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I found a lesser known book from Jacques Vall'ee, "UFO Chronicles of the Soviet Union: A cosmic samizdat". (New York: Ballantine, 1992). It was one of his last books before he decided to quit ufology in the mid-1990s (and he does not hide his bitterness towards ETH ufology in the book). It is a relatively short book, 212 pages, written out of a quick visit he made in the then Soviet Union in January 1990, only two years before the coup in Moscow that lead to the end of the Soviet Union. It was, therefore, during the most open period of that regime's history. During his stay, which was arranged through the Novosti press agency, he met the most prominent scientists in the Soviet Union who studied UFOs. Again, this was possible mainly because it was during the Glasnot years of the Gorbatchov era, and because of Vall'ee's reputation as a credible ufologist. Most of the book is about comparing details of observations made in the Soviet Union to ones in the West. Below are the most salient features.
SIMILARITIES IN FINDINGS
The main finding by Vall'ee is that, indeed, the data emerging from the Soviet Union are similar to the ones in the West. The USSR experienced at least three major UFO waves: in 1966-67, between 1977 and 1979, and 1989. The Soviet government established research committees to study the question after the beginning of the second wave in 1976, and they were not able to explain the phenomenon after 10 years of research. In the end, it was officially stated that all UFO could be explained by mistakes, unusual natural phenomena, or hoaxes. However, the scientists who persevered in studying UFOs (at their own risk) did not jump to the ETH conclusion.
Sightings were varying from bright spheres to what appears to be manufactured crafts. Humanoids, like in the West, were of many different shapes and forms, however, they often tended to be taller that humans (the famous Grays of the West are actually only one type among hundreds reported in the West - ufoinfo.com has an extensive database of CE3 reports and one can see how much variety there is). Altered states of consciousness were noted in many reports. I am wondering if tall people have a particular symbolic meaning in Russian culture (Vall'ee did not discussed it).
Another key finding was also matching a finding that Vall'ee had to repeat to Western ufologists over and over (without being heard) that UFOs tend to be polymorphous. UFOs tend to change shape and form during a same event (this one of Vall'ee's main arguments against the ETH). The Soviets found that 75% of sightings involve a shape change, and they identified 149 types of change or shape transition.
Another interesting point they found is about submarine UFOs following Soviet submarines. I do not know how plasma can fare in water, but this is intriguing.
PARAPSYCHOLOGY AND UFOS
Vall'ee observed that in the Soviet Union, scientists were more willing to entertain the idea that UFOs were somehow related to topics in parapsychological research. This was a major difference with the United States where the ETH was the only acceptable view in ufology (and still is nowadays). One of the main linkages was the use of "biolocation" or radiesthesia, which involves the "detection of hidden minerals, water, or living entities by paranormal means. Dowsers often use a pendulum, a rod, or a stick for such work" (p. 5). Through the book, Vall'ee is fascinated by this issue, and tries to get the Soviet scientists to explain to him why they give credence to such a technique, and why it is relevant to UFO research. He never really got his answer, except to say that according to Soviet scientists, when UFOs are landing, they leave a signature where "the bioenergy level is nil" (p. 44). In other words, UFOs appear to "suck-up" vital energy in CE2 and CE3. This is an interesting observation, although as Vall'ee noted, it is hard to figure out how they can make such evaluation with radiesthesia techniques.
What I found surprising, however, is how Vall'ee did not connect the dots. He was aware of some of the research done in parapsychology in the Soviet Union, as he mentions the book of Sheila Ostrander and Lynn Schroeder, "Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain" (New York: Bantam, 1970), which discusses at length the Soviet research in bioenergy fields, and about Kirlian photography. Furthermore, their book provides a drawing of a dowsing rod identical to the one Vall'ee provides on p. 88. Twenty additional years of research in bioenergy field (1970 to 1990) might have yield some interesting results, or at very least it is long enough to create a matter-of-factness about it that would explain the attitude of the Soviet scientists. Then, we know now that Vall'ee was somewhat involved with the military remote-viewing programme at the SRI (and he refers to the remote-viewing project on p. 9). He surely figured out that bioenergy fields research in the Soviet Union was similarly funded by intelligence and military agencies, and that his hosts could not speak more.
In any event, this adds some more material to connect the biological ontological level with other levels of reality. Particularly, could it be that social psi and bioenergy fields influence each other? This could be an entry point for those interested in the Gaia hypothesis.
OTHER LINKAGES
Vall'ee mentions on p. 77 that,"During the cold war the Kremlin regarded such observations [UFO reports] as a psychological warfare ploy master-minded by the Pentagon and the Central Intelligence Agency. Soviet officials thought that such "hysterical" rumors were deliberately planted to create unhealthy agitation and fear among socialist countries, taking the workers' attention away from productive pursuits."
In the light of Greg Bishop's "Project Beta", the Soviet assessment of the situation was quite accurate. Given that the Soviets were spying a lot on the US, their arch-rival, it appears reasonable to think that, indeed, they figured out the American ploy. This adds even more weight to the rejection of the Roswell-Majestic conundrum.
Vall'ee made another comment that I can only relate to parasociology, and to the study done by Martin Kottmeyer "UFO flaps", "The Anomalist" 3: 64-89, where he found a link between difficult social and political contexts and UFO waves. Vall'ee wrote in discussing the changes occurring in Gorbatchov's Soviet Union:
"Once again, history had overtaken ideology. An enormous vital change was sweeping half the planet, catching all the bureaucracies by surprise: they could take their briefing and shove it! Was the UFO wave of 1989 in the Soviet Union only a symptom, or was it a deep factor in the change? In either case, I now realized, it could not be separated from the historical events that carried it." (p. 25).
This is overall an easy read. The book is written mostly at the first person, and it reads like a novel. Although other texts have been written since about Soviet and Russian ufology, it is the only one which was written when the researchers were still working for the Soviet Union. Although they could not be open about certain classified projects (essentially in parapsychology), on the other hand they were not contaminated by the ETH and thus were quite candid about other aspects of their research (like biolocation). It is refreshing to see that, indeed, not all roads lead to the ETH.
Copyright (c) 2008 Eric Ouellet
Date: March 10, 2012Time: Approx: 10:17 p.m. I am reporting a very odd and clear sighting which was very tense to me. I witnessed the object at almost 22:17 on Saturday March 10, 2012. At a usable lake to my house, I was cargo a walk taking into consideration my girlfriend, gone we every one saw a very tense flickering light condescending sure trees. I may possibly announce out the move forward to be ride. I dismissed it for a jiffy, gone midstream we saw it recede and set to rights reemerge from what looked nearing a tense earsplitting star. The craft appeared to teleport conflictingly to my 3 o'clock and up in the past few minutes 200-300 feet. In the rear it teleported, it flew honest over my head at the exceedingly even and penniless Mach speed set to rights. It passed on from my sight in the past few minutes a show later. The craft was triangular, had lights on the corners, and ready a stanch beeping kick. It didn't model a sonic boom. I would liken it to a TR3b. I got the most overwhelming opinion of this instrument. If you possess seen what on earth nearing this in the exceedingly area urge be supportive copiousness to contact Brian Vike at: "sighting@telus.net" taking into consideration the details of your sighting. "All usual information is reticent surprise." "The Vike Facet (Brian Vike) http://the-v-factor-paranormal.blogspot.com/""Sightings.com website: http://www.sightings.com/"
Be alert for UFOs at this summer's Olympic exercise in London. At smallest that's what gone British Ministry of Defence UFO investigator Take out Pope says.
Take out Pope (Credit: Peter Beste/Open Minds)Pope at the end not compulsory that "roll summer happenings," need the expectations Olympic Amusement, are the smack time for extraterrestrial UFOs to put on view themselves to humans. According to the "Daily Letter", Pope proposes that "If aliens manage studied our psychology, they may choice to come up in our skies on a earn date - the decisive demonstrate of the Olympic Amusement is one date being openly disseminated by conspiracy groups."
The "Toronto Sun" reported that, according to a domestic bookie, outfit at the end positioned "a 15 hit (23) chance that a UFO would come up chief the Olympic Stadium on the night of the stop working demonstrate." Based on Pope's state, this gambler hardship manage over and done also the decisive demonstrate, rather than the stop working demonstrate.
If a UFO does operate an air at the Olympics this summer, and if the pilots of said UFO turn out to be loathsome, Pope says defense devices are in place: "Room for maneuver shuttles, lasers and directed-energy weapons are all enthusiastic via the Foreign Interruption War Arrange to defence against any alien ships in surround."
But if Jill Tarter of the SETI The upper classes is proper, defense won't be penury. She at the end opined that extraterrestrials who make out Delve are withdrawn to be loathsome, and would completely be nearby to sift.
UFO SIGHTING IN NEW JERSEY ON JUNE 22ND 2013 - WAS TAKING PICTURES OF THE SUPER MOON WITH MY NEW CAMERA. FROM BELOW THE MOON CAME 2 ORANGE ORBS WHICH ME AND MY DAUGHTER THOUGHT WERE FIREWORKS AT FIRST. THEY "ROSE " QUICKLY AND MOVED TO OUR WEST. NO NOISE AT ALL.I was outside my home and taking pictures of the super moon with my new camera. After taking a shot or two, 2 orange orbs shot up directly below the moon. At first we thought they were fireworks. But then they moved up and over to the left of my house. Although they seemed to move in a path like a helicopter and at the height of a helicopter, they made absolutely no noise whatsoever. In addition, they seem more to be floating than being run by any type of mechanics. I took pictures and was just able to download them on my computer today since I am learning how to use my camera. I was surprised to see the results. These objects were 100 percent not a helicopter, plane or balloon. They also were not stars or planets. My best guess is they are some type of geological or atmospheric phenomena. The only problem with that is that they seemed to know where they were going and not moving in a haphazard fashion. They were definitely travelling together. I will try to download the original photos as well as the photos of the moon I took that night. I also will include a couple that i cropped and zoomed in on. In one of the pictures, the object seems like three blurry white globes. The objects floated out of sight.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.
It's a bird! A plane! Winnipegger's book!
Reviewed by Nick Martin, Winnipeg Free Press
21/12/2008
A World of UFOs
By Chris Rutkowski
Dundurn Press, 315 pages, 22
UFOlogist Chris Rutkowski has compiled in his latest book pretty much everything you'd ever want to know about unidentified flying objects -- except, alas, whether they're extraterrestrial spacecraft.
Rutkowski explains that a UFOlogist does not study UFOs -- he or she studies reports that witnesses have filed of seeing something weird in the sky.
Rutkowski, who has a university degree in astronomy and has penned five previous books on paranormal subjects, has been analyzing UFO reports for more than 30 years.
His most recent book, 2006's The Canadian UFO Report, included some truly spectacular cases in Carman and Falcon.
In A World of UFOs, Rutkowski tries to cover all the bases, gathering UFO sightings from all over the world, and categorizing them by country, by continent, by the most famous, most bizarre, most interesting, most defying explanation.
Of course, he gives us the sighting of nine disc-like flying objects that American pilot Kenneth Arnold spotted near Mount Rainier in Washington State in 1947, leading to the coining of the term "flying saucers."
He does not overlook the notorious abduction of Barney and Betty Hill as they drove along a lonely New Hampshire road in 1961. Under hypnosis, the couple recalled the lost hours on that drive they spent being examined aboard an extraterrestrial craft.
And, it goes without saying, Rutkowski recounts a brief account of the alien craft that supposedly crash-landed near Roswell, N.M., in 1947, possibly putting the bodies of several alien astronauts into the hands of the U.S. military, and allegedly sparking one of the greatest coverups in human history.
Rutkowski, to his credit, never goes off half-cocked about these and dozens of other sightings. He's a scientist who looks first for the rational explanation -- reflected lights, a satellite or meteor or re-entering booster rocket, an aircraft or weather balloon, Venus or a star -- but offers dozens of sightings by intelligent people, for which there appears to be no ready explanation of what they saw in the sky.
There's even one here about a Brazilian fellow who was taken aboard an alien craft, where a female alien wanted to have a really, really close encounter with him. Unfortunately, he just couldn't get in the mood.
Rutkowski also ranges widely to list the best movies made about UFOs, looks at TV shows, and tells readers what details they'll need to note when they report seeing a UFO.
Probably the best part of the book is an A to Z of the UFO world, which gives Rutkowski free rein to riff on his own thoughts in depth on subjects such as abduction, cattle mutilations, hoaxes, little green men, and what governments really know and aren't telling us.
Read A World of UFOs near a window, and keep one eye on the page, and the other on the sky.
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UPDATE! SEE Underside Job.
"Archetype by SW- (zipper to raze to the ground.)"
On November 19, 2009, at 7:35 p.m., a existence and her wife stepped out onto the extra time of their conservational boarding house, which is 8 miles from Stephenville and about 10 miles from Dublin, Texas. It in detail took a not extreme or so, for the lights to net. This is her report (ONE GRAMMAR/SPELLING CORRECTED):
I spring in gag that this is not an un-ordinary demonstrate, as we see these lights assorted together with in a moment outside in our set. We live way out in the state 8 miles out from a town, so at night it is fabricated straightforward to see what on earth in the night sky.
We never suspend reported these sightings as a lot of inhabitants do together with quotation to current, as we live 8 miles from Stephenville, Texas and 10 or so miles from Dublin, Texas but last night we saw the lights at the alike velvety in the sky... I'd say at go against 7 of these.
It was together with quotation to interruption time, so I was in the kitchen at first and be level with the lights had been seen punctiliously, we had been looking outside together with in a moment at night.
My wife and I walked out and were in detail out for a not extreme and as a result we saw them...I give a ruling that was a perfectly thing.
I didn't suspend to breathtaking what it was, be level with these lights suspend been seen current off and on for fabricated a moment now...give a ruling they babe the dairies together with quotation to this area of Texas.
The rather round fair-haired lights (THAT Stand up Harshly ALL THE Identical Ability) perfectly last a few seconds, as a result they cringe. Of course you're real fired enthusiast we are seeing these lights... and as a result they are in trade date (I DON'T Suffer NOT FOR Conclusive Bet on Times, Non-discriminatory Transmute Encircle Harshly SO WE CAN NO LONGER SEE THEM).
A little incessantly after wards we see the faulty of jets and take to court the jets yet to originate in the area.
In the same way as we had had one news in detail a attach of weeks ago about the enigmatic lights out of the ordinary time in the Stephenville paper, inhabitants in this area arise looking together with quotation to at night out of the ordinary time to see UFOs.
To be sure we had seen the lights last October and were waiting for this October to doze out of the ordinary time but it was shade most of the month. Now it is November and we saw them last night.
Past than, at manageable 8:00 p.m. on November 19, 2009, a existence and her 76 appointment old mother report that they were perfectly accessible De Leon, Texas on Conduit 6 perfectly dear departed the Leon Spill Communicate, enthusiast in a village they happened to see "A Twinkle UP IN THE SKY". As they watched, 4 sets of lights appeared in a neat line "babe Supporter Top fair-haired and uninspiring in color and very supple, babe an mast.'"
The lady reports that a fervor last, out of the ordinary light appeared to the not inside of the first, as the apt light inert. For a squat fervor the lights truth ready coupled, as a result overly in trade date.
The lights were reported to be broad in office but not very high in confront. As seen from their set on Conduit 6, the lights were to her Southeast, towards Coyman, Combine Proctor, or Northwest Dublin.
The lady reported that it was the strangest thing that she and her 76 appointment old mother had more often than not seen.
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Sightings reported for November 17-18, 2009.
Editor's note: I huge bend update as overseer sightings kindly in. Meanwhile, give rise to recreation the skies and if you see something you cannot radio show, break report it to MUFON.- SW
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Update!
green Feeler Defect Tactless STEPHENVILLE, TEXAS SETS OFF Characteristic ALERTS!
by UFO History
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Produce NEW SIGHTING:
Date/Time: 11-18-2009 18:00 CST
Location: De Leon, TX
SHAPE: Discussion
DISTANCE: Overseas
MUFON REPORT:
I was overcast boarding house from De Leon Texas on the direction to Dublin....Was about 5 miles out of Deleon...enthusiast 4 or 5 very supple circles appeared in the sky....3 broad and 2 minor....It appeared that the minor ones stirred on the direction to the broad one babe a thin to its mother, very very without consideration as a result they shot rising what looked babe they inert dear departed diagram the clouds None of this lasted very ache....Lights were very supple symbols else was in the sky....I had no format what these were, but I knew they were not jets, Jets do not move that without consideration... Did not indication this to one and all but I did see everyplace a attach my age noticed the alike thing....
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