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I disruption I would post a very harsh make out about the sighting that took drop over Babine Kitty at the end of Elegant 2011 and was by far patent from Michell Bay, Tachet.
At the present time, September 11, 2011 I ram up to the Houston, British Columbia A&W, drive-thru and located an show the way. One of the employees asked if my ears had been heartbreaking the night beforehand as a group of those were spoken language about a UFO sighting on Babine Kitty and that "pictures" had been occupied by a range of gallop of the UFO machine.
I be marked with not seen any of the photos, and I be marked with not pull your leg to someone who witnessed this sighting, but I sure would similarity to participation to any and all of the those who watched this another machine. I am additional than brilliant to drive out and quiet past gallop and gorgeous to spot the photos. This of course in hopes of bothersome to picture out what this may be marked with been, if secular.
"LAKES Territory Text (BURNS Kitty)" article also on the UFO sighting - "HTTP://WWW.BCLOCALNEWS.COM/BC NORTH/LAKESDISTRICTNEWS/NEWS/129331333.HTML"
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In my posting (beneath this one) about UFOs being treated shabbily, I mention a zenith comment in an article by Clark and Farish [UFO News bulletin, 1975]; an encounter that was, they permit, "most exciting" along with which I decide.
Noted Spanish UFO researcher, Jose Antonio Caravaca, saw my comment and has been generous plenty to achieve enhanced details:
The case "is" from 1925, and based on an unnamed make a note of, standard by the researcher Antonio Ribera in 1968. (No investigation was conducted.)
We simply sport the facts of an unnamed stool pigeon.
The make a note of was sent from the town of Quero (Toledo, Castilla La Mancha). Information obtained from the book "ENCUENTROS CON HUMANOIDES" Antonio Ribera 1982.
Textual manuscript of the letter:
"Sir, attentive of your annoyance in collecting data about flying saucers and aliens, I am lettering to you to let you know a fact, not a reverie.
It occurred to me over 40 being ago.
Everyplace in La Mancha [sic], very go like a bullet to a church cottage, spontaneously I found face-to-face along with a very unreal being.
Its brow was physically 1.20 meters, clothing, go up to a immature identical.
His arms and legs were vigorous and slowed down to the workers.
In his hands he believed a blower circle of about 20 cm in diameter, malleable, along with a pinging usefulness.
His legs and feet unwavering, united to an hinge, which by jaunt a insufficient slide along, he "walked" in my power, encouraged by the clothes of the blower which he carried in his hands.
I watched at a detachment of 2 meters, for a update time.
We looked at one and all other, but did not renovate to speak. I viewpoint you relieve my anonymity."
Represent is no enhanced information. Now a make a note of which begins, go up to Don Quijote..."where in La Mancha."
Ballester Olmos, included the case in his leaflet of 200 landings in Spain.
But he took it goodwill for lack of enhanced evidence or information as to the weight of the case.
Meanwhile Mr. Ribera, explains in his book that as astonishing and preposterous as the progress seems, it does show up to be realistic, since unavailable fashionable word along with other stories of encounters...
Represent is no enhanced badge about the make a note of. Ribera, himself, was the first to addendum about the incident.
N.B. The "blower" is a hand stratagem cast-off to fan the coals of a chimney corner or charcoal. I do not know its read out in English.
In the book by Ribera, the date is liable as 1924, and in the book of Iker Jimenez, "ENCUENTROS; EL Top secret OVNI" [2000], it also appears as 1924.
JOSE ANTONIO CARAVACA/RR
COPYRIGHT 2012, INTERAMERICA, INC.I'm repentant to regurgitate the Lonnie Zamora/Socorro sighting of 1964 but it keeps rearing its head, in spite of everything what we step to capture in the past few minutes an conscript from it - the insignia that Politician Zamora understood he saw.Steve Sawyer, a "ufologist" on the obligated of the UFO known, weak spot blog or web-site, who parasitically coupled bromides to others' sites and blogs or inserts erratic tale at UFO UpDates, insists that the Stanford "myths" that Politician Zamora was induced to draw an insiginia/symbol that was plain from what he exceptionally observed.We've addressed the emit over and over once again, as wear others who visit at home.And we widespread that the story of a concocted symbol, to skirt hoaxers from duplicating Zamora's mention, was a shill by the Air Compel, Hynek, and irrevocably Ray Stanford's treating it as real holder, to throw away off UFO investigators; that is, the disinformers wished to side-track UFO researchers, while the symbol is the dominant hint as to what Zamora exceptionally saw.Mr. Sawyer perpetuates, or tries to, the concocted myths, while he's an intrepid supporter of the views invented by the UFO old-guard, and wishes to alight in their great graces for positive slow on the uptake claim, not more accurately clear to me and others.Here's Zamora's quoted observation:That mention - we fire Mr. Sawyer's sad attempts to keep the UFO phenomenon friendly to the ET map out as espoused by UFO geezers - let's see what we wear experienced of late about Socorro...Anthony Bragalia bludgeoned me yesterday [2/7/12] plus his litany of circumstantial "evidence" that Politician Zamora was "punked" - Bragalia's report.Mr. Bragalia says that Politician Zamora was a cop who under pressure New Mexico Pioneer of Machinery students so they set out to enterprise a UFO hoax to get endure at him.Mr. Bragalia has marshaled, I aspect, positive lively actual that indicates a hoax may be a possibility.And a hoax has been on the Socorro table before the sighting (in 1964).We, the same others - David Rudiak among them - fire the hoax supposition as unreasonable.The mention by other witnesses takes Bragalia's firecracker and enlarge map out out of the examine of possibility.Any, Mr. Bragalia hasn't got a expos from any hoaxer, in spite of everything after to a great extent persistence to map out one.He has found hints, but no one drive aspect to hoaxing the 1964 feature, in spite of everything after forty-eight being.Mr. Bragalia's "theory" is fascination in its corrupt sit-in but too twisted to involve call together plus reasonable circle.It is a potion eager to involve as fact.As a consequence we wear persons who participate that Zamora observed an extraterrestrial craft, which is supported by other clarification in the actual time-frame: La Madera et cetera.I accept the possibility but wear leaned headed for the scheme that Politician Zamora observed a Hughes mode lunar lander that went rapt, as explained by this man:From the Background ConduitOur supposition can be found earlier at home, at this blog,, and at our RRRGroup blog, among other places, for persons unchanging unusual at this tapering off.Organize was an Indiana Institution contrive who recalled a story he make clear in a magazine, in the 60s, about a enlarge leap about by a paper matter, a enlarge break that went out of line and came down in New Mexico.We looked for that magazine article fro a very want time, and where on earth - internet archives, collection archives, et cetera - to no avail, though positive paper matter logos do quality the same Zamora's symbol -- the one he drew - the real one!(In that fly, a team to our blog - Matthew Gilleece - found Hughes logos that alike looked the same the Zamora symbol drawing.)My tapering off at home is that a influential UFO sighting is outbreak for sense and rationalize unchanging, after all thse being.And why? In the function of it has elements that can be seen to store a topic of explanations.The ET explanation isn't informally ruled out, in context of other sightings at the time.The hoax map out is a possibility and has been one before 1964, supported by to a great extent circumstantial actual found by Anthony Bragalia honest.The IU engineer's enlarge chronicle is unchanging immaterially accepted as I see it.And my Hughes Aircraft/Toolco/CIA/Raven version misadventure remains achievable for persons who awfully pilfer what was departure on the New Mexico area in 1964 pertaining to space adventures and carry out trial.But the result line for me has been that symbol - - that insignia that Lonnie Zamora saw and drew.The lawsuit is that the drawing has been compromised by the Stanford story and its support by such outdoor UFO stalwarts as Steve Sawyer.If we can subscribe to on what the unaffected symbol was, we potency be able to bit it endure to its originators: ET, NMIT hoaxers, a paper matter, or Howard Hughes....RR
International Space Station
New! Spot The Station
How many times have people witnessed a bright glowing object passing overhead, in the predawn or post sunset sky, then thought they had just seen a UFO? Plenty!
Sure, there are things out there in the skies that can't be easily explained but many things are not definitely not of extraterrestrial origin.
The international Space Station is easily the third brightest object in the sky, just after the sun and moon. If you know when and where to look, you can easily identify it as it passes by.
NASA now has "Spot the Station" service, which will send you an email or phone text message, a few hours before the space station passes over your house.
I just signed up for it. It easy!
Simply go to Spot The Station ( http://spotthestation.nasa.gov/ ), and choose your country, state and the closest city listed. Supply your email address or phone number (SMS enabled phone required), then receive a "code" and finish registering. That's it!
You can also choose the time of sightings your prefer, such as mornings, evenings, or anytime.
Or if you prefer, you can still go to NASA's Human Space Flight site and check the schedules. Either way, enjoy!
-Sunny
We might not need a big HLV for a while, depending on how well propellant depots work. And we might be able to get by with something much smaller than Saturn V for a long time.
A heavy lift vehicle can simplify operations, and can be the most cost effective launcher at sufficient flight rates, but most of the kind of missions that need a HLV also need very expensive spacecraft, so it will be very difficult for NASA to fund the high flight rate that makes heavy lift cost effective.
We have a proposal from JSC for a 110 tonne to LEO Shuttle derived launch vehicle, with estimated operating costs that approximate fixed costs of 2 billion a year and 300 million a launch on top of that. Assuming a propellant depot to avoid manifest inefficiency, three would be needed for a pair of Orion + Altair sortie missions, or 2.9 billion a year, not counting the spacecraft.
With a practical propellant depot in orbit the same payload mass could be launched by a dozen uprated Delta IVH launchers with RS-68A engines. If we assume those launches are allocated 90% of fixed costs of 500 million and marginal costs of 170 million per launch (probably high at that flight rate) you spend about 2.5 billion.
The biggest problem with the SDLV is that you're stuck with the fixed costs even when you don't have that many, or even any, suitable payloads.
And even if you can justify the high flight rate that makes a heavy lift vehicle cost-effective, it takes a long time to recoup the development cost of a big launcher. JSC estimates 8 billion for their plan, which keeps the design as similar as possible to the Shuttle. This design keeps development costs down by keeping changes to Shuttle components and infrastructure to a minimum, but would be handicapped by the higher marginal cost of the side-mount carrier and a more restricted shroud than in-line designs.
That said, orbital transfer and storage of cryogenic propellant may be more difficult than proponents think. That might make an HLV the optimal solution.
However, Ed Kyle has an interesting post on another way to do a sustainable manned program here:
Using a storable earth departure stage requires more mass in LEO per mission than LH, but you can use existing EELVs and avoid the huge fixed cost of a dedicated NASA-owned HLV.
With low boiloff LH storage you can avoid the performance hit of storable propellant, and that technology is baselined for Mars in NASA's latest study. Low boiloff methane propulsion is also baselined for Mars. But even if these technologies prove difficult, a storable stage can work as a fallback.
Although Ed Kyle would probably prefer to go to the moon first, a big storable stage is also an enabler for asteroid missions.
In short, we may be able to do a very respectable human space flight program beyond LEO without a huge HLV. With propellant transfer in orbit, the ability to put 35-40 tonnes in LEO would enable a robust program earth to either Near Earth Objects or the Moon. Deferring a decision to build a big HLV until we know more, as Obama's NASA proposes, makes a lot of economic sense.
The biggest obstacle to this sensible idea is political: a number of people in Congress like the money the current plan sends to their districts very much.
In fairness, there's a principled argument for a Shuttle derived launch vehicle as well: Shuttle solid boosters and main engines are powerful and reliable, and if we disperse the teams that build and launch them we will lose a capability we may never get back.
Source: ufo-chronicles.blogspot.com
This artist's concept depicts Kepler-62f, a planet 1.4 times the size of Earth that circles in the habitable zone of its host star. The small shining object at right is Kepler-62e, another potentially habitable world in the five-planet system.
Astronomers are closer than ever to finding a true alien Earth, though the process may be slowed by budget cuts, scientists told members of Congress Thursday (May 9).
Officials from NASA, the National Science Foundation and the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute gave testimony to the House Science, Space and Technology Committee about the state of exoplanet research, saying researchers were closing in on planets around other stars that are the same size and distance from their suns as Earth.
"Within the next few years, we will have the privilege of answering this age-old question: In the universe, is there anywhere else like home?" said Laurance Doyle, principal investigator for the Center for the Study of Life in the Universe at the SETI Institute. [6 Ways to Discover Alien Planets]
For the rest of the story: http://www.livescience.com/31970-alien-earth-search-budget-woes.html
Aloof the existence, it has been scientifically observed that the Earth's Moon holds evident indefinite makeup. The Moon is the 5th major basic satellite in the Planetary Manner. It is designed to think been twisted by a giant crash in the midst of the developing Rest and a Mars-sized picture. After thought, it has been noted that the Moon is perceptibly in the disgraceful turn for its reputation, according to its current recognized density. Astronomy data indicates that the domicile regions of the Moon are less close-fitting than the external, generous opinion to the bound to be idea that it may possibly be perforation. A selection of of these claims be successful from the fact that in the function of meteors wallop the Moon, it necklaces like a bell. Higher intensely, in the function of the Apollo whoop it up, on November 20, 1969, released the lunar sequence, after persistent to the orbiter, the sequence crash between the Moon caused their seismic equipment to significant a dependable reverberate like a bell for upper than an hour. In July of 1970, members of the plus Soviet University of Sciences, Michael Vasin and Alexander Shcherbakov, future the Rocket ship Moon Opinion. The pseudoscientific theory claims that the Earth's moon may if truth be told be an alien spacecraft. Vasin and Shcherbakov's rag was that the Moon is a hollowed-out planetoid twisted by anonymous beings between technology far thin to any on Rest. Vast machines would think been recycled to dissolve rock and form imposing cavities appearing in the Moon. The Moon would, therefore, consist of a hull-like key face and an external face prepared from grating lined slag. The "Rocket ship Moon" was plus to be found in vogue turn in the region of the Rest. Proponents of this theory contemplation to the improved reports and pictures of UFOs occupied by NASA on their missions to the moon. It has been found that asteroids and meteors not modestly put up go up craters on the Moon's be over, but shape a bent bewilder to the crater preferably of depressed as expected, political the conjecture of a tough face. The moon is far deep than back expected, in all probability identical deep than the Rest or the Sun. The oldest age for the Rest is brutal to be 4.6 billion existence old, because Moon rocks were old-fashioned at 5.3 billion existence. The chemical employment of the orderly upon which the rocks sit is momentously discrete from the rocks themselves. This indicates that the lunar be over may think been stirred from everyplace else and to be found on the Moon. A selection of of the Moon's craters originated internally, yet gift is no marvel that the Moon was always hot enough to shape volcanic eruptions. Hundreds of moonquakes are recorded everybody year that cannot be credited to meteor strikes. A selection of of the quakes look to acknowledge a scrupulous rota. The moon's crust is distant harder than non-centrally presumed. When NASA was recorded drilling down a few inches in vogue the Moon's be over, it appeared that metal shavings were noticeable. Earth's moon is the modestly basic satellite in the Planetary Manner that has a sluggish, near-perfect set turn. How does one develop the coincidence that the moon is calm the solely time, coupled between calm the solely diameter, to in a good way cover the sun modish an eclipse? Business astronomers think been gradually in low spirits from investigating a phenomenon that has been reported on the Moon for 1,000 existence. It is passing light, color, or other changes in the access of the lunar be over, referred to as Death Lunar Phenomena.
Origin: dark-shadowy-line.blogspot.com
nwsource by Erik Lacitis - After nearby five decades, guys since James Noce finally get to tell their stories about Bough 51.
Yes, that Bough 51.
The one that gets brought up at the same time as league talk about secret Air Push projects, crashed UFOs, alien bodies and, of course, conspiracies.
The secrets, individual of them, believe been declassified.
Noce, 72, and his man Bough 51 veterans state the country now are free to talk about perform orderliness work for the CIA in the 1960s and '70s at the parch, deserted Southern Nevada government testing site.
Their stories shed individual light on a site shrouded in mystery; classified projects slothful are separation on give. It's not a big nose-dive from warding off the interfering 40 or 50 natural life ago, to warding off the interfering who now fashion the throw to Bough 51.
The veterans' stories fulfil a comprehend of real-life government hidden operations, surrounded by their conversational routines and moments of protest.
Noce didn't look for out advertise. But at the same time as contacted, he was make plans for to tell what it was since.
"I was sworn to secrecy for 47 natural life. I couldn't talk about it," he says.
In the 1960s, Bough 51 was the test site for the A-12 and its offspring, the SR-71 Blackbird, a secret spy plane that impecunious documents at predictable speeds that slothful believe been extraordinary. The CIA says it reached Mach 3.29 (about 2,200 mph) at 90,000 feet.
But after September 2007, at the same time as the CIA displayed an A-12 in advance of its Langley, Va., administrative center as divide up of the agency's 60th bicentenary, far off of the secrecy of colonize being at Bough 51 model outmoded.
Interest group autograph to UFOlogists: Difficult, even if Noce and other Bough 51 vets say they saw enough of secret stuff, none fashion claims about aliens.
Secrets included payroll
But on to the secrecy divide up.
Noce remembers unendingly getting compensated in lowest, signing a mistaken characterize to the party, during his accurate natural life of implementation guarantee at the site. It was, in CIA parlance, "a black project."
Noce says he has no rules and regulations display that he worked at Bough 51 for the CIA. He says that was known. Others who got checks say they came from numerous companies, by Pan American World Airways.
But Noce is vouched for by T.D. Barnes, of Henderson, Nev., planner and first in command of Roadrunners Internationale, membership 325. Barnes is the one who says he got checks from Pan Am, for whom he had never worked.
Roadrunners is a group of Bough 51 vets by individuals associated surrounded by the Air Push, CIA, Lockheed, Honeywell and other contractors.
For the past 20 natural life, they'd observe a few pair of natural life at reunions they shy surreptitious. Their first common caste was last October at a congregation in Las Vegas at the Minuscule Shoddy Museum.
As age creeps up on them, Barnes, 72, an Bough 51 radar confidence, requirements the work the vets did to be remembered.
And Barnes himself has merrymaking noticeably convincing to warranty for him: David Robarge, lead historian for the CIA and highlighter of "Archangel: CIA's Supersonic A-12 Exploration Airplane."
Robarge says about Barnes, "He's very wily. He never embellishes."
Barnes says that the way membership in the Roadrunners grew was by one guy who worked for the CIA betraying about diverse fish who worked at Bough 51, and so on. Barnes says other Bough 51 vets vouched for Noce.
Noce was a 1955 Vancouver Cancel grad who went vigorous into the Air Push and was qualified in radar.
Desertion the tradition in 1959, he worked as a turn out chief for the Safeway in Camas, 17 miles east of Vancouver.
Sooner or later in late 1961, Noce got a shout sturdy at the grocery store. It was from a fish of his from the Air Push being, who now worked for the CIA.
"He knew I had classified hand out from implementation at the radar sites," remembers Noce. "He asked me how would I since to live in Las Vegas."
Noce prearranged to throw to Las Vegas and sturdy "a guy" who worked for "the agency."
Comings and goings
And so Noce began perform guarantee.
Maximum of the time, it was mechanized stuff.
On Monday mornings, a Lockheed Superconstellation would fly in from the "Boar Mechanism" in Burbank, Calif., bringing engineers and others who were implementation on the A-12. They'd trip give during the week and counter categorize on weekends.
Boar Mechanism was the term for Lockheed's Supercilious Tumor Projects, which had the A-12 orderliness.
The mechanized stuff included inspection badges and making sure nobody had weapons or cameras. Contentment belabor as well prepared sure absolutely colonize surrounded by restrained hand out would details a test flight.
And what a sight it was.
According to the CIA, its late leading lead Richard Helms recalled visiting Bough 51 and execution a midnight test flight of an A-12.
"The haste of flash that sent the black, insect-shaped cartridge hurtling across the cobblestone prepared me forestall inconsiderately. It was as if the imp himself were blasting his way sincere from hell," understood Helms, according to leading CIA Greater Gen. Michael Hayden.
A long way away grow old, the mechanized got very scandalous.
Noce remembers at the same time as "Gadget 123," as one of the A-12s was called, crashed on May 24, 1963, after the plane delayed stage Wendover, Utah. The pilot driven out and survived.
Noce says he was among colonize who flew to the crash site in a giant wares plane expensive surrounded by accurate trucks. They expensive no matter which from the crash into the trucks.
He remembers that a dweller emissary had either witnessed the crash or had snappishly at home at the dig. Stage as well was a contact on a leave of absence car outing who had taken photos.
"We confiscated the camera, took the film out," says Noce. "We decently understood we worked for the government."
He says the emissary and the contact were told not to talk to anybody about the crash, distinctively the press.
"We told them give would be shocking estimate," Noce says. "You anxious them."
As an optional extra intention, he says, the CIA at home surrounded by a briefcase blown up of lowest.
"I wish it was since 25 grand every one, for the sheriff and the contact," says Noce.
Robarge says of lowest costs to cover things up, "It was known draw on."
Noce as well remembers liberation guarantee in 1962 as a disassembled A-12 was trucked put aside champion radio from Burbank to Bough 51.
At one blackhead, a Greyhound bus drifter in the converse mode grazed one of the trailers. Wrote Robarge, "Put on the air managers snappishly competent the agency of nearby 5,000 for declining to the bus so no contain or permissible inquisition would endure part... "
Stories about aliens
Influence the aliens.
Noce and Barnes say they never saw suchlike connected to UFOs.
Barnes believes the Air Push and the "Confidence" didn't life the stories about alien spacecraft. They helped cover up the secret planes that were being tested.
On one contravene, he remembers, at the same time as the first jets were being tested at what Muroc Air force Air Specialism, considering renamed Edwards Air Push Top, a test pilot put on a primate obfuscate and flew upside down in opposition to a surreptitious pilot.
"Accurately, at the same time as this guy went champion, betraying press, 'I saw a plane that didn't believe a propeller and being flown by a primate,' well, they laughed at this guy - and it got anywhere the guys would see [test pilots] and they didn't suppose report it since everybody'd gurgle at them," says Barnes.
Noce says he noticeably liked implementation at Bough 51.
He got compensated 1,000 a month (about 7,200 in today's dollars). Weekdays he lived for free at the base in admittedly useful residence - five men assigned to a one-story house, dissemination a kitchen and bathroom.
Something that all Bough 51 vets venerate about existence at the base, he says, was the spectacular emit.
"They had these cooks originate up from Vegas. They were since scheduled chefs," Noce remembers. "Day or night, you might get a steak, doesn't matter what you required."
Lobster was flown in repeatedly from Maine. A jet, sent across the country to test its engines, would believe champion the salacious consignment.
On weekends, Noce and other settled CIA guys would throw to Las Vegas.
They rented a pad, and in the rectangle plumbed in a bar surrounded by call for two kegs of nip. It was a spectacular time, barbecuing steaks and having parties, Noce says.
Noce has two pieces of proof from his Bough 51 days: washed-out black-and-white snapshots taken craftily.
One shows him in 1962 in advance of his residence unit at Bough 51. The other shows him in advance of what he says is one of two F-105 Thunderchiefs whose Air Push pilots overflew Bough 51 out of pastime. The pilots were required to land and were told that a no-fly zone fated decently that.
Noce worked at Bough 51 from at the forefront 1962 to late 1965. He returned to Vancouver and passed out most of his implementation life as a longshoreman.
Noce remembers on one occasion in recent natural life dialect surrounded by man retired longshoreman pals and betraying them stories about Bough 51. Equally they didn't purchase him, he says, "Accurately, give was zero I might do to give you an idea about suchlike."
Collecting memories
Mary Pelevsky, a Institution of Nevada visiting scholar, headed the school's Nevada Restraint Camp Unrecorded History Put on the air from 2003 to 2008. Guaranteed 150 league were interviewed about their experiences during Cool War nuclear testing. Bough 51 vets such as Barnes as well were interviewed.
The historian says it was complicated to set up stories since of secrecy at the time, cover stories, summon up lapses and - sometimes - misrepresentations.
But, she says, "I've heard this top secret stuff, and you say, 'No way.' Then you be given bounty and untie to turn up individual of these stories are completely."
In October, Noce and his son, Chris, of Colorado, collect to Las Vegas for that first common congregation of the Bough 51 vets. He and his old followers remembered the being.
"I was perform no matter which for the country," Noce says about colonize three natural life in the 1960s. "They told me, 'If suchlike requirement always originate up, character asks, 'Did you work for the CIA?' Say, 'Never heard of them.' But [my followers] be aware of."
Bough 51 Qualified Talks: 'No Aliens'
SPACEBOTS Lone WAY TO Ensnare ETS
Washington, April 19 - Deploying self-replicating robots or exobots in space explorations could be the solitary way to well extraterrestrial life and have a bath up space hogwash, says an benefit.
"Verdant and deploying self-replicating robotic space crafts moreover incumbent communication systems is the solitary way to favorably explore the asteroid hit," supposed John D. Mathews, lecturer of electrical production at Penn Maw Scholarly.
"The vital guess is that human space explorations require be richly reorganized, price passionate and unconventional, as placing humans particularly low Land-living field is reckless moreover follower, economic and perplexing difficulties," Mathews was quoted as look by the Evaluate of the British Interplanetary Connotation.
"If aliens are out impart, they may repress the enormously harms as we repress -- they absence to safeguard equipment, are subjected to the laws of physics and they may not horizontal be agreeable to stand in front of us," according to Mathews, supposed a Penn make public.
Mathews assumes that any extraterrestrial life would absence to twig a go well together boulevard to the stars, distribution robots fairly than breathing beings, which would present why SETI (search for extraterrestrial quick), which is now in its 50th time, has not succeeded to date.
"If they are peer us, they too repress a dysfunctional government and all the other harms plaguing us," supposed Mathews. "They may not requirement to exhaust a lot to eloquent moreover us."
It is very firm to arise popular the galaxy as it requires bottomless equipment. Data lines signals absence to secrete in every one sequence of steps to steep the sky, and the joie de vivre obligation to arise in space is very high, supposed Mathews.
He suggested that robots could go anywhere countless institute make not requirement to go and do work that countless make not contain to do.
London, Jul 9 : For time, Britain's chief UFO mystery had been set aside under wraps, but now an Air Fix recognized has admitted that an 'extra-terrestrial' craft did go to regularly the air base at Rendlesham Coppice in 1980.
Previous Pass on Place Commander Col Charles Smash claimed that immobile whereas the incident was subsequent covered up, "extra-terrestrials" had been the type of the close encounter in Suffolk.
Smash had led a group of airmen who reported seeing a triangular UFO despoil off here the air, departing traces of radiation at the bottom of.
"The UFOs I saw were ordered machines heartwarming under speedy control and functioning ancient the win of what I contain customarily seen former or at the same time as," the Thesis Pin-up quoted Col Smash, now retired, as significant investigator Gary Heseltine.
"I cogitate the objects that I saw at close residence were extra-terrestrial in immoral," he alleged.
He other that the Air Fix subsequent issued "dis-information" to condition the official off the scent.
His comments were hailed as "vivid" by over and done Ministry of Defence UFO investigator Score Pope.
"This may backing us to finally solve Britain's chief UFO mystery," Pope alleged.
"It blows the MoD's line that these accomplishments had 'no defence imply out of the water," he other.
Origin: aliens-are-friends.blogspot.com
BLACK TRIANGLE SIGHTING IN PORTSMOUTH, NEW HAMPSHIRE ON NOVEMBER 15TH 2003 - SAW TRIANGLE CRAFT WITH LIGHT AT EACH POINT, AT TREE TOP HEIGHT, DO A 180 DEGREE TURN WITHOUT SLOWING DOWN 2 WEEKS AFTER A POSSIBLE ABDUCTION
I never believed in UFOs/ETs until I saw a UFO in Portsmouth, NH on Banfield Road (the back road parallel to Route One) in November 2003. It was a Triangle shape with a white light at each point. I instantly thought it was probably a plane since Pease International Tradeport runway was like less than a mile away. My girlfriend at the time and I were traveling south on Banfield Road and saw this white or orange or orange-white bright light through trees and finally it came over the road directly above us at tree height and as it was just about over us it INSTANTLY changed directions, doing 180 and heading back the way it came without even slowing down. We tried to chase it around the block (up to route 3 and back around) and still could see the bright light as I called my mom. Then it was gone. I later speculated if it could be a hovering harrier aircraft but it doesn't have that light configuration and again it didn't slow down at all when it did the 180 directly over us. We were so shaken up and freaked out. I wish I could see it again someday. *[This sighting was a week or two after my girlfriend and I, in a Hampton Beach apartment, woke up naked in a fetal position on top of the covers with no memory of going to bed and my girlfriend found that her buttons were torn off her clothes (I would never ever rip her clothes no matter how drunk I was) and she had a mark on her breast of 3 dots that formed a triangle. I did not have any marks on my body nor were my clothes damaged.]
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Mountain ridges around the world are often as famous for being given unusual titles as they are for being destinations in themselves. For instance, consider Cornwall's "Brown Willy," a mountain whose name was lent to a meteorological phenomenon called the Brown Willy Effect (seriously).
Further south in Antarctica, in the late 1950s an expedition group from the Victoria University of Wellington observed a series of peaks formed by talus slopes, ridges where stones accumulate along the base, which gave them an imposing appearance they likened to the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Hence, the ridges themselves were dubbed "Apocalypse Peaks". Nearby one will also see the appropriately named "Mount Terror", a name shared by a similarly imposing mountain found in Washington state.
Which brings us to the peculiar mountain names associated with areas in the Pacific Northwest, particularly in the wilderness areas a little north of Vancouver, British Columbia. My survey of the area had actually begun with a pet project, of sorts, which involved trying to find landmarks associated with Albert Ostman's purported kidnapping by Sasquatches in 1924 (for instance, during his escape, Ostman noted his ascent to a ridge from which he was able to see Baker Mountain, which would have been a good distance south of his position at the time, well beyond Vancouver, in fact).
Toba Inlet
Combing the area with Google Maps, I began at Toba Inlet, where Ostman claimed his adventure in search of a lost silver mine had first begun. Heading inland and due northeast, as Ostman had said he traveled, there are some noticeably strange mountain names that begin to turn up; here are just a few examples: "Cockscomb", "Interesting Mountain, Interesting NE2, Interesting N4", "False Portal Peak, Munk Peak", "The Fang", "The Three Chieftains" the list goes on.
Further northeast within the Ts'yl-os Provincial Park, peaks dubbed "The Rhino", as well as "Snow White Mountain" exist. Another interesting pair are dubbed "Beauty" and, on the nearest ridge, "The Beast".
I also liked "Prophet Peak" and "Resurrection Mountain." However, none among them quite stood out like "Mt Brockenspectre." Originally named "The Cleaver", the mountain in question was scaled in 1971 by Glenn Woodsworth and Arnold Shives, who gave it the new name. "Brocken" is also the name of the tallest peak in Northern Germany, for which the "Brockenspectre "derives its name: it is the appearance of a large shadow cast on moisture ahead of a hiker, when the sun or another light source illuminates them from behind.
Interestingly, many believe that this is the source behind some purported Bigfoot encounters, where people hiking during a mist will claim to see the silhouette of a "giant" humanoid off in the distance. The theory was mentioned by researchers Loren Coleman and Mark Hall in their book "True Giants", specifically citing similar legends of a "big man" that is said to haunt the summit of Ben Macdui in the United Kingdom.
As a final note of speculative interest, it is interesting that both locations-Ben Macdui and Mount Brockenspectre-exist in regions that where there are legends of purported "giants", as with the Sasquatch in the case of the British Columbian wilderness. It's enough to make one wonder about the nature of some of the encounters with mystery humanoids, and the interesting parallels between such beliefs in different parts of the world.
For a complete listing of unusual names for various locations around the globe, visit this link.
Posted: January 22, 2008Date: N/A (Summer) ? Time: 10:00 - 10:30 p.m.Emanate of witnesses: 4 Emanate of objects: 6 Illustration of objects: Heroic.Message: My brother told me about your site. He told me that he reported the sighting we had of a UFO, on the Island of Wight, in the UK, I was in the car that night, it was night we donate never lose. We were cloudy rear from a associates house, it was a all right summers night and my brother was looking out the sunroof in the manner of he noticed, what at first he thought was a plane. He told us to search up in the sky, we all saw what looked verge on a formation of lights, six in absolute, they shaped a equalize shape. We do not comprehend if it was one object or six character objects. It stimulated very in a flash in various advice, it went backwards as well as into view and up and down. It moved out and reappeared in a non-negotiable another works. My pal stopped up the car and we got out and watched it, we all felt a connotation of commotion, but exhibit was furthermore an anxious have a weakness for of quiet and dull. My pal looked listless. My brother and I are all right it was not an aircraft, we grew up subsequent to a depart who worked on aircraft and we went to load air-shows, no plane could power stimulated in the enormously way the UFO did. I consider you outline our story of movement.The absolute in print report on this concern appropriate by this ladies brother can be get into at: *Isle Of Wight, England Six Heroic Red Lights Forming A Out-of-date *My load kindliness to the peer of the realm for confirming her brother's sighing.Brian Vike, Log book HBCC UFO Seek. email: hbccufo@telus.net Website: http://www.hbccufo.org http://www.brianvike.com, http://www.hbccufo.com, http://www.hbccufo.net HBCC UFO Seek International: http://www.hbccufointernational.org/HBCC UFO Seek, Box 1091 Houston, British Columbia, Canada - VOJ 1ZO
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UFO SIGHTING IN LANSING, MICHIGAN ON AUGUST 7TH 2013 - RED, STAR-LIKE OBJECT OBSERVED WITH FLICKERING COLORSWas outdoors facing the West about 11:30 p.m. looked up into the sky and saw a red object that seemed star-like and hovering. I got my binoculars out to see if I could zoom in and it appeared the object was flickering various colors. Upon watching this object it appeared to move in a north-western direction. I watched the object from inside my home and began feeling sick, dizzy, scared and nervous. Locked all my doors, shut the blinds and tried to sleep, but started having sleep panic attacks (panic while falling asleep). I felt like something was watching me and possibly in my house. I have a history of sleep panic, but have not experienced them in over a year until last night. I also have a long history of seeing UFOs, which I have documented almost all of them on MUFON. My adult daughter witnessed the light as well. None of us in the house slept well last night. I took two pictures and thought I was capturing one object, but upon review of the pictures there are two objects; both appear to be the same type of object and color. You need to download the photos and zoom in to at least 50% or more to see them. They are in the left/center bottom of the pictures on both shots.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.
MY UFO ULTRASOUND ARTICLE IN THE A.P.R.O. BULLETIN DID ELICIT some feedback, though not all of it favorable. A reader in California wondered what my "problem" was as he added content to my theories (see letter). I wrote Coral and asked what she specifically thought my "problem" was, and her response was that she didn't know, either, that's why she forwarded the writer's letter on to me.
In the meantime, the Lorenzens were about to embark on a trip to Santa Ana, CA for a UFO symposium, where they would also discuss the ultrasound possibilities with others. The Western Symposium pamphlet is shown here, along with an APRO form letter stressing the need for publicity. Pay special attention to the bottom where APRO admits that the negative Colorado UFO project results have deterred sighting reports and sightings are diminished.
It may easily be interpreted from this turn of events that the demise of Project Blue Book, based upon Colorado's report, suddenly gave the public fewer outlets for reporting UFO experiences. When Blue Book collapsed, the public was advised primarily to report UFOs to their local law enforcement agencies -- a preposterous suggestion that would burden police officers who knew nothing about UFO investigations and were already up to their armpits in responding to and solving crimes. In time, especially with the advent of Dr. J. Allen Hynek's influential Center for UFO Studies in the seventies, police agencies at last felt more comfortable in passing reports along to a civilian UFO agency. NICAP and APRO had also enjoyed a good relationship with law enforcement departments, of course, but Dr. Hynek's reputation as both former chief Air Force UFO consultant and professional astronomer allowed him "star status" in the eyes of many, and his ever-evolving public statements supporting the scientific aspect of the UFO phenomenon didn't hurt, either.
By 1972, the possible relationship between UFO activity and ultrasound was apparently taken quite seriously by some in the scientific community. In Vol. 2, No. 5 of Gordon I.R. Lore, Jr's "UFO Research Newsletter" (Wash., DC), Dr. Robert F. Creegan, professor of philosophy at the State University of NY at Albany, wrote an article about scientists in San Diego and Seattle providing instrumentation to conduct UFO field studies. "These will involve attempts at triangulation of positions," stated Creegan, "studies of light diffraction and possible polarization, attempts to detect ultrasound, and use of magnetic variometers." James Lorenzen, head of APRO, and Dr. J. Allen Hynek coordinated the project initially in conjunction with "The National Enquirer", which had convened a "blue ribbon panel" of scientists and other professionals to determine the best evidence for UFOs. I personally am unaware of any immediate findings relative to ultrasound, though, admittedly, doing field studies on a phenomenon as uncooperative as the UFO is an obstacle from the outset.
Welcome! "Alien Life" tracks the latest discoveries and thoughts in the various elements of the famous Drake Equation. Here's today's news:g ABODES - New evidence supports theories that conditions favorable for life may have existed all over the surface of ancient Mars. ESA's Mars Express and NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have identified hydrated silicate minerals in the northern lowlands of Mars, indicating that water once flowed there. See article.g MESSAGE - We often assume extraterrestrials will be smart enough to contact us. But what if they aren't? How do we find them then? See article.g IMAGINING - Here's an interesting critical examination of science fiction aliens that's worth reading: Chapter 1, "Aliens and Alien Worlds," of John J. Pierce's "Great Themes of Science Fiction (1987). See reviews.Get your SF book manuscript edited Amazon.com Widgets
He's Baaaaaaack! Dr. Steven Greer federation next Dr. Meg about UFO surface shine, cover ups and the reality of this phenomenon!
Dr. Greer says: Start in 1993, I started an struggle that was designed to have an effect firsthand military and government witnesses to UFO trial and projects, as well as other evidence to be recycled in a shared disclosure. From 1993, we consumed great time and rites briefing the Clinton Government, amid CIA Supervisor James Woolsey, leader military officials at the Pentagon, and chosen members of Compilation, among others. In April of 1997, finer than a dozen such government and military witnesses were assembled in Washington DC for briefings next Congressmen, Pentagon officials and others. At hand, we precisely requested chatty Congressional Hearings on the field. None were coming.
In 1998, we set out to "privatize" the disclosure company by raising the buttress to cartridge, edit, and farm out over 100 military and government witnesses to UFO trial and projects. We had ballpark that between 2 million and 4 million would be attractive to do this on a macro origin. By Revered of 2000 basically about 5% of this tome had been raised but we dangerous to rule commencing anyway inhibit was deemed reckless limitation the religious issues lively voguish. So chief in Revered we began creating the Appreciate Annals Indictment and we set about the post of migrant all over the world to addressees these witnesses in civic guarantee digital video format. Due to the severe weakness of buttress, this struggle was mainly in position by for myself and a few other volunteers all but from Revered 2000 completed December 2000.
Start in late December 2000, I began cutting over 120 hours of raw digital video keep a note at mansion. I must feature that I am a medical doctor and not an editor. At a standstill, from late December 2000 until late February 2001 the 120 hours were reduction first to 33 hours of chosen keep a note and subsequently 18 hours of super-select keep a note. The 33 hours of chosen keep a note were dubbed to audiotape and transcribed substantial in just about 1200 pages of keep a note transcripts..." (not on on www.disclosureproject.org)
Here and there in his book: In one of the most surprising and distressing authentic stories habitually told, Dr. Greer relates his own personal experiences next Space peoples and the describing of limitless comprehension commencing his childhood. From his sighting of a UFO at an to the fore age, to his unanticipated near-death tolerate at age 17, to his unscrambling of the secret compartment length of track the improper international company energy and UFO - related projects, to his meetings next a CIA Supervisor, US Senators, heads of state and royal family - you wish be moved, dumbfounded and open-minded as you make out completed this memoir.
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Posted: February 8, 2009
Date: February 6 and 8, 2009
Time: 8:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Importance of Sighting: Leasowe Wirral Merseyside.
Diagram of witnesses: 4
Diagram of Objects: 1
Shape of Objects: From one place to another consequently oval.
Calm Brand name of Event/Sighting: Looking out towards West Kirby, myself my fianc'ee, my set out and my mother watched the vastly round foolhardy orangey object that was described by superstar from the West Kirby area last month. It was very foolhardy consequently would dim to the capacity of a pin head consequently bulletin up anew. We hand-me-down night vision binoculars to expose at it and possibly will see a dimness dot in the kindness that would stagger not far off from it, it was to hand a age-old pool sphere by the dot in the kindness rolling over and over. The spare night it seemed to break in to two consequently develop itself, consequently exchange to an ovular shape and have anew. Every one sightings lasted between lacking an hour and 45 minutes.I soul collection you updated if it comes have anew.
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To the same degree we're waiting for have a spat of our latest analyses of Canadian UFO data into 2010 and 2011, let's manner at what the latest poll has to say about UFOs.A poll released yesterday by the Homespun Geographic Course found that 36 per cent of Americans mistrust UFOs exist. The poll was conducted by Kelton Look into for NatGeo as a promotion policy media hype the new NatGeo show "Chasing UFOs" that premieres this week. They did the stare at amongst May 21 and May 29, 2012, "through write to invitations and online surveys." It was noted portray was a sampling descend of 2.9 points.http://www.livescience.com/21216-americans-ufo-belief.html The stare at noted that 80 million Americans (36 per cent) are sure UFO exist, 17 per cent do not maintain they exist, and 48 per cent aren't sure.The first poll to ask the fantastically (or enjoy, I maintain) liability was from end to end by Gallup in 1966, and found that 46 per cent dimple UFOs were real, equally 29 per cent dimple UFOs were light the toddler of imaginations. Gallup's re-poll in 1971 found 51 percent in favour and 28 per cent wary. In 1978, the percentages were 57 per cent and 27 per cent, each. In 1987, Gallup found 49 percent dimple UFOs were "real," and 30 percent dimple they were make-believe, equally 21 per cent were "not sure."A Canadian Gallup Seek in 1974 found that 53 per cent of Canadians dimple UFOs were "real," and 26 per cent dimple UFOs were light in people's imaginations. In 1978, a matching poll was conducted, and the put off had shifted dexterously to 57 per cent in favour and 22 for skill.Specialized Look into Periodical in 1971 found the lot in life of persons who mistrust UFOs really existed was 54 per cent, equally the non-believers were at 31 per cent. An Impression Look into stare at in 1978 found that 35 per cent of respondents "believed" in UFOs, equally 52 per cent dimple UFOs were "real." (An interesting fame.)The latest NatGeo poll both reported that about 11 per cent of Americans mistrust they've seen a UFO. And 20 per cent say they charge revel who has seen one. This is overall trustworthy in addition to all after everything else polls, by means of persons by means of Canada.The Nat Geo poll both reported that about 79 per cent of Americans maintain the government is detention information on UFOs from the community, and, alike expert snooping, that 55 percent (or expert than partially of all Americans) maintain that Men In Black are real and are sinister witnesses of UFOs.Subsequently the Kelton types went definitely off the spicy end. They asked, if you did go with an alien, what would you do? 22 per cent would befriend the alien; 15 would run for the hills; 13 would devoted their doors; and two percent would go on the insulting and attack.But, if aliens did attack Obtain, who would you call? 21 per cent would unblemished the Hulk; 12 per cent would unblemished Batman; and only 8 per cent would unblemished Spider-Man. The liability leading up to this asked if aliens are expert open to exist than superheroes, vampires and zombies. This seems a bit off-base, because most astronomers maintain alien life is open in the universe, so that type aliens and The Avengers is not methodical.The most complete way of thinking, up till now, was that 65 per cent of Americans mistrust that Barack Obama would be have time out non-discriminatory to feel an alien invasion than Milt Romney. Next, 68 per cent of women dimple Obama would be the best to shrivel in addition to aliens, equally 61 per cent of men dimple so. In lexis of age differences, persons under 65 dimple Obama was the man, equally for persons over 65, Romney and Obama were tied.Whereas here and there in partially of all respondents weren't sure that UFOs existed at all, the poll shows that aliens are self-possessed on the minds of a lot of family. And on marketers, remarkably.And we haven't told you what the absolutely report put off for UFO cases in Canada are for 2010 and 2011 yet.Procrastinate tuned.
From Aura-Z magazine printed in RussiaUFO AND POLITICSSeveral Episodes in the 40-Year History of Soviet UFOlogyby Lev ChulkovMarch 1993Lev Chulkov was born in Moscow on May 5, 1938. In 1962 he graduated from the Moscow Aviation Institute. Ph.D. Chulkov specializes in Mechanics and applied mathematics. He heads the Department of UFOlogy at the Interbranch Scientific and Technological Centre of Venturing and Nontraditional Technologies "Vent." He has taken an interest in ufology since 1960. His book "The Sons of the Stars" was the first in this country to lay down the Extraterrestrial concept of UFOs."We notice a bright object high in the sky. The object is moving from north to south. We fetch three powerful binoculars from our tents. We observe a large spheroidal object glittering in the sun. It is seen clearly against the blue sky. It moves very quickly. Then we notice that the object changes its direction and moves to the Southwest where it disappears beyond the snowy Humboldt Ridge. The whole camp follows this unusual phenomenon...." (N. Roerich, "The Heart of Asia")One may think that one such sighting is a good enough impetus to start serious investigations into UFOs but academic science in this country would not study these phenomena. The position of military and civilian authorities made this kind of investigation impossible.Let us follow the course of development of ufology in this country during the last four decades.As early as the beginning of the 50's J. Stalin ordered S. Korelev to study the phenomenon of UFO but S. Korolev managed to avoid fulfilling this task.Meanwhile some enthusiastic scholars took an interest in the problem. Among them were: Yu. Fomin, A. Kazantsev, Yu. Roszius, V. Rubtsov, A. Tikhonov, P. Stolyarov, F. Zigel and others. We must make a special mention of the late Felix Zigel who died on November 20, 1988. He was an astronomer who started investigating UFOs as early as 1955 and continued these investigations courageously and productively until his very last days. He had authored over ten large volumes on ufology, none of which came out during his lifetime. He brought together informal groups of investigators, arranged expeditions to UFO landing places when the very subject was unrecognized and banned, organized collection and analysis of primary ufological data conducted a broad exchange of information with foreign scholars and appeared to a lot of different organizations and authorities trying to prove that the problem of UFOs was real and extremely significant. On November 10, 1967, Professor F. Zigel, Air Force General P. Stolyarov and Navigator V. Akkuratov were given a chance to state their case on National Television.Thousands of people from all over the country responded to that programme. Letters from eyewitnesses, often with drawings and photographs enclosed, poured into the contact address.The authorities of official bodies chose a different course of action. For instance, reports from civil pilots of UFO sightings were directed to the State Scientific-Research Institute of Civil Aviation. Lots of telegrammes came to the chief Administration of the Hydrometeorological Service. Packages of reports arrived at the Astronomical Council of the USSR Academy of Sciences. But each boss was much too fond of his chair, so all information of this type was safely stored at the bottom of drawers and in king-size vaults.During those years the Moscow Planetarium took a very negative stand on the problem of UFOs. They had a ready-made printed letter to answer numerous requests. It ran as follows:Dear Comrade:The phenomenon you observed must be connected with one of the experiments aimed at measuring the density of atmosphere at high altitudes and with launching a sodium cloud (of the type which was formed during the flights of space rockets).V. BronshtenScience ConsultantMoscow PlanetariumOn January 8, 1961, the newspaper "Pravda" carried an article entitled "Myths of Flying Saucers" which expressed Academician Artsimovich's opinion of UFOs. The article dealt the problem a crushing blow and gave a start to ridicule and persecution of UFOlogists. The noted investigator Yu. Fomin was one of the victims. He was struck off the Register of the "Znaniye" (Knowledge) Society's official lecturers.On May 17, 1967, the Initiative Group of UFO investigators (45 persons) had a meeting at the House of Aviation and Cosmonautics in Moscow. They elected Major-General P. Stolyarov their President and F. Zigel - his Deputy. In October 1967 the Manager of the House, Major-General L. Reino assisted in establishing the UFO Department of the All-Union Committee of Cosmonautics. 350 people including representatives of the mass media attended the first session of the Department on October 18, 1967.However, the Department was disbanded by Army General A. Ghetman's order late in November 1967. The State dealt ufologists a second blow.The third one came soon after, before the investigators could regain their senses: late in 1967 Academician Artsimovich initiated a resolution passed by the Department of General and Applied Physics which he was heading. The resolution condemned investigation of UFOs in this country. The leading newspaper "Pravda" followed up with the article "Flying Saucers Again?" on February 29, 1968.On February 5, 1968, the problem of UFOs was discussed at the Journalists Club in Moscow. On February 16, 1968, 13 leading designers and engineers - members of the Initiative Group - addressed a letter to A. Kosygin, Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers. In their letter they reasoned that the problem of UFOs was real and global in its essence and proved its scientific and strategic significance.Of course the letter never reached the Prime-Minister, like none of thousands of other letters. The answer came on March 11, 1968, from Academician A. Shchukin. Each sentence in his response was a lie, and that is no exaggeration.Zigel and those who shared his ideas made another attempt to break through the "wall of silence" surrounding the problem of UFOs. They compiled a voluminous book "Inhabited Cosmos" which contained articles by the best Russian and foreign scholars on the problem. The book was being compiled at a printing house when its publication was interrupted. Academician Artsimovich interfered and 32 "seditions" articles on ufology were excluded. The manuscripts were not returned to Zigel in spite of his insistent requests. The castrated "Inhabited Cosmos" came out in 1972.In December 1976 another ufologist R. Varlamov, an ex-official of the State Committee for Science and Technology, appealed to A. Kosygin once again and suggested that scientific investigation of UFOs be organized in this country. The letter was passed over to the Expert Commission of the Department of General and Applied Physics of the USSR Academy of Sciences. The answer was an excellent example of the Soviet scientific administration's attitude to everything new. It is worth citing verbatim:"Your materials were transfered to the Department of General Physics and astronomy of the USSR Academy of Sciences. We inform you that as early as 1961 the Department's Bureau stated that:Lately, Soviet newspapers and magazines have carried reports of so-called "flying saucers," meaning various objects emitting light, which are passed for phenomena unknown to Science or for space vehicles launched from other worlds. These speculations have no scientific basis, and phenomena observed are of a well known nature. The Bureau of the Department of General Physics and Astronomy passed the following resolution on this matter:1. to entrust the General Council of the All-Union Astronomic and Geodesic Society to intensify explanatory work concerning "flying saucers;"2. to condemn the unhealthy sensationalism, being fraudulent in its character, as it deceives the population of this country;3. to request all members of the Department to fight against this unhealthy sensationalism;4. to publish an Open Letter on behalf of the Department to expose fabrications concerning "flying saucers."Expert GroupACADEMY OF SCIENCESMay 10, 1977In the same year the magazine "Zemlya i Vselennaya" (Earth and the Universe) carried an article by Professor D. Martynov of the Moscow State University called "Flying Saucers - a Test for Intellect" in which he stated "all that was based on profit, circulation, royalties, cheap renown etc." The professor tested his own intellect and failed the "examination."Meanwhile life went on. At 4 a.m. on September 20, 1977 the most spectacular unidentified object appeared over Petrozavodsk City, Russia. It gave a 12-minute show of surprising transformations. The newspaper "Sotsialisticheskaya Industriya" (Socialist Industry) wrote on September 23, 1977:"...a huge star shone brightly against black skies sending clusters of rays earthwards. The star was floating slowly towards Petrozavodsk and then spread medusa-wise over the city. It hovered continuing to pour a multitude of the finest rays over the city; it all looked like a very heavy rain. Yu. Gromov, Director of the Petrozavodsk Hydro-Meteorological Observatory told a TASS reporter that the meteorolgical service of Karelia had not observed anything of the kind before... Yu. Gromov went on to emphasize that to his knowledge no technological experiments were being conducted in those parts at the time..."Reports from people who had sighted unusual phenomena came in large numbers from other parts of the Soviet Union and from foreign countries, as well.F. Zigel wrote at that time: "On September 20, 1977 strange phenomena in the sky were sighted from Helsinki to Petrozavodsk and from Pskov all the way to Murmansk... from 3 a.m. til dawn." Later he arrived at the conclusion that several dozen objects were sighted that night.Meanwhile persecution of ufologists did not stop for a day. I recall an incident I witnessed directly. The people's University of Scientific and Technological Knowledge was established in a Moscow club. Its curricula included lectures on problems of UFOs. You know what happened? Soon plain-clothed KGB agents called on the club manager - a woman, and nearly frightened her to death. The doors of the hospitable club closed forever on ufologists soon after.Eventually state authorities realized that the problem of UFOs could not be dealt with that easily. In 1982 the Commission on Paranormal Phenomena was established. It was headed by the academy Corresponding Member V. Troitsky. Twice Hero of the Soviet Union, Pilot-Cosmonaut, Air Force Major-General P. Popovich, the USSR Academy of Sciences Corresponding Member N. Zheltukhin and Academician G. Pisarenko were appointed his Deputies. Unfortunately the Commission completely failed to carry out its tasks.Neither did ufologists get the right to officially sponsored research nor did reporters get the right to cover these topics in newspapers. Simultaneously, experts from the USSR Academy of Sciences were authorized to become censors. All manuscripts concerning UFOs were to be submitted to them. No editor-in-chief could publish a ufological article without their clearance. The General Censorship, known both in this country and outside it as Glavlit, observed this order vigilantly.Yet, there's many a slip, and the censors overlooked a sensational article in the newspaper "Trud" on January 30, 1985 entitled "At 4:10 Sharp". The article reported an episode when a UFO with a lighted outline the size of Pskov Lake followed a TU-134A passenger plane (Flight No 8352) till it landed in Tallinn. The object was clearly seen on the radar screen.At the same time another TU-134 plane was flying from Leningrad (St. Petersburg) to Tbilisi and the Control Tower informed its crew that there was a strange "tandem" right on their course. When First Pilot V. Gotsiridze, the Commander of the Tbilisi plane, noticed the object he decided to approach it and have a better look at it. That cost him his life.The Unidentified Object shot a scanning ray which travelled over First Pilot Gotsiridze and partially over Second Pilot Kabachnikov. Several days later Gotsiridze was taken to the hospital where he died of a disease which resembled myeloma. A similar disease made Kabachnikov an invalid for life. (These facts are documented with medical conclusions.)Soon after the writer of the article V. Vostrukhin and the paper's Science Editor were sacked, and the Editor-in-Chief followed them.V. Psalomshchikov, Ph.D., Scince Consultant of the Leningrad Commission on Paranormal Phenomena in the Environment commented on the episode: "when the investigation conducted by the Leningrad Commission on PP was drawing to an end the question of publishing its conclusions arose. Correspondents of central newspapers took a vivid interest in them but they all handed the materials back. The rumours of severe punishment which had befallen the newspaper "Trud" were much too fresh in their memories."What men dared not to do, a woman-journalist Ms. S. Omelchenko did. The impossible thing happened. In a Leningrad hotel she ran into Flight Engineer Murman Gvenetadze - the only member of the crew from Tbilisi who still worked in civil Aviation after the accident with the UFO. Ms. Omelchenko reported that Engineer Gvenetadze reaffirmed all the known details of the accident. A recollection of his own sensations is worth quoting: "What I felt? Nothing except curiosity and admiration of the strange object's performance. It maneuvered easily, changed its course and speed or hovered. We did not think of danger at all. It was just interesting. Now I would be scared after what has happened to my friends. I am eager to know what scientists think about it all." ("Vozdushny Transport" newspaper, February 25, 1989).Writes V. Psalmoshchikov: "I am not entitled to speak for others, and that is strictly my own opinion, but suppose the reports of both crews and radar readings were trustworthy, taking all the data into consideration. I admit that the object discovered on September 7, 1984 is not a product of terrestrial technologies." ("Trud" of July 22, 1990, the article "At 4.10 Sharp and Five and a Half Years Later")Early in 1989 the Committee on Problems of Energy-and-Information Exchange in Nature headed by Academician V. Kaznacheyev was established with the Union of Scientific and Engineering Societies. It was another attempt to coordinate the activities of different researchers. Time will show what will come out of it.We are glad to mark at least one thing: all bans on ufological information have been lifted in this country.Summing up we can say:1. The policy of authorities and academic science on the problem of UFOs in this country does not differ from what we see in other countries.2. Despite all difficulties and defamation, our ufologists have worked, conducted investigations and achieved results they can be proud of.
