UFO News: Japan's Extraterrestrial Activity

[Ivan Seeking]

RAF Boulmer, 1977

...the objects parted, with one going west and changing shape as it went. The objects, with one then looking body shaped, were watched by the three men for one hour and 40 minutes. A radar station at the base also picked up the objects in the same position before they vanished. Checks were made to RAF West Drayton to see if it had spotted them. Flt Lt Wood is described as “reliable and sober” in the report, which adds that radar staff at RAF Staxton Wold also picked up the strange objects. The RAF Boulmer report was deemed so sensitive that instead of being released to the public 25 years later as normal a further three-year ban was imposed. It is only because of the FOI Act, which came into force on January 1 [continued]

http://www.northumberlandtoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=1117&ArticleID=930633

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Centuries' Old UFO Coin Remains Mystery

Colorado Springs, CO (PRWEB) January 28, 2005 -- After decades of seeking possible answers about a mysterious UFO-like design on a 17th century French copper coin, a prominent numismatic expert says it remains just that: an unidentified flying object. After a half-century of research, the design has defied positive identification by the numismatic community.

"It was made in the 1680s in France and the design on one side certainly looks like it could be a flying saucer in the clouds over the countryside," said Kenneth E. Bressett of Colorado Springs, Colorado, a former President of the 32,000-member American Numismatic Association and owner of the curious coin. [continued]

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2005/1/prwebxml202359.php

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Declassified reports of UFO sightings reveal 88 sightings last year

Details of Britain's most recent UFO sightings are revealed in previously secret documents disclosed to The Independent .

The files, released under the Freedom of Information Act, show that, last year, the Ministry of Defence's UFO unit received 88 reports from military staff and members of the public worried about unexplained objects in our skies.

The classified files help to complete a picture of the scale of UFO sightings first revealed by this paper last month. These updated "X-files" show the most recent observations were made on 15 January this year following two separate reports from Chatteris, Cambridgeshire, and Whitstable, Kent. The reports refer to "strange lights seen in the sky". [continued]

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/story.jsp?story=607253

 

[Ivan Seeking]

With Canadians reporting a record number of UFO sightings last year — 30 per cent more than in 2003 — it's natural to wonder why... Most UFOs turn out to be satellites, meteors, airplanes, or have some other conventional cause.

But (cue theme music for The Twilight Zone) about 15 per cent of last year's sightings remain unexplained. [continued]

http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1109113847492&call_pageid=970599119419

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Dubbo Australia

"A black triangular object that made a number of movements and then speared off out of sight behind the trees."

That's how police have described footage claimed to be of an unidentified flying object (UFO) that was reported to police, and shot on a video camera, by a Dubbo family last Sunday night.

"I've never seen anything like it," Suzanne Fuller said.

"It was hovering there for five hours, and it was completely silent."

The police arrived to the scene at 8pm, viewed the videotape, and filed an official report to Air Services Australia (ASA), a federal airways monitoring bureau. [continued]

http://dubbo.yourguide.com.au/detail.asp?class=news&subclass=local&category=general%20news&story_id=377437&y=2005&m=3

 

[Ivan Seeking]

video phones?

Is this really a picture of a UFO over Stirling? A flying saucer-shaped trick of the light being shot by video phones?

By George Mair

THE dramatic rise in the number of flying saucers reported over Scotland is caused by... video phones. [continued]

http://www.sundaymail.co.uk/news/tm...teid=86024&headline=phone-home-name_page.html

 

[PIT2]

http://dubbo.yourguide.com.au/detail.asp?class=news&subclass=local&category=general%20news&story_id=377437&y=2005&m=3

It seems the article has been removed.

This was the full story, i found it on another forum (it also had a dead link)

UFO captured on film hovering high in city sky

By LINTON BESSER - The Daily Liberal

Thursday, 10 March 2005

DUBBO, Australia - "A black triangular object that made a number of movements and then speared off out of sight behind the trees."

That's how police have described footage claimed to be of an unidentified flying object (UFO) that was reported to police, and shot on a video camera, by a Dubbo family last Sunday night.

"I've never seen anything like it," Suzanne Fuller said.

"It was hovering there for five hours, and it was completely silent."

The police arrived to the scene at 8pm, viewed the videotape, and filed an official report to Air Services Australia (ASA), a federal airways monitoring bureau.

"It looked like a bird, but much larger, the size of a car, with a flat top and a deeper shape at the bottom."

Mrs Fuller also put a call into the UFO Researchers Independent Network, and described what they had seen to Moira McGhee.

Edit by Ivan

Heres a link to the full story:

http://www.ufoalert.com/cgi-bin/freeit.cgi?read=70509

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Thanks Pit2. If you have the link handy could you post it? I had to delete part of your post due to copyright concerns. We can only post excerpts of published materials.

 

[PIT2]

I put the link in my previous post.

But it seems the UFO has been identified:

http://dubbo.yourguide.com.au/detail.asp?class=news&subclass=local&category=general%20news&story_id=377880&y=2005&m=3

A father, son and their 'UFO'
LINTON BESSER
Friday, 11 March 2005

It was independence day for Dubbo, and Paul Cremin didn't even know.

It wasn't until his friends showed him the photograph in yesterday's Daily Liberal of an unidentified flying object that he realized he had spooked all of the city.

"My neighbour came over laughing with the newspaper," he said, blushing.

Mr Cremin and his 13-year-old son Aidan fly kites and model aeroplanes as a hobby.

 

[matthyaouw]

I have been avoiding this source since, although this paper seems to be otherwise reasonably reputable, they are reporting all sorts of wild UFO stories and conspiracy stuff. Since the hits keep coming and coming I decided to post one story. Unless they have broken the story of the millennium, I won't be posting any more reports from this source.

All reports mentioned come from this ongoing saga.
China and India both know about underground UFO base in the Himalayan border area deep into the tectonic plates
http://www.indiadaily.com/editorial/01-09a-05.asp

Right. if the thickness of the tectonic plates in unstable areas of mountain building, the presence of unmined granite and a no-go area along a disputed border (shock-horror!) is the best evidence they can find to suggest an underground base of some kind, frankly they need to get their acts together before they write an article.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

I put the link in my previous post.

But it seems the UFO has been identified:

http://dubbo.yourguide.com.au/detail.asp?class=news&subclass=local&category=general%20news&story_id=377880&y=2005&m=3

Sure enough, it just came up on my RADAR as well. Just another one of the 90-95% of sightings that can be explained.
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=43278

 

[Ivan Seeking]

For some reason, aliens seem to have an interest in the nuclear weapons of the United States.

So says Robert Hastings, an independent expert on unidentified flying objects who will be speaking at Northern State University next week. His 90-minute presentation will begin at 9 p.m. Monday in Room 127 of the Johnson Fine Arts Center.

Hastings said the declassified documents and on-the-record comments he will share will prove to those willing to listen that UFOs do exist. Most of the documents and comments come from former federal government and military officials.

After a 30-minute video, Hastings will lecture for an hour. [continued]

http://www.aberdeennews.com/mld/aberdeennews/news/11401586.htm

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Huntsville Alabama; Jan 12th, 1910

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The truth is out there: A UFO sighting is reported in Huntsville, Chattanooga and much of northeastern Alabama and southeastern Tennessee. The Huntsville Mercury-Banner reports "a strange airship" passing directly over Huntsville at 4:15 on the afternoon of Jan. 12, 1910. The newspaper says the airship moved over the crest of Chapman Mountain "before many people on the streets had the opportunity of seeing it." The airship moved at a speed that "appeared to be greater than any wind short of a hurricane would travel," the newspaper says.

http://www.al.com/news/huntsvilletimes/index.ssf?/base/news/1114334889292320.xml

 

[Ivan Seeking]

South Bend, Indiana; 2004

South Bend Tribune

UFO tales unite the curious
Rochester sightings recalled a year ago at state investigators' session
ROCHESTER -- It's been a year since Bev Carpenter saw her first UFO hovering over her rural Fulton County farm, and she says her life hasn't changed all that much despite the fact that she's appeared on several national radio programs.

Still, she was among the couple dozen people who gathered in Rochester Saturday for the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) to learn more about the phenomena, and to share encounters with the unexplained. [continued]

http://www.southbendtribune.com/stories/2005/04/24/local.20050424-sbt-MARS-A1-UFO_tales_unite_the.sto

 

[Ivan Seeking]

UFO sightings sparked MoD probe

prompted a secret Ministry of Defence investigation, newly-released information has revealed.

The clamour around the possibility of "little green men" visiting Pembrokeshire forced Government officials to look into the situation in the late 1970s.

There were numerous tabloid reports, including one of an entire class of schoolchildren claiming to have seen a UFO landing.

Many others reported being petrified by a strange silver alien.

It all happened in what became known as the Broad Haven Triangle. [continued]

http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/0100...style-secret-mod-investigation-name_page.html

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Deer Lodge Montana: The Secret of Redgate

I had never even heard of this one.

DEER LODGE — Stories in this dusty cow town come a dime a dozen, hardly a surprise given its hold on the old prison, the new state prison, its historic cattle ranch, and its fabled car museum. But here, 50 miles southwest of Helena, stories of a different sort have become the talk of the town — stories exposed by a former Deer Lodge resident and her new docudrama, "The Secret of Redgate."

"We went back to Deer Lodge for two weeks and found out there were a lot of people with this experience, all the way from young high-school kids to people in their 80s," Cowen said. "No one ever talked about this stuff growing up."

Throughout the Deer Lodge Valley, stories of close encounters aren't hard to come by. Over the last 20 years, Cowen said, there have been hundreds of sightings within a 150-mile radius of the town. [continued]

http://www.helenair.com/articles/2005/04/14/top/a01041405_01.txt

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Also, an interesting account.

Strange happenings all around us
By Pat López/For The Daily Times
Apr 2, 2005, 08:37 pm

...“He told me that it was true, but not to tell anybody. It happened a long time ago, in the early 1930s, when he was still a young man. They didn’t have power lines in Trujillo back then and the horse wasn’t Chíspas. And he didn’t just see a blue light”

“What else did he see?” I asked, trying hard not to lean towards the steering wheel to look up at the stars in the sky.

For a while, it was quiet again.

I wondered if she would tell me more or start talking about something else. I could feel her hesitation; it felt heavy, like the weight of old memories best forgotten.

After a few miles, she turned towards me... [continued]

http://www.daily-times.com/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi?archive=50&num=17740

 

[Ivan Seeking]

UFO groups closing shop

Links will be posted later when time allows, but over the last week or two I have seen at least four or five reports of Canadian, US, and British UFO groups closing shop due to a lack of reported activity.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

When the USAF Was in the UFO Business

WASHINGTON -- "Rumors about the saucer mystery fly almost as fast as the strange sights themselves," pronounced the narrator of a 1952 Paramount newsreel, commenting on a rash of UFO sightings from New York to Washington.

He added ominously: "With this evidence, the mystery thickens."

And so it seemed.

A comic book narrative of the time came down on the side of believers. "SAUCERS OVER WASHINGTON, D.C.," blared its bold black headline. It dismissed the military's "glib" explanation of radar blips seen that July by National Airport flight controllers. Simply a case of temperature inversion or reflections of ground objects, insisted the Air Force brass. But what about the pilot, the cartoonist countered, who described "a bright light moving faster, at times, than a shooting star"?

Well, what about it? [continued]

http://www.newhousenews.com/archive/Rios081705.html

Note that the entire USAF history includes first, project Sign, which concluded that the ET Hypothesis may be correct. This conclusion was rejected by General Vandenberg who demanded absolute proof of such an Earth shaking revelation. Then came project Grudge, and finally, Bluebook. The chief scientists for Bluebook, Dr. Allen Hynek - the originator the famous swamp gas UFO explanations - became the father of modern Ufology and rejected the conclusions referenced in the linked article [which resulted from the summary of the controversial Condon Report].

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Hellyer takes up the cause of believers in UFOs

...organizers are making much of his credentials as a former defence minister in the Pearson administration 40 years ago...

Hellyer was once a political star. He was first elected to the Commons in 1949 at the age of 25, at that time the youngest person ever to win a seat.

He went on to become a cabinet minister, ran for the Liberal leadership against Pierre Trudeau, switched parties to the Conservatives and ran for that party's leadership, too. He eventually founded two other political parties, Action Canada in 1971 and the Canadian Action party in 1997.

He says his conviction that UFOs are real arose from reading in recent years, not from anything gleaned from secret archives during his time in office.

"I've been a skeptic for quite a while but I've been exposed to more and more information recently and have just decided to take a stand," he said. [continued]

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2005/09/11/1212477-cp.html

Interestingly, some of the biggest UFO conspiracy theorists were once high ranking officials for either intelligence and or the military.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Dozens of UFOs reported over Wales Nov 16 2005

DOZENS of UFOs that the Ministry of Defence cannot explain have been sighted in Wales in the past three years, the release of confidential papers has revealed.

The MoD confirmed that a green, circular object seen hovering in one position over Mumbles in January 2002 was classed as a UFO.
And another bright object seen hovering over West Swansea in January of this year is also being put down as a UFO.

However, Julie Monk of the Ministry of Defence's Directorate of Air Staff made it clear a UFO classification simply meant no rational explanation for a sighting could be found, not that it was extra-terrestrial in origin.

MoD figures show 28 reports of UFO sightings in Wales in the past three years cannot be explained. [continued]

http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/0100...ns-of-ufos-reported-over-wales-name_page.html

 

[Ivan Seeking]

UFO reported over Shanghai

SEVERAL people reported seeing a UFO in Shanghai between 4:30pm and 9pm yesterday.

A man named Hu told the Xinmin Evening News he saw the UFO in the sky near the Outer Ring Road in Xinzhuan area at 4:30pm. It was visible for about 5 minutes, Hu said.

A man named Luo said he saw a bright oval object flying west towards Jiuting Town at 5pm when he was near Qibao Town. He tried to take a picture of it with his digital camera, but failed.

A man named Yang said he saw the UFO near...[continued]

http://www.shanghaidaily.com/art/2005/12/01/220742/UFO_reported_over_Shanghai.htm

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Alien encounters and UFO sightings, along with a fascination for outer space, are alive and strong in Asia, according to survey results released by global market research company Synovate.

Synovate director Scott Lee said the recent successful Chinese space mission inspired the firm to explore Asian perceptions of space, resulting in some out of this world findings on people‘s attitudes, space travel desires and extraterrestrial experiences.

The survey covered 5,500 respondents in China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia and Korea.

“Asians are clearly convinced that we are not alone in our universe, with more than six out of 10 people (64 percent) surveyed across all countries believing that intelligent life exists on planets other than earth,“ Lee said.

“Personal extraterrestrial experiences are also far more common than expected with 10 percent of Asians believing that they have seen a UFO and a further three percent believing that they have had an encounter with aliens from another planet.

“When applied across the enormous populations of the countries surveyed, that is over 250 million UFO sightings and more than 80 million alien encounters,“ added Lee.[continued]

http://www.asianpacificpost.com/news/article/950.html

 

[Ivan Seeking]

UFO sighting claim - watch the video! Dec 15 2005

By The Huddersfield Daily Examiner

A CROSLAND Moor woman has captured images of a strange object in the skies above Huddersfield.

Now she is hoping someone can identify the object, which she saw on Monday afternoon.

Teresa Millward, 28, of Crosland Moor, said: "It was very strange and slow-moving. It was shaped a bit like a triangle. [continued]

http://ichuddersfield.icnetwork.co....60&headline=ufo-sighting-claim-name_page.html

The video wouldn't play for me. Maybe later...

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Scroll down to

UFOs spotted in Middle Tenn.

More >>

http://www.wsmv.com/Global/category.asp?C=13814

They are also pushing the UFO Bible connection in the piece. Most if not all fundamentalists with whom I've had the opportunity to bring this up, either believe in UFOs, or easily could. They see them as part of the demonic forces at work in the world and as a part of the end times. It really threw me at first; didn't expect that one.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Sightings From the Unknown
posted May 31st, 2006

A community just north of Meadow Lake is claiming to have watched some UFO's for the last couple of months. One scientist [Barb Campbell, from Maidstone] who made the trip up there to see for herself...

People in Waterhen Lake have been watching since April 4th. Discs and bright lights in the sky above the water. [continued]

http://www.ckom.com/index.php?p=localnews&action=view_story&id=3500

 

[Ivan Seeking]

...Continued

...Barbara Campbell, who is a UFO researcher based out of Maidstone, heard wind of the sightings, and traveled to Waterhen to investigate this past week.

She said after doing her preliminary research, that a large number of people in the area - 75% in fact - say that they saw something out of the ordinary in the sky at night.

“I will have to do some more indepth research into this, but at this point, it seems very credible,” she said.

“Video footage was actually obtained as well, and there were five to seven objects captured on film.” [continued]

http://www.meadowlakeprogress.com/story.php?id=234143

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Lights in sky over Tinley Park [Chicago] have UFO believers looking up

The sightings of three red, silent, slow-moving lights in the sky over Tinley Park and Oak Park were first reported on Aug. 21, 2004, with subsequent sightings on Oct. 31, 2004, and Oct. 1, 2005. The National UFO Reporting Center was flooded with calls on each of those nights, with dozens of such reports at www.ufocenter.com.

...There are numerous pieces of footage shot by area residents at the same time in different locations, which gives researchers much more data to work with than the usual isolated UFO sighting.

"I absolutely love mass sightings," Maranto said, "because you have such a cross section of (witnesses)." [continued]

http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=local&id=4672066

Has ZapperZ been playing games?

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Lithuanian police encounter UFO - CIA report.

Search UFO on this page
http://www.foia.cia.gov/

Then, see the report labeled:
POLICE OFFICERS SPOT UFO; RAPID REACTION FORCE ALERTED
Created: 6/26/1996

Two police officers reported ~ a one-half hour long encounter with a large, pulsating, expanding and contracting sphere that made "electronic crackle" sounds and that would move away when approached. Special forces responded, and civil defense authorites were called into study the event.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

French space agency to publish UFO archive online

PARIS (Reuters) - The French space agency is to publish its archive of UFO sightings and other phenomena online, but will keep the names of those who reported them off the site to protect them from pestering by space fanatics.

Jacques Arnould, an official at the National Space Studies Center (CNES), said the French database of around 1,600 incidents would go live in late January or mid-February.

He said the CNES had been collecting statements and documents for almost 30 years to archive and study them. [continued]

http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=internetNews&storyID=2006-12-29T141534Z_01_L29796180_RTRUKOC_0_US-FRANCE-UFO.xml

 

[Ivan Seeking]

...A flying saucerlike object hovered low over O'Hare International Airport for several minutes before bolting through thick clouds with such intense energy that it left an eerie hole in overcast skies, said some United Airlines employees who observed the phenomenon.

...All the witnesses said the object was dark gray and well defined in the overcast skies. They said the craft, estimated by different accounts to be 6 feet to 24 feet in diameter, did not display any lights.

Some said it looked like a rotating Frisbee, while others said it did not appear to be spinning. All agreed the object made no noise and it was at a fixed position in the sky, just below the 1,900-foot cloud deck, until shooting off into the clouds [continued]

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-0701010141jan01,1,3957154.column?coll=chi-news-hed&ctrack=1&cset=true

 

[DaveC426913]

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-0701010141jan01,1,3957154.column?coll=chi-news-hed&ctrack=1&cset=true

If only there were some way that they could - I don't know - show us what they saw - maybe a sketch of it, or a rubbing, or maybe strategically arranged dust bunnies on the floor! If only there were some way that even one of all those witnesses could have ... I don't know ... recorded ... some sort of ... impression ... of what they saw.

I know. Crazy talk.

Alas, sketching and dust bunnies take longer than the "several minutes" the event lasted. Maybe someday technology will advance to the point where we could share with others the things we've seen.

Someday...

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Have you read the napster? There are plenty of events that are well documented - many by the military.

If I show you picture of a flying saucer, and I can show you many, would you be convinced that it is real? Of course not.

Edit: Here you go.
http://www.ufocasebook.com/bestufopictures.html
Now we can all rest knowing that you're convinced.

 

[DaveC426913]

Have you read the napster? There are plenty of events that are well documented - many by the military.

If I show you picture of a flying saucer, and I can show you many, would you be convinced that it is real? Of course not.

Edit: Here you go.
http://www.ufocasebook.com/bestufopictures.html
Now we can all rest knowing that you're convinced.

You're jumping to conclusions.

For starters "...plenty of events that are well documented - many by the military..." is a straw man. I am talking about this event, and no other. I don't understand why, with all those witnesses, for an event that lasted "several minutes", they could find no one who had a camera.

Don't generalize. I am not claiming anything about general UFO skepticism, I am only questioning this account.

Granted, I have not followed up with other articles. I would have thought that, if there were pictures associated with this new report, the Chicago Tribune would wish to publish them. I would also assume that, if someone were going to link to an article about it, they'd link to a good article, one that did have the pics.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070101/ap_on_re_us/o_hare_ufo_sighting

apparently dozens saw this... anyone?

 

[russ_watters]

If I show you picture of a flying saucer, and I can show you many, would you be convinced that it is real? Of course not.

Now we can all rest knowing that you're convinced.

70,000 people at Fatima saw the Sun dance in the sky. I don't believe that it really did - do you?

 

[Ivan Seeking]

You're jumping to conclusions.

For starters "...plenty of events that are well documented - many by the military..." is a straw man. I am talking about this event, and no other. I don't understand why, with all those witnesses, for an event that lasted "several minutes", they could find no one who had a camera.

I know. Crazy talk

This makes your statement more general than you admit.

Don't generalize. I am not claiming anything about general UFO skepticism, I am only questioning this account.

That wasn't suggested by the quote above. It sounded more like the typical attack by someone who has never studied the subject.

Granted, I have not followed up with other articles. I would have thought that, if there were pictures associated with this new report, the Chicago Tribune would wish to publish them. I would also assume that, if someone were going to link to an article about it, they'd link to a good article, one that did have the pics.

We can only provided what is provided. Also, perhaps people involved in the operations of commercial aircraft couldn't run to their locker for a camera? Perhaps someone did try to video the event but it was too dark? Also, recently a comment by Integral caught my attention: He has trouble getting pics of his dogs in action and they live in his house!

 

[Ivan Seeking]

70,000 people at Fatima saw the Sun dance in the sky. I don't believe that it really did - do you?

What does this have to do with photographs of alleged UFOs?

 

[Ivan Seeking]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070101/ap_on_re_us/o_hare_ufo_sighting

apparently dozens saw this... anyone?

Yes, this is shaping up to be an interesting story due to the number of witnesses. It may be more interesting to see what the MUFON investigation yields. I can't tell yet if the weather phenomenon theory is consistent with the reports, but on the face of things its doesn't sound like it. Note also that simply saying that it was a "weather phenomenon" is not really a theory or an explanation. For starters, what phenomenon?

 

[DaveC426913]

It sounded more like the typical attack by someone who has never studied the subject.

I'll take that as an admission that you jumped to that conclusion.

 

[nesp]

My guess is that it was a wingtip vortex from a landing plane. Those vortices can meander around, remain stationary for a while, then dissipate. If they pick up dust or moisuture they can appear solid.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

...Peter Davenport, the UFO center's director, says the buzz over the O'Hare sighting is fully justified.

"In my opinion, because I know the quality of the witnesses, and because I know the nature of the documents that were generated, it is one of the most dramatic cases of the year 2006 that this center has handled," Davenport told me today from the center's headquarters in Washington state.

On the other side, NBC News space analyst James Oberg - a longtime UFO skeptic - says the evidence that's come to light so far isn't all that compelling.

"It's just sad that we keep getting these reports which are of zero evidential value," he told me. "It's sad because there's a lot of strange stuff in the air that we do need to know." [continued]

http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/01/02/25212.aspx

 

[Ivan Seeking]

On the surface of it, UFOs could lurk

For nearly 60 years, rumors have circulated of strange flying objects emerging from the ocean off our coast and disappearing in a fantastic flash of speed and light.

Sailors, fishermen, dockworkers, police officers, coastal residents and others have reported eerie otherworldly ships emerging from and submerging into local waters.

UFOs, it seems, have established an underwater base somewhere in the deep, dark recesses between the Channel Islands and the coastline between Long Beach and Santa Barbara.

Despite a tendency to scoff at such conspiracies, I decided to do a little investigating. You know, just to be sure. [continued]

http://www.presstelegram.com/business/ci_5028150

I had to laugh when I read this. As so often happens, a skeptic takes a real look at the subject for the first time, and their world is shaken a bit.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

There have been many reports of UFO activity over Iran this week. The initial reports were of a nuclear explosion and were suggestive of a meteor to me, so I didn't make much of it at first, but now there are reports of a second and third event. Here are some of the recent hits.

Witnesses have claimed to have watched an unidentified flying object hovering at a low altitude for more than an hour over Bouyer Ahmad, Iran.

The glowing object was spotted two days after a similar object, described as having a yellow ray and a red centre, was sighted at the same time of day, the Fars News Agency reported. These sightings are following a reported UFO crash January 10 in the Barrez Mounts, Iran.

Deputy Governor-General Abulghassem Nasrollahi of Kerman province said police and other authorities were investigating and that the crash could not have been an airplane or helicopter because all aircraft flying in the area on that day had been accounted for. [continued]

http://www.enjoyfrance.com/content/view/723/31/

UFO spotted over Iran
BOUYER AHMAD, Iran, Jan. 19 (UPI) -- Witnesses reported seeing an unidentified flying object hovering for more than an hour over Bouyer Ahmad, Iran. [continued]

http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20070119-075023-4159r

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3354296,00.html
http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=8510280150

January 11, 2007
Report: Nuclear Explosion in Iran (UPDATE: 3 explosions)
A major explosion is being reported in the Iranian desert. It said to be a nuclear explosion. In the general area of one of Iran's nuclear testing sitees.

The alternative theory is that a UFO crashed. That is what one Iranian blogger is reporting, anyway. Anti-Mullah:

Reports emanating [continued]

http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/186028.php

 

[Ivan Seeking]

DOZENS of mysterious lights were spotted hovering in the sky above Archway - spreading panic among residents below.

Unidentified flying orange objects stopped traffic and left residents staring skyward in disbelief at around 5.30pm on Thursday.
Islington police received four calls within a matter of minutes.

...They were coming from the north and moving south. And then they kind of stopped and they were hovering. There was no sound. They seemed to fade away and I saw more coming and then they stopped. It lasted about 10 minutes."
[continued]

http://www.islingtongazette.co.uk/content/islington/gazette/news/story.aspx?brand=ISLGOnline&category=news&tBrand=northlondon24&tCategory=newsislg&itemid=WeED02%20Feb%202007%2016%3A56%3A48%3A657

Photo included.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Maury Island’s UFO: 60 years later, the mystery lingers
By Amelia Heagerty
Jun 20 2007

Roswell, once just a military base in the New Mexican desert, is known today as the site of the United States’ most high-profile and controversial UFO sighting and crash. But few Islanders know that Maury Island was home to the first alleged UFO sighting in U.S. history, and it took place weeks before two crafts fell from the sky in Roswell.

Tomorrow marks the 60th anniversary of the Maury Island Incident, as it was later dubbed in books and newspaper articles. It took place in June 1947, two years after World War II ended. The nation was abuzz with paranoia and suspicion, and it was in this atmosphere that first one, then two, then hundreds of Americans reported seeing strange, unidentifiable, usually saucer-shaped, objects whizzing through the sky.

These were the incidents that triggered UFO hysteria, which gripped the nation for decades and spawned countless movies and books. But it all started with one close encounter. One X file. It all started with Maury Island.[continued]

http://www.vashonbeachcomber.com/portals-code/list.cgi?paper=90&cat=23&id=1009159&more=0

Huh, this is news to me. I may know the account but never realized that it predates the Kenneth Arnold case, which was three days later.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

ESCONDIDO – Retired Air Force veteran Milton Sprouse clearly remembers the summer day in 1947 when he returned to Roswell Army Air Field aboard the B-29 bomber Dave's Dream from a three-day maneuver in Florida. [continued]

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/northcounty/20071026-9999-lz1mc26ufo.html

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Also, there is a rather amusing bit about presidential candidate Kucinich in the news.

In the book, MacLaine says "He saw a gigantic triangular craft, silent, and observing him. It hovered for about ten minutes or so, and sped away with a speed he couldn't comprehend. He felt a connection in his heart and heard directions in his mind."

A spokesperson for Congressman Kucinich tells Fox 8 News Kucinich has no comment.[continued]

http://www.myfoxcleveland.com/myfox...n=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=3.2.1

 

[Ivan Seeking]

One more: It looks like Leslie Kean won in court and is forcing NASA to search for and release any information related to the Kecksburg incident.

WASHINGTON - NASA has agreed to search its archives once again for documents on a 1965 UFO incident in Pennsylvania, a step the space agency fought in federal court. The government has refused to open its files about what, if anything, moved across the sky and crashed in the woods near Kecksburg, Pa., 40 miles southeast of Pittsburgh.[continued]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21494221/

 

[-RA-]

This is an interesting one that happened recently just round the corner from where i live. A commercial airline pilot has reported seeing two unidentified flying objects in the sky near Guernsey. It got quite a lot of media attention (in the UK) and the pilot was interviewed on national UK TV News; . Some passengers saw it, and it was also picked up on radar.

A commercial airline pilot has reported seeing two unidentified flying objects in the sky near Guernsey.
The bright yellow flat disc shapes, estimated to be twice the size of a Boeing 737, were spotted on Monday, 12 to 15 miles north east of the island.

original story at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/guernsey/6591365.stm