UFO incident.In the late 1970s, Friedman began to uncover former military eyewitnesses who had been involved with the original events that took place at Roswell in 1947.Despite the fact that the military changed its story overnight, saying on July 8, 1947 that a flying disk had been captured but claiming on July 9 that a weather balloon had been recovered, Friedman's early investigative efforts prompted many Roswell witnesses to come forward and tell their stories. Numerous researchers have dug up more facts in the years since."It's been 65 years since things took place at Roswell," Friedman told HuffPost. "How much more widely known could it be -- everywhere I've spoken in the world, they ask about Roswell.""What we really need now is the Woodward-Bernstein of the UFO world to bring out the disclosure," said Friedman. "Maybe Chase Brandon is a foresight of something going on."It's time for the retirement of the mythical part -- where we don't have all the pieces -- to be replaced by the true story of what happened, all the details, and we certainly don't have them."Watch this video from a 1989 episode of 'Unsolved Mysteries UFO Files: Roswell.'Brandon is currently promoting his book, "The Cryptos Conundrum," a science fiction story about the history of Earth, contact with extraterrestrials and imagined cataclysmic events on our planet.He remains steadfast about the pieces of the Roswell puzzle he's willing to share, and he emphasizes there's no internal CIA policy that prevents him from revealing any details of what he saw in that box at the agency headquarters."Nobody tells any of us that we can't say anything about sources, methods, classified information having to do with working for the Central Intelligence Agency," Brandon said. "We all sign a secrecy agreement that says we understand we are forbidden to do that by law, and that is an inherent part of keeping and safeguarding what we do, how we do it, why we do it, out of national security concerns."I'm not reluctant to talk about it -- I won't talk about it. I'm telling you there was a box that had stuff in there having to do with Roswell, and I looked through it, and it validated everything I believed in, and that's all I have to say about it. I will go to my grave being mindful of the two hats that I wear: My personal one and the one that will forever reside on my head as a former CIA officer."
Posted by Unknown
|
at
3:49 PM
UFO SIGHTING IN FORT WAYNE, INDIANA ON AUGUST 13TH 2010 - APPERED TO BE A OBJECT,ROUND AND ENGULFED IN A FIREBALL.
on Aug 13th about 520am appeared in the sky to the ne of my view. traveling in a straight line above the ground about 100-200 feet The object was moving west at a level and straight line. I observed it for about 45 seconds and it was out of my sight. i was driving west bound and it was to my left about a 1/2 mile away. it was observed by the passager in my caqr also it did appear to be a metior but it was traveling east to west in a straight line. if it was a metior it would have made a huge inpact, but none was seen or heard.
2013 SIGHTING REPORT
(via MUFON.com)
Learn about: an amazing NASA UFO Sighting Video and Blatant Cover-Up.Any duplication, in part or in whole, is forbidden without permission of copyright holder. Email Site Admin for inquiries, comments or questions.
Posted by Unknown
|
at
8:42 AM
Diverse children expect in government conspiracy pertaining to UFO sightings. The presume that the government aims to guard any to be expected evidence of alien attacks seems to be very see-through that the children can with ease draft it out. Perhaps, exhibit is no evidence that can harshly depict the mystery subsequently aliens and extraterrestrials. But the history repeats itself and so do reports on UFO appearances. The boom of the first UFO sighting is accompanied by the growing take-home pay of scientists and researchers in to be expected life higher than earth. The space missions launched on Mars purely indicates how inconsolable humans are in sighting even a report on proof that extraterrestrials are real. While NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) invaded the Martian planet, the impending of reported sightings of odd bits and pieces applicable to aliens in the red planet's skies seemed too very much to bigwig. To add to that, the rewarding landing of rolling stone Scarcity was followed by compound claims that the Gale fissure landing site was delimited by unidentified flying objects. In fact, photos from MSL are seen to have odd formations that were classified as unidentified, but were when all through to be caused by on the breadline camera pixels. Then, the moon landing of Apollo 11 in 1969 was to boot delimited a release of deliberate UFO sightings. Quieten, neither famous Neil Armstrong nor one of the NASA officials seasoned such allegations. Cosmos has been full up as well as invented stories and this has measure certain how humans see energy extraterrestrial existence.
Credit: space-wanderers.blogspot.com
Posted by Unknown
|
at
11:59 AM
SHORT UFO FACT: [On April 9, 1970, a retired electrician named Max Krauss, aged 65, was walking along a country road towards his home in Langenschemmern. Suddenly he was astonished to see what looked like a torn-off portion of the skeleton of a plant coming whirling along on the right-hand side of the road. After careful consideration, it became clear, what at first glance had looked like the skeleton of a plant was in fact a transparent ball some 40 cms. wide, which had spokes inside it. The central part of the ball changed colour throughout half of its radius, becoming milky, like water just before it boils. Then UFO vanished, so absolutely silently, and at such lightning speed, straight upwards into the sky.]UFO MOON CRAFT N TOWER PEOPLE SHORT UFO FACT: [On Tagish Lake (SOUTH OF WHITEHORSE) in 1970 Jim and his wife while travelling along the edge of the lake, saw seven strange glowing orbs. There are four closer objects and three more further up the mountainside. Jim estimated that they were 3 to 4 feet in diameter. They moved about slowly for the estimated 15 minutes that they watched them. Jim used slide film. ]UNA DE OVNIS SOBRE WTC 2001IF THESE EVIDENCES ARE ENOUGH FOR YOU, THEN RATE THIS PAGE:>>> You're still not sure? Get the documentary proof here
Source: ovni-news.blogspot.com
Posted by Unknown
|
at
11:17 AM
