RESPONDENTS' ACCOUNTS and interesting information: _______________________________________________________ Oct. 14, 2008 David E. Steitz Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1600 david.steitz@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M08-202 NASA RELEASES DOCUMENTARY CELEBRATING AGENCY'S FIRST 50 YEARS WASHINGTON -- In celebration of its 50th anniversary, NASA will premiere the documentary "50 Years of Exploration: The Golden Anniversary of NASA" on NASA Television's Public and Education channels Wednesday, Oct. 15, at 9 p.m. EDT. Neil Armstrong hosts the 90-minute documentary that features film and video highlights of the agency's first half-century. Included are insights and perspectives from astronauts, scientists, engineers and others whose contributions have helped shepherd America's space program. Interviews include former NASA astronaut and U.S. Senator John Glenn, Apollo Flight Director Gene Kranz, author Ray Bradbury, NASA scientist and Nobel Prize winner John Mather, and presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton. "50 Years of Exploration: The Golden Anniversary of NASA" is a production of NASA Television. It will be re-broadcast on NASA TV's Public and Education channels at 1, 5 and 9 p.m. EDT on both Thursday, Oct. 16, and Friday, Oct. 17. For NASA TV streaming video, schedules and downlink information, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/ntv For more information about NASA, visit: http://www.nasa.gov _______________________________________________________ October 12, 2008 UFO Gives A Kelowna Man The Fright Of His Life, West Of Kamloops, British Columbia Brian Vike October 11, 2008 http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/77182 I (Brian Vike) had been wandering around the town of Houston, B.C. when I met a person who stopped me and asked if I had heard from a man who lives in Kelowna, B.C. over a UFO sighting he had. The lady ended up giving me the name and number of the guy who wanted to contact me. His name is Harry who at one time used to live in Houston, B.C. where I am, and he was eager to tell his story of what went on around the Savona, British Columbia area. He related an amazing story to me over what he experienced. Harry had a large UFO incident which took place on August 31, 2008 at approximately 1:30 a.m. when he was on a week's holiday. The man was driving his pickup truck and pulling a trailer. All was fine on his journey as he traveled down Highway 97 heading south from Lac La Hache. He came to a main junction at Cache Creek where the highway can take you to Vancouver, B.C. following highway 97 south, or you can head east on the Trans-Canada Highway 1. The shortest route for him was the highway 1 which headed towards Kamloops, B.C. and other communities along the way. I should point out that this entire region of British Columbia is a hot, dry area. The climate around Savona is a semi-arid steppe climate due to its rainshadow location. While situated in a semi-arid valley, Savona has winters that are generally mild and very short with an occasional cold snap where temperatures can drop to around -30 DEG C (-22 DEG F) when arctic air floods over the Rocky Mountains into the interior. Harry reached Savona, still heading east and on the left/north side of the highway there is a fairly large company with all different types of used mining equipment scattered throughout their property. Just down the road a way, he came to a little store off to the side of the highway. All of a sudden to his right/south and coming from over top of the mountain was a very bright light. At first he thought maybe it might be people driving a 4x4 vehicle, but he quickly thought about it and he knew at that point there were no dirt roads on the side of the mountain. The light was still moving about and coming directly at him. (keep in mind this mountain wasn't all that high in altitude) As the light drew closer to him he was able to see clearly that this wasn't just one light, but three. Two lights positioned at the top and a single light at the bottom. Basically the lights took on the shape of a triangle. Eventually the three lights swooped down towards him and crossed over top the Trans-Canada Highway 1 and Harry's truck, placing the object on the north side of the highway and flying at tree top level. The craft made a turn and was now heading in the same direction as Harry was traveling, which would be east towards Kamloops, B.C. Harry tried to keep an eye on the object but at the same time watching where he was driving. The craft seemed to be pacing the truck then rose up slightly and then again swooped downward and Harry finally lost sight of it. He said it surprised him that the object vanished as he was sure it would appear again. Harry tried to rationalize what he had seen. Maybe an aircraft with pontoons landing on the lake, etc. But nothing seemed to click into place for him because it was a very unusual sight. Excitement over with, Harry continued driving. He went up a steep part of a hill which had a few sharp curves, he gets to the top and starts his descent down the hill and ahead of him on the highway, coming in his direction are the same lights he just finished observing minutes ago. He thought to himself, this has to be a truck or some type of vehicle and they should meet up very quickly. To his surprise the lights vanished once again. There was no turn off that he was aware of, so as he sat in his vehicle he wondered what the heck was going on. Not too far down the highway he spots what appears to be blue and white flashing lights and he thought that maybe there was a police road block or an accident. He slows the truck down preparing to come to a stop if need be, but what he thought was an emergency vehicle on the road wasn't the case. About 500 to 600 feet off to the left hand side of the highway was a strobing light. Harry said the flashing was intense, approximately every half second there was another flash. It was so fast and so very bright. Also it was stationary just off of the ground. All of a sudden the object jumped (as Harry put it), in other words, from a stationary position it appeared to rise up and drop down again. If you can, picture children playing leap frog is the best term that I can think of to use to illustrate the UFOs movements. He said the object went from a stop, then made about a 20 foot jump into the air in a split second, it jumped again and this time it made an estimated jump of approximately 50 to 60 feet and then it kept jumping at greater distances. He figured the UFO was now moving around 500 feet at a time. The object made numerous jumps and Harry wasn't sure if he was able to hear any sound or not. He thought the UFO gave off a swooshing sound, but again he couldn't be completely sure of this. This thing traveled along at an incredible speed. It made a final jump which had it heading straight towards Harry's truck. Pretty much freaking out at this point, Harry said the UFO, with one of the last jumps, landed maybe 100 feet behind the trailer he was pulling. This would have had the UFO hitting the asphalt/road behind him. After this he wasn't able to see the UFO anymore. He said he hit the gas pedal and was out of there. He told me that he had no plans of stopping to check this out and wanted to get out of there as fast as possible. That was it for his night's scary encounter with an Unidentified Flying Object. Brian Vike, Director HBCC UFO Research and host of the Vike Report UFO Eyewitness radio show. email: hbccufo@telus.net Website: http://www.hbccufo.org http://www.brianvike.com, http://www.hbccufo.com, http://www.hbccufo.net HBCC UFO Research International: http://www.hbccufointernational.org/ Just added, the Vike Report Radio Show Blog. You can check the blog out for archived radio shows and all the new and upcoming programs I do. http://thevikereport.blogspot.com/ HBCC UFO Research, Box 1091 Houston, British Columbia, Canada - VOJ 1ZO _______________________________________________________ October 12, 2008 UFO flight will be re-enacted on 30th anniversary 4:00AM Friday Oct 10, 2008 http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10536744 Thirty years ago Safe Air pilot Bill Startup saw something out the window of his Argosy freight plane that has baffled UFO sceptics and believers to this day. Now, the famous Kaikoura UFO sightings of 1978 are to be repeated in a replicated flight in December, with Mr Startup and other crew and passengers in the plane. Marlborough-based film maker Paul Davidson, who owns the same Argosy at the centre of the mystery - the Merchant Enterprise - said a charter flight had been arranged to follow the same path at exactly the same time on December 30. Mr Davidson said the sightings were unique because not only were they witnessed by the two pilots, but they were also filmed by a professional news cameraman on board the flight. Two separate radar systems tracked the mysterious lights off the Kaikoura Coast at the same time as the sightings and previous witnesses had also reported strange lights in the area. Various theories have been put forward to explain the lights including atmospheric disturbance and distorted lights from the ground, but those aboard have no doubt what they saw. Mr Startup, who still lives in Blenheim, said there were "lots of funny things happening" that night. He wrote a book based on his observations. Cameraman David Crockett and journalist Quentin Fogarty were aboard the Merchant Enterprise specifically to try to see for themselves the strange lights that others had reported. Mr Fogarty also wrote a book on the subject. Mr Davidson said the flight later this year would take off from Blenheim Airport and head to Wellington, as the Merchant Enterprise had done. It would leave Wellington Airport at 11.50pm and head for Christchurch where they first encountered the strange lights over Kaikoura. All of those on the original flight had been invited and there would be seats available for those wanting to relive the UFO experience. The replica flight was one of a number of events taking place to mark the Kaikoura UFO Anniversary in Blenheim from December 28-31. Also planned is a UFO Symposium at the Marlborough Research Centre, tours of the Argosy aircraft involved and the premiere of Kaikoura - The Light Inside of Me, a contemporary musical inspired by the events of 1978. - NZPA _______________________________________________________ October 12, 2008 UFO Festival comes to Jersey City next weekend http://www.hudsonreporter.com/site/news.cfm?BRD=1291&dept_id=523586&newsid=20160447&PAG=461&rfi=9 Does the terms UFO and alien abduction get your heart racing with excitement? Do you feel like you're the only one among your family and friends who thinks there are other beings besides humans in the universe? Then the second Annual Culture of Contact UFO Festival happening next weekend (Oct. 16 -18) at the Landmark Loew's Theatre in Jersey City is the place to be. It is the first year that the festival is taking place at the Loew's. Last year, it was held in Manhattan. The festival will feature experts discussing UFOs and alien abductions, as well as movies, music and art with an UFO theme. Among the festival highlights will be the appearance of William J. Birnes, star of the History Channel series UFO Hunters, and a screening of the 1953 film version of H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds (also made into a movie in 2006 by Steven Spielberg) about an alien invasion of Earth. In conjunction with the events at the Loew's, there was an art exhibition at the Monroe Center for the Arts in Hoboken this weekend (Oct. 10-11). Culture of Contact formed last year out of a loosely-knit group of "experiencers" of alien contact who were living in New Jersey and New York. They came together to create an annual multimedia festival-like conference in New York City. Jeremy Vaeni, one of the organizers of the festival, talked last week about the event. "I think it is important because as people who believe in these sorts of things, we are out of place," Vaeni said. "I think one of the things is to show that people in positions of power are experiencing alien contact." Also participating in the festival will be Jersey City artist Melissa Reed, who says many of her works were influenced by her experiences with alien life. "Waking up to the infinite possibility that exists beyond everyday life is vitally important," Reed said. Saw UFO in Vermont Vaeni, a writer based in Queens, said this festival is an opportunity for people like him who have either witnessed aliens or UFOs. A Massachusetts native, Vaeni recalls at the age of 14 a family trip to Vermont to visit his grandparents. He said he had a unique encounter. "I look out among the fields and mountains and I see this object that's luminescent green and it's spinning in one direction at the top and in another direction on the bottom," Vaeni said. "When [my family] gets to our grandparents' house, we expect to be laughed at when we tell what happened. But instead they confirm they had similar sightings, and on their coffee table was the Time-Life book, "Mysteries of the Unknown." Vaeni also said this year's festival theme is "Mythology Is Reality," where there will be discussions on how myths and folklore in ancient history may be more than just stories, but are actual accounts of extraterrestrial life forms visiting this planet. "When archeologists look at the building of the pyramids in ancient Egypt, they come across accounts where it tells that the gods came down and gave us the knowledge to build the pyramids," Vaeni said. "But there is a belief that it may have been aliens, and we want to explore that further." Culture of Contact schedule The Culture of Contact Festival will be held at the Landmark Loew's Theater, 54 Journal Square, Jersey City. Details, directions and tickets can be found at www.cultureofcontact.com. The schedule of events is as follows: Thursday, Oct. 16: 6:30 p.m. - Jeremy Vaeni, Melissa Reed, and William J. Birnes 7 p.m. - "In Search of The Future" documentary screening. Intro w/Director Andrew Cameron Bailey & Producer Connie Baxter Marlow 9 p.m. - Q&A w/ Bailey & Marlow Friday, Oct. 17: Noon-5 p.m. - "Experiencer" and Native American chat circles. Pat Marcatillio's UFO Museum. Explore your own brain using Masahiro Kahata's brain tech inventions and your mind with Raymond Strano's perception-altering musical device. (Attractions run all day Saturday) 6 p.m. - Jeremy Vaeni introduces Washington lobbyist Stephen Bassett, who talks about possible government disclosure of alien presence. 7 p.m. - Native American band Ghosthorse performs. 8 p.m. - Tiokasin Ghosthorse gives keynote address for the festival. 9 p.m. - William J. Birnes introduces "War of The Worlds" screening. 9:15 p.m. - "War of The Worlds" screening. Saturday, Oct. 18: 10:30 a.m. - Michael Mannion & Trish Corbett 11:30 a.m. - Richard Dolan 12:30 p.m. - Giorgio Tsoukalos 1:30 p.m. - Lunch break and/or screening of documentary on Combustive Motor Corp. w/director Chris Noble 2:30 p.m. - Peter Robbins 3:30 p.m. - David Biedny 4:30 p.m. - Farah Yurdozu 5:30 p.m. - Dinner break and/or sneak peek screening of "The Hidden Hand" documentary w/Director James Carman 6:30 p.m. - Keynote addresses by Dr. Gregory L. Matloff and C. Bangs from NASA 7:30 p.m. - Speaker roundtable with surprise guest 8:30 p.m. - William J. Birnes 9:30 p.m. - "The Silent But Deadly Truthvolution of Truth," a comedy film premiere w/director Jeremy Vaeni Sunday, Oct. 19: Noon-4 p.m. - Culture of Contact Festival after-party at the Monroe Arts Center in Hoboken. Comments on this story can be sent to rkaulessar@hudsonreporter.com The Hudson Reporter 2008 _______________________________________________________ October 6, 2008 SMALL ASTEROID TO LIGHT UP SKY OVER AFRICA WASHINGTON -- An asteroid measuring several feet in diameter is expected to enter the atmosphere over northern Sudan before dawn Tuesday, setting off a potentially brilliant natural fireworks display. It is unlikely any sizable fragments will survive the fiery passage through Earth's atmosphere. The event is expected to occur at 5:46 a.m. local time (10:46 p.m. EDT Monday). "We estimate objects this size enter Earth's atmosphere once every few months," said Don Yeomans of the Near-Earth Object Office at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. "The unique aspect of this event is that it is the first time we have observed an impacting object during its final approach." The small space rock, designated 2008 TC3, will be traveling on an eastward trajectory that will carry it toward the Red Sea. "Observers in the region could be in for quite a show," Yeomans said. "When the object enters the atmosphere, it could become an extremely bright fireball." The small space rock first was observed by the Mount Lemon telescope of the NASA-funded Catalina Sky Survey early Monday. NASA detects and tracks asteroids and comets passing close to Earth. The Near Earth Object Observation Program, commonly called "Spaceguard," plots the orbits of these objects to determine if any could be potentially hazardous to our planet. For more information, visit: http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/ _______________________________________________________ October 4, 2008 From Jason Baker, MRIPA Founder/Director [mailto: info@mpripa.net] I wanted to let everyone know about an upcoming paranormal convention in January. Jim McMichael (founder of N.I.G.H.T Paranormal) also here in Indiana, is working on setting up for a huge para-conference that will be downtown Indy at the Convention Center in January. MRIPA is very happy to be assisting NIGHT Paranormal with this fantastic event! Jim is looking for representation of all facets and beliefs, not only for vendor booths but also for workshops, motivational, inspirational and metaphysical specialities and speakers. This is all in the hopes of networking and helping the communities with any questions they might have. These will all be a masquerade ball and events etc as part of a fundraiser for "Make a wish foundation" The details are still being worked out, but hopefully be posted within the next few weeks so that planning can start. If you would like to submit interest in obtaining booth space or speaking. Please contact Jim at help@nightparanormal.com or Jason at info@mripa.net Please keep watching www.nightparanormal.com & www.mripa.net for more information regarding this great upcoming event!!! _______________________________________________________ September 23, 2008 Flaming UFO spotted last night in Wigan, Lancashire, U.K. Published Date: 23 September 2008 http://www.wigantoday.net/wigannews/Flaming-UFO-spotted-last-night.4518764.jp A man has emailed the wigantoday newsroom asking if anyone else saw a bizarre Unidentified Flaming Object in Shevington last night. His email in full reads ... Hi ... Did anyone else in the Shevington area/Shevington Moor area see the fire ball above Shevington High? I live opposite the playing fields on Parkbrook Lane. At about 9pm last night my daughter and I witnessed what looked like a giant firework/rocket flying several hundred feet on a horizontal path towards Elnup Woods. It was a only a matter of several seconds and disappeared or broke up before the woods. It was twice the speed of a firework and had a trailing flame behind it. This is not a wind up, other people in the area must have seen it. Frank Welch If you saw the object add your comments below ... Another email sighting dropped in regarding the story that appeared in the Wigan Reporter last week. It reads ... Hi, I saw a very similar object between 1996 and 1999. Don't remember the year. It was summer however. The difference between the drawing on your site and my siting was that there was a center ball with the others around it in a similar fashion as was drawn. Lest you think, I don't know what I saw, well I didn't know what it was and I am a recently retired airline pilot for Northwest Airlines. I flew for 21 years at NWA and 10 years prior at a regional airline(s). All the best, they're out there! Jeff "Griff" Griffin Colorado Springs And another one ... There were several of us sat outside at the Robin Hood in Orrell that saw the 'flaming' UFO on Sun 31 Aug. The flames were quite large, engulfing most of the object as it travelled from the Billinge Area towards Orrell Post, passing more or less directly overhead, and well below the cloud level. P Heywood And another one ... Dear sir/madam Last week me and my friend did see a white cloud-shaped object moving back and forward in the sky in the Worsley Mesnes area. This happened on a Friday night about 9pm, it wasn't a cloud or something because it was moving in the same place back and forward. _______________________________________________________ September 23, 2008 Another mass UFO sighting in Australia MATT CUNNINGHAM September 24th, 2008 http://www.ntnews.com.au/article/2008/09/24/6103_ntnews.html THREE station workers and three backpackers have been left stunned after witnessing strange lights flying over a remote station in the NT outback. Ray Aylett, Normie Hooker and Alan "Doc" McIntosh were sitting on their pergola at Muckaty Station with three European backpackers when a bright light appeared. Mr Aylett, 58, said they were all stunned by the bizarre sighting. "This strange light was coming straight for us, over the house," he said. "We all walked outside and were watching it come towards us, then it went straight east and faded out.'' Mr Aylett, who has lived at the station north of Tennant Creek for eight years, said he couldn't believe his eyes as the bright light approached on a Thursday night two weeks ago. "This thing was strange,'' he said. "I have never seen anything like it. "Normie and Doc had never seen anything like it either, and those backpackers, they were in shock. "I was sitting there watching for a couple of minutes. "You could see it coming towards us but it wasn't a plane. It made no noise - you couldn't hear anything.'' Mr Aylett said there was no way their judgement could have been affected by alcohol. "Me and Doc had had a couple of beers, but Normie doesn't drink,'' he said. He said the light returned the next night, this time coming from the other direction. "One bloke went out with a pair of binoculars and said it just turned and went east,'' he said. _______________________________________________________ September 21, 2008 SAD NEWS: This evening, we received a short message notifying us that a close friend and wonderful lady, Anne Morrison passed away peacefully at her home this morning at 10:05 A.M. ET. As most know, Anne fought a desperate battle against extremely aggressive cancer. We are greatly grieved to hear this sad news, and our hearts go out to her family at this time. We also are so thankful for so many wonderful memories we have of Anne. She was a wonderful person and will be missed by all who had the good fortune to know her. Please pray for eternal peace for Anne, and solace for her family. ~Deb and Dave _______________________________________________________ September 19, 2008 Odd-shaped UFO spotted Published Date: 18 September 2008 (depiction of UFO posted at link: http://www.wigantoday.net/wigannews/Oddshaped-UFO-spotted.4505709.jp) Another weird-looking UFO has been spotted in the skies above Wigan. The day before the Wigan Reporter printed details of a mysterious object seen hovering near junction 27 of the M6 in Shevington Moor last month, another UFO was spotted by a number of people in Ashton-in-Makerfield. John Jones, from Ashton, was not aware of the story in the Reporter when he made his sighting, but felt compelled to come forward when he read about it the very next morning. John takes up the story: "It was about 7.30pm on Friday night (August 29) and I was looking up at the sky when I saw it. "It was a slightly overcast evening and the clouds were grey when I saw six very dark objects in very close formation. "They were like rubber balls and they were very close together in a circle. "My son was with me and we both had a look through our binoculars. The objects were turning towards the Downhall Green area and were in sight for a good five minutes below the line of the clouds. "They were very slow-moving but it definitely wasn't balloons and after observing them for some time they just seemed to vanish from sight." The next morning John saw our report of the Shevington UFO and couldn't believe his eyes. "I showed some people the picture in the paper and said that I had seen something similar the night before," he added. John thinks the strange object could have been an unmanned surveillance drone of some sort and is convinced it wasn't a plane or a helicopter. "It wasn't just myself and my son that saw the object - my son pointed it out to some of our neighbours as well and they agreed it was very strange. It didn't wobble at all, it just flew silently and slowly across the sky." In a separate incident, a man from Billinge e-mailed the Reporter on the subject of UFOs. His email read: "Did anyone else see the unusual flaming object in the sky over Billinge/Orrell at 9.35pm tonight? (Sunday, August 31). "It travelled in from the south west low in the sky, below cloud level, moved east slowly then picked up speed rising in the sky to the south east gathering speed until it disappeared. "Three of us saw this, we thought at first it was a balloon using the flame, but obviously it was not!" Have you seen a UFO in the skies above Wigan? Email us by clicking here newsroom@lancspublications.co.uk and let us know. _______________________________________________________ September 19, 2008 Update to Readers on Debbie's sister's medical condition: Debbie's sister Kathy, whom was also a subject in Budd Hopkins' book, "Intruders", and contributed to Debbie's book "Abducted", recently suffered a serious stroke. The latest report is that Kathy's condition has improved markedly and she is now continuing therapy at her home. All indications are that she is on a road to complete recovery. Many thanks to all those who supported us during this personal crisis. -Deb and Family _______________________________________________________ September 16, 2008 RAF officer breaks 37-year silence on UFO radar mystery Published Date: 14 September 2008 By Marc Horne http://news.scotsman.com/uk/RAF-officer-breaks-37year-silence.4489914.jp IT IS a close encounter of the official kind. A former RAF officer has claimed that UFOs are real and may have invaded UK airspace, branding official resistance to such theories as "stupid and arrogant". Wing Commander Alan Turner MBE was sworn to secrecy after he tracked a series of unidentified objects soaring over southern England at incredible speeds. But now the airman, who was honoured by the Queen for his years of distinguished service, has broken his silence and spoken publicly for the first time about his extraordinary experience. Turner, 64, a former head of air traffic control at RAF Lossiemouth, insists it is "stupid and arrogant" to rule out the existence of extra-terrestrials and is open to the suggestion that he witnessed craft from another world. But the Ministry of Defence stressed last night there were "realistic explanations" for such reports. The incident, which has baffled and haunted Turner for decades, took place at RAF Sopley on the south-west coast of England in the summer of 1971. At the time he was Duty Military Supervisor and had the responsibility of monitoring the skies on radar screens for potential Soviet incursions. On the day in question, Turner and his 13 colleagues were alarmed by a sudden and unexpected development. He said: "I can clearly remember people shouting: 'What the hell is that?' I got to a console and people were loudly telling me to look to the east of Salisbury Plain. "Twenty miles east of the eastern extremity was a series of returns, or radar blips, which were appearing in that position. There were five of them initially. Then six and then seven all following the same track. "They were tracking south-east, each exactly six to seven miles apart and moving at exactly the same speed. At about 40 miles from the point they appeared on radar, they disappeared, to be followed almost immediately by a replacement at the point of origin. "The objects were about 3,000ft above ground level when they first appeared and climbed so rapidly that, by the time they disappeared from radar they were in excess of 60,000ft. "To climb to such a height in only 40 miles was beyond the ability of almost any fighter aircraft at that time." In a bid to solve the mystery Turner diverted an RAF Canberra jet, which was returning from West Germany, to intercept the intruders. "When the pilot got within a mile or so of one particular blip, he reported, in a very agitated voice, that his radar had picked up something on his port side that was 'climbing like the clappers'. Neither the pilot nor his navigator made any visual contact with whatever it was." Within days, Turner was summoned into the Squadron Leader's office and questioned by two men, who wore civilian clothes and were not identified, about the incident. "I, along with all the others who were in the room on that day, were told in no uncertain terms not to relate what we had seen until cleared to do so." Turner, who was awarded the MBE in 1984 and retired from the force in 1995, has been assured that there were no training operations, classified or otherwise, going on at the time and there were no weather balloons or probes in the area. "I have no idea what they were, but I certainly wouldn't rule out the possibility that they were UFOs. There is certainly a chance that we have been visited by extra-terrestrials," he said. "It is terribly arrogant and silly to think that we are alone in the universe." He feels the time is right to end his silence and has accepted an invitation to be the keynote speaker at an international UFO conference in Pontefract, Yorkshire, next month. "I have spoken to three ex-Air Force mates, who held senior positions, and they have seen similar things, but did not report them as they felt their personal integrity would be questioned. That is why I kept quiet for so long, but I know what I saw." _______________________________________________________ September 10, 2008 A Hoosier family needs our help. Brigitte has been a good friend to me for almost 25 years and has never asked anyone for any help. As a matter of fact, she is mentioned in Budd Hopkin's book about my family as well as my book. She has witnessed some of the strangeness that is my life and even had a few of her own weird expereinces. She is a good person who would do anything for her friends. So now it's time for her friends to do something for her and Brad. Please help if you can, by either attending the hog roast or making a donation. And, of course your prayers are deeply appreciated! A couple of years ago Brad Miller was diagnosed with lymphoma. This summer he had a successful bone marrow transplant and we are are happy to say, he is on the road to recovery. Because his immune system had to be completely shut down in order to accept the transplant, he will not be able to return to work for a few months. In the meantime, the company he works for was recently acquired by another company and his short term disability claim is being denied as a "pre-existing condition". His wife, my friend Brigitte, was laid off from her job and on top of everything else, they have had to take on the responsibility of raising their 5 year old granddaughter. They are having a hard time making it through these trying times and are in danger of losing their home. So, a bunch of Brad's fellow John Marshal High School Alumni are having a Hooligan Hog Roast! Saturday, October 4th, 2008 2 - 8pm $25 per adult ticket Students with ID $15 Children 6 and under free 6327 N. 300 W. Greenfield, IN 46140 (one block north of Tuttle's Orchard ) Mapquest link: http://www. mapquest. com/maps?city=Greenfield&state=IN&address=6327+N.+300+W.&zipcode=46140 FOOD * FUN * FRIENDS * FAMILIES Live Music * Corn Hole Tournament * Euchre Tournament * Bouncing House * Raffles * Prizes Live Music by Vinnie & the Moochers featuring JMHS Hooligan Kim Linn Karaoke / DJ / MC JMHS Hooligan Rhett Coles ALL proceeds go to help the Miller family with mounting expenses until Brad is able to return to work. Please spread the word! To purchase a ticket, make a donation or get more information, contact: Cindy Roberts Kelle - JMHS '72 317-595-0366 Donnie Bowsher - JMHS '72 317-354-3058 Tom and Debbie Welsh Ford - JMHS '69 & '70 317-823-8936 John and Carolee Tremain - JMHS '70 317-357-5692 Vicki Stephens - JMHS '70 317-842-0144 _______________________________________________________ September 10, 2008 Wednesday, 10th September 2008 UPDATE - more UFO sightings in orange lights 'mystery' Published Date: 09 September 2008 By Gemma Gadd http://www.louthleader.co.uk/news/UPDATE--more-UFO-sightings.4472283.jp Tuesday 3pm - MORE sightings of orange light 'UFOs' over Louth have been witnessed recently - leading some to suggest the mystery is far from solved. As the Leader reported last week, Legbourne residents Jeff and Eve Sardeson spotted three orange orbs moving silently across the sky from their garden on August 24. Now others have come forward to say they saw similar lights last Saturday, September 6. One witness, David Winfarrah from Louth, said the encounter left him shook up: "I was walking near the old malt kiln at around 9.30pm and saw an orange light hovering and moving around in an erratic way before disappearing. I didn't know what it was and it really shook me up so I turned back for home shaking." David Howard from Louth said he also saw orange lights on Saturday night: "I was outside my house with a neighbour looking towards Grimsby and saw three of the lights moving across the sky in the same pattern." On reader suggestions they could have been sky lanterns, Mr Howard added: "There wasn't much breeze that night, and if they were sky lanterns I would have expected some flickering or variation in their flight pattern, but there wasn't." However, as previously reported, some readers who claim the truth is out there have contacted the Leader with their theories. Ellie Butler from South Ormsby claimed to have seen one of the orbs up close, as she explained: "The orange lights had me confused too as I was at Cadwell recently and spotted one. "However the next night I witnessed the truth - they were indeed sky lanterns. One set off from a tent near ours and headed off towards Louth with a beautiful orange glow." She added: "So I am afraid the UFO is now an identified flying object." -What do you think the orange lights were? Email gemma.gadd@jpress.co.uk _______________________________________________________ September 3, 2008 UFO caught on camera above Bradford, UK 8:29am Wednesday 3rd September 2008 By Will Kilner [video available at link: http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/3641726._UFO__caught_on_camera_above_city/] A Bradford man has described the moment he saw a UFO in the skies above his home. Richard Ing, of Westminster Avenue, Clayton, said he watched in amazement from the balcony of his house as it passed over Bradford city centre, Clayton and off towards Denholme. The 40-year-old printer said: "There were eight of us who saw it " four adults and four children. "We are all sensible people and were amazed by what we saw. "It was a massive fireball half the size of an aeroplane. "We got it on a mobile phone, which does not do it justice. "Maybe someone else has seen it or can explain it. It was 8.20 on Saturday night. If I had not seen it myself, there"s no way in the world I would have believed it." Mr Ing"s daughter, Chloe Ing, aged 12, said: "It was like a glowing ball, it was orange and just kept going across the sky." e-mail: will.kilner@telegraphandargus.co.uk _______________________________________________________ August 28, 2008 UFO mysteries deepen with more encounters Published Date: 28 August 2008 By Ian Duncan http://www.scarborougheveningnews.co.uk/news/UFO-mysteries-deepen-with-more.4433496.jp SCARBOROUGH is continuing to have close encounters after more reported sightings of strange objects in the sky. At the end of July there were reported sightings of a white glowing sphere above houses, travelling slowly in an easterly direction before disappearing into a sea fret. Now, a witness has contacted the Evening News to say he spotted strange orange coloured lights above Scarborough Castle on the night of Friday August 15. Adam Meads, a 30-year-old graphic designer from Burniston, said he had just dropped some items off at one of the North Bay chalets and was driving past the former site of the Corner Cafe when he saw the UFOs at 9.30pm. He said: "There were two lights above the castle and they seemed to be stationary. They started moving so I got out of the car. I turned the engine off but I couldn't hear anything. They then flew out over the bay and they became four lights." Mr Meads added the objects were fairly large and if they had been an aircraft then he would have heard the sound of engines. He said: "The light was orangey and they were big enough to notice that they were circular." And similar lights were filmed on two separate occasions, later that same night, by former fighter pilot Win Keech. Russ Kellett, a Filey-based UFO hunter, sent the clips to the Evening News for its website. The first clip was filmed at about 10pm from Saltersgate, over RAF Fylingdales, and shows two orange balls of light which are very close together. And the second clip was filmed about 30 minutes later from Whitby and shows the lights banking before flying out over Robin Hood's Bay. Mr Kellett said: "It is an ex-pilot who filmed it, he knows what he's talking about. What was an aircraft doing in a no-fly zone, over Fylingdales?" He added that sometimes mysterious lights in the sky can be explained as Chinese lanterns � gas filled lights which float, have no means of propulsion, and are at the mercy of prevailing winds. "These are definitely not Chinese lanterns," he said. "I would say that sightings go through peaks and troughs. About four years ago it peaked and we did have quite a few good sightings and videos as well." Mr Kellett first became interested in the subject after he experienced a "close encounter" in West Yorkshire, in 1988 when he was waiting at a level crossing and was hit by a beam of light from above. He thought nothing more of the event until the next day at work when people asked if he had seen himself in the mirror -- his face and hands were completely sunburned. _______________________________________________________ August 27, 2008 UFO-style lights in sky confirmed 3:04pm Wednesday 27th August 2008 By Hannah Crown http://www.enfieldindependent.co.uk/news/localnews/3626062.UFO_style_lights_in_sky_confirmed/ THE SIGHTING of a strange orange rugby ball-shaped UFO in Winchmore Hill has been confirmed by more readers. Last week investment banker Alison Moynihan told the Independent how she had seen the objects making their way purposefully through the skies close to her home in Hillcrest. Now, five more people have contacted the Independent with reports of UFOs, ranging from a cone-shaped light with an orange halo to a rugby-ball shaped spacecraft. It has emerged that in the neighbouring street the lights were also seen by Trina Archer when they appeared on the night of Sunday, August 10. She said: "I saw one circling the tree in Barber Close and it went off towards Grange Park. I think it's quite fascinating. It was very bright orange." Ms Moynihan ruled out the possibility of it being a Chinese lantern or an aircraft but it seems it has not been the only unexplained sighting. Mrs Archer, of Wades Hill, was alarmed by a sighting of lights above her street the previous weekend. She said: "The only way I can describe it was as a jellyfish type of light. They changed colour from white to green and they appeared to be playing. "My husband called the police and while he was on the phone I called one of my neighbours out. "She went inside and rang her husband and he said he could see them from Chase Farm." After the incident, Mrs Archer's husband Neil Edwards contacted the Ministry of Defence to see if they knew anything about it, but they told him that the only sighting they had received that evening was from Somerset. He said: "But when I spoke to the police they told me there had been lots of other sightings that night." Mr Edwards, a former member of the Paratroop Regiment, said: "It takes a commercial aircraft 45 seconds to travel from one side of the sky to the other and this thing took three seconds." * Do you have an explanation? Call the newsdesk on 8884 7414 or email hcrown@london.newsquest.co.uk _______________________________________________________ August 25, 2008 QinetQ's Zephyr Captures Unmanned Flight Record The solar powered aircraft soared 60,000 feet above the Sonoran Desert for more than 82 hours. By K.C. Jones InformationWeek August 25, 2008 10:53 AM A British company that consults with the U.S. Department of Defense said Sunday that it has set an unmanned flight record. QinetiQ said its Zephyr, a solar-powered, high-altitude, unmanned aerial vehicle, flew for 82 hours and 37 minutes from the U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground in Arizona. That exceeds Zephyr's previous record of 54 hours, which was set last year. The previous record for an unmanned flight was 30 hours and 24 minutes. A Northrop Grumman Global Hawk set that record in 2001. "The Yuma Proving Ground in Arizona was an appropriate setting for Zephyr's world beating flight as many landmark aviation developments have taken place there in recent years," Simon Bennett, managing director of QinetiQ's Applied Technologies business, said in an announcement. "In addition to setting a new unofficial record, the trial is a step towards the delivery of Zephyr's capability for joint, real-time, battlefield persistent surveillance and communications to forces in the field at the earliest opportunity." The U.S. Department of Defense funded the demonstration flight after cooperating with its counterpart in the United Kingdom to develop the Zephyr under their Joint Capability Technology Demonstration Programme. The program aims to deliver urgently needed technology to the U.S. military for combat, and the Zephyr flight marks the first time the U.S. and U.K. governments worked together on a joint demonstration of a high altitude, unmanned aerial vehicle, according to QinetiQ. Zephyr is an ultra-lightweight, carbon-fiber aircraft, powered by amorphous silicon solar arrays thinner than paper. The arrays cover its wings and provide power during the day. Rechargeable lithium-sulphur batteries, from SION Power Inc, store the energy and power the aircraft at night. Satellite communications and autopilot allowed the Zephyr to fly at an altitude of more than 60,000 feet above the Sonoran Desert -- where temperatures soared to 113 degrees F -- from July 28 to July 31. The trial allowed the military to assess U.S. government communications payload and the information gleaned could be applied to Earth observation and communications relay for military, security, and civilian purposes. U.S. CENTCOM, which is responsible for command in Iraq and Afghanistan, supported the Zephyr, as did the Office of Secretary of Defense (OSD) for Advanced Systems and Concepts (AS&C) and the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command (SMDC). _______________________________________________________ August 23, 2008 UFOs, Sovereignty and Politics http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/71678 Michael Salla August 22, 2008 "UFO ignorance is political rather than scientific"- that's the conclusion of two prominent university professors who had the results of their research on UFOs published in the August 2008 edition of Political Theory. It was the first time a major political science journal had published an article dealing with the UFO phenomenon so it has predictably sparked controversy in the academic world. The joint authors of "Sovereignty and the UFO," are Alexander Wendt, Professor of International Security at Ohio State University; and Professor Raymond Duvall, Chair of Political Science at the University of Minnesota. Their article breaks new ground in opening up for academic debate the way in which evidence of UFOs has not been seriously analyzed in the modern era. Their main argument is that this is due to a "metaphysical threat" that UFOs pose to the sovereignty of modern states. This threat comes not from the reality of UFOs as an inexplicable physical phenomenon that ultimately have mundane explanations, but the implicit assumption that UFOs are intelligently guided vehicles controlled by extraterrestrial intelligences (the extraterrestrial hypothesis). Wendt and Duvall argue that a serious study of UFOs could undermine the "anthropomorphic sovereignty" under which modern states operate. They explain in their paper: "When sovereignty is contested today, therefore, it is always and only among humans, horizontally so to speak, rather than vertically with Nature or God. In this way modern sovereignty is fundamentally anthropocentric (pp.607-608)." Put simply, only humans compete for sovereignty over the population, resources and territory of the planet. In the absence of any conclusive scientific evidence of intelligent extraterrestrial life, political sovereignty remains an exclusively human affair. This is why, according to Wendt and Duvall, modern states have not devoted sufficient scientific resources to the UFO problem. Since 1947 over 100,000 UFOs have been reported worldwide, many by militaries. However, neither the scientific community nor states have made serious efforts to identify them, the vast majority remaining uninvestigated... . For both science and the state, it seems, the UFO is not an "object" at all, but a non-object, something not just unidentified but unseen and thus ignored (p. 610). This directly led to Wendt and Duvall concluding that states are deliberately promoting an "epistemology of ignorance." They write: "our puzzle is not the familiar question of ufology, "What are UFOs?" but, "Why are they dismissed by the authorities?" Why is human ignorance not only unacknowledged, but so emphatically denied? In short, why a taboo?" (p. 611). One critic, Henry Farrell, responded to their paper arguing that "the evidence is inadequate to the claims made." . In their online response to Farrells criticism , Wendt and Duvall agreed that they had supplied insufficient evidence in support of their theory but that the "intent in the paper is not in any case to test our theory: it is to demonstrate the existence of an unacknowledged puzzle, and then, in the spirit of systematic theorization, offer what we think is a plausible solution to it." Farrell's criticism is the familiar skeptical position used not only to challenge the evidence supporting UFO research and the extraterrestrial hypothesis in the first place, but also claims that governments are systematically covering up, or in denial over, the evidence. Wendt and Duvall are not positing a systematic government cover up of the evidence, but are proposing the theory that there exists a deep denial by the modern state over the significance of UFO evidence: "the sovereign represses the UFO out of fear of what it would reveal about itself (p. 625). UFO researchers have long claimed that the governments have covered up evidence confirming the extraterrestrial hypothesis, or are in denial over the evidence. Terms such as "Cosmic Watergate" have been coined to describe the government UFO cover-up, and how this systematically has influenced public perceptions over the extraterrestrial hypothesis. Other researchers have referred instead to a government "foul-up" which is that governments basically have mangled the scientific research of UFOs, and its up to civilian researchers to shepherd government authorities back onto the right track. Wendt's and Duvall's theory is a variation of the government foul-up argument. Rather than governments consciously choosing to neglect the serious study of UFOs through a deliberately thought out public policy process, this denial is expressed unconsciously due to the metaphysical threat posed by UFOs. They point out that these "are questions of social rather than physical science, and do not presuppose that any UFOs are ETs. Only that they might be" (p. 611). Consequently, this leads to arguably Wendts and Duvalls most significant observation about the fundamental nature of the UFO issue stated at the beginning of this article, "UFO ignorance is political rather than scientific" (p. 613). The greatest contribution of Wendt's and Duvall's article is that it correctly casts light on the political factors that contextualize evidence of UFOs and the extraterrestrial hypothesis. For decades, many have argued that the study of UFOs is a scientific problem that requires a strict application of the scientific method to get definitive answers. The scientific approach has made little progress since political factors have not been properly accounted for in the way modern states are in denial about the evidence (the foul-up thesis), and/or cover-up hard evidence supporting the extraterrestrial hypothesis. The shift from a purely scientific approach to a more politically oriented understanding ought to be greatly welcomed. It will provide greater awareness of how modern states participate in the study of UFOs and the extraterrestrial hypothesis. Wendts and Duvalls "Sovereignty and the UFO," moves academia one step closer to formal political studies of evidence concerning the extraterrestrial hypothesis, and its public policy implications. That will ultimately lead, as I argue elsewhere, to the development of exopolitics as the formal political discipline for studying the public policy implications of extraterrestrial life. _______________________________________________________ August 23, 2008 Mystery lights fuel UFO speculations throughout Calder Valley Published Date: 23 August 2008 By Staff Copy http://www.todmordennews.co.uk/news/Mystery-lights-fuel-UFO-speculations.4411735.jp IT'S not the first time that Calder Valley residents have seen mysterious lights in the night sky, but a number of sightings over the past few weeks are remarkably similar in description. Between the end of July and this week householders up and down the length of the valley, from Todmorden to Mytholmroyd, have described seeing silently moving bright yellow or orange lights make their way across the sky in a way that does not seem like conventional aircraft. And another possible explanation, that they are hot air balloons, seems unlikely because the lights are seen in the night sky. First residents in the Burnley Road area of Todmorden saw patterns of lights on the night of Saturday, July 26. Gemma Kipping said family guests were visiting. "Some of them left before the others and were walking home but rang us after they had set off to say 'there are aliens above your house!' "So we went outside and I saw three bright orange lights moving uniformly with what looked like a straggler at the end. The three at the front looked like a triangle effect. They weren't making any noise," she said. While the family watched, a dozen or so customers from the nearby Hare and Hounds pub on Burnley Road, Todmorden, were also watching the lights move across the sky, said Gemma. "I didn't know what they were," she added. "The ideal explanation would have been that they were a hot air balloon, but surely not in the dark?" Similar lights were also seen on the night of Saturday, August 2, at 11.15 pm by other Burnley Road residents including Sylvia Sinclair, who contacted the newspaper after reading about similar descriptions of lights in the sky from residents of Mytholmroyd in our sister paper the Evening Courier. Sylvia explained that friends were leaving her home at Lineholme when they all saw the lights, which appeared to be coming over to the Whirlaw side of the valley. "They came in twos and looked like big orange lights. They were making no noise and there were six, in pairs. The last one seemed to float over," she said. Like Gemma, Sylvia wondered if they could be balloons but thought they were too high for that. "While we were looking a teenager came down the street and said they were out at the Hare and Hounds looking at the lights. They were just silent, going slowly across the sky," she said. The next sighting of strange lights came further down the valley, on Monday, August 11, in the Mytholmroyd area. Cragg Vale resident Chris Granger told the Courier he was shocked to see six strange lights for two to three minutes before they disappeared, emerging from the cloud base in pairs and moving towards Hebden Bridge. The ex-RAF avionics technician said: "They moved in a very erratic manner and did not display the flight characteristics of a conventional aircraft. Nor did they display the normal lighting array of a conventional aircraft - flashing white strobe and red and green navigation lights." Cleveley Gardens residents Peter and Marion Ackroyd also saw something spooky. They also wondered if they were balloons but thought they were going too fast, in addition to the lack of any engine noise. Earlier this week Mytholmroyd resident Mark Jeffreys said his wife Mandy called him and sons Matthew and Liam outside where they saw seven orange lights coming over, two together, another two, then one and then a final two. Mandy said: "It couldn't have been helicopters because they were orange lights, not white. I've never seen anything like it, but Mark said he thought he'd seen something similar when he was a kid." The Calder Valley is home to one of the world's most famous cases involving Unidentified Flying Objects, that of Todmorden's Alan Godfrey, then a serving policeman. Alan's case, which dates back to 1980, was examined by a Channel 5 documentary only weeks ago. While on mobile patrol in Burnley Road he described and sketched in his police notebook an object which appeared to be hovering over the road. He then cannot consciously remember anything for a period of time, coming round further down the road. Under hypnosis with a senior police officer present he described being taken aboard an alien spacecraft and examined - but remembers none of this consciously. Police officers from two different forces reported seeing an unexplained object zip across the valley on the night in question and the amount of information officially logged made it one of the best documented cases in the world, and one which continues to fascinate people who discover it. Can anyone explain the latest series of so far unexplainable sightings? _______________________________________________________ August 23, 2008 Man wants to give Obama UFO briefing http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2008/08/22/Man_wants_to_give_Obama_UFO_briefing/UPI-74061219440402/ DENVER, Aug. 22 (UPI) -- A man who wants to form an Extraterrestrial Affairs Commission in Denver says he would like to meet with Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama. Jeff Peckman is pushing a ballot initiative that would create the panel. He has offered to give the Illinois senator a briefing on space aliens, The Rocky Mountain News reported Friday. "I can get him information that I believe is better than what he would get as president," Peckman said. He added that a meeting with Obama is unlikely. Obama will be in Denver to accept the Democratic presidential nomination next week. "I don't expect anybody to let me meet him in person," Peckman said. In addition to a meeting with Obama, he is also asking the Democratic Party to include a plank in their platform that includes holding "open, secrecy-free hearings on the UFO/extraterrestrial presence on and around Earth." _______________________________________________________ August 14, 2008 UK UFO group 'serious' over new sightings 09:47 - 14 August 2008 http://www.royston-crow.co.uk/content/crow/news/story.aspx?brand=ROYWestOnline&category=News&tBrand=HertsCambsOnline&tCategory=newslatestROY&itemid=WEED14%20Aug%202008%2009%3A51%3A42%3A597 BARELY a week has passed this summer without one national newspaper or another carrying a story about UFO sightings across Britain. And now UFOs are claimed to have been spotted over Royston, too. The Crow was contacted by paranormal investigation group Scope Paranormal, which said that four employees on the York Way industrial estate had spotted an unusual object in the sky at 1am on July 25. The witnesses said that they saw a "bat-winged" shape with an orange circle of light in the middle hovering silently over the industrial estate for about 20 seconds. It then disappeared at speed. And when Scope Paranormal decided to visit the industrial estate to investigate further, we went to meet them. Sharon Chesterman, one of the group's investigators, said that most of this summer's sightings can be dismissed as Chinese lanterns, which are often lit and released into the night sky at parties and barbecues. But she does NOT believe that Chinese lanterns are responsible for the sightings in Royston. "We are taking this sighting seriously because the shape of the bat wings is very rare and there was also more than one witness," she said. "Out of hundreds of sightings nationally this summer, we believe this is the first bat-winged object." According to information released by the Ministry of Defence, the last reported UFO sighting over Royston was on September 2, 2001. The report states that a witness saw a rectangular-triangle shaped object with a white pulsating light moving north-east. Scope Paranormal was founded in November 2007 and offers a free, confidential investigation service for all things paranormal, including UFO sightings. Trevor Shreeve, one of the co-founders of the group, said: "We use scientific techniques to try and prove or disprove whether something is paranormal or a natural or man-made occurrence." To contact Scope Paranormal, call 01438 235 778 or e-mail mail@scope-paranormal.com _______________________________________________________ August 12, 2008 UFO sighting in Hoboken? by Jason Monday August 11, 2008, 12:17 PM http://www.nj.com/hobokennow/index.ssf/2008/08/ufo_sighting_in_hoboken.html Take me to your leader! Hoboken has apparently been targeted as a cool vacation spot for extraterrestrial travelers. Yes, you heard it here, a UFO was apparently sighted in the skies over the Mile Square City on Saturday night, perhaps in town to attend the nearby All Points West Festival, or maybe just dropping in to pick up some of that famous, out-of-this-world cannoli at Carlo's. There's even video evidence - or, is that "evidence"? (AT URL: http://aliencasebook.blogspot.com/2008/08/ufo-sighting-hoboken-new-jersey-aug-9.html) Anyone else spot ET on Saturday night? _______________________________________________________ August 12, 2008 Gran sights UFO over New Forest By Ash Bolton http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/latest/display.var.2423148.0.gran_sights_ufo_over_new_forest.php A HAMPSHIRE camper claims to have spotted a UFO that was travelling "faster than a plane" over the New Forest. Grandmother Jasmine Percy was packing up her tent to leave Ashurst campsite when she spotted an orange oval disc shaped object that appeared to be on fire. Mrs Percy, 60, a childcare worker, from Farnborough, said: "My first reaction was good grief it looks like there's a plane on fire. There was no noise or no sound and it was travelling faster than a plane. "I have no idea what it was but it seemed to be coming from Brockenhurst and heading towards Southampton. It was very bright and visible for about a minute." Did you see the UFO at 10.30pm on Sunday night or take any pictures? If so email ash.bolton@dailyecho.co.uk or phone 02380 424496. _______________________________________________________ August 11, 2008 Ufo Sightings In Welwyn Garden City And Hatfield 10:57 - 11 August 2008 [ photo of UFOs available at: http://www.whtimes.co.uk/content/whtimes/news/story.aspx?brand=WHTOnline&category=News&tBrand=HertsCambsOnline&tCategory=newslatestWHT&itemid=WEED11%20Aug%202008%2010%3A57%3A58%3A303 ] OVER the weekend the WHT have been inundated with reports of UFO sightings across Times Territory skies. Readers have seen a mass group of lights flying in formation on several separate occasions. On Friday night "eight orange diamond shaped objects" were seen at 11pm across Welwyn Hatfield. Rachel Albuquerque, from High Grove, WGC, said: "I heard one of the taxi drivers say what on earth is that in the sky. "I looked up to see a number of probably eight orange diamond shaped objects. "These were high above the Howard Centre and shimmering. "One of the objects travelled to a different position whilst the others appeared to be hovering. "They were definitely not aeroplanes, my husband is a pilot and he would know, he would estimate they could have been 20 or 30 miles away if not further. "We watched for a couple of minutes and as some cloud cleared there appeared to be more coming in from the west. "I felt panicked by the sighting and hurried home, thinking something awful might be about to happen. It did feel like being in a sci-film for a few minutes." The weekend previous, on Saturday August 2, Emma Madgwick, who was at a house party in Valley Road told the WHT she also saw lights flying in formation across the sky. "There is no way they were aeroplanes or anything like that. "I was the first to see them and at first I thought they were just stars but they were glowing yellow, a really unusual colour. "I then called out everyone and we were all out watching them for ages. "My friend was so convinced that they were some kind of UFO that she turned on the news. _______________________________________________________ August 11, 2008 Published: August 10, 2008 10:50 pm West Virginia almost a UFO heaven? Mannix Porterfield Register-Herald Reporter http://www.register-herald.com/local/local_story_223225053.html West Virginia prides itself as a land of majestic mountains, sparkling streams, coal to feed hungry power plants, a unique place in American history and a fiercely independent people accustomed to overcoming hard times with a resiliency unrivaled by anyone else. Now add another chapter to the 35th state's storied history -- more documented UFO activity than any other place in America. Even eclipsing Roswell. For proof, author-researcher Frank Feschino points to his exhaustive study that revealed three separate alien aircraft crash-landed a combined 10 times on the historic night of Sept. 12, 1952, the benchmark of the UFO phenomena, when the "Flatwoods Monster" was born. All of the craft escaped, although heavily damaged by hopscotching across the rugged terrain of West Virginia, flying low to avoid radar detection, he says. "They were damaged and puddle jumping, and taking off -- that's what they were doing," Feschino says. On a steep hillside, a bevy of youngsters drawn away from a game of sandlot football, along with some adults, were shaken out of their shoes by the spectacle of a 12-foot, metallic object that emanated a pungent odor of sulfur and made sounds that reminded one witness of bacon sizzling in a fry pan. Feschino has two books published on the Flatwoods incident, and a third is a work in progress to be titled "The Flatwoods Monster -- From Myth to Reality." Come Sept. 12 -- the 56th anniversary of that riveting episode in Mountain State folklore -- Feschino and renowned UFO researcher-lecturer Stanton Friedman plan to headline the opening of a two-day, second extravaganza, this one set in St. Albans, where the author says a craft landed in a frenzy of activity half a century ago. This year's show is titled "Flatwoods Monster meets Mothman," the latter a reference to a bird-like creature said to have haunted Point Pleasant just before the 1967 collapse of the Silver Bridge. A key player will be Freddie May, one of the youngsters lured from a pickup game of football back in 1952 and a surviving witness to the "Flatwoods Monster." An illess kept him from appearing at last summer's first such event. Feschino gleaned up to 70 percent of his findings in plowing through the Air Force's official document on unknown aircraft, titled "Project Blue Book," and finds its amazing that Roswell, N.M., for all its reputation, is covered very little in government papers. "You have some newspaper reports that say the Army captured the saucer, but as far as the case itself, the official standing on the Roswell case is that it didn't happen," he says. Based on "Blue Book," 1952 was the high water mark for UFO activity, with 1,501 reports and 303 officially listed as "unknowns," and the largest concentration -- 1,134 reports -- came in the summer months of July, August and September. Officially, the government uses the term "flap," describing it as "a condition, a situation or a state of being, of a group of persons, characterized by an advanced degree of confusion that has not quite reached panic proportions." For some reason, Feschino says, no one paid any attention to Flatwoods, but the author invested 17 years of his life digging into the story, learning of 100 different locations where suspected alien craft were spied in nine states, largely along the Eastern Seaboard. "There were thousands of people who saw these things, up and down the East Coast," he says. "What I did was to figure out the flight path trajectories. I worked with all types of people -- aeronautical people, pilots, astronomers, scientists, jet people, police officers, Air Force people. They helped and assisted me by putting this whole mess of sightings together." Using his own master map, he pinpointed the flights unearthed by exhaustive research. "And over all the years researching the story, it just kept getting bigger and bigger and bigger," Feschino said. "By using the 'Blue Book' as my primary source, I would go into local newspapers and just pick up the trails. When I figured out what direction these UFOs were flying, I would go from the Baltimore area and through Maryland, West Virginia and Ohio, and I picked up the trail these UFOs were flying that night." On the critical night of Sept. 12, Feschino says, he learned of 21 hours of sustained UFO activity, and West Virginia was the hub of it all. "There were 10 actual crash landings that night in West Virginia," he says. "They're all documented. This is what took 17 years to figure out." In order, some of those landings occurred when the first spaceship crashed at Oglebay Park near Wheeling, at St. Albans, in Charleston, then up in a suburb named South Hills, back into the Watt Powell Park area of the capital and in Cabin Creek, where the same UFO landed five times, the author says. A second craft buzzed the nation's capital, flew over Virginia, then landed in Flatwoods at 7:25 p.m., where the local denizens christened it the "Green Monster," Feschino said. Finally, a third ship hit the earth in a community called Holly, just outside Flatwoods, took off and crashed a second time in Sugar Creek along the Elk River, lifted off again and then went into a third tailspin at Frametown, the author said. Some debris was scattered at the Flatwoods crash site and was shipped off by an Air Force officer to Washington, including pieces of metal and chunks of an unknown, plasticlike material. "I suppose if you went digging through some of these areas, you might find something," Feschino speculated. Feschino cannot say if any effort was ever made by any of the alien invaders to make contact with West Virginians or other earthlings, but says their ships ranged from the standard saucer-shape model to the round ones with a flat side, to ones that resembled cigars. Yet, his long-running and exhaustive research have convinced him that he has unearthed the truth. "I actually re-drove and re-enacted that whole night, driving all through Braxton County," he said. "It took me years to do it. It was a cold case and I reconstructed it." -- E-mail: mannix@register-herald.com _______________________________________________________ August 11, 2008 Australian UFO sightings surge Lea Emery and Darren Cartwright August 10, 2008 06:00pm [photo gallery available at URL http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,24157056-952,00.html] THIS year could set a record for UFO sightings across Australia as the new X-Files movie sparks renewed interest in extra terrestrial lifeforms. That's according to Diane Harrison, national director of the Australian UFO Research Network, which has recorded more than 50 apparent UFO visits across the country in the past fortnight. "We usually only get between 10 and 20 reports a week," she told couriermail.com.au. The release of the X-Files film I Want to Believe is being credited with encouraging the recent surge in UFO reports - which is all the more remarkable as sightings usually dip in the winter months as people spend less time out of doors. The most likely place you'll see strange lights in the sky is in northern Queensland. "There are a lot of sightings around the Atherton Tablelands, Ravensbourne, Tully and Dalby," she said. "I'd say that is because the sky is clearer and lights in the sky are easier to see. The Sunshine Coast also has a little bit of activity. Closer to Brisbane, Ipswich is considered the southeast's alien hotspot. Have you seen a UFO? Contact couriermail.com.au _______________________________________________________ August 7, 2008 New sighting report from July 24, 2008 near Kokomo, Indiana A close friend reported she and 6 relatives witnessed OBOLs in the sky above her property on July 24th (2008) around 9:30 P.M. They were in the northwestern sky. (She is on 300 S, about 4 miles west of US 31, in Howard County, Indiana.) They had just settled down into their lawn chairs around a campfire to socialize and to have some snacks. The night was pleasant and the weather conditions were ideal for skywatching and sitting outside. The objects they sighted were described as sparkling orange balls of light (OBOLs). The witnessed objects showed up out of nowhere. As they kept appearing and disappearing, she estimated there might have been a dozen of them. The sighting lasted for an estimated 15 minutes. They were so stunned at the sighting that no one thought to grab a camera. She mentioned that no one felt threatened or frightened. The respondent of this report said they were HUGE. She described them as being about the size of a door knob or light bulb, in the sky at arms length. She said they were willy nilly all over the sky, about 1000 ft up at about a 45 degree angle. She stated there were no noises from the objects. She reported that they popped in and out and had no formations nor were they in any line or row, unlike the last time she saw them. This time they were not in any organized line or formation and would disappear from one spot and reappear in a totally different place. She said it was amazing. She doesn't want her identity known. She might be persuaded to explain the sighting at the MUFON symposium in Kokomo on August 16th. (see information about the Symposium on the links page on this website.) She is a totally credible person. I have known her well for 15 years and will totally vouch for her credibility. She is very stable and level-headed and a very kind soul who would never intentionally deceive anyone. I believe her. The other witnesses are all from other towns, but If they ever come back, I hope to interview them all, as well. She showed me where they were sitting and where the lights were. ~Deb _______________________________________________________ August 6, 2008 UFO sightings - "It's time for an official inquiry." Paranormal investigators want Government probe following sightings in Bedfordshire http://www.bedfordtoday.co.uk/bed-news/UFO-sightings--34It39s-time.4346098.jp Leading paranormal enthusiasts have called for an inquiry following a spate of claimed UFO sightings across Bedfordshire this summer. Last month the Times & Citizen reported that a mysterious object had been spotted in the skies above Clapham and captured on video. That led to readers from across the county telling us about their own close encounters -- and now UFO Investigations UK wants the Ministry of Defence to probe the issue. Spokesman James Hatfield said: "More than 200 people got in touch one day in June claiming to have seen UFOs. "Normally we receive ten to 15 calls a day. So far we've not been able to explain all the sightings. "It's time for an official inquiry." Subsequent reports of UFOs were made in Putnoe, Luton and Leighton Buzzard. UFO Investigations UK also heard of sightings as far afield as Sussex, Devon and Lancashire. But Sharon Chesterman, who is the spokesman for Scope-Paranormal.com, which collects data on UFOs from across the area, said: "You can ask for all the inquiries you like but you are dealing with the Government here. "They will only tell you what they want you to know." See our original story - and the accompanying video - by VISITING http://www.bedfordtoday.co.uk/bed-news/VIDEO-Resident-captures-film-of.4226287.jp _______________________________________________________ August 6, 2008 UFO festival commemorates Shag Harbor this weekend Two-day event highlights 1967 sighting by Carla Allen/The Vanguard Article online since August 6th 2008, 9:33 http://www.novanewsnow.com/article-237616-UFO-festival-this-weekend.html By Carla Allen THE COAST GUARD NovaNewsNow.com Funding is trickling in nicely for the Shag Harbour Incident Society, just in time for their big Aug.8/9 festival says committee member Cindy Nickerson. "Last week I received word from a grant that we had applied for awhile ago," she said. "We will be receiving $2,000 from the Building Communities through Arts and Heritage program." Nickerson says the money is greatly appreciated as the festival costs a lot to put on. The Municipality of Barrington has also approved $1000 for the society towards a large wall plaque, which will depict the night of the UFO sighting in 1967. "John Cameron, a local artist is doing the design. We are hoping to have it finished to unveil at festival," said Nickerson. The plaque will be dedicated to the Late Lawrence Smith and Bradford Shand, two men who participated in the crash site search. The advanced sale price for tickets to the speaker's seminar on Saturday, Aug. 9 is $35. There will be a $40 charge at the door. Those under 12 will be half price, and a senior's discount will be provided. For advanced ticket sales contact Cindy Nickerson at Box 53, Shag Harbour, NS, Canada B0W 3B0 or email her at cindynickerson@ns.sympatico.Canadian cheques and money orders should be made payable to: The Shag Harbour UFO Incident Society. Contact Don Ledger for more details regarding the speakers schedule at dledger@ns.sympatico.ca or visit: www.shagharbourufo.com "We hope people are planning to come out for the festival and have a great time," said Nickerson. The 2008 Shag Harbour Incident Festival Schedule Friday Aug. 8 - 9 a.m. Yard sale at post office hosted by the Incident Society. 10 a.m. UFO Centre opens as usual. 11 a.m. Fries and barbecue at post office by local fire dept. Also young crafter Jillian Kendrick will be at the UFO Centre with her Shag Harbour sea glass items. 1 p.m. Meet Toronto UFO researcher and diver, David Cvet at UFO Centre. 2 p.m. (tentative) Press conference at Community Hall. 3 p.m. Meet some of the locals involved in the 1967 incident, as well as David Cvet, at UFO rest stop. 4:30 p.m. Supper at Shag Harbour/Bear Point fire dept. Turkey burger (hot or cold), choice of potato, beverage, Washington Pie. $6/person. 7:30 p.m. At fire hall meet Saturday speakers, Alien costume contest (prizes), Alien Cafe, and silent auction. Draw for grandfather clock made by the late Romie Leblanc. On Saturday the Alien Cafe will be set up at the seminar site. Darren Perry will bring his chowders to the post office. Saturday Aug. 9 UFO Symposium The Shag Harbour UFO Incident UFO Symposium will be held approximately four miles to the east of Shag Harbour in Barrington Passage at the Curling Club due to the lack of a large meeting hall in Shag Harbour. The symposium starts at 9 a.m. and ends at 6 p.m. Speakers include: Stanton T. Friedman: Flying Saucers Are Real; Carl Feindt: USO cases - Underwater Objects; Paul Kimball: Documentary ~ Best Evidence - The Top Ten UFO Sightings; Chris Styles: Shag Harbour updates; and Don Ledger: Maritime UFO Files UFO Cases from the Atlantic Region, Newfoundland and Labrador. _______________________________________________________ August 5, 2008 UFO SKEPTICS THROW IN THE TOWEL - HOW DID MEIER BEAT NASA BY 32 YEARS? http://www.pr-usa.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=125613&Itemid=34 Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) August 4, 2008 -- The subject of UFOs is no longer just fodder for the tabloids, as several recent Larry King TV shows indicate. Though primarily dominated by discussions about sightings of lights in the sky, and perennial dead-end conjecture about Roswell, the recent shows have engaged viewers everywhere. They also coincide with increased worldwide attention being once again focused on the highly controversial Billy Meier UFO contacts in Switzerland, due to the release of the new film on the case, "The Silent Revolution of Truth" (http://www.theyfly.com), and the newest scientific corroboration for Meier's prophetic information. While NASA's announcement on July 31, regarding proof of the discovery of water on Mars, excited scientists, Meier had already been informed about water on the red planet - on July 8, 1976. (English language translations of this information, available since 1986, were also published by Lt. Col. Wendelle Stevens, USAF Ret., in 1993, in Volume 3 of Message from the Pleiades. The four-book series, now out of print, collector's items, are available as ebooks http://theyfly.com/products/products.htm). BREAKING NEWS FROM NASA - FURTHER CORROBORATION OF MEIER MARS INFORMATION! Information received early Monday evening, August 4, 2008, from NASA reports that the Phoenix spacecraft detected the presence of chemicals in the Martian soil that may make it "detrimental to life" http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5j1hvRUNc9W-3lupLU6TLQtR0gdRAD92BPQ980. Could this be what Semjase was referring to, in her last sentence to Meier below - from 1976? Meier- You are right, too. Yet now another question: You had once told me that no life would exist on Mars. If I have understood this right, you meant by this but planetarian human life, didn't you? Semjase- 114/Certainly. Meier- Well - then your earlier answer does not exclude (the possibility) that any other life of floric or faunic form can exist there, or even does exist. You then told (me) expressly, that life does not exist there, while logically you had addressed only the human planetary life. What do you think now, Will the Americans discover low forms of life with their sonde sent to Mars? Semjase- 115/They will meet with surprises in many respects, as in the fact that Mars has much more water than earthly science had assumed until now. 116/ But there are also surprises in the character of the ground and the nature of the microworld. 117/The floric and faunic world can absolutely be found on Mars when the scientific instruments of these sondes are well enough to evaluate and store the concerned results. Meier- Then "life on Mars" could prove true for our science? Semjase- 118/It is in the compass of possibility, that the analyses could verify this, when the scientific instruments are good enough, because faunic and floric forms of life are existing on Mars, even though this planet destroys other forms of life by its contrary to life nature. Skeptics Defeated: Renewed international interest in Meier's claims of personal contacts with extraterrestrial humans, for over 66 years, also coincides with the total collapse of the skeptical challenges. Chief among those who have long characterized Meier's stunning photographic, film and video evidence as merely "an easily duplicated hoax done with models", has been the international professional skeptics organizations CFI-West and IIG, affiliated with skeptical debunker James Randi. Shortly after the release of "The Silent Revolution of Truth" the lead case investigator for IIG, Derek Bartholomaus, was forced to retract his own claims (included in the Special Features section of the film) that Meier used model trees and UFOs to help hoax his clear, daytime UFO photos, films and video from the mid-1970s (http://theyfly.com/newsflash91/Top_Skeptic_Fixed.htm). Bartholomaus and CFI-West/IIG were completely unable to provide even one photograph as evidence of any model tree or model UFO to support their premise, despite having had seven years to do so. The skeptics had stubbornly pinned all their hopes on the model theory, as no personal computers, PhotoShop, digital effects, etc. were available to anyone, let alone a Swiss farmer, at the time that Meier presented his evidence. Bartholomaus and the skeptics took another devastating blow when Uncharted Territory, the Academy Award-winning special effects company (for Independence Day) rebuffed his request for support for his model theories, instead clearly describing one of Meier's UFO films as "hard to achieve, very hard, probably even impossible to fake this kind of shot." (http://theyfly.com/newsflash92/Academy_%20Award_Fx.htm) Meier's U.S. representative, Michael Horn then took the fight back to Bartholomaus, challenging him to prove his claim that Meier had used models to hoax a highly dramatic film segment (http://www.tjresearch.info/bachtel.htm). Horn, who's researched the case for 30 years, said that there were only two possibilities for use of a model and that he was prepared to unequivocally demolish either argument. Bartholomaus, who's been the most vocal of the skeptical protagonists for some time, failed to answer the bell for the final round, admitting that he simply wasn't prepared to substantiate his own claims. Then, like a good corner man trying to protect his fighter from further battering, James Randi's official spokesperson, Jeff Wagg, threw in the towel for the organization, surprisingly supporting Horn's position, saying, "If there's not enough evidence to support the model claim, the model claim is suspect." With any hoaxing by special effects or models having been eliminated - by the skeptics themselves - the skeptical challenge was over. Lie Detection: In light of these stunning, unexpected developments, the question of Meier's truthfulness takes on even more importance. And it's also explored, in a unique way, in "The Silent Revolution of Truth". Horn said, "We took the unusual step of bringing in an expert consultant to the U.S. Army Special Forces, a specialist in reading body language - which can mean life or death to a soldier. We filmed him as he watched Meier speak on film, for the first time with the sound off, just in case he could understand Meier's Swiss-German dialect, which he couldn't. We had him evaluate Meier and the retired UN diplomat, who also spoke about seeing the UFOs, and one of the Plejaren extraterrestrials, in India years ago. He gave them both a 'thumbs up'. "Anyone who's been skeptical of Meier's truthfulness, and the huge implications of all this, should learn more about how science - as well as the U.S. Army - is relying on human 'lie detectors' (http://discovermagazine.com/2008/aug/28-the-science-of-sniffing-out-liars/article_view?b_start:int=1&-C=)." Of course, people should also know that Meier and 15 other witnesses all passed lie detector tests, years ago, when the original investigation was conducted." The Media: As the skeptics self-destructed, Horn found himself inundated with requests for the Meier case to be covered on the Larry King show. Referring people to contact the show itself resulted in Horn getting a call from one flustered young producer, complaining about getting "too many" calls asking for him to be on the program. Horn said, "It's probably just youthful inexperience on her part. Being flooded with calls is usually seen as a good barometer of huge audience interest, kind of like American Idol, to use another out of this world comparison. From what we understand, the Meier case is now the most requested UFO-related topic for the Larry King show, where they already show Meier's UFO films and photos as evidence, ironically. "The problem for the mainstream media, governments, religions and financial systems is that the Meier case takes the conversation about UFOs too far beyond their comfort zone. They love it when people focus on Roswell, where there's not a shred of remaining evidence. Now that the question has been settled, i.e. is the Meier case the biggest hoax or, as it turns out, the most important story in human history, thinking people may come to inescapable conclusions about the dangers of the path that we are on, right here on earth, and hopefully act in time to change to a more positive direction. The Meier material offers very specific suggestions on how to do that, all of which require taking complete self-responsibility for every aspect of our lives. "While it surprised me at the time when, in May 2006, Meier casually told me about the coming collapse of the U.S. dollar http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29wnpEy2DY4 - as well as the possibly dire consequences of a U.S. and/or Israeli attack on Iran - it further convinced me that he knows a lot more about many things than people can imagine. Of course, this is the same man who beat NASA to the punch - more than once (see Jupiter information at: http://theyfly.com/news2005/jan06/jan06.htm#skeptics). "And of course that he foretold the Iraq wars, AIDS, global warming and terrorism, etc. - all back in 1958 - is more than amazing (http://theyfly.com/lost/meier.prophecies.1958.htm). The fact is that while being exposed to the truth can be quite devastating for some people�it doesn't change the truth." Also see: * http://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/04/prweb369916.htm * http://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/03/prweb357776.htm * http://www.prweb.com/releases/2005/02/prweb205605.htm * http://www.prweb.com/releases/2005/02/prweb204713.htm * http://www.tjresearch.info _______________________________________________________ August 5, 2008 Chemical discovery on Mars stumps Phoenix team David Perlman, Chronicle Science Editor Tuesday, August 5, 2008 http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/08/05/MN0G1253QT.DTL Scientists analyzing two soil samples their Phoenix spacecraft dug from the surface of Mars announced they have discovered what may be the highly oxidizing chemical called perchlorate, a common component of rocket fuels, explosives and some medicines, they reported Monday. The surprising discovery in the Martian soil seems contradictory, because if it really is confirmed as a perchlorate compound it suggests that the planet's soil may be very much like Earth's, said Peter Smith, the University of Arizona scientist who heads the Phoenix mission. However, Smith said in his announcement, "further analysis has revealed un-Earthlike aspects of the soil chemistry." And whether the chemical actually is perchlorate - or in which of its many compounds it exists in the Martian soil - has not yet been determined, Smith said. The Phoenix science team would not speculate on whether the chemical is naturally part of the Martian soil or whether it might have contaminated the soil directly around the spacecraft when Phoenix landed gently on the arctic plains of Mars on May 25, slowed by its 12 hydrazine retro-rockets in a blast of gas for its safe upright landing. Hydrazine is not a perchlorate, however. NASA officials and the scientists will hold a teleconference today to discuss steps the Phoenix team has taken over the past month to pin down the identity of the perchlorate and why an experiment Sunday by one of its instruments found no evidence of the chemical directly above an ice layer that was scraped from soil near the spacecraft. Two samples of the chemical have now been analyzed and detected on Mars by the spacecraft's miniaturized Wet Chemistry Lab, which is part of a more elaborate series of Phoenix instruments called MECA -for Microscopy, Electrochemistry and Conductivity Analyzer, Smith said. An earlier measurement of surface soil by another Phoenix instrument called TEGA - for the Thermal and Evolved Gas Analyzer - "was consistent with but not conclusive of the presence of perchlorate," Smith said. On Earth, perchlorates are used in many types of explosives - including the rockets that blast astronauts into orbit aboard the space shuttles. They are also commonly used in fireworks, in blasting caps and even in medicine as part of a combination treatment for hyperthyroidism. It is also a serious and toxic environmental contaminant left over from many American chemical plants, and Congress is now in a battle with the Environmental Protection Agency over the EPA's refusal to set safety standards for perchlorates in drinking water and milk. E-mail David Perlman at dperlman@sfchronicle.com. This article appeared on page A -- 2 of the San Francisco Chronicle _______________________________________________________ August 5, 2008 Four Corners Area to be site of presentation by UFO Abductee -- Author and UFO abductee Miriam Delicado will speak on her abduction and subsequent contact with aliens. Her presentation will be the first of its kind in the Four Corners Area, home to many indigenous peoples. It will include messages the aliens asked her to share that parallel Hopi Prophecies. -- http://www.24-7pressrelease.com/view_press_release_printer_friendly.php?rID=59521 /24-7PressRelease/ - BRYCE CANYON, UT, August 05, 2008 - One evening last January, Utah resident, David Hatch, was listening to a radio interview. What the woman, Miriam Delicado, being interviewed revealed astounded him. Delicado, author of the book Blue Star: Fulfilling Prophecy, was recounting in detail her experience as a UFO abductee and the messages she received from the aliens. It all began one night along a Vancouver, Canada, highway in 1988. While driving with friends, Delicado noted they were being followed by a vehicle with large round and very bright lights. Finally, she told the driver to pull over. That's when an ordinary evening turned into a mission for Delicado. As it turned out, the lights belonged to a UFO. The car's passengers, with the exception of Delicado, fell into trance-like states and she found herself being led on board the craft, hand in hand with the aliens. She retains conscious memories of this experience. While on board, the Tall Blond aliens relayed to Delicado messages that they wanted her to share with others. Years later she discovered that the messages the aliens had given her were remarkably similar to the Hopi Prophecies of peace and salvation. Not only that but the language that they had spoken to her in, through telepathic means, was Hopi. Delicado, who remains in contact with the aliens, was prompted in 2003 to begin sharing what the aliens had told her. Hers is truly one of the most fascinating stories you may ever hear. Hatch was so intrigued by Delicado's words that upon learning the author would be visiting the Four Corners Area in August 2008, he contacted her offering to set up a venue for her to present the aliens messages. The Four Corners is the only place in the United States where four states come together at one place: Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, and Colorado. The majority of this section is situated on indigenous land, including that of the Hopi. According to Delicado, indigenous peoples have known about these alien beings from the beginning of their own sacred stories dating back thousands of years. For the first time, she will publicly share the information that the aliens relayed to her on the very land that is home to the indigenous peoples the aliens related to. The event, which will be held at Bryce Canyon Lodge, will be one to truly leave people questioning not only the future of the world, but their own future as well. For more information on Delicado's August 14th evening presentation to be held at Bryce Canyon Lodge, contact David Hatch at Tel: 435-531-1653. (Note: This event is managed under a Special Use Permit. The National Park Service neither endorses nor promotes this activity.) For more information about Miriam Delicado's book, visit http://www.trafford.com For more information on Miriam Delicado, visit http://www.alienbluestar.com _______________________________________________________ August 5, 2008 Instense stormy weather provides cover for apparent UFO over Whitby, Ontario Edited by George Filer http://www.agoracosmopolitan.com/home/Frontpage/2008/08/04/02505.html WHITBY -- There has been a series of intense storm activity here in Southern Ontario and June 23,2008, there were several reports around Toronto of funnel cloud formations along with hail. On that day I looked west towards Whitby and a sudden impulse to stop the car and take a couple of pictures of the cloud formations. My hunch was correct, that I would capture a UFO in one of the pictures. This picture was taken 6:58 PM. The photo clearly illustrates a round intense "white-blue" light -- UFO at a distance. The weather here has been really weird i.e., blue patches of sky -nice cool days. The photo proves once again, we are NOT alone. Thanks to Paul Shishis Make a member pledge to support more details on investigative journalism about UFOs. _______________________________________________________ August 2, 2008 Posted at: 08/01/2008 09:46:24 AM By: Stuart Dyson, Eyewitness News 4, and Reed Upton, KOB.com Socorro makes claim as UFO destination http://kob.com/article/stories/S531160.shtml?cat=516 Move over Roswell. There's another New Mexico town staking out a claim as a bona fide member of UFO territory. It was 1964 in Socorro -- with LBJ in the White House, the Beatles on the radio, and Spiderman whipping Doctor Octopus on comic book racks. Socorro Police Officer Lonnie Zamora was chasing a speeder when he heard a big bang and went looking for the source. According to Zamora, he saw what looked like a flying saucer in an arroyo and two beings outside of it. He heard another bang and the craft flew off. The arroyo is on the south end of the Socorro metroplex and Zamora's site is marked with a pile of rocks, a little plastic flag -- and a couple of dead bottle rockets. Some in city hall want to put up a plaque or a marker at the site. The town's tourism chief says people come through town asking about the Socorro Incident and where it happened. Many Socorroterreans say the story isn't science fiction. "I think it could have happened," said Clark Fisher of Socorro. "Anything's possible. You can't prove it didn't happen." "I might be the craziest one in his town, but yeah, it probably did," said fellow Socorro resident Dave Hart. Eyewitness News 4 spoke with Lonnie Zamora Thursday by phone. While he declined to be interviewed on camera, he sounded fine -- 44 years after what may come to be known as the Socorro Incident. _______________________________________________________ July 31, 2008 NASA expert claims to have seen ET from UFO standing in Shuttle payload bay during space flight. NASA veteran Clark C. McClelland confirms alien existence as outlined by astronaut Edgar Mitchell http://www.australia.to/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=317:ufo&catid=41:rotator-news I, Clark C. McClelland, former ScO, Space Shuttle Fleet, personally observed an 8 to 9 foot tall ET on my 27 inch video monitors while on duty in the Kennedy Space Center, Launch Control Center (LCC). The ET was standing upright in the Space Shuttle Payload Bay having a discussion with TWO tethered US NASA Astronauts! I also observed on my monitors, the spacecraft of the ET as it was in a stabilized, safe orbit to the rear of the Space Shuttle main engine pods. I observed this incident for about one minute and seven seconds. Plenty of time to memorize all that I was observing. IT WAS AN ET and Alien Star Ship! A friend of mine later contacted me and said that this person had also observed an 8 to 9 foot tall ET INSIDE the SPACE SHUTTLE CREW COMPARTMENT! Yes, inside OUR Shuttle! BOTH missions were DoD (Pentagon) TOP SECRET (TS) encounters! With my verifiable background, there is no Federal Government Agency that can say I am crazy! I am a SPACE PROGRAM PIONEER. I assisted in launching the Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, Apollo-Soyuz, Skylab, Space Shuttle, Deep Space Missions, and the International Space Station. I have received character substantiation from: Walter Cronkite, Major Donald Keyhoe, NICAP Director, Richard Hall, Assistant Director of NICAP, Astronomer, Dr. J. Allen Hynek, etc. I served as the Assistant State of Florida and KSC Director of MUFON, the Director of the NICAP (National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena) at Cape Canaveral and KSC! I have received honored mentions from US Senators, Congressman, Military Officers and Scientists. (See my website site below for more exciting disclosures) In fact, this absolutely verifies what my friend, Astronaut Edgar Mitchell, of Apollo 14, has recently and courageously released! I have launched or witnessed 650 missions, so far in my life! I am an expert in visually recognizing any crafts created and flown by the human race, whether secret or otherwise!I know an ET and Alien craft when I see them! I was the Director of the NICAP Unit-3 actual X-Files at Cape Canaveral and the Kennedy Space Center, 1958 to 1992! YES, the ACTUAL X-FILES!! Aliens ARE HERE!! They walk among US! They may be implanted into OUR various earth governments!! What I know, they would NOT allow me to publish! I have written at least three books to release the TRUTH to all of the HUMAN RACE! I was on the leading edge of this subject, and I have met with many NASA and other astronauts throughout the years I have been involved in the Military, NASA Space Programs, 1958 to 1992! I have heard many experiences of ETs having been seen on the Moon, etc., by NASA Astronauts and I relate these and more in my books. NASA is not a CIVILIAN SPACE AGENCY! The Pentagon owns NASA! Some of the DoD (Department of Defense) missions I participated in were TOP SECRET! Those missions carried TS Satellites and other space mission hardware into orbit where several crews met with ETs! I am ready to tell my story, but, for compensation, Clark McClelland is a bonafide expert in the field of UFO specialists. He began his investigations of this strange phenomenon in 1947. His 60 plus years of study in the field of UFOlogy puts him in a unique class of educators and investigators. He has lectured at many national universities including Notre Dame, Penn State, Ohio State, Berea, Montana State University, New York University, Idaho State, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and others too numerous to mention. On several occasions, he was requested by students and faculty to bring his unique topic to their campus as an elective course, although his work at Kennedy Space Center at the time overruled his acceptance. Clark McClelland's long association with the UFO phenomenon has followed him throughout his aerospace career. In 1958 he was assigned to the national space program at Cape Canaveral, Florida, and helped launch or viewed 650 rockets and spacecraft. In addition to being an Aerospace Engineer and Technical Assistant to the Apollo Program Manager during the Apollo moon landings, McClelland and other SpaceCraft Operators did extensive technical checkout of simulated flights and mission objectives of the various shuttles to assure orbital success and the personal safety of the astronauts. McClelland knew many of the astronauts who perished during the Challenger disaster and certainly did all he could to keep each shuttle from such a repeat accident. He has held important positions involving such manned projects as Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo lunar landings, Skylab, the Space Shuttle and the Space Station. He was assigned to the cockpit of the Space Shuttle missions as a SpaceCraft Operator (Ground Test Astronaut). If anyone knows what is going on in space, with humans or otherwise, it is McClelland In 1960, Major Donald E Keyhoe, the International Director of the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP) selected McClelland to be Director for the Kennedy Space Center and central Florida region. His unit members included two NASA Astronaut Flight Surgeons, many engineers, scientists and mathematicians as consultants and investigators. Later, he was chosen as the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) Director at the KSC and served concurrently as Assistant State Director for Florida. McClelland's name is on three commemorative monuments, the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo missions - - - His name will be on the Space Shuttle, International Space Station and the Deep Space Missions monuments in the future "To Clark McClelland: A space pioneer and a top SpaceCraft Operator. With admiration for your work." Walter Cronkite, from an autographed photo given to Mr. McClelland. "Your gift of knowledge concerning space exploration, astronomy and cosmic life is most impressive. I've always enjoyed our talks during my visits to the KSC/MFA (Kennedy Space Center/Manned Flight Awareness) awards presentations." "Clark, it is as impossible to confirm them (UFOs) in the present as it will be to deny them in the future." Dr. Wernher von Braun (deceased), space flight pioneer and NASA scientist. "Thanks for the great orbiter (Shuttle) you gave us. It ran better than my lawn mower! Again, thanks to you and your fellow spaceship perfectionists, it pays off!" Brian Duffy, NASA astronaut and Space Shuttle Mission Commander." Thanks for letting us borrow YOUR orbiter." Kathy Thornton, NASA astronaut and space walker who helped repair the Hubble Space Telescope in orbit. "Clark, you were a GREAT Space Shuttle ScO (Space Craft Operator, etc.)." Dr. Sally Ride, NASA Astronaut and first American woman in space. "I am indebted to Clark McClelland, Director of the Kennedy Space Center UFO Investigative NICAP group, for the benefit of his scientific evaluation of UFO sightings and those of his fellow aerospace engineers and scientists." Major Donald E. Keyhoe (deceased), former International Director, National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena, Washington, DC. "I will be pleased to call upon you to investigate UFO reports in the Kennedy Space Center area. I am most interested in your exchange of information with the Russian scientists." Dr. J. Alan Hynek (deceased), Director, The Center for UFO Studies. _______________________________________________________ July 31, 2008 Close encounters in the Australian capital LYNNE MINION 31/07/2008 2:34:00 PM http://www.canberratimes.com.au/news/local/news/general/close-encounters-in-the-capital/1231733.aspx 'I've been chasing UFOs most of my life,'' says Adrian Ross, who saw his first one when he was about 18 years old. As a young bloke working for the electricity commission in Warrnambool in the early 1960s, he was minding his own business after knock-off time on a Thursday when ET may or may not have passed by. ''I was sitting on a pushbike leaning up against the gate out the front of the house,'' he says, ''and I'm just gazing around and I've glanced up the hill and I saw this dim yellowy light just above the top of the hill.'' At first he thought it was a street light on the blink and made a mental note to fix it at work the next day. ''But then I caught out of the corner of my eye it moved, just a flicker, and I looked up again.'' Ross tells of seeing a flat lens-shaped object, orange in colour and sitting horizontally in the sky before it tilted to a 45-degree angle. ''I watched this thing and then it went back to a horizontal position. So I flew inside and dragged everybody else out to have a look, and we all saw this, Mum, Dad, myself, and my sister, saw this thing and it just slowly faded into the distance, just disappeared, as though it was travelling away from us.'' At the time The Standard newspaper at Warrnambool reported that a UFO had been spotted flying over the local drive-in. Other sightings occurred across the nation. The event created a fascination with explaining these types of mysterious happenings for Ross, now 62 and living in Chisholm after retiring from 20 years in the airforce. ''It could have been anything from ionised particles from the Sun, all sorts of things that we don't know. But whatever it is, it's a UFO. It's flying and nobody knows what it is. So that got me interested. And that's when I built my first telescope and star-gazed forever. I'm still doing it.'' The question of whether there is intelligent life elsewhere in the universe was given a boost last week by former NASA astronaut Dr Edgar Mitchell, who shares the record for the longest Moon walk nine hours as a member of 1971's Apollo 14 mission. Speaking on a British radio show he said, ''There's not much question at all that there is life throughout the universe. I'm totally sure we are not alone.'' Mitchell alleged there was a conspiracy of silence, saying he'd been privy to the intelligence ''that we have been visited on this planet and the UFO phenomenon is real, though it's been covered up by governments for the last 60 years or so''. In a statement, his former employee dismissed the claims: ''NASA does not track UFOs. Dr Mitchell is a great American, but we do not share his opinion on this issue.'' But ufologist Doug Moffett says Mitchell's validation is important, given his interplanetary expertise, and it lends more weight to sightings reported in Australia. ''I've been doing this for 15 years, talking to hundreds and hundreds of people and you obviously get a sense that these people are very genuine, they're not crazy, they're not pulling your leg,'' says Moffett, who investigates cases. ''Some of the things that have been reported to me, to explain them away as Venus or a weather balloon is very frustrating.'' Although he has never seen a UFO, Moffett believes that discounting the possibility of aliens is illogical when many revelations, such as astronomer Galileo's claims in the 17th century that the Earth travels around the Sun, were once considered heretical but are now accepted fact. ''There are people out there who believe [extraterrestrial visitation] is impossible. And I can't get my head around how anyone could come to the conclusion it's impossible when we don't know how many technologically advanced civilisations there are in the universe. The answer is a pineapple, we do not know.'' Australian UFO Research Network national director Diane Frola says Mitchell is one of a number of astronauts who have publicly supported the idea of alternate civilisations. According to the thriving pro-UFO community on the internet, in 1965 the first American to walk in space, Ed White, and fellow astronaut James McDivitt saw a metallic object with long arm-like structures from their Gemini spacecraft. McDivitt apparently took pictures that have never been released. Orbiting the world in a Mercury capsule in 1963, Gordon Cooper told the Australian tracking station that he could see a glowing, greenish object ahead of him. Speaking to a United Nations panel in 1985, he said, ''I believe that these extraterrestrial vehicles and their crews are visiting this planet from other planets ... Most astronauts were reluctant to discuss UFOs.'' In 1979 Maurice Chatelain, the former chief of NASA Communications Systems, commented that ''all Apollo and Gemini flights were followed, both at a distance and sometimes also quite closely, by space vehicles of extraterrestrial origin flying saucers, or UFOs, if you want to call them by that name. Every time it occurred, the astronauts informed Mission Control, who then ordered absolute silence.'' To Frola these testimonies, together with Mitchell's, lend weight to the idea that ET may be out there. ''So are they sending loopy astronauts up there or what? I don't think they are. I think they're quite qualified and they're trained to be observant and they know exactly what they're looking at. So my feelings are if Edgar says they're out there, I believe him.'' Frola says credible people report seeing UFOs, from police officers to pilots, but many prefer to keep any sightings to themselves, fearing damage to their reputations. For researchers such as herself, the stereotype is unfair and has been caused by a small category of people who tell of cosmic confrontations. ''The UFO field has had this stigma for so long about the people involved in it. Are they all nuts? They must be crazy cos they're seeing little green men.'' Some people, however, do see little green men, or grey ones, as it turns out. Sheryl Gottschall, of UFO Research Queensland Inc, has held three support groups for about 12 to 15 Earthlings who have had otherworldly interactions, she has also spoken to 300-500 who have told her of their close encounters. ''We've received reports about alien abduction experiences which have left many people traumatised. These are unwilling contacts with small aliens often referred to as the greys. But we've also received reports that have been of friendly contact too, some with human looking ETs,'' says Gottschall, who believes that support groups provide an acknowledgement of their feelings and experiences. ''These people live with the theme of 'life interrupted', hijacked, if you will, by their close encounters and it's often quite difficult for them to reintegrate after their experience into society.'' Meanwhile astronomy buff Ross describes himself as simply open-minded. He says most sightings can be explained away while others remain frustratingly unidentified, such as his second sighting in about 1970. ''I was riding my motorbike this particular day just cruising around Wagga going around one of the hills there. It was a bright sunny day, broken cloud, and even though I was sort of looking straight ahead I was aware of a blue flash above. I looked up while I was riding and there was this brilliant blue ball of light,'' he says. ''It went for maybe a couple of seconds, two to three seconds and then it was gone, one side of the sky to the other.'' In the following days, others reported seeing strange sights. ''One lady reckons she saw this football-shaped thing take off from her back paddock,'' Ross says. His third sighting, in 1986, was of a bright red/orange light which was slowly travelling from the Belconnen area, west of Chisholm, over Fisher then Isabella Plains. Even though he has spent decades investigating UFOs and is ''discouraged'' by the lack of evidence, he remains convinced there is life in outer space. ''Oh, yeah, how could there not be?'' He says the sheer size of the cosmos means other beings could feasibly co-exist. ''There are so many life forms here, just on this planet alone, and to think that this one little speck of dust in an immense universe could be the only one harbouring some sort of life form, to think that nothing else could be anywhere else, is ludicrous.'' _______________________________________________________ July 30, 2008 UFO-obsessed British hacker faces life behind bars in US Published by Jon Land for 24dash.com in Communities Wednesday 30th July 2008 - 12:10pm http://www.24dash.com/news/Communities/2008-07-30-UFO-obsessed-British-hacker-faces-life-behind-bars-in-US Unidentified Flying Objects have been a source of fascination for years but Gary McKinnon took his obsession too far. Glasgow computer whiz McKinnon claimed he was so curious about UFOs, he could not resist hacking into the US Government to search for clues that could unlock the mystery. Now he faces the heavy price of life behind bars for gaining access to 97 American military and Nasa computers from his London home. Today, he lost his appeal to the Law Lords against an order for his extradition to the US. The an unemployed 42-year-old, faces up to 70 years in prison if convicted in the US of sabotaging vital defence systems. The House of Lords rejected the plea by McKinnon to quash the extradition request granted to the US authorities in 2006. Lawyers for McKinnon, from Enfield, north London, pointed out that he could be sent to Guantanamo Bay as a terrorist suspect -- despite his insistence that he accessed Pentagon computers looking for information about UFOs. But despite his sobering example, UFO fever is likely to hit the UK again with the arrival of the new X Files film, which premieres in London today. There have already been a flurry of UFO sightings, particularly in western parts of the British Isles, further fuelling the debate. Just this weekend, a Devon couple said they saw a UFO over Dartmoor National Park. Wayne and Jo Taylor, from Ashburton, said they spotted a formation of a dozen slow-moving circular lights in the sky on Saturday night. Mr Taylor, 40, said that at one point the lights moved at a 90-degree angle, adding: "I have never seen anything like it." In Welton, Lincolnshire, a white orb-shaped object was spotted on June 23. Figures from the that region show that over the last 16 months six reported UFO sightings have been submitted. At the beginning of July a West Country UFO sighting terrified a small suburb in the region. However, the "orange lights" that convinced residents that UFOs were overhead could simply have been Chinese sky lanterns released by a nearby junior school. At just after 10.30pm on June 28, people making their way home to Charlton Kings in Cheltenham saw unexplained luminous cylinders in the sky. Sandra Lloyd, 59, saw the lights as she was driving home from a family meal and dismissed the theory that they were paper lanterns released by a local junior school that evening to celebrate its centenary. She told the Gloucestershire Echo: "There were about 12 bright lights that were moving and not making a sound. I thought they were aircraft or helicopters but they were too close and there was no sound. They certainly did not look like lanterns." Tom O'Loughlin, 14, from St Peter's Square, was cycling in the area when he saw the lights. He said: "There was a formation of lights travelling across the sky. "They were disappearing and then appearing again. I was quite scared. It's not something you see every day. "We watched them for 15 minutes. There were loads of people in town watching them." In early June the Ministry of Defence faced calls to launch an official inquiry into a series of UFO sightings, some of which UFO experts believe had happened in Shropshire, south Wales and Worcestershire throughout the month. With the MoD under pressure to investigate these claims and the release of the The X Files film, speculation over the existence of unusual aircraft is rife in the UK. On June 25 the MoD confirmed that it had been given footage taken on a mobile phone by a corporal guard on duty at Tern Hill barracks, near Market Drayton, Shropshire on June 7. Corporal Mark Proctor, 38, told The Sun: "I was on duty in the guard room when the other boys outside began shouting. "I went out to see what the commotion was about and could see 13 craft in the skies. They were like rotating cubes with multiple colours." The calls for an inquiry came only a couple of weeks after a South Wales Police helicopter was apparently buzzed by a UFO and had to swerve sharply to avoid being hit. The sighting took place when the three-man crew in the aircraft were hovering in the sky above RAF St Athan, a military base outside Cardiff, at around 12.40am on June 8 waiting to land. A police spokeswoman confirmed that the sighting was an "unusual aircraft" but did not use the term UFO. In May, details were released that internal Ministry staff witnessed UFOs. Sightings of alien craft over Wallasey Town Hall and a saucer-shaped Unidentified Flying Object hovering over Waterloo Bridge were recorded by MoD staff in the 1980s. The details of the sightings were opened to the public this year after a Freedom of Information request by UFO researchers. While the files show that MoD personnel did witness unidentified aircraft, a memo written in 1983 shows that they were not logged for inquiries into alien life but as an account for "defence interest". The memo also said: "The Ministry of Defence does not deny that there are strange things to see in the sky." In June this year former Ministry of Defence UFO researcher Nick Pope said that an official inquiry to establish what had happened was vital. He said: "Something quite extraordinary does seem to be going on in British airspace at the moment. "There has got to be an official inquiry into all this and we need a senior air force officer to take personal charge and oversee the inquiry." An Army spokesperson declined to comment in detail on the sightings at Tern Hill. "The MoD examines reports solely to establish whether UK airspace may have been compromised by hostile or unauthorised military activity," the spokesman said. "Unless there is evidence of a potential threat, there is no attempt to identify the nature of each sighting reported." UFO enthusiasts will remember the Roswell incident of 1947, in which the US government is believed by theorists to have concealed the wreckage of an alien craft that crash-landed in New Mexico. A "Welsh Roswell" is also said to have taken place in the Berwyn Mountains in in Llandrillo, North Wales in 1974. Individuals in the area at the time are still coming forward to give evidence for a Channel 5 documentary concerning the event, now known as the Berwyn Mountain Incident. The incident, which is said to have involved strange lights in the sky, odd tremors and unusual men sweeping the countryside for information, is believed by some to have mirrored the Roswell incident almost 30 years previously and was concealed by the government. Perhaps the most famous UFO-related episode in Britain is the Rendlesham Forest incident of 1980, which is often referred to as the "English Roswell". Located around eight miles from Ipswich in Suffolk, Rendlesham Forest, it is claimed, played host to a series of UFOs, flashing lights and strange creatures over the course of December 1980. Two RAF patrol men also claimed to have seen and photographed a UFO that landed in the forest but with no concrete evidence to back up the allegation it has never been proved, leading some groups to claim it is a government cover-up. Other factions of UFO proponents also argue that Area 51, a secret military facility about 90 miles north of Las Vegas, is used by the US authorities to conceal alien encounters. Also known as Groom Lake, the Nevada airbase has allegedly been used to investigate crashed alien craft and the development of energy weapons. Despite years of discussion, theories and sightings, experts remain sceptical that "little green men" are visiting the Earth in flying saucers. Mr Pope worked with the Ministry of Defence for 21 years and investigated sightings. When MoD files were released to the public, he said: "While there's no evidence of little green men in these (MoD) files, they should be of immense interest to sceptics and believers. "Most of the UFO sightings here are probably misidentifications of aircraft lights and meteors, but some are more difficult to explain, and include UFOs seen by police officers and pilots, and cases where UFOs have been tracked on radar." _______________________________________________________ July 30, 2008 Our garden was buzzed by a UFO! devon.editorial@archant.co.uk 30 July 2008 http://www.northdevongazette.co.uk/northdevongazette/news/story.aspx?brand=NDGOnline&category=news&tBrand=devon24&tCategory=newsndga&itemid=DEED30%20Jul%202008%2009%3A01%3A00%3A090 BOB and Christine Bird were enjoying a lazy summer evening in their garden when they claim a UFO swooped low over their bungalow. The astonished South Molton grandparents, their daughter and son-in-law and grandchildren, had been sitting in the back garden for about an hour before they spotted the "orange blob" slowly moving towards them at around 10pm on Saturday night. "It started to slow down above us and it wasn't that high up, at least it didn't seem like it," Christine, 57, told the Gazette. "As it began to move over the house, my husband went indoors to get his camera. My daughter and I went to the front door and suddenly this 'thing' started to move. "It went up at about a 40-degree angle and shot straight into the sky so fast. It was still quite light and you could actually see the orange colour getting smaller before it disappeared among the stars. "Even now, what we all witnessed is so hard to believe that we can't stop thinking and talking about it. "It was absolutely amazing, something I will never forget. "If anyone had told me the same thing, I probably wouldn't have believed them. " But because there were four adults - perfectly sober, may I add - and two teenage grandsons who saw the tail end of it, we can't stop going on about it." Husband Bob, 62, said that the object made no noise whatsoever. "My dogs bark like mad at anything that flies over the house but they didn't make a sound," he said. "I'm not a person who believes in aliens, but I am absolutely flabbergasted by what I saw. "The colour was unbelievable - it had an orange glow around it like the flame of an electric fire. I've never seen anything like it." He said he took three pictures of the object from the front steps of his house but mysteriously, when he got the pictures developed on Monday, there were no pictures - or even negatives -of the strange sighting. "It's an old camera but it's never let me down before," he said. "We had taken pictures on the camera during the day and used up the rest of the film afterwards so that we could take it in to be developed. "We couldn't wait to pick up the pictures and are so disappointed. People may call me mad or whatever but I know what I saw." UFO website ufologia.net reported a sighting of two round objects above the sky above St George's Road in Barnstaple last Wednesday evening. Have you see any strange objects in the sky lately? If so, contact the Gazette news desk on (01271) 345056. _______________________________________________________ July 28, 2008 Record number of UK weekend sightings http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/ufos/article1477122.ece THE record number of UFO sightings up and down the country on Saturday night has baffled experts. Mysterious objects spotted included bright orange balls shooting through the sky and strange flickering lights. Mental health nurse Chris Wood, 27, caught the eerie orange orbs on camera during a family garden party in Wakefield, West Yorkshire. He said: "The speed they were moving was incredible. They rose through the sky and disappeared. The kids were really frightened and I was too." Telecoms worker Danny Barton saw "massive orange balls of fire" rising out of the sea in Goring, West Sussex. Other Sun readers sent in intriguing photos from Manchester, Leicester, Basingstoke and Arlesey, Beds. James Hatfield, of UFO Investigations UK, called for an official MoD inquiry after his organisation received a record number of reports of sightings in one night. He said: "More than 200 people got in touch yesterday claiming to have seen UFOs on Saturday night. Normally we receive ten to 15 reports a day. "So far we've not been able to explain all the sightings. It's time for an official inquiry." _______________________________________________________ July 28, 2008 UFOs: Britons believe By TIM SPANTON Published: Today [ photo slide show available at following link: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/ufos/article1477122.ece ] THE truth about UFOs is out there - but it is being hushed up by the Government. That's the view of almost half the people surveyed in an exclusive Sun poll, with many more claiming to have seen a UFO or believing in them. With record numbers of unexplained objects being spotted in the skies over Britain on Saturday night, a huge majority of us reckon alien life exists somewhere in the universe, even if it has yet to touch down on Earth. Crop circles are commonly cited as evidence of alien visits. But the discovery of life-supporting water in the form of ice on Mars is regarded as an even bigger sign alien life exists. Nine per cent of those polled are convinced they have seen a UFO. And a further 43 per cent believe they exist compared to only 36 per cent who insist they do not. Men an