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Report & Photographs of UFO Landing in Israel, 11-28-05
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Dear B.J. ,

I enclose my report, first published in our convention last week, and in our website.

We still can’t explain the event, and neither the signs left in the area.

This is the reason, we send you the report. Maybe someone of your experts can help us identify what happened here…

We have a total sum of more then 40 photographs and a video footage (200M in size – about 10 minutes). I enclosed samples of the photos separately with this e-mail.

I’ll be happy to give you more details if asked, and answer any question you have about the event…

Sincerely yours,

Hannan Sabat

Webmaster – Israeli Center for UFO research (ICFUFOR)

English site: http://geocities.com/icfufor/

Hebrew site: www.ufoisrael.org

THE REPORT is next:

UFO landing event, in central ISRAEL

Hannan Sabat (ICFUFOR)

Here is the report concerning a UFO landing, which occurred between Sunday and Monday on the 28th of November, 2005.

The event occurred in one of the agricultural settlements, between the city of Ramla and the Lod International Airport (central Israel). According to the witness’s request, we don't publish their names and the settlement name.

Conclusion:

At 01:30, the witness’s daughter went to take a shower. She heard noises coming from the yard, and she thought that there is a possibility that robbers broke into the house, or someone is trying to steal the vehicle. She turned the lights in the yard on, but she didn't see anything unusual.

The witness’s mother-in-law told me in the morning, that she heard the dogs bark, between 02:00-3:00, but she didn't pay any attention to the dogs.

After 07:00 in the morning, the witness’s wife went out of their home, and discovered elliptic signs of imprinting in the house yard. The yard is assembled from hard pressed coarse sand and small stones. The woman called her husband, and he called the police. The police send a team of scouts, and then the police called Mr. Abi Greif (chairman of ICFUFOR).

At first, the dogs didn't want to approach the imprinting, and avoided entering the area. One of the dogs made its needs near the imprinting. Only after a few hours, the dogs entered freely to the imprinting.

The police scouts, checked the house and its surroundings, but didn't find any clues. When they weren’t able to get into any conclusions, they indicated in their report, that it is a case of a UFO. The scouts decided that an object came from above and probably left in the same direction. They couldn't decide what this object was. Any signs of an object brought there by someone, or signed of a dune buggy or any other vehicles, were rejected by the police. According to the police scouts, a tire sign, seen in the area of the imprinting, was made there a few days ago. The witness videotaped the police arrival.

According to the witness, a helicopter hovered above his house, shortly afterwards (probably to scan the area).

I (Hannan Sabat) arrived to the area (thanks to the witness’s invitation), about 11:00. Beside the witness’s family, or the police, no one was allowed to get there. With the witness’s help, I was allowed to check the area and photograph the imprinting (I used a T70 CANON camera, and an AGFA color film, ASA-200).

Signs in the area and the signs of the imprinting:

The central imprinting is about 1.5 – 2 meters in diameter.

It had a spiral shape, and reminds an oval elliptic shape. Extensions, turning outside, where found in the surrounding of the central spiral shape.

The imprinting was shallow, about 1-2 centimeters in depth. The imprinting had a different color (brighter) then the soil around it.

Some of the stones in the imprinting area were pulled out, and some of them remained lying near their original niches.

Next to the main imprinting, a deep ditch was seen. It was about 10 cm deep and 1-1.5 meters in length. The ditch wasn't seen there before.

Near the ditch a telephone pole found, with soot marks on its two devices. One of the devices (colored black) was covered with “V”-shape marks (one above the other). The second device (colored metal-gray), was covered with some soot. These marks weren’t there before.

Some of the grass near the imprinting was covered with a gray dusty material (and thin sand).

Some building blocks, located near the imprinting, changed their color (according to the witness).

A plastic rope, found next to the building blocks, was stuck to itself. Also this situation wasn't noticed before the event.

According the witness, there was another smaller imprinting next to the main one, but the policeman erased it (with their boots), when they came there.

I took 35 pictures, and the witness made a video footage (about 10 minutes length, additional to his own photographs).

We offer a big thanks to Hannan for sending us the report.

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source and references:

Hannan Sabat

Webmaster – Israeli Center for UFO research (ICFUFOR)

English site: http://geocities.com/icfufor/

Hebrew site: www.ufoisrael.org

Examining The Crop Circle Phenomenon
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FarShores.org-The James Donahue Column

Posted Nov 30.05

Everybody knows about Crop Circles. But nobody agrees on just who or what is making them, and why they exist for brief times in grain fields all over the world. Often showing intricate geometrical and sometimes occult patterns that are so complex and perfectly patterned, the designs are best seen from the air and suggest hours of labor sometimes accomplished within brief time periods while no one is looking.

That they usually occur under cover of darkness makes the mystery even more astounding. If accomplished by human hand, as many would argue, the abilities of such pranksters to create such profound art without the help of lamps and measuring devices, including a surveyor’s sextant, leaves the observers confounded.

There appears to be two primary theories as to the origin of these spectacular artworks that come and go with each growing season. Some say they are an emerging art form; a contemporary graffiti that one writer in National Geographic suggests “will be written about in future art history books as the most remarkable artistic innovation to emerge from the Twentieth Century.”

The second theory is that they are mysterious messages from extraterrestrials, created by unknown technology from alien craft passing overhead in the night sky. One thought is that because of their brief existence, the circles might be markers for time travelers, giving exact dates in which to land.

Whether they existed prior to the first stories about them in southern England in the mid-1970s is not known. The first media records of designs in grain fields showed relatively simple formations appearing overnight in the area already known as home for some of the strangest Neolithic sites in the world including Stonehenge, Avebury and Silbury Hill. In every case the crops are flattened and the stalks bent, but not broken.

The phenomenon seemed to gain momentum after the initial stories were told. Now the formations are showing up in fields in Australia, South Africa, The United States, Russia, and China. They are just about anywhere that farmers grow crops and that the field can be altered so that an image is clearly visible from the air.

And each year, the centerpiece of the circle art appears to continue to be in the fields of southern England, where more than 100 formations appear each season.

While simplistic at first, the designs have been growing in complexity until they are getting downright sensational in their appearance. Sometimes it seems sad to realize that their existence can only last but a few days until nature returns to normal or until the crop is harvested.

The UFO theories were set back in 1991 when Doug Bower and Dave Chorley claimed responsibility for the crop circles in England. Bower was found to have a group of people known as the Circlemakers, who designed their mischief before stealing off in the night to create yet a new and more intricate design.

Supporters of the human manufacturing theory suggest that many groups like that of Bower and Chorley must exist all over the world, all doing their covert work in the dead of night.

On the other side of the coin, the study of the circles by dedicated UFO-believers, has become a science in itself. The students have evolved into a thriving cottage industry of sightings, measurements, speculations and publications. The serious enthusiasts call themselves cereologists, taking the name of Ceres, the Roman goddess of agriculture.

The first deformations appeared as simple, nearly perfect circles of grain flattened in a spiral pattern. But as the years have passed, the patterns now consist of circles in groups, circles inside rings or circles with spurs and other appendages. Retired astronomer Gerald S. Hawkins has noted something interesting about the designs that could only be appreciated by dedicated mathematicians. He notes that a number of ingenious and previously unknown geometric theorems are showing up in what he calls “artwork in the crops.”

Using data from published ground surveys and aerial photographs, Hawkins measured the dimensions and calculated the ratios of the diameters and other key features in 18 different patterns that included more than one circle or ring. In 11 of the patterns, Hawkins found ratios of small whole numbers that precisely matched the ratios defining the diatonic scale. These ratios produce the eight notes of an octave in the musical scale corresponding to the white keys on a piano.

The discovery prompted Hawkins to look for and find geometric relationships among the circles, rings and lines of other distinctive patterns.

His first theorem was found in a triplet of crop circles found in 1988. He noticed he could draw three straight lines, or tangents, that touched all three circles. By drawing in the equilateral triangle formed by the circles’ centers and adding a large circle centered on this triangle, he proved the theorem that reads: “The radio of the diameter of the triangle’s circumscribed circle to the diameter of the circles at each corner is 4:3.”

Since that discovery, Hawkins claims three more geometric theorems, all involving diatonic ratios arising from the radios of areas of circles among crop-circle patterns.

Amazingly, Hawkins could find none of the theorems in the works of Euclid, the famed Greek geometer who established the basic techniques and rules for Euclidean geometry. He also failed to find the crop-circle theorems in any of the mathematics textbooks and references that he consulted.

Thus Hawkins appears to have proved that either the artists are amazingly skilled in creative geometry or that the circles he examined were the creations of beings from out of this world. In conclusion, all that this writer can say about crop circles it that they remain a true enigma of our time.

Visit the author's web site at: http://perdurabo10.tripod.com

or e-mail him at: jdona999@vcmails.com

source and references:

© James Donahue

http://farshores.250free.com/jd120405.htm

X-45C Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle by Boening
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Where Boeing stands in Unmanned Systems

Boeing is currently participating in several Unmanned Systems projects, ranging from an unmanned combat helicopter to a small high-endurance surveillance vehicle.

X-45C Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle

In response the evolving needs of the U.S. Air Force and the U.S Navy, Boeing is modifying its earlier X-45C Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle designs for the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Navy, respectively, to develop the X-45C system capable of meeting the demonstration objectives of both services. Boeing's modified concept will be called the X-45C, both for the Air Force and the Navy. Meanwhile, two X-45A demonstrators will continue with a flight-test program designed to demonstrate UCAV capabilities for conducting suppression of enemy air defense missions. X-45C Unmanned Combat

source and references:

www.boeing.com

Mystery of UFO research puzzles scientists
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By Wu Chong (China Daily

Updated: 2005-12-06 05:52

Authorities in Guiyang, capital of Guizhou Province, announced yesterday that they had received 160 million yuan (US$20 million) from a Taiwan-based company to construct a UFO research base.

Some people in the city's Baiyun District believe they were visited by aliens in 1994, and with this new research base, they hope to reproduce the mysterious moment, through photos and historical documentation.

On November 30, 1994, more than 27 hectares of masson pines in a forest farm in the district mysteriously fell down. However, nearby plastic shelters stood intact.

An adjacent truck factory reported similar enigmas: steel pipes were strangely broken; a huge truck was found more than 20 metres away from its original place; an employee on the night shift said he had been pulled up in the air by an "unknown" force.

While some thought it was UFOs that did all these strange things, scientists said after a field trip that thunder, lightning and tornados were the probable causes.

Wang Fangchen, a biologist who visited the site right after the event, said the city's plan to build a UFO research base is "ridiculous."

"Where do they recruit scientists for the research?" he asked, before adding: "I won't oppose it if they just want to promote local tourism through the programme."

Li Jing, a senior astronomer with the National Astronomical Observatories, echoed the view.

Li said China does not have an official UFO research institute because "it needs scientists of various disciplines."

"It can be an atmospheric phenomenon, or a biological issue, or a physical reaction," Li said.

"People often mistake planes, clouds and insects, as well as strange shadows on photographs, as being UFOs," said Zhou Xiaoqiang, secretary-general with the Beijing UFO Research Association.

"If aliens really came, they would more likely appear before our eyes politely than hide themselves."

source and references:

©Copyright 2005 Chinadaily.com.cn All rights reserved. Registered Number: 20100000002731

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-12/06/content_500762.htm

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Interview with Extra Biological Entity
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Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2005 06:07:41 -0800
From: "William Hamilton," astroxplorer@astrosciences.info
Subject: Rick Doty contradicts Robert Collins on C-2-C!
Collins published this in his book:

Interview with EBE-2: March 5th, 1983 at Los Alamos National Labs

The following reported interview was referenced in discussion by many on the list, and can be found both in Exempt from Disclosure by Robert Collins, and on Collins' website www.ufoconspiracy.com. While the details do not match precisely, the orders of magnitude of the numbers provided (length of day and year) do correspond.

The following is an account of the meeting I [Rick Doty] was involved in with EBE-2. On March 5, 1983, I was at Los Alamos National Laboratories conducting business on a counterintelligence project. During my visit, a source I'll call LANL-1, asked me to sit in on a very special interview. Not knowing what he was talking about, I questioned him. However, he wouldn't say exactly what the project involved or who was being interviewed.

I accompanied LANL-1 to an underground facility west of the Los Alamos complex. The area was called, Site 30. Access to this facility was gained by entering Area 49. Access to the underground facility was through building number 49-2091. An elevator took us down about 60 feet (only estimating). Once we arrived, access was gained through a large vault opening outside the elevator. We walked down a hallway to another vault door.

We entered and turned right. We walked about 200 feet turned left and entered vault door to a large room. This room contained two tables, several chairs and recording equipment. I sat near the door. About ten minutes later, three people, who I did not know, entered the room. One, an Air Force Colonel, asked me to sign a security document, which gave me an upgraded clearance, TS/SCI/Group-MJ-B-3 clearance. I've never heard of this but I signed. The Colonel told me I was to listen and not make any sounds during the interview.

I asked the Colonel who was being interviewed and he told me a guest from another planet! The Colonel left. The other two people set up a table with a microphone and recording equipment, including a camera. About five minutes later, in walks a 4' 9" non human looking creature. It was dressed in a tight fitting cream colored suit. It had no hair and was identified to me as EBE-2.

EBE-2 sat in a chair across the table from two civilians and the AF Colonel. I did not know the identity of the three. LANL-1 came into the room and sat next to me. I listened while the three asked EBE-2 a series of questions pertaining to its home planet. First question was about the temperature, climate and weather. EBE-2 responded in perfect English but sounded like a machine generated voice. Very hard to explain but it was either coming from a device that EBE-2 had in front of him or from something in its body.

EBE-2 explained the weather of its planet which was dry, varying temperature between 65-90 degrees. There was 35 hours of constant sunshine and three hours of darkness. Rainfall occurred only during one of its months each year. The day lasted 38 of our hours. They did not have months but did have years which consisted of approximately 600 of our days. They used a society cycle which I understood to be similar to our months. During this society cycle each Eben worked a certain time and conducted business. There was also a rest cycle which consisted of a regulated period of sleep. I don't recall the exact number of hours or sleep/rest. EBE-2 discussed weather patterns and how they were formed. I don't recall the exact words. However, EBE-2 seemed very intelligent and fully explained each weather pattern in precise detail. He used Earth's equivalents for Meteorology terms.

The interesting part of this interview was that I didn't hear any questions being asked by the three humans sitting across from EBE-2. Either the questions were already given to EBE-2 or the three humans were "thinking the questions" and EBE-2 would respond in English.

© Peregrine Communications (Robert Collins) www.ufoconspiracy.com

Last night Doty is asked by Noory about his encounter with EBE-2 and Doty recounts this story saying HE SAW THIS ON FILM!

Doty also said that he hasn't worked for the government since leaving the Air Force and so has no reason to disinform anymore!!!

Doty also described EBE-2 (an EBEN) as looking like a typical gray that is a little over 4 feet tall.

Mr. Anon says, "We did have visitors from nine other star systems.

The Grays, which some people characterize as being like the Ebens, were not. They came from a planet near Alpha Centauri A."

"The visitors were classified by a code. The code, which was classified in itself, was, "Extraterrestrial Entities" (ETE). ETE-2 were the Ebens, the Grays were ETE-3, and so on."

Other eyewitness descriptions given of the EBENs does not match the typical Gray.

Oh what a tangled web we weave...

source and references:

Bill Hamilton

AstroScience Research Network

also:

www.ufoconspiracy.com

Unknown Objects Photographed over Las Vegas, Nevada
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LAS VEGAS – The sightings are still continuing for me, although not as frequent. On November 9, 2005 at 1:30 PM, I was in my backyard doing some gardening when I noticed a small star-like white object high in the southeast. As I observed it through my binoculars, it would seem to disappear and reappear in different areas of the sky. This continued for over an hour!

As I put the binoculars up to my eyes I saw what appeared to be individual white objects oval in shape with what looked like a dome on top. They were in a straight row one behind the other, except that the first forward moving three were slightly staggered. I counted a total of twelve.

When I first looked through the binoculars, I saw the previous red object moving down and away from the twelve. I watched intently as the line of objects moved over my house heading south. As they passed overhead the three objects on the tail end suddenly moved down and accelerated to below the forward moving end and turned on edge appearing round and formed in a triangle shape with one at the top and two on the bottom. Seconds later they moved up and seemed to almost touch the others and joined the formation as the others moved to allow them to re-enter the line.

Thanks to Scott

source and references:

original source: www.nationalufocenter.com

Blue Sphere Photographed in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
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by Ana Luisa Cid

Mr. Leobardo Vera had the chance to photograph a blue sphere in the vicinity of the Cathedral of Guadalajara, Jalisco, at 21:57 hours on November 14, 2005.

He employed a Kodak CX7430 camera with a normal exposure program.

The witness says:

“I am very interested in this phenomenon and don’t think that it has to do with a dusty lens. My camera is in good shape. I think rather that the source of these spheres of light could be related to Mayan prophecies and its very likely that they are warning us of some important event.”

Profra. Ana Luisa Cid

www.analuisacid.com

source and references:

Report and Images: Leobardo Vera

Chile; Strange Nocturnal Sphere Photographed over Santiago
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INEXPLICATA-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology-December 8, 2005

DATE: 12.07.05-Eyewitness picks up strange lights with her digital camera; possibility of stars eliminated.

SANTIAGO, December 7, 2005 - A sighting of alleged UFOs took place in the skies over Buin. Katrina Rivera says that around 23:00 hrs she was at her home in Linderos, Buin (Chile) when her dogs began to bark, prompting her to look out the window. She saw a powerful light of a sort she'd never seen before.

"Around 23:00 hours, my dogs were barking excessively, so I thought to look through the window. That's when I saw a very powerful light. I thought it was a star, but what's funny is that I'd never seen it before, as I'm an avid watcher of the night sky," the young woman said.

The witness claims that it could not have been a star because "it moved too much". She went to get her digital camera, getting a few seconds of video and some photographs with a Concord 5340z camera, ASA 200 at a normal exposure setting.

"When i saw the photos in the computer I saw more than one strange object, but I only [photographed] the largest one," added the witness.

This case is being researched by ufologist Carlos Muñoz from Ovnivisión

Translation (C) 2005. Scott Corrales, Institute of Hispanic Ufology. Special thanks to Guillermo Gimenez, Planeta UFO.

source and references:

OVNI TERRA (CHILE)

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UFO Landing at Grange Reserve, 1966
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Academic throws light on 40-year-old UFO mystery-October 2, 2005

Just what did flash out of the sky and into the lives of hundreds that April day? Stephen Cauchi reports. A CANBERRA academic is investigating one of Australia's most compelling UFO mysteries, a sighting by hundreds of people in the Melbourne suburb of Westall on April 6, 1966. More than 200 students and staff from two schools watched as the object landed in a nearby paddock, lifted off and vanished.

Shane Ryan, an English lecturer at the University of Canberra, is interviewing dozens of witnesses for a book he hopes to publish on the 40th anniversary of the sighting. Mr Ryan, 38, was alerted to the events in the 1980s by a housemate who was there. Unlike most UFO sightings, the Westall object had a large number of credible witnesses. It was viewed in daylight and attracted a forceful response from police and the RAAF.

"It had these rather interesting elements which indicated to me that, unlike some other so-called UFO stories, there was some substance to this," he told The Sunday Age.

"I knew the 40th anniversary was coming up next year, so I thought it was timely to do some research on it."

Mr Ryan has interviewed about 30 witnesses, mostly former staff and students from the Westall secondary and primary schools. He has tried obtaining police and RAAF reports, but so far with little luck. The story was covered then by Channel Nine, The Age and local newspapers.

On the UFO, everyone seems to agree, Mr Ryan says. It was a low-flying, silver/grey shining object, either of classical flying saucer shape or close to it, "a cup turned upside down on a saucer". The students were familiar with light aircraft because the schools were close to Moorabbin Airport. Although the UFO was of similar size, "everyone said straight away that they knew it was not a plane", Mr Ryan said, nor a weather balloon.

The object was in view for up to 20 minutes, and many saw it descend. Most agree it landed behind pine trees at the Grange Reserve. Dozens of students ran across what was then an open paddock to the reserve to investigate, but the object had lifted off and vanished.

Other details are sketchier. The UFO appears to have left a circle of scorched grass; others say several circles were left in paddocks bordering Grange Reserve. Many witnesses, not all, report seeing aircraft, up to five, trailing the UFO. Some say it made no sound, others say it did.

Many reported that police/air force/military personnel inspected the site; some (not all) say the authorities burnt the site. The Dandenong Journal, for which the story was front-page news two weeks in a row, reported that "students and staff have been instructed to 'talk to no-one' about the incident". Nevertheless, one teacher, Andrew Greenwood, gave the paper a detailed account.

"It was silvery-grey and seemed to thicken at times," he said. "The thickening was similar to when a disc is turned a little to show the underside."

One of the closest witnesses was a boy whose family leased land at Grange Reserve for horses. Shaun Matthews (not a student at Westall) was on holidays and spending time on the land.

"I saw the thing come across the horizon and drop down behind the pine trees," he told The Sunday Age this week. "I couldn't tell you what it was. It certainly wasn't a light aircraft or anything of the like …

"I saw the thing drop down behind the pine trees and saw it leave again. I couldn't tell you how long it was there for, it was such a long time ago." Mr Matthews, 51 and now living in Greenvale, said the object "went up and off very very rapidly".

"I went over and there was a circle in the clearing. It looked like it had been cooked or boiled, not burnt as I remember," he said. "A heap of kids from Westall primary and high school came charging through to see what had happened — 'look at this, look at that, we saw it as well', that sort of thing. It was a bit of a talking point for a couple of days."

Mr Matthews said the object, about the size of "two family cars", passed him at a distance of about "four football fields". "It was silvery, but it had a sort-of purple hue to it, very bright, but not bright enough that you couldn't look at it," he said.

"I saw that it dropped down behind the trees, and I thought, 'hello, hang on'. A minute or so later, it went straight up, just gone."

He said police and other officials interviewed his mother. But he cannot remember them burning the landing site, as others have alleged. And he did not see any light aircraft trailing the object, as others did.

"The way this thing moved there is no way it could have been a weather balloon or a light aircraft," he said.

"A helicopter? No way — no noise, wrong shape, and it didn't move like it. It came out of the distance, stopped, and then just dropped.

"It didn't just sort of cruise and then slightly descend at an angle. It just stopped, dropped, and then went straight up."

The Victorian UFO Research Society investigated the incident. VUFORS secretary Tony Cook said Westall remained one of Australia's major unexplained UFO cases. The top one was the case of Frederick Valentich, a 20-year-old Melbourne pilot whose light plane disappeared while flying over Bass Strait in 1978. In the last minutes of radio communication, Valentich reported seeing a UFO hovering above his plane. He and his craft were never recovered.

"It's pretty well documented," Mr Cook said. "That's probably the most important one because it involves the disappearance of a person."

Mr Cook said the society's stance on UFOs was that, "there are people out there seeing unusual things in the sky at times and they can't be explained. But it's a very big leap to go from unexplained things in the sky to extraterrestrials." Most witnesses, including Mr Matthews, say the UFO was not an aircraft or helicopter. But Westall is only six kilometres from Moorabbin Airport, and the object was roughly headed in that direction, travelling north to south.

"It sounds to me like some sort of experimental craft, very much Earth-based," Steve Roberts, of Australian Skeptics, said.

"It is an interesting event with lots of witnesses and what we now call a crop circle.

"Accounts are confused. Some have the object landing and taking off again, others say 'a paddock over which the object seemed to hover'."

As well, "if there was a whole swag of officials investigating it, there must be an official report in RAAF archives somewhere". But Mr Ryan said that no one at the RAAF knew of the incident. But given the history of the case — the way students and staff were told to keep quiet from the start — that was not surprising, he said.

"As I got a little bit older, I got a little more interested in the social and historical aspects of the story, how something like this could have happened and how it reflected society at the time, and how authorities responded to it," he said.

"There's been a layer of secrecy that was very, very prominent in this story from the beginning."

Contact Shane Ryan on shaneryan@velocitynet.com.au

source and references:

Shane Ryan

http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/academic-throws-light-on-40yearold-ufo-mystery/2005/10/01/1127804696941.html#

Photo: Craig Sillitoe

Illustration: Matt Golding

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Alabama White Round Disk
PELHAM --I was on a street playing football and I noticed this object when it popped out of nowhere on October 20, 2005. I thought it was a UFO and I always wanted to see one. It zoomed real fast and I couldn't explain and I lost it because it went so fast. Thanks to MUFON-CMS http://www.mufon.com/
Florida Orange Colored Star
DUBLIN – The witness was traveling home from work traveling west on US 80 at 9:30 PM, on December 1, 2005, when he noticed an orange colored star that seemed unusually bright. It did not blink like an airplane and there were no other colored lights.

I watched it for a while and it seemed to move laterally a bit, which I dismissed as my movement around curves. I began to mark the star in relationship to the trees that lined the road. The object clearly was moving laterally as well as vertically. I observed the movement for about a minute or so. The object suddenly flew to the north and went completely out of sight very quickly. I looked for another 20 minutes and never saw it again. Thanks to MUFON-CMS http://www.mufon.com/

Maryland Two Ghost Like UFOs
JESSUP - My father and I were out in the backyard on November 4, 2005, at 1:30 AM, with his telescope looking at Mars since its so close. We were looking also at Orion's Belt and I saw a bright light out of the corner of my eye. My Dad saw a streaking object faster than anything we have ever seen. Faster even than shooting stars but, these were big over the size and proportion of a B-2 stealth bomber flying in unison with each other. Then, we lost site of them because of their speed and deviation from a straight course.

If it was a plane it would have banked left, but these just curved at amazing speed to the left. We were defiantly freaked out and I started to shake. Jessup is 30 miles north of Washington D.C. They moved like a ghost flies in a horror movie. Thanks to MUFON-CMS http://www.mufon.com

Missouri Triangular Shaped Craft
KANSAS CITY -- While traveling south on I-435 where it intersects 63rd Street, I observed an object in the east, which appeared to either be hovering or moving very, very slowly on November 23, 2005, at 10 PM. When it first caught my eye, it had four lights, two brighter ones side by side, with two others directly below.

As I proceeded south, the object got closer and the lights changed their orientation relative to a triangular craft with four lights with one light on the end of each wing. There was one in front, and one in the middle. The object seemed very low, and its slow movement made it seem like it commanded the sky. Thanks to Brian Vike www.hbccufo.com

New Jersey – Star-like Object
HAZLET -- I was heading out of my house about 5:45 PM, with my husband and one of my children on December 3, 2005, and we noticed a very bright star like object just staying perfectly still. I live near to the ocean and questioned it being an actual star as the size was so large and bright. This object had the attention of four other aircraft in the sky as they flew around it and up to it.

My guess was one was a military plane because it was small and quite fast and ONLY three red colored lights. It was shining a bright spotlight at this object. This aircraft flew towards and then away from the object heading south while still having its light shining from the rear. This struck me as odd.

They were flying at an altitude about 20,000 feet or more over the Atlantic Ocean between Staten Island and New Jersey. I took about 4-5 photos with a plain film camera. Some of the aircraft with the red lights and also of the object. At about 5:55 PM, I got in my vehicle and drove toward the water, The moon was very low in the horizon, and the object was hovering right above it. Thanks to MUFON-CMS http://www.mufon.com/

Canada UFO Buzzes Car
OYAMA, B.C. -- The witness was driving north on Highway 97 at about 90 Km/hr, on November 5, 2005. The witness states, "This light passed me about 500 feet up and on my right, just above the shoreline of Kalamlka Lake at 9:15 p.m." In about seven seconds it disappeared in the distance (about ten miles). There were no flashing lights like aircraft are expected to have, and there was no jet engine sound.

It traveled in a straight line, but navigated between two hill peaks and was gaining altitude as well. There were clouds in the sky, but it was in clear sky for the seven seconds that I watched it and then it disappeared into a cloud in the distance (about ten miles away). There was no tail or trail in the object's path. Thanks to Brian Vike, ww.hbccufo.com

COMOX, B.C. – On November 14, 2005, - about 6:15 PM, UFO-type balls of light zinged in and out of the clouds accompanied by a very slow-moving Aurora aircraft at CFB Comox, BC. The objects moved up, down, diagonally and laterally. They blinked in and out, disappeared and reappeared. There were at least five objects, possibly six or more.

Clouds obscured the field of vision. These objects would burst through the cloud cover and move around, disappearing and reappearing. The Aurora surveillance aircraft was circling the area extremely slowly, almost like hovering (which is odd for the Aurora). The incident went on for at least ten minutes...but the balls of light were difficult to capture on film. Photos of the incident are currently unavailable but may be in a few hours once my camera batteries have charged. Thanks to Brian Vike , www.hbccufo.com

UFO Quote of the Week...

"If I become President, I'll make every piece of information this country has about UFO sightings available to the public and scientists. I am convinced that UFOs exist because I have seen one."

President Jimmy Carter during his Presidential campaign.

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