UFO's

2011-03-16T15:42:00.000-07:00

UFOs? ‘There’s plenty of evidence’

2010-04-11T18:10:00.000-07:00

By Emma D. Sapong
NEWS STAFF REPORTER

Philip Haseley has never had any encounters with UFOs or extraterrestrials, but he knows dozens of people who say they have.

“It happens to millions of people [around the world],” he said. “It’s about time we looked into this as a worthy area of study. It’s important that the whole subject be brought out in the open and investigated.”

Haseley is doing his part. He is as serious about unidentified flying objects as anyone in the region. The Niagara County Community College anthropology professor has brought several speakers on the subject to the college in recent years and is head of the Western New York Mutual UFO Network, a group interested in UFO research.

Like the national organization, the Western New York group researches reported UFO sightings.

Generally, about 30 to 50 claims of UFOs are reported monthly across the state, Haseley said, including two or three in this region.

The investigation is done in a scientific manner, he says. Some members receive training, including in field investigation, astronomy and meteorology. They also are taught to use radar and other types of instruments and technology.

“To say we are UFO believers basically implies we are taking this on faith, and that’s not the case,” he said. “There’s plenty of evidence.”

The Western New York group has about 25 members, including about 15 who meet regularly to discuss books and local cases, and to socialize. They are a diverse group, ranging in age from late teens to the 70s. They are typical citizens, including students, teachers, engineers and businesspeople.

“We have a slew of people from different ages and educational backgrounds,” he said. “And the only thing that brings them together is an interest in UFOs and the desire to find out what they are all about.”

Some in the group say they have had some kind of encounter. One member, along with his son, saw a huge triangular shape in the sky on a recent morning in their backyard in the Town of Tonawanda. Another member claims to have been regularly abducted since age 5, taken aboard a craft, subjected to medical examinations and given tours.

Haseley and other UFO network members are well aware that there are skeptics.

“We have to deal with skeptics like any

other UFO organization, and we are perfectly willing to be critiqued,” he said. “We know people who think this is a nonsense subject. And we’ll refer you to voluminous literature and facts about UFOs.”

What does one mainstream scientist think?

Neil deGrasse Tyson — an astrophysicist, director of the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City and host of “NOVA scienceNOW” on PBS—spoke late last month as part of the University at Buffalo’s Distinguished Speakers Series.

After spending several minutes talking about how vast the universe is — it contains billions and billions of galaxies, and is expanding — Tyson pointed out that the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute has sent radio waves into space for more than a decade and, to this point at least, has failed to receive feedback suggesting that humans have similar company beyond Planet Earth.

For those who doubt extraterrestrial life, however, he said humans have barely scratched the surface when it comes to exploring the possibility of intelligent life in space.

Tyson used an example cited in his television show: What scientists have done so far to test for other life forms is the equivalent of scooping a few hundred glasses of water from all the oceans in the world — and concluding that those waters have no fish.

As some continue to search, others believe that there already is ample evidence suggesting that we are not alone in the universe.

Haseley has brought some of them to NCCC.

Peter Robbins, an eminent UFO researcher and author, held a packed school lecture hall in rapt attention March 25 as he detailed the famous UFO sightings in a Bentwaters, England, forest near a U. S. Air Force base.

There were three successive nights in late December 1980 when the Military Police heard disturbances in the forest and, upon investigation, encountered a luminous, mysterious triangular flying craft, he said.

“It’s one of the most important cases in the annals of UFO research,” said Robbins, author of the “Left at East Gate,” an international best seller about the Bentwaters case, considered “England’s Roswell.”

Interviews, physical and scientific evidence and radar confirmed the occurrences, Robbins said, but the government never substantiated them.

A major part of the government’s denial is rooted in the study of UFOs being viewed as pseudoscience, Robbins said.

Despite that perception, his evening presentation drew a crowd of more than 200 people, many of whom had done their own research, mixed in with others who said they, too, had either seen or were just curious about UFOs.

Haseley sees Robbins and similar speakers as providing an opportunity to raise important questions.

“He’s an international expert, and that’s a case students have heard about, and it has the chance of long-term investigation,” the NCCC professor said. “There’s something more to this UFO phenomenon than lunatic fringe kind of talk.”

esapong@buffnews.com

Unexplained Phenomenon Google Doodle

2009-09-05T08:14:00.000-07:00

What's the unexplained phenomenon?

For a few hours now Google Australia displays the „unexplained phenomenon“ Google Doodle but no one really knows what it means. If you click it, you get the unexplained phenomenon search results page. Germany also has it’s version of the Doodle called, Rätselhaftes Phänomen which pretty much translates to unexplained phenomenon.

What is it about?
Surely the US will soon get the unexplained phenomenon Doodle and more and more people are about to get crazy about it’s meaning. Is it a gag? An experiment? A self-reference? Is there someone at Google laughing at us?

Enlighten us!!! Spooky, isn’t it?

Feel free to post a comment if you can clarify the unexplained phenomenon.

Ministry of Defence explains two UFOs over Wales

2009-03-26T06:41:00.000-07:00

Mar 24 2009 by Ben Glaze, Western Mail

THE truth is indeed out there – and it’s less exciting than Mulder and Scully would have you believe.

Newly-released Ministry of Defence files claim there were rational explanations for two UFO sightings over Wales in the early 1990s.

Conspiracy theorists have focused on the nation over the past nine months since a South Wales Police helicopter crew reported a UFO over RAF St Athan in the Vale of Glamorgan and unexplained damage to a wind turbine just over the English border earlier this year.

The declassified documents, available on the National Archives website, detail investigations into two incidents over Wales.

The first happened on the border on December 9, 1991 at 4.50pm when “dozens of people” reported “burning white lights, flames and rumbling sounds”.

“The object seen was a bright, white light at high altitude with flames (or an illuminated vapour trail) in its wake,” says the file.

“Many witnesses believed they were witnessing an aircraft accident and some reports indicated the object broke up.

“A few seconds after the sighting, a low rumbling sound was heard and some windows were seen to be shaking.”

It adds: “For the time being we are treating this as a UFO incident.”

A senior RAF officer replies to the report saying: “I am afraid I am unable to shed light on the incident.

“It does, however, sound very much like an aircraft engine going in and out of reheat.”
Debunking the existence of extra-terrestrial life, the MoD claims the incident was “traced to a USAF pilot who jettisoned fuel that was ignited by the aircraft’s afterburner”.

In a second UFO sighting during the early hours of March 31, 1993, a policeman in Merthyr Tydfil was among “hundreds, probably thousands of people” in South Wales, the West Country and South-West Ireland who spotted “two brilliant objects emitting bright vapour trails flying north to south, quickly and silently, across the night sky”.

Investigators found “significant UFO activity over a very wide area”.

In a report from RAF West Drayton to the MoD, the unnamed policeman, one of 20 who reported the objects, described seeing “two very bright” white UFOs, “circular with tails” over Gelligaer Common.

He said they were flying “very slowly” north at about 400ft.

One witness said: “I thought they were a couple of meteorites, but instead of vanishing quickly, they kept on coming.

“They were travelling parallel to each other, travelling very precisely.

“They were like very big stars, They were as bright as Sirius (the brightest star in the night sky) and about four times as large.”

The witness added: “The lights were white like stars and the trails were white like fog.
“The trails came from directly behind the objects and were a single thick trail, not like those given off by large airliners which are split in two.

“My first thought was, ‘My God, what’s that?’ They were obviously some kind of controlled craft, but not like anything I’d seen before.”

Another witness said: “There were two bright, shining orange lights moving at great speed.
“They had flown over the rooftop and were heading in the direction of the sea.

“There was complete silence and the speed was greater than any plane, shooting star or other object I’ve ever seen.”

Two policemen saw the craft flying from South Wales over the Bristol Channel.

“Stopping their patrol car, they watched as the lights drew nearer to them,” says the report.
“The lights or object(s) passed to the west, going in a south-east direction.”

A pilot flying over Wales also reported the UFO.

Introducing the released files, the MoD says the sightings were “later traced to the re-entry of a Russian Cosmos rocket body which burned up, decaying over the North Atlantic.”

UFO expert Dr David Clarke, a lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University, yesterday said the files proved the MoD was “not in the slightest bit interested in aliens”.

He added: “They’re only interested in the defence implications. The question is, ‘What are the Russians testing and could any of these sightings be something of that kind?’ As soon as they have eliminated that, they’re not interested.”

Former MoD official turned UFO specialist Nick Pope said: “There are some UFO sightings here which had us genuinely puzzled. The UFO phenomenon provoked discussion, debate and disagreement, even within the MoD.”

RAF anti-UFO patrols above crystal 'Skull of Doom' exhibition

2008-11-24T06:06:00.000-08:00

Edinburgh, Scotland - (X-Files Mess): It has been dubbed the 'Skull of Doom' following a spooky Inca prediction that it would curse any daftass Hollywood movie that used it to resurrect the flaccid acting career of Harrison Ford.

And now the RAF is to guard the skies above Edinburgh's Hysteries and Mysteries conference which is exhibiting the pre-Atlantean Mitchell-Hedges crystal skull.

Three Typhoon jets have been scrambled on MoD orders after repeated sightings of an 'ominous mothership' attempting to spirit away the 5,000 year-old crystal artefact by tractor beam.

The magnificent quartz skull was originally discovered inside an alien UFO hangar in Lubaantun, Belize.

The archaeologists who claimed to have found the crystal object initially said it was hidden beside a collapsed Inca temple altar 'to avoid ridicule about any potential UFO hangar nonsense'.

Some believe the skull hails originally from the Cydonia region of Mars which NASA's Orbiter is currently excavating in the hope of unearthing a further eleven other 'sister' skulls, including the fabled fifty tonne Amethyst Giant.

Anna Mitchell Hedges was a raving loony.

Alabama town celebrates UFO past with family festival

2008-08-19T15:59:00.000-07:00

FYFFE, Ala. --The town of Fyffe attracted international attention with a string of UFO sightings nearly two decades ago and residents are expecting hundreds of visitors to descend upon the town again this weekend.

But this time it will be for a UFO of another kind.

Fyffe, a city of less than 1,000, is holding its fourth annual Unforgettable Family Outing or UFO Days on Friday and Saturday.

A mini-industry sprung up in Fyffe after the sightings in early 1989, which had hundreds of people showing up to gaze into the night sky in search of flying saucers.

"As everyone knows, we are the UFO capital of Alabama," Fyffe Mayor Larry Lingerfelt said. "We have come to realize that our somewhat different reputation and worldwide fame of having alleged UFO sightings should be fostered and cherished."

He said the festival has grown tremendously since its start three years ago and has a great impact on the local economy.

This year there will be helicopter rides for the first time and Rhythm Nation, a 10-piece Atlanta band with horns, will perform at the free event.

The festivities begin Friday morning with the liftoff of hot air balloons. Balloonists from all over the Southeast will provide hour-long rides across Sand Mountain.

Friday night's music will start at 5, intertwined with the theme "Teen Night in the Park."

On stage that night, a "Ms. Senior UFO Pageant" will take place followed by gospel and Christian music.

Lingerfelt said this pageant is also a first for the festival.

Saturday includes an antique tractor show and Civil War re-enactment, along with live music and street vendors.

Information from: Fort Payne Times-Journal, http://www.times-journal.com

A REAL ET UFO DESCRIPTION

2008-08-08T09:30:00.000-07:00

Some people never know what an extraterrestrial unidentified object looks like inside or out.

There are many different types, descriptions, and purposes. Some of the knowledge is protected. More will be shared when it is time to be known and accepted on earth as part of the awareness of reality.

The ET UFO is part of a fleet of ET UFOS.

There are many types. Some are shuttles. Some are carriers, some are battle ships.

This information is about one ship called a shuttle.

This ET UFO or spacecraft as it prefers to be called has Artificial Intelligence.

This ET UFO can use stealth and disappear as required.

This is a small spacecraft compared to those kept in stellar space and stealth.

This spacecraft is considered thirty feet by thirty feet in American measurements both inside and outside.

The color when seen sitting to the naked human eye would be considered a silver or grey in color. However, the skin or outside can change to any color imagined.

This spacecraft can project many lights of various sizes.

There is one entry door with a ramp that comes out. Landing gear can be protruded as needed.
There is a console inside with many objects that can bee seen and most are unseen.

There are two seats. These seats will form to anyone’s size when sitting in the seat.

The console has a place for two hand imprints with four digits spots. There are two of these consoles. One for each pilot.

The ET spacecraft is set up for two pilots or commanders.

The seats will turn in any direction but when seated they turn toward the console.

There are certain commands needed to fly this galaxy universal shuttle or GUS for short.

UFO' seen in Rexton

2008-07-25T11:11:00.000-07:00

REXTON - It was a normal Monday night for 56-year-old Daniel Cormier of Rexton as he prepared to head to his night shift work as a truck driver. That is, until he looked up and noticed something far from normal in the night skyline.

"I looked up and something came up in the air and I said 'look at that' to my friend that was there," Cormier explains. "I said it's kind of a balloon and there was fire in it . . . I thought it was a balloon there, and there was somebody inside it or something. It started to come down and was coming down pretty fast and I thought it was going to crash."

Cormier described the unidentified flying object as white in colour and said he could easily see the fire against the late night sky. The object quickly descended to the ground in a yard nearby where Cormier lives in Rexton's Senior Housing complex. Cormier and his friend then went to put out the fire that was still burning from the approximately three-foot long object.

At this point, Cormier thought nothing more of the incident and went off to work. However, he wasn't the only resident who caught a glimpse of the mystery object in the sky, as police and fire departments were called and arrived on the scene around 11 p.m. to identify the cause for concern.

"It wasn't a UFO sighting -- it was one of those Chinese flying lanterns. They just kind of look like a weather balloon somewhat; they have a fuel source in the bottom and you light the fuel in the bottom and it's kind of like a sock," said Rexton Fire Chief Brent Goodwin.

"It floats through the air and it's supposed to float for miles. That's what it was. It must have hit a power line or whatever and then it fell down and it burned."

Fortunately, the lantern landed in an open yard and no damage was done. The fire chief said the incident could have turned out a lot worse.

"It seems to me that these could be hazardous. They're not supposed to come back down to earth lit, but this one obviously did. If they got into something that was flammable like tall grass or in the woods or whatever, it could be a dangerous thing," Goodwin said.

In the end, the only damage done seemed to be a brief scare at the seniors' complex where at least one resident thought the problem was serious enough to call in the authorities.

"They were concerned. You see something floating down from the heavens, from the sky, that's on fire -- it definitely scared them," Goodwin said.

Vida Finno, a resident of the seniors' complex, said the lantern looked "like the moon falling down to hit the earth."

Flying lanterns, also known as sky lanterns or Khoom Fay in the Asian culture, were used next to fireworks in traditional Asian festivals for thousands of years. They can fly to more than 1,000 metres in altitude and are still quite popular in celebrations in Europe and Asia.

The lanterns don't seem to be nearly as common in New Brunswick -- at least not as potential fire hazards. Both Doug Hamer of the Riverview Fire Department and Don McCabe of the Moncton Fire Department said they had never heard of the lanterns, nor of them causing a fire in the past.

While the mystery object in the sky was unfamiliar to local fire chiefs, it's a far too common occurrence for those who find themselves looking to the sky for UFOs.

"They are a big pain in the neck, frankly, for those of us in ufology," said Stanton Friedman of Fredericton, who is the president of the UFO Research Institute. "This isn't a little balloon . . . It's something much more impressive. Not so much around here, but Europe has particularly had them in heavily populated areas with certain ethnic groups.

"From time to time different things become the primary target that is things that people see that they say 'what the heck is that.' This one has been a leading contender for the last couple of years."

While a nuisance to some and a cause for concern for others, Cormier is just glad no one was hurt in the village's unexpected lantern adventure.

"I thought it was a balloon and there was somebody inside of it or something. It looked big with the fire in it and when it came down I said there can't be anybody in that because he would have hurt himself. It went down pretty fast," he said.