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UFO Casebook Magazine #236-Issue Date 01-01-07
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Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology
Date:12.28.06-According to a report received from researcher Alfonso Salazar, on December 23, 2006 the crew of a Magnicharter flight between Los Cabos and Mexico City witnessed the maneuvres of an unidentified flying object (UFO) at 8:30 p.m., as reported by flight engineer Angel Torres Arenas. The witness described a luminous UFO giving off orange, green and blue lights, flying at an altitude greater than the aircraft's cruising altitude, placing it at 22,000 feet. He added that the probable UFO accompanied the aircraft through its entire route and that the crew was fully aware that it was an identified craft. As an additional item of information, he noted that the airliner was a Boeing 737-200, registration XA-MAE. (translation (c) 2006. Scott Corrales, IHU. Special thanks to Ana Luisa Cid and Alfonso Salazar)
Source & References:
www.analuisacid.com
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Wednesday, December 27, 2006-By JEFF WILSON, Associated PressGerald R. Ford was the longest- living president when he died Tuesday at 93. He battled pneumonia and heart trouble in 2006. LOS ANGELES -- Gerald R. Ford, who picked up the pieces of Richard Nixon's scandal-shattered White House as the 38th and only unelected president in America's history, has died, his wife, Betty, said Tuesday. He was 93. "My family joins me in sharing the difficult news that Gerald Ford, our beloved husband, father, grandfather and great grandfather has passed away at 93 years of age," she said in a statement. "His life was filled with love of God, his family and his country." He died at 6:45 p.m. Tuesday at his home in Rancho Mirage, Calif., his office said in a statement. Funeral arrangements were to be announced today. The statement did list a cause of death. Ford had battled pneumonia in January 2006 and underwent two heart treatments in August. He was the longest-living president, followed by Ronald Reagan, who also died at 93. Ford had been living at his desert home in Rancho Mirage, about 130 miles east of Los Angeles. Ford was an accidental president, Nixon's handpicked successor, a man of much political experience who had never run on a national ticket. He was as open and straightforward as Nixon was tightly controlled and conspiratorial. He took office minutes after Nixon resigned in disgrace over the Watergate scandal and declared "our long national nightmare is over." But Ford revived the debate a month later by granting Nixon a pardon for all crimes he committed as president. That single act, it was widely believed, cost Ford election to a term of his own in 1976, but it won praise in later years as a courageous act that allowed the nation to move on. The Vietnam War ended in defeat for the U.S. during his presidency with the fall of Saigon in April 1975. In a speech as the end neared, Ford said: "Today, America can regain the sense of pride that existed before Vietnam. But it cannot be achieved by refighting a war that is finished as far as America is concerned." Ford's response to the Air Force's "swamp gas" explanation of the Michigan UFO Wave of 1966 "In the firm belief that the American public deserves a better explanation than that (swamp gas) thus far given by the Air Force, I strongly recommend that there be a committee investigation of the UFO phenomena. I think we owe it to the people to establish credibility regarding UFOs, and to produce the greatest possible enlightenment of the subject."- President Gerald Ford (during his years as a US Congressman).
Source & References:
http://www.delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061227/NEWS/612270360/-1/NEWS01
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The photographs posted below were sent to the UFO Casebook by a reliable source. Here are the details sent by photographer.
Photo taken: Cochrane Alberta, Canada Date: 21/12/2006 Witnesses: 2 Time: 9:04am Camera used: FinePix A600 (6.3 megapixel) Photo Size: 2.78 MB Color Representaion: sRGB Shutter Speed: 1/138 sec. Lens Aperture: F/5.3 Focal Length: 24 mm F-Number: F/5.2 Exposure Time: 1/140 sec ISO Speed: ISO-100 Exposure Program: Landscape Mode Exposure Compensation: 0step
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source and references: Photograph © B. D.-Cochrane, Alberta, Canada-12-21-06 |
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Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology-December 27, 2006
By Guillermo Gimenez This new case involving a photo of a chance UFO was recorded on November 2006 at the locality of Sierra de la Ventana, Province of Buenos Aires, located some 320 km from the city of Necochea, Argentina. Alicia Darvrieux of the city of Trelew, Province of Chubut, phoned this researcher to say that during her return trip from the city of Buenos Aires to the Argentinean south, photos were taken at the community of Sierra de la Ventana and one of them, taken by her father of her mother and an aunt next to a vehicle in which they traveled, show a disk-shaped object that went unseen by any of the tourists. The event took place on November 21, 2006 between 15:00 and 16:00 hours and the instrument employed was a Canon A530, 5Mpx camera (the photo taken was at 3 mpx) in Auto mode. An object can be clearly seen flying at low altitude, flying at high speed over the site. It has the shape of two superimposed plates and one or two types of extremities, or something similar, can be observed its lower section. The studies conducted dismissed the possibility of fraud and we can say that it is no commercial or private airliner or a bird. It is without a doubt a strange object of the type known as UFO, flying over Sierra de la Ventana and accidentally photographed by a family from southern Argentina. (translation (c) 2006. Scott Corrales, IHU)
source and references: Planeta UFO-Date: 12.26.06 |
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A chance photograph of a UFO was taken in California on July 1, 2006. At approximately 1:30 PM, while near some tanks located near Hercules and Vallego, the photograph was shot by Larry Wexdoz.
The witness used a Nikon E5200 camera. He sent his report and photograph to Ana Luisa Cid with the colloboration of Alex Sender. The photograph clearly shows what appears to be a disc-shaped object.
source and references:
Photograph © Larry Wexdoz
http://astroufo.tripod.com.pe
www.analuisacid.com
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Thirty years' worth of reports, from general public and airline pilots, to go online in late January or mid-February. By Reuters-Published: December 29, 2006, 12:35 PM PST The French space agency plans to publish its archive of UFO sightings and other phenomena online but keep the names of those who reported them off the site to protect them from the pestering of space fanatics. Jacques Arnould, an official at the Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES), said the French database of about 1,600 incidents would go live in late January or mid-February. He said CNES had been collecting statements and documents for almost 30 years to archive and study them. "Often, (reports of unidentified flying objects) are made to the Gendarmerie, which provides an official witness statement...and some come from airline pilots," he said by telephone. Given the success of films about visitations from outer-space beings like E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Close Encounters of The Third Kind and Independence Day, the CNES archive is likely to prove a hit. It consists of about 6,000 reports, many relating to the same incident, filed by the public and airline professionals. Their names would not be published to protect their privacy, Anould said. Advances in technology over the past three decades had prompted the decision to put the archive online, he said, adding that it would likely be available via the CNES Web site.
Source & References:
Copyright © 2006 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
Photograph above: UFO Casebook Archives-French UFO Report
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The photographer stated: "I have decided to send you some shots taken from my back porch. At the time my televison showed static and all the dogs in the area combined in a wonderful chorus." Picture taken on 06-20-01-credits-Rev. B.Chatham &nsc@post.com. Where was the photograph taken?
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On December 26, the UFO Casebook received the photograph that you see below. The sender of the photo is from Denmark, and with what little information I have, I am somewhat reluctant to publish it, until I receive more information about it. I have replied to the sender, asking for more information, and listing what information that I need. If and when that is received, I will add it to this report. This is all the information that I have at the present time.
The sender gave their real name and address. They said that the photograph was taken while the family was on vacation in Mexico City, Mexico during the summer of this year. The sender and family state that they did not see the anomalous objects in the photo, until they got home to Denmark, and went through all of their vacation photos. More information received on 12-28-06 The picture is real. My husband (who does not believe in UFOs) took the picture in Mexico City. July 1, 2006. The picture is taken through the window in a department store, on the 3rd or 4th floor, opposite what we believe to be the Opera House. The camera is a digital camera Olympus 700. We did not notice the UFOs until we got home and showed the pictures to some friends on a projector.
source and references:
Photograph © Karin L. / Denmark
www.ufocasebook.com
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Sixty-one-year old Robert Taylor was a forestry worker in the Dechmont woods in Livingston, West Lothian, Scotland. On the morning of Friday, November 9, 1979, he and his red setter were doing duty in the forest when he was shocked to see a UFO hovering above the ground. The object was totally motionless, and silent.
The object was dark gray in color and had a texture to it, with brighter areas reflecting above a duller background. The exterior of the craft seemed to morph from time to time, which made Taylor think it was trying to render itself invisible. He estimated the object to be about 20 feet in diameter and 12 feet tall. It had a ring of a sort around it, which caused it to appear like a brim on a hat. Protruding from the outside of the UFO were stems pointing up, and topped with propellers. All at once, two small spheres came from the object. They made a sound as their spikes moved over the earth. They came to a stop beside him, grabbing his trousers, and began to drag him back to the UFO. The spiked objects were very similar to the UFO, only smaller. Taylor could smell a strong, sickening odor. He lost consciousness. When he regained consciousness, the spheres were gone, but his red setter was still there. The dog was panicky, running around and barking. Taylor tried to calm him down, but found that his voice was gone. He was very weak, and when he tried to stand, he couldn't. He crawled for a time until he was able to stand again. He finally made it back to his pick-up truck and tried to radio his work headquarters via his two-way, but still could not speak.
Attempting to drive his truck back home, he got stuck in the mud, so he started a long walk of about a mile back to his house. He arrived at 11:45 AM. His experience had lasted a little over an hour. Finally, his voice was returning. He had developed a great thirst by the time he was home. Taylor would feel ill for a time after his experience with the UFO and two spheres, and he could still smell the awful odor from the forest. When his wife saw him, she was shocked. He had mud all over him, and his pants were torn. He began to tell her of his ordeal with the UFO. His wife urged him to call the police, but Taylor felt that they would only laugh at him. Instead, he called his job supervisor, Malcom Drummond. Taylor went to clean himself up. Drummond called a doctor, and he drove directly to Taylor's house. He was so eager to hear Taylor's story that he questioned him while he was in the tub. Drummond and Taylor both felt that there should be physical proof of the incident in the forest. Since the doctor was coming to check out Taylor, Drummond headed to the scene via Taylor's instructions, but he could not find the right location. Dr. Gordon Adams would examine Taylor for his injuries. He found two scrapped places on Taylor, one on his left leg, and the other under his chin. Taylor had no apparent head injuries, and his body temperature, blood pressure, and other body signs were all within normal limits. Dr. Adams insisted on Taylor getting a head X-ray to rule out a concussion, and talk to a counselor, but Taylor put off the hospital visit until later. As soon as Drummond returned, Taylor joined him as the two went directly to the scene of the incident in the forest. Ground marking were obvious, and they called the police. Taylor, along with his wife, did go to the hospital for testing, but left when he grew tired of waiting to be seen. He had a trip planned for the weekend to see relatives, and was in a hurry to get things done for the journey.
The local police department was not experienced in dealing with UFO cases, but they did file a report with interviews of all of those involved. Since an assault was part of the case, the police were obliged to send off Taylor's clothes for forensic examination. The only unusual thing found was traces of a powder, which was identified simply as contact transfer from the sack the clothes were shipped in. Police did a thorough search of records of military and civilian flight logs, and found nothing was flown over or near the forest that morning. The ground marks at the scene did not match any of the equipment used in the work in the forest. Two types of ground markings were found at the scene. The first marks were two parallel ladder-like tracks, each about 2.5 meters long, and the same distance apart. There were also 40 holes around the tracks. They were 10 centimeters across. In other words, there was undeniable proof that something had been on that spot in the forest very recently.
He did have a history of several illnesses, and surgeries, but there was nothing in his medical history that would indicate he had any type of head injury or psychosis that could lead to an imaginary event. A timeline done by a UFO investigator to determine the length of time that Taylor was unconscious proved that Taylor was probably out of it for about twenty minutes, give or take. If we take Taylor's account as is, he was abducted by something "other-worldly" on November 9, 1979 for about twenty minutes. There has been no evidence presented to repudiate his claims. B J Booth
Source & References:
http://www.mysteriousbritain.co.uk/ufo's/dechmont.html
http://www.ufoarea.com/encounters_bob_taylor.html
http://www.ufoevidence.org/Cases/CaseView.asp?section=odor
http://ufologie.net/htm/dechmontwoods79.htm
photo credit: Edinburgh Evening News - Scotland, Dec. 12, 1998
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Soon, the press was aware of the Taylor's encounter, and in just a couple of days, the story was known all over the United Kingdom. Soon, it would be world-wide news, and eventually become the subject of television documentaries, magazines, and books. In time, a plaque would be erected at the site, but it was stolen.
Taylor was known by many people in the area, and they all viewed him as honest and responsible. There is nothing to indicate that he would hoax an incident of this nature.
(last update, 12-27-06)
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Black chevron with at least 5 amber lights seen on Hwy. 63N at 8 pm near Trumann, Arkansas
12-10-Trumann-On the evening of 12/10/06 at approximately 8 pm, while riding in a church bus from Memphis, TN to Jonesboro, AR on highway 63N, I noticed a large amber light in the northwest sky. At first, I thought what I was seeing was a star or planet, but then it started getting closer. I pointed out the light to my husband. The light seemed to parallel the highway traveling basically southeast. Since I was seated by a window, I had a brief view as it passed by. It was a black chevron with at least 5 amber lights. I have no idea of how to judge the altitude, but it looked to be a large craft. As far as I know, I am the only passenger to see the chevron, but my husband witnessed the light as it was approaching. My background is education. source: www.nuforc.org |
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04-2006-My wife and I were walking out of a restaurant in Campbell, California, when we noticed 2 large cigar-shaped UFOs hovering at a very high elevation in the sky. They were obviously gigantic in size to be that high up and still be that large looking. They were grey or black colored and had a light that went from left to right along the side. At first I thought it was the reflection from the sun that was causing the light but then my wife disagreed and said it was a light that was streaking across the crafts side. It was like nothing we had ever seen before. The interesting thing I’ll mention here is , it was traveling toward the direction of where our NASA base is in Mountain View , CA . We lost sight of the ships after about 2 minutes of viewing. No photos-Only a memory. Neither her nor I were ever believers of aliens or UFO’s being out there but now, its all I talk about. Jason & Sheryl, San Jose, CA-source: www.ufocasebook.com 12-13-Newport-Young woman, and her boyfriend, witness a bizarre disc-shaped object hovering nearby. Telephoned Report: A mother calls to recount her daughter's experience in Newport, CA. The daughter was driving with her boyfriend, when the two of them observed a large disc hovering motionless beside the road. It appeared to them to have a distinct "bulge" on the top side of the object, and it had flashing green and blue lights along the edge of the flange of the object. The boyfriend stopped his car, and the young woman (age 22 yrs.) attempted to photograph the object with her digital camera. When the flash of the camera flashed, the object suddenly shot toward the witnesses, passing over their car. They both heard a peculiar buzzing or humming, as it passed over. Daughter reported to her mother that there were an estimated 10 other vehicles stopped on the same road, and that at least one police cruiser also was present. Mother telephoned the Newport Police Department, but the police did not volunteer that any incident had been reported to their offices. NUFORC is awaiting a written report from the two witnesses. source: www.nuforc.org |
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12-24-Versailles-First of all I am a skeptic of UFOs but I know what I am seeing and it is like no other aircraft I have seen before. I was outside and I was looking at the stars and I saw what appeared to be a jet of some sort in the air because it was moving north at a steady rate. Then all of a sudden it started to move in a zig-zag fashion but would stop doing that every once in a while and continue to move straight at this time I went inside and went into my bedroom and saw that it was moving in a circular motion but not on it axis always making a perfect circle yet moving forward. It then started to move back and forth rapidly. It has been repeating these processes for the past half of a hour and it is still up in the sky. It also blinks in and out and changes its color tint. It move rapidly in north but without warning it changes direction and heads elsewhere. but it has only moved across maybe thirty miles of space in the last hour. It also stalls and doesn't move at all for several seconds. I do not know what it is but I am kind of freaked out about it.-Zianno, source: www.ufocasebook.com |
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12-09-St. Paul-I was at my mom's apartment and my brother went outside to smoke, 30 seconds later he came bursting through the door and said go outside you gotta see this. So me, my mother, and my brother went outside on the porch to see whats going on and my brother said LOOK. There was a search light in the sky but it wasn't straight up in the sky, it was at a low angle and in the light i saw an image floating through it. There was no sound, no cars, no nothing all was quiet. Then the search light moved off the object and I saw a huge UFO. it was flying as low as a plane would fly (1000 ft. not sure). The ship was humungus. It floated aroung the house and i bent over the porch rail to see it and then i looked at my mom then i looked back and it was gone. source: www.nuforc.org |
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12-12-Ashgrove-I just stepped outside to check on ( puppies) the dog. noticed a object in the sky about 1000 feet high (guessing) headed on a streight corse, it suddenly just stoped , then backed up aprox 1/4 mile then a blue light came on under the object. the light was 3/4 the size of the object, no beam could be seen shining down.went forward (east) again to the point it stoped the first time, then the blue light goes off.. then continued on at a slow speed. stoped again, backed up and again the blue light comes on and does the same thing it did the first time i noticed it in the sky. I watched it till it was over the eastern horison. (apox 7 minutes) stoped aprox 20 times (or more)to use that blue light. it was about the size of my thumb nail with my arm fully extended, was maby 3 miles or less from me in the southern sky aprox 1000 feet alt. no sound that i could hear. always seemsd to stop every mile, (guessing at the distance traveled) and back up and the blue light under it came on. the light goes off at the spot it first stops ,then backs up and again the light comes on. all quick stops and movement no slowing down or changes in speed.had a small orange light on the front and a bluegreen light on the back , If it was not disk shape. to dark to tell.was traveling at about the same speed a passanger plane travels coming in for a landing. source: www.nuforc.org |
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12-13-Tularosa-I was driving west on highway between mescalero, nm and tularosa,nm about 5 minutes to tularosa. there was a very bright light at low altitude that backlit a mountain then apeared from behind it. the object was moving north at very high velocity. Light was very bright and appeared to be burning was in full visibility for several seconds before striking the ground (perhaps just north or northwest of tularosa, nm)...sparks were thrown but there was no fire... Several other vehicles on the road saw it and some used their brakes and kept going others pulled over , myself included, it was dark out and i could not approximate the exact point of impact, will go out with binoculars in the morning to try to located the object, called 911 to report, best estimated time of incident would be between 18:00 and 18:12... source: www.nuforc.org |
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12-11-Bridgeville (near Pittsburgh)-I had just left the Walmart located on Route 50 in Heidelberg. I was travelling south on Route 50 towards Bridgeville, heading home. Just about a 1/8 to a quarter of a mile up from where I turned onto Route 50 from the road that goes to Walmart's parking lot, I saw bright lights coming at a high rate of speed directly towards the road I was on and in my direction... (ie- the lights were coming straight to me and the few other surrounding vehicles driving around me).
At first sighting, it was about a mile or two away in the sky. I thought to myself that it was an awfully bright light for a plane, and I started looking for the FAA lights. I didn't see any FAA lights on the plane. I then thought to myself to grab my camera phone and try to snap a shot of what I was seeing. I came up to the light on route 50 at Thoms Run Road. It was a red light about to turn green. This is not more than a 1/8 of a mile from when I made first sight of it. At that point, the lighted craft was in plain sight, about hundred feet in front of me, and maybe and about three hundred feet to my right. I'm not sure how high up in the sky it was, as it was moving very quickly, and I'm not very good at determining how high in the sky stuff is. At this point, the craft appeared to be somewhat circular in shape- the front of it facing me looked like a half circle or bananna kind of shape parallel to the horizon), and appeared to have lights surrounding the part of the craft facing me, but not on it's rear. These lights, about 7 or 8 ( a guestimation), all seemed to blend into one horizontal light around the front of the craft...and much brighter than any aircraft I have seen before. Traffic then started moving again, and cars were going very slow, curious about what the object was. I snapped a picture of it at this point, and as it saved, the craft came very close to my car, directly above it. At this point, the craft appeared to be triangular in shape, with a very bright light eminating from the center of it. Then the craft moved in a circle from where it was, went behind my car, and came back around. I snapped another picture of it when it came back around, moving in what appeared to be a complete circle...and then it flew out of my sight in a north/north eastern direction- moving very quickly. I got two pictures on my camera cell phone, both show the date and time to be the same. That should tell you how quickly this was moving. After seeing it, I did notice another airplane as I drove further down route 50, and it was much higher in the sky than the one I could not identify, and I could clearly make out the FAA lights. It is typical to see low flying planes here in Bridgeville, as we are close to the Pittsburgh Airport (about ten to fifteen miles away). The craft I could not identify was much lower than anything I have seen here before. When I got home, I decided to take a better look at the pictures with my roommate. He is a paranormal investigator, and can, most often, disprove a lot of things that people can't indentify. After zooming in on the images, neither of us could identify what this object was. My professional background is mostly in mental health, as a program director. My personal background- I have an interest in the paranormal, and volunteer heavily for a paranormal research and investigation group. source: www.nuforc.org |
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