On August 28 1993 at on or around 0:300-0:330 a UFO decended from the East on Interstate 35 heading North in Missouri.My daughter was riding shotgun to keep me awake.We had just purchased this brand new 1994 Dodge Conversion Van in Chattanooga TN.We were heading home to MN without stopping.My wife and son were asleep in the back on the bed.My daughter was scared,terrified.She asked me if we should wake mom and her brother.I said no.No sense in frightening them.This craft was persistant, it wove in and out of the trees.Side to side and up and down.Things began to get blurry,but I kept driving.The last time I looked at the clock in the van was around 0:330 in the morning. We were awoken by the sound of cows mooing in a pasture that we were facing. It was past 07:30.I know I didn't stop on my own accord.I would never let anyone climb over the maplewood console with a TV as I am very protective of my new vechicles.My wife was riding shotgun and my 16 year old daughter was in back.We lost around 4 hours in which we can't account for.Could someone tell me what happened? Confused P.S.We had nothing but problems with the computer board in that vehicle.Other electricle problems too.I got rid of it.
Monday, March 24, 2014
Sunday, March 23, 2014
NOTHING LIKE US: EXAMINING REPORTS OF NIGHTMARE ENTITIES - PART II
If you missed Part I in this series click here: http://ufodigest.com/article/nightmare-entities-0228
There are quite a few ghost tales which, had they been publicised in different cultural environments, would serve just as well as sightings of non-human entities. Peter Ackroyd, in his compendium of English Ghosts retells the experience of Mr Andrews and friend in Swinbrook, Oxfordhire in the early seventies.
Something `jet black` stood ahead of them on the country road they were walking along. It rose into a `column` and became the shape and size of a man – except it was composed of what looked like smoke in zigzag patterns (Ackroyd p110-11.) We would say now that they had beheld a shape-shifting shadowman!
A good source of modern unclassifiable reports of this kind is the `It Happened to Me` section of the Fortean Times online forum, although these are difficult to follow up or verify.
What I do find credible is a recent thread about a `spiky thing` seen in houses by a number of Australian posters. One of them describes as being like a `three dimensional asterix`. Another tells of a gelatinous looking spider like being clinging to the ceiling of her bedroom. This was seen by more than one person. We are back in Nameless Thing territory! (see www.Fortean Times.com/forum.)
Down to brass tacks.
Non-human entity claims are not that difficult to debunk. We are more apt to misjudge the nature of something that we are not so familiar with –like a passing animal – than something we are used to.
In accordance with this, sceptics have written off many of these sightings as simple misidentifications of known animals. Nor are they without a point. A walking reptilian entity was seen by some policemen in Loveland, Ohio, USA and was dubbed the Loveland frog. It has since transpired that what they saw might well have been a rare, but classified Nile Monitor Lizard (Bord, p-246-247.)
In that same tradition Joe Mitchell has proposed that the Flatwoods monster was nothing but an owl (see ufos.about.com) After all, many are now satisfied that the Kelly-Hopkinsville case, where eight adults were besieged by floating demons, may have been triggered by a hysterical misperception of owls following a UFO sighting. The famous `Mothman `with its glowing red eyes has been given a similar reductionist explanation. (See ufos.about.com and www.csicoporg, for example)
Likewise a British UFO investigator called Chris Wolfe has re-opened the Saltwood case. He has declared the headless bat type creature to have been a crow illuminated by a passing train....
Some of these zoological debunkings end up in places less prosaic than what was started with. Some saw fit to account for the Nameless Thing of 50 Berkeley Square as having been a mutated freshwater cephalopod – octopus to you and me. This had somehow ended up in the sewers from the Thames and so into the plumbing of that building. The thing had graduated from eating rats to people. (Now that is my kind of debunking exercise!)
Then there are the tricks of the mind brought about by aberrant psychology. A must read for all paranormal enthusiasts is Oliver Sacks’ book Hallucinations (2011). This is chockfull of instances of detailed images that our ever creative brains can throw up in the right circumstances (and, yes, little people are a feature of this.) Indeed, one sceptic has reviewed the Pascagoula abduction in the light of hypnopompic hallucinations (see www.csicorp.org/famous-alien-abductions.)
As for me.
I find the owl interpretation of the Hopkins goblin case quite convincing. This is because what they described does tally well with both the behaviour and appearance of some owls. When, however, people extrapolate from this and apply the same thinking to the Flatwoods monster I am far less sure. What they saw was much larger, less owl like and was seen by separate witnesses.
Nor does it seem probable to me that four boys in Saltwood would mistake a common bird for the high strangeness entity which they spoke of.
That there was a mutant killer octopus creeping through the sewers of London is a lovely Gothic notion. The whole legend, however, has more than a whiff of London town blarney about it. There have been no further incidents associated with it, and the matter seems to be lost in time.
As for hallucinations: no doubt some of the more idiosyncratic solo experiences can be dropped from our enquiries by the hallucination theory. What comes across from Sacks’ study of these, however, is that they are more often than not the result of an illness or prolonged sensory deprivation (rather than excitement.) The visions may be exotic but they are almost always of things known to the observer. Furthermore, the observer almost always knows that they are hallucinating. (A typical example given is that of an elderly woman who, on losing her sight, began to hallucinate detailed pictures of people clad in elaborate Eastern clothing going about their daily tasks.) Nor is it clear that hallucinations can be shared: Sacks himself does not provide any examples of this.
The case for exotic arial phenomena does seem much better to me than for any entity of any description, no matter how common are the claims made for it. I think it possible – as suggested by Allen Danelek in UFOs: the Great Debate –that some non-terrestrial intelligence is manipulating our consciousness. This intelligence could be doing so to monitor our reactions to varied stimuli. This could be being done as a preliminary precaution before first contact is made for real.
If this hypothesis is correct then we have no idea what ET looks like until we finally meet up with it for real!
Edward Crabtree
References.
Ackroyd, Peter The English Ghost: Spectres through Time (London: Vintage Books, 2011)
Bord, Janet and Colin Modern Mysteries of the World: Strange Events of the Twentieth Century (London: guild Publishing, 1989)
Bowen, Charles (Ed.) Encounter Cases from the Flying Saucer Review (USA: signet, 1977)
Danelek, J. Allen UFOs: The Great Debate: An Objective Look at Extraterrestrials, Government cover Ups and the Prospect of First Contact (Minessota: Llellewyn Publications, 2010.)
Dennet, Preston Extraterrestrial Visitations: True Accounts of Contact (Minessota: Llellewyn worldwide, 2001)
Sacks, Oliver Hallucinations (United Kingdom: Picador, 2011)
Saturday, March 22, 2014
UFO Sighting in Levittown, New York on March 1st 2014 - Saw what I thought was a chopper, but it went into reverse., two times and no sound, noise.
I was waiting for a bus. I noticed green and red lights shaped like a chopper but no sound-noise. Then I saw another go in same direction,nw to se same as first. But I believe it was the same and only object. I saw it do a reverse of direction two times.Then I got on bus and asked the driver if he sees what I see I don`t know if he did or not. I had no feelings about this except that it had been a long time since my last sighting approx. 20yrs. prior. This helicopter looking object reversed direction without stopping, making sound or circling.Thank you. Ron
Friday, March 21, 2014
STUNNING VANCOUVER UFO PHOTOGRAPHED BY TRIPLE-CAMERA IMAGING PLATFORM
A new video published to YouTube on March 1, 2014, documents a stunning UFO incident recorded by one local astronomer’s triple-camera array from the deck of a Yaletown apartment in downtown Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Former skeptic now leading local UFO videographer Charles Lamoureux custom-engineered what he calls his “Skywatchers Mobile Unit” (SMU) imaging platform while anticipating nights with clear skies filled with mysterious objects.
According to the witness, the UFO shown pulsating in the video during its initially slow-moving descent over West Vancouver’s Cypress Mountain was not anticipated by online satellite tracking applications, including Heavens-Above. The incident reportedly occurred at 8:44 p.m. PST on the night of Friday, February 28, 2014.
Initially spotted at 50 degrees above the horizon, Charles Lamoureux offered a comparison between this object’s luminous performance with that of a Fourth of July fireworks display in an email sent to this reporter that evening. Such a brilliant display as the one shown in the video raises the possibility of other potential witnesses in the region who may have resolved this event either with the naked eye or by using their own camera systems.
Readers of this column who witnessed this event are invited to contact Charles Lamoureux directly via comments on his YouTube channel, linked below.
Watch the Video
Click here to watch “Bright UFO Feb 28 WOW!” on YouTube, produced by Charles Lamoureux: “Please watch in HD and my commentary is from filming with Panasonic, other two cameras in sync. Finally able to capture UFO with all three cameras. This bright UFO was not a satellite or anything else as per heavens above and other satellite applications, not iridium flare, etc. Sighting occurred at 8:44 p.m. over Vancouver north descending behind the local mountain range in the Cypress park region. I must have seen over a dozen in a hour descend exact same area, some flashing, faster, but this one was so bright for sure there were more witnesses. Anyways if it’s a satellite it's a spy unknown or space junk but it was really moving way too slow at the onset. Two days prior in Whistler BC, I captured 6 plus objects just above peak of Blackcomb mountain sky hill after I heard couple dogs barking like crazy, of course I brought my Luna with me but had difficulty picking up the objects as I did not bring proper connections, recording was not viewable, nevertheless these objects were there and real, 1 hour and half north of this sighting...I believe UFO s are traveling from south to our local mountain range by the dozens every night for whatever reason!! I will find out soon enough!”
Skywatchers Mobile Unit
The SMU imaging platform combines off-the-shelf technologies in a redundant array that allows near-infrared and visible spectrum observation and recording operable by a single user. Monochrome and color digital night vision devices are optically calibrated alongside a high-magnification HD camcorder on a single tripod base with signals routed to an external monitor that allows switching between images from each of the devices for real-time study of local UFO phenomena known to populate skies over the Vancouver region.
Click here to view a brief walk-through of Charles Lamoureux’s custom UFO imaging array, the “Skywatchers Mobile Unit” on YouTube: “My new Skywatchers Mobile Unit set up not finished yet, still some tweaking and additions to come. Luna optics digital night vision! Yukon night vision and Panasonic v510 camcorder with 80x optical zoom.”
Components and Specifications
In designing the SMU, Charles Lamoureux has carefully selected from a wide variety of options available to consumers in the videography and sports optics marketplace. Here’s a closer look at some of those components and what makes them especially suited to the task of resolving UFOs in the night sky.
Panasonic HC-V510
The Panasonic HC-V510 Full-HD camcorder is a consumer-series high-definition palmcorder emphasizing affordable high-magnification HD imaging via Panasonic’s Intelligent Zoom function.
According to the manufacturer, Intelligent Zoom features 80x magnification power to draw distant subjects up close to the observer. While this camera’s tiny single 1/5.8" BSI MOS Sensor and small-diameter 28mm-equivalent objective lens may offer some diminishing returns in terms of image over-sharpening and limited low-light sensitivity, the telephoto reach for something so small and portable (far lighter and more space-efficient than a telescope) remains very impressive.
Click here to watch a brief step-through of Panasonic’s Intelligent Zoom function used to image the moon at full 1080 HD resolution.
Yukon Digital NV Ranger 5x42
The Yukon Digital NV Ranger 5x42 is a reliable and inexpensive night vision optic that uses a digital sensor to resolve near-infrared images beyond the range of visible light. With a fixed 5x telephoto objective lens this monocular’s night vision sensitivity makes it a great spotter scope to aid in acquiring images with less-sensitive but higher resolution systems like the HC-V510 described above. Built-in NTSC video output capability allows for recording direct from the Ranger’s SD sensor to external portable DVRs and other devices.
Luna Optics LN-DM50-HRSD
The Luna Optics LN-DM50-HRSD is a relatively new product first introduced in 2013 that has captured the attention of UFO skywatchers (including members of the UFONV forum) offering a built-in 720p HD recording capability as well as switchable black and white and low-lux color night vision images in HD resolution.
Both affordable and innovative, the LN-DM50-HRSD’s low-lux color recording feature positions this device as a potential solid-state replacement for the legendary tape-based 0 lux professional series Panasonic AG-DVC30 “Ghost Hunters” camera. In simple terms of cost of operations, continued reliance upon purchasing MiniDV tape as a necessary consumable for operating the DVC30 is superseded by the convenience of the DM50’s ability to record digital files directly to inexpensive SD memory cards.
In an email response to this reporter’s inquiry, Luna Optics, Inc. President Vladimir Savchik states further how his company will begin to release “a full-line of high quality digital products with even better resolution and image sensors and in a variety of shapes (monoculars and binoculars) with never-before utilized features and options” sometime in the near future.
With new video from Charles Lamoureux already sparking the imaginations of UFO videographers on YouTube, the future for affordable do-it-yourself skywatching appears to be a very bright and promising one indeed.
Thursday, March 20, 2014
WORLD'S LARGEST UFO CULT TO ESTABLISH EMBASSY IN CAMBODIA
People are not [ready] yet, but we will keep trying to spread the message,” said Am Vichet, the head of the Cambodian chapter of the Raelian Movement, which believes a group of scientists created life 25,000 years ago in a laboratory.
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The 41-year-old, who works at reproductive health NGO Marie Stopes, said he became a Raelian in 2007 after attending a lecture where the cult’s philosophy was explained.
I want to learn new things. Then, at that time, I joined a lecture and they showed me a video and I thought it was interesting. But it was not enough just to go one time; I wanted to learn more,” Am Vichet said.
His next step was to read a book penned by the group’s leader, Frenchman Claude Vorilhon, now known by his acolytes only as Rael” and who founded the cult in 1974. He claims to be a reincarnation of Buddha.
Vorilhon, then a journalist for a car magazine and test driver for his own car-racing magazine, says that, on Dec 13, 1973, he took a detour on his way to work and wandered around an inactive volcano near Auvergne in France.
There, he met an extraterrestrial called Yahweh Elohim, who explained the message”. It was simple: life on Earth is the scientifically engineered creation of an advanced alien civilisation, and Vorilhon’s mission on this planet is to prepare humankind for their eventual return.
One of the main goals of Raelism is to build a US$20 million (651 million baht) embassy for the Elohim, preferably in Israel. Perhaps due to Raelism’s symbol — a swastika enveloped in a Star of David — the movement is banned there.
So Raelians are looking eastward and, last January, applied to the Council of Ministers in a letter addressed to Prime Minister Hun Sen.
The project, which the letter states will generate several billion euros of revenue, as well as additional spin-off ventures”, will make Cambodians the first [people] to benefit from the Elohim’s highly advanced technologies”.
But more than a year after the application was submitted, Rael has yet to receive a response from Phnom Penh.
Ek Tha, a spokesman for the Council of Ministers, said that although he was not aware of the application, he would welcome an extraterrestrial movement in Cambodia.
I myself have researched UFOs and extraterrestrial life for the past two years,” he said.
To me, it would be great if we can start an alien movement or institution in Cambodia. We are not alone, my friend. When I tell my friends at work, nobody believes me.”
But any attempt to build the embassy may come up against practical obstacles, according to Dan Thibault, a French-Canadian who travels across Asia spreading Rael’s teachings and was in Phnom Penh this month to hold a public lecture.
ldquo;The problem is political … the problem is the extra-territoriality, the airspace. We need a protected airspace, like a no-fly zone over the embassy,” Mr Thibault said. The country that will organise the embassy will be the spiritual and cultural centre of the union to come. It’s a really big thing.”
Am Vichet explained how he began to accept the Raelians’ ideas after he read Vorilhon’s first book, The Book Which Tells the Truth, which Am Vichet recently translated into Khmer.
I started thinking what our natural state was, and one day you can see these things in the sky, and then I thought, ‘Oh, it’s true.’ And then that night I saw the lights again and after that I started to become a Raelian,” Am Vichet said. My life changed.”
The movement claims to be expanding in Asia, boosted by growing followings in China and Japan. Three Cambodians turned up to a recent meeting, at which Mr Thibault delved further into Raelian philosophy.
Life has been created 25,000 years ago. The Elohim came here, they were a group of scientists who had mastered DNA, and they created all forms of life on this planet,” he said.
They sent all the gods — Buddha, Jesus, Mohammed, Moses — all the prophets sent throughout history. We live in the scientific era and at this time we can create life significantly in laboratories, which means we are equal to gods.”
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Wednesday, March 19, 2014
BIG MOTHERLODE OF PLANETS DISCOVERED!
Publisher's Note: I received an email this morning from the National UFO Center and one of its top posts was entitled, "We Almost Doubled Just Today the Number of Planets Known to Humanity". According to the article 715 new planets that could sustain life have been discovered outside of our galaxy. Excellent read. Enjoy Dirk
WASHINGTON (AP) — Our galaxy is looking far more crowded and hospitable. NASA on Wednesday confirmed a bonanza of 715 newly discovered planets outside our solar system.
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Scientists using the planet-hunting Kepler telescope pushed the number of planets discovered in the galaxy to about 1,700. Twenty years ago, astronomers had not found any planets circling stars other than the ones revolving around our sun.
“We almost doubled just today the number of planets known to humanity,” NASA planetary scientist Jack Lissauer said in a Wednesday teleconference, calling it “the big mother lode.”
Astronomers used a new confirmation technique to come up with the largest single announcement of a batch of exoplanets – what planets outside our solar system are called.
While Wednesday’s announcements were about big numbers, they also were about implications for life behind those big numbers.
All the new planets are in systems like ours where multiple planets circle a star. The 715 planets came from looking at just 305 stars. They were nearly all in size closer to Earth than gigantic Jupiter.
‘We Almost Doubled Just Today the Number of Planets Known to Humanity’
And four of those new exoplanets orbit their stars in “habitable zones” where it is not too hot or not too cold for liquid water which is crucial for life to exist.
Douglas Hudgins, NASA’s exoplanet exploration program scientist, called Wednesday’s announcement a major step toward Kepler’s ultimate goal: “finding Earth 2.0.”
It’s a big step in not just finding other Earths, but “the possibility of life elsewhere,” said Lisa Kaltenegger, a Harvard and Max Planck Institute astronomer who wasn’t part of the discovery team.
The four new habitable zone planets are all at least twice as big as Earth so that makes them more likely to be gas planets instead of rocky ones like Earth – and less likely to harbor life.
So far Kepler has found nine exoplanets in the habitable zone, NASA said. Astronomers expect to find more when they look at all four years of data collected by the now-crippled Kepler; so far they have looked at two years.
Planets in the habitable zone are likely to be farther out from their stars because it is hot close in. And planets farther out take more time orbiting, so Kepler has to wait longer to see it again.
Another of Kepler’s latest discoveries indicates that “small planets are extremely common in our galaxy,” said MIT astronomer Sara Seagar, who wasn’t part of the discovery team. “Nature wants to make small planets.”
And, in general, smaller planets are more likely to be able to harbor life than big ones, Kaltenegger said.
Source: http://nationalufocenter.com
Tuesday, March 18, 2014
REMEMBRANCE OF UFOs PAST
I was eleven-years-old in 1947 when the modern era of UFOs began. Each night that summer, I scanned the open skies above our Iowa farm and wished upon many stars, hoping that one of them might soar away at enormous speed and reveal itself to be a flying saucer. I finally had my wish granted in 1966 with a sighting that easily surpassed the most brilliant technological efforts of Hollywood to depict the aeronautical superiority of an advanced extraterrestrial civilization.
I have never written about it until now.
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UFO Research in the 1960s
In the mid-1960s, the physical "nuts and bolts" theorists had a firm hold on the general public's imagination, and respectability in the UFO community demanded strict adherence to the extraterrestrial hypothesis. And even though I had come to investigate UFO reports from the field of psychical research, my excitement over the possibility that extraterrestrial civilizations were making contact with our own easily made me susceptible to the prevailing consensus that flying saucers from Outer Space had landed.
In the early summer of 1966, my first UFO book, Strangers from the Skies
My day job at this time was teaching English and creative writing and serving as faculty advisor for student publications in a Midwestern college. Prior to that, from 1957 to 1963, I had served in the same capacity at the high school in Clinton, Iowa, one of the “quad cities” on the Mississippi River.
When I was teaching in Clinton, I had become friends with Warren B. Smith, a successful photographer and trade journal writer. Yes, the same Warren B. Smith who would later collaborate with me on a number of titles, and would write numerous books of his own in the paranormal and UFO fields, as well as a number of novels and other nonfiction books.
So it was that one warm night in the summer of 1966, that I and my family were enjoying a cookout with the Smith family in their backyard in Clinton when Warren’s wife, Joan, spotted a peculiar, zig-zagging light in the night sky.
The principal topic of conversation that evening had been UFOs and the success of Strangers from the Skies
"That's no meteor or satellite," my wife Marilyn pronounced with earnest conviction as she pointed out the object that was moving rapidly in its erratic course.
"And it is certainly no conventional aircraft," Warren confirmed. "Look at the way it moves...those right angle turns."
Within another few moments, the UFO performing those aerial acrobatics was joined by another lively light in the sky, then another.
I remember being so excited that I could barely do more than utter, “This is unbelievable,” over and over.
Our combined family of eight kids, ranging from toddlers to pre-teenagers, were shouting and pointing at the sky as if Santa and his sleigh had appeared.
Warren laughed and teased me that I was finally seeing UFOs after having written a book about them.
This is where I should stress that none of us adults had nothing alcoholic to drink that night. At that time in my life, I drank nothing stronger than Dr. Pepper. At the end of a work day, Warren would, on occasion, have a shot of bourbon with a glass of Coca-cola. Neither of our wives drank alcohol.
An Astonishing Sighting of a UFO Armada
After about fifteen minutes of watching the impossible aeronautics above us, Warren suggested that we might get an even better view of the performance if we were to drive down by the river.
I suggested a spot a few miles from the lights of the city, a clearing where I had gone target-shooting when I lived in Clinton. It was close to the river and surrounded by a thick growth of trees and brush.
It was as if a carefully planned aerial pageant celebrating the agile maneuvers of UFOs awaited us. After a routine of seemingly impossible flight patterns, four brightly glowing UFOs hovered opposite each other and appeared to shoot lightning bolt-like beams of light at each other.
Were they exchanging energy or trying to shoot each other down?
The objects did not appear intent on destroying one another, for the crackling-lightning exchange continued for quite some time at a range so close that they could not have missed their target.
After several minutes of this strange procedure, three of the glowing UFOs descended in what came to be known among researchers as “the falling-leaf motion” downriver. We watched them closely until the objects dropped below tree level.
Good lord! The flying saucers apparently had a base here. Somehow it seemed appropriate that the thick woods near Mississippi would make a good hideaway.
Then, from another area even farther down river, two UFOs began to ascend in that same peculiar falling-leaf movement, only this time they were rising. Once they had attained a certain altitude, however, the vehicles zoomed off at an astonishing rate of speed.
That appeared to signal the conclusion of their performance. The four UFOs that remained within the field of vision suddenly moved quickly off to various positions in the night sky and froze, looking now like ordinary stars.
Article continues tomorrow Thursday, February 27, 2014! http://ufodigest.com/article/remembrance-0227