Monday, June 30, 2008

VIDEO: Resident Captures Film of UFO

UFOs Over Bedfordshire
By Ben Raza
Bedford Today
6-29-08

     Footage shot by eagle-eyed resident after sighting in Clapham

Paranormal activity is suspected above the streets of Bedfordshire, after a UFO was caught on film in Clapham.

The group Scope-Paranormal.com has been analysing footage which was captured by an eagle-eyed resident at 9.45pm on Saturday, June 7.
It shows seven red lights moving in formation for around two-and-a-half minutes.

And the group, which covers Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire, have stated a very similar incident was reported by three police officers who were travelling in a force helicopter in South Wales the same evening.

Scope-Paranormal.com spokesman, Sharon Chesterman, said: "Put together with the witness statement, we believe there was definitely something going on.

"The interesting thing is that there have been a number of similar sightings in America recently. Those also show seven red lights moving in a circle and then one drops down to create a triangle.

"A UFO is just that – an unidentified flying object. We are not claiming that there are necessarily little green men flying something on film.

"But we want to keep a full track of what sightings there are. Anyone who makes a sighting can let us know about it by filling in a form at www.scope-paranormal.com so that we can keep a track of what is happening in the area."

Sunday, June 29, 2008

Welsh UFO sighting to feature on US show

The Invaders TV Show
By Nathan Bevan
Wales O Sunday
6-29-08

     A MYSTERIOUS UFO seen hovering in the sky above Wales is set to be the subject of a US TV show.

International interest in little green men was sparked after it was reported earlier this month that a police helicopter had almost been involved in a collision with a flying saucer while waiting for landing clearance at the Ministry of Defence’s base in St Athan, Vale of Glamorgan.

The alleged incident saw the whole of Wales gripped by extraterrestrial excitement, prompting the phone lines in the office of Media Wales to jam as floods of readers rang in to tell of similar experiences with strange sights in our skies.

Saltwater Engine



Saturday, June 28, 2008

1924 Chevrolet: 168 Miles Per Gallon!

1924 Chevrolet Series F Superior-2
By Time Magazine
6-30-1952

      Most drivers feel like cheering if they get as much as 20 miles on a gallon of gas. But not Research Engineers Dave L. Berry and Fred Schuette. Last week, in Shell Oil's tenth annual mileage test at Wood River, Ill., they drove the twelve test miles at the rate of 168.49 miles per gallon —and did it in a 28-year-old car.

The new record (old record: 149.95 miles per gallon) was set in a 1924 four-cylinder Chevrolet. But the car was completely rebuilt. The compression ratio was stepped up from the normal 6-1 to 10-1, the fan belt taken off (to save the power required to turn it), the six-ply tires pumped up to a pressure of 110 lbs. to cut down friction.

Almost as surprising was the performance of a 1951 Nash Rambler, winner among ordinary stock cars. Driven by Mr. & Mrs. M. V. Reedy, the Rambler—whose fan belt and generator were disconnected, radiator grille blocked off, tires pumped up to 50 lbs.—averaged 74.48 miles per gallon. One consolation for run-of-the-road drivers: a car so altered can not be driven far.

Shag Harbour: From Obscurity to International Festival

Shag Harbour Sound LG
By Don Ledger
© 6-26-07

By Don Ledger (B)     The Shag Harbour Incident in October of 1967 was one of those cases that seemed to be a flash in the pan. There was a brief flurry of interest during the week following the reported “crash” of an unidentified flying object into the “Sound” in Shag Harbour; however it quickly faded into obscurity in the months after. The incident received some exposure in FATE magazine and the National Inquirer in 1968 and made an appearance in a comic book. It even made it into Dr. Edward U. Condon’s Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects commissioned by the United States Air force. The Shag Harbour Incident was listed as Case #34. It remained unsolved. Nonetheless the memory of the event faded from view in less than 14 months.

Shag Harbour Sign

Chris Styles became interested in the event in 1993, 26 years later and began an investigation. About 14 months later he introduced me to the case and eventually we wrote a book about it titled Dark Object-by Don Ledger and Chris Styles. It was published in 2001; forwarded by Whitley Strieber. The incident regained momentum once the book was published and its authors began appearing in various documentaries and lectured about the Shag Harbour Incident in Canada and the United States. Year by year the incident in Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia has become more deeply entrenched in that lexicon known as the UFO phenomenon and like Roswell, Kecksburg and Rendlesham it is recognized around the world.

In Shag Harbour some of the citizens began to promote the incident as a matter of local pride in an event that put the little community on the world stage. Cindy Nickerson among others raised awareness by holding an event every two years or so beginning in 2001 - the year Dark Object was published - on or near the anniversary date of October 4. It celebrated the book and the event for the first time.

Cindy Nickerson is the Post Master of the Shag Harbour Post Office. She was instrumental in getting Canada Post to sanction and print a cancellation stamp commemorating the Shag Harbour UFO Incident, which is still available today. The annual event was arranged by Cindy and the other members of the Shag Harbour UFO Incident Society in order to support an interpretation center – museum - in Shag Harbour and provide local businesses with tourist dollars. The primary source of employment in Shag Harbour is derived from inshore and offshore fishing with the spin-off industries associated with that industry, principally fish or seafood processing.

For the first time it has been decided to hold the Shag Harbour UFO Incident Festival in the summer rather than the fall. It will be held on August 8 and 9 with the 8th being festival day while the 9th will be dedicated to the Shag Harbour UFO Symposium.

See: http://www.shagharbourufo.com

Not everyone is familiar with the Shag Harbour UFO Incident so perhaps a “brief” review of the events that took place on the night October 4, 1967 is in order.

The skies in southwestern Nova Scotia had been “active” that evening. A few dozen UFO reports had come into local agencies either that night or in the days and weeks that followed. Some of them did not come to light for nearly 30 years.

The weather in Shag Harbour was good. The skies were clear, the winds calm and the air cool; there was no Moon. It was approximately 11:20 pm local. A dozen people were in place in various locales surrounding Shag Harbour and had their attention diverted to the sky and a sequence of 4 to 5 flashing amber or gold flashing lights arranged in a straight line.

Laurie Wickens, 18 and a fisherman, his friend and their girl friends were returning from Cape Sable Island some 13 miles to the east. They spotted the lights at a low altitude on the right side of their vehicle as they traveled west toward Shag Harbour. The lights passed their car and proceeded westward while Wickens increased the vehicle’s speed to keep the lights in sight. They passed through the tiny fishing community and were a mile or so outside of that area when the lights turned to their left and tilted downward at a steep angle and appeared to be about to crash into the water. They lost sight of the lights behind the tree line for a few seconds until they came out on a stretch of road that very close to the water’s edge. They pulled onto the gravel parking lot of what was then an Irish Moss Plant. They went to the shore and watched a pale yellow light either drifting with the ebbing tide or under its own power. The light was about 800 feet from the shoreline.

Wickens and the others were convinced that this was a light on a crashed airplane, perhaps an airliner, so they drove another half-mile further down the highway to Lower Woods Harbour to a payphone at a gas station. Wickens contacted RCMP Corporal Victor Werbicki at the Barrington Detachment and reported what they had seen. Werbicki asked Wickens if he had been drinking to which Wickens, miffed, replied he had not. Werbicki’s other phone began to ring so he got the payphone number from Wickins and told him to stay put. Werbicki received several phone calls in quick succession from various witnesses who thought they had seen an airplane crashing in the Sound or in the vicinity of Shag Harbour. He now took the report seriously and made a radio call recalling two of his constables who were on patrol; Ron O’Brian and Ron Pond back to the detachment. He then called Wickens back and told him to go back to the Irish Moss Plant and keep an eye on the light.

Two witnesses who did not report the incident were Norm Smith and Dave Kendrick who were also returning from the same function on Cape Sable Island. [Note: Cape Sable Island is about a half mile from the mainland and is connected to it by a causeway]. The spotted the lights as well but Kendricks went home after dropping off Smith who spotted the lights again, woke his father and showed him the lights as they dipped down toward the harbour not far away. They decided to drive over there fearing a airplane crash.

The area next to the little Moss Plant was getting crowded with vehicles including the three Mounties. They observed the light on the water which one RCMP Telex stated appeared to be a Dark Object on the water’s surface about 60 feet wide by ten feet high displaying a pale yellow light drifting further away from shore. While concerns mounted for possible survivors of what was assumed to be an airplane crash the light extinguished raising further concerns that it might have sunk.

Werbicki went in search of phone to contact some of the local fisherman about using their boats for a rescue attempt while Const. O’Brian contacted the rescue Coordination Center (RCC) in Halifax, the Capital City of Nova Scotia. Two fishermen, Lawrence Smith and Bradford (Brath) Shand volunteered their 35 foot cape Island Fishing boats and just after midnight the Mounties, the witnesses and others were motoring out of the western entrance to Shag Harbour and across the sound in the presumed area of the stricken “airliner” their eyes peeled for the sign of b survivors, bodies or wreckage. Instead they found a slick of foam about 80 feet wide, a half-mile long and 3-5 inches thick floating on the surface of the water. Smith and Shand were not fussy about sailing into it but had no choice considering the circumstances. The foam had the consistency foam shaving cream but with a glittery gold surface. Attempts at picking some of it up were met with only wet hands and arms. The fishermen are insulted by comments that this was natural sea foam. “Jesus Christ, no by’ (local for boy)”, Norm Smith stated emphatically nearly 30 years later when Chris Styles and myself interviewed him. Somehow he had been missed as a witness. He stated that he had seen sea foam all of his life and this stuff was nothing like it. At the time they assumed it had been the result of some chemical reaction of jet fuel or aviation gas to seawater. Their nerves were in knots, each of the impromptu search party convinced they were going to find bodies in various states of trauma due to an airplane crash. They searched for more than an hour. Coast Guard Cutter 101 from Clarks Harbour on Cape Sable Island arrived on the scene about an hour into the search. They had a report from RCC, Halifax for Const. Ron O’Brian. “No aircraft, private, commercial or military had been reported missing anywhere along the eastern seaboard of Canada or the northern United States. This news quickly spread through the fleet of 6 fishing boats now present. Their crews were deeply puzzled. “What the heck were they looking for then?”

Over the next few days the searching continued. Royal Canadian Navy divers were brought in from the Fleet Diving Unit in Halifax to search the bottom of the Sound. By Saturday the conservative newspaper, the Halifax Chronicle Herald-Mail Star reported with glaring red, 2 inch high headlines Could Be Something Concrete in Shag Harbor UFO-RCAF. The RCAF was the Royal Canadian Air Force and it was the RCAF’s Air Desk in Canada’s Capital City of Ottawa that first called this Dark Object a UFO in one of their Canadian Forces Action Orders CFAO 71-6 UFO reporting forms a UFO.

The divers were ordered to stay on site to search fro evidence on the bottom of the Sound until they were released on Sunday October 8 even though they were convinced on the 6th that there was nothing down there.

By Monday morning things were settling back to normal in Shag Harbour but the fishermen would not sail through the waters near where the foam had been spotted on their way to their fishing grounds.

What happened the night of the 4th and through until the 8th is the beginning of one of the most bizarre events in UFO history the Shag Harbour portion of which is supported by government documents, newspaper articles and live (on film) television coverage. There is too much to cover here but essentially the events at Shag Harbour spread northeastward and covered a period of seven days, almost to the hour.

This UFO event and others will be presented at the Annual Shag Harbour UFO Incident Festival in Shag Harbour as noted above. See the roster of speakers at the official website. The southwestern region of Nova Scotia is littered with mysterious little coves and replete with history extending back to the 1400s. The people are friendly and the seafood is delicious.

See you there!

Don Ledger - Symposium organizer.

Friday, June 27, 2008

Exclusive: No Ice at the North Pole

Polar Ice Cap Melting
By he Independent
6-27-08

     It seems unthinkable, but for the first time in human history, ice is on course to disappear entirely from the North Pole this year.

The disappearance of the Arctic sea ice, making it possible to reach the Pole sailing in a boat through open water, would be one of the most dramatic – and worrying – examples of the impact of global warming on the planet. Scientists say the ice at 90 degrees north may well have melted away by the summer.

"From the viewpoint of science, the North Pole is just another point on the globe, but symbolically it is hugely important. There is supposed to be ice at the North Pole, not open water," said Mark Serreze of the US National Snow and Ice Data Centre in Colorado.

If it happens, it raises the prospect of the Arctic nations being able to exploit the valuable oil and mineral deposits below these a bed which have until now been impossible to extract because of the thick sea ice above.

Seasoned polar scientists believe the chances of a totally ice-free North Pole this summer are greater than 50:50 because the normally thick ice formed over many years at the Pole has been blown away and replaced by huge swathes of thinner ice formed over a single year.

This one-year ice is highly vulnerable to melting during the summer months and satellite data coming in over recent weeks shows that the rate of melting is faster than last year, when there was an all-time record loss of summer sea ice at the Arctic.

"The issue is that, for the first time that I am aware of, the North Pole is covered with extensive first-year ice – ice that formed last autumn and winter. I'd say it's even-odds whether the North Pole melts out," said Dr Serreze.

Each summer the sea ice melts before reforming again during the long Arctic winter but the loss of sea ice last year was so extensive that much of the Arctic Ocean became open water, with the water-ice boundary coming just 700 miles away from the North Pole.

This meant that about 70 per cent of the sea ice present this spring was single-year ice formed over last winter. Scientists predict that at least 70 per cent of this single-year ice – and perhaps all of it – will melt completely this summer, Dr Serreze said.

"Indeed, for the Arctic as a whole, the melt season started with even more thin ice than in 2007, hence concerns that we may even beat last year's sea-ice minimum. We'll see what happens, a great deal depends on the weather patterns in July and August," he said.

Ron Lindsay, a polar scientist at the University of Washington in Seattle, agreed that much now depends on what happens to the Arctic weather in terms of wind patterns and hours of sunshine. "There's a good chance that it will all melt away at the North Pole, it's certainly feasible, but it's not guaranteed," Dr Lindsay said.

The polar regions are experiencing the most dramatic increase in average temperatures due to global warming and scientists fear that as more sea ice is lost, the darker, open ocean will absorb more heat and raise local temperatures even further. Professor Peter Wadhams of Cambridge University, who was one of the first civilian scientists to sail underneath the Arctic sea ice in a Royal Navy submarine, said that the conditions are ripe for an unprecedented melting of the ice at the North Pole.

"Last year we saw huge areas of the ocean open up, which has never been experienced before. People are expecting this to continue this year and it is likely to extend over the North Pole. It is quite likely that the North Pole will be exposed this summer – it's not happened before," Professor Wadhams said.

There are other indications that the Arctic sea ice is showing signs of breaking up. Scientists at the Nasa Goddard Space Flight Centre said that the North Water 'polynya' – an expanse of open water surrounded on all sides by ice – that normally forms near Alaska and Banks Island off the Canadian coast, is much larger than normal. Polynyas absorb heat from the sun and eat away at the edge of the sea ice.

Inuit natives living near Baffin Bay between Canada and Greenland are also reporting that the sea ice there is starting to break up much earlier than normal and that they have seen wide cracks appearing in the ice where it normally remains stable. Satellite measurements collected over nearly 30 years show a significant decline in the extent of the Arctic sea ice, which has become more rapid in recent years.

Frank Warren & Deb Kauble Discuss 'The Kokomo Incident' with The Boys at Eerie Radio



By Frank Warren
6-26-08

     

Thursday, June 26, 2008

MY UFO EXPERIENCE: Witness Recounts Huge Cigar Shaped UFO and Telepathic Link with Child

My UFO Experience
Reader Submitted Report
[Unedited]
5-13-08

     I was traveling with my girlfriend and her daughter through Wyoming. She was driving. Her daughter was sitting in the back seat. It was pitch black.

As we were driving through Wyoming off to our left was a huge luminous UFO. It was about 2-3 miles away, about 300 feet long, a foot high, and 50 feet wide. It was very luminous. This was around 1989. It was travelling in the opposite direction we were. It was going very slow. My girlfriend got scared and stepped on the gas. I tried taking some pictures, but only got reflected flashes from the windows. My irlfriend's daughter did something very interesting. She put her fingers on her temples and went into a trance like state.

After the UFO was gone and we were back to normality, The mother asked her daughter what she was doing. Her daughter responded she was communicating with the UFO. This is what she shared with us. The UFO told the daughter they were here for her, just not at that time.

That was it.

British Ufologists Quick To Look into Aerial Police Chase of UFO

Helicopter Chasing UFO
By Joe McGonagle
6-20-08

     Gary Anthony, Dave Clarke, and myself are onto this already.

The MoD UFO department has told me that they have no knowledge of this event, though I enquired about the date provided in the newspaper article (7th June).

Dave Clarke has spoken to the Police and they informed him that the event took place on 8th June at 00:40. They also told him that they did not attempt to pursue the object and that it was not saucer-shaped but shaped like an aircraft.

Dave has already been asked to participate in radio programmes for BBC Wales and the British Forces Broadcasting Service!

The Police would not say who they reported the incident to, just "the appropriate authorities". We suspect that this will definitely include the Civil Aviation Authority, and either Counter-Terrorism and UK Operations or the flying complaints section of the Provost and Security Squadron of the Royal Air Force.

'The Telegraph' appears to have plagiarized the story from 'The Sun' if 'The Sun's' claim to exclusivity is to be believed, so I doubt that any contact with The Telegraph would achieve much. The Sun doesn't name it's source, but I have emailed them just in case, requesting that my message be passed on to the source. As yet I have had no response (and I don't really expect any).

Several routes are being explored, some using the FoIA and some taking a more journalistic approach.

I suspect that there are a few issues here. Firstly, according to the South Wales Police (SWP) press office, the 'saucer' description was a fabrication; they used the term 'unusual aircraft'.

That being so, and if the proximity to the helicopter is more or less as described, an AIRPROX report should have been generated. It also seems probable that a report will have been made to the RAF Provost
since it took place over or near a military airfield (which was reportedly closed for operations other then the police helicopter). This may be where any confusion has arisen within the MoD, since DAS (the UFO desk) would not necessarily be aware of the P&SS report at the time. A report may also have been sent to Counter-Terrorism and UK Operations which has absorbed the function of the Air Force Operations Room.

This leads me to another point - the confusion over the date.

The newspaper articles refer to the event having occurred on the 7th June, but the SWP say it was at 00:40 on the 8th June. Generally speaking, the police work in local time, which is currently an hour ahead of GMT. The military and the CAA generally operate in GMT. This leads me to suspect that the leak to the media originated from the CAA or the military, since the event would have been recorded by them as occurring at 23:40 GMT on 7th June.

Another curious detail in the Sun article is "They [the air crew] reported it to senior officers, who passed on the report to Britain’s UFO investigators".

If, as it appears, the event was not reported to Britain's 'official' (MoD) UFO investigators, it may be that it was reported to one or more civilian investigators.

I am also intrigued by the anonymity of the source of the report. It is as if they realised the inaccuracy of the details provided to the press, and didn't want to be directly associated with the exaggerated reports.

Another factor which requires attention is how it disseminated so quickly - The Sun published it's 'exclusive' on 20th June. It appeared in the Telegraph, and the Metro on the same day, and by 10:00 it had world coverage. This suggests to me someone behind the scenes, feeding the story to the media, exaggerating the details and remaining anonymous.

This could take some unraveling, it will be interesting to see what spins out of it all.

Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Air Force Closes the Book on UFO Reports

Project Grudge Cover
By Air Force Times
6-24-08

     11 years ago, today, the following story appeared in Air Force Times. For years, people had wondered if U.S. government, and specifically, the Air Force had hidden secrets of a UFO crash in New Mexico.

Bunk, they said.

And they made it official.

Read on:

The Air Force wants its June 24 report disproving UFO sightings in Roswell, N.M., to clear up any possible mystery on the subject: The 231-page “Roswell Report” is subtitled “Case Closed.”

“We’re confident that this will be the final word,” said Col. John Haynes, the deputy chief of the Air Force secretary’s declassification and review team at the Pentagon.

But if the slew of telephone calls the Air Force received in reaction to the report indicates anything, it’s that to many UFO believers the Roswell case is far from closed.

“Most of the public is claiming that they still think something is out there,” said Staff Sgt. Donna Burgess, an Air Force community-relations officer at the Pentagon. “I had a couple of people just screaming at me that we weren’t telling the truth.”

The truth, according to the Air Force, is that the alien bodies that witnesses reported seeing removed from a crash site in the New Mexico desert near Roswell Army Air Field — closed since 1967 — were really anthropomorphic dummies used in high-altitude crash experiments in the mid-1950s.

The dummies seemed to match the witnesses’ descriptions of bald, four-foot tall beings with blank expressions, pale skin and holes for ears. Although they were rarely seen by the public in 1947, two such dummies — Vince and Larry — now star in the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s “Buckle Your Safety Belt” campaign.

The creature that one witness reported to have seen walking into a Roswell hospital was probably a man who in 1959 was hit on the head by a balloon gondola and suffered a massive hematoma, according to the report.

“The injury that caused (Capt. Dan) Fulgham’s head to swell, resembling the classic science-fiction alien head, makes this account (and some others) that at first appeared to be the work of over-active imaginations, seem possible,” the report says.

The flying saucers witnesses reported seeing in 1947 were explained away by the Air Force in 1994 as the metallic parts of a weather balloon used for a then-classified reconnaissance mission.

The report goes on with hundreds of pages of events that, the Air Force says, explain various witness accounts. But that gives many people fodder to be skeptical of the Air Force. The Air Force is claiming that witnesses are combining the sightings of the balloon in 1947 with the sightings of the dummies in the mid-1950s with the sightings of the hematoma victim in 1953 — and mixing them up into one memory.

“You find that if people talk about things over a period of time, they begin to lose exactly when the date was,” Haynes said.

Dennis Balthaser, a “certified UFO investigator,” does not buy that explanation.

“I believe it’s the biggest insult to the intelligence of the American people to come along in 50 years. There are too many holes in it. The testing of the dummies was years after the Roswell incident,” said Balthaser, the operations manager of the International UFO Museum and Research Center in Roswell. “The report is looked at by all the people I’ve talked to as outright garbage.”

His is the sentiment of most of the people who have called the Air Force to request a copy of the report, according to Burgess.

“I haven’t gotten any calls saying, ‘We believe your report,’ “ Burgess said. “They all say, ‘We do not believe your idea of weather balloons and dummies.’ “

According to Burgess, the “Case Closed” report has fanned the ire of UFO enthusiasts.

“Before the report came out, we just got requests for UFO fact sheets,” she said.

The Air Force provides, at no charge, a one-page explanation about UFOs, which can be found on its home page at http:// www.af.mil. The “Roswell Report” is not available through the Air Force. People who want a copy, Burgess has explained to hundreds of people, must call the Government Printing Office.

“I’ve been swamped by requests for the report,” she said. “But the Air Force provided free copies only to the media.”

Gloria Cales, an Air Force spokeswoman, also handles queries about Roswell. She is supposed to deal only with news organizations, but sometimes other calls slip through.

“One lady called me and said that she has aliens living in her back yard,” Cales said. “It’s very hard to get people like that off the phone. I sat and listened to her and then went through my normal pitch.”

Project Blue Book

Cales tells UFO witnesses to report any sightings to their local police department. The Air Force no longer takes reports because “Project Blue Book is over.”

Project Blue Book was the Air Force’s investigation into extraterrestrial life. The project began in 1947 and ended in 1969.

“Out of 12,618 reports from the public, only 701 could not be explained,” Cales said. “The conclusion was that none of these UFOs gave any indication of threat to our national security.”

Balthaser said that the conclusion of the project in 1969 gave him even more reason to doubt the new “Roswell Report.”

“They say they’ve done nothing with UFOs since they closed Blue Book,” he said.

“And yet they want us to believe a 1997 report (on the subject.)”

But he was happy to hear that Haynes, who presented the report during a Pentagon news conference, had fielded questions about Area 51, officially known as Groom Lake. That is a secret military site north of Nellis Air Force Base near Las Vegas.

The Air Force is rumored to be conducting experiments on aliens at this location. Stories of such experiments led screenwriters of the movie “Independence Day” to develop a subplot in which Americans used an alien spacecraft stored in Area 51 to fight off aliens who were attacking Earth.

When a reporter asked him about the veracity of Area 51, Haynes said he assumed the reporter was talking about Groom Lake and replied, “There’s classified stuff going on there, but I don’t know anything about it.”

“Hmmph,” Balthaser said when he heard of Haynes’ response.

“At least they’re admitting it exists. That’s a start.”

UK Police Helicopter Captures 'UFO' on Film



Army Spot UFOs Over Shropshire


Alien army

By ANDREW PARKER
and JOHN COLES
The Sun
6-25-08

     A SHAKEN soldier told last night how he saw THIRTEEN UFOs spinning in the skies above his military barracks.

Corporal Mark Proctor was among three squaddies who spotted the objects while out on night patrol.

He filmed them on his mobile phone and reported the close encounter to Army top brass.

UFO Over Market Drayton, Shrops
Ministry of Defence experts were studying his report and video yesterday — after ordering Mark and his pals NOT to say anything else about the incident.

The sighting, at Tern Hill barracks near Market Drayton, Shrops, came two hours before helicopter police officers reported an encounter with a huge craft 80 miles away near Cardiff.

And three hours before a couple claimed they were followed by a strange light in the sky along the A5 near Shrewsbury.

Yesterday further mind-boggling evidence emerged as dog walker Bonnie Lewis, 29, told how she filmed seven UFOs at Bromsgrove, Worcs, last Friday.

Cpl Proctor, 38, of the 1st Battalion Irish Regiment, recalled how he saw the amazing “craft” just after 11pm on Saturday, June 7.

He said: “I was on duty in the guard room when the other boys outside began shouting. I went out to see what the commotion was about and could see thirteen craft in the skies.

“They were zig-zagging, but I filmed two before they disappeared. They were like rotating cubes with multiple colours.

“I made a full report to my commanding officers and gave them my footage. The other lads were as amazed by it as I was.”

A 19-year-old private on patrol said he also saw the “fleet”.

The soldier, who asked not to be named, said: “I saw these things flying in the sky and I told my guard commander.

“There were about 30 lights passing over for a few minutes, very high but not at a great speed. They were bright red. Another soldier saw them too.”

An MoD spokesman said: “We deal with any UFO sightings to see if there was a military threat.”
Army Spot UFOs Over Shropshire - The Sun - 6-24-08

Tuesday, June 24, 2008

My UFO Meeting with Air Force "Bigwigs"

UFO Meeting
By ufo reality
ATS Forum Member
6-24-08

     Yesterday (Monday 6/23) I drove down to Robins AFB here in Georgia. I met with Dr. Steve Butler and about 10 other people to show them my piece of material (which was given to me and taken from a UFO crash near Muncie Indiana which happened in 1988) and to talk about UFOs. I contacted Dr. Butler about a week ago and he had this meeting set up for me. I was so nervous I was shaking as I walked into the MERC facility.

I was directed into a large room with a huge glass table and several large dark brown leather chairs. I sat at the head of the large table. While I spoke they were all taking notes. A representative from Lockheed Martin was there and I don't remember who the others were. Possibly CIA, or other military agencies I don't remember...

I brought a packet of MJ-12 documents that I bought online a few years ago, my letter from Dick Cheney, picture of a reptoid which was given to me, and a fragment from a UFO crash which was also given to me. One older guy sitting next to me pointed at the MJ-12 packet and said "you know you've got something labeled top secret there and you're not supposed to have it...?"

I tried to convince them that it would be best to disclose the truth to the public now.

I spoke for one hour. During the hour hardly anyone else spoke. One guy literally sat there and just stared at me with a smirk on his face for the full hour.

A day I'll never forget for as long as I live.

Mexico: Airliner Personnel Report UFOs over MCIA

UFOs over MCIA
Inexplicata Logo
By Ana Luisa Cid and Alfonso Salazar
6-21-08

     June 9 2008 - Flight Mechanic Octavio Piedras reported five unidentified flying objects during a flight from Cancun to Mexico city between 7:08 and 7:10 a.m.. The event occurred during the descent toward MCIA (Mexico City International Airport).

The witness photographed the objects with his cell phone, and according to his account, the objects emerged from a cloud and were in front of the airplane until they lost themselves in the sky. The weather conditions were sunny and clear.

The crew (commander and first officer) also saw the UFOs, which were spherical and metallic. They described that three objects emerged first, followed by two more. Aircraft: Boeing 737-300, Flight 777.

Note: Mr. Octavio Piedras will not disclose the photograph due to personal and professional concerns.

June 16 2008 - At 7:30 a.m. a spherical, red object was seen suspended at 2000 meters over MCIA. The Airport flew over the area near the control tower and adjacent hangars. This was seen by air traffic personnel (mechanics and ramp personnel) working at that time.

According to this report, the spherical object began rising until it became lost from sight at high speed. For this reason, witnesses rule out the possibility that it could have been a balloon.

More UFOs Spotted Over Wales

Helicopter Chasing UFO
By redorbit.com
6-24-08

     MORE UFO sightings were reported across Wales after a mystery craft threatened a police helicopter over Cardiff this week.

The UFO zoomed straight at the chopper as the three-man cop crew prepared to land - and the pilot veered sharply to avoid being hit.

But experts revealed airline pilots have also spotted many UFOs over the nearby Bristol Channel this year.

And it seems the extraterrestrial beings may have made an appearance earlier in the week.

Clive Ward from Bridgend said he thinks he saw the same UFO days before it was spotted at St Athan.

He said: "At about 1am last Sunday morning I saw two aircraft flying over Bridgend, one at about 200ft and the other at about 1,000ft.

"The lower aircraft had a bright white light at the front and flickering red and green lights at the rear, the other showed just the flickering red and green lights.

"The lower aircraft was completely silent as it flew towards me, but emitted a faint drone as it turned and flew away.

"I watched these aircraft for about five minutes - I thought it was an unmanned surveillance aircraft operating out of RAF St Athan. But now wonder if our 'UFO' was one of these."

Expert David Coggins, who has studied UFOs for 30 years, said: "I'm told that in the past three months airline pilots have been reporting at least two or three encounters a week with UFOs over the Bristol Channel.

"Many of them will have rational explanations, but the probability is around 15 to 20% can't be identified."

How About That ETH?

Aliens Approaching Earth
By Don Ledger
© 6-18-08

Don Ledger     Paul Kimball posted an article at his blog recently, which, for the most part, I agree with. He states:

"Of all the non - terrestrial theories that have been offered to explain the UFO phenomenon, the extraterrestrial hypothesis (ETH) has always seemed the most plausible one to me. I don't think it's been proved, but I think it's a better bet than the others on offer when one looks at the evidence, and the science. The evidence seems to indicate that at least some UFO cases represent a non - human intelligence at work."

Kimball goes on to say that science tends to promote the idea that there is intelligent life, elsewhere in our galaxy or the universe. He also mentions that he has been hard on some ETH supporters amongst "Ufologists" because the "H" in ETH represents a hypothesis.

And he is right. The ETH is a theory, like Black Holes, the Big Bang Theory [a very flawed theory it seems] and Worm Holes and M - branes and multiple universes. Relativity is a theory - known as the Theory of Relativity - but this one is the holy grail of physics and not to be considered anything but fact … apparently. All of the above theories might in fact have some bearing on the
ETH incidentally.

Kimball supposes that much of today's ETH debate among "Ufologists" stems back to Keyhoe and the thinking back then; probably so, but it’s not my thinking.

I have stated many times that, to my mind, this need to narrow down the ETH as some kind of point - to - point contact is wrong. By point - to - point I mean their planet and our planet; that somehow "they" learned of our existence and came here, not to make contact, but to study us. This thinking seems to me to want to maintain two "miracles" in one universe. It's a little easier to handle that than perhaps a galaxy teeming with life particularly if you are of the religious bent that favors the egocentric notion of man being the center of God's universe. Y'all know I am not of a religious bent. If you don't then you haven't been paying attention.

Kimball refers to nuts and bolts Ufologists and the," ... reductionist approach that has been adopted by the nuts - and - bolts crowd, on the other hand, which seeks to make potential alien life over unto our own image, lacks vision"

I consider myself nuts - and - bolts though these days this might more properly described as more of a "technologically advanced intelligently [HI or AI] controlled craft", probably because of my association with aviation.

I don't subscribe to the premise that ETI is in our image however. That too smacks of religious overtones; but to some degree there might be evidence to support certain traits among sentient beings, which have evolved under similar conditions such as our own. Naturally there is the bias we have in favor of similar stature and two of everything like arms and legs and eyes but that has been burned into us by Hollywood who has difficulty finding actors with other traits that could be employed when an alien is needed on the set; at least up to now. CGI will and does let the artist's imagination run wild.

Maybe 40 years ago I might have believed that the point - to - point contact from some planet around a nearby star with Earth was the way things "really" were but not now.

My take on it is this: The universe has been around for 14.7 billion years; at least that's the current figure, or galaxy some 8 or 9 billion years; that is plenty of time for thousands or millions or space faring civilizations to have evolved and ranged out into space, like we did. It allows more than enough time for them to do more than range locally, however.

Technological evolution being what it is would have accelerated the same as our own, building on itself and feeding on itself, changing outmoded technology for the new and changing "their" societies as it has done here. But more than that it would have changed space travel in ways that we can't even imagine right now.

How often has "science and technology" come up with something new because someone thought outside the box. Kirk's communicator was an idea dreamed up by either Gene Roddenberry or one of his writers but it impressed a teenager who later developed the first crude version of that which has developed into the cell phones of today; and not just to communicate verbally but textually as well with pictures and data streaming. And that's just this year's models.

IBM engineers came up with the modular computer design but it took a couple of guys like Bill Gates and Steve Jobs to set the world on its ass and provide us with these machines and the CIA to help out with the Internet; low grade stuff really when you consider the leaps that must have been made to travel through whole galaxies.

I wonder, did they surge forward and perhaps travel to their satellite moons then slip back into mediocrity only to re - invent the same primitive space technology as we did of the 1960s for the 2020s? If we are to believe that the ETH has value then obviously they did not.

My thinking is that various intelligences have been ranging through this galaxy for hundreds of millions of years. If I'm right then perhaps one of them happened across out pretty, little, blue planet, took a look and reported back. "Found another one!"

Greech on planet Frob - one of 6,000 in the Gert Clique -learned of this new planet (after poring over some million year old documents in the dead files) which had a peculiar life form, some of which peed standing while the others did it sitting down. Amazing, Greech wondered...they peed?

Greech just happened to be doing its dissertation at Xzzryq U on new evolving life forms so it [Greech was genderless after all] applied for and got a low level grant that would allow a few thousand craft to bug the crap out of the life forms on that planet for 20 or 30,000 of that planets revolutions around its star. It was then discovered that virtually all of one species defecated sitting down. The stock on anal probes went through the roof on Frob when this came to light.

The above is nonsense of course - at least I think it is - but the idea that Earth was discovered by some deep ranging mission through the Cosmos, perhaps thousands of years ago might just be the case in my estimation.

I would like to think that we eventually reach a plane of existence where war is a thing of the past or restricted to planets where it can be practiced - like a hobby - without pissing everyone else off; where the whole raison - d'etre is to get out there and explore, discover, learn and try to figure out why? I suspect that if life has been ranging through this universe for billions of years, those spacefarers have likely found or punched into other universes as well.

Paul Kimball relates that Michio Kaku evoked the analogy of us being as ants to some super intelligence. Somehow I don't think this would be the case. But Kaku might be right about us being below the radar of some super intelligence, like ants to ourselves; but it should not be forgotten that there are still many entomologists around the world studying ants, their structures and their societies. The anal probes must be really tiny, though. [Note, I am not making light of the abduction phenomenon - I have too many friends, acquaintances and relatives who have claimed the experience.]

Monday, June 23, 2008

UFO Sightings Galvanize a Small Town

Stephenville UFO Drawing
By Denise Gellene
The LA Times
6-22-08


But Air Force says jets were in area
     STEPHENVILLE, Texas - Constable Lee Roy Gaitan saw the brilliant red orbs hovering in the sky and hollered for his family to come out.

It's probably an airplane, said his wife, Wendy, who didn't budge from the couch. Only 8-year-old Ryan went to the front yard.

That's a UFO, the boy said.

Gaitan, who has spent 16 years patrolling the Texas scrubland, faced a bit of a dilemma. With an election coming up, he could tell the world of this incredible sight - and look like an idiot - or keep his mouth shut.

"People would say, 'Hey, this guy is nuts. He's crazy,' " said Gaitan of his sighting Jan. 8. In the morning, there were no unusual police reports, leaving him to wonder whether anyone else had seen the lights. But the next day, the Stephenville Empire-Tribune came out with a front-page story: "Possible UFO sighting - Four area residents witness mysterious objects."

Soon, scores more said they had seen the same thing. Stephenville, a ranch town 70 miles southwest of Fort Worth, became home to the biggest mass UFO sighting since the 1997 Lights Over Phoenix, in which thousands of people, including then-governor Fife Symington, reported seeing a boomerang-shaped object in the sky.

With so many reports from so many people pouring in, there was no easy way to dismiss it all as a hoax. A town that had called itself The Cowboy Capital of the World now found itself riding an emotional bronco.

Stephenville, the largest town in Erath County, is in the heart of Texas dairy country, which means open land and few towns to interrupt grazing.

Cows easily outnumber the 34,000 humans in the county. After football season ends in the winter, life slows.

It was a cool, clear January night when Steve Allen, 50, and a group of friends were warming themselves around a fire of brush and debris in nearby Selden, just south of Stephenville.

They first saw a set of brilliant white lights heading from the east that looked like they were at the corners of something a mile long and a half mile wide. The lights were quicker and quieter than anything Allen had ever seen.

"They came within a mile of us," said Allen, the owner of L & S Enterprises and Texas Freight, a local trucking company. "It flipped us all out."

The lights headed toward Stephenville, where they came to a stop. They reconfigured to form an arch "shaped like the top of a football," Allen said, and realigned themselves into two vertical lines of randomly flashing lights. Then the object burst into a dirty white flame.

"It looked like something firing up, like a blow torch," Allen said. "It simply vanished.

Ten minutes later, the group saw the lights coming from the opposite direction. Trailing them closely, Allen was certain, were two military jets followed by two massive red orbs.

Allen, who as a licensed pilot was comfortable judging distance, said the lights were 3,000 feet above the ground.

He went home and told his wife, who urged him to keep the encounter to himself.

Allen spent a sleepless night, enthralled by what he had seen. In the morning, he contacted the Empire-Tribune.

His call went to education reporter Angelia Joiner. She knew nothing about UFOs, but Allen sounded like a sensible man.

"He was a pilot and seemed very intelligent," said Joiner, a 47-year-old former school teacher who had been a reporter for 18 months. Allen's friends confirmed the account.

Still, it was a strange story, and Joiner's bosses were concerned. Managing editor Sara Vanden Berge said she was so anxious that she cried the next morning when she saw "UFO" in the headline. Everyone is laughing at us, she thought.

That was before the television crews started showing up. First came the local reporters, then people from "Good Morning America," NPR, and CNN.

The town was swept into a UFO maelstrom. People sported aluminum foil hats to Stephenville High School basketball games. Men with belt buckles big as fists were wearing "Alien Capital of the World" T-shirts rushed into production by a local company.

A logical explanation for the lights was the military; a portion of Erath County falls under a fly zone used in training exercises. When Joiner checked, however, the 301st Fighter Wing stationed near Forth Worth said no aircraft were near Stephenville when the lights were first observed.

But two weeks after the sighting, a break came in the case. Correcting its earlier statement, the Air Force said 10 F-16s were on a training mission over the county when the lights were initially spotted.

The town splintered into believers and skeptics.

Joiner doubted the weird pattern of lights reported by Allen and others could be explained by military aircraft. Allen wasn't buying it, either. "Our military wishes it had what we saw," he said.

Gaitan reasoned from the presence of the F-16s that he probably had seen a military experiment the Air Force couldn't fully disclose. "We're in the middle of a war right now," he said.

Saturday, June 21, 2008

Rich Reynolds; UFOlogy´s Biggest Pain!

Stuart Miller & Rich Reynolds
By Stuart MIller
American Chronicle
6-20-08

     A series of extracts from the latest edition of Alien Worlds magazine issue 3

The Rich Reynolds interview; Rich just just talking………

AW: You were talking a few moments ago about Stan Friedman, and in terms of the way you paid tribute to the guy, I have no disagreements. But, somewhat belatedly recently, Loren Coleman gave a reboot to a previous blog posting of yours which went the rounds again and caused a stir. I refer to it as the "Kill them all" piece (in which Rich postulated that UFOlogy wouldn´t move on until all the older researchers and observers had died. Although he never said it, there was a sense within the article of him urging them to get on with it – Ed). Stan would be a perfect candidate for that category. He is one of the old guard. He´s been there since the year dot and really, surely, its people like him that you just want to sweep away in order to usher in a new way of thinking and a fresh approach.

RR: Stanton Friedman is like Moses, telling the story until we´ve had enough of it. But he´s a venerable kind of guy and he´s up there in years, in fact not much older than me, but I would hate to see anything happen to him. He is the ballast in the UFO ship. I think he´s wrong about the MJ12 documents and a couple of other things, but he musters enough evidence to keep things alive and you can´t discount him totally. So I´d hate to see him disappear from the scene, but he is going to at some point which may end up being helpful.

There was a debate on a forum recently about the cult of personality in UFOlogy and who could take up the mantle of the movement. You´ve had this problem too. When you start dealing with people other than Stanton Friedman, like Richard Hall or Jerry Clark or Rudiak or a number of other people, they can be so belligerent to outside views that differ from theirs, and I think it´s time to clear that slate.

You have this gorgeous young woman, Brittany Babakioff, who maybe represents a new generation. I have this thing, which I know you hate, that the messengers are so homely that when we see them on the air that we tend to discount the message. She´s so gorgeous that we would tend to discount the message from her. I´d say, "Oh my God, here´s a babe who has something to say" but you´re so taken aback by her beauty, her attractiveness that you discount what she´s saying. You can´t go either way. You can´t have people too ugly or too beautiful.

AW: Rich, it might be too late in life to try to get you to do this but; you need to focus on the words!

RR: I know but I just get so distracted. Somebody recently said that the message has to have the right messenger. As a psychologist I think there is some validity to that. The problem is we don´t have anybody who stands apart from the UFO crowd; there are just a lot of people within the UFO community who feed off from each other.

But from the public standpoint, who is the spokesman for UFOlogy? It used to be Donald Keyhoe who I actually adored, he had personality quirks or whatever but I loved the guy and he was the face of the UFO message. Goofy as he looked, he made the point for us.

AW: A lot of people would say that Stan is that face in the United States.

RR: When you see Stan Friedman, you know he is going to talk about UFOs, and you expect that. But there is a lack of dynamism about Stan and there´s some mystical element there that he just doesn´t have. But I can´t name anybody else who does what he does. I don´t know who´s going to come forward to make the case in the public eye. Who could do this that would be reasonable and sensible and have the austerity and charisma to get the message across?

AW: Why do we need a figurehead?

RR: You think UFOs on their own are valid enough to represent the issue? You don´t think we need a messenger?

AW: Well I wonder if we need a messenger or whether we need a number of competent people that can talk in an articulate manner about the subject.

RR: You know as well as I do that when you get those people together in a room then it can become a cacophony of nonsense. Everybody would be trying to get attention. In the UFO community, that is what everybody does. Everybody wants to be recognised among their peers and they don´t care about the public. The biggest self promoter is Paul Kimball, who I actually like very much. But he´s a self promoter and wants to be recognised. He´s so diverse and has so many things going on, and he doesn´t concentrate just on UFOs necessarily, but he wants to be recognised. Everybody wants to have somebody hang their hat in their doorway so they can be seen as worthwhile, and they don´t give a dam about the public.

Was Inventor of 'Water Fueled Car," Stanley Meyer Murdered?



Stanley Meyer, Water-Fuel Cell Inventor & Promoter, Dies Suddenly

By Dr. Gene Mallove
1998

     Stanley A. Meyer, the controversial Ohio inventor who had claimed his technology could produce a hydrogen-oxygen mixture with a minimal energy input (compared with conventional electrolysis) died on March 21, 1998. He did not have a world-wide following, like he should have, few people have heard of him.

There were also those of adherents and people who had invested in his activities --- Water Fuel Cell (Grove City, OH). He was famous for his claimed "water fueled car" which was exhibited symbolically in the BBC/CBC 1994 documentary on cold fusion, "Too Close to the Sun". We were initially curious about Meyer's work, the late Christopher Tinsley of the UK, and the late Admiral of the British Navy, Sir Anthony Griffin, but who became frustrated by being unable --- or, more to the point, not allowed --- to confirm (or reject) Meyer's claims.

It makes no sense that after discovering the technological process that he had. Why there is no way that a reasonable, straightforward marketing strategy would have failed to make his technology quickly spread worldwide. He could have become very influential and very rich.

There remains a very strong suspicion that he had no such process, from his enemies, (Oil Corp. Cartels) even though he conducted a demonstration (before this writer and another engineer at the Meyer lab in 1993) of the production of copious hydrogen/oxygen gas from what visually seemed like a small input power. But Meyer was exceedingly paranoid and he flatly refused reasonable requests by us and others to test the performance --- the input/out power ratio, even with the proviso that we did not have to "look into his black box" of electronics feeding his rather simply constructed stainless steel electrode, alternating current and voltage cell. The last such refusal --- this one in public and recorded on video tape --- was at the ANE meeting in Denver CO in 1997. Then Meyer loudly and falsely protested that he would "lose his patent rights" if he were to release anything but complete, integrated systems --- such as a water-fueled vehicle.

In 1996, Meyer lost a long-lasting Ohio civil court battle accusing him of "egregious fraud" against a former associate. Meyer's said, he ascribed this and other alleged assaults on him to various conspiracies against water as a fuel. He was offered huge sums of money (a billion dollars) to "suppress this technology", but that he had refused those sums. One had the impression that he really believed that there were conspiracies against him. These conspiracies exist today. That is a tragedy, a very compounded tragedy if he had actually come up with something novel and useful that he was hiding.

This is a very complex human and scientific story that we shall want to cover in greater detail in a future issue of infinite energy. There are other processes and inventions that suggest that splitting water molecules with much greater efficiency than with conventional electrolysis is possible. Certainly there are other novelties within water --- "cold fusion" to be sure --- that really do produce prodigious quantities of energy, in the mode Meyer claimed. For now, here are some of the facts surrounding Meyer's death:

He was apparently eating dinner at a Grove City OH restaurant, when it is reported that he jumped up from the table, yelled that he'd been poisoned", and rushed out into the parking lot, where he collapsed and died. It has been reported by Meyer's associates that Meyer had just secured funding for a $50 million research center near Grove City, but there is no way to confirm or reject this at the moment.

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