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UFO Magazine Issue # 315, Issue date, 07-14-08
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UFOs over Stephenville Neared Bush Ranch, According to New Report
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Author-Steve Hammons
July 11, 2008-As reported on the Joint Recon Study Group site, in a one-two punch within the past 24 hours, two more significant elements of the Stephenville, Texas, UFO sightings have occurred.
The information is astounding.
And there may be more to come.
Late Thursday night, the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) released an extraordinary report about radar evidence pertaining to activities in the skies in the Stephenville region on Jan. 8, 2008.
Then, this evening, the widely-watched CNN program "Larry King Live" featured the two authors of the MUFON report, several of the Stephenville witnesses, the former local newspaper reporter who first broke the story and other guests.
The combined impact of these two developments has again put attention on this rural region of northeast Texas approximately 70 miles southwest of Fort Worth, the people who live there, investigators looking at the situation and the news media reporting about it all.
The authors of the MUFON report, Glen Schulze and Robert Powell, obtained radar information through the filing of 10 requests through the federal Freedom of Information Act.
They received information from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), National Weather Service, all nearby military bases, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Services and the 21st and 30th Air Force Wing Commands, according to published reports.
They concluded that there were multiple non-military aircraft in the region that were unidentified and these correlated with witness reports. There was also unusually heavy military air traffic in the region that night.
BUSH RANCH AT CRAWFORD
Ever since news of the multiple sightings by highly-credible witnesses in areas around Stephenville and nearby Dublin, there has been speculation that the military jets seen in the area at the same time as the UFOs could be related to security for the Bush Ranch at Crawford, about 40 miles to the southeast.
Larry King asked about this on his show. Angelia Joiner, the former local newspaper reporter whose articles first caught the attention of the mainstream media, noted that many local people had wondered if there was some connection to the Bush ranch. But she indicated she had no specific information.
Now, the MUFON report clearly states that there were aircraft flying in the area that night without the transponders – aircraft identifier devices – and at least one appeared to be flying in the direction of the no-fly protective zone around the Bush ranch.
The MUFON investigators claim that one UFO without a transponder was within 10 miles of the Bush ranch.
According to the MUFON report, "The object was traveling to the southeast on a direct course towards the Crawford Ranch, also known as President Bush's western White House."
"The last time the object was seen on radar at 8 p.m., it was continuing on a direct path to Crawford Ranch and was only 10 miles away. During the entire episode of over an hour, there is no indication that any of the military jets reacted to this unknown craft," the report concluded.
The object was tracked by radar heading in the direction of the Bush ranch for approximately one hour, the report stated. Moving at a speed of 532 miles per hour at one point, the object primarily was traveling at 60 mph.
MEDIA ON THE JOB
As usual, CNN host Larry King asked intelligent and common-sense questions of his guests.
The MUFON investigators pointed out that the extensive radar date indicated an extremely high level of activity – and unusual activity at that – in the region that includes Stephenville and Crawford that night.
King also interviewed witnesses Lee Roy Gaitan, a local law enforcement constable, and Ricky Sorrells, a resident.
Gaitan spotted strange lights himself and has had contact with fellow law enforcement officers in the region who also witnessed strange objects.
One local officer claims he was able to determine the speed a low-flying and slow-moving craft with his police radar gun used to ticket speeders.
Sorrells told King he saw a massive dark gray metallic object 300 above him in a wooded area where he was deer hunting one day. The object was so large Sorrells said he could not determine the edges of it as far as the eye could see.
He said it was in a stationary position above him one minute and then, in the blink of an eye, it had taken off at a 45 degree angle while remaining horizontal, and was gone.
While King has exemplified responsible reporting by the media about the Stephenville case, he has not been alone.
Associated Press reporter Angela K. Brown first picked up the early indications that something was going on from reports in the small Stephenville Empire-Tribune newspaper by Angelia Joiner who was then a reporter at the paper.
When the AP article was widely published and posted on the Web, other media outlets and journalists followed up. In general, media coverage appeared to be professional, diligent and responsible.
Now, with the surprisingly thorough scientific data and conclusions in the MUFON report, we may see similar follow-through by the media.
source & references:
http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/68094
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Retired Meteorologist Still Scans the Skies-for UFOs
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Published: Jul 5, 2008 at 3:19 PM PDT
By ROB BURNS, The Daily World OCEAN SHORES, Wash. (AP) - William Puckett's work has him going more than he ever did when he was a full-time employee. It helps him put the pieces of the puzzle together.
As a UFO investigator, Puckett acknowledges or debunks stories of unidentified flying objects in the sky, landing on the ground and hovering over homes through his Web site www.ufosnw.com.
Along the way, the former National Weather Service and Enviromental Protection Agency meteorologist believes he and others are closer to proving that we aren't the only ones living in this universe.
"My intent behind this - why I do this - is for my own scientific curiosity," said the Ocean Shores resident. "I want to stimulate the awareness of this phenomena to the public. It isn't all crackpots and nutcases, although some of them are. I believe that we are not alone."
Puckett's work as a UFO investigator expanded in 2004 when he began his site - UFOs Northwest - during his final years as an EPA weather forecaster in Bellevue. However, his interest in the subject began in the early days of UFO sightings and hysteria.
"I grew up in the 1950s and UFOs were on the national news," said the Peerless, Mont., native, who moved to Ocean Shores last summer. "In those days, everyone believed they were Russian. Later, we learned that they had UFO cases and the objects weren't their's either. If they weren't from the U.S. or from Russia or from escaped Nazi scientists, what were they?"
Movies such as "The Day The Earth Stood Still" and other early science fiction stories further fueled his imagination. His interest intensified in the 1970s when the U.S. government released the declassified Air Force Project Blue Book. In it, the Air Force studied UFO cases between 1947-69 and had more than 800 unidentified cases.
"That was good, because you only need one," added Puckett. "I realized that I'm a scientist and I can study this, too. That was the beginning."
On the site, people from around the country send Puckett their sightings, which he breaks down to either prove that it is "unexplained or unknown" or a hoax. It is an extensive site filled with sightings, audio and video clips, news articles on sightings, abduction and close encounter cases and historical pieces.
"It takes a lot of work; I don't charge anyone for their cases and the only money I get from it is from ads that help pay for the site," Puckett said.
Puckett also gained notoriety from the site when "UFO Hunters," a documentary series through The History Channel, found him and used several cases featured on his site.
"They contacted me when they began researching cases that were first reported to me on the site," Puckett said. "I helped them with those cases and I have a stack of papers here for them for next season.
"I'm so busy, I'm retired and I have two jobs now working on the Web site and working for (UFO Hunters)," Puckett added. "I don't know if I can give them all of the information that they need. People do ask me to research a particular case or sighting, but most of the time, I work on the site."
Using scientific methods learned from his time in the federal government and in school, Puckett breaks down every case to investigate the authenticity of the story.
From information given to him through his site or from other sources, Puckett will begin by looking for weather data and studying astrological charts to check out the weather to help determine if the object is a planet or a satellite in space.
"I've had people call 911 after staring at the planet Saturn, thinking it is a UFO," Puckett said. "If someone sees something in the sky, it isn't moving and they see lights when they look at it through binoculars, I'll check the weather. Then I'll ask them to tell me where it was and I'll determine the angles. When I worked in the EPA, I learned how to plot maps and you'll see plotted maps of the sighting on the site."
Once Puckett has the initial information and double-checked it against the weather at the time of the sighting and whether the International Space Station happened to be floating by on a dark, clear night, the detective work begins.
At times, Puckett can tell the story he's hearing or reading is a hoax or it'll come from a manipulated digital photo sent in with the story.
"If someone used the phrase, 'It was a UFO' or called the object a spacecraft, I'm immediately suspicious," Puckett said. "No one knows whether that is a UFO or not. It couldn't be identified. I really look at the witness report.
"Most hoaxers are pretty stupid," Puckett added. "A few years ago, a couple of guys sounded legit. I asked for a drawing and they gave me a computer drawing. It wasn't good enough for them. They called me the next day and they claimed they were someone else and that's how I figured it out."
If the story isn't a hoax, Puckett will analyze the information more and post it onto his site to let others see it. If the story stands up to scrutiny from other investigators and hobbyists, it goes in as an unidenified case.
"I'll say it is unidentified and it may be identifiable with more data," Puckett said. "I'll never say that it is extraterrestrial. I rarely ever say that. My witnesses might. Most cases I can't identify possibly around 70 percent of them. It doesn't mean that they're not real, just that I can't identify it. Most of the sightings are at night, but if I get one that is in the daytime, that opens my eyes. You don't get too many of those."
Peter Davenport, who runs the National UFO Reporting Center in Harrington near Spokane, and is a friend of Puckett, notes that Puckett is more willing to accept what people are saying as legitimate and holds his work in high regard.
"His vantage point is of a meteorologist and he looks at every case scientifically," said Davenport, who met Puckett eight years ago through a chat club for late-night radio personality Art Bell.
"When anyone investigates anything, they should use scientific methods to prove or disprove it. I'm satisfied that Bill does that to a large degree."
Through Puckett's time as an investigator, research has been easier with his Web site generating more cases and other sites to get initial information to begin his work.
"The Internet is beautiful," Puckett said. "Twenty years ago, you had to go to the library to get astrological data, satellite vectors, weather and radar data. Now, you click to a few sites and get everything you need. My biggest tool in investigations is my computer. I can dump a photo from my camera or a submitted photo into the computer and know if it is a fake or not. In (photo programs), they leave a footprint on the photo and you can tell if it has been manipulated.
"The latest technology has made my job easier," Puckett added. "With mapping software and sites, you used to go to the library to get them a long time ago. Also back then, you'd have to buy the software and it made it very prohibitive to what we're doing today. It has made the job easier, by far."
Part of the tools of the trade, especially for field investigations, include global positioning system (GPS) readers, radiation and low-level electromagnetic field meters, topological maps and a large array of cameras digital and video. Several of Puckett's video cameras are custom-made without lens filters, in order to allow him to place different filters on to see higher and lower levels of light, including infrared light.
"I've done some field investigations before, but I haven't done any recently," Puckett said. "With my equipment, if I receive a report of a landing, I could be out there this afternoon, if I'm able to get onto the property. If I get a case in Illinois, I'll take the information and send it off to Davenport and he'll go out there and interview them."
Does Puckett have his own case, where he is a witness to an unexplainable event?
"No, but I do believe something is out there," Puckett said.
Among Puckett's library of books, many of them scientific books and novels pertaining to astrophysics, scientific exploration and UFO cases, is a textbook for fire cadets the "Fire Officer's Guide to Disaster Control."
Published by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the book is a how-to on dealing with disasters, many of which have been tested and executed over the past several decades. In one section, Chapter 13, the book deals with "Enemy Attack & UFO Potential."
"Firefighters would be the first responders to a landing or crash landing of a UFO," Puckett said. "There's a whole chapter on it - what to do, how to deal with public panic. FEMA is the one who wrote the book. Most fire departments have this book and it is very comprehensive. Everything in the book, like how to deal with hurricanes, comes from experience. That's how you develop protocol.
"If you have extraterrestrial body material, you have a (biological) hazard," Puckett added. "Firefighters would be the first ones out there."
One of Puckett's theories on interstellar travel and extraterrestrials (ETs) is that Earth has been visited before and continues to be visited now to replenish resources like water, minerals and even biological materials.
"For civilizations to survive, they have to have interstellar travel at some point," Puckett said. "In my mind, if they're going to do interstellar travel, they still need resources to do it. Why would they come here in the first place? That's a fair question. I don't know, but I believe it is for genetic material, biological material, water and metals."
When talking about cases and sighting of UFOs, the subject always turns to the government and how much they may or may not know.
"How much they know is debatable, but recently, the British released 1,000 pages of UFO testimony," Puckett said. "One case in the testimony talks about an unknown vehicle landing on an airport runway and then taking off again. That's extraordinary.
"Some people ask why doesn't the U.S. government do something like this, but I worked for the federal government for 30 years and I know that there are turf wars when it comes to information," Puckett said. "We have seven or eight agencies within the government that have files on UFOs. They have their own compartmentalization and they don't share information between each other. That really came to the forefront when the Department of Homeland Security was formed. Do you remember how much trouble that was? These agencies didn't want to give up what they already had.
"For something like this, they're not going to release information when they don't have to."
As a UFO investigator, the more cases you work on, the closer you may get to the truth. Like an archaeologist whose greatest find would be the Holy Grail, a UFO investigator's biggest case would be evidence of ETs and vehicles proven to be from another world.
This is what Puckett and other investigators continue to work for and are motivated to find.
"The Holy Grail, in the scientific world, would be to recover UFO artifacts or biological material, take it into a lab and have an analysis that shows that the metals are not of terrestrial origin and of an unknown manufacturing process," Puckett said.
"That's what scientists want. Obviously, if you had a real extraterrestial being that wasn't human or a deformed human. That's the Holy Grail. We don't have that.
"Allegedly, the government does - allegedly."
source & references:
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/23638239.html
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UFOs: More Madness and Apocalyptic Fears
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From The Times July 8, 2008-
The space cadets (or scaremongers) are out in force Mick Hume
Where is Doctor Who when you need him? Just as another series ends with the Doctor saving Earth from the Daleks (again), we are warned that Britain faces a “real life” alien invasion this summer. How mad is that?
Well, maybe not much madder than the allegedly sane fear-mongering we face the rest of the year. Some newspapers have declared “the summer of the UFO”, as soldiers, police officers, academics and members of the public report strange sightings in the night sky across our “alien nation”.
It is easy to scoff at UFO experts who appear from nowhere to shout “cover up!” whenever somebody sees a light. Easy, because most of them have moondust for brains. As Bill Bryson observes in A Short History of Nearly Everything, our solar system's nearest neighbour, Proxima Centauri, is one hundred million times farther away than the Moon. Maybe some anti-social alien teens do travel billions of miles just to scare us, “but it does seem unlikely”.
No, outbreaks of UFO sightings historically tend to reflect how people view events on Earth. Thus they were common in America during the Cold War, the peak years of panic about nuclear war and Soviet invasion. If there is more than media silly-season stories behind the latest outbreak of UFO madness, maybe it says something about our apocalyptic age. After all, we are forever being warned by experts and authorities that life on Earth is under imminent threat from global warming, terrorism and war or bird flu, asteroids and overpopulation, not to mention “unknown unknowns”. Why shouldn't some feel free to add UFOS to the list of Unsubstantiated Frightening Occurrences?
When scientists such as Stephen Hawking and Sir Martin Rees, the Astronomer Royal, seriously suggest that humanity needs to flee the planet to survive, and Ban Ki Moon, the UN Secretary General, calls melting Antarctic ice “even more terrifying” than “a science fiction movie”, it should be no surprise if the space cadets come out in force.
One “top UFO watcher” tells The Sun that the recent sightings “could be linked to global warming and craft from outer space are appearing because they are concerned about what Man is doing to this planet”. Let's hope the little green men use low-emission spacecraft.
If the lights in the sky are morbid symptoms of a gathering cultural gloom about our future, then maybe you don't need to be mad to believe in UFOs - although it helps. All this earthly pessimism is almost enough to make me nostalgic for the Posadists, loony leftists who believed that socialism would be brought by UFOs from superior civilisations. Are there any of them out there?
source & references:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/mick_hume/article4288938.ece
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Opening NASA’s X Files: The Kecksburg Incident
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Author Leonard David
June 16th, 2008-Call it NASA’s X files if you must, but investigative reporter, Leslie Kean, is hot on the trail of what in the world (or out of it) took place in Kecksburg, Pennsylvania in December 1965.
It took the winning of a lawsuit against NASA in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, but now the investigator has her hands on a load of files that may — or may not — offer new clues about the Kecksburg incident.
For years, Kean has been seeking documents about the purported crash of an unknown object in that locale over forty years ago. Witnesses described seeing a fireball in the evening sky, some sort of a controlled landing, followed by a military recovery of a spacecraft-like object. As reported by local radio and newspapers, U.S. military personnel cordoned off the area, investigated the site, and left without ever providing a full report of the incident - other than to dismiss is as a meteor.
Since the settlement of the lawsuit in October, Kean has been following the steps laid out in the settlement agreement. Both sides needed extensions at various times due to the volume of work selecting which files to pull, and then for NASA to conduct the search, the investigative journalist explained to me.
Helping to open this case, Kean has been working with the Coalition for Freedom of Information. In her on-going research campaign, Kean culled through 689 detailed pages of file-inventory lists.
The documents just arrived over last weekend, Kean told me, “so I haven’t yet had a chance to go through them…and don’t yet know what I’ll find.”
NASA searched 297 boxes of files, Kean said via email. A sampling of a few of the more interesting files from these boxes, which she requested — and which could shed light on one or more of the many facets of the Kecksburg event — gives a flavor of what the files contain.
The data haul includes files on Navy and NASA Recovery Operations - Trajectory and Orbits Panel; Russian Vehicle and Launch - 1962-1965; Department of Defense (DOD)-NASA relationships; Recovery Sites - NASA/DOD FY 65 Facilities; and a series of files on orbital debris and fragments.
“Even if not specific to Kecksburg, they will very likely inform us about interesting aspects of NASA’s space program related to the retrieval of unidentified objects during this time period,” Kean said.
See the UFO Casebook file: The Kecksburg Crash.
source & references:
http://www.livescience.com/blogs/author/leonarddavid/
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Public in Denial over UFOs, says Investigator
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Jul 7 2008 by Steve Bagnall, Daily Post
MARGARET Fry has never doubted that beings from outer space visit the Earth, nor the existence of UFOs, ever since she says she saw one with her own eyes 53 years ago this month.
She has been investigating reported sightings and incidents, and trying to persuade the sceptics in our midst for the past 30 years that they are very real.
The veteran investigator and co-founder of the Welsh Fellowship of Independent Ufologists, and a grandmother of nine from Abergele, accepts it’s a difficult task. But she is at a loss to understand how so many appear to be in denial about the issue.
“People are not taking it at all seriously, as far as I can make out. Not until they see something, and then they have to consider the possibilities.
“Some people read about it as an interesting phenomenon and then forget about it. I don’t now how, really, because we’re being visited by beings from various planetary systems in outer space. How people can’t take an interest in that, I just don’t know.”
Wales has long been a hot-bed of reported UFO activity, way before the recent reported buzzing of a police helicopter above Cardiff by an unidentified craft made headlines worldwide.
But Margaret Fry isn’t impressed by claims that alien life forms are taking a particular interest in Wales. She insists that Welsh airspace only seems more active because the country has more dedicated ufologists compared to most other places.
“It’s because you’ve got one damned good UFO investigator talking to you,” she tells me. “We’re a group of people who’ve gone out of our way to get UFO reports, and maybe they’re not as strong in other places.”
The most famous UFO incident in Wales was the one dubbed the “Welsh Roswell” reported to have taken place on the Berwyn mountain near Bala in 1974. Locals reported seeing strange lights on the mountain, amid reports of a huge bang, with the police and military immediately sealing off the area.
Mrs Fry has spent hours investigating the incident down the years, and says that reports of an object crashing into the mountain are at variance with the evidence she’s garnered.
“I’ve been investigating it since 1979, talking to the farming community. As far as I know, we have no evidence whatsoever of anything ever crashing there that night. But dozens of witnesses have told us they saw a craft sitting on the ridge known as Cefn Coch.
“The other thing we have evidence of is that it hovered in the sky for a long time and came down gradually. Therefore it wasn’t a meteor, and came down deliberately rather than crashing. It stayed on the ground for an hour and a quarter before taking off again, and it was seen by the villagers in Llandyrnog. They definitely saw something that wasn’t a conventional craft.
“There was a meteorite shower that night, but it came from the north east side of the mountain, and would therefore have had to do a U-turn to crash on the west side as some reports say, which is quite impossible. We found this out, but nobody’s ever written about it.”
Her first encounter with a UFO was a well-reported incident in her native Bexleyheath in London, a seminal moment in her life that set her on a life-long pursuit of the truth.
“It wasn’t just one UFO that landed at noon on July 17 1955, but two, They landed three or four streets apart. One was in Bexleyheath, King Harold’s Way. All the people came out of their houses. There most have been at least 170 people standing around this thing.”
While governments hold huge files on UFOs and reported alien visits, Margaret has her own theories as to why they prefer to keep their public in the dark.
“It would affect people’s thinking, and religious doctrines and cause panic. I don’t think we have anything to worry about at the moment. So far, none of these craft have been aggressive, but how are we to know?”
welshnews
source & references:
http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/2008/07/07/public-are-in-denial-over-ufos-says-investigator-55578-21272583/
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The Tunguska Mystery
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Was a massive blast in Siberia an asteroid or a clumsy alien attempt to make contact?
By Jane Fryer
Last updated at 9:13 AM on 03rd July 2008
At 7.17am on June 30, 1908, a towering column of light, bright as the sun and blueygold in colour, hovered in the sky above the dense forests of Siberia.
Minutes later came a blinding flash, a wall of blistering heat, a pillar of fire and a staggering explosion which flattened trees and bushes, and burned everything in its path.
'The sky split in two and fire appeared high and wide over the forest,' a member of the local Evenki tribe remembered.
'The split in the sky grew larger, and the entire northern side was covered with fire.
'At that moment I became so hot I couldn't bear it, as if my shirt was on fire. I wanted to tear off my shirt and throw it down, and then the sky slammed shut. A strong thump sounded and I was thrown a few yards.'
Scientists still argue over whether a blast which flattened a Siberian forest over 100 years ago was the result of an asteroid, or alien contact
The Evenki tribesman was one of the lucky ones. The blast was 1,000 times more powerful than the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Explosions could be heard more than 600 miles away, tremors hurled people off their feet more than 40 miles away and more than 80 million trees covering 830 square miles were flattened.
The Tunguska Event - as the devastation became known - went down in history as the greatest cosmic impact of modern times.
A century on, scientists are still bickering about what really happened near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in Russia.
Was it an asteroid - a lump of rock and iron the size of a football stadium which hurtled towards the earth at a speed of seven miles a second?
Or perhaps a comet - made of ice and mud? Or an 'earth burp' - a sudden gigantic expulsion of methane from the ground? Or maybe a collision with a 'smallish' black hole?
Or was it in fact - as a staggering number of people really do seem to believe - the work of a bunch of incompetent aliens trying, rather clumsily, to get in touch?
Perhaps by the end of the week, we'll have a better idea. Because in a desperate bid to solve the mystery once and for all, Russian scientists at a special anniversary symposium being held in Moscow have spent the past few days chewing over the options.
And, due to the lack of an obvious crater, debris or, indeed, any firm evidence that something solid did actually crash to earth, they're considering every possibility - from asteroids and comets to some rather more colourful schools of thought.
Such as that of Yuri Lavbin, head of the Tunguska Space Phenomenon Public State Fund, who blames it all on aliens and, before you scoff, insists he has the evidence to prove it - wreckage from their spaceship that he says he discovered four years ago.
Deep impact: Eighty million trees were falttened in the Tunguska event
And even the UFO conspiracy theorists are fiercely divided as to why, precisely, extraterrestrial creatures would have wanted to annihilate a great swathe of barely populated Siberian forest.
Some claim they were friendly aliens, keen to help out vulnerable Earthlings.
So the explosion was the result of an alien weapon shooting down a meteorite which would have caused far more devastation if it had been allowed to impact.
Others say it was the result of an exploding alien space ship. Or an alien attack.
Although, if so, why Siberia? It's not exactly a prime spot. Maybe they set their watches too fast - just four hours later and London, which lies at the same latitude, would have been razed and millions of people would have been killed.
Experts say that an explosion of that size would wipe out an area equivalent to everything within the M25.
Yet another faction insist it was all a dreadful extraterrestrial cock-up, and that residents on a far off planet mistook the massive 1883 Krakatoa eruption as a cheerful communication from Earth.
Or - please suspend belief a little longer - the devastation of 80 million trees was the result of the aliens' over-enthusiastic response with a laser probe.
Whatever the cause, the explosion sent an atmospheric shockwave twice around the world and turned night into day across Europe.
Britain was lit for several days by a beautiful white and yellow sky, bright enough for midnight games of cricket and golf across the country.
This phenomenon is now thought to have been due to sunlight scattered by dust from the fireball's plume.
In a letter to a newspaper, one reader wrote: 'I myself was aroused from sleep at 1.15am, and so strong was the light at this hour, that I could read a book by it quite comfortably.
At 1.45am, the whole sky was a delicate salmon pink, and the birds began their morning song.'
Shockwaves
Extraordinarily, despite the global shockwaves, dust particles, midnight sun and cricket matches, no one bothered to pop up to Siberia to see what had happened for 13 years - the Russian czars weren't that bothered about the backward Tungus people.
But finally, in 1921, Russian mineralogist Leonid Kulik visited the region, interviewed local eyewitnesses, decided a meteorite must have been the cause and persuaded the Russian authorities to fund an aerial survey in 1938.
This revealed how the flattened trees were angled away from the epicentre of the explosion over a 30-mile-wide zone, in the shape of a butterfly - but there was no crater.
Back in Moscow, the debate rages on. If idiot aliens are just too much to swallow, the Russian symposium will also be considering whether an American scientist called Nikola Tesla had anything to do with it all.
Apparently, he'd developed a 'death ray' (a particle beam weapon which travels at the speed of light) at about this time and had been testing it out in a rather cavalier fashion.
Last Thursday, three Italian experts insisted that Lake Cheko, five miles from the epicentre of the blast, was the missing impact crater.
And if it was, after all, a meteor? Look on the bright side. According to NASA, midsize meteor strikes occur only once every 300 years.
And given that only a tiny fraction of the earth is heavily populated, and 70 per cent is covered with water, the odds of a direct strike on a populated area are pleasingly remote.
Whatever it was - alien incompetence or bog-standard meteorite - the Tunguska Event remains one of modern humanity's narrowest escape from extraterrestrial destruction.
And the spaceship wreckage? Well, it could be an uncanny coincidence, but it turns out the Tunguska site is downrange from the Baikonur Cosmodrome and, over the years, has been repeatedly scattered with Russian space debris.
Meanwhile, the local community have very sensibly dismissed it all as a load of rubbish, and marked the 100-year anniversary of the explosion by unveiling a statue to the Evenki god of thunder. But the UFO debate rages on.
source & references:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1031310/Was-massive-blast-Siberia-asteroid-clumsy-alien-attempt-make-contact.html
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Man Relates 1970 Abduction by "Tall, Gray, Aliens"
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Jul 8 2008 By David Simister
FOLLOWING our story on UFO sightings, one reader has contacted Your Vale to share his own close encounter.
Ernie Edwards speaking in his first newspaper interview, says he was walking home from work towards Cyffylliog in 1970 when he was met with a circular flying object, which then went on to abduct him.
"It was a lovely moonlit night, and as I looked up, I saw this very bright scarlet light, which became a massive round object with a pulsating light which was only about 50 yards away from me. It looked cigar-shaped to start with, and then changed shape," said Ernie, who now lives in Prestatyn.
"Obviously I knew it was a flying saucer when it changed shape. I was terrified on the spot. It turned on its side and shot off towards a house, and hovered above it."
Ernie, who works as a driver for nursing homes, also described his apparent abduction by the craft and – although he has no memory of how he came aboard – being examined by what he describes as "tall, grey beings".
"The craft appeared to me as an oval-shaped room at the time, where I was laid on a metallic table, as I were in a hospital," said Ernie.
"The beings spoke through their minds to me, telepathically and in a very strange, very fast sort of gibberish. I was just staring at their eyes.
"A couple of days after that experience I came out in a rash, from head to toe. I honestly believe that I had some sort of radiation rash after meeting people not strictly of this world."
Despite the other-worldly nature of his strange meeting, Ernie doesn’t necessarily believe these visitors to the Vale were necessarily from another planet.
"It could have been the government testing aircraft of the future, but then again, it could have been visitors from another planet. Until people actually see one themselves and have the experience I did back in 1970, they won’t be able to see for themselves," he said.
"With all the sightings in the area recently people should be aware that these things definitely exist. I would never want anything like what happened to me on that day in 1970 to happen to anyone else."
source & references:
http://www.yourvale.co.uk/news/vale-of-clwyd-news/2008/07/08/man-tells-how-he-was-abducted-by-ufo-105722-21304683/
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Illinois-Six UFOs, Larger than Bright Star
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07-04-08-Elmhurst-9:40 pm-Shape, Size, and Color of UFO? 6 dots, a bit larger than a bright star, and glowing subtly from red to orange. Name of other Witnesses? Matt R.-Clear skies, 72 degrees-One photo taken at 2nd appearance 10 minutes later in a lit parking lot, photo is poor quality.
My friend and I were walking to get a shake from a fast food restaurant in our Chicago suburb, Elmhurst. We stopped in our tracks having seen 6 lights in the southern sky, about 45 degrees altitude. Their movement was constant but slow individually in their relative unit and even slower as a unit across the sky. They seemed to be headed toward north, but they never crossed the zenith from our apparent view.
They were visible for about 40-50 seconds, glowing subtly from orange to red, then dimmed out one-by-one within 10 seconds. There was a second appearance 10 minutes later when we were in the parking lot. I stopped to take a photo with my iphone, though the quality is relatively poor. Please inform me of similar sightings. Thank you, Dan L. source: www.ufocasebook.com
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Michigan-Triangular Object Seen
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06-13, or 14-08-I saw one during a thunderstorm, June 13 or 14 2008 about 00:45. It flew directly overhead at about 200 to 300 feet altitude. It was triangular with a bright white light at each corner, black or dark grey in color. In the center there appeared to be a circular opening with a dim reddish orange glow inside. This circular opening was surrounded by small white lights. In the center of the back edge there was a rectangular red light that didn't blink. The back edge of the craft was perfectly straight from side to side. This craft was at least 100 feet wide. Form a distance of a mile it looked like the top of a huge cell phone tower with bright white lights at each corner. The lights were perpendicular, like cell phone antenna. It hovered about 200 to 300 feet above ground. As we passed it by, We noticed it was huge, way too big to be a cell phone tower, and something we had never seen before. I drove less than two miles. Dropped off my passenger at Johns Bar, and turned around. On the way back it flew directly overhead. This event was witnessed on M-15 between Bay City and Munger Michigan near Russel Rd. the night of the thunderstorm during the weekend of June 13th. source: www.mufon.com
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North Carolina-Small Triangle
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June, 2008-I wanted you to be aware of what I have seen over the past 2 weeks, I need to tell someone that won't think I'm crazy. The sightings were in Raleigh, NC, and all were in the early morning hours, I work 3rd shift and all were spotted while outside on smoke breaks.
The first sighting was last Monday, June 23, at 5:00 AM, just before daybreak. I noticed a small triangle-shaped star formation to the west
that I had not noticed before. This particular formation had a bright star at the top and bottom left, with fainter star at the bottom right.
I was looking at it when the top star just suddenly took off to the left at about 5 times the speed of any normal aircraft that one would
spot in the sky. It kept going in a straight line at the same speed until it was out of sight. This was the first time I have ever seen anything that I am convinced was a UFO or spaceship, and thought it was pretty cool. I have since noticed the same two bottom stars every night since then, with no reapperance of the top one.
The second sighting was this past Monday, June 30, at 4:00 AM, this one was like a very faint star and it appeared from the south and headed straight across the sky heading north until out of line of sight at about the same speed as the first sighting.
The third sighting was just a little while ago, Wednesday, July 2, at again 4:00 AM, almost identical to the second sighting, this one's course originated out of the southwest and was headed north. These are obviously not stars, comets, space stations, shuttles or satellites, so that only leaves one answer, unless the military or NASA is cruising around up there and not telling anyone. Nick W. source: www.ufocasebook.com
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Tennessee-Green Orb Hovers
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1996-Northeast Knoxville, late summer, early evening. Clear night. Three of us were standing in front of a old home in Knoxville. It was a beautiful clear night. We were all chatting when out of nowhere, a green orb came from the east, very fast. It hovered for moments, then it would quickly go west, stop, hover, then quickly go east, stop, and hover.
After 60 seconds to 90 seconds, it did the same pattern to the west and disappeared. It was almost like it was watching us like when a dragon fly flies in very quickly to check out the situation, then flies away very fast. It was a very similar flight pattern. The green orb was not extremely bright, but bright enough to light up the surroundings around it. It was hovering close to the ground, right over the tree line, but not the height of a plane in the sky.
The color was a emerald green that was glowing in a an orb like shape. The size was small because it was some distance away... but couldn't tell how large it was in size because it was moving and it was nothing like I have seen to compare the shape or size. There were two other people who were with me, and we talked about it afterwards and neither of us could explain what it was, but we all confirmed it wasn't a plain, helicopter, hot air balloon, flash light, etc. We just laughed about, but was a little scared, we decided to all go home after the sighting.
We all started asking each othe,r "Did you see that?" "What did you see?" We agreed that we all saw the same sight, and talked about it a little after the incident, but soon we graduated from college and went our separate ways. Although my friends and I have lost touch, I wonder if they still talk about it. Robbie, source: www.ufocasebook.com
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Canada-Two Bright Objects
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Ontario, Hamilton-November, 2007-Late last year, I think it was late November, my father came to pick me up from work. This was in front of the Holiday Drive-In Theater on Old Oxford Road. I was looking out the window of his truck and he suddenly said "Hey, look at that!"
I turned and looked out of the windshield and there were two bright spots in the sky, one right above the other. There was a light coming from the bottom spot, like a spotlight, and it reached all the way to the ground. The light suddenly went out and the two bright points changed position, so that they were next to one another. They started moving along off to the right and we watched them until we got home. It was really strange, and I'm fairly certain it was a UFO. source: www.ufocasebook.com
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Tasmania-Bright Light Flashes Colors
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07-04-08-Upon arriving home at 6:10 pm (winter in Tassie) I noticed a bright flashing light out of the corner of my eye. After parking my car I went outside my garage I again spotted the bright light flashing red/blue/green/orange. The light was a 1/3 as large again as the brightest star in the sky and was located about a hand width above the Hill on which the town Glenlusk is located. Two house lights from the town are visible from my house and I used these to reference the light.
Over a period of 10 minutes I witnessed the object move very slowly in a westerly direction towards Collinsvale before disappearing behind the hill. The light was remarkably similar to the Indiana lights uploaded onto you website 7-06-08. The night was cold and extremely clear and I could not hear any noises. Despite my best attempts I was unable to capture this light with my mobile phone. source: www.ufocasebook.com
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