UFO News: Japan's Extraterrestrial Activity

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The UFO news thread serves as a central hub for sharing recent sightings and events related to unidentified flying objects. Key reports include multiple sightings from Japan, where officers observed a circular object moving silently in the sky, and a group of witnesses in Cumbria describing a bright object that dropped something before disappearing. In Portugal, the air force heightened alert status following reports of a luminous object, with some attributing it to a satellite. Other notable sightings include a mysterious object in Himachal Pradesh, India, observed by a scientific expedition, and various reports from Canada, including unusual lights and maneuvers in the sky. The discussion emphasizes the importance of credible sources and encourages the sharing of mainstream news articles to minimize clutter on the forum. Overall, the thread highlights the ongoing intrigue and varied accounts of UFO sightings globally, fostering a community focused on exploring these phenomena.
  • #151
Please start another thread.
 
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  • #152


CEL said:
Can you provide a link for his claims?

New thread started.
 
  • #153
gareth said:
Hold up,

The 'more info' in the youtube video reads as follows#

This is a video was on a cheap camera I found when Hiking in the Smokey Mountains.
This is all that was on it.
Finding a camera with ufo footage on it sounds extremely implausible.

* Here is the proof that its not real, it was made for a ufo competition by a guy called Jeff Wilson:
http://www.ufo-blog.com/ufo-blog/
 
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  • #154
Do you think? :biggrin:

I think we are done with this one.
 
  • #155
...Steve Robey remembers it like it was yesterday. The now-retired air traffic controller was working the night shift at the Melbourne Flight Service Unit on Saturday, October 21, 1978, when the call came in at 7.06pm.

Pilot Frederick Valentich, flying from Moorabbin Airport to King Island to pick up some crayfish, reported that a strange aircraft was "playing a game with him" and he wanted to know if any military planes were in the area...
http://www.theage.com.au/national/30-years-on-ufo-mystery-still-vivid-20081011-4yss.html

References to official documents for this event are found in the UFO Napster.
 
  • #157
LONDON (Reuters) – Two U.S. fighter planes were scrambled and ordered to shoot down an unidentified flying object (UFO) over the English countryside during the Cold War, according to secret files made public on Monday.

One pilot said he was seconds away from firing 24 rockets at the object, which moved erratically and gave a radar reading like "a flying aircraft carrier."

The pilot, Milton Torres, now 77 and living in Miami, said it spent periods motionless in the sky before reaching estimated speeds of more than 7,600 mph (12,000 kph)...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081020/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_britain_ufo


MIB! lol
 
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  • #159
From an article in my morning paper.

LONDON — An American fighter pilot flying from an English air base at the height of the Cold War was ordered to open fire on a massive UFO that lit up his radar, according to an account published by Britain's National Archives on Monday.


http://www.azstarnet.com/allheadlines/263382


Source given in the hard copy:

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/
 
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  • #160
For what it is worth here are other incidents in the UK that were declassified and put into the national archives this month.

http://ufos.nationalarchives.gov.uk/
 
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  • #162
nuby said:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081020/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_britain_ufo

If you believe former fighter pilot Milton Torres' story — and news organizations around the world are running with it — the U.S. Air Force was seconds from attacking an alien aircraft over England late one cloudy night in 1957.

Possible interstellar war was averted when the unidentified flying object sped away.

"It was not made of this earth," said Torres, 77, a retired Florida International University engineering professor.

Torres' account was included in thousands of pages of UFO-related documents recently declassified by the British Ministry of Defense and posted online by the British national archive.[continued]
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/bizarre/6077389.html
 
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  • #163
So is anyone who's reviewing all this new evidence finding that they're changing their opinion from pro to con or con to pro?
 
  • #165
You may need to update your adobe flash player.
 
  • #166
Here is an alternative link.
http://www.wfaa.com/sharedcontent/dws/wfaa/localnews/news8/stories/wfaa081025_lj_ufo.1497ef4d3.html
 
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  • #167
UFOs over Austin?

AUSTIN -- Carl Lancaster of Austin believes that UFOs are hovering over the city's sky at night and believes he has the video to prove it. Foti Kallergis spoke with Lancaster who showed FOX 7 his UFO footage...
http://www.myfoxaustin.com/myfox/pa...n=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=VSTY&pageId=1.1.1

Note that at the end, the good Professor makes a classic debunking error. His argument against visting ETs is that were ETs visiting, he knows what they would be doing. Since the alleged ETs aren't doing what he would expect, clearly they aren't here!

Obviously we have no way to anticipate the motivations or logic behind the actions of a visiting ET, were ETs visiting.
 
  • #168
They're interesting vids, darting around, disappearing and re-appearing...a classic UFO.

I agree about the Dr.'s comments, I especially like the one They would just take over again anticipating the actions of visiting ETs, with a definate underlying hollywood influence.
 
  • #169
The Danish Air Force has opened its UFO archives...over 15,000 report

UFO archives are now readily available to the public, detailing sightings from over the last 30 years. The Danish Air Force published the archive online yesterday because it felt that ‘there was nothing secret in the files’.

The Air Force said that most of the sightings remained ‘unidentified’ because the details were not precise enough. However, some of the reports contained enough description to rule out the UFOs as aircraft, weather phenomenon or paper lanterns...

http://www.cphpost.dk/news/national/article/88-national/44602-secret-ufo-archives-opened.html
 
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  • #170
U.f.o spotted over brean,sommerset

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eoAkC1vPfA


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uswvFfpGovU
 
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  • #171
New member here, I am a MUFON investigator. If anyone is interested I can give you the Radar Report from the Stephensville Texas case. It is lengthy about 80 pages or so but it is very interesting. The radar report backs up what the witnesses claimed to have seen.
 
  • #172
I think we already have that one a couple pages back on this thread or on one of the others
 
  • #173
Really? This is a PDF file.
 
  • #174
subliminal said:
Really? This is a PDF file.

I think we had a reference but I don't think the entire file was available. Thanks for the offer [I assume that you are offering it for free?].

Is there no online link for this? Also, how much memory does it take?
 
  • #175
Here is a link to the full report. It is 77 pages long.

www.mufon.com/documents/MUFONStephenvilleRadarReport.pdf[/URL]
 
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  • #176
Thanks. I'll add it to the UFO Napster as well.
 
  • #177
Ivan Seeking;

I personally believe that there could be two main reasons for the genuine UFO phenomena. One is the obvious 'saucer' shaped craft, which are either extraterrestrial or man-made whilst the other is something more down-to-earth. There is substantial evidence of 'things with wings' in the cryptozoological world. It is not beyond the bounds of reasoning to suggest that a large unknown night-flying (i.e. wing flapping) creature has developed bioluminescence. If small creatures that live at the bottom of the sea can do it, so can big things that fly in the dark. Have you ever heard of anyone with this opinion?
 
  • #178
Mammo said:
Ivan Seeking;

I personally believe that there could be two main reasons for the genuine UFO phenomena. One is the obvious 'saucer' shaped craft, which are either extraterrestrial or man-made whilst the other is something more down-to-earth. There is substantial evidence of 'things with wings' in the cryptozoological world. It is not beyond the bounds of reasoning to suggest that a large unknown night-flying (i.e. wing flapping) creature has developed bioluminescence. If small creatures that live at the bottom of the sea can do it, so can big things that fly in the dark. Have you ever heard of anyone with this opinion?

The two options are possible and equally probable. A more likely explanation is misidentification of aircrafts, atmospheric phenomena or heavenly bodies.
 
  • #179
CEL said:
The two options are possible and equally probable. A more likely explanation is misidentification of aircrafts, atmospheric phenomena or heavenly bodies.

In the most intersting cases, the problem with claiming atmospheric phenomena is this: What phenomena? As I have said before, even if we all agree that some of the most interesting reports are, say, due to ball lighitning, we still have quite a mystery. The problem is that we are creating explanations from thin air with no supporting evidence. To then accept these explanations is an act of faith, not science.
 
  • #180
Ivan Seeking said:
In the most intersting cases, the problem with claiming atmospheric phenomena is this: What phenomena? As I have said before, even if we all agree that some of the most interesting reports are, say, due to ball lighitning, we still have quite a mystery. The problem is that we are creating explanations from thin air with no supporting evidence. To then accept these explanations is an act of faith, not science.
I agree with this. Even claims of 'earth lights' after earthquake events are total speculation. At least ball lightning has been replicated in the lab. I even believe that the 'things with wings' explanation is better than mystery Earth generated lighting effects. There was a TV programme (Monster Hunter?) where a team of investigators went to Umboi Island to film the 'pterosaur-like' creature reported by the natives. They got mystery lights recorded in the pitch dark on camera, although they couldn't see anything with the naked eye, but they definitely got the heeby-geebies.
 
  • #181
Mammo said:
Even claims of 'earth lights' after earthquake events are total speculation. At least ball lightning has been replicated in the lab.

Not entirely correct. Earthquake lights are now generally accepted as a genuine phenomenon, as is ball lightning. The "ball lightning" produced in labs so far only vaguely resembles the phenomenon reported. For example, in the lab, a sustained energy source in the form of microwaves is required.
 
  • #182
Mammo said:
Is there a link to scientific Earthlight investigation?

There are plenty of links in the Credible Anomalies Napster
https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=58374

Please continue discussions in a regular thread. This thread is for UFO news.
 
  • #183
The MOD releases more ufo files:

Other cases include the description of a black inverted boomerang-shaped UFO by two experienced air traffic controllers at Heathrow. The sighting, from the airport's control tower on the morning of 17 December 1992, came a week after numerous witnesses in Louth, Lincolnshire, reported seeing three lights attached to a large, triangular craft.

...

The most intriguing incident involving such a craft occurred at 9pm on 4 August 1990, at Calvine, a remote hamlet near Pitlochry in Scotland. According to the brief details released by the MoD, witnesses saw a diamond-shaped UFO hovering for about 10 minutes before it disappeared upwards at high speed. During the incident, Harrier jump jets were seen making a number of low-level passes. Colour photographs reveal both the UFO and at least one of the jets.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/mar/22/ufos-aliens-di55-mod
I wonder if the pics of the diamond ufo are online somewhere.
 
  • #184
This story is breaking as if a credible report. It is a bit hard to tell at this point so I am posting for tracking purposes. If anyone has good information supporting or debunking this report, please post it.

Scientists at the Purple Mountain Observatory in Nanjing are reported to have confirmed that they filmed a UFO during the eclipse for 40 minutes. They say that they will spend the next 12 months studying the footage before drawing any conclusions...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/new...ese-scientists-filmed-UFO-for-40-minutes.html

There are so many bogus internet news sources these days that it is getting harder and harder to pick out any potentially credible reports.
 
  • #185
Ivan Seeking said:
This story is breaking as if a credible report. It is a bit hard to tell at this point so I am posting for tracking purposes. If anyone has good information supporting or debunking this report, please post it.


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/new...ese-scientists-filmed-UFO-for-40-minutes.html

There are so many bogus internet news sources these days that it is getting harder and harder to pick out any potentially credible reports.

The Telgraph is a conservative paper in the UK - its report ought to be accurate, that says nothing, of course, about the nature of the observations at the Purple Mountain observatory.

Garth
 
  • #186
After so many years of credible reports, I do not see how all of them can be dismissed as illusions or delusions. I resist the alien visitation hypothesis. I am, however, curious if transient dimensional rifts are a plausible explanation. It would also explain other paranormal events. Who knows, perhaps it is alien technology attempting to communicate with us.
 
  • #187
Garth said:
The Telgraph is a conservative paper in the UK - its report ought to be accurate, that says nothing, of course, about the nature of the observations at the Purple Mountain observatory.

Garth

I was referring to the number of Google hits I get every day from crackpot sources. When I first started using it, the biggest problem with the Google alerts was that I was notified about everything the rock group UFO was doing, but now there are probably dozens of pseudo news services putting out tons of garbage.
 
  • #188
I'm pretty excited to see "I Know What I Saw" airing October 4 on the History Channel. It will feature the most credible UFO cases and witnesses from around the world.

Here's the trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=<object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/5Etw33HrvPU&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/5Etw33HrvPU&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object>

Here's a promotional segment from Larry King Live:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=<object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/3D1n-RMuxr0&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/3D1n-RMuxr0&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object>
 
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  • #189
Out of the Blue was pretty good. The Peter Jenning's special was accurate, AFAIK, but had no depth. The UFO hunters shows are mostly garbage and the guy who runs them is a complete nut, imo. He is the classic UFO crackpot who sees conspiracies and intervening aliens behind every shadow.

We do have some good documentaries cited in the UFO Napster, but many links are dead. Optional links can be found with a search in most cases.

Thanks for the alert, KPax. I will certainly watch. But as Dave said, these days, most shows about this subject are hyped, sloppy, and sometimes downright dishonest. Perhaps this one will be better.

An aside: Recently I happened to watch Close Encounters. While watching, I suddenly noticed a brief close-up of Hynek. I couldn't believe that after all of these years I never knew he was actually in the movie. Funny!
 
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