Last Updated: Friday, December 28, 2007 | 4:52 PM AT-CBC News
Environment Canada and the Transportation Safety Board of Canada can't explain just what it was a P.E.I. couple filmed in the Island skies on Wednesday evening.
When Tony Quigley and his wife Marie of North Tryon, just east of the Confederation Bridge, saw a dark spiral in the sky they went for the video camera.
"When we first saw it, it was going so slow. We said, is it a meteorite, or what the heck is it? So when we did start to tape, it was above the cloud and that's the part we missed," said Marie Quigley.
"When it came out of the cloud, we have it from there until it's out of sight. I have no idea. I mean I didn't think it was a UFO or anything but to me I thought something was in trouble, but it was going so slow. I mean it was at least a half an hour from the time we first spotted it till it went out of sight."
The couple has no clue what it was. Their first calls, to the Charlottetown Airport and the RCMP, were no help. They called Environment Canada, which was also unable to identify the phenomenon.
The Transportation Safety Board of Canada has reviewed the footage to ensure the sighting was not of an aircraft in distress. A representative from the board confirmed it was not, but had no further details.
I thought I'd better send you these two captures to probably end this year with. Both were taken in burst mode of three photos each from my Panasonic 10MP camera.
The first one (12-17) was in the third photo (and it's small, near the center) and the second (12-21) was in the second photo, no sign of it in the first or third. I was just taking pics of clouds and jets, not too much else I can tell you about them.
Submitted by my good friend Larry
{Click on images for full size}
source and references:
Submitted to UFO Casebook
An Asteroid Hurtles Toward Mars
Thursday, Dec. 27, 2007 By MICHAEL D. LEMONICK-Scientists say that asteroid 2007 WD5 has a 1 in 75 chance of striking the planet Mars
Astronomers have good news, better news and some bad news about an asteroid known as 2007 WD5. The good news is that this 164-ft.-wide chunk of speeding space rock, discovered in November in an ongoing search for potential threats to Earth, won't hit our planet any time in the foreseeable future. The better news — for eager space-watchers — is that the asteroid, currently about halfway between Earth and Mars, has a plausible chance of hitting the Red Planet at the end of January. If it does, astronomers will be treated to an unprecedented sight.
The event itself, however, will have plenty of precedent. The craters that pock the surface of Mars, the Moon, Mercury and other Solar System bodies come from about four billion years' worth of this sort of thing. Earth has had plenty of collisions too; it's just that erosion, continental drift and vegetation have erased or hidden most of them. Not all, though: Meteor Crater, in Arizona, was blasted out some 50,000 years ago by an asteroid about the same size as 2007 WD5. A much bigger object, a few miles across, is thought by many scientists to be the reason the dinosaurs died out some 65 million years ago.
If 2007 WD5 does smack into Mars, every telescope on Earth will be pointed in that direction — just as they were in 1994 when Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 crashed into Jupiter. In that case, the comet broke up while it was still in orbit, so astronomers watched nearly two dozen individual impacts. But Jupiter is made mostly of thick clouds, so there was no lasting scar, and because it lies so far from Earth, the event wasn't quite as spectacular as this one promises to be. Asteroid 2007 WD5 should release some 3 megatons of energy if it slams into solid ground near Mars' equator, and orbiting satellites will show the aftermath with crystal clarity.
Finally, the bad news: 2007 WD5 has only a 1-in-75 chance of actually hitting Mars, which means astronomers would be wise to be pessimistic. But the possibility of impact calls to mind a loosely related incident that occurred almost exactly 100 years ago, when something exploded above the Tunguska region of Siberia, flattening trees in a 25-mile radius, their trunks pointing outward from the epicenter of the blast. Scientists are pretty sure it was a comet or asteroid — about the same size as 2007 WD5, as it happens — that disintegrated from its own shock wave as it plowed through the atmosphere. (UFO enthusiasts have long been convinced it was a flying saucer that somehow made it across trillions of miles of interstellar space safely, only to blow up above Russia.) The scientific explanation would account for the aerial explosion, and also the fact that no crater has been found.
Except that now maybe it has. An Italian team has measured seismic waves reflecting off a high-density spot in the bottom of the suspiciously crater-shaped Lake Cheko, which lies close to the event's ground zero. It could be a piece of the original object — and finding it could help investigators understand exactly what happened a century ago.
If they find a burned-out flying-saucer engine, all bets are off.
12/22/2007-If the 250-plus planets that scientists have discovered orbiting
stars other than our own sun, one is believed to be somewhat
like earth - rocky rather than gaseous, at a distance from its
star that allows for moderate temperatures and liquid water.
It’s 68 light years away, 399 trillion miles or so, meaning that
an object traveling at the speed of light would have to do so
for 68 years to get from here to there, or from there to here.
Given that exhaustive research hasn’t revealed any signs of life
elsewhere in our own solar system, and that the next likely
candidate is a goodly jaunt even at the speed of light, it’s not
likely that we’re being buzzed by alien life forms.
NASA, then, might well be correct in insisting that there was
nothing extraordinary about a UFO sighting near Kecksburg, in
the southwestern corner of Pennsylvania, where something fell
from the sky and was retrieved by soldiers in 1965. Yet it has
reacted to requests for records of the incident as if it was
keeping a little green man in a freezer.
NASA stonewalled but ran into a petitioner with resources, the
Sci-Fi Channel, which persisted. Finally, NASA frustrated even
U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan of Washington, D.C., who
described NASA’s document search as a "ball of yarn". The cost
so far to taxpayers: $100,000, not much by government standarsd,
but still a lot of Tang.
The judge ordered both sides to search the documents and report
to him. Meanwhile, the case illustrated how, to the government,
full disclosure too often is an alien concept.
source and references:
The Progress-Index - Petersburg, Virginia, USA
http://tinyurl.com/28awub
Shirley MacLaine talks UFOs
By Stone Martindale Dec 28, 2007, 18:07 GMT
Shirley MacLaine is talking about UFOs.
In her new book, Sage-ing while Age-ing, MacLaine chronicles her countless UFO sightings, and told tv show “Extra” why she started writing.
“They’re all over the place in New Mexico.” She added, “They’re there. It’s not a question of are they or not. The question is why.”
Warren Beatty's sister also tells “Extra” she has done her research, saying, “I’ve talked to people all over the world who’ve been aboard the craft and told me what they learned.”
MacLaine and Democratic Presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich have something in common, a close encounter with UFOs.
October 24, 1967-Location - A3072 between Okehampton and Holsworthy, Devon. Two on duty uniformed police officers, PC CLIFFORD WAYCOTT and PC ROGER WILLEY had spotted a pulsating flying cross while driving between the above locations. It was seen at low altitude moving above the treetops of the surrounding countryside.
Intrigued, they began to chase the UFO, however they were never able to significantly gain on it. At times the object slowed to 50 mph and at one point came to a stop in mid air. The pursuit involved speeds of up to 90 mph and covered a distance of 14 miles. Whenever they did gain a little ground on the object it would simply accelerate away from them. Eventually they reduced their speed fearing an accident themselves.
The closest distance they reached to the UFO was 400 yards. At one point they stopped at a farm to wake up the owner so they could gain some corroboration that they were not mistaken in their sighting.
At a later press conference PC WAYCOTT said, “The light wasn’t piercing but it was very bright. It was star-spangled - just like looking through wet glass and although we reached 90 mph it accelerated away from us.”
Before the object disappeared from view they saw a second UFO that was also cross-shaped, very bright and made no noise. Both officers were impressed by the relevant speeds of the objects as they quickly departed, especially the first one.
Enquiries at nearby RAF Chivenor proved negative. Within 48 hours numerous other witnesses began to report sightings of similar objects. A ‘fiery cross’ was witnessed above the skies of Glossop, Derbyshire by six police officers.
On Duty sighting. 2 Officers. Source - UFO Flying Saucers over Britain by Robert Chapman. Mayflower Books 1969. Pages 13-15.
source and references:
http://www.prufospolicedatabase.co.uk/2.html
(last update, 12-30-07)
Kansas-Unknown Object
I experienced a very unusual sighting when I was 18 years old and now am
much older. I was traveling with my brother and mother around Clearwater, KS in
October 1966. It was around 8 p.m. as we went over the railroad tracks when we
observed an object hovering over the tracks. It flew over our car and stopped in
midair and shown these extremely bright lights into the car. It made no noise. My
brother stopped the car and both my mother and brother just stared at it. They
seemed mesmerized by it and I told my brother, "Don't stare, just go."
Suddenly the
lights went out and it flew straight up in the air and disappeared very quickly. I
still try to make sense of what happened that night. I will never forget this and
like to read about others who have experienced similar incidences. Today I live in
Arizona and remember the lights of Phoenix in 1997 and just read about the sighting
around Casa Grande (not far from where I live) in the past week. It seems like there
are more sightings these days. thanks to Jeannie-source: http://ufos.about.com
Missouri-Strange Light
Missouri-12-25-Sitting in the kitchen and happened to glance out at the dark sky through the vertical blinds and saw a bright red disc shaped object northeast of my third floor apartment. I thought at the time how beautiful it was and on Christmas Day. The only way I can really describe this light is to compare it to a brake light on vehicle in a pitch dark sky. It was slightly larger than an aspirin at arm's length and was mostly disc-shaped but blurred around it's edges.
It was there for a few seconds, then just disappeared or blinked-out. It was not an airplane, helicopter or normal air traffic to or from the airport which is just a few miles from where I live, I've seen enough of those in my life to know that it wasn't 'normal' traffic. It had no flashing lights of any kind, just a bright red glow. source: www.mufon.com
New Jersey-Red/Orange Ball
Cherry Hill-NJ-This sighting happened last
month. I had driven over to Cherry Hill, New Jersey to
visit my son. It was a windy, cloudy rainy day. I
stayed until about 10:00 PM. I hurried back to my car,
trying to get out of the cold wind. I got to my car
and as I was opening the door, I noticed this big
reddish-orangish ball traveling in the sky from
across the road.
It was headed towards where I had
parked my car. It was the same as watching an air
plane fly over head. I stood there watching this big,
burning looking red-orange ball pass over head. It
made no sound at all. As it traveled through the dark
clouds, it really lit them up. I watched this ball
travel on a steady path until it was out of my eye
sight. thanks to M.G.-source: http://ufos.about.com
New York-Object Cruising
12-25-It happens the same way every time I look up and notice how clear the sky is
and there I see the object cruising over like it's no big deal. I went out to have a smoke a bit after 2:00 pm on Christmas day and watched
this one for about 15-20 seconds this time, and another about an hour later.
The second time I went to get my phone out to record it and when I looked up in the north/northeast sky it was gone. I saw it moving strangely so I knew I had little time to record it, I guess I was right. This would make a total of four times I've been sure that I was not looking at a plane or balloon or some other whatever that could be in the sky at any given time. There are really truly some strange things in the skies over Long Island! source: www.mufon.com
Pennsylvania-Shining Cylinder
Philadelphia-This sighting occurred when I was 12 years old. It
was on a beautiful, bright and sunny Saturday morning.
I was walking my dog through the park heading for my
favorite spot, the local train tressel. When I arrived
at the tressel, I stopped in my tracks. Hovering above
the tressel was this big, very silvery shining
cylinder.
I could see as I approached the tressel, but
at the time, I thought it was something that was built
onto some part of the tressel. It hovered not too far
above the tressel. It made no sound at all and it hung
motionless in the sky. At the very bottom of it was
this huge white light that was flashing what looked
like a Morse Code type message. I starred at it for
what at the time seemed like forever until it began to
rise upward steadily and quickly until it was gone. I
remembered my dog and set off to find her. I found her
on my way back home. thanks to M.G.-source: http://ufos.about.com
Last Updated: Friday, December 28, 2007 | 4:52 PM AT-CBC News 
Thursday, Dec. 27, 2007 By MICHAEL D. LEMONICK-Scientists say that asteroid 2007 WD5 has a 1 in 75 chance of striking the planet Mars
Astronomers have good news, better news and some bad news about an asteroid known as 2007 WD5. The good news is that this 164-ft.-wide chunk of speeding space rock, discovered in November in an ongoing search for potential threats to Earth, won't hit our planet any time in the foreseeable future. The better news — for eager space-watchers — is that the asteroid, currently about halfway between Earth and Mars, has a plausible chance of hitting the Red Planet at the end of January. If it does, astronomers will be treated to an unprecedented sight.
12/22/2007-If the 250-plus planets that scientists have discovered orbiting
stars other than our own sun, one is believed to be somewhat
like earth - rocky rather than gaseous, at a distance from its
star that allows for moderate temperatures and liquid water.
It’s 68 light years away, 399 trillion miles or so, meaning that
an object traveling at the speed of light would have to do so
for 68 years to get from here to there, or from there to here.
By Stone Martindale Dec 28, 2007, 18:07 GMT
October 24, 1967-Location - A3072 between Okehampton and Holsworthy, Devon. Two on duty uniformed police officers, PC CLIFFORD WAYCOTT and PC ROGER WILLEY had spotted a pulsating flying cross while driving between the above locations. It was seen at low altitude moving above the treetops of the surrounding countryside.